A hundred people went up the mountain, but less than half came down the mountain, alarming the entire Buddhist temple.
All the monks who came back alive were frostbitten, and most of them were speechless. They didn't even have the strength to complain or complain.
The abbot master waved his hand and removed the elder of the Discipline Hall from his post and asked him to go into seclusion for self-reflection.
After the incident spread, both the elders in the temple and the monks sweeping the floor understood that this was not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster.
Because the young monk told the master that the elder brother on the mountain had gone to the imperial city.
What could be wrong with a snowy mountain?
Even the young monk understood that his uncle was controlled by inner demons this time and could not control himself.
The old monk looked at the big lake and smiled bitterly at the young monk: "This Buddhist temple will be used to worship Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva from now on. May the Bodhisattva be compassionate and save your dead brothers as soon as possible."
The young monk responded: "Master, don't be afraid. My brother said he would take me to the mountains to pick spiritual tea in spring and give it to the master to drink."
The old monk was startled when he heard this and blurted out: "What is a Buddha and what is a demon? Do you know?"
The young monk shook his head: "I don't want to understand these principles yet."
As the mountains were covered with snow, the old monk nodded and sighed thoughtfully.
Maybe he, as a disciple, is right. Although the darkness is always there, even though it cannot be avoided, one can pretend not to see it.
Until, I accumulated enough courage.
…
The people on the ground were chasing each other.
The petals in the Apricot Blossom Valley have left the branches one after another, and the husband returned from an outing with Xiaoqing, Li Hongxiu and others.
When Li Hongxiu discovered that Shangguan Wushuang had reached the third level of the Fusion Realm, he was finally deeply shocked.
Not to mention, Mu Mu and Nangong Ruyu were only at the Void Refining Realm when they left.
So a group of people gathered around Youruo, asking about Li Xiuyuan's situation, while shouting that they wanted to break through several realms in a row like Mu Mu.
Fortunately, the gentleman was sensible. After asking about the situation, he called everyone together for discussion.
Everyone in the Xinghua Valley shared the opportunity to bring Youruo back over three days.
Lin Yueru and his wife, Ye Zhiqiu and the Master also saw the hope of breaking through to the combined state.
You know, the previous teacher told the four of them that due to their physical condition, the four of them were afraid that they would only be able to reach the realm of refining the void.
Who would have thought that with the arrival of Shangguan Wushuang and Youruo, they would see higher hope.
Lin Yueru took Shangguan Wushuang's hand and smiled: "Hurry up, your father and I have broken through again and can take care of your child."
You Ruo also nodded and said with a smile: "Grandpa said so too."
Shangguan Wushuang sighed and said quietly: "Why are you so anxious? Your master is not married yet."
Hearing this, Ye Zhiqiu couldn't help but look at Mu Mu and asked: "Mu Mu, next time I see the old Taoist priest, when will your brother be able to go home?"
Mu Mu curled her lips, pointed at Youruo and said, "Didn't this little guy say that my brother wants to see the flowers and autumn leaves of the Tang Dynasty..."
Youruo chuckled: "Although the master's place is small, it's still an old wooden house, but the outside is like a fairyland. I don't even want to stay for a few more days..."
Nangong Ruyu looked at Mu Mu and said, "How about senior come and ask him next time?"
When Mu Mu heard this, she was immediately discouraged and shouted: "The last time you were able to return to the Five Realms was an exception. I'm afraid it wasn't Senior who did You Ruo this time..."
Youruo quickly proved: "Yes, Youruo just had a dream."
Shangguan Wushuang looked at Li Hongxiu and smiled bitterly: "Junior sister just slept in the inn for a day and a night, and when she woke up, she broke through the realm, and there are more treasures for you to break through..."
Nangong Ruyu looked into the void and shouted: "Senior, is it you?"
There was no reply from the old Taoist priest in everyone's ears, only the whistling sound of the wind.
…
Living without Xiao Hei and Qing Qing, Yan'er made Li Xiu Yuan understand what it meant to be as lonely as snow.
