In the quiet night sky, a full moon hung high in the sky. Specks of white light sprinkled on the verdant Qingyun Mountain, giving the entire mountain a sacred atmosphere.
At the peak of Qingyun Mountain, Lin Xiu, who had just tasted Mu Chen's cooking, sat cross-legged on a smooth rock.
If he had not seen it with his own eyes, Lin Xiu would not have believed that a monk like Mu Chen, who had an otherworldly temperament, could actually cook good food. What was even more surprising was that this senior brother was not only good at cooking, but also had a great appetite. At least half of the food on the table went into his bald senior brother's stomach.
Thinking of this, Lin Xiu could not help but smile slightly. His senior brother was really a strange person.
"Little junior brother, what are you thinking about here alone?" A voice suddenly came from behind and interrupted Lin Xiu's thoughts. He turned around and saw that Li Jian had come to the peak of the mountain and was sitting on a green stone slab not far behind him.
Lin Xiu hurriedly got up and greeted. After seeing Li Jian's smile, he sat down again.
"Senior brother, I was thinking, what is the purpose of people living in this life?"
Seeing Lin Xiu's serious look, Li Jian wanted to laugh, but in the end, he suppressed it and said softly, "You should have heard of this saying, that life is short and needs to be happy in the moment. To those commoners, this saying may be a little lazy, but it is also a way to live. "
Hearing this, Lin Xiu understood that it was very difficult for those commoners to have a day of success in their lives. Every day, they just had to deal with some daily necessities, and all they wanted was for their old and young to not have to worry about food and clothing.
Seeing Lin Xiu nodding slightly, Li Jian then said, "Buddhism has a saying that all life is bitter. I wonder what little junior brother thinks of this saying? "
Lin Xiu lowered his head and pondered for a while, then looked up at Li Jian with a particularly bright light in his eyes.
"Eldest Senior Brother, I think that 'all life is bitter' doesn't mean that all living beings have to live in poverty. Instead, it means that this kind of bitterness is a kind of state, because bitterness and happiness are relative. Without bitterness, there is naturally no happiness."
Hearing Lin Xiu's words, Li Jian's body trembled slightly. But with his concealment, Lin Xiu did not notice at all.
"Little Junior Brother is right. Buddhism is particular about karma and reincarnation, which means that suffering and happiness go hand in hand. If a person's life is always the same, do you think it's suffering or happiness?"
Li Jian gently turned the Buddhist beads in his hand. His gentle eyes were filled with wisdom and compassion. It was only at this time that Lin Xiu realized that his senior brother, who was dressed as a swordsman, also had high attainments in Buddhism.
"Actually, there is no such thing as suffering or happiness in one's life. In the pursuit of the Great Dao, even if the path is filled with thorns and the body suffers indescribable pain, if one can see the Great Dao in the end, then all of it will be worth it."
Lin Xiu was taken aback, then lowered his head and thought about it carefully. He muttered, "Is it okay to die in the evening to seek the Dao in the morning? When one hears the Dao in the morning, one can die without regrets. "
At this moment, Lin Xiu's aura seemed to faintly resonate with the heaven and earth. His entire temperament became somewhat otherworldly.
"Little Junior Brother, you can't compare to all the senior brothers who have been cultivating on this mountain for many years." Li Jian saw that Lin Xiu seemed to have undergone some sort of transformation, so he didn't hide anything and explained some of Wu Kejun's arrangements in detail.
Lin Xiu was extremely intelligent, coupled with Wu Kejun's attitude towards him and what Li Jian said now, he vaguely understood something in his heart.
"Little Junior Brother, Senior Brother doesn't need to say much to you. You have a kind nature and I hope that you can become more resilient. Only then can you fulfill Master's expectations for you." Li Jian looked at Lin Xiu gently, then slowly got up from the bluestone and took out a worn-out book from his arms.
"Although I don't fully understand Master's intentions regarding the content that you're about to learn, I've been by Master's side for many years and can roughly guess it. This is my own understanding of Buddhism cultivation for the past 10 years, I hope it will be of some help to you. "
After taking the book that Li Jian handed over, Lin Xiu's eyes lit up. He had long seen that Li Jian was extraordinary, so the value of this notebook was naturally immeasurable.
He sincerely bowed to Li Jian's gradually disappearing figure and flipped open this extremely precious notebook under the moonlight.
At this moment, in Huang Yi's residence, Mu Chen was looking at his fifth junior sister with a 'hidden bitterness'.
Perhaps it was because he felt a little uncomfortable being stared at for a long time. Huang Yi finally stopped polishing the iron rod in his hand and snorted coldly. He looked at Mu Chen and said, "Hmph, Mu Chen, what do you want from me?"
Hearing this, Mu Chen smiled slightly 'bashfully' and said, "Junior Sister, you also know that although my cultivation is not bad, my cultivation technique also consumes a lot of resources. This little junior brother just came up the mountain, we seniors have to give him some greeting gifts no matter what. That, Senior Brother really doesn't have anything that I can take out, so I wanted to come to junior sister's place … "
At the end, Mu Chen's voice gradually became inaudible.
Seeing his Senior Brother, who had always been tired, in such a state, Huang Yi did not know whether to laugh or to be angry.
"Although I don't know why master accepted him as a disciple, since he has become our little junior, then no one can bully him!" The yellow-clothed man's voice was slightly domineering, causing Mu Chen to involuntarily feel a little timid.
