Chapter 2: The Legacy of Wisdom
There are countless tough vines about the thickness of an arm growing on the cliff on that cliff, and after jumping off the cliff, I wanted to climb these vines back to the Hu Ape Cave on the opposite side of Feilai Peak, but I didn't want to hide a vine demon in this vine bush.
In the Lingyin Temple, a thousand-year-old treasure temple has survived for a long time, every day to hear the morning bell and dusk drum and Sanskrit sound chant, not only through the arm of the white ape understand human nature, even the vine roots on the cliff have also been cultivated into a spirit.
This vine demon is just a spirit of grass and trees, and if it is a white ape with arms in the mountains and forests, it is naturally not afraid, but the battlefield at this time happens to be on the cliff. This is the home of the vine demon, and there are countless vines around him to hide their tracks, and the white ape with the arm did not notice for a while that it was plotted by this vine demon, and its short body was entangled in this vine bush and could not move.
If this white ape can't get out of the vines as soon as possible, I'm afraid that before long, its corpse will become the nourishment of this vine demon.
Hearing Li Xiuyuan's wanton laughter on the cliff, the armed spirit ape whined a few times, and let out a burst of angry ape cries at Li Xiuyuan's bared teeth.
"Hehe, don't be anxious, this kind of mutual hunting and killing between spirits and monsters belongs to natural selection, and the poor monk shouldn't have been in charge, but since Brother Ape fell into this situation because of the poor monk, the poor monk will naturally take action to end it, otherwise this killing will fall on the poor monk's head." ”
Li Xiuyuan chuckled lightly and said to the white ape.
He took the cracked banana fan on his waist in his hand, chanted a word in his mouth, and gently fanned it directly at the vines on the cliff from a distance of 100 meters.
The Seven Birds Treasure Fan passed by, and a burst of Buddha light shone through, and the vine demon was stimulated, and the tightened branches loosened, and then quickly retracted into the gap in the stone and soil, and the brachied spirit ape on the cliff suddenly regained its freedom.
Seeing that Monk Daoji came to the rescue, the Tongjian Spirit Ape glanced at Li Xiuyuan with a complicated expression, and the hostility in his eyes was still unabated.
After it got out of trouble, it no longer paid attention to Li Xiuyuan, and grabbed a thick vine on the cliff with both feet.
After borrowing the strength of the cliff arm, the vines swayed, and the body of the white ape drifted with the vines and landed on the Feilai Peak on the other side of the mountain.
As soon as it landed on Feilai Peak, the white ape immediately ran at high speed in the mountains and forests, and fled towards the Huyu Ape Cave.
Seeing the white ape fleeing back to the Huyu Cave, Li Xiuyuan was not annoyed, he shook the worn-out banana fan, and returned to the Zhinian Nunnery along the same road.
When passing by the towering bluestone outside the Zhinian Nunnery, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but feel a move in his heart: The armed spirit ape ran from the Huyu Ape Cave on the opposite side to the Zhinian Nunnery, what did he want to hide under the bluestone?
Thinking of exploring the mystery, Li Xiuyuan no longer hesitated, and walked directly towards the cave under the towering bluestone.
The entrance of the bluestone cave is not large, but it can squeeze one person in, but after entering, the cave is very open.
The entire stone cave is divided into two rooms, separated by an arch, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but look a little strange when he saw the hidden objects outside the stone cave.
The outer layer is full of all kinds of messy sundries, dozens of new and old monks' clothes and hats, a pile of incense candles, copper coins and hundreds of broken silver ingots, and some shiny Buddha bead bracelets and other things.
These seem to be the things that have been lost in Lingyin Temple in recent years.
Li Xiuyuan stepped forward and looked at it casually, and suddenly had a guess in his heart.
Some things were stolen after he entered the temple, and this time when the Daoji monk was escorted to the Dharma Hall for trial for stealing the Seven Treasures monk's robe from Guangliang, a monk in the temple who was in charge of the temple, several monks from the temple wanted to blame him for the things that were lost in the temple before.
