Chapter 465 The World Is Suffering, but Gradually Disappearing

When Shi Pantuo stumbled and pushed away the master's meditation room, what he saw was the monk who had completely closed his eyes and left this world. He lost his spirit for a moment.

Crying like a helpless child.

In the palace, Li Zhi, the third majesty of the Tang Dynasty, knew of Master Xuanzang's death.

The emperor lost his mind.

In his hands, the Tang Empire had reached its most prosperous territory. When the emperor went to enshrine Zen, the heads of countries from Korea in the east to Persia and Uzbekistan in the west had to accompany him respectfully as courtiers.

At that time, Li Zhi, who was not seriously ill, stopped the court for several days in a row, leaving sixteen characters of emotion.

The sea of ​​bitterness is wide, the boats are sinking rapidly, the dark room is still dim, and the lamps are hidden.

"Your Majesty, what should we do with the mage's body?"

Empress Wu Meiniang asked softly.

Li Zhi rubbed his brows and said: "That swordsman surnamed Chen made an appearance for Xuanzang. Xuanzang hoped to wrap his body in the simplest way and place it in a secluded place. I will follow his wish." .”

"A Ranger with the surname Chen..."

Wu Meiniang murmured a few times, then stretched out her hand to rub Li Zhi's shoulder.

"Life and death are also important. How can a mage be so crude when he is so accomplished and virtuous?"

"The empire conquered the Western Regions, and the sorcerer also made great contributions. Wouldn't this make all the courtiers mistakenly believe that His Majesty's rewards and punishments are uneven? You should bring his body to Chang'an, tell His Majesty the sorrow, and let the people of the world know that His Majesty has given credit to those who have made great contributions. A minister, he has his own rewards to win his heart."

Li Zhi pondered for a while, and said, "Just as the queen said."

Therefore, when the ranger was about to bury Xuanzang, the Imperial Guard Xuanjia Army from Chang'an appeared in Yuhua Temple. No one knew who ordered the Xuanjia Army with thousands of people to form an formation. They are the most elite one thousand armored warriors in the whole world.

Everyone thinks that this is to highlight the royal family's respect for the Great Master Xuanzang.

And Shi Pantuo held the ranger tightly, so he didn't let him draw his sword. The red-eyed ranger watched Xuanzang being taken to the Temple of Mercy in Chang'an, without a sword in his hand, but there seemed to be thousands of swords neighing in the sky. .

And the ranger who didn't enter Chang'an for several years after the incident of that year finally stepped into this city.

During this period of time, more than 3,000 people in Chang'an came to mourn the legend of the Tang Dynasty every day. If he really cultivated Buddhism, his body would not rot, but it would become a relic. Both the emperor and the empress came to the Temple of Grace.

The empress left the emperor for the time being and was relaxing in the Temple of Grace.

Finally, he stood in front of the Xuanzang stupa. In front of this newly built pagoda, a ranger dressed in white linen sat there quietly. At this moment, the ranger's first sword was buried with the king of a foreign country, and the second sword accompanied his friend to leave the world. With a sound of white clothes, he tied it into a hairpin.

At this time, the first month is just over, and the spring is cold and cold.

The queen stepped back and said softly: "...Brother Chen, are you okay?"

"People cannot be resurrected after death, but we must mourn."

The Ranger sat quietly.

Wu Zetian said softly: "Brother Chen, do you really don't want to talk to me anymore?"

"Brother Chen, turn your head and look at me."

"Brother Chen..."

This sunset snowed, and finally Datang's Empress's shoulders were covered with snow, saying:

"Chen Yuan, I order you!"

"Turn back!"

You Xia raised his eyes and turned around, but his eyes were no longer focused, and his voice was hoarse:

"...The emperor respects Xuanzang a lot. You asked him to bring Xuanzang's body back, right?"

The queen said softly: "I just want to see you again."

The nostalgia of the royal family is too heavy and too domineering.

You Xiaer said flatly: "Chen Yuan has seen the empress."

"In Chen's eyes..."

"Only Buddha."

The queen took a deep look at the ranger who had never looked at her, and left in a huff.

But what is Buddha?

