Chapter 15 The People of Mingjiao

The next day, Ding Yu and Basang left the Shamin tribe and marched towards Tibet, accompanied by the little Shamin Ah Weng.

It turned out that Ah Weng's biological father was one of the dry bones in the Sand River, and his mother later took him to marry another clansman. Ah Weng saw that Ding Yu was able to save people from the Sand River that night, and decided that he was a master with great mana, so he had to follow him alive and dead. Ding Yu himself has a lot of trouble, where is he willing to bring another child by his side. On the contrary, Basang felt that Ah Weng was destined for him, and this child was a good person and clever, so he proposed to take him as a disciple and bring him back to Zongju Temple.

Although Ah Weng's parents were reluctant, they were both devout believers, and they felt that it was better for their son to practice in front of the Buddha than to guard an oasis the size of a palm, so they agreed, and gave a camel to Basang as a prayer. In this way, Ding Yu saved trouble, Basang accepted disciples, and Ah Wen was able to follow the master, and the three of them were all happy.

The three of them went around the edge of the desert in a big circle, and finally returned to the ancient trade road, walking back and forth for a month, before coming to the foot of Kunlun Mountain. On the way, in addition to teaching Ah Wen to speak Chinese and Tibetan for an hour every day, Basang spent most of his remaining time explaining Buddhist scriptures to Ding Yu.

Ding Yu killed too many people during his escape, there were six or seven disciples of the Vajra Sect who died at his hands alone, and there were probably as many as forty or fifty other mountain bandits, horse thieves and the like, and there was naturally a sinister aura between his eyebrows -- to put it bluntly, he had an attitude of disregard for human life. Master Basang has been meditating for many years and has read countless people, so he naturally sees the evil qi clearly. However, he looked at Ding Yu just like Zen Master Zhizhen looked at Lu Zhishen in "Water Margin", and felt that although this person had a killing nature, he also had a Buddha nature, so he took the opportunity of passing on the dragon elephant and said a lot of Buddhist scriptures, hoping to use Buddhism to resolve Ding Yu's ruthlessness.

Ding Yu is also aware of this, but he does not reject it. First, according to the original work of the Condor, the Dragon Elephant Prajna Gong was originally recorded in the "Dragon Elephant Prajna Sutra", and it is reasonable that he needs Buddhist cultivation skills to comprehend it; secondly, although he is a human being in two lives, his life experience is not rich, and listening to the earnest teachings of a wise elder will help him understand the values of this world.

However, the more he came later, the more anxious Ding Yu felt in his heart, just because the martial soul seed had to absorb at least thirty units of energy every month, and this month because of the repeated bloody battles on the way to escape, the energy provided was far more than thirty parts; Seeing that they still had to walk for more than a month from Zongju Temple, and the road was deserted, where could they get the energy supply? Thirty parts of energy, according to Ding Yu's estimate, even if he was sucked dry, it would not be enough. So no matter how much Master Basang said that the lotus flower, he still couldn't help but get angry.

On this day, Ding Yu and others bought some meat from the herdsmen's houses at the foot of the mountain, filled them with water bladders, and went up a small road. Half a day later, the mountain wind became stronger and stronger, and the cold became heavier, mixed with the wind like a sharp knife, Ding Yu's horses were reluctant to continue at this time. Ding Yu dragged it for a while, and found that it was too laborious, so he simply untied the reins and let it go down the mountain by itself. The camels of the sandmen were released long before they went up the mountain because they were so large, and now there were no large animals in front of them, and the people were crumbling by the wind. I had to let the burly Ding Yu walk in the front, Master Basang followed, and the weakest Ah Wen was at the end, and there was a cowhide rope tied around his waist, which was connected to Master Basang.

The three of them climbed the mountain during the day, and at night they set up felt tents between the cracks in the rocks. After two days, as the crowd climbed higher, the temperature on the mountain dropped sharply, and at the end of the day, it seemed as if even the movement of the air was frozen. Although there was no wind blowing, the chill still seeped through the cracks in the clothing and reached the bone marrow. As far as the eye can see, there is no vegetation around, only pale blue glaciers and patches of clouds.

