Sanle left Shangyang City and walked to an ancient temple in the deep mountains, which seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, and there were no people, and only half of the Buddha statue in the temple remained.

Only the ancient Bodhi tree in the courtyard is still vibrant, with lush branches.

Sanle slowly walked towards the Bodhi tree, his gaze becoming extraordinarily deep.

As he got closer, the scene around him began to change dramatically, the ruined ancient temple began to become golden, and the sound of Zen chanting and the tapping of wooden fish sounded all around.

A small hand grabbed Sanraku's sleeve.

He turned around and saw that it was his personal disciple Xuanzang.

"Master, don't go ......"

Xuanzang pleaded bitterly, his eyes full of tears.

Sanle seemed to be moved by his unbearable heart, he stretched out his hand, wiped away Xuanzang's tears with a smile, and said softly: "One day, you will understand as a teacher." ”

Saying that, with the force of his palm, Kacha took off Xuanzang's bloody head with a bang, threw it aside, and then continued to walk forward with a smile.

"Amitabha, donor, please come back."

A figure stood in front of Sanle was an old monk with a long beard fluttering, but his eyes were very young, as if they were full of infinite vitality and vitality.

The Zen spirit is pervasive, and the cicadas are chirping endlessly.

"Bodhidharma ......"

Sanle looked at his former best friend, smiled, and said, "Have you ever forgotten Mahayana?" ”

Bodhidharma said: "Mahayana is a lie, if my Buddha has a Mahayana, how can he not cross sentient beings, is it to sweep away self-cherishment, hold the Dharma and respect yourself?" ”

His question is very tricky, Mahayana Buddhism is the way for all beings to become Buddhas, if Shakyamuni really has Mahayana scriptures, why not use them to purify sentient beings, so that the common people can get rid of the sea of earthly suffering?

Could it be that the Buddha who cut meat and fed the eagle is reluctant to have a true scripture?

Sanle was still smiling, and said: "If there is Mahayana in the heart, sooner or later there will be Mahayana, if the Buddha has, ask for it, if the Buddha does not have it, write a book by himself, why sigh and complain, be a little daughter?" ”

After a pause, Sanle shook his head and sighed: "You are not Dharma after all, and you can't understand his ambitions." ”

With that, he blew lightly, turned into countless steel knives, and chopped Bodhidharma into meat sauce.

It's all very real, Sanle stepped on it, blood splashed, and the flesh was firm.

If it were someone else, I was afraid that I would doubt myself, but Sanle was light and strode forward, and I was about to come to the Bodhi tree.

"Amitabha!"

A Buddha horn is like a flood bell Da Lu, shaking the sky.

In an instant, auspicious clouds fell from the sky, the ground swelled with golden lotus, and the stone statue in the central hall of the ancient temple seemed to come to life, showing the six golden bodies, pointing to the sky with one finger, pointing to the ground, and looking at the three joys.

In the face of the Buddha, any Buddhist monk would subconsciously have a sense of awe, but Sanle was an accident, he didn't even have the interest to speak, and waved his sleeves slightly.

The next moment, the shabby and greasy sleeve robe turned into a huge golden-winged divine bird, like the Pengniao Garuda, one of the eight heavenly dragons in the Buddhist scriptures, who fed on the dragon and swallowed the Buddha in one bite.

Sanle laughed and said: "In the past, Shakyamuni cultivated a golden body in the Snow Mountain, was swallowed by the Peacock King, and then broke out of the crest, if you are really a Buddha, why don't you also jump out of the belly of this Dapeng?" ”

However, what is fake is fake after all, and the Buddha looks bluffing, but in the end he can't leave the sleeve of Sanle.

Sanle finally walked under the Bodhi tree.

He bit between his fingers and drew a demon seal on the tree with the blood of the ancient Buddha.

Zila!

Thick green smoke rose from the ancient Bodhi tree, and a terrible scream faintly sounded all around, which made people shudder.

Then the verdant and vigorous Bodhi tree withered rapidly, its branches and leaves trembled wildly, and its bark bloomed, revealing a strange countenance, very similar to that of Moro.

"Sanjie, how did you find here?"

Morro's voice was hard to hide its surprise.

Sanle said: "After following you for so long, there will always be some gains. ”

After a pause, he said: "Every time you appear, you must be accompanied by Bodhi, then I thought, Buddhist scriptures have recorded that when Shakyamuni attained enlightenment, the demon king Bo Xun tried to obstruct it many times, but in the end it failed, and was suppressed by the Buddha in the Abi Hell. ”

"It's just that the world doesn't know that the Buddha had an epiphany under the Bodhi tree, although she was not confused by Bo Xun, but the Bodhi tree was planted with a demon seed and gave birth to a demon heart."

