The Great Wei Music Bureau

Chapter 150 Golden Pagoda

Last time, we talked about Li Yi and his two companions going around the back mountain, planning to sneak into Jin'an Temple from the back door. When they reached the ridge, he suddenly stopped and looked towards the top of the mountain. So what did he feel? Let's take a look together.

Yi Ling followed Li Yi's line of sight, closed her eyes and tried to sense, but still felt nothing. She looked at Li Yi with a puzzled look, and the latter smiled and said, "Maybe it's my illusion, let's keep going."

However, before he had walked far, Li Yi stopped again and looked towards the top of the mountain. Yi Ling said, "If you really feel something, you might as well go up and take a look. We don't have anything to do anyway." Li Yi nodded and followed his intuition to walk towards the top of the mountain.

Li Yi brought Yi Ling and Yu Jiu to the top of the mountain. The stone wall was about three feet high and one foot wide, with a huge word "Buddha" written on it in gold paint. Yi Ling touched the stone wall and said, "This stone wall is not natural. Only a person in the extraordinary realm can make such a smooth cut."

Li Yi nodded and said, "The remains of Master Jingchan are probably nearby."

Yi Ling was surprised and asked, "What? Master Jingchan is dead? Didn't he say he was in seclusion?"

Li Yi shook his head and said, "That was Jing'an's trick. Not only did he know that Master Jingchan had passed away, he also knew why he passed away."

Yi Ling said coldly: "Humph, I didn't expect there are such people in Buddhism. It seems that your Buddhism is not that good!"

Li Yi said helplessly: "There are all kinds of birds in a big forest. This is normal. Don't you have people like Er Huang in your sect? This is unavoidable. There is nothing more sinister than the human heart in this world."

Yi Ling said contemptuously: "How old are you? You have never suffered any hardship, yet you are so shameless as to say that people are evil!"

Li Yi shook his head and said, "You don't need to experience many things to feel their bitterness."

Yi Ling said unhappily, "What can you understand? When I was six years old, the Huai River overflowed and my father was washed away by the flood. His life or death is unknown. They put me in a pig cage to sacrifice to the river god! My mother is a woman but she couldn't save me even if she wanted to. If it weren't for Master Mo Zhai, I would have been buried in the belly of the fish!"

Li Yi asked in confusion: "You sound resentful. Could it be related to that Master Mo Zhai?"

Yi Ling stared at Li Yi and said, "Did you hear that? He saved me, he could have taken me in as his disciple, he could have taken me on a journey around the world, but he chose to send me to Mount Qiyun! If it weren't for the fact that Master and my brothers were so kind to me, I would have to settle the score with him!"

Li Yi patted Yu Jiu on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I see. I was wondering why you were so kind to your family, sending gifts and sending dreams, all to get Yu Jiu to follow me."

Yi Ling said coldly: "If I don't do that, you will definitely do the same as that Wang guy and ask me to take Yu Jiu to Qiyun Mountain! You men are all the same! You are all bastards who are afraid of trouble and unwilling to take responsibility!"

Li Yi interrupted, "Hey, you're hitting me too hard! I'm not an irresponsible man! Don't worry, I will definitely take responsibility for Yu Jiu, and I will definitely treat him as our child!"

Yiling snorted coldly: "That's better!" Yu Jiu looked up at Li Yi, then looked at Yiling, shook his head and sighed.

Yi Ling finally reacted and cursed: "Li! Do you want to die?"

Yi Ling drew out the peach wood sword and stabbed at Li Yi, who dodged to the side and said with a smile: "What are you doing! Are you trying to murder your husband?"

Yi Ling said angrily: "Yu Jiu, it seems that I really have to take you back to Qiyun Mountain. You will definitely not learn anything good if you follow this Li guy! I will kill him first, and then take you away!"

Yu Jiu shook his head helplessly, walked to the side and sat under a tree, resting his chin on his hand and said, "You two can fight slowly. Anyway, we can't go back to Qingniu Temple, and we can't enter Jin'an Temple. We don't have anywhere to stay. You two can fight here for a while, and I can learn a few moves from you."

Li Yi said unhappily: "Hey, kid, you just watch your parents fight like this! Why don't you try to stop them?"

Yu Jiu replied: "My parents don't fight, at most they just have a few arguments."

