50. Good and evil people are both sides, who is always wronged?
Everyone couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive in their hearts on the way to the depths of the dense forest with the old monk walking to the depths of the dense forest, but it was also strange to say! When Banqin was outside the forest, he always felt that something inside was calling his heart strongly, but the deeper he went, the more he felt that feeling became intermittent and no longer so clear!
But Banqin was very clearly sure that he was getting closer to the inaudible sound a little bit, because even if it was just a momentary induction, the sound would be unusually clear in his heart!
But this forest, which is far deeper than it looks from the outside, never ends, as if it is deliberately annoying. In fact, the distance is not very far, but it seems to be too long for those who walk!
Finally, I saw a large temple in the distance, the quaint appearance shows the passage of time, the huge scope is strange, such a large temple has only appeared in legends for hundreds of years.
However, standing in front of the temple gate, there is an indistinguishable calm and solemnity in the face, but it makes people unable to doubt the ** of this place!
Pushing open the temple door, the old monk walked in first. The main hall and the temple gate are only separated by a road of about thirty paces, and at this time, an older monk is sitting on a futon in the center, and there is a novice of about twenty or so next to him. On the other side, the two lay old men stared cross-legged at the futon as everyone came in, and the expressions on their faces showed a very unfriendly sadness!
Yang Chen and Xuelu couldn't help but be shocked when they saw the two old men! They hurriedly knelt down in front of the mountain to greet them: "The apprentice grandson has seen the two masters!"
These two elders are actually the missing Xiyun and Xiyu. At this time, they didn't look at the two kneeling in front of them, but looked at Banqin sadly: "Why do you have to come......?"
Everyone felt confused at this time, and Banqin's heart trembled, and he regretted that he had walked into this place, but before he could muster up the courage to turn around and leave, the old monk in the center had slowly opened his eyes and looked at him with a smile.
"The so-called chance will never go as expected! So since the opportunity is like this, why do the two of you have to be persistent?"
The second elder obviously had great respect for this old monk, and they all showed obedience after listening to his words!
"This one must be the little benefactor of the half-piano, right? Well, sure enough, the aura is transparent, and he is by no means a ...... in the world."
Facing this old monk, Banqin couldn't help but feel a feeling like falling into a heavy cloud, which was both powerless to break free from the trouble, and comfortable and leisurely. He had never felt so helpless in his life!
No matter how his heart and body felt, Banqin had long been accustomed to isolating everything from his environment, so no matter how unusual his heart was, the reaction from the outside was just to sit lightly on the ground, look directly at the old monk and ask, "Who are you?"
Smiling slightly, the old monk slowly looked at the monk who had led everyone before: "Fa Yuan, please come to the inner house for hospitality, I have something to talk about with the little donor of the half-piano......
Fa Yuan bowed his head slightly when he heard this, and asked everyone to leave.
Until the meditation hall only the half-qin and the old monk remained, and the novice who didn't even move his eyelids from beginning to end!
After a while, the old monk seemed to have finally thought of what he wanted to say after thinking, and slowly looked at Banqin, with a sadness in his eyes: "Hey! In a blink of an eye, you are already so old......
Banqin was stunned when he heard it: "Have you seen me?"
"Yes, you were just a baby at that time, but you could already see the talent and spirit of the spirit you possessed! If it weren't for the defeat of one move, you might be here at this time to worship the Buddha peacefully!"
"Is it ......?"
Looking at Banqin, who had a rare surprised face, the old monk smiled and nodded: "You are really smart! That's right! It wasn't just Xuexi who sneaked into the Demon Palace back then, but also me! And the baby who was brought out was not only you and Kenshin, but also his ......."
Looking at the novice in surprise, the old monk looked at Banqin and shook his head helplessly: "Ten years ago, he had a blood poison attack in his body, and I tried my best to suppress it for him." But since then he has fallen into a deep sleep and has never woken up!"
Banqin listened to it so much that his mind was turning, and he couldn't slow down for a long time!
"That'...... , not to mention that I haven't heard him say it, and no one in the Demon Palace I've seen so far has ever mentioned anyone other than me and Kenshin, and no one has ever mentioned that there was another person who infiltrated the Demon Palace back then?"
"That's because although he was with you at the time, he was already dying! If I hadn't been lucky enough to find the elixir, and Xuexi and I worked together to rescue him, he wouldn't have survived today. And the people in the Demon Palace must have thought that he had no hope of life, so why mention me!"
"In other words, the Pure Lotus Heart Sutra does exist? However, it can't help me understand the blood poison?"
