On both sides of the Tongtian River.
The crowd of men, women, old and young just said that Guanyin cast a spell to eliminate the wind, snow and ice. Regardless of the mud and water, they knelt down on the ground and kowtowed: "Save the suffering, save Guanyin Bodhisattva!"
Above the clouds.
The three Monkey Brothers were silent, looking at the tragic situation of all life in the Tongtian River, their expressions changed greatly, and they could not hide the horror in their hearts.
Li Anran is no exception.
Even though he had read in books about Guanyin's ruthless treatment of the Tongtian River Aquatic Tribe, the written description and seeing it with his own eyes were completely different things.
The eight-hundred-mile-long Tianhe River was filled with the corpses of various fish, shrimps, turtles, and snakes. There was no life under the water. A thick fishy smell hit the face, and the air of death filled the air.
That is to say, when Guanyin silenced her, she used the method of salvation.
Otherwise, Tongtian River must be full of resentment, and we don’t know how many water ghosts and resentful souls will be born!
"Bodhisattva, what are you doing? The King of Inspiration is guilty. How can all the creatures in this river be blamed?"
Li Anran frowned slightly and asked in a deep voice the question that best suited his identity.
Monkey, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng also realized that there was something wrong with Guanyin's attitude towards Tongtianhe and King Inspiration, but they did not dare to ask.
Guanyin said calmly: "When this evil beast escaped from my Luojia Mountain in the South China Sea, it took away a lot of water from the lotus pond. The water in the pond was influenced by Buddhism and has become magical. After flowing into the Tongtian River, I don't know how much it will breed. evildoer."
"By sending these water tribes into reincarnation, I can prevent the monsters in the Tongtian River from running rampant and harming the creatures on both sides, and also protect them from the suffering of the animal world in this life. Kill two birds with one stone."
Guanyin is obviously telling lies with her eyes open.
However, Li Anran had no way to refute him face to face and could only say: "That's it."
Zhu Bajie flattered him from the side: "The Bodhisattva is so compassionate! It's really admirable!"
However, the content of his words was somewhat yin and yang.
I don’t know if it was unintentional or intentional.
Guanyin ignored him and said to Li Anran: "Prison God, this evil beast escaped from my lotus pond, and I am responsible for lax discipline. I will go with you to the Lingxiao Palace and go to the Lingxiao Palace. The Jade Emperor apologizes."
After silencing him, are you unwilling to hand over the King of Inspiration?
Li Anran snorted coldly in his heart and said: "It's better this way. However, according to heaven's rules, these demons captured from the mortal world are not allowed to be brought into the Lingxiao Palace without edicts. They must be locked in the heavenly prison first. Report it to the Jade Emperor, just wait for the Jade Emperor's death. Please also ask the Bodhisattva to hand over this great king of inspiration to me first."
Guanyin frowned and said: "This evil beast is the goldfish in my lotus pond, not a mortal monster!"
Li Anran insisted: "All monsters captured from the mortal world must abide by this heavenly rule, regardless of origin. It was the same when I captured Zhu Ganghe back to heaven. Bodhisattva, please don't make things difficult for me."
Zhu Bajie: "..." You said what you want to do with me!
Guanyin took a deep look at Li Anran.
Not long after the Immortal Tea Conference ended, the news of Li Anran's apprenticeship with Master Taiyi had not yet spread in the Three Realms.
Monkey, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Seng don't know.
But Guanyin already knew that, and she suspected that Li Anran was deliberately causing trouble for her to lose face!
Li Anran had a calm and serious look on his face, with an expression of "enforcing the law impartially and being upright."
He has practiced the Hehuan Kung Fu for so many years, and controlling his emotions is just a matter of effort, and Guanyin can't see any flaws.
That’s it!
Li Anran probably doesn't know what's going on here!
Otherwise, he would not have come alone today, nor would he have stood by and let me take over!
Guanyin thought about going to the Lingxiao Palace to confess to the Jade Emperor, and it didn't take a moment before she finally decided to hand over the King of Inspiration.
"In that case, then follow what the Prison God said!"
