Capítulo 2012: Chapter 167: Matters of the Heart (2)
He could announce to the world that he was leaving the Mountain Gate, only to run back in a hurry.
He could declare to everyone that he was the next abbot of the Hanging Monastery, even though he had no position there at all.
He wasn’t embarrassed by anything.
What is face? He had never known.
But at this mont, facing Jiang Wang’s gaze.
He suddenly felt a bit bashful.
“Why are you looking at the Lord Buddha like that?” His face showed a mischievous expression.
Jiang Wang quietly stared at this old monk for a while.
Then, on the platform, he bowed deeply to him.
“Thank you.”
He said thus: “No matter why you first ca to find , or why you opened your heart to .”
“Your repeated acts of saving my life, Jiang Wang is deeply grateful.”
“Though burdened with a thousand strong weights, unable to enter the Empty Gate. This body feels often lonely, unable to perform the master-disciple ritual. But the heart already has the bond of a master.”
“With both parents deceased, Jiang Wang has no elders in the world. Although I often joke with you, in my heart I treat you as closest kin.”
“This journey eastward stops here. My cultivation, my intentions, may this battle be witnessed by you!”
Ku Jue old monk’s wrinkled face expanded and then tightened, difficult to tell if he was smiling or crying.
“Darn it, you.” He finally spoke: “Little turtle dog and broken winter lon, what you said was quite touching.”
Speaking, he rolled up his sleeves, rummaged around his body and pulled out a tattered, yellowed book: “You speak so sincerely, how can the Lord Buddha not teach you a little sothing?”
Jiang Wang suddenly woke up, the past emotions no longer mattered: “Ah, no need, no need, this——”
Hadn’t this confird the master-disciple relationship?!
But Ku Jue was already close to him in a step, regardless of what he was saying, he stuffed the tattered book into his chest, then kicked him!
By the ti Jiang Wang reacted, he was already outside the Mountain Gate of the Hanging Monastery.
Just like a dream!
At that ti, believers were like ants under the mountain, faintly the bells could be heard. A few idle clouds at the horizon seed to change into strange faces.
The Ruyi Immortal Clothes gently shook, dispersing the shoe imprint on his buttocks, Jiang Wang took out the tattered, yellowed book from his chest wordlessly.
He shoved the yellowed old book back again, stepping on Qingyun, and walked.
Soon he left Hanging Monastery, heading straight for Qi Country.
…
Amidst the rushing winds and drifting clouds, the figure in green robe holding a sword suddenly stopped.
Jiang Wang stood in the clouds, his expression changed for a mont, and finally he took out the old book forcibly stuffed into his arms by Ku Jue. Opened it to see, there was a line of Taoist script on the front page, containing infinite wonders, which was——
Observe Freedom in the Ear.
This was the supre secret technique of the Guan Shi Temple of the Hanging Monastery! It’s the top-tier thod of cultivating ear perception in the world.
These four words.
Are saying, life’s cultivation is rely observing freedom.
Also saying, these are a pair of “Observe Freedom” ears.
And the thod recorded here starts from the Outer Building to the point of God Arrives, reaching to Dongzhen! Directly leading to True Man of the Age’s cultivation thod for ear perception practice, its value imasurable.
Jiang Wang looked at these four words for a long ti, feeling heavy-hearted.
This old yellowed book in hand gave a peculiar feeling.
Jiang Wang flipped back and forth, and discovered a few pages that seed torn from sowhere inside this unremarkable old book.
They were casually placed among the pages, perhaps hastily hidden at the ti, as ssy as Ku Jue old monk’s robe.
Very untidy.
Jiang Wang picked up the sheets and glanced through them, finding them recording a Sound Murder Technique.
Nad Conquering Outter Path Vajra Thunder Sound.
It was a sound murder technique and a thod for conquering outsider paths.
No doubt it was a secret technique passed from the Dragon Subduing Hall, possibly even the foundation of the Thunder Sound cultivated by the hall’s elder Ku Bing.
These two secret techniques seed tailor-made for Jiang Wang at that mont, perfectly fitting his current situation. Once successfully cultivated, his ear perception skill would imdiately catch up to the Renxin Pavilion Yi Tang’s level, reaching the limits of this boundary.
Ku Jue old monk truly put effort into it.
But once he learned these two secret techniques, the master-disciple relationship with Ku Jue was already settled.
