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On Longquan Mountain thousands of years ago, the eminent monk Fahui, who only appeared in the records of later generations, told his disciples a secret about cause and effect and destiny.

But for Bei Ming and Duan Jiulou, who had not yet become the Seven Great Buddhas of the past, they could not understand this meaning.

Because they were just mortals at that time and did not possess the wisdom of a bodhisattva, and because of reincarnation, they hadn't been informed of the greatest kalpa before they became Buddhas.

"Forgive my ignorance, but what is the cause and effect between me and San Zhai, master."

For this reason, Beiming, who has a stronger personality, asked Fahui a question.But Fahui didn't answer directly, but turned his gaze to other places outside the temple.

"All the future fates of the two of you will be in this karma,? When you meet, you will naturally understand."

"Perhaps,? Do you know that there is a Long County under this mountain?"

"I know,? It's not far from here."

Beiming returned.

"That's right, my disciples often see those mortals planting seeds and weaving cloth at the foot of the mountain, marrying and raising children, and living a very interesting life. I passed by there a few days ago, and I even found a store to drink a pot of rice wine before going up the mountain. "

Duan Jiulou also followed suit.

"Then do you know? Soon, there will be a massacre in Long County at the foot of the mountain. At that time, Long County will be killed by demons for five consecutive years. People will be devastated. Maybe the peace in the world you have seen is hardest. back to normal."

Fahui's words changed the faces of both of them.

Because once the word "shengtu" comes out, it usually means that the big monsters of Ah Bidao and Xiao Xitian are about to appear.

Whenever this kind of demon appears, it will definitely pay human life for its own life.This massacre is about the massacre of human beings, and those man-eating monsters will cut open the ground of the world, and then drag the mortals into the underworld.Although Bei Ming and San Zhai were not in harmony in the past.But they also have a unique sense of faith in the common cause.

They all know that going down the mountain to slay demons is a narrow escape.

They are not hot-blooded teenagers either.

However, it would be intolerable for them with good intentions to allow this pure land to lose its former vitality.So when I learned that Shengtu was coming.These two people invited the master together at that time.

"Master, if the massacre is really imminent, it may not be too far before the birth of the monster. This disciple is willing to invite himself down to solve the suffering of the massacre for Long County and relieve the suffering of all living beings."

When he clasped his hands together and knelt down resolutely, Beiming's black and gold monk robe and the string of seven treasures beads were dragged to the ground, but the expression on the monk's face was unquestionable.

He is still young, but already has a diamond-like determination and pious belief.

"San Zhai is also willing to go together to save the world and the people."

The beautiful pearl earrings on the ears swayed because of leaning over, Duan Jiulou's long hair was scattered, and he brushed away his brightly colored clothes with his hands and followed suit.

After finishing speaking, the monk and layman knelt down to their master together.

their own request.Master Fa Hui agreed.So this encounter was also the first time for the two to go down the mountain together to eliminate demons.

When going down the mountain, as usual, Duan Jiulou had a white horse and a jug of wine.

This time, Beiming also brought a Dharma protector—a golden wheel of life and death with five interests.

This wheel of life and death was made by Beiming.The four gilded magic treasures on the top are painted with four shapes about birth, old age, sickness and death in a person's life, and three auspicious animals are used to drive away evil spirits.

Bei Ming's original purpose of making this magic weapon was to deter monsters and maintain the stability of reincarnation.

This is also his duty as a Buddhist monk.

But this year, when they first came to Long County.Just as Master Fahui said, Long County at this time is catching up with a massacre.

In front of the eyes, in the county town surrounded by scarlet evil spirits, countless evil spirits who climbed up from the underworld have already begun to attack people in the county town, shops and various houses.

Their arrival also saved more than one mortal in Long County.

Because besides Fang, the human world, which was originally considered to be a peaceful and prosperous world, also catches up with the north of the Yellow River and suffers from constant famines due to the instability of this world.

The Yin Division took in hundreds of thousands of dead souls this year, and even the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva underground was alarmed.

