different paths

"This is the old man's meritorious service." Yu Shouxi rubbed his chin and said.

To everyone's ears, there was only a low roar, but in Yue Chentan's mind, Gui Shoudong's voice echoed clearly, over and over again, like waves crashing on the shore, constantly emerging——

"Spiritual light shines alone, far away from roots and dust, revealing true nature, not limited to words, untainted mind, self-fulfilling..."

Although Yue Chentan closed his eyes tightly, his spirit left his body following the tremors of his meridians and Gui Shoudong's cadenced chanting.After traversing through the form, feeling, thought, action, and consciousness of the eighteen realms, he came to a dark place.Here is empty and formless, but it can transform all forms in the world.The suffering of hell, the happiness of heaven and man, and the fire of greed, hatred and ignorance in the world all accumulate here.

There is no difference between Nirvana and the world.There is no difference between the world and Nirvana.

The shackles of the eighteen mud plows were finally broken, and he proved his original mind, broke through the realm, and opened up another new realm - Changlewojing, eighteen nirvana palms.

When Yue Chentan opened his eyes again, Jia Wuju's anxious face came into view.He smiled slightly at Jia Wuhai and said, "No problem."

He smiled lightly, but Jia Wu was shocked——

The so-called touching even if it is ruthless, it is not ruthless, it is even more touching.

"Are you... breaking through?" Jia Wujue looked at Yue Chentan and said, "Ai Ai Qiqi".

Yue Chentan said softly: "It's not a breakthrough, I just want to understand some things." After finishing speaking, he cupped his hands towards Gui Shoudong, "Thank you for your guidance, senior."

Gui Shoudong smiled and waved his hands and said: "You don't need to say thank you, this old man has just followed the rules for a long time, and he just wants to fight against others."

"Return to the words of the old man—" Jia Wujue seemed to understand.

Gui Shoudong gave him a mysterious smile, and made a silent gesture.

Yu Shouxi immediately said to the remaining three elders: "I have competed with Lao Gui, who will come next?"

"Old Gui said, I have been following the rules for a long time." Mu Shouzhong said coldly.

"That's right, I've followed the rules for too long." She Shounan added with a sigh.

"No, meaning, thinking." Bie Shoubei said slowly.

"Then there's no comparison." Gui Shoudong made a decision for the three of them, and all three nodded without objection.

Yu Shouxi looked at Jia Wujue, smiled and said, "Little friend, I hope you are still alive when we meet next time." He stroked his long beard, and added unhurriedly, "I am still alive." At this moment, the sky and the sky, all the dead and the five are all fluttering their long sleeves, soaring into the sky, like a gray crane flying far away, disappearing in the misty rain.

"That's... let's go." Jia Wujue was amazed at the five old people who came and went in a hurry.

"En." Yue Chentan responded, and then said, "Since Tian Can Wuyou has left, has this formation been broken?"

Jia Wuchai nodded: "Senior Yu seems to have pointed me in a direction just now, which is where the wounded gate is." He thought for a while and said, "Although the wounded gate is one of the fierce gates, this formation is originally yin and yang reversed. The wounded door may have become the lucky door instead."

The two walked along the direction of the wounded gate for a while, the mist cleared, and the field of vision gradually widened, and a simple and quiet temple appeared in front of them.Jia Wujue said "oh" suddenly, and said, "I know why the wounded door is the exit."

Yue Chentan stopped his steps, and looked at him without blinking: "Please enlighten me."

Jia Wujue felt a little embarrassed, scratched his head and said: "Although hurting the door is not suitable for auspicious things, it is very suitable for visiting the door to collect debts or round up evil thieves. Wouldn't it be suitable for our trip?"

Yue Chentan smiled faintly: "It makes sense."

"Little uncle, if the sect master sees you like this, he will be punished." In the misty rain, a barefoot young monk suddenly appeared, with a rosary on his wrist, and whispered the Buddha's name in his mouth, quietly staring at you. Looking at Jia Wujue and Yue Chentan, their faces were pure.

"Master Shanzai, don't you invite us to sit in?" After a moment of silence, Jia Wujue spoke first.

Shanzai looked at Jia Wujue, with some innocence in his bright eyes: "If Master Jia is willing to end it on his own, the poor monk can bring the little uncle in for a sit-down."

Jia Wuchai sighed secretly, and wanted to deal with him for a while, but he didn't expect the other party to be so straightforward.

