Chapter 106: Like a demon, like a demon, like a human, like a Buddha
Cold, damp, terrifying, cramped, bloody......
The moment he leaned down, many adjectives naturally appeared in the bottom of the young man's heart to describe this indescribable cave hidden in the depression of 100,000 mountains.
When the finger touched the stone wall, the rough feeling was no different from that of an ordinary cave, but when the fingertip was placed in front of him, there were extremely fine dark red particles, which were the traces of dried blood soaking into the stone wall.
When the morning sun falls into the cave along the vines that are unfolded, countless Sanskrit characters are densely smeared on the stone wall like a mural, and when the sun falls, it is strangely revealing a Buddha nature, faintly distorted, as if it comes to life, which is an extremely strong visual impact.
"Click......
There was an extremely faint sound in the cave, and the young man looked down to see a shattered skull under his boot, which had decayed to the extreme for decades.
"This is Sanskrit?"
The young man muttered in a low voice, the morning sun only illuminated the location of the narrow hole, and there was still an inexplicable horror inside, and the deeper position as far as the eye could see was still a darkness, pure darkness, as if there was a dark underground world.
"Torch!"
The young man did not rush in, turned around and groaned.
After a cup of tea,
"Buddha statue!"
The young man muttered softly,
"Hey, what a terrifying Bodhisattva!"
There was a sound of gasping behind him, and everyone just felt a chill in the back of their necks, and even their whole bodies trembled subconsciously.
More than ten torches completely illuminated the stone wall at the front of the cave, and there was a cool breeze blowing in the cave with a cold breath like the Nine Hells, and the flames were high and low, and the lights were uncertain.
Looking up, thousands of Buddhas glared angrily, their wide eyes were embellished with blood, like blood tears left, holding a sharp vajra, and if you looked closely, there was bone stubble at the end of the miserable white color, which was actually made of leg bones.
"Is this a Buddha or a demon?"
The young man muttered in a low voice, all the Buddha statues he saw when he visited the temple in his previous life were kind-hearted, all of them were with a compassionate atmosphere, even the dragon and the tiger Arhat were also with a righteous spirit, but now this Buddha statue is too weird.
"Your Royal Highness, Western Buddhism carries a religious worship of primitiveness, and the viciousness represents strength and is worshipped, but it is also the land of the Western Regions that is barren, in the words of our dry people, it is an uncivilized place, among which there are many small Gobi countries, and wars are raging. ”
"In the past, among the gods and Buddhas worshiped in Western Buddhism, many of them seem to be fierce and evil, and their essence is the same, all of which are aimed at saving people from suffering and happiness, but Western Buddhism is much purer, and there is great terror in Buddha nature!"
Bai Xiaosheng looked at the fierce Buddha who was holding a sharp weapon and muttered, and the great horror that the abbot of the green lantern said could be seen right now.
"Western Buddhism?"
The young man asked.
"Buddhism originated in the Far West!"
"That's why the Buddha country is also known as the Western Elysium. ”
Bai Xiaosheng said solemnly.
"How far?"
"I don't know, but from the ancient books I have consulted in recent days, I am afraid that the place is much farther than Qishan, and the Rotten Ke Temple is only located in Xiling County in my Daqian, but most of the influence is in the west, it can be said that almost the entire Western Regions are under the influence of the Rotten Ke Temple, and the origin of Buddhism is really difficult to investigate, maybe there is an answer in the Rotten Ke Temple, but it is really impossible to detect. ”
After Bai Xiaosheng finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong, and then added.
"Your Majesty ascended the throne, when His Royal Highness personally conquered the territory, the layout of the ministers in the territory has begun to infiltrate the boundaries outside Liangzhou, and the Liangzhou Espionage Division now has saucers in almost all counties and counties in Daqian, but Xiling County has sent more than a dozen spies, all of them have gone and not returned, and there is not even a splash, and there is no corpse, and it is not easy for the ministers to arrange judgments, so it has been delayed until now. ”
"Xiling County ......"
Daqian has 36 counties in Kyushu, and other states and counties themselves are often heard of by people, but only this Xiling County is rarely heard, obviously on the territory of Daqian, but it seems to be independent of the dynasty, and the sense of existence above the court is very weak.
The young man recalled all the memories of his predecessor in his mind, and he really couldn't find any memories of Xiling County, and only occasionally heard only a few words from the mouths of merchants who traveled south and north.
Now I think about it carefully,
I'm afraid that the entire Xiling County is already under the control of the Rotten Ke Temple, as for why there is no power to raise the temple to the east, maybe I am really grateful to the Lingyin Temple that has been wiped out.
