Lanke Chess Edge

As the pilgrims left inside and outside Daliang Temple one after another, the hustle and bustle of the entire Daliang Temple also faded away, making it very rare for Daliang Temple to be quiet before dusk.

Now the monastery is so quiet that birdsong can be heard, which makes the monks in Daliang Temple breathe a sigh of relief and feel the unique tranquility even more. Those monks who are enlightened and Buddha-minded, no matter where they are in the monastery, can hear a burst of There were indistinct voices.

"Crack, creak... bang!"

The heavy wooden door of the main entrance of Daliang Temple was pushed by two strong monks, creaking, and finally closed tightly together, and the two monks inside raised the door bars to lock the door.

A large agarwood sign has been hung outside, with the words "This temple refuses to worship Buddha and participate in Zen from now on."

No time was given, no reason was given, but there was also a golden medal of the Buddhist order that had been cast on the side, which was the one bestowed by the first emperor of Tingliang Kingdom.

It was as if waiting for the closure of Daliang Temple. Not long after the front and rear doors of the entire temple were closed, under the big tree in the backyard of Daliang Temple, the sound of the discussion and visions began, and the hazy scene of mist spread across the area. The scope of a courtyard did not even exceed the inner courtyard, covering about half of the area of ​​Daliang Temple.

In this area, the closer to the center of the discussion, the more sounds and visions you will feel, and the greater the test for people.

At this moment, among the monks in Daliang Temple, only monk Huitong was able to barely stand not far from the tree. The other eminent monks in Daliang Temple, including the old abbot before, could no longer hold on, and either went out by themselves or were locked up The monk whose ears came in carried it out.

In the periphery, monks either took their own futons, or simply sat on the floor. They meditated and meditated at a suitable distance, and slowly moved out as time went by.

However, although almost all the pilgrims outside are cooperative, but with so many people coming to Daliang Temple every day, there will naturally be some rebellious and curious people. Or entrust this curiosity to others to satisfy yourself.

After more than an hour, the sun slanted to the west, and the surroundings of Daliang Temple were shrouded in the golden color of dusk. The shadows in front of the temple were stretched out, and the sight became dim.

At this moment, a few light-handed men quietly approached the empty market outside the temple from a distance. Although there were no stall owners and shoppers here, there were still many sheds and stalls.

After a few people approached quietly, they quickly found a shed outside, squatted down and hid under the cover of the shed and the tables and stools inside.

From this position, looking at Daliang Temple from a distance, it seems that the front of the building complex is dark and full of shadows, but with the afterglow of the setting sun shining behind it, it looks like a golden light above, which is very Buddhist.

A man in gray clothes looked around for a moment and asked the people around him.

"Hey brother, what do you think happened to Daliang Temple?"

"I want to be clear, why are you here?"

The man who spoke was a man in dark brown clothes, with a thin face and a small mustache.

There was another person beside him, wearing a strong blue suit, who also interjected.

"Just now, everything in Daliang Temple was normal. Suddenly, a large number of monks came out and said that they wanted to invite pilgrims to leave. They even used the Buddhist decree of the national temple that has never been changed since it was given back then. It seemed extremely hasty."

The man with the mustache thought about it for a moment, then his expression suddenly changed.

"Brother Tan, could something happen to the eldest princess inside?"

But the man in the blue suit immediately shook his head.

"No, no, I asked the sixth master before, and the sixth master said that the eldest princess went to see Master Huitong today, but the master is still receiving guests, so he has already returned to the other courtyard of Tongqiu Mansion. The affairs in the temple should be It has nothing to do with the eldest princess."

"Well, let's go in and have a look when it gets darker!"

The three fell silent for a short while, watching the afterglow of the sunset gradually fade away, and the night became darker and darker.

"Brother, Brother Tan, I heard that there are really eminent monks in Daliang Temple, the kind of eminent monk who can subdue demons and eliminate ghosts, and Master Huitong, who is said to be in his fifties, looks like a weak crown It’s the same as the handsome Xiaosheng, so it’s okay for us to go in like this?”

"Haha, little brother Tang is right, but there is no need to worry too much. The sixth master has already said that it is the Dharma that the eminent monks rely on to subdue demons and eliminate ghosts. This Dharma will not have much effect on the living people like us with strong energy and blood." , or martial arts is the best, with the lightness of the three of us, it is enough to leave before the monks react."

"Yeah, I don't have any other confidence, I am still very confident in my lightness kung fu."

Finally, the night fell completely, but for the three of them, tonight was not a good night, because the stars in the sky were so bright that they were much more dazzling than in the past.

Under the starlight, I actually felt that my surroundings were clearer than at the end of dusk, but I couldn't care about that much now, and it was impossible to expect clouds to rise tonight.

"Let's go, remember to walk lightly!"

"Um!"

The three of them came out of their hiding places, and with a few small vertical jumps on tiptoe, they had already reached the outer wall of Daliang Temple. However, they were not at the main entrance, but at the corner of the wall.

He glanced at the agarwood wooden plaque hanging from the Daliang Temple from a distance, and the imperial gold medal on the side was quite obvious under the starlight, and a little gold was dotted beside the wooden plaque.

"The monks in Daliang Temple are really not afraid of the imperial gold medal being stolen?"

"You don't care about him!"

Muttering a few words in a low voice, several people walked around to the side of the temple against the base of the wall, meditated and did not hear any sound inside, so after nodding to each other, they climbed over the wall at the same time.

Like three light swallows, after crossing the wall, they landed on their toes. With light body skills and body movements, they hardly made a single sound.

