Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms: Chapter 56

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There was a dead silence in the temple, as if the gods and Buddhas all disappeared, all the voices were swallowed by the infinite void, not even a trace of air shock.

Phoenix suddenly felt something was wrong.

He frowned slightly, and at this moment, the light on the large pure gold floor tiles before him faintly outlined a shadow, dimly, and it took a long time to gradually show his figure.

"——Venerable Bati?" Phoenix asked in amazement.

Venerable Bati looks very embarrassed, his eyes are collapsed and his complexion is blue and gray, and the skin on his face is wrinkled. It looks a bit like the five decays of heaven and human beings. However, Phoenix knows that Venerable Bati has not been weak for tens of thousands of years. Now it’s impossible for him to suddenly fail, so he immediately leaned over to help him: "What's the matter with your sire?"

"..." Ba Ti stared at him straightly and opened his mouth.

"Venerable?"

Bati took a breath for a while, took the Buddha bone hanging from the red thread on Phoenix's hand, and then reached out and hooked from his temple.

A faint and brilliant golden light was hooked out of his brain along the fingertips, and then it was covered on the Buddha bone by postscript. At that moment, the entire Buddha bone glowed brightly, and then the golden light loomed into the bone marrow, quickly extinguishing, as if nothing had happened.

Bati hoarsely said: "Please protect it..."

Phoenix wondered: "What is this?"

Bati leaned over Phoenix's ears, his voice was extremely slight, and if you listen carefully, you can still notice the trembling of the tail sound:

"...is the soul of the true Buddha..."

"I forcibly went to the colorless sky and brought the soul of the true Buddha from the hiding place..."

The first reaction of Phoenix was at a loss, and then it was nonsense.

But the expression of Ba Ti in his eyes is very solemn, and it doesn't seem to be a joke at all.

——This venerable person is indeed not a joking type. Strictly speaking, he is a cousin of the righteous Buddha. He cultivated a righteous fruit under the two trees, and was honored from the first day when Mount Xumi broke through the sea. Feng is on the top of the Buddha Hall on Xuebao Mountain. He has always been a pure-hearted person with little desire to hold himself upright.

"This... is this Sakyamuni?" Phoenix pointed at the Buddha bone, feeling very absurd.

Who knows, he immediately stopped when he heard it: "Don't mention that person's name!"

"...what?"

"Don’t mention that person’s name. Although he is in the colorless sky, Alaya Consciousness is everywhere. Mentioning the name will startle him. I finally took away all the gods and Buddhas, and then avoided Through his perception, he found the only remaining true Buddha soul......"

There was no other feeling in Phoenix except for the astonishment: "Tell me...you said that ‘he’ is not the true Buddha? Then what is ‘he’?"

Bati took the Phoenix's hand, placed the Buddha bone in his palm, and pushed his fingers so that he could hold the bone that hides the true Buddha's soul.

"The Buddha and I have practiced under the Bodhi tree for thousands of years. We are very familiar with each other. Until that year, when the glacier moved, the phoenix jade fetus was shaken into the sea of ​​blood, and the Buddha went to the **** to pick it up. Going to Wuxiantian, but turning into a human body and staying in Mount Xumi, turning into a'he' that makes me feel very strange..."

This "he" clearly refers to Sakyamuni, and Venerable Bati is indeed careful to avoid mentioning this name.

"'He' has been raising you in the Temple of Mount Xume for a long time. Most of the time, he hides his figure from being seen. I once asked him why he didn't return to the lotus seat? His answer was that the phoenix was born with a very evil aspect. The Buddha's calamity in the next 30,000 years; and his present posture is the human body born for the Buddha's calamity. Only after the first round of Buddha's calamity can he recover his golden body and return to the colorless sky."

Sakyamuni is the physical form of the true Buddha. The so-called "first round of Buddha's calamity" was also relieved when the Phoenix was in the Sea of ​​Blood. Therefore, Sakyamuni was able to leave Mount Xumi and return to the Colorless Heaven. This Phoenix had known for a long time.

