Chapter 46: Transfiguration
After passing the Lingshan Mountain in Diling County, Tongtai Prefecture, it is in front of you.
Mo Xuan has no interest in caring about such things as the Kou members of Diling County who are dead and alive, alive and dead.
Ahead, it is the Jade True Temple.
When the five of them walked to the front of the temple, they saw a Taoist boy standing in front of the temple and asked with a smile, "Isn't it someone from the East who learned scriptures?"
Tang Seng didn't speak, but he had already gotten off the horse and straightened out his clothes.
"This is the Golden Dome Immortal!" said the monkey, pointing to the boy.
When Tang Seng heard this, he hurriedly stepped forward to salute.
"Daxian, my master has recently practiced a closed-mouth meditation, and he can't speak, if there is anything he can't do, please Daxian Haihan!"
The monkey is particularly polite at this time.
"It's okay, it's okay!" said the Golden Peak Immortal with a smile, "Your master's matter, the Buddha also told me, closed-mouth meditation is also a good way to practice, perseverance is surname, great benefit is surname, good!"
As he spoke, he called the children in the temple to lead Tang Seng to bathe and change clothes, so that he could go to Lingshan to worship the Buddha.
That is, the road has come to an end.
Entering the Yuzhen Temple, standing in the middle of the huge courtyard, Mo Xuan looked up at the sky.
The setting in the west reflected the whole sky red, as if it were burning, and in the fiery red sky, there was a faint flash of golden light.
"That's the end of it, has the merit already been obtained?!" Now Mo Xuan is worried about this question.
Merit and karma are things that cannot be seen or touched, and now this path has come to an end, but whether he has obtained merit or not, he himself can't figure it out, and this kind of thing can only be roughly understood after his cultivation has reached a bottleneck and he has begun to break through the realm, and he can only understand it about the situation of being entangled by karma.
"Fuck, it's all a fuck!" Mo Xuan scolded with hatred in his heart.
"It's just, why hasn't my bad feeling subsided? Is it because I've been under too much psychological pressure lately? No, I have to find someone to vent my anger?!"
Thinking about this, Mo Xuan felt a stream of heat faintly burning on his forehead from the dantian.
With a silver smile on his face and a slight movement of his body, Mo Xuan was about to go to the Bhikshu Kingdom to fight Nami and then dissipate the fire and talk, but suddenly, he stopped again.
"No, it doesn't seem like we've reached the end yet!" As if thinking of something, his face suddenly turned ugly.
He is not interested in seeing any Buddha, but there is a Lingyun Xiandu in front, which is specially used for monks to abandon their mortal bodies, from the original book, after crossing the river, it is the end of the entire journey to the west, but it seems that it is indispensable.
It's just that, it seems, the one who came to pick up this monk should be to lead the Buddha, right?
Thinking of the two words, Mo Xuan couldn't help but shudder.
"Could it be that something has been wrong in the past two days because I want to see that guide tomorrow, can I not go?!"
Thinking about this layer, Mo Xuan couldn't help but retreat.
For him, merit is nothing, and compared to his own life, how much merit is just like garbage.
Besides, the main purpose of his journey to the west was not for that merit.
It's just that it's a pity that you don't take a step forward when you come here.
"That's it, it's a pity!" Mo Xuan secretly smiled bitterly, "In this world, fate is still important!"
Shaking his head, Mo Xuan sighed lightly and went back to the house.
Nothing to say all night...... The second said, that Tang Seng and the others were already packing up and preparing to go on the road, just waiting for Mo Xuan alone, this left and waiting did not come, and the right did not come, the monkey was really a little anxious, so he ran to Mo Xuan's bedroom, and after entering, he found that there was no one inside.
It's just a note, and after he pushes open the door, it swayed and fell from the air, with three big characters on it.
"I'll go too!"
This is what he learned from those immortals who pretended to be ghosts in this journey to the west, and it felt quite chic.
It's just that when used here, it seems to have a pretended chic taste.
"What is going on in your head, this boy?!" the monkey was puzzled, but he only frowned, shook his hand, and shattered the note in his hand.
"Let's go first, the sixth is not coming!"
These words aroused the voices of several other people, but seeing the monkey's very unkind face, no one dared to step forward and ask for details.
"Then let's go!" After a while, the sand monk said sullenly.
Without saying a word, he walked out of Yuzhen Temple, climbed Lingshan, and traveled five or six miles before arriving at the Lingyun Xiandu.
Lingyun Xiandu, as the name suggests.
