Luoyang City, White Horse Temple.
Tonight, the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the White Horse Temple is quiet. Only the patrolling monks are still awake. They hold tens of kilograms of water-milled Zen staffs and continue to patrol the temple.
These are the warrior monks in the White Horse Temple, also known as monk soldiers. They have polished their bodies and practiced martial arts since childhood. Each of them can fight one against ten. With them around, the thieves in Luoyang City will not dare to attack the White Horse Temple.
A mosquito flew quietly, easily avoiding the patrols of the monks, and flew towards the White Horse Temple. "Strange, why didn't I hear the voices of Junior Brother Mingjing and the others today?"
"Junior Brother Mingjing and the others became crazy after seeing the pregnant woman. In the past few days, when passing by the east wing, I could always hear them shouting about things like kowtow to the Buddha and wanting to become a Buddha. It was surprisingly quiet tonight. "
"Maybe the abbot took action. With the abbot here, Junior Brother Mingjing and the others will be fine!"
"That's right, Abbot Huichen's power is boundless. He is an Arhat from heaven descending to earth. If he takes action, I think the monster in that woman's belly will be wiped out!"
"Isn't there a rumor that the child in that woman's belly is the reincarnation of Buddha?"
"Haha, if the Buddha is really reincarnated, why did the Buddha's golden body in the main hall suddenly crack as soon as she moved into the west wing? And the Bodhisattva statue in the west wing also cracked inexplicably...
"Hush, be careful, this matter is not something we can discuss arbitrarily. Just trust the abbot in everything. He is a powerful person in the Yangshen realm. If it is really a demon, it cannot escape his old man's clairvoyance!"
The patrolling monks talked quietly, but did not notice that a small mosquito had been hovering above their heads for a long time, and then flew towards the west wing...
West wing.
This was originally the residence of young novice monks, but since a pregnant woman moved in, all the novice monks moved out. There were even warrior monks and well-educated monks guarding the place all night long. No one was allowed to enter except the abbot.
"Amitabha!"
The mellow and vast Buddha light flashed, and then a figure suddenly appeared in front of the door of the west wing, holding a gilt Zen staff, a red cassock fluttering, a lion's nose and a wide mouth, eyes like lightning, and the skin on his face was faintly glowing with a bright copper color. There is a kind of aura of King Kong descending to the earth, not angry but self-powerful.
"Meet the abbot!"
In an instant, all the monks, young and old, stood up and saluted, looking at the burly and majestic figure with great reverence.
The visitor is Master Huichen, the abbot of White Horse Temple. He is nearly ninety years old, but he is strong and energetic. He once carried a bell weighing more than a thousand kilograms with one hand. His magical power is unfathomable and majestic. The Buddhist monks who shook the Luoyang area!
Many people say that Master Huichan is an Arhat from heaven who descended to earth. After completing his practice in the human world, he will return to Lingshan to sit on the lotus platform.
"I've met the abbot, senior brother!"
An old monk with a white beard came and saluted Hui Chan. He was the first Huitong in Bodhi Temple. He was also the person with the highest cultivation level in Baima Temple besides Hui Chan. He was in the late stage of Yin Shen.
"Junior brother, how is the situation of Buddha Mother?"
Huichan asked through a voice transmission while turning the beads in his hand.
There are nine Buddhist beads in total, each one is as big as a goose egg, round and clear, like jade. It shines with a faint golden light in the dark night. At first glance, it is not ordinary.
Although Huitong is his junior brother, he looks much older than Hui Chan. He said tremblingly: "Brother, at first, the Buddha Mother often complained that she was hungry, but then she became very angry, and now she can't even speak. I can’t tell, and I don’t know whether I’m dead or alive inside.”
After a pause, he hesitated and said, "Senior brother, is she... really the mother of the Buddha?"
Hui Chan said categorically: "Junior brother, there is nothing wrong with the clairvoyance. She must be the mother of Buddha. As long as the Buddha is born, our Buddhist sect will flourish in the world!"
Huitong stopped talking and sighed silently in his heart.
In recent years, the senior brother seemed to be majestic in Luoyang and even issued an order to respect Buddha. However, he knew that the arrogant senior brother was not satisfied with the current situation of the decline of Buddhism.
Senior brother is extremely talented and talented. Today, when the Taoist sect is so powerful, it is not easy to be able to carve out a niche in Luoyang and lead the White Horse Temple to prosperity, but that's all.
Looking at the world, there are many talents in Taoist sects. There are Zhang Zhiyan and Ye Fashan in the front, and Zhang Qianyang and Li Daoxuan in the back. Which one is not a world-shaking talent?
