Acting as a god and Buddha: starting from Guanzi

Chapter 5 Elysium
Meng Yuan instinctively wanted to answer, but suddenly an arm covered his mouth from behind.

The voice of the old monk sounded: "Don't make a sound."

The monster in the white mist didn't seem to notice this place, the door of a house next to the street suddenly opened, and a short man walked out, his figure was a little stiff.

The mouth said mechanically: "Please come in and enjoy."

Huhu—

In an instant, white mist poured into the man's house, and then there was a sound of chewing, which was creepy.

The old monk took the opportunity to grab Meng Yuan and landed on the roof with a slight jump.

"Master, what is that? A demon?" Meng Yuan couldn't help but ask.

But the old monk turned his head and said with a half-smile on his wrinkled face, "Maybe so."

The old monk led Meng Yuan quickly on the roof and said, "Whether it's a Buddha or a god, it's the same."

As soon as the words fell, Meng Yuan had no time to think about the meaning of the words, when a gust of wind suddenly struck from behind.

The old monk held Meng Yuan with one hand and slapped it with his palm. He only heard a popping sound like a rag bag but didn't see anything. However, Meng Yuan observed carefully with the blessing of his heavenly eyes and noticed that the palm of the old monk's palm had turned dark. Hei, there must have been something just now, but it was too fast and his eyes couldn't detect it.

The two moved quickly on the roof, seeing that this direction was the south of the town.

Along the way, Meng Yuan saw the doors of many houses being opened, and scarlet blood splashed outside the door, which made people shudder.

Meng Yuan's predecessor, Yu Que, was a member of the theater troupe and traveled extensively, but he really didn't know much about this.

Then he asked the old monk, "Master, why don't they leave here?"

"Leave? Miao Evil, do you think this is the case only in Luoxia Town? Relatively speaking, there are very few people who need to be enshrined here."

Meng Yuan's mind was shocked for a moment, worship?And it's not just Luoxia Town, could it be that the entire Great Yan Kingdom, or...

At this moment, a faint golden light suddenly appeared in front of him.

The golden light enveloped a house like an arc.

Meng Yuan recognized this place instantly, after all he escaped from here the night before yesterday.

"The Wang family has practitioners in the Golden Core Realm, and they are protected by the Sea God of the South Sea. They usually don't come to this place." The old monk explained.

It turned out to be the case.

The two didn't get too close, they were just outside the palace, squatting in a corner with a better view.

But Meng Yuan is in a state of disarray at the moment. The town was very lively the night before, but now he can't even hear a dog barking. I don't know how many lives have disappeared without a sound.

The old monk Huiming was also secretly observing Meng Yuan. Seeing his reaction along the way, he was slightly relieved. He didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse.

"Wonderful."

"Master?"

"You want to save them?"

Meng Yuan fell into deep thought. He knew that he was weak. Even though he had stepped into the practice, he couldn't deal with those monsters just after stepping into the threshold. Even the old monk could only seek shelter, but maybe it was because playing the Bodhisattva had already entered the play , he instinctively wanted to save people.

Immediately, he remembered what Master said that the Wang family was protected by the Gold Core Realm and Sea God, so they were safe and sound, and said, "Master, if they reach the Golden Core Realm, can they be dealt with?"

Huiming shook his head, Jindan?Even if they are cultivated into the God Transformation Realm, living gods can only protect one-third of an acre of land. This world...is hopeless.

"Remember, if you haven't cultivated the golden core, if you meet some god's birthday, you should stay away as soon as possible on the day of worship, and you can't stay here overnight."

Meng Yuan nodded, this is probably one of the rules of survival in this world.

The master and the apprentice hid outside the Wang's house, and it was estimated that it was midnight, but the old monk's face became more serious.

"Master, what's wrong?"

A cloud of white mist approached slowly, and they were targeted.

"Close your eyes, don't look, don't listen, don't smell, the most important thing is don't...fear." The old monk urged, and then sat cross-legged.

After hearing this, Meng Yuan immediately sat down beside him and closed his eyes tightly.

