Chapter 170 Living Beings Do Not Need Gods
"Master Liansheng...it turned out to be him."
When Abbot Kongzhi left the cave with his cell phone, another voice came out of the old monk's body.
"Oh, if you appear in front of Master Liansheng, he will only have one word for you: kill!"
"Is he the successor you are looking for?"
"Do you think I am worthy of being Master Liansheng's master?"
The old monk sneered, his eyes showing a bit of brilliance, "If I can have such a successor, even if I go to hell after death, I can proudly stand up straight in front of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva."
"When we were in Tokyo, you were the one who reminded him to be careful about the sacrifice, right?"
"I just told Master Liansheng that the evil god is also the cause of disaster!"
Mentioning the matter of Tokyo, the old monk seemed very happy. "Great God Jin Guang, one of your incarnations was killed by Master Liansheng. I guess you must have suffered a lot of damage, right?"
"It's over. You have always wanted to explore my abilities. Unfortunately, you will never understand what the true path is."
"Heh, Seventh Sinner Lord, don't make yourself sound so great. When you volunteered to enter Buddhism as an incarnation, I knew you had big plans, so I made Kiyomizu Temple your prisoner before other temples did."
The Seven Sinners fell silent for a short while.
The old monk just sneered, "When I decided to suppress you with my own Buddha body, you must have been complacent, wanting to corrupt me and learn the true meaning of Buddhism, so as to achieve your goal of entering Buddhism, Shintoism, and Onmyoji with the three major incarnations."
"Unfortunately, the true meaning of Buddhism that I practice is to take a different approach. I only have one word for you: kill!"
"You must have endured a lot over the years, right?"
For a moment, the only voice in the cave was the old monk's.
"You are right. I have endured a lot of hardship over the years."
The voice of the Seven Sinners sounded again.
"But, you still underestimated me. Although your method of cultivation is unconventional, it is essentially a kind of great compassion. Through you, I can still understand the true meaning of Buddhism."
"I really can't touch your body, but how long can your burning body last?"
"You want to wait for Master Liansheng to come over and join forces to deal with me. This is indeed a good strategy, but it is a little too shallow."
The Seven Sin Lords' voices became increasingly high-pitched. "All living beings are my parents. I have no intention of harming them. I wanted to sit back and wait for you to die on your own."
"But since you are deliberately trying to kill me, no matter how much I hate it, I can only choose to protect myself in my own way."
The tone of the voice gradually changed, and the temperature in the entire cave dropped by more than ten degrees in an instant.
The old monk suddenly felt an itch on the right side of his neck, as if something was about to break through the skin.
In a place out of his sight, the skin was stretched, revealing a bright red face.
"Do you think I'm not on guard against you?"
"Om Amogavila Zonan, Mahamuna Lama..."
The old monk shouted in a deep voice and actually recited the "Great Light Mantra".
Suddenly, the entire stone cave was filled with endless light, as if a golden sun appeared in the sky and cast its light on the universe.
"You're scared!"
"You are afraid of Master Liansheng!"
"Otherwise, with your personality, you would never choose to attack at this time!"
The old monk was not angry but happy. He took a breath and exhaled, and a voice was heard outside the cave.
"Kongming, Kongshan, follow me to defeat the demon!"
"I wish to follow my master to defeat the devil!"
At the entrance of the stone cave, Monk Kongming and Monk Kongshan responded at the same time.
One person holds the Dharma drum in his right hand and claps it with his left hand.
One person held the bronze bell on his shoulder and struck it with both hands.
For a moment, the sounds of bells and drums were loud, complementing each other, and spreading several times along the winding stone cave!
At this moment, the old monk once again used all his life's magic power to ignite the endless light into fireworks, which turned into a flaming lotus that was faintly visible in his abdomen.
The itchy feeling on the neck that was about to break out was gradually suppressed.
"Alas, I have said before, I am also a Buddha. How can the power of Buddhism hurt a Buddha?"
With a deep sigh, the skin on the old monk's neck was drilled open and blood was oozing out.
A red face emerged, bathed in blood.
"Seventh Lord of Sins, are you going to go against your past promise and break free from the seal without permission?" The old monk ignored his own bleeding and just sneered.
"You want to use this to provoke me, to make me an enemy of Buddhism and all living beings."
A face that looked like it was made of blood was hovering above the old monk's head, looking down at him.
"But you are wrong. I don't want to break my old oath and leave here without permission. I just want to change places with you."
"You have always been the leader. Now, it is time for you to hand over the control of this body to me."
The Seventh Sinner's tone was indifferent, and the face that seemed to be made of blood re-entered the old monk's body.
