The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 186 The Reincarnation of Enemy and Friend
Weishan Tongqing Temple, in the meditation room of Zen Master Lingyou.

"Brother, how many years have you not seen each other?"

Just when the two old friends were talking happily, Dan Chenzi suddenly changed his face and asked in an almost deep voice.

"If you count the time, it's almost 20 years!"

Slightly stunned, Zen Master Lingyou, who was sitting cross-legged on the spot, rolled his eyes, and then replied calmly.

"Yes! In the blink of an eye, 20 years have passed."

Standing up slowly, Dan Chenzi looked at the skinny old man in front of him with a posture almost overlooking, and his words revealed a touch of pity and unwillingness.

"You and I met when we were at our peak, but when we meet again, things are different."

Clearly aware of the unkindness in Dan Chenzi's words, Chan Master Lingyou fell silent immediately.

"Do you know how I have been here for 20 years?"

Not caring about Zen master Lingyou's silence at all, Dan Chenzi's emotions that had been suppressed for 17 years broke out at this moment.

"I obviously trust you so much, I treat you like my real brother..."

"But what about you?"

"For your arrogant master, for your so-called long-cherished wish, you single-handedly provoked a dispute between Buddhism and Taoism."

As he said that, crystal tears flowed from the corners of Dan Chenzi's eyes, as if he was lamenting his ignorance in the first half of his life.

"In the end, he even went directly to Zhongnan Mountain to help the dog emperor destroy my Taoism and plunder my Taoism!"

"Do you know how I have been trying to find your whereabouts for the past 20 years?"

Opening his mouth involuntarily, Chan Master Lingyou looked at his old friend who was hesitant to speak, but finally remained silent without speaking.

"Heh, don't you even want to refute now?"

Seeing this situation, Dan Chenzi suddenly sneered and raised his volume a little.

"In the past 20 years, I have been thinking about how to kill you when I find you!"

"I also thought about it, did you die after the golden body was broken!"

"But what I never expected is that you have completely abandoned who you used to be and become a stupid old bald donkey in this ghost place!"

"The 'disorderly mad monk' who used to look down on the crowd has now become a monk whose followers are waiting to die..."

"If you let your former enemies know your current situation, I'm afraid they will die laughing!"

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Time goes back to more than 40 years ago, that is, when the last emperor, Tang Jingzong, had just ascended the throne.

At that time, Monk Lingyou was just a wandering monk living in a small temple outside Beijing, and Dan Chenzi was also just a young Taoist priest who had just come out of Zhongnan Mountain.

The first encounter between the two was purely a coincidence, because at that time Dan Chenzi was teasing a mortal with magic.

Just like the gods traveling in the world in the story, when Dan Chenzi passed a small market, he planned to ask a local fruit farmer for a fruit to quench his thirst.

In this regard, the fruit farmers who have worked hard for half a year and are planning to make money from these fruits naturally don't want to pay attention to these Taoist priests who eat and drink for nothing.

Therefore, he asked the other party to go away in a rather blunt tone, and don't disturb his own business.

If it were a normal Taoist priest, even if he felt dissatisfied after seeing this scene, he might just leave in resentment.

However, Dan Chenzi is not those ordinary Taoist priests, he is a practitioner, and he is also a supernatural person who has achieved success in practice.

So in the eyes of the fruit growers shocked and the onlookers booing, Dan Chenzi performed a scene of "changing fruit out of thin air" on the spot, and then gave it to all the passers-by in the market with a smile on his face.

Even if later fruit farmers choose to sell fruit in another place, Dan Chenzi will perform the trick of "changing fruit out of thin air" in the same place and give it to passers-by.

If this is the case, even if Monk Lingyou saw it, he could only sigh with emotion that this little Taoist priest is naughty enough to show off the spells he practiced like this.

Unfortunately, the matter is far from over.

Because just when the fruit farmer wanted to cry without tears and planned to clean up his stall and go home to sell fruit another day, he suddenly found that there were fewer fruits on his stall.

That's right, Dan Chenzi's "trick" that was created out of nothing was not true.

He just used a simple trick to get fruit from the fruit grower, and then distributed it to passers-by.

After learning the truth of the matter, the fruit farmer would not let the thief go, and immediately stopped the other party to prevent him from leaving, and even clamored to let the other party go to see the official.

Zen Master Lingyou happened to pass by the market at that time, and learned the whole story from passers-by.

"Just for your own momentary anger, you ruined the achievements of others for a year. Your small way of behavior is simply ridiculous!"

Monk Lingyou, who was still very young and energetic at the time, couldn't get used to this kind of thing, so he immediately stopped Dan Chenzi who was about to cast a spell to escape, and fought with him.

Because the monk Lingyou at that time was not a golden arhat who broke through the realm of heaven and man.

So he can't crush Dan Chenzi in terms of force, especially when considering the destructive power of practitioners.

On the other hand, although Dan Chenzi's morality is low, his supernatural powers and spells are extremely mysterious, and he even drew with Monk Lingyou for a while.

The battle lasted until Si Tiantai intervened to arrest the two casual practitioners who affected the security of the capital and bring them back to the government office, and the incident gradually subsided.

As the saying goes, if you don't fight, you don't know each other. Although Dan Chenzi hates this bald donkey who likes to preach to him, he still admires the supernatural powers displayed by the other party.

After coming and going, Dan Chenzi, who was originally a young man, sneaked into the temple where Zen Master Lingyou temporarily lived, in order to "steal" the other party's magical powers.

Dan Chenzi may not be able to do so in terms of xinxing, Taoism, etc., but his interest and talent in magic and supernatural powers are unmatched.

In this regard, Zen Master Lingyou seemed very helpless on the surface, but in private, he did not prevent Dan Chenzi from learning and practicing with him.

On the contrary, after that fight, Zen Master Lingyou discovered that Dan Chenzi was really just a young man, and he really didn't think too much about playing tricks on the fruit farmers.

"Compared with supernatural powers and spells, what is more important for you now is to temper your xinxing."

Since then, Zen Master Lingyou, who has shown the side of being "good at being a teacher", often said this to Dan Chenzi.

As a result, nothing unexpected happened, what was often obtained was Dan Chenzi's helpless expression of "this monk is about to preach again".

It can be said that the friendship between the two was very pure at that time, and it was a kind of brotherhood that was both a teacher and a friend.

—Recommendation ticket—/—Monthly ticket—

(End of this chapter)