Chapter 124: Scripture
Biyu City condenses the sins and conspiracies of the entire Western Regions, and adapts to this, almost all the people here believe in gods and Buddhas, and there are countless temples and nunnery of all kinds, and there are everywhere in the city and outside the city, and the indigenous gods and spirits in all corners of the world can harvest offerings here.
The high, obscure-faced gods are like flocks of vultures, standing on top of decaying giant corpses to absorb nutrients, and the inhabitants of Biyu City often say, "The more bad things you do, the bigger the statues you donate." And from this another conclusion was derived, "the innocent have no faith", to the relief of the monks and Taoists, there was no innocent person to be found in this city.
Among the countless temples, the Four Noble Truths are the well-deserved leaders, because of the vast area, it can only be built outside the city, there are as many as 1,000 Buddha statues inside, more than 3,000 monks, and its biggest benefactor is the Jinpeng Fort and the northern city of Meng.
The Four Noble Truths are detached from the world, rarely interfering in the intricacies of mortal struggles, and Gu Shenwei remembers it because the Four Noble Truths once made an exception and sent a monk to escort an avenger up the mountain.
When Marshal Yang avenged the Gu family, he was always followed by two monks, and after Marshal Yang's death, the monks did not know where to go, Gu Shenwei once thought that the Four Truths Garan had a feud with Jinpeng Castle, but later learned that this move was not so much to help Marshal Yang as to send him into the tiger's mouth.
Marshal Yang made a vow at the Four Noble Truths that if he could not go up the mountain to take revenge, he would go on a killing spree in Biyu City, and the monks agreed to escort him up the mountain with weapons in order to protect the innocent and get rid of the evil star.
In Gu Shenwei's view, this is also a very old trick to "solve the problem".
The noisy "evil spirit" incident finally came to an end, and Mrs. Meng not only refocused Shibao on how to treat her daughter's illness, but also saved four brown belt killers, "They share weal and sorrow with Ru'er, and there is only merit but no fault." ”
Mrs. Meng personally went to the Four Truths in the name of making a vow on incense, and the entourage was so vast that she had to set up a tent outside the temple to stay.
According to Doctor Sun, he can't cure the illness of the Ten Princes, the Four Truths Garan has a set of exorcism scriptures, or it may have miraculous effects, Tie Hanfeng has been working hard to win the opportunity for his apprentice to see a doctor, but he didn't expect that it had nothing to do with him when the opportunity came.
The six teenagers were first called to a gloomy hall, facing many monks and laymen and Buddha statues of unclear shapes, Mr. Guo of the Baiyi Courtyard talked eloquently, proving that Shangguan Ru and the others were not Jinpeng Fort killers, so they did not violate the original agreement by entering the desert.
"These two are the young ladies of the Shangguan family, in the Word Pavilion, these four teenagers are still apprentices, and they have never obtained the title of killers, according to the agreement-" Mr. Guo showed everyone a blank piece of paper, on which was the text from the inscription, "'The killer of Jinpeng Fort will never enter the desert', please see, it is the 'killer', of course the others of Jinpeng Fort can enter at will." On the contrary, it was Xiaoyuetang, who attacked the two young ladies outside the desert, this apprentice named Huan Nu saw her appearance, since Xiaoyuetang broke the truce treaty, Jinpeng naturally had to fight......"
When Mr. Guo made a generous statement, the two sons of the Shangguan family, who are now young ladies, were not very happy, for for today's incident, they put on women's clothes for the first time, and they were uncomfortable, and the public was even more irritating in front of them.
This is the result of many struggles, Jinpeng Castle needs to gain outside support in this killer war, and Shangguan Ru and Shangguan Yu can only temporarily turn back into Miss.
The other four teenagers wore conspicuous brown belts to show that they were not in the same category as the official killers.
Huan Nu even got the opportunity to speak, and redescribed the mysterious woman he saw that seemed to be a dream, and he paid attention to the people present, hoping to understand the complex relationship between the many forces in the Western Regions, but before he could see the clue, he was invited out.
The six teenagers quickly completed their task and left the main hall, not seeing the scene behind, they only heard afterwards that Mr. Guo had won the support of a considerable number of people, and for this he was very favored by the king of Dubu.
While the Strategists of Jinpeng Castle were arguing in the temple, the boys were climbing the mountain to meet an important person.
The Dharma name of the Tiger Monk is Lotus Heart, because he is always accompanied by a vegetarian tiger, so he is famous and is called the "Tiger Monk", but few people remember the Dharma name.
The exorcism scriptures are kept in the hands of the Tiger Monk, and the most important purpose of the boys' trip is to meet this legendary monk.
The tiger monk does not live in the temple, and built several grass houses on the slope on the left side of the Four Truths Garan, and practiced here regardless of winter and summer, called the "Left Slope Retreat", the monk likes to be quiet, so the six teenagers are led by a monk who knows the guest and hikes up the mountain.
Shangguan Ru was very, very unhappy, she kept pulling her clothes along the way, she not only had to put on women's clothes for the first time, but her upcoming thirteenth birthday was also overshadowed, in order to show the outside world that the "Ten Princes" was just jokingly called, she could not obtain the title of "Young Master" for the time being, and naturally she could not open a court to take charge of the killer.
Especially thinking that her brother Shangguan Fei can have all this normally, Shangguan Ru is even more annoyed, patting trees and breaking grass while walking, ruining the lives of countless insects, and even Shangguan Yu can't persuade her, just thinking of seeing a tiger that doesn't eat meat, Shangguan Ru is a little happier.
