Chapter 26: The Way of Buddhism (2)
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This is the deepest dense forest in Yunzhou, as far as the eye can see, it is all a dense and endless forest sea, occasionally pulling up a few peaks of different heights from the ground, and the white clouds and mist surround it like a belt of clothes, rendering it a bit hazy out of the dust fairy.
"I didn't expect that in this uninhabited forest sea, the scenery still has a bit of fairy atmosphere. It seems that although it does not have the magnificence and majesty of our Longhu Mountain, it is also extraordinary. ”
Among the several Taoist priests standing at the top of the tree, the youngest one was only ten years old, and he couldn't help but sigh when he saw the scene in front of him. However, an older Taoist priest next to him sneered and said, "It's just a wild land, how can it be compared with my Dao Sect Ancestral Court? Don't look at those mountains surrounded by clouds and mist, maybe there is a great demon entrenched on one of them, and any other place is a turbulent side, and countless natural disasters and disasters can be eaten by people." ”
"The final result is just a few more heroes on the Demon Extermination Order of our Heavenly Master Sect. The young Taoist priest smiled proudly, but nodded with some palpitations. "But only when you come to the depths of Yunzhou can you see the ferocity of this wild land, the strength of the monsters, so that you can understand how great the heroes of the past dynasties and the ancestors of various factions are, it is they who have gone through a lot of hardships to kill demons and eliminate demons, and only then have opened up the ten states of the world into the appearance that can be used for the lives of all people today. ”
The other Taoist priest immediately answered: "But isn't it? If it weren't for the fact that my Patriarch Zhang Daoling founded a sect in Longhu Mountain and subdued demons, where would I have come to get the land of Jingzhou? It is precisely with such great merits, with the cohesion of the hearts of all the people of Jingzhou and the believers of the world, that I have the unfailing luck of the Heavenly Master Sect for hundreds of years!"
"Hehe, exactly. The oldest in the middle was over half a hundred years old, and he smiled, and then sighed again. "It's a pity that after hundreds of years, if the Dao Law is today, the decline of people's hearts is sluggish. Those Confucian scholars brought humiliation upon themselves. Even with the previous dynasty to be destroyed in the hands of the Demon Sect, the current court supports the Buddhist sect bald donkey to compete with our Daomen for the hearts of the people, which is really short-sighted. The inheritance of those ancient Daomen has also gradually declined, and the Kunlun faction has been hiding from the world for hundreds of years, and it is only in the last few decades that a lower three courtyards have been established, and some miscellaneous servants and servants have been sent to walk the rivers and lakes. Not to mention the Five Elements Sect, after being divided into five, each does its own thing. Qiaojinmen turned around to make a Shenji Hall to laugh and be generous, last year, even the Heavenly Volcano was destroyed, and I didn't see any other doors to help."
The young Taoist priest shook his head when he heard this: "Uncle Liu's words are wrong, I think those Five Elements Sect are just confused fools, they don't respect their ancestors, they don't worship the gods, but they are fiddling with that wood, stone, water and fire during the day. In the end, I made myself a ghost and a ghost, how can I be considered a line?"
Uncle Liu smiled and said: "Do you know that before my Daomen ancestor passed down the Tao Te Ching, the Five Elements Sect was already alive? In the final analysis, it is all about pursuing the infinite Tao of this world, but the road is much more simple and rude, how can it be said that it is not my Daomen's lineage? And you don't underestimate this Five Elements Sect, even if it is declining now, some of the relics left by the past dynasties are not easy to know just by looking at it. Don't say anything else. Haven't you seen the Xuantian Water Realm of the Shenshui Palace, the Chengtian Courtyard of the Houtu Gate, can't you still see this 'building wood' under your feet?"
Hearing this, the young Taoist priest unconsciously turned his gaze down, looked at the branches and leaves under his feet, his face changed slightly, and he swallowed his saliva.
In fact, he really can't see this building tree, just like when a person looks down on a mountain, he can only see the dirt, but he can't see the whole mountain. But he will never forget the time when he first came here, when he saw this tree from a distance. At that time he thought it was a mountain, majestic, thick, the same clouds and mist, and the surrounding peaks were small in comparison, until they were close. After entering, he realized that it was actually a huge tree of incomparably large size. Now they stood on top of its branches and leaves, like a few ants on an ordinary towering tree.
