Chapter 663: Ancient Buddha in Green Clothes, Female Ghost Xiaoqian
After trying out the power of the Ninth Grade Golden Lotus of Merit, Li Daoxuan was very satisfied. He no longer turned into the appearance of Buddha, but returned to his true form.
The magical object became spiritual and the lotus platform shrank automatically.
He sat upright on it, closed his eyes and felt it carefully.
In addition to its extremely strong defensive capabilities, it is also equivalent to a spirit gathering array. Practicing on it is far better than practicing in other places. In a trance, Li Daoxuan even felt like he had returned to heaven.
The state of mind is even more clear and transparent, without any waves and no disturbance from external demons.
Li Daoxuan finally understood why the Buddha always liked to sit on the lotus platform. It was so comfortable to sit on it, and more importantly, it was so cool that no one wanted to get down.
This is only the ninth-grade golden lotus. If it could be restored to the twelve-grade lotus of ancient times, who knows how miraculous it would be.
After hesitating for a moment, a thin booklet appeared in his hand.
"The Thirty-Seven Chapters of the Buddhist Sutra".
The Heavenly Book once mentioned that if one sits upright on the ninth-grade golden lotus of merit and silently recites the thirty-seven Buddhist sutras, miraculous changes may occur.
Combined with what Lu Biansheng said, Li Daoxuan had roughly guessed something.
He asked the little flower god to protect him, and then a hint of determination appeared in his eyes. He slowly turned to the first page of the scripture and read softly.
"From the west, across ten thousand billion Buddha lands, there is a world called Sukhavati. The sentient beings in that country have no sufferings, but only enjoy happiness. The sentient beings in that land often use their clothes to carry various wonderful flowers to make offerings to the ten thousand billion Buddhas in other lands at dawn..."
As he chanted, his mind began to become gradually hazy, as if a strange force was guiding his soul, flying into the sky and landing in the west.
In terms of aptitude, Li Daoxuan naturally met and even far exceeded the standard set by the Buddha. Others had to recite the entire book several times before they could be guided, but Li Daoxuan only read a few sentences and had already entered that state of divine enlightenment.
If this was seen by Buddhists, they would certainly sigh and lament that a budding being that could become a Buddha had instead entered Taoism.
In the misty clouds, Li Daoxuan felt that his body was getting lighter and lighter, and he was flying higher and higher. He could hear Buddhist chants constantly in his ears, as if somewhere in the distance, there was something that was constantly attracting him.
At the same time, a vast demonic force also invaded his sea of consciousness, impacting his spiritual will.
That feeling was as if one was being torn apart by countless evil spirits, falling into the eighteen levels of hell, enduring hundreds of thousands of tortures, and sinking there forever.
Resentment, pain, greed, jealousy...
All kinds of negative emotions exploded in an instant, making people's five aggregates confused and their three flowers tremble. Even the most determined people will inevitably fall into it.
Even Li Daoxuan's Tiandun sword intent could not withstand it, and the wisdom sword was frequently unsheathed, but the demonic intent and evil thoughts grew wildly like weeds.
At the critical moment, streams of merit emerged and transformed into golden lotus shadows, enveloping Li Daoxuan's body and blocking all evil thoughts.
"Is this the consciousness of the Lingshan monster ? It's really terrifying!"
“No wonder the Heavenly Book reminded us to sit on the lotus platform and recite this sutra silently…”
Li Daoxuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Compared with the monster in Lingshan, his cultivation was still too low at the moment. Fortunately, the Ninth Grade Golden Lotus of Merit was powerful enough to protect his soul.
He stood on the lotus platform and flew in a certain direction involuntarily.
Finally, after an unknown amount of time, he found himself in a place that, even though it had been abandoned for hundreds of years, still couldn't conceal its spiritual energy and Buddhist charm.
Lingshan, Da Leiyin Temple.
This place is as empty as the Heaven Palace, with green lanterns burning all the time and ancient bells covered with dust. A faint flash of lightning is flowing on the huge plaque, making it look quite extraordinary.
When Li Daoxuan passed by, he wanted to take down the ever-burning green lamp and the plaque of the Great Leiyin Temple.
This is definitely good stuff.
However, after he stretched out his hand, he found that he was now an empty soul in a mysterious state and could not touch anything in the Great Leiyin Temple.
