If the abbot had not been friends with several wealthy squires, more than one person would have been killed.
However, after this incident, the temple's incense naturally declined.
The people around them all said that there was a group of promiscuous monks on the mountain, but they were still willing to offer incense.
The abbot had no choice but to dismiss a group of monks and organize the remaining monks to cultivate their own fields and live with their heads down.
Little did he know that this scandal was just the beginning of the catastrophe that would follow.
Less than a month later, when a monk got up to go to the toilet at night, he found that his fellow monk had collapsed in the toilet.
He reached out to help him, but found that the other person had died.
The entire face was torn off, and the bloody tissue was still steaming.
The monk was so frightened that he almost lost consciousness.
This alarmed all the monks in the temple.
Seeing this tragic situation, everyone thought of the woman whose face was torn off that day.
All the monks were horrified for a moment, and rumors spread quickly that the ghost was seeking their lives.
The abbot did not dare to neglect and reported to the official immediately.
The police went to the mountain to investigate, but this time they failed to find out the real culprit.
Moreover, except for the fact that his face was torn off, the dead monk had no wounds on his body, which was extremely strange.
Finally, the monk whose roommate was the first to discover the body was taken back to the county government office, beaten severely and sent to jail.
The monks in the temple were always in panic, and as expected, disasters happened one after another.
A month later, another monk died violently and his face was torn apart.
And more than one person heard a woman crying in the temple that night.
Now the fear could no longer be suppressed, and the next day several monks came down the mountain to bid farewell to the abbot.
This time I went to report it to the police, but after hearing about it, the police refused to come again.
The abbot couldn't help it. There was no martial arts inheritance in the temple, and the monks could only chant sutras. No one would be afraid of this kind of thing.
At this time, he suddenly remembered his teacher's preface that he had served under a Zen master of Zhende Temple when he was young, and he had a close relationship with Zhende Temple.
Zhende Temple is the first Buddhist temple in Nanyan. It has been passed down for thousands of years and has many eminent monks practicing Buddhism and martial arts.
From time to time, there are rumors about the righteous deeds of eminent monks going down the mountain to slay demons and subjugate them.
If you encounter something strange like this now, for the sake of being a disciple of the Buddha, you should go and ask for help.
But Zhende Temple is located in Guangwu County in the north of Nanyan, close to the Wanyao Mountains and some way away from Lingshan County.
So the abbot entrusted the temple to the two most senior disciples and took a younger disciple on the road.
After arriving at Zhende Temple, he explained his identity and what happened in the temple.
Zhende Temple also paid great attention to it and sent an inner Zen master to return with him.
It took nearly half a month to go back and forth.
Unexpectedly, the two disciples from before took some of the gold and silver from the temple, sold the land deeds to the farmland, and disappeared.
The abbot was furious, but a monk soon discovered the bodies of the two people on the mountain path.
The skin of the corpse was torn off, but the gold and silver on the body were intact.
This further proves that it was not the work of thieves and murderers.
The abbot had no choice but to let the Zen master subdue the demon first.
The Zen master stayed for a week and nothing happened in the temple.
One day, he suddenly found the abbot and said seriously that the matter was difficult.
This demon can only be suppressed with the Buddhist treasures brought from Zhende Temple.
He sealed the Buddha treasure into the big bell in the temple and said that a monk must ring the bell at midnight to ensure the peace of the temple.
Otherwise, not only will the temple be poisoned, but the surrounding people may also be poisoned.
After the explanation, the Zen master left on his own.
The abbot could only follow the instructions and ring the bell every night.
After that, it seemed like nothing happened again.
However, after experiencing the sudden deaths of several monks in the past, the disciples in the temple had long wanted to leave the mountain.
Either return to secular life and return home, or find another place.
The abbot couldn't stop it either.
In the end, even the young disciples who accompanied him left the mountain and found another way to make a living.
The abbot was considered a man of virtue. He was afraid that monsters would come out to harm people again, and he was reluctant to part with the inheritance passed down by his ancestors, so he stayed alone on the mountain and rang the bell every night.
As time went by, he encountered no misfortune.
But after the news spread that all the monks in the temple had left, some surrounding refugees, beggars and even bandits went up the mountain to fight the autumn wind.
Everything that can be moved from the temple is moved away, and anything that cannot be moved is smashed.
Soon the temple fell into disrepair, no one came to offer incense anymore, and it became a completely abandoned place.
Du Wu said in his travel notes that he felt quite sad after hearing what the old monk said.
At the same time, I remember that there were similar records at home.
He was a chivalrous man, so he told the old abbot that he would find a way to completely eliminate the monster after returning home.
But the old abbot just waved his hand and said that he was afraid that his time was running out and he did not want to involve irrelevant people anymore.
Du Wu didn't pay attention and quickly returned home after leaving the mountain.
But after the elders in the family heard him talking about the matter, they immediately banned him.
Du Wu was puzzled, and the elders only said that if he got involved in such things, it would definitely harm the family.
It was three months after he was released from prison and he rushed to his hometown as soon as possible.
However, the old abbot was no longer there and found nearby villagers.
The other party said that the person responsible for delivering supplies to the mountain found the old monk dead in the temple last month, with his face torn off.
The county government issued notices not allowing people in the surrounding areas to go up the mountain.
Du Wu was horrified and did not dare to go up the mountain again. He later recorded the incident completely in his travel diary.
Du Ming finished telling his uncle's story, his voice trembled a little.
He looked around and said: “At the inn, the temple bells are ringing and women are crying.
When the incident happened just now, my memory was suddenly brought back. This place was the barren mountain where my uncle had been! "
Jiang Ye was also disappointed that such a coincidence happened.
So according to the narrative in the story, the so-called Buddhist treasures in Zhende Temple should indeed play a role in suppressing monsters.
But it only delayed for some time, and the old abbot was eventually killed.
And judging from the bell that was rung before the monster appeared, that Buddhist treasure eventually became its nourishment.
Make it stronger than it was in the beginning.
This is the terrifying thing about monsters, everything contained in the nightmare space, whether it is living creatures, magic weapons or magic weapons.
As long as you can't escape in the end, you may become the treasure of the monster.
When monsters appear later, the thick fog will cover an increasingly wider area.
That kind of top-notch monster can cover a city in an instant when it releases its nightmare.
If all the living creatures in the city were swallowed up, the increase in strength would be unimaginable.
After the previous game merged with reality, there were several monsters of this level.
Their range of activities is called the "forbidden zone", and I am called the "Lord of the forbidden zone"!
The dense fog in the area will never dissipate. Once it enters, even the ninth-level experts will die!
Monsters like the Painted Skin Demon can only be considered relatively immature.
But if it is allowed to develop, it may develop into an even more terrifying existence over time.
But with his current strength, Jiang Ye could only retreat.
Preserve yourself.
If something serious happens, the strong men from Nanyan will show up.
After Du Ming finished his story, he calmed down and began to investigate the body with other colleagues.
Soon, they made a new discovery.
