Chapter 595 Unparalleled Talent
The Ni Bodhisattva watched Chen Shi and Hei Guo go away, with a gloomy expression on his face as he looked towards the sky.
ceddie ″ He turned and left, disappeared, and avoided the approaching Zhang Xian and others.
Chen Shi and Heiguo walked quickly towards the temple of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva. As they walked, Chen Shi said: "Buddhism and Taoism are the same. They follow the path of immortality and long for immortality and transcendence. However, Buddhism also follows the path of Shinto, gathering incense and belief. Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva Building his temple in Lei Xuan Province probably touched the interests of the Lei Department. Therefore, the people of the Lei Department did not intervene, but pushed each other, causing the Heavenly Court to send us, the new soldiers from the Heavenly Barracks, to investigate the matter. "
"Wow!" said the blame.
"You are right. The gods of the Thunder Department just wanted to see the destruction of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva's lineage, but they did not want to hurt everyone's harmony, so they did not take action."
Chen Shi guessed, "There should be three parties fighting overtly and covertly here. One is Xitian, the second is the Thunder Department of Heaven, and the third is the immortal who arranged this move. Two parties are in the light, and one is in the dark. But the immortal who laid out the pollution of the road still left something to be desired."
As the saying goes, people rely on clothing and Buddha relies on gold clothing. The temple of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva is extremely luxurious and magnificent. This temple covers a large area, with three front courtyards and four rear courtyards. It is divided into seven east and west courtyards, each with a treasure hall, in which the golden Bodhisattva is enshrined.
In these treasure halls are enshrined various golden statues of Arhats, King Kongs, and Venerables, as well as the Sutra Pavilion, Wubei Temple, and disciples' residences outside the temple.
Chen Shi came to the tent and caught a monk in the tent. The monk also turned into a clay figure, but he was lucky enough to survive.
“The temple of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva has a total of one hundred and six thousand disciples.”
Monk Ni said, “Hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land, forty-five fairy mountains, seventy-eight rivers, and mines in the name of the temple,
There are many refineries, kilns, alchemy rooms, carriage shops, weapons workshops, docks, markets, and gold and silver shops. ‖
Chen Shi frowned and asked, "The disciples of your temple. Although it is a lot, can we cultivate so much land and manage so much industry? "Of course we can't manage it."
Monk Ni said with a smile, "So the good land is given to the tenant farmers. To manage the mines, we hire laborers and make money from these people. We disciples are not engaged in production, we just chant sutras and practice Buddhism.” Chen Shida frowned: “You don’t do any work?”
"It's definitely not doing nothing. Inspecting the mines, supervising the tenant farmers, and reviewing the accounts to prevent the people below from fooling us. If there is still free time, some fertilizers, watering flowers and grass, drinking tea and admiring the moon are also a kind of practice."
Chen Shi waved his hand and motioned for him to go down.
Monk Ni hurriedly walked out, but he walked too fast, tripped over the black pot's dog legs, and fell to pieces.
The black pot cast an apologetic look and retracted its legs.
Chen Shi pretended not to see it and did not blame him.
One person and one dog continued to search the temple. In this temple, many clay monks gathered here and looked at them secretly.
Most of the Bodhisattvas, Vajras, and Arhats enshrined in the treasure hall are still alive. They are watching them warily. If they had not seen them still in the physical body, they would have stepped forward to ask questions.
Although the golden bodies of these Bodhisattvas, Vajras, and Arhats have been broken, they are still quite strong with divine power wrapped around them.
Chen Shi pushed aside a King Kong that was blocking the road, walked forward, and shouted: "The Heavenly Army Camp is doing business, and everyone who has nothing to do with it should disperse!
If you dare to block it, you will be shot without mercy!"
The King Kong stared angrily, and whispered in a low voice: "When did the Heavenly Barracks become so brutal?"
The Black Pot had already walked in front of him, looking down from a high position. From a dog's perspective, the King Kong lowered his head and did not look at it.
Kaiguo looked back and followed Chen Shi.
Chen Shi looked around and saw that the most important one, the one with the most incense, was undoubtedly the Mahanabo Hall in the middle.
One person and one dog came to the incense burner in this palace. The incense burner was more than two feet long and four feet wide. There was a dome above it. It was smoky and turned black. It was filled with incense ashes and unburned incense residue.
Hongguo rummaged through the incense ashes, and finally found a burned out incense stick that had only an inch left among the thousands of remaining incense sticks.
“Is this the incense that damaged the golden body of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva?” Chen Shi looked at the remaining incense. The remaining incense contained a strange power, the power of a heretic. This kind of power is extremely dark and does not belong to the two realms of yin and yang. This is presumably why even the yin and yang dojo cannot deal with it.
"However, there is also a kind of power in it, which is very familiar—""
Chen Shi was a little surprised. He sensed carefully that the other power in the lingering fragrance was very light and undetectable, but it was not easy to hide it from him because he had sensed similar power in many gods.
"Is it the incense Shinto? No, it doesn't quite seem like it. It still contains the Immortal Way, but it should be the Immortal Way evolved from the Shinto. Strange, strange—"
He hesitated and lit the remaining incense.
