Seven hundred and fortieth chapters Buddha country
After climbing over the not-very high mountain, Fang Yi and Peng Bin came to a not-very wide mountain road. Peng Bin took a palm-sized positioning instrument in his hand and said, "This is already Cambodia. If you walk three kilometers west, there will be a village..."
This time when he went to Cambodia, Peng Bin prepared a lot. Although he went directly from the camp in the Wild Man Mountains, when he was on the way, Peng Bin asked someone to prepare the vehicles and items needed along the way. The positioning instrument he was holding now was a military product from the former Soviet Union that he bought from the international weapons black market.
"Is this a border exit again?"
Fang Yi looked back and saw that compared with the situation where barbed wire was pulled at the domestic border line, the border lines between Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia were like unprepared. If people living nearby went up the mountain to chop wood and pick some medicine, they might run to other countries.
"Well, what's so strange about this? Passports and other countries are all optional." Seeing Fang Yi's face, Peng Bin couldn't help but laugh and said, "Do you know what is the most likely thing to cause disputes on the borders of these countries?"
"I don't know." Fang Yi shook his head.
Peng Bin laughed and said, "Let me tell you, the most disputed thing at the border is that some people put cattle and sheep and ran to another country and were then detained by people there."
Peng Bin is not joking with Fang Yi. What he said is completely true. Because of this kind of thing, there were incidents of soldiers holding guns, which once caused a confrontation at the national level.
Later, after consultation by foreign affairs departments in various countries, a decision was made, that is, cattle and sheep that trespassed into other countries. If there is no evidence, it will belong to the country. If the owner can provide the certificate, he needs to return the cattle and sheep.
Therefore, families with cattle and sheep at the border often make some marks on the cattle and sheep, and restrict their cattle and sheep from going to other countries. However, even so, it is often true that people in villages in one country will go to villages in another country to find their own lost livestock.
The two of them were talking and walking slowly. Ten minutes later, they had already arrived outside a village in Cambodia. It was already eleven or two at night, so the whole village was very quiet, but occasionally you could hear the barking of dogs in the village.
"Over there..." Peng Bin looked at the direction and came to the entrance of the village. A jeep was parked at the entrance of the village. When he saw Peng Bin coming, a person got out of the car and started communicating with Peng Bin in local dialect.
Not to mention, Peng Bin's talent in language and writing is really not a prank. Fang Yi has seen him communicate with people in more than ten languages or dialects. Now what he says in Cambodia is obviously not Burmese or Thai, but another new grammar.
"Let's go..." After saying a few words to the man, Peng Bin waved to Fang Yi and called Fang Yi into the car.
Seeing Peng Bin start the car with the key hanging on the car, and stepping on the accelerator and leaving, Fang Yi saw the person standing in the place in the reversing mirror, and couldn't help but ask, "What should I do with that person? Is he from this village?"
"I don't know, why are you worried about these things?"
Peng Bin shook his head when he heard this. After all, he was also a well-known warlord in Southeast Asia. If Peng Bin hadn't wanted to reveal his whereabouts and Fang Yi, he would definitely be able to come to Cambodia. How could he have to drive by himself?
"Too."
Hearing Peng Bin's words, Fang Yi couldn't help laughing. Although he was also a very valuable person now, his mentality seemed to have not changed yet. What Fang Yi was thinking in his heart was still very different from those real superiors.
Cambodia is a country with a dish-shaped basin, surrounded by hills and mountains on three sides. Peng Bin and Fang Yi are now located just around the mountains, so the road is not easy to walk on, and the speed is not enough to be raised. It is like a roller coaster ride.
"Fang Yi, you go to bed for a while. Yesterday you drove for a long time and I'm tired now..."
Peng Bin said to Fang Yi beside him, according to their speed, it will take at least five or six hours to reach the coordinates marked on the positioning instrument. Yesterday, Peng Bin slept in the car for most of the day and was in a good mood.
"Okay, brother, please call me when you are tired."
Fang Yi nodded and climbed from the passenger seat to the back seat. Although the road was bumpy, for Fang Yi and Peng Bin, as long as they wanted to sleep, even if the rest environment was worse, they had a way to hypnotize themselves and fall asleep.
Since entering Cambodia, Fang Yi found that the feeling of being hung behind him had disappeared. After realizing that there seemed to be no danger, Fang Yi relaxed his spirit and fell asleep as soon as he lay on the back seat.
After about four or five hours, Peng Bin's voice woke Fang Yi up. Fang Yi, who opened his eyes, found that the car was still driving, but the road was much easier than before. With the night, Fang Yi saw that the trees on the road were obviously planted by man.
"Brother, where are we going? Why are there so many temples?"
Fang Yi stood up and looked out for a while, and found that on both sides of the road, you could see some temple buildings hidden in the forest from time to time. If you hadn't known that you were in Cambodia, Fang Yi would have thought he was still staying in Thailand.
