"Another saint has fallen."
Evening drums and morning bells, ancient Buddha blue lights.
A smear of incense ash fell into the dust, the heavy bell rang again, and there was a tremor of heartbeat in the air.
The young man kneeling in front of the Buddha statue put his hands together and recited the Buddha's mantra, sighing: "The sage is a great virtue."
A voice came from nowhere: "I lived for the continuation of the orthodoxy, and died for stealing the sky and stealing my life. How do you know whether it is a great virtue or a lost virtue?"
"I don't know." The young man put down his hand and turned the rosary lightly. The slight collision sound could be heard very clearly in the silent meditation room.
"Is it… "
The young man's brows were clear and his expression was warm. He looked up at the Buddha statue and asked, "Does Lord Sage also feel that what he did was wrong?"
The voice of the Buddhist and Taoist saints is as compassionate as ever: "For practitioners, what I have done in my life is the utmost benevolence and righteousness. However, as far as the way of heaven is concerned, ten thousand deaths will not redeem me. What I gain and what I lose is my heart, but I just want to have no regrets."
"I know." The young man lowered his eyes again, fiddling with the rosary and said, "It's a pity that my mind is mediocre, and I can't be as unrepentant as a saint."
There was a sudden smile in the voice of the Buddhist and Taoist sage, and he said: "If you have a mediocre mind, then there are not many people who are cultivators in the world who can be called good-hearted. Speaking of it... Although Yun Qing is not a good person, she is still a good person. excellent."
The sword official's calm and indifferent expression was a little bit unstoppable, and he said shyly: "The disciple is terrified."
"I'm panicked after just a few compliments, how can I rest assured that you will take over the Buddhism and Taoism in the future." The Buddhist and Taoist saint looked much more relaxed than before, and his speech was not so depressed. The swordsman breathed a sigh of relief, but when he heard "take over the Buddhist way", he raised his tone again. If the saint lives well, it is naturally not his turn to take over the Buddhist way, unless...
"Do you want to fight or?"
In just a few days, the sun, the moon, and the stars all fell, the continent was broken into islands, and the sea was frozen into land. Every cultivator could see such earth-shaking changes, and almost everyone knew that it was caused by the fall of a saint, and Swordsman was no exception.
After he finished speaking, he felt a bit wrong: "The way of ghosts, the way of humanity, plus the one who just fell, the world's orthodoxy has already gone out of six, and it stands to reason that it is enough for the gods to come, right?"
In other words, the rest of the saints don't have to dedicate their lives...
"Not enough." A familiar voice came from behind Jianchen.
He turned his head and saw Yun Qing, whom he hadn't seen for many years, at a glance. Time seemed to have stopped on her body. From her appearance to her breath, she hadn't changed at all. Barefoot in white clothes, holding a mirror in both hands, with downcast eyes and a gentle smile.
Yun Qing walked up to him, sat down cross-legged on another futon, and said, "It's just the three orthodoxy, and it's still far from completing Daoqi."
The swordsman felt as if he had passed away. He couldn't believe that this person who hadn't seen him for a hundred years just appeared in front of him, and he was still meditating in an extremely calm manner.
The Buddhist and Taoist sages seemed to have known that she would come, so he took her words and asked, "Three orthodoxy? More than that..."
"There is also Huang Quan, who just got it." Yun Qing smiled, "Speaking of... I just took away the Dao Seed from Huang Quan, and I came to Guiling Temple without stopping. How did you get it?"
"I'm talking about the divine way." The Buddhist and Taoist sage said, and suddenly said to the swordsman, "You should step back first."
Jianchen's heart trembled slightly, he saluted the two respectively and left the meditation room. There are some things that he should not know, the more he knows, the more he will bear, and he does not have the ability to carry such a heavy burden, so it is better to know less. It's just that Yun Qing's words have been lingering in his mind, and he can't help but guess that if the three orthodoxy are not enough, then Yun Qing's purpose for coming to Guiling Temple this time seems to be obvious.
