Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms

There was a dead silence in the Buddha Hall, as if all the gods and buddhas had disappeared, all the sounds were swallowed by the infinite void, and there was no trace of air vibration.

Phoenix suddenly felt a little wrong.

He frowned slightly, and at this moment, the light on the large solid gold floor tile suddenly outlined a shadow, dimly, and it gradually took a long time to show his figure.

"-- Venerable Venti?" Phoenix said in amazement.

Venti Venti was very embarrassed, his eyes were sunken, his face was wrinkled, his skin was wrinkled, and he looked a little bit like heaven and man. But Phoenix knew that Vendi Venti did not show signs of weakness for thousands of years. Now it is impossible to stop suddenly, and immediately leaned over to support him: "What's wrong with His Holiness?"

"..." Barti stared straight at him and opened his mouth.

"Sir?"

Ba Ti breathed for a moment, took the Buddha bone hanging from the red thread in Phoenix's hand, and then reached out and took a hook from his temple.

A subtle and gorgeous golden light was drawn from his brain, along the fingertips, and was immediately covered on the bones of the Buddha. At that moment, the entire Buddha bone glowed brightly, and then the golden light was hidden in the bone marrow and quickly extinguished, as if nothing had happened.

Trati said hoarsely: "Please protect it..."

Phoenix wondered: "What is this?"

Badi leaned over Phoenix's ear, his voice was extremely slight, and if he listened carefully, he could still feel the shaking of the tail:

"...Is the soul of a true Buddha..."

"I forcibly went to the colorless sky and brought the soul of the true Buddha from the hiding place..."

Phoenix's first reaction was daze, followed by the moonlight of non-existent online games.

But in his eyes, Posti's complexion was very solemn, not at all like a joke.

——This Venerable is indeed not a joke type. Strictly speaking, he is a cousin of the orthodox Buddha, and the two trees are built into a positive fruit. He has been honored in the snow since the first day when Xumi Mountain broke through the sea. Above the Buddha Hall of Baoshan Peak, he has always been a person with a pure heart and a desire to hold himself.

"This... this is Sakyamuni?" Phoenix pointed to the bone of the Buddha, feeling very absurd.

Who knows that when he heard it, he immediately stopped: "Don't mention that person's name!"

"……what?"

"Don’t mention the man’s name. Although he is in the colorless sky, Alaya knows everywhere. When he mentions the name, he will shock him. I finally led all the gods and buddhas away, and then avoided his Perceive and find the only soul of the true Buddha..."

In addition to the consternation, Phoenix has no other feelings: "You explain...you say that'He' is not a real Buddha? What is'He'?"

Ba Ti pulls Phoenix's hand, puts the bone of the Buddha in the palm, and pushes his finger, letting him hold the bone that hides the soul of the true Buddha tightly.

"I have practiced with the Buddha for thousands of years under the Bodhi Tree, and we are familiar with each other. Until that year, when the glaciers moved, the Phoenix Jade Fetus fell to the sea of ​​blood. The Buddha went to the eye of **** to pick it up. After returning, he no longer went colorless. God, instead of staying in Xumi Mountain, it became a'he' that made me feel very strange..."

This "he" obviously refers to Sakyamuni, and Venerable Venti is indeed careful not to mention the name.

"'He's been raising you in the Temple of Mount Sumeru for a long time, and he hides his body for most of the time from being seen. I asked him why he did not return to the rosette? His answer was that the Phoenix was born with a terrible appearance, and it should be 30,000 in the future. The year of the Buddha's robbery; and his current posture is the human body born for the purpose of the Buddha's robbery. Only after the first round of the Buddha's robbery can he recover his golden body and return to the colorless sky."

Sakyamuni is the physical form of a real Buddha. The so-called "first round of robbery" was also lifted when the Phoenix cleared the sea of ​​blood. Therefore, Sakyamuni was able to leave Xumi Mountain and return to the colorless sky. This phoenix has long known.