Is there anything wrong in it?

"Do you know why the first round of Buddhism must go to clear the sea of ​​blood?" Venerable Bati took a breath and asked tiredly, sitting on the ground.

Phoenix doubted: "Isn't it a relief... Isn't it his big wish?"

Bati shook his head:

"To make a vow is to become a Buddha. He is already a Buddha, and he only needs to return to the lotus seat. Why do I need to make a vow?"

Phoenix never thought about this problem.

Not only him, but no one on Mount Xumi has thought about it—after all, few people know Shakyamuni. Even if someone knows, the unshakable recognition of the true Buddha’s status has been deep in tens of thousands of years. It is deeply implanted in people's hearts, and it is impossible to shake the slightest.

Batti laughed mockingly, and didn't know whether he was mocking Phoenix for granted, or mocking himself at the nine heavens and ten heavenly gods and Buddhas, no one thought of this.

"This person who returned to Mount Xumi from **** with you, who raised you in a hidden identity, was born in the demon eye of hell. He claimed to be born when the Buddha saw the phoenix break out of the shell. The human body, in fact, may be another thing."

Venerable Bati paused and said: "It's another...very terrible thing."

Phoenix seemed to understand something suddenly, and Huo Ran stepped back and stared at the pale and haggard face of the Venerable, before shook his head for a while and said: "No...this is impossible!"

"Why is it impossible? Only this way can explain why'he' must empty the sea of ​​blood before he can return to the colorless sky." Venerable Bati said coldly: "You must know-the magic eye is the **** energy circulation system At the fixed point, there is infinite energy concentrated from all parts of the **** at all times, converging to the magic eye, and then circulating from the magic eye to all **** creatures. Most of these **** creatures are ordinary **** creatures born in the sea of ​​blood, and If it is born in the eyes of the magic, it will have another characteristic."

He paused, and said: "This feature is that no matter where the monsters born in the eyes of the magic eyes go in the future, they can automatically absorb the energy circulating in the eyes of the eyes as the support of the soul, so that the eyes can be supplied to hell. The energy in various places gradually decreases, and it can be called the looter of the entire **** energy-but on the contrary, if the monsters in the **** itself exceed a certain number, the energy consumption will increase exponentially, so that the looter can occupy Energy is greatly reduced."

"The period from when you broke your shell to the first time you emptied the sea of ​​blood, happened to be the stage where the number of **** creatures was rapidly expanding. Therefore, the **** energy that'he' could absorb on Mount Xume also shrank sharply. As for it is impossible to go to the colorless heaven to fight the remaining true Buddha soul."

"Until you shot the Great Asura King and emptied the sea of ​​blood for the first time, the Great Demon of Hell was almost surrendered. At this time,'he' has no rivals, and can fully occupy all the energy circulating from the eyes , Possessing an unimaginable strength, so he went to the colorless sky to suppress the soul of the true Buddha. For you, it is the success of the'Buddha' through the catastrophe and a smooth return..."

Phoenix could hardly believe his ears. He stood there, his face pale as paper.

"Then he... Then what is he?"

Venerable Bati smiled, but his smile was more bitter than crying: "I don't know."

Phoenix stood there, her heart was shocked, she didn't know what to say.

The weirdness and capriciousness of Sakyamuni, as well as the absurd behavior of Heaven's Dao for thousands of years, and even the madness of conquering the four evil ways and emptying the sea of ​​blood and **** all seem to have been answered at this moment. However, it is still difficult for him to believe that the person who raised him is a demon, or a demon born from the golden body of the Buddha!

"But...but I was also born in the eyes of the devil, am I..."

Batti gave a slightly weird and very complicated smile.

"You are an ancient sacred bird, and your nature breaks the devil. Even if the energy of the demon eye circulates on you, it will be immediately offset by the divinity of the phoenix. But besides you, there are other people born in the demon eye. , Do you know who it is?"

Phoenix opened his mouth, his teeth trembling slightly: "Zhou Hui..."

Bati nodded and said, "There is another one, the current Great Asura King Fanluo."

