My brother is so cunning.

In the third virtual reincarnation, Fashan was reincarnated as a Liangzhou hunter named Zhang Bai. He met a young girl in the mountains while out hunting.

He fell in love with the girl at first sight, so he followed the girl and her maid to a house in the mountains and stayed temporarily in the house. The two fell in love and soon became inseparable, and their life was warm and fulfilling.

The girl often went to Dahuang Mountain with her maid to visit her widowed sister-in-law. As a hunter, Zhang Bai knew that there were wolves in Dahuang Mountain, so he wanted to follow her for protection but was repeatedly rejected.

In order to protect his beloved, Zhang Bai prepared poisonous bait, carried a bow and arrows and quietly headed to Dahuang Mountain. He dropped poisonous bait along the way, shot hungry wolves, and cleaned up the road.

After doing all this, Zhang Bao felt relieved and no longer worried about the danger the girl would encounter on the road.

On this day, the girl left for Dahuang Mountain again. Zhang Bai saw her off calmly. Before leaving, he gave the girl a piece of jade as a token of love and promised to get married when the girl came back from this trip.

The girl happily agreed, but did not return for a long time after setting off. Zhang Bai went to Dahuang Mountain to search. At the foot of the mountain, he saw two wolf corpses that had eaten poisonous bait and died. The strange thing was that there were many women's clothes scattered near the wolf corpses.

Zhang Bao carefully identified the clothes and found that the clothes were exactly what his beloved and the maid were wearing when they left. He originally thought that the two girls were killed by wolves, but there were no blood or traces of fighting near the wolf corpses, and no human bones could be found.

When he checked again, he found that one of the wolf corpses had the jade he gave to his beloved hanging around its neck.

Zhang Bao already felt an ominous feeling in his heart, but everything was too bizarre and he couldn't conclude. When he returned to the house where he lived with the girl, he found that the place had turned into a barren mountain, and all the bamboo fences of the houses had disappeared.

Zhang Bao wandered in this barren mountain for a long time, hoping that the girl would come back, but until all the food and fodder he carried was gone, there was no news. Only then did he realize that he had made a big mistake, and he returned crying, never marrying again, and died in depression.

…

Fashan opened his eyes for the third time. This time he was much calmer. There was no angry roar or murmuring prayers, but deep sorrow in his eyes.

Wen Rui silently recorded it on the jade slip, said nothing, and waited quietly.

"My image is strong and persistent, and the hidden consciousness is hidden. The faculties of play have been uninterrupted." Fashan's eyes gradually became clearer, he put his hands together and bowed his head slightly: "Thank you Taoist friend for showing the reincarnation in the third life. The young monk has understood..."

"Oh?" Wen Rui paused for a moment and asked, "Fellow Taoist, what have you realized?"

"As a practitioner of Taoism, you do not eliminate the self-image, so you cannot enter pure enlightenment. If you have self-sin, you will be born, and the merits and blessings of death will be incomparable..."

"Speak humanly."

Fashan, who was interrupted, looked embarrassed and said with a wry smile: "The young monk finally understands that the reason why I don't treat the monsters as equals, and have such prejudices and even thoughts of murder is due to my past karma and sins. Two Taoist friends showed up Reincarnation must be the karma I created in my previous life, and I will only receive the karma in this life. Instead of loving, I will become angry. I will kill the love of my life with my own hands. Instead, I will blame everything on her nature as a demon. The evil obstacles covering my eyes will only make the demon angry. The clan has created boundless murderous karma.”

"My Huang Liang Hat can not only extract memories into dreams, but also weave dreams. The last two reincarnation dreams are not your past life, but a bedtime story I made up. Any similarity is purely coincidental."

"Hey, it's all fake, so what did I realize?"

Fashan was stunned for a moment. He never expected Wenrui to say that. He was stunned for a moment, his mind was stuck, and he didn't know how to deal with it.

Thinking about it carefully, since the first reincarnation dream was real, Fashan naturally followed the inertia of his thinking and thought that the last two dreams were also real and were his past life experiences. This created the reality of experiencing three reincarnations. , enlightenment after reincarnation.

As a result, Wen Rui now tells him that reincarnation in the next two lives is false, and is everything he has learned through enlightenment true or false?

"Don't pay attention to these details. Emptiness and form, reality and reality, truth and falsehood are all mental phenomena. True and false are also true, and inaction exists and returns to nothing. For such a simple truth, you, an eminent Western monk, still need me, a remnant of the sect. Teach?”

Fashan was stunned again, then nodded suddenly and said: "Yes... the young monk has taken the form... Fellow Taoist, is your honor really a disciple of the Jie Jiao? Could it be that some Bodhisattva came to incarnate to enlighten the disciples?"

