[Liao Zhai] Lanruo Temple

Chapter 140 Six

Desolation and desolation hover over this vast land, the wind and sand gradually recede, and mountains and rivers begin to appear.All the water in the Underworld originates from the Styx River, the only water vein in Yintu when the Styx River has many tributaries, such as Wangchuan, Huangquan, and Heihe.Some of these waters have names, some have no names, but when they see water, there is no doubt that they have come to the "center" of the Yin soil.

Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent.The flow of water is "easy", "changing" and "living". This is not only applicable to the yang world, but also obviously applicable to the underworld. The underworld was built by the Styx River.And the Yin Mountain that Huai Xu was going to was also at the end of the Styx River, on the side of the Nether Sea.

Huai Xu's shoes were worn out, more precisely, they were "eroded".Things from the mortal world don't last long, not only his shoes, but also his clothes have been eroded a lot, with holes appearing in the sleeve corners and skirts. It seems that the clothes have gone through thousands of years and are about to rot into ashes.If the clothes on his body were not soaked by the Buddha's light overflowing from Huai Xu, they would have turned to ashes at this moment.

Huai Xu was blocked by Styx.This tributary of the Styx River is not too narrow, if it were to fly over, the aura of the yang world might be as conspicuous as the sun, attracting a bunch of lonely souls and wild ghosts.He was looking for a way to cross the river.

Huai Xu slowed down and walked along the Styx River, and after an unknown amount of time, the ghost king appeared behind him.This ghost king was tall and tall with a blue face and fangs, but now he was skinny, bent like a hungry ghost.

Huai Xu stopped, and the Ghost King ran, fell at his feet, got up staggeringly, and said, "Grand Master, I've caught up with you!"

Huai Xu felt that all the dark and ghostly aura in his body had dissipated, only the essence of the femininity remained.The current strength of this ghost king is probably not as good as that of a hundred-year-old ghost, it can be said to be extremely weak.Huai Xu looked at him, and found that many of the messy thoughts in his mind had dissipated with the cloudy ghostly aura. At this moment, he seemed to be in a daze, and his thoughts were blank.

Huai Xu knew this well, he used this way to train his mind, and the ghost king followed his footsteps, and was also dragged into the road of mind training.Inquiring into the original heart and directly attacking the source, the ghost king has no chance to generate evil thoughts at all, and can only follow in his footsteps wholeheartedly.

"You caught up with me, are you willing to practice Buddhism with me?"

The ghost king hesitated for a moment, and thousands of thoughts came to his mind again.Huai Xu knew that this old devil's evil thoughts would not be able to subdue for a while, so he didn't force it, and just continued to move forward.The ghost king didn't bother to answer, and hurriedly ran to follow.

Huai Xu walked very slowly, but to the King of Ghosts, it was clearly very far away, so he had to do his best to follow Huai Xu.Before he took a few steps, he heard the ghost king say: "I am willing! I am willing to practice Buddhism with King Lan Ruo!"

Huai Xu turned his head in surprise, the ghost was panting heavily with a ferocious face, but his eyes became less clear, "I am willing!"

Huai Xu laughed and said: "Okay, if you are willing to practice with me, I will pass on a volume of scriptures to you first."

The ghost king said: "What sutra? Is it as powerful as the Yinxu treasures I practiced?" He thought slightly, and he couldn't help but start to give birth to evil thoughts.

Huai Xu saw it in his eyes and said: "Of course my sutra is more powerful. My sutra is my foundation. It is called Guangming Sutra. Once you learn it, you can learn all my skills."

"Having learned all your skills, how can I be afraid of you again? I won't be coerced by you!" The ghost king turned his thoughts, and hurriedly shouted: "Pass me, pass me quickly."

Huai Xu said as he walked, "No hurry, I'll get you a dharma name first."

The ghost king was running in big strides, and shouted from a distance, "Wait for me, give me a nice dharma name!"

Huai Xu naturally would not stop at a single step, the ghost king chased after him, his evil thoughts disappeared, and he was gradually able to keep up.Just listen to Huai Xu said: "The body is a bodhi tree, and the heart is like a mirror stand. Always wipe it diligently, so as not to stir up dust. You can call it a mirror."

The ghost king gave a win, and said: "Okay, then I will be the mirror."

Huai Xu then chanted scriptures to him as he walked, telling him to follow along line by line.The Guangming Sutra is easy to understand and easy to get started.Plant a seed of light in the bottom of my heart, or a ray of light. This seed needs to be instilled with strength by chanting scriptures and precepts from time to time to gradually become stable. would be easily extinguished.

