The starry sky was speechless, only the starlight shining all over the sky quietly.
"Why do you think so? Is it really what you said to your junior sister?" Tantai Mingyue looked at the troubled young man in front of her and asked softly.
Seeing his unhappy look, Baili Yunyan quickly asked, "Did I say the wrong thing?"
Li Xiuyuan did not answer the two's questions, but quietly closed his eyes, as if falling into endless memories.
The two women couldn't help but be stunned when they looked at his appearance. Baili Yunyan looked at Tantai Mingyue and asked: "Senior sister, isn't this guy stupid?"
Tantai Mingyue shook her head and said nothing.
Li Xiuyuan, who was deep in thought, was listening to the voice coming from the divine sea...
"Don't you already know this answer? When you have compassion, you are a Buddha. On the contrary, if you use the butcher's knife for your own selfish desires, you are a devil..."
"When you muster up the courage and are willing to go to hell to save the sentient beings in hell, you will understand more truth."
This voice was the old monk Li Xiuyuan met in the temple of Tianhuo Mountain on the Shura battlefield.
A Buddhist message traveled through countless time and space and came to Xuanwu Continent just to guide the young man who was about to get lost.
At the same moment, somewhere under the starry sky, in the valley.
Sitting in front of the old Taoist priest was the old monk who was talking to Li Xiuyuan. With boundless compassion, this holy monk had been sitting on the Shura battlefield for ten thousand years, trying to repair the damaged earth.
"Your disciple is a little confused. The two girls just asked him a few questions and became confused."
The old monk shook his head, looked at the old Taoist priest and said, "Who said that learning Buddhism is not difficult? If you don't believe it, just ask that little guy. I think he is suffering terribly now!"
The old Taoist priest nodded, sighed and said, "So what? If he can't understand these principles, let alone whether he can become a Buddha, it will be a problem for him to become a mortal in the future."
Lao Shang was stunned for a moment, looked at him and laughed: "You are a master, you are just herding sheep."
The old Taoist priest shook his head and said: "His cultivation is too weak now. After he becomes a mortal, I will teach you how to discipline him and let him take care of that mess for you..."
"Those things..."
Hearing the old Taoist priest talk about this, the old monk showed compassion on his face, sighed leisurely, stretched out his hand to catch a leaf falling in the wind, and there seemed to be compassion in his eyes.
"It is said that one flower and one world, one leaf and one Bodhi, but they don't know that there is Sumeru in the dust, and there is eternity in a moment... For thousands of years, people in the world only understand that one flower and one leaf reflects the universe. But they cannot clearly understand the unobstructed wisdom of Bodhi."
The old monk sighed and said, "Just when your disciple understood some principles, he forgot some principles."
The old Taoist priest laughed when he heard this, looked at the leaves in the old monk's hand, and said quietly: "Then, please take away the piece of tree that is blocking my disciple's eyes for my disciple?"
The old monk was startled and asked, "Why me again?"
...
Under the starry sky, Li Xiuyuan looked at the shadow of the old monk quietly emerging in the void in the divine sea. He couldn't help but murmured: "Senior, if you have any questions, please ask."
The old monk looked at him and said quietly: "If you have anything to say, just tell me."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and asked seriously: "The disciple's enlightenment at the foot of Mount Sumeru was that the Buddha was in hell and the devil was in the temple. However, the senior asked the disciple to go to hell to save sentient beings. What should the Buddha do?"
When the old monk heard this, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh and replied: "Buddhas are also living beings. Do you understand this truth?"
"Is this matter important? Disciple is a little confused..." Li Xiuyuan looked at him and replied quietly.
The old monk shook his head, stretched out his hand and found a leaf on it. He looked at Li Xiuyuan and asked, "What did you see?"
"A leaf!" Li Xiuyuan blurted out, "What does this mean?"
The old monk nodded and said: "Yes, it is just a leaf, but don't let this leaf cover your eyes."
Li Xiuyuan's eyes were confused and he still had no intention of understanding.
The old monk retracted his palm, held the flower in his hand, and said quietly: "Let me tell you two stories, hoping to clear up the confusion in front of you."
It is said that one day, a layman went to enjoy plum blossoms in the snow and saw two birds fighting for the branches of the same plum tree. As a result, the branches were too soft and both birds fell down.
The man felt strange and returned home to divine the fortune. According to the hexagram, the layman concluded that a woman would come to pick plum blossoms in the evening.
Later, as expected, the woman came to pick plum blossoms, and the servant guarding the garden chased her. The woman was frightened and broke her leg.
Things turned out exactly as he concluded.
Secondly, when a businessman wants to go out for business, he goes to find an old monk.
I hope the monk can give him some advice on whether he can make a profit from this trip.
The old monk looked at him and laughed and said, "Don't worry, you will definitely make a lot of profits."
"Why?" the businessman asked puzzledly.
The monk smiled without saying a word, pointed to the door of the Buddhist hall and laughed.
The businessman turned his head, and Xiao Shang walked in with a plate full of fruits...
Having said this, the old monk looked at him and said with a smile: "Everything in the world transcends the divisions of time and space. They all belong to one body. There is me in you and you in me..."
When the old monk stretched out his palm again, the leaves in his hand had disappeared.
"So, what did you see?" the old monk continued to ask.
Li Xiuyuan frowned tightly, looked at the old monk and said, "I saw... I didn't see... I took away the leaves and saw myself..."
After muttering to himself, when he raised his head again, the old monk in front of him was gone.
"What does this mean? Does it require me to keep my original intention? Isn't this Zen technique too mysterious?"
Opening his eyes, Li Xiuyuan muttered to himself: "I asked you about being possessed, but you asked me to take away the leaves in front of me..."
