Chapter 374 Watching Flowers
Everyone's attention was attracted by the surging river water, and Zhou Wen also looked over.
With a splash, green lotus leaves emerged from the water. After they emerged from the water, many water droplets were spinning on the leaves, causing them to sway left and right.
The sound of rustling lotus leaves was endless, and more and more lotus leaves appeared on the river surface, like bamboo shoots after rain, one after another. After a while, the river surface was almost completely covered by lotus leaves. At a glance, it seemed as if it had turned into a emerald green river. In the darkness, the lotus leaves still emitted a faint light.
"Did Buddha have such a vision when he opened his eyes before?" Zhou Wen asked Li Xuan.
Li Xuan shook his head and said, "I'm not really sure about this, but I heard that before the Buddha opens his eyes, there will indeed be strange phenomena. However, I have only heard that thousands of birds will come from all directions, and I have never heard of lotus leaves growing in the river.
As the two were talking, the surface of the river changed again. Lotus flowers stretched out from the water and slowly bloomed among the lotus leaves, making the river scenery even more pleasant.
Those lotus flowers are like lanterns, illuminating the river surface brightly and vividly, which is truly a spectacular sight.
Zhou Wen was watching the lotus blossom when he suddenly heard someone shouting, "The Buddha has opened his eyes..."
Zhou Wen and the others turned around and looked over. They saw that the statue on the stone wall had a golden line drawn on its closed eyes, with light flickering through it, making it look as if it was about to open its eyes.
Zhou Wen's mind moved, and he switched his Qi Jue to the "Small Prajna Sutra", thinking: "The Small Prajna Sutra is also a Buddhist Qi Jue, maybe it will be of some use. We are from the same school, maybe the Buddha statue will look at me."
Many students and practitioners came close to the Buddha statue, hoping to gain its favor.
Feng Qiuyan, Mingxiu, and Tian Zhenzhen also came to Zhou Wen's side. Tian Zhenzhen looked at the Buddha statue curiously and said, "Is it true that only those with a Buddhist constitution, or a fate related to Buddha, can have the opportunity to have the Buddha's eyes opened?"
"Who knows? Those who were favored by the Buddha statues in the past didn't seem to have any Buddhist physique." Li Xuan thought for a while and said.
"Is there no standard?" Tian Zhenzhen asked again.
“Even if there are standards, no one knows them now.” Li Weiyang said.
While a few people were talking, the Buddha statue's eyes had fully opened, and the Buddha's light was flashing in his eyes, but the direction he was looking was not at the humans on the shore, but at the lotus leaves and lotus flowers in the river.
"Is he admiring the flowers?" Mingxiu pondered while looking at the Buddha statue.
"It seems so. I think appreciating the flowers is his main purpose, and looking at people is just a by-product." Li Xuan said with a sneer.
There were thousands of people along the shore of the Longmen Grottoes, all staring at the Buddha statue and admiring the flowers. The Buddha statue was actually very steady, just admiring the flowers, with no intention of looking at the humans on the shore at all.
Zhou Wen saw that the Buddha statue didn't look at him, and he couldn't help but feel a little disappointed: "It seems that the Small Prajna Sutra has no effect."
Suddenly, a figure ran to the river not far away, jumped up directly, jumped into the river, then parted the lotus leaves and swam towards the place where the Buddha statue was looking.
"Oh my god, this guy is really good, he has some ideas."
"You want to gain Buddha's affinity like this? Maybe you're crazy, right?"
"Are you crazy about wanting Buddha's connection? If you can achieve Buddha's connection by taking shortcuts like this, then what kind of connection is that?"
"He destroyed so many lotus leaves and lotus flowers, disturbing the Buddha's enjoyment of the flowers. He's lucky he didn't get punished. How could he dream of gaining Buddha's favor? Don't dream."
People reacted and immediately understood what the man wanted to do. Some were amazed, but most people were sarcastic.
"That person is interesting. Is he a classmate of our school?" Zhou Wen looked at the person who was swimming hard in the river with great interest. They were all attracted by the Buddha statue just now and did not see who jumped into the river.
Although this method seems unreliable, this person dares to think and act, which is beyond the reach of those who sneer at him on the shore.
"That should be it." Li Xuan was also a little unsure. The man was swimming among the lotus leaves and was blocked by the numerous lotus leaves. In addition, the river water wet his clothes, so it was unclear whether he was wearing a school uniform.
Bang!
The man was swimming hard, but suddenly a bolt of lightning struck from the sky and directly hit the man swimming in the water, knocking him directly into the water. The river water around him was raised a foot high, and the nearby lotus leaves and lotus flowers were also affected, and were all charred after being affected by the lightning.
"I told you, you dare to use such a tricky method in front of the Buddha? You deserve to be struck by lightning."
"Some people only think about taking shortcuts. Now you know how powerful they are, don't you?"
"You even dare to fool the Buddha. Who else should I punish if not you?"
Many onlookers were gloating. Even though some people cared whether the man was killed by lightning, no one dared to save him, fearing that they would be struck by lightning like the man after going into the river.
Zhou Wen thought the man was quite interesting. He had also seen the power of thunder and lightning, but it was not enough to hurt him. So he said to Li Xuan, "Wait here for me. I'll go see if he's dead."
Zhou Wen did not summon his wings, but simply unfolded the Dragon Gate Flying Immortal Technique and stepped on the lotus leaves towards the place where the man was struck by lightning.
He walked on the lotus leaves to the place where the man was struck, and saw him floating face down in the water. He reached out and grabbed him out, but after a closer look, he was a little surprised.
The man's hair and clothes were burnt black, but he was not dead, he just fainted.
This is not the point. The point is that Zhou Wen actually knows this person. It is Fang Ruoxi, who was admitted to Guide High School with him.
"No wonder she jumped from our side just now, it turned out to be her!" Zhou Wen was attracted by the Buddha statue just like everyone else, and did not notice that Fang Ruoxi was missing.
Just as he was about to bring Fang Ruoxi back to the shore, he suddenly saw a bolt of lightning appear out of nowhere, falling from the void and striking directly at Zhou Wen and Fang Ruoxi.
"Zhou Wen, be careful!" Li Xuan and others shouted.
Among the other onlookers, many people gloated over his misfortune, thinking that Zhou Wen was trying to be too prominent and deserved to be struck down.
Zhou Wen naturally saw the lightning falling, but it came too fast, leaving him no time to think. Zhou Wen directly summoned the Overlord Sword and slashed a Demon Star Wheel at the lightning.
A blood-colored halo broke out from the sword and collided with the lightning, instantly bursting out a flash of blood and light.
As the Demon Star Wheel shattered, the lightning also shattered, turning into electric sparks that scattered on the surrounding river surface, burning the lotus leaves and lotus flowers black.
boom!
Before Zhou Wen could retract the sword in his hand, another bolt of lightning struck him, leaving him no chance to return to the shore.
My thoughts were not flowing this morning, so I only wrote one chapter. I'll update the rest tonight.
(End of this chapter)
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