In less than a moment, Lu Chen and his party arrived at the foot of the mountain. The road was not easy to walk. The road under the mountain was covered with shrubs. Lu Chen and his party deliberately didn't fly in order not to attract attention.
"This is the falling devil mountain."
Close to the falling devil ridge, Lu Chen knew that the terrain here was dangerous. A naturally formed road less than the width of the sole of his foot wound around the mountain. This is the only road.
There are cliffs everywhere on the mountain. If you accidentally fall down the mountain, ordinary people can't come up at all. For Lu Chen and other practitioners, even if you accidentally fall down, you can still fly up.
A group of people attached to the mountain and walked forward. Thirty people walked for a full moment before they finally reached the hillside. A shabby little temple appeared in front of them.
I don't know which Bodhisattva is offered in this ordinary little temple. The statue is rough and washed by rain all year round. It can't see its original appearance.
In addition to the carved stone statue, there is a rotten table and a rotten chair in the temple. There is a low sound like thunder under the chair.
Lu Chen and others came closer to see that it was a person.
"Elder martial brother, you see they all flew up directly. Are we too cautious..." a disciple whispered.
"Shut up. It's called self-cultivation and learning more." Li Wei responded immediately.
Lu Chen took a turn around the temple and looked at the people lying on the ground.
The man was ragged, with a fat stomach and a string of Buddha beads around his neck, but he was drunk with a wine pot in his hand, so that no one knew it.
Lu Chen put his hand in front of the man's forehead on the ground, blocked the sunlight, and said, "senior, don't sleep, Tiangou eats the sun."
The fat man bounced up and muttered, "the solar eclipse is over, don't go, don't go..." all he said was don't go.
Li Wei was surprised by the fat man's reaction and said in doubt, "Why are you so afraid of the dog eating the sun? It's too feudal. Some powerful people have come out to refute the rumor that the dog eating the sun is just the moon blocking the sun. The monk is afraid that he has never been down the mountain on the mountain, so the news is blocked."
Lu Chen shook his head: "no, earlier, the Tiangou eclipse day was often accompanied by some bad things. This is true."
Lu Chen pushed the fat monk who was still stunned and asked softly, "elder, you are the monk of the temple in the mountain."
Pushed by Lu Chen, the fat monk returned to his senses. Then he noticed that so many people came to his small temple. He immediately put on a smiling face: "I'm the abbot and Abbot of the small temple. Please don't be polite, benefactor. Just sit down."
He entertained warmly, but ignored that there was only one chair in his broken temple. If you want to sit, you can only sit on the ground.
Lu Chen didn't care so much. He pushed the chair to Li Wei and sat cross legged on the ground.
"This is the unique moonlight red in our temple. You may as well try it."
The small temple is remote and simple. It can be seen that there are no pilgrims to worship here on weekdays. The fat monk is very happy to see so many people. I don't know where he got a pair of tea set, poured the boiled water into the bowl, and then took a pinch of tea from his cassock close to his fat body. It was dry and could not see what kind of tea it was.
He divided it evenly. There was only one piece of tea in each cup. When the withered tea entered the water, it turned into a touch of crescent like scarlet and floated in the water. Suddenly, the whole small temple was filled with a faint fragrance.
"This is October flower, a common side medicine of Xingshen pill."
Lu Chen picked up the tea cup, sniffed it carefully and said, "it's the first time I've seen people put this October into tea, but it seems that there is some unexpected joy."
Lu Chen was about to drink. Li Wei stopped him. He didn't speak, but he looked unnatural. It seemed that he didn't believe the fat monk. Lu Chen waved his hand: "it's all right. This October flower has the effect of refreshing and refreshing the brain, and it's no harm to people."
"Benefactor, you have good eyesight. There is a lack of good things to entertain you on the mountain." The old monk took up the tea cup and drank it all at once. After drinking, he gave a Tut, which made people think he was drinking.
Li Wei and others didn't want to touch the teacup. They were bored. They sat up and had a rest.
Lu Chen chatted while sipping tea and asked, "there is only one master in the temple of falling magic ridge?"
The fat monk smiled and poured another cup of tea. The tea went into his stomach. The fat monk took a long breath and said, "there were several disciples in the past, but most of them went down the mountain. Now only the intelligent child zongqi is willing to accompany me to bear hardships on the mountain."
At this point, the fat monk changed his smiling face and sneered: "Oh, falling into the devil mountain, who is the devil?"
When he fell into the devil mountain, the crazy sword Taoist encountered the dark devil pit. It's not necessarily that he was defeated by the dark devil. Although the dark devil is powerful and unparalleled, the crazy sword Taoist shocked the world when he was born. Countless dark demons died in his hands. He once went in and out of the Magic Cave three times.
"How do you say that?" Lu chenlai is interested.
In his early years, crazy sword was just a scholar in cloth clothes who insisted on practicing a blunt sword. People around him thought he was crazy, but in his middle age, he suddenly rose up and killed a dark devil leader on the spot. He became famous and became a late bloomer. But he had to bear the reputation in the future and died in the dark devil's hand.
It's strange to say that although the geographical location of falling demon mountain is remote, it is still human territory. In those days, crazy sword Taoist priest wanted to fly fairy with magnificent sword meaning, and occupied enough time and geography in his own territory. It's unreasonable to die in the hands of the devil. I'm afraid there's another secret.
"This place was originally not called falling demon mountain, but zhutianfeng. Therefore, the shape outside the mountain is named after a divine sword that cuts the sky."
