In the mountains.

"Buzz ......"

With the sound of a few bowstrings humming and vibrating, I saw a few cold stars flying out of the woods in the distance, the strength of the cold stars was amazing, almost trying to pierce the golden cracked stones, it was actually a few off-string arrows, they shot into the bushes in the distance.

Then out of the woods came a young man, fourteen or fifteen years old, with a slightly slender but well-proportioned body, a somewhat silent face as if he was preoccupied, dressed in clothes sewn from animal skins, and his black hair tied behind his back with straw ropes.

And a girl next to him was walking beside him with a happy face, her eyes kept looking at the bushes, the girl was delicate and delicate.

"Shot. ”

Ah Xiu approached and looked through the bushes and immediately cheered.

Tie Zhu's face also showed a smile and then bowed behind his back, he has become more and more silent over the years, and he can only smile when he is facing Ah Xiu and his parents.

"There are a few more elderly people in the village who are sick. ”

The iron pillar slowly pulled out the prey behind the bushes, it was a wild boar, it was killed without even a cry, but then, when he heard Ah Xiu's words, his body trembled, and then he carried the wild boar on his shoulder as if nothing happened.

Ah Xiu seemed to be a little sad after speaking, and the illness in her mouth meant that death was approaching.

"Go home. ”

Tie Zhu smiled on his face.

......

West Heaven, Great Thunder Sound Temple.

"Golden cicada. ”

If you come to sit on the Buddha platform, the Buddha is full of light, and the glow is thousands.

And under his seat, a monk with a calm face is slowly opening his eyes, he is different from all the Arhats and Bodhisattvas present, and he is also different from the Buddha, his body is plain, there is no Buddha light, there is no glow, like a mortal.

"The true meaning of my Dharma, all Buddhas have Buddha's light emitted by themselves, and they have all realized it, why don't you alone?"

Seeing that Rulai was high up, with a compassionate face, and a starry sky in his eyes, he stared at the monk.

"Enlightenment is enlightenment, and failure to realize is enlightenment. ”

Jin Cicada took a deep breath and said slowly.

Rulai no longer looked at him, the palm of the Buddha in his right hand was spread out, and he saw a lotus flower born in the void, and then he was held in his hand by Rulai, alternating red and white, shaking and shaking.

Seeing this scene, Jin Cicada's eyes shook slightly, and then slowly lowered his eyes.

None of the Buddhas reacted, except for the Buddha who smiled faintly next to him.

"Kasya, can you understand my Buddha's will?"

Speak slowly.

Kaye immediately knelt down in front of the Nyorai seat.

"Hahaha...... Hahaha......"

The golden cicada laughed, his laughter gradually became louder, the laughter was presumptuous, the laughter was wandering, and it turned into wild laughter, and the endless Buddha country in the Western Heavens that only laughed seemed to be trembling.

"Jin Cicada, what are you laughing at?"

Rulai's expression was waveless, as if he was unmoved.

"What a true meaning of the Dharma, what a good enlightenment. ”

The golden cicada slowly got up and slowly met the gaze of Rulai.

"Senior brother, don't be so presumptuous and rush into the World Venerable. ”

Ananda next to him hurriedly spoke.

But the golden cicada regarded him as nothing.

"Kaya, tell me, what are you enlightening?"

The golden cicada suddenly looked directly at the kneeling Ka Ye on the ground, his eyes were like lightning flashes, and the Buddhas who were only startled secretly trembled.

If it comes, it doesn't stop it, it seems to be meditating and it seems to be in meditation.

"Senior brother, if you don't understand it, I can communicate with you in private, and you can't be presumptuous in front of the World Venerable. ”

Kaba stood up and spoke, his smile a little frozen.

"Are you enlightened? Are you really enlightened?"

Jin Cicada's tone was calm, but his voice was like thunder.

"Are you all really enlightened?"

He glanced at the Buddhas.

"Ananda, you're enlightened?"

He looked at Ananda who was standing next to the Buddha.

"Do you remember who said that I would like to be Ishibashi? Do you remember who that modern girl is?"

Ananda's body couldn't help but tremble when he heard this, and his face showed a trace of pain and turned a little pale.

The golden cicada looked at the Buddhas again and laughed.

"Okay, you're all enlightened, but I'm not the only one who understands. ”

He looked at the Buddha on the throne again.

"Boom!"

Silently, I don't know how many years of thunder suddenly sounded in the Great Thunder Temple, and all the Buddhas' faces changed, only the golden cicada looked straight at Rulai, and the two looked flat and opposite each other.

"You all laugh at your own enlightenment, but don't look at this world, how many people in this world can't laugh?"

"The way of self-respect, a good way of self-respect, do you really think that a lotus flower in the palm of your hand can represent the people in the world?"

The golden cicada looked directly at Rulai Dao, and then saw that the lotus flower in Rulai's hand had withered in the blink of an eye, but then grew again, and the cycle continued, just as the life and death of this lotus flower were controlled by Rulai, and the life and death of all living beings were controlled by Rulai.

All the Buddhas looked at the golden cicada with shocked faces.

"Senior brother, don't question the law of the World-Honored One. ”

Guanyin said in a trembling voice.

"I also thought I could realize, but when I saw the suffering of all beings in the world, I realized that I couldn't, and I wanted to never be enlightened. ”

The golden cicada's expression suddenly changed slightly, and her voice at first seemed to be talking to herself, and then turned into a shout.

"Is there really no one in the world who can jump out of your magic palm? ”

"I'm going to make a bet with you. ”

He said abruptly to Ru.

