Chapter 118: Rebirth Mantra
"Grandpa Shantong, what are you doing? Is it going to be conferred the title of mountain god as well?"
The mountain rabbit hiding on the head of the magic frog had a bad feeling when he saw this scene.
"Its life is coming to an end. It probably has more than a month to live."
The Moon Doll stopped playing with the Mountain Rabbit, and said with some emotion that life is always easy to fade away.
"More than a month? How could it be possible!"
The mountain rabbit was so frightened that it jumped off the magic frog's head and hopped in front of the old mountain boy. After getting a positive answer, it looked extremely sad.
"Little Mountain Rabbit, practice hard, even if it's just to live a little longer."
The old mountain boy stroked the mountain rabbit's head and asked her to leave first so as not to delay Master Liansheng's business.
"Grandpa Shan Tong..."
The mountain rabbit stood not far away, tears in her eyes, and the moon doll gently stroked her head.
"You have more than a month to live."
"Living a little longer is just lying there. There is no difference between being alive and being dead."
Seeing that the old mountain boy faced death calmly, Pinggong Qianye didn't say much.
He stood up, holding the Zen stick, and pointed it in front of the old mountain boy's head.
This process does not require too many steps, and the old mountain boy voluntarily offers his soul.
The soul of the old mountain boy, who was in the form of illusory light and shadow, left his body. He looked once again at the three mountain boys he had raised and smiled with satisfaction.
After thinking about it, he decided not to say anything else. He had already explained everything he needed to explain. He turned around and immersed himself in the Zen staff in Pinggong Qianye's hand.
There was nothing strange or special about it, and the Zen staff just swallowed up the soul of a mountain boy.
Pinggong Qianye sighed, chanted a Buddhist name silently in his heart, and thrust the Zen stick in his hand into the ground, injecting great magic power into it.
In an instant, the Zen stick turned gently, emitting dazzling Buddhist light, golden light that dyed the surrounding mountains and forests.
Three mountain boys knelt around the Zen stick, crying and bidding farewell to the old mountain boy who passed away.
"Namo Amitabha, Dothagata, Dodiyata, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha."
Pinggong Qianye bowed his head and chanted the "Nirvana Mantra", hoping to use the mantra to eliminate all the worries of the old mountain boy and to be reborn in the Western Paradise.
Birth and death are the greatest sufferings in this world. Being able to be reborn into the next life is already a great mercy.
As the sound of Pinggong Qianye chanting the "Nirvana Mantra" resounded throughout the mountains and forests, wisps of breeze blew in from all directions, passing through the four-pronged double-wheel twelve-rings at the head of the Zen staff, making a humming sound.
When the bright moon in the sky moved horizontally for a distance, the wind through the mountains and forests that was carrying wind to the Western Paradise stopped.
The sound of chanting the "Nirvana Mantra" stopped and the Zen stick stopped turning.
Pinggong Qianye held the Zen stick in front of him, looked up at the moonlight, and looked at the moon doll lying on the back of the mountain rabbit to comfort the mountain rabbit.
"It's time for us to set off."
Now that the matter here is over, we should naturally leave. As for when we can reunite, it depends on whether our destinies can give us the opportunity to intertwine again.
"See you next time."
The moon doll flew up from the mountain rabbit and sat on the right shoulder of Heimiya Chiye. It followed Heimiya Chiye and left the dense forest in the mountains under the moonlight.
The three mountain boys, the mountain rabbit, the magic frog and Xiaoqing watched Pinggong Qianye leave.
People come and go in a hurry, and the gathering and separation of people in the world are all like floating clouds.
"Sister Bai, I have to practice hard."
The figure went away, Xiaoqing withdrew her gaze, crawled towards the jade bed, crossed her body, looked up at the moon, and entered a state of cultivation.
The other three mountain boys also found a suitable place and began to practice.
The unattended Tiger Vanguard was being watched by the magic frog and did not dare to sneak away.
"..."
As Yamausagi watched this scene, he always felt that if he continued to think about playing, wouldn't that be a bit inappropriate?
"Shall I practice for a while too?" Yamausagi whispered softly.
"Quack."
The magic frog agreed with this.
"...Mr. Frog, you are so annoying!"
Shantu was angry for a while, then sat next to Xiaoqing and started practicing. Then he lay on his side and fell asleep without knowing when.
……
Deep mountains, dense forests, and travelers.
If you travel at this time, you are most likely to encounter mountain goblins and monsters.
Unfortunately, Pinggong Qianye has not met him yet.
Perhaps it was because he was traveling too fast, and sometimes in the blink of an eye he would go from the foot of the mountain on this side to the top of the mountain on the other side.
After all, if you want to travel around in a month, it is absolutely impossible to do it by walking like an ordinary person.
"Are there really fox spirits and female ghosts in this kind of place?" Jingu Yae Sakura asked while controlling the Moon Doll.
"This is a story that is recorded in a standard book of gods and ghosts. Scholars are most likely to encounter this kind of situation when traveling late at night."
While traveling under the moonlight, Hiramiya Chiye patiently discussed the matter with Jingu Yaezakura.
Fox spirits often transform themselves into peerless beauties and appear before scholars in clothes that reveal three parts and cover seven parts. They have charming demeanors, sweet lips and soft words, and are best at captivating people.
Once the scholar can't control himself, the vixens will take out his heart and liver and eat them, and before leaving they will curse, saying that all men who covet beauty deserve to die!
