Chapter 116, the wind shakes the bamboo shadow and sweeps the snow in the sky, and the cup of clear springs makes the wonderful tea

Qingfeng's face looked ugly. He looked up at the sky and felt a question, as if he was waiting for something. After waiting for a long time, there was still no movement in the sky above. He looked down at the ground again, suddenly stomped his feet and shouted: "Mountain God, appear!"

Mei Zhenyi in the valley in the distance felt the power of stomping her feet. The grass leaves on the mountain did not move, but the spiritual pivot of the earth gathered and trembled, as if the whole mountain was shaking.

Luxue's figure appeared in front of Qingfeng, with a look of panic, and bowed her head and said, "Fairy Child, I really don't know what happened today!"

Qingfeng looked at her and was about to speak. Someone behind her applauded and smiled, "Okay, Luxue has become a mountain god!" It turned out to be Mingyue's voice. She also came to the top of the mountain at some point and followed Mingyue behind him and looked around.

Qingfeng had a powerful force in his eyes. He stepped on Jingting, and the spirit of the mountain was flashing, and Luxue's body was trembling. He heard Mingyue speak, and he moved away and breathed a sigh of relief, his expression also became soft: "Little Tree Spirit, it's not your business. Since you have been enthroned by the mountain god, it is also a blessing to practice. But it is not entirely a good thing. It is difficult for you to leave this mountain again."

"Luxue is rooted here, and there is no intention to leave her." Luxue's tone was a little panicked.

Mingyue stepped forward and grabbed her sleeve: "Whether you are intent or not, you are already a mountain god, it's not a bad thing... Brother Qingfeng, how did that monk do it? I think he looks familiar?"

Qingfeng: "You can gather the spiritual pivots of the mountain to condense into one with the spiritual consciousness, but you need to use the magical method of heaven and earth. At this moment, Green Snow does not need anyone to cast magic. The spiritual pivots of the earth are naturally one and are directly engraved by the mountain god. This is not something that magical power can do... I want to meet that monk, Mingyue, will you go?"

Mingyue frowned her little nose and shook her head and said, "I don't want to go!"

Qingfeng said to Luxue again: "The monk went up the mountain to be the god. It really took a lot of effort. Since you are already a mountain god, everyone in the valley is your guests, so let's show up to entertain guests." After saying that, he turned into a gust of breeze and left.

Mei Zhenyi in the valley sensed the qi trembling all over the mountain. She knew that Qingfeng had taken action. Could it be that this fairy boy wanted to smash the situation? He secretly complained in his heart and looked at Zen Master Zhishen.

Zhishen's expression remained unchanged. He stomped his feet while chanting the Buddha's name. He did not feel the ground trembling, but was peaceful and peaceful. The green snow temple and the surrounding bamboo forest have returned to calm, and are not disturbed by the trembling of the mountains. This old monk actually fought back, wouldn't he fight?

If Qingfeng Zhen fought with the imperial envoy sent by the court, it would be a very disrespectful crime! The government yamen runners could not do anything to Qingfeng, but the Mei family, which was involved, could not be separated from it. Fortunately, there were no outsiders around, and they were all fellow practitioners. Mei Zhenyi only hoped that this old monk would solve the problem in the form of a cultivator and not as an imperial envoy.

Mei Zhenyi was worried, and suddenly the magic power of the mountain was retracted and returned to normal. Then a breeze blew past the altar, and the bamboo forest rustled, and Qingfeng's figure appeared in front of him. As soon as he appeared, he stood face to face with Zhishen across the altar. The old Zen master's expression remained unchanged, but Qingfeng was surprised and blurted out: "Monster Sha, is it you?"

When she heard this sentence, it was easy for others to say that Mei Zhenyi was very surprised. There was no "Journey to the West" in the Tang Dynasty, and others could not understand the special meaning of these three words, but they just felt it was a bit strange. Monk Sha was the common name of Sha Wujing, the third disciple of Tang Monk in "Journey to the West". When she said it from Qingfeng's mouth, Mei Zhenyi immediately thought of this.

Could it be that this kind-hearted Zen Master Zhishen is the Sha Monk in the later legendary Journey to the West? This is too unexpected!

