"Amitabha Buddha, well said, well said."
Lu Wei frowned; the monk sighed every two steps.
When he was alive, there were only a handful of Buddhist practitioners, so few that you could count them on one hand. Opportunities to meet them were rare, and no one dared to be so noisy in front of him.
But now, this monk who has been traveling with him is causing him immense suffering.
He's even on the verge of becoming demonic again: he wants to slaughter all the Buddhist cultivators in the world.
"Monk, could you please talk less?"
"Stop talking nonsense, or you'll still be a monk."
Lu Wei: ...
He logged off in a huff, and Qiao Yu came on next. "Master, when will we be able to meet Master? It feels like we've been gone for ages."
“Amitabha, well said, well said. I estimate that we have been traveling for a whole day.”
Qiao Yu/Lu Wei: ...
Seeing that the two of them remained silent, the Buddha of Compassion and Joy touched his bald head and muttered, "Could it be that this humble monk has miscalculated?"
This is a forest, dimly lit. Even through the gaps in the vegetation, it appears completely dark, making the forest seem like an endless barrier.
Strange birds often cry in the forest, but when you follow the sound to find the source, you can't find anything.
"How strange," muttered the Buddha of Compassion and Joy, "Why is there no road again?"
"Do you even know the way? You're even more directionally challenged than Wen Jingge!" These words naturally came from Lu Wei. "We've been walking all day and still haven't found the way! Monk, are you doing this on purpose or something?"
“Intentional, deliberate.” The Buddha of Compassion and Joy pondered, counting on his fingers. “Intentional means doing something deliberately, deliberate means having a ulterior motive. In this context, they have similar meanings. This… fellow Daoist, this humble monk cannot unravel this…”
"Shut up!"
"This forest is so quiet. If I were to keep my mouth shut, it would truly be utterly silent. And since it's an unexplored path, it might affect my state of mind. As for the state of mind..."
"Master said he went to sleep." Qiao Yu covered her ears, feeling an urge to knock herself unconscious. "I'm not afraid, you, you should stop talking."
“Alright,” the Buddha of Compassion and Joy agreed. “Is there any water? This humble monk is thirsty.”
"No!"
"Fellow Daoist, didn't you say you were going to sleep? Why are you back up here? Could it be that you can't bear to leave this humble monk?"
"You, you shouldn't provoke my master. It's always been my master who bullies..." Qiao Yu's voice weakened considerably, but then, thinking that the master couldn't come out and cause him any trouble, she continued, "bullying the master."
"I see, well said." The Buddha of Compassion and Joy revealed a knowing smile.
No one knows what he understood at that moment.
"Master, did the last trace of that demon prince really disappear here? We've been walking for a whole day and haven't seen a single person. Could it be that you've miscalculated? Even if that person is a demon, he still needs to live in an environment with living creatures, right? We've been here for so long and haven't encountered any animals except for hearing the strange bird's laughter."
"This place is called the Black Forest."
Qiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief.
The monk finally got back to the main point.
"There are no living things in the Black Forest."
"No life? Then what about us?"
“Your Grandmaster is able to come out now.”
"I can't get out!" Lu Wei, who had been eavesdropping, said angrily. "I know without you telling me that only souls can come in, but I just can't get out. Why do you think I'm angry?"
The Buddha of Sorrow and Joy chuckled awkwardly, "It seems I was too attached to appearances."
"Good that you know!" Lu Wei said resentfully, "Continue, this kid doesn't know."
Actually, he didn't know either, but it would be embarrassing to say it out loud.
"This Black Forest was originally a forbidden area. Legend has it that before the great war between gods and demons tens of thousands of years ago, a great calamity occurred in the human world."
Lu Wei narrowed his eyes; he knew nothing about this.
"The gods of that time were primordial gods. What are primordial gods?" Seeing that the human and the demon were listening attentively to him, the Buddha of Compassion and Joy cleared his throat. "As the name suggests, they were gods who could possess terrifying power without having to cultivate as hard as we do."
"That great war brought about a huge disaster that almost led to the extinction of mankind. It is said that the root of all this was the betrayal of one of the primordial gods. That god destroyed all the primordial gods by his own power, and even the sky was dark for countless days."
"It is unknown how much time has passed, but the resentment and turbidity left over from that great battle, through their own destiny, gave rise to races of superfluous people, such as the Demon Race, the Monster Race, and the Soul Race."
"Later gods were mostly those who, when they were desperate, stumbled upon the legacy of those primordial gods and were purified into gods. At that time, the Soul Clan was the most powerful, but also the most inhuman, causing widespread disaster in the human world. The Soul Clan was the first to be suppressed. The Demon Clan fared the worst due to their cautious nature. As for the Demon Clan, they were wiped out because of that Demon Lord."
"That Demon Lord, I don't know where he learned about the Primordial Gods, wanted to resurrect the traitors among the Primordial Gods, which is why he was not tolerated by the gods. As the power of the Demon Clan grew stronger, the gods at that time realized that one day the Demon Clan would become the second Soul Clan, which led to the cleansing plan ten thousand years ago."
"The Demon Lord's power is immense. The god from ten thousand years ago was the last god in the world, but the seal he obtained with his last strength could only hold the Demon Lord for a time. As for this Black Forest, you should know what kind of place it is."
"I don't know." Qiao Yu was an honest person.
He had always thought that the story he told as a monk was just a story, but he never imagined that the story would be incorporated into real life. He hadn't quite grasped the situation yet.
“There was no such thing as the Black Forest before.” Unlike Qiao Yu, Lu Wei believed that the monk had no reason to deceive him with the story, but if the story and the place name really existed, how could he not know about it ten thousand years ago?
“This was not always a boundless, dark forest.”
"What's the meaning?"
"Fifty years ago, this place became what it is today. As for the story, it was told to my former master by Master Wen more than fifty years ago. A few years later, my master was expelled from Buddhism as a sinner. I still remember my master, who looked like a stray dog, yet said with great spirit: 'Exorcising demons begins with the Esoteric School!'"
"Fifty years ago again?" Lu Wei murmured.
Regardless of what Wen Jingge looked like fifty years ago, she would be completely different from how she looks now.
Otherwise, why would someone who was perfectly fine turn away from the Tantric sect because of this story about the Black Forest, and spout such incoherent nonsense?
He doesn't believe there's no ghost involved.
"You just blurted that out, aren't you afraid it will jeopardize your master's demon-slaying plan?"
"We failed. Our master has passed away." The Buddha of Sorrow and Joy was somewhat dejected.
"Then please accept my condolences?"
"Fellow Daoist, do you know that sometimes failure is success?"
Why?
"Even the little monk doesn't understand."
"..."
"These words were spoken by my junior monk."
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