"Hey......!"
Nodding in frustration, the old monk suddenly shook his head again: "This matter is indeed not something that can be explained in a word, you don't have to worry, I will tell you slowly......"
"Baolian Temple" has been rumored in the rivers and lakes for hundreds of years, relying on the legend that Baolian Temple was built by the Western "Buddha descended", which contains the secret art of the Buddha.
If it were an ordinary legend that had not shown the slightest sign for hundreds of years, no one would have mentioned it for a long time. However, it was only a matter of more than 100 years that the Baolian Temple began to be forgotten, but there are still many foreigners from the Western Regions or Persia who pretend to come to the Central Plains to visit the Central Plains!
But when it comes to the origin of Baolian Temple, it is indeed from Persia. It was also hundreds of years ago that the then palace master of the Western Regions Demon Palace heard that the princess of the Persian royal court was as beautiful as a fairy and as wise as a god, so he was greedy for a while to ask for a marriage. But the life of the Demon Palace has always been bad, and the king of Persia resolutely refuses to allow it!
Later, the palace master of the Demon Palace was furious and entangled the coalition forces of the city-states in the Western Regions to capture the Persian Empire, and the demons raised by him caused countless deaths and injuries to the Persian army and civilians, and finally the country was broken!
It turned out that the princess's sweetheart died in the war, and the old king knew that the country was about to be destroyed, so he chose a team of loyal servants to escort his daughter and the national treasure to escape.
After many years of tossing and turning, the princess and her entourage finally settled in the Central Plains, found this remote place and built the Baolian Temple! And the princess herself did not know martial arts, but in order to take revenge, she passed the national treasure shrine to the loyal servants. But more than 20 years have passed, and none of the dozen or twenty people can learn the Divine Palace.
So, the princess decided to study alone, and asked her subordinates to collect martial arts classics everywhere to study and improve!
In the end, the princess discovered that her national treasure was not a simple martial arts classic, but that she should first dissolve the power of Buddhism into her body and mind with a pure heart, and cultivate the true martial arts with an absolutely pure heart!
But not to mention a princess with a deep hatred of blood, even if an ordinary person knows that his cultivation is a peerless skill that is enough to be invincible in the world, how can he guarantee that he can always have no distractions and no desires?
Therefore, for hundreds of years, although Baolian Temple has not been able to talk about talents, there are only some people who have achieved a little success, but the little distractions in the heart before will gradually disappear, so they will not consider going to the outside world to take a look, and the so-called revenge has become a fictitious rule!
At this time, the old monk in front of Banqin, "Mingming", is the contemporary abbot of Baolian Temple, and he is now one hundred and twenty years old, but the cultivation of the self-proclaimed Pure Lotus Heart Sutra is only one-twelfth of tenth!
According to what he said, he is not humble, and it is precisely because of this situation that he has plagued more than ten or twenty generations, so he has only gone to the rivers and lakes more than once to seek breakthroughs. It wasn't until he met Xuexi twenty years ago that after careful consideration, he came to the conclusion that the Pure Lotus Heart Sutra should be a martial art that is more suitable for women to cultivate, and the male body may have no hope of practicing after all!
From a practical point of view, there is no gender definition in the inheritance of Baolian Temple for hundreds of years, but there is no doubt that the attainments of each generation of female disciples are indeed higher than those of male disciples. As for Ming Ming, it can be said that he is a unique genius in the history of Baolian Temple, and there are no women among his coincidental peers.
Moreover, according to Xuexi's research, the cultivation of the Pure Lotus Heart Sutra must first be pure and have few desires, without distracting thoughts, and in the process, it is necessary to resist the inevitable surge of desires of human nature. But men are masculine and impetuous by nature, and it is indeed difficult to reach without desire.
From this, Xuexi even more concluded that the Pure Lotus Heart Sutra must be a martial art that should be practiced by women!
And before that, he obviously said that he had been to the Demon Palace to lurk, but he never found a suitable opportunity. It wasn't until Snow Creek snatched the baby that he snatched the one that was closest to him, but the signs of life were already very weak, so he didn't pay attention.
When the two of them escaped from the Demon Palace, they obviously felt that the breath of the baby in their arms was even weaker, and they couldn't help but have the idea of the baby in Xuexi's arms.
It is conceivable that Xuexi would be a kind person? But he accepted the challenge of Mingming, but even he didn't expect that the old monk in front of him was not under him. It's just that after all, he is old, and he seems to be inexperienced in facing the enemy, so he finally lost to Xuexi!
