Chapter 3 The Buddhist Connection of Chicken Soup Temple

When the meeting letter from Daxia was about to be delivered to Yumen Pass, there was a sword traveling westward on the Xisha Plateau in the Western Regions.

The man in the sword light was wearing a black robe embroidered with dark gold patterns.

Those dark golden patterns resemble dragons and dragons.

Under the blazing sunshine all year round on the Xisha Plateau, the dark golden dragon pattern shines brightly, as if it is about to break free from the black robe.

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The Western Region is dominated by desert, with large areas of barren desert areas.

These desert areas have always been excellent hiding places for evil cultivators.

These wanted desperadoes had no place to stay, so they had no choice but to sneak into the barren desert.

Lu Qingshan once took a trip to the Mogao Desert in the Western Regions and wiped out a group of sand bandits.

However, in addition to becoming a den for evil cultivators, the hot and desolate desert also gave birth to the supreme Taoist sect in this region:

Longxiang Temple.

The thirty-six and seventy-two temples of Longxiang Fourth Courtyard are distributed in this vast desert area.

If you want to become Buddhas, dragons, and elephants, you must first become sentient beings like horses and oxen.

The harsh environment and hidden dangers are the best place for training for those who are truly determined to practice hard.

The entrance test for Longxiang Temple disciples, the first two levels are the most common spiritual root testing and back adjustment, and the last level is to throw those candidates who are still mortals into a desert.

Then give nothing and let the candidates seek their own blessings.

If the candidate can survive a week in the desert, then he or she has the toughness and persistence necessary to become a powerful physical practitioner and has passed the entrance test of Longxiang Temple.

If the candidate does not survive the seven days and dies, it can only be said that the Buddha does not save the destined person.

And if you die in the desert, even collecting the body is really a luxury.

Because in less than half a quarter of an hour, the wind and sand will bury the body, and even collecting the body is a luxury.

Such a cruel selection ensures the tenacity of the disciples of Longxiang Temple and the strength of Longxiang's orthodoxy.

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In addition, Longxiang has always had the habit of suppressing bandits.

Just like fishing at sea, monks are organized to regularly clean up the bandits.

This also caused the bandits to be extremely hostile to Longxiang Temple and the monks, and even spread their hatred to some ascetics who did not belong to Longxiang Temple.

The reason why those evil cultivators who became bandits in the desert became more and more ruthless and brave in battle was because they were forced out by the dragon elephant.

After all, if you are not ruthless enough, what you lose is your own life.

The assessment of the elite disciples of Longxiang is to throw the participating disciples into several deserts where the most concentrated sand bandits are, requiring them not to fly and to walk back to the sect on their own feet.

One can imagine how those evil cultivators who already hated Long Xiang would react once they saw Long Xiang's disciples.

This kind of test is a real iron-blooded test.

As for why Long Xiang didn’t clean up the bandits in one go...

In addition to the two reasons that bandits are like weeds, "the spring breeze cannot burn them all, wildfires blow again", and trying to find all the bandits in the vast desert is like looking for a needle in a haystack, there may be more or less leftover reasons. What's the reason for using some bandits as whetstones for his disciples?

Who knows?

For those sand bandits, just being alive is good. They don't care about this. They wish they were regarded as a whetstone by the dragon elephant so that they could save their lives.

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Jianguang traveled westward, but only five or six thousand miles away, he encountered two waves of sand bandits wandering in the desert.

The two sides were on the verge of breaking out, and there were no words at all.

The man in the black gold dragon robe casually flicked his fingers, but every time he flicked his fingers, a bandit fell from the air with blood flowing from his eyebrows and no trace of life left.

The man's speed did not slow down at all, and he just passed by. The menacing sand bandits fell from the high altitude to the desert like hailstones, and were then swallowed by the constantly flowing quicksand.

Everything was so calm and unruffled that it even made people wonder if there were any sand bandits here just now.

