After the old monk Foyin finished his work, he returned to the tree where he had discussed Buddhism with Ji Yuan before. He saw that the eminent monks from Daliang Temple who were knowledgeable in Buddhism had gathered together again, while Ji Yuan was looking at the tree in the yard.
The tree is nearly twenty meters tall, which is extremely tall considering the surrounding buildings are generally not that tall.
None of the monks around spoke, they just bowed to the old monk Foyin, and Ji Yuan suddenly asked a question.
“Is this a Bodhi tree?”
This tree looked familiar to Ji Yuan. This large tree looked a bit like a banyan tree. He wondered if it was the Bodhi tree from his previous life.
"A bodhi tree?"
The old monk Foyin asked in confusion and looked at the tree again.
"This tree should be called banyan tree, why is it called bodhi tree?"
Ji Yuan immediately realized that the culture and even many levels of knowledge here were similar to those in his previous life, but the Buddhists here were definitely not familiar with the story of Sakyamuni.
Ji Yuan nodded and said, "It turns out to be Rongsang." and said no more.
"Mr. Ji, what does Bodhi mean? The pronunciation does sound familiar."
Ji Yuan looked at the old monk Foyin, recalled some information from his previous life and said.
"Bodhi is a transliteration of a distant dialect, meaning enlightenment and wisdom."
"I see!"
The old monk Foyin did not say much. After thinking for a while, he smiled, said goodbye to Ji Yuan and the monks of Daliang Temple, and went directly back to Lanzhou in the Western Regions.
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In the Fanhua Courtyard, a maid who had gone out to purchase things happily ran all the way from the front yard to the back yard.
"Your Highness, Princess! Your Highness, Princess!"
Running and shouting excitedly.
"Why are you yelling? What's so exciting about it?"
Outside a house in the backyard that was modeled after a monk's hall, the female official looked at the maid who was jogging over, frowned and asked a question, and from the house behind her, the eldest princess Chu Ruyan also came out.
"What's up?"
"Your Highness, the Daliang Temple will reopen tomorrow. I heard that many people heard the temple bells at dawn today, and many people in the market outside were talking about going to burn incense tomorrow!"
The eldest princess looked surprised.
"Really?"
"It's absolutely true. I heard the news and looked around the market. I found a few monks from Daliang Temple who were out shopping. They confirmed it themselves. Daliang Temple will reopen tomorrow to welcome pilgrims!"
"Pah~"
Chu Ruyan clapped her hands vigorously.
"Great! Prepare the car immediately, we will go to Daliang Temple now!"
"But Your Highness, isn't Daliang Temple open until tomorrow?"
The eldest princess smiled and waved her hand to the maid.
"That's for ordinary people. If Daliang Temple can open tomorrow, then it will be fine today. It just needs to make preparations to accept pilgrims again. It will be fine for us to go today! Quickly get someone to prepare the car."
The maid smiled and quickly said "yes" to accept the order.
As soon as the maid left, the female official turned to the eldest princess and asked.
"Your Highness, isn't it a bit hasty to go like this?"
"It's okay. If it's really inconvenient, we can just come back later. Besides, His Majesty is also very concerned about the affairs of Daliang Temple. He has already sent me a letter to ask about the affairs of Daliang Temple and asked me to pay more attention to it. I am just sharing your worries!"
Chu Ruyan and the female official did not tell anyone what they saw in Daliang Temple last time, but her brother, the emperor, suddenly became very interested in Daliang Temple and sent her a letter at full speed, asking about the situation in Daliang Temple. So she took the opportunity to tell her about her feeling of "everyone was drunk but I was sober" that time.
Then the emperor became more concerned and asked his sister to pay more attention to Daliang Temple.
The maid could only smile. The eldest princess's reason was quite plausible.
It actually took less than a quarter of an hour to prepare the carriage. Not only was the carriage cleaned, but everything from the coachman to the servants, from fruits and cakes to sandalwood, was fully prepared, and even two pots of good wine were brought.
However, the carriage was not ready to leave immediately, because Princess Chu Ruyan still had to carefully change her makeup, which took another half hour.
After the eldest princess finished putting on her makeup in front of the mirror and put on the appropriate pearl hairpin, the two maids who were helping her with her makeup stepped back, and the former turned around and asked the female official.
"How is it? Does it look good?"
"It looks good, it looks good, let's go!"
The female official said perfunctorily. In fact, she couldn't tell the difference between the eldest princess's previous makeup and her current one, except that she wore more pearl hairpins and accessories.
A total of two carriages drove out of the villa and headed straight for the west city gate, accompanied by several riders including female officials.
In just over a quarter of an hour, the carriage arrived at the still empty market outside Daliang Temple, and then arrived outside Daliang Temple, where the heavy gate had been opened.
The wooden sign announcing the closure of the temple and the golden sign bestowed by the emperor have been removed. A monk was sweeping a large open space in front of the temple with a broom, clearing away some fallen leaves blown by the wind. After all, many places in the temple had not been cleaned for more than a month.
Seeing the carriage approaching and looking at the familiar carriage, a monk immediately ran back to the temple to report. When the carriage just stopped, Monk Huitong hurried out to greet it.
"Good be to the Great Ming King Buddha. I, the humble monk Huitong, respectfully welcome Her Royal Highness the Princess!"
Monk Huitong bowed slightly towards the carriage as a Buddhist salute, and the prince opened the carriage doors and smiled at Huitong.
"Master Huitong, can I enter the temple today?"
Monk Huitong said very frankly.
