Infinite Brilliant Scroll

Chapter 238 Respect God as God is

Camel Mountain in Qingchuan has a steep terrain and unique scenery. The highest mountain is hundreds of feet high. Looking from a distance, it looks like an ancient pine tree that goes straight into the sky.

Not far to the east of this ancient green pine tree, there are two hills facing each other, the south one is smaller and the north one is bigger, shaped like two humps on the back of a camel. It is a huge camel resting under a tree.

This kind of scenery is the origin of the place name of Camel Mountain.

Haotian Palace is built on the top of the camel hump in the north. The palace is centered on the "Haotian Temple of God", with the Jade Emperor Hall, Qibao Pavilion, Juxian Tower, Longqiu Pool, East and West Halls, etc. .

There are [-] or [-] large-scale palaces and pavilions, stretching and covering the entire peak, leaning against the wind and holding the clouds, and the atmosphere is myriad.

This palace complex was built during the reign of Emperor Zhezong of Song Dynasty, and it is less than 30 years ago. The red walls, black tiles, and golden lacquer statues have not been damaged due to the age, and there is a little more charm accumulated by the years, creating a serene The solemn atmosphere is really a rare good place for literati and poets to go out and sing.

But now there are many bandit villages in Qingzhou, those dignitaries, scholars and scholars, none of them dare to go to the deep mountains to offer incense and play. .

They are entrenched in various halls, chanting mantras and sweeping every day, practicing spells hard, and sometimes they sacrifice some flying shuttle instruments and copper wire knife nets in groups, hovering in the sky, touching sparks, jingling. lively.

If someone touches a higher threshold in magic, they will go to Haotian Temple of God, and only after receiving the guidance of their chief leader can they take that step steadily.

The head teacher, Fang La, sat cross-legged on a futon, with his back facing the statue of Haotian God, and facing the door. A ray of sunlight slanted in and shone on him. The plain white robes all over his body were filled with warmth.

His hair is wrapped in a square scarf, his beard is a little messy, his facial features are slightly thin, but he has a high nose and bright eyes, eyebrows like swords, full of momentum, and his slightly hoarse voice gives people an unparalleled sense of peace of mind when instructing disciples to practice.

Just outside the door, a few disciples followed his instructions and sat on the ground. When they fell into meditation on the spot, a big man in red robes, like a tiger, came here walking with the wind.

"Shi Bao pays homage to the leader."

Fang La said, "Guardian Shi, what's the matter?"

Shi Bao sent a letter, and after Fang La read it, he explained: "This letter appeared in the village last night. We checked it first, and there was nothing wrong with it. As for the so-called God Guzi bug, we also found some officers and soldiers to test, and it is exactly as stated in the letter."

Before speaking, Shi Bao took out a piece of clothing that had been folded into small pieces.

Fang La showed surprise on his face, took it, and twisted it with his fingers: "Sure enough, it is a living thing. Such a Gu worm has never been heard of before. It is really a blessing from God that Liang Shan can get such a god."

"But Liangshan wants to use the God Gu mother insect as bait to lure all the leaders of the rebel army in the world to Qingzhou."

Shi Bao said anxiously, "Qingzhou is our territory, what they did is really deceiving others."

Fang La lowered his eyes in thought, and said calmly: "If he is in Liangshan, and invites the leaders of the world's rebel army to gather, how many people would dare to go?"

Although everyone wants to kill the dog official and resist the emperor, it is impossible to say that they must be like-minded people and have any trust in each other.

Liangshan is not only Guan Luoyang's lair, but also the terrain is very unfavorable to outsiders.

On the other hand, Qingzhou has extremely dangerous terrain, high mountains and deep valleys, lush forests and ravines. The people who come to the meeting must be masters. If you find that something is wrong and want to get out, it is a breeze.

Shi Bao thought about it, and his expression softened a little: "Besides, in the eyes of outsiders, the Qingzhou bandit village is intricate and complicated, and they are not of the same mind. If those people want to come to the meeting, they will feel more at ease. However, Liang Shan specified that we The people behind the meeting are likely to be aware of the existence of the leader."

Fang La said: "It's not surprising. Liangshan and Qingzhou are too close after all. They can guess the power of Qingzhou, and it's all under my control. It's a hero to dare to put the meeting place here. Where is the specific location in Qingzhou? "

Shi Bao had a strange expression: "According to Dai Zong's message, the time is the fifteenth day of this month, and the place is in the Thousand Buddha Cave."

Fang La was stunned: "What a Guan Luoyang!"

The so-called Thousand-Buddha Cave refers to the hump in the south of Camel Mountain. Since the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui and Tang Dynasties, monks have carved stone statues there, and there are countless Buddha statues, large and small. It was not until the end of the Tang Dynasty that this kind of thing gradually not enough.

