The western land occupied by the Buddha Kingdom was divided by the Great Xia Dynasty and the abbots of the Buddhist Sect, and was listed as the Nine Paths.

These nine roads are located on the westernmost side of Putuo Mountain, where Nalanda Temple is located, and are also the center, surrounded by the remaining eight roads in a semi-arc arch.

Among them, the outermost three roads, in addition to the Mochizuki Mountain Range, which stretches the entire edge of the western soil, are isolated from the middle region of Great Xia, there is also a piece of yellow sand with sparse human relations, and a natural barrier has once again been set up between the three roads and the Mochizuki Mountain Range.

The old peak master and his disciples walked out of the yellow sand in a few hours and came to the city where the western soil had the most contact with the outside world.

This city, which starts in the stretching yellow sand, is called Changning, and is not like the majestic cities in the Central Plains in the traditional sense of the human race, which are piled up with earth, stone, bricks and tiles, but are made of pure bluestone, cut into pieces of stones that are more than zhang long and more than three feet wide by the means of cultivators, and are stacked layer by layer.

Changning City is a stone city located completely in the yellow sand.

When Fang Chen and the division commanders stepped into the city, it was midnight.

If it is in the vast land of the Central Domain, especially in the Divine Capital, at this time, after the cultivators have created all kinds of means of amusing themselves with various strange martial arts imperial envoy methods, it should be the time for the prosperous world and the young children to have fun.

However, in the western soil where the practice of Nalanda Monastery is the supreme state in Buddhism, those places of pleasure that are common in the central realms are almost extinct in the western land.

The monks of Nalanda Monastery advocate asceticism, just like the ten saints recently assessed by Great Xia, among which the Buddha Saint Kuxuan is an ascetic who wears tattered monk's robes all the year round and walks the whole world with his feet.

As soon as the time arrived, most of the city of Changning was silent, and the residents wearing various monk robes and the soldiers stationed in Xitu in Great Xia only occasionally showed traces in the city.

In this hazy city under the moonlight, only a few chanting sounds can be heard from every house.

As the name suggests, the city is a piece of Changning.

Standing in front of the three of Fang Chen, the old peak master, his eyes swept over these extremely simple and ordinary houses in the city, and his eyes rarely brought a little sigh, the great forces of the human race are not rare, but the only one who can affect the entire territory with one sect or one is the Western Earth Buddha Kingdom.

Outside of Buddhism, even the Taoist sect with the same name, or the Qingshan Mountains, which are located in the north and have made great contributions to the human race, have not had such incredible influence.

Changning City is geographically divided and belongs to Taichang Road.

In Taichang Dao, as a Daxia faction, the capital of the protectorate, which nominally governs and controls the western soil, is located here.

Therefore, the city of Changning is different from those cities in the west of the western soil, and there are cultivators in the city who are dressed in the official mansion of the Great Xia system.

The old peak lord obviously didn't want to have too much intersection with these ordinary soldiers in Great Xia, so after the two teams of soldiers passing by looked at these new outsiders, Xu Buwu raised his robe and took the three disciples to the largest temple in the city.

Each of the nine paths of the West has a main temple, like the kings of the Nalanda Temple, who sit in the four directions of the Buddha country for the Buddha Gate, preach for the monks, and collect faith for the Buddha Gate.

In Taichang Road, it is the nominal co-governance of Honglu Temple and the Metropolitan Protectorate.

However, whether it is the divine capital of the human race, where the power of high-ranking officials is poured over each other, or the most marginal small city in the rest of the four directions, they all know that the so-called co-governance of the Western Soil, the Great Xia Capital Protectorate only occupies a nominal supremacy.

Not to mention the entire thousands of miles stretching over the country of Buddhism, just the Taichang Dao where the capital protectorate sits, the soldiers stationed here in Great Xia, except for the right to patrol and can walk around the city, have no right to participate in the decision on the rest of the things in the western land.

