Chapter 187: The Legend of Mulian
These two words shook my heart!
Tengu - another mythical and legendary monster, or mythical beast!
The origin of the legend of the tengu comes from the "Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Classic of the West Mountains", which records: There are beasts in Yinshan, its shape is like a raccoon dog and a white head, the name is called Tiangu, its sound is like a cat and cat, and it can resist evil.
And there are clouds in "The Great Wilderness West": there is a red dog in Wushan, called the heavenly dog.
The above two accounts are not the same as the folklore "Tengu eats the moon and eats the sun", both Tengu and Tengu do not live in the sky but on the earth, and their names do not have a positive meaning, and some ancient books even call it a small animal......
After the addition of generations of "daydreamers" and "imaginative idlers", Tengu has completed his transformation from a small monster to a divine beast!
And in the more recent history books, the tengu has become the star of the sky - the dog star!
Some people say that the tengu is a fierce god and evil spirit, and when you see it, there is less luck and more reversal, and there are bloody disasters such as injuries, car accidents, and surgery.
For example, "Continuation of Capital and Governance Tongjian" contains: In the sixth year of Zheng, Si Tian supervised the performance, the Tengu Star fell to the ground, and the blood ate the world for 5,000 days, starting from Chu throughout Qi and Zhao, and finally Wu. Its light is not as wide as Liangguang, and the world after tomorrow is in chaos, all as said.
In the sixth year of Zhizheng, that is, in 1346, it was the era of the Yuan Dynasty. An official in charge of the astronomical calendar reported that the star Tengu in the sky had fallen on the earth, and all creatures of flesh and blood were devoured by it for 5,000 days and nights......
Although there are many suspicious and political interferences in the records of the historians of the Yuan Dynasty, how can they be confused about such strange and terrifying things, this is a major event involving the livelihood of the whole country, not to mention that the Tengu "blood food" lasted for 5,000 days!
But I don't care about this absurd record, the ancients were very fond of exaggerating strange monsters to attract people's attention and do boring things that detract people's ears.
But I'm interested in another term about "tengu".
It is said that in ancient times, there was a little brother named Mulian, who was born closer to Western Buddha nature, was willing to give, and was also very filial to his mother.
But his mother's temperament is very different from his, she is violent by nature, and she does things twice in three days and causes great trouble.
One day, this old mother was nervous, and when she was bored, she wanted to tease the monks in the monastery.
So, she secretly wrapped more than 300 meat buns, saying that she wanted to accumulate virtue and do good vegetarian monks, and deceived the monks in the temple that this was a vegetarian steamed bun, and as a result, the monks of the entire temple broke their vows because of eating meat buns.
When the Western Buddha learned about this, he was very angry, and the consequences were serious.
He sent this wicked woman to the eighteenth layer of hell and subjected her to all kinds of torture.
Ke Mulian is a filial son, he can't bear to let his mother suffer in the underworld, so he works overtime every day, and he can't wait to practice 24 hours a day without sleeping.
Finally, with his peerless talent and adverse luck, this Mulian cultivated into an arhat fruit, and then refined himself into the Jizo King Bodhisattva, and finally rescued his mother from hell with great difficulty!
Unexpectedly, Mulian's mother continued to urinate without changing her life, and the dog continued to die like eating, causing trouble everywhere, causing resentment in the Three Realms and making the people unhappy.
Good guy, now the Buddha said that he didn't do anything, he directly turned Mulian's mother into a vicious dog!
The mother who has become a vicious dog is very vicious, not only does not repent and does good, but even goes directly to the sky in an attempt to take revenge.
But she has no supernatural powers, and she doesn't have any exercises, because there is no navigation, and when it reaches the sky, it runs around and bites, and even the sun and moon are swallowed by it!
The Buddha couldn't, and when he was thinking about whether to stew it directly, the people beat gongs and drums.
It is said that although this Mulian's mother is violent and abnormal, she is not afraid of heaven and earth, but she is only afraid of loud noises.
So the people picked up pots and pans, and the gongs and cymbals were pounded wildly, so frightened that she quickly vomited out the sun and the moon.
This is the legend of "Tengu Eating the Moon" and "Tengu Devouring the Sun"!
Through the above two episodes, we can know that in fact, in the minds of the ancients, neither tengu nor tengu were good things, and they were spurned and hated by others.
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Get back to business.
Saying that, this middle-aged strong man suddenly turned into a huge dog-like creature, and I was frightened and immediately responded, holding Meimei with my arms around and immediately taking a few steps back!
It doesn't mean that I'm scared of it, but because this dog is too big! bigger than my five or six meters tall Chaos True Body!
As soon as he pulled away a little, the appearance of this tengu appeared in front of him completely:
Thick and powerful forelimbs, with a small gray light hidden in the hairy soles, should be thin nails on a dog's paws.
The hind limbs are bent at a large angle, like an old pig's trotters, calm and full of tension!
The tengu is gray all around, only the huge dog head with a touch of fiery red, extending from its back and neck to the forehead of both eyes, like a third dog eye, dignified and powerful quite a bit of "roaring dog" style!
The dog's mouth is like a pig demon's mouth, but the difference is the dog's teeth. The dog has teeth on the front of its mouth, which are long and curved and exposed, making it look hideous and fierce, and the tail of the dog's mouth also has teeth, but they are two straight teeth that are fiery red!
