The Birth of Tianjiao Chapter 10 The Millennium Ancient Temple
"First there was Chang'an Temple, and then there was Shenyang City. The temple was in the city, and the city was in the temple."
According to legend, when Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty established the capital, Shenyang was still a wasteland. When Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty came here on his eastward tour, he was tired and exhausted, so he rested on the spot. He saw a hillock in the distance. Although it was not high, there were many trees, covering the sky and the sun. , then he wanted to build a temple here. So he appointed Yuchi Jingde as the supervisor to be responsible for the construction of Chang'an Temple.
During the preparation process, General Yuchi received an urgent battle order and hurriedly left the temple. The monks did not know where to build the mountain gate at this time, so Yuchi Jingde pointed his horse whip and hurriedly set off on the road.
Therefore, the monks led the craftsmen to build the mountain gate on the north bank of the Hun River at the point pointed by General Yuchi's horse whip. As time went by, the Shenyang Zhongwei City was gradually built between the mountain gate and the main hall, forming a "city in the temple" situation.
In the seventh year of Yongle, the imperial court allocated funds to vigorously repair Chang'an Temple, and the temple gradually became the most prosperous place in the north.
Every year on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, Chang'an Temple holds a large-scale ritual ceremony to redeem the dead, which is famous far and wide.
More than ten days have passed since the last sword practice in the rain. Dugu Xiaotian missed his parents, so he came to Chang'an Temple on March 3 to participate in the salvation ceremony.
The religious ceremony was over, Xiaotian had nothing to do, and started walking around the temple casually.
Seeing the great incense in the Main Hall, he walked in casually. The Main Hall enshrines the Three Saints of the West, the Eighty-eight Arhats, and a host of gods and generals.
Dugu Xiaotian took a few casual glances and saw God General Wei Tuo in the palace, holding the demon-suppressing pestle that was like a stone pillar, and he looked very majestic.
"Long-term peace and stability, take refuge in my Buddha; reward good and punish evil, Wei Tuo subdues demons," an idea flashed in Xiaotian's mind, "Could this sentence be related to the Wei Tuo Dharma in Chang'an Temple?" He thought to himself.
Dugu Xiaotian walked around the statue of Wei Tuo twice. He found that there was a piece of touch-up paint on the back of Wei Tuo's pestle. The paint had accumulated dust over time and was no longer much different from the whole statue. It was difficult for ordinary people to detect it at close range. However, Xiaotian already possesses profound internal skills, and can see clearly in the dark room and discover abnormalities.
At this time, there were still many pilgrims in the Main Hall. Xiaotian was unable to conduct a detailed investigation, so he left the Main Hall.
At three o'clock that night, Dugu Xiaotian put on his night clothes and covered his face with a black scarf, and came to the Main Hall of Chang'an Temple again.
The lights of the Main Hall are kept on all year round, and all the monks guarding it have fallen asleep.
Xiaotian came to the Wei Tuo Demonic Pestle, pulled out the Pingtian Sword, and lightly scraped the touch-up paint a few times.
After a while, the patent leather peeled off, revealing a picture of mountains and rivers, with four Chinese characters in the upper left corner: "Ulan Hada".
"Is this the treasure map of the Hou Yuan Dynasty?" Dugu Xiaotian thought to himself. At this time, he had no tools in his hand to make rubbings, so he silently wrote it down. He drew it twice on the palm of his hand to ensure that his memory was correct.
"The two million Han people in the north are suffering from hunger and cold. If there is a treasure, it can relieve the suffering of countless people." Xiaotian said to himself.
"Only wealth touches people's hearts. If the treasure is obtained by corrupt officials or people with evil intentions, it will harm the people even more."
He pondered for a moment, stretched out his right hand, and silently used his inner strength to erase the words and patterns on the Skanda's pestle. Then he picked up the old patent leather and dust from the ground and wiped it on it, so that the pestle was almost invisible. There are signs of movement.
After doing this, Dugu Xiaotian let out a breath and looked carefully at other directions in the palace.