"Cambodia Buddhism originated earlier than Thailand. What you see is modern or modern temples, and it will be even more shocking later..."
Peng Bin's face showed a look of excitement and said, "I know where we are going this time. Maybe we can really find some opportunities. Fang Yi, do you know where the largest Buddhist temple in the world is?"
“The largest Buddhist temple in the world?”
Hearing Peng Bin's words, Fang Yi couldn't help but think in his mind. Although he was from Taoism, because the old Taoist priests did not reject Buddhism, Fang Yi also read a lot of Buddhist scriptures and classics, so he was not unfamiliar with Buddhism.
"Is it in India? Or in Thailand?" But after thinking for a while, Fang Yi didn't expect the answer. After all, most of the classics he had read before were scriptures, but there was not much knowledge like Peng Bin said.
"None of them, it's just in Cambodia. Do you think Buddhism was born in India and there were the largest temples in India?"
Peng Bin laughed and said, "I tell you, Indian monks have long recited the sutras. Now the largest sect in India is Hinduism. Buddhism has declined to the point of decline. There are not many people who believe in Buddhism in India yet believe in Islam..."
When Peng Bin was studying ancient Sanskrit, he had read many scriptures related to India, and he had a good understanding of the religious form of India. However, he never believed in gods and Buddhas, and Peng Bin could not explain any more in-depth things.
"Brother, Buddhism was not born in India..." After hearing Peng Bin's words, Fang Yi immediately refuted. Fang Yi still knew about the common sense of the birth of Buddhism.
People all think that India is the birthplace of Buddhism, but in fact, Buddhism was born in the Dabirava Kingdom on the southern foot of the Himalayas, which is now Nepal. It was founded by the ancestor Sakyamuni in the 6th century BC.
However, Buddhism at that time had great development in India, and it was almost popularized throughout the subcontinent, and it reached its peak during the ancient Indian Mauryan Dynasty. However, later, India's Buddhism was replaced by Hinduism, and Hinduism became the largest sect in India.
However, although Buddhism has declined in India, it is the most well-deserved sect in the entire Southeast Asia region. Not to mention other countries, such as Thailand, Myanmar, and Cambodia, Buddhism is undoubtedly the state religion and occupies a very important position.
"It doesn't matter whether Buddhism develops in India, but the largest temple in the world is in Cambodia."
While driving, Peng Bin picked up the positioning instrument and looked at it, saying, "We will be able to get to that place in ten kilometers. I didn't expect that Luang Putuo was born there..."
"Where is there?" Fang Yi was confused when he heard this and said, "Didn't it mean that the place where Luang Prato was born is just a very remote village? I heard from you, it seems that that village is still very famous?"
"When Luang Pu Tuo was born, it doesn't mean he won't be famous in the future. You will know when you arrive later." Peng Bin deliberately kept it a secret, but his feet on the accelerator added another force, and the speed of the car was significantly accelerated a lot.
"Okay, let's throw the car here, we're going to walk some roads..."
Five or six minutes later, Peng Bin drove the jeep into a jungle next to the road and was blocked by tall trees outside. If he hadn't walked outside the road, he wouldn't have seen the car.
"Okay!" Fang Yi didn't ask much, and jumped out of the car with his backpack. The little devil must have been hangover before he woke up, and he stopped moving after a "give" a "huff".
"Brother, why are the woods here so dense?"
Walking through the forest with Peng Bin, Fang Yi found that the jungle where he was in was extremely tall, almost every tree was more than ten meters long, and the lush branches and leaves blocked the starlight above his head tightly.
In Fang Yi's opinion, the lush and dense forests here can almost be compared with the Wild Man Mountain, which has not been visited for thousands of years. In order to prevent snakes and insects in the forest, Fang Yi and Peng Bin did not move very quickly.
"Who knows, some weird things happened here before, and I still can't find the answer."
Peng Bin shook his head, took out a small flashlight from his pocket and stuck it on his collar. Although his eyesight was good, in this jungle where he almost couldn't reach out, he was like a blind man who opened his eyes, and he could not see the way forward like Fang Yi.
"Hmm? Is it already here?"
Fang Yi suddenly saw a vague light coming from the front, and quickly accelerated his pace. After walking forty or fifty meters, Fang Yi found that he and Peng Bin had already walked out of the jungle, and what appeared in front of Fang Yi was a small lake with a large area.
The moonlight that was about to fall was shining on the lake, making the surroundings very clearly. Fang Yi looked into the distance, but saw a black building opposite the lake, but the distance was too far, so Fang Yi didn't see it very clearly.
The reason why Fang Yi thought it was a building rather than a jungle was that he saw different heights and a few places that were far higher than the surrounding shapes like towers. Fang Yi believed that if it were trees, it would never grow in such a staggered manner.
