Chapter 46 The Pursuit of the Path to Bodhidharma

Bodhidharma is from India, why should you come to China in the first place This is the first thing that needs to be figured out, the major monks all believe that China is the most suitable place for cultivation, and from the current situation of the international supernatural world, China is also the most powerful. The supernatural people of Western countries pursue to expand their territory, and in order to improve their abilities, they do not hesitate to absorb the vitality of ordinary people, and completely follow the law of the jungle. Combined with the original statement of the water monster, Yang Xiaojun thought that the inheritance of these Western supernatural abilities was to fight against all kinds of aliens. At the beginning, as outsiders, they competed for resources with indigenous people such as water monsters, and then they competed for various resources with other people who were different from themselves, so the logic of their life is the logic of bandits, which should be the biggest reason why Bodhidharma chose China instead of the West. That shows that if he wants to solve the problem of the cultivation world first, he must completely break this law of the jungle, no wonder he wants to destroy all the cultivation exercises related to the animal inner pill.

Secondly, the place where Bodhidharma stayed in China for the longest time was the Shaolin Temple, and he was on the wall of Shaolin Mountain for ten years. Why the Shaolin Temple was chosen over other places is also a mystery. Shaolin Temple has a pivotal position in the history of China for more than 1,000 years, especially in the history of Buddhism, which is also due to the fact that Bodhidharma once practiced here. But if from the perspective of the supernatural world, Shaolin Temple does not belong to the sect of the supernatural world, because there has never been a supernatural person there since ancient times, and they are all ordinary people who are participating in meditation and enlightenment. Could it be that Bodhidharma's new cultivation method is related to real ordinary people, rather than looking for a person with extraordinary abilities to inherit, which is also one of the reasons why he chose himself, this idea became stronger and stronger in Yang Xiaojun's mind.

In the end, where Bodhidharma left the Shaolin Temple and finally sat down is still a mystery. According to Hu Jiumei, there have been two inheritors of Bodhidharma, but they are all the same as others, and after reaching a certain level, they must absorb animal inner pills to improve themselves. The two inheritors are also in China, which shows that Bodhidharma is also ultimately seated in China, and whether you can find the place where Bodhidharma sits can get a little enlightenment. According to the available information, Bodhidharma is westward after facing the wall in Shaolin for ten years, and no one knows the specific route and destination, so start to try your luck from Shaolin Temple. After making up his mind, Yang Xiaojun began his journey to find Bodhidharma.

Yang Xiaojun came to Shaomu Mountain in Luoyang, Henan Province, and he entered the scenic spot like ordinary tourists. After entering the scenic spot, walk to the Dharma Cave, the Dharma Cave is located in the upper part of the middle peak of the Wuru Peak, less than 100 meters away from the peak, it is a natural stone cave. The height and width of this cave are only 3 meters, and the length is about 2 zhang. The square door of the cave is just open to the sun, warm in winter and cool in summer, and the air is refreshing. There is a small compact lawn in front of the cave, surrounded by thick shade and no sky. It is different from the place where ordinary cultivators cultivate

, There is not a trace of the aura that the supernatural needs here, is it all absorbed by Bodhidharma? Even if you are usually anywhere, as long as you cultivate carefully, you will have the slightest feeling of aura being injected into your body, but there is no one in the Dharma Cave, and you can feel the existence of aura after walking out of the cave, and it seems that there is still something different here.

People come and go in front of the Dharma Cave, the tour guide tirelessly tells the same story, in order not to affect others, Yang Xiaojun is ready to come to the Dharma Cave again at night to feel it carefully. In the dead of night, Yang Xiaojun quietly settled in the Dharma cave, and he sat in the position where the original Dharma was sitting, maintaining the same posture as the Dharma. After entering the state of concentration, the shadow of Bodhidharma appeared on the stone opposite, and I saw a monk with a thick beard, a high nose, deep eyes, and an image of an Indian sitting opposite. Even the folds on the clothes are faintly visible, like a pale ink portrait. Yang Xiaojun let go of his divine sense and tried to communicate with the image of Dharma on the other side, but the other party only maintained a posture of concentration, and he also tried to awaken the Dharma relics in his body through the image, but in the end he was unsuccessful. Do I have to face the wall for nine years to get the message of Bodhidharma? Yang Xiaojun was a little frustrated when he thought about it, if he couldn't get any revelation here, what should he do next, he suddenly lost the goal of his action.