"Moro, the image of your black clothes and black hair comes from the Kinnara Bodhisattva who was once bewitched by you, and the ancient tree that accompanies it is the Bodhi of the Buddha's enlightenment."

Hearing this, Moro's expression was still calm, but his eyes were deeper, as if he had met Sanle for the first time.

"I see, you remembered some memories of Maitreya?"

Sanle nodded and said, "I remember something." ”

"Then you should know that you can't kill me."

This is the confidence that Moro is still calm, his existence is extremely special, it is the evil thoughts of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Six Desires Heaven and the Arhats, wandering away from the world, immortal and immortal, transcending the six realms.

He has no physical entity, which undoubtedly limits his interference with the real world, but it also gives him the ability to be immortal.

This Bodhi tree is just a temporary place for him.

"Yes, I really can't kill you, even if Maitreya Buddha is resurrected, at most I can only seal you, but it's just ......"

Sanle smiled and said, "I also know that you have been looking for a perfect body. ”

"The physical body of the Kinnara Bodhisattva has been destroyed, the origin of this Bodhi tree has dried up, and it is already old, as for Li Yuan, although he has the aura of an emperor, he is just a mortal fetus in the flesh, and you must look down on it."

After a pause, Sanle pointed at himself and said with a smile: "Look, how am I?" ”

"It's a little fatter, but it's durable."

"The body of Maitreya Buddha can always meet your requirements."

Moro stared at Sanle deeply, and he suddenly found that this Sanjie, who respected him extremely and obeyed his orders back then, was completely different.

Even he couldn't see through the other party's intentions.

"Don't lie to me, Moro, you introduced me to the religion back then, not because you wanted to preach, but because you fell in love with the body of Maitreya Buddha, but unfortunately I have already become one with my soul and body, and you can't succeed, so you can only give up."

"Later, the reason why you ambushed Bodhidharma in Luoshui was not because you were afraid that he would seek Mahayana Buddhism, but because you fell in love with his physical body, the luck of the ancestor of Zen Buddhism should be enough for you."

"It's a pity that you underestimated Bodhidharma after all, you both lost, Bodhidharma saw your intentions, so he was seriously injured, and he would rather choose to let a poisonous snake bite him to death and let it occupy his body, rather than let you succeed!"

Sanle's eyes showed a trace of emotion, as if he saw the old friend who sat with him in the wind and snow more than two hundred years ago.

His eyes were always full of hope and life, as if he firmly believed that one day, the world would be free from the sea of suffering.

In the story that Sanle told to Li Daoxuan, he said that Bodhidharma was accidentally bitten to death by a poisonous snake under serious injuries, but in fact, Bodhidharma was sacrificing himself to feed the tiger, willing to sacrifice himself, and did not let Moro's conspiracy succeed.

It was only in order not to reveal the secret of heaven and affect the overall situation that he concealed part of the truth.

Sanle knows his best friend Bodhidharma deeply, and he knows that Bodhidharma's final behavior, in addition to destroying Moro's conspiracy, also has a purpose, which is to try to transform the little snake.

This is also the reason why Sanle never killed Maha to avenge his best friend.

It's a pity that the old monk who crossed the river with a reed on the Luoshui River, the last degree he carried out with his life, still failed after all.

Moro said calmly: "Yes, what you said is not bad at all, it's just ......"

He was curious: "Sanjie, are you really willing to take the initiative to give up Maitreya's body?" ”

This is the body of Maitreya, one of the three Buddhas, with this body, you can live forever, the magic is boundless, and you will become a Buddha and an ancestor in the future, which can be called a great creation.

Sanle smiled and said, "Naturally, it's true." ”

There was a hint of suspicion in Moro's eyes.

"Do you know why I changed the name of the three rings to three music?"

Without waiting for Moro to answer, Sanjie continued: "When I traveled all over the world, I met an old beggar covered in pus, who only had a piece of bread in his hand, but still tore half of it to the stray wild dogs, and drank the dirty water by the roadside but was very happy, and laughed three times when he saw me. ”

"I asked him why he was so happy when he was so down."

He replied that there are three things that make the old beggar happiest in his life: the first is that he can sleep until he wakes up naturally, the second is that he eats everything when he is hungry, and the third pleasure is that there are fewer and fewer beggars like me.

After a pause, Sanle said: "At that moment, I seemed to see the Buddha. ”

After that, he put his palms together, let go of all his mental guards, and exposed his spiritual platform, which was pure and clear, and the Buddha's light was bright.

This is equivalent to tying one's own hands and actively removing the body's protection of the soul.