Zen Master Zhishen was not surprised to see Qingfeng appear, and smiled slightly and bowed with one hand and said, "Qingfeng donor, Wuguanzhuang has been separated for decades, but I didn't expect to meet again here!" He actually called Qingfeng the donor, which was a very subtle name.

Qingfeng frowned: "I heard that after Xuanzang returned to Chang'an, you achieved the golden-body Arhat Fruit. Why did you become like this when you saw him today? The level of cultivation is very different. I dare not recognize him if I don't stand in front of me."

Zen Master Zhishen: "I was just a novice monk back then, and I was fortunate to be a Buddhist Śrāvaka. After the great master died, he was granted the Buddhist prairie enlightenment. Later, he worshipped under the Five Zen Patriarch Hongren, and received all the precepts and the Dharma name was Zhishen."

Qingfeng: "After the fifth ancestor of Zen Buddhism, you must know a little monk?"

Zhishen: "There are many little monks, who are you talking about?"

Qingfeng: "His name is Huineng."

Zhishen: "Huineng is my junior brother, and now he starts lectures in Nanhua Temple."

Qingfeng: "From Xuanzang's theory, you are the junior brother of Xinyuan Wukong, from Hongren's theory, you are the senior brother of Huineng. I hate Xinyuan Wukong very much, but Huineng has some fate with me, and I have to thank him for some things. As for you, if you are talking about magical powers, you are not as good as Xinyuan Wukong, and if you are talking about cultivation level, you are not as good as Huineng, but today I am shocked."

Zhishen: "I came to enthrone the decree of Emperor Tian to enthrone the god of Jingting Mountain. How surprised is the Qingfeng donor?"

Qingfeng: "Through the statue in front of you, I summoned Green Snow, gathering the spiritual energy of the mountain and the spiritual consciousness of the green snow. I can also do these. My magic power in the world is only stronger than you, but what happened later? How could you seal the mountain god?"

Zhishen: "What happened later had nothing to do with the little monk. It was the decree of the queen, not the power of my supernatural powers." He actually called himself a little monk in front of Qingfeng.

Qingfeng stretched out his hand: "Take the decree to show me."

Zhishen shook his head: "The decree has been burned, and the decree of the gods has been completed."

Qingfeng stretched out his hand and did not retract, and asked suddenly: "Why are you enlightened under the Zen sect? "

Zhishou pointed to the ground: "Like this bamboo shadow swept the snow."

Qingfeng's face darkened: "It didn't snow today!"

Zhishou smiled: "When the snow fades, spring will naturally come."

Qingfeng: "As you tell me, the native dog and the tile chicken are also Buddhas."

Zhishen smiled unchanged: "Since the donor said so, Buddha is really like a native dog and a chicken."

Qingfeng stretched out his eyebrows and said lightly: "You are indeed a Zen master."

These two people spoke through the altar, and there were several people standing next to them. In addition to Mei Zhenyi, there were Mei Yi, Master Xingyun, Master Chiying and more than a dozen big monks accompanied by Zhishen. Why didn’t these people speak? One thing happened, something unexpected happened, and the other was that they couldn’t interrupt.

Mei Zhenyi stood beside Zhishen for a few steps. Since Qingfeng appeared, he wanted to go forward and interject a few words, but found that he could not get close to him. It turned out that these two people were not only talking, but also being accompanied by the slogans and arhats.

Qingfeng stood there without moving, but there was a sense in Mei Zhenyi's spiritual consciousness. Qingfeng was walking around the altar and Zhishou. Since he didn't move, how could he take a walk? This is the incarnation of the master of immortals. He can only understand and not express words. If someone was walking around you, he kept asking questions without any expression on his face. He did not act very politely, and you would not feel very comfortable.

What does Zen Master Zhishen feel like? Others don’t know. There is only one word about Mei Zhenyi’s feeling - wind! This is an invisible wind, which flies around Zen Master Zhishen, which is very similar to the “Yi'an” magical power that Qingfeng once used, but Zen Master Zhishen was not removed.

The foothold of Zen Master Zhishen and the altar in front of him were empty, as if it was fixed. No matter how the invisible wind around him rotated, there was no way to focus in this empty realm. - There was nothing at all, how could it be blown away by the wind?