The people who made the statues have already belonged to the loess, but the stone statues carved by their hands have become one of the eight scenic spots in Qingzhou, Tuoling Qianxun, and the reputation of Thousand Buddha Grottoes.

For ordinary people, the mountain road is rugged and the ladder surrounds the mountain. It is far and difficult to go up and down the mountain between the two peaks of Haotian Palace and Thousand Buddha Caves.

But for first-class warlocks and warriors, they can all fly from the top of the mountain. The distance between Haotian Palace and Thousand Buddha Caves is only a few miles.

Fang La stood up, walked out of Haotian God Temple, stepped out of the palace gate all the way, and looked at the Thousand Buddha Cave.

"Choosing this place doesn't seem like an unintentional move. It seems that they not only saw that there was someone behind Qingzhou 28 Village, but also vaguely knew where I was."

Shi Bao clasped his hands behind his back and said, "Master, should we make some arrangements?"

Fang La asked back: "What is the arrangement?"

"Guan Luoyang decided on this location and held this meeting. It can be seen that his style is extremely domineering, and there will definitely be conflicts with the leaders of the rebels everywhere."

After careful analysis, Shi Bao said, "In this situation, the imperial court is still the biggest threat. All parties must have a heart of restraint, but they are all people who practice martial arts and study the law. It may not be impossible to fight for serious injuries."

"If we carefully arrange some methods, maybe we can take advantage of that opportunity to capture them and control them with poison. At that time, most of the rebels in the world will obey our orders, and if there is a magic weapon..."

When he said this, his nostrils expanded, his breathing became uncontrollably rapid, and his eyes were full of ambition.

Fang La didn't respond to his words, and looked to the south with his hands behind his back, noncommittal.

Shi Bao slowed down, and said again: "Master, I also know that things probably won't go as smoothly as I thought. If they didn't get seriously injured in the fight, then we should hide the means we deployed and don't launch them. Anyway, With these means arranged, the advantages always outweigh the disadvantages."

Fang La remained silent, and after a while, he said, "Shi Bao, do you believe in God?"

Shi Bao didn't understand, so he hesitated and said: "The leader asked me personally, dare not tell the truth. Although we have always used the things of gods and ghosts to mobilize people's hearts and strengthen the army, in fact, ordinary ghosts can't even stop me with a single blow. As for the real gods, through the ages, how many can ascend, and if they really ascend, how would they care about the affairs of the mortal world?"

Fang La said: "According to you, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor is the ancestor of immortality, Taigong Jiang Shang is a sage in the way of war, and peerless powerhouses like them who can ascend to the sky, why should they pay attention to sacrifices?"

Shi Bao said without hesitation: "Most likely it is a means to control the people."

Fang La said again: "But they are gods and demons alive, who would dare to disobey them in their prime, why sacrifice to the heavens, and who can afford their worship?"

Shi Bao was stunned by the question, although he couldn't answer right now, he didn't feel that there were any gods and Buddhas who responded to the world, instead he felt a little more absurd in his heart.

'The methods we used to appease the people and incite the hearts of the people are all the passages that the leader took from the Taoist and Buddhist classics and put them together. After so many years, the leader will not deceive himself, right? '

He looked at Fang La. At this time, his mentality was a little different, and he suddenly noticed something that he hadn't thought about before.

Fang La's cuffs had some signs of fraying, and the white robe on her body had a few stitches where threads were still showing.

Back in the day, the leader plotted rebellion secretly, established himself as a king, and on the surface communicated with the government. When he went out, he would go out with silk and satin, drive BMW incense cars, drive eagles and fight dogs, and when he came in, he would have swarms of servants, incense and bathe. Never was there such a simple time. ?
Even if I occasionally go to see those poor people, it's just to show sympathy and sympathy, but it's just to get more people to follow when there is a real uprising.

Master, what's the matter?
Shi Bao felt a little worried, and blurted out: "Master, your "Heart Sutra on the Movement of the Sun and the Moon", isn't it recent?"

"You're worried that I'm going crazy."

Fang La turned around, with a smile on her face, "It's the opposite. I have been enlightened many times in recent years, far better than before. Your practice is often taught by me, don't you notice it?"

Shi Bao thought about it, it was indeed the case, not only did the leader's realm of cultivation become higher and higher, but also his ability to manage power was more mysterious than before.

That year they fled from Qingxi in Muzhou all the way to Qingzhou, hiding their names and thinking that this would be the end of their lives. Unexpectedly, in just a few years, Fang La actually managed 28 villages again. even more reliable.

"You don't have to be afraid. I do believe in God now, but I don't believe in thousands of Buddhas and immortals. I just thought about it after surviving a catastrophe and gradually understood some truths."