Especially Li Daoxuan, who achieved the realm of Yangshen at a young age, shocked the world. After hearing the news, the senior brother did not say a word for ten days.
Taoism is becoming more and more prosperous, while Buddhism is becoming more and more declining. This has become an obsession in senior brother's heart.
"But senior brother, if you want her to give birth to a Buddhist son, you must have enough elixirs. The inventory in our temple has been used up. There are no demons near Luoyang now, and the Demon Suppression Tower can no longer refine elixirs. !
If you want to have a spiritual elixir, you need to capture the demons into the Demon Suppression Tower and refine them into elixirs. However, with Youhui Chan in Luoyang, the demons within a radius of hundreds of miles died and escaped, and now they have long disappeared.
"It doesn't matter, I've found the panacea."
Huichan had a clear idea in his mind, and then he walked towards the west wing.
Huitong stood by and hesitated for a moment before asking, "Senior brother, where did you get the elixir?"
Huichan glanced at him and said nothing. He suddenly stopped when he was about to reach a Zen room filled with scriptures and charms, and said: "Junior brother, please stop here first. I will go to see the Mother Buddha alone." good."
"As commanded."
Hui Chan opened the door and walked in.
Huitong couldn't help but glance inside, and vaguely saw a figure bound by countless ropes behind the screen with the "Diamond Sutra" painted on it. His belly was bulging high, like a spider about to give birth.
For some reason, the moment he saw that figure, Huitong felt that his Zen mind, which he had practiced for decades, was trembling slightly. An indescribable emotion filled his heart, as if there was a voice whispering in his ear. The call made him take steps subconsciously.
Snapped!
The door was slammed shut, and Huitong suddenly woke up. Only then did he realize that he had broken out in a cold sweat behind his back.
A moment later, Hui Chan walked out of the room, with a hint of excitement in his eyes.
"The Buddha Mother is in good condition after taking the elixir. It depends on the situation. In twenty days, on the 33rd day, the Buddha Mother will give birth to a Buddha son. By then, it will be the day when my Buddhist sect will flourish! "
"Zhang Zhiyan and Li Daoxuan are just ordinary people in front of my Buddha. The great rise of Buddhism is inevitable and no one can stop it!"
Looking at the excited senior brother, Huitong had an unknown premonition in his heart for some reason. He always felt that there was something strange about this incident, which made him a little uneasy.
"Brother, you haven't answered me yet, where does the elixir come from?"
Huichan looked at him deeply and said: "Junior brother, the Buddha's birth is a grand event that our Buddhist sect has not seen in thousands of years. Any Buddhist disciple will do his best to promote this event, even if it costs his life!"
Huitong was shocked, as if he had thought of something, and said angrily: "Brother, you... are you trying to kill Mingjing and the others?"
·Sent to the Demon Suppression Tower? "
Hui Chan closed his eyes, turned the beads in his hand, and said calmly: "They are lucky to be able to sacrifice their lives to help the Buddha come to this world, and they are willing to do so."
Huitong only felt that his whole body was chilling. Ming Jing and them, but the best disciples of White Horse Temple fell into madness just because they saw the Buddha Mother. He thought that his senior brother would come to rescue him, but he didn't expect that his senior brother would actually Send them to the Demon Suppressing Tower to refine the elixir!
For a moment, Huitong felt that his senior brother had become extremely strange.
"Senior brother, are you crazy? Mingjing is your direct disciple. Are you...are you also influenced by that woman?"
Huitong found it incredible. Although his former senior brother had a strong personality, he sincerely loved Buddhist disciples and would never do such a thing.
Hui Chan's voice was sober and firm.
"For the great prosperity of Buddhism and the birth of Buddha, even I am willing to sacrifice. As my disciple, Mingjing should have this awareness!"
After a pause, he continued: "Junior brother, haven't you always wanted to see the Buddha's Mother? Go in now. When you see the Buddha's Mother, you will understand."
Huitong said angrily: "What Buddha Mother? I think she is a monster. Today I will kill this monster. Senior brother, I can't watch you make the same mistake again and again!"
As he spoke, he rushed into the room where the Buddha's mother was kept, with Buddha's light blooming all over his body and murderous intent in his voice. "Monster, suffer-"
The sound stopped suddenly, Huitong seemed to have seen some incredible scene, and his body was trembling. Hui Chan turned the beads in his hand and whispered: "Amitabha!"
After a while.
Huitong walked out of the wing. He closed the door very respectfully, then knelt down and kowtowed three times. His voice was clear and loud, and his forehead was swollen.