Although Yi Ling's spiritual power had not recovered, she just couldn't use magic. The disciples of the Earth Sect who practiced both life and death had both magic and martial arts, so Li Yi didn't dare to be careless and used the Vajra Divine Art to carefully deal with Yi Ling. However, Yi Ling was really angry and didn't hold back at all. Of course, she also knew that she couldn't hurt Li Yi even if she used all her strength.

After Li Yi had given up a dozen moves, he said, "Hey, that's enough, we still have business to attend to!"

Yi Ling retorted: "You still know that there are important things to do! Then you are still talking nonsense! I must cut off your tongue!" As she spoke, she stabbed with a sword. Li Yi had no choice but to dodge, and then grasped Yi Ling's wrist, and with another force, he inserted the peach wood sword into the stone wall. Yi Ling wanted to draw the sword to fight again, but she couldn't pull it out.

Li Yi smiled and said, "Finally, we can be quiet for a while. By the way, is this peach wood sword of yours a magic weapon? It can actually penetrate this stone wall?"

Yi Ling said coldly: "Nonsense! This must be a magic weapon, otherwise how can it subdue demons and monsters! Hurry up and help me pull out the sword!"

Li Yi stepped forward and said with a smile: "You can pull it out, but if you keep making trouble, I will have to put it in again!"

Yi Ling, who had never had sex, naturally did not understand his lewd words, so she did not respond to him, but punched Li Yi a few times when he approached. Li Yi took it as a little punch of love, and he did not feel any pain at all with his Vajra Magic, so he just smiled. Li Yi walked to the stone wall, stretched out his hand to hold the hilt, and tried to pull out the peach wood sword, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not pull it out.

Yi Ling sneered, "Humph, you have no real skills, you can only talk big, you are indeed a Confucianist!"

Li Yi curled his lips, summoned the body of the Acala, held the hilt of the sword with both hands, and used his arms behind his back to support the stone wall with all his strength, but he saw veins popping on his forehead, but the peach wood sword still did not move. At this time, Yi Ling also realized the problem. Logically speaking, even if she and Li Yi exerted their strength at the same time, it would not be enough to insert the peach wood sword into the stone wall. Now Li Yi tried his best but couldn't pull it out, which could only mean that there was something wrong with the stone wall.

Yi Ling said, "You can't pull it out by brute force. Why don't you try using Buddhism?"

Li Yi nodded, retracted his Dharma image, and sat facing the wall in meditation, holding an eighteen-seed rosary in one hand and a Buddhist ritual in the other. As Li Yi silently recited the scriptures, Buddha light gradually rose around him, and the golden Buddha light slowly floated toward the stone wall and merged into the golden Buddha character.

At this moment, Li Yi suddenly entered another space. In front of him was only the hanging mountain and the stone wall. Li Yi wondered, "Does this feel like a spiritual platform? But this is not my spiritual platform. Could it be Master Jingchan's?" He reached out and gently touched the stone wall. Suddenly, a hole appeared on the stone wall, and Buddha's light was reflected in the hole.

Li Yi stepped into the cave, and the entrance closed immediately. He followed the Buddha's light and walked into the cave. He passed through a narrow passage and came to a cave. The Buddha's light was emitted from the dried body of an old monk. Although the old monk's body was skinny, he was immortal and peaceful. Even his gray beard was still there. He looked like he had just passed away.

Li Yi bowed in front of the old monk and said, "Amitabha, I am Li Xiuyuan, an outer disciple of the Buddhist school, and I am honored to meet Master Jingchan."

The old monk's body never spoke, but Li Yi could hear him talking. Jingchan asked in confusion, "Outer sect disciple? A person who has never been ordained has such a pure Buddhist teaching, and has the blessing of the Immovable Bodhisattva. It seems that a lot of things have happened in Buddhism over the years. Please sit down."

Li Yi sat cross-legged opposite the old monk and asked, "Master Jingchan, have you not been reincarnated?"

Jingchan replied, "This is just a divine thought I left before I passed away, to pass on my legacy. I didn't expect that you, an outer disciple, would be the one waiting for me. Well, since you can enter this place, it means that you are qualified and capable of inheriting my legacy."

Li Yi waved his hands repeatedly and said, "No, no, absolutely not. Master, I appreciate your kindness, but I am a disciple of the Laughing Lion Arhat, so it is not convenient for me to inherit someone else's legacy."

Master Jingchan asked in confusion, "Oh, you are actually the disciple of Laughing Lion Arhat. This is strange. Laughing Lion Arhat passed away more than 30 years ago. You don't look that old. How can you worship Laughing Lion Arhat as your master?"

