Under the sunset of the approaching evening, the willows of the canal embankment hang low, the green trees are sparse, the city bridge faces each other, the blue waves reflect the sun, and the majestic temples and high courtyard mansions set off a prosperous and comfortable scene.

Towards the Prancing Horse Bridge near the Wuxian Temple, across the Yong'an Canal and connecting the two banks, Zhao Qing quickly found the person who made her feel abnormal.

It was an old one-armed monk with a white beard and a deep wrinkle crisscrossed by his face, with an old robe, a string of cinnabar beads around his neck, and his only right arm carrying a fragrant wood cane.

But in Zhao Qing's induction, the other party was walking with a simple cane, and he was always mixing with heaven and earth, and there was a subtle fit with the slope of the Prancing Horse Bridge.

Combined with his overly aged appearance and the characteristics of only one right arm, it can be inferred that the old monk is most likely the personal disciple of Bodhidharma, Master Hui Ke, the second ancestor of Zen Buddhism, because there are indeed profound martial arts in this world, and he has lived a lot longer than the history of his previous life.

Are you looking for a "great virtuous monk"? Zhao Qing's heart moved slightly, and she sensed the situation in the distance in detail, and found that Hui Ke's true cultivation should only be the top level among the great grandmasters, roughly equivalent to Song Que before breaking through, and half a step lower than the "Heaven and Man Realm" she originally estimated.

In this world, perhaps because of the ascension of many outstanding figures, or the subtle influence of the Temple of the God of War, they are not so concerned about the development of the longevity extension technique, but because there are too many battles, there are countless secret methods to squeeze potential, which often cause secret injuries and lead to longevity.

Generally speaking, even if it is a Dao sect that is good at health preservation, there are few great grandmasters who can live past one hundred and fifty, and after the age of 100, their vitality and strength will gradually weaken, and they will fall into a disadvantage when fighting to the death with their peers.

Other schools, such as Fu Cailin, the "sword master" who has achieved great achievements in many families, are in his early 100s, and his time is running out, because in the process of creating gong, he has tried a lot of exercises, which consumes the potential of life in advance.

From this point of view, unless you practice the exercises at the level of the "Four Great Wonder Books" and break through to the "realm of heaven and man" in the realm, you can easily live past the age of 100 and still have the possibility of intensive cultivation in old age.

If you only have the level of a great grandmaster, your spirit will no longer grow after you are a hundred years old, and at most you will make a breakthrough in your state of mind, which will have little impact on your cultivation and combat power.

Although Hui Ke's cultivation is not very high, he may surpass his own skill level by a lot in the spiritual realm of Buddhism, and he is probably at the same level as the sweeping monk who has made a breakthrough.

Having said that, the other party has not appeared in the world for a long time, but today he specially found the Wuxian Temple, is it really to visit the abbot "Dade Holy Monk"?

Is it possible that he learned the true identity of "Dade", or maybe it is similar to the intelligence source of the gang not long ago, and he wants to target the "evil king" Shi Zhixuan?

One-on-one and teaming up against the enemy can just weaken the borrowing effect of the "Immortal Seal Method". But is it a coincidence that the people who followed the Demon Gate came or was there someone behind the scenes who specially planned it?

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As Hui Ke slowly walked to the other end of the Prancing Horse Bridge with his cane, he was about to turn and enter the Wuxian Temple along the path of the adjacent canal, his lowered eyes rose upward, revealing a pair of deep and unfathomable eyes, full of the divine light of the wisdom of the philosopher and sage.

I saw him put down the wooden staff in his hand to the ground, bent his right arm, stretched out his fingers and rubbed the dark red Buddha beads hanging on his chest, stood in front of the temple gate without moving, and recited a sentence of Buddha name:

"Yuanjue wonderful heart illusion empty flower, empty flower extinguished vajra nature; According to the hallucination, the illusion is also called the illusion, and the illusion is unconscious and does not leave the illusion; Knowing illusion means that it is convenient to leave it, and it is not gradual to feel it when it is divorced; All sentient beings are originally Buddhas, and they have no cultivation and no certificates; The reincarnation of the empty flower has no life, and when the empty flower is extinguished, there is nothing to extinguish. ”

Although there is a breeze blowing by the canal from time to time, the wooden stick stands firmly on the ground and does not shake for half a minute, as if the temple has been there since the temple was built, reflecting an indelible "normality".

Hearing that this Buddha promony contains all kinds of mysteries of the "Yuanjue Sutra", Zhao Qing naturally did not be shocked by it like ordinary Buddhists, but noticed that a large number of "illusory" words appeared in it, and it is quite likely that he did discover Shi Zhixuan's secret and wanted to try to enlighten it.

Since she came to trouble Shi Zhixuan, and she was a Buddhist monk, she didn't want to be mistaken for a conflict when she stayed in the abbot's room, so she was going to reopen the sealed secret door and leave this place through the tunnel.

But suddenly, Zhao Qing sensed a few wisps of strange spiritual fluctuations that were extremely pure, which should not be stimulated by a master of Hui Ke's level, and the source seemed to be related to the string of Buddhist beads that the other party was wearing.