——No wonder that only Zhou Hui among the thousands of **** demons has cultivated a human body. No wonder his strength is so powerful that it even surpasses the Ashura tribe. It turns out that a series of unreasonable reasons are behind this!

The phoenix heart was beating, and the rapid blood flow made his fingertips numb, "...So now it is Zhou Hui and Fanluo who share the **** energy circulating in the magic eyes with him? "

"In the beginning, there were more than that, but other creatures born in the eyes of the demon were either wiped out by you when you cleared the sea of ​​blood, or they didn't become a climate, and were solved by'he' himself. Now the remaining Fanluo and Zhou Hui , One is the Great Asura King with Godhead, one is with you all the year round, he can’t find a chance to start."

Venerable Bati spoke anxiously and coughed a few times while covering his mouth. The sound seemed to come out of a stuffy vibration in his chest. It sounded like a torn trachea, and it was conceivable that he was seriously injured.

Phoenix knelt before him and said earnestly: "Venerable, please let me heal your wounds..."

"No, it's too late." Bati smiled wryly.

"I found clues from the weirdness of'him'. I was worried that if his strength reached a certain level, he would completely destroy the true Buddha, so I went to the colorless sky and stole the last ray of the true Buddha's soul. Immediately use the whole body repair to close the only exit of the colorless sky."

He pointed to the Buddha bone in Phoenix's hand, and said: "With his current strength, the colorless sky can't be closed for long, and soon he will break through the confinement and come to Mount Xumi-my current cultivation is completely destroyed. It's just an empty frame. Once you face it, there is only a dead end. But I just ask you to protect the last soul of the true Buddha, so that one day in the future, you can expel the false Buddha and let the Buddha who really has a heart of compassion return to his place and avoid the six ways. All creatures are covered with charcoal..."

Phoenix’s pupils tightened, looking at the bones hidden by the golden light in his hand, he hesitated: "But how to expel the false Buddha?"

Bati was silent, and did not speak for a long time.

"Venerable?"

"..." Bati finally spoke, but it seemed a bit difficult:

"People born in the same eyes of the demon can kill each other. So you can kill King Asura, refine his godhead as energy, and ignite the fire of Nirvana with the strongest godliness in the nine heavens and ten earths. Perhaps you can kill The man in the colorless sky burned to death..."

He took a breath, don't look too far into Phoenix's eyes.

Phoenix's breathing stopped, and there was no sound for a long time.

"But," he finally said after a long time, "if I die, what about Zhou Hui and...my two children?"

Actually, Phoenix’s first reaction in an instant was, what would Zhou Hui do? But before the words were spoken, he was stunned.

He thought he would think about Maha, what would Garuda do, his child was so young, how would he face the unpredictable storms and treacherous fate in the future? However, at the moment before the words were spoken, Zhou Hui first came to mind.

The man who proposed to him from thousands of troops, the man who brought him out of the empty and lonely temple to accompany him for thousands of years, the man who came from the crowd countless times and took his hand, Ask him if he misses his man.

Children will always grow up, and they will always meet the person they should meet at some turning point in their fate.

However, Zhou Hui only has him, and the life of the **** is still so long. What can he do in the future?

Will he sit in a vacuum world where there is no light and hope day after day as he did before, until death finally comes to someday in the future?

Will he remember the thousands of years of getting along with himself over and over again, like a gambler who quenches his thirst with a dove, accepting endless torture in the intertwining of fantasy and reality, and eventually his mental breakdown will end?

The Phoenix shuddered slightly.

At that moment, he suddenly felt that the Buddha bone in his hand was so heavy that it was a bit unbearable.

"Your Majesty," Venerable Bati's voice was gentle, but there was some sad pity in his eyes: "But even if you let it go, Zhou Hui... the person in the colorless sky will not let competitors **** the magic eye from him. His power, one day he will first attack the Great Asura King, and then turn to Zhou Hui when his strength grows. By then, there will be nine heavens and ten places, and there will be no power to compete with him. End of eggs?"

