When Jueluan arrived at the stupa, Yun Qing was sitting in front of the relics of many eminent monks, slowly treating the wounds on his hands. She wrapped her bloody left hand with a clean cloth. Although the bleeding was slightly stopped, her face was still very pale.
The stupa has always been deserted, except for the disciples guarding the door, there are only restrictions and formations everywhere. I don't know what method Yun Qing used to bypass many restrictions and go directly to the top floor.
When Jue Luan stood in front of her, she didn't even lift her head.
One of them is sitting, the other is standing, there are grids of relics hidden on the four walls, and there is a deep loneliness in the silence. What is buried here is not only the bones of eminent monks from generation to generation, but also the path to longevity of countless Buddhist practitioners. Those who truly achieve immortality will live forever instead of passing away in this remote tower.
The two stalemate in a strange atmosphere for an unknown amount of time, until Jue Luan sighed softly to break the peace.
"I thought you could be the future of Guiling Temple." There was regret in his words, but his expression didn't show it at all.
Yun Qing replied simply and directly: "I'm not a man."
Jue Luan shook his head: "You know that's not what I'm talking about."
Yun Qing calmly replied: "Whether it is the "Yi Jin Jing" or the "Xi Sui Jing", they are not the way I am looking for."
"Your comprehension of Buddhism is very good. If you need the idea of lotus heart and void storage, as long as you get started, I can pass it on to you."
Yun Qing raised her head, her eyes were closed, but she could see a smile: "I have already got it, so you don't need to worry about it."
"But you can't take it away." Jue Luan turned the rosary in his hand, with a kind and peaceful expression.
"Oh..." Yun Qing prolonged the ending sound, which was a bit meaningful. She avoided the topic and said, "I am not interested in "Yi Jin Jing" and "Xi Sui Jing", but I am very interested in the inheritance of your practice. , I wonder if the senior can give me some pointers?"
Yun Qing and Jue Luan had completely broken up, and she didn't even bother to maintain the superficial calm, she just changed her mouth and didn't call her "senior brother".
The rosary in Jue Luan's hand stopped, and he took a deep look at Yun Qing. The girl was wearing a large white sacrificial gown, her left hand was bloodstained, her face was pale but calm. She is at an absolute disadvantage in front of Jue Luan, but she has an undisguised composure, and she is sure that she can escape here alive.
"I practice the Heart Sutra of Rebirth." Jue Luan said gently, his expression was quite similar to that of Zizai Cliff's Buddhist debate that day, with a kind of tolerance and generosity unique to a guide.
Yun Qing seemed to have understood it a long time ago, and she didn't show a surprised expression: "Is it possible to prove longevity?"
Such a Buddhist inheritance has never been mentioned in many records in the world of monasticism, but since the "Yi Jin Jing" and "Xi Sui Jing" are both superior studies that can prove the Dao, there is no reason why the inheritance practiced by Jue Luan will be better than this one. Two doors down.
"I don't know." Jue Luan's answer was somewhat unexpected.
Yun Qing asked puzzledly: "I don't know?"
The two seem to have returned to the previous model of brothers and sisters, asking and answering each other, which is particularly harmonious.
Jueluan explained patiently: "I am the first person to practice this lineage."
Create your own method of longevity, the first of its kind!
These words flashed through Yun Qing's mind, and he felt a surge of respect for the senior in front of him. In the world of Taoism, the unique knowledge that can prove longevity has not changed for tens of thousands of years, and now someone is silently blazing a trail of their own!
"I'm not the only one doing these things." Jue Luan seemed to see what she was thinking.
Yun Qing felt that she seemed to have touched the secrets of these highest-level people, and she asked her own question in a timely manner: "Many people are creating their own methods of longevity? Why do they do this?"
"That's not to say that there are many people... The only ones I've confirmed are Jingli, the saint of humanity, Mang Yi, the saint of ghosts, and of course, myself. But I think I must have tried other orthodoxy."
The Saint of Humanity is naturally Dajing Guoshi, Yun Qing recalled that person's detached aura that was completely incompatible with the gentleman Qian Yuandao, and believed his words half to eighty percent in his heart.
"Why did you do this? Are there any flaws in the existing method of longevity?" Yun Qing felt that the other party seemed to avoid the second half of her question.
Jueluan didn't answer: "This is not what you should know."
It is rare for Yun Qing to see him speak in such a ruthless tone, and he is a little bit concerned, which probably involves many anecdotes about those people outside the painting.
