Heroes of the Fantasy World

Chapter 73
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The three of them passed halfway, and met the little monk with kind eyebrows who was the guide that day.In front of the towering Buddha pagoda, after a few words of greetings to each other, the little monk Cimei welcomed the long-awaited guests of Xuanqing in the meditation room to the pagoda.

Looking at the simple and simple Buddha statues on both sides and the dim lights and shadows, there is a sense of oppression that makes one have to be solemn and careful.Especially when stepping on the wooden ladder leading to the upper floor, there will be a "squeaky" sound from time to time, for fear that the sound will disturb the tranquility of the practitioners, forcing the visitors to walk on tiptoe.Seeing that the three of them were so restrained, the little monk with kind eyebrows also smiled and persuaded: "There is no need to be so restrained, just follow nature." Only then did the three of them relax.

On the second floor, following the narrow aisle, the little monk Cimei pushed open one of the doors, and inside the door stood an old monk, who was looking at the scenery outside the tower from the window with an ordinary wooden stick. , This person is Xuan Qing.The monk Cimei stepped forward and bowed his palms together, saying, "Abbot, Bai Shaoxia is back."

After Xuan Qing heard it, he turned sideways, looked towards the door with his still bloated eyes, and nodded silently in agreement.The monk Cimei immediately bowed again and said, "I'm going to prepare lunch right now. Please calmly discuss here." After speaking, he walked outside the door and closed the wooden door.

The wooden crutch in Xuanqing's hand thumped with a "dong dong" sound, and walked slowly to the square low table in the center of the meditation room. After leaving the wooden crutch aside, he squatted on the Zen felt and opened his mouth to greet the visitor: " Please sit down." The guests all found three blankets on the ground and sat on the other three empty seats on the square table.Among them, Bai Feng and Xuan Qing were facing each other, with the wooden door behind them, Murong Yan sitting in a kneeling position on the left, and Yang Deqing, the "wild boy", on the right.

Bai Feng and Murong Yan, who had been tormented by the coyote last night, were about to ask Xuan Qing for an explanation.Just when Bai Fengshi took off the Longming Sword and wanted to show Xuanqing his incomprehension, he let Xuanqing come to "pre-emptive strike".Taking advantage of Yang Deqing's presence, the old monk deliberately opened up the topic, as if he didn't want to talk about Longmingjian.

"Deqing, you are here. If you are a few more days late, the monks in this temple will have to rely on the altar of 'pickled cabbage' to spend this month!" Xuanqing jokingly glanced at the person in front of him. Teenager eyes.

"Abbot, can't you?" Yang Deqing asked, "Is the food in the temple so bad?"

"Oh, the temple on the mountain is like this, there is no way to grow too much food!" Xuanqing replied.

Taking advantage of the gap between the two of them, Bai Feng wanted to bring the topic back to the Longming Sword, so he took the sword out with both hands and asked Xuanqing, "Master Xuanqing, this sword..." In the middle of the conversation, he was caught by this sword. The old monk interrupted maliciously.

"Boy, didn't you see me chatting with someone else?" Xuanqing sneered, and said to Yang Deqing, who looked suspicious, "Have you and your father's harvest been okay recently?"

"Abbot, our grandfather and I are doing well. In terms of hunting, we also follow the abbot's teaching: 'Don't kill children, don't kill children'!" Yang Deqing didn't notice anything unusual, but he still took care of himself. Talk about it.

"Yeah!" Xuan Qing nodded in satisfaction, and then continued chatting for a while, completely ignoring Bai Feng in front of him.

The speechless teenager could only look at the injured left hand and the broken sword, thinking that maybe this was Xuan Qing's test for himself.Convince yourself with such thoughts and sit quietly on the side.Seeing Bai Feng like this, Murong Yan felt even more resentment towards Xuan Qing than before. She only hated that the other party was an old, shriveled old man, so that she could not vent her emotions at will, and could only continue to sit dignifiedly with Bai Feng. In the distance, listening to the old monk preaching the scriptures.