In the middle of the day on this day, Master Basang saw that Ah Wen couldn't support it, so he called Ding Yu to stop, and the three of them rested in an ice cave. The ice cave is made of azure ice crystals on all sides, and it is extremely deep, and it is impossible to know where it leads, like the legendary crystal palace. The three of them did not dare to go deeper, turned a corner, avoided the harsh sunlight, and sat down on the spot.

Although Ah Weng was tired, he was very curious, and he knocked around and knocked around, as if he wanted to chisel a few ice crystals to play with. Ding Yu suddenly remembered something, so he asked Master Basang: "I heard that the main altar of the sect is located on the top of the light of Kunlun Mountain, I don't know where this top of the light is located in the mountain?"

Master Basang was taking a sip of water, and when he heard this, he was immediately choked and coughed. Before he could cough up, he said to Ding Yu: "Senior Brother Ding (the two of them have been referred to as senior brothers since the change of scriptures) is cautious," he looked around, and then continued: "Mingjiao acts, is secretive and perverse, and is most afraid of outsiders spying. Since decades ago, the leader of the Ming Sect, Zhong Xiang, rebelled and was killed, and they disappeared from the Central Plains martial arts. After that, some people said that they seemed to have seen Mingjiao people in the Kunlun Mountains, but they didn't know whether it was true or not. How did Senior Brother Ding know that Guangming Dingyi said?"

It turned out that after the Jingkang disaster, Zhong Xiang, the head of the Ming Sect at that time, was dissatisfied with the weakness of the Song Dynasty and raised the banner to rebel. Whatever his intentions, this move was indeed suspected of taking advantage of the fire. The Central Plains Wulin was annoyed that he was a Song person, and he did not resist Jin and invaded the Song Dynasty, so he united with the Song Dynasty's worship master to ambush and kill Zhong Xiang. Even though Zhong Xiang was invincible in martial arts at that time, he could not resist the ambushes of many masters, and finally died in defeat. As a result, the Mingjiao cultists were also hunted down and killed, resulting in a great loss of vitality of the Mingjiao, and they had to withdraw from the Central Plains martial arts and hide in the Kunlun Mountains to recuperate; it was not until the Yuan and Meng destroyed the Song Dynasty and the Ming Sect raised troops against the Yuan that they reappeared in the Central Plains martial arts.

Ding Yu didn't know anything about this, he only remembered the Mingjiao General Altar mentioned in "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", so he asked casually, but he didn't expect it to be a secret at this time. I couldn't explain it for a while, so I had to say that I heard it in the Western Regions Tavern. When Master Basang heard this, he didn't ask anymore, and Ding Yu thought it was vague and breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, a deep voice sounded in the ice cave: "My Ming Sect is hiding in the mountains, thinking that it is secret, but I didn't expect that even a monk from the Western Regions knew where our main altar was, it was really terrifying and terrifying!"

Ding Yu and the three of them looked back, only to see two people turning out of the entrance of the cave, one was of medium stature, about thirty years old, dressed as a herdsman, and the other was also middle-aged, less than four feet tall, but with a waist circumference of five or six feet, which looked very round and funny. However, Humpty Dumpty's face was very serious at this time, and it was from him that the exclamation just now.

Master Basang secretly complained, got up and folded his head: "I have seen two donors. Poor monks and others pass through Baoshan, occasionally stop and chat, if there is an offense in the words, it is really an unintentional mistake, and don't blame it. ”

"Hehe!" Humpty Dumpty laughed twice and said, "What an unintentional mistake! Unintentionally you can know where the main altar of my sect is, if you have a heart, I know how to teach up and down, but there is still a way to live?"

Then he turned to the man next to him and asked, "Lao He, tell me about the origin of these people." ”

"Yes, Deputy Bannerman. ”

When Ding Yu heard the words "deputy flag envoy", his heart tightened - this person is probably not a mediocre hand.

After the man answered, he continued: "The older monk is the khenpo of the Tubo Zongju Temple, and it is said that this trip is to go to the Western Regions to learn scriptures. I also passed by here two months ago, when I was alone.

That little monk should be Chang Hao, a traitor monk of the King Kong Gate in the Western Regions, and the King Kong Gate offered a reward of 1,000 taels of silver to take him.