The fat monk added a firewood to the stove and said slowly, "later, it was renamed falling devil ridge because Taoist crazy sword died here." The fat monk shows his sadness. He has been staying on the mountain for many years. He hasn't been down or up for many years. Only his little apprentice can talk on weekdays.
"Are you here for his inheritance?" The fat monk added another firewood to the stove and asked without haste or delay.
Lu Chen and Li Wei looked at each other and nodded. He could see that the fat monk had no malice and didn't intend to cover it up, otherwise it would make people feel deliberate.
"What else does the master mean by saying who is the devil?" Li Wei asked.
"The appearance of the dark devil, benefactor, has been seen. Is it similar to people? It's just that the bedroom is a little shabby and has a pair of big wings. It doesn't look like a person or a ghost." The fat monk asked. Lu Chen nodded, but he didn't notice why the fat monk knew that the dark devil was born at the foot of the mountain.
The fat monk said with a smile, "it's understandable that demons have a magical appearance and do what demons should do. However, some people have a human appearance but do what demons do. Human nature is evil, so I became a monk halfway to curb the demons in my heart and prevent them from taking root and breeding in my heart."
The fat monk was reluctant to give up his parents' hair and chose to practice hair instead of going to the decent Buddhist temple. Instead, he hid in the deep mountains.
Lu Chen is silent. Yes, people are people after all. They can't escape the seven emotions and six desires and can't escape the six samsaras. Even if they cultivate the Tao, they also have the original bad roots. How many saints have there since ancient times?
"Before the dark devil rose in those days, there was a man who challenged all major doors and lost many wars. The man was called Zhu crazy Dao. He was crazy when he started. He tried his best to kill chickens with an ox knife. Such a knife technique is particularly ridiculous in the eyes of those big people." Li Wei said: "later, he met a Taoist priest of crazy sword who has not yet become famous. They met with Zhu Tianfeng in the first battle. No one knows the result of that battle. However, later, Zhu crazy Dao fell into God and even defeated the teaching academies of major sects. Even the old head of Tianhuo College of the older generation did not take it down. Zhu crazy Dao was famous for a while."
Lu Chen listened with interest. Li Wei must have come here to make up for the class secretly, but I don't know why Li Wei said that. However, the southern forces that Zhu crazy Dao can stir up by himself are one of the few cruel people.
The fat monk looked unchanged and said with a smile, "the man you mentioned has never been seen by the poor monk. Well, benefactor, you're not here to chat with me. Just hand over incense money and you can go up the mountain. This is the rule of the mountain. The poor monk asked my disciple to give you a ride. He knows where it is."
This is an eviction order.
Lu Chen was surprised. He could see that there might be some connection between the fat monk and the crazy knife in Li Wei's mouth, otherwise he wouldn't have ordered to leave for no reason.
Although the fat monk looks kind, how can he do the mountain bandits? Can he also say "I drive this mountain and leave it to buy road wealth?" And so on.
The fat monk didn't want anything else, so he asked for some money for ordinary people. Li Wei brought a lot of money. He thought it was useless to keep it, so he gave it all.
Seeing that Li Wei was so rich, the fat monk smiled and shouted directly at the top of the mountain: "zongqi! Go down the mountain for dinner."
The sound is long and runs through the mountains and forests. Before long, a half person tall little monk comes down from the mountain. The little monk has a round head, a pair of copper bells and big eyes, with a medicine basket and an iron rod taller than him. The two ends of the iron rod are wrapped with a thick layer of humiliating cloth.
After giving the money, the fat monk asked the little monk to take Lu Chen and others up the mountain with a smiling face.
The little monk looked unhappy: "you have to go up the mountain before you eat?"
The little monk named zongqi didn't ask much when he saw so many people coming to the temple. He was just a little unhappy that his master cheated him, but he listened to his master honestly and took Lu Chen up the mountain.
The terrain on the mountain is rugged. It is approaching evening, and the wild animals are ringing in their ears.
The little monk led landing dust and others along the mountain path. The road is very small. It was opened up by the little monk himself.
Listening to the barking of wild animals on the mountain, Li Wei couldn't help laughing and said, "your name is zongqi? Fierce animals on the mountain come and go frequently. You, a little monk, often stay on the mountain and are not afraid of being eaten?"
Zongqi shook his head. A trace of disdain flashed in Tongling's big eyes and pointed to the stick behind him: "I have this. Now they dare not come to trouble me."
Lu Chen saw the dark iron bar behind him, which was wrapped with a thick layer of humiliating cloth. He didn't know what it was for. He asked, "zongqi, why are you wrapped with a layer of cloth?"
Zongqi replied, "the Buddha doesn't allow killing, but the beast is perverse. Every time he passes by, he will bite me. Several wooden sticks used in the past have been broken. Now they don't dare to come with iron sticks."
The little monk is ordinary and light. He always feels calm in doing things. The only thing that makes him fluctuate is that his unreliable master often deceives him.
Li Wei listened interestingly and wanted to tease the little monk. He asked, "since Buddhism doesn't advocate killing, but you change the iron rod and wrap a layer of cloth to stop the killing intention of the essence of iron root. What if you miss it?"
The little monk thought for a moment and said, "what the master said most is not that I don't go to hell. He taught me that I only need to control my demons, so that even if the outside world is muddy, I won't degenerate.
If you really miss and kill by mistake, my master will be happy. His cooking is really delicious. "
Li Wei: "hmm?"
Lu Chen: "
Lu Chen is speechless. Are you sure your two disciples are Buddhist disciples? And cooking is delicious. What's that? It seems that there is no shortage of fish and meat on weekdays.