Ordinary people's minds are often easier. Many times they don't understand what their original mind is, and some people spend their entire lives unable to figure out who they are.Although some people clamor that their thoughts come from their own hearts, in fact, how many of these people's thoughts are driven by fame and fortune, and how many are bound by desires, I'm afraid they themselves can't tell.

Buddhist practice says that everyone has Buddha nature.This is the seed of goodness, but it is a pity that the seed of goodness is easily deceived by acquired things.The Guangming Sutra can help people to reflect on themselves, and it can also help people establish principles, which is the so-called precepts.The purpose of keeping the precepts is not the precepts themselves, but through the precepts to make people introspect and achieve the purpose of self-cultivation.To observe the precept against killing means to respect and reverence for life, and to observe the precept against drinking means to maintain inner sobriety.

For Fu Jing, if the precepts were to be written into articles, it would take several hours to read them all. Only by asking him to chant scriptures from time to time to keep the light seed alive can he gradually eliminate the evil thoughts.

Huai Xu understands that only now, when Fu Jing is brought into the state of mind training by him, and he has the Dharma seal as a basis, can he obediently change the Guangming Sutra. solved.

Huai Xu walked along the river bank and finally found a ferry.The ghosts waiting at the ferry formed a long queue, and two ghost messengers were maintaining order.

Huai Xu withdrew his mana, and slightly operated the system of the locust tree to attract Yin, attracting a wisp of Yin energy to wrap around his body, so as not to be discovered as a visitor from the world.At the end of the line, Huai Xu stopped talking with the ghosts, and gradually heard some useful information.This Styx River is called Kunshui, and the upper reaches of the water source is Kuncheng, which is one of the ghost cities under the jurisdiction of the underworld.It's just that ghost kings often attack ghost cities and plunder the population recently, and many ghosts are frightened to flee to the depths of the underworld.

Although living in the underworld is restrictive, once captured by the ghost king, life and death will no longer have anything to rely on.The ghosts also cherish their lives and want to flee.Fortunately, the city lord of Kuncheng did not stop them, and even sent troops to guard the various ferries to protect the safety of the ghosts crossing the river.

Huai Xu appeared at the tail of the team with a brush mirror, and it was not eye-catching. There were too many ghosts and strange shapes, so it was not surprising.

Huai Xu listened, knowing that although the ghost king attacked Kuncheng several times, he probably didn't really get any benefits. The lord of Kuncheng obviously handled it with ease, otherwise he wouldn't be so calm.

Fu Jing stood beside him for a while, then suddenly said, "We shouldn't be here."

Huai Xu turned his head to look at him, saw the twinkle in his eyes, and knew that it was the old devil who had awakened his evil thoughts. After waiting for this time at the ferry, the old devil's cunning calculations got rid of the influence of the heart-refining road again and took over the dominant position.Huai Xu asked, "Why did you say that?"

Fu Jing sneered and said, "The Lord of Kuncheng is clearly not afraid of attacking the ghost king, but he arranged for the Yin people to retreat. Don't you think there is a problem? If I were the Lord of Kuncheng, I would definitely use these Yin people as bait to lure the ghost king to come. Arrest them, set up an ambush, and wipe out the ghost king."

Huai Xu couldn't help but look at him with admiration. To have such insight, it's not just something that can be achieved by being insidious and cunning.

Huai Xu shook his head and said, "I'm afraid it's too late for you to say it now." Before he finished speaking, he saw a big ship approaching the ferry in the distance, and the flag of Kuncheng was flying on the ship.

Fu Jing couldn't help sneering: "Since you have seen it, why didn't you leave earlier, you are a big living person, and I lost all my mana because of you, if the two sides fight, what shall we do?"

The crowd has gradually moved forward, Huai Xu said: "There must be a way for the car to reach the mountain. When encountering mountains, climbing mountains and diving when encountering water, we always have to cross the river. If we don't upload it now, we will also board a boat in the future. How do you know? When will the Ghost King call over?"

Huai Xu followed the crowd forward, and said softly: "The ghost king will not be unaware of the problems you can think of. One wants to set up an ambush, and the other is afraid of being ambushed. The two sides will use Kunshui as a chessboard and lay their own pieces. The further you go, the more pieces of cloth you have on both sides, the clearer your understanding of the power of the entire chessboard will be, so the further you go, the more likely you are to attack."

Not long after, the two squeezed to the front of the boat together, and two ghost messengers were asking for the boat fare, one for two money.Huai Xu immediately turned his gaze to Fu Jing, who said, "What are you looking at me for, I have no money."

Huai Xu sighed, put his hands into his sleeves, and said: "It seems that there is only one way."

Fu Jing suddenly felt something was wrong and asked, "What is the solution?"

Huai Xu took it for granted, "Of course I went up and snatched the boat, so I can cross the river naturally."