We know that dogs are omnivores, eating both meat and whole grains, depending on how the owner, the human, feeds it.
In order to bite the prey, the dog has evolved long fangs on the front of its mouth, which is convenient for it to bite and drag. However, most of the gum teeth in other parts of the dog's mouth are flat and rotten in order to better chew the food that is swallowed into the mouth.
But there are still tusks at the tail of the dog's mouth, and they are straight fiery red fangs!
I couldn't figure out what this misshapen tooth could do......
The tengu was revealed, and it didn't make me wait too long, only to see it howl on its back to the sky, its hind limbs slightly heavy, and the whole dog body pounced like a leopard!
As he pounced, the tengu's mouth opened wide, and a bright red flame erupted from its throat, squirting at me with rapid speed.
A dog's mouth can't spit out ivory, but why can it still breathe fire......
Thinking that I didn't dodge, I couldn't avoid it even if I wanted to avoid it at this time, although the fox demon in my arms was not big, but in order to imprison him, I hugged him in a very unsightly posture......
The bloody flame spewed down on me in the blink of an eye, drowning me in an instant.
At that moment, I felt like I had entered a space full of fire on all sides, and all I could see was bright red and blood-like flames!
This feeling is different from the illusion of the Nine-Tailed Demon Demon, there is no feeling of mental pulling and tearing, it is more like a feeling of calcining the soul through the body and spirit!
"Heavenly Dog Devouring the Sun!!"
At this time, the tengu roared again, and the huge dog's mouth opened at an extremely alarming angle, swallowing me in one gulp!!
I felt a burning sensation oozing from the depths of my soul, and my eyes went black, and I completely lost my reference in my sight.
I wasn't flustered, just a little shocked: the supernatural power that shocked it, that bright red flame was different from the Heavenly Dazzling Fire, it was not an extremely pure high temperature, but a direct effect on the soul!
On top of that, I was amazed at its appetite!
Even if I tried my best to shrink my body in order to hold the fox demon Meimei, the real body of Chaos was five or six meters high!
Swallowed me in one bite, how big is this dog's mouth?
And at that moment, the mud pill in the middle of my eyes shook slightly, and it seemed to be being pierced deep by an extremely sharp long sword.
What followed was a sting from the depths of the soul!
My endurance is so strong that I can selectively forget almost all the wounds of my flesh and skin.
I remember that in the depths of the Flying Sword Pond and the desert, even though I was deeply affected by the great pain of mental suppression, boundless illusion and the calcination of the sword in my ass, I didn't cry out about the pain, but just endured it silently.
But this sting was completely different, it was like a sword, completely breaking through the soul that was originally a mixture, and like an extremely hard pliers, it clamped my consciousness tightly, whether it was my brain, nerves, or souls, at that moment there was only one message - pain!!
This moment of stinging pain is almost unforgettable for me!
Afterwards, when I recalled this great pain many times, I felt sympathy for the Western Buddhists.
Sympathizing with the pain when he was stung by the poisonous scorpion essence of the inverted horse, even as a golden-bodied Buddha Lord who regarded all beings as nothing and as equals, he couldn't hold back for a while, and was anxious to let the Dharma Protector Vajra take it......
And in this moment of great pain, I finally couldn't help but cry out in pain————
"Master, it hurts me to death!"
I screamed unconsciously, I don't know how long it took (according to the old man trafficker afterwards, it didn't take long for me to cry like a mother, he only vaguely heard a very small cry of pain), until the little fish appeared!
There is a soul mark between Xiao Yu'er and me, and it should be able to feel my pain immediately, and it said to me urgently:
"Brother, the back teeth of this monster are very special, it should be a kind of divine soul attack! Ordinary True Yuan Demon Yuan can't resist at all, unless it has been cultivated into a Yuan Shen into a realm of its own!"
I was sweating like rain in pain, and I could hardly hear the sound of the little fish, but I just gritted my teeth instinctively to support it, and I was in pain.
"Hey!"
Xiao Yu'er may have some understanding of my current situation, and with a flash of white light, he recklessly stabbed at my soul!
Another huge pain struck, and although the intensity was not as strong as that of the tengu, it still made my soul tremble, and it had reached the limit of what I could bear!!
The stinging pain hit like a huge wave, wave after wave.
There are no highs and lows, and there is no beginning and end, just so endless, open and bright and bright rushing to come, making people despair!
Just when I was about to take it anymore and try to abandon my soul, the pain that had appeared later suddenly relaxed, and then my consciousness was slightly restored and awakened!
"Yay, it worked!"
This time, I finally heard the cheers of the little fish, and it continued:
"Fighting poison with poison really works, after the pain is worse, brother, your soul is like a full and overflowing water cup, and you can no longer hold anything!"
"But if I remove my part, you will be able to lift some of your burdens for a while, just like ...... It's like I took a sip of the water in that cup!!"
I gasped for a few moments, and then I felt my body sink, and the object in front of me changed again, and the Chaos True Body—disappeared......
"Brother, quickly gather the gods and enter the sea of knowledge! I can only use this stupid method once, and if you use it again, you will become stupid!"
The little fish shouted again.
"That dog monster's back teeth are somewhat similar to Horcruxes, and they are dedicated to attacking people's spirits! Brother, you only need to cut off its teeth in the sea of knowledge to be rescued, otherwise...... can only sink forever!"