Only Yunqing and a silent Buddha statue remained in the meditation room.
"Thank you sage for teaching the swordsman these years." Yun Qing said politely, "I never thought that with his qualifications, he would be able to join the Tao in a hundred years."
"You don't need to be thankful. The swordsman happens to be from the devil way, so I'll just teach him the Heart Sutra of Rebirth, and forget about my concern." The Buddhist and Taoist sage said indifferently. The heart sutra he created is the way of Buddha and demons, and there are almost no inheritors in Guiling Temple. Yun Qing also expected to send the swordsman to Guiling Temple. The Buddhist and Taoist saints lack an heir, and she lacks a suitable inheritance for the swordsman.
There is a quick way in the Heart Sutra of Rebirth. Although it is difficult to reach the level of a Buddhist and Taoist sage, it is not impossible to get together in a hundred years.
Yun Qing seemed to have been waiting for his words for a long time, and immediately said: "Now that the matter is over, what is the saint's plan?"
The Buddhist and Taoist saint answered with a faint smile: "The four orthodoxys of ghosts, men, demons and gods are not enough, so I tried to take down Huangquan, and Huangquan is not enough, so you came to me?"
"It's not enough to enter the Tao to get the Tao and see the world, so I try to break into the Tao, and it's not enough to steal the sky, so I want to defy the sky and destroy the life. The life of all things is between the words 'dissatisfied'." Yun Qing was still as calm as water, she sighed, "Sage...so am I."
"Is the way of heaven not satisfied with its own power?" The Buddhist and Taoist saint asked peacefully.
Yun Qing shook her head, smiled helplessly: "I don't know, the Dao of Heaven is not a creature, it probably doesn't have such emotions."
"It's really rare. Sometimes you don't know." The Buddhist and Taoist saint said with emotion, "I'm still thinking, are you omniscient and omnipotent just like the Dao of Heaven?"
Yun Qing still shook her head: "Saint, the Dao of Heaven is not omniscient and omnipotent. If so, it would not allow the mortal creatures to obtain the Dao Seed in the first place, and it would not allow the cultivation world to develop so far as to threaten itself."
"Yeah, why did it allow the Dao Seed to spread down?" The voice of the Buddhist and Taoist sages calmed down a little bit, and finally even had a hint of questioning, "Why did the Dzogchen at the beginning... be broken?"
This is a question that has never been answered, but has always been kept in the hearts of practitioners—where does the apocalypse come from? Where did the first Dao Seed come from
"Saint, I've already said that I'm not omniscient." Yun Qing closed her eyes, just dropped the words lightly, and also didn't answer.
"At least you know a little more than the people of this world." The Buddhist saint didn't seem to care much, he said, "Speaking of which, when did you live? The age of ancient gods and demons, or the earlier ancient barbaric era? Or even... Before the apocalypse?"
Yun Qing selectively avoided the following questions: "Even if you know more, you won't go anywhere. Because the knowledge in the monastic world is inherited and progressive, and I am isolated."
"At least you have experienced the era of gods and demons. I feel that Zhong Guanyuan has always wanted to avoid you, but he has to observe you secretly. You knew him before?" The Buddhist and Taoist sage felt that her answer was very vague, so he emphasized again own problems. That day Zhong Guanyuan went to several holy places to take away the sacrificial vessels of Emperor Qing, he hurried to get ahead of Yun Qing, this intention was too obvious, Buddhist and Taoist sages couldn't ignore it even if they wanted to.
Yun Qing was startled: "I don't know."
This sentence "I don't know" is much more straightforward than the previous answers that were mysterious, which surprised the Buddhist and Taoist saints: "...that's it, but it is true, compared with the five emperors, the god of history, Wen Qu, is nothing Very important."
