Chapter 26: The Third Gate
I looked at the Nine Princes and was speechless for a long time, this noble person will be a descendant of Qimen?
In my impression, the warlock of the rivers and lakes should be a man with no body, and the dust of the game world is strange, and the Nine Princes almost subverted my cognition.
The Nine Princes walked to the door of Cihang Temple: "Don't you think I'm not like a descendant of Qimen?" ”
"No one in this world can limit how you live, only what you want to live."
"Let's go! Follow me into Cihang Temple and wait for your master. ”
Although I was following the Nine Princes to Cihang Temple, I was not very comfortable with this person, and I always felt that he was not like friends with my master.
I asked tentatively, "Nine Princes, are you brothers with my master?" ”
The Nine Princes said: "I have never been masked with your master, but I have been fond of him for a long time. There are only three people in the Qi Gate who can enter my eyes, and your master is one of them. ”
"However, among those three people, the only person I want to get to know is your master Ye Sanqi."
I didn't understand what the Nine Princes meant, and he didn't explain anything to me, and took me straight into Cihang Temple.
In the Cihang Temple late at night, there were no lights, and there were no monks on duty at night, and the Daxiong Treasure Hall was so open with two doors waiting for me and the Nine Princes two late-night visitors.
I walked to the door of the main hall and saw a Buddha statue with a sawed off head, this is the Buddha statue whose head was stolen by Ye Sanqi?
If, in proportion, that Buddha head is much larger than a normal person's head, even if Ye Sanqi really has the ability to exchange the Buddha's head for a human head, it is impossible to put a Buddha head more than twice as large as an ordinary person on my neck, right?
While I was still looking at the Buddha statue, the old monk in Cihang Temple walked out of the back hall tremblingly: "Can the two donors let Cihang Temple and the thousands of people in Cupxi Town go?" ”
The Nine Princes looked up at the Buddha statue with their hands behind their backs and said, "Ye Sanqi took away the Buddha's head, but left you a promise." ”
"Great monk, is it too late to offset this promise with righteousness?"
The abbot folded his hands and was silent for a long time before he said, "Can the donor let the old man recite another sutra?" ”
"Please!" The Nine Princes retreated to the side with their hands behind their backs, and the abbot of Cihang Temple sat cross-legged in front of the Buddha statue, closing his eyes and chanting.
I couldn't understand what he was reading, but I could feel that his mind was not all on the scriptures, as if he was reminiscing about the past, and tears were rolling down the corners of his eyes.
After a long time, the abbot finally stopped, and said in a hoarse voice: "Donor, can I become a Buddha?" ”
The Nine Princes said lightly: "The red dust is still there, who can become a Buddha?" ”
"Amitabha, the poor monk has been taught." When the abbot closed his eyes again, I heard a sound like nails scratching wood from the beams of the hall, and when I looked up, I was startled.
On the beams of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, I don't know when there were five more skinny and iron-skinned ghosts. I couldn't see the faces of the five demons clearly, but I could see each other's unusually wide palms.
The claws of the five demons were at least three times the size of ordinary people's palms, and their sharp fingertips glowed with a chill like pig iron.
I took two steps back in fright, my grip on the razor in my hand.
Ignoring my presence, the five demons crawled swiftly along the beams of the house to the head of the abbot, and the five demons swooped down from the roof after only a slight pause.
It was only then that I could see that all of the five ghosts had a two-finger-thick rope attached to their backs.
Before I could figure out what was going on, the five demons landed around the abbot at the same time, and the bricks on the ground were torn apart under the five demons. The moment the loud sound of metal colliding with stone slabs and the smoke and dust from the shattering of masonry filled the hall at the same time, I also saw the true faces of the five ghosts through the moonlight.
It wasn't a goblin at all, but five elaborate golems, and no wonder they all had strings like marionettes hanging from their backs.
The five ghosts just paused on the ground for a moment, and the rope behind them immediately tightened, and the five ghosts moved again, and four of the demons reached out and grabbed the abbot's limbs, and lifted the abbot into the air under the traction of the rope, leaving one evil ghost to hook the abbot's collar, as if leading the way in front, and dragged the person to the headless Buddha statue on the Mahavira Temple.
The figure of the five ghosts and one person had just reached the same height as the Buddha statue, and the Buddha statue was like a secret box that was split from the throat to the left and right, opening a secret door, and a smell of decay of the corpse also poured into the main hall with the opening of the secret door.
I took two steps back, covering my nose, only to see a pile of broken bones hidden in the hollow Buddha statue.
Before I could see the full extent of the bones, the five demons forcibly stuffed the abbot into the body of the Buddha statue and retreated to both sides.
The abbot sat up among the piles of bones, groped for a skeleton in his arms, and cried, "Master...... Master, Wow...... I have come, my forgiveness has come. ”
The abbot only cried loudly, not paying any attention to the fact that the five demons were pushing the Buddha statue back into its place.
After the Buddha statue closed again, the five demons spread their arms at the same time, and were dragged back to the beam by the rope behind them, and quickly retreated in different directions.
The five demons were gone, but I always felt someone lying on the beam of the house staring at me condescendingly, and I couldn't help but feel a chill on my body.
The host shouted hoarsely inside the Buddha statue: "Donor, can I become a Buddha?" ”
The Nine Princes still said lightly: "If there is an obstacle in the heart, who can become a Buddha?" ”
"I see! The poor monk understood! ”
"Nan no Amitabha!"
After the Buddha horn, there was a sound of broken bones in the body of the Buddha statue, as if something was grinding the abbot into minced flesh, and the pungent blood was constantly dripping from under the lotus seat of the Buddha statue.
The Nine Princes said lightly: "Let's go!" The water source of the lake is about to be cut off. ”
When I followed the Nine Princes out, I couldn't help but ask, "That was the Five Ghosts Fuding just now?" ”
"What the hell is going on?"
The Nine Princes said: "The predecessors can hide treasures in the world, and naturally there will be people who want to guard the treasures, and the treasure-keepers may be organs, ghosts, or people, or a combination of the three." ”
"The previous presiding officer of Cihang Temple was the treasure keeper."
I wondered, "What about the current host?" He's also a treasure keeper? But why did he open the vault for us? ”
"The murderer who killed the treasure keeper." The Nine Princes looked at me and said, "They used to be masters and apprentices, but the masters and apprentices couldn't resist the temptation of treasures. Therefore, the previous abbot was sealed into the Buddha statue and became a sacrifice to open the secret burial of the cup. ”
However, the new host didn't know that the secret vault was actually a triple gate, and they were guarding the last gate, and the first two doors were not open. Even if the monks who sacrificed the whole temple could not open the third gate. ”