Chapter 841 The Buddha Speaks of the Muni Jataka
"I heard that you are from the Li family in Longxi?"
Li Chong raised his head fiercely after hearing these words, his face showing a fierceness that was completely different from that of the children of the aristocratic family.
He subconsciously placed his hand on the sword and drew out a piece of the edge. Over the years of escaping to Six Towns, he had heard this question too many times!
Most of them are sarcastic and cold. Even if they are gentle on the surface, they have hidden intentions behind them.
But when he saw the man, the hand holding the handle of the knife subconsciously relaxed.
Because in the sun, the young man who was looking at him curiously was handsome, and even wearing a hut could not block his grace. His long hair, which was simply tied up, cast a layer of afterglow in the sun, making him look like a god who had stepped out of a painting.
"Dugu Xin! Don't mess with me..."
Li Zhong put the knife back into the scabbard and said calmly.
"Do you know me?" Dugu Xin was a little curious.
"Not to mention the Six Towns, at least in Wuchuan Town, who doesn't know about you, Dugu Lang?"
Li Chongping said calmly: "Everyone says that your appearance is not inferior to that of the 'Phoenix Emperor' of the past. Sooner or later, you will become famous, whether it is because of your military exploits or being favored by nobles."
These words were too harsh, and a trace of undisguised shame flashed in Dugu Xin's eyes.
Fenghuang'er is the diminutive name of Murong Chong, the son of the former Yan Emperor Murong Jun. After the Heavenly King Fu Jian put down the rebellion of the Sixteen Kingdoms, he and his sister were brought into the harem together, and he loved him even more than his sister.
That kind of grace is evident.
There has always been a saying among the people that "one female and one male fly together into the purple palace", which mainly refers to this person.
But later, after his uncle Murong Chui defeated the Heavenly King Fu Jian, Murong Chong invaded Chang'an and took revenge. Because he was too cruel, he was jointly executed by the Guanzhong family. Before his death, he was only a Yangshen.
The young man Dugu Xin said coldly: "I will never end up like Murong Chong. But you, claiming to be from the Li family in Longxi, are just hanging around like a commoner. Now that you are so old, you are just practicing Qi. Even
Even the techniques and Taoist foundations are not very good."
"alright!"
A hand pressed on the young man Dugu Xin's shoulder, and a tall figure faintly enveloped the space. The town's general, He Badu, held down Dugu Xin like a cockfighting cock and looked at Mo, who was about thirty or forty years old.
A man who is down and out and has low moral standards.
Li Chong said coldly: "I never said that I was from the Li family in Longxi."
With that said, he picked up the old sword, put the straw hat on his head, stood up and prepared to leave.
"But you are..." He Badu looked at him with a complicated expression: "Speaking of which, the only descendant of the Li family in Longxi who can support the family is Zhongshu Ling Li Chong, your uncle!"
"Li Chong?" Li Chong smiled coldly: "You have the wrong person!"
He Badu frowned slightly: "Aren't you Li Chengzhi's concubine? Your brother Li Er entered Jiankang in the past, and his sword shocked the world. Li Chong had seen him with his own eyes and recognized him personally."
"What does that have to do with me?" Li pressed his hat heavily, turned around and left.
He Badu said quietly: "I thought you would miss this brother! After all, if he is really the only true successor of Louguan Taoism, you can follow him to heaven."
A picture flashed through Li Chong's mind. It was Li Bao, the head of the Li family in Longxi in the past, standing in front of him and his mother, saying to them: "Lear was taken away! In the past, your father gave you
The name Chong'er corresponds to the meaning of Chong'er being born outside! The identities of you two brothers are too sensitive, after all... Alas, even though I lied about my identity, I still couldn't save Lear."
"He was taken away. Someone must have leaked your identity!"
"For now, there is only one place that can accommodate you."
Li Bao handed him a customs clearance document and said: "Go to Six Towns! There is a large formation in Northern Xinjiang there, which is enough to suppress all secret calculations and cover up your identity."
These flashes of thought only passed by for a moment. Li Zhong slowly pressed the brim of his straw hat and whispered: "I am almost middle-aged! Now I am just a Qi-training monk. Have you ever seen such a useless kid from a noble family?
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"The Li family of Longxi, maybe it's just my drunken talk when I was young! Look at how I am now qualified to get started by practicing the simplest military skills. Do you still believe this?"
He Badu looked at the poor man with low cultivation in front of him, and felt a little unsure in his heart. Maybe he really admitted his mistake?
After Li Zhong left, he hurried into the darkness and walked through the alleys of Wuchuan Town.
The real guard has been living high in the gold brick tower all day long, but now he is a black silhouette in the setting sun. You can faintly hear the monks chanting and praying not far away, and their vague tones rise and fall.
The guardian of Wuchuan Town is a Buddhist monk.
The high tower where he lives is also made of countless gold bricks, with scrolls of scripture carved on it.
The pagoda has six floors in total and is a pagoda with octagonal eaves.
The gold bricks are made from the red Yang gold mined in the Yin Mountains and the spiritual sand in the Blackwater River. If you rotate step by step around the tower, you can recite the 1,800 scriptures at the bottom at the same time, and keep reciting, step by step.
One brick, one brick after another.
In one turn, you have to recite all 1,800 volumes of Buddhist scriptures before you are considered successful. Even if you miss a single word, all your previous efforts will be wasted.
