God Gu

The person who came was Pei Jing, the disciple of Wanhua Valley mentioned by Ye Linjia.

Yang Yao's gaze swept Pei Jing's face unscrupulously like her usual style, no wonder Ye Feijing recognized him as a woman when she first saw him, that face was delicate and delicate, and her hair was draped as black as pitch black With long hair, although tall but slightly thin, he really can be regarded as Fengshen handsome.But under this appearance, he exudes an aura that is extremely disproportionate to his appearance from the inside to the outside, as arrogant as frost and snow as cold as the wind, that kind of "awe-inspiring" aura that hits people's faces directly.

Pei Jing's icy eyes flicked across Yang Yao, paused for a moment and said, "Five Poison Sect?" Then he turned away and paused on Ye Feijing's face.Ye Feijing suddenly felt a gust of cold wind around him, took a few steps towards Ye Linjia, and muttered in a low voice, "It's so scary." Ye Linjia helplessly pulled Ye Feijing behind him, and said to Pei Jing, "Hey Hey, my sister is still young, can you stop scaring her, didn't you just say that you look like a woman, and it's not that no one has said that your face looks like that, so you can't be told by others? After all, it's really you who came this time It's Nanzhao, why is your valley master finally letting go of people this time? It's not easy for him as an old man. Once his disciples are released, they are not only misunderstood as women, but also accused of being doctors with bad attitudes towards patients. The generation of Wanhua Valley It's really talent withering, and it's in danger!"

Ye Linjia's words had not yet finished, when three silver needles came through the air, Ye Feijing let out an "ah" and quickly huddled into a ball, Xuanhai and Yang Yao stared intently at the three silver needles. Leaning on the ground, it poked Ye Linjia's hair into the sky, shining brightly under the moonlight.

Ye Linjia was so angry that she reached out to pull it out, but she heard Pei Jing coolly say from the side: "The needle is poisonous, be careful and die." After saying that, he turned around and said as he walked, "Xuanhai, you are always with a layman idiot. At the same time, be careful to be tainted with vulgarity, even the Buddha can't recognize it."

Xuan Hai couldn't help laughing and said: "The Buddha said that one's nature can follow one's inclinations. After many years, Pei Jing is still Pei Jing, and a poor monk is also a poor monk." After that, he walked over with Pei Jing.

Pei Jing snorted softly, walked two steps but stopped suddenly, turned around and looked at Yang Yao's face, and asked with some doubts: "Is it a member of the 'Yu Chan' sect of the Five Poisons?"

Yang Yao had already followed Xuanhai, but now she stopped when she saw Pei Jing's expression. Although the smile on her face remained undiminished, Xuanhai felt that there was some precaution in that smile for no reason, so she said softly to the side. Said: "It's Lin Jia and I's friends. We fought together half a year ago."

Pei Jing glanced at him, then nodded imperceptibly, and said, "I'm under Pei Jing, under the sect of 'Tiangong' in Wanhua Valley." Without waiting for Yang Yao's answer, he walked towards the village first.Xuan Hai was aware of Pei Jing's temperament, and looked at Yang Yao with a little worry, only to see the latter pouted dissatisfiedly at Pei Jing's back, and then suddenly found a white jade flute hanging on Pei Jing's waist, with Then he touched his own bone flute and let out a "tss", showing great disdain.Although Xuan Hai sighed, his heart fell to the ground. Suddenly, he felt that Yang Yao turned his eyes back to him, so he nodded at her, motioning to follow her.

Behind the three of them, the brothers and sisters of the Ye family in Hidden Sword Villa still stared at each other, thinking about how to remove the poisoned silver needle.

The five people entered Eryue Village one after another. The village was not too big, but it was very quiet at night. Pei Jing led them to the village chief's house. After saying hello and arranging a place to stay, there was no one there. Just as they were going to go back to the house to rest, a figure came running from the village.

"Brother, you are back."

Pei Jing smiled and said, "Yes, you haven't gone to bed so late?"

The woman shook her head and said: "Yesterday, I haven't researched the medicine to eliminate the poison that my brother asked me to prepare. I always feel that there are two important medicines missing, and the dosage is not right. I can't fall asleep thinking about this..." She said Halfway through, I suddenly saw other people following Pei Jing, whose clothes clearly showed their identities, and said embarrassingly: "I'm sorry, I was only thinking about dispensing medicine, you are fellow friends from other sects. Well, my name is Zhong You."