Continuing to float, he soon passed through layers of palaces and came to a place.
That is a Bodhi tree.
The branches and leaves spread for three thousand miles, with jade-green Bodhi seeds hanging on them, as if holding up three thousand worlds and billions of dancing creatures.
Li Daoxuan's expression changed.
What surprised him was not the seemingly endless Bodhi tree, but the fact that under the Bodhi tree... there was actually a person sitting!
Her three thousand strands of black hair slanted like flowing lights. She sat upright on the ninth-grade golden lotus of merit, with her green robes fluttering in the wind. She was enveloped in boundless Buddha light, like a god in the clouds or a fairy in the mist.
Purity, wisdom, compassion, tolerance, generosity...
In Him, Li Daoxuan seemed to see the shadows of many ancient Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, but the most important thing was her shadow.
"Qing Ni?"
Li Daoxuan's heart was shocked. This figure seemed extremely familiar and yet extremely strange to him.
Xiao Que'er once said that not long after he ascended to heaven, the Green-Robed Lady calculated that he was in danger and was in Lingshan, so she cast a spell to enter Lingshan, and there has been no news of him since then.
Li Daoxuan was very worried about this, but there was nothing he could do for the time being.
When he heard the man on the road talking about the function of "The Thirty-Seven Chapters of the Buddhist Sutra", he had an idea in his mind and wanted to use it to travel to Lingshan in his soul to look for the Green-Robed Goddess.
Unexpectedly, he met the empress as soon as he came in.
In other words, the person who has been attracting him is the Empress herself!
At this moment, two identical ninth-grade golden lotuses of merit bloomed quietly in the void. A man and a woman were sitting upright, responding to each other from afar, as if some invisible mysterious force bound them together.
After Li Daoxuan called out, the ninth-grade lotus platform slowly turned, and the woman in green with her back to him finally turned around.
The moment he saw the other person's face clearly, Li Daoxuan was shocked and looked excited.
"Qing Ni, it's really you!"
The woman in green who looked like an ancient Buddha was actually the Green Lady that Li Daoxuan had been thinking about for a long time. However, she had her eyes closed tightly, her hands forming a lotus seal, and her body was enveloped by thirty-three layers of Buddha's light. Her aura was unfathomable, yet ethereal.
Li Daoxuan wanted to move forward, but was blocked by an invisible golden light.
The condition of Lady in Green seemed very strange. She did not open her eyes, but slightly opened her lips and whispered three words, but no sound came out.
Li Daoxuan wanted to say something else when the entire Lingshan Mountain suddenly shook violently. A demonic aura as deep as the abyss emerged, and the ancient bell of the Great Leiyin Temple rang loudly, as if giving a warning.
The earth was wriggling like its intestines. Highly corrosive acid continued to gush out of the Eight Treasures Merit Pool. The corpses of Arhats floated in it, and most of them had only broken arms and limbs left.
The three thousand li Bodhi tree swayed, emitting clear light that enveloped the lady in green. She closed her eyes and kept silent. The Buddha's light was restrained around her, and the lotus platform she sat on gathered its branches and leaves, slowly wrapping her up.
In just a few breaths, it turned into a flower bud.
…
Li Daoxuan suddenly opened his eyes, and the third eye between his eyebrows opened automatically under the violent emotional fluctuations, emitting a golden light that could subdue demons.
whoosh!
The hot and sharp golden light pierced through the mountains and rivers, flattened a mountain top, and the cut area was charred like charcoal, emitting bursts of green smoke.
He put away his third eye and let out a long breath.
At this moment he was no longer in Lingshan, but still in the cave. The little flower god was guarding the door with bright eyes, holding the banana fan tightly.
The "Thirty-Seven Chapters of Buddhist Sutras" in his hand turned into ashes at some point, but fortunately Li Daoxuan had memorized it all.
"Lanruo Temple..."
The Empress just opened her mouth and said three words, but she did not make any sound. Instead, she was conveying the message purely through lip movements. Those were the three words she said.
Li Daoxuan pondered these three words silently.
He didn't know why the Queen said these three words, but it was obvious that in the Queen's view, these three words contained very important information.
Could it be that the abandoned ancient temple still hides some secrets?
What he was most worried about was how the Empress was doing now.
