Chapter 30: Yuanming

Hui Nan and Bai Ya walked and chatted, and the two didn't know how many rope suspension bridges and suspended stone platforms they had walked through, and finally reached the opposite peak.

This peak is even steeper and taller than the peak where Yunlong Temple is located, and the summit there is only up to the mountainside of this peak. However, this peak has many platforms above the mountainside, which can accommodate a large number of buildings and build the training places required by martial artists.

According to Hui Nan, ordinary temples such as Yunlong Temple, which provide secular people to burn incense and worship the Buddha, are generally built on the mountainside and at the foot of the hill, and the top of the mountain is a cable suspension bridge connecting the main peaks of Kongoji Temple.

The main peaks where Kongo Temple is really located are basically mountains, and only the large platforms above the mountainside will have temple buildings. Most of the roads below the mountainside will be destroyed, and even if there is a mountain road, it will be destroyed by the monks, and obstacles and ecstasy magic arrays will be set up.

These peaks are so steep and precipitous that ordinary people simply can't climb them, thus isolating Kongoji Temple from the world. This is also the real reason why except for a very small number of people in Baocheng, ordinary people don't know that there is a King Kong Temple in this area.

As for the alternative peaks of Yunlongling, which are both steep and cannot accommodate temple buildings, Kongo Temple is mostly used for special purposes. For example: planting rare plants and herbs, stocking domesticated Rui beasts and fairy birds.

In all monasteries, in addition to the presiding officer, there are also class leaders and deacons. The head of the class is the senior monk who instructs the practice of the meditation hall or chanting hall, and the ordinary temple is divided into the first seat, the west hall, the back hall, the hall master, and so on.

Deacons are monks who are in charge of the affairs of the whole monastery. For example: prison, knowledge, monk, vena, pawn, liaoyuan, mantle, secretary, etc.

If broken down, there are more than 100 kinds of deacons at all levels. For example, he is in charge of the kitchen and the dining hall, and the deacons at all levels are in charge of stickers, meals, vegetables, water, fire, tea, line, door, garden, garden, and guest.

As the Xianwu sect that occupies the entire Yunlong Ridge, the disciples of the sect are more complicated in addition to the relationship between the teacher and the disciple. For example, the peak they have now arrived at is the West Hall Outer Gate Branch of King Kong Temple, presided over by the Yuanming Zen Master.

Bai Ya looked up at the branch temple of this King Kong Temple and found that it was very different from Yunlong Temple.

In front of them was a huge platform square, the ground was paved with bluestone, and the area was huge, until the very edge of which there was some sheltered stone fence. It's just that beyond these stone fences is the abyss of the cliff, and the boldness is as big as the white cliff and does not dare to stand too close.

At the end of this platform square, there is a huge palace against the hillside. According to Hui Nan, this is the only meditation hall in the outer gate branch of the West Hall, which is used by all monks for morning and evening classes.

In addition to this square and the main hall, the other houses of the branch temple are distributed around the mountain peaks and on large and small cliff platforms. Some of the houses are even half-suspended from the edge of the cliff, which is terrifying to watch.

The houses are connected by narrow and winding mountain paths, and the terrain is strange and precipitous. There are also some houses that are only connected by suspended plank roads, and they are the kind of simple structure paved with wooden planks, which makes Bai Ya wonder if there are a few monks who fall to their deaths every year in Kongo Temple.

In addition to the main hall, square, and houses on the mountain peak, the white cliff also saw many Buddha statues carved on the mountain walls on both sides. There are both individual Buddha statues and group statues.

These Buddha statues are only the size of a palm, and the large ones are as high as more than 100 meters, like a god standing high in the sun, moon and stars, looking down on the vast sea of clouds below.

At this time, there were many warrior monks practicing martial arts in the platform square, most of them were teenagers, and there were even bald children of five or six years old.

Bai Ya took a few more looks at this, and he was very curious about how the King Kong Temple recruited apprentices since it was isolated from the world. However, he didn't ask the Hui Yan beside him, and the great monk probably wouldn't tell him this.

"Master Bai, please here!" Monk Huinan saw him stop and watch, and did not urge him, waiting for him to take a look, and then walked forward with him.

The two walked around the main hall behind the platform and walked along a winding path towards the top. After walking for about half an hour, Hui Nan led him to a small cliff.

On top of this cliff platform, there is only a very simple one-room grass hut with a small vegetable garden and a few tea trees in front of it.

"Zen Master Yuanming shouldn't live here, right?" Bai Ya looked at the grass house with some surprise.

"Hehe, life doesn't bring death and don't take it, don't talk about the grass house, as long as there is a Buddha in your heart, it doesn't hurt for the monks to sit in the sky!"

Bai Ya was full of anger when he heard this laughter, and he didn't seem to be as old as Zen Master Yuanwu, and suddenly looked at Hui Yan suspiciously.

"It's the family teacher Yuanming!" Monk Hui Nan stood still and nodded towards Bai Ya.

Seeing that he was no longer moving forward, Bai Ya had to bypass the vegetable garden, push open the wooden door, and enter the grass house.

The grass house was as simple as he thought, and there was a wooden table against the wall, on which was enshrined a three-headed and six-armed angry King Kong. In the center of the room was a small stone table, on which were placed two cups of steaming tea, as if they had just been brewed.

There is a futon in the front and back of the small table, and on the futon in the back sits a young monk with a delicate face and no beard under his chin. The monk was kind and kind-eyed, wearing a gray monk's robe, holding a prayer bead, and was looking at the white cliff with a smile.

