After discussing for a while, several people stopped the discussion at the same time.
Everyone noticed something was wrong.
Because... the bearded man is still playing in that bear skin.
Not only that, he also lay on the skinned bear body and pulled at it for a while. He didn't know what he was doing, but he only heard the sound of "puff puff".
Several people's hearts skipped a beat, and an ominous feeling enveloped their hearts.
"Boss, what are you doing?" someone said tremblingly.
Hearing the sound, the bearded man stopped.
The weird "puff puff" sound is gone.
The bearded man straightened up stiffly and slowly turned around.
He was wearing a bearskin, and the younger brothers could not see his true face, only a pair of bloodshot eyes.
These eyes were extremely malicious, and the malice in them almost overflowed.
There were drops of blood falling from the broken bear's mouth.
It turned out that the weird "puff" sound just now was the bearded man eating the flesh and blood of the bear carcass.
"Boss, you..."
Several people suddenly felt something was wrong and turned around to run away.
A terrifying bear roar sounded from behind.
Immediately afterwards, there were screams, the sound of broken bones, the sound of flesh and blood tearing, the sound of chewing...
A long time passed.
A huge black shadow was arrogantly trying to squeeze out of the stone temple.
Look at that appearance, it's exactly the black bear from last night, but a little embarrassed.
The bear's head was covered with criss-crossing scars, and in addition to the cassock-like wound on his shoulder, there were several large scars that penetrated the body.
The width of the scars was uneven, and the skin was turned outwards, revealing the black and smelly flesh and blood inside. This was caused by Beard and others skinning the bears.
The black bear squeezed outward. Compared to last night, its size was even larger. The temple gate that it had widened last night could not be passed through at this moment, and it had to continue to be widened.
"Tear, tear, tear..."
The scars on the black bear's fur rubbed against the temple door, leaving behind smelly black blood and scraping off a large amount of gravel.
At this time, a yellow talisman was posted on the temple door. The talisman flashed a few times, fell down, and stuck right on the black bear's head.
"boom!"
At the moment of contact, the yellow talisman spontaneously ignited without fire, bursting out into a ball of fire, like a prairie fire, immediately surrounding the black bear.
"Anghou..."
The flames burned its body, and the black bear roared miserably, and rushed out of the stone temple madly, running and rolling on the mud, trying to suppress the flames on its body.
But everything was in vain. Instead of being extinguished, the flame intensified and turned into a bear-shaped torch in just a few breaths.
Not long after, the shrill roars stopped, the bear-shaped torch burned out, and a huge bear-shaped mark appeared on the ground.
In the middle of the mark, there is a pile of black ash.
"Hoo ho ho!"
When the wind blew, the black dust dispersed with the wind, leaving no trace.
Soon, the rain started again, and the black bear mark was washed away, and peace returned to the place.
Only the badly damaged stone temple door not far away, the black blood on the door frame, and the broken limbs and meat all over the temple still record what happened before.
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the other side.
A smile appeared at the corner of Zhang Jingqing's mouth.
Zhang Jingqing wanted to get rid of those people in coir raincoats who wanted to rob them as soon as they entered the stone temple.
But because they didn't do it directly, Zhang Jingqing didn't let Zhang Zhiwei do it directly, but gave him a test.
If the test is passed, then the matter is settled.
If you fail the test, you will die in the right way.
This is also the reason why Zhang Jingqing did not let Zhang Zhiwei use thunder directly to kill the spirit residing in the bear's skin.
If those men in raincoat listened to his words and left directly, the black bear's body would be buried under the ground for a while, and it would return to dust.
If they were greedy and dug out the bear corpse, there would be a backlash, and then the talisman he left on the temple door would be effective.
In this way, he can eliminate this group of thieves without any psychological burden or even breaking the precepts.
Of course, as a Celestial Master, Zhang Jingqing had already captured the Heart Monkey and realized that even if he directly killed these people, he would not leave any psychological gap.
The reason for doing this is, on the one hand, to let Zhang Zhiwei know what it means to be unpredictable and increase his experience.
