Because all the surrounding countries were disturbed by the heavenly soldiers, the king of Zhu Kingdom was very panicked and busy arranging soldiers to guard everywhere, leaving Jin Chanzi and his party to do what they wanted. So they left the Wangshe City and went straight to Lingshan Mountain.
Along the way, I saw strange flowers and plants, ancient cypresses and pines, all different from those on the previous road. However, when I encountered people, every family was doing good deeds, and every household was a monk. They did not pick up things on the road, and they did not close their doors at night. There must be people practicing at the foot of the mountain, and I often met guests in the forest. through.
Jin Chanzi said on the horse: "The so-called 'darkness under the lamp' is nothing better than this. Because we are in a Buddhist dojo, the folk customs are simple and there are no demons to harm us, so the number of Buddha and Bodhisattva appearances is actually less than those around us. So although the king knew There is a spiritual mountain of Buddha in the country, but we do not rely on it."
Ao Lie said: "Why don't you tell me?"
Jin Chanzi said: "There were kings in the previous generations who knew about this, but what they did was no different from ordinary people. Some kings even abandoned their thrones and went to Xunling Mountain to worship Buddha. Oh, of course they couldn't do it. . ”
Ao Lie asked curiously: "Then you can find it? Remember you once said that you usually fly in and out of Lingshan Mountain, so you don't know the way?"
"Master has hidden the Lingshan Mountain so that it cannot be seen. However, at the foot of the Lingshan Mountain, the Jade True Temple of the Golden Summit Immortal was built by mortals and cannot be covered up." Jin Chanzi pointed forward: "Isn't that right?"
In the forest ahead, there is a towering pavilion, soaring hundreds of feet into the sky. A towering man can watch the setting sun with his head lowered. He can pick flying stars with his hand. The open-minded windows swallow the clouds and mist. Luan writes until the evening breeze clears.
"Since it is a Buddhist temple, it must have sufficient supplies." Ao Lie touched the slightly listless Ao Yu next to him.
Although every family worships Buddha and every household eats monks, those families are small families after all. No matter how much money the third prince throws around, they can't have more food. It is barely enough for them to invite a group of people to eat, but if they want the sixth princess to eat, it is difficult. Absolutely impossible.
Jade Rabbit once said that there were many elixirs she had brewed there, which she could enjoy happily. However, Ao Yu only tasted a few mouthfuls and firmly refused to eat any more, which shocked the girl with rabbit ears.
"Amitabha, Almsgiver Ao knew it when he saw him." Jin Chanzi let it slip.
As he spoke, the pavilion was already in front of him, and there was a Buddha coming out of the mountain gate to greet him. He was wearing brocade robes, shaking jade dust in his hand, hanging an immortal basket on his elbow, with his chest and abdomen exposed, and his feet on wooden clogs. His head was smooth and clean.
"I've seen the bald immortal," Jin Chanzi dismounted and clasped his hands together.
"You golden cicada, I haven't seen you for several years, why haven't you polished off that broken mouth?" the golden-crested immortal laughed and scolded.
"Why don't I call you the Great Immortal with a protruding belly?" Jin Chanzi looked down.
Hmm...it does seem that the supplies are sufficient, Ao Lie nodded secretly.
"All benefactors, please follow me." Jinding Daxian chatted with Jin Chanzi for a few more strange questions, such as the fact that he was obviously the Buddha but lived in the temple, and then he said to everyone in Tongxing that he should lead the way first.
Although the time has not yet arrived, the Golden-crested Immortal took the group to the dining hall as expected, and then said: "According to the decree of the Buddha, the Six Princesses of the West Sea must be fed here. In addition, the Jade Rabbit of the Moon Palace must bring all the The 'elixir' remains."
"Great!" "Why!" the two girls shouted together.
"If you want to see the Buddha, you just want to ask why the elixir you created is so ineffective. The Buddha has the answer to this matter, but there is no need to take them there." The Golden Summit Immortal replied to the Jade Rabbit without feeling dissatisfied.
"...Okay." Yutu wanted to say something more, but was pulled back by Su'e, so she remained silent.
It was a vegetarian banquet, the host and the guest enjoyed themselves, and Ao Yu was indeed full, but the "elixir" poured out by the Jade Rabbit from the pestle filled the warehouse where many ingredients were originally placed.
