The young monk walked up to Zhishan and asked, "Dare to ask the master, what are the three levels, the little monk is not talented, and is willing to answer them one by one." ”

Zhiyuan said: "Little monk, you can memorize a few Buddhist scriptures at such an age, and you can't answer my senior brother's three levels." ”

The young monk smiled faintly and said, "There is no difference between those who have attained it, why does the master think that I must not be able to answer."

Zhiyuan showed a hint of ridicule.

After hearing this, Zhishan said lightly: "Then I'll ask you." ”

I saw him ask, "Everyone has a destiny, where is your destiny?"

The so-called birth is the person's nationality and surname, that is, what is your surname and where does it come from, which is a common question.

Before the young monk could reply, Zhishan then stretched out his hand and said, "How is my hand like a Buddha's hand?"

Then he stretched out his foot and asked, "How do my feet resemble Buddha's feet?"

He asked three questions in a row, first at the beginning of the usual question, and then immediately sent out the second and third questions, both of which were sharp and very different from the first question. It's like pulling you first, and giving you a kick right away, which makes people breathless.

In the face of Zhishan's questioning, the young monk calmly offered the tea to Zhishan and said, "Please drink tea." ”

Zhishan said: "You answered my question, I won't be too late to drink." ”

The young monk smiled faintly and continued, "Please drink tea. ”

Zhiyuan said: "You little monk doesn't know anything, my senior brother asks you, if you can't answer, you can't answer, how to turn it over and over is a sentence." ”

The young monk said, "I have already answered the first question. ”

Zhiyuan said: "You just answered that you asked for tea, which is also called the answer?"

The young monk smiled slightly: "Master Zhishan asked me about my birth, with the aim of using ordinary questions to test whether I have the ability to study the Dharma. I invite the master to drink tea, so that the master will not be confused by the Zen machine, but can enjoy the true taste of tea in the moment, so that the mind is not prejudiced, tea is tea, and the essence of all things is also the same, so that the mind can naturally understand the Dharma. ”

After he finished speaking, he looked at Zhishan and said, "Master, am I right?"

Jiseon finally took the tea and smiled, "Yes, please continue." ”

The young monk continued: "The master's question, 'How is my hand like a Buddha's hand?' means that everyone has Buddha nature and can become a Buddha, so the master's hand is naturally similar to the Buddha's hand. ”

Zhi Yuan couldn't help but nod and said, "How do you solve the third question?"

The young monk said lightly: "Whether it is the Buddhas, dragons, elephants, or sentient beings, horses and cows, they are all the same in essence and there is no difference, so the master's feet are naturally like donkey's feet." ”

Zhishan sighed and said: "Lanruo Temple really hides the dragon and crouching tiger, and the poor monk has learned it." ”

Zhi Yuan saw that his senior brother had the intention of bowing down, so he said: "I have one last question, if any of you can answer it, we Baoguang Temple will not compete with Lanruo Temple for the quota of admission to the palace teaching this year." ”

Elder Yiyi said coldly: "If we can't answer, can't we fight with you?" ”

Zhiyuan said: "It's not necessary, as long as you can't answer, naturally you can't compete with us." ”

Elder Yiyi snorted lightly and said, "Say it." ”

Zhiyuan said: "There is no sound when one grain of millet lands, there is no sound when two grains of millet land, and there is still no sound when three grains of millet land, so it can be seen that there should be no sound when a whole bag of millet lands, why is this not the case?"

As soon as he said this, all the monks knew that it was wrong, but they felt that his reasoning was somewhat reasonable, and they couldn't say what was wrong.

I saw the young monk laughing, attracting everyone's attention.

Zhiyuan said: "Little monk, you have figured it out again. ”

The young monk said, "If the master wants to know the answer, you can go with me to the back of the main hall." ”

Zhiyuan said: "Okay, I'll see how you explain it." ”

He followed the young monk to the back of the Buddha hall, and after a while, the two monks came out.

The young monk said, "I have already answered the master, master, you said yes or no." ”

The monks couldn't help but look at Zhi Yuan, and Zhi Yuan nodded expressionlessly.

This time, the Buddhist debate with Baoguang Temple is over.

