At the same time, the army in the Death Plain also received Tianyin!
Huangfu Qingmei held Ru Shi's hand and sat blankly at the table, muttering to herself: "That guy Li Xiuyuan, that guy is really a monster!"
Ximen Guxing looked at her and smiled and said: "Princess, if we don't see the demon army in the spring, I will tell you that my brother drove the demon back to his hometown."
Su Quan and Xiao Yu, who came to announce the good news, looked at Huangfu Qingmei and even cried: "Princess, we have lost so many brothers in the wilderness, and we can finally go home!"
Huangfu Qingmei gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, looked at the two of them and said, "Don't be sad, today is a happy day, after all, we are the majority of the living!"
Ximen Lone Star roared loudly: "You are indeed my good brother, Ximen Lone Star. Even if you have never appeared on the Shura battlefield, there are legends about you everywhere here!"
Ruhua looked at everyone crying and laughing and said: "It's great that we can all go back alive. Li Xiuyuan scared us with nothing, but we still have more than half of the wild army!"
Huangfu Qingmei sighed, looked at her and said, "If it weren't for that guy, I'm afraid half of us here would have died on the battlefield!"
Ximen Lone Star roared fiercely: "Let's celebrate properly and then go on an adventure. We can't come here in vain!"
Huangfu Qingmei also nodded: "As long as we rush back to Longmen Pass before the beginning of autumn, even so, the four of us cannot be separated."
Rushi wiped away the tears on her face and said with a smile: "We must come in together and come back alive together!"
In the commander's tent, Feng Taiyi looked at Nangong Pinwei and said with a smile: "Look, you are right. If you don't see the devil at the beginning of spring, there will be no need to fight this war that has lasted for ten years."
Nangong Pinwei said with a tearful smile: "We have made preparations, but we didn't expect that more monks would be able to return home alive. It's really not easy."
"Send the order. The army will celebrate for three days. After three days, they will be free to move around. Let them go on an adventure. All they have to do is rush back to Longmen Pass before the beginning of autumn!"
On this day, nearly 75,000 soldiers of the Savage Army cheered loudly as they survived. They were both grieving for their dead brothers and thankful that they could survive!
From today on, the huge Shura battlefield has become their place of adventure.
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Just as the two legions were cheering and celebrating, Song Tianyu, Xiao Longer and the others were already on their way to the Devil's Eye.
Although Nangong Ruyu was reluctant to leave, Xiaoqing reminded her that if that battlefield was gone, it would become fat meat in the bowls of the soldiers of the two legions.
This was Li Xiuyuan's military exploits. In Xiao Qing's opinion, how could he hand it over to others?
Not to mention that he and the others would need cultivation resources, even Li Xiuyuan, Long Hongchen, and Xiao Longer, who would be in the lower realm for the next few decades, would also need a lot of fairy spirit stones.
On the eve of leaving the temple, Nangong Ruyu and Xiaoqing gave all the spirit stones they had to Li Xiuyuan and asked him to take them to relatives of the Nangong family in the five regions.
It was useless for Xiaoqing to hold the spirit stone, so he also cleaned it up and gave it to Li Xiuyuan.
Xiao Long'er heard the sound of heaven in the sky, looked at Nangong Ruyu and said with a smile: "Second sister, fortunately we came out early. Now everyone knows that the demon army has evacuated..."
Song Tianyu smiled and said: "Don't worry, they won't even think of coming here to explore even if they die. We have plenty of time!"
Xiao Qing looked at the three women and said seriously: "We have made a fortune, and we have to leave half of it for Li Xiuyuan."
Xiao Long'er nodded: "Xiao Long'er will remember this. How many days will it take for us to get there?" Xiao Long'er was eager to get rich and couldn't wait any longer.
Song Tianyu turned back to look at her and smiled: "If you want to fly, one day is enough."
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The temple became quiet again, with only Long Hongchen standing in the yard holding a bamboo sword to cut the wind, and Li Xiuyuan sitting under the eaves making tea and admiring the flowers.
