Chapter 93: Bodhisattva in the Flesh
"Rustle." In the woods, a girl dressed in white bowed slightly with a dagger pinned to her left hand to identify the source of the sound. Although her body did not move, her eyes turned from side to side, and finally stopped in the lower right corner. She quietly changed the dagger to another hand, and muttered something in her mouth as a youkai jumped out to attack her back, and threw the dagger backwards, hitting the monster's head, and a burst of blue light flashed and the youkai disappeared, leaving a white note to fall. A big hand catches it.
"Great, successful again!" That's right, this girl is me. I have been with Uncle Ziteng for more than two years, learning to write and ancient Japanese, it is almost terrible, according to my original age my memory has begun to decline, but I forgot about it, and I feel that I am an adult and have taught books for several years, and learning is not difficult for me. Anyway, for the first time, I felt like a scumbag, and it took almost three years for me to initially learn to control the power in my body.
"Uncle, how am I doing?" I waited to be praised.
"Not bad, but ......," the uncle looked at the dagger nailed to the tree, "what if a second youkai attacks you at this time, and you don't have a weapon?" ”
"Ah, that's easy!" I pulled out a set of daggers, "Look, I've prepared so much, it can be used as a melee weapon and a hidden weapon, perfect!" ”
"Well, what if there is a third, fourth, or even a group?"
"Well, let's just run." If you can't beat it, you can run, thirty-six plans.
"You can find a way to get it back in your hands when it gets out."
Like a flying bone? I still don't know how he practiced it, I taught him nonsense at the beginning, and he learned it before the master even led him into the door. I'm going to ask him for the trick and use it on my dagger? Forehead...... It's easy to hurt yourself. Or tie a rope rope or something to the dagger, this has to be customized, the best knifesmith is Dao Daozhai, but I don't want to see him again in my life, I'm scared of the pit.
If only it could recognize the Lord and come back on its own, it would fly over by holding it with your hand like it did on TV.
"What are you doing?" Uncle asked.
"...... "I thought about it and made the movements in my head, I used to find a reason to fool the past, but now my uncle is almost used to me from time to time, so I just said it." I'll see if I can call it back with my mind. ”
"It's a dead thing, how can it respond to you."
I silently withdrew my hand and tried without money.
"Why don't you take a Shikigami." Uncle gave me advice out of the blue. "It can help you in battle."
"Huh? But I don't know how to do that. ”
"I'll teach you, it's not difficult."
"Oh, but didn't you say Shikigami is slowly disappearing?" Speaking of this, it seems that Liuhe is gone.
"It's okay to make a contract with a youkai, do you want me to help you choose a youkai?"
"No, I already have a demon choice." Phantom is just the right fit to be my combat partner, and I can now understand why Tsuiko said that Phantom is my weapon, and now is the right time.
"Well, you've been with me for more than two years, haven't you?" Uncle suddenly broke with me, and I was a little panicked.
"Uncle, you are thinking that I have been staying for a long time?" Am I acting too stupid to annoy my uncle?
"No, it's just that time flies, and you've grown up."
The old fatherly tone may have thought of Fluttershy again. The only thing that comforted me in the past two years was that I had finally grown taller, and I used to be able to reach my uncle's knees, but now I was almost up to his waist.
"Since you have a choice, let it train with you starting tomorrow."
"Hmm!"
When I got home, I couldn't wait to tell Phantom about it.
"I refuse."
"Eh, why? We're a good partner. ”
"I don't want to be called by you."
"That's not right, didn't we already practice before, remember this gesture?" I struck the classic Spider-Man pose and shrugged my eyebrows at Phantom. Phantom Yi saw my gesture and disagreed even more, stupid or not.
It seems that I have come up with a trick, I pronounce the first word of the spirit to see its reaction, "Stand ......"
"Shut up!" The illusion really couldn't lie down, "You want to force me with this despicable means again, tell you that the spider will bite people if you are in a hurry, it's a big deal to break the net with you!" ”
"Don't be so excited, of course I won't force you to do things you don't like, it's just ......" One, Two, Three frowned, his eyes were melancholy and ready to act, "I still lack a very important partner, and my uncle said that he wanted to find me a random monster, and I refused at the time, because in my heart you have no monster to replace." Sniffing a handful of non-existent snot and continued, "I thought you thought the same thing, but I didn't expect you to be an outsider, it's just that I am amorous......"
"You have no conscience when you say this, I didn't protect you every day when you were weak in the past, and I can bother so much with outsiders?"