On the other hand, it was to teach Zhang Zhiwei how to deal with this situation.
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At this moment, Zhang Zhiwei noticed Zhang Jingqing's smile: "Master, so they have a right to die. Do you have a clear conscience?"
"You have a clear conscience!" Zhang Jingqing asked, "Zhiwei, do you know why I did this?"
"Master must have his own reasons for doing this..."
Zhang Zhiwei wanted to say something playful and say that the master must be seriously ill for doing this, but when he saw Zhang Jingqing's serious expression, he knew that he had to be serious, otherwise he would be beaten up.
He immediately said: Uh-huh... Master must have his own deep meaning in doing this! "
Zhang Jingqing didn't understand the meaning of Zhang Zhiwei's words, nodded and said:
"Of course that's the case. You've always wanted to capture the Ape, but do you know what a Ape is?"
Zhang Zhiwei said: "The monkey of mind is my restless heart!"
Zhang Jingqing nodded and said: "That's true. The Heart Monkey is like a monkey, extremely ferocious and restless. It lives in our bodies and always wants to bite back its master and escape. Therefore, for the Heart Monkey, we His body is like an elixir furnace, constantly refining it, and finally turns it into a golden elixir."
"Golden elixir?"
Zhang Zhiwei is a little confused, why is it getting more and more mysterious as he talks about it, and whether the next step is going to be about Nascent Soul, integration, etc.
As soon as Zhang Jingqing looked at Zhang Zhiwei, she knew that Zhang Zhiwei had gone astray and explained:
"This golden elixir is just a metaphor. It does not mean that a big bead is actually formed in the body, but it means perfection. The essence is restrained and formed into a circle. The sharp edge is tempered into a circle. When you live in the world, when you walk, sit, or lie down, you will see circles everywhere. There are circles everywhere, and the artistic conception of being at ease everywhere.”
"This is a state of mind, the pinnacle of temperament, and if there are beads in the body, it is not called a golden elixir, it is called a serious illness!"
"Master's metaphor is really vivid. However, Master just said that the essence is restrained and becomes a circle, and the sharp edge is honed into a circle. I understand it."
"But as a human being, when I walk, sit, or lie down, I see circles everywhere, there are circles everywhere, and I can do everything with ease... I don't quite understand. Does Master mean for me to become smooth?"
Zhang Zhiwei asked. In his understanding, the word smooth has always been synonymous with urban painting and is a standard derogatory term.
Zhang Jingqing said: "The meaning of this circle is to do things end-to-end, to be well-reasoned and to have a clear conscience. It does not mean that you should be tactful or marketable!"
Zhang Jingqing continued: "The reason for this is that the process of refining the Heart Monkey is actually a process of smoothing out the cruelty, viciousness, restlessness, and all kinds of demonic obstacles and uneasiness in your heart."
"During this period, you must pay more attention to the cultivation of the heart, observe the precepts, and do not commit murder without any reason. It should be noted that the more things you do against your will, the bigger the gap in your heart will be, the stronger your mind will be, and the more difficult it will be. tame."
"These thieves did not make mistakes in front of you, but you only relied on your own subjective assumptions to kill them. Even if you don't feel anything now, in fact they are a gap, and they will also become a stumbling block on your spiritual path in the future! "
"Master, I understand!"
After listening to Zhang Jingqing's explanation, Zhang Zhiwei thought thoughtfully. It is true that people will change, but the things they did in the past will not change. The reason for taking action now can only concern the present.
Just like in Lu Xun's article "Kite", Lu Xun trampled his brother's kite for no reason based on his joy and anger at the time.
He didn't feel anything was wrong at the time, but many years later, when he began to understand himself, this incident became a thorn in his heart, making him unable to sleep or eat well, and he often felt like "I really deserved to die then" at night. .
A kite can do this, let alone kill a group of people at will.
Zhang Jingqing naturally didn't want his precious apprentice to have a rough road ahead.
So from the beginning, I wanted to pave the smoothest road for him.
