Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Land of the Dead
After living for thousands of years, nine dead words a day, Lu Zheng gasped, the old monk in front of him was really a real 'old' monk, but I was afraid that no one was older than him. It turns out that every dead word on the bamboo wall of this thatched hut actually came from this way. Looking around, Lu Zheng couldn't imagine the kind of days when he thought about death every day, how he had an epiphany over the past thousands of years. He asked, "Master, why do you carve so many dead words on this bamboo?"
Epiphany said: "In order to understand what death is! Only by understanding death can we understand life." In fact, the way of death is the way of life, and the way of life is the way of death, so life is death, and death is life. Every time the old monk carved a stroke of the word dead, he read death in his heart, in order to understand what death is as soon as possible. ”
Lu Zhengdao: "Then master, you now understand what death is, have you found a way to die?" ”
As soon as these words came out, Lu Zhengxin said how could he say such strange things. Epiphany looked at it in his eyes, and said with a smile: "Little donor, don't mind, the old monk has been to the world, and knows that mortals are happy to live and hate death, so it must be difficult to understand the intentions of us chaotic demons." But all mortals are born to die, happy to live but not immortal, tired of death but not necessarily immortal, do not know what death is.
The old monk has been in this Great Thunder Yin Mountain for thousands of years, of course, he has already understood what death is, because the demons of chaos also die, and each way of death is different, I am afraid that I know what death is better than mortals. You see the old monk turned into stone, in fact, it is death. But after understanding what death is, the old monk realized that what the old monk wanted was not death. What the old monk asks for is lifeless. ”
Lu Zheng was puzzled: "No life, is there any difference between that and death?"
"Of course there is a difference, and a big difference. Epiphany said this. Stand up, fold your hands and chant the Buddha, then close your eyes and recite: "If there is no birth, there is no death, there is no impermanence and there is no breaking; "The voice is pure and peaceful, and it is very touching.
Lu Zhengcai heard a sentence, his lips moved, and he silently read out the following sentences. Epiphany opened his eyes and said, "What." Little benefactor, where have you heard these words?" he didn't open his eyes. But Lu Zheng's every move, any subtle movement is a hole in the fire.
Lu Zheng said honestly: "I also heard it from a great Buddhist monk, his name is Venerable Yunye. You should know him, Master. ”
Epiphany let out a sigh and sat back down. Said: "It turns out that the little donor is fortunate to have seen the King Kong God. Rare. Can the little benefactor understand what it means?"
Lu Zheng shook his head and said, "I don't seem to understand." ”
Epiphany smiled and said: "If there is no life, there is no destruction, and there is transcendence." Between heaven and earth, every qiē is dependent origination. If there is a fate, there is a fate, after one fate falls, another fate rises, karma is involved, mutual climbing, ups and downs, endless. In heaven and earth, it is life and death, in all things, it is life and chemistry, and in living beings, it is life and death. The old monk has been participating in Buddhism for a long time, has long understood its reasoning, and gradually practiced, thousands of years ago and hundreds of years ago, he died, turned into stones, and then practiced beneficially, and he could die for decades, so he was more diligent, so that now, he dies every day.
And the old monk just said that when the old monk finishes dealing with a major event, he can really die. This fate is backward and does not arise, and the old monk will be able to get rid of this life and death, which is no life. In fact, the little benefactor should understand this kind of truth, otherwise how would you come out of this illusion array!"
Now Lu Zheng roughly understood what the old monk meant, and it sounded like it was the realm of fate. But hearing him talk about the Phantom Heart Array, Lu Zheng was a little unhappy and said, "Master, why did you trick me into that Phantom Heart Array?"
Epiphany ignored him with a question in his tone, and blinked: "Is this the third question from the little benefactor?"
Lu Zheng saw him mention this again, so he said, "Didn't the master just want to ask me, where is that Chaos Demon?"
Epiphany said with a smile: "Didn't the little donor just say that it was inconvenient to reveal? Now that he says such a thing, he has changed his mind and plans to sue the old monk? In this case, regardless of whether the demon of chaos is the demon that the old monk saw, the old monk first thanked the little donor. As he spoke, he clasped his hands together and bowed his head to salute Lu Zheng.
This old monk is really cunning enough, he hits seven inches with his cane, but he simply beats the snake with the stick, and his face is really thick enough. Lu Zheng is a loyal person, and he can't learn such a scoundrel, but of course he can't really say anything about Ye Xiaoqiu, so he has to say, "Master, don't be busy thanking me." Even if the junior wants to sue you for her residence, you must first tell me why you should go to her! If you go to her to take revenge, then the junior will not harm her by doing so. ”
Hearing this, Epiphany said, "Hehe, I originally only wanted to answer three questions from the little donor, but I didn't expect to talk more and more." On the contrary, the little benefactor can help the old monk a lot, and sure enough, the origin and fall are the most wonderful and incredible between heaven and earth. After a pause, he continued: "Since the little donor knows the Chaos Demon, there are many things that the old monk does not need to tell you in detail from the beginning. After the beginning of the opening of heaven and earth, the chaotic ancestral qi has not completely dispersed, and all kinds of monsters that have been born from it have heaven-given supernatural powers. Among them, there is an ancestral qi that has given birth to a pair of monsters, which is equivalent to a pair of brothers, but these two brothers are diametrically opposed personalities, the elder brother has a fierce temperament but is brutal and easy to kill, and the younger brother has a peaceful temperament but is weak and thoughtful.
