The whole room is very simple. The tea set on the low table is the common rough pottery in the countryside and is of little value.

However, a bamboo paper letter pressed under the wooden fish caught Zhou Zhi's attention.

There is a little poem written on the letterhead:

Sitting on Forty Autumn Lotus Peak,

His life and death are uncertain.

It is difficult to maintain pure precepts and stay in Abi,

Let down the Dragon Longitude monk.

Hengfa didn't understand poetry, but the word "Dragon Sutra" in the last sentence of the poem made his heart beat wildly: "This... is this talking about the Dragon Tibetan Sutra?"

"The meaning of this poem is that I have been practicing on the Lotus Peak for forty years. This life is about to end, but I have not yet understood what the next life will be like."

"The human world has become like the Abi Hell. It is difficult for people to adhere to the rules and precepts. They can only live up to the Dragon Sutra's enlightenment for me as a monk."

After interpreting the poem, Zhou Zhiyou couldn't help but wonder: "So Lotus Peak is just a borrowed reference? It refers to the monk's place of practice, or his state of mind, rather than the actual place name?"

"If this is the case, then the "Longzang Sutra" will be useless." Hengfa looked at the dilapidated bamboo house: "This is the lowest part of the basin. The places suitable for bamboo growth are generally humid and hot, unlike Guanyin Cliff and Yaoshi Cave.

It is a place where scriptures can be stored..."

"There are also words under the wooden fish!" When the two of them were interpreting the poem, Mr. Qiao had already picked up the wooden fish and looked through it.

The wooden fish is made of logs, made from a large lump of oak. I don’t know how many hammers were broken before the top of such a hard wooden fish can be hammered into a flat surface.

The pattern of the oak knots is very beautiful. Zhou Zhi’s family has a slingshot embryo snatched from Lao Mu’s house. It is similar to this one, and has been coated with a layer of varnish-like coating.

Turning over the wooden fish, there is an incised word "Xiu" on the bottom.

Hengfa joined forces again: "This is the relic of my great power, Yuanxiu!"

"Then your guess can be confirmed to be correct!" Mr. Qiao shouted: "Monk Wu is Zen Master Yuanxiu! The Dragon Tibetan Sutra was hidden for him!"

"But where is it hidden?" Zhou Zhi was a little crazy: "If this is the place where Yuanxiu occasionally secretly came to chant sutras and recite Buddhist scriptures after he became a bandit leader, if he really hid the "Dragon Hidden Sutra" with the intention of Dongfang and Yuanyin.

Get up, the scripture should be not far from here!"

"But look at the surrounding environment, does this look like a place where books are stored? If it is really hidden here..." After speaking, he used a bamboo stick to poke the rotten place on the floor: "Look! Bamboo can't even hold it!"

"So this place has been proven to be the place of Zen Master Yuanxiu's practice, and it also proves that our journey of seeking scriptures is completely over!"

"But this lacquer coffee table and wooden fish are still good..." Mr. Qiao was also a little stubborn: "Also, we can prove the correctness of the speculation. I think this is also amazing."

"Yes, yes, no matter what, it is also a great gain to be able to find Yuanxiu's practice place and his relics." Hengfa said: "These things still need to be brought back to the temple..."

"Let's continue the search. Anyway, after we finish searching here, we can go to the capital of Shu and have an explanation with Teacher Yuan." Zhou Zhi sighed: "My godfather is right, success is accidental, failure is normal.

Just treat it with a normal heart."

"Brother, you are right. Being able to find this place shows that our method of scouring and speculating in massive amounts of data was correct. Being able to find the relics of Zen Master Yuanxiu means that this trip was not in vain."

"That's the truth." Master Hengfa already felt that this trip was worth a thousand dollars: "Then let's stick to the old rules, blow the whistle when something happens, and let's finish exploring this small basin."

So the three of them started exploring again according to their original plan.

Because this time Hengfa's search had to cross the wetland in the center of the basin, so the speed was not as fast as Zhou Zhi and Mr. Qiao.

Not long after, Master Qiao's whistle sounded high in the basin.

Zhou Zhi hurriedly walked through the pine forest he was searching, and ran quickly up the slope. He saw the back of Master Qiao in the distance, standing in a daze beside a huge rock outside the pine forest.

"What did you find in your sworn brother?" Zhou Zhi shouted as he ran.

Master Qiao just waved: "Come up quickly, you will know when you come up and take a look!"

When Zhou Zhi ran through the pine forest and came to Master Qiao, he couldn't help but feel stupid: "Damn, how could I forget that we are on the edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau..."

After living in the mountains for so long, Zhou Zhi has almost forgotten how he and Mr. Qiao came to Fawang Temple. It was the two of them who climbed a fifteen-mile uphill road before arriving at Grandpa Qiao's house.

After that, the scope of activities of the two people was actually on a huge slope of the plateau. Even Guanyin Cliff was actually a small highland on the slope of the plateau.

But in daily life, people often ignore the concept of absolute height. After a few days of activities in and around Fawang Temple, Zhou Zhi subconsciously forgot that he was in the mountains, because the place where Fawang Temple is located is a large

On a hill on the platform, the platform feels similar to the hilly areas in the suburbs of Jiachuan.

The scenery now displayed in front of them reminded Zhou Zhi and Mr. Qiao that they were indeed in a hilly area, but in a hilly area whose altitude was nearly a thousand meters higher than that of Jiachuan!

Where Zhou Zhi is now, a few steps forward is an abyss!

They came to the edge of the huge platform where the Dharma King Temple is located!

This is an extremely magnificent scene. Below the cliff is a huge basin surrounded by surrounding mountains. At the bottom of the basin are hills of various sizes, as small as chess pieces and as large as nests. Between the hills, there are

Countless woods, rice fields and vegetable fields.

In the center of some larger plains, rice fields and vegetable fields, there are small residential areas, which are villages and towns.

All of these are connected by lines of different thicknesses. The initial lines meander toward the northeast along several luminous thin ribbons.

These lines are the roads, and the thin strips of light are the red water rivers.

The Hongshui River is incredibly winding, similar to the Jiuqu Yellow River on the Norgai grassland, but Norgai is a plain, while here are hills and mountains.

The Hongshui River meanders toward the northeast, and eventually a smaller confluence merges with it from the northwest. That is the largest tributary of the Hongshui River, the Xishui River.

The section between the Xishui River and the Sichuan River is called the Gaodong River. The water in the Gaodong River is green even in the wet season. After it merges into the Hongshui River, which is now yellow, it flows for a short distance and then enters a more yellow river.

The water belt of Yangtze River.

The land surrounded by the three water belts of Xishui River, Hongshui River and Yangtze River is Majie Town.

On the other side of Majie Town, the hills surrounded by the Yangtze River and Anle Mountain in the distance, which are high and low and shaped like a penholder, are Jiachuan County.

The administrative area of ​​Jiachuan County is large, but the county government is not large. Starting from the mouth of the Hongshui River into the Yangtze River, like a awning boat, there is a large group of buildings placed on the edge of the Yangtze River. That is Jiachuan County.

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Looking at Jiachuan from this position, Jiachuan is about the size of a matchbox, and the White Tower standing across the Yangtze River is about the same as the top of a small toothpick.


Chapter completed!