Xiao Han [Shooting Condor]

"Tianshu, I can't walk anymore." Xie Yao followed behind Tianshu, pulling the roadside grass stems impatiently.Tianshu suddenly stopped walking when he heard the words, Xie Yao didn't notice, bumped into her back, rubbed his nose, and was about to speak when Tianshu said: "You can ride a horse when you go down the mountain."

Xie Yao nodded: "Tianshu Tianshu, where are we going now?"

Tianshu held his hand and said with a smile: "Let's go to Dali, it's warm there, you will definitely like it."

"Yeah!"

The two hurried up the mountain and then down the mountain. Tianshu knew that Xie Yao's time was running out, so he didn't dare to waste a minute or a second.It will take five or six days to go to Dali country at a fast pace. Even if she feels sorry for Xie Yao, she doesn't let him dawdle.After feeding the reeds with fodder, Tianshu went south with him to Dali.

In fact, Master Yideng did not tell Tianshu the specific method. He only said that this method is dangerous and dangerous. If Xie Yao used his life to suppress the devil in the cave, life and death were equal, this method is a narrow escape.Dali Tianlong Temple has a high status as a national temple in Dali. Needless to say, there is a "Nirvana Furnace" in it, which is about two feet wide and three feet high. Seven Seven 49th.Since the early years of the Tang Dynasty, ten people entered the furnace, and nine of them died in the sea of ​​flames. Even the wine monk endured for nine days in the furnace, and left after nine days to go to Shaolin and create the "Nine Suns Magic Art". ".

Don't say that Xie Yao is delirious at this moment, even if he is conscious and his skills are not yet reached, it is impossible for him to survive for 49 days.

Master Yideng also said that if he wants to enter the Nirvana Furnace, he must obtain a handwritten order from Tianlong Temple.Tianshu and Xie Yao had also been to Tianlong Temple back then, and knew that Master Benxuan and Master Faxuan were very kind and upright, if they refused to open the furnace, she would beg.

Seeing Tianshu's sad expression, Xie Yao was startled, and asked, "Tianshu, why are you unhappy? Is it because I'm sick?"

Tianshu turned to look at him, heartbroken: "Yes, you are sick, I am very sad, very sad."

Xie Yao didn't know how to comfort her, so he could only say: "Then leave me alone! I'll wear a few more clothes, hide under the quilt and cover for a few days, and the illness will be cured." Tian Shu stretched out his hand to touch his face, choked up and said: " How could I ignore you."

Perhaps from the quarter of an hour when Xie Yao held her hand tightly, Tianshu would never give up on him.The two have gone through countless experiences along the way, and she firmly believes that this time they will also overcome this hurdle, this calamity.As long as he thinks that Xie Yao is safe and sound, without injury or pain, Tian Shu feels that this is the most beautiful thing in the world.She carefully traced Xie Yao's expression with her eyes, and suddenly realized how absurd it was.The ideals at the beginning, the goals at the beginning, are now all affected by Xie Yao's fate, and none of them are as important as him.

No one is born perfect, time is changing, Xie Yao is changing, and she is also changing.

Abandoning her ideals did not make her feel sad and empty; on the contrary, Tianshu felt very satisfied and relaxed.

Traveling southward on this road, after five days, they bypassed Diancang Mountain and arrived at Tianlong Temple at dawn.Tianshu looked back at the dawning east, silently praying in his heart, this trip was worthwhile.

She stepped up the steps and knocked on the door knocker, but after a while, a little novice came to open the door, seeing a woman, her cheeks flushed with fright, she even forgot to greet her.Tianshu didn't care about these things, she said directly: "According to Master Yideng's words, I come to see the abbot of your temple, and discuss important matters."

The little novice did not dare to read the heavenly scriptures, and only nodded to Xie Yao: "You two benefactors, please come with me." The little monk led the heavenly scriptures and Xie Yao to sit down in the meditation room, and asked people to take the reeds to the backyard to feed them. , Chaotian wrote: "Please wait a moment, the little monk will go to Tongchuan to preside over the abbot."

As soon as the little monk left, Xie Yao walked up and down in the meditation room. He stroked his hair and asked strangely, "Tianshu, why do they have no hair? Do I want to have no hair too?"

Tianshu wanted to say no, but suddenly thought of what Master Yideng told him before he left, even if Xie Yao survived the catastrophe in the Nirvana furnace for 49 days, in order to preserve his health and calm his breath, he would have to retreat to Buddhism for a year.Tianshu agreed to this matter without even thinking about it. As long as Xie Yao can survive, even if she is an ordinary and ordinary person who does not know martial arts, she is willing to do so.

"Yes." Tian Shu pulled him to sit beside him, "You are cured, you have to keep your promise, and you will become a monk at Tianlong Temple for a year, you know?"

Xie Yao nodded and said, "I will do what you tell me to do."

Tianshu's heart felt hot, and she was on the verge of tears, at this moment, the door was pushed open, she hurriedly raised her sleeves to wipe away the tears, stood up and bowed down: "Master Faxuan."

