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Xu Chen asked, "What is the matter with the invasion of the underworld and the coming of the night?" The teacher only told these stories in the legend last year, but did not mention those details. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

When the whole world is shrouded in darkness, no one can see the details, and when the entire civilization is broken, even if there are details, they cannot be handed down. ”

Xuanwei looked at the night above the cliff, looked at the stars, and said: "According to legend, night and day alternate between this world, sometimes tens of thousands of years of light, sometimes tens of thousands of years of darkness, the war between light and darkness runs through the entire history, when the sky wins, it is the bright world today, and when the king of Hades wins, it is the arrival of the underworld." ”

"The invasion of the underworld, the absence of the scorching sun during the day, the stars at night, the world has become incomparably cold, and the creatures of the earth can only rely on geothermal heat for heating, and at that time, the volcanoes and hot springs, as well as the heat flow in the South Sea, will become the most precious resource, and countless wars will take place there. ”

"The war doesn't last long, and most people will die, because of hunger, because of cold, because of desperate fighting, and it must be an unimaginably cold and realistic world. And after a few decades, the whole earth will become unusually silent, as if it has entered a deep sleep that will never wake up, and only the strongest and most determined will survive, whether human or animal. ”

"These cold and dark years are called the end of the Dharma era in Buddhism, and the Daomen are called the Hades Descending. ”

Xuan Wei said: "And I used to call it ...... Night. ”

Xu Chen looked at the cliffs under his feet, looked at the extraordinarily beautiful mountain waterfalls under the starlight, and imagined that there would be no starlight nights, and countless nights, and he couldn't help but feel a little cold.

He looked at Xuan Wei and said, "If the underworld invades, the alternation of night and day has happened many times in history, but the human race has not become extinct, it can only show that as you said earlier, some of the strongest and most resolute people have survived the long night. I just can't figure it out, if the people who can survive the long night go through a natural selection, the rest must be the most powerful cultivators, but why are there no such people in the Western Jin Dynasty canons or Buddhist stories?"

Xuan Wei said: "You should have seen those stone venerable statues in the Ten Thousand Wild Goose Pagoda Temple. The Venerable Buddha is equivalent to the saints recorded in the Taoist canon, and according to legend, these human beings have an almost infinite longevity and an incomparably strong will, so they have all successfully stayed up all night until the day when the heavens will be victorious again. ”

Xu Chen was extremely shocked when he learned about these powerful existences that had long been forgotten by the present world tonight, and said, "These cultivators must be the most powerful human beings, but why didn't they survive?"

Xuan Wei said: "Near-infinite is not infinite after all, they can defeat the night, and it is impossible to defeat eternal time, and in my opinion, these cultivators are far from being the most powerful. ”

Xu Chen felt that there was something wrong with the teacher's statement, in such a cruel and realistic night, the one who could survive should of course be the most powerful.

At this moment, Xuan Wei looked at him and suddenly asked, "Do you think that cultivation is a gift from heaven to mankind?"

This question was very sudden, and the conversation with the master and apprentice didn't seem to have anything to do with it, so Xu Chen didn't react for a while, and after thinking about the problem, he suddenly thought of inheriting the mantle of the little uncle in the Demon Sect Mountain Gate, and shook his head and said, "At least not all cultivators." ”

Xuan Wei looked at Xu Chen's eyes and said slowly: "True cultivators, cultivating their own hearts, will eventually cultivate to the absolute self, that is absolute pride, they can hide around the volcano like the Venerable Buddha and the saint of the Daomen, relying on a very small amount of moss, and even only need water to survive, but how can the proud of them accept that they have become rats shivering in the night?" The more powerful the cultivators, the less willing they were, so when the night came, instead of hiding, they chose to resist, they drew their swords and stabbed at the Hades, and then ...... Die. ”

Xu Chen knew that what the teacher said was right, how could someone like Uncle Xiao fall down in front of the Hades Throne or hide in a mouse hole, if the night really came in the future, the second senior brother would definitely be the first to jump out to find the Hades King to fight, and then, as Xuan Wei said, die.

Thinking of that image, thinking of the night in his dream, thinking that he might be the son of Hades, he felt that the night wind between the cliffs was getting colder and colder, and suddenly he had the urge to jump down. It's just that there is Xuanwei beside him, a pot of old wine, a few taels of beef, life is still so bright and beautiful, Sang Sang is still on the sickbed, how can he give it?

He looked at the night clouds flowing between the cliffs, and asked with some confusion: "The Atami is gradually freezing, and the cold nights in the extreme north are getting longer, which indicates that the underworld is about to invade...... Teacher, what should we do?"

