Chapter Twenty-Three: A Dream in Early Spring

This is a place of silence, this is a place where the light of the Buddha shines.

What is the light of the Buddha? It is nothing more than the feeling of some faint golden light on people's hearts.

Yi Tianxing gently rubbed the tip of his nose, thinking like this in his heart, but found that he was empty when he touched it, without fingers or nose.

The light of pale gold gradually diffused in this void, and he was a little surprised to find that he could not see his body, but only through a pair of eyes, watching the changes in front of him.

Suddenly, there was a palpitation.

The light of the Buddha is everywhere, shining in the space, I don't know from which moment, the face of the light gradually changed, divided into layers of shades, a layer of thick gold like a red flame, a layer of light gold like a sunset, it is such a superposition of light, so that Yi Tianxing, who is in the space, feels extremely flustered, and feels that these rays seem to be conscious.

As if to prove what he thought, a faint voice came from the depths of the Buddha's light.

"Find him!"

The voice was very strange, not like one person could not speak, but it could not be heard by multiple accents, as if 10,000 people had been trained for 10,000 years and shouted these three words hoarsely in the same tone in an empty square.

"Find him!"

"Whom to find?"

Yi Tianxing floated in the space in a daze, and asked subconsciously in a muttered voice.

No one answered him, and the brilliance of the Buddha in the bewildering eyes kept changing in depth, and those three words kept coming out of the depths.

"Find him!"

"Find him!"

......

......

Yi Tianxing, who was floating in the endless space, finally became angry, and roared with his eyes slightly: "Who is playing Xuanxuan?

The depths of the Buddha's light fell silent.

Suddenly, the light in a certain part of the space distorted, and a statue, a Bodhisattva statue, a Bodhisattva statue with a sword in his right hand and a lotus in his left hand - it was the treasure image of the Bodhisattva of Special Wisdom, in a way that Yi Tianxing could not understand, slowly appeared in front of his eyes, the treasure statue seemed to be empty, fluttering and radiant, and seemed to be able to be annihilated at any time.

"Pity these Buddhas floating in the world, but the unconscious words have not been forgotten. ”

The Bodhisattva's mouth has not yet opened, and the language has arrived.

Yi Tianxing was in a trance, and he was about to bow down, but he found that he had no body, and after a moment, he seemed to understand something, and he smiled and thought: "Why is there a big conspiracy behind all the stories? Why does each protagonist have to step on auspicious clouds to break this conspiracy?"

"Who's in captivity? who's missing, why should I look for it?" he asked in a trance.

He didn't know if it was a dream or what he was seeing.

If it is a dream, this dream seems too real, if it is not a dream, then everything in front of him cannot be explained at all, why this Bodhisattva's divine consciousness entered his own jΔ«ng god world, and I don't understand what kind of characters are behind those ten thousand Buddha lights.

Shu Bodhisattva still had the solemn expression that had not increased for a thousand years, but some words lightly hit Yi Tianxing's heart.

"When that person is gone, there is strife in heaven, and many losers have been knocked down to the earth, this situation has been out of balance for a long time, and the Buddha has the virtue of a good life, so it is necessary to redeem this situation......"

The Bodhisattva's eyebrows are smooth and delicate, his eyes are closed and solemn, and a grain of cinnabar between his eyebrows is very beautiful, but the words he says are very vague.

Yi Tianxing nervously wanted to swallow his saliva, but found that there was no saliva to swallow, and he was not used to the feeling of his divine consciousness floating in the jΔ«ng divine space, this feeling like a real dream

"What is strife?"

"There are thousands of paths to Buddhahood, but some are opposed by others. ”

"Understood. In the dream realm of truthfulness, Yi Tianxing still understood quickly, "The battle of ideas is the most pedantic and the most confused, the Huashan Qi Sect Sword Sect's set of things, I didn't expect Xitian to be still playing." ”

"Self-becoming a Buddha and cultivating Buddhas, the conflict over the past thousand years has become more and more intense, and if that one does not appear again, I am afraid that there will be more and more immortal Buddhas who will be knocked down to the mortal dust in the future, and the order of the Three Realms will be in chaos. ”

"The Bodhisattva is the teacher of all the Buddhas, can't he be reconciled?"