With her amazing spiritual sense, she saw through the inside and outside of the dark red Buddha bead necklace in an instant, and confirmed that it had a total of nine special Buddha beads, all of which were made of cinnabar on the outside, and there were circular grooves on the inside, each hiding a bead-like milky white object, the size of a mung bean.

Are there nine relics in the beads? Zhao Qing's mind moved slightly, and he suddenly knew the source of these few wisps of spiritual power outside of Hui Ke, and according to the subtle differences in spirit, it should belong to the legacy of three different Buddhist masters, each of which was much stronger than Hui Ke during his lifetime.

The Sutra of the Buddha of the Buddha of the Treasure Siddhi says: "The same is true for those who bring profit, and they cannot be stained with all sinful karma, bad karma, and evil tastes, and the good roots are gradually born, the evil obstacles are gradually separated, the good people meet themselves, the wicked people go away, and all the causes they do are the same as the Buddha." ”

"The Treatise on Great Wisdom" also says: "Offering Buddha relics, even like mustard seeds, its blessings are boundless." "Offering relics can quickly attain bodhi results by forming the causes and conditions of the Buddha's hearing of the Dharma. Therefore, it is normal for Hui Ke to carry relics with him.

At the same time that her spirit came into contact with the nine relics, Hui Ke's face changed slightly, as if she sensed Zhao Qing's existence with the power of the relics, and recognized that the other party was not Shi Zhixuan as he expected, but another person, and the realm of skill was still above herself.

In an instant, the nine relics shine brightly, projecting three lifelike figures in the spiritual void, surrounded by the golden Buddha light of the clear glass, and the Zen rhyme flows slowly, giving people a feeling of transcending the spiritual world.

The illusory figure in the middle, compassion is like bliss, solemn and witty, pure and comfortable, with a Buddha snail hair on the head, 32 phases, 80 kinds of shapes are good and sufficient, it is suspected that it has been cultivated into the legendary Buddha fruit, so it can have this appearance;

The other two phantoms are obviously more than one step worse in the realm, but they also have a noble and clear transcendent temperament, profound Buddhism, all the six links have been cultivated, and the whole body is complete without leakage, and they are all peerless masters above the great masters during their lifetimes.

Even if it is the weakest of the three illusory shadows, the Buddha nature is extremely strong, several grades higher than the original void, and in the pure Buddhist realm, there is at least the cultivation of the arhat fruit, which is close to the realm of "conjunction" of the Daomen.

Bodhidharma, the first ancestor of Zen Buddhism, and the heavenly monk who founded the Pure Mind Monastery? Zhao Qing, who felt a little familiar, swept over the portraits of countless masters in front of the Buddha Gate in his heart, and instantly recognized the two people on the side of the Buddha's phantom shadow according to the details of his appearance, and couldn't help but be a little surprised.

According to the classics, after Shakyamuni attained Nirvana, the relics burned out were enough as eight and four buckets, in addition to a skull skull, two bones, four teeth, and a middle finger bone relic, there were also 84,000 bead-shaped real body relics, which weighed much larger than himself.

It is not a mythical world, how can the bones weigh hundreds of catties, it can be speculated that when the Buddha was cremated, the believers worshiped a large number of gems and glazed and burned them into "relics", and only a very small part of the relics were genuine.

According to Zhao Qing's knowledge, after research in the previous life, it was found that many Buddha relics that have been enshrined for thousands of years include the upper and lower molars of horses and cows, the metatarsal bones of horses, and the fossils of saber-toothed elephants.

Therefore, knowing that Shakyamuni in various worlds was most likely the top group of practitioners in history, she did not consider looking for the relics left by the Buddha in the past, feeling that it was just a waste of effort.

In the previous life, there was a rumor without evidence that when Bodhidharma came from Tianzhu, it was likely that he brought the Buddha relics of Shakyamuni, which were passed down from generation to generation, and when the fifth ancestor went to the sixth ancestor, it triggered a fierce conflict between Shenxiu and Hui Ke, so that Shenxiu sent people to chase and kill to regain the relics.

Now it seems that this rumor should be roughly true, and there is indeed such a precious Buddha treasure that can represent the mantle of Zen Buddhism.

At this moment, sensing the one-armed Hui Ke outside, Zhao Qing could basically confirm that the string of Buddhist beads necklace worn by the other party contained nine milky white relics inside, three of which were indeed the genuine relics of Shakyamuni, containing immeasurable divine Buddha nature and majestic energy.

With the power of the Buddha's relics, you can greatly increase your progress in the practice of Buddhism, and your value is not inferior to the "evil emperor relics".

Thinking of this, Zhao Qing temporarily put aside his thoughts of leaving, ready to try what the effect of the Buddha relics was. Since the secret of the Wuxian Temple has been discovered by the Buddhism, there is no need to hide anything, just reveal the true body.

Having said that, in addition to the Buddha relics and Dharma relics, how did the three heavenly monk relics fall into the hands of Hui Ke? This kind of means of projecting spiritual illusions on relics may play a role in the future competition of Buddhism?