Xuan Wei held the small yellow clay wine pot and sighed: "I have been searching in the world for decades, but I still can't find where the underworld is, how do I know what to do? ”

After saying this, he took a sip of wine, his white eyebrows fluttered slightly, and there was a very rare trace of worry in his usual casual and casual expression.

"The Western Jin Dynasty Divine Army is a Heavenly Believer, they should know the most about this war between light and darkness, didn't they make any preparations?" asked Xu Chen.

"Anyone can see the night at the end of the road, let alone the believers in the sky. ”

Xuan Wei said: "Although I don't know what happened during the last invasion of the underworld, but I think that the disciples of the Dao Sect must fight desperately with the Hades for the sake of the glory of the sky, and if they can't fight desperately, then they will hide and save their lives, and wait for the heavens to defeat the Hades King and come again." ”

Xu Chen said: "I always feel a little weak when I hear it. ”

Xuan Wei said: "They are originally very weak people. ”

Xu Chen suddenly remembered that in the pile of bones at the Demon Sect Mountain Gate, when Liansheng Thirty-two commented on the Western Jin Dynasty Divine Army and Taiqing Temple, he once ridiculed a passage: "The Divine Army is a group of dogs raised by Taiqing Temple, what about that broken temple? After all, it is not a dog raised by heaven! Haha...... It's all dogs!

Xuan Wei said: "The Demon Sect appeared a thousand years ago, and the Great Divine Officer of the Founding Sect had never experienced night, so there was no mention of any way to deal with it in the Demon Sect's teachings. ”

Xu Chen said: "I heard that the Demon Sect also sacrifices to the Hades King?"

Xuan Wei said: "That's not faith, it's fear, people in the Demon Sect need an idol to resist the majesty of the sky, it's just psychological comfort." ”

Xu Chen remembered another passage that Lian Sheng had said before his death, and after a little hesitation, he repeated this passage to Xuan Wei:

"Some people say that the Demon Sect is a mossy stone hidden in the dark night to hide from the Heavenly Divine Radiance, which is called disrespectful to the heavens, but in fact it is particularly afraid of the existence of the heavens, so the heavens can allow the existence of the Demon Sect. ”

In fact, there is still a part of this passage, but he pinched it.

At that time, Liansheng said that if Xu Chen picked up the sword left by the little uncle, he would lose all awe, and even fear of the sky, that was the real demonic way, and the sky would never allow such a person to exist.

Xuan Wei's white eyebrows fluttered slightly, and asked, "Who said this?"

Xu Chen replied: "Lotus is thirty-two." ”

Xuan Wei said: "Although Liansheng has a rebellious temperament and some problems in his brain, he still has some knowledge. ”

I have some problems with my brain, but I have some knowledge.

Xu Chen didn't know how to speak, thinking that a person like Liansheng was so talented and gorgeous, and only a teacher or a junior uncle was qualified to comment so casually.

Xuan Wei asked, "What does Liansheng say about the Buddha Sect?"

Xu Chen said: "He said that Buddhism will only play tricks, no different from fortune tellers, and he hates Buddhism's emphasis on penance and self-cultivation, and he will only wait humbly in the face of the transfer of the wheel of life, and he will not be able to reach the real other side at all...... Is the transfer of the wheel of life here referring to the invasion of the underworld?"

"It should be, so it sounds like this, Liansheng is not only okay, he should indeed have some knowledge, but one sect and one sect, and the differences in ideas have their own origins, so it is not good to be so domineering. ”

Xuan Wei said: "According to the Buddhist scriptures, a long, long time ago, when the night wolf country was not called the night wolf country, the earliest Buddha first knew the things of life and death, sadness and confusion were unspeakable, and he didn't know how to get rid of it, and he predicted the invasion of the underworld countless years later, the coming of the night, the pain was unspeakable, and he didn't know how to get rid of it. ”

Xu Chen asked curiously, "What method?"

Xuanwei looked at him and smiled and said, "That method is to shut up." ”

Xu Chen thought he had misheard, and subconsciously asked repeatedly, "Shut up?"

Xuan Wei said: "Yes, the Buddha's method is to teach sentient beings to be silent and patient, to regard everything around them as false, and to be able to live as a pleasure, naturally not to feel death as suffering, not to be happy with light, and naturally not to feel darkness as suffering, so I call this method a closed mouth." ”

Xu Chen asked suspiciously, "What is the similarity?"

Xuan Wei said: "If you don't cry out in pain when you are beaten, don't you need to shut up?"

