(There are a lot of social activities during the Chinese New Year, so I rarely have time to code, and the speed of coding is as fast as a turtle crawling. I am really drunk!)
Books in the bamboo house have been piled up in three rooms. It has been seventeen years since Li Xiu came to Jinzhang Buddhist Kingdom.
Over the years, Li Xiu relied on his popularity among laymen, and he finally collected all the volumes of the "Relics of Buddha Sutra".
In his late fifties, Li Xiu's hair style has become very characteristic of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. There are more and more wrinkles on my face and my hair is getting less and less!
Li Xiu's body can't bear too many memories of his soul! The more Buddhist scriptures he memorized, the balder Li Xiu's body became.
Li Xiu is now able to memorize and memorize the Nine Wheels Sutra of Relics. Although this sutra is not long, it is extremely difficult to pronounce!
The "Nine Wheels of Relics Sutra" feels to Li Xiu like a magic circle that uses spiritual power. It requires a certain amount of spiritual consciousness to recite and record it.
For this reason, there are extremely few lay people who can memorize the Nine Wheels of Relics Sutra within a few years.
Li Xiu had received the birth certificate from Baota Temple last year, and Baota Temple invited Li Xiu to become a ordained monk of Baota Temple.
It's just that Li Xiu still needs to purchase some necessary items for cultivating immortals before he can enter the Pagoda Temple.
Once he enters the Pagoda Temple and becomes a monk, Li Xiu will no longer be able to take out his dead wood rejuvenation technique and practice it physically at night!
Speaking of the dead wood rejuvenation technique practiced by Li Xiu, he is currently stuck at the bottleneck of the late stage of foundation building! He has taken several pills to break through the bottleneck in the past two years, but he has not succeeded in breaking through!
Li Xiu even wanted to give up practicing the Dead Wood Rejuvenation Technique and switch to the third-turn Heavy Yuan Technique of the Qing Yuan Sword Technique!
But Li Xiu still held back! His plan to use the Dead Wood Rejuvenation Technique to break through the pill formation stage remained unchanged. He spent nearly a year collecting the items he needed in the market.
Once you become a monk yourself, you must make long-term preparations! Only in this way can we continue to practice in the map space.
In addition, several classics obtained by Li Xiu must also be copied. You can't take away a room full of books, as that will be very conspicuous. It's best to exchange them for something useful.
Li Xiu has been organizing Buddhist scriptures over the years, and has copied hundreds of scriptures and jade slips in the map space.
Li Xiu still couldn't memorize the "Relics of the Buddha". Even if a cultivator were to memorize the 84,000 volumes of scriptures, it would be difficult to memorize them all.
However, there are also capable people who have memorized a single relic of the Buddha Sutra. Most of these lay people have entered the Pagoda Temple, ordained and become eminent monks of the Pagoda Temple.
"Moko Golden Chapter" Li Xiu has not seen it in these years since the last time he saw it at the Baoguang Dharma Assembly in Jinlong Temple. The Sanskrit sounds that Li Xiu recorded last time were retained. Li Xiu often listened to them in the map space, but there didn't seem to be anything extraordinary about them.
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As spring passed and autumn came, Li Xiu used his identity as Lingyi to buy many spiritual materials that he could use in the future.
On this morning, Li Xiu left the Bamboo Garden and the paper Buddhist scriptures to a few familiar laymen, and they gave Li Xiu a spiritual sandalwood fish.
Tanyuan, Kusong and several other lay friends saw each other off, and Li Xiu and others headed towards the pagoda temple.
The Pagoda Temple is less than ten miles outside the Pagoda City. The terrain here is extremely high and there are several huge pagoda buildings. Those pagodas and temples can be seen in the Pagoda City.
Li Xiu was wearing plain clothes, and among the packages behind him were only a pair of wooden fish and the birth certificate.
Along the path that Li Xiu walked, the mortals in Pagoda City would stop and watch, and even believers would pray with their hands together.
Li Xiu saluted with folded hands all the way until he walked out of the pagoda city and saw a bluestone avenue in the distance. Every 100 meters, he could see a leading monk watching Li Xiu and others.