"This is the only one left in the fruit of the Five Elements Sect today, I heard that there were others in ancient times, but they disappeared for some reason. Such a giant tree that ordinary people can't imagine. I don't know how many years it will take to grow into such a form, and I don't know what method the people of the Five Elements Sect have used to make this alien giant tree accumulate such a strong vitality after 10,000 years, but it has not turned into a demon. ”
The young Taoist priest looked at the densely intertwined branches and leaves under his feet, and the branches that seemed to spread out endlessly, and said with an unnatural expression: "Fortunately, otherwise, with such a physique, essence, and the endless power of the wood yuan in it, if the trees have spiritual wisdom and turn into monsters, they may be able to catch up with the demon wolf of Xidi."
"How do you know that this tree is not wise?"
Suddenly, the Taoist priest standing at the forefront, standing with his hands in his hands, spoke. This is a very tall Taoist priest, only about thirty years old in a flash, his eyes are like stars, his nose is like a hanging gall, and a pair of thin lips are tightly pursed, even the Taoist robe can't cover the dazzling handsome demeanor on this face, so that people can see at a glance that he thinks of a handsome and good-looking beautiful man first, and then he will notice his identity as a Taoist priest. His pair of sword eyebrows are extremely thick and long, raised upward, giving people a feeling that they seem to be about to break through the face and point to the sky, and the slight whiskers on his jaw and lips are also thick and black as ink, not giving people the slightest sense of vicissitudes, only indescribable stability and condensation, and at the same time there is a sharp and bright meaning.
In short, this is a man who can make people extraordinary at a glance, extremely good-looking, and extremely attractive, and his voice is also rich and hearty, full of energy, with vigorous vitality and rhythm, and at the same time, you can feel the confidence and courage in it.
"Uncle Shi, don't scare me" Hearing this, the young Taoist priest who was looking at the giant tree softened his feet and almost fell to the ground.
"Why, Yuhong, do you see any clues?" asked the old Taoist priest. This handsome Taoist priest who seems to be only about thirty years old is the world-famous Zhang Yuhong, a real demon who is known for subduing thousands of demons and monsters.
"Hehe, even if you see it, what can you do. Zhang Yuhong smiled slightly, with a bit of bitterness. "The accumulation of thousands of years of the Five Elements Sect is not a joke after all, this building tree is the foundation of the Divine Wood Forest, and it can be regarded as a unique powerful creature in the world, except for the one in Xidi, I really can't think of anyone else who can have the idea of fighting here. Moreover, this Divine Wood Forest Sect is taking the path of wood, the natural way of revitalizing the cycle of life, and will never be as desperate as the Heavenly Volcano faction is seeking purity and purity. Give people a chance. ”
The old Taoist priest surnamed Liu also nodded when he heard this, as if he had expected it: "Sure enough, it is impossible to be strong." ”
Zhang Yuhong also nodded: "I never thought about it like this from the beginning. ”
At this time, a branch and leaf not far from them rustled, and then spread out, revealing a tangled tunnel below, and a man walked up from it. It's a guy with no clothes on him. But it was a middle-aged man surrounded by vines and leaves, and it looked like a bunch of moving branches. After the middle-aged man walked up, he said to several Taoist priests of the Heavenly Master Sect, "The sect master and the two elders have woken up, please come with me." ”
"There is a friend of Lao Dao who has passed it on. Zhang Yuhong nodded, and together with Lao Dao surnamed Liu, he led everyone towards the exposed Yongdao.
"Even if you wake up, you will wake up for ten days, and you will really be similar to a monster," the little Taoist priest who walked at the end looked dissatisfied, and muttered softly. The voice was so soft that even he himself sounded indistinct. The old Taoist surnamed Liu, who was walking in front of more than ten zhang, turned around and glared at him, and the little Taoist priest hurriedly silenced and didn't dare to make any noise.
The passage between the trees was so thick that it was impossible to see the branches of the trees, but wide enough for several carriages to run on them. Sunlight poured down from the gaps in the foliage, and there were hanging vines everywhere, birds and squirrels bouncing around, and the occasional ape could be heard. It's a unique view.
But this scenery looks like it is torture enough for half an hour. Especially after walking for a full hour, as he continued to descend and walk into the depths of the branches, the sunlight that could penetrate from above became less and less, and the surroundings became darker and darker, and the little Taoist priest who walked at the end could only follow the person in front of him by sound, and he also stepped on the slippery moss lichen and fell several times. Fortunately, the branches below are getting thicker and thicker, just like mountain beams, and they are not afraid of slipping down.