"Tsk, I'm not as bad-tempered as you Western Bodhisattvas. I like to dress up as mothers and daughters to play and test cadres."

Wen Rui curled his lips and said: "I told you earlier that this is virtual reincarnation. The important thing is the subconscious hypnotic guidance, which leads to the deepest secret buried in your heart. Maybe you have deliberately forgotten this secret, but you are still here entangled with the truth and falsehood, entangled with me. identity.”

"Why, the dream of reincarnation is false. I am of low status, so I am not qualified to teach you. How arrogant is this! You just said that you realize that all living beings are equal. If you regard me as a Bodhisattva, I will naturally be able to teach you. If you think of me as a monster, I will become a monster and not a human being."

"So, you have finally understood the truth, please continue to understand!"

"Yes, yes..."

A series of warnings made Fashan speechless and he could only nod his head in agreement, as if he had returned to his youth when he was a young novice and made mistakes and was reprimanded by the host.

"Actually, I quite like your unruly look just now."

Wen Rui saw that he was becoming more and more well-behaved, and continued: "Tell me, tell me, let's tell you what your most deeply hidden sin is."

Fashan looked troubled and hesitated to speak. He was too embarrassed to speak out his secrets. But looking back on Wen Rui's praise, we cannot deny that what he said is in line with Buddhist principles.

If he hides it and never reveals it, he will never be able to break his ego, so what kind of Buddha can he achieve? If you continue to practice self-grasping, the three poisons of "greed, anger, and ignorance" will continue to infect you. If you don't become a Buddha, you will eventually become a demon.

"Alas..." Fashan sighed and said, "That was before I became a monk. The snow-capped mountains were barren and impoverished, and children of several years old had to go out in search of food. I also worked as a hunter, but because I was young and weak, I We can only set traps to catch some pikas, rabbits and pheasants.”

"Once, I went to check the harvest of the lasso and found that a snow fox was caught in the lasso. The snow fox's fur was white and smooth. If I peeled it off and gave it to the leader, it would at least be exchanged for a big bag of highland barley, and the whole family could live safely. All winter long.”

"But the snow fox was frightened and shed tears when I wanted to kill it. Its spiritual eyes were full of despair. I really couldn't bear to kill it, so I untied the noose and let it go."

"After that, I would always meet it when I went into the mountains. It would send me the mountain rats it caught as if grateful. We gradually became familiar and close, and often hunted and played together..."

Speaking of this, Fashan couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly, which shows how precious this innocent and beautiful childhood memory is.

"Later, I was spotted by a passing guru and was taken to the Golden Wheel Temple in the Snowy Mountains to study scriptures. I thought that my relationship with the snowy fox was over, until five years later I practiced in the cold pool of Tianchi in the Snowy Mountains. Something went wrong in Huoding, the cold air invaded his lungs, and his life hung on a thread..."

At this point, Fashan paused, showing a rare look of shame.

Wen Rui was not in a hurry, he stopped writing and waited patiently. He Lingyun, who was eating delicious melon at the side, was a little stunned. He wanted to speak to urge but felt that it was too immodest and prudent, so he suppressed his pretty face and blushed slightly.

"When I was about to freeze to death, the Snow Fox appeared. She had become a spirit and transformed into a girl. She held the frozen me in her arms and used her body temperature to dispel the coldness on my body. The Kundalini Fire Ding went crazy and became possessed. Then, the coldness that suppressed the fire in my heart dissipated, and I couldn’t help but feel the heat all over my body..."

Snowy mountains, cold ponds, the vast and desolate world, a monk who keeps the precepts, an ignorant demon fox, a pair of childhood sweethearts who can't help themselves, their fate collides and sparks the excitement of life.

He Lingyun imagined that very image scene, and he felt infinite yearning for it. He just felt that it was too romantic.

"When I woke up, I couldn't face her, who was as beautiful as a snow lotus. I had been studying sutras for five years and had gradually achieved my Buddha nature."

Fashan continued to narrate in a low tone: "I have become a monk and am devoted to the Buddha. How can I indulge in women's sex and I can't give her any promises. I said some excessive words and told her that there are different paths for men and monsters. What's more, I am a cultivator. We can’t make the same mistake again and again and drive her away cruelly.”

"Hmph, man!" He Lingyun, who was eating melon on the side, stamped his feet angrily and said angrily: "If you are either a big liar or a heartless person, there is no good guy!"

Wen Rui turned around and glared at her, signaling for her to be quiet. He Lingyun glared back angrily, looking unconvinced, but he also kept silent.