After ten thousand revolutions like this, one has completed the practice and received a ray of Buddhist power from the pagoda...
The second pile of bricks also contains 1,800 bricks and 1,800 different volumes of scripture.
There are 360 ​​stacks of gold bricks on the first floor of the pagoda. If you complete 3.6 million turns, you can develop a magical power.
The number and layers of gold bricks on the second floor are a mystery. Some people have counted 13,000 stacks, each stack containing 1.2 million gold bricks. Others say there are only nine stacks, each stack containing 81 gold bricks.
brick.
Once you have completed the six magical powers of the six-story pagoda, you can become a true disciple of the guarding real person!
Therefore, people in the town were never allowed to copy and study the scriptures on the bottom sutra bricks.
Therefore, many monks in the town will learn several sutras and recite them in front of the tower every morning and evening to attract the light of the Buddha and accumulate vows... It is said that those who recite the sutras well will be accepted as disciples by the guarding real person.
It is also a way to get ahead.
When walking past the six-story pagoda, Li Chong saw a young novice in tattered clothes, holding a wooden bowl, sitting cross-legged under the hanging shadow of the pagoda, with one palm raised in front of his chest, silently reciting scriptures.
"Another novice monk who hopes to practice in the pagoda and become the disciple of the guardian master." Li Chong sighed slightly in his heart.
But what's the use of just sitting and reciting? Could it be that he doesn't know how to practice in the pagoda? You have to start spinning! Like a donkey pulling a mill, memorize the bottom 1,800 volumes of Buddhist scriptures, and then read them one by one step by step
Scripture, read it slowly until the end of time!
Everyone in Wuchuan Town knows about pagoda practice, but even true Buddhist monks can’t stand it until they reach the ninth stack of sutra bricks.
The main reason is that all the more than 10,000 volumes of sutras are extremely difficult to pronounce, and the power of the Buddha that is drawn from the pagoda every time it turns around is only a small amount. It is far inferior to visualizing the pagoda, then finding the six fundamental sutras on the base, reciting and practicing.
hold.
Somehow, he looked at the young, skinny monk with an inexplicable attraction, and walked over.
"Are you here to practice in the Turning Pagoda? Most of the 1,800 volumes of scriptures at the bottom are useless. Only six of them are truly useful for practice. You can go to several temples in the town to give alms and light incense.
money……"
Having said this, Li Zhong couldn't help but stop. This monk didn't look like he was rich.
I can only sigh: "If you are a monk with the status of giving ultimatums, you can ask for a few volumes."
The young novice who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old, but was as skinny as if he had not eaten, raised his head slightly, his eyes were clear, like the reflection of stars.
"I'm different from others. They read from the bottom up, but I read from the top to the bottom." The novice monk's face is also very thin, and his cheeks are a little sunken, but even with such a miserable look, he has
A pair of clear, dust-free eyes.
His appearance, for some reason, felt familiar to Li Zhong.
"The top?" Li Zhong shook his head and said, "The top is where the guarding master Tan Wujue lives. No one has ever gone up there without his permission. Let alone the gold brick scriptures on it!"
Lear smiled calmly and said: "Look where I sit?"
As he spoke, he picked up the wooden bowl, stood up proudly and spun around in a circle.
Only then did Li Chong realize that he was stepping on the shadow of the six-story pagoda, and he was sitting on the top of the shadow cut by the setting sun. It turned out that when he said reading from the top, he meant stepping on the shadow of the top of the pagoda.
Reciting sutras under the setting sun.
Such a reaction is even less like that of an accomplished monk!
On the contrary, he is completely like a little novice who is unstable and unable to practice.
Li Chong could only laugh and said: "When the sun sets, the shadow will disappear. Didn't you just fall from the top of the tower?"
Lear nodded slightly and said seriously: "Indeed!"
So he quickly sat down cross-legged and said, "I have to suppress this shadow and not let it escape!"
"What's the use of suppressing the shadow?" Li Zhong laughed dumbly: "Can you still suppress the sun?"
With that said, Li Chong turned around and left. It turned out to be a crazy monk, but just after taking two steps, he couldn't help but think: "Today's sunset seems a bit long!"
Li Chong looked at the sunset that had not set for a long time, and couldn't help laughing out loud - it couldn't be that the crazy novice monk suppressed the shadow of the pagoda, and then the sun couldn't set!
This ridiculous idea made him laugh!
Looking back, I saw the novice monk still sitting on the hanging shadow of the pagoda. He lowered his head, looked at the wooden bowl in his hand and recited scriptures.
The setting sun reflected the black silhouette, reflecting in the wooden bowl in his hand, and the turbid yellow water rippled slightly.
The Muni bead on the top of the tower coincides with the sun, like a spiritual bead twisted by a novice monk on his fingertips.
Li Chong squinted his eyes and saw the setting sun reflected in the sparkling yellow water, as if there was a glint of golden light flashing through.
After identifying it for a long time, he recognized that it was a golden lotus seed.
"Hello?" Li Chong couldn't help shouting: "What's the scripture on the top of the tower?"
"The Buddha Speaks of the Muni Jataka!"
The novice raised his head slightly and said with a smile:
"It tells the life story of the Muni Pearl transformed by Sun Moon Deng Ming Buddha, who once freed the Buddha and taught him the Mahayana Dharma. After 1,200 calamities, the Ling Pearl landed on earth and joined Li Er, the crown prince of Xiliang Kingdom!
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A bit stuck
Chapter completed!