One by one, the ghosts had to come to the world to bring these evil spirits back to the underworld.

Just at this time, Beiming and Sanzhai entered the world.The people in front of them were hungry and skinny, and those who ran a little slower would be eaten immediately by the monsters attacking the mortals' residences.

So when I saw them making moves, I treated them as living Bodhisattvas.Seeing this, Beiming and Sanzhai took out the proceeds from refining medicine and catching monsters to buy dry food for these ordinary people.

They even stayed in Long County for five years for this salvation.In the Buddhist scriptures of later generations about this journey of salvation, there are very few specific records about these five years, and it is impossible for later generations to fully know what they experienced during these five years.

But from those few words, one can guess.At that time, Bei Ming and San Zhai lived in Long County.

Go together, go together.Wherever they go, there are two people, and they support and rescue each other in this troubled world time and time again.

They are Buddhists who can live without eating food.

But occasionally, Duan Jiulou, who can't get rid of worldly desires, will bring back some preserved honey from the world to a certain monk.

【"I have a friend."】

【"I lost two catties of honey and preserved fruit in today's competition and refused to admit it. In the end, I was short-mouthed. Not only is it not as handsome as I am, it is really detrimental to the virtue of an eminent monk!"】

This is the only sentence that Duan Jiulou mentioned in the five years later in the Buddhist scriptures of the inner family.

There seems to be no great friendship between them like anyone else.

To put it bluntly, but to put it bluntly, I just have a friend.

During this period, one of the two beheaded the evil spirits, and the other made medicine to save people.And saved countless mortals and accumulated tens of thousands of merits.

Also because of this long five years of practice, they have changed from being just fellow disciples at first to occasionally sitting down to discuss the Dharma and practicing together to heal their wounds.

In a blink of an eye, it was the fifth year.

Master Fahui wrote a letter from the mountain, and was brought down by lay Buddhists passing by, telling them to return to the mountain at the end of this month, saying that their doom is coming, and they must return as soon as possible without delay.

Become a Buddha.

It is their lifelong desire.At this time, the merits and virtues are complete, which is also a good thing.

But at this moment, seeing that there were little demons invading around Long County from time to time, they also heard one thing, that is, in a farther place, the demon king and the eight tribes had haunted them.

Wherever the Demon King and his subordinates went, a random catastrophe could destroy the lives of tens of thousands of people.

Not to mention the fact that demons cannibalize people, but people cannibalize people all the time.

This is the first time in Beiming and Sanzhai's life that they know the existence of the Demon King and the Babu.

They thought of what Master Fahui said five years ago.Maybe the calamities before they became Buddhas are really hidden in it.

But human life is at stake, as two people who are dedicated to saving the world, if it is only for their own path to becoming a Buddha.Knowing that it is too late to save others, but for personal gain, he gave up saving others.

So this Buddha, they don't care.

For this reason, the two decided to go to the place that was victimized by the Eight Tribes to rescue the people in that county before returning to Longquan Mountain.

"It's really the first time I've seen your Dharma Protector."

On the way, when passing through the mountains covered with maple leaves at that time, Duan Jiulou was drinking while watching the holy monk himself walking on his feet, which was very refreshing.

"This is beyond what your eyes can comprehend."

Wearing a bamboo hat that covered half of his face, Bei Ming walked with him in the mountains and rivers with his heavy bamboo suitcase on his back, returning to him like a penance monk.

"Don't say these big words. When you get hurt one day, why don't you use the Agatha medicine I made, the marrow washing pill, and the great redemption pill. If you don't accept it, let's make gestures when we go back?"

"After this matter is resolved, I will let you learn from it."

Bei Ming ignored his provocation.

"Just like you, I will always let you fail, and let you know what is beyond others, and beyond the sky."

After Duan Jiulou finished speaking, he smiled and pointed to the sky.

During the conversation between the two, it was obvious that Fa Hui's original theory of cause and effect was not really taken seriously.

Because they have always been able to protect themselves, it is a matter of victory and defeat.

