Chapter 53: White Horse Temple (53)
In the evening, Taizhen was about to go home, but he heard a slow footsteps not far away, and gradually, a monk wearing a white robe, carrying a wooden box, and looking to be about thirty years old entered his sight, this monk stopped after walking in front of Taizhen, only to see this monk with his hands folded, and said to Taizhen: "Amitabha, I want to ask the donor, is the head of Qinglongguan here?"
"Who are you?" asked Tai Zhen politely.
"I'm a monk at White Horse Temple. The monk also said politely.
"Is there anything you're looking for him?" asked Tae-jin.
"I have something I want him to keep. The monk said.
"Then please come with me!" Taizhen led the monk into the Qinglong Temple. In the room of the head of the Qinglong Temple, the head of the Qinglong Temple received the monk very respectfully.
"The presiding officer of the White Horse Temple personally came to visit, and I don't know what happened. The head of Qinglongguan asked.
"A sealed forbidden book in our White Horse Temple was stolen by Dark Moon. The presiding officer of the White Horse Temple sighed and said.
"What's the harm of this forbidden book?" asked the head of Qinglongguan.
"This book is the darkest and most evil book in the world, it records that martial arts are not mortal, they all come from hell, and those martial arts can kill the gods, and the first page of that book has such a sentence, 'Replace the old gods and become the new gods', which means that you will have the same power as the gods, kill the old gods, and become new gods to rule the world. The host said.
"Why can't a new god appear?" asked Tae-jin, who was on the side.
"The next sentence in that book is, 'When a new god appears, the world will come back by light,' which means that when the old god is replaced by the new god, all of us will disappear with the present world, and a new world will be reopened. The host said.
"What a horrible book. The head of Qinglongguan said.
"But since ancient times, no one has been able to withstand the process of becoming a god, so practicing "Heavenly Demon Introduction" is 100% equivalent to suicide. The host said.
In other words, no one has ever been able to withstand and control the power of those martial arts in "Heavenly Demon Introduction", so this book has been sealed as a banned book under the White Horse Temple. Taejin said.
"That book is now in the hands of the White Lotus Sect Master, and he will find out that something is wrong after practicing for a while, so I won't be in a hurry if that book is stolen. The host smiled.
"Then what are you here for? I thought you wanted us to help retrieve the Heavenly Demon Introduction?" asked the head of the Qinglongguan Temple.
The host put the wooden box he was carrying on his back on the ground, and he opened the wooden box, and saw that there were five goddess statues in the wooden box, and the goddess statue in the middle was the largest in it.
"These five goddess statues are our real treasures, and I heard that only you can catch the Dark Moon, so I want to put these few things in the Qinglong Temple for safekeeping, if they fall into the hands of the Dark Moon, then the world is really over. The host said.
"What kind of goddess is this?" asked Taizhen curiously.
This is the Mother of Mercy and her four daughters, it is rumored that the Mother of Mercy made a wish to God when she was a human being, hoping that she could eliminate all the misfortunes and sorrows in this world, and was willing to throw herself into the boundless darkness, and as a result, she was thrown into the darkness, but the misfortunes and sorrows in the world continued. The host said.
"Why did God betray her?" asked Taejin.
Because without misfortune and sorrow, that person will not believe in God, and the nourishment of God is faith, and without faith they will lose their physical strength and slowly disappear, because some gods are not made by people, nor do they appear when no one is around, but by the human spirit, they are born because of people, and they will die because of people, so they cannot make the world free of misfortune and sorrow. The host said.
"I see. Taejin said.
There is also a saying that the nourishment of the gods is the misfortune and sorrow of the world. The host said.
"What about the daughter of the Mother of Mercy?" Taejin asked.
"The daughters of the Mother of Mercy were also pitiful, and they threw themselves into the darkness with them, they didn't have to do this, but then the people were moved by their actions, so they enshrined their idols in the temple, and it is said that the daughters of the Mother of Mercy held time, healing, life, and faith, respectively, and because they were contained by the creator of darkness, the Mother of Darkness, they were rumored to have very powerful dark powers. The host said.