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Having said that, Sui Yi still had a hesitant expression on his face.

The world of monks in the former Sui Dynasty was much more chaotic than it is today, with constant vendettas and assassinations, and more active aliens.

In that collective introversion environment, the creativity of the monks was stimulated to the greatest extent, and various novel exercises, talismans, and even sorcerers and demons emerged one after another.

As the last support of the hermit sect, the Shoushan formation can be said to be the jewel in the crown of the former Sui practice world.

Even today, there are only twenty types of mountain guard formations that can be restored by the academy.

If there is a doctor who comprehends the prohibition of the Togaran sect formation, he should have been famous in the academy long ago, and this achievement is enough to be included in the portrait gallery of the school history museum.

Could it be that for this trial, the academy deliberately suppressed the news that the recovery formation was successful,

Wait for the trial results to come out before announcing them?

"The condensation talisman can still be used,"

Li Ang flicked the talisman in the air, made a bowl out of chanting threads, and collected some water, "Clean water is enough, but food. Sister, have you brought any food?"

"Did not bring."

Sui Yi shook his head, "I thought there would be many sources of food in the mountains."

"I didn't bring either."

Li Ang rubbed the center of his brows with some headaches, people are as good as iron, and it hurts to eat a meal.

God knows when the restriction will be lifted, or when the next group of testers will come in with food.

"Would you like to explore here first?"

Li Ang suggested: "The alarm talisman has not been triggered yet. If we really can't get out, we can trigger the warning talisman again and let the mountain chief come to rescue them?"

"Um."

Sui Yi nodded, climbed the steps with Li Ang, and walked into the Temple of Heavenly King Buddha.

The Jialan Sect was the most adept at accumulating wealth in the pre-Sui world, and the Buddha Hall was also built to the utmost grandeur and grandeur.

There are twenty-two beams and pillars in the store. These beams and pillars are more than ten feet high, and they are as thick as five or six people.

They are all old mountain woods produced in hundreds of thousands of barren mountains - this kind of wood will not be destroyed by insects, fire will not be destroyed, and rain will not rot. Even the palace of the former Sui emperor can only use a small amount.

On the high platform in the center of the main hall, there is a statue of Maitreya Buddha with bare breasts and belly, laughing.

On both sides are the guards of the four heavenly kings with wide-eyed eyes, and behind them is Weituo Bodhisattva.

Each Buddha statue is majestic and tall, with exquisite carvings, and the expressions of benevolence or sternness are lifelike, making people want to kneel down and worship.

Perhaps due to the damage of the bricks and tiles and the intrusion of wind and rain all year round, there is not much dust on the ground of the hall.

Li Ang and Sui Yi were walking in the vast and empty hall, thinking that they had come to the kingdom of giants.

"Huh? Why is this Wei Tuo Bodhisattva sitting?"

Sui Yi noticed the abnormality and asked in doubt.

Wei Tuo, also known as Wei Tuo Tian, ​​is the guardian deity of Buddhism, usually in the Heavenly King Hall of Buddhist temples, with the Maitreya Buddha statue on his back. It means subduing demons and ghosts and protecting Buddhism.

The usual Veda Buddha statues are all standing,

But the one in front of him is sitting in a chair with a Buddhist pestle on his shoulder.

"Carrying a Buddhist pestle on your shoulders is easy to understand. Most of the former Sui emperors believed in Buddhism. They issued ultimatums widely, which greatly increased the number of monks in the world. Monks and monks traveled around the state capitals to practice and eat and drink in other Buddhist temples.

The world of Zen is a family, but the financial resources of different Buddhist temples are different, and it is inconvenient to drive away customers, so we have to use the Zen method to hint.

If Wei Tuo puts the pestle on the ground, it means that the small temple is relatively poor and cannot entertain foreign monks for free food and lodging.

If Wei Tuo puts the pestle flat in his hand, it means that this is a medium-sized temple, which can entertain foreign monks for free for a few days.

If Wei Tuo carries the pestle flat on his shoulders, it means that a large temple with strong financial resources can entertain monks from outside for ten days or half a month. "

Li Ang rubbed his chin. "As for Wei Tuo sitting, it should be a local legend in Lingzhou, right?"

"legend?"

"Well, the earliest birthplace of the Jialan Sect was in Lingzhou. The local county annals recorded a Zen story that I don't know if it's true or not."

