Chapter 65 The Temple of Judgment

Runo Temple.

The road into the mountain has been sealed a few days ago, and no idle people are allowed to go up the mountain, let alone enter the temple. There were Huan family troops everywhere, and there were two or three hundred people. The presiding monk Yue Neng and several great monks were locked up in their respective meditation rooms and were not allowed to move around at will, while the other monks were kept in the backyard and only given food and drink once a day.

Ji An walked into the monastery, let his subordinates stay outside the hall, and walked into the empty and dim Daxiong Hall alone. He looked around the hall and saw three tall Buddha statues on the central Buddha shrine, in turn the Buddha of the Burning Lamp, the Buddha Shakyamuni and the Buddha Maitreya, representing the past, present and future respectively, that is, the world called the "Buddha of the Three Worlds", and the murals of the five reincarnations were painted on the surrounding walls.

Ji An first walked to the Buddha shrine, picked up the wick of the Buddha lamp, and picked up three pillars of incense and held it in front of his forehead. After inserting incense, he knelt down in front of the Buddha shrine, clasped his hands together in front of his chest, and silently chanted in his heart, "The heart of the past is unattainable, the present heart is unattainable, and the future heart is unattainable".

Ji'an didn't believe in Buddhism, because Huan Wen respected Mr. Chisel very much, and Mr. Chisel's best friend was the eminent monk Dao'an, so Ji'an often listened to them talk about some Buddhist truths and felt reasonable. After a long time, I have heard a lot of things. has followed Huan Wen for many years, and he has also done a lot of cruel things, and after a long time, I thought that my heart was numb, but for some reason I felt more and more guilty. I don't know if it will be like Buddhism says, there will be retribution, several major temples and temples in Jingzhou City, Yu Liang and Huan Wen are enshrined, so occasionally he will go to the temple to burn incense and listen to lectures, and his heart will be much calmer at that time. He secretly sighed: I hope that I can also return to the right path in the next life.

Walking out of the main hall, Ji An had to go to see the host Yue Neng first, if he was willing to tell the secret of the cave, it would naturally be the best, so as not to give birth to unnecessary charcoal.

Abbot Yueneng was a thin and short old man, he was sitting on the meditation bed with his eyes closed, and when he heard someone walk in, he slowly opened his eyes and saw that it was Ji'an.

Ji An made a gesture to Yue Neng and said, "Master Abbot, I have been offended a lot in the past few days. I am on the orders of General Huan to ask the abbot master some things. ”

Yue Neng knew what he was going to ask, and said directly: "I don't know." ”

"The monks don't speak, I haven't asked yet, and the master doesn't know. Does the master really not know?

"The poor monk did not know what the Lord of the Priest was asking, nor did he know the answer to it. So I don't know. ”

"What is the mystery of the underground in this temple? As the abbot presiding, the master will not be unaware. Ji'an didn't want to argue with him, knowing that he couldn't argue, and it was useless to argue and argue, he was a soldier, and the destiny of a soldier was obedience.

"If the temple was built for 700 years, the poor monk is only 70 this year, how do you know whether there was a temple or a hole 700 years ago. I don't know, it's not a lie. ”

"Haven't the abbots passed down any secrets from generation to generation?"

"Perhaps, but the abbot of the previous generation did not pass it on to me. ”

"If you really don't know, why when they go down the cave, a few monks also follow? My fourth son was present at the time, and said that the monks who went down the cave were obviously prepared and well-trained. What does that mean?"

"Amitabha. Yue Neng closed her eyes.

"I know that you monks don't want to talk about it, just chant Amitabha. Don't forget that General Yu and General Huan are both enshrined in your temple. I had good intentions, so I came to ask you first, if you refuse to tell the truth, then I can only find it myself. Even if I can't find it, I'll send someone else. Whether or not this nearly 1,000-year-old temple can be preserved at that time is not up to me. Ji An said very calmly, this is his usual style, not to threaten Monk Yueneng, what he said is the truth.

"What the hell do you want?" it seemed that these words touched Yue Neng, and he opened his eyes again.

"Yin Soldier Talisman. Ji An said these three words word by word.

"Yin Soldier Talisman, the old man has never heard of such a thing in the temple. "Look at his expression and don't want to lie.

"You haven't heard of the Yin Soldier Talisman, so you always know what is hidden in the underground of this Runeng Temple, right?

