Chapter 015: The Phantom of the Ancient Temple (2)
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As soon as he stepped into the temple gate, Meng Xingnan suddenly found that this ancient temple was gloomy, and the roar made when the mountain wind blew, coupled with the surrounding big trees waving and swaying, it was like a ghost, with teeth and claws, which was extremely scary.
However, he relied on the fact that he was already in the realm of Ning Yuan, and he had the "Shimen True Solution" handed down by the dustless Taoist on his body, but he was not afraid.
"It's the **** inside, there is really something unclean. What is there to fear? I am able to use spells now, and it is still the glorious day, so what does it matter if there are demons? I will get rid of them, and it will be counted as a good deed for this side. Thinking to himself, he walked towards the main hall.
The temple has three entrances, although the pattern is not large, but there are rules and laws. However, most of the side houses on both sides and front and back have collapsed, and have become the best place for those mountain foxes to shelter.
There are ruins and rubbles along the road, and there are many things on the ground that have been left behind by wild beasts and birds such as wolves, foxes, crows, and birds a few years ago.
A smell of corruption and fishiness kept coming, and Meng Xingnan casually cast a fresh and filthy spell enchantment to discard all these rotten and fishy smells. I thought to myself: "This temple really tastes good, but I'm afraid that no one has been here for a long time." ”
In the corner of the side hall along the way, you can see many common temple statues such as Buddha statues, Bodhisattva statues and Vajra statues. However, all of these stone statues were pushed to the ground, and some were smashed into a blur.
In some cases, entire heads were cut off, and almost none of them were intact, and all of them lay in the grass.
On the ground and in the grass, there are still many various Buddhist and secular weapons that have long been broken and decayed.
When Meng Xingnan saw such a scene, he couldn't help but wonder, what kind of reason could make the Stone Buddha Temple become such a ruin?
It seems that his previous speculation was wrong, and this stone Buddha temple was not abandoned because of the incense, but for another reason.
While he was walking, suddenly, Meng Xingnan felt his foot kick something, and his bones rolled.
When I looked at it carefully, I couldn't help but be shocked that there was a skull at his feet. It has been almost weathered, and the bone has long ceased to be shiny, and there are many rough cracks on it. The skull looked quite large, and it was clear that its owner was also a strong man with a big waist during his lifetime.
What is surprising is that there is a very regular round hole in its forehead, about the thickness of a finger, as if it was pierced by that sharp weapon, and the hole is very flat around it.
Next to the skull, there is a half-broken wooden fish, on which is engraved a bodhisattva, although only half of the body is left, the image of compassion can still be faintly seen, lifelike.
Meng Xingnan did not kick the skull away, but put one palm on his chest, and muttered in his mouth the spell that the Dao Gate specially designed for the undead to be overordinate, for it to be exceeded.
Then he dug a small hole in the spot and buried the skull so that he could bury it in the ground and die.
"Dangchang!"
Just as he was about to leave, Meng Xingnan's foot kicked another thing, making a metallic trill.
Take a closer look, it turns out that there is a palm-sized broken bronze bell on the ground that he kicked it, and the bronze bell is engraved with flowing cloud veins and some strange words, with a hint of Zen in the simplicity, and there is a Buddha rhyme.
This is a damaged Buddhist vessel, with an ancient style, but unfortunately a bell wall is missing.
Meng Xingnan picked it up, shook the bronze bell with his hand, and suddenly a melodious bell sounded, like the sound of Buddha lingering, which made people feel calm.
"Calm your heart, you can destroy the demons in your heart, this is a first-class magic weapon in Buddhism!" Meng Xingnan said secretly.
"It's a pity that it's damaged, but I can't make out a single word of what kind of words are engraved on it. Could it be that this is the Sanskrit language that the Lord of Observation once spoke?"
Thinking in my heart, I just felt that I couldn't put it down, so I put the little bronze bell into my backpack.
The ancient temple was full of ruins and broken walls, and when I walked to the courtyard outside the main hall, I saw that one of the two big trees outside the hall had been half collapsed, and the other had already died, leaving bare dead branches.
The main hall is also dilapidated, the walls have collapsed in half, and the eyes are full of devastation, and you can feel a sense of desolation.
When you enter the main hall, it is covered with dust and cobwebs. Three or two bats saw someone coming in and were frightened and flew around the eaves.
The ground was littered with rotten grass and dead leaves, presumably falling from the roof of a broken house, and the ground was in shambles.
There are three or five statues of King Kong and Bodhisattva with severed limbs and hands on the left and right sides of the main hall, but the handiwork is rough and rotten, and it looks like a blue-faced fang, and it is more like a demon and a monster who is showing his teeth and dancing his claws. There are also several clay statues of the Bodhisattva that have fallen to the ground and have become torn apart.
In the middle is a Buddha platform, on which sits a stone Buddha, covered with thick dust, although there is damage, and is covered with cobwebs and bird droppings, but it looks like a treasure and solemn.
Meng Xingnan put down his backpack, folded his hands, and bowed deeply to the stone Buddha, which was the etiquette that he should have as a disciple of the Taoist sect when he stepped into the Buddhist gate.
Buddha is the way, although the two families have different paths, they are both orthodox in practice, and in the end they must all follow the same path.
Although the two families have fought repeatedly since the Tang Dynasty, there have even been tragic incidents of destroying Buddha and destroying the Tao. But the disciples of the two families will not slander each other in private. In case you go to each other's Taoist temples, regardless of the reason, you have to pay homage according to the ceremony.
These sect etiquette, before Meng Xingnan left the mountain, the dustless Dao people had already told him one after another.
On the other hand, there are those who are on the sidelines, and their methods of cultivation are very different. Some are stealing Buddhism, some are inheriting the Dao, and some have stolen the secret methods of the Demon Gate, or even created their own methods, and collected the heads of all families, so there is no need to respect these rituals.
After the visit, I saw that the inside and outside of the temple were in shambles. Meng Xingnan looked around and happened to see a broken broom on the side of the wall.
So I went over and picked it up, and first said that the cobwebs hanging on the stone Buddha were cleaned. Then he cleaned up the dirt on the remaining Vajra and Bodhisattva statues one by one.
When cleaning the floor, Meng Xingnan found that there was half a golden pestle on the ground, although it had been buried in the dust for I don't know how many years, but it was still bright when it was found, giving people a heavy and condensed feeling, but unfortunately it was also damaged.
This golden pestle is the Buddha Vajra Demon Pestle, which is the weapon used by the Buddha Protector God Veda Bodhisattva. It has the indirect meaning of "destroying the enemy", which is unique to Buddhism.
It symbolizes invincible and invincible wisdom and true Buddha-nature, and can cut off all kinds of afflictions and destroy all kinds of demons that hinder the path of cultivation.
Meng Xingnan picked it up and held it in his hand, only to feel that his hand was heavy, and he didn't know what happened to this stone Buddha temple back then, even this kind of heavy blade would be broken in two.
With a mind full of questions, Meng Xingnan did not abandon the broken demon subjugation vajra on the ground, but placed it on the stone seat in front of the stone Buddha. After that, he didn't continue to clean up, turned around and walked out with his backpack.
It's just that he didn't know that the moment he stepped out of the temple door, the motionless stone Buddha's eyes seemed to move. Meng Xingnan seemed to feel something, but when he looked back, he couldn't see the clues.