Mutated Tao Chapter 47: Shangxiang

As soon as Xinhui finished speaking, she seemed to realize her slip of the tongue immediately, and hurriedly clasped her hands together, closed her eyes slightly, and paid homage to the west.

"Amitabha, I have committed a sin, and my disciple has violated the commandment of hatred. Afterwards, I must copy the scriptures a hundred times as a punishment."

After saying these words, Xinhui raised her head again and looked at Li Huowang calmly. After carefully looking at it for a while, he nodded slightly. "I know why this is, Xuanyang benefactor, just follow me."

Looking at the group of monks staring at them, Li Huowang had no choice but to follow. He put the long sword in the scabbard behind his back, turned around and followed.

Xinhui did not go to other places, but brought everyone back to the previous place where Buddha statues were carved. "Benefactor Xuanyang, did you just see the dirty things here?"

Surrounded by the monks, Li Huowang was stunned when he saw everything in front of him. The unfinished stone statues that had turned into meat mountains before reappeared in front of him as if they were joking with him. "What's the matter—"

"Benefactor, you continue to follow me."

Accompanied by Xinhui, Li Huowang walked forward slowly, passed the place where the Buddha statue was sculpted, and came to the place where he saw the livestock before.

Here, too, there are no beasts. There are only unfinished stone unicorns and stone lions. They are large and small stone auspicious beasts lined up neatly, silently watching the front.

At this moment, Xinhui suddenly pulled out the long sword behind Li Huowang and slashed hard, a palm-sized lion's head was chopped off.

Xinhui grabbed the stone lion's head and put it in Li Huowang's hands.

Li Huowang gently stroked the head of the stone lion with his fingers. The texture of the stone and the heavy weight are clearly real!

"How could this be—" Li Huowang, who was confused, still didn't give up. He walked over and touched the sculptures one by one with his hands, and found that they were indeed real.

Finally, he stood at the entrance of the main hall and looked inside, only to see a statue sitting cross-legged on a lotus pedestal, holding an alms bowl in his left hand. The majestic giant stone Buddha with his right hand pointing vertically to the ground suddenly appeared in front of Li Huowang.

"This is impossible! I just saw it clearly, and I can see it clearly! How could it be fake?"

Hearing Li Huowang's words, Abbot Xinhui sighed softly, "Amitabha, benefactor, you are very sick."

The confused Li Huowang turned his head to look at Xinhui, and said in astonishment: "Could it be that I have an illness? What I just saw was a hallucination?"

Xinhui nodded lightly, "Benefactor, what disease do you have yourself, you must know better than us outsiders, right?"

"Could it be that I can only last so long after eating so much black Tai Sui? Have I started to hallucinate again?" Li Huowang murmured to himself in pain while holding his head with his hands.

Hearing what Li Huowang said, a group of monks with repulsive faces gathered together and began to discuss in a low voice.

"After a long time, it turns out that he is a lunatic."

"If there is nothing wrong, please ask him to leave quickly. If he goes crazy one day, it will be a bad person if he is hacked."

"Hush!" Xinhui's words quieted all the monks.

He walked into the hall and lit four incense sticks, then turned around and handed them to Li Huowang, "It's okay to trouble me and wait for the Buddhist disciples, but it's not good to disturb the Buddha, so give the Buddha a good incense Let's go."

"Incense?" Li Huowang, whose body muscles tensed instantly, kept exchanging his gaze among the Buddha, Xinhui, and the four incense sticks.

"Benefactor, what are you waiting for? You are at fault for this matter." Xinhui stretched out the four incense sticks in his hand.

In Li Huowang's mind, he once again recalled the wriggling monster, the monster covered with monks.

If that thing is real, if you go over and burn incense on it yourself, wouldn't you bring it to its mouth for it to eat?

"Donor, what are you hesitating about?"

Li Huowang looked at Xinhui who said this, and a trace of displeasure began to show on his face at this moment.

Touching the real stone lion in his hand, he looked up at the dazzling sun above his head.

Li Huowang threw the lion's head, took the incense stick with both hands, stepped over the door frame, and walked slowly towards the stone statue.

He walked very slowly, physically and mentally tense, and cold sweat began to hang on his forehead.

No matter how slow he walked, Li Huowang finally walked under the big Buddha. The Buddha was still the same Buddha, and he did not become that disgusting monster.

Li Huowang held the incense in both hands, stood in front of the incense burner, and looked up again. From this angle, he could just see the giant Buddha staring at him with eyes that neither happy nor sad, which made people feel involuntary In awe.

As Li Huowang lifted the incense high above his head, the four incense sticks shook slightly, and the white smoke swirled in the air and floated towards the top of the hall.

Li Huowang held up the incense and bowed three times, then solemnly inserted the incense into the incense burner, turned around and went back outside the hall.

Seeing that the conflict was resolved, the group of monks gradually dispersed, returned to their seats, picked up tools and continued to carve, the sound of "dang dang" was endless.

Xinhui and Li Huowang walked slowly outside along the stone brick road in the middle of the stone statue.

"Xuanyang benefactor, since your illness is so serious, don't run around, and wait for the Pudu Dazhai meeting with peace of mind."

"Although your illness is troublesome, compared with your illness, Danyangzi is undoubtedly more dangerous. You eat every mouthful and do everything one by one." Li Huowang next to him said.

Li Huowang raised his head, looked at the sunny sun above his head again, raised his hands high and stretched vigorously. "Abbot, is there a solution in Zhengde Temple for my hysteria?"

"Well... I can let my disciples try it. Whether it will be successful or not is another matter. After all, there is no inheritance of Huang Qi's art in this academy."

"It's okay, I'll just ask casually, anyway, I've been crazy for so long, I'm used to it." Li Huowang said indifferently, "By the way, abbot, what did you do just now? Why did the thing in my arms suddenly arrive? Do you have it?"

"Hehehe, it's just a little trick, it's not worth mentioning."

"Abbot, don't be humble at this time, if you are worthless, then what is a person like me, a bug is not as good as it."

"Xuanyang benefactor, things don't work that way. You see, although Danyangzi is not as strong as me, he can be regarded as a mid-level outsider, but didn't you get rid of him in the end?"

"Everyone like Dan Yangzi is middle class? How powerful is the upper class? Abbot, is there a difference between high and low people like you?"

"Yes, there are, such things as heaven and earth mystery, but they are all made up by boring people. Monks don't seek fame, and don't care about these."

This short road, the two walked for a long time and talked a lot. Li Huowang also obtained a lot of useful information in this world from Xinhui.

After leaving the carving site, Li Huowang stopped, saluted Xinhui, "Thank you, Abbot, for clarifying the confusion."

"Where is it? It's nothing more than a little effort. The benefactor Xuanyang is sick, so let's go back and rest."

After being polite to each other, Li Huowang looked around, but after not finding the old monk, he turned and walked towards his residence.

He walked slowly, looking preoccupied as if he was thinking about something.

After walking for less than half an hour, Li Huowang finally came to his residence. The moment he closed the door, Li Huowang's expression instantly turned ferocious. Clenched fists with both hands and hammered the wall hard.

Although I don't know what method those monks used to confuse their eyes, as a patient who has alternated between hallucinations and reality for a long time, Li Huowang couldn't be more sensitive to these.

I felt something was obviously wrong with the big Buddha just now. It was like hallucinating a traditional Chinese medicine hospital. It had an indescribable taste.

"Those stone sculptures are all fake! The Buddha is also fake! It's all made by blindfolding!! What I saw before was not an illusion at all!"