The Buddha said: Heaven's will is impermanent, all beings suffer, only by saving oneself and going with the flow can one achieve salvation.
Several days ago, Xi Louyue was ordered to go to Liangxi because a Buddha relic had been discovered there.
It takes six stages of Buddhist cultivation to obtain relics. Buddhist cultivators with such cultivation have already understood human nature, and even if they cannot become Buddhas after overcoming tribulations, they can face it with equanimity.
They will not ruin themselves because of temporary gains or losses.
Monks cultivate their minds, and to become a guardian of a region, this Buddhist practitioner on Liangxi Mountain is a rare and truly virtuous person.
This kind-hearted person chose to end his own life.
It's truly baffling.
Liangxi has only one low mountain, and the terrain at the foot of the mountain is low, so it is prone to flooding every few years.
This year is particularly severe.
Apart from Letian Temple at the top of Liangxi Mountain, all the houses at the foot of the mountain were flooded.
There was only one monk in the temple, and it was too small to accommodate all the villagers.
Most of the villagers rested in simple tents set up around the temple, but for some reason, there were more pregnant women than usual this year.
There were eighteen women about to give birth.
Master Huiyuan, the abbot of Letian Temple, always couldn't bear to see the villagers suffer.
He specially moved the most spacious main hall out for these eighteen women to rest in.
The flood lasted for more than two months, making it extremely difficult to even send messages out, and people had to eat tree bark and grass roots.
Although everyone tried their best to save the food for the women who were about to give birth, it was all in vain.
They were all pale and thin, and listless.
If this continues, both mother and child may perish.
As a compassionate monk, Master Huiyuan could not bear to see this.
To ensure the women had the strength to give birth, even the black sheep that the temple had raised for over ten years were slaughtered.
When the sheep was slaughtered, it did not resist. Master Huiyuan turned his back and dared not look into its eyes.
Its eyes are a rare green, and combined with its elongated pupils, they appear sinister and eerie.
Most people dare not look directly into those eyes.
But the villagers were clearly more interested in its fat; who would notice what the food's eyes looked like?
After Master Huiyuan nodded in agreement, several relatively strong villagers worked together to kill the black sheep.
He swiftly wielded the knife without the slightest hesitation.
Master Huiyuan had long since stopped eating and drinking. He had rescued this sheep on the mountain and kept it only as a companion.
Now that I have no choice but to take its life, I can't help but feel a sense of loss.
The people were all deeply grateful and held the master's good deeds in high esteem.
Even more surprisingly, all eighteen women gave birth on the same day, and both mother and child were safe and healthy.
The floodwaters receded the next day.
Everyone said this was a blessing, and their respect for the master grew even stronger.
People said goodbye and returned home, where they began cleaning the streets and tidying their houses.
They were used to doing these things, but this flood lasted too long, so the cleanup would take even longer.
Because of the many tasks, many new mothers have to go back to work.
With its body submerged in mud, how could it not get into trouble?
More than half a month later, the silt had been mostly cleared away, and these women began to fall ill.
The disease was dangerous and it was even transmitted to newborn babies, resulting in the deaths of seven or eight babies within a few days.
Anyone with even a basic understanding of medicine knows that this is because the environment was not thoroughly cleaned.
Given the harsh environment and the generally poor health of both the mother and the baby, it's understandable that they would fall ill.
But this place is so backward that the villagers have no one to educate them.
If the people are not educated and guided, evil will surely arise.
This place is isolated, and the villagers are illiterate, knowing only how to work.
Master Huiyuan was willing to teach, but the villagers all felt that studying was useless and ignored him.
They thought Master Huiyuan was being nosy.
What's the use of reading books? It's better to teach them how to turn stones into gold.
Master Huiyuan tried for many years but failed to change the villagers' minds, so he had to give up.
He would not hesitate to lend a helping hand when the villagers needed it, and helped them solve many important problems.
Too much gratitude can turn people into enemies over time.
At first, there were just some idle rumors that the birth of these babies had defiled the Buddhist temple and offended the Buddha.
The Buddha wanted to punish them, so he took the children back.
Later, it evolved into the story that Master Huiyuan deliberately lured the woman in for a sacrifice.
They believed that after hundreds of years of cultivation, the monk Huiyuan had encountered a bottleneck in his practice, so they devised this insidious method to help him continue his cultivation.
This thieving monk was capable of killing even the black sheep he had raised for over ten years, which shows he was a vicious and ruthless person.
Everyone says that Buddhism saves all sentient beings, but how could someone with such high spiritual attainment be completely helpless against the floods in Liangxi? Isn't that nonsense?
There's clearly a conspiracy at play.
Conspiracy theories intensified, with rituals being performed on the dead infants in the village every night.
Their trust in Master Guiyuan is gradually disappearing.
It slowly turned into resentment.
The drumming during the ritual was so loud that the baby and the new mother couldn't get any rest.
The mother can endure it, but the baby cannot.
After the floodwaters receded, the already harsh environment, coupled with lack of rest, caused the remaining infants to fall ill one after another.
The villagers were horrified and invited even more shamans, but the baby's condition did not improve at all.
Until the last baby died.
The villagers, having lost their minds, could no longer bear it and decided to go to Liangxi Mountain to fight the evil monk Huiyuan to the death!
So what if one has high cultivation level?
Even without moral character, the villagers still have the right to condemn him!
These unruly commoners dared not offend bandits with only rudimentary skills, yet they were able to punch and kick a high-ranking monk with sixth-level cultivation.
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