Since I don't know what to do next, I just keep going until I have a result. After making up his mind, Yang Xiaojun placed a special ban around him, so that he could realize the Tao and participate in meditation here with peace of mind, and would not disturb other people's normal tours. He concentrated his consciousness on the sleeping Dharma Relic in his body, eliminating all distracting thoughts and entering a state of concentration again.

I don't know how many days passed, he sensed the shadow of Bodhidharma on the other side and stood up, he separated his divine consciousness and followed this shadow out of the cave, and after a while he seemed to see a very clear picture. His divine consciousness floated on top of a high mountain, the top of which was covered with snow and crystal white in the sunlight. The whole mountain is rich in vegetation, verdant and green, stretching for hundreds of miles. At the foot of the blue-gray peak, in the mist, there is a small pool like a shining pearl, and like a pool of crystal clear tears. Looking down from the top of the mountain, you can see the vertical and horizontal ravines, the deep valley, and the grandeur of the entire mountain peak. The bottomless abyss seems to be at the foot of the mountain, and there are faint traces of rocks in the lush vegetation, as if the stubbornness in the tenderness of the mountain adds a lot of heroism.

Yang Xiaojun has always wondered where this mountain with snow all the year round is, but when his vision expanded again, he found a crescent-shaped lake not far from the mountain, and immediately understood his next destination, "Diancang Mountain".

With a hint of excitement and infinite anticipation, Yang Xiaojun came to Cangshan (also known as Diancangshan) in Dali, Yunnan. Since the shadow of the Bodhidharma stone wall guided him to this Cangshan and Erhai Lake, it must be something related to what happened here. Yang Xiaojun inquired in many ways, but never found the slightest clue. There is no legend of Bodhidharma here, nor is there any relics related to Bodhidharma, and the only one associated with Buddhism is the Three Pagoda Temple located on the shore of Erhai Lake. But the Three Pagoda Temple was also built in recent years, if it is said that in the era of Bodhidharma's life, there are no temples related to Buddhism here.

Just when Yang Xiaojun entered the dilemma of thinking, he suddenly remembered one thing, during the period when Dharma sat down, there was a mysterious dynasty in Dali, and this dynasty appeared a mysterious phenomenon that people did not understand. It is that the emperors of this dynasty like to become monks, and most of them are in the prime of life, giving up the glory and wealth that have been in their hands and choosing to be accompanied by the ancient Buddha and green lanterns for life, this dynasty is Dali. The place where the emperor of Dali became a monk is Chongsheng Temple, and his location is exactly the current Santa Temple.

Yang Xiaojun did not hesitate to come to this Chongsheng Temple, which is located one kilometer north of the ancient city of Dali in Yunnan Province, at the foot of Diancang Mountain and on the shore of Erhai Lake. He didn't say hello to the staff here, because there are no supernatural people here, and it's the same as the Shaolin Temple, which is a famous Buddhist holy place in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of the supernatural, there has never been a supernatural here. If the two have the same characteristics, then there may be the same connection.

Yang Xiaojun searched around the Three Pagoda Temple for a few laps but didn't find any valuable clues, he thought that since Bodhidharma guided him here, there must be a reason for him, what is the difference between this place and other places. Where do the supernatural beings, ordinary Buddha cultivators, and all sentient beings find the information they need, and suddenly a thought comes to mind. There is nothing special about the supernatural world here, the Buddhist temples are no different from other places, and there is nothing remarkable about the history from ancient times to the present, the only difference among the people is why the emperor and the royal nobles here did not build a mausoleum for themselves? This is a very unrelated thing to the course of Chinese history. In all the large and small dynasties with historical records, there are emperors' tombs that have been successfully excavated, but Dali is indeed an exception. The founding of the country for more than 300 years, after 22 emperors, 11 emperors became monks, so far no tomb of an emperor or empress has been found, is this related to Dharma West's journey?

