Chapter 57: Encountering Heavenly Demons in the Prisoner's Palace
The old monk knocked on the wooden fish and kept chanting sutras.
"What do you call me, senior?" Wei Dongliu asked respectfully.
The other party ignored it.
"Senior, is it Mahayana, Medium Vehicle or Hinayana that you practice?" Wei Dongliu asked again.
The other party still ignored me.
"Although my companion has practiced the devil's way, he is not a heinous person." Wei Dongliu cautiously advised, "If you, senior, can show your noble hand, I will be very grateful."
The other party still ignored him and just kept knocking on the wooden fish.
Wei Dongliu turned around and looked at the pitiful Jiang Lixuan with a helpless expression.
Jiang Lizhen responded with a "please" look in her eyes.
Wei Dongliu ignored her look for help and was about to walk inside when he suddenly heard the old monk say:
"Let her go, okay. But there are two things."
"First, the karma on her body is too heavy. If you beg me to let her go, then the karma will be implicated on you, and you have to bear it."
"Secondly, you have to look for the Flying Smoke Sword, it is deep in the apse."
"But the back hall has been occupied by demons. If you want to get the sword, you have to pass through there and copy the scriptures here first. Otherwise, you will definitely die if you enter."
Wei Dongliu:?
He wanted to say something else, but the old monk just waved his hand, and immediately a desk, a chair, rice paper, pens and ink, and a neat stack of thread-bound books appeared in front of him.
Well, you are the immortal, you have the final say.
Wei Dongliu calmed down, sat down on the chair, and began to grind the ink slowly.
Jiang Lizhen was half-body pressed under the alms bowl. Sometimes he looked at Wei Dongliu who was concentrating on writing, and sometimes he peeked at the old monk who was chanting sutras and chanting Buddha's name. The initial panic of being trapped also calmed down, and his eyes were rolling around.
Wei Dongliu copied a piece of rice paper and suddenly noticed something was wrong.
This seems... not like a Buddhist scripture that talks about reasoning, but rather like a collection of fables composed of many short stories, mainly telling how the demon king Bo Xun of the Sixth Heaven fought with the Buddhist power.
According to the records of the scriptures, from the sky upward is the realm of desire. There are six heavens. The sixth heaven is called the "heaven of other transformations". The creatures in the realm of desire are all good at transformation and can stimulate the six desires in people's hearts.
, corrupts people's Dao foundation and causes people to fall unconsciously. It is "the worst in the world of desire", so it is called a demon.
The highest point of his incarnation in the Self-Heaven is called the "Six Desire Summit", where lives the demon king of the sixth heaven "Bo Xun", who has five hundred daughters known as "witches", as well as his "devil envoys, demon sons, witch wives, and demons".
"Men, women and men on the left and right" often go down to the world to disturb the monks' practice.
After copying all the scriptures on the desk, Wei Dongliu had an extremely complete understanding of the creature "Heavenly Demon", and he also guessed what kind of "demon" was waiting for him in the back hall next.
"Thank you, Master." He stood up and saluted the old monk sincerely.
The old monk still ignored him.
Wei Dongliu came to the bowl, squatted down, and said to Jiang Lizhen:
"Please also ask Fellow Daoist Jiang to stay here for a moment. I'll be back soon."
Witch Jiang wanted to say, "Don't leave," but after all, she was not an impulsive person. Knowing that she could only bet that the old monk would keep his promise, she showed a flawless smile and said:
"Fellow Daoist Wei, just go ahead. I can still hold on for a while."
"Yeah." Wei Dongliu stood up and walked toward the back of the hall.
Turning around the main hall, I saw that the surrounding light suddenly became darker.
The candlelight flickered on the wall, and the terrain gradually extended downwards.
After a while, they came to a side hall, with three large characters written on the plaque:
Prisoner's Palace.
Wei Dongliu remained calm and asked Ah Jing to help pay attention to the surrounding dangers, and then walked in.
I saw only one avenue in the middle, with rows of Arhat statues on both sides. Their expressions were either indifferent or silent, or their eyebrows were raised with angry eyes, and they all held alms bowls in their hands.
