Chapter Twenty-Seven: On the White Tower

"You shouldn't be in this place. ”

A certain nameless ghost armor floated in front of the bald-headed spirit that was performing a rì repetition, dropped a sentence that seemed to have a deep meaning, and flew away again, leaving the bald-headed spirit with its head tilted, standing on the boulder, and being stunned for five days.

Five days later, he rode on the bone cat and walked along the Great Black Mountain, although his somewhat chaotic heart only gave this walk the name of "walking", but on the way to the walk, he found that the skeletons and rotting corpses around him were a little afraid of him, and he did not dare to approach from him, and he rode the cat, which made these dense dead spirits avoid them one after another - so the walk became a patrol.

The geist sat proudly on the bone cat, thinking that although he didn't know who he was, he must have been a big man before he died, so the aura brought into the underworld made these necromancers extremely fearful, but he had a question in his heart, why did the nameless geist say that he shouldn't be in this place?

He flew up, and the hundreds of thousands of geistines flying around the Great Black Mountain easily grabbed the geist armor that had spoken to him at the beginning.

The facial features on the face of the ghost armor he caught were a little blurred, but there was also a plastic surgery, which seemed to belong to the younger generation of the ghost family, and it was very interesting that there was always an innocent smile like a child on that blurred face.

After the Innocent Spirit Armor found that it was easily caught by this bald spirit, his smile was a little bitter, and he seemed to be very afraid.

The bald-headed geist looked at him without a hint of expression. Directly asked, "If I shouldn't be in this place, then where should I be?"

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"Elsewhere!

Suddenly, such voices rang out from all directions, and these voices came from the mouths of the hundreds of thousands of wandering souls. Like the yīn wind that has been blowing for thousands of years next to the steep cliffs of the Great Black Mountain, it flutters and blows around the bald spirit, as if it wants to burrow into his head.

At the same time, hundreds of thousands of wandering spirits who had been quiet spoke at the same time, this formation was very terrifying, causing the white bone rotting corpses under the big black mountain to turn their heads and look at the sky, a few old skeletons raised their heads too quickly, and Bai Sensen's skull fell to the ground, smashing with a sonorous sound.

"Where else?" the bald geist has no ears. The whole head looks like a circle, but it looks more like a crooked melon and a bad date.

Hundreds of thousands of geists are still roaring. Calmly roared: "Elsewhere!"

"Shut up! You are not the soul of Rousseau!"

The geist was angry, and a roar erupted from his round head, and the roar quickly spread throughout the Great Black Mountain. The thousands of wandering spirits that were closer to him suddenly showed a frightened expression, hissed, and were shattered by this roar, and scattered around the Great Black Mountain, I don't know how many tens of thousands of years it will take to become one.

The geist was a little surprised. I didn't expect that my roar would cause such serious consequences. And those geist bones and corpses deeply realized the power of the earth contained in this roar, and left in fear.

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He flew up, clutching the geist in his hand that had spoken to him at the beginning, for some reason, none of the geists could touch anything else, but his hand could touch the bone cat, and he could grab the geist again.

"I shouldn't be here, where should I be?" he flew to a rocky protrusion on the mountainside of the Great Black Mountain. Looking at the white battle line in the far distance, which was constantly blooming with blood and fireworks, he seemed to ask casually.

A child-faced geist trembled in his hands, and it was a long time before he could speak: "You are among us. We were upset. ”

"You're afraid of me?...... I know what it's like to be afraid, but why are you afraid of me?"

"Because you weren't supposed to be among us in the first place, or rather, you shouldn't be a geist at all, and you can't be a geys. ”

"What else does it take to become a geist?" the geist laughed, but the pale body didn't fully show his mood, and his face looked a little weird, "I thought I would be a geist as long as I died." ”

The child looked at the black sè wasteland thousands of meters below, looking at the army of white bones that was densely packed on the wasteland and spread straight to the sky, and the hundreds of thousands of wandering spirits who only dared to fly in the low place with fear, and said in a trembling voice: "I don't know very well, but the wandering spirits around this big black mountain are all old ghosts that have been dead for hundreds of years, their flesh and bones are all rotten, and even their divine consciousness is a little dissipated, so they have become wandering spirits." And from the day you entered the underworld, everyone felt that you were powerful. He stole a sneak glance at the terrifying geist and continued, "Your mind is so strong that this space simply can't accept you. ”

"If I'm so strong that this space can't accept me, then why am I here. The geist propped his elbows on his forehead, these were just his subconscious movements, much like the statue in the world, "Why am I here?"