Li Yi explained: "It was the Bodhisattva Guangsheng who instructed me to become a disciple of the Laughing Lion Arhat, and Senior Brother Zhengyuan accepted me as a disciple on my behalf."

Jingchan responded: "I see, then you are still my uncle! Jingchan meets my uncle!"

Li Yi immediately stood up and waved his hands, saying, "No, no, Master Jingchan, let's talk about it. In front of a great monk like you, no matter how high your cultivation level or experience are, how dare a young boy like me call myself your uncle!"

Jingchan sighed, "A high monk? I am not a high monk! I am just a sinner in Buddhism."

Li Yi shook his head and sighed, "Ah, you mean Jing'an, right? To be honest, the Bodhisattva Acalanatha has ordered me to escort Jing'an to Lingyin Temple to be punished."

Jingchan was silent for a moment, and suddenly said in a pleading tone: "Uncle Master, I have an unwelcome request."

Li Yi waved his hands repeatedly and said, "No, no, no, Master Jingchan, please stop calling me like that. It will shorten my life! Just call me Xiuyuan. If you have anything to ask, just tell me. I will definitely help if I can."

Jingchan pleaded, "Although I have passed away and entered the cycle of reincarnation, I have always had an obsession, and that obsession is exactly my junior brother Jing'an. It is all my fault that he has become what he is now. We were brothers and became monks together. Master had long seen that his true nature was unclear and his Buddhist heart was not right. It was my selfishness that led me to favor and indulge him, and I finally suffered the consequences. I thought that my passing away could atone for his sins, but I never thought that without restraint, he would become even worse and fall into the devil's way! So I would like to ask my uncle not to escort him to Lingyin Temple, but to end this cause and effect for me."

Li Yi was surprised and said, "You want me to kill him? This... I'm afraid that's not possible. This goes against the order of the Immovable Bodhisattva!"

At this moment, the image of Acalanatha suddenly appeared behind Li Yi, with Buddha's light shining all over his body, illuminating the entire spiritual platform. Acalanatha Bodhisattva said, "Well done, well done. Since Jingchan was able to learn from his mistakes and cultivate his karma, you should fulfill his wish." Li Yi bowed and said yes.

Jingchan also thanked him: "Disciple thanks Budongzun Bodhisattva!"

The Dharma image of Acala said, "Jingchan, since you have sincerely repented, you can leave the secular world in this life, return to Buddhism, and cultivate the golden body again!"

Jingchan replied: "Amitabha, I will practice Buddhism with all my heart and live up to the grace of Buddha and Bodhisattva!" With a swish, the image of Acalanatha disappeared, and peace returned to the spiritual platform.

Li Yi looked at Jingchan's body and bowed, saying, "Master, although I am willing to help you, Jingan will not leave Jin'an Temple. With the temple protection array and the relics, I am no match for him."

Jingchan said, "Master, don't worry about this. I have my own way. Besides, I have something else I would like to ask for your help."

Li Yi waved his hand and said, "Master, please stop yelling like that. It feels like thunder is about to strike. Just tell me what you want to say!"

Jingchan said: "Since Uncle Master cannot inherit my mantle, I would like to ask Uncle Master to help me find a successor so that the lineage of Tota Arhat can be passed on."

Li Yi smiled and said, "Oh, this is easy to handle. I think the Five Dharma Monks are not corrupt yet, so we can choose one of them to inherit the master's mantle."

Jingchan said, "Thank you very much, uncle. But you have to keep this robe and bowl for me. When the Five Dharma Monks' Buddhism becomes as pure as yours, I will select a successor to pass on this golden pagoda to him." As he spoke, all the Buddha's light in the cave slowly gathered in the hands of Jingchan's remains, and finally condensed into a golden and exquisite pagoda. However, this pagoda was obviously not a pagoda in the Central Plains. From the appearance, it looked like a bell with a spire added.

When the golden exquisite tower solidified, it flew to Li Yi on its own. Li Yi took the golden tower and said, "Is this the magic weapon of Master Uncle?"

Jingchan replied, "Yes, this is the pagoda of our master, named Golden Pagoda, and the practice of our lineage of Pagoda-holding Arhats is the Pagoda Practice. Please remember this "Demon-Suppressing Pagoda Mantra" so that it can be passed on to future generations. In addition, Junior Brother Jing'an often comes to me to complain, but I can only watch him degenerate little by little and can do nothing. I will tell you everything I know, and ask you to help me end this cause and effect!"