different paths

Under the leadership of the governor monk, a group of people who had been waiting at the foot of the mountain for a long time finally set out for Liufan Mountain.The governor monk sent by Master Wuyou to meet him was young, but he was very experienced in dealing with people. While answering questions from everyone, he introduced the climate and features of Liufan Mountain.

Liufan Mountain is named Liufan, in addition to the reason of Liufan Temple on the top of the mountain, there are other allusions. The word "Liu Fan", also known as "Liu Dao" in Buddhism, means the way of reincarnation of all living beings.Liufan Mountain is not only steep, but also has a strange climate.From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, you need to pass through six natural grottoes. Every time you pass through a grotto, not only the mountain scenery is completely different, but the climate will also change drastically.Maybe the first period is as warm as spring, and the latter period is freezing cold winter. The changing climate and scenery coincide with the different encounters of sentient beings in the six realms.In addition, in winter, there will be a strange wind blowing in Liufan Mountain, which is called "foehn".As the name suggests, the wind is hot and dry. Wherever it goes, the temperature rises sharply, like it is midsummer.

Listening to the governor's monk's introduction, Jia Wujue looked around, trying to see something from the silent mountain scenery.It's a pity that they have just entered the mountain, and the weather and scene are no different from those at the bottom of the mountain.He looked up to the top of the mountain, and finally found several strange sights.On the steep mountain Cuiwei, there are many towering metal pipes on the cliff, as if growing among the rocks, they are neatly arranged, straight into the sky, like a huge pan flute.Those tubes are red all over, standing in a white snow scene, very eye-catching.

"Master Jiezhi, what are those pipes on the mountain?" Jia Wujue immediately asked the master who led the Iron Shark Gang by his side.

After his words fell, many people also noticed the metal pipes standing on the cliff, and they couldn't help but make sounds of surprise and curiosity.

Jie Chi heard everyone's doubts, and patiently explained: "That is not an ordinary pipe, it is long-burning incense."

"Eternal burning incense?" Jia Wujue rolled his eyes, "Isn't it similar to an ever-burning lamp?"

"Yes, and no." Jie Chi looked at the rows of long-burning incense on the mountain, and said slowly, "Eternal-burning lamps still need candle oil, but long-burning incense does not."

It turns out that when many people go to the mountain to worship Buddha, they like to bring a lot of expensive incense to offer.However, the scale of Liufan Temple is not large, and the climate in the mountains is weird, which is not suitable for storing incense. The incense that many people reverence has already grown mold and insects before it can stand on the Buddhist hall, making it unusable.In order to avoid this situation from happening again, for pilgrims who want to accumulate kindness, Liufan Temple suggests that they can use long-burning incense instead, which can avoid extravagance and waste, and secondly, this incense will last forever, which can show the devout heart of the donor .Each long-burning incense is made of fine copper, which is expensive, but it still attracts many high-ranking officials and nobles to flock to it. However, within a few months, the long-burning incense in Liufan Mountain has become quite large.

"So that's how it is." Jia Wujue squinted his eyes as he looked at the proudly standing Chang-burning incense, "The purpose of this Chang-burning incense is to save money, which is good at first, but it can't stop these believers from becoming richer than each other. "

"I heard that among the pilgrims of Liufan Temple are many high-ranking officials and wealthy families." The skinny monkey beside him clicked his tongue twice, "I heard that some time ago, some people voluntarily contributed money to build this mountain from top to bottom. It is covered with Buddhist paintings."

"Oh?" Jia Wujue looked at Jie Chi, "Little Master, is this really the case?"

"There is such a king benefactor." Jie Chi whispered the Buddha's name, "The merit is immeasurable, and the field of blessing is vast."

After Jie Chi left, Jia Wujue slowed down his pace, waiting for Gu Yiming, who was at the end of the team, who was slowly climbing the mountain.Seeing Gu Yiming who was panting at five steps and coughing at ten steps, Jia Wujue leaned over and whispered: "Brother, there is no one here, you can take a few steps faster."