The identity of the child is unknown, but it should be a sandman from the north. If your subordinates are not doing well, please punish the deputy flag envoy!"

This person's fluttering words, to Ding Yu and the others, sounded like a stormy sea - he and the others had only been on the mountain for more than half a day, but their identities had been found out clearly, could it be that people in the Ming Sect could not know the prophet?

Of course, the Ming sect does not know how to calculate divination, but they have developed in the Kunlun Mountains for decades, and they have long managed the surrounding area like an iron bucket: there are many herdsmen and sects at the foot of the mountain nearby, and strangers cannot hide them from entering the mountain; in the distance, there are spies spreading in the surrounding towns to inquire about the rivers and lakes.

The Kunlun Mountains are inaccessible, and only nearby herb pickers occasionally go up the mountain throughout the year. Therefore, once an outsider enters the mountain, it will be extra conspicuous, and the Mingjiao will generally send someone to follow secretly, if the person does not have abnormal behavior, the person who follows will not show up; if the person is suspicious, the person who follows will send a signal back to the main altar, so that the general altar can compare the collected information and check the person's origin.

Originally, this method was not necessarily very accurate, after all, it was impossible to transmit video data in these years. If you want to blame it, the characteristics of Ding Yu and Master Basang are too obvious and too famous. One is the notorious murderous head, and the other is a famous and virtuous monk in Tibet, so he guessed it. However, Ding Yu and others didn't know the mystery, and they only felt that Mingjiao was unfathomable.

After listening to the report, Humpty Dumpty shouted: "Little monk Chang Hao, when and where did you hear someone say the three words Guangming Ding, then let me go back to the main altar to make it clear! If there is a little ambiguity, hehe, don't worry, the three of you will live in this mountain for a long time." This person spoke extremely strangely, sometimes softly, sometimes harshly, as if two people were working on a succession.

Ding Yu sneered, wanting to ridicule him, but when he saw Master Basang and Xiao Ah Weng next to him, he remembered that there were many Mingjiao masters described in Yitianzhong, and if there was a fight, I was afraid that it would affect others. So he took a breath and said: "Two months ago, I had dinner at the 'Ali Old Wine' in Yiwu City, and I heard a drunk swordsman next to me mention that 'Mingjiao is now setting up the main altar on the top of Kunlun Mountain, so that it is prosperous', and the swordsman has a face in the middle, I don't know him, and I didn't ask questions. ”

"Okay, good!" Humpty Dumpty said in a weird manner: "I remember, now please ask the three of you to follow me back to the main altar, and when we find the drunk swordsman of the Western Regions, we will send the three out of the mountain." ”

Ding Yu smiled. He no longer paid attention to the Humpty Dumpty man, and turned to Master Basang, "Senior Brother Basang, this matter has nothing to do with you, you take Ah Urn first." After this matter, I will go to Zongju Temple to find you. ”

Master Basang knew that something was wrong, and before he could speak, the Humpty Dumpty man rushed to say: "Little monk, you didn't hear what I said...... Before he finished speaking, he saw Ding Yu throw his hand and fly out of a dark blue thing, which struck him in the chest and abdomen.

Finally, he reacted quickly, and twisted his waist to avoid it at the last moment, but he heard Lao He screaming behind him, and he suddenly woke up, it turned out that Ding Yu was killing two birds with one stone just now, and it was good to shoot him, if he avoided it, it would be even more difficult for Lao He who was blocked by him to dodge.

He didn't dare to look back, and with the strength of his feet, his body bounced back like a ball more than a foot away, bringing Lao He into his sight. I saw an icicle nearly a foot long stuck in the root of Lao He's thigh, thinking that the opponent secretly broke it while he was talking, but although it was deep, it did not hurt the vital point - not that Ding Yu deliberately avoided the vital point, but because Humpty Dumpty was much shorter than Lao He, Ding Yu threw the icicle towards his chest and abdomen, and when he arrived at Lao He, he could only reach the root of his leg.

