Chapter 122 Brother Lingguan, help me conquer the devil

The old monk Puzhi did not light a lamp, and walked slowly in the night with a hunched body, twisting and turning in the temple to the Main Hall.

When passing by Luohan Hall, he stopped for a moment and said with a smile: "Junior brother? Have you slept?"

The monk Pushan in the room had already closed his eyes and was in meditation, so it was naturally impossible for him to reply.

Monk Puzhi shook his head: "Poor! Poor!" Then he walked away.

The main hall was filled with the smell of sandalwood, and there was a candle burning on the incense table. The old monk came to the hall and looked up at the Zhangliu golden body on the Buddhist altar.

The Buddha's golden body has a majestic and compassionate face, but it looks a little dim under the candlelight. Thousands of hands and eyes form a golden wheel behind it.

This is the first time that the old monk Puzhi has come here since the monk Pushan asked people to remove the statue of Sakyamuni and replace it with the statue of the Thousand-Armed Buddha.

Monk Puzhi neither burned incense nor worshiped Buddha. Instead, he sat down cross-legged in front of the incense table, held a string of Buddhist beads, and began to chant sutras.

The old monk spoke slowly and in an extremely low voice, and he was reciting the Shurangama Sutra.

Legend has it that Lord Ananda, a disciple of Sakyamuni, was deceived by a woman named Madenga when he was begging for alms. The two were already in bed and were about to accomplish their good deeds. The Buddha sent Manjushri Bodhisattva to arrive in time to rescue Ananda.

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Later, the Buddha taught scriptures and handed down the Shurangama Sutra, which showed the seven bases to destroy delusion, the manifest view, the five yins, the six entrances, the seven great elements, the twelve bases, the eighteen realms, the twenty-five holy self-realization realms, and

The Shurangama Dharma School also talks about fifty evil things.

The Surangama Sutra begins with the destruction of demons and ends with the destruction of demons. It teaches Buddhists how to be aware of demons and then destroy demons, evil and delusion.

Now the evil Buddha in the golden body of the Buddha statue is sleeping. Monk Pu Zhi recited this sutra based on his cultivation level that he will become an Arhat, in order to use the power of the sutra to quietly block the evil Buddha's perception of the outside world.

The old monk knew that his cultivation level was far inferior to that of the evil Buddha's true form in the capital, and even the distraction in this Buddha statue was not completely sure to be suppressed, so he used this method to slowly figure it out.

Now that Monk Pushan has been seriously injured and is recovering in retreat, there is no one to distract the evil Buddha and wake him up.

"Little Taoist priest, don't be anxious. You only need to wait twelve hours for Lao Na to be able to deceive the evil Buddha inside the statue."

"When the time comes, I will be in charge of the Mahavira Palace, and you will kill those false Buddhist disciples outside as you wish!"

"If you can't wait and take action in advance, I will have no choice but to confront this evil Buddha head-on, and things will be difficult to handle by then!"

The old monk closed his eyes and chanted sutras, and the night flew by.

In the early morning of the next day, a young novice monk in charge of sweeping came to the temple to add fragrant oil to the lamp in front of the Buddha.

"Greetings to the abbot!" The young novice saw the old monk with his eyes closed and chanting sutras, and hurriedly came over to pay homage.

The old monk paused slightly as he read the scriptures, and then ordered: "From today on, our temple will close the mountain gate and refuse pilgrims to come here to worship Buddha."

The little novice monk said quickly: "Yesterday Master Pushan took many monks with him and said they were going out to preach the Dharma, but they haven't come back yet."

"Don't worry about him, he will look back when the time comes!"

After the old monk finished saying this, he closed his eyes and continued to recite scriptures.

The young novice nodded, ran to the outside of the hall to deliver the order, and then came in with a vegetarian meal for the old abbot to eat.

Monk Puzhi nodded and did not stop chanting. The young novice had no choice but to put the rice bowl aside, find a futon to sit on, and chant along with the old monk.

After a while, other monks came to the Main Hall. Seeing the old abbot who had not appeared for a long time chanting sutras, they also sat down and listened.

The Surangama Sutra is one of the most important Buddhist scriptures and can be recited by all the monks in the temple. Some monks listened to it for a while and found it uninteresting, so they bowed to the old monk and left the hall.