"The matter of the flower picker was arranged by you." Yue Chentan looked at Shanzai coldly and said with frost on his face.

Shanzai nodded without denying it: "It is indeed what the poor monk did." Then, he showed a smile on his face, looked at Yue Chentan and said: "The female benefactors sincerely worship the Buddha, how can the poor monk not save them from the fire and water among?"

"Why didn't you find out that you, a little monk, are so eloquent?" Jia Wujue said with a smirk, "It's all for you to help them settle their unsatisfactory marriage, why bother to involve others?"

"Oh?" Shanzai seemed startled, looked at Jia Wujue and said slowly, "What does Benefactor Jia say?"

Jia Wujue sighed and said, "I didn't expect you to be such a young monk. Don't tell me that the death of the two craftsmen Wang and Zhao has nothing to do with you."

"Of course it has nothing to do with the poor monk." Shanzai said in a leisurely manner, "The poor monk just told the female benefactors that if they want to succeed, they might as well treat Master Wang and Master Zhao at the craftsman's office better. They don't need to give money, and they usually send some soup. Soup and water are also good."

"I'm afraid there should be something special added to this soup." Jia Wuchao snorted.

"This is natural, since it is for nourishment, of course a few herbs are indispensable." Shanzai said calmly.

Looking at Shanzai's calm face, Jia Wukai's heart skipped a beat.Those girls who acted according to Shanzai's orders may never know that they ruined two innocent lives by themselves.Even if the incident is revealed, the person who planned it secretly will be fine. Who would take a few light words as evidence of murder?

"I'm afraid you are also involved in the poisoning of Qu Zequan." Jia Wu said bullyingly.

Shanzai glanced at Jia Wuchai, smiled and said, "Why don't Master Jia guess it yourself?"

"As a Buddhist disciple, why do you have the hobby of taking people's lives? According to Buddhism, you are like this," Jia Wu said, rubbing his nose, "I'm afraid you will go to hell..."

"Go to hell?" Shanzai chuckled and asked suddenly, "Does Master Jia know about Devadatta?"

Jia Wuju shook his head.

"Deva Datta is the cousin of the Buddha. Compared with the Buddha, he is not inferior. He is intelligent, alert, good-looking, and possesses supernatural powers. It was just a chance. His cousin became a Buddha, but he He was classified as a heretic and was frustrated everywhere. So he no longer abides by any clear rules and precepts, creates three uninterrupted karma, and finally falls into the uninterrupted hell." At this point, Shanzai looked at Jia Wujue, a strange light flashed in his eyes, "Master Jia benefactor Let’s take a guess, what happened to Devadatta afterwards?”

"Stay in hell." Jia Wu bullied.

Shanzai shook his head with a smile, his eyes became more radiant: "He has become a Buddha, and he is called Heavenly King Tathagata."

Jia Wuju was startled when he heard the words, Shanzai was quite satisfied with this reaction, and the smile on his face became even bigger: "Pious believers have not become Buddhas, disciples who gouged out eyes and cut flesh have not become Buddhas, people who have committed all kinds of evil deeds But he became a Buddha. Who said that practice can only cultivate goodness, but not evil? Creating karma and going through kalpas may not be a shortcut to becoming a Buddha.”

"You are lying." Jia Wuba opened his mouth, wanting to refute, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only throw out this sentence dryly.

"Oh?" Shanzai responded lightly, looked at Yue Chentan and said, "What do you think of the poor monk's words?"

Yue Chentan said: "What is a Buddha? What is a demon? When a Buddha or a demon thinks, all kinds of doubts arise in his heart, he is a demon. If his heart is pure and untainted, he is a Buddha. The two are just relative. Where does the Buddha say? The mind produces all kinds of dharmas, and the mind is extinguished. All kinds of dharmas are destroyed. There is no Buddha. Teaching, but the more karma you create, that’s all.”

Speaking of this, his voice suddenly sank: "Kuang Shizun is rectifying the Dharma, if there is no writing, it will be useless to talk more."

"Little uncle, is this going to fight me?" Shanzai said calmly.

"Please."

After Yue Chentan finished speaking, he twisted his feet and moved like a cloud traveling for thousands of miles. In the blink of an eye, his figure twisted and trembled, appearing unpredictably, and flew in front of Shanzai.In the blink of an eye, the two had fought for dozens of rounds, Jia Wujue stopped to watch, only felt that Shanzai's moves were strange and fierce, not like the heavy and simple style of Shaolin Kungfu.

