readsfreenovel Chapter 148 Shura Hall
Chapter 148 Shura Hall
Last time, we talked about Li Yi carrying Yi Ling back to Qingniu Temple, and Jin'an Temple trying its best to cover up the traces of the disturbance. So what will happen next? Let's read on.
When they were almost at Qingniu Temple, Yiling asked Li Yi to let her go and walk on her own. Li Yi would not go against a woman's wishes, and he also knew that Yiling was afraid of being seen and gossiped by people in the temple. Li Yi gave Yu Jiu a look, and the latter very sensibly helped Yiling walk up the mountain.
After returning to the temple, he told the temple master Li Qingfeng about the experience at Jin'an Temple. Master Li shook his head and sighed, "Donor Li, you've gotten into trouble this time. I originally thought that as a Buddhist, you would have a good discussion with them when you went to Jin'an Temple, but I never thought it would turn out like this. If I had known, I wouldn't have let you go!"
Li Yi waved his hand and smiled, "Master, rest assured. Take a few days' rest. When Yi Ling's injury is healed, we will go to Jin'an Temple and get things done!"
The abbot waved his hands repeatedly and said, "No, no, absolutely not! In my opinion, after Junior Sister Yi's injury is healed, you should flee quickly and leave Qingniu Temple alone!"
Yi Ling asked puzzledly: "What is Senior Brother Qingfeng worried about?"
Li Qingfeng shook his head and said, "Originally, it was just the Hu family who wanted to occupy my Qingniu Temple, but now they have become enemies with Jin'an Temple. You know, the Hu family is just a big family in Yangcheng and they are not scary, but Jin'an Temple has many contacts with the kings, princes and generals in the court. I am afraid that if the court is alarmed, this Qingniu Temple will really be lost!"
Li Yi asked, "Is the abbot afraid that the imperial court will help Jin'an Temple?"
Yi Ling sighed and said, "Buddhism is the state religion of Liang. Whenever there is a dispute between the two religions and the court needs to intervene, the court always supports Buddhism. This situation is not uncommon. Not to mention Brother Qingfeng's Qingniu Temple, even my Dizong temple has been robbed of many places."
Li Yi touched his chin and said, "It seems that this is indeed a bit troublesome. How about this, when your injury is healed, accompany me to Jin'an Temple to talk it over."
Yi Ling chuckled and said, "After you've made such a fuss, can those monks still talk to you peacefully?"
Li Yi replied: "We can't talk to the old monk Jing'an, but we can go talk to the abbot!"
Li Qingfeng asked in confusion: "Didn't they say that Master Jingchan was in seclusion? How can we find him then?"
Li Yi said confidently: "Don't worry, as long as he is still in Jin'an Temple, I can find him." After the discussion, everyone went back to their homes, each looked for their mothers, no, each returned to their own rooms.
Yi Ling sat in meditation and regulated her breathing in a quiet room, practicing the small and large circulations, repeating the cycle to heal her wounds and restore her vitality. This is the core Taoist practice of inner alchemy, the cultivation of both sex and life.
What they mobilize is Qi, which is different from the Qi base of warriors. The Qi base of warriors comes from the heart and lungs. They attach the energy of the heart and lungs to the air inhaled into the body, and then transmit it to various parts of the body through blood vessels, meridians, and qi channels. The Qi used in inner alchemy is produced by transforming the spiritual energy of heaven and earth through one's own spiritual power.
Speaking of cultivation and magic, Taoism is definitely better than martial artists, but in actual combat, mages are easily targeted, so the Earth Sect must cultivate both life and death, especially when facing powerful monsters, one cannot withstand it without a good physique.
After talking about Yi Ling, let's take a look at what Li the Great Talent is doing. Li Yi is also meditating in the quiet room, but he is meditating and comprehending the six-syllable mantra that Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva has passed on to him. On the spiritual platform, Li Yi sits on top of the Acala Dharma Image, his body gleaming with golden light that echoes with the Buddha's light of the Acala Dharma Image. He slowly opens his eyes and looks at the eighteen-seed rosary in his hand, on which the Sanskrit six-syllable mantra also gleams with the same golden light.
Li Yi picked up the eighteen seeds and laughed, then threw them into the air. The rosary immediately disappeared, and a string of eighteen seeds appeared on the right hand of the Acala. Li Yi stood up and jumped down from the top of the head of the Acala, floating in the air and looking at the twenty-foot-high Acala. He put his hands together and chanted the six-syllable mantra: "Om Mani Padme Hum!"
