Chapter 850: Determining Buddhahood Through Tenth Life Debate

Seeing that the monk had walked away, Fang Xingbian turned around and threw Shenxiu, who had been holding it in his hand, to the ground. As soon as he let go, Shenxiu's body, which had been restrained by him and could not move, finally recovered. After gaining some freedom, he silently climbed up from the ground. He looked at Fang Xing with a strange look and some emotion. He smiled bitterly and then said in a low voice: "Brother, I really can't escape this cause and effect. , follow him, fulfill this long-cherished wish, and I can also help you get a volume of Taoist scriptures, so why bother to stop me?"

"Don't tell me so many nonsense things!"

Fang Xing looked at Shenxiu coldly, frowned for a while and said, "If you really want to go, why were you so scared just now like your grandson? Come in with me and tell me honestly what is going on. Do you dare to fool me and see if I can't kill you?" What a bald ass..."

"oh……"

Shenxiu lowered his head and followed Fang Xing into the palace.

But after walking a few steps, Fang Xing stopped again: "The wine jar just broke, please bring me another jar!"

"Uh...ok..."

Shenxiu was stunned for a moment, then obediently moved the wine.

Fang Xingze stood at the entrance of the palace angrily, watching Shenxiu come up with the wine jar in his arms before he felt relieved and went to the palace to wait for him. After Shenxiu came up, the two brothers sat down and let him go. Wang Qiong and Chu Ci, who heard the commotion and came over to investigate, went back and cleared away the people waiting around. Then they sat on the left and right Taishi chairs and began to talk about the "debating machine" in detail.

"Senior brother, actually I can't remember many things clearly. I only have some intermittent fragments. I mostly saw them in my dreams..."

After sitting down, Shenxiu knocked on his head and began to think about where to start. After being silent for a long time, he nodded slightly and said: "Let's start from the beginning, senior brother, you also know that I have been talking since I was a child. I grew up in Lingshan Temple. It is said that Master Jiuwen traveled all over the mountains and rivers to find me. From the time I can remember, the first one has always told me that I have a destiny and will become a generation in the future. Lord Buddha, lead ten thousand Buddhas and save all sentient beings..."

"Are you so powerful?"

Fang Xing opened his eyes wide and looked at Shenxiu in disbelief, seeming a little doubtful.

Shenxiu was a little speechless: "Senior brother, can I continue talking?"

"Oh oh oh, keep talking..."

Fang Xing waved his hand and looked like he was listening carefully.

"But the leader once told me that before I can become a Buddha, I will have a great calamity. If this calamity passes, I will obtain the fruits of true Buddha karma and become a Buddha. But if I cannot pass this calamity, I will On the contrary, it will become a disaster for others, and when he told me that, he had a worried look on his eyebrows, as if...as if I had failed nine times and was waiting for the tenth chance..."

"****Are you so stupid that you lost nine times?"

Fang Xing stared at Shenxiu with eyes wide open, as if he hated iron.

"Um...Senior brother, can I continue?"

Shenxiu looked at Fang Xing speechlessly again.

"Oh oh oh, keep talking..."

"As I said just now, when I dreamed in the past, I always dreamed of some scenes intermittently, but they were all specious and unreal, but that monk came to me and kept mentioning the word "bianji" in front of me. At that time, I suddenly understood something, senior brother, I don’t know who I am, but I know what I want to do, and my Buddha’s calamity has arrived..."

Fang Xing frowned and looked at Shenxiu: "Can you speak human language?"

Fang Xing felt choked for a moment, and after a while, he simply said: "Let's put it this way, senior brother, thousands of years ago, the Lord Buddha died, and he planned to teach the Buddha's fruition to two disciples, so he ordered the two disciples to each write a verse. , to prove the fruit of Buddhahood. As a result, one of the disciples lost, but he was not convinced and made a big fuss in Lingshan. The Lord Buddha gave him a chance and asked the two of them to argue once every thousand years until the disciple said it sincerely. As a result, after a thousand years of reincarnation, the disciple lost nine times in a row and could never win against the opponent. However, the winning disciple also failed to convince the opponent and was unable to obtain Buddhahood. Therefore, the two people have agreed that ten times Debate will determine Buddhahood!"

After saying this, Shenxiu pointed to his nose and said: "Although I don't remember many things, it took me a long time to piece together the fragments of Master and my dreams to know these things, but it is obvious that I am the one lost……"

"Lost nine times..."

Fang Xing was silent for a while, then carefully asked: "What is the debate machine?"

Shenxiu was speechless for a moment, and then said after a while: "Senior brother, you can interpret him as a quarrel!"

"****!"

Fang Xing clapped his thigh and stood up, looked at Shenxiu with contempt and said: "I have argued nine times and still haven't won, you can do it!"

Shenxiu didn't know how to answer, so he had to put his hands together and recite Buddha.

