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Dongguang's Iron Buddha Temple was a famous attraction in Cangcheng. It was located in Dongguang County's Puzhao Park. The Iron Buddha Temple's original name was Puzhao Temple. It was said that it was built in the Northern Song Dynasty and had a history of more than a thousand years. It was truly a thousand-year-old temple. However, the Iron Buddha Temple was destroyed by the youths who rebelled during the ten years of turmoil. According to the elders, even the original Iron Buddha was turned into molten iron. The current Iron Buddha Temple was only restored in 1986 after the reform and opening up.
When Du Kang, Weiwei, and Ran Jing arrived at the Iron Buddha Temple, the surrounding area had been completely cordoned off. The outside was completely blocked by the blue iron walls used for construction. Two police cars with flashing lights were parked opposite each other at the gate, completely blocking the entrance.
Ran Jing walked to the front of a police car and knocked on the window. She took out a small blue booklet that looked like a student ID from her pocket and waved it at the heavily armed SWAT officers in the car. The police car backed up about a meter and let Ran Jing and the others in. Just as the three of them entered the protective wall, the police car immediately stopped opposite and completely blocked the entrance.
"Damn, this is pretty awesome."
Du Kang couldn't help but feel nervous when he saw the situation. He followed closely behind Weiwei and Ran Jing.
Although Du Kang was from Qing County and went to university in Cangcheng, it was his first time coming to the Iron Buddha Temple. He looked around and found that the Iron Buddha Temple was not very big. It was more than one or two levels lower than the Shaolin Temple on Mount Song. However, it was still quite unique. It had red walls, red tiles, and a red gate. It was red from the inside to the outside. Directly opposite was the mountain gate with a horizontal board hanging high above. There were three big words — Iron Buddha Temple.
Weiwei and Ran Jing led Du Kang through the mountain gate. They passed through the Heavenly King Hall and went straight to the Mahavira Hall on the last floor. It was not until here that Du Kang finally saw a few people. They were all young people in black tunic suits. Two of them had long hair that was tied into a bun on top of their heads. They were guarding the entrance of the Mahavira Hall with peach wood swords in their hands.
"Who are you?!"
A handsome young man with a bun in the lead blocked Weiwei and Ran Jing with a peach wood sword in his hand. His angular handsome face was like a square pimple in a poker card. He was so cool and handsome that he was definitely not inferior to any of the current young and handsome men.
Ran Jing didn't say anything. She waved the blue notebook in front of the handsome young man. Not knowing whether he saw it clearly or not, Weiwei directly pushed him aside and took the lead to rush in. The other three people in tunic suits were unhappy when they saw that they didn't follow the routine. They rushed in one by one while shouting some unreasonable and presumptuous "lines". If Du Kang didn't know the identity of these people, he would probably think that they were shooting a movie in a bad movie.
"Jingyin, Jingning, Jingqing, Jingming, don't be rude. Leave now."
With an extremely arrogant rebuke, the old man who had been scolded by Weiwei as a scum walked out of the Mahavira Hall with his hands behind his back.
His hair was still neatly combed. His eyes were slightly fierce, and the four people in tunic suits were as quiet as cicadas in cold weather. They were more scared than mice that had seen a cat.
"Choi Kwon-jeong, don't show off your power in front of me. I know what kind of person you are."
Weiwei didn't even look at him. She raised her hand and pushed the old man's shoulder. Then she walked straight into the hall.
Ran Jing was a little embarrassed and nodded to these old men with a smile. Du Kang was even more embarrassed. If he went in with Weiwei, he would obviously offend this old man. Should he stay here?
But it was better to go home than to stay here.
Fortunately, the old man Choi Kwon-jeong seemed to have a good temper. At least he didn't have a bad temper with Weiwei. He raised his hand and patted the old man's shoulder twice. Then he smiled and told Ran Jing that it was okay and that they could all follow him in.
Now, Du Kang was like a yellow croaker. He slipped away and obediently followed Ran Jing into the hall.
"This Hall of Great Strength is the largest hall in the Iron Buddha Temple. In the center, facing south, is the image of Shakyamuni, or Lord Tathagata."
Ran Jing played the role of a tour guide. She lowered her voice and introduced it to Du Kang. "My master told me that there is a big disaster suppressed under the image of Gautama Buddha."
While listening to Ran Jing's introduction, Du Kang carefully sized up the ridiculously large Buddha statue in the middle of the hall. The color was jet black, and he heard that it was completely cast from pig iron.
In the past, when he read the travel guide, he seemed to have seen a brief introduction about this place. It said that the Iron Buddha statue of the Iron Buddha Temple was the largest sitting iron Buddha statue in China. It was many meters tall and weighed many tons. However, it also said that the Iron Buddha statue was actually hollow.
Du Kang discovered that in addition to the Tathagata Buddha in the center of the Hall of Great Strength, there were also statues of Buddha on both sides. After carefully identifying them, he recognized that the one on the left was Medicine Venerable Buddha and the one on the right was Amitabha.
Behind Buddha stood Guanyin Bodhisattva, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, Manjushri Bodhisattva and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
The eighteen arhats, including Xianglong and Tigerfu, were arranged symmetrically in the east and west compartments of the main hall. These statues were the size of a real person and were made of clay. Each of them had different expressions and were very lifelike.
What made Du Kang the most speechless was the pair of couplets hanging on the red pillar in the main hall. The first couplet read, "The precious tree is arranged in a circle to protect the boundless world", and the second couplet read, "The merciful ship ascends to the other shore to help millions of people". The words were written in a vigorous and forceful manner. One look and anyone could tell that it was written by a master calligrapher.
While Ran Jing and Du Kang, one acting as a tour guide, and the other looking around, the outermost formation of the main hall had been set up. A yellow scroll as tall as a man was drawn with cinnabar on it, and then it was hung in the air with cotton thread soaked in rooster blood, encircling the entire Grand Hall.
"This … En, this is the Sanqing Soul-Destroying Talisman."
Du Kang had seen this kind of talisman in the booklet given to him by Weiwei. It was a very high-level talisman. With Du Kang's cultivation, he couldn't draw it at all, so he only looked at it and didn't try to draw it.
The Sanqing Soul-Destroying Talisman was said to be the true inheritance of the Three Pure Daoist Ancestors. It could attract the Six Deities, Six Deities, and Guardian Deities to eliminate all evil spirits and spirits.
After this gigantic version of the Three Purities Imperial Fiend Breaking Talismans was laid down, another dozen or so people stood in front of the Hall of Great Strength, wielding their swords.
"Sister Jing, what do those dozen or so people do?" Du Kang had a good habit of asking when he didn't understand, so he lowered his voice and asked Ran Jing.
"What dozen or so people? There are a total of 28 people in this Grand Hall, corresponding to the 28 constellations in the sky. Don't be fooled by their messy standing positions. In fact, there are a lot of tricks here. The 28 people are divided into the East Azure Dragon, the West White Tiger, the South Vermillion Bird, and the North Black Tortoise. They are used to suppress the four gates of the formation and to prevent the things inside from rushing out."
"Oh, I understand, I understand. It looks awesome." Du Kang touched the tip of his nose and sighed.
"It doesn't look awesome, it's actually more awesome!"