Chapter 215: The Mirror of Good and Evil in the Sea of Bitterness (2-in-1)
When Chen Kuang stood in front of the Bodhi tree again, it was already three days later.
He looked up at the luxuriant foliage, his gaze slid down to the trunk of the tree.
At this moment, a woman's face and figure loomed on it, and blood oozed from the trunk of the tree, which was now coagulated.
But on the originally green trunk, it is still very conspicuous.
This phenomenon was discovered by a passing Zhengzhu disciple after Xiuxin left the Pure Land that day.
After Xiuxin rushed out of the Pure Land that day, as Chen Kuang expected, the first reaction of the three demons was to recall the two of them, for fear that the two of them would take the opportunity to run away.
It can be seen that although on the surface, the two of them have already joined the gang, but in fact, even Xiuzhu is not trusted at this moment.
Later, he sent several torture hall elders to leave from the exit of the Pure Land to hunt down Xiuxin, and released the news that Xiuxin had been possessed by the heavenly demons and betrayed the Buddha.
As for Chen Kuang, these three demons must have doubts in their hearts.
However, the changes that happened that day had nothing to do with Chen Kuang and Xiuzhu.
The problem was the Bodhi tree that had enlightened the Buddha.
Chen Kuang felt a hint of panic from those demons.
This shows that the problem of the Bodhi tree is not only unexpected by them, but also beyond their ability.
This made Chen Kuang a little surprised.
The unknown thing awakened by his sword seemed to make the three demons very jealous.
Otherwise, they would never have even started to take precautions against Xiuzhu.
Moreover......
Judging from the situation at that time, this Bodhi tree did have its own consciousness, and it could control the entire Pure Land Barrier.
"However, her consciousness was unstable and seemed to be in pain."
Chen Kuang raised his head and traced the blurred face with his gaze.
Since that day, this Zen monastery has only been inhabited by Chen Kuang alone, and the other disciples have all been transferred to other places.
The Zhengzhu disciple who discovered this phenomenon and reported to the three great Zen masters could not get out of the dim meditation room.
Chen Kuang has another secret that needs to be kept tight.
Although Xiuxin escaped from the Pure Land Enchantment "somehow", except for such a true Buddha with an upright temperament, the two left behind are now their own people, and it is easier and easier to control the entire Pure Land.
Next, it is enough to gradually divide the Pure Land into two factions, and then gradually eat away at the opponents.
The end result was satisfactory to the three adversaries.
Chen Kuang was even more trusted by the three Heavenly Demons.
He didn't try to ask the three demons what exactly was in the Bodhi tree, because even Xiuzhu didn't know what it was, and if he asked, it would only attract suspicion.
But because of the smooth planning of Xiuxin's departure this time, Xiuzhu seemed to have completely let down his guard against him and secretly confessed his identity to him.
It turned out that Xiuzhu was nearly a thousand years old, of course, it was not this body, but his soul.
A thousand years ago, Xiuzhu was not a Buddha cultivating bamboo, but an elder of a grandmaster realm in the Pure Land, whose Dharma name was Zhihe.
He was both unfortunate and lucky.
Unfortunately, he was chosen by a Heavenly Demon as a target for the takeover.
The power of the Heavenly Demon couldn't even be resisted by the three Great Zen Masters, let alone an elder of the Grandmaster Realm.
However, Ji-ha was lucky.
At that time, in an ancient secret realm, he obtained a special magical spirit treasure called "Bitter Sea Good and Evil Mirror".
This wonderful spiritual treasure is special in that it can avoid reincarnation.
As we all know, only saints do not enter reincarnation.
Under the saint, he is just sinking in the sea of suffering, struggling with life and death.
The method of the Pure Land's wisdom is only to pass on one's own memories to those who come after them, and it is not a true sense of not entering reincarnation.
Even if he accepts Su Hui, he is a completely different independent individual.
But those who hold the "Mirror of Good and Evil in the Sea of Suffering" can truly not enter reincarnation!