"If you're done asking, hand over the scriptures of my temple. Anyway, there is a fate, and I don't want to be rough." Jue Luan said lightly.
"I haven't said hello yet." Yun Qing laughed, tilting her head as if looking at Jue Luan.
Yun Qing has always pretended to be humble and docile, and Jue Luan didn't know that she was such a rambunctious person.
He sighed again, and said, "If there's anything else, let's ask together."
Yun Qing raised her eyebrows, with a bit of malice in her expression: "Just one question."
"Should I call you Senior Jueluan, or Senior Zihong?"
The two fell into a deathly silence, and Yun Qing could even hear the sound of his own blood flowing clearly. She fixed her eyes on the man in front of her, trying to see even a little bit of abnormality from his expression, but unfortunately there was none at all.
But what Jue Luan said next made her heart drop back in her throat.
"Fu Hui Zhizi realizes that it can be enlightened. From the first generation of my ancestors in Guiling Temple to the end of the last generation, I am every one of them."
You guessed it right!
This sentence flashed through Yun Qing's mind quickly, and she remained expressionless: "Then it should be Senior Zihong."
Jue Luan seemed to frowned, and wanted to say something more, but Yun Qing never backed down once she was sure of her thoughts.
She quickly said: "I haven't seen rumors that it is the fate of retreat in the stupa, but I have seen his relic. I think you will merge it next? Senior Zihong is indeed a generation of eminent monks. Dare to do things that the world’s Buddhas do not do. I thought that only those sects and heretics are prone to go crazy, but I didn’t expect the orthodox Buddhism. Oh, the Heart Sutra of Rebirth has not proved longevity. .”
Jue Luan fell silent, neither interrupting nor refuting, a little encouraging her to continue.
Yun Qing was delaying time, seeing his cooperation, he was naturally happy to explain.
"At first, I suspected that you just felt that you had too much power as a direct disciple. It doesn't matter if Liao Yuan obeys your orders, even if you are the host of Jue's generation, it is a bit unreasonable."
"Later, I left Zizai Cliff to rescue herdsmen who had suffered from the snow disaster. There, I met an old woman who had fallen into evil ways. The old woman had visited Guiling Temple two years ago. I had no contact with outsiders either. I didn't think much about it at the time, I just thought she encountered something on the way back, so I followed the route she took to find the Walking Corpse."
"However, when I turned into a disciple of the Walking Corpse Sect to test the elders in the sect, I found that the Walking Corpse Sect never accepts old people as apprentices. In this way, the conjecture that she joined the Walking Corpse Sect will be self-defeating. Then she fell into evil ways. There is only one opportunity left, which is Guiling Temple. I did find traces of Guiling Temple in the Walking Corpse Sect, such as the Sanskrit written on their bodies when they changed their bodies, and the corpse king in their bone cave .”
"It is also because of seeing that corpse that I am sure that you are not Jue Luan at all."
Jueluan, or Zihong, turned the rosary silently, and said calmly, "That's Jueluan's body."
"That's right." Yun Qing smiled, and she began to speak out her conjecture, "After returning to the temple, I heard some things, such as Jue Luan was born on the day when Zihong sat down, for example, Jue Luan was Zihong The direct heirs selected by Hong by drawing lots from the golden urn, such as Jueluan, are amazingly talented and profound in Buddhism. You told me about Zihong’s publication of books during his lifetime. At that time, I felt that your tone was a bit wrong, because it didn’t seem like Talking about someone you've never met."
"I didn't expect you to notice it so early." Zihong didn't think he was disobedient, and there was even a hint of praise in his expression.
"Earlier than this." Yun Qing tried her best to prolong the conversation between the two while checking the situation on the other side of Jieshan with the book from heaven.
"Oh?"
"You said a word, I always remember it in my heart." Yun Qing said half and kept the other half, and procrastinated as much as possible.
"What are you talking about?" Zihong also cooperated.
"I never leave Zizai Cliff." Yun Qing imitated his tone.
This is what he inadvertently said to Yun Qing when he applied to "Jueluan" to participate in the site selection of Jieshan two years ago.
"In the past, I just had doubts, but now I can explain it clearly. Senior Zihong is young and promising, and his ambition is not above the two inheritances of Yijinxixiui. You have devoted yourself to research and started to develop another method of longevity, which is the Heart Sutra of Rebirth. I guess this method is somewhat similar to the corpse autopsy of the Xian family, but the Heart Sutra of Rebirth is obviously more profound. This inheritance can allow people to change into a new body, carrying all the memories and cultivation of the previous life, but without the karma of the previous life .It doesn’t even have the drawbacks of autopsy at all, and it can reincarnate infinitely without a limit on the number of times.”
