The heavens start with Buddhist disciples

Chapter 2 It’s hard to meet again in the desert

Time flies like water, and in a blink of an eye, it has been two years since Ji Ran started learning the two magical skills.At this time, Ji Ran looked at the letter in his hand with a gloomy expression: "Chu Liuxiang and Wuhua fought at the edge of Daming Lake. Wuhua was defeated and jumped into the lake to die."

"Senior brother, senior brother, you finally chose this dark road. If you want to take revenge openly and openly, if you want to challenge, you must be fair and upright. Isn't this good? Why do you have to steal and cheat, and finally end up ruined and jump off a cliff to death? .”

Ji Ran thought to herself and then sighed helplessly: "Amitabha." Since you don't want to come back, senior brother, at least let him see you for the last time. What about giving him gifts when you return from your trip? "

If Ji Ran remembers correctly, Wuhua will not die in this jump, but will use the pseudonym Wu Juxuan to help Shi Guanyin usurp the country in Qiuci.

"Disciple Wu Zhen asks to see the Master."

"What's the matter?" Master Tianfeng asked calmly without opening his eyes.

"The disciple wants to go down the mountain and travel for several years, please allow the master." Ji Ran replied.

"Aren't you going to seek revenge on Chu Liuxiang?" Master Tianfeng asked in a serious tone.

"I don't want to seek revenge. Although I don't know what happened, I can roughly guess that my senior brother took the lead and Chu Liuxiang came in behind. Now that everyone is gone and the game is over, why bother to start another game."

"I just feel helpless and want to go out for a walk and have a look. If I have the opportunity, I can go to Xuejiazhuang to learn swordsmanship and learn Qinggong from Chu Xiangshuai. After all, the name of Liuxiang on the Moon is not just blown away."

"Master, you know that there are many martial arts secrets, but Qinggong is the only one that our Shaolin is not good at. After all, the founder did not pass down the two unique skills of Yi Wei Crossing the River and Liantai Jiuxian." Ji Ran replied easily.

"Then let's go. Go through the forest with bamboo sticks and straw shoes, and talk with the ancient Buddha with the blue lamp. After all, I have to walk more and see more. I see all living beings, and all living beings see me. Amitabha." After finishing speaking, Master Tianfeng Keep silent and continue to meditate.

As soon as Ji Ran saw what was going on here, he went to Zhike Courtyard and got a lot of food and clothing.

After that, they headed to Lanzhou non-stop at night, hoping to find Ji Bingyan in Lanzhou in advance, and then team up with Chu Liuxiang and Hu Tiehua to go to the desert.

The original plan was to go from Fujian to Nanchang, pass through Wuhan, pass through Xiangyang to Chang'an, then enter Gansu and finally arrive in Lanzhou.

As a result, we took a side road while walking. We were going to Xiangyang. Because of the poor accent, the guide told us it was Luoyang. Just this one word difference meant that Ji Ran arrived in Lanzhou nearly three days late.

First, he went to Lanzhou Baita Temple to place an order, and then took out the Southern Shaolin Seal and contacted the local host to inquire about Ji Bingyan's movements.

As a wealthy local businessman, Ji Bingyan was quite easy to inquire about. He had left the city in his luxurious car a month ago.

"No wonder the master is not worried about me going out. It seems that when I got the news, Chu Liuxiang and his party had already arrived in Lanzhou. The master has calculated the time correctly to prevent me from going to trouble!"

"Hey, but master, do you know that with your clever plan, I may not be able to see my brother for the last time. Forget it, forget it, obey the destiny and do your best."

Then Ji Ran stopped thinking about it and said hello to the Zhike monk from Baita Temple, and wrote a letter, saying that he was going to the desert, and when he came back he wanted to go to Xuejia Village to learn swordsmanship. He hoped that the master could write a letter to Xuejia Village. Help yourself to say hello to Xue Yiren.

After writing the letter, Ji Ran went straight to the Kingdom of Qiuci without stopping.

Not to mention that in front of Ji Ran, there is a sea of ​​sand and bandits are rampant. How can he, a rookie who has just come out of the world, cross the desert.