Yang Xiaojun's lonely figure stood on the top of Cangshan Mountain, looking down at the Erhai Lake below, thinking about how to solve the mystery. He urged his divine sense to search this mountain, but he didn't find anything valuable, so could the secret here be in Erhai Lake. Since water is the most primitive environment of this planet, why not explore the mystery of the bottom of the sea, as the water monster said last time, the human beings on the earth are from another space, and the protists in this space live in the water, and there is no concept of lifespan. If you can meet a primordial life again, can you also give yourself some help, thinking of this, Yang Xiaojun went directly from the top of Cangshan Mountain to the bottom of Erhai Lake.

The water here is not very deep, he knows that the current protists have been squeezed into the space five thousand meters below the seabed, and those creatures that cannot adapt to such high water pressure are either extinct or have left the planet, do they still have to continue diving? There are many kinds of aquatic life in Erhai Lake, but these are not protists on earth, and like humans, these are all foreign. Just as Yang Xiaojun hesitated, he felt that there were red silk threads moving slowly on the bottom of the sea, and countless silk threads almost covered the entire seabed, like a red carpet. When I first entered the seabed, I didn't notice that it was moving, and I always thought it was sediment on the bottom of the sea, and the slight oscillation was also thought to be caused by the influence of the current. But when he calmed down and thought about how to proceed next, he stumbled upon that the red ones were not sediments, but red silk threads, and the movement of the silk threads was also purposeful.

The red threads extend in different directions, but the speed is surprisingly consistent, like different tentacles on a creature. According to the speed he sensed, it would take him about hundreds of years to move one centimeter, so it was no wonder that he couldn't feel it, and if it wasn't for the miraculous phenomenon of being in a meditative state, he would have ignored it. This growth rate requires more than 100 million years of growth cycle just for the length of the silk threads that can be seen, is this also a protist? At first, he had been focusing on animals, but now that he saw this strange plant, Yang Xiaojun's curiosity was aroused, and he was ready to follow a silk thread to find out.

He attached his divine consciousness to the silk thread, and felt a faint energy being transmitted here from a distant place, and along this energy transmission line, Yang Xiaojun's divine consciousness walked a distance of about five kilometers before reaching the end of the silk thread. Here I saw a strange plant, this silk thread was only one of its billions of silk threads, and the whole plant seemed to be split in two by an invisible force. On one side are hundreds of millions of red silk threads, covering almost half of the bottom of the Erhai Lake. On the other side are numerous flower stems, which are also drawn from the bottom. Twisting and spreading to the other side of the seabed, at the very end is an umbrella-shaped red flower, bright red in color, and around the flower is a needle-like leaf that rolls outward, this flower looks beautiful and eerie.

Yang Xiaojun searched around the seabed and found that there were more than a dozen such fiery red plants, the smallest of which was estimated to be more than 100 million years old, and the largest should be trillions of years old, and it was indeed a protist on the earth. Along the main trunk of the largest plant, it went down to the root of this plant, this root is rooted deep in the earth's crust, surrounded by hot magma, the root system in the depths of the magma does not seem to like to be disturbed by alien creatures, it swings the tentacles of the root, and streams of hot magma sweep around Yang Xiaojun's body.

Yang Xiaojun had no intention of clashing with it, he kept changing the form of his divine sense, hoping to find the same frequency, and after a while, the creature began to gradually quiet down. It also saw that Yang Xiaojun had no malicious intentions, so it stopped waving its tentacles and slowly rose from the bottom of the magma to a humanoid creature, and through several tentative communications, it finally reached its final goal.

This creature was called the Flower of the Other Shore by the previous humans, and the previous humans were indeed countless times stronger than the current Yang Xiaojun, they could go deep into the earth's crust to find the most ancient ancestor of the Flower of the Other Shore, and take it away to refine weapons. They were also left behind because they weren't strong enough to be crafted into extremely powerful weapons. As for the origin of the earth and the origin of the earth's creatures, the statement of this flower is similar to that of the water monster, but the age of the flower is too old, and human life is not even a blink of an eye in their eyes, so it is even more bizarre and incredible.

As for the alternative cultivation methods of human cultivators and the footprints of Bodhidharma that Yang Xiaojun wanted to know, the other side flower could not give an answer, it only knew that human beings had been killing and driving away the protists here since they came to this space, but human beings themselves were constantly hunted by creatures in other spaces. There are also many kinds of alien spaces, and some of the creatures from the space are not very strong and have a limited impact on this space, but the creatures in some spaces are extremely powerful, and once they appear, it will be a catastrophe for the creatures in this space.