The remaining fragrance lit up with a scarlet fire and burned slowly, but the fragrance did not drift to Chen Shi, but to another direction.
This rotten incense is dedicated to the Clay Bodhisattva, and the fragrance naturally floats in the direction of the Clay Bodhisattva.
In the aroma, the dark power suddenly surged, and at the same time, the vague divine power suddenly amplified several times!
Chen Shi smiled, it was indeed an immortal way, not a divine way.
"Black pot, the development of Immortal and Shinto has been difficult to connect, but it is said that during the Three Qing Dynasty, the founder of the Three Qing Dynasties understood the mystery of Immortal Dao from the witch sacrificial pattern of Dashang. The further development of the shamanic Dao pattern is today's Shinto."
< br/> Chen Shi threw down the remaining incense stick, walked out, and said with a smile, "Therefore, both the immortal way and the divine way have a common source, which is the shamanic path pattern. If you understand this, you can open up the divine way and the immortal way. This is what grandpa and Uncle Xiao Wu are doing now."
The black pot hurriedly followed him. Heiguo also knows a little about what Chen Yindu and Creation Xiaowu are doing, which is to use the talisman seal as the basis to re-evolve the patterns of the immortal way.
The structure of the talisman is exactly the structure of many gods of Dashang, so Chen Shi said that they were trying to open up the divine way and the immortal way.
Chen Shi flew into the air, searching while continuing: "But the man who used the poison of incense to spread the pollution on the road,
For some reason, he actually opened up the divine way and the immortal way. This man is a genius, although He only opened up his lineage of immortality, but this move was still extremely remarkable. His master must be a god, and an earth god. He flew hundreds of miles away, and suddenly he seemed to see something, his eyes brightened, and he landed floatingly.
Hikaiguo quickly followed him and saw that this was a land temple. Compared to the temple of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, this place seemed much shabby.
The Earth Temple is a house that is no taller than a person, with no yard. There is a fire pit in front, where paper money can be burned. The incense burner is an earthen slope about a foot high, and the incense can be inserted on the earthen slope.
This temple must have been around for a long time. There are couplets on both sides of the door, but the writing is blurry and can no longer be seen clearly.
Judging from the incense, the temple should be the ancestral temple of the Tutu Temple in Feng'an County. The incense is ancient, and the breath of the incense can be traced back to people's prayer thoughts thirty years ago.
An ancestral temple, the incense is so shabby, almost forgotten by people, which shows that the cultivation of the earth god in this ancestral temple is not very strong.
Chen Shi looked around and found no earth god in the temple. The stool was empty. He saw a village nearby, so he walked over.
There are only a few households in the village, but they have also been affected by the pollution of the road and turned into clay figures.
Chen Shi came to the village and found an old clay figurine, and asked: "I am an immortal official in heaven. I have something to ask my father-in-law. Are there any monks in your village?"
The old clay figurine said: "Monks? There have never been any."
Chen Shi smiled and said: "Is there anyone taking care of the earth temple outside the village?"< br/>
"Oh, there is. A young man named Xiangxiu, surnamed Chu, has a very weird temper. He talks to himself. He lives in the house over there."
The old clay man said, "He is a child adopted by the father-in-law of the earth. He cleans the temple of the earth on weekdays. I heard that he became his teacher. But he shouldn't be a monk, right?"
Chen Shi smiled and said, "It's hard to say. Maybe some people are extremely talented and can practice with the gods." He brought the black pot to Chu Xiangxiu's house. The door was unlocked and opened as soon as he pushed it.
There is no one in the room, and there are papers everywhere, often with various talismans and seals on them.
Chen Shi picked up the papers and looked at them one by one. The talismans drawn on the papers were very strange. They were various forms of the Earth God, as well as the divine patterns of the earth. Obviously, the Tugong of the ancestral temple did not know how to practice and could only teach him the knowledge of the Shinto.
Chen Shi kept flipping through it, but he saw that the talismans and seals on the paper were also gradually evolving, and the earthly divine patterns were also constantly evolving, transforming into Dao patterns.
He raised his eyebrows. This Chu Xiangxiu actually understood the wonders of the transformation of gods and immortals from the Shinto. The Shinto taught him by the Tuigong of the ancestral temple helped him find a way to become an immortal!
"It's amazing, it's really amazing! There are many talented people in the earthly immortal world, and this person's wisdom is not inferior to mine!"
Chen Shi was filled with admiration and said to the black pot, "Chu Xiangxiu has done something amazing, and he is as smart as me!" Compared with the innocent Taoist, he is not inferior. "
As he was talking, a clay figure walked in from the outside. He was thin and tall, one or two points taller than Chen Shi. He was dressed in cloth, and his shoulders and neck were bowed probably because he often lowered his head.
He was quite surprised to see Chen Shi and Heiguo.
Chen Shi said with a smile: "Chen Shi from the Heavenly Barracks, this is my junior brother Guo Guo. He was ordered by the King of Heaven to come to investigate the case of the Clay Bodhisattva. I have met Taoist Friend Chu."
The clay figurine is none other than Chu Xiangxiu, some.
