Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Legend of the King of Jizo
The stone monkey and the horse were talking when they heard a knock on the door. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Ma Mian opened the courtyard door and looked at it, startled, and hurriedly bowed and saluted, and said in awe: "Ma Mian has seen King Yama!
Hearing this, the stone monkey also got up and came to the gate of the courtyard.
I saw a majestic middle-aged man in a yellow robe and a crown, his hands crossed in front of his chest, holding a pair of jade gui in his hands.
The stone monkey also hurriedly saluted him.
King Yama replied to the stone monkey and said, "I have seen the stone monkey Daoist! I am on the order of the Emperor of the Northern Yin Xudu to invite the Taoist friend to the Xudu City! The Emperor is waiting for the Taoist friend in the Xudu City at this time. ”
It just so happened that he also had something to do with the Emperor of the Northern Yin Dynasty, but he didn't know what the Emperor was looking for him? This also saved him a lot of trouble.
Led by King Yama himself, it can be said that there is no obstruction along the way.
After leaving the courtyard of Ma Mian's house, he returned to the avenue. Turning away from the Temple of Lost Souls to the west, I walked for more than ten miles and saw a huge city wall.
The city wall seems to come from the edge of the sky, and then go to the edge of the sky, and it is connected to the sky, like a canopy.
The walls are made entirely of boulders and reach high into the clouds. The black mottled walls are full of vicissitudes.
The entrance to the city wall is in the mouth of a ghostly relief, and the stone monkey follows the king of Yama through the gap between his teeth.
As soon as he stepped into the gap between the demon's teeth, a group of guards blocked the path of King Yama.
The king of Yama stepped forward to negotiate with the guardian onicha. I saw King Yama take out a jade plaque or something from his sleeve pocket.
When the king of Yama negotiated with the guard ghost, the stone monkey looked around when he had nothing to do, and then found that he had come to the gate of the capital city.
But the stone monkey did not see the actual city gate, because the city gate was completely a black hole, and at a glance, all eyes were sucked into it.
The stone monkey's eyes blinked, and he looked over again. I saw that there was a mysterious forbidden pattern flickering in the black hole. The flickering of this forbidden pattern seems to indicate some heaven and earth.
But no matter how hard the stone monkey tried, he couldn't learn anything from it! After a long time, the stone monkey also lost interest in black holes.
There is a couplet at the gate of the city: man and ghost, ghost and man, man and ghost have different paths. Yin and yang, yang and yin, yin and yang are forever separated. There is no cross-batch.
There is a huge black plaque on the city gate, on which there are three large lacquered gold characters: Xudu City.
The king of Yama had returned at some point, and a guard ghost sent to the stone monkey.
The guard ghost stood quietly aside, and did not urge the stone monkey, allowing the stone monkey to stand at the gate of the city and look around.
The stone monkey asked him curiously, "Why are there no ghosts entering or leaving this city?"
The guard ghost cha replied: "Xudu City is the place where the suppression of hell is located! Without the permission of the Emperor, no existence can approach Xudu City! Those who violate it will enter the eighteenth layer of hell!"
After entering the city, you can't see anything, because the whole city is shrouded in a layer of black fog, although you can see the five fingers when you reach out, but that's all. Luckily, there are guards to lead the way.
I don't know how long it has been, but at a certain moment, there was a sudden light in front of me, and I saw a thousand-foot tall beast standing with its head held high, and a strong coercion came to my face.
The guard ghost cha introduced: "This is the Qilin Venerable of the Divine Beast of the Xudu City!"
Standing in front of the unicorn, the stone monkey was only as tall as the unicorn's claws! Looking up along the unicorn's paws, the thick calves, the broad chest, and the slender neck. It's a pity that you can't see the head of the unicorn, so you don't know what the unicorn looks like.
I saw that this unicorn was covered with inky black scale armor all over its body, each of which was the size of a basin, and the blood emanating from it could be faintly seen.
After saluting the Kirin with the guard Onicha, the stone monkey continued to move forward.
When the black fog is gone, the horizon widens. The first impression of the stone monkey was emptiness! There was nothing as far as the eye could see, only black boulder buildings. You can also hear your own footsteps echoing through the building.
The second feeling is that it's big! It's exaggerated. A staircase is two meters high and five meters long! A pillar is about 10 meters in diameter! I don't know the height of the column, so I can only look up! The mural on the wall is even more outrageous! The stone monkey makes a gesture and is only the size of a teacup in the mural.
