Chapter 388: Debate Again
Tang Seng has seen the essence of this world clearly, as long as the strength is enough, no matter what you have done before, as long as you are sincere to Buddhism or Heavenly Court, you will be able to obtain a position that matches your strength in an instant.
If you don't have the strength, even if you are dedicated to doing good and doing a lot of great things that are beneficial to the Three Realms, then you won't be able to gain any status.
So for Vilamba Bodhisattva's thoughts, Tang Seng is very clear, isn't he just taking a fancy to the strength of this centipede essence and wanting to catch him back as his subordinate?
And at this moment, compared with the original work, it is more in line with Vilamba Bodhisattva's expectations.
In the original book, she subdued the centipede essence, so the centipede carefully feared that there would be some complaints against her.
But at this moment, the centipede essence was surrendered by Sun Wukong, but she appeared in time to save the centipede essence, so that the centipede essence is completely loyal to her and grateful to Dade.
Everything Sun Wukong did, he would basically make a wedding dress for this Vilamba Bodhisattva.
According to Tang Seng's character, how could he let Vilamba Bodhisattva take advantage of his apprentice in vain?
So when he saw Vilamba Bodhisattva appearing, Tang Seng couldn't sit still, and hurriedly walked out, he wanted to have a good competition with the Bodhisattva.
Looking at the Vilamba Bodhisattva in front of him, Tang Seng nodded slightly and then said, "The Bodhisattva has come from afar, I don't know what you are doing?"
Looking at the Tang Seng in front of him, Vilamba Bodhisattva nodded: "He is worthy of being the holy son of Buddhism, and his bearing is really extraordinary." Then Vilamba spoke with a smile and kindness.
"I'm here to subdue this centipede spirit and take him to my Thousand Flowers Cave in Ziyun Mountain to be a guy guarding the portal. ”
When Tang Seng heard this, he frowned and said, "It turns out that the Bodhisattva is here to ask for this centipede essence." ”
"Is this going to be a problem? ”
Hearing this, Vilamba Bodhisattva was stunned for a moment, and then asked suspiciously: "Tang Seng, what do you mean by this? At this moment, the centipede spirit has been subdued, so what's the trouble?"
Tang Seng shook his head and said: "The Bodhisattva doesn't know, this centipede essence has just poisoned the poor monk, although the poor monk relied on his own physique and carried it hard, but in fact, the body has been in deficit, so the poor monk originally planned to use this centipede essence as a raw material to refine a pair of pills to make up for his body, but I didn't expect the Bodhisattva to also fall in love with this centipede essence, isn't this troublesome?"
Vilamba Bodhisattva was stunned, he looked at Tang Seng in disbelief, and said in a daze: "Tang Seng, what are you talking about, you have to use him to refine medicine." ”
Tang Seng nodded as a matter of course and said: "That's right, since he dared to poison Tang Seng, why can't the poor monk use him to refine medicine?
At this moment, the face of the Bodhisattva Vilamba was gloomy, and he said: "Tang Seng, don't you know the precepts of Buddhism? ”
Hearing this, Tang Seng looked at Vilamba Bodhisattva with a look of surprise, and said exaggeratedly: "Bodhisattva, you can't wronged me, how can I break the precepts, I just want to use him to practice the pill to make up for the body, Bodhisattva, don't say that you have never taken the pill." ”
Hearing this, Vilamba Bodhisattva frowned and said, "What is the difference between refining medicine with him and killing raw meat and eating meat?"
"Isn't he the one who lists it as an elixir? ”
Hearing this, Tang Seng did not panic at all, but said eloquently: "Bodhisattva, let me ask you first, have you ever taken an elixir?"
Vilamba frowned, but nodded anyway.
At this moment, Tang Seng showed a smile and continued: "Since you have taken the pill, then haven't you also committed this crime of killing, the precept of eating meat?"
"Nonsense, the pills taken by this seat are all made of various elixirs, when will you commit the crime of killing and eating the precept of eating meat?"
"Bodhisattva, you're a bit of a fool of yourself, tell me about those elixirs, don't they have life?
"And don't forget, aren't those elixirs themselves the bodies of these elixirs, what's the difference between you taking its body and refining it into an elixir, and me refining this centipede into an elixir?"
"Bodhisattva, don't you forget that my Buddhism pays attention to the equality of all beings, do you think that the life of this centipede spirit is much more valuable than the life of flowers and plants?"
"If you really think there is a difference, then how do you understand the meaning of the equality of all beings?"
"If you don't think that all beings are equal, how can you be a bodhisattva?"
In the end, Tang Seng had already said the hardest words with a smile.
Vilamba Bodhisattva was a little stunned by Tang Seng's cannon, and didn't know what to say to refute for a while.
She knew very well that Tang Seng was completely talking nonsense, but she couldn't think of enough convincing words to refute it, which really made her angry.
After being silent for a while, she was about to speak, but Tang Seng spoke first.
"Okay Bodhisattva, I know you're convinced by what I'm saying. ”
"However, what you said is also a point, Bodhisattva, I suddenly felt that this centipede essence looked extremely ugly, if I refined him into an elixir, let alone make up for my empty body, it would poison me to death, so I still decided to give up refining the elixir. ”
Hearing this, the expression on Vilamba's face changed slightly, and she was about to speak, when the centipede spirit was brought back to be the gatekeeper.
But before she could speak, Tang Seng said again: "But Bodhisattva, you want to take him back to your Ziyun Mountain Thousand Flowers Cave to guard the portal, I have no opinion on this, but everything must pay attention to a first come, first come, first come, no matter what this centipede spirit says, it can be regarded as a defeated general of my apprentice's subordinates, so his body and his whole person are my apprentice's trophies, and the Bodhisattva wants to take him away without saying a word, is there some suspicion of robbing other people's property?"
In this way, the bodhisattva will have more than two precepts. ”
Hearing Tang Seng's words, Vilamba Bodhisattva reacted completely, she thought that Tang Seng was a model of Buddhism, with the mission of love and peace.
But he didn't expect that this Tang monk was a hooligan in his bones.
Now that he finally saw the essence of Tang Seng clearly, he didn't bother to continue to entangle with Tang Seng, and after thinking about it, he spoke directly.
"Okay, Tang Seng, I also know what you mean, this seat really wants to take the centipede essence back to my Ziyun Mountain Thousand Flowers Cave to guard the portal, and become my subordinate of the Thousand Flowers Cave, you can directly open the conditions, how can I take him away?"
Hearing this, the corners of Tang Seng's mouth hooked up a smile, wouldn't it be good to do this earlier, it was really a waste of time to have a debate with him before.