But it is a living water in a wide **, the waves are rolling and flying, halfway up the mountain, the smoke is confused, and it deserves the word "flying".
There was only one single-plank bridge over the river, which was so smooth that it was covered with moss.
The Tang monk couldn't speak, looking at the single-plank bridge, thinking that he had no ability to go, but when he saw that the monkey and the other two, and even the dragon horse, all passed through the bridge, no one paid attention to him, and his heart couldn't help but be angry, but he was helpless.
At this moment, I saw a man and a boat flash out from under the bridge, and shouted, "Go to the crossing, go to the crossing!"
The Tang monk was overjoyed and beckoned the boat to come closer to the shore, but found that the boat was bottomless, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and he didn't dare to get on the boat for a while, standing on the side of the boat and worrying.
"Come down!" The man who was holding the boat, stretched out his hand, and grabbed his robe, and pulled Monk Tang onto the boat.
Accidents happened at this time.
After the boat supporter dragged Tang Seng to the boat, it was not like what the book said could make Tang Seng stand firm, and Tang Seng's body fell straight into the water, the water flow of this Lingyun Xiandu was already very large, and the impact force was far beyond the ordinary water flow.
It happened suddenly.
The monkeys who were already standing on the other side of the bank didn't react, not at all.
They all thought that Tang Seng couldn't walk on the pontoon bridge, so naturally someone would cross the river with him, but who expected that the person who crossed him turned out to be the one who killed him.
When the monkey saw that something was wrong and jumped back to the other side, both the boat and Tang Seng disappeared without a trace.
At this time, the old pig and the sand monk also rushed over.
All three of them knew that something was wrong.
Several of them traveled west to learn scriptures and completed the road to heaven in order to gain merit.
The most important task is not to learn from the scriptures, but to protect Tang Seng to finish this road, although Tang Seng is useless, but for the protagonist of this time, they are just running tricks, now, they are done with this road, but what about this Tang Seng?
At the last moment, he was overshadowed and fell into this Lingyun Immortal Crossing, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
If it's okay to be alive, everyone will go to great lengths to find it, and it's just a matter of finding it, but what if it's dead?
I can't say that the hard work of the past ten years is going to be in vain, how can they not be in a hurry?
The most anxious is the monkey, in recent years, he has realized the key to cultivation, and his strength has improved by leaps and bounds, but he is always disturbed by the karma generated by the evil things he has created before, and every time he takes a step forward, he has to overcome countless difficulties, which is too hard, so among all people, he needs this merit the most to resolve karma.
But now, seeing that the things that are about to arrive, the things that he thought were already in the bag have flown away in front of him, which makes him not angry.
After carefully checking this Lingyundu with his golden eyes, he finally found the trace of Tang Seng in the place where the wind and waves were high.
With a cold snort, the monkey's body disappeared where it was originally standing, and the next place to appear was where the Tang monk's body loomed, and with a lift of his hand, he lifted the body of the Tang monk.
He sniffed, and his face became gloomy.
"How is it, is he okay?!" The old pig and the sand monk rushed over at this time, and asked anxiously with the same face.
"Dead!" the monkey threw the corpse in his hand to the ground.
"What about that!" Zhu Bajie and Monk Sha were both shocked, looking at the monkey with a panicked expression.
"Don't panic!" the monkey said, "Another function of this Lingyun Xiandu is to make people reborn, now this is the monk's **mortal fetus, it is safe to survive this Lingyun Xiandu, and the monk's body will be like this, the problem now is that we have to find the true body he has just achieved."
"How to find it?!"
"Find Rulai!" The monkey's eyes flashed, and he looked at the top of the spiritual mountain, "The person was lost in his spiritual mountain, of course he is going to find the owner of the spiritual mountain!"
...... Lingshan, Leiyin Ancient Temple, Daxiong Treasure Hall is a big day today!
After 14 years of learning scriptures from the West, the journey is coming to an end.
Finally, someone once again walked through the road to heaven, ended a period of cause and effect tens of thousands of years ago, and obtained the merit of reaching heaven, and at the same time, the scriptures of Buddhism will flow into the east with these westward people and carry forward.
Whether it is for the entire Three Realms of sentient beings, or for Buddhism alone, this is a great story.
Although there is a character in this group who is a headache for them, and there is still some grudge with them, but in this happy day, no one wants to mention this ballast, so they all chose to forget their surnames.
Of course, most people thought in their hearts whether they could lead the Buddha to kill Mo Xuan when he was flying across the clouds.
Naturally, this is also a wish that cannot be declared.