It seemed that the stone monkey was interested in the mural, and the guard who led the way introduced: "What is described on this mural is the situation when Tu Niang Niang created reincarnation after ancient times. The mural depicts the chaos of the ancient Taishan Mansion when the monarch set the rules of the underworld. There is also the mural on the mural of the Great Emperor of the Northern Yin Dynasty leading the Emperor of the Heavenly Six Heavens of Xudu to suppress the evil spirits. Later, you can see the mural of King Jizo Bodhisattva Pudu Hell. ”
The mural is so big! I can't see the whole picture when I look up, but I can see the leopard in the tube.
I didn't meet anything along the way, and it didn't take long to come to a large hall, and the guard ghost sent the stone monkey to walk in alone.
The glow rose in the main hall, and an immortal dressed in colorful silk walked towards the stone monkey. He was followed by a white dog.
There is not a single variegated color on the white dog's body, it is like a cloud, and it is like snow. Only one pair of eyes are black.
It was also this little black in the white, and the stone monkey's gaze was instantly attracted by the white dog's eyes.
It was a pair of wise eyes, full of vicissitudes, like an old man.
A smile rippled from the white dog's eyes, and the white dog spoke first: "The life conceived by the colorful stone left by the great god Nuwa mending the sky enjoys the merits of mending the sky, and is favored by heaven and earth." He also studied under the ancestor of Bodhi, an immortal outside the sky, and has a deep Buddhist affinity. Stone Monkey Daoist, I didn't expect you to take the initiative to come to the underworld!"
The immortal also saluted the stone monkey and said, "My underworld welcomes the arrival of the stone monkey Daoist!"
Seeing this, the stone monkey hurriedly replied: "The stone monkey has seen the Emperor of the Northern Yin Dynasty!
The Emperor of the Northern Yin Emperor introduced: "This is the Truth Hearing Divine Beast next to the King of the Earth! This time, I invited Taoist friends to come to the capital city, mainly because I came to convey the meaning of the Jizo King Bodhisattva, and the Jizo King Bodhisattva wanted to see the Taoist friends. ”
Di Ting said to the stone monkey at this time: "If the stone monkey Taoist friend has nothing else to do at this time, go to hell with me." ”
The stone monkey hurriedly said: "I still have some things I want to ask the emperor, and I also want to ask the emperor for help." ”
Hearing the words of the stone monkey, the Emperor of the Northern Yin Xudu asked with some curiosity: "I don't know what is the matter with the stone monkey Daoist?"
Di Ting also looked at the stone monkey curiously.
The stone monkey asked, "I want to know if the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother are husband and wife, and are the Seven Fairies the daughters of the two of them?"
The Great Emperor of the Northern Yin Dynasty and Di Ting were dumbfounded! No living beings in the Three Realms and Six Realms had ever thought of this question! No living beings had ever cared about who gave birth to the Seven Fairies!
But the Emperor of the Northern Yin Emperor still immediately replied: "Between heaven and earth, all living beings must have yin and yang, and there must be yang and yang, which can be divided into two categories: yin and yang. The Yang category is under the command of the Jade Emperor. The yin category is in the hands of the Queen Mother. The convergence of yin and yang descended the seven fairies. ”
That's it, the stone monkey didn't understand much. Are they husband and wife? Are the Seven Fairies born of two qi?
The stone monkey couldn't help but look at the Emperor of the Northern Yin Capital with puzzled eyes.
Di Ting interjected: "The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother are not husband and wife! But they are one and the same, interdependent. And the Seven Fairies are indeed their daughters. ”
The Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother are not husband and wife. The Seven Fairies are just IVF for both of them.
This time, the stone monkey asked the Emperor: "I want to ask the Emperor to do a favor and rescue a female ghost from the Lechuan River and fulfill her wish." ”
The Emperor of the Northern Yin Emperor seemed to have known that the stone monkey would have this request, and he said: "I can indeed rescue her from the Lethe River, but her ghost has been soaked in the Lethe River for too long, and it has already become corrupt, and even if she is reincarnated as a human being, she will be riddled with lifelong diseases!
After saying this, the Emperor of the Northern Yin Xudu took a red thread out of nowhere and handed it to the stone monkey.
Seeing that the stone monkey looked at him curiously after taking the red thread, the Emperor of the Northern Yin Emperor explained: "As long as the red thread is tied to the wrist of the female ghost, she will definitely be able to get her wish." ”
At this time, Di Ting said, "Since the stone monkey Taoist friend has finished his work here, then please follow me to hell! ”
The stone monkey put away the red rope and nodded after thanking the Emperor of the Northern Yin Dynasty.
Di Ting said: "Then please ask the stone monkey Taoist to ride on my back, and I will escort the Taoist to hell." ”
The stone monkey was a little surprised to hear this, but he still rode on Di Ting's back.
Yellow monkeys ride white dogs! It's so funny. The stone monkey muttered in his heart, "Is there a place in the heavens and the earth that I can't go to now?"