“Are you worthy enough to control this body?” The flaming lotus in the old monk’s abdomen burned violently, as if it wanted to burn his body to ashes.
"I have said that I am a living being, and I am also a Buddha."
A face appeared in the abdomen, then opened its mouth and swallowed the flaming lotus into its mouth.
"I am already familiar with the true meaning of Buddhism. Controlling the Buddha's fire has never been a difficult task for me."
The face that was swallowing the Buddha's fire had its mouth opening and closing, and the sound came from the abdomen.
"My Buddha, you are taking an unconventional approach. Do you think that after twenty years of being together, you are the only one who understands me?"
The old monk's tone was unusually calm. "In these twenty years of confrontation, I also understand your abilities and your ambitions."
"Since my Buddha cannot kill you, then it is not impossible to abandon Buddha and become a demon."
As soon as he finished speaking, wisps of black gas gradually emerged from the old monk's body. That was demonic energy!
The stone cave, which had been arranged many times before, began to tremble wildly when it sensed the appearance of the evil energy, and even the entire mountain began to shake.
At this time, inside Kiyomizu Temple, Abbot Kong Zhi sensed that something was wrong in the back mountain, so he went to the bell tower himself and rang the big bell in the temple.
Strands of golden Buddha light, invisible to ordinary people, turned into chains of scriptures all over the sky, like long rivers, spanning the night sky, spreading to the back mountain, and exploring deep into the stone cave.
The body of the old monk, who was emitting demonic energy, was pierced through the head by chains of scriptures!
"You want my body? You can take it now."
"You are such a lunatic." The Seven Sins' master said in a cold tone.
In his current state, if he forcibly takes over the old monk's body, he will replace the old monk and become a great demon, and will be suppressed by the entire Buddhist power of Kiyomizu Temple.
"How can one become a Buddha without being crazy?"
"How can there be an alien like you in the compassionate Buddhist sect?"
"Your birth is even more unusual!"
"As aliens, you and I should warm each other up instead of fighting to the death here."
"Your heart is not right! Keeping it will only bring disaster!"
The Seventh Sinner was silent for a while, then sighed and said, "I have never had the intention of persecuting any living being. They are my parents, and I have never thought of hurting them."
"But you are not merciful!"
The old monk's voice was extremely firm. "You are just looking down on the world from a high place. All living beings are not worthy of your attention, and they are not worthy of your intention to hurt them."
"Even if you are walking on the street and someone slaps you in the face for no reason, you will not get angry. You will most likely say that all living beings are my parents, and then smile and let it go."
"Because you fundamentally believe that you have long been a being that is above all other living beings!"
The Seventh Sinner listened to the old monk's accusations silently, chanted a Buddhist name, and said, "Isn't this good? At least I won't actively harm sentient beings."
"Do you think that living beings need a god who treats them like ants?"
This time the Seven Sinners did not speak.
"If I don't stop you, the future of all living beings will depend on your likes and dislikes to decide their future."
"You were born for all living beings, so you want to decide their future?"
"Haha, who gave you such a big face!"
Faced with such accusations, the Seven Sins Lords simply sighed, "But I was born to be different from you. Even if I do nothing, my power is growing day by day. Sooner or later, you will want to get rid of me."
This time, it was the old monk's turn to remain silent.
"The world is full of suffering, and it is unbearable to describe."
The Seven Sins Lord murmured, and the bright red face he manifested merged into the old monk's body and disappeared without a trace.
"Namo our teacher Shakyamuni Buddha."
The old monk chanted the Buddha's name softly to disperse his evil spirit, and everything in the cave returned to peace.
Outside the cave, the two monks Kongming and Kongshan also stopped beating drums and bells, and looked towards the Kiyomizu Temple in the front mountain.
Waves of bell sounds came long and vast.
The two monks bathed in the sound of the bell, and the fatigue on their faces gradually disappeared.
……
Kyoto, a luxurious villa.
Inside the indoor swimming pool, a beautiful young woman with a black spider-web tattoo on her thigh was lying on a bench by the pool with her slender body, slowly drinking freshly squeezed orange juice with her flaming red lips.
Sometimes she would lick it gently with the tip of her tongue, which was extremely seductive.
She was holding a cell phone in her right hand and was answering the call.
After a while, the beautiful young woman casually placed her cell phone on the table beside her.
"Master Liansheng, we have finally arrived in Kyoto. I can finally avenge myself for being burned in the Buddha's fire last time."
The beautiful young woman finished drinking the freshly squeezed orange juice, licked the rim of the cup with her tongue, and her eyes revealed a fierceness that was inconsistent with her sexy figure.
Soon, the beautiful young woman left the swimming pool, twisting her enviable long legs in black stockings.
(End of this chapter)
