The national teacher does not practice

Chapter 284 You are my inner demon ([-] words, please subscribe)
Liuli stood quietly in the clouds and mist, waiting for the arrival of the second reincarnation.

It wasn't until the fog dispersed that she found herself sitting in a carriage, a woman as holy as a god, and she breathed a sigh of relief silently.

"Laulu..." The spacious compartment of the carriage is luxuriously decorated and covered with silk, which minimizes the bumps during driving.

She raised her hands and found that she was still wearing plain white monk robes, but her hands were no longer like those of a girl, but were much longer and slender.

It happened that the sun penetrated through the car curtain and hit the front half of the palm.

The skin like white jade seems to be transparent under the sun, and the light blue blood vessels can be vaguely seen.

Suddenly, a woman's mellow voice came from outside the car curtain:

"Bodhisattva, Qiantang City is just ahead. Should we go directly to Yunlin Temple? Or go into the city to have a look?"

After saying this, the car curtain was opened, revealing a nun with a slightly bloated figure, a round face, and a riding whip.

Compared with Liuli, his appearance is completely different from that of Liuli, but it gives people a free and easy temperament, revealing a sense of closeness, which makes him smile warmly.

Qiantang City... Liuli's fingertips trembled slightly, and her heart also trembled at this moment.

Memories from the past came flooding back, and she instantly realized the time and space she was in:

800 years ago.

The end of the Daxing Dynasty.

Outside ancient Qiantang City.

As a Buddhist girl, she practiced hard in Landa Temple. Under the personal guidance of the Lord Buddha, she became the fastest nun in history to enter the realm of Bodhisattva with a pure Buddha heart.

At this time, the demon clan has risen and begun to conflict with the human race. Although the war between the two clans has not yet reached the most intense stage, the situation in the entire Kyushu has been turbulent.

All the Buddhist masters came out and rushed to the front line.Liuli was appointed by the Lord Buddha to go to Yunlin Temple to take charge.

This was also the first time she truly left the Buddhist temple and went to the human world after becoming a Bodhisattva.

It was this experience that created the first regret in her life.

"Bodhisattva?" the nun called suspiciously.

Liuli woke up from her memories, with rare complex emotions on her face, and her voice was pleasant:
"Let's go for a walk in the city."

The Bodhisattva can fly to the sky and escape to the earth, but she doesn't want to make a big show. This time she enters Qiantang with only one car and two people.

The nun was assigned to her by the temple. She was an experienced practitioner and was extremely familiar with Yunlin Temple.

"Okay, it's up to you." The nun said with a smile.

The carriage rolled and turned into Qiantang City.

Liuli also opened the car curtain and stared blankly at the street that was gradually becoming lively outside.

At this time, Qiantang had not yet experienced the disaster of destroying the city, and was still the most prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River.

The struggle between the demon clan and the human clan has not affected this place yet. There are wine shops, businessmen and literati on the streets.

Someone happened to catch a glimpse of the stunning female Bodhisattva in the car and couldn't help but be stunned.

Liuli's eyes were misty, and everything in her memory completely overlapped with what she saw in front of her. It was as if she had really returned to that period of time.

At that time, he had not been tainted by Li Yang, and he was still the most devout and dazzling Liuli Bodhisattva with a Buddha heart. Because he had not been in contact with the mortal world for too long, he was like a goddess who was not exposed to smoke and smoke.

I remember that even though I walked around the city for a while, I didn't leave any memories, probably because I really didn't care about the mortal world at that time.

Lucy laughed to herself.

I thought to myself that at that time, I was indeed extremely aloof and indifferent, with only Buddha in my eyes and no sentient beings.

It wasn't until she sat in Qiantang and gave alms for hundreds of years that she gradually saw the common people and the world of mortals in her eyes.

Suddenly, her eyes noticed a crazy monk walking past a corner of the street.

He was thin, sloppily dressed, wearing a pair of straw sandals, with a wine gourd tied around his waist. He was holding a bag of steaming pig sesame in his hand, and his mouth was full of oil.

There were children nearby throwing stones at him, and the monk ran away laughing.

It's him... Liuli was stunned for a moment, with unexpected emotions appearing in her eyes.

It turned out that back then, my carriage had passed by this crazy monk, but I didn't even look outside.

"Is that a monk from the Zen monastery?" Liuli asked in a complicated tone.

The nun looked at it, slightly embarrassed, and said:
"Yes."

Liuli said:

"Buddhist precepts prohibit meat and fish. Why did this person break the precepts and walk across the street in such a pretentious manner?"

