Chapter 731 Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced
Yes, Li Qi's coincidence.
It would not have happened that he ran into Monk Xinming.
However, Li Qi had chosen the future, and he calculated that he could do this, so he followed the direction of cause and effect and came here smoothly.
So, what seemed to be a coincidence and a small probability happened just like that.
Monk Xinming would not notice it, but Li Qi had definitely mastered this power.
In fact, Li Qi didn't know where Monk Xinming was at all, he was just trying to figure out the existence of the clairvoyance.
After that...
It's very simple, just follow the cause and effect connection.
Li Qi didn't know anything, and didn't understand how to start, but just followed the "guidance" and came here.
This is the shameless part of the fourth rank.
No clues are needed, as long as he has seen, heard, and felt everything, he can build a network of cause and effect, and then combine it into a future scene.
This is the essence of "divination".
Li Qi, a fourth rank, wants to do something so mysterious, even beyond the understanding of mortals.
If there was a mortal here, he would probably feel terrified.
I want to do something, and it turns out that this is possible...
No need for planning, no need to check intelligence in advance, as long as Li Qi starts to move forward, then the "destined future" will move towards Li Qi, he just needs to take the initiative to move towards this future, countless causal lines will pave his way and help him reach the result he wants.
This is "choosing the future".
The monk Xinming in front of him is a causal line in the road paved by Li Qi's own causal line.
And he can really come in handy. The vision of the sky eye can really penetrate the underworld and see directly inside the reincarnation. Just see one person, and even see his previous three lives all the way.
Li Qi and the monk Xinming exchanged greetings for a while, and then said goodbye.
Wait for the other party to stabilize his cultivation, and... if you want to take him away from here, you have to wait until winter.
When the grass withers and the flowers wither in winter, the monk Xinming will get out of there. Before that, there is no need to rush. Now it is only half a year away from that time.
Half a year, it will pass in the blink of an eye.
However, by now, Li Qi can objectively examine other people's subjective opinions. In other words, he has a certain empathy, so he will not be in a daze for half a year.
Of course, if he wants, he can still retreat for hundreds or thousands of years without any side effects.
However, he can switch freely between the two states.
After leaving the mountain, Li Qi returned to the Buddhist temple.
More than ten days later, the bandits attacked the Buddhist temple. Li Qi waved his hand lightly and drove all the bandits away for a hundred miles without any harm. For a while, many pilgrims and monks were shocked. Everyone thought it was the Buddha's appearance. Only a few people noticed Li Qi.
Two months later, Li Qi had become familiar with many monks, donated a lot of incense money, and taught many young monks the Dharma. So he was called a "layman". Many people wondered why this person had been staying here with his female relatives. This person was proficient in Buddhism, good at martial arts, gentle and free and easy, and lived in the temple for a long time but brought his female relatives. It was simply strange.
Another month later, this small country was at war, and the border rebels swept in.
No roosters crowed for thousands of miles, and bones were exposed in the wild. The war burned this small country, and refugees wandered around. Many of them dreamed of becoming monks.
After all, this temple had an eighth-grade monk, who was already a martial arts master in the small country. As long as he became a monk, he could get the minimum protection.
This temple itself believed in Mahayana Buddhism.
What is Mahayana?
Buddhist practice, pursuit of all kinds, divided into countless branches, there are the Lotus Sect, the Shingon Sect, the Esoteric Sect, each with its own pursuit of scriptures, among which there is the Mahayana stream, what is the pursuit?
Nothing else, just four words -
All living beings are Buddhas.
Everyone can, open their consciousness, awaken, so all living beings are Buddhas.
Buddha is just a wise man who has understood all sufferings, and the greatest meaning of his existence is to bring this wisdom to others.
Buddha, that is, the enlightened one, brings his wisdom to all living beings, so this is "saving all living beings".
Saving all living beings is the greatest compassion.
Since they have the greatest compassion, it means that they will accomplish smaller compassions.
Those who pursue the Tao will definitely not violate their own Tao, so the Buddhist sect has the dual cultivation of Buddha and demon, and also has compassion. In the temple where Li Qi lives, they chose to accept refugees.
This brought great pressure to the temple.
Fortunately, there is a magic weapon in the temple, called the Baoyu bottle, which is a magic weapon offered in front of the Bodhisattva. It is also an eighth-grade instrument. Only the temple master can activate it.