Is there something wrong with it?

"Do you know why the first round of Buddha robbery must clear the sea of ​​blood?" Venerable Bati took a breath and asked tiredly as he sat on the ground.

Phoenix doubted: "Isn't it a release... isn't it his big wish?"

Bhatti shook his head:

"The wish is to become a buddha. He is already a buddha and only needs to return to the rosette. Why is it necessary to make a wish?"

Phoenix never thought about this problem.

Not only him, but also no one on Xumi Mountain thought about it-after all, few people knew about Shakya, even if someone knew, the unshakable cognition of the true Buddha’s status had been deeply implanted in tens of thousands of years. People's hearts cannot be shaken in the slightest.

Posti smiled sarcastically, not knowing whether he was laughing at Phoenix for granted, or ridiculing himself for nine days and ten days, and no one thought of this.

"The person who came back from you with **** to Xumi Mountain and brought you up with a hidden identity was born in the eye of hell. He claimed to be the person who was born when the Buddha saw the phoenix breaking out of the shell, but In fact, it may be something else."

Venerable Patti paused and said, "It's another...very terrible thing [summary] the road to the upgrade of the devil."

The phoenix seemed to understand something suddenly, Huo Ran stepped back and stared at His sullen face, before shaking his head for a while: "This is not... this is impossible!"

"Why is it impossible? Only in this way can explain why'he' must clear the sea of ​​blood before returning to the colorless sky." Venerable Bati coldly said: "You must know-the magic eye is the fixed point of the energy circulation system of **** At every moment, infinite energy is concentrated from all parts of the hell, converging to the devil's eye, and then distributed from the devil's eye to all **** creatures. Most of these **** creatures are ordinary **** demon born in the sea of ​​blood, and if in the devil Once born, there is another characteristic."

He paused and said: "This characteristic is that the monster born in the magic eye can automatically absorb the energy circulating in the magic eye as the support of the soul no matter where it goes in the future, so that the magic eye can be supplied to all parts of the hell. The energy gradually decreases, and it can be called the snatcher of the entire **** energy-but on the contrary, if the monsters in the **** itself exceed a certain number, the energy consumption will increase exponentially, so that the energy that the snatcher can occupy is greatly reduced ."

"The period from when you broke out of the shell to clear the sea of ​​blood for the first time was exactly the stage of the rapid expansion of the number of **** creatures. Therefore, the energy of **** that he can absorb on the Mount Xumi also shrunk sharply, making it impossible at all. Go to the colorless sky to fight against the remaining souls of the true Buddha."

"Until you shot the great Asura King, the blood sea was emptied for the first time, and the **** demon was almost surrendered. At this time, "He" has no competitors and can occupy all the energy circulated by the magic eye. It’s so powerful that it’s unimaginable, so it’s the colorless sky to suppress the soul of the true Buddha. For you, it’s the success of the “Buddha”, and it’s successfully returned...”

Phoenix could hardly believe his ears. He stood there stiffly, pale as paper.

"Then... what on earth is he?"

Venti Venti smiled, but the smile was bitter than crying: "I don't know."

Phoenix stood there, his heart was shocked, and he had no idea what to say.

All kinds of weirdness and capriciousness of Sakyamuni, as well as the ridiculous acts of Heaven and Dao for thousands of years, and even the subsequent madness of conquering the four evils and emptying the sea of ​​hell, all seem to be answered at this moment. However, it is still difficult for him to believe that the person who raised him is actually a devil, or a demon born from the golden body of the Buddha!

"But...but I was born beside the devil's eye, do I also..."

Trati smiled a little weird and very complicated.

"You are an ancient bird of paradise, and the nature of the devil is broken. Even if the energy of the magic eye circulates on you, it will be immediately offset by the divinity of the phoenix. But in this world, besides you, there are other people born in the magic eye. Who is it?"

Phoenix opened his mouth, his teeth trembling slightly: "Zhou Hui..."

