The difference between the Shaolin we see now and the glorious Shaolin Temple seen in the news in later generations is quite big. There is no splendid decoration, and there is no majestic vermilion gate. At first glance, there is only a dilapidated temple gate with paint peeling off, and there are more inside.
A dirt road covers the entire temple, and there is no trace of stone roads.
Dongzhang followed closely behind the team, thinking, without the various business performances of later generations, and without the endless stream of pilgrims, the Shaolin Temple at this time would be a truly pure place. After thinking about it randomly, within a moment, Dongzhang followed the team.
We arrived at the kitchen located behind the temple.
Seeing the middle-aged monk settling accounts with Old Man Li, Zhang Dong just stood back and watched silently. When the settlement was clear, Old Man Li took advantage of the situation and said with a smile to the middle-aged monk:
"It is rare for my nephew to come to your temple. Since he is here, he comes here. I just want to go along and burn incense sticks to pray for peace."
"The donor is too polite, then just follow the young monk."
The middle-aged monk glanced at the well-behaved Dongzhang and said to Old Man Li with a smile, and then the two followed the middle-aged monk to the main hall. At this time, there were only a few novice monks in the hall chanting sutras and chanting Buddha.
When the middle-aged monk brought two strangers in, they both raised their eyes and glanced curiously.
The middle-aged monk did not explain anything, but stretched out his hand to Old Man Li and Dongzhang and said, "Donor, please help yourself."
Dong Zhang stretched out his hand and pulled off the hanging baggage from his waist, took out a few incense candles from it and handed some to Old Man Li. Then he went forward to light incense and burn incense. Old Man Li also followed suit.
Dongzhang followed the instructions one by one. Looking at Dongzhang's pious appearance, the middle-aged monk unconsciously became more pleased with Dongzhang. He stood beside Dongzhang with a smile and waited quietly.
Dongzhang pretended for a long time before finally standing up, walking towards the middle-aged monk, clasping his hands and saying, "Master, my father was brutally killed by the Mongols not long ago. I want to copy a death mantra and burn it in memory. I don't know if I can."
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When he made this request, Dongzhang was really nervous. Success or failure depended on this. He tried his best to look as sad as possible. The middle-aged monk was stunned for a moment and thought to himself, no wonder this young man has been traveling all the way.
They were all taciturn and very aloof. It turned out that there was a funeral in the family. Mongolians are really hateful. After thinking about this, he smiled kindly and said:
"It is rare for a young benefactor to have such filial piety. Our Buddha is merciful, so this small request is absolutely necessary. The poor monk's name is Huichen. Donor, please come with the poor monk."
After Huichen finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the door. Dongzhang was happy in his heart and hurriedly followed Huichen without any trace on his face. After a while, the three of them had passed through the row of houses and arrived at the back mountain.
, a somewhat dilapidated scripture pavilion suddenly came into view.
Staring at the simple three characters on the attic plaque, Sutra Pavilion, Dongzhang couldn't help but feel excited in his heart. This is the holy place that runs through several masterpieces of Mr. Jin. Each of the seventy-two stunts in it can be picked up individually.
It can be regarded as a top-notch secret skill in the world of martial arts, but because the martial arts in it are too lethal and the threshold is high, few people can master many of them, so they usually choose one and practice it for life.
Standing behind, Zhang Dong saw Hui Chen knocking on the door. After a moment, the door opened, and a gray-robed monk stepped out. He was tall, tall, and elegant. If he wasn't wearing a bald monk's uniform, he would have looked like a bald monk.
Mr. Xiang is a scholar.
He was around twenty-six or seventeen years old. The book says that when he met Yang Guo on the top of Mount Huashan, he was already in his fifties. He was an ascetic who had never set foot outside the Shaolin Temple for more than thirty years. He was so simple-minded that he
In The Condor Trilogy, if he was ranked second, no one would be ranked first. To put it bluntly, he was stupid.
The most critical person for Dongzhang's purpose at the moment is this person. If he is really as described in Mr. Jin's book, then the matter is very close. If his personality is very different from that in the book, that will be a headache.
Then why is there such a saying? The first time he appeared on the top of Huashan Mountain with his disciple Zhang Junbao, the reason was to recover the scriptures from the Sutra Pavilion. The people who stole the books were Xiaoxiangzi and Yin Kexi. The reason was that Xiaoxiang
Zi and Yin Kexi were chased and killed by Mongolian soldiers outside the temple.
Jue Yuan took them in out of good intentions. By chance, they found the Nine Suns Sutra in the gap between the Lankavatara Sutra, and they came up with the idea of stealing the book, which led to the scene where they met Yang Guo and his party on the top of Mount Hua.
Let’s talk about Jue Yuan’s character. He is extremely pedantic. Why do you say that? Jue Yuan’s master and his disciples chased them to the top of Mount Hua. Jue Yuan himself clearly had far superior kung fu than Xiao Xiangzi and Yin Kexi, but he still insisted on using his mouth.