The mountains are as lonely as snow, and so is the imperial city below.
Qin Xiangyu came here in a hurry. After Li Xiuyuan refused her to move to No. 46 temporarily, she didn't come for a drink for ten days.
The old man only stayed in the front store for a while every day, and it only opened for two hours every day. Li Xiuyuan asked him to tell the regular customers who often come to buy wine.
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The old man looked at him and shook his head: "After I leave and you go to the desert, what will you do if they can't drink?"
Li Xiuyuan smiled lightly: "How about you accept an apprentice? Just teach him how to make wine?"
The old man quickly shook his head: "I don't want to cause any more trouble. One Juer is enough."
The old man no longer paid attention to Li Xiuyuan, who was dazed with a book in his hands, and went to the front shop to make tea and listen to the snow, saying that he wanted to be worthy of the drunkards who often came to visit.
Looking at the few purple bamboos in the yard, Li Xiuyuan was stunned.
Thinking back to the time when I had no intention of sitting by the lake and looking at a pond of dead lotuses, I unexpectedly failed to get together with Nangong Ruyu’s mother.
I wonder how the proud woman in white would feel if she knew Wu Xin would become a saint one day.
Think about it, only Nalan Moli, who has a strong temperament from the Tianshan Sword Sect and lives and dies with Wuxin, is the lotus that Wuxin has found for three lives and three lives, blooming deep in his heart.
I couldn't help but sigh softly: "I don't see you in front of the Sijun Hall. I will continue my relationship for three lives and three lives."
While I was feeling sentimental, a familiar voice sounded from the store in front.
Li Xiuyuan was stunned. Such a windy and snowy day couldn't help a monk who was going out to visit friends?
So he shouted: "Come in, I'm in the backyard."
When the old man who was greeting the guests heard this, he immediately smiled and said: "Please come in, the person you are looking for is in the backyard."
Putting down the book in his hand, Li Xiuyuan stood up and put two plates of pastries on the table.
Looking at the visitor, he murmured: "Isn't this kind of weather the right weather to sit in the Buddhist hall and recite sutras?"
The person who came was Monk Tripitaka. The monk smiled slightly and said, "I can't go up the mountain, so I have to walk around the imperial city. In fact, I am also chanting sutras while walking. Do you believe it?"
Only then did Li Xiuyuan remember that the monk was also a wonderful person.
He reached out and poured two cups of hot tea and said, "It's hard to walk, let's have a piece of cake."
Monk Sanzang took a sip of tea, ate half a cake, and then sighed softly.
Said: "A few days ago, some changes happened in the snowy mountains, and they have something to do with you."
Li Xiuyuan thought for a while and asked: "It's been more than ten days since I went down the mountain. Even if the sky falls, you still won't do anything to me?"
In his opinion, if something big happened in the temple at the foot of the mountain, Ksitigarbha would probably come to warn him in his dream.
Besides, he didn't even move a finger?
Sanzang ignored the innocent-looking Li Xiuyuan, but quietly told him the tragedy that happened while drinking tea.
Although there was no sadness or joy on his face, Li Xiuyuan still felt the compassion in Sanzang's heart.
"Is that so?"
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and said calmly: "You are a monk. You should understand that if you can't stop thinking, you will fall into the same realm."
After savoring the faint fragrance of flowers in his mouth, Sanzang couldn't help but sigh and said: "If people want to understand all the Buddhas in the three times, they should observe the nature of the Dharma Realm and everything is created by the mind... Those monks are innocent."
"It is said that there were more than a hundred monks when they went up the mountain, but less than half of them came back. They were alive and well."
After Sanzang finished speaking, he glanced at Li Xiuyuan thoughtfully.
It means that the snow-capped mountains are not your world? Everything that happened there must have a cause and effect with you, right?
Li Xiuyuan was startled when he heard this, looked at him and replied seriously: "The size of the snow mountain is not under my control. I just set up a magic circle in front of and behind the wooden house and on the way up the mountain so that no one can disturb it."
Seeing Sanzang's sad look, Li Xiuyuan suddenly became angry.