This younger brother is an old monk, and the little benefactor may already know that since the beginning of heaven and earth, there are very few species, and after a period of life and death. And this so-called evolution of life and death is the devouring and killing of each other by various monsters in order to survive. I don't know how much time has passed, when the battle gradually disappeared on the earth, in the end, only a very small number of chaos survived, and the heaven and earth were full of scattered chaotic ancestral qi.
And these chaotic ancestral qi have quietly undergone some kind of change because they have experienced an extremely fierce collision during the fight between the monsters, and they have become full of vitality and can give birth to all things, so the things between the heavens and the earth have gradually increased, and those monsters that devour each other have become more powerful than before, but gradually these monsters have found that an unexpected change has occurred in them, they will each die in a different way at a different time, and then be resurrected and reborn, so that they can continue to live......"
Ye Xiaoqiu had already told Lu Zheng about what the epiphany said, but Ye Xiaoqiu didn't say that the scattered chaotic ancestral qi would change, and finally gave birth to all things in heaven and earth. And Epiphany Ethereal continued to tell his story, but Lu Zheng's face became more and more surprised when he heard it!
Epiphany mentions that he was born differently from his older brother, who only eats meat, while he survives on various fruits. But during that period of fighting, the species between heaven and earth were extremely scarce, and with the more and more monsters that were born, some monsters had great appetites, and more and more species were eaten, and finally one day, Epiphany Ethereal found that he could no longer find anything to eat. As far as the eye could see, there were only monsters left on the earth, and those monsters had already started to fight each other because of hunger, and ate each other's corpses.
At the beginning, Epiphany and his brother always stayed together in order to protect themselves, so as not to be killed and eaten by other monsters. But later, because Epiphany Ethereal insisted on refusing to hunt other monsters for his own food, his brother finally left him angrily and went somewhere else alone. Before leaving, he coldly said to the epiphany ethereal: "Between heaven and earth, either you eat them, or they eat you." If you never understand this, that is, you do not understand the sinister nature of heaven and earth, you are not worthy to live between heaven and earth!"
However, Epiphany found a very secret cave to hide, endured the torment of hunger, and could only survive by relying on some seepage water in the cave. I don't know how long it took in the cave, but the epiphany fainted from hunger several times, and woke up several times from the fire of hunger. His consciousness began to drift and his mind began to be confused, and a voice kept ringing in his ears, it was his brother's voice, and the content of the voice was exactly what he had said repeatedly before leaving. But Epiphany still gritted his teeth and persevered, refusing to get out of the hole, he picked up a stone on the ground and bit it in his mouth, curled up in the cave and passed out.
But when he woke up, he found that he was not in the same cave, but in a strange land. The fire of hunger no longer tormented him, there was a slight fishy smell from his mouth, and his lips were extremely sticky, he couldn't help but reach out and wipe it, but it was a handful of bright red blood, he was startled, how could there be blood in his mouth.
Epiphany got up and looked, and there was a pool of blood scattered not far in front of him, as well as a skeleton and some fur, as if some monster had been hunted. He ran over to see that the bones scattered all over the ground had been gnawed cleanly, some of the bones were still broken, and what was left on the ground were hard and large bones, and there were clear tooth marks on them.
Epiphany looked at the tooth marks and fell to the ground almost instantly, and these tooth marks were all too familiar to him, they were his own. In this way, this unknown monster was hunted by himself and eaten alive? How could this qiē happen? Epiphany Ethereal Spirit was frightened and terrified in his heart, and under his grief, scenes after he fell into a coma suddenly began to flash in his mind.
Only then did he realize that after he fell unconscious, under the impetus of the fire of hunger, his body ran out of the cave where he was hiding without his control, and went crazy looking for monsters on the land. It didn't take long for him to see a white monster in the distance just coming out of a hidden cave, so the epiphany immediately pounced on it without hesitation, that monster was too weak compared to him. He attacked from behind it again, so he tore the monster in half at once, and then in a very short time, he ate the monster clean!
When Epiphany recalled this qiē, he was completely stunned, and an extremely strange feeling came over him, causing his whole body to stiffen. He didn't dig his own throat with his hands, and he didn't do anything else, for in the next breath he was turned into a stone for the first time. (To be continued......)