Early in the morning, the four great King Kong waited at the door of the Lingshan, ready to greet Tang Seng and his party, although now this Tang Seng has just taken off the mortal womb, but it is obvious that as the most beloved disciple of the Buddha, he has completed such a big thing, and has obtained the merit of the heavens, and the future is beyond the breadth of their four small King Kongs.
Therefore, although they have not seen the remains of Tang Seng and his apprentices, they have maintained a respectful expression on their faces.
It's just that what they didn't expect was that they were not greeted by Tang Seng, but by a monkey who was extremely angry.
"If you come, I want to see you!" shouted, in this holy place of Buddhism, the top of the Lingshan, and the door of the Leiyin Ancient Temple, this monkey did not have the respect that he should have, but a fierce aura.
The mourning stick in his hand was held very tightly, and the already ugly lonely face looked even more hideous.
"Great Sage, what does this mean?!"
"What do you mean, call Rulai to come out to see me!" the monkey shouted, ignoring the four people in front of him, and his body rushed into the Leiyin Temple like electricity.
"Wukong, don't be rude!"
The monkey broke into the Leiyin Ancient Temple like this, and went straight to the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and everyone in this temple changed their faces, these monks, monks, Bodhisattvas, Arhats and Buddhas, how many times have seen such arrogant people, their faces have changed.
That Guanyin even snorted coldly at the monkey.
But before she could say a second sentence, she saw Tang Seng's body thrown on top of the main hall by a monkey.
"Rulai, what's going on!"
Everyone gasped, they naturally recognized the corpse in front of them as Tang Seng's.
"Amitabha, good, good!" "When he saw the corpse of this Tang monk, his face became strange, "Wukong, don't you know that this Lingyun Xiandu is specially designed to get rid of the ** mortal womb, Tang Seng has passed Lingyun Du, and he will naturally get rid of the mortal fetus, what do you do with this vulgar thing!"
"What are you doing?" the monkey sneered, "You don't know what I'm doing, I waited for a few people, in order to protect this monk, for 14 years, I have been sleeping in the open for 14 years, overcoming thorns and thorns, and going through all kinds of hardships to come to this spiritual mountain, but at the foot of this spiritual mountain, such a thing happened, you say, what should I do?!"
"What should I do?!" Rulai frowned, until now, he hadn't figured out what was going on, and he didn't think anything would happen, after all, this Tang monk had led the Buddha to go out to pick him up in person, but, seeing the monkey's angry appearance, he suddenly felt that something was wrong in his heart, and said again, "Didn't you go through Lingyundu with your master?"
"Of course not!" the monkey sneered, "we crossed the Lingyun Ferry first, and saw a man on the other side of the river in a bottomless boat, and I was here to guide the Buddha, but the man did not cross the river with my master, but threw him directly into the water."
Rao is profound Dharma, and after listening to the monkey's words, his face couldn't help but become ugly.
There was an unbearable silence all around, and everyone turned their eyes to Rulai.
This is really a bit appalling, such a thing happened at the foot of the Spirit Mountain in the West Heaven Resort!
The holy monks who came to the West Heaven to learn the scriptures did not wait for the Buddha to be introduced, but waited for the evil star to die, and if this kind of thing were to be spread - no one dared to imagine the consequences of this.
And most importantly, and most intriguingly, Rulai didn't even know.
After the monkey hit this majestic treasure hall, Rulai still had a stomach full of questions, didn't he say that the three thousand worlds were all under the eyes of the Buddha and had nothing to hide? How could such a thing happen?
When did the Buddha miscalculate?
If so, what does that mean?
Under the seat are the eight bodhisattvas, the four vajra, the five hundred ara, the three thousand revelations, the eleven great yao, and the eighteen garans, and at this time, all the faces showed different colors.
"Amitabha!" Rulai recited a Buddha name, and was about to speak, when there was a sudden shock in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and a gust of wind suddenly rolled up around.
Then, a sound like a thunderbolt was heard, and at the same time, a golden light and shadow shot in from outside the Great Majestic Treasure Hall.
"Buddha-!" Rulai exclaimed, and the eyes of the ancient Buddha and Maitreya Buddha under the seat shone brightly at the same time.
I heard a low shout from outside the hall, "Good!"
Then, a gray shadow lightning flashed in.
"Hmph!" three cold snorts sounded at the same time, Burning the lamp, Rulai, Maitreya, almost at the same time, Burning the lamp lit a finger, Maitreya punched, and Rulai, the incomparably huge palm towards the gray shadow shrouded.
