Nightwatcher

At this moment, one after another looked at him, and two of them made Xu Qi'an feel like a thorn in his back.

In the depths of the temple, the gaze from the third-rank Vajra was scrutinizing. And the gaze from Irb was cold. .

The people present in the Jianghu silently distanced themselves from each other, lest when this mysterious master was "punished" by the third-rank Linghui master or Dharma protector, he would harm Chiyu because he was too close.

They were dissatisfied with the slander of Xu Yinluo by the spiritual master of the Witch God Sect, but they only dared to beep softly and protest weakly. The behavior of jumping out to mock like the man in Tsing Yi was no different from suicide.

Liu Yun from the Double Knife Gate struggled to stand up, wiping the blood from the corner of her mouth. She was very happy that someone could stand up, but she couldn't help worrying about this plain-looking man in the green robe.

This person has treacherous methods, tyrannical cultivation, and the courage to face a third-rank expert. In normal times, she would definitely invite him to drink. Now I just want the other party to evacuate quickly.

Thinking in her heart, Liu Yun, who was careful, noticed that the companions beside the man in Tsing Yi didn't feel panic or panic at all, and their faces were calm. One of the mediocre-looking men had bright eyes, and even, even looked forward to the next conflict?

Yuan Yi and other fourth-rank masters looked deeply at the man in Tsing Yi, and at the same time paid attention to the actions of the two third-ranks, hoping to judge the true attitude of the two third-ranks through the encounter of this Tsing-clothed man.

If something happens to the men in Tsing Yi, they will resolutely give up the treasure in the pagoda and leave Sanhua Temple.

"Amitabha."

Instead, it was Monk Jingxin who spoke first, and said in a low voice:

"Senior brother Yinshun has not been cured of the poison, and only he can cure it after eating this poison. Please be merciful, Uncle Du Nan."

Without waiting for King Kong to speak, Irbu said indifferently:

"Monk Jingxin, don't worry, the wizard's blood spirit can also detoxify him."

Monk Jingxin clasped his hands together and stopped talking.

Speaking of this, it seems that the man in Tsing Yi has been sentenced to death.

"Senior, are you sure you can kill him?"

Li Lingsu sounded slightly excited.

He is very interested in Xu Qian's identity, so far, he has not figured out the other party's roots. Although this bad old man is proficient in voodoo, Li Lingsu doesn't think voodoo is the opponent's major system.

I'm just a parallel importer Xu Qi'an complained silently in his heart, in front of everyone, he took out the conch, brought it to his mouth, and muttered for a while.

what is he doing

Seeing this scene, Li Lingsu, the surrounding Leizhou people, and the Buddhist monks in the distance were all dazed.

But soon, they understood.

"Look, what's that?"

A monk pointed to the sky and screamed.

Including Xu Qi'an, Li Lingsu, Shuangdaomen, Leizhou Chamber of Commerce, Commander Yuan Yi, Zhenfu General Li Shaoyun and others all turned their heads and looked at the sky behind them.

A pitch-black steel fort made of black iron hangs in the air.

Twelve feet long and three feet high, fifteen heavy artillery were lined up, thick metal pipes protruding from the fort, and a bed crossbow was placed on the edge of the fort.

On the surface of the steel turret, dense and complicated formations are lit up, engraved with thirty large formations, including but not limited to defensive formations, teleportation formations, floating formations, and spirit gathering formations.

In the center of the fort, stood a man with mediocre features, holding a sign in his left hand:

Let everyone enter the Buddha Pagoda!

In his right hand is holding a sign:

Otherwise, the Sanhua Temple will be razed to the ground!

"Yes, a warlock?"

"Here, what kind of monster is this?"

Someone murmured.

As a person in the Jianghu, he has rich experience, but limited vision, coupled with the scarcity of warlocks, he has almost disappeared in the Jianghu in the past. Therefore, the heroes in Leizhou can hardly see the warlock's showy operations.

In their eyes, this floating steel fortress is simply incredible, and the style of painting is incompatible with the current era.

Dongfang Wanrong was dumbfounded. She herself controlled a magic weapon called "Yufeng Zhou". That magic weapon only had the wind-defending formation and defensive formation, and it was used as a large flying magic weapon.

In this way, the Yufengzhou is enough to be listed as one of the twelve magic weapons of the Witch God Sect.

As for the floating fort that appeared in front of him, Yufengzhou was obviously not on the same level as it.

In some respects, the warlock system is really abnormal.

However, according to Dongfang Wanrong's judgment, similar magical artifacts are expensive to refine and cannot be mass-produced. Otherwise, Dafeng would have unified Kyushu long ago.