Chen Shi smiled and said: "Fellow Daoist Chu, please sit down."
Chu Xiangxiu came to the dining table and sat down, lowering his head and crossing his legs.
Chen Shi stood opposite him.
The Chu family has only four walls. There is no main room for receiving guests, and there is no Taishi chair and Eight Immortals table. There are only two stools and a wooden table.
Chen Shi did not sit on the other stool, but still stood and said with a smile: "Friend Chu, this stool is your master's stool, right? You two, master and disciple, occasionally eat here, right?"
Chu Xiangxiu's lips moved: "Yes. I was adopted by my master, and he occasionally comes to my house."
Chen Shi smiled and said, "Your master is very kind and treats you very well."
Chu Xiangxiu raised her head, met his gaze, and said, "Master treats me with great kindness." A living person. Even if you preach in Feng'an County and gather faith, you are still following the path of Shinto. "
Chu Xiangxiu stood up, holding the iron ruler of the sky and grinning. Chen Shi waved his hand, indicating that the scapegoat didn't have to be like this.
Chu Xiangxiu came to the pile of paper, pulled out the talismans and Taoist patterns he had drawn, and said, "That's it."
Chen Shi smiled with his eyes and praised: "Fellow Daoist Chu, you are a genius. You transformed the divine way into the immortal way, which is breathtaking."
Chu Xiangxiu raised his head in surprise: "Do you understand?"
He lowered his head again, his voice a little dark and sad: "Others couldn't understand it. I took it to ask them, and they said it was a ghost-drawn talisman."
Chen Shi smiled and said: "There are many immortals in the world, even if they are immortals. You are a mediocre person, and there are not many people who can understand you. I am not talented, but you happen to be one of them."
Chu Xiangxiu's eyes gradually brightened, a smile appeared on her face, and she spoke more.
"When Master adopted me, there was a famine here. I fled here with my parents. My parents died of hunger and I fainted from hunger. Master used the offerings from his temple to save me. From then on, I followed Master."
When he talked to Chen Shi, it was as if he was talking to himself.
"Many people from nearby villages and towns came to see Master to ask questions. Those who had lost their things or their children, weeds growing in the fields, or locusts were infested, they all came to him. They didn't bring many gifts, just some fruits and vegetables. I followed Master and grew up relying on these fruits and vegetables."
"Master said he didn't know how to practice, so he gave me these things. . I couldn’t practice, so I looked at these things every day, and slowly understood the meaning. I helped the master, and also helped people to get rid of insects and weeds——"
Chen Shi thought, "This level of understanding seems to be higher than mine."
"Have you practiced for so long, must you have mastered the Tao?" Chen Shi asked.
Chu Xiangxiu said: "I don't know what kind of cultivation I have. I just feel that one day, lightning struck me for no reason. After the strike,
There is also fairy energy and fairy light floating over. Master told me that I wanted to join the Tao. Although he is the land god of Feng'an County, there is no place for me to join the Tao in Feng'an County. He is a small god, and I need a big place in Hedao. He cannot get such a place. I didn't want him to get into trouble. He said that if I didn't live up to the Tao, I would die within a few years. ”
Chen Shi’s heart moved slightly and asked: “Where are you going to join the Tao?”
“Master said that the earth and immortal world all have masters. They have no power and power and cannot join the Tao.”
Chu Xiangxiu pursed her lips and said, “If you want to join the Tao, you have to go to the Dark Sea. I ran out. The Dark Sea is very far away.
I have been walking for more than ten years. "
Chen Shi raised his eyebrows: "What strange things did you encounter while walking in the dark sea?"
Chu Xiangxiu looked at his hands, which were also made of clay, and said: "To be in harmony with the Tao, it means to be in line with the avenue of heaven and earth. The avenue in the dark sea may be a bit strange. It took me a lot of hard work and several decades to successfully merge with the Tao."
Chen Shi stared at his hands and said: "Have you brought the avenue of the dark sea into the earthly immortal world?"
Chu Xiangxiu said: "Aren't you the same?"
Chen Shi raised his eyes and met his gaze. The two looked at each other and then looked away.
Chen Shi said: "What happened after you came back? Why is your master missing?"
Chu Xiangxiu stared at his hands again and said: "He is probably dead. I left for almost fifty years, and when I came back, there was no one in the temple. Few people nearby believed in Tu Gong anymore, but in Bodhisattva. I asked many people, but they didn't know how he died. He was from Feng'an County, so why did he die?"
Chen Shidao: "You have no evidence that Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva did it."
"Yes. I have no evidence."
Chu Xiangxiu lowered his head, made of clay Water flowed out of his eye sockets, moistening the earthy eyes, and then pattered down, saying, "I don't know who did it. But I know who benefits. There must be something wrong with the person who gets the biggest benefit! So,
I used the soil from Master’s temple to make incense. Are you here to arrest me and bring me back to heaven for trial? I won't sit still and wait. "
Chen Shi said solemnly: "You cast rain and killed many people. I was ordered to come to investigate the case and had to take you back.
"Chu Xiangxiu shook his head and said: "I did not cast rain. I just went out to find out who did it."