Heaven is fearless

The carriage went all the way along the official road and left Miao Xin. When Chu Mingfeng ordered someone to hand over the deliberately delayed letter to Yan Wujiu the next night, Fanxing had already boarded the boat going north and went under the water smoothly. Has Luohe passed Nanshan?

Yan Wujiu stared at the thin letter paper with a pale face, his fingers were bloodless, his whole body was as if his soul had been sucked out, and he didn't move for a long time.

The letter was still gentle and indifferent, with only a few lines. It only said that there was something in the temple that required him to return. It was a long way from Nanjiang to Hejian, and Liu Yan Wujiu was staying in Miaoxin temporarily. In the end, it was peaceful and diluted, as if just leaving a note and going back and forth.

Yan Wujiao stared at the words on the letter paper for a long while, so angry that his breathing became a little rough, he walked around the room a few times like a headless fly, and let out a hard breath.

This smelly monk ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!

Fortunately, he was still thinking about how to escape, but this man slipped away without saying a word!She also slipped away without making a sound, not even refusing to say anything in person, simply, simply...

Rao is a talent like Yan Wujiu who pretends not to repeat swearing words, but his mind is completely blank after being manipulated by Brahma.

After being angry for a long time, a kind of grievance of being betrayed surged up from my heart. Fanxing would rather write a letter to Chu Mingfeng, whom he had known for a long time, and let her pass it on, rather than explaining his whereabouts to him in person. What is this? mean?Was he finally tired of him and wanted to dump him?

Yan Wujiu thought wildly, couldn't think of a reason, made himself extremely depressed, tossed and turned for most of the night, sat up suddenly - wait, Fanxing was going out, and Chu Mingfeng let him out?

If Chu Mingfeng is so talkative, can he also leave now?Go now, maybe you can catch up with Brahma...

This Yan Wujiu was fighting with Chu Mingfeng in an attempt to leave the princess's mansion, and the boat of Brahma Bank had left Luohe and entered the Monan river section.

It wasn't the first time he walked this river. When he used Shao Tianheng's avatar, he walked this river and led the army south to pacify the southern border. It seemed like it was yesterday.

Luohe River is calm and deep, the water body is calm and green, while the Manan River is close to the mouth of the sea, the current is fast-moving, and the big ship is pushed by the current like an arrow to go north, and it will enter the coastal Dong'e County within ten days. , which is adjacent to the vast East China Sea, and there are several islands on the sea, it is the most extensive county in the Chu and Wei Dynasties.

Standing on the deck, Fan Xing glanced towards the direction of the East China Sea, his face was still compassionate and gentle, he looked like an accomplished monk who was out of the ordinary world, when others saw him, they didn't dare to come forward to talk to him, they just watched from a distance Looking at him, it was like seeing the living Buddha Avalokitesvara, with awe and admiration in his eyes.

Law, whom he had not seen for a long time, fell on his shoulders, imitating his appearance and looking into the depths of the boundless East China Sea: "Your last incarnation sleeps in the depths of the East China Sea, do you want to see it?"

The law is always a bit of a childish habit of human beings, who like to show off their treasures. Every incarnation of heaven is carefully carved out by it, and added with the past and sent to the mortal world. It looks like itself The most proud works are generally good, wishing to go to heaven and earth to publicize them everywhere, but unfortunately it can publicize only one heavenly dao, and it is a heavenly dao that does not cherish the incarnation and uses the incarnation as a tool.

Although it was originally made for the Dao of Heaven, seeing that the avatar was broken and damaged, it was not good-looking—here specifically refers to the scrapped Shao Tianheng and the half-scratched Ming Xiaomingxue. Whenever Fa Shi thinks about these beautiful avatars, his heart aches. The aura around him dimmed a lot.

But it still couldn't help showing off its work to Tiandao.

Law pulled out two half-open pages of paper in the void, and put them in front of Tiandao's eyes: "The last incarnation! The king of demons, the king of the sea, is also very beautiful!"

It glanced at the life that it had arranged for the Demon Emperor in front of Tiandao, and quickly withdrew its spirit: "Would you like to see it?"

The monk standing at the bow lowered his eyebrows and looked at the lotus, lazily rejecting the invitation of the law in his mind: "No - have you found the traces of the Demon Emperor and the Witch Lord?"

As soon as he asked about this, Fa Shi shunned his voice embarrassingly, and after a long while he said helplessly: "I don't know what happened to the witch master, I can't find any traces of him at all, except for the rest of his luck. The sons are all ready, I was thinking—”

"All together?" Tiandao abruptly interrupted it, "Have you found the Demon Emperor?"

When Fa Ze heard this, he fell into a deathly silence.

Tiandao is inexplicable: "If you find it, you find it, if you don't find it, you don't find it. What do you mean by not saying a word?"

The law stammered in embarrassment: "I found it... Actually, I found it a long time ago, but this child of luck is a bit special, he...he hasn't been born yet."

Tiandao: "..."

Tiandao didn't understand the meaning of the law for a while.