This mirror can completely strip away the good and evil sides of a person.
It is equivalent to dividing the soul in two.
But it's not really separate.
Rather, it is like a yin and yang fish, hiding yin into yang, and hiding yang into yin, nesting infinitely with each other, like two mirrors contrasting with each other.
Therefore, while still alive, it will not have any effect on the holder.
Once the wielder's soul is mortally damaged, the "Mirror of Good and Evil in the Sea of Bitterness" activates its true effect.
Because the bearer's soul has been changed into an infinitely nested state, it is only the outer layer that is mortally damaged.
That is, the "good side" or "evil side".
Which side is specific depends on the holder's own choice.
The outer layer is crushed after entering the cycle of reincarnation, and the other side that is nested inside is truly revealed.
At this time, Heavenly Dao had already thought that he had successfully involved the soul that should be annihilated into reincarnation, and would not strike again.
In this way, the holder is completely freed from samsara.
Smuggling into the sea of bitterness.
Be able to be reincarnated like a saint with memories.
This was originally an absolute good thing for Zhihe.
At that time, Zhihe actually wanted to use this ancient relic to cultivate, and he noticed that he had a lot of distractions, so he wanted to use it to promote to the third grade.
In fact, he did succeed, and in less than three months, he was successfully promoted to the Xuan Xuan Realm and was about to become the new Buddha.
If he hadn't encountered a seriously injured Heavenly Demon who had taken it away.
The seizure of the Heavenly Demon is completely different from that of the cultivator.
The ascetic's seizure was only a brief occupation of a dead shell.
But the seizure of the heavenly demon is to completely occupy the mind and replace this person's existence.
However, after the Heavenly Demon swallowed one side of Zhihe, he never imagined that there was another nested inside.
And even more dramatically.
At that time, Zhihe was devoted to the Buddha, and the side that stayed outside was naturally the "good side".
The seriously injured Heavenly Demon panicked and devoured a true Buddha who was completely benevolent!
As a result, it was reversed, and the two were integrated, and it was dominated by the "good side" of Zhihe.
In this way, Zhihe became a half-human, half-heavenly demon existence.
But Zhihe is a true disciple of Buddhism, how can he allow himself to coexist with the Heavenly Demons?
He immediately chose to commit suicide.
However, the "Mirror of Good and Evil in the Sea of Bitterness" came into effect.
Zhihe, who was reincarnated, became an "evil side", but his soul was still nested with the "good side" that was integrated with the heavenly demons.
He got rid of the reincarnation furnace of heaven and earth.
But he fell into his own cycle of good and evil and couldn't break free.
"I know very well that I can't suppress the Heavenly Demon for too long, and in the reincarnation after reincarnation, he is trying to affect the embedded side, trying to break free from the 'good side'."
"So I came up with a solution."
Xiu Zhu explained to Chen Kuang with that weird smile:
"My 'good face' is a great way forward in Buddhism, and each time I can achieve the Xuan Xuan Realm in just a few decades, so I leave a relic every time and make myself my own person of wisdom again."
"Deepen the same memory over and over again, so that the Heavenly Demon is completely lost in the 'good side'."
"And the Heavenly Demon is naturally not reconciled, before the last reincarnation, he actually tried to implant the inner demon for my 'good side', and reintegrate my good and evil sides......
"He was halfway there, because he didn't know that the 'Mirror of Good and Evil in the Sea of Bitterness' still had the same ability."
"It is to reverse the two sides of good and evil."
"It's just that in the process of entanglement, I accidentally attracted the attention of Heavenly Dao again, so I had to erase the memory of the 'good face' and make him reincarnate."
"And with the help of the power of the Heavenly Demons, I was able to 'surface'."
"As for the relic, it has nothing to do with me, but the idea of the three demons to hide people's ears."
Chen Kuang finally felt a sudden moment in his heart when he heard this.
No wonder Xiuzhu has a relic inheritance, but there is no memory!