Perhaps many years later, when an ascetic is passing through the desert below, he accidentally finds one or two skulls floating on the sand, which can prove what happened here.

The man raised his head slightly and saw the plateau rising high in the sand sea like an island in front of him.

Xisha Plateau.

He did not hesitate and swept straight towards the Xisha Plateau.

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The temples of Longxiang are not concentrated and are scattered among the major plateaus and deserts.

The Xisha Plateau area belongs to Jitang Temple.

The bandits on the Xisha Plateau have been living a pretty good life recently, because they heard that the abbot of Jitang Temple, the Holy Monk Jitang, died there while supporting the Zhongling Territory.

They were dubious at first, but as time passed, the truth of the news became more and more true.

Until finally they were sure that the Chicken Soup Monk was really dead.

Death is a big deal.

For the bandits, this is not the case.

When the Holy Monk of Chicken Soup was still around, the bandits' feelings towards him were more of fear and fear.

But as soon as the Chicken Soup Saint Monk died, this fear changed - what else does the dead have to fear?

Fear began to turn into hatred.

They began to resent the massacre of their bandits by the Jitang Temple when the Holy Monk Shangjitang was still there.

If it's just that, it's nothing.

But two more things happened recently, which suddenly made the situation on the Xisha Plateau become treacherous.

First, after Abbot Jitang died in Zhongling, Bodhi Temple, one of the Four Longxiang Temples, applied to the Longxiang Presbyterian Council and wanted to incorporate Jitang Temple under its command.

There are 36 temples and 72 temples in Longxiang, headed by the Fourth Court. The other thirty-six temples and 72 temples are under the factions of the Four Courts. The overall authority is the Longxiang Presbyterian Council.

The composition of the Presbyterian Council is somewhat complicated. To put it simply, it is very similar to the organization called "United Nations" in Lu Qingshan's previous life. A total of 112 abbots from all the temples formed the Dragon Elephant Presbyterian Council.

Then the Presbyterian Council, headed by the Four Houses, has the greatest privileges, just like the "permanent members" of the United Nations.

Chicken Soup Temple originally belonged to the faction of Bodhi Yuan.

But later, due to the existence of the Holy Monk of Chicken Soup, the comprehensive strength of Chicken Soup Temple skyrocketed, and it was regarded as the number one temple among the Four Courts, even approaching the Four Courts.

There is no room for two tigers in one mountain, so Jitang Temple gradually became independent from the Bodhi Yuan faction and became a separate temple.

It's a pity that the configuration of the thirty-six and seventy-two temples in the Longxiang Fourth Courtyard is also fixed, neither increasing nor decreasing.

No matter how strong Jitang Temple is, it is impossible to be promoted to the fifth Longxiang Academy, unless the current four courtyards are replaced by one.

As one goes to higher places, Chicken Soup Temple must be trying to upgrade it to become a Chicken Soup Temple, and it has been working hard - obviously, if Chicken Soup Temple is really upgraded to a temple, the location of Bodhi Temple must be banned.

The dissatisfaction in Bodhiyuan's heart has been building up for a long time as his former little brother now wants to climb over him.

It's just that although the temples in the Longxiang temple are scattered, they belong to the same Dragon Elephant after all, and internal fighting is absolutely not allowed. Therefore, the Bodhi Temple can only watch the Chicken Soup Temple continue to grow stronger.

As the cultivation level of the Chicken Soup Monk continues to improve, the sense of crisis in Bodhi Court is also growing, especially when the Chicken Soup Monk reaches the Seven Tribulations Realm - it is completely conceivable that once the Chicken Soup Monk joins the path and enters the Nine Realms, then How terrifying will the fighting power be?

Perhaps that will also be the time when Bodhi Courtyard becomes Bodhi Temple?

As a result, everything turned around ten years ago.

Chaos broke out in Zhongling, and the Holy Monk of Chicken Soup went to Zhongling alone, and then buried himself in that land and never came back.