Trati nodded and said, "There is another one, now the great Asura King Fan Luo."

——No wonder that Zhou Huixiu has become a human being among thousands of **** demons. No wonder his strength is so strong that it even surpasses the level of the Asura tribe. This is the reason behind a series of unreasonable reasons!

Phoenix's heart chuckles, and the excessive blood flow makes his fingertips tingle a little bit, "...so now Zhou Hui and Fan Luo share the **** energy circulating in the magic eye with "He"?"

"It didn't stop at the beginning, but other creatures born in the eyes of the devil were either wiped out when you cleared the sea of ​​blood, or they were not in the climate, and they were solved by the "him". The remaining Fan Luo and Zhou Hui, one is Great Asura King, who has a personality, is with you all year round, and he can't find a chance to start."

Lord Venti spoke anxiously, coughing a few times covering his mouth. The sound seemed to vibrate dully from his chest, and it sounded like a trachea-like tear. It was conceivable that he was seriously injured.

Phoenix half kneeled in front of him, earnestly said: "Sovereign, please let me heal you..."

"No, it's too late to make money for rebirth." Posti smiled bitterly.

"I found the clues from the strangeness of "He", worried that he would destroy the True Buddha completely after a certain degree of strength, so I went to the colorless sky and stole the last trace of the True Buddha's soul, and then I used my whole body. Xiuwei closed the only outlet for the colorless sky.

He pointed to the Buddha bone in Phoenix’s hand and said, “With his current strength, the colorless sky can’t be closed for a long time, and soon he will break through the confinement and come down to Mount Xumi-I am now completely destroyed, just an empty shelf. Once there is only one dead road facing each other, but only to protect the last ray of the true Buddha’s soul, fortunately, one day in the future, the false Buddha will be expelled, and the truly compassionate Buddha will be returned to avoid the six souls. Charcoal..."

Phoenix's pupils squeezed, looking at the bones hidden in the golden light in his hand, hesitantly said: "But in the end how to expel the fake Buddha?"

Posti was silent and silent for a long time.

"Sir?"

"..." Posti finally spoke, but it seemed a bit difficult:

"People born in the devil's eyes can kill each other. So you can kill the great Asura King, refine his divine personality as energy, and ignite the most divine Nirvana fire in the nine heavens and ten earths. The person burned to death..."

He took a breath and didn't look too far into Phoenix's eyes.

Phoenix's breath stopped, and there was no sound for a long time.

"But," he said finally after a long time, "If I die, what should Zhou Hui and... my two children do?"

In fact, the first reaction of Phoenix in an instant is, what should Zhou Hui do? But he was stunned before he spoke.

He thought he would think about what Maha did, what Gauluo did, his children were so young, how could he face the unpredictable wind and rain and the strange fate in the future? However, at the moment when the words were not spoken, it was Zhou Hui who first came to mind.

The man who came to propose to him from thousands of horses and horses, the man who took him out of the empty and lonely temple to accompany him for thousands of years, that countless times came from the crowd, took his hand and asked him whether The man who misses himself.

Children will always grow up, and they will always meet the person they should meet at some turning point in their destiny.

However, Zhou Hui is the only one, and the life of Hell Demon is still so long. What can he do in the future?

Will he sit in a daze in a vacuum of no light and no hope day after day like he did before, until death finally comes on a certain day in the future?

Will he recall the bits and pieces of his thousands of years with him, like a gambler who quenches thirst, accepting endless torture in the intertwining of fantasy and reality, and finally his mental breakdown towards the end?

Phoenix shook slightly.

At that moment, he suddenly felt that the bones in his hand were so heavy that he had some unbearable illusions.

"His Royal Highness," Venerable Patti's voice is gentle, but there is some sad pity in his eyes: "But even if you let it go, Zhou Hui... The person in the colorless sky will not let the competitors and themselves seize the power of the magic eye, One day he will start with King Asura first, and then turn to deal with Zhou Hui after his strength grows. By that time, there will be no power to compete with him in nine days and ten days. "

The phoenix heart shocked.