Just when the little Taoist priest couldn't help but open his mouth for help, suddenly a hazy light lit up, reflecting the surrounding situation, and the little Taoist priest hurriedly got up and trotted to keep up. If you look closely, you can't see where the light source came from. I could only vaguely perceive that it was moving with them, as if the air and scenery around me would naturally light up as they moved forward.
"The younger disciples are a little uncomfortable with this environment, so they are good at using spells in this building wood. Please also ask for forgiveness from Taoist friends. Zhang Yuhong, who was walking in front, said to the leaf monster who led the way. It turned out that all these lights were from his hands, but he couldn't tell what kind of spell he was using.
The foliage man nodded and said, "It's fine." Please take care of yourself. This is also our negligence, mainly because very few outsiders come to this building wood, but we ourselves do not need light. ”
It's really more monster than a monster. The little Taoist priest didn't dare to reveal the slightest sound, so he could only secretly slander in his heart.
After walking like this for about an hour, the foliage man finally led them to the place. If you don't know that the surrounding area is actually just tree branches, then the sight that looks like they are standing in front of a huge cliff, and on this cliff, there is an old dragon clock's face, and there are two other people who are difficult to describe, I don't know whether to say whether they are dendritic or human-shaped branches protruding from the side.
"Zhang Zhenren, I've been waiting for a long time. Zhang Tianshi, if you want to bring it, this time, I already know, I know. The old face spoke, and his voice was so strange that it seemed to have been made of wood, but he could still hear it clearly, but the old face seemed to have not spoken for too long, and the combination of words was not very dexterous. "You, go back and sue him, we, without the slightest interest, meaning. Yunzhou, how to be, how to be, the natural way of life in heaven and earth, do not seek people's hearts. You guys. No need to come again. ”
The humanoid branch next to the old face also squeaked and squeaked: "Those disciples who left here, regardless of whether they were from here before or not, since they left, they are not. They call themselves the people of the Divine Wood Forest, and it is also their own business. It has nothing to do with us how the people of Yunzhou see us, whether they want to worship us as gods, or whether they want to walk with the people of the Tang family are all their freedom, and we will not interfere. Please go back. No need to come again. ”
Zhang Yuhong stood there silently, his strong and slender sword eyebrows furrowed slightly, as if he was thinking about something, but the face on the wooden cliff ignored him, and after saying those words, he calmed down and disappeared. The two human-shaped branches next to them also stopped making a sound.
After a while, Zhang Yuhong sighed heavily. Turning and walking towards the way we came: "Let's go." The Taoist priests next to him only followed him, but the strange man who led the way covered with branches and leaves did not follow them, turned around and plunged into the darkness and never disappeared again.
On this way, Zhang Yuhong never said a word again, and the Taoist priests next to him did not speak, but they walked much faster than when they came down just now. This time it took only half an hour to get back to the top of the tree, and the branches and leaves, as if they knew they were coming, automatically moved out of the way in front of them.
Finally saw the sky and the sun overhead, but there was a hint of joy on no one's face, and the Taoist priest was silent, and for a while there was only the panting sound of the little Taoist priest who fell behind because he was tired from trotting.
"Too much deception!
The little Taoist priest who was panting suddenly burst out with an almost hysterical roar, which made the others slightly startled. When I turned to look at him, I saw that his face was flushed, and he had an expression of great grief and indignation, as if he had been humiliated, and even tears were faint in his eyes.
"We are from the ancestral court of the Daomen, taught by the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain! Which sect and faction in the world dares to despise us so much? Even the Imperial Palace Ouchi categorically does not dare to do so! We walked on the road for a full month, and then waited for five days on the top of this tree, and we walked for so long. That wooden monster actually beat us up with just a few words, and said that we don't have to come again! Where is such a thing? Where is such a thing? If it is spread out, where do you want to put my face in Longhu Mountain? These demons are really deceiving people too much! Deceiving people too much!"
The little Taoist priest roared angrily, and the tears in his eyes couldn't help but fall as he spoke, and the moss and wet mud that stuck to his face after he fell a few times before, he looked like a wolf who had fallen and been wronged. It seems that his resentment has long been held in his heart, and it is only at this time that it will burst out irrepressibly.