"Senior brother, if the elixir is not enough, please send me to the Demon Suppression Tower!"
Huitong's voice was pious and sincere, his expression was calm, and a faint Buddha light bloomed all over his body, as if he had become enlightened.
"Don't worry, after the Buddha comes to the world, we will still serve him, so let the disciples enter the Demon Suppression Tower first."
When Huitong heard this, a trace of struggle flashed in his eyes, but he quickly regained his composure. He clasped his hands together and said, "In that case, let's start with my disciples Mingzheng and Mingzhi."
"Great kindness!"
Huichan nodded and was about to continue saying something, but he frowned and stopped turning the beads. "Brother, what's wrong?"
Huichan stared at the dark night, then shook his head and said, "Maybe I felt wrong. Okay, the night is getting dark. Junior brother, let's go back first."
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Just after Huichan and Huitong left, a small mosquito quietly flew to the side room and transformed into a green-robed Taoist priest.
A gourd hangs from her waist, she is combed in a bun, and a few strands of hair in front of her forehead are slightly floating in the wind. She has a long body and looks elegant.
It's just that he wears a fox mask on his face, so his appearance cannot be seen clearly, but the eyes under the mask are shining with holy light, like the moon shining on the cold river, with a high and clear look.
The person who came was none other than Li Daoxuan. After hearing what the Earth God said about the Zhou family's maid, he keenly sensed something was wrong, so he took the fox mask bought by Changle, entered Luoyang at starry night, and used the seventy-two transformation technique. Sneaking into the White Horse Temple, I wanted to see the Zhou family maid.
The reason why he did not reveal his identity and entered the White Horse Temple with great fanfare was also to avoid alerting others. After all, sometimes you can see more clearly by hiding in the dark.
In addition, Abbot Huichan of Baima Temple is after all a great monk in the late Yangshen period and has considerable prestige in Buddhism. Li Daoxuan, as the Tang Dynasty's national master and leader of the Hidden Dragon, is nominally in charge of the affairs of ghosts and gods in the world, and Buddhism is also under his control. , but in fact it is not.
Whether it is White Horse Temple, Maoshan Mountain or Longhu Mountain, these famous sects that have stood for thousands of years have their own backgrounds, and their attitude towards the court is respectful but not surrendering.
Although Li Daoxuan could take action to suppress Hui Chan, it might also intensify the conflict between Buddhism and Taoism, so he did not come directly to the door, but secretly explored the truth.
"Haha, I want to see, what is the so-called Buddha Mother that can make people undergo such earth-shaking changes?"
Li Daoxuan stretched out his hand and pressed it on the door, with a hint of coldness in his eyes.
He saw Huitong's appearance just now. The old monk who thought the Buddha's mother was a monster a moment ago suddenly changed his appearance after entering the house, as if he had become a fanatical believer. Even he and his disciples No more lives.
Regardless of whether the other party is a monster or a true Buddhist, Li Daoxuan will never tolerate such deception.
The door was slowly pushed open, and a scent of fragrance floated out from inside, like lotus and sandalwood. After smelling it, people felt calm and felt a faint sense of Zen.
Li Daoxuan frowned slightly, something seemed not right about this smell.
When he walked into the wing, the first thing he saw was the screen covered with scriptures. Under the candlelight, there was a hazy figure on the back of the screen, which seemed to be struggling slightly.
Li Dao
The person who wrote the Diamond Sutra has probably entered the realm of Arhat.
Li Daoxuan thought in his mind, then stepped forward and walked behind the screen. He took a closer look, but he couldn't help but feel shocked.
I saw a naked woman being tied up with five flowers. The red rope that tied her had a strong smell of blood, as if it had been soaked in blood.
What's even more weird is that there are many mysterious scriptures written on the woman's body.
"After a thousand years of age, those who violate the precepts will resume the precepts. Maitreya Tathagata will have a lifespan of 84,000 years..."
As Li Dao
"ah!!!"
The naked woman screamed in pain, and a grimace suddenly appeared on her bulging belly, as if a baby was trying to burst out of her belly and expand her belly.
A vast and ancient consciousness invaded Li Daoxuan's spiritual platform.
"Those who worship me will live a thousand years, those who kneel before me will live for thousands of years, and those who kowtow to me will achieve Bodhi!"
"Maitreya is reborn, King Ming comes to the world, Buddhas, dragons, elephants, sentient beings, cattle and horses are all sitting on lotus pedestals..." Since you see the future, why don't you worship? "
Some people died, but not completely...