Some monks also understood some of the true meaning of the scriptures after listening to them. They felt that the scriptures recited by the old abbot seemed to be somewhat different from the Maitreya Purana Sutra taught by Master Pushan, so they sat down in the hall and listened carefully.
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Most of the monks in the temple are ordinary monks who have not cultivated the power of Buddha's light and do not have any Buddhist supernatural powers, so they did not arouse the distracting reaction of the evil Buddha in the Buddha statue.

These monks recited the Shurangama Sutra together, their voices low and clear, and together they echoed in the Mahavira Hall.

The morning sun rises outside the hall, and the sunlight shines in, making the whole room of the Main Hall bright.

Looking across the mountain, Laojun is watching.

After Zhang Muzhi breathed in the Purple Sun Qi, he took a long breath and collected his skills, only to see Liujia God General coming in front of him.

"How did the gods come here?" the little Taoist couldn't help but ask.

Jiazi God General Wang Wenqing bowed first, then held up a jade bowl and said with a smile:

"The Little Celestial Master wants to fight against Buddhism, and we can't do much to help him. We can only make pills from the Purple Sun Qi collected these days to help the Little Celestial Master increase his magic power."

Zhang Muzhi lowered his head and saw that there was a purple pill in the white jade bowl, about the size of a grape, exuding a purple aura, so he reached out and picked it up: "Thank you so many gods."

After the projectile enters the body, it melts in the body fluid, and then falls into the Dantian. After a moment of blood flowing through the meridians, it turns into its own magic power.

"About the same amount of purple energy that I breathe out for more than a month..."

Zhang Muzhi sensed the increase in his mana and thanked him again.

The faces of the six Dingjia gods were full of guilt, as if they were embarrassed to accept Zhang Muzhi's thanks. They bowed again and then turned into golden light and flew back to the Liujia seal on the incense table in Lingguan Hall.

The smile on Zhang Muzhi's face disappeared and he couldn't help but sigh.

"It involves a dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, and these Dingjia gods are unwilling to intervene. Perhaps the Liuding goddess will still emit the divine light to protect her body, but the Liujia god general will not show up to help us fight off the enemy."

Fairy Changming appeared and sneered softly. Zhang Muzhi nodded, missing Liu Meng and the many ghost troops in his heart.

This is the disadvantage of summoning the gods from the upper world to distract the gods from the lower world. Although the gods recruited have great magical powers, they have their own ideas.

Unlike Liu Meng and other soldiers and horses trained by his family, who can fight through mountains and seas of fire with just one word. Even if Zhang Muzhi wants to fight in heaven one day, these soldiers and horses who are with him will follow him without hesitation, knowing that they will die.

"Senior General Liujia has this attitude. It is probably useless to summon heavenly soldiers and generals... How about you give it a try? Can you summon the heavenly soldiers of Lei Department and say those monks are disciples of false Buddhas?" Fairy Changming gave Zhang Muzhi some advice.

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"There is no need to call in the heavenly soldiers for this kind of hardship." Zhang Muzhi said calmly, "It is useless to think too much. What we do must be determined to go alone despite tens of millions of people!"

Fairy Changming showed a smile on her face and was about to praise her a few times when she heard the little Taoist priest say: "I'll ask Brother Lingguan to see if he agrees..."

"You're just like, 'Even though there are thousands of people, I'll go alone'?" Fairy Changming couldn't help but roll her eyes.

Zhang Muzhi naturally pretended not to hear, went to the Lingguan Hall to offer incense and worship, picked up the Holy Grail, and began to pray incessantly.

What he said was nothing more than how powerful the evil Buddha's subordinates were, how dangerous he was because he was not very advanced in the Tao, but he had to wait and wait in order to subjugate demons. Che Zulu talked a lot.

"Brother Wang Lingguan has a compassionate heart, lowers his clone, and uses great magic power to help my younger brother defeat the devil!" The little Taoist finished his chatter and began to throw the Holy Grail.

"Yang Gua, neither agree nor disagree, let's do it again."

Zhang Muzhi decided in his heart: "Brother Lingguan is really compassionate! Thank you, Brother Lingguan!", and then walked out of Lingguan Hall happily.