He repeated his own words.

"Maybe there's a reason. The child winced.

"Then why did you dare to come and talk to me?" the geist's eyes suddenly flashed with a terrifying light, "And I can see that you have only been dead for a few years, why have you also become a geist?

The child's face seemed to be anxious to cry, and argued: "I have indeed only been dead for a few years, and I don't know why I became a wanderer, I heard that when I died, all my body was burned into nothingness by some very powerful energy, and I could never find it back, and it was an artifact that killed me, so I became this shape." ”

The geist pondered: "Artifact? Nothingness? Well, it seems that you are also a very remarkable person, and you are qualified to speak with me." ”

"Do you know who you are?" he continued.

The child's face showed a hint of shame: "I don't know, after becoming a wanderer." Forgot everything. ”

The geist suddenly sighed and said, "Maybe I've forgotten everything, maybe I'll be happier." ”

"But what is happiness?" The child-faced wanderer is not a philosopher, but simply does not know what happiness means.

The geist glanced at him. I didn't speak for a long time, and suddenly said: "Anyway, I don't know who I am, and I'm tired of looking at these bones every day, so you can chat with me." ”

The child's face seemed to dissipate at any time, and there was a trace of unconfidence and honor on his face: "Is it okay?"

"Yes. The geist said, "Whoever you talk to is not who you talk to, it's always just to pass the time, and ...... I think you're very pleasing to the eye, but remember, don't put on that child-like innocent smile in front of me in the future, you're not young anymore. ”

The geist turned his head away. looked at the sky light on the other side of the Great Black Mountain, and muttered: "Why do you look at your innocent smile." I just feel disgusting. ”

The child-faced geist quickly tugged at his face, fiddling with a very serious expression, and floated to the geist's side as if flattering.

The geist glanced at him and said, "Since you said that I shouldn't be in this ghost place, then if I go out in the future, find a way to take you out with me." ”

"Why are you so kind to me?" said the child was in luck, at first he just looked at the new terrifying geist with some natural familiarity. So I took a big risk to say it, and I never imagined that I would get a promise from this person.

"Friend...... It's a friend. The geist nodded.

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The Great Black Mountain is as peaceful as ever, and the white tower on the top of the mountain is scattered with a faint light, which is much bleaker than the brilliance of the magic weapon on the battlefield in the distance, but it echoes with the white light hanging down from the canopy in the far distance, and it seems to be extremely stable, as if this underworld has been in the wind for thousands of years. It is simply impossible to cause the slightest damage.

The spirits fell silent again, and began to walk among the bones and rotting corpses, using these little tricks to get through the most boring days. to pursue their fading consciousness. The terrifying geist that made them uneasy and frightened was no longer on the rocks at the foot of the mountain these days. The geist floated down the hill and caught the bony cat up the hill, and squatted on the rocks on the mountainside with the new boy all the time.

Because the geist was on the mountainside, no other geist dared to fly there.

But more than 100,000 geists were all curious about why this geist, who should not have appeared in the underworld, did not break through the space and leave, but kept squatting on that stone. Later, many days later, the geists learned something - it is said that the reason why the powerful geist had been squatting on the mountainside was waiting to see rì come out.

What is rì out? The wandering spirits seem to have seen rì out in their fleeting memories, but they seem to have never seen it, so they are a little confused, after all, they have been in the underworld for too long. They went to ask the rotting corpse and the white bones again, and although the rotting corpse and the white bones remembered rì out, they also thought that it was a very stupid thing for the powerful geist to want to see rì out in the underworld.

Even if he was the most powerful geist of all time, it would be impossible to see it in the underworld.

"Why don't you go to the top of the mountain to see it?" the child asked the geist, although he also thought that the powerful geist next to him wanted to see rì out in the underworld, which was quite a hopeless thing, rìzi gradually went on for a long time, and he no longer had confidence in the promise given by this geist, yes, I heard that the current bitter state of the underworld has lasted for five hundred years, and no geist has ever been able to reincarnate as a human, although the geist next to him is strong, it is estimated that there is no problem with going out by himself, but it is too difficult to take himself out.