When Shi Pantuo came to look for You Xia with his clothes in a hurry, Chen Yuan was covered in white snow. In fact, the horse bandit, who was already over sixty years old, quickly wiped the snow on You Xia's body with his sleeve, worried that the latter would also So he couldn't afford to be seriously ill, so he wiped hard to clean the dirt on his clothes, but the snow on his head still couldn't be wiped clean.

As if it was branded on it, the swordsman with the highest cultivation base in the contemporary era has turned white in the blink of an eye.

Young and frivolous, arrogant and indulgent, mad and fast, with a sword in hand, he dares to turn the world upside down.

But this year is over half a century, and it is sad and painful. Only when you lose your friends with a broken sword, you will know the vicissitudes of the road.

The ranger staggered to his feet and said, "Let's go."

When Xuanzang was buried.

The monk who only wanted simplicity was greeted with a golden coffin and a silver coffin bestowed by the royal family.

In addition, when I learned of Xuanzang's death, according to historical records, more than a million people were sent within five hundred miles of Chang'an and other prefectures. That night, a full 30,000 people stood guard before the tomb. When I was young, I had to let Xuanzang Chang'an, who chose to smuggle, offered his farewell to him in an unprecedented spontaneous way after his death.

"Shi Pantuo, do you want to stay in Chang'an?"

After Xuanzang's death, You Xiaer asked the horse bandits back then,

"Here, you can at least spend your old age in peace."

Shi Pantuo, who also had gray hair all over his head, shook his head and said softly:

"No."

He replied:

"I was a horse bandit when I was young. I was a businessman when I had work, and I would rob occasionally. Although I don't like killing people, I did a lot of ridiculous things under my hands. At that time, I slept with my pillow on my head. Weapons, you will feel that no place is safe, there is no home in the world.”

"Later, Master found me. After that, I felt that although the world is big."

"But the place where the master is is home."

"And now, Master has gone too."

Shi Pantuo said softly: "But I feel that the world is so big that everyone can be home."

"In this case, then I will go to the place where we met back then."

The horse bandit, who has been ups and downs all his life, uttered the most Buddha-natured words in his life:

"Fang knows that my life has a beginning and an end."

It happened that Gengchen came to look for You Xia'er and said that killing himself on Kunlun Mountain was the best choice. You Xia'er was instructed by Yuan Tiangang's master and apprentice again, and this year he took a step forward and walked towards Guazhou again, walking out of the city. When he was there, he looked at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda in Chang'an City from a distance.

At the highest point of the pagoda, which is composed of unknown number of relics.

It is Xuanzang's parietal bone relic.

He never seemed to leave.

Chen Yuan took a deep look, as if he saw the smiling monk sitting cross-legged on the highest part of the pagoda, looking at him quietly, the ranger laughed out loud, flicked his sleeves, mixed with the passing crowd, and stepped out of the gate of Chang'an.

This ranger has been away from Chang'an for 19 years, and after returning to Chang'an for 19 years, he embarked on a journey again. It was as if he would never stop, as if this was his destiny in this life.

And this year, the emperor and queen, and the two saints came to court.

Emperor Li Zhi at least obeyed Xuanzang's last wish and buried him in Bailuyuan.

Feeling that the world is impermanent, he wanted to build Buddha statues and stone carvings for the Tang royal family to pray for blessings. When discussing the place with the queen, the queen said softly: "I heard...the Northern Wei Dynasty actually built stone carvings back then."

"Are the stone carvings of Buddha statues in the Northern Wei Dynasty?"

The emperor thought about it, and then agreed, which was not an important matter in the first place.

"The stone carvings of the Northern Wei Dynasty, I remember they were in Longmen, Luoyang."

Luoyang.

Chen Yuan, a ranger in Chang'an, is from Luoyang.

At that time, the queen who was the mother of the world called the monks and skilled craftsmen from all over the world. As the master of the harem, she paid a full 20,000 guan for carving the Buddha statue this time. I once saw the monk who presided over the sculpture, but there was an unspeakable majesty in his eyes.

"Raise your head and look at Bengong."

The monks raised their heads tremblingly, and saw the soft and majestic queen.