But before that, she said to the Inspiration King in the basket: "Bastard, you go to the prison with the prison god, remember to be honest and obedient, and don't cause any more trouble! When I go to see the Jade Emperor, I will punish you!"
The goldfish in the bamboo basket was floating up and down in the water, and its head nodded a few times to express its understanding.
Then, Guanyin handed the bamboo basket to Li Anran's hand.
"Thank you Bodhisattva for your understanding." Li Anran was respectful on his face, but he couldn't help but sneer in his heart.
The translation of what Guanyin just said is, "Don't talk nonsense. I'm going to see the Jade Emperor and I will fish you out soon."
But she didn't know that Li Anran didn't have to interrogate the Inspiration King at all!
As long as the Inspiration King enters the prison, everything about him will be invisible to Li Anran!
"Prison God, let's go."
Guanyin was anxious to solve the problem of the King of Inspiration, and immediately flew to heaven with Li Anran.
After arriving in heaven, Guanyin went directly to Lingxiao Palace to ask for an audience with the Jade Emperor.
Li Anran returned to Tianlao first with the inspiration king.
[Prisoner: Tongtianhe Inspiration King]
[Sin value: four stars]
[Cultivation: Eighth Level of Golden Immortal]
[Status: Under escort]
[Capture participation rate: 5%]
[Income: 90,000 experience points/day]
Sin deserves four stars!
This inspiration king has indeed done other shameful things!
Li Anran's eyes lit up.
Because of the existence of reincarnation, the punishment book's judgment on the crime value of killing evildoers is very low.
The Inspiration King's sin value can reach four stars. It's not just as simple as eating a few people and defrauding some incense.
Li Anran knew that time was running out, and Guanyin might come at any time with the Jade Emperor's edict to take away the King of Inspiration.
While escorting the King of Inspiration towards the prison, he browsed through the life of the King of Inspiration.
Xiniu Hezhou.
In a clear pond.
An ignorant goldfish was swimming around leisurely when it overheard someone murmuring to himself.
"They are all Twelve Golden Immortals. Guangchengzi, Chi Jingjing, Yuding Zhenren, and Daoxing Tianzun have all killed the good corpse. Why do I still have no clue?"
"Is it true that as Teacher Ran Deng said, it is Master who is partial and only those who take down the Four Swords of Immortal Killing can have great merit and great luck and be able to successfully kill the corpse?"
"The merits, incense, and golden body of the Dharma should be useful for me to kill the corpse! But, I am a member of Xuanmen, how can I join the Western sect? In this way, how am I different from the disciples of the interception sect like Chang'er Dingguangxian? "
…
The goldfish has not yet been born with wisdom and does not know the meaning of these words, but it is attracted by the sound and swims over unconsciously, looking up and looking out of the pool.
He was eye to eye with that person.
That man was wearing a straw sandals Taoist robe, wearing a Haoran scarf on his head, holding a jade purification bottle in his hand, with a confused and confused look on his face. He was Taoist Cihang among the Twelve Golden Immortals!
Taoist Cihang was shocked when he saw the goldfish.
He has obviously used his magical power to isolate this place from the three realms. Not to mention a goldfish, even Daluo Jinxian cannot come in, let alone reach his side.
Taoist Cihang reached out and picked up the goldfish. He looked at it carefully for a moment and found that it was just an ordinary goldfish.
Even the spiritual intelligence has not been opened!
Just as Taoist Cihang was puzzled, the goldfish jumped out of his palm with a slight jump, fell into the water, and began to swim freely.
Taoist Cihang was shocked and suddenly realized something. A smile appeared on his face and kept getting bigger.
"A fish swimming in the water does not hinder the righteousness of the world, and has the appearance of liberation. A poor Taoist... a poor monk, no, so what about the monk's Tao! What I seek is not only the Great Way, but liberation, why should I stick to this!"
"From today onwards, there will be no Cihang Daoist in the world, only the Western View of the World at ease!"
Taoist Cihang put his hands together and sat cross-legged on the lotus. The clear light on his body gradually dissipated and was replaced by rays of Buddha's light.
The outline of his face gradually became softer, his facial features became more beautiful, his gender changed from male to female, and his straw sandal robe changed into a crown and skirt.