The wandering spirit's gaze has been staring at the white sky light in the west, he feels that the sky light is very familiar, and subconsciously hummed: "Eat me?" After finishing speaking, he woke up, noticed the child's question, and replied casually: "The white tower on the top of the mountain is very annoying." ”

"That's Jizo King Bodhisattva. The child said very respectfully, although the wandering spirits have no memory, but the beings in the underworld know that the Jizo King Bodhisattva has been trying to find a path for everyone, a path that is no longer desperate, so for the Jizo King Bodhisattva, every living being in the underworld maintains the highest respect and respect. The child face was no exception, although he was more happy to talk to the powerful geist beside him, but it was annoying to hear him say that the Jizo King Bodhisattva. Subconsciously remind.

The wandering spirit did not change his words, but said a little stupidly: "It's because it's the Bodhisattva of the Jizo King, so it's annoying." ”

For some reason, the geist was a little scared to go to the top of the mountain. When I went to the White Tower, I always felt that once I went there, something would happen that I didn't want to do.

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After many more days, the geist stood up, and the white light in the distance shone on his transparent face, which looked like a translucent soap bubble that could burst at any moment. He said to the children beside him, "I'm going up the mountain." ”

The child's face floated and bowed to him in mid-air in front of him.

The geist threw the bone cat in his hand to the child, who had been by his side for a long time, perhaps because it had infected the powerful life force in his soul. There is also a gradual tendency to materialize, and it is empty and empty. I actually fished the bone cat in my hand.

"Take care of Xiaobai. The geist looked at him again, "I know you're chatting with me these days just for the day I left. ”

The child was holding the bone cat in his face, a little immovable, and was slowly floating downward.

The geist's gaze was a little sharp, but there was no killing intent: "After I leave, you are the most powerful one among the hundreds of thousands of geist." In your previous life, you must have been the person who liked to play tricks on the world. ”

The child didn't explain, just lowered his head and said, "We are friends." ”

"Not bad, so someday, I'll take you out. After the spirit said this, it didn't look at him again, and as soon as the soul body was empty, it floated upward.

I don't know how long it took to float, but the spirit finally floated to the top of the Great Black Mountain.

The summit of the Great Black Mountain is an extremely wide flat land. It is about a few hundred square kilometers in size, and I don't know what force has cut it, but there is no protrusion. In the middle of this vast flat land. It's a white tower, a huge white tower.

The wandering spirit floated closer to the white tower, and when he got closer, he saw clearly that this white tower was actually made up of human heads, and the lower edge of the white tower was two or three kilometers long, such a huge white bone tower, I don't know how many heads.

He floated to the edge of the tower, put his head close to the tower of bones, sniffed the smell of the dead people's heads, and then looked up at the tower, and followed the smooth bone surface, until he saw the sky and the earth, and saw the strange beast with a single horn, dog ears, a dragon body, a tiger head, a lion's tail, and a unicorn foot.

The beast's ears twitched slightly, as if hearing his arrival.

The geist was confident that he had never made any sound, but since the other party had heard it, he didn't seem to be surprised, and floated up to the strange beast, reaching out and twisting its ears.

The beast didn't seem to have imagined that a geist could touch its most precious ear, so it startled and opened its mouth to roar.

The geist said indifferently: "Call it a fart, and call me immortal." ”

The beast bowed its head slightly, the single horn glowing, as if it was thinking, and after a while, it admitted the inference of this powerful geist, tilted its head, arched its body, and ignored this geist.

The wandering spirit said: "You can actually learn to shrug your shoulders, how did your master teach you?"

He looked up at the monk sitting on the beast and asked, "Bodhisattva, let me ask you, why did I become a wandering spirit, and the little ones below all said that I shouldn't be here, I can't be here, I should be somewhere else." ”

The monk was dressed in a robe, with a string of bones hanging from his chest, a dark face, flat eyebrows, and a blank expression, but he looked at the sky in the far west, and replied, "You should have been somewhere else, but here you are." ”

"Listen to the child's face, none of the guys in this place can be reborn. ”

"Even if you are an arhat, you can also be reincarnated in the human world, and you don't need to go through the underworld, not to mention that you are a person who has attained the status of a great bodhisattva. ”

"Am I the Great Bodhisattva?" After staying in the waist at the foot of the Great Black Mountain for a long time, catching a lot of newly deceased people to ask, the wandering soul learned a lot of knowledge, scratched his ears and cheeks, and said: "Which Bodhisattva am I?

The monk was expressionless and did not answer.

The wandering spirit asked again: "The great bodhisattva does not fall into the underworld, how did I become a wandering spirit?"

