Chapter 98 Fighting against the Drunken Monk on Taoism

Author: Heart is hard to imprison ink

Chapter 98 Fighting against the Drunken Monk on Taoism

Behind the Shaolin Temple, there is a natural stone cave on the upper part of the middle peak of Wuru Peak. It was the place where Patriarch Bodhidharma faced the wall for nine years, and it is called Bodhidharma Cave.

As the founder of the Shaolin Temple, Patriarch Bodhidharma mastered seventy-two unique skills, and even created top martial arts such as the Bodhidharma Yijin Sutra and the Marrow Cleansing Sutra.

It is said that the Yi Jin Jing was a martial art created by the Patriarch Bodhidharma after he moved his muscles and bones during his free time while facing the wall in the Bodhidharma Cave.

Bodhidharma Cave faces the southwest, with an arch made of bluestone at the entrance. The cave is about seven meters deep and more than three meters high and wide. There are three stone statues on the platform inside the cave, with the seated Bodhidharma in the middle and his disciples on both sides.

There is a green lamp wax stand in the cave that is always burning, illuminating the entire Bodhidharma Cave.

Jue Yuan and Xiao Longnu were waiting outside.

Li Yuan walked into it alone and walked straight to the deepest part of Bodhidharma Cave.

It is said that Patriarch Bodhidharma faced the wall for nine years, and when he left Bodhidharma Cave, he left a mark exactly like his own on the wall.

Li Yuan walked to the deepest part of the cave and found a bright mark on the wall at the end.

When Li Yuan saw this Buddha seal, he couldn't help but stop and observe it carefully.

Perhaps due to the passage of time, the marks in Bodhidharma Cave have become somewhat blurry. He could only see a vague human shape and a smooth bald head on the stone wall.

After observing carefully for a moment, Li Yuan's eyes moved slightly and his expression became a little surprised.

Because he could still see man-made marks near the mark, although these man-made marks were almost indistinguishable from the original Buddha seal.

But the sharp lines left by tools such as knives and axes still could not escape Li Yuan's observation.

Li Yuan held his chin and thought for a moment, then finally reacted and laughed out loud.

"Haha, these monks in the Shaolin Temple are quite scheming. The mark left by Bodhidharma in this cave may be very clear, but after so many years, it should have gradually disappeared. The monks in the Shaolin Temple are trying to maintain this relic.

, to maintain Bodhidharma’s image, human intervention was later carried out.”

But this made Li Yuan's plan come to nothing.

He was also planning to observe and understand in the ruins of Bodhidharma Cave, but now most of the marks left by Bodhidharma have disappeared, and most of the charm that he should have has also disappeared.

Li Yuan thought for a long time, with a somewhat frivolous look in his eyes.

"It is said that he is Patriarch Bodhidharma, but after all, it is just the shadow left by a monk. Whether I observe it or not, it actually has little impact on me."

Just after Li Yuan finished speaking, a loud shout came from the depths of Bodhidharma Cave.

"Hahaha, the young man is so brave. In the Bodhidharma Cave, you said that Patriarch Bodhidharma was just a monk. After all these years, you are still the first person to do so."

There was something strange in Li Yuan's eyes.

At this time, an old monk wearing an open gray robe slowly walked out of the depths of Bodhidharma Cave.

He has a bald head, a gray monk's robe in tatters and many patches, and a worn yellow leather wine gourd on his waist. His whole body smells of accumulated alcohol.

Although this old monk looked old and smelled of alcohol, his spirit was very strong.

Li Yuan had probably guessed that the old monk in front of him was the wine-fighting monk who disappeared from Jue Yuan's mouth.

However, he still pretended to be confused, clasped his fists and asked, "Senior, I dare you to ask what your surname is, and you actually live in this Bodhidharma Cave."

"Haha, heaven is my father and the earth is my mother. I have long forgotten my last name! Decades ago, many people called me Jiu Taoist. In recent years, they have shaved their heads and become a monk. They call me Jiu Taoist.

Monk."

At this time, the wine-fighting monk stared at Li Yuan with blazing eyes, as if he wanted to see through Li Yuan.

"Since the Shaolin Temple has been closed for so many years, this is the first time I have seen an outsider like you in Bodhidharma Cave. By coming here, you must have beaten up all the ignorant bald donkeys in the Shaolin Temple, right?"

Then he smiled and said without waiting for Li Yuan's answer: "But young man, you are also very interesting. You actually called the Patriarch Bodhidharma a monk. But this is correct. Even if Bodhidharma is the Patriarch of the Shaolin Temple, he is still just a monk after all.

He's just an old monk, at best he's stronger than me, and his Dharma is better than mine, hahaha."

The wine-fighting monk called the monks of Shaolin Temple Bald Donkeys and the Patriarch Bodhidharma as the old monk.

His words may sound a bit rebellious at first, but upon closer inspection, it turns out to be absolute confidence in his own strength.

He is proficient in the secrets of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, is addicted to alcohol, and has a free-spirited nature. If he behaves well, it would seem unusual for him to respect Patriarch Bodhidharma very much.

The wine-fighting monk slowly walked to the mark left by Patriarch Bodhidharma.

He smiled and said to Li Yuan: "But young man, please keep an eye on it. There is something magical about Patriarch Bodhidharma being able to leave such a mark back then."

He spread out a pair of big hands, and golden soft internal energy turned into golden lotus flowers and spurted out from his hands, pressing hard towards the mark of Patriarch Bodhidharma.

