Starting from the sculpture of Buddha statues in Lanruo Temple

Chapter 1 Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Mantra

After Li Fengning woke up, he found himself in a strange room.

In this room, the beams had rotted, the paint on the walls had peeled off, and there was a strange musty smell in the air.

The memory fragments in my mind are being pieced together piece by piece.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, there was a rough knock on the door.

Li Fengning went to open the door while recalling.

When I opened the door, I saw that it was a yamen servant.

He remembered that he and a group of workers were forcibly conscripted to Lanruo Temple three days ago to participate in the temple's reconstruction.

The Yacha in front of him is in charge of supervising the work every day.

"What's wrong? Haven't woken up yet!"

Seeing Li Fengning's dazed look, the yacha shouted loudly.

"What's the matter, sir?" Li Fengning asked.

"Your neighbor is dead, carry him to a mass grave and bury him." Yachai said, pointing to the room next door.

Li Fengning was startled, and went out, and sure enough, he smelled a rancid smell.

Since these workers moved in, people died every night...

"What are you doing? Go in and carry the corpse out!"

Seeing Li Fengning's hesitation, the yamen shouted again.

In this world, the government is in chaos, the officials are bigger than the people, Li Fengning didn't dare to disobey the servants, so he had to open the door and walk in.

Immediately, a disgusting corpse smell rushed over, and Li Fengning saw a shriveled corpse lying on the ground.

The skin of the corpse was black and dry and wrinkled, tightly attached to the bones, and the hair on the scalp had also curled and turned white.

Li Fengning resisted not vomiting, looked away, picked up the straw mat on the ground and covered the corpse.

At this time, another worker who was called by the Yacha to carry the corpse came in with a shovel, and together with Li Fengning rolled up the corpse with a straw mat.

They carried them to the mass grave behind Lanruo Temple, dug a hole, and buried it.

Just as they were about to leave, they suddenly saw two workers pushing carts towards the mass grave.

When passing by the two workers, Li Fengning looked inside curiously, but saw the human head and stumps.

"What... what's going on here?" Li Fengning asked, swallowing the bile that welled up in his throat.

One of the workers pushing the trolley said: "This is the person who escaped last night..."

Those who escaped... Li Fengning remembered that they were all workers who were forcibly conscripted here. If they escaped, they would become wanted criminals.

But because people died one after another in the past two nights, some people were afraid, so they escaped at night when the supervisor's clerk was not there.

"Why did they become like this?" Li Fengning asked.

"I guess it's a monster..." The worker's face turned pale: "I just got up this morning, and I was ordered by the government's dog legs to clean it.

"I was wondering what to clean, so I followed him until I reached the mountain road leading to Lanruo Temple.

"Saw a big puddle of dried blood covered with these bits and pieces..."

Li Fengning said goodbye to the worker, went to the well to wash his hands, and then went to the front hall to receive the morning dry food.

After eating half of the dry food, he felt a little nauseous.

It's really a journey through the underworld. If you stay here, you may be sucked dry by ghosts. If you escape, you may be eaten by monsters in the woods... Li Fengning sighed.

At the time of Chenpai, that is, at seven or eight o'clock, the supervisor's clerk urged them to start work.

What Li Fengning does is sculpture.

Although his sculpture skills are not unique, he can still carve Buddha statues just according to the portraits.

In the past five days, he has sculpted the statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

Only the five sense organs are left on this Buddha statue, and the carving is about to be completed.

He climbed up the wooden ladder, took out a small chisel and a hammer, and carved the face of the Bodhisattva.

After hammering "ding ding ding" all morning, after eating lunch and taking a nap, under the urging of the yamen servant, he continued to carve.

Near the west mountain, Li Fengning tapped lightly with a stone hammer, picking off a trace of stone chips, secretly sighing that he finally completed the sculpture of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

Just when Li Fengning was about to exhale, suddenly, melodious Sanskrit singing, whispering chanting, as well as the sound of temple bells and wooden fish, all rang in his ears.

A Sanskrit mantra flooded into his mind.

——[Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Heart Mantra]

At the same time, the method of making a mudra also emerged in his mind.

——[Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Mantra]

Moreover, he had the memory of having made this mudra many times.

Now as long as he thinks about it, he can proficiently form the [Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Mantra Mudra].

According to the new information that appeared in his mind, he knew that as long as he recited the [Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Heart Mantra] in his heart and formed the [Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Heart Mantra] in his hands, he could get rid of evil spirits!
Li Fengning was pleasantly surprised, he traveled through the underworld, and finally had some things from the underworld beside him.

He wished he could go back to the monk's house right now, close the door, and try this handprint for exorcising ghosts.

night.

After eating, Li Fengning returned to the monk's house, closed the door immediately, and silently recited the heart mantra of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

At the same time, with the hands together, the mudra of the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's mantra is formed.

However, nothing seems to happen.

Could it be that you have to face ghosts to see the effect... Li Fengning thought to himself, while groping for a fire pocket, he lit the oil lamp on the ground.

The oil lamp and other things were left by a scholar who once lived here.

And this scholar is gone, and it is said that he was seduced by a ghost.

The oil lamp was lit, and in an instant, the room was dim.

The room was empty except for a straw mat.

He crossed his legs and sat down on the floor, thinking about the tricks he got today.

Can you get rewards for carving Buddha statues... I wonder if there is a distinction between stone carvings and wood carvings?
He thought to himself, intending to find a piece of wood to try.

He took the big chisel and hammer used for carving Buddha statues, pushed the door and went out, looked around, found no one noticed him, then went to a side hall to find a piece of wood, and chiseled on it. Holding a block of wood in his arms, he walked back.

He didn't dare to go into the woods next to Lanruo Temple to find wood.

Because he was afraid that he was chiseling wood, and suddenly the vines came alive, put a hoop around his neck, and then dragged himself into the depths of the woods...

Back at the monk's house, he picked up a small chisel and began to carve wood by lighting the lamp.

Who to carve?
As soon as the thought arises, the next thought follows.

It's just you, Tathagata Buddha!

Li Fengning used a small chisel to carve the wood with the help of the Buddha portrait and sculpture skills he had seen before.

His spirit instantly condensed, and all his attention was on the Buddha statue in his hand.

He didn't know how long it had passed, but he only knew that he had refilled the lamp oil halfway through.

His small chisel lightly ticked the Buddha's eyebrows.

A Tathagata Buddha sitting cross-legged was carved.

Suddenly, the sound of Sanskrit singing, chanting, wooden fish, bell ringing and so on rang in my ears.

It's just much smaller than during the day.

All the sounds during the day were like a sudden tsunami, rushing towards me, but now these sounds are like a stream of water, flowing towards me.

There was no information in his mind.

However, at the moment when the last trace of sawdust was removed with a small chisel.

A tiny warm current flowed into his meridian along his small chisel.

At that moment, he found that he could see the meridians inside.

In the meridian, there is a very faint golden gas.

(End of this chapter)