The mountains are lonely, and the fire is raging.

Li Si, who had gone and returned, stood quietly in front of the flames. The fire shines on the body, like a "fire body Buddha statue" standing outside the Buddha hall.

Chen Tianhong's eyes narrowed into a slit, his gaze slowly left Li Si, moved to the top of the mountain, and thought: Who is the person who has to kill me? If they really have such determination to kill me, wouldn't it be much easier in Longmen Town, why do they need to do more? Who is that silver-haired old man who came and went like a ghost?

After a long time, he sighed slightly in his heart, and said to himself: I don't know how the eighth child is now?

With his hands clenched into fists, he said resolutely in his heart: You must not stay in Hanoi for too long. Even if I die, I have to die in front of my ancestors' spirit tablets.

That night, the sky was clear and the stars were brilliant.

That night, the fire burned until dawn.

That night, the old monk meditating on the futon, the young man standing at the door of the Buddha hall with his thoughts flying, and Li Si standing by the fire as immobile as a mountain, seemed to be integrated into heaven and earth and nature.

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In the early morning, the earth is steaming, and the dense fog that locks the mountains and fields covers the morning glow, creating a bit of the fairy charm of the holy mountain.

Li Si looked at the gradually extinguishing flames, shook his head slightly, and moved his steps towards Nanshan. After a short time, he returned with a few giant trees. Chen Tianhong has understood that he is going to rebuild the grassland. But I was a little hesitant to help or not.

The old monk said: "Great enlightenment!"

Chen Tianhong thought to himself, how could this old monk always speak strangely. Last night, he said that "hatred is fire, fire is hatred", and now he inexplicably says "enlightenment". Could it be that if he doesn't take the initiative to extinguish the fire, wait for the fire to go out by itself, and then repair the grass house, is what he calls "enlightenment"?

Thinking of this, his brows furrowed slightly, and he thought about it. Subsequently, he followed Li Si and helped build the draft house. During this period, Li Si did not say a word, and Chen Tianhong did not dare to ask. The two of them just silently built a grass house.

At noon, three brand-new grass huts rose from the spot where the fire was burning. Give the mountains a little new atmosphere.

Chen Tianhong was hungry and panicked, and wanted to tell Li Si several times to get something to eat, but he never spoke. I thought in my heart that I would wait until the grass house was built. Unexpectedly, after repairing the grass house, Li Si walked to the Buddhist hall alone. Chen Tianhong thought to himself, yes, if there is grain here, it can only be the Buddha hall, and he also walked in.

As a result, to his surprise, Li Si spread out a large piece of white paper, dipped his pen in ink, and wrote down four powerful characters. Then, place the ten yellowed books next to the white paper. With a wave of the sleeves of his robe, he strode out of the Buddha hall and floated away.

Chen Tianhong looked ignorant, thinking that anyway, people come and go freely, what can he do. Looking back at the monk who was sitting in meditation, he walked forward lightly and said softly, "Master, am I considered a 'great enlightenment'?" He didn't understand the meaning of the title "master", he only remembered that the silver-haired man was called that, and he secretly learned to say it.

It seems that the Sky Lantern Monk didn't know that someone was around, and he still chanted. Chen Tianhong listened to the words in the monk's mouth, ignored himself, snorted angrily in his heart, his face was closer, and he listened carefully to what the monk was reading.

Gradually, the monk kept repeating six words in his mouth: 唵 (ōng), 嘛 (ma), 張 (nī), horn (bēi), (口迷) (mēi), 吽 (hōng).

How did Chen Tianhong know the "six-character mantra" of Buddhism? To his ears, isn't it just a sentence of "my mother, your father didn't coax". In his mind, this old monk was so old that he was an old child, and he was so bored that he read this sentence repeatedly. Suddenly feeling bored, hungry and uncomfortable, he walked out of the temple gate, saw the shape of the mountain, and walked towards the west side of the South Mountain.