"Sun Xuanji!"

In the depths of the temple, there was the thunderous voice of the Dharma Protector Vajra.

Sun Xuanji said indifferently: "Yes!"

While speaking, he raised the words in his hand to show that he was not joking.

With the firepower on the fort, after a few rounds, Sanhua Temple will be razed to the ground. Dharma Guardian King Kong is naturally not afraid of the firepower output, but the monks in the temple and this centuries-old ancient temple are absolutely difficult to preserve.

Yuan Yi frowned, and said pleasantly: "Your Excellency is the second disciple of Jianzheng, the third-rank warlock Sun Xuanji?"

With his noble status as the commander of Leizhou Capital, he naturally knew about Sun Xuanji.

The commander of the capital is the person with the greatest real power in a state. In the whole Dafeng, there are only thirteen such people. They are the real officials of the frontier.

"Um!"

Sun Xuanji nodded.

Everyone in the audience was in an uproar. Based on the iconic white clothes, they vaguely guessed the identity of the magician, but they didn't expect that he was the second disciple of Jianzheng, a third-grade magician.

This is a sorcerer who cherishes words like gold, and he is full of superior demeanor everywhere.

And such a character was suspected to be summoned by the master in Tsing Yi.

For a moment, everyone looked at Xu Qi'an with more speculation and curiosity.

What is the identity of this person?

He blew on the conch just now, and then the magician in white appeared. Liu Yun pursed her lips, her eyes kept rolling on the man in green.

Li Lingsu's eyes widened, unable to tell whether it was disappointment, shock, or both.

He was able to summon Sun Xuanji so easily, proving that the rhetoric that he played chess with the supervisor that day was true, and he was not lying. Did he summon Sun Xuanji because he felt that King Kong and Linghui Master were not worth his shot?

The Son of Tianzong secretly guessed.

"Can!"

After a moment of silence, King Kong deep in the temple said.

Seeing this, Xu Qi'an was relieved.

Sun Xuanji's threat with guns was a countermeasure that had been discussed long ago, and he was responsible for responding outside. But if only Xu Qi'an entered the Buddha Pagoda by himself, it would be eye-catching.

After entering the pagoda, it is easy to be targeted by the masters of witch gods and Buddhism, so there is a strategy of spreading news and attracting heroes.

He hides among a group of ordinary people and keeps a low profile. Even if he is targeted because of the operation just now, people in the world can act as helpers, so that he will not be alone.

Seeing the Buddhist King Kong's compromise, the Leizhou heroes showed joy, their waists straightened instantly, and the decadent atmosphere was swept away.

"The antidote!"

Monk Jingxin looked at Xu Qi'an.

Xu Qi'an chuckled lightly, "Throw him over here."

Monk Jingxin put his palm on the back of the middle-aged monk, and sent him lightly to Xu Qi'an.

The latter stretched out his finger and tapped on the nose of the middle-aged monk, wisps of blue-black mist gushed out and was snatched back by the finger.

With the removal of the poisonous gas, the blackened face of the middle-aged monk gradually returned to normal blood, but he was still unconscious.

"After an hour, he will wake up. After a few days of cultivation, his body will recover."

Xu Qi'an threw him back.

Monk Jingxin took the middle-aged monk with his palms together, and then he led the monks from Sanhua Temple back into the temple.

Zhenfu General Li Shaoyun, carrying a spear, said excitedly:

"Master Yuan, let's go in."

Take a step forward and enter the temple first.

The crowd followed closely behind.

Passing through the main halls, the three parties quickly arrived at their destination. In the depths of the temple, there stood a huge pagoda.

At first glance, the white walls and black tiles do not look like a magic weapon at all, but more like a normal pagoda.

The only strange thing is that it is 100 meters high, but there are only three windows in the tower body, which symbolizes three floors.

In addition, the gate of the pylon is dark gold, as if cast in gold. No knocker, no keyhole, tightly closed.

The three parties gathered outside the Buddha Pagoda. In the silent confrontation, the local heroes in Leizhou frequently looked up at the sky, silently counting in their hearts the time when the Buddha Pagoda was opened in previous years.

Getting closer, getting closer.

Rumble!

The tower body vibrated dully, and the dark golden tower door slowly opened.

Everyone subconsciously looked into the door, but only saw darkness.

"Amitabha!"

Monk Jingxin clasped his hands together, bowed to the Buddha Pagoda, and walked into the pagoda first, with red and yellow cassocks dangling.

"Amitabha!"