"Are you Yuanming?" Bai Ya couldn't help frowning, looking at the monk in disbelief.

Although practicing martial arts can prolong life, as the senior brother of Zen Master Yuanwu, this is too young. It doesn't seem to be as big as the monk Huinan, and it's probably about the same to say that he is a disciple of Huinan.

"Lao Wei is Yuanming, I don't know how Xiaoyou can believe it?"

Although Bai Ya's tone was a little unkind, the monk seemed to be extremely cultivated, and he didn't get angry at all, just looked at him happily.

"If you are a Yuanming Zen Master, then tell me what Master Huikong looks like!" Bai Ya asked in disbelief.

He felt that the monk Huinan should not deceive himself, not to mention, he didn't tell anyone about the "Lengyan Sutra", and there was no need for these monks to unite to deceive him.

"That's right!" the young monk slowly explained Huikong's appearance, and he said it exactly right.

"If that's the case, then do you know why Master Huikong went out to practice?"

By the time the monk finished speaking, Bai Ya had already believed half of it. However, as a modern man who has been tested by liars for a long time, he felt that he had to test it again, and as soon as his eyes rolled, he asked another question.

"Lao Wei asked Huikong to come out of the world, not only to go to the Western Regions Tantra to retrieve a copy of the Lengyan Sutra, but also to let him avoid the calamity of life and death!" The monk sighed and said slowly, "I didn't expect Huikong to always be too shallow and failed to turn the danger into a disaster, Amitabha!"

The monk recited a Buddha name, and looked at Baiya with a clear gaze, "Although Lao Wei has sent someone to Shiyangji to inquire about all things, the details of Huikong's death are not very clear!

Bai Ya was silent, and he finally believed that the young monk in front of him was the master of Monk Huikong, the senior brother of Zen Master Yuanwu - Zen Master Yuanming.

If it is a fake, even if he knows the task of Monk Huikong to retrieve the Lengyan Sutra, it is impossible to know that he is in calamity. Because the real Yuanming Zen Master will never tell anyone about Huikong's calamity before Huikong is killed or returns, otherwise he will definitely leave his karma.

"Zen Master, since you know that Huikong is in trouble, why do you still send him out, wouldn't it be better to stay in the temple!"

Thinking of the great monk who was so kind to himself and Xiao Xin, Bai Ya couldn't help but look at him slightly.

"The world is unpredictable, what can you do if you leave him in the temple, never go out to practice, and be a puppet?" Zen Master Yuanming's face finally showed a trace of bitterness.

"What's more, although Lao Qu's disciple is talented and dull, he has also entered the realm of acquired qi. As long as it is not a fellow sect or a brute beast or demon, there are very few worldly mortals who can threaten him......"

"It's easy to dodge an open gun, but it's hard to defend against a dark arrow......," Bai Ya interrupted the monk's words stiffly.

Although Yuan Ming explained, Bai Ya didn't want to listen anymore. Huikong's incident almost became his heart disease, in Bai Ya's heart, this monk was killed by him, what calamity is not calamity, he doesn't believe in this set at all.

"Since this monk in front of me is really Yuanming, then I should also end this matter!" Bai Ya thought to himself, took two steps forward, and sat down on the futon.

"I don't kill Boren, but Beren dies because of me, and Master Huikong is tired of me......"

Bai Ya's eyes were calm, and he said what he said to Yuanwu yesterday to Yuanming Zen Master again. It's just that this time not only told the process of the death of Monk Huikong, but also told Taoyan about colluding with the Black Tiger and dealing with Gu Lin Inn.

"This is the "Lengyan Sutra" entrusted to me by Master Huikong before he was killed, as well as the "Jialan Neijing" that he copied himself. Bai Ya said as he opened the mustard seed bag and placed a roll of silk cloth and a Buddhist scripture on top of the stone table.

Zen Master Yuanming looked at the two Buddhist scriptures and was silent, as if he was wandering outside the object.

However, Bai Ya could see that the monk was a little sad, so he also accompanied him to mourn for Huikong.

"Huikong...... But is there anything else to tell Xiaoyou to tell Yu Laog?" Yuan Ming was silent for a while, and finally spoke again.

"No, he just told me a thousand times that I must hand over this volume of the "Lengyan Sutra" to the Zen master, and reward me with the two martial arts recorded in the "Jialan Neijing". Bai Ya shook his head and said, "One of them is the Vajra Mahamudra that he founded by studying with tantric disciples, and I have already started it. There is another nameless mental method, and even Master Huikong didn't understand it, so I didn't practice it. ”

"Baiya Xiaoyou is really sincere!" Hearing that Baiya admitted that he had practiced the martial arts recorded in the "Jialan Neijing", Zen Master Yuanming couldn't help but be slightly stunned.

"Learning is learning, what can't be recognized. Bai Ya's face was calm, and he said indifferently, "If the Zen master feels that something is wrong, I won't use this martial art in the future, could it be that the Zen master can't trust the kid?"

"Xiaoyou has a strong temperament, and the old man has heard of it, how can he not believe Xiaoyou. Yuan Ming shook his head and smiled bitterly, "This handprint is created by Huikong, and since he gave it to Baiya Xiaoyou, this temple will naturally not ask." ”

Bai Ya was secretly happy in his heart, he was just testing Yuanming just now, he was not a pedantic person, he didn't know how to be flexible, how could he really not use it.

What's more, this martial art was given to him by Huikong as a reward. In order to send the "Lengyan Sutra", he went south from Shiyangji and came to Hanzhong hundreds of thousands of miles away.

However, the Yuanming Zen Master was so reasonable that he had another idea.