The Phoenix's heart is shaken.

Seeing him stunned and speechless for a long time, Venerable Bati sighed and said: "I will tell you one more reason for doing this. King Peacock will not live long after being deprived of the Godhead. Unless he is replaced by a similar godhead-His Majesty Maha has a very evil nature, except for his close relatives within the six realms, it is unlikely that there will be similarities. Only the current Great Asura King Brahma, born in the eye of the demon, is known as the devil, and his godhead Maybe it can be matched with the Peacock King... Try or not, it’s between your highness."

Venerable Bati finished talking about his chest tightness and coughing. He probably said too much. His voice was so hoarse that he could hardly hear human voices. A lot of golden blood splashed from the corners of his mouth, and he gritted his teeth and wiped it away.

Phoenix looked at him blankly, and asked for a while: "Then you...what are you going to do?"

"Me?" Venerable Bati gasped and laughed: "I am waiting here. I am waiting for him to kill me, and my soul will return to the realm of the market. I will continue to wait and see him on it. Self-destruction...I don’t believe that there can be a dove occupying a magpie’s nest for a lifetime. I have done everything I can do, and I will wait for the rest."

Phoenix's complexion changed slightly, and after a long time he got up and took a half step back to salute Venerable Bati:

"I will guard the soul of the true Buddha and do my best to bring the Buddha back to the right position."

He paused, his voice was low but insistent: "But not for the so-called illusory justice or the'God', but for myself-if I die for it, it is also for the love of my heart People, and my own beliefs and expectations..."

Venerable Bati said peacefully: "Cultivating Buddhism means cultivating yourself."

Phoenix finally leaned back, clenched the Buddha bone of the red rope in his hand, turned and strode out of the hall.

That was the last time Phoenix saw Venerable Bati.

Hundreds of years later, the gods and Buddhas all over the sky were silent, and there was no news of Venerable Bati.

Phoenix returned to Buzhou Mountain, Zhou Hui was looking for him all over the hell, and his search range was almost out of **** and headed towards Liulitian. Phoenix actually felt a bit like a kid who did something wrong. He stood there hesitating, and saw Zhou Hui's eyes look very hideous for a moment, but he immediately covered it, beckoning: "Come here."

Phoenix stood there for a while, then slowly walked over, and was immediately hugged by Zhou Hui.

"Where did you go?"

"..."

Zhou Hui didn't pursue it immediately, he kissed his temple and whispered: "It's fine if you know you will come back."

Zhou Hui suddenly woke up late that night, feeling Phoenix moving his hand on the side. He didn't make a sound, lying quietly in the darkness with his eyes open. After a while, he felt Phoenix lift up his hand in an embracing posture, then curled into his arms, buried his head, and stopped moving. .

At that moment, Zhou Hui couldn't tell how he felt in his heart. He looked at the hazy ceiling in the dark night, before turning over to hug the phoenix for a long while, smelling the breath of a water lily on his body and between his hair.

"What the **** did you do?" Zhou Hui asked in a low voice in the darkness, "You have something to hide from me, haven't you?"

Phoenix's forehead pressed against his sturdy and hot chest, making no sound.

What if you tell Zhou Hui?

The creatures born in the eyes of the demon kill each other, gain the strength of each other, and then assassinate the heart demon Sakyamuni in the colorless sky...

...... Zhou Hui will do it for himself, right? Phoenix thought.

However, the **** demon who can't Nirvana will definitely die if you do this.

I don’t know why Phoenix suddenly remembered the story he heard in the human world many years ago. When a couple is old, they hope that each other will walk in front of them, because the person who left first can avoid the long and gloomy years. Repeat the desperate suffering every day. At that time, he thought he must be the one who left behind, but when the incident happened, he realized that there was such a selfish side hidden in his heart.

"I won't tell you," Phoenix stubbornly said, and his voice melted into the deep darkness as a long river as soon as he uttered it.

He fumbled and grabbed Zhou Hui's hand, crossed his five fingers together, and sighed softly after a long while:

"...I won't tell you."