"The craftsman first, then Qu Zequan, who exactly entrusted you?" Yue Chentan shook one arm, and slapped Shanzai directly.

Shanzai dodges, turned his fists into claws, and attacked Yue Chentan's middle door: "Little uncle already has the answer in his heart, so why ask me." He couldn't make a single blow, he took a few steps diagonally, and his figure suddenly jumped. Leaping, like a fierce tiger crouching down to grab prey, it grabbed Yue Chentan's face.

Facing this storm-like attack, Yue Chentan was neither impatient nor impetuous, with a flick of his body, he managed to dodge Shanzai's attack, parted his waist, and swung one arm towards Shanzai's threat like a whip, only Hearing the sound of "pa", Shanzai's moves were not old enough, but the whole person fell on his back to the ground.

"Little uncle, there is still room for redemption." Although Shanzai was knocked to the ground, his face was calm, as if he was the one who really controlled the overall situation, "You should know that what he wants now, but also It's just Jia's life. As long as you..."

Before he finished speaking, Yue Chentan coldly interrupted him: "If you want one life now, you will have thousands in the future. Besides, how many people died for this one life?" As he spoke, A cold sharpness flashed in Yue Chentan's eyes, "Everyone in the chess game is a chess piece. The so-called chess player is just a person who holds the pieces. You secretly manipulate and take people's lives, so why are you not at the mercy of others? "

Shanzai heard the words, pursed his lips slightly and said: "Since everyone in the world is a pawn, what is the difference between life and death? You must know that if there is life, someone must die for it. The poor monk only helps people die, not life." Saying, He clapped his palms on the ground, and stood up abruptly.He also pointed like a sword, and quickly struck at the 36 fatal acupoints on his body, his face suddenly turned blue, and a layer of gloomy evil spirit emerged, and the gray-black true energy evaporated from his Baihui acupoint.The hands that were originally full of flesh and blood were as dry as sticks in a blink of an eye, and the ten nails glowed black.

"Today, if the poor monk can't help Master Jia return to the west, he can only help himself perish." Shanzai smiled slightly, his originally innocent face was covered by evil spirit, which looked extraordinarily gloomy.

"Is this also Shaolin Kungfu?" Jia Wujue said, looking at Shanzai's strange changes.

Before waiting for Yue Chentan's answer, he heard Shanzai's chuckle "heh", and suddenly attacked, attacking Jia Wujue with the momentum of running like a snake.He came as fast as lightning, as fast as a whirlwind, before Jia Wujue's amazed expression disappeared from his face, the ten-point cold light from Shanzai's fingertips hit him head and face.

Seeing this, Yue Chentan's gaze sank, and just as he was about to make a move, he heard Jia Wu bullying: "Don't worry, let me meet him."

"Master Jia is quite confident in himself." Shanzai hooked the corners of his mouth, revealing a gloomy smile.

"Shanzai little master, although I don't understand the profound principles of your Buddhism, but I understand a very simple truth." Jia Wujue suspended his feet, stretched his knees, and in an instant, he floated backward several feet .With a certain body shape, Jia Wuchao raised his strength secretly, his whole body was like a taut bowstring, ready to go, he looked at Shanzai and said: "I don't need to explain the meaning of it , the little master should also understand."

"The poor monk is very willing to listen to Master Jia's opinion, but I'm afraid there will be no chance."

As soon as Shanzai finished speaking, the cold light on his fingertips swelled, and his feet darted left and right, like a ghostly ghost, quietly flashed in front of Jia Wuchai, and slapped him hard.Jia Wujue dodged short, turned sideways, raised his shoulder, and hit Shanzai's elbow Shaohai point, Shanzai felt his arm go numb, and the attack stopped suddenly.When the arm returned to normal, Jia Wuchai had already moved away far away.

"I have sparred with Senior Yu a few times, and your claw technique is really not very good." Jia Wuchai commented leisurely.

Shanzai's face froze, and he said bluntly: "Really."

"Why? Little master doesn't deny that he and Tiancan Wuyou knew each other?" Jia Wujue asked curiously, "Why do dignified Shaolin disciples have friendship with the elder guardian of Tiancangu? The other party is willing to teach you the sharp-edged bone-breaking claws, I'm afraid This friendship is not shallow."

Not knowing if it was an illusion, Shanzai's expression became even uglier: "What does Master Jia want to say?"

Jia Wujue was half sincere and half cunning: "Little master, would you like to make a deal with me? You tell me the relationship between the person behind this and Tian Cangu, and I will let you go."