Xuan Hai bowed eleven times together, and said: "Hi, benefactor Zhong, poor monk Xuan Hai, we don't need to be so polite when we get to know Brother Ling."

Zhong You smiled embarrassedly, and also saluted: "Master Xuanhai is good, Zhong You is out of the valley for the first time, and I don't understand many rules, I hope everyone will forgive me."

Ye Feijing's eyes lit up when he heard it from the sidelines: "Eh? It's your first time to leave the house too? Me too! It's all right now," turned to look at Ye Linjia and said, "Brother, look, their It is also the first time for junior sister to go out of the valley, her senior brother is so gentle to her, you..." Before Ye Feijing finished speaking, Zhong You softly said "ah", and said: "Young master, the one on your head What happened to the silver needle? Is it because you are sick and are using acupuncture to remove poison?"

Yang Yao laughed at the side, and said: "Sister, you are right, he just has a bad mouth that cannot be cured, and he used a needle to pull out the poison from the top of his head."

Ye Linjia clenched her sword angrily, turned her head and snorted.But Zhong You was puzzled and said: "You can see that the acupuncture point and depth of the needle are not right, did you insert it, brother?"

Pei Jing glanced at Ye Linjia, and said, "Don't pay attention to him, Xiaoyou. This kind of person should be thrown into our Flower Valley to test the medicine. A few silver needles can't kill him." But Zhongyou walked up Before him, with a puzzled expression on his face, he stretched out his hand and pulled out the three silver needles on Ye Linjia's head in an instant. To Pei Jing, there was undisguised surprise on his face.

"Poisonous? This is just an ordinary needle, or the thinnest one. How could it be poisonous?"

All the people present were silent for a moment, and then burst into shocking laughter. Yang Yao and Ye Feijing supported each other and smiled back to their own room. Pei Jing rolled his eyes, and pulled Zhong You who didn't know why, and walked away. Opening, Xuanhai Heshi sighed deeply, walked to Ye Linjia's side, finally patted him on the shoulder unbearably, and said: "It's late at night, let's go back to the house."

The night fell silent in an instant, and the occasional echoes of cicadas and insects on summer nights did not add restlessness to the night, but contrasted the isolated loneliness of this remote mountain village on the border.There may be a fierce battle not far away, but just a few miles away, everyone is immersed in the tranquility of the night, and the wind that blows does not carry any blood or gold.

Several miles of rivers and lakes, close to the world.

There are always only a few people in this world who hold the wind and cloud in their hands, and those who are bloody and sword-scarred every day in the Jianghu are only those Jianghu people with sharp weapons, so what about the rest?Xuan Hai thought, the rest are all unarmed people who just want to live in peace in this troubled world.They have such a huge number, but they have such meager power, but no one can deny that even in such a chaotic world where blood and fire crush the lives of people, it is not the so-called overlords who are pushing the world's giant wheels, not An Lushan It is not the Tang Dynasty, and naturally it is not the people of the rivers and lakes who shuttled between the court and the wilderness, drifting with the torrents of the world, but the tens of thousands of fragile and extremely strong Limin people.

Xuan Hai walked out the door, it was late at night, but he couldn't fall asleep for a long time, standing in front of the door, but he didn't know where to lift his feet, he just raised his head and stood silently, the moon shining brightly in his eyes.

Suddenly there was a slight creaking sound of the wooden door, Xuan Hai looked over, and it was Yang Yao who pushed the door out.Yang Yao was also slightly taken aback when she saw him, then she put on a smiling face, and said with her mouth: "It's late at night, Master Xuanhai is very interested." Holding a clay pot, and Ah Lu in her sleeve did not hide her figure as usual, but hovered from her wrist, sticking out her tongue on top of the pot boringly.

Xuan Hai was surprised, Yang Yao smiled at him, and said with mouth: "Do you want to follow me?" After saying that, she walked out of the village gracefully, without looking back at Xuan Hai.Xuan Hai stood there, frowning and thinking for a while with a headache, and finally sighed silently, and heeled over.