There is such a long and tortuous reason......
But Chen Kuang also found that what Xiuzhu said was a mixed bag.
However, most of the key information, which is true, does not hinder his plan.
Chen Kuang won't delve into it.
It doesn't matter if he is talking about Xiuzhu's "good side" or "evil side" now, or even if it is a heavenly demon, it doesn't matter, as long as he really wants to help Chen Kuang get rid of the heavenly demon.
And what Xiuzhu said later is the really important part.
That's how to kill the Heavenly Demons.
Heavenly demons are born without reincarnation.
After they die, they will not return to the furnace of heaven and earth yin and yang like human souls, but will return to the "realm of desire".
That is, the place where the Heavenly Demon was born.
Heavenly demons are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of losing themselves and becoming humans.
Yes, although the Heavenly Demons' hobby is to replace humans, what they fear most is to really become humans.
Even if you kill the occupied humans, you can't kill the Heavenly Demon itself.
Wanted to really kill them.
The only way is to go to the "Realm of Desire"!
This was Xiuzhu's original method, he approached the three demons as a heavenly demon, just to wait for their bodies to completely decay.
- Normally, the body of a person possessed by the Heavenly Demon will not be abnormal, and they will be like this, purely because of the back hands left by the real three great Zen masters.
The task of these three demons now is to occupy the Pure Land, so that other Heavenly Demons can also enter the bodies of the Pure Land monks.
When they complete their task, they will open the "Desire Realm" passage and let other Heavenly Demons come over.
What Xiuzhu wanted to wait for was that moment.
He wants to use his identity as a half-heavenly demon to blend into the "Desire Realm" and defeat the heavenly demon from the inside.
I have to say that this is a bold plan that even Chen Kuang is a little dumbfounded.
The others were still thinking about how to fight against the Seventy-two Tribes of the Night Barbarians on the front line, and he was already thinking about going to the "Desire Realm" to steal his home.
But the chances of success are slim to none.
How many heavenly demons are there in the "Desire Realm"? How strong are the Heavenly Demons these days? It's all unknown.
With the strength of one person, Chen Kuang did not think that Xiuzhu could succeed.
But...... Xiuzhu told him about it, obviously, he wanted him to be his teammate.
After Chen Kuang pondered for a while, he didn't reply in a hurry, and Xiu Zhu also had some reserved information, which needed to wait for him to make a decision.
Their top priority is to confirm whether Xiuxin can escape the pursuit.
"Xiuxin was already injured at that time, and it was a bit dangerous to be chased and killed by several elders, but ...... It should be possible. ”
Chen Kuang's eyes flashed, and he muttered to himself in his heart.
After all, on Xiuxin's body, there is also a seed left by Chen Kuang with the help of the Sky Slashing Sword, as well as a scale.
The seed is the magic power of "borrowing flowers and offering the king" that Chen Kuang once obtained from the flower mother-in-law in the infernal world, and this magic power has another use.
It is to use one's own flesh and blood as nourishment and bloom flowers to protect oneself, at least to keep Xiuxin immortal.
The scales are Chen Kuang's own shark scales, which are tokens.
If Xiuxin can meet the white dragon, he will naturally be able to get help with the token.
Otherwise, with the prestige of the Pure Land in Cangyuan, the situation faced by Xiuxin at this moment was only afraid that it would be more difficult than Chen Kuang, who was chasing and killed by the Martial Saint Pavilion at the beginning.
And after Chen Kuang and Xiuzhu chatted openly and honestly, there was actually one more thing in their minds.
That is when he used a glass shadow lamp at the last moment of his victory over Mu Zhao, he once illuminated the shadows of others.
In addition to Shen Meinan and Shen Xingzhu, the other two, one is Jiang Yunqing, and the other is Xiuzhu.
In the light of the glass lamp, all things lose their shadows.
Chen Kuang didn't understand it before, but now he understands.
The glass shadow light shines out, which is the fortune of heaven.
It is the nine shadows of the Heavenly Dao!
