Chapter Sixty-Seven: The Spirit Girl of the Tower
This Haotian Tower has eighteen floors, and there are many talismans and gossip diagrams in the tower, and there is nothing else. Shen Shou has been here for more than 5,000 years, and since she was a child, she has never been out of this tower. When she was born, the previous tower keeper told her that the only purpose of her life was to guard the Haotian Tower. She is the same as the spirit girl who guarded the tower last time, she is the aura in the tower, and she has accumulated over time, cultivated into an elf, and then gradually has a body. It's just that when he was just formed, it was also the time when the previous spirit girl was feathered. They all have a common name, Prudence.
When she had just taken shape, the previous spirit girl had already exhausted and was about to turn into ashes. But she struggled to come over, gouging out her immature eyes and her newly formed heart. She didn't have time to see everything in this Haotian Tower, and she didn't remember all kinds of mortal things with her heart, so she was gouged out of her eyes and heart. The dying spirit girl lay in her ear and whispered, "The eyes are the seedlings of love, and the heart is the seed of desire." We guarded this tower, and we should have eliminated the seven emotions and six desires, but these seven emotions and six desires, which are so good, so the ancestors set up a rule, and when the spirit girl was just formed, they gouged out the eyes and hearts. You may resent us now, but when you get through the long night, you will find that without eyes and without hearts, it is eternal. After the old spirit girl finished speaking, she lost her breath, and then the aura in her body gradually faded. Cautiously listened as her body slowly melted in her ear, until there was no sound at all. She couldn't see it, and she didn't know what it meant to be sad, but she babbled in her mouth and read what the old spirit girl said: The eyes are the seedlings of love, and the heart is the seed of desire.
Shen Shou followed the stairs and slowly climbed to the bottom of Haotian Tower. Before the last Spirit Maiden was feathered, she had the memories of her life. It's just that this memory is no different from having it and not having it. In the memories of the previous spirit girl, there was only boundless, tide-like darkness and silence, as well as the art of completing the tower and talisman that were incomplete because of age. Shen Shou slowly climbed to the bottom of Haotian Tower, groping for the words carved on the bottom and reading them word by word. The overhaul of Haotian Tower once in a thousand years is approaching, but the previous spirit girl has reached the end of her life at this time, and herself, although she has her memory, but now her body is just a child in the swaddling world. With his own strength, he really can't check and repair the gossip diagram and talisman in this Haotian Pagoda as usual. It seems that you can only ask the Demon Venerable for help.
Shen Shou stretched out his left hand and pointed upward, and above the Haotian Tower, a white light appeared out of thin air. At that time, the spirit girl guarding the tower called for the aura of the Demon Venerable.
Hailing saw the white light coming out of the tower, and soon arrived at the Haotian Tower. As soon as he entered the tower, he saw Shen Shou who was prostrate on the ground, and was taken aback, "How did the spirit girl in this Haotian Tower change so quickly, but it has been changed for three thousand years, and it has been changed for five." Why did the last one die? Still can't stand the loneliness and darkness in this Haotian Tower?"
Shen Shou heard an ethereal male voice, knowing that it was the Demon Venerable who had arrived, although her body was immature, but she already had the consciousness of the first five spirit girls, she calmly replied, "Life and death are fate, the endless silence in this tower will indeed wear out people's will, but although they can't choose to be born, they can choose to die." ”
Hailing squatted down and said to the blind girl on the ground with interest, "What about you, how long can you endure it?"
Cautious, neither humble nor arrogant, replied: "The future is unknown." ”
Hailing stood up and resumed the ethereal voice just now, "If you can't stand it anymore and want to die, don't choose to die on the day of the overhaul of this Haotian Tower." I'm helping you for the last time, it's not my duty to guard the Haotian Tower, if you dare to learn from them, I'll send all your souls into the Infernal Abyss, and I'll come here in person every thousand years in the future. ”
Be cautious and say: This Demon Venerable is really unkind, no wonder it is not tolerated by the heavenly realm. But he said kindly, "This is natural, and I can't help it." ”
Hailing snorted, turned around and was about to go out, but was stopped by Shen Shou, "Demon Venerable, please stay." ”
Hailing said impatiently, "In three days, I will come over to help you repair the talisman and formation, what are you anxious about now?"
Shen Shou chuckled and said, "Demon Venerable has misunderstood. It's just that I began to take on a human form, so I was stripped of my eyes and heart, at this time I couldn't see things, and my movement was quite inconvenient, I was covered in blood, and it was very cold in this tower, so I wanted to bother the Demon Zun to help me take a bath with hot soup, and by the way, I was dressed in clean clothes. ”
Hailing was stunned for a moment, turned around and walked towards Shen Shou on the ground, then bent down and lifted her immature legs, and directly lifted out of Haotian Tower. Shen Shouben felt a little uncomfortable with such a handstand, and when he thought of this Demon Venerable's cold temper, he didn't say much.
She knew that the Demon Venerable had carried her out of the Haotian Tower, and she felt a little curious. The first five spirit girls had never been out of Haotian Tower in their lives, so they had no relevant memories of life outside the tower. As soon as Shen Shou came out of the tower, she smelled a burst of fragrance, which she had never smelled before, and she had no memories of it. She couldn't help but ask, "Lord Demon Venerable, what kind of fragrance is in this wind?"
Hailing was stunned for a moment, slowed down his pace, lifted Shen Shou up, hugged it with one hand, and then took a deep breath, and said slowly, "Then the world is respectful, respectful, respectful, and admired; Sitting, entering the samadhi of immeasurable righteousness, the body and mind do not move, and there are four flowers, namely: Tianyu Mandalahua, Maha Mandalahua, Manju Sahua, and Mahammanzhu Sahua. And the scattered Buddhas and the masses. ”
After listening to him recite the Lotus Sutra, he realized that it was the Manju Sawa written in the Sutra, and then smiled and continued, "Legend has it that in the past, there were two people whose names were called Pi and An, and God decreed that the two of them should never see each other. They cherished each other and admired each other, and finally one day, they met each other secretly in defiance of the rules of God. After they met, he found that Shore was a beautiful woman, and Shore also found that he was a handsome and dashing young man.
The result was doomed, because of the violation of the rules of heaven, the relationship was finally ruthlessly stifled. Heaven sent down a punishment and gave the two of them a vicious curse, since they wanted to have a private meeting regardless of the rules of heaven, they let them become the flowers and leaves of a flower, but this flower is very peculiar, there are flowers without leaves, leaves without flowers, life and life, flowers and leaves are wrong. Legend has it that one day after countless reincarnations, the Buddha came here, saw a flower on the ground with extraordinary temperament, and the flower on the other side of the demon was as red as fire, and the Buddha came to it to look at it carefully, and saw the mystery of it just by looking at it. The Buddha was neither sad nor angry, but he suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed three times, and reached out to pull the flower out of the ground. ”