It seems that Zen Master Zhishen is invincible, but after Qingfeng said the words "You are indeed a Zen master", Mei Zhenyi felt that Zen Master Zhishen could not stand it anymore. The old monk and the altar were not really gone. It was just that they were shrouded in the ethereal state of concentration, and there was no fate and no dust. But at this time, Qingfeng's invisible wind was getting stronger and stronger, and reached the limit that this ethereal state could bear. Even if there was nothing in the wind, it could create something out of nothing.

Qingfeng uses "creating something out of nothing" to break the "etheless realm" of Zhisi. This invisible wind cannot be heard or seen, and can only be sensed by spiritual sense. Zhisi is still motionless, and Mei Zhenyi is very close, but gradually has a sense of spatial disorder. Zhisi, surrounded by the invisible wind, is getting farther and farther away from him, as if it is a mountain.

Although the two of them had no effect on others' fighting, the invisible sense of oppression made everyone breathless. Mei Zhenyi quietly retreated, then retreated, and retreated to the next side of the bamboo forest. Looking at the other people, they were almost standing close to the bamboo forest like him, and their faces were not very good.

Mei Zhenyi raised her hand, and something flew out of her right sleeve and pressed it on Master Jiying's right arm, protecting her with body protection. Seeing that Ji Ying took a few breaths, her face relaxed a lot, and she nodded to Mei Zhenyi with gratitude.

This level of fighting was the first time Mei Zhenyi saw him in his life. Although he complained in his heart and didn't know how to end, he was also focused on every detail. Zhishen was still standing still, but the feeling of that ethereal realm in Mei Zhenyi's spiritual consciousness was getting farther and farther away, as if everyone had arrived outside Jingting, or that everyone was still in place, and Zhishen had been forced out of an unknown place outside Jingting.

There was something out of nothing, and there was indeed something in the ethereal realm. It was a "dou" sound, and the echo was endless. With this sound, Mei Zhenyi felt that Zhishen was "back" again, and his position in his spiritual consciousness returned to normal.

Seeing that Zen Master Zhishen also moved, he reached out and took out a purple gold bowl from somewhere, and held it on his palm with one hand and kept it spinning continuously. The bowl rotated in response to the invisible wind around, resolving the power of force from all directions. Qingfeng asked, "How did the guy who was begging for food in Xuanzang back then pass it to your hands?"

Zhishen smiled and said, "I have to have a meal too."

Qingfeng changed his tone: "There is the bowl here, where is the robe? Did someone snatch the robe from the little monk Huineng?"

Zhishen: "No one was stolen. The Queen of Heaven issued an edict to ask for it. The Zen letter clothes are now in the Queen of Heaven."

Qingfeng: "What did Empress Wu want a cassock to do? Do you want to become a nun? Oh, I heard that she was a nun."

Zhishen: "This is not what the young monk knows. Today's decree was written by the queen of heaven. The decree of the gods was just presided over the ceremony, and the rest has nothing to do with me."

Qingfeng: "Why has nothing to do with you? If you didn't cast the spell first, gathering the spiritual shu of the mountain and the Green Snow divine consciousness, it would be useless to have the decree of the gods."

Zhishen: "This is the purpose of the Queen of Heaven sending a young monk as an imperial envoy. Since I am an imperial envoy, I always have to complete my mission. It is not a problem for you. Who is the mountain god in this mountain? Is it related to you?"

Qingfeng: "It has nothing to do with me. I only want to ask, how can Empress Wu do it? Can she really be called a god by issuing a decree?"

Zhishen only answered four words: "The little monk doesn't know."

Before the two stopped, Zhishen helped with the purple gold bowl and barely resolved the invisible wind. He had no power to fight back, but his words were neither humble nor arrogant, and he had no intention of showing weakness. The mountain peaks did not move, the bamboo shadows did not shake, and the surroundings were silent.

At this moment, the clear spring in the forest was very pleasant to hear, and a green figure walked out of the Green Snow Temple, as if the mountain scenery in February was also moving with her footsteps. It was the Mountain God Green Snow.

As soon as Luxue appeared, Qingfeng had stretched out his hand and said lightly: "Since you don't know, I won't ask anymore. It's a guest from afar. The master here invites you to drink tea." As soon as he stopped, the invisible wind had dissipated, the clearings in the forest had returned to normal, and Zhishen also put away the purple gold bowl.