"Tick ......"
"Tick ......"
The sound of drops of water sounded in the empty cavern,
Bai Xiaosheng subconsciously took a step forward,
There is liquid dripping from the top of the stone wall,
"Blood!"
Bai Xiaosheng stroked his cheeks with his fingers, felt the stickiness of his fingertips, and without looking at it, he already knew what it was.
The torch is raised,
The flame is raised,
And the people looked again,
A blue-faced and fanged bodhisattva is staring at the people below,
Blood drips from the stony fangs,
Like a terrible ghost and demon in hell,
Looking closely, a monk wearing a wide waist and wide sleeves, a round collar and a square placket had been disemboweled, hanging above the cave, and from the current angle, it looked as if he was being carried by the bodhisattva in his hand.
"This is the monk of Lingyin Temple. ”
The young man looked at the monk's clothes and said softly, when he came out of the temple, he saw a monk fleeing in a hurry not far away, and after seeing the person who came, he ran to the back mountain in a panic, but after arriving at this cave, he disappeared inexplicably.
Originally, I thought there was some secret passage here, but I didn't expect to die tragically in this cave at this moment, so it seems that the dry bones outside the cave are the people who went missing in the mountain.
The young man thought of the bones in the mud outside the cave and secretly thought to himself, the people who were suppressed in the cave as mentioned by the abbot of the green lantern were half-step and one-product cultivation back then, and it was not surprising that methods such as taking things from the air were not surprising, after all, his own mother was also a half-step one-product, and he could still break more than 3,000 armor with one sword.
"Mahayana Dharmaist?"
"Cannibalism?"
"Interesting!"
The young man looked at the missing organ and frowned.
The so-called pythons, big insects are all vain,
But it was captured and eaten by this suppressor.
"Boom ......"
While the crowd hesitated,
I had already seen a stone wall in the cave at the bottom, and trembled slightly,
The young man looked closer,
The Sanskrit Buddha statues on the stone wall and the cave are different from all kinds of scriptures that they know, densely packed like silk flowers, countless scriptures are engraved on this stone wall, and a stream of Buddha nature is surging, this is the Buddhist scriptures that are compassionate and compassionate, transcendent from the world, and the scriptures that they see in the Lingyin Temple, think that this is one of the many means of suppression.
Now there is a crack in this stone wall,
Without the light is also incomparably dark,
Torches are thrown,
The faint light of fire rises,
This spiraling staircase winds down,
I can't see the number of steps, I don't know how far or how long,
One Buddha statue at a time, one sutra at a time,
A fierce ghost with a green face and fangs,
There are bodhisattvas who are compassionate to the heavens and compassionate,
There is a fierce and evil Buddha,
I don't know if it leads to hell or the western sky,
Drops of blood that had not yet dried up spread down the steps,
There was a faint smell of blood in the air,
The young man suddenly sounded The corpse in the Bodhisattva's hand had no internal organs, and he thought that it had been brought into the depths of the earth by the suppressed demon.
Outside the stone gate,
Ticking of blood,
Inside the stone gate,
Squirting like a collision between teeth,
fear of the unknown,
Like the whispers of demons,
Whispering that the viscera is delicious?
This half-step product is far more terrifying than I imagined!
Maybe not repression,
For him, it's just practice,
This stone wall full of scriptures is useless,
The same is true of the stone steps of this step-by-step Buddha statue,
The ghost that accompanies him has already said it all,
"Zhu Yuankui, where is it?"
The young man shouted at the thought of this.
"Admiral, here!"
Zhu Yuankui, who was covered in blood, fell to the ground on one knee, and the monk in the Lingyin Temple who had just slaughtered was still in an excited mood, but for some reason he was obviously used to seeing the bloody scene, and even enjoyed it very much, but after entering the cave, he felt uncomfortable.
"Seal the entrance to the cave, no one is allowed to enter within a hundred feet!"
"No!"
After receiving the order, he did not hesitate to lead the big Qianrui with bright clothes and armor to exit the cave, and he also knew that although these people were elite in the end, the half-step product in the face of the unknown place would not play a role, so it was better to wait outside the cave.
"Keep going!"
The young man took the torch and said loudly.
"Mr. Thirteen, I'm tired!"
After the young man finished speaking, he solemnly glanced at Yan Shisan in the shadows behind him, the strongest person in the field at the moment is him, although he also has many skills that are useless, but he is really against the half-step one-product, even if it is the suppressed half-step one-product, if there is a slight accident, maybe there is no chance to make a move.
"Your Highness, rest assured!"
