Chapter 7: Bad Fate
That was more than ten years ago, but in my mind, it still seems to be the same as what happened yesterday, so clear and clear, I haven't forgotten it at all. ’
Master Puhong's voice drifted peacefully and slowly through the room, and began to slowly recount the past.
I remember very clearly, it was a yīn day, yīn heavy. That day, since the morning, I felt a little restless, but I couldn't tell what was wrong, and I couldn't help but be distracted by the homework I had always done. It's very rare, and I don't know why, so I wasn't in a good mood at the time. ’
And so, until evening, when I heard the twilight drums in my ears, and saw that the sky was getting darker, I felt better. At that time, I just felt that it was probably because I didn't practice enough, and I was just distracted for a while. Unexpectedly, just when it was about to be dark that day, suddenly, I heard a shrill shout from the gate of Tianyin Temple. ’
Speaking of this, Venerable Pu Hong turned his head and looked at his face.
Fa Xiang nodded and said, "Yes, it was the disciple who was inspecting the mountain gate at that time, and suddenly he saw a person fainting on the ground not far from the temple gate...... It turned out to be Uncle Puzhi. ’
He sighed, and said, "At that time, Uncle Puzhi was delirious, and his face was extremely haggard, only above his cheeks, but somehow, he had a strange red face. It wasn't until later that I learned that it was because Uncle Puzhi took the miraculous medicine "Three Rì Death Pills" in order to temporarily continue his life. ’
Hearing this, Ghost Li was stunned for a moment, the name of this pill was really unheard of, and he couldn't help but ask: 'What three rì must die pills?'
Master Puhong said: "This miraculous medicine is not used for the right path, it is said to have been concocted by a strange person called the "Ghost Doctor" in the Demon Sect in the past. I heard that as long as you take this pill, even if you have a serious dying injury, this medicine can also stimulate your own potential, allowing you to live three more times, and in these three rì, you can barely maintain a normal person's body. It's just that once the three rì passes, this medicine has become the first class of highly poisonous things in the world, that is, a person with intact health, who cultivates through the heavens, and is no match for the strange medicine of this miracle medicine, and he will definitely die. That's why this quirky name was chosen. ’
Ghost Li was silent.
Venerable Puhong continued, "Naturally, we didn't know so much at the time, but when I received an urgent report from the Fa Xiang's disciples, I was really shocked for a while. Senior Brother Puzhi is gifted and intelligent, and he has always been an outstanding figure in my Tianyin Temple, but he never imagined that he would become like this. At that time, I immediately had him carried in and treated him in the meditation room, but he was unconscious, but his body was full of breath, not only was he poisoned, but his body was also seriously injured by a person with a very high level of Taoism, and he had reached the point where he ran out of oil and dried up......
When Venerable Pu Hong said this, although more than ten years had passed, there was still a gloomy and miserable expression on his face, and it was obvious that this past incident had hit him hard.
That night, I tried my best to save Senior Brother Puzhi, but no matter how much I used up the elixir and consumed the true yuan, I couldn't make Senior Brother Puzhi wake up, and seeing his breath getting weaker and weaker, I was really in pain in my heart at that time. Could it be that I, my junior brother, died like this in an unknown way?'
'It is not surprising that his body was so badly injured that he died a few years earlier, but he forced himself to return to Tianyin Temple, and naturally before he died, if he had anything to say to us, or if there was anything important, he must explain to us. ’
When Master Puhong said this, he sighed and fell silent, as if in his mind, the rì of the year came to mind again.
After a while, Fa Xiang coughed in a low voice and said softly, "Master, I have always been by your side and Uncle Puzhi back then, so I might as well narrate the next things on my behalf!"
Venerable Pu Hong nodded silently and said no more.
Fa Xiang coughed, and continued: "Back then, I had been by Master's side, watching Master, Uncle Pu Fang and others try their best to save Uncle Pu Zhi, but they were all ineffective, and I was also anxious. Uncle Puzhi treats me very well, but he hates me for being shallow and unable to do anything for him. Unexpectedly, just when Master and Uncle I had nothing to do, late at night, Uncle Puzhi woke up on his own. ’
'Ah......h
Fa Xiang glanced at him and continued: "At that time, I was on duty to protect Uncle Pu Zhi, and in my great shock, I immediately called Master and Uncle Pu Fang over. Although more than ten years have passed, I still remember that Uncle Puzhi's face on that night was lifeless and decadent, but only on his cheeks, it was as red as yù dropping blood, which was really terrifying. ’
'Seeing Uncle Pu Zhi suddenly get better, Master and we were very happy, although Uncle Pu Zhi looked strange, but we couldn't care about it for a while. At that time, Master and his old man wanted to ask Uncle Puzhi what had happened, and how he was so injured...... Unexpectedly, once Uncle Puzhi saw the master, he, he ......