The person who came was Faxuan, the abbot of Tianlong Temple. Faxuan had never seen Tianshu before, and said with a slight smile, "Why does the benefactor know the old monk's name?" Of course Tianshu would not say that she had met him earlier, nor would she. Putting it off, he pulled Xie Yao over and asked, "Does Master still recognize him?"

Faxuan took two steps forward, looked at Xie Yao's face, and said clearly: "Oh, it's the benefactor." After finishing speaking, he couldn't help laughing, obviously recalling the funny incident of misidentifying his nephew back then. .

Xie Yao turned around stupidly: "Book of heaven, what is benefactor Xie?"

Seeing his appearance, Faxuan let out a little surprise, and asked, "What's wrong with Xie benefactor?"

Tianshu's face was slightly stiff, and then he pointed his finger with a wry smile: "As Master saw, he is ill." She took out a letter from her sleeve and handed it to Faxuan, "This is the letter that Master Yideng asked me to give to Faxuan." Master's, the reason for it, the master will know at a glance."

When Faxuan heard that he was Master Yideng, he didn't dare to be negligent, so he quickly opened the letter and read it twice, his expression became more and more surprised: "This...is going to open the Nirvana Furnace?"

Tianshu was afraid that he would not agree, so tears were about to come out: "Xie Yao is running out of time, I can't let him die! Master, Buddhist disciples are merciful, please save him!" Faxuan looked at Xie Yao, He looked at the heavenly book again, with a very troubled expression on his face, he said: "It's not that I don't want to, it's just...just..." He paused, and then suddenly said: "Well, you wait here first, and open the Nirvana furnace to deal with the matter." Daddy, let me discuss it with my senior brother."

"So, please trouble Master." Tianshu lowered his eyes and said in a mournful voice, "If he doesn't survive, I'll be like a wandering soul, and it's meaningless in this world."

Hearing the sound, Faxuan's back froze, he shook his head and sighed, and stepped out of the threshold.

When Tianshu said this sentence, he was taken aback.She raised her eyes and looked at Xie Yao who was playing with the incense burner in a daze, thinking of her state of mind back then, she didn't understand how she fell in love with this enemy.Tianshu felt bitter in her heart, she was supposed to live only for herself, why is it completely reversed now.

Xie Yao ran over with the censer, and presented the book with both hands: "I caught a frog, and I will give it to you!"

Tian Shu was originally in a very sad mood, seeing him like this, couldn't help but burst out laughing, she couldn't help but put her arms around Xie Yao's neck, half crying and smiling: "I must have owed you in my previous life," she said He was taken aback suddenly, "No, I owe you my whole life. If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't have come to such a field."

Xie Yao was about to speak, but he heard the sound of footsteps outside the door, and saw Faxuan leading another old monk, who was Master Benxuan who had been in seclusion for many years without leaving the dark room.Master Benxuan is very proficient in martial arts, but he is too obsessed and doesn't pay much attention to the worldly affairs. Tianshu couldn't help but shudder when he saw that he came here in person.

Faxuan introduced to Tianshu: "This is Brother Na, Master Benxuan." Tianshu hurriedly put his hands together in salute, Benxuan raised his hand and said, "No need, is it Xie Yao who wants to enter the Nirvana Furnace?"

Tianshu paused, shook his head and said, "It's not that I want to enter, but I have to."

Benxuan was startled when he heard the words, and looked at the heavenly scriptures. He walked up to Xie Yao, raised his hand to check his pulse, frowned for a while, then nodded and said, "No wonder Master Yideng asked him to come to the Nirvana Furnace. I have never seen him before." Whoever is like him, whose muscles and veins are damaged to the extreme, and whose internal energy is chaotic, will die of exhaustion within three months."

"If it wasn't imminent, how would we dare to bother Master." Tianshu was very sad, but he could only bear it with all his might.

Ben Xuansu said: "The Nirvana furnace has not been opened for decades. Even if I agree, he will never return. The word Nirvana is too profound. You must first understand the law of karma. Life is born with the support of karma." , and everything that arises will disappear with the extinction of the causes and conditions that depend on it, and will not exist forever. Although after 49 days of Nirvana, it is true that people can be reborn from ashes, but how can you know whether he can Stick to the past? Whether it is rebirth or rebirth, these are not things you and I can say. If he cannot comprehend the Mahayana, it will speed up his demise, please think twice."

Xie Yao was listening to him say a lot, but he didn't understand at all, he smiled at Tianshu and said, "What is he talking about?"

Tianshu's heart was sore, how could she not know that Nirvana Furnace was close to death, but if she didn't insist on trying, Xie Yao would really die.

"Master, what is the Nirvana Furnace?"