Shu Bodhisattva's eyes, which had been closed, suddenly opened, and the light of the Buddha burst out from the pale blue pupils in an instant.

"The Buddha lives the world, but he can't save himself. ”

"What then?" Yi Tianxing suddenly felt a pain in his heart and was worried.

"Go find him. ”

"Why me?"

"Because you're you. ”

"Monks love to talk nonsense. The boy still does not forget to get used to slandering in the dream, and of course he will not forget to make a respectful expression, but he doesn't know if the other party can see it.

"What should I do?" This sentence has actually been asked a few people intermittently since he came to the provincial capital, but unfortunately, no one has ever given him a definite answer.

"Fart!"

Yi Tianxing was stunned, thinking to himself how rude the Bodhisattva's words were? Suddenly he found that something was wrong, this voice was quite familiar, and subconsciously looked up with his eyes, and he saw a ball of light floating above the jΔ«ng god space, the momentum was extremely arrogant, and a wave of power swept towards the edge of the space.

"Get out!

The voice of the old ancestor chased those ten thousand Buddha lights in the space, scolding, snorting, and drinking fiercely.

The mysterious figures behind the Buddha's light seemed to be quite frightened, and gradually their silence dissipated, and those different levels of Buddha's light gradually dissipated, leaving only endless darkness and a barbaric light cluster rushing around in the entire space, as well as a bodhisattva doppelganger statue with a bowed head and speechless.

The arrogant light flew in front of Yi Tianxing's eyes, gradually revealing his figure, wearing an extremely shabby old and yellow cracked robe, which could not hide the arrogance of this great god under the robe.

"Shu Lao'er, don't provoke my apprentice to sell your life to you, look at the affection you gave me on Lingshan back then, it's not difficult for me to go quickly. ”

Shu Bodhisattva sighed softly imperceptibly: "It's been more than five hundred years since the Great Sage Nether Realm, don't you want to go back?"

The old ancestor tilted his nose and gave a roll of his eyes: "The cow is still a cow when it comes to bΔ›ijΔ«ng, and I am still a monkey when I go to the western sky, what are you going to do when I go back?"

The doppelganger statue of Shu Bodhisattva also gradually dispersed, leaving behind this strange master and apprentice.

"What's the matter, I don't want to tell you the truth?"

Yi Tianxing smiled in a daze: "Where do you dare?"

"Then why are you asking these broken Buddhas?"

"Wronged!" Unfortunately, he couldn't pretend to be aggrieved in his dream, "It's these big people who came to me." ”

"If you don't think about it every day, how can these guys who have been relegated to the mortal world and have long lost their magical powers to stay in the Buddha's dreams?"

"Duh!" the old ancestor pointed his index finger arrogantly, "Go back!"

"No, I don't know anything!"

"You need to know the oil, rice, salt and vinegar, and you don't need to know the story of the mother's yΔ«n. ”

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......

With this loud drink, Yi Tianxing woke up slowly, and as soon as his eyes opened, he saw the red oil condensed in the hot pot in front of him, a large pile of melon seed shells beside him, and the Philip color TV that was broadcasting the CCTV weather forecast.

There is a little snow on his body, and it seems that the snow fell on the provincial capital last night.

It turned out to be a dream of Chu ChΕ«n.

He rubbed his eyes, turned to the hut, and said softly: "Master, you still have to tell what you should tell me, otherwise you will always feel that you are being kept in the dark by others when you live, which is quite a bad feeling." ”

The old ancestor's buzzing voice finally sounded in his head: "Do you have the strength?"

Yi Tianxing smiled bitterly and touched the gold ring on the tail finger of his right hand: "If it is said that in the world, then I have some strength." ”

"What's the use of knowing that?"

