Chapter 140: Skin and Demon

Seventy miles away from Chang'an City, there is a broken village temple. It is said to be a temple, but it is not the Buddha's Bodhisattva Arhat, nor the Dalun Ming King, but a land temple. But there is no doubt that as long as the temple is in the Great Sui Dynasty, you should not expect it to be prosperous. The land god in this temple may feel extremely aggrieved and moved away in anger. Later, if anyone in the village has insufficient materials for building a house, they will demolish it, so that after a long time, the temple only has four broken walls left.

The Central Plains dynasty before the Great Sui Dynasty was called Da Zheng, and the royal family Wang family. However, this Wang family and the Wang family in Jiangnan were not one. After more than four hundred years, it finally collapsed. However, the most similar thing about the Wang family, Da Zheng and the Great Sui Dynasty are that these two dynasties are not interested in the Buddhist sect.

The difference is that Da Zheng has opened a gap in the Buddhist sect. Some monks from the West came to the Central Plains to preach missions, but although the Buddhist sect did not promote it, they barely stood up. After the demise of Da Zheng, Emperor Taizu of the Great Sui Dynasty issued an order to expel monks. Since then, there have been no Buddhas in the Central Plains. It is said that the reason why Emperor Taizu hated monks so much was because when he was in the army, the people of the Buddha sect secretly helped the Da Zheng Dynasty. With Taizu's tough nature, how could they bear it?

That is why the people of the Buddha Sect say that the Central Plains is a place where demons are rampant, because the monks who finally built a few temples in Dazheng were driven back. After a little hesitation, they beat them with a big stick.

This land temple has nothing to do with the temple of the Buddha Sect, but it was also implicated because of the Great Sui Dynasty's expulsion of Buddha. You should know that in the past century, the Great Sui Dynasty was in a period when the whole nation had no religious beliefs. The Daozong was strongly praised after Emperor Tianyou ascended the throne. Before that, the only belief of the people of the Great Sui Dynasty was His Majesty the Emperor.

The people firmly believe that the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty could bring them a prosperous and beautiful life.

The successive emperors of the Great Sui Dynasty did this, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. The rich were not arrogant, and the poor were not humble. In this way, the people did not need any religious beliefs. The Buddhist sect could not find anything to borrow to deceive the people against the tyranny of the court. Even if there were some unfair things in the world, they could not make the people feel dissatisfied with the court.

This is a very strange period, a very strange country.

A hundred years later, even the Ming King of Dalun gave up the idea of ​​continuing to preach to the Central Plains. Of course, the Ming King of Dalun King of Dalun King of a hundred years ago is not the same person. The Ming King of Buddha Sect is very mysterious. The previous Ming King appointed the person to take over before he was transformed. Then the Ming King will take this person to the holy land of the Buddha Sect, the secret room of the Ming King’s Golden Palace on the top of the Great Snow Mountain. Seven days later, the new Ming King walked out of the secret room and inherited his mantle. The body of the previous Ming King was left in the secret room.

No one is allowed to see the body of the previous Ming King again.

Regardless of whether the new Ming King had a high level of cultivation before taking over, he became the first person in the world after obtaining the inheritance. No one except Ming King knew how to make an ordinary person the strongest cultivation in the Buddhist sect.

Many people speculate that the Buddhist sect must have a wonderful method to pass on the power. Before his death, the old Ming King passed his lifelong cultivation to the new Ming King as much as possible.

The Land Temple was so broken that it was shaky that even the four remaining walls had collapsed a lot. They could not shelter from the wind or rain. If it weren't for the occasional children in the village coming to catch crickets and play, no one would come. In the corner of the wall, an old monk in a gray cloth monk's robe put down the young man in his arms, looked at the injuries on his body and frowned slightly, and recited the mercy of the Ming Wang.

He took out a jade bottle from his arms and poured out a dark green pill. He pried open the young man's mouth and stuffed the pills in it. Then he found some rainwater accumulated in the ruined temple and fed the young man a few sips. The rainwater was washed a few days ago and it smelled a little fishy, ​​but the old monk seemed to care. He fed the young man and drank some of it himself.