At that time, it was still unknown to the two of them.

But when they came to the legendary place where the big monster haunted, the two encountered a very rare and strange thing.

It turned out that every household in this county would turn off all the lights before it got dark.Even pretend that no one is in the house, not daring to make a sound.

After Beiming and Sanzhai arrived, they felt that this was very strange.

So they didn't leave that night, but stayed and hid on the roof in the dark, against everything in the county.

As a result, in the middle of the night, when the two of them used magic to hide on the roof above the market, they saw a banshee with a fusiform head and gray skin crawling on the ground.

When she came to a door, the banshee with a head like a spindle-shaped stone stopped and spoke human words.

【'After dawn, your father will die. ']

This prophecy about life and death scared the whole family to sob.

But at this time, the banshee crawled away with an evil smile, and left a sentence for every household she visited.

【'The husband drowns, the wife is eaten by tigers, and the baby drowns. ']

After she told every family about the prophecy about life and death, there were only two monks on the roof who had seen it all.

"What kind of monster is this?"

The frowning Bei Ming saw this strange-looking banshee for the first time.

"I don't know, maybe I should ask the local people, let's go first, don't disturb her."

San Zhai replied, and jumped down like a nimble eagle.

But in the daytime, before they changed into lay disciples' attire, they asked the Venerable Master first.Last night, the father of that family really died at dawn. Not only that, there were quite a few people who died in the county.

The people wept loudly.In order to survive, he had to take out all the food to enshrine the banshee.

It was also for this reason that Beiming and Sanzhai realized that the banshee might really have the ability to prophesy, and they finally found out about the identity of the banshee at this time.

It turned out that five years ago, the county lord here had a daughter named A Nu.

A girl's beauty, after marrying someone, the couple are both extremely handsome men and women, but one day, A girl got a green-faced Bodhisattva pendant.

This green-faced female Bodhisattva is called Anti-Tara.My daughter cherishes her beauty and prays at home every day.

When the piece of Tara received offerings from mortals, she turned into a green-faced woman, and came to A Nu's house to knock on the door and beg for food.

Seeing the strange appearance of the green woman at the door, A Nu's family closed the door in fright, and even threw stones at her at her.When I opened my eyes after dawn, the anti-Tara pendant was smashed by a stone.

This fusiform stone killed Tara.My daughter didn't dare to throw the murderer away, so she hid it in her clothes every day and stuck it to her stomach.

But who would have thought that because of this incident, A Nu's family left a bad result.After October, Ah Nv was pregnant with a child, a rare triplet.

But at this time, something terrible happened.Because God did not bring auspicious and healthy children.

When the three children in that belly were born, one had a face like a snake, one had a face like a pig, and the other had a face like a dove.

A girl went crazy when she saw these three monsters.

Under the counterattack of the demon, she smashed all three sons to death with the shuttle-shaped stone, and turned into a faceless, long-fanged woman who only held the sky against the sky with her belly and went to other people's homes every night to give prophecies demon.

Her current name is - Female Tool.

Beiming and Sanzhai finally knew the origin of this female tool.

Because she has become a demon, the woman has lost the humanity of a woman, and only by saving her can the peace of this cursed place be restored, so the two decided to use Buddhism to paint pictures on the doors of every house here. The last wheel of life and death.

There is a golden life and death wheel on every door of this house.

It will come at night, so that the woman can't get close to the people here, and it can also save the living people here from being killed by the curse, but it needs magic power to maintain the forward rotation.

Until that night, Beiming and Sanzhai hid in the room again.Sure enough, the female props came again.

Once again, when the murderous woman saw that every household had the same painting of the wheel of life and death at the door, she was frightened by the golden light bursting out and screamed, and flew out again.

Seeing this, the two jumped down, wanting to subdue the banshee together.

Because both Beiming and Sanzhai are rare Buddhist powerhouses in the world.

In this life-and-death battle, they fought this woman in a daze.

During the hundreds of rounds where the monk and the demon fought with all their strength, the furious woman who was blocked by the wheel of life and death turned into a huge body, and there were three sons who turned into monsters to help her, and her magic power should not be underestimated.