Following Yang Yao to a slightly higher hillside, Xuan Hai quietly watched Yang Yao put the clay pot in her hand on the ground, and then lifted the lid of the pot. For some reason, a puff of purple smoke rose from it. Xuan Hai felt that the noise of insects and ants all around was louder.Yang Yao knelt in front of the clay pot, Ah Lu swam out from her sleeves, and then wrapped her whole body around the pot, making a circle around the mouth of the pot, spitting out the bright red letter, as if pulling wearing something.

Yang Yao's hands formed a strange seal, and with the movement of her fingers, Ah Lu's letter jumped rhythmically. Yang Yao flipped her hands, and Ah Lu's body also rose up, forming a circle in midair. Suddenly, a brown-green toad crawled out of the bowl-sized pot. Xuanhai saw that the toad's eyes were blood-red, shining brightly, which was extremely strange in the middle of the night.He didn't move, but slowly slowed down his breathing, quietly watched the toad crawl out of the jar like a machine, crawled around the jar for a week, and then froze in place.

Yangyao's hands kept moving, forming another more complicated seal. Her dexterous and slender fingers seemed to have no bones, changing shapes quickly. Ah Lu was shaking her body, and the purple mist on the toad Geng Sheng wrapped it up in an instant.Suddenly Yang Yao yelled softly, whispered a string of Miao language, the toad also started to move following her voice, and moved very swiftly into the grass. The mouth kept inhaling, and the purple mist around it was gradually darkening, and when it finally turned into a mass of jet black, Yang Yao raised her right index finger sharply, and Ah Lu, who was hovering on the clay pot, rushed towards the toad, In an instant, the cloud of black mist disappeared as if swallowed by Ah Lu, replaced by thick purple mist.

Xuan Hai was secretly startled, the witchcraft of the Taoist Five Poison Sect is indeed mysterious, manipulating insects and snakes to such an extent, it is absolutely comparable to the martial arts of the major sects in the Central Plains.

Seeing that the black air had been removed, Yang Yao drove Ah Lu back to the jar, still repeating the same movement, after several times, the black and purple mist alternated four times, Yang Yao finally slowed down her movements, but did not let her move. The toad returned to the pot, but raised his arm and pointed, and the toad jumped long in that direction.Yang Yao finally breathed a sigh of relief, raised her hand to beckon Ah Lu, Ah Lu twisted her body, and swam back to her sleeves exhaustedly, Yang Yao covered the clay pot, stood up and turned to Xuanhai and said: "But Scared you?"

Xuan Hai shook his head, and said: "The secret arts of martial arts in the world are all-encompassing. Although I was surprised at first sight, I was not panicked." Although Yang Yao's face was tired, she smiled cheerfully, and she said: "Don't you ask?" What am I doing?" Xuan Hai just smiled and folded his hands together, and said: "Since you are willing to cast spells in front of the poor monk, you should be open-minded, why should the poor monk ask?"

Yang Yao was startled, seeing Xuan Hai's light smile, she felt at ease.She originally asked Xuan Hai to watch her perform the five poisonous witchcraft with a three-point gambling mentality, but every little bit of his disgust and fear that he showed was enough to make her feel sad.Who would have thought that he was so calm and breezy, and all her uneasiness was dispelled by a word of magnanimity in her heart, Yang Yao lowered her head and smiled and said: "As soon as I entered Nanzhao, I felt that the miasma here was not right, Nanzhao I have also been here before, and I didn’t feel that the miasma was so heavy, and it was even worse when I arrived in Eryue Village. I heard that the girl from Wanhua Valley said that she was preparing medicine to get rid of the miasma, so I knew that Wanhua Valley also noticed that this place was unusual. Today I let Ah Lu and Toad King come out and let them purify the miasma around here first... Didn’t you say that there is only one village around here, then I can at least keep the people in this village safe and sound. I will let Toad King out Let it find out what is causing trouble, maybe it can help you a little bit."

After hearing this, Xuan Hai clasped his palms together and bowed deeply, and said: "The benefactor has a great compassion. If you sow the cause and reap the fruit, there will be rewards." Poison may not necessarily lead to an afterlife, but in terms of Buddhism, it is a great mercy."