It's just that Zhishan and Zhiyuan didn't stump the monks of Lanruo Temple, so they didn't stay for a night, but left directly.

When they were gone, Elder Yiyi called the young monk to his side and asked, "What did you say to him?" ”

The young monk said softly, "He is a sophistry and has no answer, so he ......"

Elder Yiyi was curious, "So what?"

The young monk smiled and said, "I beat him, and he will be honest." ”

Elder Yiyi said angrily: "How can you do this, you can completely offend Baoguang Temple now, go and go, copy the Heart Sutra for me ten times, and hand it over to me tomorrow morning." ”

The young monk said, "No." ”

Elder Yiyi saw that he still didn't care, so he said, "You have to make me angry to death, it's not enough to copy the Heart Sutra ten times, you have to go and fetch me a hundred buckets of water tomorrow." ”

"No!"

............

At night, the green lights are like beans.

In a remote meditation room, a young monk is carefully writing the Heart Sutra. It's just that there are constantly black shadows dangling on the white paper in front of him, which is dazzling, but the young monk is unmoved, and he does not make a mistake from beginning to end.

But he still couldn't bear it anymore, and put down his pen and said, "What are you doing dangling around?" ”

"I said why are you so honest and obedient now, let you copy the scriptures, and ten times. Out of nowhere, a woman's voice came out of the room, which only young monks could hear.

The young monk is none other than Ji Xiao, who has been reincarnated here for twenty years and has also stayed in Lanruo Temple for twenty years.

Ji Xiao said indifferently: "It's not a big deal to copy scriptures, and you can calm down." I'm having an easy life now, and it would be better without you. ”

"Hmph, you think I want to be with you. The woman who spoke was Mu Qing, she was not dead in the end, but was entangled with Ji Yu because of that trace of Heavenly Demon Origin.

Now it has become a ghost-like existence, attached to a cyan scar in Ji Xiao's heart.

Originally, any ghost thing that touched Ji Xiao would disappear, but now Mu Qing has become an exception.

And now Ji Xiao has the two powers of yin and yang, the positive one he masters by himself, and the negative one belongs to Mu Qing. But the essence of the two forces is the same, so if Mu Qing's cultivation progresses, Ji Xiao will also improve, and vice versa.

After discovering this, Ji Xiao didn't bother to meditate and practice qi, anyway, Mu Qing had been practicing very hard. But later, when Mu Qing also found out about this, he almost went crazy. No, she's crazy.

It was precisely because Mu Qing was by his side that Ji Xiao fought for the opportunity to live alone at a very young age, lest others see him talking to Mu Qing and think that he was sick.

This era is more than a thousand years after the decisive battle between him and Mu Qing.

The current concentration of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi is actually a little weaker than it was more than a thousand years ago. And the Liang Kingdom that was instructed by him at the beginning, through the efforts of six generations, actually dominated the world and became the current Daliang Dynasty, and even the five factions of Daomen and Nalanda Temple had to succumb to the iron hooves of the Daliang Dynasty and pay tribute to Daliang.

Now this world is mainly composed of ordinary people, masters of rivers and lakes, and monks, and the government generally does not interfere in the internal affairs between them, and if the masters of the rivers and lakes kill ordinary people indiscriminately, it will attract the attention of the government, and the monks will also investigate the indiscriminate killing of masters and ordinary people.

The power of the government is extremely strong, and the three schools of Buddhism, Taoism and evil have converged a lot more than they did more than a thousand years ago.

But now there are no old antiques that can live for nearly a thousand years, according to Ji Xiao's investigation, the most powerful characters are still not much different from the top level more than a thousand years ago, but they can only live for three or four hundred years.

It may be that there has been some kind of change in heaven and earth, and he has not figured out the reason for it for the time being.

Now is the heyday of the Great Liang Dynasty, the four seas surrendered, and the world was divided into Kyushu, and there were heavy troops in all places.

Lanruo Temple is located in Jiangzhou, one of the Kyushu Prefectures, but it is not a sect of cultivation. Although the presiding officer in the temple knows martial arts, he is dedicated to worshipping the Buddha, and does not participate in the battles of the rivers and lakes, but will have some dealings with the government.