Starting from why monks cannot kill, to warning the world not to kill indiscriminately, it is actually explaining a philosophy about survival: the human body is like a furnace, and food is the fuel.If there is too much fuel, the furnace will burn more and more vigorously.Until one day even if the stove is set on fire, the gain will outweigh the loss.The old monk Xuanqing seemed to be testing Bai Feng's patience, and also seemed to be making other plans.All in all, he took the opportunity of talking with Yang Deqing to move the time back a little, until someone came, and this slightly dull preaching ended.

"Dong dong..." The sound of knocking the door twice came from behind Bai Feng, only to see Xuanqing stop talking suddenly, brows with joy, and said to someone outside the door: "Please come in!"

The wooden door was pushed open from the outside, and a man in a straw hat and a scorpion, who was ready to go, stood in front of the door.He put his palms together in front of his chest, and the other hand was holding the intuitively familiar Zen staff. When he bowed and saluted, the golden lacquer Buddha bells on the staff kept ringing.

"Jue Xin, are you here?" Xuan Qing said earnestly.

Jue Xin in front of the door nodded in agreement and said: "Yes, the abbot, the little monk has already made up his mind, and now he has come to bid farewell to the abbot. But, there is one thing, I want to ask the abbot to do me a favor..." The monk put aside his body that could occupy the entire doorway, and a Miao girl with a delicate veil on her face appeared in front of everyone.Jue Xin continued: "This girl, please the abbot take care of her for me!"

"Why!" Meng Die asked: "Let me travel with you, where you go, isn't it like this before?"

"Is that Meng Die girl?" Xuan Qing asked.Seeing the Miao girl nodding, he continued: "This trip is full of crises, and this is only about the cultivation of the mind itself, and has nothing to do with others. If you are implicated in suffering and afflicted, then it will not be very good!"

"I'm not afraid!" Meng Die said sadly: "I've never experienced any hardships along the way?"

"Mengdie, just wait here for me to come back! As the abbot said to the little monk, from the day I rescued you from the Taiping Dao, my path of cultivation has only been opened. 'The Way of Shura', I will never be able to escape from it in this lifetime, and truly attain the Way!" Jue Xin stared at her round eyes and said helplessly.After Meng Die heard it, she remained silent, just stood there and watched her fingers intertwined, her phoenix eyes confused.

Seeing this, Xuanqing joked at the right time: "Jue Xin! Old monk, I am afraid that this small temple will not be able to accommodate Miss Mengdie! I see that a doctor passed away not long ago in Yanzi Town at the foot of the mountain, why don't I replace the old monk with me? Do you recommend and recommend Mengdie girl to be a 'Doctor Miao' at the foot of the mountain?"

"Mengdie, what do you think?" Jue Xin asked cautiously.

"I depend on you..."

"Okay!" Jue Xin immediately searched the whole body, took out the only silver taels on his body, gave it to Meng Die, and said: "You take this money, I don't need it anymore, I live well at the foot of the mountain, If things don't go well, go up the mountain to find Abbot Xuanqing, he will definitely help you..."

A dull-headed monk was speaking to a Miao girl about separation.The presence of Bai Feng, Murong Yan, and Yang Deqing was an eye-opener.Although I don't know the origin of it, I always feel that it has something to do with the endless feelings that people often praise.

After the two people in front of the door said goodbye to each other, they each bowed to Xuanqing three times before formally saying goodbye to several people in the house and leaving the Buddha Tower.

"Hahaha..." Soon after the two of them left, Xuanqing couldn't help laughing, and sarcastically said to the few present: "You must not know what's going on? Especially you, Bai Shaoxia."

Bai Feng replied, "I would like to hear the abbot's details!"

"Jue Xin's trip has something to do with your master and the Longming Sword in your hand." Xuanqing said slowly: "I think Bai Shaoxia also knows that the 'White Snake Immortal' did not throw the sword off the cliff. Bar?"

