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Fourteen: You Can’t Become a Buddha Without Madness

It was night now, and Yi Tianxing stepped into the Taoist temple. The word Taiping Temple had a slight luster on his head, and the plaque was old and looked quite old.

Walking casually in the Taoist temple, but no one came to disturb him, Yi Tianxing frowned slightly, but he didn’t dare to release his consciousness to explore.

Walking along the stone corridor to a side room, he opened the door and entered, and found dead people all over the place

Wrong, wrong, Yi Tianxing let out a sigh of relief, and slapped himself on the head.

“If you scare yourself, you will scare people to death.”

There were no dead people in the wing room, and the Taoist boys who were lying on the bed quietly, as if they were lying dead, were just asleep. Everyone’s breathing was very shallow and light, and there was not much ups and downs in the chest. Yi Tianxing was a little nervous, so he mistook him for a dead person at the first time.

Although it was already night, it was not very late. It was strange that there was no sound in the Taiping Temple.A little light, there is only silence and darkness.

And the people who fell asleep in this quiet night.

The atmosphere was very eerie.

I went to a few more wing rooms, and it was still the same as the one in front of the head. Everyone was sleeping, and no one was awakened by Yi Tianxing’s arrival. Yi Tianxing frowned slightly, walked to the bed, and pushed a Taoist priest .

The Taoist smacked his mouth twice, as if he was tasting something delicious, but he still didn’t wake up, but the hair on his head tugged at the corner of the pillow and fell down.

Yi Tianxing’s pupils shrunk, this Taoist priest’s hair is fake, he is actually a bald head with ring spots on it.

There are a lot of fake Taoist priests sleeping in Taiping Temple, real monks.

This Meiling is really interesting.

Walking to the back of the Taoist temple, the road is full of wild grass and rocks, which is quite dilapidated. Pushing the grass, Yi Tianxing slowly walked under the tree, under the thousand-year-old ginkgo tree.

“Can we talk”

Yi Tianxing stood under the tall ginkgo tree, looked up, his head almost fell back, and finally found the small hole in the trunk.

He spoke politely, but inexplicably.

The battle in Meiling was about to break out, but he ran under a big tree to chat about family affairs.

It’s insanity, it’s crazy, it’s head stuffed with thatch “Come on.”

The mysterious monk Ma Sheng in the small hole in the tree trunk was even more crazy and agreed to him.

Yi Tianxing wasn’t really stupid. Although he didn’t know how much the other party knew about him, since others called him up, he still used his hands and feet honestly, twisting his buttocks in an ugly posture and climbing up the ginkgo tree.

Tree climbing has never existed in Yi Tianxing’s life experience. When he was a child, other friends may have the fun of climbing trees, but he has always been climbing garbage mountains.

However, this does not prevent his movements from being extremely neat. After all, his current body may be the most powerful “mortal” in the world.

When he climbed halfway to the ginkgo tree, he suddenly felt a faint sensation in his spiritual platform, couldn’t help but smile slightly, raised his head and asked, “I can only sit here.”

The monk Ma Sheng in the ginkgo tree cave said: “Yes.” The voice of this old demon monk who has lived for hundreds of years is somewhat similar to that of Chen Shuping, and he seems very emotionless.

Yi Tianxing inserted his fingers into the ginkgo tree trunk like tofu, hung his body on the tree trunk, put his hands on the awning and looked up, admiring: “This thousand-year-old ginkgo must be a variant, how could it be so thick.” Then he shook his head slightly Bian asked for instructions: “The blood is big, can I sit a little higher and listen to your teachings?”

Monk Ma Sheng is a big figure in the blood clan, but he must have never heard of this title during his hundreds of years of cultivation, so he kept silent.

“Let’s climb a few more steps.” Yi Tianxing wanted to move forward.

The old monk in the ginkgo tree cave remained silent.

Silence does not always mean acquiescence, and Yi Tianxing understands that silence at this time means opposition.

He frowned, patted the trunk of the tree, and floated lightly to a thick branch next to him and sat down gently.

Regarding the dispute over where to sit, whether you take a step forward or take a step back, there is a deep meaning in it. The closer the distance between the two, Yi Tianxing’s brute force will be more effective, and the longer the distance, the old monk Meiling should be happier.

So when the two of them talked, they were sitting at about fifty meters, which happened to be a place where both of them felt barely safe.

Yi Tianxing has already made sufficient preparations and is always ready to cover the five senses.

