Chapter Thirty-Six: The Underworld

Guru Lausanne looked up at me, then moved his gaze to my left arm, and said, "You have a machine spirit in your hand?" I nodded, and he beckoned to me, and as I approached, he pointed to a futon in front of me and sat down.

I sat cross-legged across from him and looked at his face seriously, he was thin, but he was tall. He has short white hair, and his eyebrows are also white, very long, and they all hang down. He has a big and long nose, no teeth in his mouth, and a large white beard that looks very much like the Bodhidharma Patriarch who crossed the river with a reed.

He lifted up his thin right hand and said show me your hand. I pulled off my gloves and placed the palm of my hand on top of his, and he grabbed it. He closed his eyes and felt it, for a long time, let go of my hand and opened his eyes and said, you have controlled it well. I nodded.

The guru said, "That woman is your lover?" I bowed my head and said yes. He said that one of the three souls in your lover's soul is missing, and it should have been artificially destroyed. If you want to make up for the soul, you have to find a powerful soul and replace the original broken soul.

I looked at the Guru in amazement, although I knew that he could replenish the soul, but being able to see it so thoroughly showed that his spiritual cultivation was quite powerful. But where do I go to find such a powerful soul to come back? The lama turned around and took a prayer wheel, which was a red sandalwood prayer cylinder, and as soon as he took it out, I smelled the scent of sandalwood.

Tibetan Buddhism believes that the more the mantra is held, the more it represents the devotion to the Buddha, and the suffering of reincarnation can be freed. Therefore, in addition to oral recitation, Tibetans also make prayer cylinders, put the "six-character Da Ming Mantra" scriptures in the prayer cylinders, and rotate them by hand, and each rotation is equivalent to reciting the scriptures once.

The Guru handed me the prayer wheel and said to find that powerful soul, and then seal it inside, and you can seal it by reciting the six-character mantra, and bring that soul back, and I will cast a spell to peel out the three souls and then put them into the soul of your lover.

I played with this red sandalwood prayer cylinder and shook it, and there was a clicking sound in it. The barrel body is thick and exquisite, there are many Buddhist reliefs on it, the whole body is smooth, full of pulp, and it has a history of hundreds of years at a glance.

The Guru pinched the Dharma seal in both hands and waved it in front of me, and a white air appeared between me and him, hazy. The white gas gradually thickened, and some dim images appeared, with more than a dozen firebirds flying around in the dim space.

He pointed to the firebird and said, this is the Suzaku Firebird, which lives in the underground world and provides light to the underground world. Their psychic sense is very powerful, as long as they find one, beat the soul out, seal it to the prayer wheel, and bring it back.

Do I say this counts as killing? The guru said that it doesn't count, but it just beats the soul but it doesn't die, and it will give birth to a soul in the future. I see. I nodded, relieved, just don't need to kill, they don't advocate killing in Buddhism.

Finally the Guru said that the underground world is very dangerous, and only the three of you men can go, and the women will stay here. Stay here? I looked around, there was only one bed, no quilt yet, how to sleep? The Guru stood up and said, "Let them all come in." Then head to the back door.

I went out and told everyone to come in, and when they came in, I closed the wooden door, which didn't even have a latch, but only closed. After everyone came in, I also walked to the back door, and there was a cave behind it, and there were a few oil lamps on the wall, and the more I walked inside, the brighter and warmer it became.

Come to a cave room, more than 30 square sizes, warm as spring, and there are all kinds of daily necessities inside. The surrounding walls are covered with rough wooden bookshelves filled with worn books, scriptures, and bamboo slips, and it seems that the Guru is a person who likes to read.

There were also a few small room openings in the perimeter, and the lama arranged accommodation for the two ladies and took us into a very cold little room.

Zhang Shan and the little Tibetan girl looked at this side at the door of the small room, and from Zhang Shan's eyes, she could see that she was full of worry, and she came over and took my hand. The guru looked at her, raised his hand and put it on her forehead, and after a while, he saw that her eyes were glazed, and he turned and walked out.

I asked the Guru what was wrong with her? The teacher said that she was hypnotized and that she would go back to her room and sleep on her own. How amazing is that? It seems that this guru's cultivation should be very high, we are only a few stories high, and he may be more than ten stories high.

The guru opened a small wooden door in the wall, and it was dark inside, and a cold wind blew out. He said that if you find the Suzaku Firebird, take the soul and come back, if you can't find the way, turn the prayer wheel, and I will give you a lamp, and just look at the light and come over.

We said goodbye to our guru, and the three of us entered the small door, holding hands and groping slowly, walking a few hundred meters downhill before we saw a little light in front of us. Walking out of the hole, I looked up and saw that there was an empty space below, gray and could be seen for several kilometers, and there were treetops below, and unknown creatures were howling, which sounded very terrible.

The three of them let go of their hands, their mouths wide open, and they couldn't imagine that there was really such an ecological forest under this snow-capped mountain. I used to read some tabloid news that Tibet was empty, with hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of underground space and an independent kingdom of its own.

When this real space was displayed in front of us, it really amazed us. When I looked back, there was only a stone wall not far behind, and there was nothing. I said what about the cave? The fat man and Jiang Ming also turned around to look for it, kept touching the surrounding stone walls, where is there a cave entrance, just walked a few meters out of the hole, and now the hole is gone.

The fat man touched the stone wall for a while and said that this is a sesame open door? Why is there no opening? So how do we go back? The place we are in is a protruding platform of more than ten square meters, halfway up the mountainside, a jungle below, and the leaves should be a robe or a fern, but it is more than ten meters high.