At that time, he was also startled when he saw the law enforcement monk read out the list of lost items for the past two months, and he remembered a few of them at random and compared with the things in front of him, they were indeed in the pile of things in front of him.
"Hehe, this Daoji monk only stole a seven-treasure monk's robe from the temple monk Guangliang and was caught, and the armed white ape stole so many things from the Lingyin Temple but is still at large and has not been discovered, it seems that stealing this craft really depends on understanding.
However, these mundane things are ill-gotten gains, so in order for this white ape to finally achieve positive results, these mundane things should be given to the poor monk to help it!"
Li Xiuyuan unceremoniously took all the valuable property into his pocket.
As for those things that look more dazzling or have clear marks in them, he doesn't dare to take them away, if he goes out of the Zhinian Nunnery and is discovered by the law enforcement monks in the temple, he is afraid that he will really have to take the blame for the white ape with the arm at that time.
Putting away a pile of miscellaneous items outside, Li Xiuyuan was in a good mood, and walked towards the stone room inside with a leisurely face.
There are not many things in the stone cave inside, only a stone bed, a stone table and a stone bench, and dozens of ancient Buddhist scriptures are randomly placed on the flat stone table.
"No, although these scriptures are just manuscripts, they are not something that this brachied spirit ape can steal?"
Li Xiuyuan sat on the bluestone bench in the inner room, and as soon as he opened the first scripture on the stone table, his brows suddenly wrinkled.
Buddhism's secret technique "Lion's Roar".
The things placed outside the stone cave are all things stolen by the Tongjian Spirit Ape from the small novice meditation monastery or low-level sundry warehouse of the Lingyin Temple, and they are not valuable, even if the abbot and the elders in the temple are aware of it when they are sitting in meditation, they must not care too much.
And the Lingyin Temple's Tibetan Scripture Pavilion is important, except for the abbot, only the elders of the Gong Gong and the elders of law enforcement can enter and leave at will, and even the monk Guangliang of the temple and he, the disciple of the abbot, can't enter, and it is impossible for the white ape to steal the scriptures from it.
Since these Buddhist exercises are not from the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion of Lingyin Temple, where did the Tongjian White Ape come from?
Li Xiuyuan quickly flipped through the other classics on the stone table, trying to find the source of these scriptures.
There are a total of 42 of these scriptures, including three Buddhist supernatural powers, 18 Buddhist secret techniques, and the remaining 21 scriptures are the notes of the great monks of the past dynasties.
Li Xiuyuan found the answer he wanted to know from the transcript at the bottom.
The handwriting on the book of Buddha cultivation is exactly the same as the handwriting on the previous twenty-one supernatural secret techniques manuscript, and what is written below the transcript is the eight characters "The little monk Huili who has entered after the end of learning".
"Hehe, it turned out to be the relic of the last abbot of Lingyin Temple, Huili Zen Master, through the arm of the spirit ape, call the ape hole, so it makes sense!"
Li Xiuyuan closed the scriptures and connected the life of this Zen Master Huili, and all the doubts in his heart were immediately solved.
Zen Master Hui Li is the abbot of the previous generation of Lingyin Temple, and Lingyin Temple is named after him, but unfortunately, this Hui Li Zen Master has already died in a national war between the Song and Jin Kingdoms twelve years ago.
Zen Master Hui Li was originally a native of Tianzhu in the Western Soil, and later he was successful in cultivating Buddhism, so he learned from other high monks in the Western Soil and generally went to Middle-earth to preach the Dharma.
At first, he spent ten years in an unknown mountain temple in the Jin Kingdom, and later he traveled out of the temple and traveled around the world, and then came to the city of Lin'an in the Great Song Dynasty.
As soon as Zen Master Hui Li saw the towering Feilai Peak, he pointed to it and said to the monks and pilgrims of Yunlin Temple in surprise: "This is a small ridge under the Eagle Mountain of the Middle Tianzhu Kingdom, and this ridge is also recorded in the classics of my Lingshan Holy Land, but I don't know in what generation it flew down to this place?