However, what was obviously surprising was that Xuexi offered to offer the two of them to try their best to save the dying baby. His reason was that the Demon Palace was ambitious and full of masters, and there were more than a dozen demon babies in his hands today, and it would definitely become a tool for them to realize their ambitions in the future! If this child could be saved, it would at least add strength to the future!
Obviously, he felt that what he said was reasonable, and after getting along for a while, he found that Xuexi was indeed as willful and stubborn as the rumors in the rivers and lakes, but he was definitely not a traitor, and what he did was for the sake of martial arts in the future!
So, he was obviously convinced of Xuexi, and told him the secret books that had been passed down for hundreds of years. But at that time, Xuexi didn't say anything about it, and didn't even look at it. And two years later, he suddenly hugged the baby girl who snatched out of the Demon Palace together to Baolian Temple.
Obviously I heard him say that he wanted to borrow the Pure Lotus Heart Sutra to the girl Xuexi, although I was surprised, but I thought that Xuexi's martial arts were world-famous, and I was the leader of the martial arts alliance, so I really didn't covet the martial arts of other sects! And if the truth is as Xuexi said, then the baby girl created by this demon palace may really be able to show the true face of the Divine Palace, which is also a good thing!
So, Xuexi then took the baby girl and the Pure Lotus Heart Sutra to find the two brothers who had been in seclusion for a long time! And there was no sensational scene at the reunion of the brothers at that time, firstly, the estrangement between each other was deep, and secondly, they were already more than half a hundred years old, and they would not easily show their emotions!
But they didn't think that the brother was alarmist, because even if the matter was really unbelievable, it might make Xuexi go out of his way and tell it in detail, and the credibility had reached the point where it was beyond doubt!
According to Xuexi, it is most important to hide the traces of the three babies, and he really can't take care of two such important children at the same time. Besides, if the three children are separated, even if they are accidentally found by the Demon Palace one day, they will not lose everything!
After all, it would be best if these three children could be saved, but if not, at least there is hope to find a solution from them to avoid more victims in the future!
And there was another reason why Xuexi separated the two children at that time, that is, he found that Banqin would actually eat the young beasts caught raw under the ice and snow, although Kenshin was not as natural as him, but there was no adverse reaction!
Just imagine, two young children who are still just babbling can sit under the scene of snow and drink blood, and the shock brought by such a scene can only be truly experienced by those who have seen it with their own eyes!
In short, Snow Creek decides to try to get Kenshin to learn the Pure Lotus Heart Sutra, the only thing that could save them, in a calm and comfortable environment. And although the world is big, only entrusting it to two brothers who have a not harmonious relationship can make him feel most at ease!
As for the Xiyun brothers, they have been lonely all their lives. When I was almost a year old, I met such a lovely baby girl, and I felt pity for her life experience, so I naturally moved my heart of compassion!
Besides, although the two of them have a bad relationship with their younger brother, they are duty-bound to do it for the sake of the righteousness of the rivers and lakes! It's just that the most worrying thing in their hearts is that Xuexi once asserted that these demons have some kind of induction between each other that outsiders can't understand, and sooner or later they will live and die together.
But twenty years of father-daughter mutual care have made the two of them have surpassed everything in their affection for Kenshin, including the once deeply connected righteousness of the rivers and lakes! For them, as long as Kenshin does not meet Banqin, she can live her life peacefully.
But Xuexi finally led Banqin to Ziyun Mountain, and it happened that he saw Jian Xin outside the Cloud Rain Pavilion.
And Xue Xi at that time was actually not without entanglements in his heart, because he couldn't predict what would happen after the two met. And knowing that the person Jian Xin met was most likely Banqin, the Xiyun brothers were also very worried in their hearts, so they could only force their "daughter" to calm down alone and return to the immobile state of cultivating the Pure Lotus Heart Sutra!
At that time, less than half a month after Yang Chen and Xuelu said goodbye, someone suddenly killed Yunyu Pavilion one day. Although the origin of the enemies is unknown, it is clear that none of them are ordinary people.
In the eyes of Xiyun and the others, the desire to protect their daughter has long been far more than their own lives. In the end, the two of them made a quick decision, set fire to the Cloud Rain Pavilion, and led everyone to flee from the trail behind the mountain.
So the brothers remembered the origin of the "Pure Lotus Heart Sutra" mentioned by Xuexi, and led their entourage and daughter to touch this Baolian Temple.
For them, the best outcome is that they can live here in peace for the rest of their lives. But the sky doesn't follow people's wishes, and the people they least want to appear here are still here......