Yi Tianxing shook his head: "If you have a stage goal, then you will have a sense of direction and it will be easier to see the effect." ”

"Okay, go get that...... The little Taoist priests of what day were killed. ”

The young man was speechless: "It's a little more difficult." ”

β€œ......”

"What the hell am I supposed to do?" the boy finally let out a rare hint of impatience.

"Higher, faster, more ......"

"Strong fart!" Yi Tianxing began to learn from the master to speak foul language, "This is probably why Gu Yong's old man wants to take charge of Pengfei Industry and Trade to me, and let me learn to fight with blood and fire, so that I will not be soft-hearted when I meet a real enemy in the future?

The old ancestor smiled: "Guessing is always too stupid. ”

"Don't hide it with a smile. Yi Tianxing didn't have a good air, "How can your glorious image be associated with such a tasteless military advisor?"

"Hun boy!" Listening to this guy's words, the old ancestor couldn't hold back his face, "If you weren't afraid that you would die too easily in the future, why would I force you to enter the world to cultivate?"

"I don't know why you were picked by the Bodhisattva and thrown away, but I like you kid, so I don't want you to die too ugly. The ancestor didn't say this.

Yi Tianxing opened a pair of big innocent eyes: "What can you cultivate in the gangster pile? If you want to accumulate iron and blood murderous qi, then you should send me to the army, if you want to learn the king's qi, you should throw me to Hong Kong to worship Master Huang." ”

"There is no one in the world who can follow the path of my practice. The old ancestor said: "I was born with supernatural powers to enter the Buddha from the Tao, but you have to go through the experience of the afterlife, and the worldly life is indispensable for you." ”

"It doesn't matter, life is a thing to live, just make yourself and the people around you happy. Yi Tianxing raised his eyebrows.

"Thousands of lives dissipated in front of your eyes, love and parting in an instant, life and death suffering, all kinds of calamities, can you not be moved?"

"No, you can't. Yi Tianxing replied as crisp as a crispy bean, "If this is the purpose of growth, then I would rather go home and sell sweet potatoes and pick up garbage." ”

Yi Tianxing knew that what he had seen in his previous divine sense was not a dream, and the words of the Bodhisattva's doppelganger statue made him vaguely understand many things. There is no important person in the western sky, the people below begin to make a fuss, the political struggle is staged again, and the losing party is beaten to the dust...... The edict of leading the Daomen for the last three days is about looking for the reincarnations of those Bodhisattva Venerables in temples all over the country...... But this is an internal matter of Buddhism, how can it be related to Taoism again?

"You also lost the fight and were kicked down?" he asked tentatively as he turned to the hut.

". The arrogance of the old ancestor gradually rose, "That person was still there when I came down, otherwise who could take me down?"

"The man is gone?"

β€œ......”

Yi Tianxing plucked up his courage and said: "Master, I don't ask for anything else, you give me a clear word, who is that? Is it the one who can hold you down with a big slap?"

There was silence in the hut for a long time, and then a voice came out: "Hmm. ”

The Buddha did not see the birds.

The dead branches in the back garden of Guiyuan Temple were blown by a gust of wind for no reason, and they seemed to be extremely afraid, and the red rì that had just poked its head out on the horizon was suddenly covered by a layer of dark clouds, as if it didn't want to hear anything.

There was silence around the hut for a long time, and Yi Tianxing muttered to himself: "Master, you are right, this matter is too big, I can't carry it, boy, I shouldn't know this." ”

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Yi Tianxing shook his head lightly in the back garden of Guiyuan Temple, the provincial capital, wanting to act as if he hadn't heard about it, so as to keep himself out of the matter and live safely...... It wasn't until many years later, when he began to squat in the toilet to wash diapers, that he began to smile bitterly, and realized that the idea he had in a year or five was indeed too simple.

Dust to dust, dust to dust, you to do, forever or you, this thing can't be escaped, can't be forgotten, can't run away.

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Somewhere in a mountain, there is a home in the depths of the clouds.

Even though the atmosphere here is like a fairy cave, it has not removed the smell of new chΕ«n in the world, and the red dust and faint smoke outside the house prove that someone has set off firecrackers and fireworks here before.

