Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Difficulty

As usual for countless days, the melodious morning bell rang again, echoing between the Sumeru Mountains and the misty mountain wind.It has gone through countless years and years, and it will continue to echo day after day in the days to come. Standing in the early morning light, Gui Li stood with his hands behind his back, listening attentively. He closed his eyes slightly, as if the melodious sound of the bell reverberated, and he wanted to savor it carefully.At this moment, Gui Li, for some reason, his appearance has not changed, but he seems to have changed his personality. From his bearing and demeanor, compared with the past, he is more calm, and less hostile. .

Perhaps, it was really those Buddhist circles that played a role? Among the monks of Tianyin Temple, many of them had this question in their minds after Gui Li woke up. The day before yesterday, after Ghost Li woke up again, Venerable Pu Hong and others looked carefully at him, and there was no other serious problem around him, even the slight shock after being hit hard didn't seem to exist on Ghost Li.Venerable Pu Hong was delighted, just in case, he decided to keep Ghost Li to stay in Tianyin Temple for a few more days, Ghost Li didn't make any further excuses, so he stayed in Tianyin Temple.

In the past few days, Ghost Li has been more taciturn than usual, and most of the monks in Tianyin Temple avoided him, who actually offended the heavens and sent down the punishment of heaven. he.And Gui Li himself didn't seem to pay attention to the people and things outside him, he didn't go out, only when the bells and drums rang in the morning and evening every day, he would go to the small courtyard and listen quietly. "Boom..." The last chime of the bell, with an endless lingering sound, echoed and hovered over Tianyin Temple for a long time, and finally disappeared into silence.Only then did Gui Li slowly open his eyes.

Bathed in the morning breeze of Tianyin Temple, the aura in his body was full and surging under the quiet appearance, as if the whole person wanted to fly.The monks of Tianyin Temple would not know, but Gui Li himself knew it in his heart. Among the wordless jade walls, what unexpectedly appeared was the fourth volume of the legendary Devil's Cult classic. Others may not understand, but he is the only person in the world who has practiced the first three volumes. That is the key fourth volume that I dreamed of on the way of cultivating Taoism. In the past, countless seemingly indestructible and insurmountable problems in practice, at this moment, he has grasped the key points, and what is in front of him is almost a broad road with unlimited smoothness.He even had the feeling in his heart that if he went down this road, he must be very smooth. Perhaps, he could still see some realms that he didn't dare to hope for in the past.

Even when he looked at the feelings of the past and the people and things in front of him, he actually felt a sense of detachment, as if he had a new realm and looked back at the past again. It's just that for some reason, in his heart, in such a good situation, he still has a faint sense of loss, but he doesn't know how to describe it.That looming, wrong thought always lingered in his mind. Gui Li stood there for a long time, no one knew what he was thinking, and no one came in to disturb him.Until he suddenly turned around and walked out of this small courtyard for the first time in several days.

When he left the yard, he didn't look back. ※※※ He walked slowly along the steps under his feet. It is said that this road was once built by the monk with great magical powers in order to promote Buddhism.Today, countless people are still walking on the road he made, but how many people know that he is gone. Walking on this road, the layers of stone steps are unpretentious, and when you step on it, you will feel the plain feeling.After the unexpected battle of changing colors and shaking mountains a few days ago, the temples and halls on Mount Sumeru were damaged to varying degrees. Only this level mountain road with steps was not affected at all, and it was still paved firmly on the ground. On the ground, countless people walked through its chest.

Perhaps, for the unpredictable gods, does this road also carry some special emotions? Gui Li didn't know, and he didn't want to know, he was walking on this road, but he just silently recalled the past and the old people, and in the memory, he slowly walked to the Little Tianyin Temple on the top of Mount Sumeru. The door was ajar, the place was still as quiet as usual, Gui Li slowly walked over, and voices could be faintly heard from behind the door. He knocked on the door. The sound inside the door disappeared immediately, and then someone seemed to be surprised, and gave a soft "Huh", and after a while, the door opened with a "squeak", and the Dharma figure appeared behind the door.

Seeing that it was Gui Li, Fa Xiang showed a smile, Gui Li nodded and said, "Is Master Abbot here?" Fa Xiang stepped aside with a smile and said, "Yes, please come in!" Gui Li walked in and saw Master Puhong sitting cross-legged on the meditation bed, also looking at him with a smile.Gui Li walked towards Venerable Puhong, saluted, and said, "Master Abbot." Master Pu Hong looked at Gui Li's approaching figure, looked from top to bottom, and finally looked at his feet, suddenly nodded, and said with palms together: "It's really gratifying to think that in such a short period of time, the way of benefactor has made great progress. Congratulations!"