Xu Chen listened to it and praised: "The teacher is really good at summarizing and summarizing. ”

Suddenly, he thought of the Dao Shi monk who died under his sword, and then remembered the Buddhist Sect who came to the capital on a snowy night to walk the Seven Thoughts, frowned and said: "If the Buddha Sect really pays attention to patience and immobility, why are those monks in the White Pagoda Temple of the Night Wolf Country so hateful, and there are also people in the Hanging Temple who have set foot in the world?"

"This is the result of the reverse of the Dharma, when the Buddha realized such a method of shutting his mouth, he passed on this method, and the disciples of the Buddha really believed it, so that the more meditative the Buddha's heart is, the firmer the will, what about the invasion of the underworld? What about the long night? They are not even afraid of death, what are they afraid of the dark? On the other hand, they are not even afraid of the dark, what are they afraid of death?"

Xuan Wei smiled and said: "Buddhism pays attention to escapism, but this does not mean that they cannot enter the world, and once they enter the world, they will even be more troublesome than those fanatical believers in the Western Jin Dynasty Divine Army." ”

Xu Chen thought about the passage mentioned in Xuanwei's words earlier, and asked curiously: "That Buddha can actually predict the invasion of the underworld in countless years, so didn't he be able to predict the ending?"

Xuan Wei said: "If the prophecy is useful, what are we still alive for?"

This sentence is very profound, but Xu Chen's mind at this time is full of these big secrets related to the invasion of the underworld, where can Xuan Wei bypass it with this mysterious sentence, and said: "Teacher, this is not a storytelling attitude. ”

Xuan was slightly annoyed and said, "If you don't think what I'm talking about, I'll go and learn Buddhism." ”

Xu Chen was puzzled and asked, "What does this mean?" ”

Xuan Wei said, "Shut up. ”

Xu Chen said helplessly: "Don't." ”

Xuan Wei said: "You beg me." ”

Xu Chen said without hesitation: "Teacher, I beg you, I just want to know what the Buddha's prophecy is." ”

Xuan Wei suddenly found that he finally had a guy who was more shameless than himself, and he couldn't help but feel helpless, and felt comforted by Lao Huai, so he slowly stroked his beard and said:

"When the Buddha traveled all over the world, he once went to Taiqing Temple, and was invited by the current contemplator to read the seven volumes of the Book of Heaven, and felt the instructions of the heavens, so he wrote down the things he had foreseen on the Ming character scroll, and later the bright priest took the Ming character scroll to the wasteland to establish the Demon Sect, which had a great relationship with those messages, and the reason why the Night Wolf Country was called the Night Wolf Country was also from the prophecy of the Ming Character Scroll. ”

Xu Chen was surprised and said, "There is actually a message from the Buddha on the Ming character scroll?"

Xuan Wei said: "Of the seven volumes of heavenly books, the most important is the Tianzi scroll, what is really interesting is the Mingzi scroll, as for the rest of the volumes, don't read it." ”

Xu Chen suddenly thought of a certain possibility and asked, "Teacher, have you seen it...... Seven volumes...... Book from Heaven?"

Xuanwei's answer was quite natural: "Of course"

The focus of Xu Chen's questioning was not the Book of Heaven - the Ming Scroll has always been in the Shan Sect, and Xuanwei can read it at any time - but the seven volumes, you must know that when Liansheng was invited to enter the Taiqing Temple, he only read two volumes of the Heavenly Book Kingdom. It was really hard for him to imagine that there were people in the world who had read the seven books of heaven.

So when he heard Xuan Wei's natural answer, he was shocked and speechless, thinking to himself that even if you are the most amazing person in the world, but the relationship between the Daomen and the Dushan Sect is so bad, how can the Taoist priests in the Taiqing Temple lend you the seven volumes of the Heavenly Book?

Xuanwei knew what he was thinking, and said: "I like to read, and I especially wanted to read the content of the Book of Heaven back then, but I can't say that those Taoist priests don't read it, so they don't read it." ”

Xu Chen understood the hidden meaning of the teacher's words, gasped, and said, "Could it be that you broke into Taiqingguan and forcibly read the seven heavenly books? What is the difference between this and a robber?"

Xuan Wei was a little embarrassed and said: "Books are the inheritance of knowledge, and they should not be hidden in the mountains from being seen.

The seven heavenly books that are extremely supreme in the eyes of the world, in the eyes of the Dushan Sect, especially in the eyes of his own teacher, do not seem to be much different from ordinary books, since he really wants to read it, then he must see it-thinking of this fact, Xu Chen was shocked, but he couldn't help but be very proud.

