The smoke of the Buddha in the Crossing Sect curled, the chanting sound from the disciple peak echoed in the air, and the sound of birdsong sounded from time to time, which came into the ears of the little monk who was sweeping the floor with his own hands with a broom.

The broom rustled on the ground, the more the little monk listened, the more he felt the charm, the scriptures of birdsong and the broom, in his mind formed a sound and colorful picture, he immersed in the real and the panorama of the sect drawn in his mind, until the voice of the elder came from the hall behind him to come back to his senses.

"Go and ask Elder Hongyi again, let the deacon hall fetch the fourth-order tranquility tea, don't delay. ”

The little monk who had completed his meditation immediately put the broom into the storage bag, turned around and bowed to the Buddha's shining hall, sacrificed a string of Buddhist beads to fly the magic weapon, and hurriedly flew towards the peak of Elder Hongyi's retreat.

"Alas, there are so many masters here, and Elder Hongyi still refuses to show up, and I don't know what has been going on in the past few years, the atmosphere in the sect is always a little weird......"

After the doubtful little monk left, the more than 100 Zen masters in the council hall were a little silent for a while, and Hongmiao's face was not worried, or they were dissatisfied with Hongyi's refusal to be present.

With an apologetic smile, he greeted the masters he invited and said, "Senior Brother Hongyi has some understanding, in recent years, he doesn't like to show his face and get involved in mundane things, so as not to affect his state of mind and cultivation, and I ask you to bear with me." ”

The foreign masters nodded and congratulated Hongyi on his understanding, but the elders of the Doom Sect had two completely different attitudes.

An elder who sent a message to the little monk and asked him to invite Hongyi again, the smile on his face was quite stiff, and when he mentioned Hongyi, his eyes couldn't help but show disgust. There is also a kind of old god who is very dismissive of Hongmiao's words, and as soon as he hears him speak, he can't wait to close his eyes and seal his ears.

The first kind of elder is obviously on Hongmiao's side, and the other has long been dissatisfied with Hongmiao's arbitrariness in the sect, and the two sides have long had disputes, but they have to remain peaceful for the sect's plans.

The hundred foreign masters invited by Hongmiao this time were precisely to persuade this group of unwilling elders to agree to invite the senior monks to the séance array to purify the demonic qi and "destroy" the formation.

"What the Seven Great Sects can't do, why does the First Elder think that we can do it?" a bhikshuni elder who had been dissatisfied with the long-standing Great Mystery said coldly, "The Purification Formation needs to go deep into the Formation, if we all fall into the Formation, wouldn't we go over and cheer for the Formation?"

Hongmiao's smile on his face softened, his hands folded between his chests, and he said humbly but firmly: "The Nirvana Sutra has a saying, 'If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell', the Buddha has already achieved positive results, but he has continued to return to nirvana for all sentient beings, even if we sacrifice our lives for a lifetime, it is only a necessary step in our practice." ”

Hundreds of foreign monks and some of the elders of the Doom Sect nodded one after another, if they could destroy this evil array that had plagued all beings for nearly ten years, they would be willing to die without remorse.

The opponent of Hongmiao gritted his teeth, always feeling that he was setting a death trap, but he couldn't catch a flaw, let alone produce actual evidence.

The bhikshunis, who were the first to object, knew that it was impossible for the minority to compete with the majority, so they delayed: "This matter is closely related to the foundation of the sect, and if there is an accident, there is a possibility that the origin of our sect and the masters will decline." Why don't you wait until Senior Brother Hongyi is out of the customs to discuss it? After all, he is the most senior elder in the sect. ”

As everyone knows, Hongyi was a closed disciple of the first elder of the previous generation of the Doom Sect, and after the first seat of the previous generation soared, he had hoped to succeed him, but for some reason he gave up on his own and handed over the position of the first seat to Hongmiao.

At that time, Hongmiao was still a new elder who had just advanced to the early stage of Zen meditation, and Hongyi's move caused a lot of controversy, but Hongmiao was indeed a rare great wisdom in the world, not only strong, profound Buddhism, and good at derivation, but even dealing with the chores of the sect was as easy as a finger.

Hongmiao gradually convinced the whole sect, and it was not until there were questionable behaviors in the past one or two hundred years that some elders in the sect began to distance themselves from him, and even disgusted with his hypocritical smiling face.

Hongyi actually doesn't belong to the camp that opposes and dislikes Hongmiao, and his attitude towards Hongmiao is from love to indifference, and in recent years, he will never appear on the same occasion.

This made the anti-Hongmiao elders firmly believe that Hongyi must have known some of Hongmiao's hidden secrets, and the more he hid, the more everyone wanted to dig out.

Hongyi had a high status in the minds of Buddhist cultivators, and when he heard the advice of the bhikshunis, it was difficult for everyone to refute it. Hong Miao also looked obedient, nodded and said seriously: "It should be so, then let's wait for the senior brother to be present." ”

Under the arrangement of the little monk, the spirit tea and spirit fruit appeared one after another, and the long incense that cleared the heart and calmed the mind burned quietly in the corner of the main hall, and the blue and faint smoke dispersed in the air, and soon became colorless and integrated into the aura.

A short incense stick on the main seat fell the last piece of ashes, Hongyi still did not appear, the absent-minded discussion could not continue, an elder was about to send a voice to urge the little monk to invite again, but heard a dull and distant sound of the bell in the air.

Buzz –

Buzz –

Buzz –

The three ominous bells rang to represent the death of an elder of the Du'e Sect, and all the senior monks had different faces and doubts in their hearts.

Hong Miao frowned slightly and stood up, waving his hand to open the door of the council hall with concern and compassion, the squeaking sound and the echo of Hong Zhong stopped together, and the entire Du'ai Sect fell into a dead silence.

"Elder Hongyi-" The little monk who swept the floor had dried tears on his face, and almost fell when he jumped off the flying magic weapon, he forcibly suppressed the shock and grief in his heart, knelt on the ground and said loudly, "Elder Hongyi's merits are complete, and he has passed away in the cave." ”

Amitabha –

The eminent monks were in a complicated mood for a while, and they had nothing else to say except chanting the Buddha, and the elders of the Doom Sect were also shocked. Elder Hongyi is only more than seven hundred years old now, and he still has more than two hundred years to live, and everyone inside and outside the sect knows that he is very likely to ascend to the upper domain within this hundred years, how could he suddenly pass away?

Hongmiao looked shocked beyond comprehension, stood unsteady for a while, took several steps back, and burst into tears with turbid blood overflowing from her mouth. When everyone saw his sincere appearance, they all sighed at his sincerity to the elder.

Under the comfort of the monks, Hongmiao forcibly suppressed the grief on his face, but he was still choked in his tone. "Senior Brother Hongyi...... Have you ever left a slip of paperwork?"

The kneeling monk was in extreme grief, his eyes were blurred with tears, and when he heard the inquiry, he couldn't tell who the person who spoke was, and he sat on the ground softly and said: "The master engraved his last words on the mountain wall, 'I don't go to hell, who will go to hell'......"

The foreign monks were shocked when they heard this, and thought that this was Master Hongyi using his life to light the guiding light for the Buddha, so that they should not hesitate and sacrifice themselves in order to achieve the great self.