Be a reckless man in the martial arts word game

Chapter 581: Soulless

There are eighteen levels of hell, and each level is twenty times more painful than the previous one.

After the Bronze Pillar Hell, there are even more torturous hells such as the Knife Mountain Hell, the Iceberg Hell, the Oil Pot Hell, etc. Even a man as decisive in killing as Chu Junhui felt a little uncomfortable with the tragic scenes he saw.

There was no conversation along the way. After passing through the eighteenth level of the knife-saw hell, Chu Junhui saw a tree.

The tree looked to be only about five meters tall and not very thick, with a diameter probably less than half a meter. The branches were bare, without even a leaf.

A man with a face as white as mutton sat cross-legged under the tree, meditating with his eyes closed.

The bald monk who led the way stepped forward and said, "Bodhisattva, the Demon Lord is here to look for you."

"I understand." The man raised his hand on his left knee, "Fallen, you go first."

"Yes." The bald monk did not stop and went back the same way he came.

"Purify the world."

Chu Jun took a few steps back and stretched out his hand forward. His hand passed through the chest of the Pure World Bodhisattva.

No blood was shed, in fact there was no contact at all, it was like passing through a cloud of smoke.

"You seem to be dead?"

"How does the Demon Lord define life and death?" The Pure World Bodhisattva opened his eyes, with only compassion in them, without any pain.

"If you make my enemy you will die, and if you make my friend you will live." Chu Junhui gave the answer according to his own understanding.

Bodhisattva Jingshi did not comment on Zhiwu’s distorted ideas, but expressed his own views.

"All worlds are constantly born and destroyed, with beginnings and endings, and thoughts continue in a cycle. All kinds of choices and rejections are samsara."

"Reincarnation, life and death is a cycle. Your obsession with the devil has destroyed this cycle, and the Yindu Tree has also destroyed this cycle."

"Except you and this tree, everything is in reincarnation. Life is death, and death is life."

What he said sounded quite plausible. If Chu Junhui had not learned from Medicine Buddha that Bodhisattvas specialized in cultivating souls and spirits, which could remain outside the body for a long time, he would have really been frightened by Jingshi.

"I heard that you have mastered the Yindu Tree. You would rather waste the power of resurrection on those ghosts than rebuild your own body. Is there any disadvantage to the resurrection of the Yindu Tree?" Chu Junhui asked tentatively.

"There are many disadvantages. It depends on which one you are asking about."

"Let's ask the Bodhisattva for advice today, please tell us everything." Old Chu was still quite polite when he was "seeking knowledge".

"Zhiwu, you don't study Buddhist scriptures on weekdays, but only practice the method of fighting. Even if I tell you, you may not understand."

"Just tell me, whether I understand or not is my own business."

"Well then." The Pure World Bodhisattva began with a question, "Now that you are in the turbulence of time, you probably understand that the world has multiple developments, right?"

"I see, the timeline."

"Then do you know what remains constant in a world of multiple developments?"

"Saint!" the King of Chu replied immediately.

"No. Saints can only leave traces that are indelible even with time. There is only one place that is truly constant and unchanging, and that is the path of reincarnation, because... death is the true eternity."

At the moment when he transformed himself into a Taoist, Bodhisattva Pure World had a clear look at the path of reincarnation. It was that one look that made him discover a horrible truth.

"In the final battle between the three religions, Junior Sister Lei Yin unfortunately died in the battle. I saw her in the Path of Reincarnation."

"I saw...hundreds and thousands of her."

In the world's perception, when a person dies, there is only one soul. However, the glance seen by the Pure World Bodhisattva made him understand that one can actually meet countless versions of oneself on the path of reincarnation.

"That's the Leiyin Bodhisattva from another timeline." "Junior Sister Leiyin doesn't have enough means to protect herself. No matter which timeline she is in, she will easily die in the final battle. That's why there are so many of her in the Samsara Path."

“That was her tribulation… I think when Master always said that so-and-so was about to experience tribulation, he probably saw something similar.”

Unfortunately, Jingshi is still far from the level of Buddha, otherwise he could also infer the fate of others by just taking a few glances at the path of reincarnation.

"If you can understand the existence of the reincarnation path, then you should be able to understand how serious the situation I am about to talk about is."

"The Yindu Tree is a poisonous tree. Anyone who relies on this tree to enjoy the power of immortality will have to pay the price."

"Let me give you an example. If there are 10,000 timelines, and you gain the power to revive in 1,000 of them, then these 1,000 timelines will undergo some kind of change."

"If you are one of the thousand, then you will not be able to be reincarnated after you die."

"You will wander somewhere and never be able to follow the path of reincarnation."

"You in other timelines are madly using your immortal power, but what you are actually consuming is your soul in other timelines."

"When the last 'you' consumed the souls of all the other brothers, he was not afraid of being consumed by others after his death, so he was able to reincarnate smoothly. But he was the only one who could reincarnate smoothly."

Chu Jun listened back with a confused look on his face.

I don’t understand what Jingshi is saying at all… I’m a demon-obsessed person and don’t consider these things.

Bodhisattva Jingshi glanced at him and probably guessed that Zhiwu definitely didn't understand a word, so he softened his tone and spoke from a different angle.

"Do you know the process of reincarnation?"

Old Chu shook his head.

Bodhisattva of the Pure World: “…”

He still overestimated Zhiwu's knowledge.

"Then do you know why people who have lived nine lives of goodness and nine lives of evil are so rare?"

Lao Chu turned into a shaking machine and continued to shake his head.

"..."

You haven't read any Buddhist scriptures at all!

"Forget it. Remember, many souls are almost annihilated after three or five reincarnations. They need to take the red spider lily from the underworld to replenish their three souls and seven spirits. This replenishment process is the process of cleansing the soul."

"You can think of the soul after purification as a new soul. It has no causal connection with its previous life, and it is impossible for it to awaken its wisdom."

"The underworld has been running for tens of thousands of years, and there have been few problems, because even the weakest soul can at least reincarnate three times. If that doesn't work, if the soul is too exhausted, sending it to the animal realm to be a pig or a dog is also a solution."

"But if you use the method of the Yindu Tree that consumes souls, you in other timelines won't even have the chance to be an animal. If the underworld wants to send living beings to reincarnate in each timeline, it needs to consume more red spider lilies."

"If the red spider lily's storage is insufficient, the newborn baby is likely to lack the three souls and seven spirits, and become a blank slate idiot."

"Can you imagine a world like that?"

"There is no life or death in the world, and no soul in man."

“Everyone will become a shell for others to possess, and lose the autonomy of their soul.”

"The world will become..."

A game.

Chu Junhui said silently in his heart.

(End of this chapter)