At this time, there was a coughing sound in the room.

Qin Zi'er, who was beautiful and incomprehensible, slowly raised her face and looked at her father at the table: "Dad, it's been two months since I came back from the provincial capital, are your injuries better?"

In the last three days, Qin Linchuan, the current sect master, looked at her with a look of pity: "Idiot, there is no need to blame yourself for this matter, and blame me for not telling you the reason for the matter." ”

Qin Zi'er's long eyelashes blinked slightly.

"Since I became the head of the door, the most proud thing is to divide the young children under the door, organize the place, and hand it over to zhΓ¨ngfΗ”. In this way, these living lives will not be lost to those senseless battles. Qin Linchuan raised his head, his gaze seemed to go straight through the roof, looking straight into the infinite sky, "Since the formation of the sect in the last three days, I have been looking for some characters in various temples. And why are you looking for those people, the elders of Qingjingtian never want to say. ”

He sighed: "Zi'er, you haven't experienced those things, I don't know what kind of terrifying existence we are facing, although those people are much lower than the one in the back garden of Guiyuan Temple, but they also have magical powers that ordinary people can't have." At that time, every time the brothers in the door fought a battle, although they would win in the end, they suffered heavy casualties. So since I took over, I've been secretly fighting against the elders...... It's just that in a few years, the immortals will descend to earth, and what kind of situation will be at that time is beyond you and me can guess. ”

Qin Zi'er raised her head: "My daughter is helping Yi Tianxing deal with Elder Qingjingtian in the provincial capital, what does my father think about this matter?"

"From the very beginning of your initiation, the elders considered you to be the wisest person after your ancestors. Qin Linchuan looked at his daughter's eyes, "You have your own judgment on things, I won't try to influence you, just remember, don't be too prosperous." ”

"Yi Tianxing's identity is a mystery, I don't know what kind of variables he will be in the future struggle, and Elder Xi is buried at the top of Kunlun Peak, the elders of Qingjingtian will definitely not let him go easily. ”

"The elders have not been down for many years, and they believe in the principle of not doing things in vain, which should not have any effect on them in the secular society. ”

Qin Linchuan shook his head: "Before I came to ChΓ‘o, I made a divination, and I feel that within two or three years at most, Yi Tianxing will have a big catastrophe." ”

"I left him a mental method. ”

"I know, your Senior Brother Zhou has been asking what's inside the door on the fifth floor. ”

"Doesn't my father blame me for passing on his Taoist skills privately?"

"Huh. Qin Linchuan smiled, but there was no smile in his eyes, "Since I have decided not to listen to the words of the elders anymore, then it is natural to face the heavenly punishment in the future, and the strength of this human world is stronger, and the chance to retain it in the future will be one more." ”

"Are the immortals really strong?"

"The word strong is not appropriate. Qin Linchuan said seriously: "You have to remember one thing, immortals also start from mortal cultivation, so don't be afraid." ”

Qin Zi'er nodded slowly, and a hint of perseverance flashed on her face: "Father, then I will start retreating." ”

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There was a sound of footsteps behind him, Yi Tianxing frowned and turned around, finding that it was a large number of bald heads.

With Bin Ku as the leader, Ye Xiangsheng as the deputy, dozens of disciples from the hidden sect of the Buddhist sect of Guiyuan Temple walked in together. Yi Tianxingmi watched and found that most of these monks had seen it himself, that is, the time when he was playing arhats in the back garden in order to save the little red bird, and the palms of these big monks had intimate contact with their bodies with strange mantra mantras.

Thinking of the little red bird, he thought that the fat guy hadn't come back yet, and he didn't know what to do, and he just felt that it was still somewhere in the west.

Back in front of him, he put his hands behind his back and asked curiously, "What is this for?"

Master Bin Ku Heshi smiled slightly, then bowed down and made a big salute, and the monks behind also bowed down one after another, and the robes fluttered for a while, and the scene was not spectacular.

"Oh, so polite?" Yi Tianxing was a little fluttering, and when he saw Ye Xiangseng constantly making his eyes, he woke up and quickly turned sideways to avoid it.