Yi Tianxing still thinks that this thousand-year-old ginkgo tree is a bit weird, not like a plant that can grow on the earth, and the ginkgo trees seen in books in previous years are not as strong as pigs.

“Everyone in the Taiping Temple is sleeping”

Yi Tianxing sat on the tree trunk, his butt rubbed against the rough bark, put his legs under his buttocks, formed a loose lotus seat, leaned back slightly, and half-lyed on the branch.

The old monk in the tree hole at a very high place said: “Since you are coming, these children should sleep so I believe you will not poison the sleeping people.”

Yi Tianxing asked with a smile: “It’s not that you want to kill us.”

There was a burst of extremely contemptuous laughter from the tall tree hole, which continued for a long time.

Yi Tianxing smiled slightly, but was not annoyed, and asked himself: “How do I call you?”

“Ma Sheng.”

“You are an elder in the blood clan, why did you become a monk?”

This question is all nonsense, but Yi Tianxing has no choice but to give up. At the foot of the mountain, Chen Sanxing, Liang Siniu and Mo Sha are intercepting Prince Job. He faintly feels that Prince Job is more serious than he imagined. Powerful, I don’t know if those three can stop him.

Naturally, he couldn’t give the old monk Meiling a chance to help, the only thing he could do was to hold him back verbally.

Dao Yuan’s shaking breath came from the foot of the mountain.

“There is still a lot of time for memories, so there is no rush at this moment.”

At a high place, the slightly rotten hole of the ginkgo tree glowed with an indescribable luster, and a pure Buddhist atmosphere seeped out of the hole, like water washing stones, like clouds piercing the sky, in the most natural way. The way of walking slowly reveals the ginkgo trees, and it looks like it is about to go down the mountain.

Yi Tianxing bit his lower lip lightly.

With his right hand, the trunk of the ginkgo treeThere was a flash of golden light on the top, and a shiny golden stick that seemed to be extremely heavy and dense material appeared in his hand.

There is a terrifying power hidden in the golden rod.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, staring at the cave.

The old monk Meiling certainly didn’t expect such a fierce weapon in Yi Tianxing’s hand.

Yi Tianxing did not perform well, this is a gesture.

“Amitabha.”

The old monk in the tree cave shrugged, and the pure Buddhist aura suddenly retreated into the cave.

The two reached a tacit understanding in an instant, and neither of them was sure of killing the other with a single blow, so they simply watched the battle situation at the foot of the mountain to see which side the Buddha finger relic would fall into.

“You took the relic and lured me to Meiling, why didn’t you try to kill me?”

Yi Tianxing looked up at the tree, his eyes flickering coldly.

The voice of the old monk Meiling was a little hoarse, which made people shudder a little: “If it’s just you, maybe you and I have already met at this time, but someone else is hiding. If the distinguished guest doesn’t show up, I’ll take action. Wouldn’t it be impolite?”

Yi Tianxing bowed his head and was speechless. Chen Shuping’s whereabouts had not been discovered by himself, but he was found out by this old monk. It seems that the other party’s use of spiritual consciousness is indeed not at the same level as his own.

“The Buddha nature of the Arhats in the heavens has been lost, so I will say goodbye to you.” He raised his head and looked at the tree hole with firm eyes, but it was a pity that he could not see the appearance of the monk Ma Sheng in the tree hole.

There was silence in the tree hole.

after a long time.

“I can’t promise you.”

“Why?” Yi Tianxing’s eyes became even colder. Since the first day of the new year in two years, he has often dreamed. In his dreams, there are often countless unknown existences, hiding behind the golden Buddha’s light, shouting, let himself find Buddha, but now there is no statue of Manjushri Bodhisattva Manjusri’s Buddha nature has been attached to Ye Xiang’s body, and those unknown existences are the arhats of the heavens who were snatched away by the monk on the tree and left their memories empty .

The arhats are too miserable to be annihilated, and they were imprisoned for life. Yi Tianxing didn’t tell others, but he was always disturbed by this dream, and he was annoyed to the bone for the guy on the ginkgo tree.

“The poor monk needs the protection of the Buddha nature of the Arhats in order to survive in the world and protect the land and water.”

The old monk on the tree hole said softly.

Yi Tianxing spat and said: “You are not the savior, die early and reincarnate early.” He suddenly thought of something, sneered and scolded: “Remember, you are an old vampire, and it is not easy to die.”