The moonlight is bright tonight, and its brilliance shines on the statue of the main hall, as if it is covered with a layer of clear light.
Xiaotian looked at the eighty-eight Arhats with different postures, and his heart was slightly awe-inspiring. These eighty-eight Arhats were sitting or standing, stretching their legs or extending their palms, shaking their fists or shaking their arms, which vaguely contained martial arts connotations.
During the day, there were many pilgrims and they were very noisy, but Xiaotian didn't notice it. Now, in the dead of night, with the bright moon setting off, the Arhat statue looked extraordinary.
Dugu Xiaotian looked at the eighty-eight Arhats carefully for a long time, and then began to imitate the postures of all the Arhats one by one. He imitated it once, and the Hongmeng Jin in his body started to run quickly automatically.
"This is a set of martial arts!" Dugu laughed and was horrified. At this time, the Hongmeng Jin was stirring in his body. He quickly used Zhou Tian's method to guide the Hongmeng Jin to various acupoints in his body. At the same time, he began to imitate the postures of the Eighty-Eight Arhats repeatedly.
Gradually, Xiaotian entered a state of forgetfulness. In his mind, blue air masses flashed twice. Xiaotian's body naturally made eighty-eight different movements in sequence, all in one go, like flowing clouds and flowing water.
In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos. For the sake of the people of the world, Shaolin Temple sent monks to join the army to assist Li Shimin in conquering the world. Among them, 13 monks, including Huichang, Tan Zong, and Zhijian, assisted Li Shimin in his campaign against Wang Shichong and made great contributions to the rescue.
.Tang Taizong Li Shimin later made monk Tanzong a general.
When Chang'an Temple was built, master Shaolin monks from the Tang army also participated.
At that time, the north was in danger. They took great pains to retain the superior Arhat boxing techniques from the 72 unique arts of Shaolin for many years in these 88 Arhats. They hoped to use this to strengthen northern martial arts and expand territory for the Han people.
I didn't expect that Dugu Xiaotian would be fulfilled today.
During the Datong period of Liang Dynasty, Bodhidharma, a monk from India, gave a lecture at the Shaolin Temple in Songshan Mountain. Seeing that the monks were sallow and thin, and low in energy, he said with emotion: "Although monks do not attach importance to the body, they cannot tolerate the incomprehension of nature, which will cause the soul to be separated. If you want to understand nature,
You must first strengthen your body, then your body will be strong and your soul will be easy to understand." So Patriarch Bodhidharma created the basic routine of Arhat Boxing and taught it to the monks.
The Arhat boxing technique implicit in the Arhat statues is the superior martial arts created by Bodhidharma. It emphasizes that the head is like a wave, the hands are like shooting stars, the body is like a willow, and the feet are like a drunkard. It comes from the soul, originates from the nature, and is like steel.
It is not rigid, seems real but imaginary, it will be transformed by long-term practice, and it will become very spiritual.
An hour later, Xiaotian punched the eighty-eight Arhat statues 9 times with the implicit punches. At this moment, he was so full of energy that he completely woke up from the state of enlightenment.
He only felt that Hongmeng's true energy in his body was more abundant, and his energy was flowing through hundreds of acupuncture points, and he had already reached the middle stage of the fifth level.
Although Dugu Xiaotian couldn't figure out the origin of this boxing technique, he knew that this boxing technique must be extremely extraordinary. He bowed and knelt down in front of the statues of Arhats, "I received advice from an eminent monk today, and Xiaotian will keep it in mind. In the future, I will save people in need and accumulate good deeds."
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After that, he kowtowed to the Arhat statue three times and then stood up.
It was already halfway through the fourth watch, and Dugu Xiaotian no longer stayed, left the Main Hall, performed Qing Gong, and returned to the courtyard of the Golden Sword Gate.
"I only got half of the treasure map. Without the other half, it is useless for the time being. I still practice martial arts diligently, travel around the world, and help those in need." Dugu Xiaotian thought to himself.
After slowly performing Arhat Boxing again in his own courtyard, Xiaotian went to bed and fell asleep.