"There seems to be something wrong with those 'elixirs'," Bai Jingjing wandered to Ao Lie's seat and whispered in his ear: "They seem to be somewhat similar to my bone-faced servants."
"I will pay attention." Ao Lie nodded.
Since they had already arrived at the foot of Lingshan Mountain, Jin Chanzi was not in a hurry to go there after the banquet. Instead, he planned to stay at Yuzhen Temple for one night and read Buddhist scriptures in preparation for tomorrow's mountain climbing to debate Buddhism and comment on scriptures.
Ao Yu rarely had enough to eat, so he played with Jade Rabbit and Su'e in the many pavilions of Yuzhen Temple, while Ao Lie strolled around the scenic spots in the temple.
"Third brother," Ao Cunxin followed with the pearl: "After we send the golden cicada to the Western Heaven, we should return to the Western Sea, right?"
"Although there is a slight problem with your wording, it is generally true," Ao Lie nodded: "If Buddha can solve my physical problem of getting angry at the sight of pearls, Pearl can also wear some normal clothes."
"This is quite convenient." Pearl raised her hand slightly, and the chitin armor on her body quickly formed a ferocious helmet to cover her head and face, and then quickly removed it as she lowered her hand.
"Well... you won't just stay in Lingshan just because the Buddha gave you some title?" Ao Cunxin asked again.
"Of course not...why do you keep asking weird questions?" Ao Lie turned to stare at his fourth sister.
"Just asking." Ao Cunxin raised her head, quickly ran past Ao Lie, and seemed to hear her cheering from a distance, "Fortunately I didn't succeed."
"You won't follow?" Ao Lie looked at Pearl.
"If the Third Prince decides to stay, Pearl is also willing to follow him as a protector." Pearl responded.
"That's not what I asked!"
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The next day, after Jin Chanzi took a bath and changed clothes, he bid farewell to the bald immortal and climbed up to Lingshan Mountain. He saw only five colors of sky and thousands of auspicious mists. When he looked up from below, he could see that it was a majestic mountain, but he could not cast his eyes to three directions.
Five miles away.
After climbing the mountain for five or six miles, I saw a line of running water blocking the road. The terrain was obviously flat, but the current was rolling and turbulent. Because my eyesight was blocked, I couldn't see further. I could only see a lonely slippery narrow strip on the river.
There is a single log bridge with no one around.
When Ao Lie took a closer look, he saw a plaque standing at the head of the bridge with the words "Ling Yun Ferry" written on it, and below it there were six slightly smaller words saying: "This is the road" and "This is the bridge".
Ao Lie was just wondering what he meant when he heard Jin Chanzi say behind him: "Master once said that there is a river of people flowing at the foot of Lingshan Mountain. There are roads and bridges, but where is the road and where is the bridge?"
The third prince of Xihai laughed and called Jin Chanzi to come and see, whereupon the reincarnated Buddha fell silent for an instant.
Ao Cun jumped onto the single tree with a heartbeat, walked back and forth for dozens of steps, and then said, "There is no special hardship or test, and the use of spiritual power is not prohibited. Maybe it is just an ordinary wooden bridge?"
Bai Jingjing said: "It wasn't originally a test for you. I'm afraid it will change after Jin Chanzi steps on it."
Hearing this, Jin Chanzi moved his eyes away from the plaque of Lingyundu. After a while, he jumped onto the bridge and stood firmly. When he was about to take a step, he suddenly stopped.
"What?" Ao Lie took two steps forward, preparing to save Jin Chanzi from falling from the bridge.
"This bridge is eight miles long and is divided into nine sections. Each section has nine sections," Jin Chanzi said: "The sections lead to 'tribulations'. If you have not suffered the same number of 'tribulations', you can only 'let down' one piece in the mortal world.
People or things must pass through it, otherwise, the bridge will fall apart in an instant."
"Nine-nine...eighty-one?" Ao Yu did the math.
"Thanks to the help of Almsgiver Ao, even if we include the minor setbacks in this poor monk's life, there will only be twenty 'kalpas' at most," Jin Chanzi looked at Ao Lie: "But I have never regretted it."
"Then let it go. Is it difficult? There are more than eighty-one monkeys in our Xihai Zoo." Ao Cun thought to himself.
"I told you not to raise terrestrial animals on the seabed!" Ao Lie glared at her.