"After Master just said that today, I already have a plan in my heart. Mu Chen, if I'm not wrong, Master should arrange that path for little junior brother." Huang Yi's voice was a little solemn at this moment.
And Mu Chen, who was used to joking around, heard what Huang Yi said and his heart tightened. He did not doubt Huang Yi's words, after all, Huang Yi was best at some deductions, but that path was really … too difficult.
Without waiting for Mu Chen to reply, Huang Yi continued, "In my opinion, little junior brother's personality is too kind. When he leaves the mountain in the future, it is inevitable that some people will take the opportunity to bully him. So before dinner, I went to the woodshed to discuss this in detail with Eldest Senior Brother."
When Mu Chen heard this, he was shocked and hurriedly asked, "Then what did Eldest Senior Brother say?"
"I didn't expect you to be so concerned about this future little junior brother." Huang Yi looked at Mu Chen in surprise.
However, she did not know that Mu Chen had always been in the sect. Although he had two juniors, they did not pay much attention to him. After so much difficulty, a little junior brother had finally come. As a senior brother, he naturally had to properly display his senior brother's demeanor.
"Eldest Senior Brother said that when little junior brother leaves the mountain, the six of us as seniors will give him a treasure to protect himself. Eldest Senior Brother has already thought of how to make this treasure. In three days, we will start forging it." After Huang Yi finished speaking, she looked at Mu Chen provocatively.
"Huang Yi, why are you looking at me like that?"
"I'm afraid that when the time comes, someone will gamble and not have the heart to forge at all!"
"Nonsense, why don't we make a bet? Let's bet that before this treasure is completed, I, Mu Chen, will not bet. "
"This is what you said, a gentleman's word …"
"A whip on a fast horse."
The night was like water and there were only a few scattered stars still twinkling in the empty night sky. The entire land was pitch-black at this time.
Lin Xiu, who was lying on the bed, kept flipping through Li Jian's notes. As Lin Xiu expected, in the notes, Li Jian recorded in detail all his insights from the beginning to the great success of the Buddhist technique.
The more he read, the more obscure and difficult Lin Xiu felt. He knew that this was because his cultivation level was not high enough, so he did not force it at the moment.
Three days later, when the first ray of sunlight shone into the Gui Yuan Sect, Lin Xiu directly climbed out of bed like a carp.
After washing up in a hurry, Lin Xiu did not disturb the others. He looked at the sky from afar and hurriedly rushed to the top of the mountain.
Not long after, Lin Xiu, who was still on the mountain road, saw - Wu Kejun, who was still dressed in green, standing quietly at the top of the mountain. Her robe fluttered in the breeze, showing the demeanor of an immortal.
Wu Kejun seemed to have sensed something and suddenly turned to look at Lin Xiu on the mountain road.
When Lin Xiu came in front of Wu Kejun, he first bowed extremely respectfully to the master in front of him, then looked at Wu Kejun with eyes full of anticipation.
Seeing her future disciple like this, Wu Kejun could not help but chuckle.
First, he raised his eyebrows slightly, then used his hand to gently stroke the beard that seemed to be drooping down to his chest.
These days, Huang Yi and Mu Chen also wrote down their respective cultivation insights and gave them to Lin Xiu, and when they encountered things that they did not understand, they also explained to Lin Xiu one by one.
This made Lin Xiu secretly grateful, and he began to really treat Gui Yuan Sect as his home.
After getting along for these two months, Lin Xiu also found that his senior brothers and sisters could all be called weirdos.
Fourth senior brother Mu Chen basically lay alone on the top of the mountain and slept, except for cooking for them. Fifth senior sister Huang Yi always held a three-inch-wide iron pestle and kept polishing. As for third senior brother Li Jian, Lin Xiu rarely saw him and did not know what he was busy with.
In this regard, Mu Chen and Huang Yi just smiled and did not say anything, as if they were hiding something from him. Although Lin Xiu was curious, he was already exhausted from polishing his muscles and bones all day and did not have the extra energy to explore Mu Chen's secrets.
A few days passed like this. One morning, when Lin Xiu was preparing to go to the back of the mountain to chop firewood, he found Mu Chen at the entrance of Gui Yuan Sect's Temple of Heaven with disheveled hair, a dirty face, and bloodshot eyes. He was shocked.
"Haha, little junior brother, I finally succeeded. This time, Huang Yi has lost the bet with me, haha." Mu Chen, who was originally lying on the steps, saw Lin Xiu and hurriedly grabbed the corner of Lin Xiu's clothes and said excitedly.
After saying that, Mu Chen ignored Lin Xiu and got up from the ground. He casually patted his clothes and rushed in the direction of the main vein. As he ran, he shouted, "Huang Yi, come out, you finally lost this time, haha."
But before he could go in, Huang Yi, who was at the door, kicked Mu Chen to the ground.
"What are you chattering about? You're already an adult and don't you feel ashamed?" Huang Yi glared at Mu Chen.
"That..." Mu Chen, who was kicked to the ground, finally sobered up a little. In terms of cultivation, he was still not Huang Yi's opponent, so his voice was naturally a little hesitant.
"Mu Chen, is there any progress on the matter I handed to you?" Hearing Mu Chen's scream, Li Jian also came to the door and asked softly.
Seeing Mu Chen nod, Li Jian and Huang Yi looked at each other, both of them were a little excited.
"Little junior brother, go to the back of the mountain first. When you come back tonight, your senior brothers will give you a surprise." Li Jian looked at Lin Xiu and said gently.
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