Chapter 170:
There was silence inside and outside the hall.
All the immortals looked at each other and waited with bated breath... No one dared to step forward rashly and claimed to argue with the old monks, because the deity was in front of him, so of course he couldn't just use the opportunity to attract others.
When it comes to Taoism, those who dare to stand up at this time are those who consider themselves to be stronger than the gods who understand Taoism.
"Why, in such a huge fairy palace, it's impossible that there aren't people who are more knowledgeable than me..."
The god squinted his eyes, and the words he asked made the immortals outside the hall hang their heads in despair.
There are only a few emperors standing at the gate, one or two old friends. Of course they are qualified to come forward to discuss the truth... In total, each of them has lived for an unknown number of years.
"This old man is shameless and is taking the opportunity to beat us again."
An emperor whispered unhappily: "Your Majesty the God doesn't want to argue anymore, how can we dare to overstep our bounds? Huh. Ancient God Emperor's Sutra? Ah bah - who cares?"
"This old fox really has a knife in his belly...Old Li Tou, if you do this, you may not be able to get the Ancient God Emperor Ji Jing, and you will make a bloody mess."
"Okay, okay, fellow Taoists, it's not like they don't know that this old guy is a wolf in sheep's clothing, playing with the emperor's mind all the time... Ever since Laojun left, this guy has become more and more unscrupulous and suspicious. "
"But don't mention it, the Ancient God Emperor Jing Jing still made my originally calm heart a little ups and downs."
"Don't believe his old Liutou, this old fox is seducing us."
Several emperors used their spiritual thoughts to complain about the deity, saying that he was a hypocrite who spoke sweet words but kept a sword... No, this guy has never been a gentleman, and he can't even be called a hypocrite.
So these emperors closed their eyes again, and the old god appeared.
Seeing that they were silent, the deity nodded slightly with satisfaction - these old guys still have a sense of proportion, but they still have to knock from time to time, otherwise everyone will want to touch and sit in this position.
The Ancient God Emperor's Sutra... hum... I can seize the foundation of creation of the heaven and earth. I could only get it after a narrow escape back then. How could I give it to you so easily?
The deity's little abacus was crackling.
Of course, those who are qualified do not dare to come forward to defend the law because they are afraid of the gods, but what about the immortals who are not qualified.
There are always a few among them who are unqualified but daring.
"Your Majesty! Can I give it a try!"
At this time, an immortal turned into golden light and suddenly fell onto the temple without waiting for the god's summons.
This guy has bright eyebrows and starry eyes, but he can be said to be very vigorous after taking two steps. He is not at all frightened when facing the deity.
The deity made a sound, seeming a little happy, and patted his shoulder: "Ah! So it's you. You have been reincarnated for hundreds of lives, and it seems that you have achieved great results."
"Thanks to the praise from the deity, I have gained a little, but Xiaoxian believes that with the ancient god emperor's scripture from the deity, he will be able to make further progress."
The god's face twitched imperceptibly, and then he patted this extraordinary-looking young immortal with great enthusiasm.
Naturally, some of the younger generations in the Immortal Palace don't know who this person is, but only those seniors know about this Immortal's roots and feet.
At this time, without saying a word, the young immortal acted neatly and tidily. He bowed his hands to the old monks and sang: "Amitabha, the young monk Yuankong has seen all the Arhats and Bodhisattvas."
At this time, a Bodhisattva with jasper buttons, Su Luo robes and shrouded in auspicious light said: "Who are you? Why do you call yourself a Buddhist disciple... and can you tell the difference in fruition status..."
When the young immortal opened his mouth, the immortal palace was shaken... Why did this young man who came out to debate the law sing "Lo Buddha" and surrender to the enemy?
Even the expression of the deity seemed unnatural.
Could it be that a shocking joke is going to happen in the Immortal Palace, and from now on, Buddhism and Taoism will fight against each other and rule the world together?
The young immortal bowed respectfully to the Bodhisattva again: "White Elephant Bodhisattva, the young monk once listened to the Bodhisattva's teachings with a lamp...Has the Bodhisattva forgotten?"
The light of White Elephant Bodhisattva fluctuated, and his Dharma eyes reached the sky, and he understood something: "Are you..."
That young immortal nodded and whispered, but everyone could hear clearly: "The last life of the young monk... reincarnated as a Zen disciple of the Huayan Sect in the Paradise of Ultimate Bliss. The ancient Buddha of Qingdeng, the bells in the morning and the drums in the evening, practiced for a thousand years... suffered three hundred kalpas. .”
"Sit under the bodhi tree! You - you are that emptiness! Are you really that emptiness?"
The originally majestic White Elephant Bodhisattva also seemed to be frightened and confused. His Buddha light was disordered and his anger was like an ox.
"White Elephant Bodhisattva, why are you so excited?"
Those Arhats asked strangely, "Don't disturb your Zen mind."
White Elephant Bodhisattva took a deep breath and said: "My Buddha, Tathagata, has praised the Buddha nature of three people, two of whom have achieved Zhengtuan and are true Zen disciples, accompanying me. And this third person is the only one who has not The path to achieving Zhengtong! He was supposed to be a true Zen disciple of Buddhism. He practiced for thousands of years and wrote "Huayan". He was supposed to become the Great Buddha of Creation, but he became obsessed with evil thoughts... and finally fell into reincarnation... which led to the spread of the Great Thunder Sound Temple. The Tathagata sighs."
"Ah...it turns out that that day...I seemed to be sighing about this..."
For the first time, a group of old monks began to whisper - and the god was calm and calm, slowly stood up and stood with his hands behind his back.
