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Chapter 9 A Blessing Worth Ten Thousand Merits
It's hard to understand the pain of 'going from excess to scarcity' without living in an age when the carriage is slow.

In the past few days after Ouyang Rong woke up, he lived an extremely 'self-disciplined' life:

After dinner in the evening, I sat in the room in a daze, thinking about the merit pagoda. There was nothing in the room except for a few Buddhist scriptures borrowed from Xiufa.

Pushing open the west window, the outside is dark and windy, only a few Buddha lamps on the far pagoda.

There is only one definite thing to do: sleep.

He almost couldn't bear to call Banxi over, and challenged his weakness again.

And this point, if you put it in the previous life, the wonderful nightlife has just begun, and the friends of the gentleman group and the postgraduate entrance examination group have not yet raced.

Of course, if Luoyang and Chang'an were located in the heart of the Great Zhou Empire, life might be richer.

If you can empathize with these things, then you can understand one percent of the reasons for Ouyang Rong's homesickness.

So right now, in the middle of the night, Ouyang Rong couldn't sleep anyway, so he went out...

Ouyang Rong first went to the right wing, dug out a string of ropes and a torch, and took them away. He even brought some pastries and fruits, which he carried in a cloth bag.

But when he came to Beitian Jiyangyuan again along the memory, he fumbled to the well, but found that the rope was a bit redundant.

Because a bunch of soft rope ladders were placed beside the wellhead.

Ouyang Rong put down the rope ladder and entered the underground palace again.

Another familiar location, another familiar time, and another familiar moonlight.

It's just that the slender dumb girl and old man Qiu Qiu are no longer in the underground palace.But it's not surprising, the two should be patients in Beitian Hospital, who were rescued back, and he didn't come here to reminisce about the old days.

The moonlight is a little dark tonight.

Chi~
A spark rose out of thin air, illuminating Ouyang Rong's thin face.

"Good evening, Master I don't know."

The haggard monk who dozed off in the dark and nodded suddenly woke up, and sang a Buddha in his mouth, sincerely saying: "Almsgiver, this place is the pure land of lotus flowers, and above is the endless hell!"

The monk is in the familiar gesture of compassion with one pointing to the ground and the other to the sky.

Ouyang Rong thought for a while, then nodded, "Master is the one who has been telling the truth. I misunderstood before."

He walked over, put the cakes and fruits in front of Monk Xiuzhen, then held the torch, walked around the underground palace, and began to look carefully at the place.

This underground palace is a square-like space, about half the size of a football field. The circular lotus seat in the center of the underground palace and the well above it are not known to represent the builder's concept of a round sky.

Ouyang Rong walked around the wall of the underground palace, and this time he saw clearly the murals that had been neglected until now.

The four walls are painted with thick and colorful paints, but they have been in disrepair for a long time, and they are often located in dark underground palaces. A lot of murals have fallen off, but they are still recognized by Ouyang Rong.

The four murals correspond to the four Jataka stories of the Buddha, namely "Prince Satyu sacrificed himself to feed a tiger", "King Shibi cut meat and traded pigeons", "King Kuaimu's eyes" and "King Moonlight Shishou" Jataka.

The so-called Buddha Jataka stories actually tell about the experience of Sakyamuni’s good deeds and virtues in his previous life before he became a Buddha. The connotations that the fables want to express are also the same. They all emphasize the compassion of the Buddha, who endured humiliation and sacrificed in previous lives, saved the world and saved people, and finally became a Buddha.

Ouyang Rong thought about it, turned around and walked towards the rosette in the center of the underground palace.

If Master Shandao hadn't lied to him, then Master Zhongma, who became a Buddha in the flesh, was sitting in this position... Ascension to the Pure Land.

"After accumulating merit, can I really ascend to the Pure Land here? If I cure the flood, or do other great meritorious deeds, can I also ascend to the Pure Land."

"Also, where is the pure land? Is it really going to the west, or is everyone going to a different place, and if I think about it, I can return to my hometown?"

Ouyang Rong murmured, lowered his head and pondered.

"Besides, since the body has become a Buddha and the soul has soared, what about the lifelike body left behind, I would like to take a look... um." Halfway through the speech, someone seemed to be thinking of something, and rolled his eyes a little guilty. Not far away is the half lotus golden lantern, and strange oval beads scattered all over the place.

At the beginning, Ouyang Rong took out the golden lotus lantern from an eight-fold treasure letter. The latter was originally placed on the lotus pedestal, and he woke up next to it.

And the eight-fold treasure letter is very big, like a Russian doll, with an eight-layer box, and the lotus golden lantern is contained in the innermost one.

It's just that when he threw it as a handy thing at the time, he didn't expect that even the golden lotus lantern was just a storage container, which contained more precious Buddhist treasures. Later, he was in a hurry to go out, so he didn't Pay attention to these beads on the ground.