While chasing, they each threw countless thunder and fire curses and immovable spells on the beams of the house.

But at this time, Beiming and Sanzhai still felt that they were gradually losing in the hundreds of rounds of fighting.

The most important thing is that at this moment, the sky gradually turned white in the night, and an unknown boundary line that they had been waiting for for a long time appeared.

—— Something is wrong.Both of them knew in their hearts that maybe the doom was about to come.

At this time, it is up to them to decide which is more important, killing women or going through calamities.

Among them, Bei Ming was the first to gradually show signs of fatigue, and fell to the ground at once.

In terms of actual cultivation, Bei Ming should be comparable to San Zhai.

But he needs to use his mana to maintain the wheel of life and death to protect the lives of mortals in the county, so he was covered in blood from the three demons, and he almost fell to the ground.

His black and gold cassock was stained with blood, and the rope of the Seven Jewels was almost broken, barely hanging around his neck.

Seeing this, San Zhai stepped forward to block his eyes with his body.

At this moment, the once handsome man also had long hair hanging loose, and his mouth was full of blood. Even the dangling pearl and jade earrings on his ears could hardly hide his distress.

He turned his head immediately, the red tattoo on his forehead was also covered with sweat, but he still grabbed Beiming's monk's robe, forcing him to give the monk all the pills he had, and angrily scolded him,

"You are crazy, let go of this wheel of life and death with the five senses! Don't let it turn forward again. No matter how advanced the Dharma you have, it's hard to save your life. Are you going to lose your own life?"

But when Bei Ming heard this, he just held on to the golden life and death wheel in a pool of blood and gritted his teeth to answer San Zhai,

"Cough...cough cough, Agatha medicine is useless...you know very well that I died for righteousness, so don't...blame yourself for my death."

Neither of them could give up the righteousness of saving lives.

Seeing this, the banshee swooped and was about to open her fangs and eat them.

Also at this time, the two who were about to fall into a desperate situation held the wheel of life and death together and broke a big hole in the girl's heart.

The place in the heart was broken.The originally gigantic woman was blown out like an oil lamp with its wick blown out.But when this frightening banshee was dying, she left a prophecy to the two of them again.This time, the prophecy was strange.Because it actually has two sentences, which are completely contradictory.

['Bei Ming will die, but Duan Jiulou will live. ']

【'Duan Jiulou is dead, Bei Ming will still die. ']

This word falls.The women's tools were wiped out.

Bei Ming was seriously injured, and he was only one step away from death at this moment, his body lightened immediately, his cassock flew up, the seven jewels shattered all over the ground, and fell into the man's arms, seriously injured and passed out.

When he closed his eyes exhaustedly, he saw the other's ear.

San Zhai always wears this pearl earring on his ear.It was a kind of ruby.Like his Seven Jewels, it is as hot and fresh as a raging fire, and it will never die.

The young monk even thought that if Nvgu's previous words were true, then it would be a good thing that at least one person survived his death.

Because Sanzhai did the math, he was one year younger than him.

Even though they have no father or mother, they have never had any great friendship.But in the end, Bei Ming couldn't forget the two catties of preserved honey and fruit he owed the other party in the past five years.

But when the young Buddhist monk woke up after a long time with such thoughts.

He found that he had returned to Longquan Mountain.

Zen room, incense burner.

There is also Master Fahui who is sitting on the bedside waiting for him.But besides that, there was no one around him. Only at this moment, Fa Hui, who was looking at him with an indescribable look on his face, told him something.

"Master, master... where is Sanzhai?"

"Bei Ming."

"My Buddha is merciful, because of the catastrophe that happened to the two of you, San Zhai has already died at the hands of the woman."

"He used his life to keep turning the golden wheel of life and death for you, making it turn forward, protecting the mortals at the foot of the mountain, and now...he has run out of fuel, and he has truly converted to my Buddha. It is impossible to return to Longquan in this life Here comes the mountain."