During this period, Shanhe also wondered if he had forgotten his precepts and stole his strength, but lied to himself that he was useless.

However, judging from the tone in which he spoke, it didn't look like he was lying at all.

Besides, there is no reason to deceive himself, and what is the point of him deceiving himself in this matter?

Shanhe, who figured this out, was unwilling, but it didn't take long for him to recognize the facts in front of him:

Compared with his own nine Zen fingers, the fingering of forgetting the precepts is indeed much more powerful!

Seeing that Shanhe was depressed, he could guess the other party's thoughts, so he comforted him:

"Mountains and rivers, you don't need to be sad. Regarding the nine Zen fingers, you have actually done a good job. When you're your age, your master isn't as good as you!"

If this compliment is placed on weekdays, hearing someone say that he is better than the master, Shanhe must be excited for a long time.

But now, looking at the two bright holes in front of me, I know that there is a big gap between the mountains and rivers, but I can't be happy anyway. The chin that had just been lifted retracted again, and said listlessly:

"Master, you don't have to comfort me, I know I'm stupid. Alas, I learned a stunt from my master, and it turned out to be used by me like this, it seems that what the master said is right, I really don't have a piece of cultivation material......"

"Mountains and rivers, this is a bad word!"

Finding that his appeasement had not had an effect, he hurriedly waved his hand again:

"There is quite a big difference between the fingering techniques you and I used just now, and it is true! But I said that you have done a good job, even better than your master back then, and it is by no means a lie! Mountains and rivers, Lao Wei does not mean to fool in the slightest! Because, although the fingering techniques you and I use are both called Nine Zen Fingers, they are actually not the same kind of exercises!"

Seeing that Shanhe was looking at himself in confusion, he forgot the precept and continued to explain:

"What Lao Qu used just now is the authentic Nine Zen Fingers of Wuxiang Temple, which is the same as the fingering used by Zen Master Zun Yi more than 2,000 years ago, and what you have learned from Shanfeng can only be regarded as a simplified version of the Nine Zen Fingers at most. Although it is quite powerful compared to ordinary martial arts, it is definitely slightly inferior in front of the authentic Nine Zen Fingers. ”

"Ahh

"It looks like, hehe, that's for sure! Because, the simplified version of the Nine Zen Fingers that Shanfeng taught you is the one that evolved from the authentic Nine Zen Fingers......"

Subsequently, he told Shanhe about the origin of these two nine Zen fingers.

More than 2,000 years ago, the self-respecting Zen master founded the Wuxiang Temple, and the Nine Zen Fingers naturally became the town school of the Wuxiang Temple.

The authentic Nine Zen Fingers have a total of nine styles, corresponding to the nine Mahayana Zen sutras, and each move is infinitely powerful.

After the establishment of Wuxiang Temple, Zun Yi had no private heart, so he announced the mind of the Nine Zen Fingers to the public, as long as the disciples in the temple can practice.

But even so, in the next 600 years, among the thousands of disciples of Wuxiang Temple, none of them were able to learn all the nine Zen fingers.

Even people who can learn one and a half moves are very few.

The one who learned the most was Master Guangyuan, the eldest disciple of Zen Master Zunyi. And he only realized the sixth form, so he didn't improve anymore.

If no one can learn a technique, no matter how subtle it is, it will not escape the end of being forgotten.

is like a rich man with a lot of money, even if he has mountains of gold and silver during his lifetime, if there is no descendant to inherit it, how many generations can his reputation be celebrated?

Over the centuries, as the number of descendants of the Nine Zen Fingers has become fewer and fewer, the witnesses who have witnessed its power have passed away one after another.

In the end, the Nine Zen Fingers, which had shined in the Battle of the Evil Dragon and were regarded as the first fingers in the world, gradually faded out of everyone's field of vision.

"Wow, it turns out that the Nine Zen Fingers are so difficult to learn!" After an exclamation, Shanhe asked again:

"Hey, master, has anyone ever practiced later?"

"Of course!" Forget Ring nodded, and continued to talk about the past.

About 1,400 years ago, Wuxiang Temple ushered in a gifted abbot, the Dharma name Hongjian.

After more than 600 years, after Zen Master Zunyi, this person finally understood all the nine forms of the Nine Zen Fingers, and became the second person in the world to practice the entire set of Nine Zen Fingers.

As soon as this news came out, it was as if six hundred years ago, the name of the Great Tribulation quickly spread in the cultivation realm and shined.

However, after realizing the Nine Styles of Fingering, Hongnan never left the Wuxiang Temple, but devoted all his energy to the study of the Nine Zen Fingers.

After personally feeling the power of the Nine Zen Fingers, he really couldn't bear to let that peerless book go down again.

Therefore, he plans to rewrite a "easy-to-understand" mental method based on his own experience and understanding of the Nine Zen Fingers, so that more people can learn this method.

However, this has been written for more than 40 years.

Until the day of the death of Master Hong, he was not able to write a mental method that satisfied him.

Either it's too simple to convey the meaning of the original text;

Either it's too complicated, and the already difficult mind method becomes even more obscure.

Anyway, no matter how he writes, it always feels less appropriate than the original text.

In the end, in order not to mislead his disciples, before he died, he simply burned all the writings of his life to ashes.

With a little regret, he sat in the temple and returned to the west.

Later, however, a monk who was in charge of sorting out the relics of Master Hongnan accidentally discovered that in a copy of the Myoho-renge-kyo, there was an unburned manuscript of the Dharma.

After reading the above, the monk realized that this matter was not trivial, and did not dare to make his own decisions, so he handed over the manuscript to the next abbot, the younger brother of Hongji, Master Hongtu.

After practicing the mental method written by his senior brother, Master Hongtu found that although this method was powerful, it could not be compared with the authentic Nine Zen Fingers. But it has the advantage that it is easy to understand and learn, which is very conducive to promotion.

On the one hand, in order to commemorate his senior brother, and on the other hand, in order to pass on the prestige of the Nine Zen Fingers, he finally preserved this method. And this simplified version of the mind method is named the Little Nine Zen Fingers, so as to distinguish the authentic fingering.

In the following more than 1,000 years, although there were more and more disciples of Wuxiang Temple, there was no one who could learn all the nine fingerings. The authentic Nine Zen fingers are also becoming more and more rare, almost extinct in the rivers and lakes.

Looking at the little nine Zen fingers again, because of its good power and easy to understand and learn, it has become a highly regarded martial art in the Wuxiang Temple.

In the end, it was passed on and on, and I don't know when it began, and the word "small" was simply removed.

The Nine Zen Fingers, which were once sharp, were replaced in this way.

......

"Oh, it turns out that the Nine Zen Fingers still have such a history!" After listening to the story of the master of forgetting the ring, the mountains and rivers suddenly realized:

"Then I know, what I learned is definitely not the authentic Nine Zen Fingers, but the small Nine Zen Fingers created by Master Hongnan, right, Master?"

Sitting opposite, he nodded and chuckled:

"That's right! What the mountain peak taught you back then was the Little Nine Zen Finger. What Lao Gu just used was the authentic Nine Zen fingering. Hehe, now you should always understand, why the power of you and my nine Zen fingers is so different, right?"