Chapter 232: Mythology

Sang Rong Weng looked at the two of them in shock, Luo Youlan frowned even more, her eyes were confused, she lowered her head and didn't know what to calculate, she couldn't help laughing and said: "You guys are slow to suspect, didn't I just tell you a myth about the Blackstone Empire? This myth is related to this rakshasa, you listen to me from the beginning." ”

Sang Wei Weng took a sip of Yunxin pine nut tea, and said slowly: "When I left you in the Blue Lion City, I wanted to visit the victory of Cangshan and the blue sea, so I went to the west from the road of Ailao Mountain, and by the way, I went to visit my friend Ge Gansun in Ailao Mountain. I don't want Lao Ge to travel far away and not return, from the mouths of people, I learned the news that the pomegranate village is planning to make chaos, Menghua and Midu have fallen, and I want to pass through the territory of the enemy bandits from Menghua to Vermilion Bird City.

I didn't want to ask for trouble, and I was instructed to bypass Menghua from the sidewalk. After entering the Vermilion Bird City, I was delayed in the city for a day, and I happened to meet my old friend Yunxi Venerable Man, and after talking, I learned that this old friend had become the abbot of the Maha Temple in recent years. He and he went out of the west city of Vermilion Bird City and walked into the Cangshan Mountain, which was more than 70 miles away. Since then, I have been a guest of Longxi Maha Temple, and the Venerable Master Yunxi has accompanied me all day long to visit various places in Cangshan.

One day, we went to play Lotus Peak, one of the nineteen peaks. I saw that in the green of the peak, a long section of the red wall was exposed, and the flying pavilion in the wall was Liudan, and the owl kiss was towering. I asked what ancient temple was inside the wall of the Venerable Man in Yunxi, and he said, "This is the Rakshasa Pavilion with a very good history. As soon as I heard the name of the Rakshasa Pavilion, I remembered the former bandit names of the Rakshasa Lady and Youlan, and I didn't think that the Rakshasa Pavilion was built here. Curiosity led me to the Rakshasa Pavilion, where the statue of Guanyin was sculpted. I knew that the Venerable Master Yunxi was erudite and memorized, and that he was well versed in the internal scriptures, so I asked him, 'What is the explanation of the word Rakshasa?

He said, 'The word Rakshasa is a Sanskrit word that means cannibalistic and violent dragon. But I swam through Xindu, and Rakshasa is the name of an ancient Indian people. This Rakshasa Pavilion is an evil dragon. Because this evil dragon was subdued by Guanyin, and the place where the evil dragon was confined was under the big stone at the foundation of the Rakshasa Pavilion, a large statue of Guanyin was established on the pavilion to suppress it. This story of subduing the evil dragon is very interesting and is recorded in the Suzaku Castle Chronicles. If you want to understand the details of this story, let's walk an extra five or six miles to the Shengyuan Temple, borrow a copy of the "White Country Cause" from the temple, and then we will know. ’

I asked, "What is the book "The Cause of the White Country" and how strange the title is. The Venerable Yunxi smiled and said, "You don't need to ask, I will say it to you when I see the reason for Bai Guo." After you read this book, I would like to tell you a story about the recent second birth of Rakshasas. So we made a special trip to the Shengwang Temple, and the Venerable Yunxi explained his intentions, and the abbot of the temple solemnly took out a thin handwritten book of yellow satin brocade and silk fences. On the gold note, it is written 'the cause of the white country', and there are small characters next to it that are annotated with the Sanskrit Chinese translation, a 'Bai Gu Ji'. When I opened it, I still remember that the gist of what was written inside was probably like this:

In ancient times, Suzaku City was a city of water, and the flood flooded to the mountainside; later the flood fell, showing a dam, which was based on the Rakshasa in ancient times, and the Rakshasa translated it as an evil dragon, who liked to eat human flesh, and the people suffered unbearably. Later, a Buddhist monk deliberately recruited a place for Rakshasa to retreat. In this place, it is enough to spread the robe and jump four steps. Rakshasa Xu Zhi, unexpectedly, the monk's robe was paved, covering the realm of mountains and seas, and the white dog jumped around, occupying the land of the two levels.