Moro was stunned for a moment, then showed a sneer, and said, "It's really stupid that you are willing to sacrifice your body for the sake of those lowly human races like ants. ”

"Or do you want to use the flesh as bait to try to kill me?"

Sanle glanced in the direction of Chang'an and said, "That Xingshui God Ape has been defeated, it is saving you, and it is even willing to temporarily sacrifice its body, this should also be one of your purposes." ”

Moro looked at Sanle's spiritual platform, which was filled with mellow Buddha light, which was almost infinitely alluring to him.

It must be known that even in his heyday, he never let the Buddha fall, let alone Maitreya, one of the three Buddhas.

"Whether you want to be a monkey or become a Buddha, you can choose for yourself."

After Sanle finished saying this, he lowered his eyebrows and lowered his head, no longer speaking, but quietly exposed his spiritual platform.

……

A month later, Chang'an City.

In a secluded Zen courtyard in Daxingshan Temple, Xuanzang woke up from the bed and sweated a lot.

He drank a bowl of water and looked out the window at the fish white in the night, knowing that dawn was coming.

"Strange, why do you always have nightmares these days?"

"Maybe it's been too hot lately......"

Xuanzang shook his head, walked to the water tank, lifted the lid and wanted to scoop another bowl of water, but saw a slender water monkey soaking in the water tank, gurgling bubbles, and his eyes lit up when he saw him.

Xuanzang was startled, but he was not afraid, but said with a wry smile: "My aunt, why did you run here, come out quickly, if you are seen by the senior brothers, you will be miserable!" ”

This Zen temple not only has Xuanzang living in it, but also other disciples of Daxingshan Temple, and people often come here to scoop water and drink.

The water monkey snorted and dived, shaking its head, reluctant to come out.

Xuanzang sighed lightly and said, "The weather is getting hotter and hotter, it seems that we have to find a way to find you a place with water, otherwise someone will find out sooner or later." ”

This water monkey was unintentionally rescued by him, after the flood receded, Chang'an City was in a mess, many people suffered from wind and cold, Xuanzang had learned some medical skills from the master, so he took the initiative to go to the mountains to collect medicine, and met this water monkey.

It was dying, with a deep wound, as if it had been pierced by something like a harpoon.

If it were someone else, he would definitely not save this water monkey, and maybe he would make up for it, but Xuanzang was born with a discerning eye, and he saw that this water monkey not only had no resentment and filth, but even had a little bit of merit and golden light.

Apparently this water monkey is very different and has done a lot of good things.

Xuanzang immediately picked the herbs, chewed them and put them on them, and in order to make it easier to heal it, he also put it in a medicine basket and secretly brought it into Chang'an City.

Now a month has passed, and the water monkey's injuries are healed.

Xuanzang originally wanted to release it, but the water monkey was very human, and told him in handwriting that he was originally a human being, and he was turned into a monster by casting a demon spell.

Xuanzang, who is kind by nature, patted his chest and said that his eldest brother is the current national teacher, a true person, with boundless mana, and Wuzhi Qi was killed by his eldest brother, and there must be a way to turn it back.

But Xuanzang visited the Xuandu courtyard many times, and was told that Li Zhenren had not yet returned.

"Xiaotang, why don't you think my eldest brother has come back? Where the hell is he now? ”

Little sugar is the name Xuanzang gave it because it likes to eat sugar very much.

The water monkey continues to spit bubbles in the tank.

"I know, do you think my eldest brother is so powerful, and you're worried that he will kill you as a monster?"

"Haha, don't worry, my eldest brother was born with divine eyes, but he is the reincarnation of Erlang Zhenjun, he can see at a glance that you are not a demon!"

"And although my eldest brother is jealous and hateful, he doesn't shout and kill all monsters, as long as you don't do evil, he won't be prejudiced against you."

Xuanzang was full of admiration when he talked about his eldest brother, and his eyes seemed to be bright.

The water monkey spit bubbles while quietly looking at Xuanzang, who was gushing, and there seemed to be an inexplicable luster in his eyes.

Outside the window, the night faded away.

Xuanzang stood in front of the water tank and kept talking, at first talking about his eldest brother, and later about his master, complaining about the master's unreliability, and he also likes to use fake stones to perform chest crushing boulders to cheat money, and once he deliberately replaced it with real stones......

This little novice who came to Chang'an after trekking through mountains and rivers did not have any relatives and friends around him, and was only accompanied by the ancient Buddha of the Green Lantern, and sometimes it was inevitable that a trace of melancholy and confusion would arise.

But now, he's found a partner to talk to, even though they've been diving and spitting bubbles most of the time.

"Little Sugar, can you stop spitting bubbles, you're a water monkey, not a goldfish!"

"Gollum ......"