After finishing speaking, Yan Thirteen's long sword was unsheathed,
The sword inlaid with thirteen pearls illuminated by the firelight,
Shine brightly, dazzling,
meanwhile
Ximen boasted, Ye Gucheng, return to the sea with a knife,
All are moving forward,
faintly protected the young man in the middle,
They all clenched their swords,
Looking solemnly at the deep steps, the surrounding momentum has been mentioned to the peak, in the face of the half-step product fifty years ago, and now the unknowable demons, how solemn it is not an exaggeration.
"Let's go!"
The young man felt a lot of peace of mind with the vertical and horizontal swords around him, and the sword cultivation was unparalleled in the world, and it was a half-step product in the period of total victory, and he could also fight with it.
If you have already thought about it, you have entered a product?
Maybe in the future, the pattern of the world will be rewritten,
One product, one product,
A monk who came to preach to the world,
A demon with the ultimate tenacity,
A living Buddha who has cultivated Mahayana Buddhism,
Like a demon, like a demon, like a human, like a Buddha......
The unknowable, the unknowable,
That had to escape,
fled back to Shangjing,
I still remember that my father once said before the fall of Qingxia that when he arrived at the boundary of Liangzhou, he was a first-grade sword immortal who cared about Laoshizi, or a pure martial artist, and Lao Tzu let him have no return.
300,000 Liangzhou Iron Horsemen,
is the confidence,
Although there are less than 300,000 today,
But as long as there are 100,000 iron riders in the world, who dares to block its edge?
Not even a single product!
It is inconvenient to lead 100,000 Liangzhou iron horsemen outside the capital to set foot on the Naranke Temple!
Cut a product in the world!
It doesn't matter if you're a demon or a Buddha!
The young man's heart is churning,
Raise your feet and descend down the long deep steps.
I don't know how many steps of the winding stone steps,
Along the way, I don't know how many hateful ghosts, blue-faced and fanged Bodhisattvas, and compassionate Buddhas have been seen by the faint firelight.
The steps are not all the way down, occasionally rising, occasionally circling, and many natural caves in the previous life, I still remember that the longest cave is hundreds of miles longitudinal and horizontal, the hole is one place, when the hole has been to another place, the magic of nature is unimaginable, and this step is along the cave to excavate, but although it is much simpler, but the amount of work is still unimaginable.
Obviously, this is not the work of a generation.
This cave is located in the mountain behind Lingyin Temple,
Lingyin Temple has been a temple for more than a thousand years,
Perhaps this place was first regarded as a powerful retreat or practice place in Lingyin Temple, but later after the monks of this Rotten Ke Temple came, they did not hesitate at all, and directly suppressed it.
"I'm afraid that the power of the entire Buddhist scriptures has been carved on this stone step?"
"Worthy of such solemnity?"
The boy muttered.
There seems to be no end to the winding steps,
The crowd did not know how long they had been advancing,
After another cup of tea,
Finally there is a glimmer of light,
Out of nowhere, the clear light fell,
Looking up, I didn't know that a big hole had broken on the top of the mountain dozens of hundreds of feet, and a light had fallen, and the steps had reached the end, not extending out.
There's a lot of space right now,
It's so big that it's beyond everyone's imagination,
I don't know how many miles from north to south, I don't know how many miles from top to bottom and how deep up and down,
"Is this hollowing out the whole mountain?"
Bai Xiaosheng could not hide the horror in his heart.
"I think it's ......"
The boy replied.
"This is a Buddha!"
"Shakyamuni Buddha!"
The young man's gaze fell on the vast and boundless cavern and said softly.
Look intently,
The light from the top fell on the Buddha statue,
It is full of light to illuminate the whole body,
This Buddha statue, high nose, big eyes, thick lips, two eyebrows connected like a stretched arch, eyebrows in the middle of the white protrusion, eyes slightly open, quiet and kind, wearing the right robe, thin clothes close to the body, engraved double line clothing pattern, the edge of the clothes to shape out a three-dimensional folds, are carved out of mountain stones.
Buddha statue, knotted sitting, hand knot seal, sitting down multi-layer girdle pedestal, oval backlight, the upper part of the carved Bodhi leaves, this is the Buddha Shakyamuni sitting statue, looking up at the Buddha statue in the palm is actually holding a person.
The man sat cross-legged with his hands folded,
The man's thin limbs were as thin as firewood branches, and the craggy bones were covered with a thin layer of skin, the skin showed a sickly yellow, and in the deep sunken eye sockets was a pair of clear eyes, reflecting the crowd, revealing a kind of enlightened Buddhism supreme realm.