"Damn it! That's what happened!"
Li Anran stared at all this in stunned silence.
He had already guessed that the reason why Taoist Cihang betrayed the Chan Sect and went to the Western Sect was to improve his cultivation and attain the Great Dao!
It should also be related to Taoist Ran Deng!
But I never expected that this would actually be related to the King of Inspiration!
"No wonder Avalokitesvara doesn't just destroy the King of Inspiration in body and soul, and end it all at once!"
Li Anran was still wondering before. Guanyin was not a merciful person. He had already wiped out the entire Shui Tribe of the Tongtian River regardless of his image. Why not kill the Inspiration King directly?
Now I finally understand!
This King of Inspiration is not only the key introduction to Guanyin's transformation from Taoism to Buddha, but also the origin of "viewing the world at ease"!
With such a huge cause and effect, Guanyin does not dare and will not touch it easily.
After a brief moment of surprise, Li Anran turned his attention to the life of the inspiration king.
After Taoist Cihang transformed into a Buddha, he took the goldfish back to Luojia Mountain and raised it in the lotus pond in the purple bamboo forest.
In the following thousands of years, Avalokitesvara would choose to practice and preach by the lotus pond, and the King of Inspiration would listen to the scriptures every day, gradually giving birth to spiritual wisdom.
Guanyin takes great care of the King of Inspiration, and often feeds it some miraculous elixirs and exotic fruits, including the nine-thousand-year-old flat peach.
Therefore, although the King of Inspiration was born with very poor feet, his qualifications continued to improve through acquired training, and his cultivation also increased rapidly, and he successfully broke through to the Golden Immortal realm.
Until nine years ago, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was, as always, preaching scriptures and sermons to the great gods, Mu Cha, and the Dragon Girl in the purple bamboo forest.
A monkey suddenly broke in and claimed that it had hit Immortal Zhenyuan at Wuzhuang Temple in Wanshou Mountain in Hezhou, Xiniu, and damaged the ginseng fruit tree of Immortal Zhenyuan. He asked Guanyin Bodhisattva to show mercy and go to save the ginseng fruit tree.
This matter originally had nothing to do with the Inspiration King.
But after Guanyin came back, he stayed in seclusion for half a month. Then he called it to his side, taught it a spell, and said: "In three days, the tide will rise. You can take this opportunity to go to the mortal world and find Build a temple in a place, collect incense, and help me test this method."
"Remember, you need to be careful in everything, don't make too much noise, and don't let anyone discover you."
Afterwards, Guanyin took off an unopened lotus root from the lotus pond, refined it into a nine-petal red copper hammer, and gave it to the King of Inspiration as a weapon.
When Guanyin taught the Dharma, out of caution, he taught it directly with spiritual consciousness. Li Anran didn't know the specific content, but after seeing what happened after that, he understood what kind of spell it was!
The King of Inspiration left Luojia Mountain for the first time and did not know the road. He followed the ebb and flow of the sea tide all the way to Tongtian River, and followed the estuary to Chenjiazhuang.
At that time, the Tongtian River often flooded, and people on both sides of the river were in dire straits.
The Tongtian River Water God used this to force the people to build temples for him to offer sacrifices and incense.
After the King of Inspiration saw this, he followed his example and killed the Tongtian River Water God to create its cave, and became the evil god who threatened the people to sacrifice.
Seeing this, Li Anran was suddenly stunned.
"The Water God of the Tongtian River is dead?! Then who was the old turtle that carried Tang Monk and the others across the Tongtian River and asked Tang Monk to help him ask about the day he attained enlightenment?"
Li Anran was filled with surprise and uncertainty, while the life of the Inspiration King continued to advance.
The King of Inspiration has been listening to the scriptures every day for these years, but he still has some compassion. He only asked Chenjiazhuang to offer him a pair of boys and girls every year, and he blessed Chenjiazhuang with good weather and good harvests. He even sent down Qingyun to protect the people of Chenjiazhuang from all diseases. .
