Chapter 72 The monk observes the soul, the first step in rebuilding Buddhism
The eastern suburbs of Guangyuan County, Pingsha Town.
Luoxia Inn.
In a clean guest room on the second floor, Zhou Yi suddenly opened his eyes.
A wisp of blue smoke slowly floated in mid-air.
The green smoke was very light, hazy, looming, and shorter than the three wisps of green smoke that Zhou Yi had smoked before.
'The monk who exorcises monsters, the consequences of unemployment, cherishes the bright future.'
Zhou Yi looked at the small black characters that appeared with the green smoke as always, and raised his eyebrows slightly.
If he understood correctly, this nine-character comment should be the reason for obtaining Qingyan.
In Buddhist terms, that is cause and effect.
The experience of harvesting green smoke three times before taught him that as long as he kills monsters or ghosts, he can get green smoke.
But this third "annotation" is slightly different.
Exorcist Monk: Exorcise those monks who were transformed by evil spirits - considered a good review.
Unemployment Fruit: Ye Guo Temple was lost, collapsed and damaged - mercilessly bad reviews.
Xidanming: Xidanming, abbot—not good, not bad, barely neutral.
"Because of the bad reviews, the green smoke I got this time is a little thin."
Zhou Yi said to himself.
His eyes fell on the rusty copper bell beside the bed.
The century-old bell in Yeguo Temple that had been abandoned for many years came to mind.
As the saying goes, things become strange when they grow old.
There is a bronze bell in Yeguo Temple, and you can listen to the lectures of eminent monks day and night.
One day later, he attained enlightenment and transformed into an old monk, trying to revive Ye Guo Temple by himself.
However, his body was damaged, and he could not survive long after his transformation, so he had to use murals to extend his life.
Although Zhou Yi and Master Dan Ming only met once, Dan Ming's words revealed what he was really thinking deep in his heart.
Of course, he had already understood that there was only one way to go from beginning to end.
Revitalize Buddhism.
To train eminent monks.
In this way, it is possible to obtain approval from eminent monks to return to secular life.
"Sure enough, the longest road I have ever walked was my Buddha's routine... In the end, I carried it all by myself."
"I want to eat meat, I want to grow hair, even if the sky is filled with Buddhas, they can't stop me... from returning to secular life!"
Zhou Yi gritted his teeth and read out the last two words, feeling relieved, and then inhaled the green smoke happily.
But when he closed his eyes, his consciousness suddenly sank into a chaotic space of black and white.
Immediately afterwards, he "saw" a gray figure emerging from the void and sitting cross-legged in the center of the chaos.
The man's eyebrows were indifferent, and his figure was vague and erratic. It could only be barely discerned that he had a bald head, and the rest was difficult to identify.
The next moment, Zhou Yi felt his consciousness turn into a stream of light, soaring upwards into the sky.
His body shook suddenly, then he opened his eyes again, and his consciousness returned to the present moment.
"That person just now looked like me...wait, is this ghost watching?"
In an instant, Zhou Yi understood.
After a martial artist breaks through his skills and enters the realm of Qi Sensing, it is divided into three major stages.
Level 1, Qi Generation: The internal Qi flows around the body, tempering the internal organs, bones, skin and flesh, and can also injure the enemy outside the body. He is already a master.
Second level, Kaifu: It can sense the five movements and six qi between heaven and earth, just like the house of qi, so it is called Kaifu.
Looking at the world, Kaifu warriors are already rare masters.
Level 3, Soul Observation: Practicing Qi to transform into a spirit, with a single thought of Shen Yun, one can observe the soul in the body, and can also detect the location of ordinary monsters and ghosts. Among the warriors in the world, he is already one of the few top figures.
As far as Zhou Yi knew from the small black characters, there were thousands of counties and counties in the seventeenth realm of the Tang Dynasty in the Middle Earth, and there were only a hundred or so martial arts warriors born.
Some veteran soul-watching warriors can even kill monsters and ghosts with their bare hands.