After drinking water, he sat cross-legged in a clean place and closed his eyes to rest.

I don’t know how long it took, but the unconscious young man suddenly coughed a few times, a stream of black blood gushed out of his mouth, and his chest was fluctuating violently.

The old monk slowly opened his eyes and looked at him, and saw that the young man's smooth black hair fell on the ground like snow in a moment. Soon, no hair could be seen on his head.

The old monk waited for the young man to lose his hair, but he couldn't help but nodded slightly without seeing him vomiting blood. He got up and walked over, helped the young monk sit up. He opened his broken clothes and looked at it. The blood hole that the young man had covered his body had scarred before.

I don’t know what pill the old monk fed before, but it actually had such a magical effect.

After a while, the young monk slowly woke up. He opened his eyes and saw the kind-eyed old monk looking at him. He quickly got up and knelt down and kowtowed.

"I am incompetent, please punish me."

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The old monk sat cross-legged on the ground, smiled and said to Chenya, "Before coming to the Great Sui Dynasty, I will definitely have a disaster. If this disaster is passed, it may be a good thing for your cultivation."

"If there were no Master, the disciple would have been dead long ago."

Chenya bowed his head.

"You fool, I am your master, you are my disciple. If I don't overcome you, who will come to you? When you left Daxue Mountain, I gave you a Sumeru Pill, just to expect you to have this bloody disaster. Unfortunately, you are so obsessed with being too obsessed with, you actually made the Sumeru Pill a killing weapon. Not only did you fail to retreat to the enemy, you almost died. You also asked me to use an extra Bodhi pill to save your life. This is what I was dissatisfied with."

"The disciple knew he was wrong."

Chen Ya said in contemptuously: "Disciple underestimated the Sui people, and Fang You lost today."

"Being able to recognize the mistakes you have made and reflect on yourself is growth, and it is not in vain for you to come to Da Sui for this trip."

"Master, how did you come to Chang'an?"

Chenya asked curiously.

"Before you come, I told you that the Western Paradise is pure land, and the Eastern Paradise is full of demons. Don't think that your cultivation is good and don't take the demons seriously. Your cultivation is still short, and I don't know how many great demons even the Ming King have appeared in the Central Plains. Eleven years ago, a demon who set out from Chang'an City of the Great Sui Dynasty and walked westward, entered the Western Paradise. The Ming King realized that he sent his disciples to subdue demons."

"Who would have thought that the devil's cultivation was so high that he actually killed several arhats in succession, and there were many followers around him who were of great cultivation. When the Ming King heard that his disciples were martyred, he sent my senior brother, Dazizai Tianzun and Lingbao Tianzun down the mountain to meet the enemy. Lingbao fought with the devil and was defeated. Senior Brother Dazizai took action himself, but he did not stop the devil's pace of continuing to travel west. Because of the arrival of the demons, the Ming King went down the mountain and was angry, and then suppressed the devil."

"Eleventh year ago, the invasion of the demons invaded the west was sealed up. Let the disciples not know, do you know why?"

"Disciple is stupid"

"Because if this matter is known, the status of my Buddhist sect will be shaken. In the world, except for the Sui people, everyone believes in the Ming King. Whether it is the disciples of the Buddhist sect or the ordinary people of time, they all know that the Ming King's cultivation is unparalleled in the world, but in that battle... the Ming King was actually injured."

"ah?!"

Chen Ya suddenly raised his head, his face full of incredible surprise.

"Who is that person?!"

He asked in surprise.

"I only know that I am from the Great Sui royal family."

The old monk sighed: "If this matter is known to the disciples, it will inevitably be unbearable. The Ming King has great wisdom and knows that if this matter is promoted, ordinary people who believe in the Ming King and the disciples of the Buddhist sect will definitely be furious to attack the Sui Dynasty. But the Sui people are all demons, so how can they be afraid of war? Once the war begins, they will suffer from the creatures. I don't know how many people will die or how many rivers and mountains will be destroyed. Since the devil has been suppressed, the Ming King decided to seal the matter."