Buddhist and Taoist saints said that "it is not very important compared to the five emperors", but in fact, the god Wenqu was really important in ancient times. After all, it was an era when even written records were not perfect, and a mural was enough to be called a precious historical material. And the god who knows all the historical materials of that year and is in charge of all the words and books can be said to be the witness and recorder of history. The most important thing is that many ascetics believe that he has recorded what happened before the Qing Emperor's fall, and also knows the secrets of several catastrophes.
"Wenqu..." Yun Qing silently recited the name again, shaking her head seriously, "I really don't know."
The Buddhist and Taoist sages were silent for a while, and said, "That's all, that's it."
In fact, Yun Qing's answer has already admitted that she has experienced that era. As for the cultivators in the age of gods and demons in ancient times, Huang Quan lived and died again, Gongsun Yanhua died after struggling for a long time, and the gods were still waiting to come back in the heavenly palace. With so many chaos of life and death, it can be said that few of them survive. Even if the Buddhist and Taoist sages continued to ask, she would answer whatever they wanted, since there was no way to obtain evidence anyway.
Hearing this, Yun Qing got up with her mirror in her arms, stood in front of the Buddha statue, and saluted: "Is the sage ready to die? May I prepare the golden vase for you?"
The Golden Ping Sign is for the successor of Guiling Temple. What Yun Qing said was that Buddhist and Taoist sages can be reincarnated into soul boys after passing away from the Heart Sutra in the past, and then select their reincarnated soul boys with the method of golden bottle lottery, and take over the overall situation of Guiling Temple again.
But the Buddhist and Taoist saints just sighed: "There is no need to prepare, let the swordsman succeed."
Yun Qing looked up at the Buddha statue, the peaceful and compassionate face was hidden in the shadow of the altar, and only a vague outline could be vaguely glimpsed. She frowned and asked, "What does the saint mean?"
"Being reborn nine times, plus the fact that this life is ten times, is called the tenth Buddha. And nine is the extreme number, the tenth time... Either you can prove Dzogchen, or you can only return to heaven. .”
This is completely different from what the Buddhist and Taoist sages explained to her at the beginning. When Yun Qing sneaked into Guiling Temple to steal the idea of Lianxinxukong Zangguan, the Buddhist and Taoist sages were not Buddhist and Taoist sages, but Jueluan. At that time, Jueluan told her in the stupa that the ninth rebirth, plus this one, counts as ten rebirths. This "ten" has already broken through nine, which is the "extreme number", so it can be "broken". The Way of Heaven, proves Consummation."
Looking at it now, the "nine" in the nine rebirths is the extreme number, and it takes one more rebirth to realize Dzogchen.
However, when the Dao stem is born, it is a small perfection, and when the Dao stem matures, it is the Dzogchen. From ancient times to the present, only Bi Luo Huang Quan has experienced the Dzogchen. It is now on the eve of the great catastrophe, disasters occur frequently, and the punishment of the heavens may come at any time. At this juncture, trying to prove the great perfection, there is probably no way out.
Even, in Yun Qing's view, what Biluo Huangquan proved cannot be regarded as "Great Perfection". Because the way of heaven is incomplete, there is no way to talk about "consummation" from under the way of heaven.
Yun Qing was a little puzzled: "The sage's skills are special. Even if he abandons his Dao fruit and power, he can reincarnate with his memory. Why take the risk?"
The Buddhist and Taoist sage said calmly, "How long have you lived?"
Yun Qing was silent.
The Buddhist and Taoist saint sighed: "I remember telling you a long time ago, from the first generation of Guiling Temple to the end of the last generation, I am every one of them, but I am not any one of them. Countless memories are connected together, and the years of countless people are overlapping and piled up in the soul. This is not a very pleasant thing. If I can achieve Dzogchen, then I can become "I". God, it’s just to let those lives that should have ended long ago return to their original place, so that the common people in this world can have a little more hope.”
Yun Qing was speechless, and could only bid farewell to the words said countless times by ascetics.
"A great saint."
The flickering fire in the meditation room flickered for the last time, and then drowned in the night, never to rise again.