"Let the poor monk go?" Shanzai seemed to have heard something extremely funny, he wanted to laugh, but the muscles on his face couldn't be controlled, and he kept twitching, "The poor monk is not afraid of falling into the mud plow, What is the difference between living and dying as a poor monk?"

"That's not right." Jia Wu said bullyingly, "Little master may not care about life, but what about death?" He sighed heavily, "Who can guarantee that little master will definitely enter the endless hell if he dies now?" ? If you can't enter hell..."

He stopped abruptly in the middle of his speech, but it was enough to make Shanzai's expression change again and again.

Just when Shanzai opened his mouth to speak, he heard a few sharp "swish" piercing sounds from above his head, accompanied by the choking smell of gunpowder. Jia Wuchai dodged subconsciously, and was pushed back by a huge force. pull away.

"Hold your breath." Yue Chentan's voice sounded beside his ears.

Before the word "Xi" was pronounced, there was a loud "bang" sound, and the place where he was standing just now was instantly blasted into scorched earth, billowing thick smoke.Jia Wukai only slightly opened his eyes, and the smoke that penetrated into his eyes made his eyes sting, and tears kept streaming down his face.Just as he was about to reach out to wipe it off, he heard a loud roar behind him, so loud that even the ground seemed to be shaking.

And behind them is Chuiyun Temple.

"How long can we last?" Yue Chentan's voice suddenly sounded in Jia Wukai's mind.He looked sideways, and saw Yue Chentan protecting his shoulder with one hand, looking at the scorched earth in front of him with a cold and serious expression.

He stretched out his hand and stroked Yue Chentan's hand.Jia Wuhai felt that he could still hold his breath for a stick of incense, but he didn't expect Yue Chentan to carry him on his shoulder immediately after he finished rowing, and rushed out in a hurry.Yue Chentan put him down when he was completely out of the thick smoke, and said with a slightly nervous expression, "How are you doing now?"

Jia Wubai twisted his wrist, apart from the pain in the wrist grabbed by Yue Chentan just now, he couldn't be better.

"I'm fine, don't worry." Jia Wu bullied.

"En." Yue Chentan responded, and after a moment of silence, he said again: "Just now you made the same gesture, I thought you couldn't hold on for a moment..."

Jia Wuchai secretly lamented the tacit understanding between the two, but smiled on his face and said: "My internal strength is weak, and it is really difficult to hold back for a long time. What was that movement just now? Why are you so nervous?"

Speaking of this, Yue Chentan lowered his voice, and said, "If I guessed correctly, it was the poisonous mist god smoke cannon just now. It is similar to the god fire flying crow, but it is more powerful. When the shell hits the ground, it will spray If you accidentally inhale the poisonous mist, I'm afraid..."

"Poison mist god smoke cannon..." Jia Wuhai thought to himself for a moment, "This is strictly controlled by the Ministry of War. Could it be that the imperial court intervened?"

Yue Chentan looked at the thick smoke billowing in the distance: "Whether the imperial court intervenes or not, the relationship between Tiancan Valley and Shaolin." Having said this, he paused for a moment before slowly saying, "It is definitely confirmed."

Jia Wuchai looked at him with some concern: "...Are you alright?"

If they were still skeptical before, then Shan Zai's confession completely turned the two's guesses into facts.From the time when Yue Chentan appeared in His Excellency Jian's organ in Longyuan Villa, to when Shanzai was involved in the murder of a group of people, it is self-evident who is behind the scene.Jia Wuhai knew that the teacher's school was more important than Mount Tai to Yue Shentan, when the teacher's school and the morality were on each side, how complicated his mood would be, and how difficult his choice would be.

Yue Chentan stood quietly, like a solidified statue.After a long while, his tightly pursed lips slowly opened: "It's nothing. I said that I must find out the truth, so I won't give up halfway." As he spoke, he took a deep look at Jia Wucha, "I Although it is impossible to protect the whole world, it is not difficult to protect one person comprehensively."

Jia Wukai's heart trembled when he saw it, of course he knew which person "one person" refers to.

"The most important thing now is to figure out why someone took such painstaking efforts to kill these Nuo craftsmen." As soon as Jia Wujue finished speaking, he heard a clear cry above the two of them. Breaking through the clouds, he threw the thing in his claws towards Jia Wukai, and then flapped his wings soundlessly away.