Fa Xiang paused for a moment, and he was about to settle down.
At this time, there was silence in the room, and Venerable Puhong closed his eyes, chanted the Buddha's name softly in his mouth, and turned the rosary in his hand, while the ghost listened attentively.
Fa Xiang somehow, his face was a little ugly, but he finally continued.
After Uncle Puzhi woke up, he had been relatively quiet, but when the master heard the news, as soon as he saw the master, all of a sudden, as if he had been stimulated by something, his whole body trembled, and he sat up from the bed in a hurry. ’
Master and I were all taken aback, only to see that Uncle Pu Zhi's face was as red as blood, and a pair of eyes were only fixed on Master and his old man, and he stretched out his withered and dry hand, pointing at Master. Master He immediately walked over quickly, grabbed Uncle Puzhi's palm, and was about to ask, but Uncle Puzhi actually ......
A hint of hesitation flashed on Fa Xiang's face, and he glanced at Master Pu Hong, who still had his eyes closed like that.
Fa Xiang groaned slightly, and then said, "Once Uncle Puzhi held Master's hand, all of a sudden, he seemed to have a complete collapse, and he was like a child, leaning on Master and crying......
'What?' When Ghost Li heard this, he forgot for a moment, stood up in amazement, and stared at Faxiang.
In his mind, no matter what the Puzhi monk has done, but the impression left on him, where would he be a person like this?
Fa Xiang sighed and said, "At that time, the three of us were also frightened for a while, and we were at a loss, and we didn't know what happened to Uncle Puzhi, how could we be so abnormal. But looking at Uncle Puzhi's appearance, there was a look of extreme remorse and pain, and we didn't know what to do. At that time, I only remember that Uncle Puzhi wept bitterly and said to the master: Senior brother, senior brother, senior brother deserves to die, he has committed a heinous sin, and even if he dies, he can't make up for it!"
The corners of Ghost Li's eyes twitched violently, but he didn't say anything.
Fa Xiang's voice was low, and he said slowly: "At that time, the shock in my heart was really beyond measure, and looking at the appearance of Master and Uncle, it was obviously the same idea. It's just that at that time, Uncle Puzhi looked crazy, almost crazy, and we had no choice but to persuade him, hoping that he would rest well first, and wait until his injuries are healed. ’
However, Uncle Puzhi insisted on not allowing it, and said that in order to return to Tianyin Temple to see everyone, he had already taken the three rì death pills, and he would definitely die within a night. Before he died, he had something very important to inform his master and uncle, and he had important things to entrust. If he does not listen to him, he is dead, and he has no peace. ’
When we heard this, we were all shocked and anxious, but in front of Uncle Puzhi, we couldn't do it after all, so we had to let him do it. Originally, I thought that Uncle Puzhi was seriously injured, but I was afraid that he would be delirious, but who knew that when he said this, he actually said such a great rebellion against the Buddha's heart and people, and the evil thing with boundless sins. ’
The Venerable Master Puhong sighed in a low voice and chanted, 'Amitabha!'
When the Dharma heard this, he also bowed to the Buddha in ten lines, then looked at the ghost, looked at his face that was gradually becoming iron-blue, and then said: "Uncle Puzhi held the master's hand tightly, and while he was talking, there were old tears on the other, and a few of us listened to it next to us, but the more we listened, the more shocked we became, and it was almost terrifying. Uncle Puzhi said: In order to realize his hope of the integration of Buddhism and Taoism, he went up to Qingyun Mountain again to meet the head of Qingyun Sect to teach Dao Xuan Zhenren and express his opinion, but unfortunately he was rejected by Dao Xuan Zhenren. Disillusioned, he walked down the mountain and came to a small village under Qingyun Mountain, which was called "Caomiao Village"......
'Bang!' There was a muffled sound, almost at the same time as the word 'Caomiao Village', but it was the ghost who held the table with his hand, and under the agitation of his heart, he forcibly twisted off the corner of the table, kneaded it into powder, and sprinkled it from the palm of his hand.
Fa Xiang glanced at the table and sighed secretly in his heart, but he still continued: "When Uncle Puzhi walked into Caomiao Village and rested temporarily in a dilapidated small temple at the back of the village, he accidentally saw a group of teenagers playing and playing, but after two of them were noisy, the teenagers couldn't let go of their hearts and almost did a regretful thing of losing their lives, but fortunately, Uncle Puzhi intervened in time and saved one of the teenagers. ’
The expression on the ghost's face changed again, his fists were clenched tightly, and in a pair of eyes, there was obvious pain.