The old monk Meiling smiled slightly and said: “In this world, there are thousands of creatures, who doesn’t want to become stronger?” He continued: “What is the Buddha? Protect the Dharma with strength and comprehend the Dharma with wisdom. Only in this way can I travel around the six realms and go through the eons. If I want to become a Buddha, I must”

Yi Tianxing practiced Buddhism intensively, so he didn’t need to listen to an old vampire teaching him. He shook his head and asked, “You are a vampire, you should hide from the world, why fight us humans? You have been hiding in Meiling for hundreds of years. Why take the risk of grabbing the Buddha Finger.”

“This is temptation.” The voice of the old monk in Meiling came out from the tree hole, “human beings are a temptation to blood races, fame and fortune are a temptation to human beings, strength is a temptation to strong people. My existence is a temptation to your poor sense of justice It’s a temptation, the existence of the Buddha Finger is a temptation to my mind. Someone used the Buddha Finger relic to lure me to snatch it, and then use this to lure you to go to Meiling to be my enemy hahahaha.”

The old monk’s sinister laughter resounded repeatedly in the Taiping Temple: “A long time ago, I had a good friend who tempted me to absorb the Buddha nature of the heavenly Arhats with the method of becoming a Buddha in the flesh, but now I am trapped in it and cannot extricate myself. The wisdom contained in a Buddha finger is enough for me to understand many things, until then, I will get out of this prison.”

Yi Tianxing interrupted him coldly: “If you leave this place, you will definitely become the public enemy of mankind. If you stay in Meiling, you can still maintain your status as a respected and respected Buddhist master.”

“So what?” The old monk Meiling said with a smile: “Good and evil are just masks. As long as there are good results, I don’t care what kind of mask I wear.”

Yi Tianxing closed his eyes for a while, and then said: “The first commandment of the secret party is to avoid the world. Do you want to be the public enemy of the blood clan?”

The old monk Meiling coughed and laughed, and said proudly: “The secret party, it should be the organization of those junior groups after I left Europe.”

Yi Tianxing was slightly shocked, it seems that the blood monk in front of him is really terrifyingly high.

“You can’t leave this dwarf ginkgo tree” he asked tentatively. This was his guess all along, otherwise he couldn’t explain why the old monk Meiling had to go to Hong Kong to get the relic of the Buddha’s finger. , can completely enter the basement of Famen Temple.

“That’s right. In the eastern world, blood races in the west are quite jealous. My descendants in Hong Kong can’t go to Famen Temple, so I chose Hong Kong.”

“How did you do it?”

Yi Tianxing was stalling for time, he already felt that the battle between Chen Sanxing and Prince Job at the foot of the mountain was about to end, and he should be very aware of this because of the terrifying cultivation of the old monk in Meiling.

The conversation is about to end and the battle is about to open.

“I have lived in Meiling for hundreds of years, and I still have a few friends in the world.” When the old monk of Meiling mentioned the word “friends”, he felt a little warm unexpectedly.Yi Tianxing was shocked to find out who this friend was until a few days later.

“Want to know my past?”

The old monk in Meiling said leisurely, as if he didn’t care about the life-and-death struggle at the foot of the mountain around the Buddha’s finger relic.

“think.”

Yi Tianxing recited the Heart Sutra secretly, and tied the yin and yang strings with his left and right hands, calming the mind and protecting the heart.

The thousand-year-old ginkgo tree swayed gently in the night wind, turning the silver moonlight falling from the sky into countless light spots. The old monk in Meiling in the tree hole did not know what magical powers he had used to see those silver light spots fluttering. It seemed to have turned into substance, seeping down from the branches and leaves of the ginkgo tree, and slowly falling to a few feet in front of Yi Tianxing.

The silver light is dotted, gradually condensed and gathered, forming a flat picture, the silver light flows around the edge of the picture, and the waves in the picture are monstrous

Yi Tianxing gathered his spiritual consciousness between his eyebrows, and was about to launch an attack, but unexpectedly, the picture was really just a picture, not the spiritual attack of the old monk Meiling.

He carefully looked at the picture, and the content of the picture gradually changed. First, a ship was struggling in the sea, and then he saw a gloomy young man being hunted down by farmers with torches in a mountain in Middle-earth. The young man went to a big temple, prostrated himself to the ground, kowtowed endlessly, a lot of blood flowed from his forehead

Yi Tianxing understands that this is the past of thousands of years of the old monk in Meiling. The lonely blood monk seems very interested in telling Yi Tianxing about his life.

“Which country were you from?”