I went to persuade the two of them to return the books, but as you can imagine, the two people would definitely not admit it. In the end, it was disciple Zhang Junbao who couldn't stand it any longer, so he stepped forward to search for the books.
However, there was a huge gap in martial arts between Zhang Junbao, Xiao Xiangzi and Yin Kexi. It was only because of the presence of Yang Guo and others that they did not kill Zhang Junbao. But even so, when Zhang Junbao stepped forward to take action, he was scolded by Jue Yuan.
When he saw his apprentice being beaten, he didn't even think about stepping forward to help. Instead, he earnestly advised Xiao Xiangzi and Yin Kexi not to kill his apprentice. What Yang Guo thought at the time was that this master Jue Yuan was so pedantic.
It is rare in the world. No wonder the scriptures under his supervision were stolen by these two villains.
Yang Guo and others wanted to help him get back the scriptures, and he also persuaded everyone not to use force. When Zhang Junbao came forward to search for the books and was beaten, Xiao Guo Xiang couldn't help but said that the great monk was too pedantic, and he was chasing the two of them for this matter.
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It is not because of the Nine-Yang Sutra, but to recover the four volumes of the Lankavatara Sutra, just because the Lankavatara Sutra is the original brought back by Bodhidharma from Tianzhu, and the Nine-Yang Sutra is just for physical fitness in Jueyuan's view
It is just a method for strengthening the body. He discovered it accidentally and has been practicing it for more than thirty years. He also thought it was just a method for strengthening the body.
So I also picked up some body-building parts and taught them to Zhang Junbao to practice. If he knew that this was Shaolin's unique magical skill, with his pedantic personality, he would never dare to practice it, let alone teach it to his disciple Zhang Junbao.
Look at what he said in the book: "The young monk is responsible for supervising the Sutra Pavilion, and he must read every scripture in the pavilion. Thinking that what is recorded in the Buddhist scriptures are all the wise sayings of enlightenment, the young monk is convinced of them.
, seeing that the "Nine Yang Manual" recorded many methods for strengthening the body, relaxing tendons and cleansing the marrow, the young monk followed them one by one.
For decades, I have been diligent and diligent, and I have never suffered from any disease. In recent years, I have picked up some easy lessons and taught them to Junbao. The "Nine Yang Manual" only teaches people to take care of the body with color and form. This stinky skin bag
It turns out that it doesn't matter. Although the scriptures were written by Bodhidharma, they are still superficial knowledge and would be fine if they were lost. However, the Lankavatara Sutra is a Buddhist scripture, and the two laymen did not understand the Indian script, so borrowing it would be useless.
, it is better to give it back to the young monk."
It’s okay if Shen Te lost it!! From the moment he confessed to Yang Guo and others, everyone already knew that Shen Te had stolen the Lankavatara Sutra, but the Nine Suns Sutra, a small method that he thought would strengthen the body.
In Dongzhang's opinion, if Xiaoxiangzi and Yin Kexi just took away the Nine Yang Sutra from the gap between the Lankavatara Sutra, Jueyuan might not care at all, because in his opinion, this is just a trivial little fitness method.
But these two fools actually took away the original Lankan Sutra. This was intolerable to Jue Yuan. This master, who had never left the Shaolin Temple for more than thirty years, could be called a hardcore otaku.
, East Evil and West Poison, Southern Emperor and Northern Beggar, he didn’t know any of these famous figures in the world.
In the book, Yang Guo was also secretly surprised: "He has learned the best martial arts skills, but he didn't know it. He just wanted to strengthen his body and avoid all kinds of diseases. Such a strange thing has never happened in the martial arts."
If I hadn't seen him be so formal and polite, I would have said that he was just putting on airs and hiding his secrets. No wonder the Zen masters Tianming, Wuse, and Wuxiang have been in the same monastery with him for decades, but they didn't know that there was such a strange person among their peers.
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People like Jue Yuan will be regarded as national treasures in later generations. Everyone must know what happened next. In the end, Xiao Xiangzi and Yin Kexi were searched, but no scriptures were found.
Yang Guo proposed to torture the two people to interrogate the scriptures, but Jue Yuan stopped him, and finally let the two people down the mountain. The truth was that the two men sewed the scriptures into the belly of an ape, and then they took the ape away.
Go to the Western Regions.
Because they were suspicious of each other and plotted against each other, both of them were injured and died in the end. Before Yin Kexi died, he met the Three Saints of Kunlun, He Zudao. His conscience was uneasy, so he asked him to go to Shaolin Temple to tell Master Jue Yuan that the scripture was in the belly of this ape.
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But when he spoke, he was confused and slurred. His words were in the monkey, but He Zudao heard them as words in the oil. In the end, Jue Yuan could not understand what he meant. Later, Zhang Wuji's words appeared in "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword".