Chapter Fifty-Seven: Moggallan
Devil is actually a general term.
In religion, there are all kinds of strange creatures that can be called demons.
However, most of the demons in Buddhism have one attribute, that is, they take people's lives and become an obstacle to others doing good deeds or practice, which is a manifestation of evil.
For example, the Dao of Freedom that the Master of Freedom once practiced, the true god enshrined should be the head of the demon of the Buddhist family, the sixth day demon king Bo Xun.
In addition to myths and legends, there have also been various demons in the real world.
I once heard that the Bodhisattva talked to me that in later generations, most of the demons that appear most often belong to demons, and there are only a few demons that are in line with the records of religious texts in the true sense, especially those demons mentioned in Buddhism, which are even rarer.
"I have practiced for so many years, and I have only seen three demons, and the most powerful one is the demon ...... that was transformed by our Buddhist disciples, because of the failure to practice supernatural powers, and the failure to seek good results for the Buddha's life, and finally died of grief and anger."
According to the Bodhisattva, the kind of demon that is transformed by Buddhists should be regarded as a kind of external demon, called the demon of resentment, also known as Arosun.
This kind of magic is very rare, because the conditions under which it is formed are extremely harsh.
It must be a person of strong will, a person who has a strong desire for something or a belief, and only such a person who dies of resentment and dissatisfaction will have a very small chance of becoming an arroth.
What is Arosun like?
I also asked Wenren Bodhisattva this question, and the answer he gave me was very simple.
"His eyes are yellow, he has a strong foul smell, and his body has very fine scales, like the scales of snakes, densely spread all over his body......."
Each of these details that Wenren Bodhisattva told me at the beginning can correspond to the monster we encountered, and the kind of aura that is more gloomy and cold than yin, filled with violence and madness.......
Damn, it's exactly the same.
"What the hell do you want?!" I yelled at the top of my voice, my voice trembling as I spoke, because I knew exactly what I was up against.
I don't know how powerful Arosun is, anyway, the Arosun that Wenren Bodhisattva met made him lose half of his life, and he couldn't be eliminated by him, so he could barely suppress it.
In the case of this Arrosun I met....... Compared with the one that Wenren Bodhisattva encountered, it was absolutely only strong and not weak.
The growing environment is different, what else is the comparison?
The place where this demon appeared was on the Spirit Mountain, and the seated statue of Shakyamuni was at the mountain pass....... Growing up in Lingshan, Aro Xun is almost equivalent to a high-IQ criminal mixed out of the police station, and compared with ordinary peers, the destructive power is not at all a grade.
I don't know how the Evil Son was destroyed by him, because at the same time as the Evil Son's body collapsed, I was also far away on the way to escape, and I didn't have a chance to see it.
However, it only took him a few seconds to deal with the Evil Son, which is absolutely true.
Although I have a tendency to be suppressed in Lingshan, I am not so suppressed....... How can this old thing clean up us as easily as slaughtering chickens and dogs??
"Go with me...... The spiritual mountain has withered and decayed....... This pure land of Buddha is no longer able to save people....... Let me temper you......" The old monk chased after us unhurriedly, and his tone of voice was very peaceful, not the kind of person who wanted to kill at all, it was completely a compassionate attitude.
But I have to say, the more his tone is like this, the more creepy I feel.
The sense of danger that haunted me like a maggot on my tarsal bones....... More than the monsters I've encountered before.
"Stop ......."
He whispered, as if he was mercifully trying to dissuade us, but no matter how much he listened, he felt that what the old thing said was a threat.
I know that he is a threat, but it is not impossible to deal with him, under the oppression of Lingshan, if I want to clean him up, I must use the means of killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred.
If there is no threat from the old religion in the shadows, then I am not afraid to clean him up casually, and it is a big deal to go back and recuperate for three or five days, I can bear the result, but now........
"Run." I gritted my teeth and said, "This forest is probably his range of activities, whether it is the environment or other atmosphere, this place is different from the outside, I noticed it before, but I didn't pay attention to it...... Fuck ......."
