Black Myth: Tang Dynasty

Chapter 500 Seeing the future, why not worship?
Luoyang City, White Horse Temple.

Tonight, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the Baima Temple was quiet, except for the patrolling monks who were still awake. They held tens of kilograms of water-milled Zen sticks and continued to patrol the temple.

These are the warrior monks in the White Horse Temple, also known as monks and soldiers. They have polished their bodies since childhood and practiced martial arts. Each of them can fight ten against one. With them, the thieves in Luoyang City would not dare to attack the White Horse Temple.

A mosquito flew past quietly, easily avoided the inspection of the monks, and flew towards the White Horse Temple.

"Strange, why didn't I hear Junior Brother Mingjing and the others today?"

"Junior Brother Mingjing and the others became insane after seeing the pregnant woman. These days, when passing by the East Wing, they could always hear them shouting, asking about prostrating to the Buddha and wanting to become a Buddha. It was surprisingly quiet tonight. "

"Maybe the abbot made the move. With the abbot here, Junior Brother Mingjing and the others must be fine!"

"That's right, Abbot Huichan's magic power is boundless. It's an Arhat from the sky who came down to earth. With his help, I think the monster in that woman's belly will be wiped out!"

"Isn't there a rumor that the child in that woman's womb is the reincarnation of Buddha?"

"Hehe, if it's really the reincarnation of the Buddha, how come the golden body of the Buddha in the Daxiong Hall suddenly cracked as soon as she moved into the West Wing? And the Bodhisattva statue in the West Wing also cracked for no reason..."

"Shh, be careful, this is not something we can talk about, just trust the abbot. He is a powerful man in the Yang God Realm. If he is really a monster, he can't escape his clairvoyance!"

The patrolling monks were talking quietly, but they didn't notice that a small mosquito had been hovering over their heads for a long time, and then flew towards the west wing...

West Wing.

This was originally the residence of the young monks, but since a woman with a big belly moved in, all the monks have moved out, and there are even monks and monks who are good at guarding the outside all night. Except for the abbot, no one is allowed to enter.

"Amitabha!"

The mellow and majestic Buddha light flashed, and then a figure suddenly appeared in front of the door of the West Wing, holding a gold-plated Zen staff, fluttering in a red cassock, with a lion's nose and wide mouth, eyes like lightning, and the skin on his face was faintly tinged with the color of bright copper. There is a kind of King Kong descending to the world, without anger and self-prestige.

"Meet the abbot!"

In an instant, all the monks, old and young, stood up and saluted, looking at the burly and majestic figure with reverence in their eyes.

The person who came was Master Huichan, the abbot of the White Horse Temple. He was nearly ninety years old, but he was physically strong and energetic. Shaking the Buddhist monks in Luoyang area!

Many people say that Master Hui Chan is an arhat descended from the sky, and after his practice in the world, he will return to Lingshan to sit on the lotus platform.

"I have met the abbot brother!"

An old monk with a white beard came over and bowed to Hui Chan. He was the first Hui Tong of the Bodhi Court, and besides Hui Chan, he was also the person with the highest cultivation level in the White Horse Temple.

"Brother, how is the situation of the Buddha mother?"

Hui Chan asked through sound transmission while turning the Buddhist beads in his hand.

There are nine Buddhist beads in total, each one is as big as a goose egg, round and clear, like jade, with a faint golden light flowing in the dark night, it is not ordinary at first glance.

Although Huitong is a younger brother, he looks much older than Huichan, he said tremblingly: "Brother, the Buddha mother often complained of hunger at the beginning, but then she became so angry that she couldn't even speak now. I can’t tell, and I don’t know whether I’m dead or alive inside.”

After a pause, he hesitated to speak: "Brother, is she... really the Buddha's mother?"

Hui Chan resolutely said: "Junior brother, there is no mistake in Tianyan, she must be the mother of the Buddha, as long as the Buddha is born, our Buddhism will surely prosper in the world!"

Huitong stopped talking, but sighed silently in his heart.

These years, the senior brother seems to be majestic in Luoyang, and even issued a decree to respect the Buddha, but he knows that the proud senior brother is not satisfied with the status quo of the decline of Buddhism.

Senior brother is extremely talented and talented. In today's prosperous Taoist school, it is not easy to be able to forcibly make a living in Luoyang and lead the White Horse Temple to prosperity, but it is not limited to this.

Looking at the world, there are a lot of talents in the Taoist school, Zhang Zhiyan and Ye Fashan in the front, Zhang Qianyang and Li Daoxuan in the back, which one is not a shocking talent?
Especially Li Daoxuan, who achieved the state of Yangshen at the age of a weak crown, shocked the world. After hearing the news, the senior brother didn't say a word for ten days.