"Once you created the prototype of the Heart Sutra of Rebirth, it became more difficult to restrain your mind. Your own memory and cultivation alone may not be enough to reach the path of longevity, so what about the memory and cultivation of the seniors in Guiling Temple?"
Yun Qing spoke more and more vigorously, and couldn't stop at all: "You thought about this, and then decided to take risks for this ancient and unparalleled inheritance. You did something that no Buddhist disciples would have ever thought of..."
"The relics that merge with the seniors." Zihong continued her words, and he felt a strange sense of disobedience when he said such a rebellious thing with a solemn face.
Yun Qing nodded, he didn't expect him to be so frank, probably in Zihong's heart, he could no longer escape from Guiling Temple.
She continued: "It's a pity that there seems to be a little deviation in this integration. According to the allusion of the book, Zihong's frivolous temper has such a deviation. It is not surprising. None of the seniors here are as good as you. So after fusing the relics, something went wrong with you, and you can’t do without the relics.”
"The purpose of longevity is to not be restricted by everything. If you are trapped in this small stupa, what is it called longevity? Senior Zihong is also a person with great perseverance and enlightenment. You sit down in the stupa immediately. In the past, the Life Heart Sutra was reincarnated on Jue Luan, which made people guide Jue Luan into the door. But when you practiced in Jue Luan's body, you realized something was wrong, because Jue Luan couldn't do without the bondage of the stupa."
Zihong couldn't help but sighed when he heard this, and he finally said: "That's right, I don't know what went wrong with the Heart Sutra of Rebirth, so I have been trying to perfect it for so many years. At the beginning, I couldn't do without the stupa. , I’m better now, I can walk out of the stupa, but I can’t leave too far, it’s not enough for me. I try to summon my real body to other places with the method of Buddha’s coming, so as to break through this situation. Therefore, I passed part of the content of the Heart Sutra to the casual practitioners in Daxue Mountain."
"This inheritance has gone through many twists and turns and ran into the hands of the Walking Corpse Sect. Their Taoism is mainly based on changing bodies and manipulating corpses. A hundred years ago, a person with a root of wisdom came out and merged the Heart Sutra with their own inheritance. Called out Jue Luan by mistake. But I quickly found out that it was wrong. Although my body was called to another place, my soul still couldn’t leave. Out of helplessness, I had to go to rebirth again, this time to a disciple of Wuzi generation. Body. I changed my appearance with Yi Jin Jing, and no one in the temple realized that this body was not Jue Luan’s, and no one knew where the missing Wuzi generation disciple went.”
"You must have a treasure to measure the secrets of heaven, right? Otherwise, it would be impossible to know so clearly." Zihong's expression has not changed a bit after being exposed to so many secrets, he still looks generous and gentle.
"But you were wrong about one thing before."
Yun Qing frowned, there was still no movement at the boundary mountain, but the conversation between her and Zihong was almost done.
"What's wrong?" Yun Qing asked slowly, pretending to be thinking hard.
"The method of rebirth is not unlimited in number of times." Zihong patiently explained, "Nine is the ultimate number, and there are at most nine reincarnations."
Yun Qing was stunned for a moment: "What about after nine times?"
"Combine the nine lives, plus my original life, a total of ten lives, from which we can break the way of heaven and achieve perfection." Zihong said flatly.
Yun Qing's heart skipped a beat, and she remembered what Zihong said before, the order of Buddhist characters is "Fu Huizhi Zijue, the original circle can be enlightened", that is to say, he is only one step away from Dzogchen!
"So... please hand over the secret code of my temple and the relic of my nephew Yuan."
Zihong stared at the white bandage in her hand.
Yun Qing clenched her hands tightly, and she hid the relic of Liao Yuan under the cloth, and stuffed it in against the wound. This is her biggest reliance now. The mystery in Liao Yuan's body is not something she can clean up in a short while, she can only find a way to put it into flesh and blood, and use her own fate to cover it up.
But even so, he couldn't hide from Zihong in front of him, the real person outside the painting.
Just as Yun Qing was slowly dismantling the cloth strips under the pressure of his eyes, there was finally movement on the Jieshan side!