The Baoyu bottle itself is just an ordinary thing. At first, it was made of stone and placed in front of the Bodhisattva. It was worshipped day and night and chanted. After hundreds of years, it was fumigated by incense and turned into white Xiuyu. A willow branch was born in it, with a bottle of Baolu in it, which can cure all diseases and injuries, eliminate disasters, and be full of vitality and eliminate death.
However, in Li Qi's view, the essence of this thing is the extremely rich vitality, which can drive away the death, cure injuries and pains, and increase the production of plants and eliminate barrenness because of the existence of this vitality.
The precious dew can be produced by itself. If it is taken out of the temple, three drops can be produced a day. But if a monk offers it devoutly, nine drops can be produced a day.
Now, the treasure bottle is full of treasure dew, at least thousands of drops.
With this treasure bottle, tens of thousands of refugees who have been stranded here have a livelihood.
First, several thousand acres of farmland were opened up for these refugees to cultivate. After planting the seeds, the treasure dew was used to ripen them, and enough food for everyone to eat for a year was grown. After that, they can grow food for the next year.
Many disabled, seriously injured, and sick refugees were also cured by the treasure dew and became extremely healthy.
This time, nearly one-third of the treasure dew was spent on ripening and healing, but the lives and lives of tens of thousands of refugees were safe.
However, this public display of treasures has aroused the covetousness of the rebels.
How many troops can be fed with such treasures? How many logistical problems can be solved?
You know, even if it is a ninth-grade, many practitioners still need to eat, not to mention the magical effect of healing.
So, another month passed, and the army was approaching. Two generals of the eighth-grade warriors and an eighth-grade primitive witch, or shaman, led an army of 8,000 and surrounded the temple.
Either hand over the treasure bottle or the whole temple will be massacred.
The host took action and proposed not to kill. He would fight three people in a round. If he won, the army would retreat. If he lost, he would offer the treasure bottle. If the other party refused, he would take the treasure bottle and escape, and the three people might not be able to stop him.
The three people thought about it and decided to fight. The host fought three eighth-grade warriors and defeated three people in a row. However, the other party did not follow the moral principles of martial arts. Although the three people lost, they attacked at the same time and wanted to seize the treasure bottle.
The situation was critical. At this time, a layman took action and killed the three people in full view of the public.
The crisis was resolved, and the layman who practiced with hair became famous, and a chaos in the rivers and lakes was quelled again.
The rebels lost three eighth-grade warriors, so the front battlefield was quickly defeated and soon pacified.
Several months passed, and it was deep winter, and everything was quiet. Li Qi brought Shen Shuibi to the mountains. The plants on the monk Xinming in the mountains had all died, but before they died, they had already blossomed, borne fruit, and dropped seeds, waiting to sprout again next year.
"Senior, you have really shown your compassion in the past six months." After seeing Li Qi coming, monk Xinming said with a smile.
"It's just a matter of convenience, they are all small things." Li Qi shook his head and said so.
It was indeed just a matter of convenience. Although it was a major event that affected the whole country, it was like dusting off for Li Qi.
"The smaller the matter, the more you can see your nature. After all, people will think over and over again under major events, and people generally do things according to their hearts for small things that do not need to be considered. The true nature of the heart is the most important." As monk Xinming said, the stones on his body broke, the dust fell off, his skin glowed with golden light, and his eyes became completely bright, as if he could see through the world.
"True nature? Alas..." Li Qi sighed.
What is true nature? What is the nature?
Li Qi, who is of the ninth rank, can proudly say that he has found his heart of Tao.
Li Qi, who is of the sixth rank, began to explore what is the ‘heart of Tao’. He firmly believes that if he does things according to his heart and still does not deviate from the Tao, then he has found his heart of Tao.
But now, Li Qi, who is of the fourth rank, finds that he does not understand what the ‘heart of Tao’ is at all. Once he talks about this, he will inevitably talk about the influence of subjective will on reality, the subjectivity of the objective world, and so on...
Li Qi simply cannot figure it out.
He has not figured it out yet, so it seems a bit funny to hear a monk of the sixth rank say: "Show your heart of Tao".
But Li Qi did not say much. Each stage has its own things to think about and to experience.
So, Li Qi said: "Then please open your eyes."
Monk Xinming nodded slightly, and then used his supernatural powers.
Most people who can go far on the road of cultivation have their own talents. Li Qi's is the true rhyme, Boyue has the rhyme of the magic seed of Tao, Zhong Minglou has the natural vision of cause and effect, and Monk Xinming has the clairvoyance.