"Bet on what?"

Rulai's expression was still flat, but the Buddha's clothes that had not been touched for countless years were slowly agitated, and the same was true of the golden cicada opposite, and the thunder in the western sky was even louder, as if the sky was angry.

"Since you regard this lotus flower as all the spirits in the world, and their life and death are in your hands, I will bet with you whether there is really no one in this world who can jump out of your hands. ”

The golden cicada's eyes stared at the calm eyes of Rulai, who seemed to see fire and electricity in these eyes.

"What if you lose?"

Rulai's face is still flat.

"If I lose, I will abandon this Buddha body, disperse these thousands of years of cultivation, and become a mortal, enter the worldly world, and be born, old, sick, and die. ”

"But if I win......

The golden cicada's eyes suddenly froze.

"If I win, you will also step down from the Buddha's throne and enter the cycle of reincarnation, and taste the suffering of sentient beings. ”

His tone was calm again, but this sentence seemed to be more fierce than the previous thunder, more fierce than the previous angry words, as soon as this words fell, countless black clouds condensed in the western sky, as if the sky was about to fall.

All the Buddhas were shocked.

"Senior brother, the World Venerable will not be wrong, you can't talk nonsense, step back first. ”

Guanyin said in a trembling voice to dissuade him.

"Wrong? There is a shortage of heaven and earth in this world, and there is a deficiency in all living beings and all souls, why is he alone? Why is he not wrong? Why is he not wrong?"

The golden cicada turned his head to look at Guanyin, and Guanyin, who was looking at it with plain eyes, did not dare to look directly.

I saw that his right hand was spread, and there was already an extra scroll in his hand between the flow of light, and then his right hand was thrown, and suddenly the ancient scroll turned into a streamer and shot towards the end of the sky.

"Go, my true righteousness, although you are not a Buddha and an ancestor, I hope you can find the person who is struggling and help me gamble with this heavenly god and Buddha, haha......"

He laughed maniacally, stared, and mourned.

Heaven and earth are changing, the western sky, the land of all Buddhas, the highest place in the world, actually rained at this moment, countless Bodhisattvas and Arhats looked at the golden cicada in shock, they wanted to use the mana to disperse but found helpless, the Buddha's clothes were wet, the Buddha seat was wet, and the lotus was wet.

Suddenly, lightning struck in the distance, slashing in the direction of the scroll.

"All the spirits in this world are natural, do you really think you can control everything?"

Jin Chanzi didn't care, he laughed and cried.

"I'll take your bet. ”

Rulai quietly looked at the golden cicada like a madman, and when the words fell, a terrifying Buddha light rose on his body, and the sad rain in the sky was suddenly dispersed.

"Good...... Ha ha...... Good ......"

The golden cicada turned his head suddenly, he looked around at the frightened faces of the Buddhas, and then turned to look at Rulai, and then his body jumped into the air, his body was aging, like a withered lotus, his eyes were dimming, but there was no fear in his eyes, this was the price of challenging the truth and arguing in vain.

"You all have to remember this day, remember this bet, and when I set foot on Lingshan again, it will be the time for you to fulfill your bet. ”

He said calmly, and then the terrifying Buddha light erupted in the originally plain body, and all the Buddhas were shocked, and the Buddha was silent in an instant of one ten-thousandth, and the Buddha light was more vast than all the Buddhas seated, and it was only a step worse than coming.

The Buddha's light was fleeting, and then I saw a delicate and transparent relic fly out of the old and decaying body, and then fly into samsara.

Jin Chanzi already knew that there would be such a change, or he was ready to go into the mortal world to find the person who could jump out of the Buddha's grasp, maybe someone else, maybe himself.

The dark clouds in the sky descended ten thousand thunderbolts at this moment, slashing on the body of the golden cicada, as if he would never recover.

The expressions of the Buddhas changed, Guanyin looked at the corpse that turned into dust, his eyes showed sadness, Ananda's eyes showed the color of struggle, the Buddha was silent, and the other Buddhas were frightened, silent, and closed their eyes.

In the mortal world, among the countless temples, among the statues of the Buddhas and gods, a statue of the Buddha under the seat of Rulai was shattered at this moment.

Since then, it has been rumored in the world that the disciple Jin Chanzi has fallen into a place of no return because he questioned the true meaning of my Buddha.

......

Autumn.

Everything withered, life began to fade, the iron pillar carried a bow and arrows, and he was followed by a girl, one silent, one excited.

"Squeak......

It seems that there are no birds in the forest, only the cicadas are left, for some reason, Tie Zhu heard this cicada song but felt sad and desolate, this voice seems to have an inexplicable power, pouring out the ruthlessness of heaven and earth.

"Poof!"

Winter is approaching, both animals and humans have to eat, the iron pillar eyes are cold, draw arrows, take a bow, release arrows, in one go, bowstrings at the same time, arrows have flown into the distance.

The roe deer, which had just jumped, was suddenly shot by an arrow, and then flew out and was nailed to a tree.

Now Iron Pillar has understood a lot, he has seen many dying animals under his arrows, they are struggling in pain, he used to be unbearable, but in the end he understands that if he wants himself and his family to live, he can only hunt them, and he seems to have no choice in this world of the jungle.

Therefore, his arrows now only shoot at the heart of the skull, because with his great strength he can make their death less painful and kill them instantly.

"What is this?"

Tie Zhu suddenly saw something half-hidden in the grass and trees, next to the roe deer.

"The Tripitaka?"

Curious, he put aside the grass and trees, looked at the words on it and read slowly.