This battle seemed to be undecided. However, Qingfeng obviously had the upper hand, but he took the initiative to stop and everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Luxue came close to him and bowed: "Zen Master Zhishen came to Jingting Mountain to be the gods. Although it was not Luxue's original intention, he was very grateful. There is no way to receive guests in the mountains, so please use a cup of tea."

Luxue came to the altar and waved her sleeves. The incense candle on it was swept to the ground. The altar became a tea table. There was a small stove on it, and there was a copper pot for boiling water on it, and next to it was a dozen tea cups made of rocks. Luxue was already a mountain god, and now she used a lot of tricks.

She lifted the copper pot and poured water into the cup. The ground was poured out of the pot. There was clear water, and there was no tea leaves in the cup. However, the water poured into the cup, and the tea fragrance blew. The water in the cup really turned into tea. Luxue said while pouring the tea: "Qingfeng Fairy Boy came back from Danxia Peak. Teach me how to brew this way. Please use it for your masters. It is also a little thank you for Luxue."

While she was talking, the tea was finished. She waved her hand and the cups on the altar flew up one by one, and they stopped in front of everyone, no more or less. Mei Zhenyi took the cup and took a sip and said, "Good tea, good tea, this tea can clear the mind and clear the eyes, detoxify and remove fire. It is suitable for drinking in this situation... Master Zhishen. I just heard Qingfeng Xiantong call you monk Sha. Does the master's secular surname be Sha?"

He walked up to ask a gossip. He was both interrupting and trying to resolve the doubts in his heart. He stood between Qingfeng and Zhisheng with an impartiality. Zhisheng replied with a smile: "My family's surname is Zhou, not Sha. When the donor of Qingfeng asked me who I was, I answered that I followed the monk westward to a novice monk. He thought my surname was Sha and Mi, so he called me Sha Monk. Since that's the case, it doesn't matter if I call him Sha Monk."

Qingfeng still has such a funny time? Since he became a brother with Mr. Xiong, how could he not understand the meaning of Buddhist novice? Think about it, it is possible that Qingfeng and Mr. Xiong should have been after meeting monk Sha. At that time, he didn't understand what the novice monk meant, or although he knew, he didn't care. He answered the novice monk and called him novice monk, just like Mei Zhenyi called Mr. Sui.

Is "Sha Monk" the origin of this? So what is the "Sha Wujing" in "Journey to the West"? It seems that there are basis for novels compiled by later generations, but there are many differences, such as the legend of "Zhongli Trying Lu Chunyang". Thinking of this, Mei Zhenyi felt relieved. Whether Zhishen was Sha Monk was not important at this time or not.

There were two things that interest Mei Zhenyi in the conversation between the two just now. First, Qingfeng knew Huineng, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen, and the two had dealt with each other. Second, Qingfeng was surprised by the fact that Empress Wu issued a decree to be the gods. As a golden immortal, he didn't think about how Empress Wu could do it. He didn't ask much in this kind of occasion. First solve the situation in front of him, and let's talk about other questions later.

After drinking this cup of tea, Zhishen returned to Luxue and said, "Thank you for the hospitality of the mountain god. This tea is very good and can be called a wonderful product in the world! ... The donor of Qingfeng, the little monk said goodbye. I am ordered to build the Jiulin Zen Temple in Wuzhou City. I will stay for many days. If I have a good mood, please come to the city often as a guest."

Zhishen was not very troubled. Seeing that the matter had been done, he greeted everyone one by one and took his followers away. As the chief of the prefecture, Mei Yi had to accompany the imperial envoy back to the city at this moment, greeted Mei Zhenyi and went with Zhishen.

Only Mei Zhenyi, Princess Yuzhen, Master Xingyun, Luxue, Qingfeng. It was not a bad thing for Luxue to be enthroned by the mountain god, but today something unexpected happened, and the worst consequence was that Qingfeng's practice temple was taken away by Luxue. Qingfeng didn't say anything, and it was difficult for everyone to speak.

"Are all those monks gone?...Luxue, please invite someone to have tea, is there any of my land?" At this time, Mingyue walked out of the bamboo forest with Ti and broke the silence with a smile.

Luxue replied: "This cup is specially prepared for you." She handed a cup of tea in her hand and put it into Mingyue's hand.

Mingyue held the teacup and only smelled it but didn't drink it. She nodded seriously and said, "Well, this is tea!"
Chapter completed!