Cough cough, could it be the relic of Master Zhongma or other eminent monks? It would be equivalent to ashes, so the lotus golden lantern is someone’s urn... Hey, it’s really a bit of a crime, I think your merits are deducted like this light.

Ouyang Rong sighed, looked down at the relic on the ground again:

About seventeen pieces, the smallest is no more than a marble, the largest is no more than a pigeon's egg, they come in a variety of colors, and there is even one that is round and clear like a white diamond... Isn't it that the relics are actually kidney stones, you call them kidney stones?

As expected of the eminent monks, everything can be burnt out by going to the stove, just like opening a blind box... No, stop laughing.

Ouyang Rong showed the level of a senior expression management master, bent down as if nothing had happened, and picked up the relics on the ground one by one, but doing this did not increase his merit.

But now Ouyang Rong has figured out a little bit about the rules of the Merit Tower: it is okay to be a fun person, but you can only "think", not "do".A gentleman doesn't care about his deeds.

Listening to hell jokes and smiling on your face is a kind of "doing", the Buddha will give you a quack.

However, when he picked up the round and clear relic, he found that the relic could slowly glow under the moonlight, like a luminous pearl. He suddenly felt a little strange, thought about it, and put it away in his sleeve , can't be put in the underground palace to collect dust, he kept it for the eminent monks.

Maybe it's someone's heart, maybe these relics are really forgotten by everyone right now, and they didn't deduct his merit...

Then Ouyang Rong caught a glimpse of a line of writing.

It was discovered when Huozhezi was photographing relics.

Located at the foot of this stony tunic overturned rosette, on the southeast side covered by the shadow of the rosette.It was engraved on the floor tiles, so it is no wonder that it has not been discovered before - it is always located in the blind spot of the sun and moonlight at the wellhead.

"Go home?"

Ouyang Rong squatted down and immediately remembered something.

Isn't this what Master Shandao mentioned, the words left by his great-uncle before "Ascension to the Pure Land"?It turned out that it was still here... I thought it was ink or blood, but it had been washed away long ago.

As for the meaning of these four-character idioms is also very simple: go back!
Ouyang Rong's eyes were slightly stern, the marble bricks under his feet were already cold and solid, but the four regular characters of "Gui Qu Lai Xi" were carved into three parts of the wood, as if they were carved with a sharp awl that cuts iron like mud.

Subconsciously, he stretched out his hand to touch this dark moment, and in an instant, his whole body trembled. It wasn't that his fingertips got an electric shock, but he faintly heard a shocking bell ringing in his ears.

Before Ouyang Rong's brain had time to react to this sudden change, his consciousness was violently drawn into the merit tower located on the cloud of thousands of miles.

"This is……"

Sitting staggeringly on the ground, Ouyang Rong saw that the eternally silent blessing clock above was trembling slightly at this moment, with purple energy overflowing from the body of the clock.

Like an old man in a bamboo hat fishing alone in the cold river, he got up and shook off his snowflakes.

It was as if the car had been ignited and started.

At the same time, the blue-gold font on the small wooden fish that recorded the merit value was brilliant, and finally turned into a cluster of light clusters, like a living thing, similar in shape to a "swimming carp" in a pond.

It suddenly rushed towards the fortune clock!
Then... it bounced back after being hit, returned to the wooden fish, and turned into a line of green gold characters: [merit: one hundred]

But the blessing clock still trembled slightly, safe and sound, without any change, as if the "one-tailed carp" just now was too weak to be shaken at all, let alone ring.

Witnessing this scene, Ouyang Rong was stunned, slowly digesting the shock, "Isn't merit enough..."

The "one-tailed carp" that Ouyang Rong accumulated just now seemed to have some kind of connection with him, and after being knocked back to its original state, a mysterious message came to his mind and he was laughed at.

"It takes [-] merits and virtues to ring the bronze bell and get the good fortune...but I'm only a hundred points now, and I'm still nine thousand nine hundred points away, idiot."

Ouyang Rong fell into deep thought.

But in reality, because his hand had been removed from the four-character inscription, the blessing clock had already returned to silence, and the merit tower was once again hidden in the clouds.

Undoubtedly, this four-character engraving and the lotus pedestal hide a hidden blessing.

Moreover, this blessing is obviously not small, and it requires such a huge amount of merit, which is probably... enough for him to watch hell jokes for a lifetime.

Ouyang Rong lowered his head and stared at the four-character inscription in the shadow.

"Pure Land Palace...the story of the Buddha's life...the monk who attained enlightenment and ascended...the blessings of returning...are these coincidences, or is it true...the way home."

The light and shadow on his face flickered.

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