The heavy hanging coffin fell from the sky with a muffled thud. Li Ji and the three of them got up and retreated, as if they wanted to avoid the devouring beast in the coffin.

The dust and smoke filled the air, and the coffin scattered in all directions, and a faint phantom floated out of it.

It's not a beast, it's just the remnant of an alien.

The man was dressed in black and white foreign clothes, barefoot, with a coral jade tree behind him obliquely stuck to the side of his ears, long pale blonde hair scattered, a narrow face, a broad forehead, a mustache on his mouth, and his eyes were blue like a lake, with a hint of deep compassion.

He just stood there without saying a word, and his illusory body seemed to be unable to withstand a gust of wind, but it gave endless pressure to the three people present.

Those blue eyes are so strange that people dare not look at them directly.

Facing that gaze, it seems that the vicissitudes of the world are manifested in it, and it seems that a deep passage has suddenly opened, reaching the darkest place in his heart and the place where he least wants others to peep.

Who is this man?

Li Ji's heart was full of questions.

After the phantom gradually solidified, Nie Xiaoqian's heart was filled with turbulent waves, and it was not until this moment that she understood her grandmother's ultimate purpose.

"Nie Xiaoqian, a second-generation disciple of Manichaeism in Middle Earth, and ...... , together with my son-in-law, meet the Manichaean master!"

Nie Xiaoqian knelt on the ground, speechless for a while, she forgot to ask Li Ji's name last night, so she had to give Li Ji a look, and Ning Caichen next to her was completely forgotten by her.

Li Ji hurriedly stepped forward, hugged his fists and said with a smile: "It turns out that the predecessor is the leader of the Manichaean Sect, under Li Ji, and this son of Ning Caichen is a sworn brother, although the two of us are not disciples of the Ming Sect, but I have always admired the sect leader!"

"Where is this, how did I end up here?" said the Manichaean master in an ancient Persian language, as if he had not heard what they were saying.

He took a step forward in a trance, and when Nie Xiaoqian saw this, he hurriedly got up and blocked in front of Li Ji, looking vigilant.

Li Ji shook his head, if the Manichaean Master wanted to kill them, they wouldn't be able to hide at all.

"Could it be that the seniors can't understand the language of Middle-earth?" Li Ji thought of this possibility, and couldn't help but ask out loud.

"It turns out that this is Middle-earth, but you are all born so ugly!"

Mani's mind gradually cleared up, and he replied jerkily, using the same language of Middle-earth.

Li Ji breathed a sigh of relief in his heart: As long as you don't do it, you can call me ugly casually.

Although he didn't dare to refute it on his lips, he secretly despised this alien aesthetic in his heart.

It's easy to communicate, and there's nothing you can't talk about.

He gave Nie Xiaoqian a reassuring smile, and then stepped forward to talk to Mani with a calm expression and no fear.

Seeing this, Ning Caichen secretly praised Li Ji's demeanor in his heart, and also got up and followed.

Mani seemed to have not spoken to anyone for a long time, and when he saw the two of them come up to talk, although he thought they were ugly, he did not refuse.

Xiao Qian has been carefully observing the Manichaean master, and secretly slandered in her heart: This Manichaean master seems to be different from what I imagined?

King Ming was born, shouldn't he kill people when he sees them, and wash the world with blood?

Otherwise, how could he be worthy of the title of the peerless demon?

The Ming King in front of him seems to be a little too harmless to humans and animals.

The Manichaean master is proficient in Buddhism, and he is also the master of a religion, and his knowledge is thorough, and Li Ji and Ning Caichen feel that they have benefited a lot from talking with him.

Li Ji has the memory of two lives, and his knowledge spans thousands of years, and he can barely keep up with Mani's train of thought.

Ning Caichen is an orthodox Confucian scholar, more pragmatic, when he encounters Mani, who talks about fiction but has things, he only thinks that what the Manichaean master said is imaginative, and if he thinks about it, it is a bit like Confucius when he saw Lao Dan.

