Master, what path do you cultivate?

The master and apprentice looked at each other, neither of them expected to encounter such a thing here.

Yuye said in surprise:

"Master, how could a tower fall from above? And it looks like it has been there for many years."

Ji Qinglin smiled and said:

"It seems that this rift valley is really famous. Let's go and have a look."

Ji Qinglin simply hit a few beams of fire energy on the cliff, which could illuminate the general situation here in a short time.

The two came to the pile of rubble in front of the tower. From here, they could see that it was not just the tower in front of them that had fallen.

There are many ruins in front and behind the tower. Judging from the tiles under the rubble, they should be some houses and buildings, but they are obviously not as strong as the tower, so they all disintegrated during the fall.

The ruins are broken into pieces by stepping on them, and they have a history of thousands of years at least.

It's just that this place may not have access to wind or water, so the fallen ancient tower will naturally be preserved.

Stepping on the gravel to get closer, I felt more and more that this tower was really well-preserved, with seven floors from bottom to top.

Because it fell diagonally, there seemed to be signs of breaking in the middle, but the overall structure was still very intact.

Looking at the tall tower and then looking up at the darkness above his head, Yu Ye said in confusion:

"No, Master, if we were under the Pagoda Temple, then my disciple would still be able to understand that the temples and pagodas built there may have slipped down due to the collapse.

But in terms of distance, we should still be under the mountain of Wanfo Temple. We have climbed the mountain below Wanfo Temple. The whole mountain is made of stone. There should be no temples or pagodas to slide. Is it possible to seal them all after they come down and then build the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple on top? "

Ji Qinglin nodded and said:

"That's right. This is indeed the case. And if it slid down from a place as high as the top of the mountain, it would definitely not be so completely preserved. It would have all been reduced to rubble long ago."

Yu Ye guessed:

"Could it be that Master means that this temple and pagoda were originally built under this stone mountain?"

Ji Qinglin shook his head and said:

"It's impossible. Not to mention the temple, just to build this tower so high, it also requires a considerable foundation. It is absolutely impossible to do it on a wall with underground cracks."

"This is strange. Could it be that the pagoda grew out of the cliff?"

Ji Qinglin smiled bitterly and said nothing, but he thought of a possibility.

But that possibility was probably more outrageous than building this tower underground, so I didn't say it out loud.

"Let's go in and take a look. Maybe there are some clues about Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple."

Basically half of the entire first floor has been sunk into rubble. Fortunately, this structure can persist until now, which shows that it still has a certain strength.

Although it is dangerous to go in and take a look, if a collapse occurs, it is still okay to come out before the tower structure collapses.

Ji Qinglin kicked open the window and jumped in. The floor tiles on the first floor and the gravel that came in basically filled half of the first floor diagonally.

You can see some red ash in the gravel, and some are still caked together. I think they are the debris of tables and chairs from the first floor a long time ago.

Although nothing of value was left in the house, the writing on the walls did.

It’s actually a couplet:

The name of the demon-suppressing hero is immortal.

The living Buddha's red blood illuminates the universe.

Ji Qinglin was also stunned when he saw it.

"Hiss~ This is a demon-suppressing tower, and judging from the meaning of this couplet, it seems that a high-ranking monk died for the great cause of demon-suppressing."

Yu Ye recorded it down and said doubtfully:

"If it is so important, why did it collapse? Moreover, my disciple and master did not see any traditions and legends about suppressing demons and monsters being passed down in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple yesterday."

Ji Qinglin shrugged and said:

"What else could it be because of? I didn't stop myself. Hey, wait a minute!"

As he spoke, Ji Qinglin jumped out of the tower and searched around the tower, but unfortunately found nothing.

"Master, what are you looking for?"

"Normally, a monument would be erected around such a commemorative pagoda to record what happened. It seems that it was probably buried under the ruins when it fell. Forget it, let's keep going up. .”

Although there are stairs in the Demon Suppression Tower, they have basically collapsed. If you step on them, they will collapse, so the master and apprentice still try to find a way from the outside.

Go back and make the thread left by the sword intention thicker, and shoot one end towards the top of the Demon Suppressing Tower, which is tilted upside down.

The other end is fixed on the ground, so that the master and the apprentice can look up little by little along the rope and the mountain wall.

It's a pity that the seven-story Demon Suppression Tower seems to be mainly used as a memorial, and no valuable objects were found on the second floor.

In addition to some items used by masters, the most numerous ones are Buddha statues.

Most of them have been thrown and scattered on the ground.

When we reached the third floor, a stone tablet was inserted diagonally into the ground.

It seemed that when the Demon Suppression Tower fell, it fell with the tower. Unfortunately, the stone tablet fell from behind and hit the ground through the window.

"It's really hard to find anything after wearing iron shoes. It doesn't take any effort to get here. Come and have a look."

There are not many words on the stone tablet, but what is engraved is indeed the reason for building this pagoda.

