Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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“Let’s go, let’s go!” Fang Xushan was also stunned for a moment, but then he reacted and pulled everyone forward.
Xie Lingya looked back as he ran. The old monk was standing there with a sword in his hand, and the dead bodies dared not approach him.
“…No, they were still fighting just now!” Xie Lingya couldn’t help but say.
Shi Changxuan’s postgraduate study was not in vain. He thought for a while and said, “What he just read was the Sutra of the Holy Kasyapa Wrathful Vajra Boy Bodhisattva, in which he mentioned various supernatural powers. The practitioner held a sword in his right hand, and the sword emitted flames. Then he will become the Sword Holding Immortal.”
Sword Holding Immortal?
He didn’t expect that the old monk, who was not good-looking and would be out of breath after walking a few steps, had learned such an elegant sword technique.
Before Xie Lingya could think about it, the three-story building appeared right in front of him. But the door was closed. Xie Lingya walked forward and smashed the glass, then crawled in to open the door.
Everyone searched up and down but found that the house was empty. Behind the house were mountains and a river. They didn’t know whether the person in the house had left long ago or went into the mountains.
“He must have been casting a spell just now, otherwise how could the corpses in the cemetery be resurrected?” Fang Xushan said, “I used a spell to sense the mountain god here!”
Xie Lingya looked around the first floor. There were some scriptures scattered around, and a few cups on the table. There was unfinished tea, no TV, no refrigerator, and a shrine in the southeast corner. There was a bronze Buddha statue half the height of a person, wearing a lotus crown, holding a lotus bud in his right hand, wearing a cassock, with his eyes lowered. There was a compassionate smile on his face, and in front of the table were incense, flowers and candles.
“Let’s go and take a look at the back.” Fang Xushan led the Taoists to the door.
Xie Lingya was still standing in the distance, feeling something strange in his heart. This place gave him a wrong feeling. Was it because someone had performed some evil magic here before and the remaining aura was left?
Shi Changxuan also took out a talisman paper and said, “Did you hear any sound?”
“Bang!”
Shi Changxuan had just finished speaking when the door automatically closed without wind, blocking the Taoists’ way.
The lights in the house went out all of a sudden. Outside the window, dark clouds blocked the moon. There was no moonlight or stars, only… only the two candles in front of the Buddha statue, swaying gently, illuminating the smile on the Buddha’s face.
Xie Lingya shuddered inexplicably. He didn’t bring the command flag with him, so he couldn’t use the Lushan method. At this moment, his mind moved and he directly summoned the Ghost King of the East!
But for some reason, the Ghost King had not yet arrived. Xie Lingya felt a sinking feeling in his heart and looked at Liu Lingtong who was beside him.
Liu Lingtong couldn’t utter a single word.
“What’s going on?” Xie Lingya dipped his fingers in cinnabar and drew the eyes of a spiritual official between his eyebrows, but there was nothing strange where he focused. There was nothing strange in his eyes, but the strangeness in his heart was growing deeper and deeper, but he couldn’t put it into words for the time being.
At this moment, Lian Tan had already rushed out of the forest with a sword on his back, holding a Buddhist rosary in one hand. He had just killed a skeleton in the forest. He looked up and saw that the lights in the house were off and the door was closed. He wanted to go in through the window, but he couldn’t get to the window.
Lian Tan’s face was solemn. He then started chanting the Buddha’s name and threw the Buddhist beads in his hand. The Buddhist beads made of Bodhi seeds fell on the windowsill, clattering to the ground and breaking the silence.
The Taoists in the room were a little nervous and thus huddled together. When they saw Lian Tan come in, they were delighted.
Lian Tan looked around, but his face changed color and he stared at the Buddha statue in the corner.
“What’s wrong?”
Lian Tan gritted his teeth and said, “This statue looks like a Buddha but is dressed like a Bodhisattva. It’s half Buddha and half Bodhisattva. Where did this evil thing come from?!”
… No wonder there is a guardian in the cemetery. It turns out that the evil Buddha’s offerings were spiritual and could do evil things and display magical powers.
Everyone’s minds suddenly exploded and they understood.
They did not understand the Buddhist system, but Lian Tan could tell at a glance that this was not the appearance of any known Buddha or Bodhisattva at all, but rather a mixture of forms.
It turned out that the truth was right in front of them, but they just didn’t know it.
Looking at the Buddha statue in front of the candlelight again, the smile on the corners of his lips deepened without him noticing when! It seemed like a mockery, but also like pity!
Such a strange scene made everyone feel cold in their hearts and tighten their hold on the magic weapons in their hands.
At this moment, a low whisper sounded in their ears, like the buzzing of mosquitoes. They couldn’t hear it clearly. At first, it seemed to be there and not there, but it gradually became louder. They didn’t know where the sound came from, mixed with the strange smile of the Buddha statue, which made them feel very uncomfortable until their heart went cold.
Xie Lingya held the Lingguan Jue in his hand and winked at Shi Changxuan.
Shi Changxuan understood, sat on the ground, and imagined the flowing golden fire bell. No matter what kind of evil Buddha or Bodhisattva he was, just beat him down.
