Chapter Thirteen: Taking the Nine Suns
More than a month later, a group of more than a dozen people climbed up the mountain from the foot of Songshan Mountain and came to Shaoshi Mountain where Shaolin Temple is located.
The mountain of Shaoshi Mountain is quite steep. The mountain road is a long and wide stone level, with a magnificent scale and a very small project. It was dug by Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty to visit Shaolin Temple, which was a total of eight miles long. When the incense of Shaolin Temple was in full swing in the past, there were endless people coming to burn incense and pray for their wishes, and the mountain road was filled with people.
However, since the Jingkang Incident, the Jin Kingdom has embezzled the Central Plains, and the wars have caused trouble to cause people's livelihood. Most of the Jurchens who ruled the Jin Kingdom did not believe in Buddhism. The incense of Shaolin Temple has inevitably weakened. Often, no one comes in ten days and half a month. It is rare for a group of more than ten people like this. Therefore, the monks from Shaolin Temple discovered this group from afar and welcomed them out of the mountain gate early to wait.
But seeing that these dozen people dressed up as servants, both men and women, the handsome men and women were handsome, and the clothes were neat and neat, they were all made of good clothes, which was better than ordinary rich families. Even a few maids were equipped with a little gold and silver jewelry, which looked extremely elegant, making people know at a glance that they were servants from a noble family or noble family.
A group of servants surrounded the sedan chairs carried by four people. The sedan chairs were well-made and decorated. The porters carrying the sedan chairs were also strong and healthy. When they lifted the sedan chairs, they were calm and neat. Although they climbed the mountain and climbed up the stairs, they were steadily lifted the sedan chairs. At first glance, they were old men who worked in this industry all year round.
Seeing this, the monks who were visiting the mountain gate couldn't help but be surprised and secretly speculated about the person sitting in the sedan chair, and they had such a pomp. At the same time, they also had some expectations in their hearts. In recent years, the incense of Shaolin Temple has faded, and the days of monks in the temple have become much worse than before. Monks also need to eat and drink and live without eating and drinking. If it weren't for the many fields accumulated over the years, they would probably not be able to maintain them. Therefore, Shaolin monks are now like seedlings in the dry fields, very hungry and thirsty, so they hope to bring more pilgrims who burn incense and pray for blessings and give more incense money to improve their lives.
A group of more than a dozen people came to the Shaolin Mountain Gate. The sedan chair fell down, and a young man in brocade clothes and a noble man walked out of the sedan chair. I saw that the young man was only fifteen or sixteen years old, with extraordinary sword eyebrows and starry eyes. He was not an idle child at first glance, so it was not a child of an idle family, so it was not a dare to underestimate him.
Seeing this scene, the monk nodded secretly in his heart. It seemed that this young man was not a prince, but also from a family of officials, and was definitely not an idiot. So he did not dare to neglect and quickly greeted him with a respectful look on his face.
The young man in gorgeous clothes who came was no one else, but Ling Muyun, who came for the Nine Yang True Sutra.
Although Ling Muyun knew that the Nine Yang True Sutra was hidden in the Sutra Library in Shaolin Temple, it was not so easy to obtain. After all, the Sutra Library is the gateway of Shaolin Temple, and anyone who wants to enter can enter. Later, Xiaoxiangzi and Yin Kexi used bitter meat tricks to sneak into the Sutra Library, which deceived Monk Jueyuan and successfully stole the "Lankavatara Sutra". Unfortunately, although the two stole the Nine Yang True Sutra, they had no blessings to save themselves. They were guarding each other and plotting against each other, they died together, and they were a waste of time.
On the way he arrived, Ling Muyun kept thinking about how to act and how to get the Nine Yang True Sutra. After thinking about many ways, he rejected them one by one. In the end, he could only use the methods written in online novels in his previous life and tricked the Nine Yang True Sutra in the name of copying Buddhist scriptures.
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Ling Muyun stayed for nearly half a month when he entered Shaolin Temple. It was not until more than ten days later that he came out of Shaolin Temple with a few copied Buddhist scriptures, and joined the "guard of honor" waiting outside the temple to pretend. He went down to Shaoshi Mountain with the eyes of the Shaolin monks.
After going down Shaoshi Mountain, Ling Muyun looked back and saw that there were no Shaolin monks. So he took out a large ingot of gold and paid the remaining half of the remaining amount of the "Guarantee Guard" to continue to travel south in a pretentious manner. He quietly went to a nearby town to buy another good horse, and then drove northward. He rushed for most of the day and ran out for two or three hundred miles. He felt that even if the monks in Shaolin Temple wanted to chase him, they could not catch him. Ling Muyun then breathed a sigh of relief. He stopped in a town he passed by, and found an inn to rest.
In the inn, he asked for a room to settle down. Ling Muyun took out several volumes of sutras from the package and placed them in front of the bed to look at them. There were four sutras, namely the Diamond Sutra, the Lotus Sutra, the Mahaprajna Sutra and the Lankavatara Sutra. These volumes of Buddhist scriptures were copied word by word in the past half month.
These sutras are the most normal Buddhist scriptures, and there is nothing unusual in them, even the "Lankavatara Sutra". The whole text is full of Buddhism and there is no essence of martial arts. But this does not mean that Ling Muyun got nothing when he went to Shaolin this time. On the contrary, he could be said to have returned with a full load this time. But for the sake of safety, he did not copy the Nine Yang Sutra onto the scriptures, but recited it silently when copying it, and kept the Nine Yang Sutra firmly in his heart.
It was precisely because of the true scripture that Ling Muyun set up a suspicion array after going down the mountain and ran away on his horse. What he was afraid of was that the Shaolin monks later found out that they came to chase him.
Although the monks in Shaolin Temple have never discovered the secrets hidden in the Lankavatara Sutra in the original work, they were not discovered by monk Jueyuan who supervised the Sutra Pavilion by chance. How could he know that his up-of-the-mountain copying of the sutra will not have any butterfly effect, so that the Shaolin monks can discover the secrets in advance? It is better to be cautious.
Chapter completed!