Journey to the West: The Rise of Martial Arts

Chapter 340 Spirit Mountain Holy Land
Because of the relationship between Xuanzang and others, Ghana also received unprecedented courtesy in Tianzhu Imperial City.This monk is not dead, so he stayed, thinking about starting with these dignitaries, to promote his Zhang Zhung Buddhism.

During this period, his senior brother who had disappeared for many days finally appeared and brought him three helpers—the three rhino spirits who had been transformed by the Buddha stele. It's quite different. Although it's just changed into an ordinary monk's attire, it looks more like a good Buddhist master than when he pretended to be a bodhisattva in Jinping Mansion before!
As the most powerful and prosperous Buddhist country in Xihe Niuzhou, the imperial city of Tianzhu is undoubtedly full of temples and prosperous Buddhism. The Xiongfo sect did not attract much attention.

Ren Qinglian taught the four people what the Western missionaries of the later generations did, and left the Buddha stele for everyone to enshrine and worship as a township thing, so she didn't pay much attention to it.

Of course, because he was getting closer and closer to the Lingshan Mountain, out of caution, he just left a Lantian Planting Jade Gu in Xuanzang's body to always pay attention to the movement of the Buddhist scriptures, but he himself was very interested in traveling this Buddhist land. The exotic customs of the Chinese world, self-cultivation, self-cultivation, and martial arts!
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At the end of spring and the beginning of summer, Houzi and others passed through Diling County of Tongtai Prefecture without any risk, and arrived at Lingyundu before Lingshan Mountain.Although the Bodhisattva consciously sped up the process of learning scriptures, it was only less than two months earlier than originally planned.

Looking at the towering mountain on the other side of the river, Xuanzang couldn't help admiring: "It's so beautiful, it really is the land of Western Buddhism, it's different!"

The monkey smiled and said, "Master, that is Lingshan!"

Xuanzang bluffed and jumped off his horse: "Why, is this Lingshan?"

Zhu Ganglian next to him laughed and said, "The temple on the top of the mountain is Daleiyin Temple!"

After hearing this, Xuanzang took his head and bowed, but was dragged up by the monkey: "Master, don't worry, it's not time to bow yet!"

Zhu Ganglu also smiled and said: "Master is impatient. As the saying goes, 'Watch the mountain and run to death', if you kowtow on this road, even if you don't die, you will be severely disabled!"

Xuanzang was in a good mood, and he laughed too.

Sha Wujing also interjected a sentence from time to time, and the four of them chatted and laughed all the way, and they had already reached the big river, and there was a sign beside it, with the three Buddha-gold characters of "Lingyundu" shining brightly on it.

The river is wide and there is only one slender and slippery single-plank bridge. Xuanzang couldn't help but feel a little worried, so he heard the monkey pointing upstream and said with a smile, "Master, don't worry, someone will guide you!"

As soon as the words fell, there was already a voice from the other side: "Those who cross the river, come here!"

Xuanzang turned his head and saw a boat sailing across the river, and a boatman on it was shouting at several people.Walked over to exchange pleasantries, and when they were about to board the boat, they found out that there was no bottom under the boat, so they couldn't help being stunned, "How can your bottomless boat ferry people?"

The boatman laughed and said: "The six dusts can be returned to one, and ten thousand kalpas can be safely and freely. It is difficult for a bottomless boat to cross the sea, and it has passed through the past and the past! The boat crosses the lost time, and the enlightened one crosses by itself. The sea of ​​suffering has no bottom, and the bottom is the shore. Come up here, make sure you're okay!"

Xuanzang was still hesitating in surprise, but the monkey had clasped his hands together in thanks and said, "Thanks for your kindness, welcome my teacher." After speaking, he crossed Xuanzang's arm and pushed it up.The monk couldn't stand on his feet and fell into the water, but was pulled up by the boatman and stood on the boat.