Now, with this fourth wisp of blue smoke, Zhou Yi finally reached the point of observing the soul.
Become a true master of the Tang Dynasty in China.
It has been less than two months since he came into this world.
"Namo Amitabha is so good. It's a pity that I am not a warrior after all, and I don't know if there are Buddhist monks' practice methods in that Buddhist scripture."
Zhou Yi muttered to himself and held up the window lattice.
Outside the inn, the morning light shines on the street, where there are sesame cake stalls, noodle shops, tooth shops, pharmacies, candied haws sellers... even the spice powder shop is open.
Pingsha Town, which is next to the county government, is as lively in the morning as it is in large Jiannan counties like Wenhe County.
Among the people coming and going, there were two people who stood out a little bit.
One is a tall and thin middle-aged man with yellow cheeks wearing a brown robe and a dark green turban.
The other is a "young man" who is a little too delicate and elegant, wearing a linen robe and a short jacket, with his hair hanging low in a bun.
Their temperament is very different from others. Even if they are deliberately dressed crudely and low-key, they still stand out from the crowd of hooligans walking on the long street and cannot be lost in the crowd.
Of course, this is only the case in Zhou Yi's opinion.
Nowadays, his perspective on the world has quietly changed, and is slightly different from that of other living beings.
In a blink of an eye, the two stopped next to a cypress tree at the corner of the street.
The "young man" didn't know why, and looked curious.
The middle-aged man quietly peeled off the bark of the tree, revealing a layer of scraped trunk with a short line of text engraved on it.
After reading it, the middle-aged man stretched out his hand to cover the words, and the bark turned into powder and shook off.
That line of characters naturally disappeared.
The middle-aged man bought a bunch of candied haws and handed it to the "young man". The two wandered to the other side of the long street, walked into a teahouse, and disappeared from Zhou Yi's sight.
"These two appear in Pingsha Town less than a month apart. There is something really fishy about them."
Zhou Yi shook his head slightly and closed the window lattice.
After he left Yeguo Temple last night, he did not return to Wenhe County by night horse.
The failure to search for eminent monks in Yeguo Temple made Zhou Yi finally realize that there is no way to hide, and there is no way to avoid it.
If I want to return to secular life, the only way is to rebuild Buddhism.
This cannot be accomplished by chanting the Buddha's name a few times and killing a few monsters.
Rather, it is a massive project that requires starting from scratch, going against the general trend of the world, and is almost impossible to complete alone.
As for how to take this first step, how to do it, what kind of comprehensive planning and layout is needed, and everything else... Zhou Yi didn't think about it at all!
He only knew that an important item related to Buddhism was hidden among the two people just now——
...the long-lost former Xu Mansion security guard, Yan Qu Mansion, and his student Axiu.
Ever since, after learning the whereabouts of the two people from the small black letters, Zhou Yi rushed to Pingsha Town overnight and found an inn to stay.
"Amitabha... all the things today are as traceless as water, but the causes and effects of the past have been planted long ago. The young monk is used to wandering around, and the most he can do is help find Buddhist relics. To truly shine and turn the tide, we still have to rely on my Buddha to take the initiative.
"
Zhou Yi put his palms together and whispered the Buddha's name.
Since Yan Qufu and A Xiu have no intention of leaving Pingsha Town for the time being, Zhou Yi is not in a hurry to meet them.
So as not to frighten them and make things worse.
Furthermore, Zhou Yi was also a little curious.
"One is the head coach of Qi Gan Kaifu who was famous in Chang'an in the past, and the other is a little girl with a strange life experience and rare talent who disguises herself as a woman... Why did these two leave Xu Mansion and come to Pingsha Town?"
At this time, there was a sudden fluctuation in the air.
Snap!
A small, gray mouse-like thing fell from mid-air, turned over, and hugged his shoes.
"Oh...you little thing looks quite unique!"
Zhou Yi raised his long eyebrows slightly, as if he was about to trample him to pieces without thinking.
The gray monster quickly bowed his head and bowed: "Master, wait a minute, I'm a waste of time!"