Chapter 55 Opening the Mountain Gate and Recruiting Disciples (Please read more!)
Chapter 55: Opening the door wide and recruiting disciples (please read it!)
Author: Dr. Bei Guocha
Chapter 55: Opening the door wide and recruiting disciples (please read it!)
Zuo Lengchan and Ren Woxing had a big battle four or five years ago. There was no winner at that time, but Ren Woxing noticed the many shortcomings and shortcomings of the star-absorbing method, which also contributed to his long-term retreat this year.
Martial arts is the reason why Dongfang Bubai continues to grow bigger.
At that time, Zuo Lengchan also thought that he was no match for Ren Woxing, so in order to restrain the star-absorbing magic next time or even turn defeat into victory, he also stayed in Songshan for a long time, pondering over the "Ice Divine Palm" martial arts that would be powerful in the world in the future.
Zheng Gui originally knew that Zuo Ren had been involved in a great war, but when he learned from Stenda that Zuo Lengchan had to retreat for more than half a year every year to study martial arts, he immediately guessed that he was creating the Ice Divine Palm.
Back at Wuse'an, Zheng Gui sorted out the various information that he half-guessed and half-deduced from Stenda's words and reported it to Master Dingxian.
Master Dingxian was shocked that the Songshan Sect had such huge strength secretly.
Her expression changed slightly, and she muttered something. She pondered for a moment before saying: "Junior brother, although the director of the Demon Cult, I Xing, has died, the newly succeeded Dongfang Bubai is even more difficult to deal with.
Zuo Lengchan is secretly planning something big, and just waiting for it to happen is the thunder and lightning. Unknowingly, our Hengshan Sect is already on the edge of the cliff, and you and I are also in an extremely dangerous situation..."
Zheng Gui nodded and said: "What the head sister said is that the Demon Sect is the enemy and the enemy. Of course we are worried about Dongfang Bubai being powerful, but we always feel at ease thinking that the orthodox sects can help each other.
But if there is an ambitious person in the Wuyue Sword Sect with whom I am a sympathizer, and he stabs the dagger without warning, I am afraid that it will be really hard to guard against, and it will be even more terrifying than the Demon Sect!"
Master Dingxian's expression became more and more solemn. She closed her eyes and thought for a moment. When she opened her eyes, the light flickered, and the room seemed to be 30% brighter.
"Starting from tomorrow, our Hengshan sect will open its gates and recruit disciples. Junior brother, your Baozhu Temple can also be decorated with plaques. By then, our sect will be ordained bhikshunis and will be stationed in Wuse'an and Baiyun'an. Therefore, the three of us female disciples will
You are in charge, and all the male disciples, both monks and laymen, will be led and taught by you..."
Zheng Gui knew that the burden on his shoulders was not light, but he was not afraid. Instead, he clapped his hands eagerly and said: "Senior Sister, don't worry, within ten years, I will definitely make the number of male disciples of Hengshan Sect catch up with female disciples."
, Zuo Lengchan didn’t dare to act rashly when he thought about the strength of our Hengshan Sect’s numbers!”
In the past two years, the number of disciples accepted by the Hengshan Sect has been greater than in previous years. The three masters each accepted four or five new disciples, and Dingjing and Dingyi even accepted several lay disciples. If this were normal,
, you may not get one person in a year.
However, after realizing that the Songshan Sect had the power to crush the Hengshan Sect, Master Dingxian could not sit still. She knew in her heart that Baozhu Temple had been built, and that Junior Dingxian would definitely recruit more disciples. She thought of the various provincial courtyards and temples.
There were still many good seedlings, so she no longer thought about slowly investigating them, and planned to recruit more good seedlings as disciples.
After Shi Dengda had eaten and drank at Baozhu Temple, he returned to Songshan Mountain happily. Zheng Guize personally supervised the craftsmen to put the finishing touches on the statues of Buddha, Bodhisattva and other gods. Then Master Dingxian came with all the nuns under his disciples.
In a large Dharma assembly, the first stick of incense was burned for the Buddha and Bodhisattvas.