Although it is close to the extreme south, there are still early spring flowers blooming here. In Li Xiuyuan's eyes, it is like the vitality radiating from Long Hongchen.
The four of Xiao Long'er had been away for two days. Although Nangong Ruyu was reluctant to leave, she had to leave Li Xiuyuan temporarily for her own cultivation.
As he said himself, when it comes to spiritual practice, he is only half-full, so how can he teach others?
The husband was carefree about himself back then, and so was the old Taoist priest at Luoxia Mountain. So much so that the master who came to the academy and the old Taoist master now seemed to be carefree about him.
This caused him to care about Nangong Ruyu and Xiao Longer.
Only Xiaoqing went to the Demon Realm to learn some exercises from Hua Chenyu's mother, so he owed Hua Tianyu a favor.
But right now, Long Hongchen didn't seem to need to take care of himself anymore.
The old Taoist priest has already given this guy the skills to practice. All he has to do is watch him grow up and teach him the most basic sword skills.
He is still good at practicing swordsmanship.
It was almost dusk. Long Hongchen, who had a headache and sore feet, ran over, picked up the cup and took a few sips of tea. He looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked, "Brother, why don't you let Long Hongchen go play with sister and the others?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and sighed: "I'm afraid that you will be too excited to return to that place. This or that, when the time comes, people will know that you used to be a little demon... What should I do?"
Li Xiuyuan thought about it and thought to himself that even if he went to the Devil's Eye, he wouldn't be able to control his mouth, not to mention that Long Hongchen was still a child.
He was not afraid that Song Tianyu would know the truth of the matter, but he was afraid that Xiao Longer and the three girls would not be able to control their mouths.
It is better to do less than to do more. Since I decided to go all the way to the west, I took Long Hongchen to practice all the way there and left Xiao Longer to let this guy stop playing.
You must know that when Xiang Long Hongchen was as old as he was, he was already practicing alone on Tianshan Mountain.
After cooking a pot of meat porridge, the two of them chatted over a pot of charcoal fire and a lone lamp until Long Hongchen, who was full, got into his sleeping bag to dream. Then Li Xiuyuan picked up a futon and sat quietly in front of the Buddha in a daze. .
After staying here for a winter, he could not discover any amazing secrets in the temple except the mysterious passage.
If he couldn't find it again, he would leave the Tianhuo Mountains with Long Hongchen two days after the finals and start their adventure trip.
There was a cup of tea in front of him, and Long Hongchen not far behind him was already snoring and grinding his teeth and falling asleep.
Looking up at the Buddha, Li Xiuyuan murmured to himself: "If you have anything else to explain, just say it. If you don't tell me, I will leave here in two days. I'm afraid I will never come back."
The oil lamp on the table illuminates the Buddhas on the altar, as if there are Buddhas speaking.
"Is it possible that you are hiding in this deep mountain and old forest just because you want me to destroy the tower and rescue Long Hongchen?" Li Xiuyuan looked back at Xiaonian in his dream with some reluctance.
Long Hongchen, who was in his dream, couldn't hear his nagging. At this moment, he was already playing with Xiao Long'er in his dream.
In this dark temple, Li Xiuyuan seemed to see the Buddhas in the Great Buddha Temple, as if he had returned to the old monk's Zen meditation hall, and even as if he had returned to the main hall of Prajna Temple.
Brother Minghui once said that it is better to hold on to three minds than to hold on to one mind, but now he was a little upset. He was sitting in the temple but did not see the Buddha. Could it be that he really wanted to return empty-handed.
Will ghosts know if the Shura battlefield will still be there in the next thousand years? At that time, he didn't even know where he was. The old Taoist priest was also an irresponsible master. He just walked away without saying anything.
Just when his patience was about to run out, a long sigh traveled through time and space, echoing gently in the hall, and a golden light rose from the Buddhist altar.
