Chapter Seventy-Five: The Past
"Is this the so-called truth?"
I walked up to Shang Zu and stared fearlessly at his eagle-sharp eyes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
"Oh? You get it? He smiled, and the charm was self-evidentβhe didn't believe my words.
"Why don't you ......" I laughed, looked at him, and slowly opened my mouth, "I'll tell you a story"
Without waiting for him to answer, I swallowed.
"Twenty years ago, there was a child named Lianhu in the village, because his parents were known to be bad people when they were young, and they were often spurned, which led to his son being bullied, and most of the people in the whole village hated them, but they had no place to stand out when they left here, so they could only swallow their anger, and over time, the husband and wife did not take these strange eyes seriously."
"But they have done one wrong thing in their lives that is enough to cause a catastrophe, that is, they have neglected the heart of their own flesh and blood, the lotus tiger."
"Lianhu is young and ignorant, but he is bullied and despised by his peers, and evil thoughts rise in his heart, and he has changed from an ignorant child to a jealous and hateful criminal psychology overnight, I'm afraid this is the so-called cause, right?" I paused and asked.
He didn't pay much attention to me, just gave me a faint look.
"Let's not talk about Lotus Tiger for now, let's talk about it by another person"
At this moment, I felt as if my mind had been enlightened. It seems that all the rules have been smoothed out, whether it is hidden or open, it has appeared in my mind without concealment.
"According to the old man, when Shang Zu met the Lotus Tiger, he was about to complete the task of promoting the West Buddha, so he urgently needed a spirit to replace him to escape the surveillance of the Nine Heavens God and Buddha, and he wandered, and coincidentally met the Lotus Tiger who lost his childlike innocence, so he naturally set him as the best candidate."
I swallowed my saliva and was about to continue, but he showed a disgusted expression in front of me.
"How?" I didn't know why, so I asked with a frown.
I thought he was questioning what was wrong with my words, after all, it was just my inference and could not provide any credibility, but he just coldly spat out a few words.
"Getting to the point"
I smiled, and sure enough, I couldn't bear it, it seems that he is not a good listener either.
"Shang Zu" I called him, but he ignored me, "If I guess correctly, your real purpose is not to find the lotus tiger as your stand-in at all, but to solve the last calamity of this path to Buddhahood, right?" β
Hearing this, Shang Zu's expression was obviously stunned for a moment.
Behind me, my grandfather seemed to have heard some big secret, his eyes widened in disbelief.
I understand that the weight of my words is enough to overturn the truth that Ah Gong understood him, and the repercussions caused by it are not small.
"You...... What did you say? Ah Gong asked me with a trembling voice.
I smiled coldly and ignored him for the time being, because Shang Zu in front of me had already begun to change.
"Is it the Lotus Tiger who is resisting?" I looked at him and asked.
His eyes suddenly rolled, and they were all dyed dark purple, and at the same time, the fluctuations around him began to grow, as if he wanted to return to the previous appearance of the demon king.
"Stop me !!!" Shang Zu's body soared into the air, and with a roar, the surrounding delusional aura that rose to the sky was actually suppressed.
"I probably know what the ......reason is, even if it is Shang Zu who is attached to the lotus tiger now, it does not mean that the latter can control his body without hindrance, and he is somewhat resistant.
When the dust cleared, Shang Zu returned to his original state, and he seemed to not understand why I could say such a thing, so he frowned and asked, "Where do you know?" β
"Since you've hinted at me a few times," I replied.
"The world is full of cause and effect, I have gone through thousands of sails, exhausted the six desires, and I can't imagine that I have left a lot of regrets on this last difficulty" Shang Zu sighed a few times with a sad expression, "All living beings are suffering, all grains of dust, why pursue unnecessary things?" β
"So you gave up the opportunity to go west and chose to stay and relieve the suffering of the lotus tiger?" I was helpless.
"Why did you go to Xixi? I want to become a Buddha because I have seen all the emotions in the world," he turned his back to me, and his shadow was lonely, "the cause of the lotus tiger is also my cause, and the fruit of the lotus tiger, why can't it become my fruit?" β
Speaking of which, with my tiny brain, it seems that I can't understand it anymore.
I'm not going to answer him, after all, it's not a respectful thing to do with a bull's head and a horse's mouth.
"Since you've chosen to go this far, why don't you look at all the cause and effect?" He glanced at the place where the old man was lying, and his eyes flashed, and the old man woke up in an instant and returned to his appearance.
With a wave of his hand, he changed the surrounding environment.
Different but familiar scenes flow one by one, telling all the pain of Lianhu when he was a child, including the beating of his parents.
This is a past I didn't expect, and it seems that I can't see a little joy in him when he was a child.
"It wasn't my idea to eat the bodies of his parents"
A lament came, accompanied by the expression of the lotus tiger devouring the corpse - crazy and joyful.
Everything after that, slaughtering the village and devouring people, was the result of the lotus tiger entering a state similar to that of entering the demon, and Shang Zu, who was the blessed person, also bore the charge of an evil Buddha from this moment on.
The picture gradually dissipated, and Shang Zu's voice came again: "Everything is because of Lianhu's thoughts, which caused the current situation, this is all the truth"
I looked back at the old man, Ah Gong, and the bandits, and found that they were all silent, and even the old man, who was usually strong in decision-making, seemed to be much more depressed.
Maybe that's the result of the quest for truth?
At least I'm not such a determined person on this road, so naturally I won't be tortured like this, but Shangzu makes me admire a lot.
"In this way, now that we have been informed of all the fruits, what are you going to do next?" I asked.
When Shang Zu heard this, his face suddenly changed, and his face was full of evil: "Since you know all this, why don't you die here?" β
"What......" I was startled and took a few steps back.
However, as soon as Shang Zu finished speaking, his face changed to look at me with a kind look.
"If it takes a while, I won't be able to suppress his demonic heart," Shang Zu opened his mouth, "I need your favor"
"Me?" At first, I wanted to resist, but when I thought that life and death were in front of me at the moment, if I coaxed it, I would be finished and didn't run, so I had to compromise.
"What's the busy?" I asked nervously.
"Go back to Lotus Tiger's past and become his friend," Shang Zu slowly spat out a few words.
"What ???" I widened my eyes and motioned for him to say it again.