As for female ghosts, they often appear in white mourning clothes. Their magical powers are generally not as strong as those of fox spirits, so they can only rely on coaxing to make scholars willingly spend a night with them.
They would not necessarily take the scholar's life. Sometimes, they would come to spend every night with the scholar and be affectionate and intimate with him.
It’s just that humans are yang and ghosts are yin. When yin and yang interact, the yang energy is lost, which can cause a serious illness at the very least, or death at the worst.
Of course, if the scholar keeps his heart righteous and does not refuse to be deceived, then the female ghosts will most likely be unable to do anything to him.
"You seem to know a lot about vixen and female ghosts?" Jingu Yae Sakura expressed her doubts through the moon doll.
"I just read it in books." "These books are not serious, you should read less in the future."
Why does this tone give the feeling of Lin Daiyu persuading Jia Baoyu to read?
Pinggong Qianye laughed and then nodded in agreement.
Weilian Ancient Temple has never collected this kind of books. The so-called stories about fox spirits and female ghosts are memories left over from his previous life.
In such a late-night atmosphere, it is natural and customary to tell stories about gods and ghosts.
After passing through another mountain, Pinggong Qianye stopped at the top of the mountain.
His eyes glowed slightly with golden light as he glanced at the foot of the mountain below.
"So, ghosts often appear in the dead of night."
"A female ghost?"
The Moon Doll stood up from Pinggong Chiye's shoulder, looking down at the foot of the mountain below, but could not see anything.
This moon doll cannot carry too much of Jingu Yaezakura's divine power.
"probably."
Pinggong Qianye replied with a smile and walked towards the foot of the mountain at a leisurely pace.
Passing through the dense forest, we approached the foot of the mountain.
How can I describe the scene before me? A creature wearing white mourning clothes and a white triangular scarf on its head, with its hands slightly bent in front of its body like the front paws of a cat standing upright, and its body floating up.
This is a standard Japanese female ghost.
Behind her, two big men were chasing her closely.
The ghost is running away and people are chasing it.
Just catch up and hehehe.
This is probably the situation.
"No, please stop chasing me. I, I really am a female ghost!"
The female ghost was floating around in panic in front, her eyes occasionally glancing back, her tone full of helplessness.
"No matter if you are a female ghost or not, we brothers are already thirty years old and have never touched a woman. It is worth it to catch a female ghost."
"Wuwuwu... don't come over here..."
The female ghost seemed to be wiping away tears that didn't exist. She looked just like an ordinary girl being rapisted, weak and helpless.
"This is definitely a new ghost that has just been born."
Pinggong Qianye quickened his pace, passed through the trees, came behind the two men, and tapped their backs with the Zen stick in his hand.
boom.
The two men closed their eyes and fell forward, falling into a deep sleep.
"Stop running."
Pinggong Qianye threw the Dharma bowl in his hand, which hovered above the female ghost's head. Golden Buddha light enveloped her, trapping her like a prison, making her unable to move at all.
"They are obsessed with you, that's why they keep chasing you."
Pinggong Qianye came to the female ghost and looked at her carefully. "This should be your first day as a ghost, right?"
"..."
Inside the golden Buddha light cover, the shivering female ghost has now huddled into a ball and is shrinking little by little.
Pinggong Qianye had no choice but to put away the Dharma bowl to avoid directly converting her to heaven.
"Master, you are right. This is indeed my first day as a ghost..."
The female ghost paused for a long time before showing a sad expression to Pinggong Qianye.
"Why are you running here in such a hurry in the middle of the night? These two men must have been led here by you, right?" Pinggong Qianye asked.
The female ghost was stunned for a moment, and then talked about her experience.
She was accidentally caught in the tracks while waiting for a train the evening before yesterday and died.
She gained intelligence tonight and became a female ghost. The place where she died was near the ruins of Heijokyo, but when she woke up, she was inside the ruins of Heijokyo.
There are many female ghosts like her, and there is an extremely powerful ghost leading them through the Heijō Palace.
If their clothes were slightly changed, they would look like the maids who lived in Heijo Palace and served the emperor long ago.
Apart from her, most other female ghosts are confused and have no self-awareness.
While the leading ghost was not paying attention, she sneaked out of Heijō Palace.
Avoid Saidaiji Temple and Todaiji Temple, carefully sneak out of the Heijokyo ruins, and then escape to the mountains.
On the way, she happened to meet these two men who were returning from drinking, and as soon as they saw her, they chased after her, which led to the scene just now.
"Has any great demon king appeared at the Heijokyo ruins?"
"Probably." The female ghost answered uncertainly.
"Then your death should not be an accident." Pinggong Qianye thought.
"Ah? Was I murdered? How come I don't know it?"
The expression on the ghost girl's face became even more dull.
"This female ghost is so stupid. If there really is a great ghost king in the Heijokyo ruins, can she really escape with her intelligence?"
The Moon Doll is seriously skeptical of the ghost girl's wisdom.
The female ghost immediately waved her hands and tried to defend herself: "I'm just not good at being a ghost. When I was a human, my IQ was very high. I even graduated from college."
"..."
The Moon Doll did not answer or refute, probably because it felt that there was no point in bullying a new ghost with low intelligence.
"Take me to the ruins of Heijokyo, and I will help you to be reborn."
"But didn't you say there was a big ghost king there?" The female ghost showed obvious fear on her face.
Pinggong Qianye smiled and said, "I have some Buddhist teachings I would like to discuss with it."
(End of this chapter)