Rakshasa regretted it, and when he saw the eight divisions of the heavenly dragon in the clouds, he supported the verification, but he had no choice but to say to the monks: 'My land and people are all under your control, and my dependents and descendants have no place to live, how can it be good?' The monks said, "It's easy to do!" So in the cave of Shangyang Creek, he conjured up all kinds of facilities in the Golden Mansion Treasure Palace; The monk showed his magical powers, and sealed the door of the cave with iron juice from the big stone, so the trouble of the Rakshasa began. This myth is still engraved on the twenty screen doors in the main hall of the Shengyuan Temple.

I read this Rakshasa story and understood the origin of the word 'Rakshasa'. I remembered that in the past, the names of the Rakshasa King and his wife, about the spiritual realm, regarded them as evil dragons and evil spirits, so they got such nicknames. The Rakshasas themselves, like you, may not know the origin of this nickname.

At that time, I went to Longxi Maha Temple with the Venerable Master Yunxi, and he said, 'You have traveled to the Rakshasa Pavilion, you have seen the cause of the White Kingdom of the Shengyuan Temple, and you have learned that the ground of the Vermilion Bird City originally belonged to the Rakshasa rule. Because there was this myth in ancient times, there are now clever people who use this myth to deliberately spread rumors in Suzaku City, saying that it is the presence of His Excellency Rakshasa and the Rakshasa who was confined by the Buddhist monks has completed his practice and has been reborn for the second time. Moreover, the monks saw that the people of Vermilion Bird City were going to suffer from the plague and sword soldiers, and only the Rakshasa who was born twice could save this catastrophe. ’

This nonsense is boiling, spreading more and more, and the more you believe it, the more true it becomes. Soon it is said that the second birth of the Rakshasa incarnation, incarnated as a beautiful nun with peerless wisdom and amazing martial arts, has been welcomed into the village by the sanding of the pomegranate flower village of Shimu Mountain, and offers in every way; Not long after the news came out, the pomegranate village was settled, and sure enough, he led the enemy bandits to attack Menghua and Midu, and he was going to capture Vermilion Bird City in the near future. Now the people in Suzaku City are panicked, and the four gates are closed, and although the government is trying its best to arrange defensive strategies, the people's hearts are shaken. The rescue soldiers in White Tiger City are difficult to fly over for a while, maybe that nonsense is really going to come true. ”

Sang Yuong paused and continued: "As soon as I heard the truth about the rebellion in the Pomegranate Flower Village, the Vermilion Bird City was in danger, and I couldn't help but wonder if the two of you had returned to the Lu Mansion? If the White Tiger City sent troops to resist the enemy, the Lu Mansion would definitely be unable to stay out of the matter; at the same time, what kind of person was the female nun who was reincarnated by the fake Tora Shassa? I wanted to find out what he would understand, and then go to the White Tiger City to meet you, so I resigned from the Venerable Master of Yunxi, pretended to go to the old way of cultivating spirits and selling wild medicine, and left the Vermilion Bird City and walked to the road of the Shimu Mountain Pomegranate Flower Village. Because this road is full of enemies and bandits, I also want to avoid unnecessary disputes, so I pick up the small road and go alone. I didn't want to get lost, so I bypassed the pomegranate village and walked into the Longpantu Mountain here. The mountain covers a vast area, with undulating peaks and sparsely populated populations, and it is impossible to find out the road realm, only to see the town of Nanjian from a distance. Let's go down the hill, find the town, and reason.

When they arrived at the entrance of Nanjian Town, they saw that there were officers and soldiers stationed at the key entrance, and the people were not allowed to enter or leave, so they did not enter the town. Climbing over the hill, he copied out the place where the military camp was guarded, and approached the foot of the peak, on the edge of a zigzag stream, and on the other side of the stream was the town of Nanjian. Just as he was about to cross the stream into the town, he suddenly heard a noise from the other post, and from behind a row of houses in the town, an old man and a young woman, carrying a bamboo basket, jumped into the stream as if they were dead.