Judging from the contact just now, the Queen's cultivation is unfathomable, and even gives Li Daoxuan a feeling of facing an ancient Buddha.
But she seemed to be under some kind of restriction. She couldn't see or speak, and her condition was very strange.
What Li Daoxuan feared most was that the Empress had been replaced and was no longer her.
After all, Lingshan is a place that is too weird, even the Buddha Tathagata died there.
He looked at the lotus platform, determined to try again.
But the Ninth Grade Golden Lotus of Merit under his seat was a little dim, as if it had just consumed a lot of strength in helping him resist the evil will. However, it was a divine object and would automatically absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and the essence of the sun and the moon for replenishment. I believe it will recover soon.
"Don't rush to explore Lingshan Mountain. It seems necessary to go to Lanruo Temple."
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Lanruo Temple.
The tree demon grandma sat on a high platform, glaring at the female ghosts below, and casually knocked over the bloody plate of hearts and livers on the table.
"After so many days, this is all you losers have gained?"
My grandmother's voice sometimes sounds male, sometimes female, sometimes old, sometimes young. Sometimes it seems like many people are speaking at the same time, which is very strange.
The female ghosts knelt down and trembled.
A female ghost trembled and said, "Grandma, it's all, it's all that Yan Chixia... The evil spirit is guarding outside, we, we don't dare to go out..."
They are female ghosts raised by the tree demon grandmother. They are responsible for going out "hunting" at night, either by attracting men with their beauty or by transforming into evil spirits. They kidnap men and bring them back to Lanruo Temple, cut out their hearts and livers and offer them to the grandmother.
However, with the arrival of Yan Chixia, many of their sisters died at the hands of the magic sword, and their hunting efficiency naturally dropped significantly.
The tree demon grandmother knew this very well. She snorted coldly and said, "Don't worry, that stinky Taoist priest will die soon. I won't let him go!"
At this time, a female ghost whispered: "Grandma, why don't you let Xiaoqian go out with us?"
Hearing this, the other female ghosts also echoed.
"Yes, Xiaoqian is so beautiful and her magic power is higher than ours. If she is willing to help, we will definitely be able to capture more men!"
"Grandma, Xiaoqian is not your daughter, why do you pamper her so much?"
"That's right. We risked our lives to hunt for grandma, but she just hid in her room to practice every day and didn't care about anything. We still have to serve her..."
Facts have proved that women's jealousy still exists even after death. These female ghosts have long disliked Xiaoqian because she is more beautiful than themselves, has more magical powers than themselves, and yet she is so favored by the grandmother without having to do anything.
“Shut up!!”
Grandma shouted angrily, and everyone below fell silent. She was about to continue scolding, but something moved her mind and she looked towards the distance at the cool and elegant figure in white.
"Xiao Qian, you heard it too. They all hope you can join the hunt. What do you think?"
The woman in white came over gracefully with light lotus steps.
Her feet were bare, with a circle of golden bells adorning her ankles. Her white skirt fluttered gently in the night breeze, outlining her beautiful, charming, hazy and graceful figure. Her long, jet-black hair fell to her waist like brocade.
The skin is like the reflection of the flowing clouds, and the feet are like slender bamboo shoots.
The most striking feature is her cool and picturesque temperament, which forms a great contrast with her outfit of light gauze skirt and barefoot walking. She looks like a fairy who has fallen into the human world by mistake, which is so fascinating.
Xiaoqian walked past the female ghosts with a calm voice.
"I can join the hunt, but there is one condition."
Grandma's eyes moved and she said, "You say."
"My maid Shuangshuang doesn't want to marry the Black Mountain Demon."
After that, Xiaoqian walked up to a female ghost, looked down at her with cold eyes, and said lightly: "Let Xiaorou replace Shuangshuang."
Just now, it was Xiaorou who was the first to express her dissatisfaction with her.
"Grandma, no, grandma, I can catch more men for you—"
"Okay, let's do it!"
The female ghost Xiaorou showed a look of despair. She heard that the Black Mountain Old Demon loved to abuse women the most. The sisters who had married him before died not long after.
Xiaoqian still looked cold and aloof. She didn't even say thank you. She turned around and left gracefully, her skirt fluttering.
The tree demon grandma looked at her back with deep eyes.