"What is this related to your coming to Zhongyuan by Master?"

Chenya asked.

The old monk was silent for a while, shook his head slowly and said, "Just shortly after you entered the Sui Dynasty, another devil was traveling west."

"ah!"

Chen Ya was shocked by what the old monk said one after another, and felt a heart jumping out of his throat: "But... but it's as fierce as the devil eleven years ago?"

"Although it's not as good as it is, it's almost the same."

The old monk said: "The Ming King was in seclusion eleven years ago, and Junior Brother Shi Yuan of the Precepts Academy brought the golden monk soldiers to the Daxue Mountain to meet the enemy. Senior Brother Dazizai was afraid that the Sui people would have support, so he asked me to go to the Central Plains to check. After all, the great demon was traveling west with hundreds of followers eleven years ago, and this time, this demon only brought one person, which was extremely strange. Senior Brother Dazizai was worried that the Sui people would have a follow-up move, so I came. I wanted to check it secretly and take you back again, but I didn't expect that there were many masters among the Sui people now, and even I had to be surprised by the strong demonic nature of the Sui people."

"Master, let's go back to the Great Snow Mountain now?"

"Well, of course I have to go back."

"But……"

Chenya paused for a moment, but he wanted to speak but stopped.

The old monk said calmly: "But you are unwilling to accept it, right? You came to kill that Fang, but you almost died here. If you don't kill him, you will not be able to remain quiet, right?"

"yes!"

Chenya bowed his head and said, "The Ming King once said that there is dust in my heart. If I cannot remove this dust, I will not be able to complete it. The disciple has practiced for many years but does not know what the dust in my heart is. After the Great Sui Dynasty, he thought that this dust was a fear of a powerful enemy. However, after a difficult period, the disciple suddenly realized that the dust in my heart was that way, not the Taoist priest of the Taoist sect. If he did not remove him, he would not be able to remain calm."

"Idiot"

The old monk shook his head and sighed, "I thought you could understand the teachings of the King of Transparent through this difficulty, but who would have thought that he would fall deeper and deeper."

"Please solve the problem by Master"

Chenya bowed down and touched the ground with his head and said sincerely: "The disciple is stupid and cannot understand the true words of the Ming Wang's wonderful Dharma."

The old monk looked at Chenya with mercy and said, "You are the most intelligent disciple under my seat. I thought you could understand and understand it without teaching you anything you want. Now it seems that the more intelligent a person is, the easier it is to find the direction. The dust in your heart is not any enemy, but yourself."

"Myself?"

Chen Ya was stunned for a moment and said, "Disciple is confused."

"You always feel that you can be perfect, so you are eager to be perfect. This is the dust in your heart. Since you were young and you have a high opinion of yourself. I did not give me any tips on this. Today I will say to you that your dust is your obsession. When you no longer have the perfect obsession, you can be perfect."

"Obstinence?"

Chenya was silent for a long time, and bowed again and said, "Disciple understands."

"No...you don't understand yet."

The old monk smiled and said, "If you understand, you will not say that you understand. How can you understand the wonderfulness of Buddhism by thinking about it?"

At this moment, the old monk pointed outside and said, "What is that?"

Chenya looked out and saw someone walking over here in the distance. He carried a package and a wooden stick in his hand as a crutch. It was obviously a long journey.

"That's from Sui"

The way of the dust.

"Wrong"

The old monk said lightly: "That is a demon. The Sui people have their own skins, but there are devils in their skins."

He looked outside and asked, "What is that?"

"That's a demon"

"Wrong"

"Ah? Why did the disciple be wrong again?"

"He is from Sui Dynasty, and his demonic nature has not been born. Before the demonic life, he was still a human."

"Disciple doesn't understand."

"It's good if you don't understand, you don't understand if you understand."

The old monk stood up and pointed at the person who was walking here from outside. The man's body trembled and then fell softly.

"Bring him, let's go."

"Why bring him?"

"Are you hungry?"
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