Gui Li raised his brows, but he didn't speak, but Fa Xiang was slightly taken aback, and looked at Gui Li carefully from the side. After a moment of silence, Gui Li slightly bowed his head towards Master Pu Hong, and said: "A few days ago, for me, I destroyed the sacred jade wall of your temple, and I feel really uneasy." Master Puhong shook his head lightly, and said calmly: "It's just a trivial matter, nothing to worry about." Gui Li was slightly stunned, and said: "The jade wall without words is the treasure of your temple, isn't it precious?"

Venerable Pu Hong folded his palms together and said: "The world is revolving, and all living beings are gone. Who knows what will happen after death? Today is precious and important, how can we know what will happen in the future? If the benefactor has a heart," he pointed out the window and said: "Little Heaven Turn right outside the Yin Temple and there is a big stone, the almsgiver has a look, maybe he can know the truth of the Buddha's mind." Gui Li nodded and said: "Yes. But I came here today to bid farewell to Master Abbot." There was no surprise on Master Pu Hong's face, he seemed to have expected Gui Li to speak like this, he just nodded and said: "The benefactor wants to go, I dare not stop him. It's just that before the benefactor leaves, how many times does this old man have?" In a word, I want to talk to the benefactor."

Gui Li said: "Master, please tell me." Venerable Puhong said: "During this period of time, the benefactor has encountered many disasters, but he was able to solve them one by one and broke through. I think the benefactor seems to have realized something in his heart. I wonder if it is?" Gui Li pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "Master Huiyan, after the catastrophe for the rest of his life, he really has feelings in his heart. Looking back on half his life, I feel a sense of sigh." Master Puhong's eyes flashed, and he said: "The benefactor is a man of great wisdom. Now that he has seen through it, why not see through this worldly sentiment and come under my Buddhist sect? According to the old monk's guess, what the benefactor thinks in his heart is nothing more than a How about the word 'quiet'?" Gui Li was silent, stood up for a long time, bowed to Master Pu Hong, and said indifferently: "Master gave me a hint, I am very grateful. It is just that I may have some enlightenment in my heart, but it does not mean seeing through the world. To me, worldly feelings , but it’s exactly what I can’t bear to part with.” Master Pu Hong shook his head and said, "The Buddha said: Color is emptiness! All things in the world are like this, love and hatred, beauty and enemies, are all just the same word 'color', disturbing people's mind, disturbing people's tranquility, why should the benefactor be too persistent? " Gui Li looked up to the sky to breathe, laughed loudly, turned around and left, and said loudly: "Master, you are wrong. Form is emptiness, and emptiness is also form. You want me to see through the world, but I don't know how to see through the world? I am between heaven and earth. Love and hatred are exactly what I have experienced in my life. You want me to see through and be quiet, but how do you know that after seeing through, it is still me?" The voice gradually became low and finally disappeared. The man had already left the meditation room. Faxiang was silent for a long time, and said to Master Puhong: "Master, you gave him hints several times, it's a pity..." Venerable Puhong said calmly: "He understands Taoism and practice, and I'm afraid he will be the number one person in the world in the future. But such a person can't see through his own demons, and everything in the future will depend on his own good fortune. " Dharma Xiang bowed his head, folded his palms together and recited the Buddha's name, and finally stopped speaking. ※※※ Gui Li left Xiao Tianyin Temple, when he walked out of the temple gate, he suddenly stopped, paused, but turned to the right, did not walk a few steps, and sure enough, he saw a big stone half a person's height fell on the ground on the ground. He walked up to this big rock and looked at it carefully, only to see that the top and bottom of the stone were covered with scars, but there was no word or sentence, and there was no trace of artificial chiseling, so he didn't know what the mystery of this stone was. Gui Li frowned, pondered for a moment, suddenly focused his eyes, but was attracted by the first spot on the boulder. The whole body of this boulder is mottled, it is obvious that it has gone through countless years of wind, frost and sword, and it is full of scars, but at that place, it can be vaguely seen as a pattern shape.It's just that it's so old that it's hard to identify. Gui Li stretched out his hand, gently swept away the dust on the stone, and examined it carefully. After a long time, he realized that it was originally a shell shape, but after a long period of time, it had already turned into stone and merged with the boulder. up.And Gui Li then looked at the big stone carefully, but did not find any other strange things. His gaze returned to that shell again, could it be that what Master Puhong wanted him to look at was just an ordinary shell, and what was the mystery behind it? In his mind, he recalled what Master