In the sound of chanting the Buddha's name, the burly young monk Jingyuan and the first Hengyin followed closely behind, and behind them were nine monks and nine Zen masters.

Two Zen masters, one monk, and the other 18 people have different levels of cultivation. Xu Qi'an took a glance and knew that the twenty-one monks who entered the pagoda were the competitors he would deal with later.

"Little bitch, you'd better not come in, or my aunt promises that today is your memorial day."

The charming and gorgeous Dongfang Wanrong turned her head and glanced at Wenren Qianrou with a smile.

The Dongfang sisters led the disciples of the East China Sea Dragon Palace and entered the pagoda.

Hearing this, Li Lingsu bared her teeth and grinned, her head hurting.

"Do you need me to kill this pair of sisters for you?"

Xu Qi'an jokingly transmitted voice: "Forget it, you've been hiding in Tibet all day long."

Li Lingsu shook his head hastily, and the sound transmission replied: "No, senior, you might as well kill me."

I'm just talking casually, two fourth-rank peaks, I can't kill Xu Qi'an, watching Yuan Yi and Li Shaoyun bring their subordinates into the tower, without hesitation, they entered the tower among martial arts.

"Let's go in too, let's go in too!"

The little white fox tried to struggle out of Mu Nanzhi's arms, but failed, so he had no choice but to seduce him: "Go in with him and play."

"Do you dare to enter the place of Buddhism?"

Mu Nanzhi glanced at the curious little fox who was not afraid of tigers as a newborn calf.

The little white fox thought for a while, and remembered the terrible legends about Buddhism that his fellow clansmen had said, weakly said:

"Yeah, I don't really want to go either."

With her head resting on her warm and soft chest, basking in the early winter sun, she said in a clear and tender voice:

"Aunt, what is your relationship with him?"

"It doesn't matter."

"oh!"

The little white fox was immediately relieved, and thought that Mu Nanzhi was telling the truth, because such an ordinary woman was not worthy of Xu Yinluo.

Only a fox who combines talent and beauty is worthy of Xu Yingong.

"Does he often go to the Jiaofang Division?" The little white fox asked again.

"You even know the Secretary of Jiaofang?" Mu Nanzhi was taken aback.

"Although I have never been in a human city, I am well-informed. For example, human women often call women who are more beautiful than themselves vixen. In the human world, vixen is a combination of beauty and talent. symbol."

The little white fox shows off his knowledge in a serious manner.

"Who told you?" Mu Nanzhi smiled.

"My people."

This is very fox Mu Nanzhi murmured in his heart, and said with a smile: "In the eyes of human women, maybe the vixen is the most beautiful, but in the eyes of human men, there is only one most beautiful woman in the world."

"Who is it?" the little white fox asked.

"The number one beauty in Dafeng, Princess Zhenbei." Mu Nanzhi said with a serious face.

She originally wanted to say "Mu Nanzhi", but considering that this would reveal unnecessary information, she changed it to a more popular name.

The little white fox showed a humanized expression of admiration.

At this moment, Mu Nanzhi saw the old abbot of Sanhua Temple take out a fist-sized bead from his cassock.

The light and shadow in the bead swayed, reflecting the figures of Jing Xin and others, reflecting a resplendent and magnificent hall.

"very good!"

Irb's chuckle came.

The pagoda of the Buddha cuts off the prying eyes of the outside world, and this mirror beast teardrop is the key to maintaining the "friendship" between the two sides.

After stepping into the Buddha Pagoda, Xu Qi'an looked around and found that he was in an unimaginably spacious hall.

This hall has no dome, looking up, it is surrounded by clouds and mist.

At the end of the main hall is a golden Buddha more than ten feet high, like a hill.

This Buddha has benevolent brows but majestic eyes, thick earlobes, and small curly bumps on his head in the center.

Even a person who does not worship Buddha can recognize who he is as long as he has entered a temple.

Buddha!

On the left side of the Buddha are thirteen golden statues and on the right side are fourteen golden statues.

There are men and women, and they all have rings of different styles on the back of their heads, some are flames, some are outlines of knotted lines, like a copper plate with a simple sun, and so on.

Interestingly, there are nine golden figures with blurred faces.

Xu Qi'an looked around calmly. The spaciousness of this hall exceeded the limit that the Buddha Pagoda could accommodate. At least from the appearance, the interior of the Buddha Pagoda could not accommodate this hall.

The deja vu scene in the Buddhist realm reminded him of the golden bowl that was used to save the Arhat during the Buddhist martial arts fight.

The golden bowl hides the Buddhist realm.