"No!" Fu Jing hurriedly stopped: "You don't want to die! You are a living person, and all the dead spirits in this Yin soil are naturally different from you. If you reveal your identity, even if you are an earth immortal, you will never come back alive. world."

Huai Xu said: "You have no money, and I have no money. If we are trapped here, we will die in the shade. If we die sooner or later, we will die. Why don't we fight first? What if we escape?"

How dare Fu Jing let him do it, his life is now tied in Huai Xu's hands, if Huai Xu can't survive, he can't survive with his current magic power.

"I have money, I have money!" Fu Jing begged for mercy, stretched out his hand and grabbed a red spar from his bosom, and said, "This blood crystal is enough for our boat." The blood crystal is the ghost body after death If it was condensed, it would naturally not be worth four big coins, but Naihe Fujing really didn't have any money on him, so he could only use this thing as a ship's fare.

Huai Xu smiled and released his hands from the caged sleeves, paid the fare, and boarded the big ship.Knowing that he was on the boat, Fu Jing felt something was wrong, and said: "If I really don't have the money to pay for the boat, are you really going to grab the boat?"

Huai Xu said: "Of course not, it's just four money, and it's not hard to earn."

Fu Jing was angry, and said with red eyes: "You are not a monk, how can you lie to others?"

Huai Xu gave him a strange look, and said, "What I practice is the Golden Immortal Way. Although it is just two names with Buddhism, the only precept I follow is not to kill."

Fu Jing gritted his teeth, and said with extreme hatred: "You practice the Golden Immortal Dao yourself, but what you taught me is the Buddha Dao?"

Huai Xu nodded, and said: "Of course, and you need to observe sixteen major precepts, 54 middle precepts, and three hundred and seven minor precepts. If you lack one, you will not be able to complete it."

Fu Jing stared at him firmly, and said, "Why do I have so many precepts to obey?"

Huai Xu said: "That's not too much. How many years have you been a devil, how many bad things you have done, the samadhi of greed, hatred and ignorance, and if you don't observe the precepts, you will never be able to escape the quagmire."

How could Fu Jing hear this, he hated Huai Xu so much at the moment, if he couldn't beat him, he might have to crawl on him and bite off a few pieces of flesh before giving up.

Huai Xu didn't take it seriously, and said: "To observe the precepts is to practice, and your practice can be called the law of precepts."

The big boat sailed through Kunshui, and the journey was calm, without any accidents, which surprised Fu Jing a little.Huai Xu smiled and said: "Don't worry, among the ghosts on this boat, only two are ghost kings and Taoists. The ghost king is still watching and won't act suddenly."

Fu Jing said: "How do you know?"

Huai Xu pointed to his head, and said, "Of course it depends on the brain. Look at that beheaded ghost in the northwest corner of you, who seems to be communicating with people, but actually look at his eyes."

Looking through the mirror, I saw that the decapitated ghost seemed to be communicating with other ghosts. In fact, he took off his head and held it in his hands. With his hands swinging, his eyes had already quietly seen the whole scene.

Fu Jing was convinced, who would pay attention to whether the decapitated ghost could secretly spy on everyone with his head held in his hands.Huai Xu said: "In fact, in my eyes, these little ghosts and monsters are as dazzling as candles. Their kindness and malice can't be restrained at all, and they will be discovered easily."

He said it modestly, but Fu Jing knew that it was far from being as easy as he said, at least Fu Jing himself did not have such ability.It is true that the weaker the creature is, the more difficult it is to restrain its own thoughts and thoughts. If the mirror is used to possess a mortal, then the mortal's thoughts cannot be hidden from him.But to distinguish various thoughts in such a mixed place, I'm afraid it's not much easier than finding a needle in a haystack.

The big ship docked smoothly, and Huai Xu walked in a straight line towards Yinshan Mountain.Fu Jing understood how terrible and powerful Huai Xu was, and became more yearning for the "extremely powerful" Guangming Sutra he said, and became more determined to follow Huai Xu.

"King Lan Ruo, you should be more careful in Yintu." Fu Jing reminded.

Huai Xu looked at him and smiled, and said, "You deliberately reminded me, it shouldn't be because I'm a living person, right?"

Fu Jing said: "You once asked me why I was driven by the Earth Venerable. I couldn't tell you at that time, but now that you have expelled his seal, I can tell you."

"I'm an evil ghost in the Nine Nether Prison, and I was even more powerful in the devil's way when I was alive. The earth venerable can drive me, naturally because he is a stronger evil ghost than me!"

"Only a ghost among ghosts can drive another powerful evil ghost, and only a devil among demons can drive another powerful devil."

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