Being a Tang person is something to be proud of, and being a disciple of the Dushan Sect is even more so. The prestige left by the little uncle in the world, the wind and rain set off by the occasional red dust of the senior brothers, especially the unknown things on Xuan Wei's body, have formed a very special atmosphere, no matter how shy and reserved you are, after a long time in the atmosphere of the Dushan Sect, you will eventually become proud unconsciously.

What's more, Xu Chen has never been a shy and reserved person, he was amazed, and then remembered the question he wanted to ask earlier: "What is the Buddha's message on the Ming character scroll?"

Xuan Wei said: "I said, when you can read that book, you will naturally understand." ”

Xu Chen then remembered that he had read the scroll of clear characters, thinking about the words on the book of heaven that were unclear, almost babbling, and what kind of words were turning day and night, and vaguely guessed that it was the Buddha's message, and became more and more curious about what that prophecy was, but with his current realm, where could he understand it?

Whether it is the back mountain or the front yard of the Dushan Sect, the learning atmosphere has always been free and casual, as the so-called shameless questioning, Xu Chen is naturally even more ashamed to ask, and said directly: "Teacher, I really don't understand." ”

Xuan Wei sighed and said, "Actually, I can't understand it either. ”

Xu Chen looked at the teacher's slightly fluttering white eyebrows, very at a loss, thinking to himself how could there be words in this world that you can't understand, you are not an ordinary person.

"At the end of the law, the night comes, and the moon appears. ”

Xuan Wei looked at the starry sky above the cliff and said: "The previous sentence naturally refers to the era of the end of the Dharma as stated by Buddhism, and the night is the invasion of the underworld, but what is the moon?

He turned his head to look at Xu Chen and said: "The reason why I don't understand is because it is originally a prophecy, I said before, if the prophecy is useful, what are we still alive for?" Since we will live according to our own hearts, then the prophecy may not become a reality, since it may not become a reality, it may never appear in our world, since it will never appear, how can we understand?"

This passage was a little awkward, but Xu Chen heard it very clearly, and probably understood the teacher's attitude towards the Ming character scroll, and after thinking for a while, he asked: "Since the prophecy of the Buddha Sect is not important, why does the disciple go to the Rotten Ke Temple?"

Xuan Wei asked rhetorically, "What is the most famous thing about Rotten Ke Temple?"

"I think it's supposed to be a monk?"

Xu Chen thought like this in his heart, but knew that if he said this answer, he would inevitably be scolded by the teacher, and suddenly recalled the rumors before Prince Chen Lujie entered the capital, thinking about the important nodes in Master Liansheng's life, he was a little unconvinced and asked: "Yes...... Debate?"

He had already answered seriously and cautiously enough, but he didn't expect that this answer would still make Xuan Wei extremely dissatisfied.

Xuan Wei said angrily: "You said I came and I said you, that is a little child who talks about love, a group of cultivators are there to talk about the world without doing anything, and they are just scholars and Taoists who are used to fool those who are good at mystical theories, and they all blame the little monks of Liansheng and Rotten Ke Temple for causing this rotten atmosphere." ”

Xu Chen asked: "What is the most famous thing about the Rotten Ke Temple?"

Xuan Wei said: "How is the invitation written? The most famous thing in the Ranke Temple is, of course, the Yu Lan Festival. ”

Xu Chen said with some resentment: "Even if the Yu Lan Festival is famous, what does it have to do with me?"

Xuan Wei said: "Yu Lan Festival is the Ghost Festival, which began countless years ago, the source is the legend of the invasion of the underworld, and the sacrifice of ghosts is the most important content. ”

Xu Chen couldn't help but be taken aback when he realized that the Yu Lan Festival was related to the legend of the underworld.

Xuan Wei continued: "Yulan was originally the festival of the Daomen, but I don't know why...... It is probably because the heavenly believers feel that they are a little ashamed to come forward to do this kind of thing, and then it gradually evolved into a dojo of incense and Buddha sound, but as the years go by, most people forget the origin of this festival. ”

Xu Chen said: "If the underworld really wants to invade, where can you say a few good words to dispel it? Besides, I think if there is really an underworld, the people there will not love to eat incense candle ingots." ”

Xuan Wei slapped his thigh heavily and said, "That's right, why do you use practice when you say good things?" So I've been thinking that the two sects of Taoism and Buddhism are doing this Yu Lan Festival, I'm afraid they just want to use the Buddha's light to calm the underworld. ”