Jia Wukai unfolded the ball of paper in his hand, and seeing the familiar handwriting on it, his complexion changed.

"What?" Yue Chentan asked.

Jia Wujue sighed, and said, "Do you remember that I mentioned to you that the six-faced camera mechanism under the Jiange and the six-yao hexagrams on the top of the cave are linked. And when you turn around, the hexagrams on the top of the cave will also appear. Previously, only the lower hexagrams appeared, which was the Qian hexagrams. I just received a letter from Boss Yan, who said that the fourth line appeared, and it was still the Yang line."

Yue Chentan frowned when he heard this: "Since the mechanism was activated, there were new items embedded in the cave. Tell me, could the object that activated the mechanism be the Nine-Headed Chapter Song?"

Because of the important objects that activate the mechanism during the nine-headed chapter song, of course they cannot be left to wander in the world, and naturally the craftsmen who can imitate them cannot be let go.Shanzai's matter seems simple to kill with a knife to get rid of the craftsman. Some of the knives come from young women and more from the eldest prince, but the ultimate goal is not just to get rid of the craftsman.Cutting off the source of the nine-headed chapter song mask is the ultimate goal.Therefore, the object that opens the organ is the only one, and there is no other in the world.

From the mutton jade bottle of Zhenyuan Escort to the nine-headed chapter song of Zhuxian Villa, everything is connected by the six-sided camera mechanism of Your Excellency Jian.And some other things are naturally connected together.

Yue Chentan's words revealed a fact that Jia Wujue had always refused to admit, even if he didn't want to believe it now, it was irrefutable.He took a deep breath, and said slowly: "Actually, before leaving Hanzan Palace, I fought with a masked man. He lured me out by pretending to be an old man with a broom, and fought with me on Hanzan Cliff. "

When Yue Chentan heard that he was attacked, his eyes suddenly turned cold, as sharp as a knife.

Jia Wuchao comforted: "Don't be nervous, I'm fine. What I want to say is that he obviously came here to kill me, but he left room everywhere when he did it. Moreover, although he tried his best to cover up the smell on his body, But it still revealed a little bit." Having said that, he closed his eyes, somewhat resisting recalling the events at that time.

Yue Chentan didn't ask any questions, just looked at him quietly, waiting for him to speak again.

Jia Wuchai's throat moved, and he said in a jerky tone, "He smells like Dragon Tower Incense. Dragon Tower Incense...is my brother's favorite incense..."

After saying the last sentence, Jia Wujue finally let go of the secret he had been keeping in his heart, and heaved a long sigh of relief.Sometimes, facing the facts and telling the truth is not as difficult as imagined, especially when facing a person you want to let go of your guard against.

Yue Chentan was silent for a moment and said: "...It seems that you and I are both fallen people."

This was not a funny joke, but when it fell into Jia Wuchai's ears, the corners of his lips curled up involuntarily, as if everything had become unimportant.He grinned and said, "Yes."

There was self-mockery, helplessness, and an imperceptible sense of relaxation in the words.

"Since this is the case, it seems that not only Tiancan Valley and Shaolin have a deep relationship, but Star Picking Valley may also be inextricably linked with the two." Yue Chentan speculated.

"The traces of the people from Tiancan Valley and Zhaixing Valley are hard to find, Shaolin..." Jia Wujue hesitated for a moment, and said, "If they find you, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to escape. If we want to start, we might as well start from the object that activates the mechanism." Investigate."

"Did you find out?"

Jia Wu smiled: "When I was in the Jiange, I deliberately took a look at the few remaining caves and niches, and I already guessed what it is."

Yue Chentan smiled slightly and said, "I also ask Brother Jia for your advice."

"One of the caves is very large, shaped like a drum, and has sharp grooves on both sides, shaped like a bird's beak." Jia Wukai blinked at Yue Shentan, "According to the practice of the opening of this mechanism, set It is a treasure related to the previous dynasty. Guess what this thing will be?"

"The front drum." Yue Chentan replied cooperatively.

"But there are so many imperial drums in the previous dynasty, how do we know which one it is?" Jia Wujue continued to ask.

Yue Chentan cooperated again: "Bird's beak."

"That's right! Children can be taught." Jia Wujue grinned and patted Yue Chentan's shoulder, "The drum decorated with a bird's beak, if I remember correctly, is the one with antlers standing on a crane and melon drum. It was used for sacrificial offerings, and was later given to the prefect of Yanzhou as a reward for his service in defending the frontier."

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