control the heavens

Chapter 99
Huazheng went down to Mount Zhongnan happily.

Tang Han thought that next year would be the second Huashan Discussion on Swords, so he should prepare well, so as not to be caught off guard, lose face for nothing, spent three days to arrange everything in Quanzhen Sect, and then quietly left Nanshan, down the mountain.

On this day when Tang Han entered the territory of Henan, he thought to himself that Wang Chongyang had mentioned that there was a wine fighting monk in Shaolin Temple with superb martial arts and advanced Buddhism, so he thought of going to Shaolin Temple to meet the wine monk for a while to see where his martial arts had reached realm.

In just three days, Tang Han had already arrived at Shaoshi Mountain.

I saw the 36 peaks of Shaoshi, with overlapping peaks and peaks, steep and strange. It is really Zhongling Jingxiu, and it is a good place to build a sect. .

Tang Han arrived at the foot of Wuru Peak in the north of the mountain, walked up the mountain road, and soon arrived at Chuzu Nunnery.

According to legend, this first ancestor's nunnery is the place where Shaolin Patriarch Bodhidharma faced the wall, also known as "face the wall nunnery".Quanzhen Sect advocates the unity of Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. Tang and Han also read a lot of Buddhist scriptures, and they have done a lot of research on Buddhism, so they naturally know the allusions.

He walked into Chuzu's nunnery, and saw a nun meditating and chanting scriptures in the nunnery. The nun saw Tang Han and hurriedly paid a visit, but she recognized that the Taoist robe Tang Han was wearing was the identity of a Taoist real person, and he must be the head teacher of a Taoist sect. How can I be rude.

"The poor nun has seen a real person before, but he didn't know that the real person came, and hoped that the real person would forgive his sins." The old nun said after reciting Amitabha.

"Master, you are welcome. The Taoist is the Quanzhen teacher of Tang Han. I wanted to go to Shaolin Temple. I passed by Chuzu Nunnery. I heard someone chanting scriptures. I was curious. I came in without telling the master. It is said that the Taoist is rude." Tang Han called Made a speech.

The old nun Miaochang was shocked when she heard that she was the head teacher of Quanzhen Sect. You must know that Tang Han, as the head teacher of Quanzhen Sect, has a very important status. authentic.

"It turns out that Headmaster Tang is here, but the poor nun doesn't know Mount Tai." The old nun hurriedly asked Tang Han to take a seat, and then ordered a young nun to go down and serve tea.

Tang Han smiled lightly, and discussed Buddhist scriptures with Miaochang. This Chuzu nunnery was built in the seventh year of Xuanhe, and it has been more than a hundred years.It is said that an eminent monk felt that this place is full of Buddhist spirit and is the most suitable place to worship Buddha, so he built Chuzu Nunnery here.

There is a brick couplet on the gate of the main hall of the first ancestor's nunnery: "28 ancestors in the Western Heaven, Shaolin was first opened after passing through the Eastern Land." .There are colorful paintings on the east, north and west walls, which are about 36 Zen patriarchs below the first patriarch Bodhidharma.The image is simple and clumsy.Painted on the following group of shoulder stones, as well as the twelve eaves pillars of the main hall, four inner pillars, the girdle part of the Xumizuo of the shrine, there are many flowers carved on each side, and among the flowers are carved unicorns, lions, landscapes, ancient temples, sea water, and ferry boats. , Small bridges, flowing water, character stories, etc., the pictures are very rich, the shapes are vivid, the ideas are ingenious, the artistic conception is far away, and the knife skills are strong, which made Tang Han feel deeply about the strong Buddhist culture.

Although this Miaochang did not practice fixed-point kung fu, he was an eminent monk with profound Dharma. After discussing the scriptures, Miaochang took Tang Han to visit the Zuzu Temple and introduced the cypress tree in front of the temple. It turned out that this cypress tree was a It was the six groups of Huineng who returned to Shaolin to worship their ancestors and planted them here.

After leaving Chuzu's nunnery, Tang and Han continued on their way. Not long after, they heard the ringing of bells in the Buddhist temple, highlighting the majesty of the ancient temple.

When going forward, the bells were ringing continuously, loud and urgent, it seemed that more than a dozen big bells were ringing at the same time, only shaking the mountains to respond.

Tang Han was curious, could something have happened to Shaolin Temple?Turning along the mountain road, the grand temple comes into view, with yellow bricks and green tiles in the distance, and the mountain gate is grand.It's just that on the square outside the mountain gate, hundreds of monks are distributed on three sides of the square in a cluster in the east and a group in the west. The monks' clothes are divided into red, gray, yellow, and black, and their weapons are divided into knives, swords, sticks, and shovels. The monks are all eyeing each other, ready to fight.Only the direction of the remaining mountain is not surrounded by monks.

The monks stood there, and they had a great momentum, and seeing the old monks wearing cassocks at the gate of the temple, they knew that they must be the high-level officials of Shaolin Temple.

Tang Han's heart moved, and he suddenly understood that it was not an accident in Shaolin Temple, but Shaolin Temple greeted him with the highest standard.

"Amitabha, Headmaster Ling Xiao came to this temple. I will welcome you from afar, so please don't blame Headmaster Ling Xiao!" An old monk recited the Buddha's name.

"Abbot Xingying is being polite, but it's Taoists who bother you more." Tang Han said with a smile. He became the head teacher of the Quanzhen Sect, so he took a Taoist name 'Ling Xiaozi', and outsiders also called Tang Han Ling. Headmaster Xiao.

Tang Han knew that the current abbot of Shaolin Temple is Master Xingying. This person took over as the abbot of Shaolin Temple at the beginning of recent years. It was only because Shaolin Temple closed the mountain that no people from the world came to watch the ceremony. But everyone in the world knew that the abbot of Shaolin Temple was Abbot Xingying.