Puhong said, and his gaze slowly lit up as he looked at the shell.Mount Sumeru is a towering mountain range, within thousands of miles, there is no deep ocean, but this stone is clearly from Mount Sumeru.Tens of thousands of years ago, this place might have been a vast ocean, and it is unknown. Compared with the movement of heaven and earth and the vicissitudes of the world, a person's life is like a drop in the ocean, a mustard seed. However, he was silent, turned around and bowed towards the quiet little temple, and when he turned his head, his face was still indifferent. Waving the robe, a faint white light appeared, and his figure turned into light, flew away into the sky, and gradually disappeared above the sky. see through! Who can see through? The world is vicissitudes, but how can it compare to the moment in my heart, that momentary gleam. ※※※ Qingyun Mountain, Big Bamboo Peak. It has been a while since the Battle of Qingyun, after that Daoxuan Daoxuan kept a close eye on the people of Dazhufeng for a while because of the matter of the ancient sword of Zhuxian, but recently it seems that because the disciples of Dazhufeng are very honest, the head of the sect also urged less up.Originally!In the minds of the disciples in the Great Bamboo Valley, although the sect master Daoxuan really has a lot to do this time, he really went too far. But no matter what, after all, it has been a long time since this visit, and Dazhufeng has gradually returned to its former calm.The injuries of Wu Dayi and He Dazhi are also getting better gradually, after Suru's inspection, they are almost healed now.The two can walk freely on the ground, but they can't do heavy work yet. Therefore, according to the usual practice, while cleaning everyone's room, the task of cleaning the room of the little junior who had run away in that secluded corner also continued.On this day, Song Daren and Du Bishu walked towards that room again. The two talked and laughed, and walked into the courtyard like countless times in the past. But at this moment, suddenly, a gray shadow flashed across the small courtyard that should have been silent. The gray shadow was extremely fast, but Song Daren and Du Bishu both saw it almost at the same time, they were shocked, immediately put down their hands to clean things, and rushed forward.It's just that the gray shadow disappeared in a blink of an eye. The two of them searched all over the yard, even on the roof, but they still didn't find any clues. Standing in the courtyard, Song Daren and Du Bishu looked at each other, Song Daren frowned and said, "Could it be that we got it wrong?" Du Bishu tilted his head and thought for a while, and was about to speak, when he was startled suddenly, and whispered: "Brother, look over there." After finishing speaking, he pointed his hand behind Song Daren. Song Daren quickly turned around to look, and saw that following the direction of Du Bishu's finger, the door of the junior junior brother's bedroom was closed tightly, but a small crack was opened on the window next to the door at some point.In the past, no one lived here, so the windows were naturally closed tightly. Song Daren and Du Bishu looked at each other, and they both saw surprise in each other's eyes.Song Daren collected himself, and said in a low voice, "Let's go in and have a look." For some reason, Du Bishu became a little nervous. While nodding, he couldn't help lowering his voice and said to Song Daren: "Brother, could it be...it could be the younger brother..." The corner of Song Daren's eyes twitched, obviously what he was thinking in his heart was similar to Du Bishu's, but this thought seemed to scare even himself, maybe, when he really saw that little junior who was now a stranger, he didn't know how to face it ? hand, when they touched the wooden door, Song Daren and Du Bishu looked at each other again, then, as if they had strengthened their resolve, Song Daren gritted his teeth, shouted, and said loudly: "Who is it?" pushed open the door. Almost at the same time as the door was pushed open, a gray figure flashed across the room, as if startled, jumped from the table in the room to the bed, turned around at the same time, rolled his eyes, and looked at the The two stunned people standing at the door of the room yelled "Zhi Zhi Zhi Zhi". "Small gray!" Song Daren and Du Bishu called out at the same time. ※※※ "Goo." Xiao Hui swallowed the fruit in his mouth, then picked up a wild fruit beside him, bit half of it in one bite, eating happily.In the Shoujing Hall of the Big Bamboo Peak, the fruit pits that Xiao Hui gnawed were thrown all over the floor at this moment, and they were thrown everywhere. Compared with the solemn and solemn appearance in the past, it was quite funny. At this moment, all the people on the Big Bamboo Peak gathered here, even Tian Buyi, who has always been bad-tempered, just frowned, but didn't get angry, his face was gloomy, and he didn't know what he was thinking. In the past ten years, everyone knows that Xiao Hui has always been with that person, never separated, and now Xiao Hui is here, but what about that person? That day before the Huanyue Cave Mansion of Tongtian Peak in Qingyun Mountain, Song Daren and others saw Ghost Li with their own eyes, and also witnessed the scene where the former junior brother was