——Once Xie Lingya used the skill of summoning the spirit ancestor, it only lasted less than ten seconds, and the CD was extremely long, so he couldn’t use it easily.
At this time, other Taoists also held swords to protect the law, chanting the Golden Light Mantra in their mouths and their voices were clear, as if they were fighting against the whispering.
Lian Tan held the sword in his hand and walked towards the evil Buddha statue while chanting. When he was five steps away, he heard a voice suddenly rise from the low and fine voice: “Hum!”
Lian Tan’s skinny body then seemed to be struck by a heavy hit, and he flew backwards!
Xie Lingya rushed over and grabbed the old monk, only to see blood coming out of his mouth. “Are you okay?”
Lian Tan looked painful but shook his head, pushed Xie Lingya away and sat cross-legged in meditation.
Xie Lingya immediately thought that the sound just now seemed to be able to drill into people’s brains. Compared with the damage to the physical body, the mental attack was more powerful, especially since Lian Tan was practicing Buddhism.
Xie Lingya turned back in a daze, looked at the evil Buddha behind the candlelight, and picked up the peach wood sword that Lian Tan had put down.
The murmuring sound of mantras surrounded his ears and penetrated into his brain. The weirdness of the Buddha’s expression faded away and was filled with joy, and it was a joy that came from the heart, making everyone who saw it happy together.
When facing troops and fighting, all of them would form a battle array and march forward.
Xie Lingya silently recited the secret blessing of Liujia in his heart, but the world in front of him suddenly turned upside down, and he fell as if from a great height and landed on an uneven ground.
“… Shit.” Xie Lingya cursed in a low voice and climbed up to see that the ground was covered with skeletons, piled up into a mountain, endless. He was sitting alone among the skeletons, and the whole world turned black and white. It was the color of white bones, and black was the gap between the skulls.
They were just in the small building, how come they were on Skull Mountain in an instant? Xie Lingya glanced at his shoulder. Although there was still a little wooden man, he couldn’t speak a word. He immediately understood what was going on.
This was an illusion.
Xie Lingya stepped on the skull, with his sword against it, and sneered as he held the sword: “This is not as scary as the cemetery just now.”
At this time, a voice that sounded like a man or a woman sounded faintly in his ears: “This is for you.”
Xie Lingya’s heart skipped a beat and his scalp went numb.
Although he knew it was an illusion, this sentence still gave him goosebumps.
The voice continued, “In one kalpa, you have been reincarnated, so your bones have not decayed and have turned into this mountain.”
These bones, as numerous as the mountain and the sea, are all my past lives…
The feeling under his feet suddenly felt different. Xie Lingya was horrified.
The voice seemed to know what he was thinking, and continued: “Join my sect, and you will transcend the cycle of reincarnation, be free from sin, pain, and endless happiness.”
Xie Lingya: “…”
These bewitching words made Xie Lingya’s mind clearer. Knowing that people would advise him to become a monk every now and then, he said gloomily, “Are there five social insurances and one housing fund?”
The voice paused for a moment before saying, “All things in the world are like old bones. The solution is impermanence. Seeing the nature and attaining the fruit.”
Xie Lingya smiled and said, “Are you the only one in the world who is detached? My ancestor is detached from nature, but he guards the mountain gate and maintains the country. His three eyes can observe the world’s affairs and wake up the world with a whip. Evil demons like you——”
He thrust his sword fiercely into the Skull Mountain. The cinnabar between his eyebrows became brighter and brighter. He then said viciously: “Stop selling Amway in front of me!”
The Skull Mountain began to collapse rapidly from the point where the sword sank!
….
Xie Lingya rolled to the ground holding the sword, only to find that he had “returned” to the original room, or rather, he had just woken up with a shock.
Lian Chi was still meditating, Shi Changxuan was still daydreaming, but the other Taoists had disappeared without a trace. Xie Lingya suspected that they had also fallen into an illusion and had not yet woken up.
——Want to ask why? Lian Tan didn’t mention it, but Shi Changxuan was able to make the Golden Fire Bell come true, so his willpower probably couldn’t be dragged into the illusion.
At the same time, Shi Changxuan opened his eyes, and a golden fire bell shot out from his Niwan Palace, piercing straight into the evil Buddha’s chest and abdomen.
The Buddha statue’s mouth, which was originally curled up in a smile, suddenly opened wide and let out repeated androgynous roars, exactly the same as what Xie Lingya had heard in the illusion just now.
Liu Lingtong squeezed out a few words: “Pretend, pretend to be dirty! Human soul pretends to be dirty!”
Xie Lingya was startled, raised his hand and swung his sword. The wooden sword broke the bronze statue, splitting it in half like cutting mud, and the expression on its face was forever solidified. In an instant, countless ghosts came out, filling the entire room, with a blank look on their faces.
A yellow cloth bag fell out of the Buddha’s belly and scattered around, revealing some hair and nails.
At this time, Fang Xushan and others also groaned and woke up: “What happened?”
“I want to ask you what happened,” Xie Lingya squatted and asked, “What kind of treatment did he give you for poaching you just now?”
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