There was another dull sound, and the invisible energy spread out wantonly to the surroundings, and none of the eight bodhisattvas, four vajra, five hundred aro, three thousand Jiedi, eleven Dayao, and eighteen Jialan on both sides could resist the scattered energy, and they were all swept out, especially the three thousand Jiedi, they were the weakest group, and under this sweep of energy, most of them were swept away in an instant, and the small part that remained was also seriously injured.
The other bodhisattvas, arhats, and vajra were all injured, and only a few powerful Buddhas and Bodhisattvas were not injured, but judging from their faces, it was clear that they didn't feel very good.
As for the monkey and the four of them, they retreated far away early, although they were attacked by some strong aftermath, except for the old pig who knocked out one of his front teeth, there was really no harm, thanks to the monkey's cleverness.
After the golden light and shadow appeared, the monkey instinctively felt the danger, a strong sense of crisis, and at the same time, he also felt the powerful pressure on the golden light and shadow, which was definitely not what a guy with his strength could see when he looked up, and the pressure on the light and shadow was only felt once when he was in the three-star cave of the oblique moon, when the patriarch of Su Bodhi was in a bad mood.
The light and shadow in front of him is definitely the same level as Patriarch Subodhi, so it is better to stay away.
Even if he was righteous, the golden hoop stick in his hand became longer, and he put the two junior brothers and the white horse together, and all of them withdrew more than a few miles away with his body. After this muffled sound, the golden light on Rulai's body shone brightly, and the Nine Rank Lotus Platform under his feet also rotated, and the mellow chaotic Yuan Force emanated from his body, and soon enveloped the entire Spirit Mountain.
Under the shroud of the chaotic elemental force, except for those who were shocked by the energy, the injuries of the other injured were well treated.
Maitreya Buddha and the ancient Buddha of the burning lamp each took a step back, their faces were white, and they looked injured, and the Maitreya Buddha shook his hand and untied the acquired bag on his waist and threw it into the air.
"Huh......!" the gray shadow let out an unexpected sound, and the gray mist around his body was sucked clean by the acquired bag, but it still did not show its true face, and his whole body was covered in a gray robe, and even his eyes were covered.
Stretching out his left hand, he spread his five fingers and blocked the gravitational pull of the acquired bag on the periphery of his body.
At the same time, the ancient Buddha who lit the lamp was not soft, and as soon as his hand was raised, the six Dinghai Pearls emitted ten thousand rays of light, and they smashed towards the head of the gray-clothed man.
"Hmph......!" The gray-clothed man sneered, and a black light shot out from his gray robe, turning into a match, entangled with the six Dinghai Pearls, and between the two touched, it caused a violent shock in the entire Lingshan.
That black light is obviously a magic weapon that is not weaker than Dinghaizhu, at least not weaker than the magic weapon of six Dinghaizhu, but it is not much stronger, the two sides are phased, it can be said that they are chess opponents, they will meet good materials, and half of the spiritual mountain was collapsed, and they were entangled together, magic weapon to magic weapon, millilight to black light, the burning lamp ancient Buddha's face stiffened, obviously the injury just now was not light, so that the six Dinghai pearls were a little reluctant.
"Amitabha!" I only heard the lamp chanting a Buddha number loudly, and the Buddha light behind him suddenly flourished, and a Dharma image about three feet high, four heads and eight arms appeared.
Each of the eight arms of the Dharma Body held eight weapons, including a knife, a pestle, a thorn, a short sword, a shovel, a ring, a hook, and a halberd, and attacked the gray-clothed figure with the suffocating chaotic elemental power.
The corner of the gray-clothed man's mouth hidden under the mask pulled out a sneer, his right hand was raised slightly, and a crimson light loomed, heading towards the ancient Buddha of the burning lamp, and at the moment when the two sides were about to make contact, he heard the sound of the golden light and shadow that shot into the Daxiong Treasure Hall first.
"Stop!" is very clear, very light, but with an unquestionable coercion.
The golden light dissipated, and a thin and short golden-clothed monk appeared in everyone's sight.
Very short, less than one meter six by modern calculations, and very thin, skinny to the point of skin and bones, the face is covered with folds, layer by layer, on the withered yellow arms, only one layer remains, there is not a trace of evidence of the existence of fat.
The top of the head is light, and there are not as many relics on top of the head as the other Buddhas, smooth and tight, and reflective, only two places are more special, one is the eyebrows, the gray-white eyebrows stretch out, and the other is his beard, the two beards on the upper lip are long.