The monks and pilgrims of Yunlin Temple did not believe what Zen Master Huili said, and only thought that he was a grandiose Fanbang wild monk.
Zen Master Huili proclaimed the Buddha's name and said solemnly to everyone: "Fortunately, there is a stone cave in this small ridge, and there are two spiritual apes with a black and a white living in the stone cave. ”
After a burst of dragon roars and tiger roars, everyone really saw two spirit apes, one black and one white, coming out of the stone cave in the northwest of Feilai Peak.
The two spirit apes are about a foot tall, the body is like a small mountain, the cry is like thunder, the ground is a little trembling when they run, everyone saw such a fierce giant ape, they were so frightened that they wanted to run away, but they saw the two spirit apes actually spit out words, and told everyone the origin of this flying peak. After saying that, they knelt very meekly in front of Zen Master Huili.
With the arguments of the two apes, the monks and pilgrims of Yunlin Temple were convinced of Zen Master Huili and asked him to be the abbot of Yunlin Temple. Later, this black and white two-headed spirit ape also became the spirit animal under the seat of Zen Master Huili.
After this strange thing happened, because Hui Li Zen Master once said that when the Buddha was alive, most of them were hidden by the fairies, so Yunlin Temple was renamed Lingyin Temple, and the stone cave in the northwest of Feilai Peak was also named Hu Ape Cave.
It's just that, twelve years ago, Hui Li Zen Master was suddenly involved in the war between the Song and Jin Dynasties, he tried to prevent the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Jin Dynasty with one person's strength, the result is naturally conceivable, Hui Li Zen Master finally died in the Lingyin Temple, Hui Yuan Zen Master took over the position of the abbot of the Lingyin Temple, and was also enshrined by Emperor Wu of the Great Song Dynasty.
It is said that the black and white spirit apes were chased and killed by the disciples of the Great Song Dynasty Daomen shortly after the death of Zen Master Huili, and they also fell one after another, but they did not expect that they would still leave descendants.
"Hehe, a combination of a black ape and a white ape, and the last one born is still a white ape, this seems a bit unscientific?"
Li Xiuyuan touched his smooth chin and thought ill-intentionedly.
After that, for three days, the brachied spirit ape did not come out of the Hu Ape Cave again, nor did it go around the Zhinian Nunnery on this side of the mountain.
Li Xiuyuan had already emptied the inside and outside of the bluestone cave, and he had put the money into his pocket, and a hand-copied Buddhist scripture by Zen Master Huili was pillowed on his meditation bed.
Looking at the empty stone room in front of him, the face of the brachial spirit ape was very bad.
It waited three days to come here, just because it still had a hint of luck in its heart, hoping that the hateful monk had not discovered the secret of this cave.
Unexpectedly, this place was discovered by the cunning monk.
The thief monk who stole my scriptures.
The moonlight was as faint as water, slanting down from the night sky, all the doors and windows of the Zhinian Nunnery were completely open, Li Xiuyuan was lying on his monk's bed with his legs crossed, and he kept flipping a new Buddhist secret technique "Flower Finger" in his hand.
These eighteen Buddhist secret techniques passed down from Xitu Ling Mountain are just mundane things, not too profound, and Li Xiuyuan is not ready to refine them.
It's just that every time he delves into these Buddhist texts, but he gains something, the memories of the dragon-descending arhats in his mind will be ready to move, evoking some sleeping memories.
It contains the Buddhist exercises practiced by the Arhats in their previous lives, as well as some extremely important experiences, but these exercises and experiences are incomplete, vague and unreal, and some mysterious opportunities are needed to complete the inheritance.
After all, he came from the abandonment, and he could only devour the soul of the Daoji monk, and did not completely fuse the memory of the dragon descending Arhat, and he did not dare to fully fuse, he was afraid that if he fused too much at once, the powerful power of the divine soul would once again turn against the guest and devour his divine soul.