The young people originally thought that this senior monk must be an old monk with a solemn appearance and a withered appearance, but after meeting, they found that he was a handsome and cheerful middle-aged monk, and the only mark left on his ascetic life was that pale and almost transparent skin, and he was neither pedantic nor pretending to be profound.
The Tiger Monk Master was very interested in the Dapeng Bird that disturbed the stone castle a few months ago, and even revealed that he wanted to sacrifice his life to influence it, but Gu Shen was suspicious that the monk was probably not to the taste of the red-capped Dapeng.
The boys saw the famous tiger, lying beside the monk, with its monstrous mouth wide open, its belly rising and falling like a bellows, and looking listless.
A vegetarian tiger is probably similar to a killer without a knife, Gu Shenwei thought to himself, he didn't have a knife now, and a sudden sense of anxiety would pass through his heart, and he had to suppress it strongly to keep calm.
After chatting for half an hour, and finally getting to the point, the Tiger Monk turned around and took out a flat bag from under the tiger's belly, and opened it to reveal a piece of fired clay tablet, which was printed with dense words, and the clay tablet had obvious missing traces, as if only half was left.
Shangguan Ru's attention shifted from the tiger to the clay tablet, "Is this the exorcism scripture?"
The Tiger Monk Master caressed the clay tablet lovingly, "Exactly." This scripture was originally written by a peerless master, the years are like a shuttle, not only the master has long passed away, even the words he used to write the book have died, after three hundred years, there are masters to crack the text, to the Central Plains text to re-record, I don't know why, this master decided to save the sound without meaning, so the scriptures seem to be sentences, in fact, the true meaning has long been annihilated. ”
Shangguan Ru stared at the clay tablet, puzzled, "The meaning is gone, can you still exorcise demons and evil spirits?"
The monk shook his head with a smile, "This is the mystery of this scripture, and the masters who rewrote the scriptures are probably worried that the world will be obsessed with the meaning of the text, take the false as the truth, and the demons will not be exorcized, but will become demons, so they deliberately hide the true meaning." However, there are still a few words in this scripture that have been handed down with the original meaning, and several of them are the benefactors of Jinpeng Castle, so they are naturally familiar. ”
The monk turned the clay tablet upside down, pointed to the opening line of text, and printed "There is no difference between cloud and mud, dragon and tiger, etc., there is no affection and there is no Nan Keva leaves", but what the monk read out was "The soul ascends to the nine heavens, the soul falls into the nine abysses, the living are sad, and the dead are safe".
"The Book of the Dead!" the teenagers blurted out almost at the same time, these are the words that the dead man of Jinpeng Fort said.
Yes, the name of this sutra is "Nan Ke Valing", which means that the dead are alive and peaceful after death, and it is not inappropriate to call it "The Book of the Dead". ”
Shangguan Ru scratched his sideburns, "It turns out that those words came from here, and I have said it in vain for all these years, but I never knew it." ”
It is no wonder that this sutra is not a Buddhist classic, and not many people know about it. ”
Although the words on the clay tablet are only more than 1,000 words, they are all transliterations, but they seem to have far-reaching meanings, so that readers unconsciously want to explore the mysteries, but forget to chant, but the pronunciation of many words is extremely strange, such as obviously "cloud", but to read "Ren", if no one instructs, it will be more wrong to add mistakes.
The Tiger Monk taught word by word, and the teenagers memorized it with their hearts, and the wild horses couldn't make a sound, and the monk told him to just recite it silently in his heart.
The six teenagers stayed on the left slope for seven days before they could carry them unimpeded.
Shangguan Ru didn't care much about her "evil spirit", she just wanted to tease the tiger, inch by inch, and finally was able to stroke the tiger's head on the third day, and lightly brush the tiger's whiskers the next day, which made her extremely excited, and she felt much more interesting than learning the "Book of the Dead" of exorcism.
Shangguan Yu did not leave Shangguan Ru's left and right, and she only dared to approach the tiger, but did not dare to touch it.
Mustang spent more time practicing martial arts, and he was not allowed to carry a knife when he went up the mountain, so he broke a branch in his hand instead, and spent more than half of his time chopping around alone.
The flowing flowers disappeared not long after they went up the mountain, and only appeared when they were eating and sleeping.
Only Gu Shenwei and the Lotus girl recited the "Sutra of the Dead" diligently, and repeatedly asked for advice on the pronunciation of each word, and in the end, the Tiger Monk Master only taught these two teenagers more than half of the time.
In fact, the two were not only interested in the scriptures on the tablets, but also shocked.
As soon as the monk showed the clay tablet, they didn't need to look closely, and the two of them found that the words on it had already been remembered in their minds, which was the text recorded on the last few pages of the nameless sword book, but there were four or five thousand words in the book, and there were only about a thousand words on the half-cut clay tablet.
Since then, Gu Shenwei and the lotus girl called the nameless sword book "The Book of the Dead", and their hearts were full of doubts, is the true meaning of the scripture a set of internal strength and mental method? What is its relationship with Jinpeng Fort and the Tiger Monk Master? And how did it fall into the abyss and be preserved by the two golden-topped rocos?
The two discussed privately for a long time, but they found nothing, but they knew that this set of scriptures did have a miraculous effect, and when they read the wrong pronunciation, they could turn the "Eight Desolation Finger Power" in the Xuanji Cave into the internal strength in the dantian, wouldn't it be better to recite it in the correct way?
The two teenagers had to turn to the Tiger Monk for help, which led to the death of the eminent monk.
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