"..."
Quietly walking around the main hall, Pei Wende saw at a glance Hui Ji who was using the form of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to ward off the demons by reciting the Ten Wheels of Ksitigarbha Sutra.
Compared with the monsters and ghosts he encountered before, Huiji at this moment truly fits the image of a practitioner in Pei Wende's mind.
Holding Dharma in hand, reciting mantras, gods and Buddhas descending into the world...
This typical image of an enlightened monk even made Pei Wende forget Huiji's previous unreliable words and deeds.
And as the Bodhi Buddha's light gradually spread, Pei Wende felt that the restlessness and murderous intention in his heart were also calming down, and he returned to the state before being affected by the evil spirit.
"Today is really a hell. What happened?"
"Why does it feel like it's more dangerous outside than inside the temple?"
Not knowing the existence of the Green Snake, Pei Wende looked at the howling demons outside the temple and could not help but curse in a low voice.
"And those scoundrels, what are they doing now?"
As the illusion in his eyes reappeared, Pei Wende was once again pulled into the illusion created by Li Lifu before he could react.
This time, it is also telling about the first half of Li Lifu's life.
The only difference from the previous one is that this time the illusion has a different perspective, a perspective that only the real Li Lifu has.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
In this illusion, Li Lifu's first sixteen years were still the same as before.
As a standard second-generation ancestor and a playboy, Li Lifu strongly opposed his marriage to the young lady of the Lu family because of his own sexual orientation.
But after running away from home and spending all his money, he returned home angrily and was forced to accept the marriage arranged by his parents.
However, after getting married, Li Lifu still did not forget that he was gay and would run out to have sex from time to time.
In this regard, although the youngest daughter of the Lu family, who had become the wife of the Li family, was helpless, she could only silently accept this fact and keep it a secret for her husband.
After all, the two elders of the Li family are devout Buddhist believers, and they must not be able to accept their son's ridiculous behavior.
This situation lasted until the "Horse Falling Incident", that is, when Li Lifu secretly ran out for a private meeting again, something happened that affected his future life.
On the surface, Li Lifu just fell off his horse during a private meeting, resulting in the loss of all memories of the past.
But the fact is that Li Lifu fell off his horse because he saw a scene of a fierce tiger fighting a giant snake during a private meeting.
The terrifying giant tiger with eye-catching eyes, the ferocious green-scaled snake...
The battle between the two monsters disturbed Li Lifu's horse, causing Li Lifu, who did not react hastily, to fall off his horse and fall into a dying state.
What happened next can be imagined. It can be said that the fierce tiger and the giant snake fought in a lose-lose manner, and no one benefited.
After this battle, the green-scaled snake chose to return to the mountains and forests, intending to spend a long time healing the wounds caused by this battle.
The ferocious tiger, whose head was hit, was driven by instinct and bit Li Lifu, the only witness, to death, and then naturally inherited his identity and returned to the Li family.
If the plot develops according to the normal situation, this is nothing more than Fierce Tiger changing his identity to move around in human society, which will be no different from every previous disguise.
Unfortunately, what the fierce tiger never expected was that it gradually forgot the fact that it was a tiger due to brain injuries.
When the fierce tiger finally woke up as "Li Lifu", it completely forgot its former name of "Tiger" and completely regarded itself as a human being, a well-known playboy in Tanzhou area.
After losing the control of the tiger, the ghosts who were originally bound by it began to appear frequently to do evil, making Tanzhou, which was already rarely populated, become a paradise for ghosts and monsters.
It was not until four years later that an eminent monk from Chang'an came to live in seclusion here and suppressed the rebellious ghosts here, and this allowed the chaotic Tanzhou to enjoy sixteen years of peace.
Of course, as the tiger's last ghost, Li Lifu didn't know the specific details.
In the four years before he was killed by the tiger, he just followed the tiger angrily, watching the tiger take away everything from him bit by bit.
Family, friends, life...
Those things that clearly belong to him gradually become the tiger's "life".
Perhaps because the tiger lost his memory, Li Lifu almost completely inherited all his memories and personality during his lifetime, becoming an independent existence completely different from other tigers.
Therefore, his resentment towards the tiger is not limited to the experience of being skinned and enslaved after death, but also the anger of seeing everything about him being replaced by others.
So one day, this resentment and anger accumulated to the extreme, and finally it broke through the shackles of the demon and began to truly bite the tiger.
From that day on, the Li family's house was frequently haunted, but no one knew why.
This situation continued until the concubine died inexplicably and the mistress was petrified. The tiger disguised as Li Lifu seemed to have remembered some memory fragments and chose to leave the Li family voluntarily.
Of course, in the eyes of uninformed people, all this means that the playboy "Li Lifu" did not settle down for a few years. After his parents died, he fell into his old ways and did the ridiculous thing of giving up the family business and becoming a monk. .
In the years after leaving home, Tiger never gave up trying to dig out his past memories, trying hard to recall what he had forgotten.
However, the misunderstanding of identity made Tiger's efforts have no effect at all.
The more I recall my memories of being "Li Lifu", the memories that originally belonged to the tiger become more distant...
The only thing Tiger can be sure of is that the memory he lost is not as simple as described to outsiders. There are still some secrets hidden in him that even his parents don't know.
And it was this secret that caused him to be targeted by some evil spirits, and he became a walking disaster and a destined evil star.
This speculation became more accurate after the tiger met the angry green snake and fought with him - he must have done something sinful in the first half of his life to be so hated.
However, the tiger did not complain about this. Instead, he gradually accepted it all during his practice at Mulian Temple.
Whether it's an evil ghost or a green snake...
No matter what outrageous things you have done, the karma that is reflected back to you now is the guilt that you must bear.
With this kind of mentality that is close to atonement, the tiger, who does not want to harm others anymore, can only adopt the "unfeeling" attitude of a family member when facing his daughter who comes to the door.
—Recommendation ticket—/—Monthly ticket—
