Start from the thief

Zhang Hong had long known from various channels that the kind-looking old monk in front of him was no more than 20 years old, and was very similar to himself in some aspects.

This person is quite famous in Longmen, but has mixed reputations. He is the abbot of Mirage Temple, and he rebuilt the century-old Buddhist temple brick by brick, which shows his piety; but he is also a playboy monk who secretly takes the money from believers to satisfy his appetite. Except for having no interest in women for the time being, he eats meat, drinks alcohol, and kills animals.

However, this person possesses the Dharma form of the demon king Pozun and the golden body of a mirage, and has also practiced the Great Compassion Temple's unique skill "The Dharma of Heaven and Earth". If nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely achieve great perfection in the external scene within the next five years, and may even have a chance to glimpse the threshold of the internal scene.

On ordinary days, such people do not need to come by themselves. Dabei Temple will send someone to invite him over to have a chat and discuss Buddhism together, and even pass down some skills and treasures. When this person gets old, he may resign from his position and come to Dabei Temple to meditate and practice until he passes away. This is also the core reason why Dabei Temple has been able to sit firmly as the leader of Buddhism for hundreds of years.

However, Bujie came today not as a Buddhist, but as a good friend of Zhao Yushu.

The relationship between Zhao Yushu and Dabei Temple is very peculiar. They can definitely not be called friends, because Yan Hui has cheated the academy more than once, and he was persistent and even mobilized half of the Buddhist monks in Jiangnan to capture people. As expected, he was played badly by the Left Emissary. Most of the Buddhist monks in Jiangnan were killed, and he was not only killed by the Left Emissary, but later he was even transformed into a creature that was neither human nor ghost.

But they cannot be completely considered enemies, because both the academy and the Buddhist community tacitly regarded this terrible incident as a personal act of regret. Afterwards, the old immortal did not come to settle accounts one by one, and the Great Compassion Temple did not come to apologize. They just pretended that it had never happened. In Yizhou, Zhao Yushu even saved Zhang Hong's life.

"What the hell is this?"

Zhang Hong scratched his short hair in annoyance. "Master Bujie, I am the one who came to see you, not Junior Brother Miaoming, let alone Senior Uncle and the others. You should know why, right?"

Bujie shook his head: "I am not Zhao Yushu, so I am not good at guessing. Donor Zhang, please speak directly."

"You boy!"

Zhang Hong took a big gulp of tea and said, "If you come here as the abbot of Mirage Temple, Dabei Temple will naturally treat you with courtesy. But now everyone knows that you are here to cause trouble, so I have to come forward. If we can get along, you can stay and discuss Buddhism with your uncles and brothers, and then go back. Everyone will be happy. If not, I, an outsider, will come forward. It will save everyone's face. We just had a fight. Now tell me the truth, what do you want to do?"

Bujie put the secret book in front of him and pushed it forward: "The first thing is to return the secret book. I was just joking."

You are kidding me!

Zhang Hong grabbed the secret book and stuffed it into his arms.

"What about the second thing?"

"I asked the great master of the academy and found out where Yan Hui is. I am going to go and subdue the demon."

With a crack, the coffee table between the two of them shattered into sawdust.

Zhang Hong held up a finger and was about to speak, but Bujie held out a hand to signal him to be patient: "Just listen to what I have to say."

"Okay, tell me!"

"Not only do I need to subdue demons, I also need to borrow the services of the great monks of Dabei Temple, for example, you."

"If you don't quit, you're crazy."

"Even if I were crazy, I would not degenerate into a monster by swallowing the blood pill. Do you think that Master Yanhui's decades of practice are not as good as my ten years of enlightenment?"

Zhang Hong trembled all over: "Master will not be possessed by a demon."

"Of course, Master Yanhui died a long time ago, and now he is just a resurrected demon. Otherwise, why do you think the Sword Master of Shushan locked him up in the Demon Locking Tower? The whole world is not against you, is it?"

Bujie picked up the teapot, but his teacup had been shattered by Zhang Hong just now, so he poured the tea directly to his mouth. Anyway, Zhang Hong was not in the mood to drink tea now.

"You go."

Zhang Hong stood up and said, "I will pretend I didn't hear what you said, otherwise you won't be able to leave Dabei Temple."

Bujie stood up and patted his grey monk robe: "Okay, I'll take my leave. By the way, if I fail in this trip, Yanhui will have a good chance to come back, and then he will continue to lead the Dabei Temple. Well, it will be a blessing for the Buddhist community and the people of the world. I'll take my leave."

Bujie stood up and walked out of the wing room, out of the courtyard, past one hall after another, and finally looked at the golden statue of Tathagata in the main hall.

"How strange, all I saw in that world was you."

Bujie walked out of the Dabei Temple. Looking out from the inside, he could clearly see towering trees and winding mountain roads. But the moment he stepped out of the door, he stepped onto a meadow. The endless grassland and blue sky filled his vision.

Don't stop looking back, the grassland is still behind you.

Dabei Temple is here and yet not here.

Bujie smiled indifferently, identified the direction, continued forward, and stopped after a while.

"Are you here to keep me here?"

"I will go with you."

Zhang Hong followed from behind.

"Oh? It's probably not easy to attack the master."

"It's not easy, but if he wasn't my master, I would be more ruthless."

The two walked side by side towards the sunset, their shadows stretching far away.

Dusk had already fallen over Linhuang Prefecture, and the bright light of the crescent moon made the prefecture, which was mainly gray and white, look somewhat eerie.

Unlike Dongdu, Linhuang Prefecture has a curfew. Except for a few special places, the entire city is as quiet as a ghost town at night.

The night breeze in early summer is still a bit cool.

Zhang Tianshi was driven back to his own hut to continue his previous practice.

It's time to go to bed now. Taoists are good at maintaining health, and an important way to maintain health is to go to bed early and get up early.

So when he was awakened just after closing his eyes, he was very dissatisfied, extremely dissatisfied, but he had no choice but to suppress this dissatisfaction.

"You old thing, why are you here just now?"

Zhang Tianshi put on his clothes, opened the door and looked up at the sky.

Li Li hasn't fallen asleep since she released the Fire Phoenix. This is a rare occasion in the past twenty years that she has been unable to sleep or eat. She now both hopes that the teacher will come and not come, but deep down she still hopes that the teacher will come.

Otherwise, why would she release the Fire Phoenix? Otherwise, why would she immediately open the door and run out to look at the sky?

Yelu Mingjing sat on the roof, below him were the two interior scenes he had captured, and above him was the person he had admired all his life.

The old immortal stood in mid-air with a crescent moon behind him.

"You came."

"I am coming."

If Zhao Yushu were here, he would continue to pretend to be cool and say "you shouldn't have come", and then expect the other party to reply with "but I came anyway".

It’s a pity that there is no other real time traveler here, and no one understands Gu Long’s old jokes.

Of course the more fundamental reason is that he has no chance at all.

"Yelü Mingjing, long time no see."

"No, I see you often, you just can't see me."

Yelu Mingjing stood up and said, "Zhao Yushu is still alive. You are not too late."