The nun hurriedly explained:

"This person is also an outlier in the Zen monastery. His dharma name is Dao Pian. He was originally the son of a wealthy pilgrim in the city. He was obsessed with Buddhism since he was a child. Later, he went crazy for some reason and wanted to become a monk. The abbot of the Zen monastery accepted him. , I didn’t expect this person to change his normal behavior. He hangs out in the market all day long, often makes shocking remarks, uses his medical skills to treat illnesses and save people, and in exchange for money, he buys wine and meat...

According to the precepts, he should have been expelled long ago, but after all, his family funded the monastery with a lot of sesame oil money... The people below had no choice but to turn a blind eye and close one eye..."

Having said this, the nun hurriedly said:
"If you think it's inappropriate, you can order someone to expel them later."

Liuli was silent for a moment and shook her head:
"No need. Let him be."

After saying that, she lowered the curtains, closed her eyes, and seemed to have lost interest in shopping:
"Go to the Zen monastery."

Everything that happened next was the same as in memory.

Facing the arrival of a Bodhisattva, everyone in the Zen monastery showed great respect. The old abbot specially arranged a small building for Liuli to live in.

Her life seems to have not changed at all. She still spends all day studying Buddhist scriptures, breathing and practicing in the temple. Everything else is taken care of by the monks in the temple.

Only every once in a while, he would appear and use the nectar in the jade purification bottle to collectively heal the people and show the compassion of Buddhism.

After her arrival, within hundreds of miles around Qiantang, the demon clan fled and disappeared, and practitioners from all walks of life did not dare to make mistakes for fear of angering this Buddhist sage.

Spring went and autumn came again... In the blink of an eye, Liuli spent ten years in Qiantang.

In the autumn of the tenth year, when the first red maple leaves fell in the temple in the morning, Liuli opened her eyes while meditating in her room.

On the delicate face, the red lips parted slightly: "It's time."

As soon as he finished speaking, a rapid ringing of bells came from the direction of the front hall of the temple, which attracted a large number of monks in the temple to rush there in confusion.

Liuli sighed and stood up. With her white and tender bare feet without shoes and socks, she stepped on the air. With just one step, she reached the sky above the front hall of the Buddhist temple.

The figure is illusory, almost transparent, looking down like a god.

As expected, I saw a large group of nearby villagers armed with sticks and farm tools.

The leader was a local member, accompanied by female relatives. The most eye-catching one was a pretty girl about sixteen or seventeen years old.

At this time, the girl was already crying and her belly was slightly bulging under her clothes.

The old abbot of the Zen Yuan was shocked and asked the reason. He was horrified to learn:
The girl is the youngest daughter of a member of the Communist Party of China. She has not yet left the cabinet, but she is unexpectedly pregnant.

After being pressed by her parents, she revealed that a few months ago, when she came to the Zen monastery to offer incense, she was taken to the woodshed by the monks and forced to lose her innocence.

The loss of a girl's virginity was so important in this era. A large group of villagers gathered outside the temple and came to the temple to arrest her and ask for an explanation.

The old abbot was helpless. Although there were monks in the temple, how could he attack the local people?

I had no choice but to call out the men from the temple and ask the girl to identify him.

The girl was crying with tears in her eyes. She looked at the group of anxious and angry monks and was choked with sobs that it was difficult to speak.

"I did it." At this time, a voice suddenly came from the crowd. A drunken monk with sloppy clothes and a wine gourd tied around his waist came out and looked at the girl with a smile:

"We have a baby, hahaha."

The girl howled and turned her head away.

A group of villagers wanted to attack him, but the old abbot pointed at him angrily, his beard trembling with anger, and ordered his men to be tied up. He first appeased the villagers, and then went to Liuli's residence in person.

When the old monk knocked on the door of the courtyard, he saw the Liuli Bodhisattva who had returned standing under the fiery maple tree in the courtyard.

Her clothes are plain white, not stained by dust, her black hair falls like a waterfall, and her white and tender jade feet are so dazzling when she steps into the air.

The old man bowed down and finished narrating what happened:
"Bodhisattva, I cannot absolve myself of the blame for such evil deeds in the temple. From now on, I will definitely remove myself from the position of presiding and practice hard in front of the wall."

Liuli was silent for a moment and said, "Yes."

The old abbot said again: "As for that Dao epilepsy..."

Liuli was silent for a moment and said, "Bring him to me to see."

The old abbot was stunned for a moment, but still did not dare to disobey.

What he didn't know was that the story had already taken a different turn here.

At that time, after Liuli learned about the old monk's report, she responded "punished according to the sect's rules."