"You mean you promised?!" Before it could be denied, I quickly celebrated in advance, "Great! Now we can fight side by side, I now have the strength to not pull you back like before, our combination will definitely be invincible! "I stretched out a slap and waited for it to give me a high-five, this give me five is still what I taught it.
Phantom belatedly touched my front leg with me, "I didn't dislike you." ”
Oh yes, the ultimate trick that can only appear after this trick is successfully used.
"I'm back." Tsuiko came in with the curtain.
"It's early today." I usually come back when I'm almost asleep, but in the past two years, famine and war have bred many youkai and caused chaos everywhere, so that we don't have time to get along.
"Hmm." Cuizi put down the sword and sat in front of the fire to fiddle, as if she was not in a good mood, "Rain, you will go with me to Bailing Mountain tomorrow." ”
"What are you going to do there?"
"The Venerable Master of the White Heart is sick, let's go take a look." When Tsuiko said about the White Heart Master, Phantom raised her head.
The last time I saw him, he was in better spirits than me, why did he suddenly fall ill. "Is he seriously ill?"
"I heard that I fainted while visiting a patient, and I will have to wait until tomorrow to see the specific situation."
"Then do you want to go to the uncle first?"
"No, I've already said it."
When I left the next day, I asked if I wanted to go, and it lowered its head and suddenly scolded me, "Are you stupid, how did I get in?" ”
"Obviously you care a lot and want to change the topic, so you say whether you want to go or not."
"No, no."
Okay, it's just me, Tsuiko and Mica. There was no change in Bailing Mountain, the difference was that the people inside had yellow faces and thin muscles, exuding a decadent aura, and they knelt outside the temple to pray.
"The Venerable Master Bai Xin is really highly respected, and so many people pray for him." I couldn't help but sigh when I compared it to the sea of people.
"That's nature, he did countless good deeds in his life, I don't know how many believers. Let's go inside. ”
When he entered the Venerable Master's room, there was also a circle of people inside, and he was lying on the bed, looking haggard and trying to open his eyes but could only open a slit, which was not very good.
"What can I do about this, the Master of the White Heart has been lying for several days." An old man in his fifties spoke to someone in front of me.
"yes, if the adults can't get up, who will protect us?"
"Recently, several people have starved to death in the village, so adults need to get better quickly."
"yes, yes......"
One person spoke and drove a piece, slowly getting louder and louder, and the Venerable Master Bai Xin came to see it.
"You don't have to worry." His voice was slow and hoarse and tired, "I have decided to become a bodhisattva in the flesh and have always blessed and guarded this land and you. ”
When they heard this, they all bowed down with joy and wept of gratitude.
"What is a bodhisattva in the flesh?" I asked Tsuiko curiously.
"It means that the body of the practitioner will not rot after his death."
Death! But he's not dead yet. I remember that it was because he regretted it at the last moment that his soul could not be redeemed, and Naraku had a chance. No, I'm going to ask him to change his decision.
"You can't be a bodhisattva in the flesh!" I shouted so loudly that everyone looked at me. I pushed through the crowd to the Venerable Master's bed and held his hand.
"Where did the wild girl come from, talking nonsense here!" An old man who seemed to be quite prestigious scolded me, and I ignored him and continued to say to the Venerable Whiteheart.
"Didn't you say that you cry when you want to cry and laugh when you want to laugh? Now that you want to continue to live well, you can try to overcome the disease and live for a few more decades than to become a dry corpse and stay in one place. "It's so unfair that he's such a good person who shouldn't suffer, or for hundreds of years." The world will always get better, you don't have to carry it alone, really. ”
The White Heart Master's eyes widened slightly, and there was a light shining inside. "I ......"
"Nonsense!" The old man just now pulled me away, pointed at my nose and scolded, "Your adult's decision is for the sake of the common people in the world, how can you be a girl who doesn't understand anything to talk nonsense!" ”
I waved his hand away, "What a life in the world!" When he dies, will there be food from the sky? Will the war stop? You can't be so selfish and kidnap him with morality! ”
"You, you ......" probably no one has ever been so rude to him, or has he been in his mind?
"Stop arguing." The Master raised his hand slightly, "I don't have much time, so just do as I say." After saying that, he closed his eyes, and I should not say anything.
I was so anxious that I jumped to my feet, and I didn't even try to give up on myself, and he couldn't become a Buddha if he continued in the current situation.
