At dinner, someone knocked on the door, and saw a little monk coming in with two bowls of vegetarian rice in his hand, calling on the two to have a meal. Afterwards, he immediately followed the abbot of the Release and said, "The two donors came from afar and should have been entertained with kindness, but the evil temple is now limited in ability. They can only prepare some simple meals and take care of the poor. I hope you will be more content."

Pu Zixuan stood up and said, "The pure land of Buddhism should be simple. How can we trouble the abbot's care?" According to his usual habits, he would definitely give some silver as food and ask for some good wine and good food, but he thought that the abbot would not charge him, so he had to accompany him to make polite things.

Abbot Shuran looked at Chen Shuqing again: "Did Master Chen's injury improve after taking the medicine?"

Chen Shuqing moved his arms and said, "The abbot's plaster is really a magic pill, it's much better."

"That's good. Remember to take the medicine again before going to bed at night, and it will be more than half better tomorrow."

When the young monk left, the abbot sat on the edge of the bed and asked them: "It is rare for Mr. Pu to awaken the power of purification at such a young age. Can you tell me what your identity is and how to learn this power of purification?"

If it were others, Pu Zixuan would never tell the truth easily. However, Master Shu Ren was highly respected and would never gossip about his affairs everywhere. There were no outsiders here. Since he needed his assistance, he should naturally tell him honestly and tell him: "It is to be honest. My ancestors were the famous purifying messengers - Mr. Pu Songling, a lay Buddhist in Liuquan. Others only knew that he was a writer. Since the abbot knew the existence of the purifying messengers, he must be familiar with Mr. Liuquan. A piece of amber passed down from my ancestors, which contained Pu Songling's relics. I wore them every day, and I awakened the power of purification not long ago in the battle with monsters."

"Amitabha." Abbot Shu Ran sighed, "It turns out that the donor is a descendant of Mr. Liu Quan. No wonder he has such an attainment. This purification power is extremely difficult to acquire. As the abbot of a temple, everyone in the world says that I am a monk who has gained enlightenment, but I don't know that no matter how hard I try, I have no chance to acquire this kind of divine power and cannot personally subdue demons. I am really ashamed."

Pu Zixuan comforted, "Why did the abbot say this? As far as I know, whether you can obtain the power of purification depends entirely on the destiny of heaven. Even if Pu Songling's nine generations of descendants had already flourished and spread all over the world, only I was fortunate to receive the wrong love of heaven. This is by no means the abbot's fault."

Abbot Shu Ran said: "I am really hard to determine whether it is destined by heaven or what can be obtained through cultivation, but if you want to become a purifier, cultivation alone is definitely not enough. Every awakened person will often experience great pain first, and suddenly awaken by chance. I have a basis for this view."

Pu Zixuan immediately thought of fighting with the werewolf that day, being beaten up, and almost being killed by the white-haired banshee. They were all in the life and death disaster. Thinking that what the abbot said made sense, he asked, "Then, how did the abbot understand the existence of the purifying messenger?"

Abbot Shu Ran said, "Since the donor is a descendant of Mr. Liu Quan, he must be a righteous and generous person, then I might as well tell him the truth. It's a long story. This Jiading Mansion has been a place where monsters have been rioted since ancient times, especially the confluence of the three rivers, which is really a place for various water monsters to hide and filth. I don't know how many innocent people are buried here every year. In the early years of Shangyuan in the Tang Dynasty, a twelve-year-old Bozhou son came to Lingyun Temple. He was just to cultivate his character, but he saw that water monsters often destroyed ships and injured people. He was very sad. He left the master's sect at the age of 24, traveling around the world to visit famous teachers, seeking ways to eliminate monsters. This was the abbot of Lingyun Temple later, Master Haitong."

Pu Zixuan nodded: "Uncle Tian has also told us the superficial history of this big Buddha, saying that the big Buddha was built by Master Haitong."

Master Shi Ran said, "That's true. Master Haitong learned the existence of the power of purification with the guidance of experts, so he practiced hard, trying to become a purifier. However, more than ten years have passed, and he has been nearly forty years but has not awakened. He blamed himself for his own fault. He lamented that he had wasted countless time, so he gave up practicing and begged for alms everywhere. At the age of 39, he built a big Buddha at the confluence of the three rivers, hoping that Buddhism could suppress the water monsters. However, corrupt officials in the local area were determined to extort money on the grounds that Haitong had built a Buddha without authorization and destroyed Feng Shui.

One day, the Jiazhou County Magistrate heard that Haitong had a lot of money in his hand, so he brought a large number of followers to ask for it. Master Haitong flatly refused and cut off the railway line: 'You can get your eyes out, but Buddha wealth is rare!' The county Magistrate did not believe that Master Haitong had the courage to dig out his eyes, so he provoked: 'Then you dig it out and see!' Facing the shameless county Magistrate, Master Haitong picked up a copper plate, dug out one of his eyes without hesitation and put it on it, silently lifted it to the county Magistrate, which scared the county Magistrate to flee in a hurry."

Pu Zixuan sighed: "I am worthy of being a high-ranking monk. His integrity and strength are really admirable!"

Chen Shuqing also said: "If you can tolerate what others cannot tolerate, you will definitely achieve what others cannot. Master Haitong's move will definitely bring about the grand atmosphere of Lingyun Temple."

Abbot Shu Ran nodded and said, "What Master Chen said is very true. Although Master Haitong lost one eye, it was this incident that stimulated him and made his purifying power awaken overnight."

Pu Zixuan was surprised: "Master Haitong is indeed a purifying messenger! Then this big Buddha must have the power of purification."

Abbot Shu Ran said, "However, over a thousand years have passed, no matter how strong the purifying power is, it will fade. Now this Buddha is just an ordinary Buddha statue. The only thing that has a little divine nature is that whenever this Buddha encounters a chaotic world where the country is destroyed, his eyes will be closed, and when he encounters a prosperous era, he will open again. He has opened his eyes for more than a thousand years, and he has no idea how many reincarnations he has experienced. More than ten years ago, since the riot in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began, the Buddha closed his eyes again and never opened it again."

Pu Zixuan sighed: "Although I believe in science and do not believe in Buddhism, there are indeed many difficult-to-explain phenomena in this world that need to be explored by the world. Well, Master Abbot, I have solved the mystery of this Buddha, so what's going on with the talismans on Fengzhou Island?"

Abbot Shu Ran said: "Although Master Haitong has the power to purify, he is old. He knows that he cannot complete the construction of the Buddha in his lifetime and cannot surrender all the monsters in Jiading Mansion. So he strives to cultivate a group of purifying envoys as his disciples. It took nearly a hundred years for the master and disciple to build the Buddha, and it also cleanses the monsters within the Three Rivers. However, Master Haitong said that there are too many monsters in the world. If the monsters here re-rout again after a hundred years, and fear that there will be no purifying envoys, he will create ninety-nine-eighty-one demon sealing talismans, hidden in the ears of the Buddha. In this way, with the protection of the Buddha, the purifying power on the runes is enough to preserve for two thousand years, but Master Haitong is afraid that he will be used by bad people, so he only passed on this secret from the abbot from generation to generation. There are eight of the demon sealing talismans on the island, and the two donors must not tell outsiders this secret."

Pu Zixuan replied: "I understand. The abbot trusts me and tells us the secret. We should keep the secret strictly."
Chapter completed!