Chapter 18: Exploring Tianlong Temple at Night
These days, Yin Zhiping and Li Mochou have actually pretended to be pilgrims and visited Tianlong Temple, but naturally they couldn't find any results.
On that evening, the two finally decided to visit Tianlong Temple at night.
That Tianlong Temple was built outside Dali City, about two miles away from Dali City. It is located north of the mountain peak of Diancang Mountain, carrying Cangshan Mountain and facing Erhai Lake, and it is extremely victorious.
At dusk, the two left the city gate before they closed and hid in a dense forest not far from the left of Tianlong Temple. They used supper in the city in advance, arrived at the dense forest, and hid on a big tree together.
After chatting for a while, the two of them could sit between the branches of the tree to calm their minds and concentrate their energy. When it was dark and night, they could hear the third update of the drums in Dali City and Tianlong Temple almost at the same time, and then they woke up with their eyes open.
After opening their eyes, they glanced at each other, then reached out to take off their outer shirts, which were already dressed in black clothes. They threw the removed outer shirt between the branches, and each took out a black masked scarf from their waists, covering most of their faces below their eyes, including their noses.
They each held the long swords on their waists and confirmed that everything was cleaned up and did not fall. The two nodded to each other, jumped down the tree and rushed out of the forest. Outside the forest, they could see the tall shadow of Tianlong Temple in the darkness.
This Tianlong Temple is the ancestral temple of the Dali royal family, and is the most honorable among the poems in the country. Many of the monks in the temple were the emperors of the Dali Kingdom before. Although they became monks and monks, they did not care about ordinary things, regardless of their generation and identity. However, their descendants could not really just regard their father and grandfather. They often paid homage to each other. On birthdays, they would pay great respects. Every time they worshiped, they would have to offer sacrifices, either building a palace or reshaping the golden body for Buddha statues, etc.
Therefore, over the years, the scale of the Tianlong Temple is very large, and it has been expanded again and again. For example, in the Dragon Temple today, there are three pavilions, seven floors, nine halls, and hundreds of buildings. The towers and buildings are connected, which is not much worse than the imperial palace of the Dali Kingdom.
Moreover, it is not only large in scale, but also beautiful in construction and brilliant decoration. Even the famous mountains and temples in the Central Plains such as Wutai, Putuo, Jiuhua, and Emei are rarely compared, but they are just remote in the southern border. Their name is not obvious in the Central Plains.
Yin Zhiping once visited Shaolin Temple in Songshan. In his opinion, the scale of Shaolin Temple is already quite large in the temple. However, the scale of Tianlong Temple is even larger than that of Shaolin Temple. When he pretended to be a pilgrimage to go to Tianlong Temple to worship Buddha and watch the tour, he was very amazed.
Looking outside the forest for a long time, he saw that there was no one on the journey. Yin Zhiping turned his head and looked at Li Mochou, waved his hand, took the lead in carrying out his light skills, and ran out quickly. Li Mochou then followed, accompanying him closely.
The woods where the two were hiding were not far from Tianlong Temple. In just a moment, they had already rushed to the tall wall of Tianlong Temple.
Yin Zhiping gestured to Li Mochou for a moment. He first stepped up lightly, reached out to climb over the wall, then slowly stretched out his head and looked inside. There was no figure in the wall, and it was covered in darkness.
Yin Zhiping made a safe gesture to Li Mochou below and turned over and entered the first place. Without a moment of falling into the wall, Li Mochou followed him and jumped over the wall and landed silently next to him.
Yin Zhiping looked around and pointed to a nearby pavilion at Li Mochou, and said in a secret way: "Let's go up to the roof of the building first and look down from a high place." Li Mochou agreed, "Okay", and the two ran over together.
The two of them came close to find that there was no one living in the building. They were just in the darkness, but they didn't look carefully at what they were for. They didn't enter at the moment, and they just stepped on the roof with the rain eaves outside the floor.
Standing on the slope of the roof tiles on the roof, looking around, I saw that the entire Tianlong Temple was almost pitch black, with only a few places still vaguely lit up. However, at this time, it was only the third day, and most people had already slept in bed.
However, this Tianlong Temple is no better than a small temple elsewhere. It is not only a ancestral temple of the Dali royal family, but also a martial arts resort. Its status in the southwest martial arts world is extremely important. Any monk who comes out of the temple is a respected and skilled person. I am afraid there are also top masters who can match the level of the Five Awesomes.
The famous monk from Tianlong Temple who stopped Li Mochou and Wu San from seeking revenge at the wedding banquet between Lu Zhanyuan and He Yuanjun, was named Guan Chen. According to Li Mochou's account, he seemed to be a master who was not much different from the five masters. Not to mention that in the past ten years, Guan Chen's martial arts must have been more sophisticated.
The two of them pretended to be pilgrims to worship Buddha a few days ago. When they heard that the current abbot of Tianlong Temple was the Dharma name Guanchen. Li Mochou asked carefully and confirmed that the Guanchen Abbot of Tianlong Temple was the one who had attacked her and Wu Santong more than ten years ago at the wedding banquet between Lu Zhanyuan and He Yuanjun.
Guan Chen had not been promoted to abbot more than ten years ago, and his martial arts were already unfathomable and very powerful. Now he is naturally more diligent. Therefore, the two of them dare not underestimate the Tianlong Temple.
However, the monks in Tianlong Temple were dedicated to worshiping Buddha and had no desire to compete for fame and compete for fame, so no one went to Huashan for sword competition. Moreover, when the first time in Huashan for sword competition, one of their descendants fought and earned the reputation of Southern Emperor for the Dali Duan family, which can be seen from this.
A lay disciple of the Duan clan of Dali won one of the five great masters, not to mention many eminent monks hidden in Tianlong Temple. Although judging from the current cultivation of Emperor Nandi Yideng, the eminent monks in Tianlong Temple may not be able to beat it, but as long as there are one or two who can match it, it is definitely not something Yin Zhiping and Li Mochou can easily deal with it.
However, when I looked around, Yin Zhiping found that the guards of Tianlong Temple were very sparse. I don’t know that because the Tianlong Temple is a royal temple in Dali, I am not afraid of thieves who dare to think about it; or because the monks in the temple are too confident, or because of the long-term relationship. In this huge temple, there are not many monks patrolling and escorting them at night.
Yin Zhiping only saw two or three teams carrying lanterns around, and it looked more like they were worried about "dry weather, be careful of fire candles" and check to prevent water from being removed; it was not like being tightly defended to prevent thieves from touching in.
But despite this, Yin Zhiping still did not dare to be careless. After careful observation, he chose a location like the Sutra Pavilion, and took Li Mochou to perform his light skills, cross the tiles through the house, fly over the eaves and walls, and then climb up and land on the roof.
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I didn’t sleep well last night, and I was sleepy during the day and my eyes were sore. I wanted to take a lunch break in the afternoon, but I didn’t get enough sleep. I was really not energetic at night, so today’s second update is only 2,000 words, so I’m sorry to everyone.
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