Outside the woods is the golden Buddha soil, don't look at the golden sparkling color cheesy, different from the outside world, there is only Buddha gas circulating in the soil, and this forest is different, there is no Buddha gas in it, only the most ordinary yin and yang two qi........
I noticed this situation at the beginning, but I didn't care about it at the time, I just thought that this situation might be normal, after all, this place just looks ordinary, and has the same yin and yang qi as the outside world, that's all.
If it is said that the devil is angry here, the fool will choose to follow the monk in.
Why did the monk lure us into the woods?
Thinking about it, there is only one possibility.
In this land, he is free and will not be restrained or suppressed in any way, but he cannot set foot in the pure land of Buddha outside.
If he was free from beginning to end and could move around the Spirit Mountain at will, then how awesome would he be? And why stand at the edge of the woods and stop? And you want to lure us here?
If you want to kill us and carry out the so-called normalization of us, then you can just come up? Why bend and lead us into the woods?
Just as I was desperately trying to escape with Chen Qiuyan and them out of the woods, I only heard a strange buzzing sound, and in front of us on the left, there was a conspicuous ...... No, it's an extremely dazzling golden light flying over!!
The golden light was as thick as a water tank, about 100 meters from the ground, as if he had spotted the old monk behind us, and he had no intention of landing at all, and chased him vigorously.
Seeing that something else was chasing him, the old monk seemed to slow down, and I could feel the distance between him and us slowly widening........
Before I could figure out the situation, I only heard a loud bang, and the old monk chasing behind us screamed in an instant, the kind of painful howl to the extreme, not only miserable to hear, but also particularly tormenting the ears.
Chen Qiuyan and Soba's reaction was not slow, and at the same time as the old monk hissed, the two of them covered their ears by themselves, and only me, a person who had no idle hands, was carrying it.
Looking back, the old monk had let a Buddha statue that seemed to be cast of pure gold hold down.
The Buddha statue was only palm-high, and the Buddha depicted on it seemed familiar to me, but I couldn't remember who it was...... Anyway, I've definitely seen it before!
At this time, Soba seemed to calm down a little, and took the time to look back, and the expression on his face suddenly became surprised.
His gaze stayed on the golden Buddha statue, with obvious reverence, but more of a surprise.
"Venerable Moggallan? How is he ......?"
When I heard Soba mention "Moggallan", my mind suddenly turned, and I only remembered that I had seen this Buddha statue in an ancient book that explained the history of Buddhism.
And the name of this Buddha statue in the book is also Moggallan.
According to ancient records, the Venerable Moggallan was not an ordinary Buddha and Bodhisattva, but his position in Buddhism was extremely high, and he was one of the ten disciples of Buddha Shakyamuni.
One more thing that can't be ignored is that.
Among the heavenly bodhisattvas of Buddhism, the Venerable Moggallan can be called the first.
Generally speaking, among the gods of Buddhism, the strongest combat power is not the one who defeats the Buddha, but the first Moggallian.
At this time, the old monk who had turned into Aroxun had lost his human form, his body was wrapped in a layer of black scales, his eyes were yellow, and the fishy liquid was constantly flowing out.
But no matter how much he struggled, the Buddha statue with his eyes was so motionless, even if it was only the size of a palm, it could still hold down the demon as steadily as Mount Tai.
The old monk was even more surprised by this Buddha statue than we were, and it seemed that he never thought that this Buddha statue would come to him.
"Moggallen?! How could it be you?!! ”
When the old monk asked this, the statue of Muggallian sitting on his back gradually emitted a golden halo.
At that moment, I vaguely heard someone chanting the Buddha nearby, but the sound was fleeting and quickly disappeared.
I thought I was having auditory hallucinations, but I never expected it.......
In just a few seconds, the sound of chanting Buddha chanting reverberated in the woods, and there were more than one.
It's hundreds of chantings.