The inscription on the Demon Tower of Dongyin Town:

The monster rose from the northeast and moved southward. No one in the villages it passed was spared, and all of them were sucked to death.

Zen Master Huiming of Tianlong Temple used Buddhist techniques to protect the villagers from harm, and later invited gods and Buddhas to take over his body and finally subdued the demons.

The monster was trapped in the relic, and Zen Master Huiming passed away.

Therefore, a demon-suppressing tower was built outside Tianlong Temple and beside the Yilan River.

Store the demon-suppressing relics to record merits and virtues for Zen Master Huiming.

There is also a simple picture engraved under the stone tablet. There is a temple built by the river, and behind the temple is this seven-story pagoda.

Ji Qinglin leaned against the slanted wall on the second floor of the Demon Suppression Tower, pinched his chin and said:

"The source is actually here, Yuye, let me test you as a teacher. What can you tell from this inscription?"

Yuye pursed her lips and analyzed:

"First of all, the killing method of the monster mentioned above is the same as the relics held by Fenye and the others. The two have the same origin or are the same monster. My disciple prefers the latter because this thing is only sealed. He was not killed, and now the Demon Suppression Tower has also been destroyed.

Fen Ye, Ah Qing and the others were most likely using that relic, and the monster they were about to resurrect was the monster mentioned above, huh? No, that Zhao Heng said, it seems that the one who will be resurrected is the monk Jiechen. There should be a time difference. They are the same thing, but before it was the relic of Zen Master Huiming, and now it has become the monk Jiechen. I feel in the middle what's going on. "

Ji Qinglin nodded and added:

"Yes, something must have happened later that caused the monster to end up in the relics of Monk Jiechen. Can you tell anything else?"

Yuye thought for a moment and said:

"It says that monsters come from the northeast. The northeast of Dongyin Buddhism is Kyushu. There is a high probability that this thing also came from Kyushu. But according to the master, the only ones who came out of Kyushu at the beginning should be immortals, Fenye and Jiejie. Chen’s third person, I haven’t heard that there is anything else. Could it be that this monster has something to do with those three people?

Furthermore, since this pagoda has sealed the monster, how did that thing escape? Moreover, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple above did not mention anything about the Demon Suppression Tower, and even assisted in resurrecting Jie Chen. There must be something wrong here, and there must be some story behind the destruction of this pagoda. "

"That's right, but it's not what I want to ask, teacher. Think about it again."

Yuye scratched his little head and shook his head:

"Then my disciple doesn't know."

"Didn't you find anything scary?"

Hearing the master's sudden words, Yuye suddenly felt a chill in his back.

He came closer to Ji Qinglin and said:

"Master, please don't scare your disciples in a place like this. It's up to you to tell me what you discovered."

Ji Qinglin hugged Yuye's waist and replied:

"I didn't mean to scare you, but I really discovered something surprising. It also verified my previous guess. You see, there is an Yilan River in the text and the picture, right?"

Yu Ye didn't understand what it meant, so he tilted his head and said:

"Yes, Master, what happened to the Yilan River?"

Yu Ye tried hard to recall the name in his mind, but there really was no familiar feeling.

"Where did the river go?"

"In this changing world, it's normal for a river to dry up."

“Should there be a river on an abrupt mountain full of rocks like the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple?”

"Is this because our location is misaligned? We are not directly below the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple? This is somewhere else, a plain or underneath an ancient river."

Ji Qinglin shook his head and said:

"Whether it's a top-down photo or a front-to-back photo, this is definitely underneath the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, and we didn't see any Yilan River or any ancient river when we came here."

"My disciple still doesn't understand. Master, what do you mean?"

"Do you still remember your doubts when we just saw this tall pagoda? I was curious about how the mountain below the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple was very tight. How could this temple and the pagoda fall down? At that time, we guessed that the only possibility was that the temple was built underground. , but there is actually another possibility, but the teacher thought it was too unbelievable, so he didn’t mention it.

The description and painting on this stone tablet tell us that this temple and pagoda were either built on a mountain or underground, or on a plain riverside, so you know what the teacher is talking about may be What happened? "

Yuye suddenly widened his eyes and understood what the master wanted to express, then he frowned and tried:

"Do you mean that this temple and the pagoda were originally built on the ground, and then this crack appeared, and the temple and the pagoda slid down together, and then there was the mountain above us. ?”

Seeing Yu Ye's expression of disbelief when he said this, Ji Qinglin smiled and said:

"How is it? Isn't it scary? At that time, someone could actually move mountains and reclaim seas."

"This, this, this, this, this, is too exaggerated, isn't it?"

"My teacher also thought it was an exaggeration, so I didn't say it out loud before, but now it seems that this is the only possibility. Let's go and keep looking up."

Thank you for your reading and support! (Ji Qinglin: Nine-story demon tower? Oh, seven-story, that’s okay)