Tang Han followed Abbot Xingying into the room, and saw that the main hall of Shaolin Temple was really majestic and magnificent. Tang Han secretly felt that compared with Quanzhen Sect, Shaolin Temple inevitably lacked a little heritage.The reason why Quanzhen Sect became the largest religion in the world is really thanks to the fact that Shaolin Temple is closed to the mountain, otherwise, compared with Shaolin Temple, Quanzhen Sect is still much weaker in strength.

Not to mention, the abbot Xingying of Shaolin Temple, the head of the Dharma Academy, the head of the Arhat Hall, and more than a dozen eminent monks are all first-rate monks in the Jianghu. The strength is really extraordinary, much better than the Quanzhen Sect.

Tang Han discussed the Dao with a group of Shaolin Temple, and his heart was even more emotional.Ever since the Huogong Toutuo incident happened in Shaolin Temple, although the mountain has been closed, it has paid more attention to Buddhism, and everyone who can discuss Dharma with Tang and Han is a master who is proficient in Buddhism.

In the evening, Tang Han proposed to the abbot Xingying that he wanted to visit the wine monk, saying that Wang Chongyang had fought with the wine monk before, and he also wanted to fight with the wine monk to prove his martial arts. Xingying said Dou Jiuseng is the most senior monk in Shaolin Temple. He has lived in the Buddhist scriptures pavilion for a long time, so he took Tang Han to the Buddhist scriptures pavilion.

Tang Han looked at the Buddhist scriptures pavilion, which occupies a large area and is divided into upper and lower floors, which is completely made of pure wood, and nodded secretly. The Buddhist scriptures pavilion looks simple and solemn from the outside, with a solemn treasure.

After entering the Sutra Pavilion, Tang Han saw Buddhist scriptures placed neatly on the bookshelves, presumably monks often organize them.Tang and Han knew that Shaolin Temple had two major temple scriptures, "Xi Sui Jing" and "Yi Jin Jing". In addition, there were 72 unique skills of Shaolin Temple.

Quanzhen Sect is known as the best teaching in the world, but there are only more than ten high-level kung fu in the teaching, including the kung fu created by Tang Han and Wang Chongyang. "Excalibur", compared with Shaolin Temple, is really quite different.

When he arrived at the second floor of the Sutra Pavilion, Tang Han saw an old monk sitting on a futon. The old monk had no hair or beard, and his face was wrinkled.

The old monk slowly opened his eyes and looked at Tang Han with a little surprise. He only felt that Tang Han's breath was ethereal, and he was wearing the Taoist robe of the Quanzhen sect. ?”

Tang Han only felt that although the old monk had gone through many vicissitudes, his inner strength was incomparably strong, he could undoubtedly be a monk fighting wine, and said: "The Taoist priest is the head teacher of the Quanzhen Sect, Wang Chongyang!"

"I don't think Chongyang's head teacher has such a good student, and there are successors." Doujiu monk said, and then said to Abbot Xingying: "Abbot, the poor monk will entertain Tang head teacher."

Abbot Xingying knows that Dou Jiuseng is the only innate martial artist in Shaolin Temple. Since the incident of Huogong Toutuo, Shaolin Temple has given shelter to Dou Jiuseng.

Tang Han frowned slightly after Abbot Xingying withdrew from the Buddhist scriptures pavilion. The wine monk stood up slowly and said, "It seems that Headmaster Tang discovered it!"

"Master is an innate martial artist with strong self-healing ability. I don't know what kind of injury he suffered, but he was injured so badly?" Tang Han frowned.

It was Tang Han who found out that the drinking monk had been injured, and it seemed that it hadn't been a short time.

The wine-fighting monk smiled slightly, and said: "The poor monk's injury is self-inflicted. The Buddha said that if there is a cause, there must be an effect. Back then, I met the head teacher of Chongyang in Songshan. I was curious about the "Nine Yin Scriptures", so I asked the head teacher of Chongyang Sit down and talk about the Tao, and in the end, drink more than the head teacher of Chongyang. The head teacher of Chongyang is a person of faith, so he read the "Nine Yin Scriptures."

"The poor monk deeply admires the subtlety of martial arts contained in the scriptures, but he feels that blindly admiring the 'learning of Lao Tzu', only emphasizing softness to overcome rigidity, and yin to overcome yang, is not as good as the mutual assistance of yin and yang. Back to the temple, the poor monk pondered hard, and then After reading many Taoist scriptures, I created a kung fu "Nine Suns Scripture". I don't want to fight against the fireman Tou Tuo ten years ago, and I have entered the evil barrier and gone crazy!" The fighting wine monk seemed to be talking about something that had nothing to do with himself .

But Tang Han was moved when he heard it. The double cultivation of Taoism and Buddhism sounds like a great thing, but you must know that Taoism and Buddha are very different, otherwise you wouldn’t know that after the spread of Buddhism to the East, Taoism and Buddhism have been practiced for thousands of years. Constantly fighting.Wang Chongyang advocated the integration of Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism, and did not reject Buddhism, but in the end he focused on Taoism and accepted Confucianism and Buddhism for his own use.

This drinking monk was able to create the "Nine Yin Scriptures", and he must have studied Taoism very deeply.In such a situation, it is inevitable that it is easy to go crazy and fall into the devil.

Sure enough, Wine Monk said that his injuries could be suppressed for two years at most, and after two years, there would be casualties. However, Wine Monk's expression was very free and easy, as if he looked down on life and death, which made Tang Han admire him. Tang Han knew that Wine Monk Dou With his injuries, he no longer had the desire to ask the wine monk for advice on martial arts, and talked with the wine monk over tea.

(End of this chapter)