But at this time, Chu Liuxiang was walking to the mouth of a canyon with an ugly woman.

Zhongyuan Dianhong, who was beside Chu Liuxiang, walked in front of the woman, stopped suddenly, and said, "You are not ugly, you are beautiful." Although he only said six short words, but these six words are from a mouth like him. It is said in the middle, but it is really more powerful than thousands of other people's words.

It turned out that the woman was called, Qu Wurong. She seemed to have never thought that this person who had never said a word would suddenly say these words. She seemed to be slightly shocked and said: "You... what did you say?" ?" A little red, but refused to say another word, strode on.

Qu Wurong looked at him in trance, his eyes as deep and cold as well water, as if a pebble had been thrown into him, creating ripples.

There is a small road in the stone peak, winding and twisting like a sheep's intestines.

A big man escorting Chu Liuxiang and others bowed to Qu Wurong and asked, "Should we prick their eyes right now?"

Qu Wurong had regained his coolness and calmness, and said coldly: "No need to bother, even if I take them through this secret valley ghost trail a few times, they won't be able to tell the direction... In the whole world, no matter who comes here , don’t even think about getting out on your own.”

Her last few words were naturally addressed to Chu Liuxiang and the others.

Chu Liuxiang smiled and said, "Really?"

Qu Wurong said coldly: "If you want to go out, unless you are carried out."

Chu Liuxiang sighed and said: "The terrain is so dangerous. In fact, Mrs. Shi didn't need to put in so much effort to set up this formation." Qu Wurong said lightly: "Is this place considered dangerous?... Really The dangerous place has not yet been reached!"

Chu Liuxiang couldn't help but ask: "Where?"

Qu Wurong stopped answering and took the lead to lead the way. He saw her twisting and turning, and her walking seemed to be very easy, without any difficulty or danger.At this time, Chu Liuxiang had vaguely understood that the danger Qu Wurong mentioned was not geographical, but human.

Chu Liuxiang and Shi Guanyin were having a heated fight over there, but Ji Ran encountered a lot of trouble.

I originally led three camels and prepared a camel-full of water and food. Due to my carelessness and inexperience, now I only have food and not much water left.

Let's say that one day Ji Ran and his hired tour guide Sha Qiang heard the cry for help at sunset.

Sha Shaqiang suggested: "Master, I know you are a monk and compassionate, but in this desert, more things are worse than less things. There are many stories of people who save you at one glance and kill you at the next glance. Master may He has some martial arts skills, but I’m afraid the young ones are just...".

Ji Ran heard this and promised: "Donor Qiangzi, don't worry, the monk will try his best to save the life of the benefactor."

The two then headed straight for the cry for help.Turning around the sand dune, he saw two people. As soon as he saw the two people, Ji Ran chanted the Buddha's name: "Amitabha." Then he warned Shao Qiang: "Don't go there, hide safely behind the camel, and remember to secretly hide two water bags."

These two are no longer like people, but like two sheep that are about to be scorched on the fire.

They were nailed to the ground naked, and their wrists, ankles, and foreheads were all tied with cowhide. The cowhide was originally wet, but after it was dried by the sun, it became tighter and tighter until it was embedded in the flesh.

Their skin was tanned all over their bodies, their lips were cracked, their eyes were half-closed, but the pupils and whites of the eyes could not be distinguished, and they looked like gray holes.

The cowhide was cut off, Ji Ran wrapped the two people in felt, dipped a silk scarf in water, and let them suck it gently.

Then they began to tremble and moan. "Water...water..."

When they could make a sound, they kept shouting and begging.

Ji Ran didn't know much, and then asked one of them to drink a lot of water.

The man took the water bag and did not pour it into his mouth. Instead, he looked at Ji Ran with strange eyes and said in a hoarse voice: "Little monk? Don't you know that if a thirsty person does not limit the open drinking, he will die immediately?" Of?"

"You monk, with a human face and a beast heart, could you be trying to kill our brothers!"

Ji Ran squinted her eyes and looked at the two of them, "What do you two mean?"

Before Ji Ran could finish her words, there were more than a dozen black lights, and the castration was faster than lightning.

