Mutated Tao Chapter 285: Gan Yuan (addition for lord morgenrote)

A child is riding a cow and is rushing out of the village with his dog. Some older girls and daughters-in-law are washing clothes by the river. Everyone's expressions are so normal, which is very different from the previous Pi County Don't.

From the outside, there is nothing special about this village.

However, the more normal it behaves, the more abnormal this place becomes in Li Huowang's eyes.

Li Huowang took out the envelope again and took a closer look. It did say that there were signs of Zaowangdao here, but it didn't say what the signs were.

Thinking of the previous experience in Pi County, Li Huowang turned his head to the others and said, "Since it is said that there is a possibility of sitting and forgetting the Tao, I will sneak in and check it first, so as not to startle the snake."

"Brother Li, are you really alright by yourself?"

Bai Lingmiao hesitated to speak, but Li Huowang's changes could not escape the eyes of the person next to her pillow. Li Huowang, who had been a little normal recently, had started to become neurotic again.

Reminiscent of those voices, Li Huowang didn't explain anything. In this kind of matter, the more she explained, the more worried she would be.

Li Huowang misplaced his incorporeal body with the real one, and slowly groped inside along the small path under the willow tree at the head of the village.

The sudden auditory hallucination of "Yourenfeng" did not surprise Li Huowang anymore. He shook his head vigorously and looked at the monk who was stuck in the tree.

"Look at what I do? It's not what I said."

"Shh..." Li Huowang put down the finger that stood on his mouth, and walked slowly towards Ganyuan Village.

His mind was completely removed from the auditory hallucinations, and he was completely focused on the crisis in front of him.

Soon, Li Huowang could see that the whole Ganyuan Village seemed to be celebrating something. The couplets on the wall and the door gods on the door were all changed, and even the clothes on his body were changed into new ones.

Standing on a big tree covered with red cloth strips, Li Huowang silently watched everything below. So far, he has not noticed any abnormalities.

It won't be soon, the situation will change, the villagers who are neatly dressed and have eaten a hearty lunch, rush towards the end of the village in groups.

On the way, the villagers who seemed to be in a good mood laughed and chatted, and there was nothing unusual about it.

Li Huowang followed these people to the end of the village and stopped in front of a village temple.

Everyone's voice has become much quieter, and some children will be dragged over by the adults when they are noisy at this time, and they will slap their buttocks.

Everyone stood there expecting something.

Just as Li Huowang was hesitating whether to touch into the village temple to have a look, a brown clay sculpture was swung out of the dark arch.

Judging from the shape of the vase in the hands of the clay sculpture, it is obviously a statue of a Bodhisattva. And it's a clay bodhisattva.

However, the Bodhisattva's face is not benevolent at all. The clay Bodhisattva seems to have experienced a heavy rainstorm.

All the facial features on the face were melted, and they were all elongated and hung on the face in long strips, leaving only two irregular black holes.

"Oh! Oh!!" All the villagers of Ganyuan gathered around one after another, helped Miaozhu lift up the bodhisattva, and began to swing around the whole village.

"Mud Bodhisattva" looking at the two black holes on the statue of the Bodhisattva, Li Huowang frowned and muttered to himself.

Standing like this on the top of the tree, Li Huowang watched the villagers swing the weird clay bodhisattva around the entire Ganyuan Village.

Every lap, the Bodhisattva will wear more red. When the sun was high, the body of the clay bodhisattva was covered with a thick red gauze.

The clay Bodhisattva dressed in red was carried to the side of the village temple again, and sent into the temple while swinging.

It was just sent in, but it was carried out of the temple again with shouts, and then carried into the temple again under the booing of everyone.

Just carried it in and out like this, and after a total of three rounds, they put the clay Buddha down in the temple and began to burn incense and kowtow to worship.

Li Huowang originally wanted to go in and see what was going on in the village temple.

However, the villagers surrounded the inner one so tightly that Li Huowang, who was invisible, had no place to stay and couldn't get in at all.

When the sun gradually turned to the west, they happily walked towards their home.

When it was completely dark and even the hunched Miao Jigong locked the door and went to sleep by the side door, Li Huowang slowly got down from the tree.

Not long after, with a crisp clicking sound, the copper lock broke into two pieces, and the closed door was opened a crack.

When the moonlight shot through the crack of the door into the dark village temple, Li Huowang outside the door had already held the hilt of the Zisui sword.

If Zuo Wangdao really intends to do something, then no matter what you think about it, they may make a fuss about it.

With a "creak", the invisible Li Huowang pushed open the door and walked in.

Because of the incense, the whole room is filled with a strong aroma of sandalwood, and the clay bodhisattva with melting five sense organs looms in the darkness.

There is not only one clay Bodhisattva in the temple, but also on both sides of the temple. Those are all clay sculptures, but they are not Bodhisattvas, but eighteen arhats.

Bodhisattvas have no faces, but the eighteen arhats have faces. They stand there angry or hated, and their appearance is very lifelike. Standing in the temple has a feeling of being stared at.

The clay bodhisattva that was carried out before was placed in the middle of the temple on a stone lotus seat.

The incense burner in front of me is full of burnt wooden poles. All the incense is given to him.

There are two clay sculptures on the left and right sides of the Bodhisattva in the center of the temple.

These two clay sculptures have five sense organs, and judging from their appearance and size, they happen to be a pair of boys and girls under the seat of the Bodhisattva.

The temple is not big, so Li Huowang finished his tour very quickly. Without finding anything, he finally turned his attention to the Bodhisattva covered in red.

The clay bodhisattva is not very tall, it looks only two meters, but because the platform under him is very high, Li Huowang has to look up when standing there,

In the dim temple with almost no light, there is a red-robed Bodhisattva with melting facial features. How terrifying is this scene, not to mention that Li Huowang has long believed that there is something wrong with this Bodhisattva.

"Shouldn't you just slash over with your sword and have a look?" Li Huowang had an idea in his mind.

Just as he was seriously thinking about this question, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the boys and girls on both sides of the Bodhisattva.

"Did they look like this just now? Or did they just move?"

Looking at the two clay sculptures staring at him, Li Huowang, who was in the dark and quiet, felt inexplicably cold.

"You come"

"Who!" The chaotic voice made Li Huowang turn around abruptly, but there was nothing behind him.

"Wait a minute, was that just my auditory hallucination, or did it come from something in this temple?"

When Li Huowang thought of this question, he froze in place, for a moment he couldn't tell the difference.