Fang Xing looked like he wanted to help. He thought seriously for a long time and said, "Then do you know why you didn't win the argument? Let me tell you, sometimes the quarrel is not just about what the other person said, but what you said. You have to speak louder, to suppress the opponent's momentum, and to pinpoint the pain points. If the opponent is ugly, call him a smelly toad; if he is dark, call him a black bear; if he is handsome, call him a pretty boy. If you are white, call him ugly... Also, if you really can't scold him, go up and beat him. If you can't, find someone to beat him with you..."

After hearing these great truths, Shenxiu was simply speechless. After a while, he said: "Brother, what you said makes sense, but in fact, after nine lives, I have already figured it out. Maybe I figured it out many lives ago, why do I always You will lose!"

"Um?"

Fang Xing raised his head and looked at Shenxiu.

Shenxiu sighed softly, smiled slightly, and said: "Because his Dharma is indeed deeper than mine!"

"Then are you admitting that you can't quarrel with others?"

Fang Xing sighed speechlessly and said, "Let's take a detour, why are we arguing?"

Shenxiu smiled bitterly and said, "Because I also feel that I am right..."

He paused, as if thinking about how to explain to Fang Xing, and then said after a while: "Although his Dharma is deeper than mine and his principles are greater than mine, I still feel that I am right. I know that in the eyes of the Buddha, in the eyes of the monks, In the eyes of everyone, and in the eyes of all sentient beings, his principles are correct, but I know myself that my Dharma is not wrong. I have argued with him for nine lives for this idea, and now this is my tenth life. When the monk came, I knew I wasn’t ready yet and I didn’t want to lose again, but I still had to go after all, I couldn’t escape!”

"You're just over the top..."

Fang Xing stood up, patted Shenxiu on the shoulder and said, "But don't worry, I definitely think you are right..."

Shenxiu smiled bitterly and said, "Senior brother, do you know what my Buddhist verse is?"

Fang Xingdao: "I don't know!"

Shenxiu said: "Then why do you think I am right?"

Fang Xing poured two bowls of wine, handed one to Shenxiu, and said, "Because you call me senior brother, who can I help if I don't help you?"

Shenxiu's eyes were complicated, but he didn't say anything. He just looked at the wine bowl with a grimace and said: "Brother, drinking is not allowed in Buddhism..."

"drink!"

Fang Xing's eyes widened, and Shenxiu immediately took the wine bowl and poured it into his mouth.

"Anyway, I think you looked like you were going to die when you said you were going, but you were a bit more popular when you said you didn't want to go at first!" Fang Xing finished his drink, looked at Shenxiu solemnly, and lowered his voice. He said: "So I left you here, and I will tell you one thing. There are still many good wines in this world that you have not drunk, good meats that you have not eaten, and good fairies that you have not peeked at. Why are you in a hurry?" Go and die... Speaking of which, when I think of you being a monk for ten lifetimes, I feel so sorry for you... Don't go if you are not ready, don't go if you don't want to go, and don't go if you think you will lose. , when we win, we will go..."

Shenxiu nodded repeatedly, smiled, and said: "Brother, I don't know what happened. I had already decided to go, but when you mentioned wine and meat and fairy bathing, I suddenly didn't want to go. I really wasn't ready yet. Enough fun... ah no, get ready, the debate was supposed to be held in a hundred years, but who knew they would suddenly advance it, you are so bullying, don't go!"

"That's good, that's what it has to be!"

Fang Xing laughed loudly and raised his thumb, feeling slightly relieved.

"But...senior brother, if I don't go, how can you get your Taoist scriptures back?"

Shenxiu suddenly thought of this question and asked hesitantly.

"Tao Jing?"

Fang Xing suddenly laughed coldly and said: "I don't care what is in the Bian'an Temple in the Pure Land. It would be fine if these monks happily exchanged the Taoist scriptures for me. Since they refuse to exchange, then Don't blame me for being unreasonable!" As he said that, he looked at Shenxiu with a playful look, and smiled in a low voice, showing his sharp white teeth: "Shenxiu, what do you think my senior brother is the most powerful about me?"

"Robbery..."

Shenxiu answered blankly, without any hesitation.

"Well said!"

Fang Xing laughed, picked up the wine jar, took a sip, and said, "I didn't know whose hands that Taoist scripture fell into before, but now I know that since these monks refused to hand it over happily, haha , then won’t I go over and grab it?”

Shenxiu was stunned this time, and after a while he said, "When?"

"Of course now!"

Fang Xing's answer was unusually crisp and clear. He sneered and said in a low voice: "Shenxiu, don't say that senior brother doesn't take care of you. If you really feel that you have no chance of winning, I can help you kill that Buddhist... Hehe, everything It is said that the Immortal Sword is good at assassination, but I have practiced the ghost-covering eyes technique in the Sword Demon Art, and I have also derived the movement techniques in the Taishang Xiaoyao Sutra. In addition, I have the Prajna Sutra, and I can ignore the big formation. existence, and killing people from a distance with a divine bow... Haha, if I join the Immortal Sword, I will be the number one assassin..."