"How can you put it down if you have never picked it up," Jin Chanzi sighed: "If the four princesses gave each monkey a name, knew their preferences, walked with them often, helped them achieve their long-cherished wishes, treated them as friends, and were even willing to do things for them,
Only by making some sacrifices and concessions may we be able to 'let go' of them."
"Bah, then I will become the Monkey King?" Ao Cunxin's expression changed.
"So, if you want to let them go, you are just letting go of 'a zoo'." Jin Chanzi replied while thinking, and finally retreated from the bridge: "The poor monk does not have people or things that can be easily let go.
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"Get on the boat! Get on the boat!" At this time, I heard shouts from upstream. I followed the sound and saw a boatman driving a ferry approaching Lingyun Ferry.
"Master," Jin Chanzi did not get on the boat, but said to the boatman: "Even if you use the 'sambhogakaya' of 'receiving the Buddha', my disciples can still recognize it."
"Since you see that I am the Sambhogakaya, you should know that although what you say at this moment will be known by the 'Dharma Body', it will not respond to you personally like the 'Ying Body'." The Buddha said: "If you don't
If you are willing to 'let go', I will 'cross' you. There is no other way to reach Lingshan."
"That's not necessarily true." Jin Chanzi clasped his hands together and smiled.
"Is it possible that you can become a Buddha immediately? Although Tathagata Buddha's seal has been loosened, it is still too early for it to be unlocked by itself." He led the Buddha to park the boat by the river and step onto the shore.
Jin Chanzi was about to answer when he saw the Buddha's light and chaos suddenly split open in the sky, and a ball of colorful light that seemed to be wrapped in something fell straight towards Lingyundu.
"This, alas..." The Buddha was in a daze for a moment, and then with a sigh, he threw away the image of the boatman, revealed the golden Buddha body, and used his magical power to steadily guide the colorful light down.
"Hey!" Jade Rabbit dragged Su'e and ran away.
When the colorful light dissipated, the first thing I saw was a strong-bodied heavenly general who was sealed by black ice and with black mist rising around him. Next to him, there was someone who was constantly freezing him to prevent the black mist from spreading. He was wearing a moon palace costume.
, a fairy with a pale face; there is a girl from the Phoenix tribe sitting cross-legged with her eyes closed, the flames flying around her body burning the black mist; there is also a girl with short white hair, wearing a weird leather armor, who is trying to control the black sphere in her hand, the only one who is calmer
The other one is a female general with short hair and light armor, who was maintaining the luster before.
"I've seen the Buddha!" After seeing the Buddha being introduced, Yisheng immediately prostrated himself: "Marshal Tianpeng was captured by the Five Poison Evil Lord and his soul was about to be reborn with this 'Five Poison Pearl' before his eyes. We support him."
It won't be long before the Buddha is merciful, please save him! The little girl is willing to accept the punishment for trespassing on Lingshan Mountain!"
"Slow down, don't be in a hurry." Buddha Huiyin waved a puff of Buddha's light to cover the canopy so that his injuries would no longer worsen. Nishang and Fu Ling breathed a sigh of relief and fell down at the same time. However, Huiyin Buddha's next words made them feel as if they were
Falling into the Abyss: "Who told you that Lingshan has a way to cure him?"
"No, no?" Fu Ling managed to stand up: "If I achieve nirvana in advance, I should be able to burn away these poisonous mist..."
"Don't be impulsive!" Nishang quickly stopped her: "Why don't you ask Lord Taiyin to freeze the marshal, and then take care of him slowly."
"Although I am the Tathagata's Sambhogakaya, my supernatural powers are not much different from the Dharmakaya. At least I can't do anything about this thing," said the Buddha, "Wait until I go to Lingshan to meet him..."
"That's not necessary." Jin Chanzi said suddenly, and then pushed Ao Lie into the crowd with both hands.
"Hey, don't make trouble. This thing seems to be serious...serious?" Ao Lie looked at the new group of people and was suddenly stunned.
Marshal Canopy was haunted by the black "death" he often saw on dying things. However, the "source of death" that he had never noticed was being held in the hands of the little girl with golden eyes and white hair, although the outline was vague.
Pasty, but in a spherical shape overall.
What did they call this thing just now? Five poisons... beads?
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Accompanied by indescribable, soul-piercing screams, the black sphere burned up in the sudden flames.