Ding Yu sneered in his heart: Mingjiao has been peaceful in Kunlun Mountain for a long time, and he has almost forgotten how to fight with people. I'm not good at secret weapons, and it all depends on brute force to throw that icicle, so there is a momentary flaw after the icicle gets out of his hand, and the Humpty Dumpty man doesn't know how to take the opportunity to attack, and he wastes the opportunity in vain;

Seeing that Humpty Dumpty seemed to be scolding, Ding Yu was impatient, and broke another icicle with his backhand, and threw it out in a gesture. Humpty Dumpty hurriedly concentrated on the response, but this time Ding Yu threw out his hand luckily and pinched a piece of icicle into ice powder - before attacking, he sprinkled sand (ice powder) to blind his eyes, this trick Ding Yu had already made the fire perfect.

Humpty Dumpty's eyes widened and he was about to dodge the "hidden weapon", but he didn't expect that under a large piece of broken ice, Rao was able to dodge in time, and a few grains of broken ice were still splashed into his left eye.

After Ding Yu broke the ice out of his hand, he saw Humpty Dumpty's bullet jumping and dodging, so he rushed forward and smashed it down with a fist. Humpty Dumpty's feet hit the ground, and there was no way to avoid it, so he had to put his hands up and take the punch hard. Ding Yu's punch was full of strength, not to mention five or six hundred catties, he thought that he could break Humpty Dumpty's bones and tendons with this blow. Unexpectedly, this person not only looked like a leather ball, but also looked like a forced action: I saw that as soon as he touched Ding Yu's fist with both hands, he shrank to the top of his head, and then his head shrank down, as if he had no neck, and half of his head shrank into the fat of his shoulders, so that his head, shoulders, waist, and legs shrank all the way, and finally the whole person was shorter out of thin air, but Ding Yu felt that the power from the other party was getting bigger and bigger, and finally even he couldn't resist, his right hand was bounced high, and then the short and fat man hit him like a ball that was slapped hard。

Ding Yu tried to stop the other party with his left palm, but as soon as the palm touched the opponent's stomach, he felt the fat under the palm shaking, and unloaded his palm to the side, and as a result, Humpty Dumpty hit Ding Yu's chest with a strong head.

The force of this collision was superimposed on Ding Yu's fist power and Humpty Dumpty's internal strength, penetrating through his heart, Ding Yu only felt a huge shock in his chest, and a stream of blood mist erupted with a "poof", which dispersed into the cold air, and turned into a red ice powder when it landed. However, he was oblivious to the injury to his chest, and his hands returned to noon, clasping his opponent's shoulders. Humpty Dumpty's fat shook, and he wanted to shake off Ding Yu's hands, but Ding Yu's King Kong fingers were activated, and he clamped a piece of fat meat to death, and then lifted his right leg and kicked out from the middle, hitting Humpty Dumpty's chest.

The kick was too fast and heavy, and Humpty Dumpty only had time to unload most of his strength, and the remaining half of his strength was enough to kick him out. However, at this time, he had a piece of fat on each shoulder that was clamped by Ding Yu, and his body flew out, and the two red and white strips of meat of the boss were immediately torn off his shoulders.

"Ah~" Humpty Dumpty screamed, his shoulders were full of blood, he subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to cover the wound, but he moved the wound, and the pain in his heart came, his feet were weak, and he almost sat on the ground. Ding Yu smiled and said, "Dwarf winter melon, come again!" said and threw the meat strip in his hand at him. Humpty Dumpty saw his piece of flesh flying, but he didn't know how to dodge, and just screamed.

Ding Yu stepped forward, but Lao He, who had shrunk in the corner before, plucked up his courage, pulled out the icicle on his leg, and stabbed Ding Yu as a short sword. It's a pity that his martial arts are too far behind Humpty, Ding Yu raised his hand and smashed the icicle into pieces with a punch, and turned his fist into a palm and slammed him into the ice wall.

After a moment's delay, Humpty Dumpty finally came to his senses. Although his internal strength was not damaged at this time, the wounds on his shoulders made his hands unable to exert strength, and he knew that he was not Ding Yu's opponent in this situation, so he roared viciously: "You are doomed!

"Senior Brother Ding, be merciful!" Master Basang couldn't help but persuade when he saw that Ding Yu was still chasing Humpty Dumpty.