However, these words seemed to be really good, and several other younger Taoist priests were also indignant. No one made fun of the little Taoist's wolf appearance.
"Hehehehe" The old Taoist surnamed Liu couldn't help laughing, although he was also depressed before, but he still laughed when he saw this situation, and I don't know if he thought the little Taoist priest's appearance was ridiculous or his mentality was ridiculous. He casually explained: "If the sect master of the Divine Wood Forest is counted, he may be thousands of years old. can be regarded as a figure of our Longhu Mountain patriarch Zhang Daoling's generation, even if he is a junior, what if he is wronged?"
These words surprised several other Taoist priests: "How is it possible? Thousands of years old? It is the most prolonging life exercise of my Daomen Xuanmen Sect, and it can only make people two or three hundred years old at most." If this Wood Path Method can really be so magical, those emperors and generals who have sought immortality throughout the ages have not held this Five Elements Sect up to the sky?"
Old Daoist Liu only blinked slightly when he heard this: "Then how many emperors and generals do you think would rather abandon that glory and wealth, and finally turn themselves into the same appearance as the sect master and elder just now? And to get to the point where they are, the difficulty is no easier than any Dao method." ”
"That's just as well. Even if we want to change into the appearance of the three people just now, we don't want to live for a thousand years, and it's really hard to say that those people are still not alive, or they are not counted as people. It's not worth exchanging that for a thousand years of life. ”
Liu Laodao shook his head slightly: "It's not that they deliberately want to change like this, but after the Five Elements Dao Method is refined to a certain depth, they will naturally find a way to incarnate the Five Elements in order to further fit the Dao." I vaguely heard that in ancient times, there seemed to be a method of the integration of the five elements, but it seemed that even the Five Elements Sect itself had not done it. ”
The young Taoist priest was still indignant, this kind of relief undoubtedly could not relieve the grievances in his heart, and he continued to complain: "I will say that these people have become the flow of demons! Not only are they no different from monsters in appearance, but even their minds are completely different from human beings! Not only do they have no friendship with the same family, they have no idea of inheriting Taoism, and they don't even have the most basic human hearts! Regardless of the suffering of the people of the world, as long as they make a slight move, the lives of the hundreds of thousands of mountain people in Yunzhou will be countless times better, and they don't have to be manipulated by the Tang family, but they don't care, and those mountain tribes still worship them as gods! How can such a monster that has no human heart and humanity at all be regarded as a lineage of my Daomen?"
Liu Laodao couldn't help frowning a little when he heard this. There was also a stern meaning in his words, and he said: "Zhang Hengliang, how can you have such a mind? Do you really think that the Heavenly Master Sect is the number one Taoist sect throughout the ages, and anything that does not conform to my Longhu Mountain's intentions and my heart's thoughts is the evil demon outer way? With such arrogant thoughts, it seems that the status of Longhu Mountain for so many years is really not a good thing for the spiritual cultivation of the disciples in the sect! This time, I asked you to follow me and your Uncle Yuhong to this Yunzhou just to let you know that the sky is high and the earth is thick!"
The little Taoist priest named Zhang Hengliang immediately buried his head and shut up. But he didn't seem to be convinced, he just looked at Zhang Yuhong secretly, and seemed to be quite disappreciative of this Uncle Liu's words, and wanted to listen to Zhang Zhenren's words.
Zhang Yuhong stood on the top of the branches and leaves not far away, looking at the Yunwu Mountain Peak in the distance, and he didn't even glance at this side, but he seemed to be able to feel the eyes of the little Taoist. Without looking back, he said lightly: "Zhang Hengliang, don't be unconvinced, your Uncle Liu Hongde is right." After cultivating the mind to reach the advanced realm, the vision is naturally different from the ordinary, and you have to use your vision and insight to speak falsely about others, and there is a difference between it and the bird's nest that ridicules Dapeng in the Nanhua Sutra?"
"But but" the little Taoist's face turned red, as if he couldn't turn this bend in his mind with all his strength. The other younger Taoist priests looked puzzled or puzzled, and they didn't seem to be able to fully understand. "Then we're here for nothing?"
"Looks like we're really in vain this time. Liu Laodao stepped forward, stood next to Zhang Yuhong and sighed.
