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Daze Temple in Jiangsong Mountain is a small mountain temple. It was built more than 300 years ago. Because of its remote location and the lack of good times, the incense in the temple has never been strong.There are no more than a dozen monks in the temple, most of them are mediocre, and their lives are peaceful.Two hundred years ago, before the mountain temple was burned down by thunder and fire, the remaining monks were no more than five or six, and they all lived in this mountain all their lives. They were old and not short-lived.At that time, the only young man in the temple was a boy from Nanjiang who worshiped in Daze Temple.

To be honest, at that time, the old monks of Daze Temple looked at the boy from southern Xinjiang who came up the mountain kindly and lovingly, and murmured in their hearts: This kid seems to be a once-in-a-century idiot. If you can't enter the family temple, why did you choose Daze Temple?

The young man from southern Xinjiang had a handsome appearance, with tall brows and delicate bones, a pair of dark eyes, and a sense of calm and stability at a young age.

With this appearance, there are always people who want to go to any monk temple, and he just likes this small corner on Jiangsong Mountain.

Those old monks were naturally happy in their hearts, but on the face of it, they still asked him for the good of the young man.

The young man replied: It is destined to Daze Temple.

As a result, before he had time to take the precepts, the Daze Temple, which was related to him, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.

All the people in the eunuch died, but the boy from southern Xinjiang survived.

Later, the teenager met a confidant of similar age by chance.Many years later, the young man turned into a national teacher who protects the country from disasters and directly takes charge of the Taichang Temple.

Because his confidant has a special identity, he was still a prince when we met, and later became an emperor.

Later, the emperor's life was nearing the end of his life, and the national teacher felt deeply in love with him and was very reluctant to give up. He thought of some ways to extend his life, but it was still a step too late.

The national teacher has compassion in his heart, and has made an agreement with his confidant to keep this mountain and river alive for a hundred years.

But the lifespan of mortals is limited after all, and in the process of finding a way to extend the life of the emperor, the national teacher wasted a lot, and there are already signs of exhaustion.

Therefore, he counted his chances and picked up his successor from outside the Daze Temple in Jiangsong Mountain.

He hoped to inherit the last wish of his deceased, that no matter how the dynasties change, there will always be an unquenchable light to guide the way and bring peace to the people.Therefore, the national teacher changed the dharma name to Tongdeng and passed it down from generation to generation.

However, when the successor was first carried back to Taichang Temple, he was still a toothless child and could not speak.

With such a heavy dharma name at such a young age, I'm afraid it won't be able to suppress my life, besides, it's not yet time for the national teacher to abdicate and go back to seclusion.So the national teacher gave him a dharma name that he used when he was young: Xuan Min.

Xuan Min's life experience is a bit special, because he was born with a Buddha bone, which is a sign of great merit. Even if he is reincarnated, the Buddha bone will not be lost, so he is an excellent candidate for successor.

Although the national teacher is a taciturn person to outsiders, he also talks a lot to Xuan Min, which seems to be both a teacher and a friend.

During this period of education, because the Tianji Academy was not allowed to enter without permission, or maybe the national teacher did it on purpose, very few people saw his true face, and very few people knew of Xuan Min's existence.

Many years later, Xuan Min became an adult and succeeded in taking over the position. The national teacher who had already looked like he was exhausted was the true fellow-deng passed away.

What happened in his life is somewhat legendary, and if he calculates it carefully, if he has a confidant and a disciple, it can be considered complete.It's just that he always misses Jiang Songshan's Daze Temple...

Although the thunderstorm that year was indeed a coincidence, it had nothing to do with him.But being said to be a broom star for so many years, he always has a subtle sense of guilt towards Daze Temple.

Even after he passed away, he was very concerned about it, so...he "stayed" in Daze Temple, and every year in the twelfth lunar month, Qingming Festival, and Zhongyuan, he would light a lamp for the old monks who smiled kindly at him a hundred years ago .

His state is like a ghost but not a ghost, like a soul but not a soul, like a clinging but not a clinging, no one can see him, even warlocks with yin and yang eyes, no exception.

Therefore, in the eyes of outsiders, the Daze Temple, which has been vacant for a hundred years, occasionally lights up every year.People around were so shocked that they didn't dare to approach, hence the name of the ghost temple.

Today is the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, and the thrilling battle at the foot of Jiang Song Mountain seems to have happened just yesterday, but actually half a month has passed.

The mess at the foot of the mountain has long been pacified, and a heavy snow near the end of the year buried all the remaining traces under it, and calm has long since returned.

After nightfall, a few lights suddenly lit up in the originally pitch-black abandoned temple, counting carefully, exactly six.

"The will-o'-the-wisp, the will-o'-the-wisp is on again, senior brother." In a small temple a few mountains away, the little novice lay in front of the window and stretched out his head to look in the direction of Jiangsong Mountain.

The timing of the will-o'-the-wisp's appearance was early and late, and it was rare to see it with my own eyes.This little novice has lived in this temple for more than ten years, and this is the second time I have seen him.

However, although the rumors were weird, when I saw it with my own eyes, I was not afraid.The lights at those points are yellowish and warm, not only will not make people feel anxious, but will make people feel calm.

As a matter of fact, there is no ghost at all in the real Daze Temple.

In fact, there was a white-clothed monk standing in front of the six peace lamps that "no one lights up by himself", carefully picking up the wicks of the six lamps, but no one else could see it, except for a person in the same situation as him. bit.

The monk who carried the lamp was none other than the boy from southern Xinjiang who entered the monastery alone, and later the first national teacher, the real fellow lamp.