"If I didn't find the wrong place, the village where Luang Prato was born should be right in front. Fang Yi, this place was the first place listed as a world cultural heritage." Standing side by side with Fang Yi, looking at the buildings in the distance, there was a hint of solemnity on Peng Bin's face that Fang Yi rarely saw.
"Brother, are you still keeping it? Where is this place?"
Fang Yi looked at Peng Bin with dissatisfaction. For some reason, looking at the building that was solemn by the night in the distance, Fang Yi felt a little throbbing in his heart. Fang Yi didn't know where the throbbing came from, but he was sure that the building did not give him a sense of danger.
"You will know later. I'll take you a sunrise first. The place we are facing now is the East."
Peng Bin pointed to the distance and said, "I can tell you that the sunrise here is one of the most beautiful scenery in the world. You can take a closer look. If you don't see it clearly, don't blame me!"
"Okay, let's practice here..."
Fang Yi shook his head and ignored Peng Bin's mysterious behavior. After walking in the forest for a while, his clothes were wet with dew. Fang Yi simply took off his coat and stood by the lake and breathed quietly.
"Hey, the air here is very fresh."
As soon as Fang Yi practiced, he noticed some differences because he found that the air in this place seemed to be mixed with a trace of the true qi in his body. After sucking it into his body, Fang Yi's true qi was running a little faster than usual.
"Hey, yes, I feel this way too." Peng Bin also learned from Fang Yi's breathing skills. He nodded when he heard this. He also felt the difference in the air here.
"Fang Yi, this is not what you mean by the spiritual energy, right?" Peng Bin suddenly opened his eyes and said, "There are many magical things on Luang Putuo. The place where he was born must be unusual. We two are right here."
"It's not spiritual energy, it's just a little fresher than the air we breathe in other places."
Fang Yi shook his head, and did not open his eyes, but felt the feeling of breathing here. After a while, he said, "Although this is not spiritual energy, if you practice here for a long time, it will be beneficial to our cultivation."
At Fang Yi's current level of cultivation, relying solely on the current environment that has lost the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, it is no longer of great effect.
What Fang Yi needs to break through now is the realm of refining the spirit and fighting the emptiness, and the main thing he cultivates is his own spiritual consciousness. Fang Yi believes that after his spiritual consciousness is condensed to the realm where the yang god can leave his body, the true qi in his body will also undergo a qualitative change. If he wants to rely on the true qi to break through, it is almost impossible.
"Um?"
Just as Fang Yi practiced for a while, he felt that the sun was about to appear and was about to absorb the rays of purple air from the east, Fang Yi suddenly noticed a golden light flashing on the lake in front of him. Two dazzling lights pierced Fang Yi's tightly closed eyes and could feel a brightness in front of him through his eyelids.
After opening his eyes, Fang Yi found that there were actually two suns by the lake in front of him. The entire lake surface seemed to be covered with gold powder, and the lake water was rippling, like golden waves flowing. The scene made Fang Yi stunned for a moment.
A rooster crow from afar took away the last trace of the darkness, and the whole world suddenly became brighter. The flowers, plants and trees around him were bathed in the sun. Fang Yi felt that he felt that the forest behind him seemed to have suddenly had life.
"Fang Yi, look forward..."
Peng Bin touched Fang Yi, Fang Yi narrowed his eyes and looked forward to the sunlight facing him. When he saw this, Fang Yi was stunned again because he saw the building that had been shrouded in the darkness before.
"Brother, this...is this the largest temple in the world you are talking about?"
Fang Yi murmured to himself. Wherever he saw, Fang Yi found rows of magnificent buildings covered with golden sunlight appeared in front of him, and the two pointed objects he had seen before were the spires of two tall towers.
The two suns in the lake in front of them were formed by the sunlight refraction of the two towers. Standing on the grass by the lake, Fang Yi saw that he and Peng Bin were also covered in golden light, and the whole world seemed to be covered in a golden coat.
Especially the buildings bathed in the distance under the golden light actually gave Fang Yi a very shocking feeling. The building complex, which was like a Buddha's country, seemed to have sounded a wave of Sanskrit, clearing the dirt on Fang Yi's mind. Although it only took a moment to do so, Fang Yi still felt that his heart had been baptized and his spiritual consciousness became much more transparent.
"Brother, have we come to the Buddha Kingdom?"
Although he did not believe in Buddhism, Fang Yi still felt shocked. If he had not practiced Taoism since childhood, he might have saved Fang Yi in this place with a strong Buddhist color.
As he spoke, Fang Yi's eyes closed. He wanted to remember the scene he had just seen firmly in his heart. It was a feeling that could only be experienced with his heart but could not be said, and it was also a wonder given to mankind by nature.
"You are right. This place used to be a Buddhist country, grandma. I should have thought that Luang Prado was born here."
Chapter completed!