Seeing him stupefied for a long time, Venti sighed and said with a sigh: "I will tell you another reason why I must do this. Peacock Daming King cannot live for long unless he is deprived of his personality, unless it is given to him Instead of a similar divine personality-His Royal Highness Maha was born with extremely evil spirits. In addition to the close relatives within the six Dao, it is difficult to have a similarity. Only the current great Asura King Fan Luo, born in the devil's eye, is known as the deity. Matching Peacock King Ming...try it or not, it’s between your highness and your thoughts."

After talking about his chest tightness and coughing, Venti said he probably said too much, his voice was so **** that he could hardly hear human voices, and a lot of golden blood spattered from the corners of his mouth, his teeth were heavily erased from the seventh era of online games. .

Phoenix looked at him blankly and asked: "So what... what are you going to do?"

"I?" Venti Venti gasped and laughed: "I'm waiting here. I'm waiting for him to kill me, my soul will return to the realm of the ruins, and continue to wait for him to perish on his own. ...I don’t believe that there can be a dove in the world for a lifetime. I can do everything I have done, and I will wait for the rest."

Phoenix's complexion changed slightly. After a long time, he got up and stepped back, paying tribute to Venerable Venti:

"I will guard the soul of the true Buddha and do my best to restore the Buddha to the right place."

He paused, his voice was low but he insisted: "But not for the so-called justice or'heavenly path', but for myself-if I die for that, it is also for the person I love in my heart, and My own beliefs and expectations..."

Lord Venti said safely: "Buddha is to cultivate yourself."

Phoenix finally owed his body, grasped the bone of the red rope tightly in his hand, and turned and strode out of the palace.

That was the last time Phoenix saw Venti.

For hundreds of years afterwards, the gods and buddhas were still in the sky, and there was no news from Venerable Lord.

Phoenix returned to Zhoushan, Zhou Hui was looking for him in hell, and the search range was almost out of **** to Liulitian. Phoenix feels a bit like a child who has done something wrong. He stood there hesitantly. I saw Zhou Hui's gaze for a moment, but he immediately concealed it and beckoned and said, "Come."

Phoenix stood there for a while before slowly swallowing away, and then was held tightly by Zhou Hui in his arms.

"Where did you go?"

"..."

Zhou Hui didn't pursue him immediately, kissed him in his temples, and whispered: "It's good to know you come back."

Zhou Hui woke up suddenly that night, feeling that Phoenix was moving his hand on the side. He didn't make a sound, lying quietly with his eyes open, and after a moment he felt that Phoenix raised his hand beside him in an embracing posture, and then curled up into his arms, burying his head and staying still .

At that moment, Zhou Hui couldn't tell what he felt in his heart. He looked at the hazy ceiling in the dark night, and after a while, he turned and hugged the Phoenix, smelling him like the water lily in the hair.

"What the **** are you doing?" Zhou Hui whispered in the dark. "You have something to hide from me, don't you?"

Phoenix's forehead pressed tightly against his strong, hot chest without making any sound.

What if I told Zhou Hui?

Creatures born in the devil's eyes kill each other to gain each other's power, and then go to assassinate Sakyamuni in the colorless sky...

...Will Zhou Hui do it for himself? Phoenix thought.

However, the **** demon cannot be nirvana, so he will definitely die.

I don’t know why Phoenix suddenly remembered the story I heard in the human world many years ago. When an old couple married, they wanted each other to walk in front of them, because the one who walked first could avoid repeating a day in the long and dark years. Suffering from despair. At that time, he thought he must be the one who went back, but when the incident came, he discovered that the selfishness was hidden in his heart.

"I won't tell you," Phoenix stubbornly stubbornly, his voice melted into the thick darkness like a river as soon as he exited.

He fumbled and grabbed Zhou Hui's hand, pressed his fingers across his palms, and sighed softly for a while:

"...I won't tell you."