Taoism is becoming more and more prosperous, and Buddhism is becoming more and more declining. This has become an obsession in the heart of the senior brother.

"But brother, if you want her to give birth to a Buddha child, you must have enough spiritual pills. Our temple has already used up all the stocks, and there are no demons around Luoyang now. The Demon Town Tower can no longer refine the spiritual pills. !"

If you want to have a panacea, you need to capture the demon into the demon-suppressing tower and refine it into a pill, but Luoyang has Huichan sitting in the town, and the demons with a radius of hundreds of miles are dying and fleeing, and now they have long since disappeared.

"It's okay, I have found the panacea."

Hui Chan had a well-thought-out plan, and then walked towards the west wing.

Hui Tong accompanied him, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Senior Brother, where did you get the panacea?"

Huichan glanced at him, did not speak, and suddenly stopped when he was about to reach a meditation room full of scriptures and spells, and said: "Junior brother, you should stop here first, I will go to see the Buddha mother alone. good."

"As ordered."

Huichan pushed open the door and walked in.

Huitong couldn't help but glanced inside, and vaguely saw behind the screen with the "Diamond Sutra" painted on it, there was a figure bound by countless ropes, with a bulging belly, like a spider about to give birth.

For some reason, the moment he saw that figure, Huitong felt that his Zen mind, which had been practicing for decades, was trembling slightly. An indescribable emotion filled his heart, as if a voice whispered in his ear. Calling, let him subconsciously step forward.

Snapped!
The door was slammed shut, and Huitong woke up suddenly, only then did he realize that at some point, his back was covered in cold sweat.

……

A moment later, Huichan walked out of the room with a hint of excitement in his eyes.

"After taking the elixir, the mother of the Buddha is in very good condition. Depending on the situation, in another 30 days, until three days after No. [-], the mother of the Buddha will give birth to a child of the Buddha. By then, it will be the day when my Buddhism will flourish! "

"Zhang Zhiyan and Li Daoxuan are nothing but ordinary people in front of my Buddha. The great prosperity of Buddhism is a certainty, and no one can stop it!"

Looking at the excited senior brother, Huitong felt an ominous premonition in his heart for some reason. He always felt that this incident was inexplicably weird, which made him a little uneasy.

"Brother, you haven't answered me yet, where did the panacea come from?"

Hui Chan took a deep look at him, and said: "Brother, the coming of the Buddha to the world is a rare event in our Buddhism. Any Buddhist disciple will do his best to make it happen, even if he loses his life!"

Hui Tong's body shook, as if he had thought of something, he said angrily, "Brother, you... did you send Mingjing and the others... to the Zhenyao Pagoda?"

Hui Chan closed his eyes, turned the beads in his hands, and said calmly: "It is also their luck to be able to sacrifice their lives to help the Buddha come to the world, and they are also willing to do so."

Huitong only felt that his whole body was chilling, clearing them up, but the best group of disciples in the White Horse Temple fell into madness only because they had seen the Buddha Mother. Send them to the Zhenyao Tower to refine them into panacea!

For a while, Huitong felt that the senior brother had become extremely strange.

"Brother, are you crazy? Mingjing is your direct disciple, you... have you been influenced by that woman too?"

Huitong found it inconceivable that although the former senior brother had a strong personality, he really cared for the Buddhist disciples and would never do such a thing.

Hui Chan's voice is sober and firm.

"For the great prosperity of Buddhism, for the Buddha to come to the world, even I can sacrifice. As my disciple, Mingjing should have this awareness!"

After a pause, he said again: "Brother, didn't you always want to see the Buddha's mother? Now you go in, and when you see the Buddha's mother, you will understand."

Hui Tong said: "What Buddha mother, I think she is a monster, I will kill this monster today, brother, I can't watch you make mistakes again and again!"

As he said that, he rushed into the wing room where the Buddha's mother was locked, his body was full of Buddha's light, and his voice was full of murderous intent.

"Monster, shou-"

The voice stopped abruptly, and Huitong seemed to have seen some incredible scene, and his body was trembling constantly.

Hui Chan turned the beads in his hand and said softly: "Amitabha!"

After a while.

When Huitong walked out of the wing, he closed the door respectfully, then knelt down and kowtowed three times and kowtowed nine times, his voice was clear and loud, and his forehead was swollen.

"Brother, if the panacea is not enough, please send me to the Demon Town Tower!"

Huitong's voice was pious and sincere, his expression was calm, and a faint Buddha's light bloomed all over his body, as if he had become enlightened.