Li Yuan narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw the inner strength of Doujiu Monk.

The internal energy of Doujiu Monk has reached a terrifying level in terms of both quality and quantity. Moreover, his internal energy is both strong and soft, far beyond the level of control of internal energy by ordinary masters.

At the same time, Li Yuan also discovered another point.

That is, the internal power exerted by Doujiu Monk is not the internal power of Nine Yang Manual, but a kind of martial arts that seems to be more advanced.

At this moment.

I saw that the mark left by Patriarch Bodhidharma on the stone wall began to move along with the internal energy of the wine-fighting monk.

Patriarch Bodhidharma's imprint of the Buddha statue is like a slide, and it begins to make various movements every move.

Sometimes he swings his arms and fists, sometimes he meditates quietly, sometimes he pinches the Buddha's seal with his hand and feels the world.

"This is this?" Li Yuan looked surprised.

The wine-fighting monk smiled slightly and explained: "Master Bodhidharma's skill has reached an incredible level. This Buddha seal is a collection of all the essence of his insights in the nine years of meditation on the wall. This stone wall is stained with the traces he left back then.

The internal strength has not dissipated yet.”

"Has the inner strength not dissipated yet?"

Li Yuan suddenly thought of the sword energy that spread out from the wooden sword when he obtained Dugu Qiubei's wooden sword from the sword tomb.

Calculating according to time, the sword demon Dugu Qiufei is at most a figure from the Northern Song Dynasty before the Divine Eagle. It is not easy for sword energy to be sealed in a wooden sword for about a hundred years.

Patriarch Bodhidharma lived in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and more than five hundred years have passed since the Southern Song Dynasty.

Five hundred years later, it can still leave a mark of internal strength. This kind of strength has obviously surpassed the concept of traditional martial arts.

At this moment, the phantom on the stone wall suddenly stopped, and everything returned to its original state.

The wine-fighting monk grabbed the gourd, took a sip of wine and said with a smile: "It's been too long, and most of the profound martial arts left by Patriarch Bodhidharma has dissipated. If it had been earlier, maybe we could see it from this stone wall.

Something more.”

The wine-fighting monk thought that Li Yuan was here specifically for the Dharma Stone Wall. He had just heard Li Yuan's frivolous words, so he took the initiative to show the magic of the Dharma Stone Wall.

But Li Yuan has now guessed the identity of the wine-fighting monk, so he is undoubtedly more concerned about the wine-fighting monk than the Bodhidharma stone wall.

As for the golden lotus internal power displayed by Doujiu Monk just now, his strength is definitely at the level of the Five Ultimates. Li Yuan even vaguely guessed that his strength is still above the Five Ultimates.

Moreover, the wine-fighting monk walks freely and freely and is not bound by anything.

So Li Yuan didn't have any more tricks, so he directly said to the wine-fighting monk: "Senior, I have a martial art that I would like to discuss with you."

The wine-fighting monk smiled slightly: "Young man, what martial arts do you want to discuss with me?"

Li Yuan spoke bluntly and said loudly: "The name of this Tao is Nine Yin and Nine Yang."

"Nine Yin and Nine Yang?"

The wine-fighting monk was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "It seems that you have obtained the Nine-Yang Scripture that I wrote in the Lankavatara Sutra, and you have also obtained the complete Nine-Yin Scripture before? Yes or no?"

Li Yuan smiled slightly, indicating his acquiescence.

Although he obtained the Nine Yang Manual first and then gathered the complete Nine Yin Manual in the hands of Guo Jing and Huang Rong, the order does not matter.

At this time, Li Yuan asked a question that had been in his mind for a long time: "Senior, would you like to ask if it is possible for Nine Yin and Nine Yang to practice together?"

Doujiu Monk himself is the founder of Jiuyang. Although his views on Jiuyin cannot be as good as those of the original creator Huang Shang, he must have his own unique insights.

After hearing what Li Yuan asked, the wine-fighting monk pondered for a while.

Then he took Li Yuan and sat on the ground in the cave, just like Bodhidharma sitting cross-legged in the cave meditating.

The wine-fighting monk did not answer Li Yuan's question directly, but asked Li Yuan: "Young man, I think you are full of heaven and have extraordinary bearing. You can break into Shaolin alone and defeat the bald donkeys outside the Shaolin Temple. You are obviously very powerful.

So, what is your martial arts like?"

"My martial arts?"

Li Yuan's eyes were slightly dazed when he heard Doujiushi's question.

Since practicing martial arts, he has not thought about this problem. He just knows that if he can practice martial arts, he will practice martial arts, and if he can practice martial arts, he will practice martial arts.

The word martial arts seems a bit far away to him.

So Li Yuan, with the intention of asking for advice, asked the wine-fighting monk: "Senior, please clarify my doubts."

The wine-fighting monk turned his hand, and a lotus flower formed by condensing inner strength appeared in the palm of his hand. Different from the golden lotus flower before, the lotus flower in his hand now turned out to be pure white and flawless color.

The drunken monk said: "In the Confucian concept, the lotus emerges from the mud and remains unstained, and is the representative of a gentleman. In Buddhism, the lotus is considered holy and noble, and also represents 'enlightenment' and 'liberation'. In Taoism, the lotus is

It is interpreted as the most pure, the most wonderful, the most divine, and the most holy. Although the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism have their own understandings of the lotus, we can trace it back to its origins, but the three schools have many similar understandings."
To be continued...