"I made up my mind to cut off the evil bond, but she turned into a human and sneaked into the villages and towns outside Jinlun Temple. Whenever the temple held a prayer ceremony, she would sneak into the crowd under the guise of giving alms and enter the temple to look for me and beg me to give up studying scriptures. I have been entangled with her for a long time since I ran away with her. No matter what cruel and heartless words I say, I will not give up..."

"Oh, I see!"

He Lingyun squinted his eyes and said thoughtfully: "You once said that you killed her with your own hands. I guess you were afraid that your affair with the fox girl would be exposed and you would not be able to become a monk, so you deceived her into leaving her in a deserted place on the pretext of elopement. She killed someone and silenced her!"

Facing He Lingyun's question, Fashan just smiled helplessly and shook his head.

He Lingyun said reluctantly: "Huh, you still don't admit it! I was almost killed by a traitor and silenced. I know this very well."

"Junior sister, take care of your bad mouth." Wen Rui said in a bored tone: "Here, if your mouth has nothing to do, try this."

As he spoke, he took out a bag of cakes from his pocket and handed it to He Lingyun. The crane girl subconsciously took the bag and was about to scold Wen Rui for treating her like a child, but her attention was attracted by a sweet smell wafting from the bag.

Practitioners can live without grains and taste delicious food. For example, the Queen Mother always holds a peach gathering to invite all the gods to eat and drink. This is because the gods also like to enjoy delicious food to satisfy their greed, and are quite enthusiastic about this Tao.

Now is the Western Zhou Dynasty. The food of the people is very humble, and the same is true for the practitioners. Even though the quality of the ingredients is better and richer, the cooking techniques are very poor.

He Lingyun, who usually only sneaks to the mountain stream to change back to his original form and catches two small fish to eat alive, has never smelled such a fragrance in his life. He quickly took out a piece from the bag and tasted it in small sips. He felt that it was sweet and soft in the mouth. Then she took a big bite and got to the sandwich layer of the pastry. The creamy, smooth and fringed paste hit her taste buds, and the sweet taste made her eyes sparkle.

Fashan did not get angry because of He Lingyun's rebuke, and calmly and patiently explained: "Although the young monk said that he had only a short time to practice Buddhism, his good roots were already born and his nature was flawless. Even if he was entangled by a strange female demon, he would not do anything evil. Remember, she was my childhood playmate and she saved my life. Didn’t I know that she fell in love with me and was deeply in love with me, but I was conflicted in my heart, unwilling to let her down, but unwilling to give up on the righteousness. The dilemma was indescribable. "

Having said this, Fashan lowered his head in shock and said: "My fellow Taoist laughed at this. We are both practitioners. I am really ashamed that this young monk has not cultivated his mind enough."

Wen Rui comforted him casually: "All sentient beings have the desire for food and sex. There is nothing to be ashamed of. Must practitioners be inhuman? This kind of distress is very common among practitioners, as the poem says: 'I once worried that my love would damage my Buddhist practice, and I was afraid that I would leave the city when I entered the mountains. How can I have both in this world, not disappointing the Tathagata and not disappointing you?'"

Hearing this, Fashan was stunned for a long time, and then he stammered: "What a good 'not disappointing the Tathagata and not disappointing you', Taoist friend, you are so talented, and the poem you chanted casually expressed the complicated mood of the monk back then."

He Lingyun, who was eating cakes, heard the poem and looked at Wen Rui with little stars in her beautiful eyes. This kind of elegant poetry and literature hit the G-spot of a fairy like her who was transformed from a fairy crane.

If Wen Rui hadn't deceived her before, with both deception and threats, the delicious food in her mouth and the poems in her ears, if accompanied by a piece of piano music, it would be a perfect tea party. She would have been unable to help but expose her true nature and dance to the music.

"The big liar Guan is just good at sweet talk. Don't be fooled. Don't let your imagination run wild!" The girl suppressed her emotions and secretly warned herself in her heart.

After being comforted by Wen Rui's sweet words, Fashan completely let go of his guard and continued to narrate in a hoarse voice: "She has been seeing me more often secretly, which is indeed inappropriate. The monks in the temple seem to have noticed something strange, which made me even more distressed. Until that day, a big change happened, which brought a big disaster..."

When He Lingyun heard this, he suddenly became nervous. He couldn't help but wonder if Fashan's teacher caught the monk and the demon meeting on the spot, and Fashan was forced by the Buddhist precepts to kill the fox girl and prove his way.

But this time her mouth was so full of pastries that she had no time to speak. She could only keep her doubts in her heart and wait for Fashan to reveal the answer.