“Live on a plain in Europe.”

In 1440 AD, a certain town in France.

De a183ss4509291 Baron Les gies de rais, in the Anglo-French war that year, was a comrade-in-arms of Joan of Arc. After the war, he returned to his territory. In order to study alchemy, he became obsessed with witchcraft, hoping to find the philosopher’s stone in the blood, so he relied on his power to collect 300 children around, and then The children were bled to death.

Just one night, the baron’s home was attacked by some unknown object.

It was a vampire attack, everyone in the baron’s family was sucked to death, and the baron was also turned into the lowest, most humble, and most ignorant zombie by the vampire.

The Holy See was furious, dispatched a large number of cardinals and ascetics, killed the baron’s family, and began to track down the leader of the blood clan who attacked the baron’s family.

The leader of the blood clan was a young, handsome blood clan, the youngest fifth-generation blood clan in history. Because of this tragedy that shocked Europe, he became a thorn in the side of the Holy See.

And his punishment of the baron’s family has also caused intense controversy within the blood clan, because the baron has always been an admirer of the blood clan, and has been secretly giving a lot of money support, but he, this young and handsome fifth-generation blood clan, took this The baron turned into a low-level zombie who was inferior to pigs and dogs in the eyes of blood clans.

And so a shameful conspiracy was born.

Hmm, conspiracy is always the product of compromise by powerful forces.

The young leader of the five-generation blood clan was betrayed by the blood clan, and then hunted down by the Holy See. His loyal subordinates were all killed and wounded, and he boarded a dilapidated ship with only one fateful subordinate.

“Oh, why are you going to deal with that baron?” Yi Tianxing asked, looking at the picture in the silver frame in front of him.

The old monk of Meiling in the tree hole laughed and said: “The blood race’s ridiculous dignity, I thought at that time that human beings can have the glory of being food, but they can’t be used to extract some ridiculous touchstones. Necessary respect, so I chose to turn him into a zombie worse than pigs and dogs.”

“Your heart is full of hatred.” Yi Tianxing said subconsciously, looking at the sullen young blood leader on the broken ship in the picture.

The old monk in Meiling said quietly: “Hate is an unnecessary emotion.”

“Where did you come from?”

“I came to China, it was the Ming Dynasty”

“Crap!” Yi Tianxing scolded with a smile: “At that time, Columbus’ mother was still in the city waiting to give birth to a son.”

“Pedantic.” The old monk Meiling sighed: “As we are countless times stronger than human beings, do we still need to bear the grace of the age of great voyages?”

Yi Tianxing thought about it for a while, and this is indeed the case. Big bats can fly, and they can fly by themselves. They can travel around the world without relying on boats.

“You have been living in Meiling since you came to China”

“That’s right, I left that child in the south and came to the north by myself.” The old monk Meiling was lost in memory, and his words were a little cold: “There are many strange wizards in the east. I am a foreigner, so I have suffered a lot. suffering, no one is willing to accept me.”

These are the pictures that Yi Tianxing saw in the silver frame earlier. The young people were chased by a group of farmers with torches.

Thinking of the headache and fear that the old monk in Meiling was also a character who was driven away by mud legs five hundred years ago, Yi Tianxing suddenly felt very refreshed, and couldn’t help laughing silly.

“How did you want to become a monk?”

“During the difficult years of survival, I have been thinking about a question.” The old monk Meiling’s voice suddenly became pure and soft, “If everything has a beginning, then what is the purpose of our existence? Why are blood races and human beings natural? the enemy of

“The question has to be askedBuddha. “Yi Tianxing replied subconsciously.

The old monk in Meiling said quietly: “I just want to live, and I want to live on an equal footing with all other creatures. The belief of the blood race is actually attached to the existence of Yahweh. If there is no God, naturally there will be no blood race. I have experienced thousands of years. I have worked so hard to come to the far east, so I want to find a faith that is completely separated from Jehovah.”

“So you chose to believe in Buddhism.” Yi Tianxing opened his eyes wide.

“The Buddha chose me.” The old monk Meiling said piously: “All the gods in the world will choose their believers. Only those who believe in me will be blessed. Only a certain type of people have the right to have this Buddha is tolerant, Buddha is great, Buddha will not be different because of his believers whether they are noble or humble, male or female, old or young, kind-hearted or full-hearted. Brain filth and respond differently.”

“In the eyes of the Buddha, all living beings are equal. Even if I am a blood race, in front of the Buddha’s light, I am still just a believer.”