"Buddhism is very good at this kind of magical power. I remember that on the way back to the capital in Yunzhou, I dreamed of the Battle of Shanhaiguan twenty years ago. There was a scene where thousands of troops jumped out of the palm of a certain Buddhist eminent monk."

"Perhaps the eminent monk had a magic vessel similar to a golden bowl at that time, and the army entered the Buddha's realm. Besides, these local aborigines are so calm."

The heroes of the rivers and lakes in Leizhou, who witnessed this scene with their own eyes, did not seem surprised, and were relatively calm.

"By the way, Wenren Qianrou said that the Buddha Pagoda is opened once a year. After passing the test of the pagoda, you can enter the Sanhua Temple and become a Buddhist disciple. Those who fail the test will definitely spread the word after they go out. What I saw and heard in the tower."

Xu Qi'an was stunned.

"Amitabha!"

Monk Jingxin led the Buddhist monks to salute with palms together.

He turned around and said to the East China Sea Dragon Palace and the people from Leizhou:

"The golden body molded here, the one in the middle is the Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Buddha, the only Buddha in all worlds. The three golden bodies on the left and the four right are nine Bodhisattvas of Buddhism. The rest are eighteen arhats."

Good guy, King Kong doesn't even have the qualifications to set up a golden body?

Xu Qi'an said loudly: "Monk, why are the faces of the nine Bodhisattvas blurred?"

Monk Jingxin answered all questions: "These nine golden bodies imply the nine great Dharma appearances, not just a certain Bodhisattva."

Hearing this, most people were at a loss, but Xu Qi'an suddenly realized.

Monk Jingxin was stunned for a moment, looked at Xu Qi'an, and asked from a distance: "Does the benefactor know the nine great dharma signs?"

Xu Qi'an nodded: "Vajra's glaring eyes, Fudo Mingwang, great reincarnation, great compassion, great wisdom, pharmacist, walker, colorless glass, great day Tathagata."

The monks of Sanhua Temple became agitated and whispered to each other.

Jing Xin stared deeply at Xu Qi'an.

"Eh, he's right? The monk at Sanhua Temple didn't refute it."

"I heard that Buddhism has nine great Dharma, so it is these nine, who is this person, who knows so much about Buddhism."

"What's so miraculous about the Nine Great Appearances?" Someone asked loudly, expecting Xu Qi'an's answer.

Now, Tang Yuanwu, Liu Yun, the head of the Double Swordsmen, Yuan Yi, the commander of the capital, and other experts all came to watch.

How do I know, I have never fought against Bodhisattvas. Xu Qi'an smiled calmly:

"Pedestrian Dharma, the speed is the best in the world, traveling to the Mujing Mountain in the Western Regions. The colorless glass can make people's hearts like a mirror, without thinking or thinking, and slow down their thoughts."

At this point, he sneered, as if he was too lazy to continue explaining, and said: "Other Dharma, as the name suggests, you can understand it."

The real and fake people listened and subconsciously looked at Jing Xin and other monks, but saw Jing Xin and Jing Yuan, as well as the slightly dull faces of Heng Yin, the head of Sanhua Temple.

it is true! This idea suddenly flashed in everyone's mind.

"hiss"

Li Shaoyun leaned on the gun, looked back at Xu Qi'an, grinned and said: "Hey, who are you, you know so much."

Yuan Yi reminded: "It may also be senior."

On the other side, Dongfang Wanrong asked her sister in a low voice: "Is that him?"

Dongfang Wanqing shook her head: "I can't tell, this person doesn't look simple, he is a little different from the Tsing Yi man in Pingzhou."

Just now when they saw a middle-aged monk being poisoned, the Dongfang sisters suspected that this man in Tsing Yi was the man in Tsing Yi they met in Pingzhou that day.

What they have in common is that they are all good at using poison.

But the appearance is different, and there is no trace of disguise. In addition, the mediocre woman who followed him was gone.

The most important thing is that I haven't seen this man in Tsing Yi use the dark gu method from the beginning to the end, so I'm not sure.

Dongfang Wanqing continued: "Pingzhou is a long way from Leizhou. It stands to reason that they didn't arrive in Leizhou so quickly."

The charming elder sister frowned and said, "Just now you also saw that this person is acquainted with the sorcerer of Si Tianjian. If he leads the way, is it reasonable?"

Dongfang Wan said calmly: "First of all, you have to prove that the green-robed man in Pingzhou knows the sorcerer Sitianjian."

After a pause, she said, "There's no point in guessing. Find a chance to try him later and force him to use secret Gu methods."