The Western Regions Protectorate, which was almost equivalent to the imperial control of the Beiling City, had embarked on two completely different paths from the Beiwangxiong Pass in the 6,000 years of the Great Xia Dynasty.

is called the feudal official, but he is actually exiled.

In the center of Changning City is a temple built after the specifications of Honglu Temple, called Lingzang.

When the West and the Metropolitan Protectorate first entered the Western Soil, the first Metropolitan Protector was indeed appointed by the founding emperor at that time, and was a member of the fierce generals who followed the first emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty to conquer the north and the south.

It's a pity that the first generation of people were protected in the West Soil before they started a business, and they suddenly died, and the Terran world at that time, those who gathered next to the founding ancestor of Great Xia, naturally had the intention to investigate the cause of death of this old comrade-in-arms, but what is puzzling is that such a strong man who can be called the pinnacle of the Terran world has been probed by the most powerful man, but after going deep into the extreme depths of the Western Soil, it came to an abrupt end, and there was no news.

Later, although there were some rumors in the rivers and lakes that the original protector of the Western Regions was buried in the hands of Buddhist monks because he wanted to subvert the belief of Buddhism in the Western Soil, the rumors gradually disappeared without any expression from the imperial dynasty.

The indoctrination of the Western Soil by the Metropolitan Protectorate also came to an abrupt end after that.

After that, Great Xia later went to the capital protector of the western soil, although there were also many powerful cultivators with great ambitions, but after stopping in the western land for a period of time, they understood that the Buddhist belief in this piece of yellow sand, the capital protectors who had a high status, but they could only come one by one proudly and return disappointed.

Therefore, six thousand years later, the masters of the Western Regions Protectorate are almost all the losers of the big families in the Divine Capital, and the court dignitaries are fighting for each other's power, and finally have to be exiled.

In Changning City, in that Lingzang Temple, there is an old friend of the old peak master, who is also an exile.

"Amitabha, I promise that the donor will be safe after a long time. ”

Under the coercion of the old peak master, Fang Chen only felt that the eaves and city walls under his feet were like time had passed suddenly, and in the blink of an eye, they disappeared from his eyes in pieces, and when the young swordsman came back to his senses again, his vision was already an antique temple main hall.

In the center of the hall, in front of the tall white jade Bodhisattva statue, there is no ordinary temple offering incense to the small monk, but only an old monk with snow-white eyebrows and feathers and a black robe sitting cross-legged.

The old monk turned his back to the four masters and apprentices of the old peak, facing the statue of the white jade bodhisattva, gently knocked on the wooden fish, chanting some scriptures in his mouth, even if the deceased came behind him, he did not open the eyes that were closed by himself.

"Hanshan, you cultivate Honglu Temple zazen, but do not practice samadhi, only out of a way to learn the mind, think about the purpose of my master and apprentice four people to come here, you have already realized, how to decide the Buddha Kingdom of the Western Soil, do you have words?"

The old peak master, who also had snow-white hair, although he only had one more long hair than the monk Hanshan, suddenly seemed to be in the wind under the contrast of the Buddhist monk who had a faint glow in the candle flame.

This sword cultivator, who had been in a high position in Qingshan for a long time, was obviously not just acquainted with the monk in front of him, so the old peak master took a step and slowly walked to the side of Hanshan, glanced at the side halls on both sides of the white jade bodhisattva without a trace, then turned his head to look at the old monk, and asked directly.

Hearing this, Hanshan's right hand of beating the wooden fish froze slightly, and the Qianzhi in his palm happened to stay on the shallow indentation in the center of the wooden fish, the old monk who practiced zazen here all the year round, shook his head and sighed gently, and then turned his face with his eyes closed to the old peak master, and smiled with a frown.

"Lord Xu, Lord Xu, I haven't seen you for many years, I didn't expect that just when we met, you brought such a bad fate to my Buddhism. ”

Hanshan's words fell, and above the statue of the white jade Bodhisattva, suddenly a Taoist Sanskrit sound sounded, and in a hazy Buddha light, the image of a young man with red lips and white teeth slowly appeared in the field of vision of the master and apprentice.