And the person who is in the same situation as him and who can see him is also in this deserted temple at this time, also wearing a white hemp monk robe, looks like a ghost but not a ghost, like a soul but not a soul, cross-legged with bloodless front Sitting on the futon in the corner of the room, with his eyes slightly closed, he seemed to be recuperating.

Even with this ghostly appearance, he still couldn't stop the compelling handsomeness in his brows and the unmelting coldness.

It was Xuan Min.

After lighting the lamps with the same lamp, he stood calmly in front of the six peace lamps, clasped his hands together and performed the Buddhist ritual.Then swept his sleeves, turned around and walked to Xuan Min's side, with the help of the six oil lamps in the room, he glanced at Xuan Min's left hand resting on his knee.

There was a bloody mole as small as a pinpoint in the gap between the index finger of the left hand, which was slightly convex to the touch, and it could be a pair with the one on Xue Xian's collarbone.

"The mole has appeared." Tong Deng withdrew his gaze, glanced at Xuan Min rather unhappily, and said calmly: "It's lucky that you can still remember such a trick under such circumstances. Pour out the spider, bite it You take one bite, and then bite him again, which takes at least one sentence. If you have the time, why not struggle a little longer, maybe you can explain two last words to him."

Xuan Min's eyes were still closed, and his lips didn't seem to move at all.I don't know if I didn't hear him at all, or I didn't want to talk to him.

"Although this spider is not as venomous as Tongshou spider, it's still uncomfortable. Did you enjoy being bitten?" Seeing that he was silent, Tong Deng opened his mouth coldly.

Xuan Min was silent for a moment, and finally kept his eyes closed, and said expressionlessly, "The left and right are all spiders raised by you."

The implication: Do you have the face to let others pay attention not to be bitten?

Ever since the physical body lost its vitality, Xuan Min was in this abandoned Daze Temple when he became conscious again.He is about two days ago condensed body, just stabilized last night.In the past two days, he couldn't open his eyes, and he couldn't speak, but he heard someone around him saying something like reminiscing about the old days.

After listening to it intermittently, he realized that this person was Tongdeng, the first national teacher, and also his master in the previous life.And the two kinds of spiders in the Hundred Wormholes were all made by him.

Xuan Min once only tasted the same life spider.As early as many years ago, before he completely left the Tianji Academy to live alone in the small bamboo building, he had already discovered that Zu Hong's life span had changed.Even though Zu Hong didn't take off his mask even in the Tianji Courtyard, Xuan Min still noticed that he had become young again from the small changes in the lines on his neck.

In fact, at that time, he vaguely guessed in his heart that this change might be related to himself, because Zu Hong always spoke with some deep meaning, as if expressing some kind of debt to him, and seemed to be thinking about some gratitude.

It's just that at that time he was still thinking about his teacher's kindness, even if he was aware of it, he didn't care at all.

A long time later, when he really found out about the "same life spider", Zu Hong greedily pulled out the keel again, and after that, he lost his memory again.As a result, the matter of "Zu Hong planted the same lifespan spider for him" was delayed several times, and finally it was not really resolved until he was dying.

Looking back now, Xuan Min is usually very restrained, and there are very few opportunities to let others take advantage of the loopholes, except for one time...

It was the fall of the year before he left Tianji Academy and handed over the post of national teacher to Zu Hong again. During the retreat, he accidentally entered the state of mad Zen, and fell into a coma for three days and three nights.At that time, he didn't have much defense against Zu Hong, and it was feasible to take the opportunity to plant the same life spider.

But no matter what, the physical body is dead, and this is already a thing of the past.

Now he is not carrying the same life spider, but another one from the Hundred Worm Cave.

Tongdeng's real purpose at the beginning was the same life spider, and it was purely an accident caused by mental disturbance. The friendship contained in that kind of spider was so complicated that Tongdeng didn't know what to call it, so he simply called it nameless.

Xue Xian once casually asked Xuan Min what the purpose of this nameless spider was, and whether it could really tie people up for three lives as the legend said.

Xuan Min denied it.

He never lied to Xue Xian, this nameless spider really has nothing to do with Sansheng.

The same life spider is a pair of mother and child spiders, and the nameless spider is a pair of blessing and misfortune spiders, the red spider means blessing, and the black spider means disaster.The small mole on Xuan Min's hand was left by a black spider, while the one on Xue Xian's collarbone came from a red spider.

Once the blood mole is formed, it means that the body of the person bitten by the black spider will not rot after death, the spirit will not disperse, and it is neither a ghost nor a soul.He takes all the disasters and sufferings that the other party has suffered from life to life into himself, and he attributes all the blessings and rewards he has received from life to life to the other party...

The price is never to enter reincarnation.

This is not three lives, but boundless.

"Once this mole appears, I will be lonely for thousands of generations from now on." Standing in front of the house door, Tong Deng squinted his eyes at the moonlight in the sky, then turned back and asked Xuan Min: "Of course there are benefits, You will never lose your memory again, you will remember everything you should remember, and you will remember it more and more clearly, as if it just happened yesterday. Is there a disadvantage... no matter how deep your memory is, people will not be able to see you anymore, even the real dragon What, do you regret it?"

Xuan Min didn't speak for a long time, and it seemed that he still didn't want to talk to him.This appearance is somewhat similar to the relationship between master and apprentice a hundred years ago.

After a long time, Xuan Min asked indifferently: "You also planted this spider, do you regret it?"

Tongdeng snorted indifferently, and didn't speak anymore.

Regret?

Life and death, blessings and misfortunes are never a trifling matter. Since the promise is made, even if the East China Sea is dusty and the bones are rotten, there will be no complaints or regrets.