Zhu Ganglu laughed, led the horse and jumped onto the boat, followed by Sha Wujing.

Xuanzang was still in shock, and while blaming the monkey for his recklessness, he shook his clothes, stacked his shoes and feet to tidy up his appearance.

Ren Qinglian, who had been watching this scene with the help of Lantian Jade Planting Gu, felt that her field of vision was gradually receding, as if she had become an outsider looking at the people on board from a distance. As soon as a ray of divine thought spread, he saw a corpse rising and falling on the river, getting farther and farther away from the Buddhist scriptures.

"Lingyun Ferry has escaped from the mortal womb!" Recalling the records in the original book, Ren Qinglian was stunned—it can be said that Xuanzang's life and destiny took a turning point at two ferry crossings. Perhaps, this is the starting point and end point of Jin Chanzi's ninth mortal womb. When Liu Hong "killed" people at the Hongjiang Ferry with a weapon, Man Tangjiao was pregnant at that time. Eighteen years later, Xuanzang was here. The locals killed their enemies with their own hands, but now, in this Lingyundu, they have shed their mortal wombs, and their merits and virtues have been completed.

"I don't know what kind of treasure that boat is. Has Xuanzang recovered his golden cicada's body after shedding his mortal womb?" The Lantian Planting Jade Gu left Xuanzang's mortal body and chased after him all the way, but soon disappeared, which attracted attention. He didn't dare to use the demonic power of the high-level Gu insect, so he could only wander aimlessly like an ordinary mosquito. fly.

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The monkey saw early in the morning that the boatman in front of him was transformed by the Jieyin Buddha, who had nothing to do with the Jieyin saint in the Western religion. To guide believers, perhaps it is more appropriate to call him Nanwu Baozhuang Guangwang Buddha.

There are many Buddhas in Lingshan, which represent only a realm of Buddhism, not necessarily related to cultivation. The Buddha who guides and guides him in front of him is just a Daluo Jinxian. A Gu worm helped Xuanzang up and said with a smile: "When the Venerable Guanyin left, I asked him when the Buddhist scriptures would arrive, and he replied 'only two or three years'. year!"

Xuanzang finally calmed down, shook his head and said, "The journey was difficult and difficult, and I can't describe it. Fortunately, I finally arrived at the Holy Land of Lingshan in the West."

While speaking, Zhu Gangli had already exclaimed: "Brother, look, dead bodies! I didn't expect that there would be dead people in this pure Buddha land!"

The monkey smiled and said, "Idiot, just look, who is that dead body?"

Zhu Ganglu took a closer look, but laughed, and said to Xuanzang, "Master, that's you!"

Xuanzang drank, and saw the boatman laughing, "Holy Monk, that's you!"

The monkey also said: "Master, you used to be a mortal womb, but now you have taken off the mortal womb."

Xuanzang suddenly realized.

While talking and joking, the boat had already reached the shore, and the Buddha led the four people off the boat, and then left.

Xuanzang was inexplicably excited, straightened his monk's robes, put on his cassock, and couldn't wait to go up to the Buddha and ask for the scriptures.

Zhu Gangli, on the other hand, was a little listless, and proposed to find a place to eat some vegetarian food first, but the monkey grabbed his ear and scolded with a smile: "You rascal, what time is it, you only remember to eat and drink!"

The fruit is about to come true, even Sha Wujing, who has always been aloof, couldn't help joking: "Even if the second senior brother becomes a Buddha, he will eat thirty to fifty steamed buns for a meal and sleep for seven or eight hours a day." I don't want to be prophesied by him, in the future that Zhu Gangyan will really be sealed as a messenger of the altar.

While joking, the group of people had already gone straight to the Daxiong Hall of Leiyin Temple on the top of the mountain. When they arrived at the De Hall, Xuanzang saw the Buddha sitting on the lotus platform, so he accepted his head and worshiped: "Disciple Xuanzang, according to the order of the Emperor of the Eastern Tang Dynasty, Go to the treasure mountain from afar, worship the scriptures, and benefit all living beings. I hope that the Buddha will show his kindness and return to the country as soon as possible.”