This is clearly a hidden weapon shot from a spring-loaded crossbow.The hidden weapon turned out to be hidden in the hair.

As soon as they waved their hands, Ji Ran immediately flew up like a swallow. Something unexpected happened, and Ji Ran's reaction was not fast, but there was no hidden weapon on her body.

Unexpectedly, the hidden weapon didn't hit him, but hit the water bag, only to hear a series of "Puff! Puff!", dozens of water jets shot out from the sheepskin pouch like arrows.

The two "dying men" also rushed out like flying.

Ji Ran stared at this scene blankly. Instead of chasing the bandit, he took off a few steel needles stuck in the camel's body, and then shot them out with his thumb and middle finger.

The two thieves who ran a few feet away thought they had a perfect ending this time, but they didn't expect two thumping sounds to be heard, and then they looked at each other and fell to the ground dead.

Of course, those two people couldn't escape.After all, Wu Hua taught Ji Ran the most martial arts skills, apart from Shaolin Shenquan, which was the magical power of fingering and finger snapping (note, both Chu Liuxiang and Wu Hua in Gu Long's novels were good at finger snapping magic powers).

At this time, Ji Ran walked up to the two corpses, stared at this scene blankly, and blamed herself: "But it is also difficult to distinguish between good and evil in this world. I clearly know that sand bandits are rampant, and there are no other people or caravans here. , where are the people waiting to be saved? But we still have illusions about these two, which is really wrong."

"I know that water is so precious in the desert, why didn't I bring two more camels with me? Now I only have three bags of water that are half a camel's worth. I don't know if it will be enough for me and the hadron donor to go to Kucha."

Surprisingly, this was the first time Ji Ran had killed someone in 50 years of his previous life. He did not experience any discomfort such as nausea or nausea. Instead, he regretted his lack of experience and feared that he did not drink enough water.

At this moment, Sha Shaqiang came out from the other side, raised his thumbs up and said, "It's still master, you are so good at predicting things, let the little one hide two bags of water in advance, plus the remaining three bags on the right side of the camel, these five bags If the water is lucky, we can reach Kucha Kingdom. On the way, we can try to find an underground river and replenish some water."

"Everything is thanks to Lao Qiangzi's benefactor!" Ji Ran replied with a forced smile.

After walking for another two days, suddenly at night, Qiangzi jumped up, held a handful of sand, and gave it to Ji Ran. "Brother Qiangzi, what are you doing? Why do you give sand to a poor monk?" Ji Ran asked in confusion.

"Master, please put the sand in your mouth and feel it. If the sand is warm, it must have water and can be sucked out." Qiangzi replied.

Ji Ran sucked hard and said depressedly: "I even used all my strength to suck milk, but I still can't suck out a drop of water from this ghost sand. Isn't this kind of sucking method excruciating?"

Qiangzi said: "In the desert, you are lucky to be able to find some warm sand every day. Although this sand has little water, you can't live without it."

Qiangzi was right. On the third day, they couldn't even find wet sand, so they could only drink the remaining three bags of water. Fortunately, in the early morning of the fourth day, Qiangzi found another place.

The sand here has more moisture. Qiangzi said: "I followed a water vein to find it. Look at the situation here. There must be a bigger water source not far from here." As they spoke, the two rode camels. move on.

Two days later, they saw a green oasis in the distance.What came into view was two people running wildly on horseback. One of them was riding a well-bred horse, while the other one was gradually lagging behind.

But I saw the man behind suddenly let out a loud roar and jumped off his horse.He actually wanted to compete with a galloping horse with his unparalleled lightness skills.He was as tall as a shooting star, and Wu Juxuan's well-known horse was no longer as good as the pursuer's legs. Within a moment, he was already in pursuit.

But when he saw that the man with a fast horse was about to be overtaken by the pursuer using light skills, the horseman jumped up from the saddle, turned over in the air, passed the pursuer, and fled in the opposite direction.

However, the pursuer's qinggong was so good that he turned over and continued the pursuit.Seeing that the pursuer was about to be overtaken, he suddenly waved his hand, and with a "pop" sound, a puff of purple smoke spread out on the ground, followed the wind, and rolled towards Chu Liuxiang...