Fairy Changming saw the hexagram outside the palace, and was even more speechless. She couldn't help but ask: "Why did Wang Lingguan agree? Are you afraid of capsizing by doing this?"

The little Taoist priest was about to explain a few words to Fairy Changming when he suddenly heard a "squeaking" sound. He looked up and saw two little beasts, Hu Xiner and Huang Erlang, crawling in from the hole in the wall.

"Where have you two been having fun?! I've been back for a few days and I haven't seen you come to see me!"

Zhang Muzhi opened his mouth to scold, and the two animals, one white and one yellow, were startled. When they saw Zhang Mu, they stepped forward with their tails between their legs and their ears drooped, and they lay on the ground trembling and kowtowed.

"I have something to do today and I don't have time to control you two. You go and read the Jingjing Sutra. I will check it tomorrow. If you miss a word, you will be punished!"

The two little beasts dejectedly walked into the little Taoist priest's wing, took out the scriptures, and stood in the corner to recite.

Zhang Muzhi flew up into the air while sitting on the jade lotus platform, with his three eyes opened together, overlooking the scene of Yuanjue Temple from above.

In Dharma Eyes, two golden Buddha lights, good and one evil, can be seen rising in the sky above Yuanjue Temple in the distance. The pure Buddha light among them is growing little by little, as if it wants to break through the suppression of the evil Buddha light.

"The old monk has indeed taken action, but the speed is too slow. I'm afraid it won't take more than a day!"

Zhang Muzhi landed on the ground again and began to place books and draw talismans. Naturally, the most drawn ones were various thunder talismans.

Finally, he took the pen and paper to the Lingguan Hall and recited the Lingguan Baogao thirty-six times and the prayer mantra, and then he picked up the cinnabar pen and drew Wang Lingguan's summoning talisman.

Fairy Changming had been standing next to the little Taoist priest watching him draw the talisman. When she saw him drawing the summoning talisman to summon the spiritual official, she couldn't help but ask: "Aren't you making things difficult for Wang Lingguan?"

"Brother Lingguan is not an outsider! Don't be embarrassed!" Zhang Muzhi said with a smile, then took out the ancestral capital seal and stamped it on the summoning talisman.

"The evil Buddha ate a clone of Brother Lingguan in the capital. This time Brother Lingguan went down to the realm to destroy him and distracted him. It was both a subjugation of demons and revenge. It has nothing to do with any dispute between Buddhism and Taoism. What is the difficulty?"

With Fairy Changming's knowledge, after hearing Zhang Muzhi's remarks, Rao couldn't help but nod her head, thinking that what he said was reasonable.

Zhang Muzhi put away the drawn talisman, then put the military flag, peach wood sword, and Liujia seal on the incense table into the Qinglian space. Then he went to the courtyard and found the scorpion transformed by the Jade Rakshasa, and put them away as well.
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"We will attack Yuanjue Temple at dawn tomorrow. I will go look for Zuo Qianhu first!"

Fairy Changming nodded, and her body turned into a ray of fire and flew into the hibiscus crown on Zhang Mu's head. The original sapphire crown turned into brass.

Zhang Muzhi rode the lotus platform and first ascended into the sky, then headed towards Shangzuofu in Jiangning County.

In the Main Hall of Yuanjue Temple, Monk Puzhi kept chanting sutras. He opened his eyes and looked at the thirty monks in the hall, his face full of joy.

"My Buddha is merciful. It seems that our Yuanjue Temple still has some energy and should not be extinct this time!"

Most of the monks in the temple are young novice monks who have recently become monks. They are familiar with the scriptures, but they have not yet cultivated the Buddha's light and have no supernatural powers.

However, the old monk Pu Zhi doesn't care about this. What Buddhism emphasizes is compassion and salvation, sudden enlightenment and becoming a Buddha. The four elements are all in vain. As for magical powers and magic, they are inherently inferior.

Zhang Muzhi lowered the lotus platform in a remote and uninhabited place, and then walked across the street to the gate of Zuofu: "Please tell me that Laojun Guan Taoist Zhang is here to visit!"

The servant guarding the gate did not dare to neglect and ran in to report. After a while, Zuo Mengyu came out in person.
To be continued...