Looking at the old monk whose face he couldn't see clearly, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but ask: "Are you my unreliable master?"
The golden light shone, and the old monk said: "Young man, who is your master? Do I know him?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and replied: "My master is a Taoist priest, and I have been practicing Buddhism."
The old monk couldn't help but smile and said: "Tao is also Buddha, there is no conflict."
Li Xiuyuan came back to his senses, remembered that he had said these words, and understood that the old monk in front of him was not answering his questions, but reasoning with him.
Shaking his head, he looked at the old monk on the altar and said, "But my master is both Buddha and Tao! Tao gives rise to one...three gives rise to all things, so Buddha is also Tao."
The old monk held the flower in his left hand and replied with a smile: "Tao is the foundation of the universe. It gives birth to all things, nourishes all things, and runs all things. Its bigness has no outside, its smallness has no inside, it is all-encompassing, formless and has no name. ..."
Li Xiuyuan nodded: "So Buddha is also the Tao."
The old monk said again: "The Tao has no name, and some people force it to be called Buddha. Buddha is originally nameless, and people force it to be called Buddha. When it has no name... if the world names it a demon, later generations will say it is a demon." , so it’s not Tao, it’s just Qiang’an’s name...”
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and replied: "So, the Tao and the mind are the same, and the Buddha is also the Tao."
The old monk nodded and smiled, and continued: "This mind is the Buddha, and the Buddha is all living beings. When you are for all living beings, this mind will not decrease, and when you are for the Buddhas, this mind will not increase. Buddha and Tao are originally one, why should you be separated? I?
Li Xiuyuan replied thoughtfully: "If Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are integrated into one body according to this statement? The king's unkindness is like the unkindness of heaven and earth? But what do you think of all living beings?"
The old monk became more and more happy after listening to Li Xiuyuan's words, and said, "But in your opinion, what is a Buddha? And what is a demon?"
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and said: "With compassion, if the devil has a compassionate heart and cares for all living beings, then the devil is a Buddha. On the contrary, if the Buddha has thoughts and falls into greed, anger and ignorance, then the Buddha is also a devil!"
When the old monk heard this, he sighed again and again: "It's a pity that you don't enter Buddhism."
Li Xiuyuan laughed when he heard this, looked at him and said leisurely: "I really want to enter Buddhism, but the road to Buddhism is blocked. The devil is in the temple and the Buddha is in hell. I am like a Bodhisattva crossing the river and cannot protect myself..."
Upon hearing this, the old monk seemed to have lingering sadness on his face. He looked at him and murmured: "Have you ever heard the story of Buddha and Demon?"
Li Xiuyuan nodded in agreement and replied seriously: "I would like to hear the Tao again."
The old monk cleared his throat and told the original story that Li Xiuyuan had heard and told again.
One day, Buddha and Mara met.
Mara said to the Buddha: "I will destroy your teachings."
The Buddha said, "How can you destroy my teachings? My temples have spread all over the world, and my disciples in cassocks have stood like trees in a forest."
Mara said: "I will use two thousand and five hundred years to destroy your teachings and Dharma. I will let my demon sons and grandsons put on your cassocks, enter your temple, preach my demon doctrine, and corrupt you." The monk!"
"Wherever you are, I will be there until my descendants are everywhere." Mara looked at the Buddha and said coldly.
The Buddha sighed and said, "Then you can't do anything to me. Then my disciples will take off their cassocks, put on plain clothes, and go to the world."
"At that time, the mortal world will become a temple, the world will become a dojo, and the temple will become a hell for your devil children and grandchildren." Buddha returned.
Mara said to Buddha: "Where you are, I am."
The Buddha replied calmly: "I am where you are not."
Li Xiuyuan looked at the old monk with a sad face on the Buddhist altar, and said quietly: "I have heard this story, and it has been told by others. I am not a Buddha yet."
The old monk sighed and said leisurely: "However, if you have a pure land in your heart, your world will be the Buddha's kingdom."
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