Seeing the face of the deity, the emperors' hearts trembled, and they looked at the group of old monks with sympathy.
As expected, this young immortal is the god's trump card, the trump card in this battle between Buddhism and Taoism.
As soon as the young immortal appeared, the old monks were thrown into confusion, which could be a sign of many flaws!
"Yuankong..." White Elephant Bodhisattva calmed down and shouted his Dharma name.
His eyes revealed the infinite Buddha nature: "When you turn around, you will be safe again..."
When the young immortal saw this look, he was stunned. There was a vague and different feeling in this look, as if he felt that Tathagata was looking at him.
I am Buddha Tathagata! ! !
These words echoed in the mind of the young immortal... The scene of being a monk Yuankong in his previous life is still vivid in his mind. He was abandoned by his mother at the door of a small temple at the age of two. He was held in the arms of the abbot, named Yuankong, and became a monk in the temple The youngest novice.
When he was a kid, he was giving lectures. He would sit aside and knock his head on the wooden fish in front of the host... It didn't matter if it hurt, the main reason was that the wooden fish was flattened by him.
After knocking down several wooden fish, the already poor temple was even worse. An unused and decayed wooden fish was found in the upper and lower courtyards of the temple.
From then on, when he gave lectures, he held his head with one hand and let him sleep in his arms.
I heard that the host once considered sending Xiao Yuankong to the Shaolin Temple to practice Tietou Gong, but the temple supervisor couldn't bear to part with this little doll, so he kept him and took a ration from the incense. Raise him up.
The little Bodhisattva in their temple is also small, and the one they worship is not the Buddhas in the Western Heaven, but an eminent monk who once traveled the world to rescue those in distress. This eminent monk was also the master who initiated young people into Buddhism.
In other words, the six monks in their entire small temple chanted different sutras from the outside world.
This is very frowned upon in the Paradise of Ultimate Bliss, because everyone respects the Tathagata. Although they do not suppress other schools on the surface, even ordinary people know how to worship Buddha and the Tathagata. Who would come to worship a monk who was all-powerful back then?
Therefore, after a long time, most of the pilgrims who came to the temple to burn incense were tourists traveling far away for fun, and there were very few people who came to worship sincerely.
Until Yuankong was thirteen years old, there were only four monks left in the temple. The uncle who oversaw the temple had passed away, and only the old abbot and a senior brother who was forty years old were left in the temple.
Except for the statue of the Patriarch, everything else that could possibly fall in the temple has collapsed.
Even the bed in the Zen room was like a pile of dirt.
On this day, the senior brother who had returned from shopping in the city came back with exciting news.
The king of Paradise regarded the Buddha as his veneration and issued a decree to repair all temples in the country.
But later the senior brother went to ask, but was beaten back by the government... It turned out that the government people could not find the Buddhist books enshrined in the temple... and thought that their temple was just a group of fake monks who cheated money from incense.
The senior brother was beaten half to death, but the officials still refused to restrain themselves. They chased him to the temple and knocked down the temple, but they could not knock down the statue of the ancestor.
The officials called them demons, and finally more than a hundred people came and pulled down the idols tied into rice dumplings.
After the officers and soldiers left, they left behind a ruined wall whose original appearance could no longer be seen.
The senior brother also passed away due to serious injuries.
The host didn't seem to be angry at all, and he found something that could still be used from the rubble. Although Yuan Kong was angry and could do nothing, he could only follow the host and bury himself in the rubble to rummage.
Yuan Kong cried all night, and his hands were covered with scars and bleeding profusely.
The next day, after the calm host recited sutras for the eldest disciple to achieve salvation, he kowtowed three times to the collapsed statue and shattered the statue with one palm, revealing the nine-ring tin staff and the wooden box containing the brocade cassock inside.
Then the abbot took Yuankong all the way north. On the way, the loving abbot seemed to have disappeared, replaced by a strict teacher... Yuankong, who was lazy by nature, had to finish all the scriptures in his load - those obscure and difficult to understand books. The scriptures also became less empty under the host's explanation, constantly enriching Yuan Kong's heart.
Along the way, the host did not hide his clumsiness, showing the profound Buddhist teachings like subduing dragons and subduing tigers, moving mountains and filling seas, and eliminated the demons and monsters that harmed the party.
This eminent monk, who was beginning to be praised by the people, dug out a dragon from the underground of the government office and was fed with human flesh by the government official... The government official was imprisoned by the court, and the name of the eminent monk who subdued the dragon has been spread among the people.
Yuankong could not control his temper at that time, and the imprisonment of the government official was not enough to quell his resentment against him. The senior brother's careful care in the past years was still vivid in his mind, and he could not forgive these official duties.
But the abbot seemed to realize that his hatred was unbearable, and he arrested an official out of thin air. It turned out that this person was the one who took the lead in destroying the temple, and it was his order that led to the death of the senior brother.
The official was shaking like chaff and fell to his knees, begging for his life... The host took out an official sword and stuffed it into Yuan Kong's hand.
Yuankong looked around at the excited people. His hands were shaking and he really wanted to hack this evil thief to death.
At this time, the evil officer's wife staggered over with her three-year-old daughter in her arms, crying, and threw herself on the knife in Yuan Kong's hand.
Holding the baby in his left hand, his right hand was bleeding profusely but refused to let go of the official knife, fearing that the young monk would kill his husband in anger.
"Master, please, please don't kill him! He was wrong, we were wrong... We don't dare anymore... We must behave well when we go back."
Poor foolish woman, she doesn't know what evil things her husband has done... She just doesn't want to be a widow, and she doesn't want her child to be without a father since he was a child.
To a family without a man, it is like the sky is falling.