What does it mean not to be born?How did it find it without being born?Could it be a soul body that has not yet been reincarnated?But only after death is there a soul body. The monster race gathers the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to be born. Where does the soul body come from?A demon that was not born is a collection of countless clusters of aura, and even the law is impossible to tell which cluster will be the demon emperor.

Ah... then it must be still in the mother's womb.

Tiandao, who realized that he had lost his mind for a moment, was relieved. These children of luck were more difficult to deal with than the other, but they were just a cub still in the mother's womb. As a Tiandao who gave birth to all things in the world, he was confident that he could still I can bring it here.

The law noticed his thoughts and fell into a deep silence again. After a while, he whispered slowly: "This...he is not in the mother's womb."

Tiandao was completely dumbfounded: "Not in the mother's womb?"

Not in the mother's womb, and not born, what kind of state is this?

The law materialized the appearance of small hands from both sides of Tuantuan's body, and tangled together in distress: "Hey... that is, his race is dragon fish, isn't the dragon fish clan very vicious, bloodthirsty and violent, and will kill when he sees his fellow clansmen?" It's up to you to die, the arowana that gave birth to him is the last one in the world, who knew that halfway through the gestation, that arowana went crazy..."

When Tiandao heard it say the word dragon fish, his heart sank.

He masters everything in the world, how can he not know that dragon fish is a race that is bloodthirsty and violent, but it is born powerful. In the words of the human race, it has no humanity at all. When it goes crazy, even its own cubs will bite and devour cold-blooded race.

But having said that, the dragon fish is a monster in the first place, what kind of humanity does it need.

Tiandao has no opinion on Longyu's killing problem, or Longyu is actually quite in line with Tiandao's moral concept: extreme fairness, seeing whoever kills, and even going crazy will not let him go.

His heart sank, it was all because he thought of going with the law - the last arowana in the world died tens of thousands of years ago, and the cause of death was that he went crazy and killed himself.

Who knew that arowana was still pregnant with one when it died? !

Law sighed: "The mother's body died halfway through conception, and the child of luck was half-dead. It was all due to the strong vitality of the arowana itself that held its last breath. I guess it can last another 1000 years."

This vitality is really strong enough, no wonder he has the qualifications to be a demon emperor.

If you don't go to rescue him, it's hard to say whether the little dragon fish died first, or the way of heaven collapsed first.

Tiandao thought of the days when he was rushing to save his life, but he was helpless and speechless: "Forget it, let's get rid of Yan Wujue first. Since that little dragon fish is still alive, let's let it go first."

Fa Shi responded vaguely, and the wind blew smoothly to push the big boat faster.

Fanxing got off the boat at a large pier, and he had already heard many people talking about the imperial court confiscating the properties of various temples. Such discussions became more and more enthusiastic as he went deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains. The discussion is almost endless.

Hejian is different from other counties. The Pure Land Zen Temple, the number one temple in the world, is located in Hejian. Buddhism and Taoism are prevalent here, and there is a strong wind towards Buddha. At four o'clock and eighth, you must go to a nearby temple to give alms and listen to the puja.

Hejian County alone is known as "480 Temples". Therefore, Hejian is also the county with the most hidden land in temples and the least tax. It is all occupied by temples, not to mention the large number of adults in Hejian who have not entered the temple. Many lands are almost barren due to lack of manpower to cultivate.

As soon as Fanxing set foot on the boundary of the river, he felt the ubiquitous religious atmosphere. Not to mention the monks walking on the street, because he is a monk, he even does not need to pay for some tea shops. Seeing his clothes, he is even more solemn, and he calls him master.

Fan Xing frowned slightly.

Pure Land Zen Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhist Sect come from the same origin, even the two are located in the same temple at the same place, but Pure Land Buddhist Sect has magic protection to separate the Buddhist temple from the mortal land. In the folded and overlapping time and space, it is so mysterious that it is difficult to describe it.

It’s just that the Pure Land Zen sect does not practice, it was born in the flesh and blood of the Pure Land Buddhist sect, studied Buddhist scriptures, and also regarded the Buddhist disciples of the Pure Land Buddhist sect as Buddhist disciples, but it didn’t know anything about practice. Every once in a while, there will be geniuses from the sky worshiping under the door.

When Busheng finishes studying the basic and superficial scriptures, he will go to the Pure Land Zen Buddhism to become a monk and practice like Brahmacar, and become the next Buddha student, and then travel around the world to consolidate his own way.

With his magic wand behind his back, Brahmacharya climbed up the mountain path step by step. The name of Pure Land Zen Buddhism is known all over the world. It is such an inappropriate season. There are crowds of believers and monks on the mountain path. Not eye-catching either.

After entering the mountain gate, the Zhike monk at the gate of the temple seemed to be stunned for a moment when he saw him, and then reacted, his eyes burst into surprise. The monk walked into the temple in a low-key manner.

The appearance of the temple is the same as that of the Pure Land Buddhism, but because of the large number of believers, it is inevitable that there will be a palace of Buddha statues painted in gold and vermilion, which looks impetuous.