There were continuous banging sounds in each alms bowl, as if something inside was hitting the inner wall.
Maybe there is a demon imprisoned inside? Wei Dongliu suddenly had such an idea.
After turning a few corners, he suddenly realized that he was a little lost.
Inside the Demon Prisoner's Palace, there are statues of Arhats on the left and right, and there are no landmark buildings, making it impossible to tell the difference between east, west, north, and south.
Just as he was about to ask Ah Jing if he could make a small map or something and record all the routes he had taken, he saw a black mist suddenly appear in front of him.
The mist came very quickly and hit the mask almost instantly. Wei Dongliu was not afraid in the face of danger. He just pulled out the Five Elements Divine Light and lightly swiped it towards the opponent, and screams immediately rang in his ears.
"Exalted Immortal, have mercy on me!" Seeing that the divine light was too powerful, the opponent decisively used the gecko's tail-cutting tactic. He only separated a small group of mist, escaped from the five elements of divine light, and then rolled to the ground, turning into a graceful figure.
The beautiful woman begged:
"The little girl was in a hurry and offended the Immortal. She should have been punished. She just had the courage to ask the Immortal to spare her life!"
"Are you a demon?" Wei Dongliu withdrew his divine light and asked calmly.
"Yes." The woman said timidly, "The little girl is called 'Ai Lian'. If the Master wants to search for something, the little girl is willing to lead the way."
Love and pity? Wei Dongliu frowned slightly, remembering the scriptures he had copied before.
But he said that the demon king Bo Xun of the sixth day had five hundred daughters, each of whom had the ability to change a thousand things. When walking in the lower world, they often used the word "love" as their surname... So he asked:
"Are you Moha Shun's daughter?"
Ai Lian immediately lay down on the ground, trembling and said:
"No, how can a little girl be worthy of being a princess? This name was not given by His Majesty, it was just chosen by the little girl at will."
After Wei Dongliu listened patiently, he thought that the demon was always cunning, and he didn't know whether it was really the case or whether it was deliberately lying to deceive him, so he continued to ask:
"Why are you here?"
Ai Lian said softly:
"Reporting to the Immortal, this place used to be Jiejiao Jin'ao Island. Immortals from Jiejiao invited us and other heavenly beings to descend to the realm to enjoy rituals, music, songs and dances together here."
"Later on, during the Great War of Chanjie, Jin'ao Island also fell into the war. Some of us heavenly beings escaped back to the heaven, but the rest were unable to escape and were suppressed and imprisoned here by the powerful Western religions. It has been more than 10,000 years now.
"
"The little girl accidentally broke free of the seal almost hundreds of years ago, but she was unable to leave this hall. She had the courage to offend the Immortal before, and she also wanted to possess the Immortal and leave this place, but she did not really dare to cause any evil.
Please forgive me."
Wei Dongliu listened to her explanation expressionlessly, thinking that this demon was indeed telling lies.
Do I know what the Jiejiao monk is going to do with the demon?
Eighty percent of the time, the Jiejiao monks were here to lure the Heavenly Demon to the lower realm, and then refine it into a demon to drive, just like what the Heavenly Demon Dao did.
Then during the Battle of Chanjie, Jin'ao Island was jointly captured by the Chan Sect and the Western Sect, and these demons who had no time to escape were suppressed here.
Seeing his indifferent expression, Ai Lian tentatively said:
"If the Immortal wants to find something here, the little girl is willing to lead the way."
"Can you read my thoughts?" Wei Dongliu suddenly glared.
"That's not the case!" Ai Lian fell down again, "The good teaching master knows that the little girl can only see some of your thoughts, just like boiling water in a copper furnace, you can see the steam on it; as for the master's heart
Unless you let the little girl dive into the sea of consciousness, you won’t know what you are thinking.”
After Wei Dongliu heard what she said, he thought that the devil still had such ability? That was not mentioned in the scriptures.
It’s just that it’s hard to say whether what the other party said is true or false, and it’s hard to say how many lies are mixed in. I won’t accept it at all, and I will just let him lead the way for me.