Naturally, the monks worship the one in the hut.

Master Bin Ku softly saluted: "There is no Buddha in the south. ”

The monks behind him praised in unison: "There is no Buddha in the south." ”

The sound reverberated through the courtyard for a long time.

......

......

It's not Nan Wu Amitabha Buddha, it's not Nan Wu Relief Guanyin Bodhisattva, but it's Nan Wu Self Buddha.

Yi Tianxing naturally knew that Nan Wu was Brahman, the meaning of respect, but he didn't understand why they said Nan Wu Buddha.

This question lasted until he began to have breakfast in Bin Ku's meditation room.

"What do I mean by Buddha?"

"The Buddha of my temple. Master Bin Ku smiled and replied: "Other temples offer the golden body of the Buddha, but this temple offers the true body of the Buddha." ”

"Fleshy numbness. Yi Tianxing took a few sips of gruel with a big bowl, "What kind of Buddha is my master?" β€œ

"Fighting to defeat the Buddha, could it be that the Dharma Protector has never heard of it?" Master Bin Ku's face was full of confusion, "In order not to frighten the world, the rule of this temple for two hundred years is to only call me Buddha, but not the name of the Dharma." ”

Yi Tianxing squirted out a mouthful of porridge: "...... I've forgotten about that. Then he frowned and said: "I know that your great monk is deeply hidden, so it's not surprising that you know the identity of the master, but there are many people, although they are all hidden disciples, but you must always be careful to spread it." ”

"Ordinary disciples naturally don't know the identity of the ancestor, and this secret has always been known only to the head of this temple. ”

"Ah, I accidentally overheard this guy. Yi Tianxing glanced at Ye Xiangseng, who was picking Bai Shengsheng's plain face beside him, and glanced thoughtfully, and said with a cruel smile: "Master Bin Ku, do you want me to help you with the work of killing people and destroying your mouth?"

Ye Xiangseng's mind has really changed these days, and he didn't even glance at this boring kid, but smiled slightly, and the innocence of the flesh made Yi Tianxing's goosebumps straighten.

Master Bin Ku said with a smile: "Ye Xiang is the next host of this temple. After saying this, he went to the front hall to prepare for today's most important nodding pillar incense, and there were two people left in the meditation room, Yi Tianxing and Ye Xiangseng.

"Ye Xiang, you have to treat yourself when you are promoted. He patted Ye Xiangseng's shoulder.

Ye Xiangseng smiled slightly, and pushed the bowl of somen noodles in front of him in front of him: "Noodles taste better than gruel." ”

"Stingy monk. Yi Tianxing shook his head, "I ate too much oil last night, and I have to eat some white porridge to clear my stomach today." ”

Ye Xiangseng finally couldn't keep his smile, and after hesitating for a while, he said, "Senior brother, let's break less in the temple in the future." ”

Yi Tianxing scratched his head and said with a smile: "You're right, I'll pay attention to it in the future." ”

The bell rings.

The hour hand points to eight o'clock, and the incense of the head pillar of Guiyuan Temple for one or five years is about to be lit. There have been many pilgrims in front of the main hall, and the voices are loud, but they are not allowed to enter the hall door, and the monks are maintaining order.

"Lay people, please line up according to the order, the temple will start at half past eight o'clock, and the Buddha worship lies in sincerity, not in the order. ”

The monk kept shouting, but no one paid attention to the pilgrims crowded below, if it weren't for the new year's incense to ask for a good fortune for the coming year, who would be willing to celebrate the New Year, and got up from the warm quilt early in the morning.

Everyone's fanatical eyes were fixed on the large copper furnace outside the hall

Compared with the lively scene outside the temple, the inside of the temple is different.

In the early morning, the Daxiong Treasure Hall looked a little dark, and there were several people standing on the cool bluestone floor, and Director Pan was wearing civilian clothes today, following behind one person.

The man's hair was a little gray, jΔ«ng was shining, his broad forehead was slightly shiny, and he was wearing a very ordinary jacket, but his body naturally exuded a kind of weight.