Only then did Li Ji discover that these people who engaged in religion were all philosophers.

They are concerned about the fate of all sentient beings, and they are all talking about the state, order, the path of cause and effect, and so on.

Some of Mani's statements were also very perverse in the present life, but they have become a consensus in later generations.

Seeing that Nan Ningsheng shook his head blankly, Li Ji sincerely agreed with himself, and Mani became more and more interested, and slowly talked about his own mental journey: "I was born in Medinu, Persia, my mother is the daughter of the royal family of Anxi, and my father is a disciple of a small sect, so I also joined my father's sect.

It's just that since I was a child, I felt that the world we live in is too unpleasant, and everyone is suffering and cannot be relieved.

My father's sect only made me restrain my own desires, but he didn't care about the fate of others.

I heard that Buddhism also said that sentient beings are miserable, so I ran away from that sect and went to Lingshan to seek the Dharma.

Buddhism told me that suffering in this life is the sin of a previous life, and that only by enduring this life can we be reborn in the world of bliss in the next life.

In the previous life, I was not that person, and I did not participate in the sins he created, so I want to pay it back? In the next life, that person is not me, and I have accumulated good fortune, let him enjoy it?

It's so unfair.

I only recognize that I am who I am in this world, and I only seek to be fully enlightened in this life.

These bullshit truths make me suspect that what the Buddha preached in Lingshan is not the true Dharma.

So, I called myself Mani and acted wildly in order to get the attention of the Buddha and let him answer my doubts.

I want to be a bodhisattva or even a Buddha, because I am in a sea of suffering, and I can only see that all beings around me are struggling, but I can't see what this sea of suffering is, and how can I get rid of it?

I want to know what the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas see as beings, and only when I become them can I see the world through their eyes. ”

Mani's Middle-earth language is not very good, many grammars are not understood, and the words do not reach the meaning, but Li Ji can understand him. "Did the senior see it?"

Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian were also attracted by Mani's words and listened attentively.

"No, or should I say I've seen it!" Mani said in a contradictory remark, but the compassion in his eyes was even greater.

"When the sea of suffering is beneath and all living beings are drowning, the Buddha and the Bodhisattva are like the owners of a ship sailing on the sea, and occasionally they will rescue them when they see a few pleasing ones.

If I am freed from the sea of suffering and get on their thief ship, when I stay on the ship for a long time, I will forget the pain of those struggles, and when I see the multitude of beings below, I will only feel the same but I will not be able to feel it.

Just like the Buddha and the Bodhisattva, although I sympathize with you and see that you are about to drown, but the boat is so big, everything is a fucking cycle of cause and effect, I am a boatman, I can't decide, let alone save you, or just pretend not to see it!"

"The Buddha can't save sentient beings, so I don't want to cultivate this Buddha!

So, I left Lingshan and founded Manichaeism. ”

When Mani said this, he sighed deeply: "However, if I want to save all beings from the sea of suffering, I can't do it? Even most people don't think it's the sea of suffering, they don't want to get on the boat, and they don't want to see the higher world, what can I do? I can only say that the catastrophe is coming, the darkness is coming, only I, Mani, can save you, you all come to me!"

Mani's tone was a little helpless and complaining, but Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian both regarded him as a madman in their hearts.

Who wants you to save it?

Li Ji's mood is a little complicated, he respects such a person, but he is not willing to walk with him. As for the lifeboat of Buddhism, he is also reluctant to get on, it is better to be at ease, what to do with so many things, only to increase his troubles!

"You say, is there anyone outside these thirty-three heavens who is more powerful than the Buddha or your Dao Ancestor in Middle-earth?"

Mani suddenly asked Li Ji.

Li Ji smiled bitterly and shook his head: This question, the devil knows?

Glancing at Nie Xiaoqian and Mani Phantom, he secretly added in his heart: Ghosts don't know.