Uncle Puzhi didn't take this little matter to heart, but the sky was bleak at that time, and it seemed that a storm was coming, so he planned to rest in that ruined temple for a night before leaving. But that night, something happened......
The ghostly head was buried deeply, and no one else was allowed to see his face.
Memories are like knives, as if they were cut deep in his heart, and the blood is gushing like a spring, which cannot be suppressed!
Faxiang's voice slowly echoed, "That night, Uncle Pu Zhi suddenly woke up from meditation and found that a black-clothed demon had infiltrated Caomiao Village, intending to rob a young man with excellent qualifications. Uncle Puzhi couldn't sit idly by, so he rescued the young man, but things were weird, and he never thought that the black-clothed demon was vicious and cunning, but he used this young man as a guise, and his purpose was Uncle Puzhi. ’
The black-clothed demon man secretly lurked the world's highly poisonous "seven-tailed centipede" on the young man, poisoning Uncle Puzhi in one fell swoop, and then took advantage of Uncle Puzhi's confusion to hit Uncle Puzhi with the Demon Sect Demon Method. It was only at that time that Uncle Puzhi realized that the black-clothed demon's various vicious methods were for the "Blood Devouring Bead" of the fierce thing sealed on Uncle Puzhi's body. ’
Ghost's shoulders moved, but he didn't raise his head, and between the sleeves of his clothes, there was a faint cold breath on the blood devouring beads......
When a thousand tastes, thousands of feelings and hatreds come to your heart together, how do you feel?
He was silent, speechless, just his whole body tensed, involuntarily, trembling slightly......
Although the demon's methods are sinister and vicious, Uncle Puzhi is extremely deep after all, although he is seriously injured, his old man still uses the great magic power of Buddhism, and the demon man is defeated and injured, although he is seriously injured and dying, but he still succeeds in temporarily scaring the demon away. It's just that in this process, Uncle Puzhi was stunned to find that that person actually knew the true magic of Qingyunmen Taoism, and he was obviously inextricably linked to Qingyunmen. ’
When Uncle Puzhi was fighting with the demon, I don't know why, the young man who saved his life during the day also quietly came to the broken temple, and under several fierce fights, the child was affected and fainted. After the fight, Uncle Puzhi scared the black-clothed demon away, but he had also run out of oil and dried up, and was seriously injured and dying, so he had to swallow a "Three Rì Death Pill" that he accidentally got in the past to continue his life. ’
Although he was not afraid, many villagers in this Caomiao Village were only afraid that it would be difficult to ensure that he would not be slaughtered by the ferocious demon, so he had committed a heinous sin. He originally had the heart to ask Qingyun Mountain for help, but that demon clearly had a deep relationship with Qingyun Mountain. ’
Fa Xiang's face was desolate, and he seemed to be sad for the desperate situation that Puzhi was in back then.
'Uncle Puzhi many years ago, once traveled in the world, in the Western swamp inadvertently subdued the world's most ferocious foreign body "blood devouring beads", his old man with the mercy of God, with the Buddha's magical power ** to suppress this murderous thing, rì night on his body, so as not to harm the world. It's just that the ferocious aura of this blood-devouring bead is really innate, and although the Dharma protects the body, it still quietly erodes Uncle Puzhi's consciousness. It's just that I usually have the support of the Dharma, so I can't see it. ’
When Uncle Puzhi was facing a desperate situation, he was going to die and there were people around him, and his lifelong vision of Buddhism and enlightenment seemed to be about to come to naught, and he couldn't help but feel agitated and mourned, but unexpectedly, in that seemingly desperate situation, his old man actually ...... It was so whimsical that he thought of another alternative path to realize his ambition. ’
The ghost's breathing slowly became rapid.
Fa Xiang paused for a moment, and said slowly: "Uncle Puzhi actually thought of privately teaching a young man the supreme true Dharma of the Tianyin Temple Buddhism, and then let this young man find a way to worship Qingyun, so that his lifelong wish can be realized." At that time, he was obsessed with the enlightenment of Buddhism, and when he thought of it, he was like grasping a life-saving straw and refused to give up. Then he weighed it, and chose the young man who was saved by him, passed on his true Dharma mantra of the Great Brahman, and at the same time explained to him that he should not leak secrets to outsiders, and put his life's wishes on the young man. ’
'Hey, hey, hey...... Hey, hey, hey...... ghostly, extremely suppressed laughter, flowing from his mouth on his lowered face, with a bit of desolation, a little bitterness, and a little choked.
I don't know if he is laughing at Puzhi and resentful, or he is angry with the sky and sighing for his fate?