"Master Bin Ku, I'm sorry today. ”

Bin Ku's face was calm: "You can come, but you are also concerned about religious work. ”

The old man put his hands behind his back and said with a slight smile: "This is a grand event in the religious world, and I have long wanted to come and see it." ”

As he spoke, Bin Ku took a stick of coarse incense from the monk behind him, lowered his eyebrows and handed it to the old man. The thick incense stick was yellow on the outside, about the thickness of a few fingers.

The old man took it with both hands, smiled slightly, but the corners of his eyebrows were a little self-deprecating, and after a little consideration, he still lit it on the fire beside him, and then respectfully inserted the incense burner in front of the hall.

Master Bin Ku handed over another stick of coarse incense.

The old man was stunned: "Two pillars, what is this statement?"

Bin smiled bitterly and said: "There is no one in the world in front of the Buddha in pairs." ”

The old man smiled and did as he was told.

Yi Tianxing, who had been peeping behind the curtain, frowned: "Why do you want to order coarse incense? This should be ordered by the people in the party, the old monk is not in accordance with the rules." ”

Ye Xiangseng, who had been following him, replied quietly: "Since the other party wants incense, then order it, but this pillar of incense still has to be reserved for the truly pious donor." ”

"Villain. Yi Tianxing exclaimed: "You can't offend the leader, you have to adhere to the principles, it turns out that being a monk is also a hard thing." But Bin Ku's hand is not good enough, since he has already entered the water, he can't do half a show, so why bother. ”

"Senior brother, don't you want to see that person? ”

Yi Tianxing looked at the old man's face, which was often on the TV news, and shook his head resolutely: "The most complicated thing in this world is religion and politics, and I have been dragged into one matter by you now, and I will resolutely not touch another thing." ”

"Senior brother, there are worries between the eyebrows. ”

Yi Tianxing was silent, anyone who knew that his fate was related to the case of a Chun God and Buddha would be overwhelmed, and he asked instead: "Why don't you seem to be very good today, Ye Xiang." ”

Ye Xiangseng smiled reluctantly: "I don't know why I couldn't sleep well last night, I seemed to have a strange dream, and the Buddha light was shining in the dream, I don't know if it meant something." ”

Yi Tianxing's face changed slightly, and after a few breaths, he took a deep breath and hummed softly: "Sister, you sit on the bow of the boat, my brother walks on the shore, and I love ...... love."

This is his way of decompressing, although it seems a little weird, but the effect is obvious, the worry between his eyebrows gradually faded, revealing that he didn't care, and walked to the back of the hall with a flick of his sleeves.

"What's on the table in the Buddha Hall?"

"Relief of Journey to the West. ”

"No wonder it looks familiar. ”

While the two were talking, the work of "lighting fake incense" in the main hall had ended, and the leader and the accompanying Director Pan were welcomed to the side hall for tea by the Zhike monk.

"Master, may I ask if Yi Tianxing is in the temple at this time?"

Bin Ku was slightly stunned: "What is the matter with Director Pan looking for Yi Jushi?"

"Nothing. "Director Pan is naturally inconvenient to say clearly, he wants to find Yi Tianxing to thank him, and secondly, he wants to ask the young man of the Gu family where he put the four hooligan leaders back.

Bin smiled bitterly: "Maybe it's still sleeping." ”

Yi Tianxing didn't sleep, he and Ye Xiang were standing in a certain hall of Guiyuan Temple one after the other, and the two of them were enthusiastically clinging to the solid wooden stick wrapped with red cloth at the top, and hit the swarthy bell in front of them.

The bell rings again.

The voices of people outside the hall were loud and noisy, and many good alms people squeezed in front of the big copper furnace, even on the cold morning of the first day of the new year, they also squeezed out a bit of a sense of prosperity. Lively, between the palaces, next to the copper tripod, I don't know how many pairs of stinky shoes have been stepped on, and a few clothes have been torn.

In the burst of green smoke, the new year began.