"When you died, there happened to be a great god who was willing to spend many years of secretly cultivating the Buddha xìng and condensed your soul. Forcibly going against the heavens and sending you to the underworld, thus preventing you from being reborn on earth. The monk said, "I didn't expect that he was already close to the realm of a Buddha." ”

The geist thought for a moment. I didn't understand it, I floated up, sat down next to the monk, sat on the body of the strange beast, put my hand on the canopy, and looked at the sky in the distance with him.

"Who am I?" the geist reached out and took off the bone chain from the monk's neck, throwing it into the air to catch it, the beast under his hips seemed to be a little angry, snorting and snorting. In yīn the wind condenses into a white mist.

"Who do you say I am?" the monk didn't look back, just asked him.

The geist glanced at the monk's side face. Shrugged: "You are the Jizo King Bodhisattva." Then he looked at the strange beast under him: "This is your pet, called Diting." ”

The monk asked him, "If you know who I am, why don't you know who you are?"

The geist replied confidently: "Because I died, you didn't die." ”

The monk asked him again, "Why did you stay halfway up the mountain and didn't come up until today?"

"Because I'm tired of being in this place, I always feel like I shouldn't be in this hellish place, I should go back. ”

"Where are you going?"

"Home. ”

"Where's home?"

The wandering spirit suddenly smiled slyly: "Don't say anything, it's my family when you are in peace." I can't remember where my home is for the time being, but I know it's not in this ghost place anyway. ”

This is the second time he has said about ghost places.

The monk laughed, and his dark face shone with compassion: "You are right, this is originally a ghost place. He stood up and slowly closed his eyes: "Such a ghost place shouldn't exist at all, let's come together." ”

The geist didn't understand, but he understood, and his weightless body floated to the horn of the Diting Beast. Standing in the underworld, he looked at the white light in the distance and asked, "Then what am I going to do?"

"Learn. The monk waved his left hand. Break open the space and take out a book, the surface of the book is pale yellow, and it looks very old.

"Maitreya's next life scripture?" The wandering spirit looked at the book in his hand, suddenly frowned, looked up at the sky, and walked for a long time before he said: "The remaining memory tells me that this book is a fake. ”

"The book is naturally fake. The monk smiled slightly: "This is what I wrote back then." ”

The wandering spirit shrugged his shoulders again and stepped on the horn of Di Ting: "The Bodhisattva can't write the ground, and it seems that when I was still alive, I was also a person who loved to learn. ”

"Love to learn is a good child. ”

Looking at the wandering soul behind him who was lying on Di Ting's body and turning over Maitreya's lower life scriptures, the monk slowly walked down, lovingly stroked Di Ting's resentful eyes, and walked to the edge of the cliff at the top of the Great Black Mountain, a pair of ruthless eyes stared straight at the heavenly light in the extreme west, which was the light left by the Buddha, and it was also the only way to connect the underworld and the world.

If you want to reopen the path of reincarnation, you have to open that passage.

Thinking of this, the monk glanced at the geist reading the book again, and then found that the geist had fallen asleep at some point, and the geist did not need to sleep, and this geist was really unusual. The monk smiled, he could have told the geist all the things, but he didn't expect the geist to understand his thoughts and didn't ask again.

Maitreya was indeed reborn in the underworld, and seeing that the perseverance of the past five hundred years finally had a glimmer of hope, there was no fluctuation in the heart of the Jizo King Bodhisattva, as if it was just a natural thing.

He is the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth, the great Bodhisattva who does not become a Buddha in hell and does not swear to become a Buddha.

Five hundred years ago, the Buddha used his Dharma body to close the reincarnation of the Tao, and used the Buddha light stone monkey to town on the only channel, from then on the hell was full of ghosts, had to despair, the king of the earth Bodhisattva was worried, had to sleep.

Three hundred years ago, King Jizo Bodhisattva woke up from his slumber and began to summon billions of dead spirits from the underworld to the west.

The West is not a Pure Land, but the West has that light.

He looked at the magic weapon fighting on the battlefield in the distance, and looked at the Erlang Divine Monarch who was sitting quietly in the dark clouds, if it weren't for the fact that this killing god fell to the underworld to help him for some reason, he was afraid that the power of Heaven and the Pure Land had surrounded the Great Black Mountain.

The Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth looked at the white bones and rotting corpses of the dead like white ears of wheat at the foot of the mountain, and the yīn wind roared angrily at the edge of the peak, his body was as calm and immobile as the earth, and the clear light was as deep as a secret treasure, and suddenly his eyes narrowed, and he found that there was an extremely powerful fluctuation in the space - the Buddha had finally come to find this wandering soul behind him.