Gu Yiming squinted at him, and still walked slowly: "No one taught you, even if no one, you can't relax in the slightest? In our business, you are not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, being seen by experts. If you get any clues, your head will be gone." Then, he changed the subject and said in disgust: "Why are you running so fast, I'm afraid no one will know that you are a dexterous fat man?"

Jia Wukai shrank his head from his training, and let out an obedient ooh.

Suddenly there was a strong wind, and Gu Yiming sneezed loudly.

"Senior brother, you're really good at dressing up, this sneeze is just like the real thing." Jia Wujue praised.

As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt a pain on his face.

Two fair and slender fingers pulled a piece of fat on his face, Gu Yiming said angrily: "It's true. What the hell weather, I'm freezing to death." He sniffed and looked up and down Jia Wu cheated, but his tone was still hostile: "Are you cold?"

"No, it's not cold." Jia Wujue stuttered after being shocked by his gaze.

Gu Yiming glanced at him: "It's not cold yet, I think your head is frozen into a paste, and you can't speak clearly." He wrapped one hand around Jia Wuba's neck and put it on his shoulder, "Okay, Let's take a few steps quickly, maybe the weather will be warmer ahead."

"Brother, didn't you just say that you can't go quickly..."

"Isn't it you?" Gu Yiming tightened his arms, almost strangling Jia Wujue out of breath, "You are already a flexible and fat man, so you don't need to act harder."

Got it.

The nimble and fat Jia Wuhai hurried forward with his delicate senior brother under his command.

The snow was slippery and the mountain road was rugged. By the time the group arrived at the first grotto, the sky had already darkened.The five governor monks brought flint and firewood with them, lit torches, and led the crowd into the grotto.

A wooden sign was crookedly nailed to the entrance of the cave, and it said "Liufan No. [-] Cave" on it.Walking into the cave, the temperature is actually much warmer than outside the cave, and in the darkness, a smell of wood lacquer rushes towards you.

The cave is very spacious near the entrance, and it gets narrower and narrower as you go inward, and you don't know where it leads.When Jia Wujue and Gu Yiming entered the cave, the four teams of Shaolin, Wudang, Taichong and Yuqiansi were already in the most spacious place, sitting on the ground.A bonfire was burning in the center, making the sound of "peeling" and "peeling" from time to time.

"Sit down for a while, benefactors. The abbot has prepared fasting meals for you, and the poor monk will go and get them." Seeing that everyone had entered the cave, the five governor monks stood up and said.

"Thank you." Xingzheng and Xisheng replied almost at the same time.As soon as the words came out, the two looked at each other with no expression on their faces.

Since ancient times, culture has no first and martial arts has no second. Shaolin and Wudang, one Buddhist orthodox school, and one Taoist sect, who is the most orthodox martial arts has never been determined.The two factions are harmonious on the surface, but there are many contests and contests in the dark, which also involve the confrontation between the various forces in the court.This time about the Liufan Buddha head incident, both factions have sent young disciples. The ulterior motives are not about drinking, and both sides hope to use this incident to make the younger generation famous in the world.Xingzheng and Xisheng, as the leaders of the two factions, naturally had to compare secretly with each other and pay attention everywhere.

Especially Xisheng, Xingzheng is not the only one who needs to be careful.His eyes fell on the wheelchair beside Xingzheng. Not long ago, Yue Shentan, a disciple of Shaolin layman, became famous because of the Zhenyuan Escort case, and this time he went to Liufan Temple together with Xingzheng.

Here is the intrigue between the famous families, and the iron shark gang is much more relaxed.Many of the Iron Shark Gang lived along the water, and it was hard to see such mountain scenery. Just staying overnight in the grotto could make them very excited.A group of people waited around the bonfire, stretching out their hands to roast, while looking around the surrounding stone walls curiously.