"The old man grew up in the temple since he was a child, and he has never seen the hole open. Naturally, I don't know what's hidden underneath. If it's just a legend, then it's better to treat it as a legend. ”

"Legend, what legend?" said Ji'an, and sure enough, there was a doorway.

"It's just a well-known legend. ”

"Tell me about it. ”

"According to legend, the founder of the Runeng Temple is a descendant of the Xiong clan of the Chu royal family. And the place where this temple is located is the place where the king of Chu committed suicide. Whether you want the king of Chu or the country of Chu, this is a thousand years in the past. In the past, the heart was unattainable, unattainable. ”

"You really haven't been in a hole in the ground?"

Yue Neng shook her head and closed her eyes again.

Ji An knew that the old monk must know, but he would not tell him. I can only start with other monks. However, since it has been determined that it is related to the restoration of the Chu royal family, then it is not without gain, isn't the Yin soldier talisman said to be able to bring the dead back to life? So Ji An withdrew from the abbot's room and ordered the soldiers guarding the door to take care of him and not let anyone approach. None of the monks who went down to the cave together never came out again. Then the next thing is to talk to the other monks who went to the back mountain together on that rainy night.

Several firewood rooms and miscellaneous rooms in the backyard were full of monks. The monks who went to the backyard to participate in the rescue that day were all mentioned in the courtyard, a total of five people. Ji An put his hands behind his back and looked over one by one. Judging by their burly and strong figures, they should belong to the category of warrior monks.

Ji'an asked, "You went to the cave in the back mountain that day?"

None of them spoke.

"You know how to get into the hole?"

Still silent.

"What's underground?"

Still silent.

"Okay, I'm done with my three questions, and I won't ask anything else. Someone!" a soldier moved a chair and sat in the courtyard: "Now start killing a monk every other stick of incense." until you open your mouth. "A soldier has already inserted a stick of incense in the incense burner in the courtyard, the incense is exhausted, Ji'an waved his hand, and the soldier pulled out a monk from the firewood room, and the monk fell down in response.

Several monks didn't expect Ji'an to be so decisive, and they didn't even exclaim and ask for help.

This is the consistent style of the Huan family's army, only obeying orders and ignoring orders. There was already a burst of exclamation from the firewood room.

The second incense stick was inserted again, and it quickly burned out again, and the second one pulled out was a minor little monk, and his hand was up and down. There were not only exclamations, but also whimpering sobs coming from the firewood room. The five people in the courtyard were also panicked. Some of them are already starting to tremble.

The third stick of incense is inserted and burns faster. The third middle-aged monk was dragged out, and he shouted: "Don't choose me, don't choose me!" was dragged to the courtyard, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously to beg for mercy, seeing that Ji An was indifferent, he turned around and begged the five monks. Some of the five monks in the courtyard had already turned their faces away, and they were about to raise their knives again. A monk finally spoke: "Stop!

Ji An motioned to stop, calmly looking at the monk who had spoken, waiting for him to continue to say something. The monk gritted his teeth and said, "If we say it, will we really let them go?"

"Not only will everyone be spared, but these three will also be buried, and in the future, all the offerings of the Runo Temple will be made by the Huan Mansion. And you will be promoted to the chief monk, and if you do well, you may succeed the abbot in the future. Of course, Ji'an knows that it doesn't matter whether Huan Wen can fulfill these conditions, the important thing is that he must complete this order.

"There is a thousand-year-old stone refining domain hidden under the Runeng Temple. ”

"Stone Refining Domain?" Ji An frowned.

"It is said that this temple was built to hide people's eyes and ears and protect the underground stone refining area. ”

"What is the Stone Refining Domain?"

"I don't know the specifics, because no one has opened the cave in the ground, and the people of the Runeng Temple have just guarded it here for hundreds of years. It is rumored that only those who have the opportunity can break through the secret and open the mechanism. ”

"It's not the only time in seven hundred years that it's been opened, right?" said Ji'an, who was a little skeptical of the monk's words.

"It is said that the cave has been opened three times along with this one. The monk saw Ji'an's unhappy face and became nervous again.

"Oh, and twice, who opened it?"

"I don't know. I really don't know. The monk said with a crying voice.

Ji'an slowly stood up, waved his hand, and said, "Take that, pull it back." These two corpses were disposed of by the monks according to the rules. When the monks in the courtyard heard this, they thought they were going to let them go, so they quickly knelt down and kowtowed to thank them.

Ji'an then said, "You five, lead the way, go down the cave!"