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Chapter 87 Dharma Name - Hollow

Kong Ran was silent and sighed:
"Why are you bothering? With your qualifications, it will be difficult to take revenge. You can only waste your time in this temple."

"But entering Shaolin is my only chance. If I can't practice in ten years, I can wait for 20 years. If I can't practice in 20 years, I can wait for 30 years. As long as I persevere, there will always be a day when I will succeed."

Everyone in the open space was silent, only the voice of the young man was echoing. After a while, he sighed and turned around to say something to another Shaolin disciple who was beside him. The disciple turned to leave, and he turned to Zhang Xuanye and said:

"I have already reported your matter to the uncle of Luohan Hall, and wait for the uncle to make a decision. If the uncle disagrees, there is nothing I can do."

Zhang Xuanye immediately kowtowed heavily:

"Thank you Master for your mercy."

Not long after, the Shaolin disciple came back and said a few words in Kongran's ear, a smile appeared on Kongran's face and said:

"Uncle Jueyi has agreed to include you as a beginner."

The young man was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately knelt down again and said:
"Thank you master, thank you master."

Kong Ran waved his hand and said:
"Go to the right first."

The boy bowed again before getting up to the right.

With his precedent, many people who were unwilling to leave immediately were also seeking emptiness, and several teenagers were crying and shouting, but after asking their names, Juoran took out a piece of paper and glanced at it, with a blank expression on his face road:
"If you have his perseverance and perseverance, it doesn't matter if we accept you, but you have not performed well in the past three months, and you have been lazy several times. If your aptitude is not good, you can use perseverance and hard work to make up for it. If you don’t have enough perseverance, you won’t be able to enter the sect.”

The young man he said was speechless, and pulled his head back into the crowd.

Next, Kong Ran persuaded the unwilling teenagers to leave, and finally had everyone sent down the mountain.

In the end, a total of only 35 people passed the test, including two disciples with perseverance but poor qualifications.

Those who pass the test will be official Shaolin disciples from today, and are qualified to practice Shaolin intermediate martial arts. At the same time, they will be taught various martial arts by brothers or uncles from Luohan Hall. If they are lucky, they may be accepted as disciples by eminent Shaolin monks.

Becoming an official disciple doesn't mean that you don't have to work, you have to work, but it's just that the salary is much better, the authority has been increased, and the place to live has changed. Ye Chen still has to carry water early every morning to exercise.

Of course, after becoming an official disciple of Shaolin Temple, every new entrant to the temple still has to make an important choice, that is, to become a monk disciple or a lay disciple.

The so-called lay disciples are formal disciples of Shaolin who have held the Three Refuge Ceremony but do not need to take precepts.

And monks, also called Buddhist disciples, need to shave off their hair and take precepts, and formally convert to my Buddha.

The difference between lay disciples and monastic disciples is that lay disciples can choose whether to observe the precepts, they can observe or not, and they can also marry wives and have children, while monastic disciples must abide by the internal rules and regulations, and they will be punished if they break the precepts.

It seems that lay disciples seem to have no restrictions, much more enjoyable than monastic disciples.

But in fact it is much more enjoyable, ordinary people can not stand all kinds of strict rules and regulations, and both are official disciples, they can both practice Shaolin martial arts, and they can also practice Shaolin 72 unique skills if they meet the requirements.

However, there is an unspoken rule between lay disciples and monastic disciples, that is, lay disciples cannot become high-level officials in Shaolin Temple. Only disciples who become monks can practice, such as Yijin Jing, Washing Marrow Sutra, Vajra Indestructibility, etc.

Therefore, Ye Chen's choice was to become a monk and shave his hair to become a monk.

Anyway, after he learns the unique skills of the Shaolin town school, he can return to vulgarity.

Shaolin Temple does not restrict eminent monks from returning to lay life, but there are few or no real eminent monks returning to lay life.

After all, those who can learn those rare schools of the town and succeed are basically in their seventies and eighties. At such an age, the four majors are basically empty, and there is no idea or need to return to the vulgar.

But Ye Chen is different, as long as he has enough potential points, he can cultivate to the extreme within one year and become an invincible super master.

Shaolin Temple accepts many disciples every year, but few actually choose to become monastic disciples. Basically, there are only one or two out of ten, and sometimes none. Just like his class of 35 students, only three chose to become monks. They all choose to become lay disciples.

The three are Ye Chen, Zhang Xuanye, and a descendant named Wu Wenguang.

Zhang Xuanye chose to become a monastic disciple, probably because he felt that his aptitude was too poor, and he would have to wait more than ten years to get revenge, so he decided to become a monk directly.

However, Wu Wenguang, the descendant, had a very simple idea. He could guess that he came here for Shaolin martial arts. He wanted to practice a few Shaolin unique skills before the end of the descending time.

Unlike other descendants who may have last wish tasks to complete, Wu Wenguang's last wish is probably related to Shaolin.

The shaving ceremony was held in the Daxiong Palace. After the three-day fasting ceremony, the three of them officially shaved and branded a scar on the top of their heads.

Shaolin lay disciples also have to shave their heads, but there is no ring scar on the top of the head. This is the difference between lay disciples and monks.

As a monk disciple, Ye Chen was officially granted a Dharma title after ordination——Hollow, a disciple of Shaolin's Kongzi generation, which is the lowest generation today.

As for lay disciples, they also have dharma titles, but they are not given by their masters. Instead, they take their own name and their seniority. For example, Ye Chen, if he chooses to be a lay disciple, his dharma name will be Kong Chen.

To be honest, Ye Chen feels a little weird about his dharma name, hollow, which means he has no heart.

Official dharma titles do not have to be changed, they are all ranked according to seniority.

From the day of his ordination, Ye Chen officially entered Shaolin and began his career as a monk who abides by the rules and regulations.

There are a lot of rules and regulations in Shaolin Temple, but there are ten main ones, the so-called Ten Commandments, which must be observed, even for lay disciples.

Ye Chen glanced at it, and it was almost the same as he imagined, to be compassionate, not to bully the weak, not to kill and set fire, etc.

However, one of the precepts is different from what he imagined, and that is to drink alcohol and eat meat.

There is a special note on this article, Shaolin monks can disobey this article, but they are not allowed to kill at will, which means that Shaolin monks can eat meat and not drink alcohol.

After thinking about it, it's normal. Shaolin monks specialize in martial arts, and their bodies can't bear it if they don't eat meat. The so-called fasting of monks does not include monks.

　Note: The precepts and seniority settings in Shaolin are all based on this book, please don’t apply it to reality. In addition, Shaolin has too few appearances in the sculptures, and I don’t know the seniority. I can only use the impression in Yitian Tulongji If there is any inaccuracy, this book shall prevail.

　　
　
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