When Ji Ran saw this, he didn't know, he came at the right time, the pursuer was clearly the famous Bandit Commander Chu Liuxiang, and the pursued was his good senior brother Wu Hua who was aliased as Wu Juxuan.

Ji Ran jumped off the camel and told Qiangzi: "Don't move around here until I come back!" Then he used Qinggong and chased away.

Half a moment later, Ji Ran, who caught up with the two, saw Wuhua, who was seriously injured and sitting cross-legged on the ground, and Chu Liuxiang, who asked him what his last wish was.Ji Ran quickly ran over, looked at Wuhua, and shouted softly: "Senior brother!"

Hearing this cry, Wuhua opened his eyes suddenly. His eyes, which had lost their luster, suddenly regained consciousness.

"Junior brother? Why are you here. Senior brother is no longer able to bring you the gift that he promised you, and I don't know how your studies are progressing. I think the younger brother's diligence should make progress." He was talking. , Wuhua spit out blood from his mouth, and actually cut off his heart.

"Senior brother, why are you doing this? Since the matter is over, why don't you return to the temple? You and I, my senior brother, the Qingdeng Ancient Buddha are also excellent!" Ji Ran could no longer calm down.

Facing this senior brother who has taught and accompanied me for 17 years, I finally shed tears.

Whether he is a bad person or a villain, whether he kills his brother or his wife, in the end Wuhua will never disappoint him and Wuzhen.

"Senior brother is full of sins, I don't want to spoil the room full of scriptures and books, and the garden full of sweet-scented osmanthus. Take care of yourself for me!" Before he could say the words, Qijue Miaoshang Wuhua finally closed his eyes.

"Amitabha……"

"Xiang Shuai, let's go first! I'll see my brother off here again."

After saying that, Ji Ran sat cross-legged and recited the "Ksitigarbha's Original Vow Sutra"

"All sentient beings are not liberated. Their nature and consciousness are uncertain. Bad habits produce karma. Good habits result. They do good and evil. They are born according to circumstances."

"The five paths of rotation. There is no rest for the time being. Moving through dusty kalpas. Confusion and obstacles. Like a fish swimming in a net. It will be a long stream. It escapes or temporarily escapes. It is caught in the net again."

"Those are the generations. I should be worried about you. Now that you have fulfilled your past wishes, you have reaffirmed your oaths through many calamities. You have saved the sinners. Why should I worry about it.", over and over again, and finally after Qiqi 49: "Senior brother, have a good journey. !”

Facing Wuhua's body, Ji Ran said a lot.

From the first time he heard Wuhua gave him medicine to the first time Wuhua slapped him on the palm for not completing his homework.

Teach him how to play the piano for the first time.

Taught him calligraphy for the first time...

The words of instruction are still in my ears: "It's not true. Don't blame senior brother for being harsh. The world is really hard. Without good martial arts, it is extremely difficult to survive in this world."

"You are still young, so it is impossible to stay in the temple all the time. If one day you get playful and sneak down the mountain, with your three-legged cat skills, you will die without knowing that there are not enough bones left."

Hey, think about it now.Didn't senior brother say this to himself?

Regardless of the cycle of life and death, or the flowers withering and blooming, senior brother, I hope that in the next life, you, the Udumbara flower, can be treated tenderly by the world.

After collecting the ashes of senior brother Wu Hua, Ji Ran came back to find Qiangzi. "Brother Qiangzi, do our team have any clay pots, iron pots or the like that can be used to hold ashes?" Ji Ran asked as he walked.

"Master. We didn't bring similar items with us on this trip. If you need me to go to the city ahead and have a look, you should be able to buy them."

"Shan. I have some things to do to find the Stone Guanyin. You can rest in the inn here."

"I will come back later. If I haven't returned within seven days, please ask Brother Qiangzi to take my senior brother's ashes and the news of my death to Southern Shaolin. Someone will naturally reward you at that time."

As Ji Ran said this, she kept wrapping her senior brother's ashes in the purple and gold cassock she stole from her master.

(End of this chapter)