Zhang Yuhong was silent for a while. Then he said: "At least I brought the words of the senior brother in charge." As for the outcome, I didn't expect anything from the start. ”
"Do you say that the senior brother in charge of the family is and has not asked for anything at all?" Liu Laodao said suddenly.
Zhang Yuhong shook his head disappreciatively and said, "As a contemporary Heavenly Master, what he seeks is naturally different from others. But why should we care, in short, we should do what we should do and what we can do well. ”
"Okay. Then let's pack up and get ready to leave for Jingzhou."
At this time, a sharp chirp suddenly sounded in the distance of the sky, and a yellow light fell from the sky from an extremely high altitude.
"Huh, is it the summoner Fu He, is there something urgent in the door?" Zhang Yuhong and Liu Laodao both frowned. Zhang Yuhong stretched out his hand, and the yellow light fell directly into his hands. It turned out to be a talisman folded into the shape of a paper crane.
After Fu He fell into Zhang Yuhong's hand, it burst into flames, and words that turned into yellow light appeared in front of him. Seeing this, Liu Laodao took two steps back and turned around, without looking at it. This is a unique means of transmitting thousands of miles in the Heavenly Master Sect, although it seems simple, but in fact it is a second-grade talisman spell, and it is extremely difficult to make zuò, and it costs a lot of money. There are only a few people in the entire Heavenly Master Sect who are qualified to use this means of communication, so the above must also be very important news. Although Liu Laodao is not an outsider, he also avoided it for the time being.
"Hmm, there is such a thing?" The words condensed by the yellow light flashed, but Zhang Yuhong's face was quite strange after reading it. After thinking about it, he turned to Liu Laodao and said, "There is something urgent in the door, so I may have to rush back first." Only to bother Senior Brother Liu slowly led them back all the way. ”
Liu Laodao hurriedly nodded and waved his hand: "You go to yours, I'll take them back along the road slowly." ”
"Listen up, a few of you. I have something urgent to go back to Jingzhou first, and you follow Uncle Liu all the way slowly and carefully. Zhang Yuhong instructed the young Taoists, and intentionally or unintentionally glanced at the youngest little Taoist Zhang Hengliang. "The situation in this Yunzhou is completely different from other places, whether it is the geography of the mountains and rivers or the cultural customs, you had better forget that you are a disciple of the surname Zhang of Longhu Mountain, and listen to Uncle Liu's orders, understand?"
"Yes. The little Taoist priest Zhang Hengliang nodded along with several other young Taoist priests.
"Senior Brother Liu, then I'll go first. Zhang Yuhong arched his hand to Liu Laodao, and then jumped out of the branch. His original pen is already the edge of the branches and leaves, with the height of this building tree is not inferior to the height of ordinary mountain peaks, below this is the abyss, but whether it is Liu Laodao or those young Taoist priests are not a little panicked, the little Taoist Zhang Hengliang's face shows envy and excitement.
As soon as he fell, a layer of golden light began to flow around Zhang Yuhong's body, but after falling a few zhang, the golden light turned into a huge golden sword that was half virtual and half solid to hold him, and then there was a huge explosion, and he and this golden sword turned into a piece of golden light and flew towards the distance with a degree that was difficult to see with the naked eye, and the stirred wind blew the branches and leaves under the feet of those young Taoist priests to sway. In just a few blinks of an eye, his figure only left a small golden dot in everyone's sight.
There was a strange scream in the distance, but it was a long black smoke rising from a mountain peak that Zhang Yuhong had just passed, as if something was enraged by this speeding figure. But after a while of flying in the sky, it seemed that he could not catch up with the golden light, and turned and sank into the clouds and mist in the peak.
Zhang Hengliang, who was so stimulated by this scene that his face was flushed, walked to the edge of the branches and leaves, took out two talismans in his hand and said to the rest of the people: "I still have two Lingguan Divine Talismans here, although I can't fly through the sky like Uncle Shi, it is still not a problem to protect a few of us and jump down." ”
"No, I can't. Could it be that these two high-grade spirit runes are just to make you jump? Also, your uncle is in a hurry to get on the road, and there is no way, and there is some taboo of abusing the Dao method on this building tree, even if they probably don't care, but they can't just come because of such a trivial matter. Liu Laodao pointed to the distance, where there was a circle of steps made of branch trunks. "We'd better go over there, we're all going to be quicker, and we'd better get down to the ground before dark, or we'll have to sleep tied up in a tree again." ”