Bodhiyuan, who was suffocating at this moment, couldn't sit still anymore. He took the opportunity to add insult to injury and immediately applied to the Longxiang Elders Council to bring the Jitang Temple, which had been greatly reduced in strength after losing the Jitang Saint Monk, back under his command.

The Holy Monk of Chicken Soup has worked hard for so many years to make Chicken Soup Temple independent from the Bodhi Yuan faction. Now that Bodhi Yuan wants to take back Chicken Soup Temple, the disciples of Chicken Soup Temple naturally strongly disagree.

Also due to the fact that they are all affiliated with Longxiang, Jitang Temple does not cooperate. Even if Bodhi Temple is unhappy, it cannot force Jitang Temple by force - the disciples of Jitang Temple are aware of this and dare to reject Bodhi Temple so firmly. proposal.

The two were in a stalemate.

It wasn't until the second incident happened that the situation seemed to have turned for the better.

Half a year ago, the direct disciple of the abbot of Longxiang Tianwangyuan beheaded the only heir of King Huang Shalom in the Erhai Desert.

King Huang Shalom is the most powerful bandit leader in the Western Region. He has tens of thousands of bandits under his command, and he himself has the cultivation level of the Five Tribulations Realm.

Of course, in the face of Dragon Elephant's size, this level of strength and power is completely inadequate.

However, King Huang Shalom had a violent temper, and his own heir died tragically at the hands of Longxiang disciples. It was impossible for him to swallow his anger without making any reaction.

He decided to take revenge on Long Xiang and let Long Xiang pay for his debt with blood.

After some deliberation, King Huang Salon targeted Chicken Soup Temple.

He prepared to attack Jitang Temple.

The reason why it is Chicken Soup Temple is because if we choose an unknown dragon and elephant temple to take revenge, the dragon and elephant will not hurt at all, so how can we talk about revenge?

And if he chooses to attack the Longxiang branch temple who is too strong, he really doesn't have the strength. If he bites the bullet, he is undoubtedly throwing himself into a trap and giving himself to others.

So stupid!

The unique Jitang Temple has a great reputation, but due to the death of Abbot Jitang, its strength has plummeted, so it is the most suitable target for surgery.

Of course, this was originally just a common act of revenge, and King Huang Salon was prepared to have a fight with Jitang Temple, causing Jitang Temple to shed some blood before quickly retreating.

If he wanted to destroy Chicken Soup Temple directly, King Huang Shalom firstly did not have the strength, and secondly, he did not have the courage.

But what King Huang Shalom didn't expect was that because his flesh had been cut with blunt knives by Long Xiang's disciples all the time, the bandits in the Western Regions had already had a long-standing grudge against Long Xiang.

It's just that the strength is far inferior to that of Long Xiang, and the bandits are scattered and there is no leader, so they have to grit their teeth and bear it.

But now, King Huang Salon, as the most famous among the bandits, personally led his men to attack Jitang Temple, which actually attracted the bandits around the Xisha Plateau to spontaneously respond and join the team to attack Jitang Temple and take revenge on Long Xiang.

Like a snowball getting bigger and bigger, the resentment of the bandits is ready to explode completely.

Subsequently, more and more bandits responded. One band after another rushed to the Xisha Plateau, lurking in the desert, and blocked the disciples of Jitang Temple in the Jitang Temple. They could not leave even half a step - once they left Jitang Temple The disciples of Jitang Temple will be attacked heavily by bandits.

Regarding this situation, without the Jitang Holy Monk to suppress it, the Jitang Temple had no choice but to ask Long Xiang for help.

Obviously many people can guess how things will develop after that.

With such a great opportunity in front of us, how could Bodhi Court not seize it?

The abbot of Bodhi Temple rejected Jitang Temple's request for help on the grounds that the border situation was dangerous and it was difficult to easily mobilize manpower.