"Don't worry, after the Buddha came to the world, I will still serve. Let the disciples enter the Demon Town Tower first."

When Huitong heard this, there was a flash of struggle in his eyes, but he quickly regained his composure. He clasped his hands together and said, "In that case, let's start with my disciple Mingzheng and Mingzhi."

"Great!"

Hui Chan nodded, and was about to continue to say something, but his brows frowned, and the hand that turned the beads stopped.

"Brother, what's wrong?"

Hui Chan stared at the dark night, then shook his head and said: "Maybe I felt wrong, well, the night is getting dark, let's go back first, Junior Brother."

……

Just after Huichan and Huitong left, a small mosquito quietly flew to the side room and transformed into a green-robed Taoist priest.

A gourd hangs from the waist, a bun is combed, a few strands of hair on the front of the forehead are slightly fluttering in the wind, and the long body is tall and elegant, elegant and unrestrained.

It's just that he wears a fox mask on his face, so he can't see his face clearly, but the eyes under the mask are shining with holy light, like the moon shining on the cold river, with a high-spirited look.

The person who came was Li Daoxuan. After hearing what the Lord of the Land had said about the maidservant of the Zhou family, he keenly sensed that something was wrong, so he took the fox mask he bought from Changle, entered Luoyang in the starry night, and sneaked into the white horse with the technique of 72 transformations. Temple, I want to see that maidservant of the Zhou family.

The reason why he didn't reveal his identity and entered the White Horse Temple with great fanfare was also to avoid alarming others. After all, sometimes only hiding in the dark can see clearly.

In addition, the abbot Huichan of Baima Temple is a great monk in the late Yangshen period after all, and he has a lot of prestige in Buddhism. , but in fact it is not.

Be it White Horse Temple, Maoshan Mountain or Longhushan Mountain, these famous sects that have stood for thousands of years have their own backgrounds, and their attitude towards the imperial court is respectful but not submissive.

Although Li Daoxuan could suppress Hui Chan forcefully, it might also intensify the conflict between Buddhism and Taoism. That's why he didn't directly hit the door, but secretly searched for the truth.

"Hehe, I want to see, what is the so-called Buddha mother that can make people undergo such earth-shaking changes?"

Li Daoxuan stretched out his hand and pressed on the door, with a hint of chill in his eyes.

He saw the appearance of Huitong just now. The old monk who thought that the Buddha mother was a monster a moment ago, after entering this room, changed his appearance drastically, as if he had become a fanatical believer, and even the relationship between himself and his disciples I don't want my life.

Regardless of whether the other party is a monster or a real Buddha, Li Daoxuan cannot tolerate such demagoguery.

The door was slowly pushed open, and a fragrant wind wafted out from the inside, like lotus flower and sandalwood, which made people feel calm after smelling it, and gave birth to a faint sense of Zen.

Li Daoxuan frowned slightly, the smell seemed to be a bit off.

He walked into the wing room, and the first thing he saw was the screen covered with scriptures. Under the candlelight, there was a hazy figure on the back of the screen, who seemed to be struggling slightly.

Li Daoxuan tried to open the sky eye to see through the screen, but he didn't expect that the scriptures on it seemed to be aware of his peeping, and a dazzling Buddha's light bloomed, blocking his sight.

The person who wrote the "Diamond Sutra" must have stepped into the realm of Arhat.

Li Daoxuan thought about it in his heart, then stepped forward, walked to the back of the screen, took a closer look, but couldn't help being shocked.

I saw a naked woman tied up with five flowers. The red rope that tied her had a strong smell of blood, as if she had been soaked in blood.

What's even more weird is that there are many mysterious scriptures written on the woman's body.

"After one thousand years of age, those who break the precepts will restore the precepts, and Maitreya Tathagata will live to be [-] years old..."

As Li Daoxuan recited the scriptures silently, an even weirder scene appeared. Those scriptures seemed to be burning hot, exuding a golden-red light, like a red-hot iron, causing streaks of blue smoke to rise from the naked woman's body.

"what!!!"

The naked woman screamed in pain, and a grimace suddenly appeared on her high swollen belly, as if a baby wanted to burst out of her belly, stretching her belly continuously.

A vast and ancient consciousness invaded Li Daoxuan's altar.

"Worshiping me is a thousand years old, kneeling on my knees for ten thousand years, and kowtowing to me will prove Bodhi!"

"Maitreya is born, King Ming is born, all Buddhas, dragons and elephants, all living beings, oxen and horses, all sit on the lotus platform..."

"Since seeing the future, why not worship?"

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