Evil Master and Disciple

Chapter 930 Shen Feiyang, Shan Qingtong

Jiuhua Mountain, located in Chizhou, is a mountain range with a radius of 300 miles.

The highest mountain is only a few hundred feet high.

It is very different from the Tianyun Mountains.

Because the mountain range is not large and the peaks are not high, Jiuhua Mountain is destined to be unable to give birth to a super sect like the Yunhai Sect.

Jiuhua Mountain has always been controlled by Buddhism. The largest Buddhist temple is Gion-ji Temple, which has five to six hundred Buddhist monks.

Other temples and monasteries are mostly just a few rooms with a small number of people.

A month ago, when Ye Feng and his group were training in the human world, their last stop was Jiuhua Mountain.

At that time, when he was traveling in Jiuhua Mountain, he encountered heavy snow and the road was blocked, making it difficult for the horse to move forward. So he changed his way of travel and flew directly to the capital.

At this moment, Jiuhua Mountain is still covered with snow.

Rural towns can be seen everywhere outside the mountains, and they have a strong worldly atmosphere.

This is the difference between Buddhism and Taoism.

Most Taoist sects are located high in the mountains, far away from the dust and smoke.

Buddhism, like Confucianism, originally required incense and offerings, so it was very close to the secular world.

To this day, even though the Buddhist practice methods have been separated from the incense and luck, Buddhism has not yet broken away from the secular world.

For example, even in Lingtai Temple, the first Buddhist temple today, countless pilgrims go up the mountain to pray for blessings every day.

There are Buddhist temples in every district in the capital.

Looking around the world, there are Buddhist temples near almost every town.

Buddhism always talks about cutting off worldly ties and the four great precepts.

In fact, they have never left the world.

While the four elements are empty, what is empty is definitely not the wallet.

The only good thing about Buddhism is that it does not actively seek out fights.

Otherwise, no sect in the world can defeat them.

Don't underestimate small temples with only a few, dozens or hundreds of monks.

One or two, or even a hundred or so, are nothing to worry about.

But if there are thousands or tens of thousands of temples, it would be a different story.

The number of Buddhist disciples is greater than the number of Taoist and demonic disciples combined.

Millions of Buddhist disciples are spread across the nine provinces.

Buddhism may seem like a loose group, but in fact they are very united.

During the Immortal Hunting War, all factions suffered heavy losses, but Buddhism suffered the least.

After the Immortal Hunting War, they were able to expand their influence greatly.

Of course, this minimal loss is only relative.

For example, at that time, the Yunhai Sect had 30,000 disciples, and 20,000 of them died in the battle, which meant two-thirds of the sect had died, and it almost cost the Yunhai Sect its life.

The loss ratios of other sects were similar.

But it is different with Buddhism. They have a very large base and their methods of practice are almost the same.

Of the five million Buddhist disciples, one million died in the battle, leaving four million.

Two-thirds of the people from Lingtai Temple were killed in the battle. After the war, Lingtai Temple could quickly receive reinforcements from other temples.

Other sects were unable to provide reinforcements, so in the hundred years after the Immortal Hunting War, all sects tried hard to recover, while Buddhism was expanding its territory.

The Buddhist monks and temples in the Tianyun Mountains today are actually the product of Buddhism's crazy expansion over the past two thousand years.

Like Fatty Yulong and his best disciple Ye Feng, he has no good feelings towards Buddhism.

If he hadn't come to Jiuhua Mountain this time to pursue the truth, he wouldn't have come.

Of course, this truth is not only for the Yunhai Sect, but also for himself.

He must find out whether Ruyan is dead or not.

Is Ling'er his biological daughter?

Fatty Yulong arrived at Jiuhua Mountain early in the morning and asked the monks in several temples about Shen Feiyang.

This Shen Feiyang is really famous. All the monks in Jiuhua Mountain have heard of his name.