Seeing Li Xiuyuan open his eyes, Tantai Mingyue asked carefully: "So? Have you figured it out?"
Li Xiuyuan was stunned and replied: "What do you want to know?"
Baili Yunyan came over and asked expectantly: "Is it because of those killers? That makes you afraid to approach us?"
Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said, "Yes and no."
After some thought, he finally figured out some truth. There were some differences between killers and bandits.
Most of the killers are alone. Just like myself, one person is full and the whole family is not hungry.
Most of the bandits still have their families waiting for them to return home. Although robbing and killing is heinous, their parents, wives and children are innocent or helpless.
Because of the incident at Luoxia Mountain, a shadow was left in my heart, but I didn't push myself to others and think about my own problems seriously.
Thinking of this, he finally understood why the old monk asked him to take away the leaf in front of him. It turned out that the master asked the old monk to help him remove the stone in his heart?
Wanting to understand this truth, Li Xiuyuan looked at the two women in front of him and smiled: "I just thought that when I encounter bandits again in the future, I might consider letting them live..."
Respect yourself and others, and let others live. This is what Li Xiuyuan wanted to understand after the old monk enlightened him.
In his opinion, if you let others live, isn't you also letting yourself live?
"Buddha said: Even if you have three thousand troubles, it is better to hold a flower and smile! In the days to come, you should carefully look for your own opportunities in the ruins, and don't worry about me."
After saying this, Li Xiuyuanshi felt light all over, and had the illusion of riding on the wind.
But in the eyes of the two girls, the young man in front of them had a faint flash of Buddha's light, which was better than the Bodhisattva on the altar.
This night was a major change in Li Xiuyuan's state of mind since he started practicing Buddhism in Tianshan Mountain. It was like the Buddha saying that he put down the butcher's knife and became a Buddha immediately.
When he let go of his obsession, it was the moment he put down the butcher's knife.
And the feeling that he was about to ride the wind back was a sign that his Buddhist formless golden body had advanced again.
Just as the old monk from the temple told him, the practice of the phaseless golden body lies in sudden enlightenment. Once enlightened, it will be broken.
Even the old Taoist priest would never have imagined that his disciple had only been in Xuanwu Continent for more than a year, and that it wouldn't be long before he would see his formless golden body breaking through again.
Even so, Li Xiuyuan was still unaware. He looked at the two girls in a daze and said with a smile: "You two, what are you thinking about?"
Baili Yunyan looked at him blankly and said nothing.
Tantai Mingyue murmured: "Shura, are you a Buddhist disciple?"
Because the young man in front of them, apart from missing a monk's robe, was no different from the Buddhist monks among them, and was even more extraordinary than the Buddhist disciples they had seen.
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and said seriously: "That's right. It's just that I have never become a monk or shaved my head."
Baili Yunyan sighed, curled her lips and said, "How young are you, but you have already entered Buddhism? It's really boring."
Li Xiuyuan raised his head when he heard this, looked at her and asked, "What's the difference between whether I can enter Buddhism or not?"
Baili Yunyan laughed, but did not say anything about the miracle that happened to the boy. In her opinion, maybe that moment was just an illusion between the two of them.
How much Buddhist teachings can a thirteen-year-old boy learn even if he enters Buddhism? Not to mention becoming a Buddha.
Thinking of this, she smiled and said: "I don't care what method you use to get in, you just need to remember one thing, we are waiting for you inside the ruins."
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and said seriously: "Let it go, don't think about me all the time, I won't be able to sleep well."
Tantai Mingyue was silent for a long time, and then sighed softly: "Well, I hope we will see each other again."
Li Xiuyuan's body stiffened slightly. He felt that talking to these two guys was really hard. He just wanted to go quietly to the ruins to find his own opportunities alone. He was not a hero in your eyes.
Not to mention the killers hiding in the dark, the Holy Land of Snowfield and you alone can annoy me to death, let alone the Yuwen Liuli brother and sister I met halfway.
As for the cute Ximen Yuyan from Tianyun Mountain, she has nothing to do with him, so he can't afford to worry about her.
Since Ximen Wuhen took him to Yinchuan City with him, he naturally left his sister's safety to Ouyang Chongming.
Seeing the two women in front of him sleeping unintentionally for a long night, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but yawned. He could no longer talk to these two guys.
If we talk again, we have to fully explain our past.
...
The spring breeze brought the horse's hoofs to a halt, and the group went deep into the grassland and headed north.
Just after the scene, we saw Tag Snow Mountain standing quietly not far away, a large snow mountain with clear black and white.
The white one is the year-round snow on the top of the mountain, and the black one is the silent mountain. Because this is a volcanic landform, there are few trees in the mountains and the cold rocks are exposed.
Tagg Snow Mountain is the richest and most dangerous mountain range in the Snowy Mountains. It is located in the extreme northern wilderness and stretches for countless miles.
The mountain road starts from an already desolate town at the foot of the mountain. The town has a nice name, Lantian Town.
Ouyang Xia Yun, who was walking in front, explained to the group: "Due to the volcanic eruption in winter, the residents of Lantian Town had to leave their homes one after another..."
Li Xiuyuan has been practicing cultivation in the vast Tiansheng Mountain since he was a child. Naturally, he feels a sense of intimacy when he visits the foot of the snow-capped mountains again.
However, looking from a distance, this place has become a ghost town. It seems that except for the monks who are waiting to enter the depths of the snow-capped mountains, no one lives here.
At the foot of Tag Snow Mountain is a fertile grassland. The herdsmen of Lantian Town have lived on this grassland for generations. Now because of the eruption of the volcano, they have to leave their hometown...