The strangest thing about Chen Kuang is that he feels that these people don't have anything in common, why are they part of Heavenly Fortune?
But after learning about Xiuzhu's past, Chen Kuang vaguely had some ideas.
Shen Meinan and Shen Xingzhu are two souls, and they can even use this to recast the Dao Heart and exchange paths.
Xiuzhu holds such a strange thing as the "Mirror of Good and Evil in the Sea of Bitterness", entangles and fuses with the heavenly demons, smuggles across the Sea of Bitterness, and jumps out of reincarnation.
Su Yu is integrated with the national fortune and the elixir, and in a sense, he has achieved immortality.
Not to mention Chen Kuang's own peculiarities.
And Jiang Yun ...... lightly The abnormality he showed was actually something that Chen Kuang had only thought of when he recalled the past recently.
When he first entered the Pinggu Battlefield, Jiang Yunqing once said that the "domineering" of Martial Saint Muzhao had covered the entire Pinggu Battlefield, and also included the vicinity of the door that opened the battlefield.
So theoretically, not only the grandmasters who are in charge of the various sects will be affected, but other people should also be affected by the "domineering" and will not be able to detect the abnormality of the ancient battlefield.
Chen Kuang had the passivity of "watching the fire from the hole", and he couldn't detect it, but he still felt abnormal because he saw the traces of Wen Yao's "Heavy Pupil Summoning Ancestors".
But Jiang Yun is light.
Before he entered the Pinggu battlefield, he had already given Chen Kuang his sword.
It shows that as early as that time, he already knew about Mu Zhao's conspiracy.
It couldn't have been someone else telling him.
So there's only one possibility-
Jiang Yunqing is not affected by the "Dao Domain"!
Chen Kuang withdrew his gaze from the Bodhi Tree and let out a sigh of relief.
At this point, he finally knew what the people who knew "Heavenly Fortune" in his body had in common.
They all violated a certain way of heaven in some way.
"It's the one who is against Tiangang, but it's the lost Heavenly Dao itself?"
The more Chen Kuang pondered, the more interesting he felt, but gradually he felt heavy.
He took out the glass lamp and played with it for a while, and sighed.
Since what he wants to do is to take back the Nine Shadows of the Heavenly Dao, but these are all living people, how can he take them back?
……
"Whew...... Whew......"
Xiuxin hid in a mountain forest somewhere, covering her wounds and gasping, her face pale.
He had now changed into a short dozen civilian clothes and wore a tattered hat on his head, which counted as a simple disguise.
- This is what he got in exchange with the nearby villagers.
At this time, he was ordered to hunt down and kill by the Pure Land, and everyone who came to hunt him down was a master, and his simple disguise was actually useless at all, at most he was a mortal.
But he has always studied the Dharma with a righteous mind, and he has never learned such a deceptive thing......
In three days, he had already dealt with dozens of waves of pursuers.
And a lot of it is repetitive.
Because he can't bear to kill him.
In Xiuxin's opinion, these people were all deceived by the Heavenly Demons, and they were wronged and had debts, and he really shouldn't kill innocents indiscriminately.
Only to repel them until they are exhausted in timidity.
But Xiuxin is like this, after they are sure that the other party will not kill people, they are becoming more and more bold, and now he has been besieged by more than ten middle and third grades, most of whom are grandmasters.
"Xiuxin, don't get out of here yet!"
"Xiuxin, come out quickly, otherwise these mortals will die because of you today!"
Xiuxin was stunned, then sank his face, stood up suddenly, and hurriedly flew out.
A group of cultivators gathered noisily, and among them were a few stunned villagers, and even children who were crying!
Xiuxin's pupils constricted, staring at the leader shouting.
The leader laughed: "If a monk can't do well, how can he be so bad as a traitor, and he will leave such obvious clues." ”
He raised the Buddha beads in his hand, which was exactly what Xiuxin used to exchange for the villagers' clothes!
(End of chapter)