Fan Xing quietly walked into the backyard of the Buddhist temple, and there were fewer and fewer monks along the road. He was only surprised when he saw him, and quickly saluted him politely, without trying to talk to him.

He walked all the way in, and the Buddhist hall he saw gradually became dark and simple, until he saw a huge ginkgo tree, and an old monk with a white beard hanging down to his thighs sat cross-legged under the tree.

"...the abbot."

Brahma stopped, stood in front of the old monk, bowed his head and put his palms together.

The old monk was not young, his old face was wrinkled like the peel of a dried orange, and his body was thin and shriveled. Wrapped in rough washed monk clothes, he looked like a dead tree that was about to die.

Hearing the voice, he slowly opened his eyes, the light in those eyes was clear and hale, like a man of extraordinary aura.

"It's Fanxing." He mumbled, "I've been traveling for several months, what experience do I have?"

He looked at the white black-clothed monk in front of him with loving and gentle eyes, and even his tone was full of the elder's concern for the younger generation: "You seem to have lost weight again."

Fan Xing lowered his head, held his magic wand behind his back, lowered his eyes, and said softly: "The abbot said the same thing last time."

The old monk then laughed: "Oh, it's always better to rest at home when my children go on a long journey. Do you dislike the old monk's talkativeness?"

Fan Xing helplessly raised his eyes to look at him, the spring water in his clear eyes was gentle.

The old monk smacked his lips: "The appearance of Guanyin, the heart of a Bodhisattva, you really deserve the name of a Buddha."

Fan Xing didn't care about his teasing, he pondered for a while, and then asked: "I haven't stayed in Hejian since I went down the mountain, I don't think the situation in Hejian..."

He couldn't find the words to describe the fanatical worship, he closed his mouth, his expression worried, and the old monk said "Oh": "Did you see it?"

Fan Xing frowned: "Abbot also knows?"

The old monk crossed his legs, twisting a string of smooth Buddhist beads in his hands: "I know, but so what if I know."

A trace of self-mockery appeared on his withered face: "Zen Buddhism strictly abides by poverty. The monks reclaim the fields to plant vegetables and raise them. look--"

The old but still sharp eyes turned to the distant mountains, as if they could see the barren fields and crowded streets in the river: "I don't know when, there are more and more obscene temples in the countryside, and unordained monks started If you dare to hang a temple plaque in an empty house, you can deceive a number of believers with false rumors, and run rampant in the countryside."

"There are more and more people who evade taxes in the name of converting to Buddhism. Even if they can't be stopped, Zen Buddhism has sent a book of commandments to the major Qing temples many times, reminding them not to be fooled by wealth and honor. How many people listen to it? ?”

The old monk stopped talking halfway, and sighed: "The imperial court's move is unbearable. It's nothing to confiscate the fields. What I'm afraid of is that they won't let it go and insist on liquidating the past..."

The Pure Land Zen School has always abided by the clear rules of the temple and strived to be an example for the monks in the world. However, not all Buddhist temples are so enlightened. Even the Zen School has repaired some of the golden statues of the Buddhist temples under the huge money offensive, let alone other less firm small ones. temple?

Under the pretext of enshrining the Buddha, they collected huge sums of money, concealed their property, took in all tax evaders, and even distorted the teachings of Buddhist scriptures to defraud them of money. There are many deceptive wild temples, some of which pretend to be completely real, and monks who are not hard-working monks can't tell the truth from the fake, which is really terrifying.

"It's the fault of the Zen sect. As an orthodox Buddhist sect, it failed to restrain the temples in time, leading to the current situation." The old monk's voice was low and deep, full of pain and despair.

This is indeed a fault left by Zen Buddhism. When Buddhism began to preach, in order to expand its influence, it did not strictly require believers to abide by the clear rules, nor did it use strict rules to restrain the monks. It becomes difficult for the public, and it is too late to spread the truth of poverty and righteousness.

"The imperial court has made a complete determination to restrain Buddhism. This is a good thing, but..." The old monk smiled bitterly, and handed a crumpled letter beside him to Brahma, "I'm afraid it won't be so easy."

Fanxing took the letter and unfolded it. This is a letter sent back to the temple by monks traveling abroad. It describes the reactions of various temples since the implementation of the Qingtian Order. As he expected, most temples are unwilling to hand over their hidden land and dare to face it. There are no temples that compete with the government, but they have begun to encourage believers to oppose the Qingtian Order openly and secretly, and there is a faint tendency to riot in many places.

Don't say that monks are all dedicated to the Buddha. People who are deceived by interests become greedy, and they are more terrifying than evil spirits.

The old monk sighed softly: "Yesterday, my junior brother sent a letter. A group of believers, bewitched by the monks of the wild temple, protested against the Qingtian Order, and set fire to gunfire on Zhuque Avenue in the capital. 63 people died and 28 were seriously injured."

Fanxing's pupils constricted for a moment.