Shen Feiyang was once a casual cultivator. He grew up in the Wangyou Cave in Jiuhua and learned from the Buddhist casual cultivator Bulong Sanren. He was once famous for his demon-slaying sword and was known as the Tianlong Swordsman.

Bulong Sanren has two disciples, Shen Feiyang is the eldest disciple, and the second disciple is a girl named Shan Qingtong.

Shan Qingtong is not an ordinary girl either. In addition to her beautiful appearance, she is also very kind and cheerful. People who know her call her Shan Xiaomei.

I once participated in the Lingshan Competition and achieved a good result in the top ten.

The Dragon Swordsman and the Bronze Lady have walked hand in hand in the world for decades and are known as heroes.

But suddenly, Lady Qingtong disappeared.

Since then, the Tianlong Swordsman Shen Feiyang rarely left Jiuhua Mountain.

He has been living in seclusion in Wangyou Cave.

About two hundred years ago, Bulong Sanren also passed away, and there was even less news about Shen Feiyang.

Later it was reported that Shen Feiyang converted to Buddhism and became a monk in Jiuhua Mountain.

But that’s all the monks know.

In the morning, Fatty Yulong found out the location of the Forget-Sorrow Cave, but when he got there, he discovered that the owner of the Forget-Sorrow Cave had already changed.

The current owner of Wangyou Cave is a middle-aged female nun who practices in the cave with seven or eight female disciples.

Fatty Yulong asked the middle-aged nun about Shen Feiyang's current whereabouts.

The middle-aged nun gave a clue.

According to the middle-aged nun, Shen Feiyang had returned to Wangyou Cave once decades ago.

He had indeed become a monk, with the Buddhist name Sihai. As for which temple Shen Feiyang had become a monk, the middle-aged nun didn't know either.

Now that he knew Shen Feiyang's Buddhist name after he became a monk, Fatty Yulong felt it would be easier to find him.

Aren't there only a few hundred temples and monasteries on Jiuhua Mountain? At worst, I could just search them all myself, and I'd definitely find some clues.

At noon, Master Yulong arrived at Gion-ji Temple, the largest temple in Jiuhua Mountain.

Fatty Yulong is rather vulgar. He thinks that if he were to become a monk, he would definitely choose the largest and most luxurious temple in the local area.

So he decided to start his investigation from Gion Temple.

Gion-ji Temple is built on the mountain. It is only a temple for a few hundred people, but it is extremely magnificent.

It was noon at this moment, and under the sunlight, Gion Temple was emitting a faint golden light.

This is not the Buddha's light, but the sunlight reflected by gold.

I really don’t know how many layers of gold paint are applied on the walls and tiles of Gion-ji Temple.

Jiuhua Mountain is a holy place for Buddhism, and Gion Temple is the largest temple in Jiuhua Mountain. Now it is the end of the year, and the incense at Gion Temple is very prosperous.

Dozens of carriages were parked at the foot of the mountain.

There is a constant stream of pilgrims going up and down the mountain.

There is even a busy market in front of the temple, where many local people set up stalls.

Fatty Yulong followed the pilgrims who went up the mountain to burn incense and soon arrived at the gate of Gion Temple.

There were several monks in grey robes welcoming pilgrims in front of the temple gate.

Fatty Yulong walked up to a gray-robed monk and said, "Please tell my junior master that Huang Youdao, the Yulong Master of the Yunhai Sect of Tianyun Mountain, wishes to see the abbot."

The gray-robed monk was not very old, and looked to be in his early twenties. The color of Buddhist clothing represented rank.

The gray monk robes are not of high rank and represent the lowest rank of monks in Buddhism.

Upwards is moon white.

Ordinary elders are dark yellow.

The chief elder or abbot wears bright yellow robes and a purple gold robe.

However, Fatty Yulong is very famous among the people.

The little monk had actually heard of his name.

"Amitabha, it turns out that it is Master Yulong who has come to visit. Master, please follow me..."

The gray-robed monk took Fatty Yulong up the mountain.