Chapter 12 Chapter 12 How far is the distance of one step

"Master Yao, is this magic or magic?" Zhang Ziheng asked. "How do I know." Zhang Yaoye said. The two of them walked towards the ecstasy array formed by the seven stones while talking.When they got to the edge, both of them stopped, as if they were afraid of a trap inside, they didn't dare to cross the threshold again. The seven stones just lay there quietly, neither like a circle nor a circle, but rather like a crooked line. Zhang Yaoye tilted his head and carefully observed the seven stones, but he couldn't see anything, so he asked Zhang Ziheng, "Did the old monk just step over here and disappear?"

"That's right! I just watched him step over and disappear in no time!" Zhang Ziheng said. Zhang Yaoye stretched out his hand to the front and shook it, thinking that his hand would also disappear in front of his eyes.However, the hand in front of him is still a hand, and there is no sign of disappearing. "Master Jingyuan, Master Jingyuan..." Zhang Yaoye shouted twice into the air, but there was no response.Instead, a pine nut hit him on the forehead with a "bang". Looking up, two squirrels were chasing on the pine tree, and another squirrel was peeking down, seeming to be grimacing at the two of them. laugh.

The entire pine forest is quiet, the sun, grass, wild flowers, squirrels... everything is so real, yet so illusory. "Why don't you step over and let me see what's weird?" Master Zhang Yao said to Zhang Ziheng. Zhang Ziheng flinched, stared wide-eyed and said to Mr. Zhang Yao: "Me? What if I step over a precipice of ten thousand zhang? This is obviously a trick! Master Yao, you can't let a ghost jump off a cliff!" Zhang Yaoye said: "Hammer cliff. It's obviously grass. Didn't the old monk just step over it like this?" As Zhang Yaoye said, he raised his right foot and made a posture of stepping forward. Because he didn't hold his foot properly, he unexpectedly took a decisive step forward.

Sure enough, a miracle happened again, and Master Zhang Yao disappeared in front of Zhang Ziheng's eyes. This time Zhang Ziheng's eyeballs are all rounded, and a living person will disappear instantly like air if he is close at hand. "Yaoye! Yaoye!" Zhang Ziheng shouted loudly into the air in front of him twice. Except for the echo, the pine forest was still silent. Zhang Ziheng was a little bit blind. It seemed that there was an invisible mysterious door in front of him. If he stepped through it, he didn't know whether it was heaven or hell. Zhang Ziheng faced a huge suspense that he had never met before.During this leg lift, he hesitated...

Suddenly, a muffled growl came from behind Zhang Ziheng.He turned his head to look, his whole body trembled like an electric shock, and his calf immediately went limp.A white-fronted tiger with colorful fur slowly walked out from a bush not far away, and stared at him intently. Zhang Ziheng panicked and wanted to find a place to hide, but there was no chance to hide in this empty piece of land except for the arhat pine and the seven crouching cow rocks. While thinking and hesitating, the tiger uttered a very threatening low growl at Zhang Ziheng. The steel whip-like tail behind its buttocks was swinging from side to side, as if it was eager to try and was about to pounce on him.Zhang Ziheng, who was so frightened, had no choice but to step forward in one stride.

Another miracle actually happened before Zhang Ziheng's eyes. He came to a courtyard like a fairyland, with pavilions, terraces and buildings in the courtyard, fragrant grasses and beautiful trees, herons perched in the clear water pond, and cranes played in the water.Under the green lotus leaves, the sound of frog drums can be heard from time to time.The whole courtyard looks quiet yet lively. It was still a sunny noon outside the Woniu Stone, but it was already a moonlit night when we entered the fairyland-like courtyard. The sky above the courtyard was full of stars, and the night sky was as clear as water and vast and cloudless.

Zhang Ziheng did not expect such a magical place to be hidden in the seemingly ordinary Stonehenge. He seems to understand a truth now, the distance between the legendary heaven and reality is really only one step away! At this time, Zhang Yaoye was standing in the middle of the courtyard, looking at Zhang Ziheng with ignorant eyes, and said, "Ziheng, you came in too? Why are you in such a panic?" Zhang Ziheng said with lingering fear: "The tiger drove me in!" Wiping his sweaty face while speaking. "Where are we now, Master Yao?" Zhang Ziheng asked. "How do I know." Zhang Yaoye said.

The two of them walked onto a covered bridge with a faint fragrance, turning their heads and looking around like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden.The current Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng are simply full of novelty! After zigzagging through four or five pavilions, a large-scale temple-like building appeared in front of the two of them. In front of the temple is a square altar with steps on all sides, on which a strange figure cast in bronze stands majestically.The figure is neither like a god nor like a human being. Its shape is extremely weird and exaggerated. The body of the whole figure is narrow and slender, wearing clothes with extremely exquisite patterns. The hands and feet, head and body are not in normal proportions. Mi Siwu, wearing a high lotus petal-shaped hat on his head, stood barefoot on a square base supported by four dragon heads in one piece, with his hands empty in front of his chest, with a solemn and solemn expression, but there was a faint hint of Travel through the chaos and confusion of time and space!

Walking under the altar, when Master Zhang Yao and Zhang Ziheng looked up at the bronze statue on the altar, the frivolity in their hearts gradually settled down, and they also became solemn.They clearly sensed some kind of wonderful change in the surrounding aura. The two stopped looking around curiously, but walked around the altar and climbed up the stairs into the temple. The two heavy black lacquered gates of the temple were tightly closed, Zhang Yaoye and Zhang Ziheng tried to push the two gates open.There was a long and dull opening sound from the hinge of the door. With the opening of the two gates, Master Zhang Yao and Zhang Ziheng did not see the gods and Bodhisattvas enshrined in the temple, but countless fragrant flowers and grasses, and the fragrance filled the entire temple, refreshing.

Master Zhang Yao was very surprised, and whispered: "This is strange, it looks like a temple, why don't you see a Bodhisattva, but all flowers and plants?" While talking, he saw the kind-hearted old monk Jingyuan sitting among the fragrant flowers and beautiful grass, with his eyes slightly closed, as if he was meditating... Zhang Yaoye whispered again: "This old monk is getting more and more good at playing tricks." Before he could finish speaking, the old monk Jingyuan opened his eyes leisurely, and said to Master Zhang Yao and Zhang Ziheng with a smile: "You two finally took that step, haha... I thought you were just standing outside. Come in!"

But Zhang Yaoye said: "We stepped in, but what I want to understand is, what kind of tricks are you doing in front of me and Ziheng? Why do I feel like I'm dreaming?" The old monk Jingyuan laughed and said: "Zhang Weichang! You want to ask the truth about everything. But, what is the 'exact'? What is the 'exact'? Can you tell me?" Zhang Yaoye said impatiently: "I was asking you if I was dreaming, but you asked me what is 'what is'. Dreams and 'what is' have a hammer relationship!" The old monk Jingyuan laughed again: "Is it okay? What is a dream? Is it okay? You told me what is 'exactly', and I can tell you whether you are dreaming or not." Master Zhang Yao was confused by the old monk Jingyuan's words...