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"When I hear this, for a moment the Bhagava enters the Great Light Collection, and the Samadhi is being received, and everything is as it comes. It is all sentient beings, pure and conscious, body and mind are extinguished, equal in nature, perfect in the ten directions, no two follow the same, in the non-two realms, all pure lands. ”

After reciting another passage of the "Yuanjue Sutra", Hui Ke stopped, did not take back the cane standing on the ground, but walked straight into the Wuxian Temple, walked towards the location of the Abbot Temple, and asked in a deep voice as he walked:

"This benefactor, I don't know how you have to do with the 'Evil King' Shi Zhixuan, why did you appear in his retreat room? The old man Hui Ke, entrusted by a friend, tried to prevent the 'evil king' from being born and poisoning sentient beings. ”

"I hope the donor will be honest about your relationship with him and give relevant evidence. If it is a friend or foe, the old man should apologize. ”

He opened his mouth vigilantly, and at the same time increased the instillation of the power of the Buddha bead string in his hand, causing the mental fluctuations it aroused to become more and more intense, and shrouded down towards the area of the abbot's room, carefully detecting the movement in the room in case the enemy suddenly attacked.

"I, Zhao Qing, have nothing to do with Shi Zhixuan, the reason why I appear here is almost the same as you, I just came to trouble him."

Untying the chains at the door of the abbot's room, Zhao Qing secretly wondered in his heart who was the friend who asked the other party to trouble Shi Zhixuan, and whether it was related to the secret letter received by the Yin Sect, so he walked out slowly and replied truthfully.

But at this moment, Hui Ke's brows furrowed slightly, and almost at the same time as Zhao Qing, he noticed that the relics left by the three heavenly monks had undergone abnormal changes, and the milky white core suddenly had several wisps of dark black demonic energy, and spread out as quickly as ink.

In an instant, three slight crackling sounds came from inside the Heavenly Monk Relic, as if shattering an illusory Buddha-nature barrier, so that the phantom shadow of the Heavenly Monk reflected by the relics also changed accordingly.

I saw that the eyes that were significantly black and blue because of the close to the Buddha's "blue and blue eyes" lit up with a dark purple evil glow in an instant, and the teeth and nails instantly became sharp and long, and the original golden Buddha light turned into a black fog belt, and the overall temperament revealed a terrifying demonic nature.

Although the level of Buddhism of the heavenly monks themselves seems to be half weaker than that of Bodhidharma, and there is a long time away from today, the relics, as the essence of the Buddhist monks, are even more refined in quality than before their deaths;

Being able to infect such three relics with just a few wisps of demonic qi is theoretically impossible unless the quality of demonic qi is significantly better than that of the heavenly monks, and there is a targeted method to crack it.

This obviously abnormal incident immediately aroused the vigilance of both sides, and made Hui Ke suspect that Zhao Qing had secretly manipulated and manipulated the precious heavenly monk relics with special means, causing the precious heavenly monk relics to appear inexplicably demonized, from a number of high-ranking monks in the history of Buddhism to legendary demons.

"The donor has peerless demonic skills, infects the Dharma of the Heavenly Monk Patriarch with evil means, sinks into the outer way, and has a deep demonic nature, and can only be treated with Buddhism."

Glancing at Zhao Qing deeply, Hui Ke, who had been in retreat and penance for many years, and didn't know her current reputation, sighed, believing that the other party was a great demon he had never seen before in his life, and decided to sacrifice his life to die, with the help of the Buddha's relics and immeasurable Buddhism, to try to subdue the other party.

With the brightening of the Buddha beads in his hand again, the void seems to have the sound of Buddha chanting, as if one by one Arhat Vajra, Bodhisattva Buddha, reciting solemn and ethereal scriptures, it is the "Dafang Guangyuan Jue Xiu Duo Luo Yi Sutra" that Hui Ke read before.

"All sentient beings, all kinds of illusions, are born as if they came to realize the wonderful mind, just like an empty flower, which comes out of nothing, and although the illusionary flower is extinguished, the emptiness is not bad. The illusory minds of all beings are still disillusioned, all illusions are extinguished, and the minds are not moving......"

This sutra is for Shakyamuni to tell the twelve great bodhisattvas about the meaning of "Yuanjue", which was originally recited by Hui Ke in order to crack the illusion of the "immortal seal method", and the six relics in addition to the relics of the heavenly monks cooperated with each other, and an illusory Buddha world was formed in an instant.

In the vicinity of the Buddha's phantom, Bodhidharma's phantom, and the shadow of the heavenly monk, the illusions of the twelve Bodhisattvas such as Manjushri and Puxian appeared in mid-air in the blink of an eye, revealing all kinds of auspicious Buddha lights, blending into each other, like a mirror containing everything that exists and does not exist.

With the blessing of the power of "enlightenment" in the realm of the Buddhas, Hui Ke's spiritual power and Buddha-nature state of mind have reached the ultimate state of "seeing each other and leaving each other, seeing each other but not seeing each other", and entered a new realm.

I feel like I can update normally tomorrow

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