The queen said softly: "Bengong, I want you to transform my eyebrows into the Buddha statue."

It is not unheard of for dignitaries to put their own eyebrows into Buddha statues for protection. In Buddhist temples in many places, there are so-called Thousand-Buddha Halls. It is incense money donated by dignitaries.

The monk settled down, clasped his hands together and asked, "I don't know how big a Buddha statue I want."

The woman with graceful eyebrows said calmly: "The biggest one in the world."

The monk's pupils contracted.

The group of monks finally left trembling.

The money of 20,000 guan, the 20,000 guan in Wu Zetian's hands, is by no means so easy to get. It took them three years and nine months to turn the empress's eyebrows into a Buddha statue for the great Buddha of Lushena, which is the whole of China, the whole world The most beautiful Buddha, the graceful queen walks in Chang'an, she looks into the distance with calm eyes.

She will never be that kind of plain and gentle woman.

You always go back.

she thought.

You have to see Buddha.

Then, when you have traveled 800 miles across the desert, walked through 3000 miles of snowfields, returned to Luoyang, and returned to your hometown, you raised your head and saw the largest and most majestic Buddha.

Be me!

………………

And Chen Yuan and Geng Chen, with Shi Pantuo, returned to Guazhou along the road that Xuanzang traveled to the west.

In fact, this road is far from being as difficult as it used to be.

It can even be said that the journey was very smooth. The East Turks have already surrendered. Guazhou is no longer the frontier of the Tang Dynasty in this era. City, said: "You really, just stay here?"

With a smile on his face, Shi Pantuo said, "Yes."

"How many years, I finally came back, so I won't leave."

Chen Yuan took a deep look at him, nodded slightly, and turned around.

After walking a dozen steps, there was a splash from behind.

He didn't look back.

The white-haired Shi Pantuo bowed down and said loudly with a smile:

"Brother Yuan, let's go all the way!"

"Stone Pantuo."

"I can't send you off again!"

Laughing and laughing turned into sobs, and when he looked up, his face was wrinkled and tears were streaming down his face.

Shi Pantuo stood up staggeringly, and walked back to Guazhou City under the surprised eyes of others.

He is already an old man.

He finally lived in seclusion not far from Guazhou, missing his teacher and the past years, and ended his life. Later, when the Xixia people came here, they found grottoes in this place. The murals brought the mysteries of Buddhism to the barbarians on horseback, and they eventually expanded here to complete more majestic murals.

That is the Dongqian Buddha Cave, which is as famous as the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.

Here, there is the original map of Xuanzang's journey to the west.

The bright moon hangs high, and Xuanzang, who is dressed in traveling attire, closes his eyes. Behind him, the disciple of the barbarian with yellow hair stretches out his hand to cover his forehead. His eyes are anxious, and he doesn't know who he is waiting for. This is unprecedented, and there will be no future. There will be paintings with Xuanzang as the centerpiece of Buddha murals.

Inside was a skeleton.

I don't know how the painter missed his past with tears streaming down his face.

Then he either passed away peacefully or with a sigh, and went after his master.

And in that year, Chang'an's ranger finally set foot on the road to West Kunlun. Half of the team died when he came to the snow mountain for the first time. The invisible lingering air machine chopped into pieces.

The ranger is dressed in light blue linen clothes, with his hands behind his back, his white hair fluttering.

Once gained everything, once lost everything.

Now Wang Xuance is dead, and Tang Xuanzang is dead.

Shi Pantuo laughed and returned to Guazhou.

The former little girl has become a ruthless nobleman inside the palace walls, and even the five-sealed heroes who were not familiar with each other have passed away forever. The former Nalanda has been turned into ruins, everything has returned to nothingness, and everyone has passed away. , I am the only one left alone.

When he turned his head, he seemed to be able to see the smoke rising from Xuanzang's body in the Ci'en Temple in Chang'an when it was burned and turned into a relic. Now, the relic is in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda that has been planned for thousands of years.

Chen Yuan passed Geng Chen step by step, whispering:

"Burning the remains to thank the common people."

"I've been a ruthless person all my life."

"Let's go, go to Kunlun!"

PS: The first update today...