This scene sent a chill down everyone's back, and the hairs on their hair immediately stood up!
Thousand-year-old niches, snowy beams, monks' robes and skeletons, and rotting corpses ringing bells. These single scenes are enough to scare them. Now that they saw the monk's withered bones showing no signs of stopping, a chill immediately rushed from the soles of their feet to their foreheads, calling them Walking was a bit delayed.
With quick eyesight and quick hands, Keli pulled up his bow and fired it at the skeleton ringing the bell. He only heard a rustling sound, and the skeleton's arm was immediately nailed to the wall. The ringing of the bell stopped and the surroundings returned to silence.
However, this deathly silence made everyone feel even more uneasy. They had just seen the skeleton ringing the bell with their own eyes. This scene was so bizarre that they could never forget it. Thinking of it, they only felt a chill.
"You just saw the skeleton ringing the bell, right?"
Seeing everyone nodding, Song Siyuan pinched her arm and felt relieved after confirming that the pain was coming. She was just worried that she had rashly descended to the niche and was caught by some illusion. Everyone around her had already seen the skeleton ringing the bell, so... It shows that it is not an illusion.
Wang Yuanlu was quite superstitious. He had just seen a skeleton ringing the bell. He was so frightened that he took a few steps back and said in a trembling voice: "Could it be that the ghost of this monk is still here and continues to ring the bell for thousands of years?"
Thinking of this, he became more and more horrified. He quickly knelt down towards the doorway, clasped his hands and prayed: "Sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, sin, I am not of the same religion, but in the end we are all cultivators. We just want to find the noisy and strange noises." , I have no intention of disturbing the great monk’s practice, and we hope that the great monk will circumvent us.”
"Taoist Wang, if you are really that cowardly, just go up and stay there, kowtow and worship in front of a pair of rotten bones. No matter what, you are not afraid of humiliating Sanqing's face."
Xu Xiake was just about to pull Taoist Wang up. The old Taoist priest was obviously frightened. He knelt on the ground and refused to get up. He muttered: "You don't know that there are many such monks in the Western Regions. There are indeed monks who are sitting on the body." It is possible that after Nirvana, one will still be obsessed with promoting Buddhism, continue to chant sutras and meditate, or even go on a missionary mission after death. If we delay the missionary work of these great monks, we will easily be entangled by them. We will not die. No relief."
Yue Guanchao looked at Keli and nodded to everyone: "Taoist Wang is right. There are indeed many ghost monks in the Western Regions."
The so-called ghost monks refer to monks who have died but still have an obsession with promoting Buddhism.
Before their death, these monks were often enlightened monks or devout monks who believed deeply in Buddhism. When they were alive, they took the promotion of Buddhism as their own responsibility and vowed to make the people of the world worship the Buddha religiously. Let alone whether their ambitions can be realized, just whether they can Making this vow can already prove that they are devout Buddhists.
However, the people in the world have many different beliefs and cannot be completely unified by a certain sect, nor can they only believe in a certain sect. Under such circumstances, these great monks failed to achieve their great aspirations throughout their lives and died in Nirvana with regrets. .
If some monks are open-minded and willing to let go of their obsession with nirvana, they will be made into golden Buddhas by future generations, or their bones and relics will be burned. If some monks are too obsessed with it, they will be riddled with resentment after death and turn into Ghost monk.
These monks are between the dead and the living. They cannot breathe, have no pulse, do not need to eat, and are not aware of pain or exertion. They walk outside in the state of the dead and maintain their behavior in life. If they encounter a living person, they will To persuade people to convert to Buddhism.
In their own opinion, they are indeed promoting Buddhism. However, if they encounter living people, these living people will immediately find that these monks are dead. If the weather is too hot or the death time is too long, they may even see a rotten smell on their bodies. The smell and the silverfish flying in and out.
Just imagine, if a living person sees a monk who is about to rot and wants to promote Buddhism to him, of course his fear is greater than his piety. He will even arrest these monks as monsters. Even if it is not good, he will try to avoid them like the god of plague. It is absolutely impossible to approach deliberately.
Everywhere these ghost monks go, they will definitely be rejected by the world, and they will appear as disgusting as ghosts. Over time, they will accumulate disgust and resentment towards the world in their hearts, and begin to attack living people, as long as the living people say that they do not want to convert. If they are unwilling to believe in Buddhism, they will be eviscerated by the ghost monks, their heads will be chopped off, and they will be turned into skeletons around their waists.
Over time, everyone knows the horror of ghost monks. But when they see a monk who behaves weirdly and has no intention of living, the people will stay away from him. No matter how bad it is, they will say good things and never dare to say anything more about not converting to Buddhism until they are completely separated. Only with the Ghost Monk's attack range can you feel completely at ease.
The most violent times when ghost monks cause trouble are often when dynasties change. However, whenever there is a change of dynasty, there will be frequent wars and poor people's livelihood. This is when Buddhism comes out to save people, and ghost monks are often the most rampant at this time. I hope that people will convert to Buddhism. , enjoy eternal peace.
Back then, fifty-six years before the previous dynasty abdicated, a tragic civil unrest occurred in the northwest. Tens of millions of local people died. With countless people dead, some rotten ghost monks came out of nowhere in the desert.
Every time they go to a village, they must convert people to Buddhism, otherwise they will go on a killing spree. The villages at the end of the Hexi Corridor are so frightened by the killing that every family stores food on the walls of the monastery during the day, and they stay in the courtyard at night and dare not come out.
It wasn't until they walked to the boundary of the Hexi Corridor that they were annihilated by the Taoist Taoists sent from the northwest Qinling Mountains. It is said that these monks' attire still maintained the style of Tibetan Buddha's robes, and even had obvious patterns of the Tubo Dynasty.
At that time, monks from the plateau would not go to the Hexi Corridor to preach for no reason. These Taoist Taoists suspected that someone was pretending to be a monk from the plateau. After some investigation, they found that the identities of these ghost monks were some of the missionaries during the Tubo rule in the Western Regions. Monk.
After their death, their ghosts lingered and turned into ghost monks. They were originally buried in some abandoned underground palaces or pagodas in the Western Regions. They existed as human relics. They may have killed tens of millions of people in the northwest, causing the blood energy underground to shake. They Only then did he smell the resentment of the dead and came out to convert the living to Buddhism.
However, after all, they had been dead for nearly a thousand years and no longer knew the situation in the world. Of course, they went around killing people like headless flies. These ghost monks were eventually burned by Tianshi Dao, and their ashes and relics were sent to a Taoist temple in the Qinling Mountains to be sealed. He disappeared.
I don’t know what the specific truth is, but it has become the ghost monk asking for his life today.
After Keli told the story of the ghost monk, everyone looked at the bones nailed to the wall with bows and arrows again, and there was another shadow on their brows!