"Hey, look, there seem to be paintings on that stone wall." The thin monkey rolled his eyes wildly, and bumped his shoulder to Jia Wuhai who was beside him.

In fact, the group of people who came in earlier had noticed this mural, but no one mentioned it.Now the members of the Iron Shark Gang are talking about it as if it is fresh, and the teams who came in earlier inevitably rolled their eyes, thinking that this group of bastards are really fussing and ignorant.

Jia Wujue looked at the opposite stone wall, the bonfire jumped, reflecting on the stone wall, blurring the patterns on it.He tugged at Gu Yiming's sleeve, and was about to pull him to take a closer look, when the five prefect monks had already come out from the depths of the long and narrow cave carrying their fast.

Noticing the line of sight of the Iron Shark gang, the leader of the Jiegang monk put down his pole and said, "The picture on the wall is the six circles of reincarnation."

When Jia Wuhai heard what he said, he understood it but felt a little strange.The Six Paths of Reincarnation is also known as the Wheel of Life and Death in the Six Destinies. In the picture, King Yama and the Demon King are holding a big wheel. The big wheel is divided into four layers of circles, and various scenes of the Three Realms and Six Realms are drawn.But now on the stone wall of Liufan No. 33 Cave, there is only a huge scene of the heavenly dao-the top of Mount Sumeru surrounded by immortal energy, surrounded by the sun and the moon, and above the top of the mountain is a magnificent palace. In the center of the palace, The leader of the [-] days is sitting, Indra.On the side of King Indra, a lotus flower blooms, clean and bright.

It is more appropriate to say it is the "Tian Dao Map" rather than the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

"This painting..." Jia Wuhai said in a low voice.

Gu Yiming raised his eyebrows: "It's very problematic."

"Brother thinks so too?"

"As long as your eyes are not blind, you will feel that there is something wrong." Gu Yiming said, and glanced at the Shaolin group, "The Shaolin group should also be able to sense something is wrong."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Jia Wukai, only to see that the other person's head was buried low, almost getting into the neckline.

"What are you hiding from?" Gu Yiming poked Jia Wujue's head hard with his fingertips, and said in an indifferent way, "I thought there was nothing wrong, but it seems that something really happened."

"What could be the matter." Jia Wuchai said in a muffled voice, "Didn't the senior brother say, you have to be careful. After all, I have been with him for a while, what if I was discovered." The "other" in his mouth, of course It was Yue Chentan.

As soon as he finished speaking, Gu Yiming poked him hard again: "Judging from your tone, why does it feel like you hope to be discovered?"

Jia Wujue rubbed his head, the brother's hand is really strong, the place where he was poked really hurts.He is a little messed up now, maybe he really did what his brother said, he hoped that the other party would find him.But if he was found out, he and his senior brother might be doomed.

It's better to stay away, and avoid it if you can.It is better to be strangers to each other than tit for tat in the future.

He sighed softly, thinking that he only took one last look, not at people, but at how the wheelchair he made was doing.Thinking of this, he sneaked a glance in the direction of Shaolin and his party.In fact, the light in the cave is so dark, and Shaolin and his party sit far away, people can only see a blur of shadows.But he happened to see clearly the wheelchair he made, rim to rim, rim to rim, that's great.

Moving up the line of sight, it was blocked by a slender figure.

"What's the matter, why don't you just go over and report your name." Gu Yiming stood in front of him with folded arms, with a very gentle tone.

The more the tone was like this, the more Jia Wuhai's hairs stood on end.He lowered his eyelids and said in frustration, "Brother, I know I was wrong."

Gu Yiming patted his head, and smiled slightly: "Little guy, you will know when you grow up, some things are just for fun, but they can't be taken seriously."

As he spoke, he casually glanced behind him, and on the other side of the hole, a beam of gaze fell straight on his body like blue lightning under a rock.With a chuckle, he turned his head and stroked Jia Wuba's furry head: "What a beautiful head, don't lose it so easily."