"Is the headless Skanda outside the mountain gate your true body?"
Although Pei Wende didn't know what exactly happened to Skanda, it was an indisputable fact that his body and head were separated.
"Fake, there are too many things you want to know!"
The girl did not answer Pei Wende's question directly.
Or to be more precise, she no longer wanted to answer any of the other party's questions.
Ever since the girl recovered her memory from the Skanda period, she had a natural feeling of disgust towards this guy pretending to be "Dan Chenzi".
You know, during the war eighteen years ago, Dan Chenzi did not really leave.
On the contrary, Dan Chenzi's incarnation chose to step into Ciguang Temple again at the most intense moment when the old monk and the demon Buddha were competing for body sovereignty.
Later, with the help of Dan Chenzi, the demon Buddha who was about to appear was forced to reincarnate again, waiting for his next reincarnation.
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Time goes back to that day decades ago, the moment before the demon Buddha was about to appear.
"Did that old monk finally choose this path?"
Standing at the gate of the mountain, Dan Chenzi looked at the ruins of Ciguang Temple and sighed in a tone of envy or helplessness.
Although the foolish old monk wasted the first half of his life, he finally became brilliant at the last moment of his life.
Dan Chenzi knew that it didn't matter whether the Demon Buddha would bring trouble to the world in the future.
The important thing is that for the first time in his life, the old monk worked hard for a specific "goal" and succeeded.
This is the greatest relief for the old monk who has failed his whole life.
He was finally able to hold up his chest and regain the dignity and confidence he had lost little by little.
As for preventing the demon Buddha from appearing?
That's just the old monk setting a goal to "realize his own value."
This is the same as Dan Chenzi focusing all his hatred on Zen Master Lingyou in order to get rid of the pain of the decline of the Avatar lineage.
For this kind of lonely, paranoid people, they don't care about the praise or criticism of others, they just want a goal that can spur them to move forward.
Whether it's hatred or salvation...
It's all meaningless in their eyes, they just do what they think is right.
"Since the old monk is dead, you, as the only 'witnesses' of this battle, remember his sacrifice for the world!"
Gently stroking the only remaining statue of Skanda at the gate of the mountain, Dan Chenzi's words revealed sadness that only he could understand.
As the statues that have been consecrated by the old monk and have gathered most of the incense and aspiration power of Ciguang Temple, the two Skanda statues outside the mountain gate naturally participated in that battle.
It's a pity that even with the blessing of the power of faith from the incense of Ciguang Temple.
After all, the two clay sculptures of Wei Tuo were not spared from the attack of the Demon Buddha.
One of the statues of Skanda was directly used by the Demon Buddha to "reverse the Buddha and become a demon", erasing its own existence, leaving only a trace of Yuan Fei lingering near Ciguang Temple.
As for the remaining statue of Skanda?
Thanks to Dan Chenzi's timely rescue, it was only beheaded by the aftermath of the battle, but its body was preserved.
Generally speaking, the statues of gods in temples and Taoist temples are naturally spiritual because they have been exposed to human incense all year round, and they are more likely to become "monsters" than other things.
The so-called "consecration" of Taoism and Buddhism is actually the artificial activation of this spirituality.
Let these statues temporarily become the carrier of some kind of power of heaven and earth, so as to exert abilities that ordinary clay sculptures do not have.
But there is a limit to such activation. Even if the old monk guides all the incense and aspiration accumulated in Ciguang Temple for decades into the statue of Wei Tuo, they will not become real monsters.
But Dan Chenzi doesn't need such a "dead thing". What he needs is a "living thing" that can truly remember this battle and pass it on for a long time.
——The Essential Technique of Taiping·Psychic Spell!
This was originally one of the secret techniques of the Five Pecks of Rice Cult founded by Zhang Jiao in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.
After being accidentally obtained by Dan Chenzi, it was integrated into the secret methods of other sects such as inviting gods to possess, scattering beans to form soldiers, Liujia secret spell, Tongxuan manifestation, etc., and became a brand new spell.
Compared with other kinds of consecration techniques that are eager for quick success, this special "spiritual spell" was created by Dan Chenzi in the name of the gods and Buddhas, giving the clay idols real wisdom, so that they can be completed in just a few years. Metamorphosis.
The monster born in this way is naturally no longer a dead thing, but a living creature that truly possesses intelligence and life, and is an existence that can pass down the old monk's deeds.
The "birth" of the girl undoubtedly proves this point.
In fact, this is also the reason why the girl feels very familiar with the name "Dan Chenzi".
Because it itself is a "monster" created by Dan Chenzi.
The only difference from Pei Wende's guess was that the girl was not transformed into the headless Skanda at the door, but the aura of Skanda entrenched in the temple.
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I don’t know when the spiritual light that has been entrenched in the temple all year round became aware of “self”, “life”, and “this world” – the Buddha Demon was born.
Just like a newborn baby opening its eyes to see the world for the first time, the Buddha Demon truly woke up from that day on, and silently watched and influenced everything that happened in Ciguang Temple.
The Buddha Demon saw those practitioners who were chasing the remains of the Demon Buddha and rushed to Ciguang Temple...
So in order to ensure the peace of Ciguang Temple, it began to consciously use illusions to mislead outsiders.
The Buddha Demon also saw a certain girl arriving, and saw her accidentally finding the rosary left by the Demon Buddha...
So in order to prevent the girl from becoming the body of the demon Buddha, it guided Ajue to find the Zen staff to restrain the rosary.
The Buddha Demon also saw that the number of children in the temple gradually began to increase, and Ciguang Temple gradually became lively...
So in order to relieve its loneliness, it transformed into the image of "girl" and frequently appeared in the children's dreams.
Similarly, the Buddha Demon even saw the appearance of the group of refugees in the end...
But this time, the Buddha-demon, who was just a spiritual fetus, could not prevent the tragedy from happening. He could only watch the children die tragically, the girl disappear, and Ah Jue become a demon.
"If only I had done this sooner..."
Pounding her fists at Pei Wende again and again, the girl choked with silent expression, as if everything had returned to the night when the tragedy happened.
"If I had abandoned my 'clay body' earlier, nothing in Ciguang Temple would have happened!"
Although the other party did not roar at the top of his lungs, Pei Wende seemed to see the image of a weeping Veda slowly appearing behind the girl's back.
"As the incarnation of a god, he is useless..."
"Enjoying the incense of the world but being greedy for life and afraid of death..."
"Seeing the evil spirit appear but unable to do anything..."
This questioning was not only the girl's own regret, but also her refutation of this malicious world.
"What's the point of worshiping such a 'god of clay sculpture'?!"
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