After riding on Di Ting's back, the stone monkey was shrouded in a layer of white mist. This white fog can neither see the outside nor the inside from the outside.
But through this layer of white mist, a sound can be heard. These voices can only be described in one word, and that is: Ghost cry wolf howl!
I don't know how long it took, but the voice in my ears had long since disappeared. There is a warmth outside the white mist, which makes people feel calm and carefree.
The white mist dispersed, and an old monk stood in front of the stone monkey. His withered face, his simple linen clothes, and a string of Buddhist beads turned in his hand. I saw the old monk looking calm and looking into the distance.
The stone monkey hurriedly got off the back of the white dog and saluted, "The stone monkey has seen the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth!
The Jizo King Bodhisattva did not directly answer the stone monkey's question, but said, "If you look in the distance, what can you see?"
Hearing this, the stone monkey looked at the place where the Jizo King Bodhisattva was looking, and saw that there seemed to be evil spirits struggling in the sea of clouds. The demons were in agony, but they screamed and tried to climb out of the clouds. But before the demon could stretch out his hands, it was destroyed by the sea of clouds.
The stone monkey was distracted when he saw it, and he couldn't help but be shocked.
After a long time, the stone monkey replied, "I see hope being destroyed!
King Jizo said, "These are the evil spirits of hell! They have let go of their evil thoughts, but they still can't leave hell and suffer from hell for eternity! My Dharma can guide them, but it's only a drop in the bucket." ”
"Isn't there any other way?" asked the stone monkey.
"Yes, but it takes a huge amount of merit to transform these evil spirits with the power of heaven and earth!" replied King Jizo Bodhisattva.
It's merit again! I just don't know how much merit I have, but I don't seem to have done much good deeds.
King Jizo Bodhisattva continued: "For example, in the heavens and the earth, there is no one else who has such a large amount of merit except for the great god Nuwa to make up for the heavens. But the great god Nuwa has long since left this world. And the stone monkey Taoist friend was conceived by the five-colored stone of mending the sky, inheriting part of the merits of mending the sky, although it is slightly insufficient, but as long as it is supplemented by other methods, it can still get through this hellish ghost. ”
The great god Nuwa makes up for the merits of the heavens! I really can't do without the great god Nuwa.
The stone monkey said, "Then how do I do it?"
King Jizo Bodhisattva did not answer directly, but shook his head and said, "Don't worry! Naturally, someone will tell you what to do. ”
Seeing this, the stone monkey had no choice but to let go of this matter first, so he asked, "I wonder if the Bodhisattva of the King of Jizo has a way to save a female ghost in the Lechuan River?"
King Jizo replied, "Yes! I have a volume of the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra that I can teach to you, and I will bring that female ghost out of the sea of suffering." ”
The stone monkey immediately saluted and said, "Please also ask the Bodhisattva of the King of the Earth to teach the scriptures!"
"When contemplating the bodhisattva of self-reliance, when he walks in the deep prajnaparamita, he sees that the five aggregates are empty, and he overcomes all suffering. The relics are not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from color, color is emptiness, emptiness is color, and the same is true when you want to know it. Relic ......"
Out of the capital city, the stone monkey remembered that he forgot to ask about the place of return, and just wanted to turn around and go back, but after thinking about it, he had no choice but to give up. The five dragon girls seek benevolence and benevolence, so why should they force anything.
When they came to the courtyard of Ma Mian's house again, they saw that the bull head and horse face were all there, and the stone monkey immediately informed them of the good news of the female ghost.
Hearing this good news, the bull head and the horse were all overjoyed! The bull head pulled the stone monkey and rushed to the Lechuan River.
For the underworld, the ghosts in the Lechuan River are the first time that many ghosts and ghosts want to see it, but at this time, the king of Yama personally pressed the formation, so there were only three people on the bridge: the bull head, the horse face, and the king of Yama, plus Meng Po.
The stone monkey came to the shore next to the female ghost, looked at her eyes full of hard fortune, and secretly said in his heart: "Another Five Dragon Girl! ”
The stone monkey opened his mouth and recited the "Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra", and for a moment many ghosts in the Lechuan River were quiet, and the sound of the flowing water in the Lechuan River was much quieter. At this time, only the slight chanting sound of the stone monkey echoed in the underworld, appearing in the heart of every ghost.
There is no golden lotus scattered in the sky, and there is no way to shake the mountains and shake the mountains. In such a quiet place, the female ghost floated up from the Lethe River, and her corrupt soul gradually became clean, with a kind of holy charm.
After reciting the Heart Sutra, the stone monkey cast a spell to tie the red rope to the female ghost's wrist.