Slowly, he felt as if he was wrapped in white mist, and there was a feeling of insects crawling on his body.

The unknown is often frightening. Meng Yuan wanted to open his eyes to see what it was, but the old monk's warning still lingered in his heart.

There has to be a diversion.

Meng Yuan immediately remembered a heart sutra that he often recited in his previous life, and he recited silently in his heart: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, if you practice the deep prajna paramita for a long time, you will see that all five aggregates are empty, and you will overcome all hardships... Truth, the Polo monk reveals the truth, and Bodhisattva.

"what!"

Suddenly, a shrill scream sounded outside Wang's house, as shrill as a night owl and a ghost.

Meng Yuan opened his eyes, but at this moment, a circle of flames rose from the back of his head, shining brightly, and the white mist around him was quickly forced back.

One of the 33 phases of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, the round light phase.

It means not to be chaotic in the face of danger, and the belief that you must win can relieve the disaster.

"Little monk, what kind of power is this?"

The white mist shrank into a ball, and it was vaguely visible that the monster in it was very frightened. The light of the flames could actually burn its soul body. This little monk was obviously just an ant in the Qi training realm.

But the power in the flame light made it fearful, but at the same time it felt greedy in its heart. It didn't know what it was, but it instinctively felt that it would be of great benefit to itself.

call!
The white mist instantly enveloped Meng Yuan, his whole body sneered, and a stench rushed towards his face.

"It stinks." Meng Yuan thought to himself, the smell was like the sourness of finding a dead body in a garbage dump on a hot day.

Suddenly, Meng Yuan saw a flower in front of his eyes, and in front of him was a magnificent Buddha statue, poured in gold, soaring into the clouds, surrounded by auspicious light, and there were thousands of people worshiping under the Buddha seat, and the incense turned into auspicious clouds and surrounded the Buddha statue.

When ordinary people see this scene, they have long been transformed into one of the ten thousand people by the huge power of faith. They chant sutras and kneel down day and night to provide faith. However, the Buddha found that this little monk was not saved by him at all. !
Little did he know that when Meng Yuan saw this scene, he showed no reverence for the gods and Buddhas. Just like yesterday when he answered the old monk's three questions, if a Bodhisattva has the appearance of me, the appearance of a human being, the appearance of all living beings, or the appearance of a person with a long life, they are all not Bodhisattvas.

This is just a statue of Buddha, not a Buddha.

Immediately looking around, he wondered how he came here, and saw that the ground was paved with marble, and there were countless plantains, bodhisattvas, and vanilla planted around the towering Buddha statue in the center.

Many believers are sitting cross-legged on the ground at this moment, burning incense, chanting sutras, and worshiping with great piety.

Meng Yuan came to an old man dressed in coarse linen and asked, "Old man, why do you worship it?"

The old man's eyes were numb and his movements were a little stiff. He murmured: "Old man has believed in Buddhism all his life. Fortunately, the Buddha has blessed me and brought me to the holy land of the Buddha to enjoy peace and happiness. I am free from the suffering of the world. In gratitude for his merits, I have knelt down and worshiped day and night since then. "

Buddhist country?Is this the paradise that believers in this world say they will be reborn in?

Meng Yuan opened his eyes and looked around, and saw some scenes of the holy land of Lingshan, but a fake is a fake.

They were cheated!
Meng Yuan looked at these hundreds of millions of believers. In fact, they were just broken bodies, as if they had been eaten by something. They suffered endless suffering in life and were still deceived and enslaved after death. His heart was filled with anger. and sympathy.

There was a voice telling him what to do, and he immediately sat cross-legged and recited the Maha Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra, which was the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Heart Sutra he had just silently recited.

"Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, practice the deep Prajna Paramita for a long time..."

For a moment, Meng Yuan's whole body was radiated with light, and the circle of flames behind his head was like a big sun, and it was even shoulder to shoulder with that Buddha statue!
The tens of millions of believers below are all stunned, and there is another Buddha?

(End of this chapter)