Then, in full view of the public, Monk Daodian was beaten to death with a royal staff. His corpse was given to the villagers to vent their anger. The monastery compensated him with a certain amount of money, and the matter was finally suppressed.

It wasn't until much later, one day, that the truth surfaced.

The fetus in the girl's belly was the result of her having an affair with a man. From beginning to end, it had nothing to do with the Zen monastery.

It was just that the girl was afraid of the death penalty for adultery, so out of desperation she lied and claimed that it was forced by a Buddhist monk.

When the news reached Liuli's ears, the then Buddhist sect was stunned for a long time.

This incident also became the first regret in her life that she could not let go for a long time.

If she hadn't been so indifferent back then and had done a little investigating, with her "Heaven-Observing Realm" cultivation, it would have been easy to find out the truth.

But this time, she had a chance to choose again.

Liuli stood under the maple tree, her eyes slightly drifting away. She didn't turn her head until the courtyard door was pushed open, and saw Dao Bian being escorted by several monks, tied up, and forced to kneel in front of her.

Dao Bi's appearance is still the same as that of ten years ago, but he is much older. He is clearly in the state of death, but he still has a smile on his face. "You guys retreat." Liuli ordered.

When the monks exited the small courtyard, Liuli looked down at Dao Bian, staring at him with almost transparent eyes, and said in a complicated tone: "You did not do this."

Dao Dian smiled and said: "As expected of a Bodhisattva, he is awesome, awesome."

Liuli said: "It was not done by the monks in the courtyard."

Dao Dian let out a long oh.

Liuli frowned and asked:
"Since it has nothing to do with you, why do you want to take the matter on your head? On the head of Buddhism? Do you know that according to the rules of Buddhism, you will not survive today."

Daopian fell silent, and then the crazy monk raised his head and said seriously:
"But if no one admits it, then won't the girl have to die twice? Isn't my Buddha all about compassion?"

Liuli was inexplicably angry: "A monk like you, who is a drunkard and a meat-loving monk, is worthy of calling me Buddha?"

Dao Dianhu didn't care and said with a smile: "What should the Buddha look like?"

Liuli was speechless and sighed slowly: "If you still persist, I will execute you according to the commandments."

Dao Dian laughed loudly, twisted his waist, sat cross-legged, and closed his eyes:

"I don't go to hell who goes to hell."

A maple leaf falls.

The sun is like fire.

Liuli was silent for a long time and said:
"Come on, take him down."

The door opened, and a group of warrior monks filed in and dragged Dao Bian away, leaving Liuli standing quietly.

After a long time, he heard screams coming from the front hall, and gradually died out.

Liuli did not change the outcome in the end. She was a great monk with a tough mind. This level of illusion could not shake her Buddhist heart.

She was thinking this, but for some reason, Dao Pian's voice kept echoing in her ears.

A thought arises uncontrollably:
Does it really matter whether one keeps the precepts or not and whether one is a "Buddha"?

Tsk - the moment this thought arose.

On Mount Sumeru, the glazed body stood quietly in the mist.

The "Buddha sticker" given to her by the contemporary Buddha that she kept close to her to stabilize her mood suddenly flashed golden light, and then dimmed.

There was a deep crack on the surface.

……

……

on the square.

"The Buddha Girl also started to move again!"

In the brief depressing atmosphere, the Buddhist monks finally saw that after Ji Ping'an left, Liuli also escaped from the second reincarnation without much delay.

Start climbing.

"Huh." The Buddhist monks breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and the clenched fists of the leader of Bodhidharma Academy also quietly stretched, and the palms of their hands were already wet with sweat at some point.

"Alas." Correspondingly, it was the disappointed voice of Da Zhou.

After all, in this round, the difference between the two sides is still very small, and it hardly affects the speed of climbing the mountain.

Magistrate Yuhang became nervous again, put down the hand that picked up the teacup, and said anxiously:

"Sir Ye, how many more stages are there to go? I am old and my heart can't stand the torment."

Ye Hongling stared at the scroll with a focused expression and said:

"There is one last hurdle, and it is also the most important one."

"Oh? Why is it important?" Magistrate Yuhang was confused.

Ye Hongling recalled the knowledge she had mastered and said:
"The first round is warm, beautiful and intoxicating. The second round is about past regrets, inducing changes...and this final third round is many times stronger than the first two, and it is a direct confrontation of inner demons. Every time On the journey of a cultivator, there are more or less inner demons and knots in the heart. This last time is to arouse the inner demons, and the cultivator cannot avoid it. He must face the biggest fear in his heart. Or solve the inner demon. Knot."

Magistrate Yuhang's face twitched when he heard this:

"So scary? Can Ji Sichen still be able to do it?"