Fang La said, "When I was in Muzhou, the Daoist Emperor was incompetent, and the people of the world had suffered from him for a long time. I saw that the people's hearts were available, and I followed the trend. Those who were in distress comforted them, and those with passion encouraged them. Sure enough, It has built up a lot of power in a short period of time.”

"But why did I lose later?"

Shi Bao couldn't speak, he couldn't answer several times today.

How covert they were in Muzhou back then. At that time, rebellious people were everywhere in Muzhou. I really couldn't figure out how the emperor ordered a group of Taoist officials to raid Fang's house so accurately.

This question that has been troubled for many years was brought up again, and Shi Bao couldn't help but mutter: "Yes, why?"

Fang La continued: "In that defeat, the good brothers I worked so hard to win over suffered heavy casualties. The magic arrow Pang Wanchun, the Baoguang monk Deng Yuanjue, the warlock Zheng Mojun, Si Xingfang's brother, Bao Daoyi and Bao brother all died in the encirclement and suppression. , my nephew Fang Jie was brave enough to break through the encirclement again and again, but was seriously injured and killed by Chen Xizhen."

"I was severely injured by Wang Laozhi's Fire Dragon Stove Cauldron Dafa. My son Fang Tianding finally pretended to be me, diverted the pursuers, and was trained into fly ash by them."

As the words and sentences spread to his ears, Shi Bao couldn't help recalling the scenes of bloody smearing. When Fang La fled to Qingzhou, only Shi Bao, Wang Yin, and Li Tianrun were left by his side, and the three of them were also very angry. He was seriously injured.

"I thought about it for two years before I came up with a key point. When we were discussing how to raise an incident, I once proposed a strategy. After the flag of rebellion was raised, people could be sent to set fire to the houses of the common people and force them to follow us. Let's act together."

"The six nearby states are already rich in timber, and millions of people will have to become our wings and follow us."

When Fang La said this, he closed his eyes and sighed, "On the night when I proposed this poisonous plan, the Taoist official broke down the door, and the family fortune accumulated by my Fang family for generations was first burned."

Shi Bao took a step back, feeling terrified.

"There really is a god in this world! That's the way of heaven, and it's cause and effect. If it's just small good and small evil, personal actions may escape the eyes of God, but the more you do big things, the less you can escape this kind of cause and effect."

"Great Confucianism, literary giants, misbehavior, will be accused by thousands of people in the future. Dynasty monarchs, incompetent and incompetent, no matter how large the territory is, they will also usher in collapse."

Fang La's eyes were so clear that people couldn't hide his eyes, looked at Shi Bao, and said slowly, "The leader of the rebel army in the world, what a big deal! If you use poison to wait for those rebel leaders, you will also be punished by the vicious one in the future." Eaten by people. You are my brother, and I will not let you fall into that situation."

Shi Bao's ambition was disturbed by an inexplicable panic, but after all, he swallowed his saliva and managed to calm down after going through the storm, and asked unwillingly, "If you say that, then what's the use of us running Qingzhou? "

He said angrily, "Wait until the people from Liangshan come up to us and ask us to meet at the Thousand Buddha Cave, shall we do nothing?"

"of course not!"

Fang La said calmly and decisively, "I don't use poisonous tricks, I don't harm innocent people, and I have a clear conscience. Now I have achieved great powers, and the sun and moon have infinite luck. Now my power in Qingzhou is revived, the emperor is still cruel, and the world is against me." My heart is up again."

He played his voice very slowly, and the words were so clear that no one dared to forget them, "God, you won't come to hinder me this time!"

Around the mountain peak, the sea of ​​clouds surged.

The hazy sun in the sky became extraordinarily clear, and a line of clouds split.

The strongest and brightest light fell on the mountain peak and shone on Fang La. The simple and damaged white robe could no longer see any flaws.

The cultivators in Haotian Palace all sensed the strangeness, and came outside the hall one after another, saluted to that ray of light, the vitality on their bodies was warm and harmonious, and in that instant, their cultivation became more mellow.

Shi Bao's heart was trembling, he bent his back slightly, and looked at the person he was following in front of him with more devout eyes than ever before.

"Go to the Thousand-Buddha Grottoes, prepare your seats, arrange food and water, coarse tea and alcohol, and mountain melons and fruits are fine, as long as they can fill their stomachs, it can be regarded as a cleansing for them."

Fang La looked down to the south, and the thousand Buddhas in the grottoes inside the hump, there were many exquisite and magnificent statues, all of which were calmly watched by his lowered eyes, as if they were just some naturally occurring stones.

He saw the statues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas as no different from any pleasing green grass and wild flowers on the roadside.

Worship God as if God is there, Buddha statues and other dust.

"Liangshan's move won my heart."

"Wait for those heroes who have raised the anti-flag for the first time to come here, I will tell them who is the strong, who is the winner, and who is the one who can subdue them and ruin this rotten dynasty!"

(End of this chapter)