Benxuan stroked his long beard and sighed: "The phoenix has experienced the torment of the fire and the test of pain before it can be reborn and achieve sublimation. However, it is not afraid of pain, never turns back, and its persistent spirit is difficult for ordinary people to achieve. Nirvana Furnace It is three feet high and two feet wide, and there is a cylindrical platform in the furnace, and the bottom of the platform is made of paulownia wood, as for how those masters comprehended from the raging fire, I don't know." The wise man became a fool, and Ben Xuan was extremely unwilling to see Xie Yao die, so he told the Heavenly Book everything he knew.

Benxuan said again: "Imagine a vast ocean of fire, no water and no food, who can dissipate the smoke and comprehend the Tathagata during the period? The great masters were burned by the fire in the furnace. If they couldn't survive, they would naturally turn to ashes with the fire. Back then, Jiujiu Monk was only nine days old, but now Xie Yao is delirious and unable to practice martial arts, so he will undoubtedly die."

He spoke straight to the point, and when he said the scriptures, she wanted to cry again, but she immediately held back her tears, raised her head and asked, "Dare to ask Master, could it be that those great masters before could not hold on and asked for help in the furnace?" Is it? When you hear the sound, put out the fire."

Benxuan shook his head and said, "Didn't Master Yideng tell you? You need to burn incense and bathe before entering the furnace, and then seal the three acupoints of Baihui, Tanzhong, and Tiantu with an alloy needle of Yiyang finger. Falling into a coma, but still able to understand the perception of the outside world. If you want to comprehend, you can only comprehend from this sub-perception. Every time you comprehend, you will break through a pass point. When the three points are connected, you will naturally be safe .”

"According to what you said, didn't Monk Doujiu understand the Mahayana long ago, but he didn't use the time limit of 49 days."

Ben Xuan still shook his head: "You're wrong, because of his advanced martial arts, Wine Monk knew that he couldn't penetrate it with that sliver of perception, so he forcibly broke through the acupoints and just saved his life. As for the other people you can't see, they were all turned into a furnace Ashes." He sighed at this point, looked at the book with kind eyes, hoping that she would take back this unrealistic idea, "So, do you still want him to enter the Nirvana furnace as a delirious person? "

Tianshu couldn't help being dazed, she turned her head and looked at Xie Yao blankly, only to see him jumping onto the table at some point, holding a stick of sandalwood in his hand, treating the incense burner as an enemy, and shouting: "You bad guys, eat me!" One sword!" Tianshu's heart trembled, as if he remembered Xie Yao standing on the rock at the foot of Shaoshi Mountain, his radiant and dignified appearance.

Her eyes suddenly became extremely firm, she raised her eyes to look at Ben Xuan, and said firmly: "He shouldn't be like this!"

Tianshu didn't know what to think of, she suddenly asked: "Master, in the Nirvana Furnace, is it possible for two people to go in at the same time? Yes, yes..." Tianshu suddenly thought of something, and she was beyond happy and excited, "Xie Yao is unconscious , but I won't! I'll go in with him! This way... he will definitely be able to persist!"

Ben Xuan obviously didn't expect her to say that, he was taken aback for a moment, and said: "There has never been a precedent."

Tianshu said firmly: "I am that precedent." She paused, "Besides, Master, didn't you say 'Phoenix Nirvana'? How can you not know?"

Benxuan was unable to refute what she said, he looked at Faxuan who had been silent all the time, and said: "Junior Brother, you are more proficient in Buddhism than I am, what do you think about this matter?"

Faxuan let out a "hey" and said: "Phoenix nirvana is certainly a pair, but in the end who will know whether it is a phoenix or a phoenix? The benefactor, you are eager to love, and this old monk also saw that it was only for this moment. Is it worthless to be impulsive and take two lives? You must know that there is always a deadline in life.”

Tianshu felt sore, and shook his head again and again, but couldn't stop the tears from blurring his eyes: "Of course I know, but... But if he leaves before me, then it will be the end of my life. If that's the case, why don't you try with your life? If it succeeds, he and I are very happy; if it fails, we both die together, and I have no regrets!"

Ben Xuan said coldly: "Have you ever thought about another outcome, you die, he lives."

These words seemed to stop Tianshu's beating heart, she stared blankly at the ground, as if she had never thought about this matter.No, she didn't want to think about it.Or from the moment she proposed that the two of them enter the Nirvana furnace together, she had already guessed the ending.

Nirvana furnace, Nirvana furnace, that is fire!

There seemed to be a raging fire burning in front of Tianshu's eyes, and the scorching flames began to devour her life.But in a blink of an eye, he was replaced by Xie Yao, and his words and deeds echoed in his mind.At this moment, Tianshu had already made up his mind.

"Then let him live instead of me..."

Fa Xuan and Ben Xuan looked at each other, they both understood.The two put their hands together and sighed Amitabha.Benxuan walked outside the door, summoned the little novice, and said sadly: "Go to the back mountain, and move the sycamore wood to the Nirvana furnace." Faxuan came to Tianshu, smiled at her and said, "Don't be discouraged, say Maybe the two of you come out of the Nirvana furnace together and become a pair of gods from now on.