Chapter Forty-Seven: Walking on the Abyss, Encountering Arhats for the First Time
The two of them pushed away the layer of Buddha light.
Those layers of golden light that linger outside the mighty spiritual mountain, but when they touch it, they are like fluids, and under the light of the Buddha seal of the heart candle, they gradually turn into a portal, revealing the oldest secret of Buddhism to Uncle Qingshan.
"The spiritual mountain where Nalanda Temple is located is divided into 33 heavens and 32 cities according to the changes in the mountain, and most of the people living in these cities built on the mountain are not Buddhist monks, but some ordinary people who regard Buddhism as a belief. ”
After the Buddha's light, what appeared in Fang Chen's sight was the first city built around the mountain at the foot of Lingshan Mountain, this city was built with black boulders and looked very similar to other big cities in the human race.
The vendors in the city shouted, and the opera restaurants were full of people, which did not look like the silent appearance brought to outsiders by the western soil.
The Buddha who was standing beside Fang Chen obviously saw the young swordsman's doubts, so he couldn't help but explain with a smile.
"The practice of Buddhism, after becoming a monk, does have too many precepts, so Buddhism does not force every destined person to wear a robe and abstain from meat from the beginning, but let every destined person under the Buddhist path live in their own way.
Buddhism blesses the Western Soil, but by no means to dominate the Western Soil, in this world, as long as there is a Buddha in the heart, then the Buddha will choose to accept and temper.
Lord Fang, where Bodhi is located is the top of the Lingshan Mountain, so I don't need to go through the thirty-two cities when I wait to go, there is a ladder peak on the Lingshan, and you can go to the sky by walking on the ladder. ”
Immediately afterwards, the Buddha stretched out his hand and pointed to a ladder on the west side of the black city, signaling Fang Chen to follow him up the ladder.
Hearing what Xin Zhu said, Fang Chen, who originally had the heart to take a look at the scenery in the city, also withdrew his gaze and looked at the ladder in the mouth of the Buddha.
The stone staircase that stood under the peak of Lingshan Mountain, the whole body showed the gray color of sand and gravel, which looked extremely ordinary, but in the eyes of cultivators such as Fang Chen, it contained an inexplicable rhyme.
It's like the meaning of the Tao.
Fang Chen followed the Buddha's side and walked towards the stone staircase.
According to the Buddha, this stone ladder is taken from the name of Tongtian, so Fang Chen, who was standing at the bottom of the stone ladder, couldn't help but look up along the stone steps, but what he saw was chaos.
The stone staircase led from the foot of the mountain to the sky, but the farthest stretch of the young swordsman's line of sight was a chaotic area of gray and ink, not the blue sky that could be seen from the rest of the Terran world.
"Fang donor, Bodhi enlightenment, can be said to be the supreme opportunity of the Buddha country in the West Thousands of Miles, therefore, although the little monk has won the qualification of this enlightenment for the donor, but the Buddhism will also conduct an assessment of the other donor, as long as the Fang donor can be under this test, completely rely on himself to walk through the three ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine stone steps, you can meet Bodhi, peep the Tao and realize. ”
The Buddha who was standing beside Fang Chen obviously knew how curious the cultivators who had just come to the ladder should be about the so-called word Tongtian, so the Buddha waited until Uncle Qingshan withdrew his gaze from the dome of the ladder, and then he still held the Buddha salute with one hand, and motioned the young swordsman to step on the ladder with the other hand.
Obviously, climbing the ladder is not just for the sake of rushing, but also for testing.
Fang Chen turned his head, glanced at the heart candle thoughtfully, and then hugged his fist towards the Buddha with a straight face, and then turned around and stepped into the ladder.
The enlightenment of Bodhi of Buddhism is recorded in many classics in the world of the human race, but there are very few people who really have the opportunity to meet Bodhi in the whole world in history.
One of the fates of Buddhism says, fundamentally speaking, it is actually a kind of mutual borrowing and helping, and the fate comes and goes, which is cause and effect.
Since the Eastern Wilderness, after that, whether it is the inheritance of the human emperor in the Baishan Emperor's Mausoleum, or the Bodhi enlightenment here, it is the cause of the Buddha's son, and this is almost a unique opportunity in the world of the human race, it is not difficult to imagine how amazing the corresponding consequences will be.
The little uncle of Qingshan, who stepped on the gray and white stone steps, shook his head after thinking about it, the sword cultivation moved forward, and he would never retreat because of fear or worry, since the Buddha was willing to give the opportunity, then he took this fate and inherited this kindness, no matter what the cause and effect were in the future, Fang Chen would try his best to bear it.
The young swordsman thought about stepping up the second stone staircase.
This gray-white stone ladder has the name of the ladder, since it will not be as ordinary as Fang Chen saw at the foot of the mountain.
Ever since Uncle Aoyama's feet completely fell into the stone staircase, his surroundings have changed almost without him noticing.
On the side of the gray-white stone staircase at Fang Chen's feet, it was no longer the original city city, but the endless darkness.
In the darkness, at intervals, a silvery-white light would flicker, like a star, shining brightly, paving the entire gray-white stone road with a layer of silver.
So, the little uncle in a green shirt, every step he took on the stone steps with his feet was like walking in the starry sky.
The young man looked back, but behind him, there was no end in sight as in front of him, only stone steps, all stone steps.
On both sides of the stone steps, although those starry skies seemed to be within reach, in the swordsman's perception, they were nothing, like an abyss.
The boy who kept walking along the stone stairs was more like walking on the edge of the abyss.
Walk on the edge of the abyss!
The boy fights the sword, but he is not afraid!
On the gray and white stone steps, only the figure of a young swordsman walked forward alone in that starlight.
Looking up again, there is already a stone platform.
Fang Chen stood in front of the stone platform, smiled lightly, and then jumped up.
The three ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine stone steps mentioned by the Buddha are self-evident to Uncle Qingshan, which means three tests.
Although Fang Chen did not deliberately count the number of stone steps under his feet, the sudden appearance of this platform on the stone steps has undoubtedly shown that the triple test, and Uncle Qingshan has already ushered in the first one.
This stone platform across the starry sky looks extremely wide, and the Siye Galaxy is not surrounded on both sides like stone steps, but hangs high in the sky, shining a silvery white on the entire stone platform.
Fang Chen looked up.
On the other side of the stone platform, in the illusory starlight, it gradually condensed into a virtual image of the Buddha.
The Buddha was loosely draped in a robe, bare-chested and bare-breasted, and his head was hairless, but his eyebrows and beard were extremely long, and they were condensed in a few strands that floated on the side of his face.
There is no starlight on the side of the Buddha, let alone the light of the Buddha, it looks extremely ordinary, the only thing that is a little unusual is that on the side of the Buddha, there is a silver-white deer that looks quite ethereal.
Fang Chen glanced at the Buddha condensed by starlight, and he was not familiar with it at the first time, but the moment he looked at the deer, the moment of clarity in his mind made the young man's heart, a Buddhist legend contained in the Qingshan dossier, and the figure in front of him suddenly coincided.
Eighteen Arhats of Buddhism.
Venerable Bindurabara - Sitting Deer Arhat!