"Yes..." Bai Feng murmured, seemingly unwilling to admit that he was deceived.Murong Yan on the side was abnormally excited and rude, looked at Xuan Qing with a chilling expression, and rebuked: "Old monk, you have hurt us! Look at Brother Feng's hand, let the wild wolf bite into it. What's it like!"

"Miss Murong, don't be impatient, the old monk is also doing things according to the words of an old friend!" Xuanqing said: "In those days, when your master went up the mountain alone, one of the reasons was to give the sword to the old monk, and told the old monk to be sure Give this sword to someone who is worthy of this sword. The old monk muttered in his heart at that time, if some people in the world know that the sword 'Long Ming' has fallen here, there will definitely be a bloody sword battle, so he will The sword was given to Shi Hongtu, the old master of the Shi family in Wandeng Town, who was cultivating it on the mountain at that time for safekeeping. Who would have thought that luck would be tricky, but this sword actually returned to the apprentice of the 'White Snake Immortal'. But the apprentice can't be an exception, you Whether you are worthy of owning this sword still needs to pass the test of the old monk!"

Murong Yan blushed at this explanation. She knew she was wrong to blame a good person, but she didn't want to admit it, so she argued, "But... the sword is so ruined that it can't be used at all!"

"Yeah, Abbot, it's a blessing that the sword has been destroyed like this, and it hasn't broken yet!" Yang Deqing observed the sword, and said in agreement.

Xuan Qing looked at Bai Feng's stern and determined eyes, as if seeing an old friend who resolutely abandoned the sword at that time, with a warm smile on his face, and then said: "The reason why a sword is a sword is that it cuts iron like mud. In addition to the incomparably sharp edge, it also has the toughness to resist all unfavorable things. Therefore, its owner must have a similar character. I have seen this in Bai Shaoxia!"

"Old monk, since there is 'one', there must be 'the other'. Why do you say that Jue Xin's journey is related to Master?" Bai Feng asked.

"Haha." Xuanqing replied, "Secondly, the arrival of the 'White Snake Immortal' is to warn the old monk me. A traitorous monk who escaped from this temple many years ago will become a major disaster in the world in the future! The famous rebellious monk is now the Heavenly Master of Taiping Dao, the National Master of Daqi, Sima Tu."

"So, this Heavenly Master of Taiping Dao was once the apprentice of Master Xuanqing?" Yang Deqing asked in surprise.

"Yes, that is indeed the old monk's former apprentice. He can recite scriptures at the age of four, and he has read all the scriptures in the temple at the age of six. He deviated from the right path. It was not until the arrival of the 'White Snake Immortal' that I knew that I had actually conceived such a 'poisonous snake'!" Xuanqing was extremely sympathetic and continued: "According to Bai Shaoxia's master, he was only killed by Sima Tu at that time. He escaped from the Daqi court and was afraid that the 'poisonous snake' would harm the world in the future, so he came to ask the old monk to come forward and subdue him. Alas, it's a pity that I didn't take it seriously at the time, and today, I have finally experienced the consequences..."

Bai Feng said: "So, Master, he used to be a member of the imperial court? And this trip is because Abbot Xuanqing, in order to make up for your past mistakes, gave him the Zen staff in your hand?"

"Yes, Jue Xin will replace me and use the 'magic subduing wand' handed down from generation to generation in Qingliang Temple to eradicate those evil demons one by one... This is not only for the old monk himself, but also for Jue Xin's own cultivation, but also for the sake of All the good men and women in the world!" Xuanqing said, he stretched out his hand and asked for the Longming Sword, he looked at the wear and tear on the sword, and said: "This sword is not irreparable, go and find the sword maker! From him You may be able to learn more about your master."

"You mean, Yuan Fengzi?" After Murong Yan finished speaking, she and Bai Feng looked at each other for a split second.

Xuan Qing nodded in response, and immediately wrote a letter of recommendation and handed it to Bai Feng.At this time, the little monk Cimei, who was preparing lunch, brought the food again, and the few people talked about Yuan Fengzi while having a rough meal.

(End of this chapter)