"Of course you can. Although our temple will welcome pilgrims again tomorrow, there is nothing special about the temple today except that it needs to be cleaned up."
Hearing this, a maid got off the carriage at the back and placed a step stool in front of the princess' carriage, and Chu Ruyan got off the carriage.
"You guys drive your car to the backyard. Master Huitong and I will walk in today."
After receiving the order, the servants withdrew one after another, and only the female official was left with the princess. Hui Tong led them to the gate of the temple.
"Princess, please."
"Master Huitong, please."
Hui Tong was half a step ahead, and the two walked side by side behind, step by step into the Daliang Temple. Looking around, they saw many monks cleaning. Passing by some halls, they could also see monks carrying mats, bedding and other things out, and there were quite a few of them.
Together with Monk Huitong, they strolled around some squares and halls that usually had the most pilgrims, and then the two of them headed towards the inner courtyard.
"By the way, Master Huitong, have Mr. Ji and the old monk left?"
Hui Tong first chanted the Buddha's name.
"Good be to the Great Ming King Buddha! The Venerable has left after the bell was rung, but Mr. Ji has not left yet and is writing at his desk in the forbidden area of the inner courtyard!"
"Forbidden area?"
Chu Ruyan looked at Monk Huitong curiously.
"I have been to every place in Daliang Temple. How come there is a forbidden area?"
Hui Tong did not hide it either.
"In reply to the Princess, our Daliang Temple originally had no forbidden areas. It's just that after the temple was closed this time, a small courtyard in the inner courtyard has become a forbidden area of the temple. But it is not an absolutely taboo place. It is also a clean place, meaning that noise and uncleanness are prohibited!"
"Oh! Can I go and have a look?"
Hui Tong knew that the princess would ask this, and said with a smile.
"If the princess wants to go at other times, I will lead her myself. But I don't believe it now and I can't disturb Mr. Ji at this time."
"Oh, Master, you are so arrogant that you can't even stop the eldest princess. Do you mean that even if His Majesty comes, you will stop him?"
The female official said something half-jokingly and half-seriously, but saw Huitong looking back at her with a serious face.
"What Officer Lu said is correct. Even if Your Majesty comes in person, you cannot enter the forbidden area at this time."
This sentence left the female official and the princess speechless. The former wanted to retort, "Daliang Temple is so brave," but Monk Huitong seemed to see through her thoughts and explained.
"You two have seen the Venerable perform magic before, and you must know that Mr. Ji is an extraordinary person. Not to mention people outside the temple, even any monk in this temple is not allowed to enter the forbidden area at this time. How can mortals like us disturb the saint!"
The eldest princess looked at Hui Tong's serious expression and asked subconsciously.
"If ordinary people can't do it, then Master, you can't do it either?"
Chu Ruyan admired Monk Huitong. She knew before that Monk Huitong was a true Buddhist. This time, she gained some new insights into the "true Buddhist Dharma", which was no longer the kind of thing that she had thought of before: chanting sutras to pray for blessings and ward off disasters.
"Haha, people say that Hui Tong of Daliang Temple is a great monk of the time. This is too much praise. Compared to masters like the Venerable and Mr. Ji, I am just an ordinary person! Let's go. The princess wants to see it. I will try my best to take you through the outer perimeter of the forbidden area."
The three of them walked slowly and quietly into the inner courtyard. After walking for a while, Hui Tong stopped and pointed to a big green tree in the courtyard in the distance.
"The small courtyard under the tree over there is the temple's forbidden area. We just need to stop here and take a look."
The eldest princess subconsciously stood on tiptoe. This location was not the entrance to the so-called forbidden area at all, but was separated from the land by at least two walls. She couldn't even see the archway of the forbidden area, let alone see people.
At this moment, under the big tree, there was a desk with all the four treasures of the study on it, and Ji Yuan was writing alone at the desk under the tree, deducing the wonderful laws of heaven and earth.
After the previous discussions, Ji Yuan had a lot of ideas, and all the problems that he had known the direction of but were still relatively complicated were solved.
Ji Yuan also considered adding some safety measures. Every time a large section was deduced, the key points would be written in a special decree to prevent people outside the tradition or with ulterior motives from obtaining this method.
As the words were written, all the strange visions that had been eliminated by the sound of the bell reappeared faintly around him. However, this time they did not appear on a large scale in the Daliang Temple, but only appeared around Ji Yuan.
When the pen hits the paper, the spirit follows, and strange images wander across the paper endlessly. Ji Yuan's wolf-hair brush can sometimes even directly touch the strange images and write them onto the paper along with the ink on the tip of the brush.
In just one day, Ji Yuan had written more than 3,000 words in fine, small characters on a roll of rice paper. Not only did he use the methods of Heavenly Scriptures and the art of conveying divine will, he also imitated the divine will of the characters he had learned from the small character spirits during this period. With the strange visions surrounding him and him being immersed in the spirit from time to time, every word in the book was a gem.
This is not only the method of Chuanyunshan Temple, but also Ji Yuan regards it as the foundation of his own practice.
With the last word uttered, the first half of "The Wonderful Law of Heaven and Earth" and also the most important part, "The Creation of Heaven and Earth", was born.
"Boom..."
Suddenly, thunder roared in the clear sky, and large patches of dark clouds gathered over Daliang Temple in a short period of time.
“Woo… woo… woo…”
"Boom..."
The howling wind swept the fallen leaves, the surrounding wind and clouds changed, and after the lightning, the sky had darkened rapidly...