The image of Acala suddenly shrank and became only two meters in size. Li Yi shook his head and smiled, "I still have a lot of distracting thoughts, but it's not bad to be able to cultivate it to this level."
The Acalanatha suddenly said, "You are not greedy!"
Li Yi immediately knelt down and saluted, saying, "Disciple pays respect to the Immovable Bodhisattva!"
The Dharma-speaker asked, "How do you plan to deal with the matter of Jin'an Temple?"
Li Yi said in embarrassment: "Disciple wants to discuss with Senior Brother Jingchan, after all, he knows the situation better."
The Dharma-speaker said, "You can't find Jingchan, go find Bodhidharma and discuss it with him! The situation at Jin'an Temple is not unique in Liang State, work with him to find a way to clean up the filth in Buddhism."
Li Yi asked: "May I ask the Bodhisattva where is Master Bodhidharma now?"
The Dharma-speaker replied, "We will reach Jiankang in another month. Go to Jiankang city to look for him."
Li Yi nodded and said, "I understand. May I ask what happened to Brother Bodhisattva Jingchan?"
Faxiang sighed and said, "Jingchan has passed away."
Li Yi was surprised and said, "What? Senior Brother Jingchan passed away? He has inherited the mantle. We must not hand over Jin'an Temple to his junior brother Jing'an!"
The Dharma Image said, "Jingchan has made great contributions to Buddhism by protecting the relic, but he also had faults by being arrogant to his junior fellow apprentice. His merits and faults cannot offset each other. He chose to sit in meditation and die to atone for his sins. The difficulty of the Jin'an Temple incident lies in the fact that Jingchan has no real successor, otherwise it would not be so unbearable."
Li Yi sighed and shook his head, saying, "There are still people who cultivate their minds and there are still quiet places in Jin'an Temple, but if things continue like this, I'm afraid no one will be able to keep their original intentions."
The Dharma Image said, "Jin'an Temple will have a disaster. Didn't the Pagoda-Bearing Arhat remind you of this before?"
Li Yi nodded and said, "Master did remind me, but I was stupid and didn't react."
The Dharma Image said, "This calamity will befall you. If you have an idea, just go for it. But you must escort Jing'an to Lingyin Temple to be executed."
Li Yi said awkwardly, "Bodhisattva, Jing'an is staying in Jin'an Temple and won't come out. I can't beat him there. I wonder if Bodhisattva can give some advice to this disciple. Bodhisattva? Immovable Bodhisattva? Oh! He leaves after giving the task. What a good NPC! Well, I still have to find a way myself."
Li Yi's consciousness returned to reality and he slowly opened his eyes. It was already daybreak. He stretched and said, "This time in meditation passed by so quickly. I was thinking of going to play with Yi Ling in the evening, but now it's daybreak!"
Li Yi opened the door and took a walk in Qingniu Temple. A wandering Taoist priest came to hang up a sign. Seeing Li Yi, he was surprised. He pointed at Li Yi and said, "Are you the Wonderful Sound Master Li Jing?"
Li Yi was surprised and said, "No, I have only been using this name for a few days, how come there is already a legend about me in the martial arts world?"
The Taoist priest shook his head and said, "You killed soldiers by Fuling Lake. You are now a wanted criminal by the imperial court!"
Li Yi shouted, "What? Wanted criminals! Killing soldiers? Isn't this what's going on?"
It turned out that the wandering Taoist priest saw the wanted poster for Li Yi in Yangcheng, saying that he had killed 28 soldiers and two gangsters by the Fuling Lake. Now the government has issued an official wanted poster for the Master Miaoyin Li Jing.
In the quiet room, Li Qingfeng, Shan Yiling, Li Yi and Yu Jiu listened to the Taoist priest's story and fell into deep thought. Li Yi cursed, "What the hell is this? How come I'm a wanted criminal? How could I kill soldiers? I was wronged!"
Li Qingfeng asked: "Could this be a trick played by Jin'an Temple?"
Yi Ling shook his head and said, "If Jin'an Temple was up to no good, why would they say he killed soldiers in Fuling Lake? We clearly killed three evil cultivators from Yesmao Mountain. Could it be that Jin'an Temple is related to Yesmao Mountain?"
Li Qingfeng waved his hand and said, "That's impossible. My Taoist and Buddhist sects never interfere in the affairs of the martial arts world. How could they be related to Ye Maoshan? Could it be the Hu family who did it?"
Li Yi nodded and said, "It is possible. The magistrate of Yangcheng County obviously listens to the Hu family, and the Hu family has close ties with the evil cultivators of Yemao Mountain."