Though Ku Jue had assisted him a lot prior, he never formally learned even one move from him. Thus he could still maintain self-awareness, distinguish gratitude from relationships, and boldly say, I do not enter the Empty Gate.
This trip to the Hanging Monastery, with Ku Jue witnessing the final battle of this sword trial journey, was accounting for all he and Ku Jue had experienced.
Clearly expressing he regarded him as closest kin and felt the bond of a master. But persisted in his own Tao path, without seeking externally, refusing to enter the Empty Gate.
Ku Jue’s response was to stuff him such two secret techniques, giving him a kick.
At this mont Jiang Wang stood in the clouds, as if seeing Ku Jue’s yellow and wrinkled old face, smiling and saying to him——
The heart has the bond of a master. Treated as closest kin, I have agreed.
Not entering Empty Gate… hehe, I will endeavor.
Good disciple, you will know sooner or later, worldly matters are emptiness.
Jiang Wang thought for a while, took out a Qi knife coin, and casually tossed it into the sky.
He decided to leave everything to Heavenly Will.
If it lands heads, he would practice. Tails, he would not.
But halfway when the knife coin was dropping.
He suddenly stretched his hand, grabbing it.
Self-muttering: “Forget it. Why be so hesitant? Have I ever been a person who considers heavenly will?”
Marks traced amidst void, trails left by journey, this body goes alone, asking heart’s will, not heavenly will.
How this heart is, why deceive oneself?
So he straightforwardly opened the book in the clouds, continuing flying and probing into this Observe Freedom in the Ear.
At this mont, he already integrated all past knowledge, having enough energy to research new techniques, not letting ti idle away.
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In the Dragon Subduing Hall.
The giant Buddha stood tall, as its presence remained in the ancient mist.
Everything on the Dragon Drop Platform was in the giant Buddha’s palm, it seed to grasp worldly affairs.
The Buddha’s wisdom is imasurable. The Buddha’s majesty spans ancient and modern.
Those who cultivate Buddhism in the world, throughout their lives, are rely moving towards greatness.
And those who can achieve greatness, looking throughout the Long River of the world are but few.
The World Honored One was born at the end of the Ancient Era, in the era when the second-generation Human Emperor of the Youxiong family built the gate of all demons.
At that ti the Taoist Sect was still mainstream, and Confucianism had risen.
He witnessed the horrors of the demon tide destroying the world, also experienced the end of the Ancient Era.
After the demon tide, many ordinary people’s souls had no place of refuge. He used supre compassion, barefoot, saving the world.
In his peak, he had three thousand followers; at the least, only one remained.
People constantly followed him, and constantly left him.
Passed the end of the Ancient Era, achieved greatness in the Middle Ancient Era by shining brilliantly in the war where the third-generation Human Emperor Liao Mountain Clan expelled the Dragon Emperor to Cang Sea.
Then transmitted down the Tao lineage, all the way to the present.
Buddha heart, Buddha intent, Buddha beyond comprehension.
Standing in the Buddha’s palm square, Ku Bing glared fiercely at Ku Jue: “What did you give him?”
“My disciple, I give what I want, can you do anything about it?!”
Ku Jue spat out aggressively. As if the Observe Freedom in the Ear he gave Jiang Wang was indeed his own secret thod, not sothing stolen from Guan Shi Temple. As if the Conquering Outter Path Vajra Thunder Sound he gave Jiang Wang wasn’t just stolen from the Dragon Subduing Hall…
Ku Bing was truly shocked by him. Snorted, then picked up the unconscious Jinghai and left.
Below the stage a cluster of shiny heads moved, reflecting sunlight like waves, all monks vacated.
Ku Jue ignored everyone, striding with an eight-character step, proudly walking out.
My disciple surpasses all your disciples!
Jing Li held his conical hat atop his shiny head, quick-footed followed behind him.
“Master, master, junior is really amazing!”
“You’ve said this once already!”
“Master, I an, your teaching is excellent, truly worthy of being our Hanging Monastery’s supre abbot!”
“Co, elaborate!”
Two shaved heads, thus walked down the Dragon Drop Platform one after the other, chuckling.
Except for them, probably no one else believed in Ku Jue’s knowledge, Ku Jue’s experience, Ku Jue’s wisdom.
But Three Treasures Mountain is their ho.
Monks.
Seeking “ho” within the Empty Gate.
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