Chapter 770 The Last Chance
Xinjue said with a forced voice, "Ming Wang, Honored Lord, this is my Dharmakāya of the Thousand-Armed White Bone Bodhisattva. It is a Buddhist supernatural power, not a demon."
Zhang Chengzu was so frightened that his face turned pale, his heart beating like a drum. He said, "Is the White Bone Bodhisattva a white bone or a Bodhisattva? Are you a monk or a demon?"
Xinjue could only answer one question: "Of course the White Bone Bodhisattva is a Bodhisattva."
But I couldn't answer the second question.
Seeing this scene, Hou Laodao sneered and said, "Can't you say it?"
Xinjue turned one of his hand bones over and stared coldly at Hou Laodao with one eye.
Taoist Hou was not afraid and said, "Of course he is not a monk. As for whether he is a demon, that is not certain."
Xinjue forced a smile and said, "Because of something that happened over four hundred years ago, I have been expelled from the Buddhist sect and am no longer with the sect."
Zhang Chengzu's memory still lingers on the moment when Xinjue threw him under the golden body of King Mara, asking him to recall his situation over the past four hundred years.
"You were fine just now, how come your head is gone?"
Xinjue turned his hand back and said, "My Lord, I presented my head to you, and you refined it into a magical weapon. Don't you remember?"
"Me? How is that possible!" Zhang Chengzu yelled, climbed up from the river bank, stumbled back, and said, "What on earth happened? Who am I?"
"You don't remember?" Xinjue's eyes were shaken, and his tone was erratic: "Then do you still remember where I put my head?"
Zhang Chengzu was terrified and turned to run away: "I haven't seen your head!"
Xinjue took a step forward and appeared behind Zhang Chengzu like a ghost, grabbed his collar and lifted him up.
Six bony hands behind him held Zhang Chengzu in the middle like a spider's silk thread, all his features facing him, and asked, "Where is my head?"
Zhang Chengzu struggled with his eyes wide open, and was so scared that he almost fainted as he saw the bony hand getting closer and closer.
Just before he was about to faint, a fire suddenly burst out in his eyes, and his pupils turned slightly golden. His expression gradually changed from panic to indifference.
Xin Jue was horrified when he saw this change. He quickly put Zhang Chengzu down and said, "My Lord, I have been possessed by a demon. Please spare my life!"
He prostrated himself in front of Zhang Chengzu, his bony arms touching the ground.
But the expected punishment did not come, because Zhang Chengzu had fainted and fell to the ground.
He carefully raised his eyes to see Zhang Chengzu's condition, then Xinjue slowly stood up and broke out in a cold sweat.
Taoist Hou sneered, "You have two heads, a single mind. Oh, I forgot you have no head now. Xinjue, you have really cultivated to the level of a dog."
Xinjue didn't know why he suddenly betrayed his master, nor did he understand what he was doing.
He looked at Zhang Chengzu who had fainted, stepped forward, grabbed his belt, lifted him up and held him under his ribs, then stepped forward to grab Hou Laodao's shackles, and then turned into a beam of light and flew away.
The wind whistled past his ears. Taoist Hou looked at Xinjue and asked, "I don't know what happened, but the demon god in the City God Temple suddenly disappeared, and the Golden True Nature King is nowhere to be seen either. I think he suffered a great enemy and was so badly injured that he can hardly even appear in the world. Judging from Zhang Chengzu's appearance, I'm afraid he may not be the Golden True Nature King. Xinjue, I think we still have one last chance. Do you really not regret it?"
Xinjue didn't answer, nor did he know what to answer. After a while, he just said, "Everything will be decided after the Lord wakes up."
Taoist Hou could only let out a long sigh, but the sigh was lost in the silent wind and could no longer be heard.
Xinjue fled with Zhang Chengzu, and the Golden True Nature King suffered serious damage. The dark clouds that had been lingering over Xia Pi City for a long time finally thundered and turned into crackling rain in the middle of the night.
In Chengyang Manor, Gong Mengbi put away his hands that were making hand seals, causing dark clouds to produce thunder, which turned into auspicious rain just when the late rice was planted at the beginning of autumn.
When the five ghosts returned at night, they apologized to Gong Mengbi, saying, "We came back too late."
Gong Mengbi waved his hand and said, "You guys didn't have to do anything this time. You found out the information, which is already a great achievement."
The five ghosts acted separately. They first checked the county annals, and then visited the ghosts and gods in the mountains, the community gods, and the household gods, and dug up the old stories of Xia Pi.
The Five Ghosts were in telepathic communication with him, and with the help of the wishing tree, Gong Mengbi was able to resolve the situation to the point where it is now.
A generation before him, the fame of King Mara could still children cry at night. Even now, people in the village still scare children by saying, "If you make any more noise, King Mara will come and take you away."
When King Mara was entrenched in Xia Pi, it was a nightmare for the people of Xia Pi. Although Buddhism is flourishing in Xia Pi today, those who know the story still feel a lingering fear.
The Xia Pi City God was enshrined as the City God for his meritorious service in suppressing the bandits he was targeting, namely, King Mara. The sons and daughters of the five families of Yu, Ding, Wang, Yang, and Li were caught up in the Fox Book Incident and faced retaliation from Xinjue because they were the ones who rebelled against King Mara over four hundred years ago.
What the Five Ghosts could not find, Gong Mengbi also saw in Zhang Chengzu's memory. Although King Mara was dead, his curse still implicated everyone in it, forcing them to reincarnate several times before finally reuniting.
The reincarnation established by Buddhism is entangled with the Buddhist practice of King Mara himself, and Xinjue is used as the key to open the reincarnation. However, in this life, Xinjue was bewitched, causing the complete collapse of this practice.
Gong Mengbi ordered, "Go find the City God's seal. I struck it with my divine thunder, so it shouldn't be damaged. Find it, lest it fall into the hands of villains and cause trouble."
The five ghosts then went to look for the City God's seal.
Miao Huhui and Shao Huzheng had already been sent away, so Gong Mengbi didn't care whether they could sleep or not.
He silently reviewed the events of the past few days, piecing together the various clues and restoring the cause and effect of everything.
After much calculation, I found that it was not unfair for me to be involved.
This training bureau began over four hundred years ago. Originally, Gong Mengbi had no involvement, but the Fox Book dragged him into the picture. To unravel the fate of Taoist Hou and Zhang Chengzu, the Fox Book was essential. The Fox Book was chosen, naturally, for Gong Mengbi's sake.
Throughout this, Xinjue was nothing more than a puppet at the mercy of others. With his Zen mind flawed and his resolve unsteady, he became a plaything in the hands of a few masters of manipulating people's hearts.
The "Future Great Light Buddha" was like this, the Desire to Enjoy Vajra King was like this, and Gong Mengbi was also like this. The three of them took turns to do it, and Xinjue was still unable to distinguish them. Until now, he still has not seen where his original mind is.
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