If the bandits are attacking Jitang Temple, the Longxiang Presbyterian Church cannot be sure that Jitang Temple has been breached, and must send manpower to support Jitang Temple.

But the current situation is that the bandits are just lurking on the Xisha Plateau, intercepting and killing the disciples of Jitang Temple who leave the temple.

In other words, if the disciples of Jitang Temple stay in the temple and stay closed, there is not much danger.

Under this situation, coupled with the strength of Bodhi Temple, Long Xiang actually agreed to let Jitang Temple be in trouble for the first time.

As for when I can afford to visit Chicken Soup Temple...

It's very simple. When Jitang Temple agrees to return to the Bodhi Yuan faction, that's when Long Xiang takes action.

Moreover, the one who takes action will also be the monks of Bodhi Temple.

By then Bodhiyuan will solve the bandit problem in Chicken Tang Temple, and Chicken Tang Temple will return to the Bodhi Temple faction. It will probably become a good story in the future.

Of course, Chicken Soup Temple will definitely not compromise like this.

Being trapped in the mountain gate for a while does not have much impact on Jitang Temple. As for the future, let it be straight from the bridge to the bow of the ship.

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"For thousands of years, our Jitang Temple has made good friends with many temples. There are too many. If each temple has five or six good people, it can solve the problem of bandits. Why is no one willing to take action? These temples are really What a shame!" The young novice monk complained in the Sutra Hall of Jitang Temple.

In front of the little novice monk is Juezhen, who is chanting sutras with his eyes closed.

The young monk at that time, now the senior monk of Jitang Temple, Juezhen heard the complaint of the young novice, stopped chanting, opened his eyes and said calmly: "Don't blame them, we have also contacted the abbot of Anxiang Temple, Wudou Temple, etc. Familiar with power.

They were willing to help and didn't want to push back, but Bodhi Courtyard was suppressing them and it was really difficult to send out help. "

"After all, although it is just a rhetorical statement, it is absolutely true that the situation on the border is serious, and they do not dare to advocate the mobilization of manpower without authorization."

"What about other sects? Isn't it the responsibility of all our sects in the Western Region to exterminate the sand bandits?

At this time, bandits gathered in large numbers on the Xisha Plateau. Why didn't they take advantage of the opportunity to take action? "The little novice monk thought for a while and then said: "For example, sword washing pool, calming the storm..."

Juezhen shook his head, "This sect is unwilling to take action. They don't owe us Chicken Soup Temple anything, so why should they help?"

"Why..." The little novice monk rolled his eyes and suddenly thought of something. He clapped his hands and said: "By the way, it's not that the new leader of the Sword Sect, Lu Qingshan, was once favored by the abbot Buddha. Do you owe our Chicken Soup Temple a favor?

If Jian Zong takes action, killing these bandits is not just cutting melons and vegetables? Why don't we ask Jian Zong for help? "

Juezhen sighed, "It's not that I haven't thought about it, but firstly, the distance is far away, secondly, the Sword Sect suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Zhongling, and its strength dropped sharply, and thirdly, you have heard the recent rumors, Xi Jianchi Spearhead Directly targeting the Sword Sect, I thought their own life would not be easy, so I didn’t say anything.”

The little novice monk suddenly became dejected.

He also understood these principles, but the current situation was so bad that he couldn't help but have some expectations that he shouldn't have.

Neither the young novice nor Juezhen knew that at this moment, the new head of the Sword Sect, who had been rated by Abbot Jitang as "someday a person who can make Bodhisattvas lower their eyes", had already stepped onto the border of the Xisha Plateau.

Just as the Jitang Monk said back then, as a secular tribe, Lu Qingshan dared to do things that thousands of people would do, and he will definitely be remembered by the Buddha in the Jitang Temple.

Therefore, he passed on the Dragon Elephant Mysterious Sutra to Lu Qingshan, who was a disciple of the outer sect.

So, Lu Qingshan is here.