The bluestone avenue turned into stone steps in front of a building sign, and a team of monk soldiers guarded the building sign.
Li Xiu turned around and looked at the laymen.
"Masters, please go back! I will walk the rest of the way myself!"
"Master Xiu Yuan, he is old and inexperienced! But he will chant sutras endlessly after he returns! Seal the Nine Relics and come to Baota Temple to be with Xiu Yuan!" Tears flowed from the withered old face of layman Tan Yuan.
"Alas! Everything depends on fate. Master Tanyuan might as well concentrate on the Buddhist Relics Sutra. Then he will definitely get the letter from the Pagoda Temple." Li Xiu shook his head and sighed. He knew these people would not believe that the Nine Wheels Sutra was not something ordinary people could learn. , one must have strong innate spiritual consciousness.
Li Xiu took out the letter and walked towards the gate of Pagoda Temple. He turned back and said goodbye to everyone.
After more than ten years of living as a layman, Li Xiu also felt quite emotional. Practicing is like looking at the sky and learning to take steps. The difference is thousands of miles and the error is huge!
This is the practice of mortals. Compared with immortal cultivators, the practice of mortals is simply like that of a person sitting in front of a computer. He can only see the upgrades of those game characters, but it has nothing to do with his own body!
Su Jian could not see the results of her practice in her whole life, but she still persisted blindly.
How difficult it is for mortals without spiritual roots to pursue the path to immortality!
Li Xiu is also a mortal, and he can better understand the hardships of Tan Yuan layman who has no way forward!
The letter was accepted by a monk in gray clothes, and the monk led Li Xiu up the 100-foot stone steps.
Li Xiu followed the footsteps of the monk in gray and walked towards the tall pagoda. Looking back, he saw that the people at the foot of the mountain were like sand. There was no more intersection in his heart and he walked forward.
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The sound of bells and wooden fish enters the ears, and the scent of sandalwood and dense breath enters the nose.
Li Xiu sat cross-legged on a futon, and an old monk wearing a yellow silk cassock scraped off the green hair on Li Xiu's head bit by bit.
The old monk recited the sutra in a low voice with a skillful and clean technique. A monk beside him brought up a sandalwood tripod.
There was an incense stick standing in the sandalwood cauldron. The old monk respectfully took out the incense stick. He kept chanting sutras and flicked the ashes. Little by little, the old monk placed the red tip of the incense stick on Li Xiu's head.
The sizzling sound made Li Xiu's scalp tingle, but it didn't hurt much. This fragrance is good! Li Xiu sighed in his heart.
A quarter of an hour later, four streams of barbecue-smelling smoke came out of Li Xiu's head, and he was officially ordained.
"From now on, there is no more destiny in the world, only - Kuju!" The old monk's long voice came out.
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"Master! Can you change your disciple's name?" Li Xiu opened his eyes and said.
"The Dharma name is just a code name, any name can be used! How can we dislike it?" The old monk ignored Li Xiu's request and just registered Li Xiu's Dharma name in the register.
The old monk explained some more rules and regulations, and gave Li Xiu a few pamphlets. Li Xiu went to several places to collect some clothing expenses, and then he completed the ceremony of entering the temple.
Following a young monk in gray clothes who was only a teenager, Li Xiu went to his accommodation.
Walking through a square pagoda, entering a temple and Zen courtyard, wandering around to a room on the third floor.
Opening the door, it was a dormitory for four people. The beds were arranged in the four corners. Li Xiu saw a bed board without bedding, and he threw the bedding he was assigned on the bed.
Before leaving, the young monk turned back to Li Xiu and said:
"I am Master Jie Qian of the Jie generation. If you need anything, please come to the Discipline Academy to see me!"
"Oh! Thank you very much... Qian, uncle!" Li Xiu saluted.
The little monk had an expression of endless enjoyment on his face, and he left the dormitory with strides like he didn't recognize his relatives.
Li Xiu looked at the little monk's back and then at the dormitory Zen courtyard. Li Xiu suddenly felt a little bit like he had entered a university campus.
"Haha, this looks like a university dormitory! I just don't know who my roommates are?"