He said, "If it had been the past, they would have made fertilizer for the apricot trees I planted on the mountain road."
Sanzang smiled bitterly when he heard this: "I thought your compassion should be more than Sanzang's. The Buddha said..."
"Monk, you are a fake compassionate person!"
Li Xiuyuan corrected him: "The secret support of monk soldiers in the temple is against Buddhist law, and it also conflicts with the laws of the world. The reason for this is the abbot and elders in the temple..."
"I am neither the cause nor the effect, because I have never been involved in your cause and effect from the beginning to the end. It was the monk from the Discipline Hall who came to trouble me."
"When he had a thought, when he failed to become a Buddha at the foot of the mountain, he had already fallen into his own demonic barrier, but the abbot and monk in the temple continued to allow him to lead the monks up the mountain..."
Having said this, Li Xiuyuan chuckled: "Fortunately, I'm not on the mountain!"
Sanzang was shuddered when he heard the words. In an instant, he seemed to see the young man in front of him swinging a long sword, like a glaring King Kong on the Buddhist altar.
He was so frightened that he was speechless.
Holding the tea cup in his hand, after finishing the drink, he said: "Top more, add more."
It wasn't until Li Xiuyuan refilled the tea for him and drank half a cup that he murmured, "I see murderous intent on your face."
"Let me tell you a story."
Li Xiuyuan said quietly: "Back then, when I was on Luoxia Mountain in the Shura Realm, I took my sister to kill the bandits in the mountains, and then I was killed by an army of three thousand..."
After quietly recounting the past events of that year, Li Xiuyuan looked at Sanzang and asked, "Do you think I should kill them to avenge the people at the foot of the mountain?"
"Amitabha……"
Sanzang was stunned when he heard this. He was speechless and could only recite the Buddha's name and repent for the dead monks.
Li Xiuyuan added spiritual tea into Sanzang's cup.
He said quietly: "Monk, your practice has just begun. In this case, you should close your eyes and look at the world in front of you with your heart."
"A senior taught me to see the world with the mind's eye before. Later I learned that the Buddha talked about the five physical eyes, the heavenly eye, the wisdom eye, the Dharma eye, and the Buddha's eye... In fact, I prefer to say that you use your mind to see the world of the mind, rather than your eyes."
Having said this, Li Xiuyuan asked softly: "Monk, ask yourself, should you use the naked eye or the wisdom eye?"
Upon hearing this, Sanzang immediately clasped his hands together and exclaimed: "Three of us are walking together. The donor can be Sanzang's teacher."
Li Xiuyuan shook his head: "I won't be your teacher, but I can tell you that my wooden house on the mountain was once the place where Master Da Qin lived."
"As long as I am here, the monks at the foot of the mountain will not be allowed to invade."
Li Xiuyuan looked at him with determination and said, "Not even the emperor of the Tang Dynasty can do it."
After witnessing the changes in the Xuanwu Sect, Li Xiuyuan's heart was now harder than that of Da Qin, and his blood was colder than that of Da Zhou.
No matter the monks at the foot of the mountain or the dignitaries in the imperial city, they could not catch his eye.
The mountain is there, and the magic circle is also there.
It can even kill the black dragon that is about to turn into a dragon in Tianyu City, let alone these mere mortals in this world.
Sanzang shook his head, looked at Li Xiuyuan and smiled bitterly: "Don't scare me, I still hope to get a customs clearance document from Emperor Tang, and go to get the true scripture..."
Li Xiuyuan laughed when he heard it, and sighed softly: "Don't worry, let's wait until the new emperor ascends the throne, changes the country's name, and encounters his own troubles."
Sanzang was delighted when he heard this and exclaimed: "Can you reveal the secret to Sanzang?"
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan chuckled: "I'm not a Taoist priest who divines fortune."
At this moment, a scolding came from the divine sea: "I remember, when you just left Luoxia Mountain, you told everyone you met that you were not a monk..."
Li Xiuyuan was shocked when he heard this and blurted out: "Master..."