Xu Qi'an didn't know what the two Dongfang sisters were planning. He fixed his eyes on the twenty-seven golden statues besides the Buddha, and tried his best to distinguish which golden statue represented the gods.

Eighteen golden Arhats were ruled out first. Arhats had clear faces, and Xu Qi'an had seen a godlike appearance, so he confirmed that he was not among them.

If Shenshu is also among them, it can only be one of the nine Bodhisattvas, no, no, the nine golden bodies represent the nine great dharma, not a single person. Well, at least it can be confirmed that Shenshu is not an Arhat .

Monk Jingxin stopped talking, and led the monks towards the golden body of Buddha.

The golden statues of Arhats and Bodhisattvas stand on both sides to welcome them.

When they passed the first Arhat golden body, their forward pace suddenly slowed down, and they paused for three seconds every time they took a step.

Seeing this, Xu Qi'an went in without knowing.

The heroic Liu Yun approached slowly and said in a low voice:

"Your Excellency, you know that the Pagoda of the Buddha is opened once a year. Anyone who wants to worship at the Sanhua Temple must enter the Pagoda of the Buddha for a trial."

Xu Qi'an nodded calmly.

"According to Sanhua Temple, this is called testing the Buddha's nature. Those who have Buddha's nature can enter the Buddhist gate. Those who do not have Buddha's nature have no relationship with Buddha." Liu Yun looked at Jing Xin and the others, and said:

"Walk along this road, under the "watching" of Arhats and Bodhisattvas, and walk a hundred steps forward, you will be a person who has a relationship with the Buddha. Within a hundred steps, you will have no Buddha nature. I have heard that those who have entered the pagoda The people in the pagoda said that walking on this road is difficult."

Xu Qi'an pondered: "What if it's a monk?"

Warrior monks and Zen masters take different paths. How to define this Buddha-nature?

Liu Yun curled her lips and said: "Those warriors who can step into the sixth rank basically have "Buddha nature". For Buddhism, those who can step into the sixth rank are all qualified people. Why don't you want such people? There is no way to be rejected. Of course, those who practice Buddhism must also have Buddha nature.

"Look, the monks from Sanhua Temple walk faster than others."

Xu Qi'an followed her gaze. At this time, all parties had already embarked on the "road of trials", and there were three distinct echelons.

The monks of Sanhua Temple rode steadily and steadily.

Followed by Dongfang Sisters, Li Shaoyun, Yuan Yi, and Tang Yuanwu.

Finally, there are people from the rivers and lakes of Leizhou.

"Aren't you going?" Liu Yun asked.

"I'll take another look." Xu Qi'an looked far away.

"Little girl one step ahead." After Liu Yun finished speaking, she quickly followed the big team. Her pace was hasty, and she suddenly slowed down in front of the first prospective Arhat.

Every time you take a step, there must be an interval of nearly ten seconds, giving people the feeling of difficulty.

After a while, the first Master Hengyin of Sanhua Temple, who was farther and farther away from the crowd, looked back at the crowd, with a smile on his face, and clasped his hands together:

"Everyone, go to the Buddha and sit down, pray thirteen times, and then you can go to the second floor. The poor monk is waiting for you there."

He seemed to be teasing everyone.

After thirteen prayers together, you can enter the second floor. Xu Qi'an came to a sudden, no longer hesitated, and walked forward tentatively.

When he was about to brush against the first Arhat golden body, he could slow down and take a tentative step.

However, there is no sense of blockage.

Take the second step.

I also didn't feel the pressure of Luohan's "watching", just like walking in normal times.

Is my Buddha nature (qualification) too good? No, no matter how good the aptitude is, it is impossible to be completely free from the sense of oppression. Even a fourth-rank Zen master like Jingxin can't walk freely and something abnormal happened, so Xu Qi'an dared not move forward.

It's not a matter of aptitude, it's because I have something unique, but I have no connection with Buddhism, and he suddenly figured out that there is a great cause and effect between him and Buddhism.

This cause and effect comes from the philosophy of Mahayana Buddhism.

He immediately remembered that Duer Luohan called him a Buddha's child, and Liuli Bodhisattva wanted to arrest him and return him to Buddhism as a Buddha's child with all four things empty.

At that time, Xu Qi'an thought they were appreciating his "talent", but now it seems that the truth is not that simple.

He may have really become a disciple of the Buddha. When he expounded the concept of Dacheng Buddhism, he had a huge cause and effect with Buddhism.

This is why Liuli Bodhisattva wants to arrest him and escape into Buddhism.