"Don't give up, the world is so big that there is always a way to save you, what are you doing?!" I was dragged away.
"Throw this girl of unknown origin out!"
"Huh!" Tsuiko drew her sword and pointed it at them, "Let her go." ”
"What do you want to do?!" The old man panicked a little.
"She'll go on her own, let her go."
They didn't move but the clamps loosened, and I staggered from side to side to break free of them and return to Tsuiko.
"Let's go." Esuko withdrew her sword.
"Huh? But I haven't convinced the White Heart Master that he really can't die. "Why don't Tsuiko unite with me.
"No one can't die, fate is so big that no one can escape, let's go."
I was dragged out by her, and one last glance at the Venerable Master Bai Xin lying on the hospital bed, he also turned to look at me. I couldn't see relief or calm detachment in his eyes, I was 100% sure he didn't want to die, but I couldn't convince him. He struggles on the edge of a cliff, but reality pushes him down.
The villagers moved quickly, dug a pit, put the Venerable Master in a wooden barrel, hung a bell for him, and connected a tube to the outside world for him to breathe. Everyone was waiting for the bell to stop, and it seemed that as long as it stopped, they would be saved.
I stood away from them and looked at the tree, "What's the difference between this and killing someone?" ”
"Are you holding a grievance for him?" Tsuiko also stood along.
"I just feel sorry for him, but the people who want to protect him at the cost of their lives are looking forward to his death, and I take it for granted, they are too selfish and indifferent to be saved."
"Because the most important thing in their lives is to live, and all other things, including the lives of others, are not as important as their own lives."
"Isn't that selfish? For his own sake, he doesn't care about the feelings of the white sweetheart, he is also a human being, and he also has the right to choose to live! ”
"It's everyone's right to choose to live, but we don't include us, we are born to make sure they live, it's our obligation. It's a good ending to be able to die like this. ”
Ha!? This is a fallacy, right?! They have hands and feet, can't they strengthen themselves and protect themselves through exercise like Asu and them? Do you have to sacrifice yourself to save yourself?
"Alright." Tsuiko patted me on the shoulder, "Not everyone has the world and righteousness in their hearts, they need to learn." ”
"Am I going to be so selfless in the future? I feel like I can't do it. "It's better to protect such a group of white-eyed wolves than to go and drink tea.
"If you don't have that, you're happy." Fortunately, Tsuiko didn't try to brainwash me.
As they spoke, the bell stopped, and the crowd began to dig with shovels. I don't want to look any more and walk away.
"Where are you going?" Cuizi wants to stay and send the White Heart Venerable Master on his last journey.
"I'll wait for you outside." I was afraid that I would want to hit someone, so I could only comfort myself that it was fortunate that he would be able to get salvation in the end.
"Don't go far."
I answered and went to the side, lying on the big rock with my head back and looking at the sky, the thing that had just happened in my mind lingered, and the more I thought about it, the more angry I became.
"Then kill them." A thick male voice sounded in his ears.
I jumped to my feet and pulled out my dagger to look around, "Somebody's pretending!" ”
"Human beings are selfish and stupid, look at the good things they do, if they are allowed to continue to live will only drag down more cultivators, you go and kill them and kill them!"
This guy is a fool for me, and the intention of lobbying is so obvious that I can't really hear it? I took the bait and continued to ramble with the unknown, and the other side approached the source of the sound.
"How can I kill so many of them?" The sound seemed to come from the stone
"As long as you release me, I can help you make it happen."
"Oh~" I saw a polygonal thing in the crack in the stone, and if I looked closely, it looked a bit like the hilt of a sword. "I seem to have seen you somewhere."
"Don't care about these details, you pull me out and do whatever you want!"
It's too obvious to be in such a hurry, but it's really familiar. I bent down to look at it in all its aspects, this sword, how did this sword look so much like the one forged by Greyblade?
"You're a ten-child?"
"......" it stopped talking, which seemed to me to be the default.
"You're ten children, aren't you?" I immediately moved away from it, "Why are you still there and haven't disappeared!?" ”
"Hmph, the old monk can't purify me, I will go out one day and kill all the people who detain me!"
"Hehe, then you wait slowly." Anyway, you can't do it in the last two hundred years.
From the center of the temple, a circle of pure light opened, enveloping the entire Bailing Mountain. I felt the change in the aura around me, there was really no impurity, and even the ten children were suppressed and stopped making a sound. At the cost of the sacrifice of the White Heart Master, there will be peace here for hundreds of years.