severely injured by the ancient sword of Zhu Xian. Afterwards, there was no news of him, and it was even vaguely heard that he had been rescued by his accomplices. But why did Xiao Hui appear here? Xiao Hui appeared, where is that person? The same question lingers in everyone's mind, making people feel heavy.But in the Shoujing Hall, only Xiaohui was eating fruit recklessly, besides that, there was another person who was extremely happy, completely different from the people around him! rhubarb. This big dog was extremely excited at the moment, completely ignoring the gloomy face of its master, barking "Wow, woof" incessantly, circling around the table where Xiao Hui was lying, wagging its bright yellow tail, Extremely happy.From time to time, he would jump up his front two feet and lie down on the table, sniffing Xiao Hui with his dog's nose, occasionally sticking out his tongue, and licking Xiao Hui a few times. Xiao Hui grinned, scratched his head, casually grabbed an apple at hand, shook it in front of Da Huang, and then threw it out of the Shoujing Hall.Rhubarb yelled "Wow", jumped up immediately, galloped on all fours, and rushed out of the Shoujing Hall. Everyone was surprised for a moment and looked out, only to see that Rhubarb was ahead of the apple and grabbed it in mid-air He stopped, and at the same time ran back immediately, lying down on the table, the dog's teeth loosened, the apple fell on the table, and rolled a few times. Everyone was dumbfounded, Tian Buyi snorted even more. Du Xiaohui couldn't stop laughing "Zhi Zhi Zhi Zhi", obviously meeting his old dog friend, he was in a good mood, the monkey's tail curled up, and he jumped off the table, but it landed on Da Huang's generous back, and hugged Da Huang body. Rhubarb kept barking "Wow, woof, woof" and ran out with his head up and chest out, wondering where the monkey and the dog were going to play wild again. Song Daren glanced at Tian Buyi and Suru, stood up, and was about to go out and chase the two beasts back, but Tian Buyi said coldly: "Let them go! That monkey has lived on this mountain for many years, since Once you come, you won’t leave.” Song Daren responded and sat down slowly. Tian Buyi was silent for a moment, then said: "Apart from this monkey, didn't you and Lao Liu see any other figures?" Song Daren and Du Bishu shook their heads at the same time, saying: "No." Tian Buyi's expression turned ugly, he waved his hand suddenly, and said, "Okay, you guys go out!" Song Daren and the others looked at each other, but the master's order was like a mountain, and they dared not disobey after all, so they had to retreat slowly. When he went out, He Dazhi was careful, and asked Suru: "Master, should the disciples clean up the fruit pits here?" one time?" Before Suru could speak, Tian Buyi said angrily, "We'll talk about it tomorrow, did you hear me when I told you to go out?" He Dazhi was silent like a cicada, retreated with a whoosh, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. Suru gave Tian Buyi a white look, and said, "It's nothing, what are you doing to vent your anger on them?" Tian Buyi's face was full of thoughts, he paced back and forth, suddenly raised his head and said to Suru: "You said that Lao Qi...is that person also nearby?" Suru pondered for a moment, then said calmly: "He has always been the most emotional person, if he wants to see you, it's reasonable. But with his identity, he probably won't be able to show up." Tian Buyi's complexion changed, his fat face was cloudy and uncertain, it was indescribably weird. Suru glanced at him, sighed, and said: "I know what you are worried about. Outside Huanyue Cave, although he was injured by the ancient sword of Zhu Xian, he did not die after all, and the rumors also said that there are still Did the party rescue him? When Daren and the others reported to us afterwards, they all said that the gray monkey was not by his side. From my point of view, maybe he knew the danger at that time, so he deliberately did not bring the monkey by his side. Yes. And after he was seriously injured and escaped, the monkey wandered among the mountains and plains of Qingyun Mountain, and it’s not surprising that it came to us when it couldn’t find its owner.” Tian Buyi frowned, and suddenly muttered, as if scolding someone. Suru didn't hear clearly, and asked: "What did you say?" Tian Buyi didn't answer, snorted, raised his eyebrows, and walked towards the back hall with his hands behind his back.Suru looked at his back, shrugged her shoulders, quite helplessly. When she turned her head around, suddenly Tian Buyi let out a low cry from behind, Suru was startled, she quickly turned her head to look, couldn't help but smile. I saw that Tian Buyi seemed to be on the sidelines, walking without looking at the ground, he accidentally stepped on a fruit stone and slipped.It's just that Tian Buyi is not a mortal after all, he has already stabilized his body with just one move, Suru has already laughed out loud. Having made a fool of himself in front of his wife, Tian Buyi felt ashamed, his face was even darker, and he cursed bitterly: "Damn monkey, when will I skin you, let's see you eat it again!" After finishing speaking, he entered the back hall without looking back, leaving only the Shoujing hall full of fruit pits, Suru stood there smiling.