After Fa Xiang laughed at him, a trace of gloom appeared on his face, and he continued: "After everything was arranged, Uncle Puzhi cast a spell to let the young man fall asleep again, and at this moment, because of the effect of the three rì death pills, his body has gradually recovered, and he originally planned to leave here, rush back to Tianyin Temple in the three rì, and explain the future. Unexpectedly, at this time, he suddenly remembered that Qingyunmen was very strict in accepting apprentices, and in order to keep the important matter secret, the young man he chose was not the kind of genius that happened once in a thousand years. ’
Seeing that his greatest wish in his life was about to be fulfilled again, and that he was not far from death, Uncle Pu Zhi's mind was in turmoil, and after he was seriously injured, his Dharma practice had been greatly damaged, far worse than Pingrì, and the anger in his body that was eroded by the blood-devouring beads came out at this moment, and finally made an irreparable sin. ’
When Uncle Pu Zhi's mind was in turmoil, he was attacked by that anger, and in his mind was confused, he only knew how to meditate and think hard about how to fulfill his wish. In his thoughts, he actually thought that as long as the young man became an orphan, and a great accident occurred, because of the fact that he was under Qingyun Mountain, Qingyunmen would definitely not sit idly by......
Venerable Pu Hong's face suddenly showed a sad expression, the rosary in his hand turned sharply faster, and the Buddha name in his mouth was also chanted.
So ......'Faxiang's voice trembled a little at this moment, 'Uncle Puzhi actually thought of how to make this child an orphan so that he could worship under the Qingyun Sect. At that time, his consciousness had been completely dissipated, and he was completely controlled by the demonic power of the Blood Devouring Beads, and finally, he slowly walked into the Caomiao Village and began to ...... began to kill people, and after seeing the first blood, he couldn't control himself at all, and he was so fierce that he slaughtered more than 200 people in Caomiao Village, and committed this heinous crime......
'That's enough, don't say it again!' Suddenly, the ghost shouted loudly, and stood up violently, and on his face, there were already tears.
'Don't ...... anymore Say...... ......' his voice was hoarse and choked up.
Fa Xiang was silent and slowly lowered his head. On the meditation bed, Master Puhong opened his eyes, slowly got out of bed, walked to Ghost Li's side, stretched out his hand to gently soothe Ghost Li's shoulder, and whispered, "Child, if you want to cry and scold, just cry and scold! ’
The ghost cried silently.
Master Pu Hong said in a low voice: "When Senior Brother Pu Zhi regained his senses, the big mistake had already been made, and standing in the midst of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, his whole person was like five thunderbolts, and he was completely stupid. A lifetime of meritorious practice, not to mention the flow of water, harmed so many innocent people, such a heinous sin, almost heartbreaking. In the midst of that confusion, he hurried back to Tianyin Temple, and saw me, doing nothing else, but explaining to me what he had sinned. In addition to repentance, I beg me to look at the division of the hundred-year-old brother, in order to redeem one ten-thousandth of his sins, no matter what, as long as you are in trouble, you must try your best to help. ’
Ghost Li tried his best to suppress his feelings, but he was helpless, he had never cried for decades, as if the man who had always been as strong as iron had turned into tears at this moment. But seeing that his teeth were clenched to his lips, he sank into it deeply, and a trace of blood slowly flowed out of the corners of his mouth, which was actually caused by biting the corners of his mouth under the over-agitation of his mind.
Master Pu Hong was stunned and said, "Senior Brother Pu Zhi, he explained this last incident, and the poison attacked, and he finally passed away. When he was dying, he explained that his remains should not be cremated and buried, so he used a jade ice tray to protect it, leaving the remnants of his body, hoping that the young man named Zhang Xiaofan would invite him to come here if he learned the truth, and let him dispose of this endless body of sin. It is okay to whip moss and scold, or to break bones and scatter ashes, and all the monks of Tianyin Temple are not allowed to intervene to pay for one of his sins. ’
Ghost Li raised his head suddenly, and Master Puhong looked directly into his eyes, his face solemn and solemn, and said slowly: "You understand what I said! What to do with it now, whatever you want. In the hut in the backyard, whatever you want, just go over. ’
The ghost gritted his teeth and stared at Master Puhong with deep eyes. Somehow, Venerable Puhong didn't want to look at him, and slowly looked away.
The ghost's wheezing voice became louder and louder, his chest rose and fell, and the expression on his face changed rapidly, and suddenly, as if he had made up his mind, Huo Di turned around and strode out, listening to the sound of his footsteps, he walked towards the last hut.
Fa Xiang's face changed greatly, and he exclaimed, "Master!"
Venerable Pu Hong shook his head slowly, with an indescribable sadness on his face, and said in a low voice, "Let him go! That is also your last wish of Uncle Pu Zhi." How many people can see how hard the world is? Amitabha Buddha ......
He folded it softly and chanted silently, and the room fell silent for a moment.
It's terrible to be quiet!
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