For this reason, when Tang Monk and his disciples arrived at Chenjiazhuang, they saw that only one household in Chenjiazhuang had "forty or fifty hectares of paddy fields, seventy hectares of dry fields, eighty or ninety pastures, two to three hundred cattle, and donkeys." There are thirty or twenty horses, countless pigs, sheep, chickens and geese. There is also old food under the house that we can’t eat, and clothes that we can’t wear.”
Even after mistakenly thinking that the monkeys and the others were all evil spirits, they still had the courage to come out and shout, "What kind of evil spirit is it that comes to my house of kindness in the dark?"
The King of Inspiration wants this boy and girl just to test the magic taught to him by Guanyin!
The bodies of boys and girls were eaten by the King of Inspiration as a tooth-beating sacrifice, and their souls were refined into elixirs with the incense offered by their blood relatives!
But the elixir is not bead-shaped, but six or seven inches long, with all four limbs and five senses, exactly what a boy and a girl look like before they appear!
Obviously, Guanyin's alchemy method is inseparable from the ginseng fruit tree in Zhen Yuanzi!
It should be Guanyin who is saving the ginseng fruit tree...
No, the ginseng fruit tree is the companion spiritual root of Zhen Yuanzi. Monkeys can't even break the soil where the ginseng fruit tree is planted, let alone knock it down!
The idea of immortals and Buddhas from the three realms joining forces to deal with the catastrophe was first raised by the Tathagata at the Bon Bon Meeting.
Zhen Yuanzi not only participated in the Bon Festival, but also accepted tea from Jin Chanzi.
He should also know about the decision of the three realms of gods and Buddhas to join forces to deal with the catastrophe, and even approve of it.
The incident at Wuzhuangguan should be a good show that he staged deliberately, just like the Four Saints' test of Zen mind with the participation of Our Lady of Wudang.
Not only did he express his support for jointly coping with the catastrophe, but he also showed that he would not participate in the gambling battle between Buddhism and Taoism.
Guanyin's treatment of the ginseng fruit tree should be just a process, but Guanyin somehow understood something from it.
This is how the King of Inspiration descended to earth and refined the elixir using the souls of boys and girls combined with the incense of blood relatives.
And this is why the Inspiration King only wants boys and girls from Chenjiazhuang and does not allow them to buy boys and girls from outside for sacrifice!
For hundreds of households in Chenjiazhuang, having a boy and a girl every year is not a big problem.
Logically speaking, nothing will happen!
But, this time, he chose a family where two brothers were both in their fifties and sixties, but there was only one child.
The four masters and disciples of Tang Monk made seven rounds and eight rounds, and arrived at Chenjiazhuang on the eve of the festival.
This is what happened next.
"Who is plotting against Guanyin?"
Li Anran frowned.
Regardless of the image, Guanyin unabashedly seizes the Tongtian River Aquatic Tribe. Not only is the inspiration king using human souls to make elixirs, but more importantly, this method is derived from ginseng fruit!
This matter about Guanyin can be said to be a big taboo. If word spread, it will not only offend the dead Zhen Yuanzi, but also his own face and even Lingshan's reputation will be ruined!
——I agreed to your proposal and joined hands with you to deal with the catastrophe, but you turned around and poached me?
If this news spreads, who would dare to believe Lingshan? Dare to cooperate and make friends with Lingshan?
Li Anran had previously guessed that it was Taishang Laojun who led Monkey and the others to Chenjiazhuang, but now it seems that it is definitely not the case!
If Taishang Laojun knew about this, I'm afraid someone would get all the stolen goods and stab him out!
This is a greater blow to Buddhism than winning a gambling battle and delaying the rise of Lingshan by 500 years!
But if it wasn’t Taishang Laojun, who could it be?
Li Anran suddenly thought of that weird old turtle.
This matter must be related to that old turtle!
Li Anran immediately wanted to catch the old turtle in the mortal world and see what was going on, but he stopped again after taking only two steps.
This old turtle or the person behind the old turtle can scheme against Guanyin. There is no doubt about his strength and his courage!
Didn't he come to the door so recklessly to deliver food? !
At the same time, Xiniu Hezhou and Tongtian River.
The four monkey masters and apprentices were about to cross the river when they suddenly saw an old turtle emerging from the water.
(End of chapter)
