"I don't care about the reward," Lu Jingdao, "I mean it's still daytime, and there are still many pilgrims in Qingquan Temple. Are we just going to go in and have a fight with that weird thing? And you said that weird thing The thing is in the temple, what happened to those monks, why didn’t they disappear?”
"Let me answer your first question first. That thing is not in the main hall, so if everything goes well, it will not affect the pilgrims in the main hall. As for the monks in the temple..."
"Who says it won't have any impact? The original abbot of the temple had extraordinary medical skills and had countless people alive. Even for those stubborn diseases that couldn't be cured, he could prescribe the right medicine to help the patients control the progression of the disease.
"When he disappeared, he also disappeared with many of the prescriptions he prescribed. Therefore, those who relied on his medicine to maintain their condition are now more seriously ill. Besides the abbot, there are also other people in the temple. The other four monks disappeared, but they were all forgotten." Gong Hao said
"Are those people dead?"
"No, they are all still alive, no... I should say most of them are still alive, and strictly speaking, they are still living in the same world as us, but we can't see them, and we can't communicate with them. "
"Invisible?"
"Roughly the same."
"If we solve that weird thing, can we rescue them?"
"I'm not sure about this," Gong Hao said, "I've never been caught by that weird thing, so it's hard for me to tell you the specific situation there. How about it, do you have any other questions?"
"No, let's get started." After Lu Jing finished speaking, he took the lead and walked through the mountain gate.
Gong Hao followed closely behind. After the two entered the temple, they did not go to the main hall to burn incense with other pilgrims, but bypassed several monks responsible for receiving pilgrims.
After quietly reaching the Luohan Tower at the back, Gong Hao kept walking and led Lu Jing further forward, passing through a row of wooden fences.
After that, Lu Jing found himself standing in a square. As far as he could see, he saw a grand hall that was at least twice as grand as the previous main hall in the center of the temple.
But now only half of the hall is left, the other half has been turned into ruins, and the remaining half looks dilapidated. The roof is leaking everywhere, and the walls and pillars are also burned by the fire. Mark of.
The Buddha statue in the main hall fell sideways on the ground, and the Buddha's head was missing.
The hall was full of weeds and cobwebs, and it looked in ruins.
Gong Hao's voice sounded again from behind Lu Jing, "This was originally the largest temple in Huizhou. There were relics of holy monks enshrined in the temple, which attracted believers to come here for pilgrimage.
"Until the first year of Jingyou's reign, the temple was flooded for unknown reasons. It is said that the fire was so violent that night that not only did all the temples burn to the ground, but hundreds of monks were also burned to death.
"Because of the fire, this place was transformed from a Buddhist pure land into an ominous place. It was not until a hundred years later that a great sage reopened the gate here.
"However, after such a long time, they only cleared out a small area in the front and built a temple and monk's dormitory on it. As for the large area in the back, they were unable and had no money to take care of it."
"Is the strange thing we have to deal with this time also related to the fire in Jingyou's first year?" Lu Jing asked again.
Gong Hao nodded, took off a deerskin bag from his waist, and took out fourteen glass beads. The beads were of various colors and sizes.
But one thing is the same, that is, each bead has dense lines on it.
Lu Jing knew that it was a formation diagram.
Speaking of which, he has seen many magic formations now, and the materials used by those formation practitioners to set up formations are also diverse.
Lu Jing had seen Ixiang's knife and Ye Gongmei's animal bones. In theory, anything that could be engraved with a formation diagram could be used to set up an formation.
The glazed beads were naturally no exception. Gong Hao buried those beads in each corner according to the formation, and finally kept only the smallest one in his hand.
Then he said to Lu Jing, "Okay, you can cover your eyes now. Be careful, the obsession with that strange thing is very deep, so be sure to remember not to take off the black cloth no matter what happens." , because all the people who disappeared, without exception, saw what that thing looked like.”
When Lu Jing heard this, he took out a black cloth, covered his eyes, and tied it behind his head.
Gong Hao on the other side also covered his eyes, "As long as you lure the strange thing here later, leave the rest to me."
Then Lu Jing heard Gong Hao mutter something.
"Converge the profound entrance, the wonderful way of nothingness, calm the spirit, control the outside and nourish the center, the heaven and man are unified, hide!"
After saying the last word, Lu Jing found that he could no longer feel Gong Hao's breath. His whole body seemed to be truly integrated with heaven and earth, no longer distinguishable from each other.
So Lu Jing stopped delaying and walked towards the dilapidated hall.
Because he was blindfolded, he didn't walk very fast, and after taking only a few steps, he had to stop and listen to what was going on around him.
However, until Lu Jing walked to the front of the hall, he didn't hear any unusual noise.
Then Lu Jing's foot crossed the threshold.
The next moment, the sound of Hong Zhong Da Lu suddenly rang in his ears, accompanied by magnificent Sanskrit singing.
If Lu Jing had not seen the decay of the main hall before, he would have felt that he was in a majestic Buddhist kingdom just by listening.
And even if you cover your eyes, you can still see the faint golden light through the black cloth.
After a while, the Sanskrit sound gradually became quieter, the golden light became softer, and another deep voice sounded, "Since the donor has come to this temple, why don't you come in?"
When Lu Jing heard this, he still kept one foot in and one foot out, and asked tentatively, "How about you come out, master?"
"…………"
The voice probably didn't expect anyone to answer like this, and was speechless for a moment.
After a moment, the voice sounded again, "I wonder why the donor came here?"
"Oh, it's nothing special. I just heard someone talking about the great scene of your temple in the past, and I came here to pay my respects."
"The fact that the donor came here shows that he has a predestined relationship with me, the Buddha. In this case, why not go in again and listen to the old monk's sermon. If what he says is not what you want, you can leave. Oh, by the way, there are also those in your eyes. Aren’t you going to take off the black cloth?”
"No, no, I've had eye problems since I was a child, and I can't see the light of day." Lu Jing said casually.
"It's just a matter of looking down on the eye disease. As long as the donor is willing to do what the old monk said, the old monk can guarantee that the donor's eye disease will be cured without medicine."
"There's nothing wrong with being blind. You don't have to see the filth in this world." Lu Jing continued to deal with the old monk while thinking about how to deceive him.
But then he felt a sudden stir under his feet, and then Lu Jing found that he was already in the palace.
? ? ?
Is this okay? !
Lu Jing didn't expect that the threshold could move from in front of his feet to behind his feet on its own while he stood still.