Ye Hongling shook her head. She didn't know that Ji Ping'an's ability to last so far exceeded her expectations.

"Inner demon?" In the crowd, Xue Ji frowned and said after listening to the story of the first generation God Emperor:

"What inner demons could he have?"

Fang Shijie scratched his head, thought for a while, and said with the help of a spell:

"I really don't know about this. I kid you not. We were fighting in the north and south. Although we were on the verge of despair many times, in terms of practice... this guy seems to have always been pretty smooth, so he has quite a lot of inner demons. I think the most is to temper his inner knots. Bar."

Xue Ji asked: "What is his grudge?"

Hmm... Fang Shijie didn't say anything, thinking to himself, it's probably only women...

Onmyoji Palace.

Looking at the scroll inside the scroll like a nesting doll... Xie Wensheng said curiously:
"This is about to be the final round. Speaking of which, apart from what you said, this last round is about inner demons and inner knots. Is there anything special about it? I always feel that this is the magic weapon of Buddhism?"

Qin Tianjian was turning his back on him and said:

"Don't underestimate it. The battle in the spiritual realm is far more dangerous than the external fighting and killing. But as for the specialness of this last round, I have heard a little bit about it, but I don't know much about it either."

Xie Wensheng was curious: "What is it?"

The supervisor said:

"As the two sides continue to approach the top of the mountain, the realms of reincarnation will begin to overlap, and some wonderful things may happen. However, we at Qin Tianjian do not know much about this Buddhist magic weapon. Although the national master was strong back then, he did not know all the magic weapons. I have never come across this Mount Sumeru scroll."

Xie Wensheng curled his lips: "Then you talk in circles."

……

on the square.

As time passed, when the two sides in the scroll finally stopped almost at the same time again, everyone held their breath and concentrated, only to see the clouds and mist spreading from the top of the mountain, suddenly engulfing the two of them.

"Where are the people? Why can't you see them?" Yu Yu asked loudly, holding his pink fist.

The Pei family mother and son, the academy monks and others also paid attention.

The head of Bodhidharma Academy looked calm and said calmly:

"The last level is more powerful. Just wait for whoever reaches the top first to win or lose."

Saying this, he also looked at the scroll, and the rosary in his hand involuntarily accelerated to cover up the tension and anxiety in his heart.

Inner demons... He knew very well what the inner demons of Liuli Bodhisattva were, but with the Buddha body protection given by the Lord Buddha, there must be no problem.

……

On Mount Sumeru.

Ji Ping'an didn't know the situation in the outside world, nor how much time had passed.

He only knew that after climbing for a long time this time, he finally saw the mist pouring from above his head.

"It should be the last round. Ha, the first time was childhood, the last time was regret, what is it this time? According to the order, I guess it should be inner demons or something... It seems that even our national master has been there all his life. It's about to end before it's my turn... Well, could it be the battle when I was dying when I was Li Yang?"

Ji Ping'an thought endlessly and was a little curious.

The next second, the fog dissipated, and he was shocked to find that he was floating in a flood this time.

There was lightning and thunder in the sky and heavy rain. As Li Yang, he held his sword tightly and floated in the flood with a piece of driftwood.

Gradually, we approached a Buddhist temple, then stumbled again, led by fate, and drifted towards the mouth of a well.

……

The other side of Mount Sumeru.

Liuli raised her head and looked at the mist surrounding herself. She was also curious in her heart. She secretly prayed that the timeline would not be pushed forward too long this time. It would be best...

The next second, the fog dispersed, and she could see the surrounding scenery clearly.

Here is a well that has been dry for many years. There is nothing around it except a dilapidated lotus platform under the seat.

Liuli lowered her head and found that she was sitting cross-legged on it, her breath was weak, her spiritual energy was exhausted, her white monk's clothes were dyed red with blood, and she was still holding a magic jade bottle in her hand.

The expression on her beautiful face was blank, and then she subconsciously raised her head, only to see a round wellhead above the dark head in a thin beam of skylight.

The next second, there was a "pop" at the mouth of the well, and a figure fell down.

It fell to the ground under the lotus platform.

The space was briefly quiet.

Liuli's eyes widened, looking at the familiar figure on the ground, and sighed:
"Sure enough, is this my inner demon..."

on the ground.

Ji Ping'an raised his head dizzily, sat up with the scabbard of his sword, and looked at the glass Bodhisattva with a divine posture on the lotus platform, with green hair like a waterfall, skin like gelatin, and a pair of translucent eyes.

He was amazed: "This inner demon looks quite similar."

……

Finally wrote it...

(End of this chapter)