The golden robe he wore was also very shabby, covering only half of his body, revealing a small thin body, and holding a small wooden staff in his hand, which looked like it should have been made of withered branches to support his trembling body.
A faint trace of unhealthy blood faintly flashed on the yellow face, and it disappeared in a flash.
"Da, da, da......!" the deadwood staff struck the ground with a "da-da" sound, and slowly walked to the front of Rulai, waving his hand.
"Stop it, here, there's nothing to do with you......!"
"Buddha-!" Rulai's face changed, and he looked at the thin old monk.
"Good, good, good!" The old monk sighed slightly, and with a wave of his empty left hand, the acquired bag of Maitreya Buddha and the Dinghai Pearl of the Burning Buddha returned to his body.
And the black light that was entangled with Dinghaizhu also swished and returned to the gray-clothed man.
"It's very interesting, ...... the Buddha!" The gray clothes looked through the gray cloth on his face, looking at the Buddha standing in front of him, and his eyes behind the mask shot an excited look, "Finally, are you going to really make a move......?"
"Heavenly Dao cycle, retribution is not happy!" The Buddha sighed lightly, "You have gone too far in this matter!"
"Is it too much? How come I don't know!" the man in gray laughed, "I didn't do anything harmful, I just waited for the Buddha at the intersection, that's it!"
"You blocked my way and let my companions kill the golden cicadas, so that their fourteen years of hard work were ruined, what is your intention, do you think I can't see it?"
The gray-clothed man smiled, "I have long heard that the Buddha has a profound Dharma and profound mana, and this time I came just to be able to see the strength of the Buddha, as for the golden cicada, it was indeed killed by my companions, but the purpose of doing so is also simple, just to let you, the legendary Buddha who has never been angry, have some nameless fire, so take a serious shot, that's all-!"
Another light sigh, "Yang Jian, the second god general, do you think you have covered your true face, so I don't know it's you?!"
...... "What do you want to do!" The young man in red raised his beautiful eyebrows and swept at the three strange people standing beside him, with his hands behind his back, with a playful look on his face.
"It seems that there are two old friends, ......!" his gaze swept over the man in the pale yellow robe opposite, this man was a middle-aged man, his face was simple and unremarkable, his body exuded a burst of despair and incomparable aura, with a pair of white eyes without a trace of black, listening to the words of the man in red, his stiff expression moved slightly, but he did not make a sound.
"We're old friends, why, with someone to block me here like this, but don't say a word, there will inevitably be **, there will be a number of faux pas, Moyue Hades-!"
There was still silence, and the pale yellow-robed man known as the Moyue Hades stood motionless, still exuding the dangerous aura of death, vigilant, silent—as if feeling a little bored, the young man in red turned his head to another person, a young man who looked as handsome as he was, and was almost evil in a moon-white robe.
"What about you, my old friend, Xiao Ci, oh, it seems that you should be called Xiao Ci Demon Venerable now, you, it seems that you have something to say!"
Xiao Ci Demon Venerable smiled, if you look closely, that smile is really similar to the young man in red, as if it was made of a mold.
It's just that he's just laughing, but he's not talking.
"Alas, it's really troublesome, do you have to let me say this alone every time we meet?!" The young man in red showed a helpless smile on his face, and pointed to the third person, "This one, you have to introduce, introduce!"
"My name is Chonglou!" said the sturdy man with a cold face, the essence on his face moved a few times, and he looked at the red-clothed young man with some provocation, "Chonglou Demon Venerable!"
"Chonglou! good name, good name!" The young man in red clapped his hands and laughed, "This name is good, and it is also a demon venerable, hehe, two of the seven demon venerables of the demon clan came at once, and the Hades of the underworld also came one, haha, what do you want to do? Do you want to kill me?!"
When the young man in red asked if they had come to kill him, he still had a grin.
"Isn't it possible?!" Chonglou Demon Venerable said coldly, a bloodthirsty light flashed in his eyes, "There are three of us, you are only one, can't we kill you yet?"
The young man in red had an interesting look on his face, his eyes narrowed, and his eyes were extremely sharp with a dangerous light, as if a hungry wolf had seen his long-awaited prey.
"Do you know who I am?"
He was not at all downed by the dangerous aura he emitted, on the contrary, this Heavy Building Demon Venerable also exuded an aura that was not weaker than him at all, and even stronger than him, a bloodthirsty aura.
"Of course I know who you are, the strongest sub-god general 100,000 years ago, and now the ninth god general, Tongtian!"
(To be continued)