Mo Wangchen walked to the door of the inn. He felt that everything was too strange, but no matter how he looked at it, it seemed that it was just an illusion.
He looked back at the inn and found a middle-aged couple standing together, looking at him with puzzled expressions.
Mo Wangchen frowned, he stepped out of the inn, and walked forward a few steps.
Buzz!
Suddenly, he felt that the space seemed to fluctuate slightly. The next moment, he turned around and saw that the middle-aged couple was gone. Not only that, the inn was also gone. Behind him, there was an empty space with no end in sight.
desert!
The previous feeling of hunger on his body was no longer there, the feeling of being full and full was also gone, and the sleepiness was completely gone. At this moment, Mo Wangchen felt just like he did two months ago.
There will be feelings of hunger and sleepiness.
"Is...is it really an illusion..."
He frowned, feeling astonished in his heart. Now he was back in the desolate desert and lost his direction.
As a last resort, Mo Wangchen took another step and walked straight forward. The restricted area of the Sea of Bitterness was too weird. Although everything here was not as dangerous as the Emperor Yun Mountain Range, it seemed that there were many unknown things.
…
After coming out of the inn, Mo Wangchen continued to walk straight. He didn't know how long he had walked, but the change of day and night gave him a rough idea of the time. It had been at least half a month since he left the inn.
The feeling of loneliness came again, as if he was the only one left in the whole world. Mo Wangchen became a little confused again. In the sky, the scorching sun was rising, and the earth was heating up. It was extremely hot, but under this environment, Mo Wangchen seemed to have already adapted to it.
, was not affected in the slightest.
Suddenly, he felt a voice coming from ahead, and he subconsciously looked up. The scene in front of him made Mo Wangchen stunned for a moment, and then he frowned slightly.
He saw the inn, the same inn, with a few figures wandering around.
Mo Wangchen walked towards the inn, and the feeling of hunger hit him again. What he met was a middle-aged couple, who were surprisingly the Zhao Kang couple he met a month ago.
"Little brother, do you want to eat or stay overnight?"
"Brother Zhao?" Mo Wangchen came back to his senses after being stunned for a long time. He felt a little incredible. He had been walking straight in the desert, but he met the same inn and the same people in different places.
Hearing Mo Wangchen's words, Zhao Kang and his wife were stunned for a moment and looked at each other. They looked at Mo Wangchen in confusion, "How did the little brother know that my surname is Zhao?"
"You don't recognize me?" Mo Wangchen frowned.
The faces of Zhao Kang and his wife were even more puzzled, "Although our store receives many visitors every day, Old Zhao has a sharp eye. As long as the customers come within a year, they will usually have some impressions. I have never met you, little brother..."
Hearing this, Mo Wangchen felt that things were even weirder.
Gulu gulu!
However, at this moment, the feeling of hunger made him weak, and he thought of the gold coins he had on him, which might not be able to be used here.
The middle-aged woman smiled and saw Mo Wangchen's difficulty, "Sit down and wait a moment, I will cook some special dishes for you..."
She left, leaving Zhao Kang to stay here with Mo Wangchen.
When the middle-aged woman brought the food to the table, Mo Wangchen discovered that it was the same as what he had eaten a month ago.
This time, after finishing the meal, Mo Wangchen did not leave the inn. He chose to stay for one night.
During this period, Mo Wangchen asked Zhao Kang many things. He learned that what he saw was completely different from what Zhao Kang and others saw. This inn was located in a city, and those who walked back and forth at the door of the inn were
People are all common people in the city.
All Mo Wangchen could see was everything within the scope of this inn.
By now, he was finally convinced that both Zhao Kang and his wife, and this inn, were just illusions. He was not in any city, but in the Bitter Sea Restricted Area, one of the seven restricted areas in the Western Land.
Everything that happens here is said to be an illusion, but from a certain perspective, it is a place that really existed. It is a projection in the restricted area of the Sea of Bitterness.
Within the restricted area of the Sea of Bitterness, there is some unknown mysterious power that can project everything in the world and turn it into a mirage again.
What's strange is that these projections now appear in the restricted area of the Sea of Bitterness. The people and objects here are extremely real, and they can even come into contact with Mo Wangchen. It is really surprising.
…
In the inn, Mo Wangchen not only felt hungry, but also sleepy. That night, he went to bed early and slept soundly.
"Um?"
I don't know how long it took, but when Mo Wangchen woke up again, he felt some dazzling light shining in front of his eyes.
He suddenly opened his eyes and looked around. What he saw was a sky with scorching hot sun shining down on the earth.
After sitting up from where he was, Mo Wangchen discovered that he was no longer in the inn, and was surrounded by an endless desert!
…
He continued to move forward, not knowing where he was going. Three months had passed since he entered the restricted area of the Sea of Bitterness. The Sea of Bitterness has no limit, and the other shore is endless. There is no end here, because the end is the other shore, but where is the other shore?
Until, another half month passed, Mo Wangchen saw the inn in front of him again, and it was still the same middle-aged couple.
…
Watching the middle-aged woman bring up two plates of food and looking at the enthusiastic smile on her face, Mo Wangchen suddenly realized something for some reason.
There is a saying in Buddhism: At the foot of Lingshan Mountain, there is no end to the sea of suffering, and only by the tens of thousands of feet of the Buddhist ladder can one achieve true enlightenment.
"There are seven sins in the world, which are greed, anger, ignorance, hatred, love, evil, and desire. The seven major realms of the Western Land are named after the seven sins, and Lingshan is the other shore."
"The seven sins are the sea of suffering for human beings. If you can fully understand them all, you can reach the other side..."
"I walked alone in the desert for several months. I was extremely lonely and desperately wanted to get 'love'. This love is one of the seven sins, which means excessive preference or doting."
"This is my sea of suffering..."
"Brother Zhao and his wife showed their preference and doting towards me..."
Within a few breaths, countless thoughts flashed through Mo Wangchen's mind.
When the middle-aged woman came to him with two plates of food, Mo Wangchen stood up, turned around and walked towards the door.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Kang and his wife were obviously stunned and looked at each other in confusion.
Mo Wangchen turned around and looked at them. After a moment of silence, he smiled and said, "I fell into 'preference' and can't reach the other side..."
Buzz!
After saying this, Mo Wangchen suddenly felt that the surrounding space fluctuated slightly. Zhang Kang and his wife looked at him with half-smiles on their faces. Then, they gradually faded and disappeared, and the inn also disappeared.
"call!"
Mo Wangchen let out a long sigh of relief. At this moment, he gained enlightenment.
Entering the sea of suffering, crossing the sea of suffering. He just passed through the "love" of the sea of suffering. As long as he can overcome greed, anger, ignorance, hate, evil, and desire, he should be able to leave the restricted area.
He couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief and understood the true meaning of the restricted area of the sea of suffering. If he was still unable to understand it clearly, he might not be able to step out of it in this life.