Tianlong Temple was built in the northern section of Jiusheng Mountain, which is one of the main areas for human monks to experience treasure hunting. But on normal days, very few people haunt the mountains near Tenryuji Temple. As for the reason, everyone knows it, but only the newcomer Chen Tianhong knows nothing.

After Chen Tianhong entered the mountain road, he took out a double hammer and a white staff from his back, and cautiously searched forward. After all, the shadow of being attacked twice in a row always lingers in the mind.

On the mountain road, the grass and trees are green, and flowers are everywhere. A faint honey scent, faint and ethereal, refreshing. provoked Chen Tianhong to stop and look carefully. It was soon discovered that among the flowers everywhere there was a kind of flower, the petals were in the shape of nine stars, black and translucent, and the tip of the petals was decorated with a bright dewdrop, but it was purple. When the purple dew dropped, it landed on a red fruit. The honey scent emanates from this red fruit.

The red fruit, without rhizomes and branches, is only in a small pit in the ground. It never seems to rot, always so alive. Its color is so attractive.

However, in Chen Tianhong's eyes, it was just an attractive fruit.

Chen Tianhong held the double hammer and the white staff in his left hand, gently opened the black petals with his right hand, and easily collected the red fruits with a clasp of his fingers. I put it on the tip of my nose and sniffed it, the honey smell was stronger, and my saliva flowed out unconsciously. After cherishing it, slowly put it in your mouth, and the fruit melts in your mouth, and it is as sweet as a syrup. Suddenly, my whole body was filled with a burst of warmth, and the hunger dissipated a little.

But when he looked at the ground again, he found that the black petals of the nine stars had withered and withered, and there was a faint black mist on the only stem.

Chen Tianhong didn't understand or understood this change, he took the white staff in his right hand and gently pointed at the black mist. Suddenly, the black mist seemed to recognize the master, first hovering around the head of the staff, and later, gradually turning into a wisp of clear qi, as if it had melted into the nine-star purple beads at the head of the staff. Chen Tianhong just felt that there was another warmth in the palm of his right hand, and the hunger disappeared again.

Although he was young and knowledgeable, there were too many things he didn't understand, but this situation still reminded him of the situation in the bones. The feeling to him is: very similar. It's just that, under the domination of hunger and ignorance, he didn't think much, in fact, it was useless to think. Therefore, with the existence of this hunger-filled fruit, he didn't want to go far.

Searching, collecting, eating, until I couldn't find the red fruit, I reluctantly stopped. Chen Tianhong felt very full and satisfied, and walked to the temple without nostalgia, thinking about what to eat for dinner.

As soon as he entered the temple gate, the meditating Tianlan monk stood up suddenly, his eyes staring at him, and his expression was extremely strange.

Chen Tianhong said "oops" in his heart, his eyes turned sharply, and he secretly blamed himself: I didn't leave some lunch for the big monk, which made the big monk angry.

Sky Lantern asked leisurely, "What kind of red fruit did you eat?"

Chen Tianhong nodded mechanically in acknowledgement, but he was speechless in embarrassment.

Sky Lantern asked again, "How do you feel now?"

"It's very full, I feel like I've been propped up!" Chen Tianhong said apologeticly, but he still didn't say it, thinking that it would be a big deal to find you something to eat.

"Hmm, how can this be?" Chen Tianhong put away his double wedge and white staff early, and the sky lantern naturally didn't know the details, he looked puzzled, couldn't help shaking his head, and muttered: "Tianlong Fruit...... How is this possible...... Weird!"

It turns out that the name of Tianlong Temple is derived from a strange fruit - "Tianlong Fruit", which is one of the nine strange poisons in the world. For a long time, it ravaged the Shenzhou Continent. The only person who could suppress and subdue the spread of "Heavenly Dragon Fruit" was the first Buddhist patriarch.

