Martial Arts Collection Pavilion

Chapter 119 The Monk from the West

There are three realms in heaven and earth, one is called sky, there are 33 levels, infinitely vast, immortals and gods live in it, there are five heavenly emperors, advocating good fortune, the movement of stars, sun and moon, and the change of four seasons, commanding the common people in the world and suppressing demons in the three realms.

The extreme of the sky is called the sky outside the sky. There are saints in the sky outside the sky. The saints are the innate spirits, the achievements of acquired merits and virtues, with great supernatural powers and transcendence.

There is infinite chaos in the outer sky, and neither immortals, gods, saints or saints can enter.There is a passage in the chaos, which goes directly to the extreme of hell.

Opposite to the sky, it is called the earth, and there are nineteen earths, one is called the underworld, and the rest are called eighteen hells. Bitterness, luck for three lives, no worries for Meng Po Tang.

There are all kinds of ghosts and gods, and there are ten halls in the underworld. I don't know when it was built.Rewards and punishments for good and evil among masters, arresting ghosts and evil spirits.

Later, there was a Buddhist great power, Li Hongyuan, who entered the underworld, called the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and suppressed the boundless sea of ​​​​blood.

Between heaven and earth is the world, and there are four continents in the world, one is Dongsheng Shenzhou, the other is Zhan Buzhou in the south, the Hezhou in Xiniu is the third, and Luzhou is in the north.

Dongsheng Shenzhou is a beautiful land of heaven and earth, the source of spiritual energy in all directions, and the good fortune of Zhong Tiandi is the first-class place for cultivating immortals in the four states. Martial immortals exist in the world, chivalrous and righteous, monsters, innate spirits and monsters live here, and humans and monsters stand side by side , there are few disputes, it is really a good place.

Xiniu Hezhou is the place where Buddhism is established, and it is also the place where the great monsters of the day after tomorrow are rampant. With Lingshan as the boundary, Shanxi is the country of Buddhism, and Shandong is the domain of monsters with hundreds of thousands of mountains.Buddhism wants to save all living beings, so it planned a Journey to the West.After crossing the Tripitaka Buddhist scriptures, I went to the Eastern Tang Dynasty.

Beiju Luzhou, with its poor mountains and bad waters, is the most miserable and evil place among the four continents. After the ancient lich war, the demon ancestor gathered the remaining demons from the world and established a demon kingdom here.

This Nanzhan Buzhou is the most chaotic, hundreds of countries are conquering, there are many sects, Buddhists, demons, Taoists, immortals, monsters, many practitioners, and brave warriors in the world. The killing continued.

It is said that Tang Sanzang has gone through hundreds of thousands of miles to fetch the Tripitaka scriptures from the west, and achieved positive results with all his disciples, and achieved a good talk.But I don't want to, everyone in the Tang Dynasty recited Buddha, extinguished their fighting spirit, and their martial arts were so weak that they led the country to attack.

Hundreds of years later, under the big pagoda tree outside a dilapidated temple near Chang'an in the original Tang Dynasty, a bald old monk in tattered cassock was surrounded by a group of children.

"Just listen to Bajie calling the Tao "Master, the elder brother has been captured by monsters", Tang Sanzang was flustered when he heard this, the road to the west is full of monsters, and there is still half the distance to go, if this magical power is missing My great disciple, this trip to the west...he remembered the past when his great disciple fetched water to serve him every day, and taught him how to feel at ease if something bad happened..."

The urchins at the side all listened attentively to his talk about Journey to the West, and felt reverence for the dilapidated Jinguang Temple. Make trouble, shit and pee.The old monk waited until the many urchins had left, then carefully cleaned the temple.

Sweeping the floor is afraid of harming the lives of ants, and it is compassionate. Occasionally, there are some spider webs, and it is necessary to carefully examine whether there are spiders living on the web. If there are living creatures, they go around carefully, but do not want to destroy them. A tool that spiders rely on to survive.

He cleaned carefully on his side, and in a blink of an eye the night passed, only half of the temple was swept away, and Jinguang Temple was surrounded by people all the way.The monk was surrounded by everyone, and he didn't panic at all.

The crowd stepped aside, and a person came out from the center, and said to the monk, "Monk, where did you come from?"

The monk gently patted the dust off his body, put his hands together, and said on his forehead: "The poor monk came from the Western Paradise."

The man froze for a moment, then sneered, and said, "You monster monk, you still want to frame me. The western sky is more than 8000 miles away from here. How can you come here with a mortal body? Come on, give me this monster monk." Down."

The people on both sides were about to make a move, but the monk stopped his hand and said: "Monks don't tell lies, the western sky is 13 miles away from here, and the poor monk has walked alone for 13 years. If he is sincere, why can't the monk come here?" This place?" After saying that, he looked at the man with his eyes.The eyes are clear, not fake.

The man was silent for a while, lowered his head to think carefully, then raised his head and frowned at the monk for a while, then said: "The monk came from the west, do you know the Tripitaka?"

The monk said: "If there is a destiny, the monk should be able to read the Tripitaka."

The man was overjoyed, so he led the monk out of the temple and went straight to the palace.It turned out that after the fall of Tang Dynasty, the Sanzang Scriptures taken by Tang Monk Xitian were acquired by the Song Dynasty, and had been hidden in the inner courtyard of the imperial palace. However, at the beginning of the founding of the country, monks were hunted and killed, so no one could read Sanskrit. .

At present, the regime is stable, the emperor is old, and there are 13 princes under his knees, and he only loves the thirteen princes, the youngest son born to the deceased nobleman.

The thirteenth prince probably inherited his mother's virtues, he is humble and kind, and treats others with sincerity. Except for the eldest prince who hates him for taking away his crown prince, all of his eleven elder brothers are friendly to him.

One day, the thirteenth prince went crazy, ran into the royal treasury, and unexpectedly found the Tripitaka. After the dust on the book, when I flipped through it, I couldn't read a word.

The handwriting is very similar to the Sanskrit in the legend, but it is said that after the Song Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, books were burned and monks were destroyed. Except for the Tripitaka, it was difficult to preserve Buddhist scriptures. It was very low, so few monks from other places were willing to preach in the Song Dynasty. Even if there were, the people of the Song Dynasty were all Taoists, but there were few charity, and it was difficult for monks to survive.

The thirteenth prince was very surprised, so he asked his elder brother to find a monk who could read Sanskrit, so those princes and elder brothers who loved him sent their guards to find him.The bodyguards of the eleven elder brothers found a total of 99 monks for him, but none of them knew the Tripitaka.

The many princes saw that the monks they had found dared to deceive themselves and falsely claimed that they knew Sanskrit, so they were furious. They wanted to slaughter the group of monks, but they were stopped by the thirteen princes. The capital crimes of these monks were spared, but the living crimes were inevitable, and they were thrown into the sky prison one after another.

This group of monks was thrown into the dungeon by the princes, and the news reached the ears of the first prince. After the first prince heard the news that the thirteenth prince was seeking monks and scriptures, he was overjoyed, and discussed with his mother, Concubine Hua, and finally broke the news to the public. Where is the emperor.

According to the royal ancestral teachings of the Song Dynasty, the son of heaven is not allowed to worship the Buddha. When the Song Emperor heard the news that the thirteen princes were seeking scriptures, he was furious and immediately drove to find the thirteen princes.

But he said that the guard had just brought the monk from Jinguang Temple to the bedroom of the thirteenth prince. After some inquiries, the monk had just taken over the scriptures, and the Emperor Song entered the bedroom.

(End of this chapter)