The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#449 - Finally Encountering the Pure Land

Lu Jing was considering whether to hold his breath and slow down his heartbeat.

After all, the two people outside the door were both top experts of the time, and their senses were very keen. If he wasn't careful, they would discover someone was in the room. Then Lu Jing would inevitably have to go out and engage in some mutual flattery.

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However, just as Lu Jing was still hesitating, he heard Yu Wen Yu say, "By the way, Brother Li, when you came, did you happen to stroll around Fengxing County?"

Probably because they had already finished talking about serious matters, Yu Wen Yu's voice relaxed a lot, and at this moment he was completely in a mood for idle conversation.

Li Bufan pondered for a moment and said, "As for Fengxing County, I remember there is a Phoenix Cry Pavilion. It is said to have existed since the previous dynasty, and there are still many beautiful verses left by poets on it. Besides that, there is the red plum forest in the south of the city. Unfortunately, it is not the season yet, so my wife and I didn't go. Why, listening to Brother Yu's words, does Fengxing County have other good places to go?"

"How early?"

"It should be when he was still called Liu Mi, left before entering Buddhism. Although it already has the charm of his mid-to-late works, the strokes are still very immature."

Yu Wenyu's words also surprised Li Bufan, because as everyone knows, Master Honglian was self-taught, enlightened to Buddhist teachings, and then traveled around the world to preach and teach the Dharma.

From this point of view, it is not surprising that there are authentic works left by him in any small temple.

But if it was from his youth, it would be relatively rare. Because Liu Mi was unable to see at a young age, he could not leave home too far, and Master Honglian's home was in Mei Zhou, hundreds of miles away from Huzhou.

It is indeed amazing to find the authentic works left by Master Honglian at that time in the temples here.

Li Bufan asked, "What did Master Honglian write there?"

"Pure Land."

"Pure Land? Only these two words?"

"Only these two words," Yu Wen Yu said, "And strictly speaking, these two words are not in the temple, but written on the wall next to the temple. I have inquired around. There was originally a family there, but it seems they moved away later. I don't know if it has anything to do with Master Honglian."

"That's also a strange thing," Li Bufan said. He himself does not believe in Buddhism. Although he respects Master Honglian's position in Buddhism, he didn't take this matter too seriously, just listened to it as a strange anecdote, and didn't plan to go and see it.

However, his and Yu Wenyu's words stirred up a huge wave in Lu Jing's heart in the nearby厢房.

He hadn't forgotten the tooth he picked up when he was reforging Master Honglian's Zen staff.

The sixteen small characters on it—Mad Demon Slaying Bandits, Karma Fire Red Lotus, To Obtain the True Solution, First Enter the Pure Land—had cost him a lot of brainpower.

Regarding the plus version of the Mad Demon One Hundred and Eight Staffs, Lu Jing had made many guesses before and after, but unfortunately, in the end, either he overturned them, or there was no way to verify them.

Especially the saying of Pure Land, Lu Jing always thought it meant to let him join Buddhism.

Although Lu Jing didn't have any prejudice against monks, he didn't have any prejudice against his hair either, not to mention the other messy precepts after entering the Buddhist gate.

Even for the sake of improving the power of the Mad Demon One Hundred and Eight Staffs, it was still a bit of a loss for the current Lu Jing.

Fortunately, in the end, it was just a false alarm. The Pure Land that Master Honglian referred to was not the broad sense of Buddhism, but a real small temple.

And after learning this news, Lu Jing's first reaction was disbelief.

Wouldn't this be too much of a gamble on luck?!

The true solution of the Mad Demon One Hundred and Eight Staffs, such an important thing, Master Honglian just threw it in such an unknown small temple, and only left two words on the wall next door.

It was still a word left in his youth. Except for calligraphy enthusiasts like Yu Wenyu, it is basically impossible for anyone to recognize Master Honglian's handwriting at that time, let alone that person who had seen the sixteen characters on the tooth.

This probability is too small, isn't it? Could it be that it really corresponds to the sentence on the Zen staff that all dharmas are due to fate?

And if you look at it this way, does Lu Jing hearing Yu Wenyu and Li Bufan's conversation today mean that he is indeed destined for Master Honglian?

Otherwise, how could he first obtain his martial arts, then obtain his weapon, and now there is hope to obtain the true solution he left behind?

Under the ups and downs of Lu Jing's mood, he couldn't help but affect his breathing.

And his panting sound was only slightly louder, and it was captured by Li Bufan outside the door to Yu Wen Yu.

Li Bufan said in surprise, "Are there new guests in the village again?"

"I seemed to see Wen Huangliang driving a car out to pick up people in the morning," Yu Wen Yu said.

Now that things have come to this, Lu Jing naturally couldn't continue to stay in the room and pretend to be dead, otherwise, he would be suspected of deliberately eavesdropping on the two of them.

So he could only put away the flying sword and open the door.

Whether it was Li Bufan or Yu Wenyu, they had never met Lu Jing before, and Lu Jing was no longer holding his Zen staff.

So after opening the door, there was some surprise on the faces of Li Bufan and Yu Wenyu. Fortunately, Lu Jing didn't let them wait too long and took the lead in introducing himself, "Gang Leader Li, Hero Yu, I am Lu Jing, a friend of Wen Xiaochuan."

"You are Lu Jing!" The surprise on Yu Wenyu's face was even stronger, and then he said, "Recently, the world is spreading your deeds everywhere. I just heard Gang Leader Li talk about fighting with you."

As a result, as soon as he said this, he found that the expressions of the two people around him had become strange.

Lu Jing knew that his Feng Jiulang alias was finally exposed.

That night, in order to help Gu Caiwei solve the trouble, he made a big fuss at the birthday banquet of Jiang Yuanmao, the president of the Qian Yuan Chamber of Commerce, and then exchanged a palm with Li Bufan, the gang leader of the Chang Le Gang, who came to help.

At that time, Lu Jing still had a fluke, hoping that Li Bufan hadn't noticed the internal force he was practicing, but now it seemed that his hope was in vain, but Li Bufan shouldn't have told Yu Wenyu the actual situation when the two fought, otherwise Yu Wenyu wouldn't have mentioned this matter so recklessly.