Chapter 1: The Apes
In the Daliang Mountain, the cliff is dangerous and secluded, the forest is abundant and the grass is lush, and the high ape can be heard howling, and the sub-regulation is crying sadly.
A gray-clad bhikshuni strolls through the mountains and forests, walking along a path that is faintly recognizable and should have been trampled out of the woodcutter by an Orion.
This nun should be quite old, her two long eyebrows have shown a little frost, but the skin on her face is ruddy and smooth, and there is no wrinkle, and her two eyes are even brighter.
The nun walked along the mountain path for about an hour, and when she climbed over a ridge in front of her, she immediately saw an ancient temple built on a flat field under a towering rock wall.
Her face was slightly happy, and she walked to the front of the ancient temple with a slight speed of her feet, but saw that the temple was in disrepair and was extremely dilapidated. A circle of low walls outside has collapsed most of the time, the door of the temple door has disappeared, but the plaque on the door is still hanging crookedly, under the thick layer of dust and cobwebs on the plaque, it is vaguely still to see that it is written "Yuwang Temple".
The nun stepped on the clean bluestone steps washed by the recent mountain rain and walked into the temple gate, and saw that one of the main halls and two side halls inside had no doors and no windows, and the tiles on the top of the Xingxi hall were still roughly intact.
She walked into the main hall first, and saw that a clay statue of King Yu in front of her had long been dilapidated, and immediately bowed to the statue with her palms together, and prayed in a low voice: "King Yu is above, and the disciples have five to avoid disaster here, and want to temporarily borrow the temple to shelter, and the place of disturbance is to beg for forgiveness." ”
It turned out that the nun law name "five" was originally the owner of the South Shaolin branch "Jingyuan Nunnery". Two years ago, the current Qianlong Emperor somehow offended Southern Shaolin, and actually sent a large army to encircle and suppress, and burned a great ancient temple in Southern Shaolin to white ground. Nan Shaolin presided over the Dafang Zen Master quite presciently, and arranged a few back-up hands before the catastrophe struck, one of which was to entrust a matter of great importance to the collection of the five masters.
This matter was originally extremely secretive, but the Qing court also found out the news and sent a large number of masters to chase after it. Although Wumei Shitai had outstanding martial arts, he also knew that it was difficult to return to heaven with one hand, so he abandoned the "Jingyuan Nunnery" and came to Daliang Mountain. A few days ago, she turned into a fate in the "Bauhinia Village" under the mountain, and accidentally heard that there was such a "Yuwang Temple" on the mountain, and she had the idea of sheltering.
After the worship of the five masters, he took a look at the side hall on one side of the road, and saw that the one inside was the most intact, which could be used as a shelter. She first put away a burden she was carrying, and then went outside the temple to pull a lot of artemisia grass and roll it into a bunch as a broom, and cleaned the ancient temple inside and out.
After cleaning, when she remembered that she saw a clear stream outside the ancient temple, she planned to fetch water to use, but there was no other utensils around her except a bowl for turning into a fate.
Wumei Shi Tai hesitated slightly, his eyes suddenly fell on an incense burner carved from a whole piece of bluestone placed in front of the main hall, and immediately stepped forward to poke out his right hand, holding the bottom of the furnace with his palm upward, and raised his arm to shout softly, "Get up!"
She walked out of the temple gate with the incense burner in her hand, walked straight to the side of the clear stream, first took some stream water to rinse the furnace, and then filled a full incense burner with water, and then lifted it up again and returned to the ancient temple. After adding these dozens of catties of water in the furnace, it was still as light as nothing in her hands, and she didn't look tired at all.
After walking dozens of steps, a desolate and terrible wolf howl suddenly came from the mountains and forests in the distance.
The face of the five masters suddenly froze. In her early years, she also walked the rivers and lakes, and she had to pass through the mountains, forests and grasses, and she heard the howl of a lone wolf at that time. Wolves are best found in groups, and those who can travel alone in the mountains and forests are often the most ferocious, cunning, and forbearing. Since there is such a thing in the vicinity, it is necessary to eradicate it at any time, otherwise it will become a scourge at some point.
She gently placed the incense burner in her hand on the ground, and spread her body like a lonely goose, sweeping away in the direction where the wolf howl came.
The distance of more than 100 zhang was about to arrive, and the five masters landed lightly on the branches of a towering ancient tree, and raised their eyes to look at the opposite side. But I saw that at the edge of a forest, there was a gray-haired ape lying on its back on the ground, blood gushing out of its throat, a large hole in its stomach, and its organs flowing out of its body, apparently dead.
A few steps away from the ape's corpse was a large, calf-like, skinny green-haired one-eyed wolf, apparently killed by its minions.
The giant wolf's open mouth was full of salivation, and he pounced on it several times to feast. But in a few trees not far away, there were a dozen or so apes, large and small, who seemed to be of the same race as the dead apes on the ground, and were now roaring and screaming at the giant wolf, each holding a few wild fruits in their arms. Whenever the giant wolf approached the ape carcass on the ground, they threw the wild fruit down. Although the giant wolf was not injured after being smashed, it was also overwhelmed, howling at the apes in the tree, and the two sides became a stalemate.
Seeing these apes defending the corpses of their companions so hard, Wumei Shitai also sighed in his heart, and was about to attack the giant wolf at that time.
At this moment, a long howl suddenly came from the depths of the mountain forest, which was quite ape-like, but somewhat plausible.
With the roar, a black shadow flew from the old vine hanging down from the tree, swinging and flying, and finally swept over the heads of the apes, flipped a series of somersaults in the air, and landed steadily on the ground, facing the giant wolf through the ape's corpse.
The apes in the trees suddenly roared in unison, and there was a faint sense of excitement and joy in the whistling.
Wumei Shitai looked a little dazed, and after the black shadow landed, she could already see clearly, it was clearly a human teenager. The young man's long hair was scattered, covering most of his face, he was wearing a rather crude animal skin sleeveless vest and knee-length shorts, barefoot, a pair of arms that were large and unusual, and his fingertips could almost reach his knees when he hung down, and in his right hand he held a white Sensen short thorn polished from unknown animal bones. It's just that although this young man is in human form, his behavior is similar to that of an ape, and his mouth makes a roar similar to that of an ape, and he lowers his body slightly, staring at the giant wolf opposite without blinking.
"Could it be that this is a child who was raised by an ape?" the thought flashed through Gomei's mind. She was well-informed, and had heard of an abandoned baby being taken in and raised by a wild beast that happened to have lost its cubs, and when it grew up, it behaved like a wild animal, so she gave birth to this conjecture. But no matter what, she couldn't sit idly by and watch the giant wolf hurt people, and between the index and middle fingers of her right hand, she had quietly pulled a stainless steel rosary that could be used as a hidden weapon.
The moment the boy appeared, the giant wolf was really startled, and involuntarily took a few steps back. When he saw the creature in front of him clearly, and felt that it was difficult to pose a threat to him, he let out a long howl of annoyance, and the four wolf claws slammed into the ground, opening their bloody mouths and rushing towards the young man with a fishy wind.