Li Yi looked at Yi Ling and asked, "By the way, you said before that you were going to investigate the Hu family, and you have already found something. What are you going to investigate?"
Yi Ling reached out and took out a wooden sign from his sleeve. Li Yi took the sign and flipped it over. On the front of the sign was the word Ji Fa Tang, and on the back was a strange symbol. Yi Ling said, "This time when I sneaked into the Hu Mansion, I found out an astonishing conspiracy! Someone organized Ye Mao Mountain and established an organization called Shura Palace! And the Hu family is colluding with Shura Palace and has been secretly funding them!"
Li Yi was surprised and said, "Shura Palace? They conquered Yemao Mountain? Isn't this something that even the Yellow Stove Immortal couldn't do? Who can have such a great ability?"
Yi Ling shook her head and said, "I don't know. The Hu family has never seen the mastermind behind the Shura Palace."
Li Qingfeng asked: "Then Junior Sister, have you found out what the Shura Palace is planning?"
Yi Ling shook his head and said, "No, I only learned from the Hu family that the Shura Palace is hunting down demons and ghosts everywhere, practicing evil methods, and expanding its power. They must be doing something big!"
Yu Jiu asked: "How did the Hu family collude with the Shura Palace? Since the Shura Palace is full of evil cultivators, what do they need money for?"
Yiling replied: "The Shura Palace needs to refine magical instruments to catch ghosts and demons, which is very expensive, so they colluded with the Hu family and made Duliang Zelan a spiritual material for exorcising evil spirits. In fact, this was a scheme they set up together!" Yiling went on to talk about how the Hu family and the Shura Palace had joined forces to give Duliang Zelan special effects.
The Hu clan was a clan that fled to the south during the migration of the upper class to the south. When Liu Song replaced Southern Qin, they occupied Duliang Mountain in Xuyi County. Duliang Mountain was rich in zelan, so the Hu family began to sell zelan.
One year, the Huaihe River flooded, causing the water level of Fuling Lake to rise sharply, submerging countless farmlands and houses, causing many casualties. In the same year, ghost incidents occurred frequently in the area around Fuling Lake, and hundreds of people died at the hands of water ghosts and wild ghosts, causing fishermen to be afraid to fish, farmers to be afraid to farm alone, and hunters to be afraid to enter the mountains.
The common people went to the government when they had no way to survive, but the government invited Buddhist and Taoist monks, but they were unable to get rid of the disaster. The reason was not that they did not know how to exorcise ghosts, but that they had not seen any ghosts at all. To be precise, those ghosts were controlled by someone, and the one who controlled those ghosts was none other than the exorcist from Yemao Mountain!
Later, the Hu family came forward and said that their Duliang Zelan had the effect of exorcising ghosts and could be made into sachets to exorcise evil spirits and ward off disasters. They also personally sent people to sail on Fuling Lake for seven days and seven nights, but found nothing unusual. From then on, Duliang Zelan sold like hot cakes, and the Hu family embarked on the road to wealth.
The other clans naturally became jealous when they saw this. Some openly marked their prices, while others did evil things secretly. Their goal was to monopolize Mount Liangshan.
But those who were eyeing Duliangshan soon disappeared. Some got strange diseases, some met with accidents, and some disappeared. In short, no one dared to compete with the Hu family for Duliangshan in the end, and it was the people from Yemaoshan who helped the Hu family deal with these troubles.
The reason why the Hu family's Duliang Zelan can drive away evil spirits and avoid disasters is not because they really have this function, but because someone has cast a spell on these Zelan. The function is that once evil spirits approach, the Zelan will spontaneously combust and then release some special signals. Only evil spirits can perceive this signal, but it only stays at the perception level and has no other effects.
It sounds like it is useless, but most wandering ghosts will not actively approach living people. Once those evil spirits that want to harm people sense this signal, they will naturally be frightened, just like a thief who is stealing something and someone shouts.
Whether to stop or wait for the right opportunity depends on the thief's courage. This principle also applies to those evil spirits who want to harm people. This is the uniqueness of Du Liangzelan.
The person who cast the spell was named Sun Guo, and he was also a wild Maoshan with not very strong strength. The wooden sign was stolen from him.
After listening to Yi Ling's story, Li Yi asked, "Hasn't the Hu family sold Liang Zelan a long time ago?"
Li Qingfeng nodded and said, "It has been more than 30 years since we occupied Duliang Mountain and started selling Zelan. The Hu family also rose in the past 30 years."