Li Ang said: "There are hundreds of monks living in a certain temple, and they are intensively practicing Buddhism in the temple, and they dare not slack off for a day.

It coincided with a severe drought in the local state capital, and the monk fields in the temple were out of production. The nearby common people and pilgrims did not have much food to eat, so naturally they were unable to help the Buddhist temple.

The abbot of the temple saw that the cocoon in the rice jar was empty and there was no way to go, so he called the monks in the temple and asked them about the purpose of studying Buddhism.

The monks replied that they are free from birth and death.

The abbot said that in this case, everyone should be at ease and continue to ring the bell and chant the Buddha in the next few days. If it is true that there is no more rice, it may be that everyone has had a lot of bad karma in the past and was inspired by karma and received this retribution.

The monks replied kindly.

The abbot then used the last rice in the rice tank to cook gruel, let the monks finish eating and rest, and asked people to lock the gate of the temple.

After doing these things well, he came to the Wei Tuo Hall and knelt before the Bodhisattva to ask. These monks usually do good deeds and accumulate virtue, and never slacken their study of Buddhism, so why should they suffer from this disaster. "

"Then what?"

Sui Yi couldn't help asking: "When Wei Tuo cast his magic power, did the rice fall from the sky to fill the rice tank?"

How is it possible, Wei Tuo is not Brother Shuang.

Li Ang shook his head and said, "There are two sides to the story. On the other side of the Jiangnan coast, dozens of cargo ship fleets encountered strong winds and waves. Seeing that all the crew members were about to capsize in the sea, a monk stood on the bumpy deck and recited Buddhist scriptures.

Accompanied by the sound of Buddhist scriptures, the wind and waves all over the sky miraculously decreased rapidly, and the fleet stabilized again.

Knowing the profound power of the mage, the owner of the ship led the crew to kowtow to thank him piously, and wanted to donate all the goods and money on the entire fleet to the mage.

But the monk said that he didn't want all the goods, and only asked the ship owner to send three shipments of grain to a certain temple in Lingzhou as soon as possible. "

"Lingzhou. Is it more than three thousand miles away from Hangzhou?"

Sui Yi thought for a moment, "When the food arrives, the daylily will be cold."

"The owner of the ship said the same thing. But the monk said that he had his own way. He just asked everyone to go into the cabin and not to see or listen to the movement outside.

The people on board did as the monk asked. They were in the cabin, only feeling the strong wind howling outside, the ship shaking, and the sun and moon shining.

After one night, the ship actually stopped outside the port of Lingzhou, and the monk disappeared.

The crew kept their promise, unloaded the rice bags from the boat, and sent them to the temples in the mountains.

While being grateful, the abbot of the temple was puzzled. He didn't know why the three emergency food ships appeared. Suddenly he thought of his questioning of the statue of Wei Tuo last night.

So anxiously brought the captain to Wei Tuo Hall.

As a result, as soon as the ship owner saw the statue of Wei Tuo, he blurted out that the appearance of the Buddha statue in front of him was the monk who rescued the fleet in Hangzhou three thousand miles away last night.

Only then did the abbot notice that the forehead of the statue of Wei Tuo Bodhisattva was covered with sweat, so he knelt down to repent and asked Wei Tuo Bodhisattva to take a good rest.

As soon as the words fell, the Buddha statue of Weituo Bodhisattva sat down carelessly. In the world, there was the first statue of Wei Tuo in a sitting position. "

Li Ang paused, and said: "I also read this story from the county annals. The county annals did not specify the name of the temple, but it seems that it should be the earliest Jialan sect."

"Well"

Sui Yi squinted his eyes, carefully looked at the statue of Wei Tuo, and even used his spiritual sense to investigate, but found nothing unusual, "It's strange.

If the legend is true, how much mana would it take to be able to move three fully loaded grain ships upstream and gallop three thousand miles in one night? "

The so-called "carrying mortals to cross the river is as heavy as a mountain", monks are not gods, even a master in the Zhuxiao realm, it is quite difficult to lift a large boat with a full load for a distance of more than two hundred miles-the movement of the sea of ​​​​qi cannot keep up.

three thousand miles.

Sui Yi muttered: "Could it be that the Buddha really came down to earth?"

"Who knows,"

Li Ang shook his head and said, "But if the Buddha really appeared, then the Jialan Sect would not end up being destroyed in the end."

Boom!

A loud noise came from the Daxiong Palace in the distance, and Li Ang and Sui Yiqi turned their heads to look.