On May 13th, Baozhu Temple opened its doors to receive pilgrims from the mountain. At the same time, Zen Master Dingding began to open his doors to accept his disciples.
Since ancient times, apprentices have visited their masters, and masters have also visited their disciples. Apprentices are looking for good teachers with amazing skills, while teachers are looking for good disciples who can trust them and are loyal and filial to them.
People's hearts are alienated from each other, and because they don't know whether their disciples are worthy of their trust, most martial arts sects who recruit disciples find children to raise by their side, just like the children of an official's family, and cultivate their feelings.
If it expands as fast as the Songshan Sect, it will only use financial benefits and pressure to recruit various masters as peripheral disciples, and will never dare to accept them as Songshan Sect disciples.
Firstly, Zuo Lengchan doesn’t trust them. Secondly, these peripheral forces are just Zuo Lengchan’s chamber pots. Naturally, they cannot see the light of the world. How can they be regarded as one of their own?
Although the Hengshan Sect wants to open its gates widely and recruit disciples on a large scale, the recruitment of disciples is not random.
Naturally, when Sanding recruits female disciples, he selects girls from the families of peripheral strength and believers. Another is to select outstanding young female nuns from various lower houses and monasteries. These disciples are all female disciples who have long since escaped into Buddhism. They are very important to Hengshan.
The factions are naturally loyal, and many of them even have good martial arts foundations, and they just need to teach them superior martial arts.
The Hengshan Sect has accumulated rich resources and a deep foundation for recruiting female disciples over hundreds of years. No matter how fast it is, it may not be impossible to recruit four to five hundred people at once, but the resources for male disciples are far behind.
Zheng Gui knew that Lauderno might have joined Yue Buqun's disciples under Zuo Lengchan's instructions at this time, and that the Taishan and Hengshan sects had probably wedged in the nails or were preparing to wedge them in.
Because the Hengshan Sect only has female disciples, it was never infiltrated by the Songshan Sect in the original plot. However, if you take too big a step in recruiting male disciples, you cannot rely on time to verify it carefully. Instead, spies from the Songshan Sect will sneak in.
Even though he was anxious to expand the number of disciples in Baozhu Temple, Zheng Gui kept narrowing the circle and only selected disciples of the right age from the households of tenants who cultivated Hengshan sect's property at the foot of the mountain and from the homes of devotees who visited all year round.
Yiguang's martial arts and knowledge far surpassed other disciples of Yi's generation. When selecting disciples at the tenant's house at the foot of the mountain, Zheng Gui went there in person at the beginning. After Yiguang followed him twice, he learned how to touch bones to detect qualifications and review
After his family was established, Zheng Gui stayed at Baozhu Temple to recite Buddha's name and practice Buddhism, and sent Yi Guang out.
In mid-May of this year, Baozhu Temple began to recruit disciples. By the beginning of September, Baozhu Temple had hundreds of disciples thanks to the thousands of tenant families and the numerous boys and teenagers from believer families.
When the Baozhu Temple was built, there were only two monks, Huo Gong Tutuo and Zheng Gui, Yi Guang, and two lay disciples, Ning Zhengduan and Ning Zhengli. However, in less than April, there were more than 40 seven or eight years old.
A young novice monk between the ages of fourteen and fifteen.
These novice monks are all direct disciples of Zheng Gui. They are temporarily studying Buddhism in the temple to restrain their minds. They will not be able to teach the foundation-building martial arts for another three months.
In addition to the more than forty novice monks, there are more than forty lay disciples who also dress up as monks on weekdays, but they are not included in the rites of generation, and their status is also below that of the Ning family brothers.
The last twenty or so slightly older teenagers and young men were the sons of tenants who had not been able to become disciples of Zheng Gui because of their poor qualifications or lack of cleverness. They were raised in the temple as Taoist fireworkers to do odd jobs.
Zheng Gui himself was born as a handyman monk in Daxiong Zen Monastery. He sympathized with these Taoist fire masters. Although he did not accept them as disciples, he planned to teach them some foundation-building exercises to strengthen their bodies in the future, and wait until they reached adulthood.
We also need to pay some monthly money every month, and we can't let them work for nothing.