In fact, ordinary people also have these talents, such as great strength, fast running, good health, short stature, smart brains, etc., which are all considered some kind of talents.
This kind of talent is difficult to say, there are high and low. Sometimes, high-level practitioners can break through certain talents by their own strength, such as the most typical great strength, and they can surpass this talent after practicing for a period of time.
More powerful talents, such as demon species, can only be surpassed by the third grade. Li Qi still can't master the time reversal of demon species. He has no ability to rewind time.
The same is true for the clairvoyance. Li Qi doesn't have the ability to see through everything, so he must rely on the power of monk Xinming to do it.
The clairvoyance, feeling the heaven and earth, saw thunder and lightning all around, strong winds and rainstorms!
Monk Xinming, with the clairvoyance, sees thousands of worlds from afar!
In that land, all kinds of light in the worlds cannot be seen by sentient beings without clairvoyance.
Such free wisdom is covered by the land of ignorance, and sentient beings have no wisdom eyes, so they cannot see.
But monk Xinming, with a clear mind and clear eyes, has opened the clairvoyance, so he can see!
All future scenes and actions in the distant past seemed to be in front of him. All the merits and unobstructed merits of the three realms were in it. His divine eyes were already clear. He passed through the human world and saw people coming and going. He knew death and life.
Monk Xinming used all his strength to activate his supernatural powers. Buddha is the source of all dharmas. Buddha is the pure eye, like the moon moving in the sky. Pure and unobstructed.
Strange phenomena also appeared around him.
Beside him was a tree of light, full of blossoms. Its petals were pure and fragrant. When the breeze blew, the fragrance was rich. When the wind blew, the petals flew into the sky, and the sky was full of flowers. There was also a wonderful light shining on thousands of people, each with different colors and solemn decorations.
Before the eyes of Monk Xinming, there appeared billions of worlds, billions of lives, various ghost gates in the underworld, and various levels of hell.
Shen Shuibi looked up, then lowered her head and continued to immerse herself in her own world, just like... when she traveled with Li Qi, she was in a daze most of the time, because she was thinking about how to recover.
Now she is also thinking about her own path, basically only instincts, following Li Qi everywhere.
But Li Qi felt——
Gaze, countless gazes.
The opening of the clairvoyance shined on the underworld so unscrupulously! So, the Ox-Headed Horse-Face, the Black and White Impermanence, various ghost kings, judges, and city gods all cast their eyes!
"Senior, please resist for a while." Monk Xinming said so.
Li Qi shook his head.
Well, that should be the case.
Searching for reincarnation with the divine eye will inevitably lead to the accountability of the underworld.
It's okay for Buddhists to do this, but if they do it in a private capacity, it is estimated that the ghost messenger will come soon.
Sure enough, not long after, the monks in the nearby temples all felt cold all over.
Yin energy began to gather.
A temporary ghost gate suddenly opened.
But I saw a bull head and a horse face, with black clouds, and countless little ghosts behind them waving flags and shouting, rushing towards Li Qi.
The bull head has human hands, two cow hooves, strong body, holding steel hairpins.
The horse face has fangs, holding a spear, rushing to the whirlwind, and the black clouds are endless.
But I saw a big iron city behind me, with the spirits of the dead, fire snakes, fire dogs, tigers, wolves, lions, and a group of evil ghosts, including the fifth grade, all shouting and cursing, blowing the gloomy wind, and rolling black smoke!
As for the Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demon, as the head of the ghost messenger, he is a fourth-grade cultivator with a solid foundation!
Li Qi took a step forward and drew a curve around him. The curve automatically extended and turned into a circle with a radius of ten miles.
Li Qi waved his hand, and many talismans flew out. This was not a Taoist talisman, but a witch's spell.
The Yin Qi was blocked by this circle and could no longer enter it.
The Bull-Headed and Horse-Faced Demon stopped outside the circle, but saw the Bull-Headed Demon roaring, pointing the steel fork at Li Qi, and shouting: "Bold thief! How dare you spy on the underworld! Don't surrender, go to the underworld with me to be punished!"
"You two, listen to me." Li Qi blocked the circle and said: "Do you know who I am?"
The Horse-Faced Demon sneered: "What? Didn't your parents tell you?"
Li Qi was holding back this, but after all, he was in the wrong, so he didn't curse, but said: "I was entrusted by the Buddha Bodhisattva to go to the reincarnation to find someone, please help me."