The location here is the small square outside the Angry King Ming Palace, and the three of them looked empty, except for the ever-burning lights in the hall, the rest of the monks' houses and halls had no light.

Daliang Temple was too quiet tonight, there was neither sutra chanting nor bell ringing.

But the three of them are brave and brave, and they don't have any sense of fear. Besides, this is Daliang Temple, and there will be no evil spirits.

There are too many people in Daliang Temple. In order to divert the flow, there are courtyard walls everywhere in the temple, which can avoid a feeling of being crowded together. Although it is easier to get lost, there are usually monks waiting everywhere, and they will help people at any time. Road to solve problems.

It's just that for the three of them now, there must be no monks to guide the way. They walked through several courtyards without seeing a monk.

"Strange, where did the monks from Daliang Temple go?"

The younger man surnamed Tang was about to step out of an arch when he was stopped by his elder brother, and then pointed to the corner ahead.

The three of them looked over there carefully, and saw more than a dozen monks sitting in a row next to the wall over there with futons on them. Some of them maintained a meditation posture, while others leaned against the wall as if they were asleep.

"How to say?"

"Don't disturb them, let's go around and change direction."

The three of them changed their way and wanted to go deeper, but after going around one place, there were still monks sitting and meditating. They changed several directions in a row. Mostly against the wall.

After a long time, the three stopped in front of a courtyard wall to the west, and two monks fell to the ground in front of them.

"They seemed to form a circle, but they didn't see a few old monks. There must be something strange in the circle!"

"Yes, let's go in here!"

After a brief exchange, the three of them kept their feet on their feet, like three light swallows, flying past the wall of the courtyard where the monk was unconscious, and still jumped four or five feet into the courtyard behind.

Seeing that there was nothing abnormal around them, the three of them continued to walk forward, but as they walked, the youngest one began to shake his head frequently.

"What about you?"

"Brother, there are always voices like poetry ringing in my ears, long and short, and I can't hear them."

"How can there be any poetry, stop talking nonsense, take it easy!"

After walking for a while, this time the man surnamed Tang with the mustache also saw the abnormality. He was passing by a small pool, only to find that the lotus in the pool was growing and jumping out of the water, and then golden lotus bloomed immediately. A delicate fragrance.

"Golden lotus?"

The man let out an exclamation, and leaped over with lightness, trying to break a golden lotus after touching the lotus leaf...

"Plop..."

The water splashed and the pool was turbulent. There were no lotus leaves and lotuses in the pool, and there were no golden lotus blooming in the pool.

"Hush... Brother Tang, what are you doing?"

"Golden lotus, there are golden lotus blooming!"

"What kind of golden lotus is there? Are you stunned? Pull your brother out quickly!"

Together, the two pulled the bearded man out of the small pool, slapped his face to wake him up, and then continued to move forward. Along the way, they saw a few unconscious monks, but even though they passed out, they still had calm expressions. Lou smiles.

When we got here, it wasn't the only one who had hallucinations anymore. Faint rainbow lights drifted around, and the stars in the sky were shining brightly, like silver rain falling down one after another.

There are vague conversations in my ears, sometimes like thunder, sometimes like the tinkling of a clear spring, sometimes like an old monk chanting scriptures, and sometimes like an elegant scholar playing a piano on a high mountain and flowing water.

The footsteps of the three of them had already stopped, and their audiovisuals were all in a strong shock.

A few times, I even saw huge phantoms of strange beasts floating in the air, falling from the sky and passing by, and I also saw dancing cranes turning into fairies approaching with a smile.

How many times the three of them almost exclaimed out loud, and they all forcibly restrained with the only calmness they had.

"Immortals, Buddhas, spirits, demons, demons... All sentient beings in the world have the heart of the Tao."

"Sir, what you said is wrong. Immortals, Buddhas, spirits, demons, etc. are not considered for the time being, but demons are not necessarily!"

"The master's words are also reasonable, so Ji corrects me, some demons still have the heart of Taoism, just like the demons of obsession and paranoia, and those who have a firm mind cannot succeed."

"Goodness! People don't have thoughts about birth, and they can't be born with demons. People's thoughts are extremely strong, and devils are also extremely strong. Seeking gold and silver, officials and power, immortals and immortality, the more serious the thoughts, the more serious the desire..."

When this voice came out, the minds of the three martial arts masters who had sneaked in had already fallen into some kind of chaos. It seemed that their desires had been aroused layer by layer, but someone else was glaring at them to remind them that this was unreasonable.

"Ah~~~ I can't take it anymore!"

The young man surnamed Tang couldn't help swinging his fists and kicks, and knocked his shaky brother and friend back a few steps, but the two were not sober, and instead wandered around as if they were drunk, their faces sometimes surprised and sometimes crying.

"Nanmomoke Mingwang Buddha! The three benefactors shouldn't have come!"

An old monk appeared in the courtyard, and decisively restrained the three of them, and then connected dots on his body to stimulate the acupoints and inject a trace of spiritual energy.

"Grandmaster……"

The man surnamed Tan stared blankly at the old monk in front of him.

"Three benefactors, this is why my Daliang Temple closed its doors to thank visitors, please leave quickly!"

"Yes yes yes! Let's go!"

"Yes, let's go now!"

"Apologize and apologise, let's go!"

Seeing that the monk didn't offend them, the three of them leaped out as if they were about to receive an amnesty, using their lightness kung fu to the extreme, and got out of the range before their minds became dizzy again, and then left Daliang Temple without looking back.