Yang Yao didn't raise her head, but could only picture him smiling with lowered eyebrows in his mind. He said that if he sowed the cause, he would reap the fruit, but does he know why he planted the cause and what fruit he wanted to reap?She had read that Buddhist scripture before, and the last line was "All things are created by the mind", if it is true, Yang Yao secretly smiled bitterly, she might not have a great compassion, what would achieve bliss, but would go to Avici Hell because of greed, hatred and ignorance.

She raised her head abruptly, and said to the compassionately smiling monk, "Xuanhai, let me ask you, do you truly aspire to be a Buddha, and vow to sacrifice yourself to save others in this life, even though you will never be able to understand the joy of that life?"

Xuan Hai gradually suppressed his smile, his eyes were filled with emptiness and indifference, and he said: "Yes, with a heart of compassion, I will cross the world, regardless of my own gains and losses."

Yang Yao stared at him fixedly, and said: "Well, you cross the world, and I am also the world, and now I am suffering and suffering, trying to seek the way from the Buddha, how do you cross me?"

Xuan Hai was so shocked that he didn't know how to look directly into Yang Yao's eyes. He stroked the Buddhist beads in his hand and said: "A person who loves and desires is like holding a torch. If you walk against the wind, you will definitely burn your hands. You can only let it go."

Only let go.

"How can I let go? The heart has been formed, and there is no way to change it. For example, you can't let go of the Buddha in your heart, and I can't let go of the obsession in my heart. So, how?"

"In love and desire, people come and go alone, live and die alone, suffer and enjoy themselves, and there is no substitute. Obsession can confuse people. If you indulge in it wholeheartedly, you may be in danger of life. Even so, it is not enough Let it go?"

"I told you that our Five Immortals religion talks about the joy of life. If you live without seeing joy, what is the difference from death? The Buddha said impermanence, parting, and extinction, but the Buddha still lives in this world. , you are not a Buddha, you have to live in this world, if you live, but do not understand the joys of life of ordinary people, how can you understand the great compassion of the Buddha? "

Yang Yao pressed on step by step, Xuanhai saw that her eyes were slightly red, he didn't know whether it was due to excitement or heartbreak, the Buddhist beads that passed by felt burning.

"The joy of life does not necessarily have to be for love. It is precisely because of the lack of love in Buddhism that we can maintain a normal mind and row a boat for those who are tortured by love. If a poor monk is also trapped by love, how can we make the world Seeing one's mind clearly and gaining a cool mind?"

"..."

"My heart is turbid, so I don't see the way. You ascetics, you should give up love and desire. When love and desire are defiled, you can see the way!"

After Xuanhai pronounced a Buddhist gatha, he closed his eyes and stood there.Dawn is approaching, and the surroundings are the darkest at this time, Yang Yao can't even see the expression on his face, but even if she sees it, it probably has disappointed her countless times without sadness or joy.

"The poor monk is already a disciple of Shaolin. He has long given up love, resentment, hatred and ignorance. The benefactor should find another elegant and suave person. Why bother to stick to a monk?"

I have long since abandoned love, resentment, anger, and ignorance. Is there no self, no one, no sentient beings, and a world where suffering and joy are at ease?

Yang Yao gritted her teeth, and said in a sad voice, "Are you really free from lust?"

She suddenly shed two lines of tears, falling from her eyes like a gurgling river without warning.

"Xuan Hai, don't you love me?"

Things in the world are like dreams and empty flowers, but even in the mixed dreams where the reality is invisible, there are still people who are obsessed with the love in their hearts, like thorns piercing their bones and hurting their bodies, and they are unwilling to let go of the mortal idiots.However, the world is full of wind and rain, if there is no obsession in my heart, how can I keep myself walking alone in the wilderness?

Xuan Hai put down the beads in his hand and stood with his hands down.The sky lit up immediately, the darkness before dawn was instantly dispelled, the morning light jumped out of the vast night, a warm sun shone on Yang Yao's raised face, like a holy and bright Buddha, illuminating the emptiness in his heart.

Sit and watch without falsehood, without form and without self.

What is the joy of life?

Xuan Hai lowered his eyes and smiled, his voice was as clear and distant as an ancient god.Yang Yao smiled and stretched out her hand to grab the sleeve of the monk in front of her, feeling empty and helpless at that moment.

"Love. But not love."

I haven't been able to see clearly the heart of every heart and Buddha. This body is still inexhaustible, so how can I save you?

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