The Buddha smiled and said: "You have traveled long distances to seek sutras for the Eastern Land, which shows the sincerity of your intentions. Ananda, Kasyapa!"

Saying that, Ananda and Kassapa had come out to join hands and take orders.

"The two of you led his four congregations, opened the Treasure Pavilion, and gave him a few volumes of each of the 35 volumes of my Tripitaka, and taught him to pass it on to the East, and to inject great grace forever."

The two lead.

Xuanzang bowed: "Thank you Buddha for your kindness."

After saying that, a group of people left the treasure hall, and followed Ananda and Kassapa to the Sutra Pavilion to receive scriptures.

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In the Sutra Pavilion, Ananda and Kasyapa stood under the bookshelf and looked at each other, they didn't speak or move, they just looked at Xuanzang and his disciples.

Xuanzang felt a little strange, looked at the cassock he was wearing, and then at the disciples behind him, not understanding what the two meant.

Monkey was a little disappointed in this trip, so what happened to the promised cultivation?Could it be that these few volumes of scriptures have been the result of more than ten years of hard work?Immediately became impatient: "What are you two looking around, why don't you preach the scriptures?"

Ananda smiled and said, "Why, you really don't understand?"

"Understand what?" Monkey asked subconsciously.

Ananda smiled: "The scriptures should not be passed on lightly!"

Everyone was stunned: "Don't pass it lightly? Then what do you want?"

Ananda spread his palms and said in a neutral tone, "Give me something!"

The monkey was a little puzzled: "What?"

Ananda reminded: "Personnel affairs!"

"What is personnel affairs?" Xuanzang asked sincerely.

Xie Ye said impatiently: "It's a gift! Take out the gift and pass it on to you immediately. If you don't have it, don't even think about it!"

The monkey was furious: "There are ugly things like offering and extorting bribes in the world. Could it be that this western pure land is also so dirty, where extortion is so common? The corrupt officials in this world are shameless, after all, they talk cleverly and trade secretly. Well, it's good for you to be so blatantly demanding and demanding in broad daylight, how shameless!"

Ananda and Kasyapa didn't take it seriously, and sneered: "Sun Wukong, you can go wild elsewhere, this is Lingshan, the Buddha's ashram, you'd better be honest!"

Houzi looked at the two people who looked like villains, and his heart was full of anger, but thinking about the scene of chasing the big roc demon king to this Lingshan before, he felt that the two people's words were indeed reasonable, so he had to suppress his anger , no more words.

In desperation, everyone remembered a piece of gold that Zhu Gangli had dug from the Nabujin Temple to the Guyuan underground not long ago, and after some persuasion, the idiot was handed over to Ananda and the other two.

In the most important place of the golden pavilion, there is a secret method to seal off the spiritual thoughts for inspection. Ananda and Kasyapa did many things like accepting bribes relying on the Buddha's cronies. They were so arrogant and domineering, and naturally they offended people secretly. Just when they asked Xuanzang When people asked for personnel, there was a man named Bai Xiong who saw these things in his eyes and recorded the scene with magic.

But just when Venerable Bai Xiong was going to expose the bribery case, he met a man in black, who was covered in black robes and covered his face with a black cloth, his eyes were shining brightly, and he was staring closely at him.

Venerable Bai Xiong was taken aback. When did this person appear beside him, he couldn't help asking: "Who are you?"

"The Holy Envoy of the Black Lotus."

Venerable Bai Xiong was stunned: "What black lotus holy envoy? What kind of evildoer are you that dare to disturb my Buddhist holy land?"

The man in black didn't say a word, a black light suddenly shot out from his eyes, and it sank into the chest of Venerable Bai Xiong.

(End of this chapter)