Today, in the many prohibitions laid down by the Buddhist patriarchs, thousands of years have passed, and there is only one acre of land left in the "Tianlong Fruit". And the "Dragon Fruit" on this acre of land condenses the essence of the sun and the moon, and the aura of heaven and earth, which cannot be removed no matter what. It is ten thousand times more dangerous than the initial one.

The so-called "Tianlong Temple" is actually the core of the ban laid by the Buddhist patriarch in the past. It is not a real opening of mountains and sects.

Chen Tianhong comes from a remote peasant family, and he really has no idea about this kind of thing that everyone talks about. He has not received cultivation education since he was a child, and he knows nothing about identifying spiritual materials. Therefore, I mistook Tianlong fruit for an ordinary wild fruit and ate it all over again.

Tian Lantern frowned, thought for a long time, and asked, "Do you have a forbidden magic weapon on your body?"

"No!" Chen Tianhong replied without thinking, thinking: You, a great monk, are friends or enemies, and I don't know for the time being. Don't snatch my white rod again, and kill me again.

"The ancestor is an immortal body, so he can suppress the poison of the Heavenly Dragon Fruit. Could it be that you, the descendant of the greedy wolf, are also immortal?"

"Master, what is an immortal body?"

"You really don't know anything. The monk's tone changed abruptly, he laughed, and said, "Perhaps, this is the chance." People in the world are looking for thousands of opportunities, but they don't know that opportunities exist everywhere. Alas, what a sin, a sin!"

The sky lantern gradually became serious, and said in a deep voice: "If you want to live, you have to cultivate the 'Dragon Descending Technique' of the Buddha Sect and dissolve the power of the 'Heavenly Dragon Fruit' in your body one by one." ”

Chen Tianhong shook his head and said, "Master, I won't be a monk. I have a big business at home, and I'm waiting to go back. With that, he walked to his desk.

Sky Lantern blinked, didn't say much, and walked towards the small door to the north.

The two of them, one south and one north, walk in opposite directions, with a sense of picture and distance. It's like a worldly and otherworldly feeling.

Chen Tianhong sat on the table, picked up the blank paper left by Li Si and looked at it, and found that although it was four words, two words were exactly the same, that is, there were three words. Of course, still not a single word is unrecognizable. Fortunately, he has a three-month probationary study period, and he is already handy in the use of the "Yansheng Dictionary". I quickly found the three words left by Li Si.

Reading horizontally, the first line is "Writing" and the second line is "Scenery". This is clearly not a word or a statement. So, read vertically, the first column is "Writing the Scene", and the second column is "Landscaping". These are obviously two correct words. But Chen Tianhong didn't understand, and repeatedly compared it with the dictionary interpretation, and could only comprehend "describing the scene" and "shaping the scene".

I thought: Li Si is really a weirdo, what is the use of mysteriously leaving these four words. Maybe it's because I've been with the strange monk for too long and I've been infected.

Then he folded it up, set it aside, and paid no more attention to it. Then, one by one, he opened the ten old books left by Li Si, and still used the Yansheng Dictionary to look up the words and read them. On the front page of the first book, the word "Xi Sheng" is written, and inside is as many as nine pages of calligraphy. The first page of the second book reads "Yan Sheng", which is still a nine-page copybook.

Chen Tianhong quickly queried down, and the order was "Liu Sheng", "Chu Sheng", "Ou Sheng", "Huaisu Collection", "Dongpo Collection", and the last three books were all "Anonymous". The font, size, shape, and layout of each book are completely different.

With Chen Tianhong's only knowledge and ability, he can only stare dryly. And he is a very pragmatic person who never pretentious. So, he looked through the bookmarks over and over again, his imagination galloping in his heart, and his desire was strong.

Time passed little by little.

At all times, black qi gradually appeared on Chen Tianhong's face, and red mist slowly grew out of the seven orifices. Red and black intertwined, decorating him like a demon awakening.

At this time, the light of the Buddha in the door on the north side shone brightly, wrapping Chen Tianhong tightly. Chen Tianhong walked towards the door unconsciously.