“After I came into contact with the true meaning of Buddha, I was shocked.” The old monk Meiling still couldn’t help being a little excited when he thought of the scene of joining Buddhism hundreds of years ago. Come on, this is not the original sin of our vampires sucking human blood and eating pork, isn’t it the same? If this is a sin, the sins of our vampires and human beings are the same. Don’t think I’m born evil.”

Yi Tianxing was dumbfounded when he heard it, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed to make sense. Probably only in the eyes of the Buddhist sect, the blood race does not need redemption, only self-redemption.

“and then”

He asked cautiously, always vigilant, because he found that the monk Meiling was not a conspirator, but more like a religious fanatic.

Secular experience tells Yi Tianxing that conspirators can negotiate with them, and religious fanatics will inevitably fight in the end.

Naturally, no school is willing to accept a “zombie” as a disciple. An eminent monk of Yuntai Temple in Meiling sighed when he saw Ma Sheng kowtowing in front of the temple gate, and said: “When you read the Buddha and see the Buddha, Let’s get started.”

From then on, the young leader of the blood clan, Ma Sheng, became a generation of eminent monks in Meiling, Master Ma Sheng, who lived on Meiling for generations and never went down the mountain.

“Cultivating Buddhism, when Puxian Bodhisattva left this world, he once looked in the direction of Meiling and said that you want to become a Buddha in the flesh.” Yi Tianxing looked coldly at the ginkgo tree, “If you practice Buddhism intensively, Even I would only feel admiration and admiration for achieving the Dao with the body of a blood race, and there is absolutely no thought of disrespect, but you should not grab the Buddha nature of the Arhats of the heavens, such actions, the way of external demons, are too sinister.”

“Decheng Dao.” The old monk Meiling sneered, “Where is the Dao on Mount Xumi?”

Yi Tianxing sat cross-legged, silent, and now he naturally knows that if he goes to Mount Sumeru, he will be more miserable than in the world.

“Buddha saved me, so I will save this world.”

The old monk of Meiling said respectfully.

“To rescue is to seize the Buddha’s nature, and make the Arhats of the heavens suffer forever”

The old monk Meiling smiled and said, “There is no pure land in the sky, so I want this world to be a pure land.”

Needless to say, these two people naturally understood what happened in the sky and the disappearance of the Buddha.

“If the world is to be a pure land, it must be guarded by others.” The face of the old monk in Meiling emerged from the hole of the ginkgo tree, looking at the world with compassion: “I want to protect this place, so I want to become a Buddha.”

The old monk of Meiling pointed to the sky with one hand, and pointed to the ground with the other, with a solemn and compassionate face: “There is no Buddha in the sky, so I will become a Buddha.”

Yi Tianxing took a breath and sighed in a daze, “It’s really not a madman, it’s not a Buddha.”

But he still had a faint layer of fear, because Master Binku once said that this old monk in Meiling was once the master of Master Yinguang, and Master Yinguang

“When did you realize this method of absorbing Buddha nature?”

“Yin Guang respected me as a teacher back then. In fact, this son is so exquisite in Buddhism that he can be my teacher.” The old monk of Meiling recalled the past: “For hundreds of years, I was on Meiling, watching the people who watched Mount Sumeru being Beating down the mortal world, worrying about the pure land, worrying about the world, and having a great worry in my heart that cannot be relieved. During the Guangxu period, Yinguang went to Meiling. I asked him for advice, and he said four words.”

“Collecting the Buddha and Seeing the Buddha”

“It’s wrong.” Yi Tianxing shouted anxiously, “It’s about praying to Buddha and seeing Buddha.”

The old monk Meiling said with a sly smile: “500 years ago, when I entered Yuntai, my master said that I could see Buddha by reciting the Buddha’s name. I have cultivated for more than 300 years, but I have gained nothing. I just look at the Arhats on Mount Sumeru like shooting stars. Falling into the mortal world, I only understood what the sect master meant when Yin Guang and I confirmed each other.”

“Collecting the Buddha and Seeing the Buddha”

Yi Tianxing’s heart was half cold at this time. When Master Yinguang passed away, he once said eight words: “When you recite the Buddha and see the Buddha, you decide to live in the West.”

It seems that Master Yinguang, as the old monk Meiling said before, used the method of devouring Buddha’s nature to seduce his good friend, and this Master Yinguang is said to be the person Yi Tianxing fears the most in the teachings and legends.

Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva who can move the heaven and earth: