Volume 1: The Beginning of the Flame Chapter 55: Master Mingdeng
Jiangming Temple is located on an unnamed hill outside Baijiang City. The entire temple is small and located in a remote area, so it is naturally not very popular. There are not many pilgrims on weekdays, but the monks and novices in the temple grow vegetables and occasionally go down the mountain to purchase supplies, so they live a comfortable life.
However, starting a few years ago, Jiangmingsi received some "orders" and began to become wealthy.
Even so, apart from repairing the temple, the entire Jiangming Temple has not expanded, the monks in the temple have maintained their original pace of life, and there are still not many pilgrims, except...
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The orange-red light illuminated a sturdy figure. He was wearing loose clothes and his skin was bronze. His arms were bulging with muscles, knotted like snakes and pythons. He hit the sandbag in front of him with bangs, making the sandbag shake. Suddenly, there was a dull bang, and the sandbag broke. Sand and gravel flowed down and scattered all over the ground as the sandbag swayed violently.
"Master, you broke another sandbag."
A young monk, about thirteen or fourteen years old and with a pretty face, felt helpless.
This is the first time. If the temple is not well-off, it really cannot afford so many sandbags. Besides, "No matter how strong you are, even if you can fight a tiger, you can't hurt those things with your fists."
It would be better to recite more scriptures.
It's all money, he bought it when he went down the mountain.
Master Mingdeng wiped the sweat off his forehead, picked up a huge string of Buddhist beads, hung it around his neck, and then wrapped two more strings around his left and right hands.
I chanted Buddhist scriptures for a while.
"The blessing of the scriptures can harm evil, but in the end... chanting scriptures cannot save the world."
"The power of the scriptures has its limits, but humans and awakening do not, so... only awakening can find the power to save the world."
However, the little monk wanted to speak but stopped himself.
He opened his mouth but still said nothing.
"Of course I understand."
Master Mingdeng said that he was well aware that he was a national treasure , and the Investigation Bureau was not willing to let him take the risk to deal with the evil, let alone awaken at a great risk.
That's why he worked out hard.
From a simple and handsome monk a few years ago, he has trained himself to become a powerful monk who can physically enlighten people.
Facing evil, great power is useless, but awakening is useful.
The stronger the physique and the more determined the will, the greater the chance of overcoming the difficulties of awakening.
Hiding in a temple, eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddhist scriptures, watching the soldiers fighting on the front line was not what he wanted, and he felt uneasy!
"Now that the Bureau of Investigation has made a breakthrough in its research, they won't be too strict with me, their teacher."
"Jianxing, after I leave, Jiangming Temple will be handed over to you to take care of."
Master Mingdeng put on his robes, took a lamp that he had been lighting in front of the Buddha and the wooden fish that he had used for more than ten years, then stepped over the threshold and walked out.
Behind me are the orange lights of the temple, in front of me is the darkness of the mountains, and I can also see the star lights below the mountain.
The burly figure standing at the dividing line did not stop but walked straight forward.
The figure disappeared into the darkness.
Only the little monk's cries were left, echoing in the quiet mountains.
…
The southern suburbs of Baijiang City,
Outside the temporary camp,
"Young man, don't be nervous." The special investigator "Master", whose online name is Master of Unethical Martial Arts and who is known as Master Ma in the underworld, is giving a lecture to many investigators.
His hair is a little gray but his face doesn't look old. Under his seemingly thin body, he has strong muscles.
He gestured with his hands, sometimes forming palms and sometimes forming fists, "It's just the gate of hell. There are just more evil spirits. That's not a problem!"
"Thinking back to the days when I was a master, I held a white tassel spear and killed many evil spirits in and out of the group. I made the evil spirits so frightened that they peed their pants."
Although there is an element of artistic processing, Master Ma's strength is recognized throughout the Baiyun State Bureau.
One of the strongest.
Today they also saw Master Ma dealing with Guixie. He stabbed out with a white tasseled spear, and in the blink of an eye he had stabbed out more than ten times, completely stabbing the Guixie to death.
This is before the awakening ability is used... It is said that Master Ma's awakening ability is also quite powerful and is related to thunder.
Having a strong person like Master Ma around gives people a sense of security.
However, "Master Ma, a strong man like you can't even touch the threshold of the second awakening?"
an investigator asked.
Although one awakening is very far away for them, Master Ma is said to have awakened more than a year ago, making him one of the earliest awakeners. Can't he have a second time?
The old master's face froze slightly, and he waved his hand, "This is confidential. You will understand it when you are promoted to a special investigator."
It's confidential.
The investigators felt regretful but understood. There were many secrets in their line of work. They had just learned about the awakening, and they could not talk about the double awakening, which was reasonable.
After the investigators dispersed, those who were supposed to patrol had finished their patrols, and those who were supposed to do their work had done their work, the old master wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.
He did indeed reach the threshold of the second level of awakening very early on.
Unlike the first awakening, when the mysteries of an awakened person like him accumulate to a certain level, there will be a kind of omen.
The conditions are almost met, and you can prepare to awaken.
Those who have this kind of omen will trigger a second awakening within a month.
Logically speaking, with forewarnings and preparations, the situation should be more favorable than the first hasty awakening without forewarnings, but the fact is...
Master Ma witnessed with his own eyes that two first-time awakeners in front of him, comrades with whom he had a good relationship, failed in their awakening and died soon after.
After that, over the course of a whole year, three special investigators from the Baiyun Prefecture Bureau chose to awaken one after another, and none of them failed or died unexpectedly.
One of them even turned into a terrifying evil creature. If there had not been any plan or arrangement made in advance, that evil creature would have caused a terrible disaster.
Master Ma had heard that someone in the General Administration had successfully awakened a second time, but the probability was so low, so low that it was frighteningly low.
Master Ma doesn't want to risk his life in this way, or at least with only a slight chance of success. It's too unsafe.
The bureau doesn’t recommend it either.
Every special investigator is a valuable asset and the cornerstone of the fight against evil. There are already very few people, and yet you still want to fight for a chance of double awakening?
Don’t even think about it!
There are special methods within the Investigation Bureau that can eliminate some mysteries in order to avoid awakening, and Master Ma did this.
However, just like drinking poison to quench thirst, the mysteries surrounding him kept increasing.
The current situation is very different from that of a few months ago, or even half a month or a month ago.
Master Ma looked at the lights in the distance.
"When the sign of awakening appears again, should I choose to continue to delay, or continue to delay, or..."
Damn it!
Why are those guys in the General Administration so useless? Can’t they quickly research a way to easily awaken the Guixie without any side effects and then drag it and beat it in various ways?
"Master Ma."
"Come on, let me, the master , teach you youngsters where to poke when facing the evil tomorrow."