Fortunately, Mani didn't want to get an answer from him: "If there is, can he save this being? Then why doesn't he save it? Or maybe all of this is controlled by one person, even if I am speculating about the existence of that person at the moment, it is also a part of his setting, and if I continue to ask such endless questions, maybe the fate that the Buddha said really exists, and he can't do anything about it."

It's just that everything happens as expected, how boring is that? The world is vast, and occasionally some people who break their fate will appear, you say, right?"

"your fate, I don't care what Buddha you are, do you see that I have crossed over? Why do you keep asking me questions, just because I agreed with you just now, I don't want to think about such boring things!"

Li Ji's head was big when he listened, he didn't want to think about Mani's words, but he was attracted by those mysterious truths.

Immediately, the boundary of the universe, the birth and death of all things and other issues exploded in his mind, Li Ji's face was ugly, and he couldn't help but squat on the ground with his head in his hands and scream in pain.

"What did you do to him?" Although Nie Xiaoqian was a little afraid of the other party, she couldn't help but ask coldly when she saw Li Ji's painful expression.

Ning Caichen hurriedly came over to help Li Ji.

"It's nothing, it's just planting a Dao seed in his heart, or maybe a heart demon. ”

Mani looked at Li Ji with compassion and sighed, "You are so similar to me that even Bodhi Root chose you." It seems that my grudge with the Buddha Lord will also be settled on you.

What I can't do, I hope you can help me do it.

Alas, I just enjoyed half a day, and I want to return to silence, life is really impermanent!"

"Master!" a surprised voice came as the dryad flew in front of Mani.

"Perry, you're old and ugly, what a pretty little girl you were back then?" Mani looked her up and down, a cynical smile on his face, and a doting look in his azure eyes.

Pelly Sanga is the Persian name of the Wisdom Tree King.

"As long as the sect leader is resurrected, even if I am immediately scattered, I am willing, not to mention just a change in appearance!"

The old face of the tree demon grandmother was very happy, and she pointed at Nie Xiaoqian and said, "However, I know that the sect leader likes beautiful things, so naturally I won't let the sect leader see my face again, and I will immediately become like her." ”

"She's ugly too!" Mani shook his head violently.

Nie Xiaoqian trembled, and a trace of anger rose from her heart.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm telling the truth!" Mani looked helpless.

At this time, Yan Chixia also came to the palace.

"What's wrong with Zhong Xuan?" Yan Chixia asked.

"There's another one, but it doesn't have anything to do with me. Perry, I've told you a long time ago that you shouldn't be tempted to kill. Killing thoughts together, and then entered the demon path.

After all, someone has to pay back these sins, and since you have killed them for me, I should naturally pay them back. and the debt for destroying the Bodhi tree back then, let's pay it off together today!

I have one life, and I can only pay it back here.

Alas, Pelly didn't say you, I've already died once, and you're going to save me and die again!"

Mani sighed, took the Bodhi branch in his hand, and a white mist drifted away and converged on the Bodhi branch.

"Don't!"

Perry let out a sad cry and laughed miserably: "Sect Master, I'll accompany you right away!"

The dryad grandmother also turned into a cloud of black mist and entered her own Bodhi branch.

"Why are you so suffering?" Mani sighed: "I destroyed your Bodhi tree back then, and now I will return you to the Buddha of Yin and Yang branches, and you will not lose anything!"

The black and white Bodhi branches blended and shot towards Li Ji.

The Bodhi root in Li Ji's arms flew out of the trend, and the two Bodhi branches, one yin and one yang, formed by Mani and the Treasure Tree King, merged and drilled into Li Ji's mud pill palace together.

The upper dantian mud pill palace is where the original god is.

The linden tree takes root in it, the thick coral branches grow, and the tender green Bodhi leaves waft with the fragrance of tea.

Li Ji's painful expression gradually eased, and the Yuan Shen sat cross-legged under the Bodhi tree.

Not long after, his primordial spirit woke up, and suddenly there was a token and a scripture book in front of him.

The token is simple, I don't know what it is, the scripture is the "Golden Yao Peacock Ming King Sutra".