The fat man said there wouldn't be dinosaurs down there, right? It is said that this robe is the food of the long-necked dragon, and we are back in the Jurassic era? Crossed? Jiang Ming slapped the fat man's head and said what dinosaurs? Dinosaurs are dying, you find a dinosaur to show me.

"Whew........." There was a loud howl from below, which frightened us out, and our eardrums were about to burst. What is this? Screaming so loudly? We rushed to the edge and looked at it. I saw a group of animals below, because the light was not very strong, I could only vaguely see what looked like wild boars, but the hair was very long, the size of a calf.

Was it this herd of wild boars barking just now? How do you bark like a dog's sound? The fat man accidentally touched a stone loose and fell, startling the wild boars. The wild boar looked up and saw that there were people on it, so he couldn't stop howling and wanted to climb up, but this 90-degree cliff was not a monkey, how could he climb it?

We covered our ears and looked at it for a while, Jiang Ming said, this seems to be the cunning described in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas". What cunning? Neither the fat man nor I have read the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but Jiang Ming has some memories of his master. So he knows more things than we do.

Jiang Ming said that there is a passage in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" that describes it like this: "Jade Mountain, there are beasts, its shape is like a dog and a leopard, its horns are like a cow, its name is cunning, its sound is like a barking dog, and when you see it, it is a big country." ”

The fat man said "Look, it seems that the big ones really have horns, or are they four." After the fat man finished speaking, he looked at Jiang Ming again, and said Could it be a close relative of your four-eared cat? Jiang Ming patted the fat man's head again, and said that the cat is a cat, and the cat has no horns, how can it be a close relative.

The fat man covered his head and sneered, saying that the one below seems to be really leopard print, brown and yellow, maybe it is really the cunning you said. We all look down. The thing looked fierce, with two small horns forward, two large buffalo horns on either side, and a long mane on its head and neck.

Jiang Ming pointed to those who wanted to climb up and said, Look at the claws, they are very sharp, if they are wild boars, they are hooves, these claws are all carnivores, and those with horns are herbivores, now it's good, mixed together.

The fat man said that if he couldn't find an animal to eat, he would eat grass. Jiang Ming and I both looked back at him, and he said what's wrong? Am I wrong? Jiang Ming and I both gave him a top quack.

After looking at it for a while, I felt that those cunning should not be able to climb up, so Jiang Ming and I stood up, stopped looking at those cunning, and called at them. The fat man grimaced at the bottom, stuck out his tongue incessantly, and made a sound, and after making a grimace, he said, "Grass, come up and bite me."

The largest cunning grabbed the crack in the stone with his claws and slowly climbed up, but climbed a few meters and slipped down again. The fat man was so frightened that he patted his heart and said, grass, they can really climb up, let's go!

I said, Jiang Ming, how long can your Kunpeng Fu fly? Jiang Ming touched his chin and said, it should be no problem to fly for half an hour now. I said take us flying? He said yes and took out the Kunpeng talisman.

The fat man was too heavy, let him sit on a bird talisman by himself, Jiang Ming and I squeezed it, when the bird talisman flew into the sky, we found that the sky was safe for the time being, and there were many different large animals in the underground and jungle, if you go on land and fight monsters all the way, I don't know how much time to waste.

I said, "The Guru told us to find the Vermilion Bird Firebird, you all know that, right?" Jiang Ming said that he knew, and I said that since it is a firebird, it will emit light, and we will find a place with light, and we should be able to find the firebird soon.

This underground primeval forest is all faintly bright, and many of them are faint lights emitted by plants, unlike our ground that needs the sun's photosynthesis. I don't know how many billions of years have formed an ecological balance, and it has its own set of rules of survival.

We flew for a while, and heard a big sound of water crashing in front of us, Jiang Ming said that the sound was like a waterfall, let's go and see. Where there is water, there are many animals, and water is the source of life.

Turning a large stone pillar several kilometers thick, I saw a deep river with dense water and grass in front of me, and a waterfall several hundred meters wide flowed down from the stone pillar, rushing into the deep pool and making a very loud echo, which could be heard more than ten kilometers away.

Jiang Ming found the tallest tree, stopped at the top of the treetop, and put away the bird charm. We stood on the branches of the trees and looked in the direction of the waterfall and saw many groups of creatures flying around the waterfall, looking for food.

The fat man pointed to the birds that were bigger than vultures and said, "Look, are they parrots?" Like, really like, very much like the macaw, but most of them, estimated to be fifty or sixty pounds, and the wings are more than two meters.

There were a few large birds in the distance, but they couldn't see clearly, only a few gray shadows were flying. We watched for a while, and saw the gray shadow in the distance gradually fly over, alerting the big parrots.

The gray shadow swooped down, and the parrots below were in a daze and dodged, but a few parrots were still caught. Jiang Ming said that this is like a pterosaur. The gray pterosaurs grabbed the parrot and tore it with their claws, and the intestines flowed out, and several large fish jumped up in the water below, fighting for the entrails.

It seems that there is a lot of danger here, and there are scenes of the jungle eating the jungle everywhere. Just as a few pterodactyls covered in gray feathers were feasting, a bright light suddenly shone in the distance. We turned our heads to see a flock of firebirds flying from a distance, their tails five or six meters long burning fiercely, emitting a light like a small sun, and the plants below were all refreshed as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Wherever the firebird passed, all the planttops and leaves below were like sunflowers against the firebird, absorbing the dazzling light. The big tree we were in was no exception, and it also lifted up the branches behind it to absorb as much light as possible.

The fat man said loudly, are these those Vermilion Bird Firebirds? I said like, it should be eight or nine and ten. Jiang Ming said let's observe and see how to get one.