inspire-indiana Chapter 23: Not very damaging, but extremely insulting! While eating roasted sweet potatoes, he beat
Chapter 23: Not very damaging, but extremely insulting! While eating roasted sweet potatoes, he beat
valley.
Lu Chen is hanging up new dried fish.
Several fresh fish have been washed, skewered on wooden sticks, and hung one by one on the rack.
A golden light and a white light fell simultaneously.
Lu Chen looked up.
He smiled the moment he saw the two bodhisattvas arrive together.
That smile was very genuine.
"Samantabhadra Bodhisattva".
"..." Puxian paused for a moment.
He did not disclose his identity.
He used his own aura without any concealment, but he also did not announce his name.
An ordinary person recognized him at a glance.
Puxian's brows immediately furrowed.
Manjushri sighed.
See it.
He said.
He really knows us inside and out.
"You've arrived earlier than I expected," Lu Chen said with a smile. "I thought that with your personality, you wouldn't come with your junior brother for at least half a month."
"You are more composed than Manjushri Bodhisattva. You usually think things through before acting. Yet you came all this way in just three days. It seems that Manjushri Bodhisattva's defeat really had a big impact on you."
Puxian's face darkened.
"Let's do it."
He spoke decisively and clearly.
No nonsense.
The fight started immediately.
A six-tusked white elephant appeared beneath Samantabhadra's feet.
The white elephant was enormous and majestic, its six tusks gleaming with the golden light of Buddhism.
Manjushri also summoned the sword of wisdom.
The two Bodhisattvas joined forces.
Six-tusked white elephant + Wisdom Sword.
The wooden stick in Lu Chen's hand.
Click.
It split into two paths.
One of them transformed into the shape of a sword of wisdom.
One of them transformed into the shape of a six-tusked white elephant's tusk.
The two sides clashed.
boom!
The shockwave swept for miles.
The pebbles and wood fragments in the valley were all swept up and flew everywhere.
Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie were watching the show from a distance when the fruit in their hands fell at the same time.
Puxian's pupils contracted.
He was just testing the waters.
Not at full strength.
He wanted to see how quickly Lu Chen would react.
As a result, for every bit of effort he put in, Lu Chen returned the favor.
He increased his strength to five points, and Lu Chen increased his strength to five points.
He increased his power to full strength—
Lu Chen also exerted all his strength.
It's a 50/50 split.
It's a 50/50 chance on every path.
Puxian gasped.
"Manjushri, you really didn't lie to me."
"Senior brother, why would I lie to you?" Manjushri smiled bitterly.
The two exchanged a glance and simultaneously unleashed their most powerful techniques.
The Vajrabhairava Mudra of Manjushri.
Samantabhadra's Dharmadhatu Samadhi Seal.
Two Bodhisattva-level innate mantras.
This is a technique possessed only by highly respected Bodhisattvas in Buddhism. The two of them working together—such a combination would have been enough to crush a vast number of enemies during the Investiture of the Gods war.
Lu Chen clasped his hands together.
The same two seals.
Yamantaka Mudra + Dharmadhatu Mudra.
One person can form two mudras simultaneously.
The two seals clash simultaneously.
Boom!
It's a 50/50 situation once again.
Manjushri's complexion is a replica of the previous one.
Samantabhadra's complexion is a replica of Manjushri's.
Two faces, both exactly the same shade of white.
A stick of incense.
A whole incense stick's time.
Manjushri and Samantabhadra joined forces and used all their most secretive methods.
It's always a 50/50 chance.
I can't fight anymore.
Manjushri withdrew first.
Samantabhadra followed closely behind.
The two stood side by side, their breathing disordered, their white and gold robes stained with gray.
Samantabhadra's hands trembled even more violently than Manjushri's that day.
Lu Chen sat back down on the rock.
As usual, I took out a roasted sweet potato.
He blew off the dust.
took a bite.
I chewed it.
Then, looking at Samantabhadra, he spoke.
"Samantabhadra Bodhisattva".
Puxian tensed up instinctively.
"You used to be in the Chan sect, and your name was Samantabhadra, right?"
Puxian's lips moved slightly.
"Your six-tusked white elephant wasn't called a six-tusked white elephant before."
Lu Chen took a bite of the sweet potato.
"Call him Yellow-Toothed Elephant."
"The name I changed after entering Buddhism."
"I already mentioned your junior brother Manjushri last time."
I won't repeat what you said.
"After all, we're about the same as him."
He waved his hand.
It's like dismissing something that's not worth talking about.
Puxian's face turned ashen.
Manjushri lowered his head.
"Senior brother."
"Um?"
"He knows everything."
".....I see."
Puxian took a deep breath.
He looked at Lu Chen.
He then looked at his gray-stained cassock.
He didn't say anything.
He turned and left.
Manjushri followed closely behind.
The two Bodhisattvas took their leave at the same time, without uttering a sound.
They walked even faster than when Manjushri came alone last time.
Two beams of light flew toward Mount Ling, so fast that they left a trail of interwoven platinum and gold afterimages in the air.
Sun Wukong watched as the two beams of light grew farther and farther away until they became two small dots.
He turned to look at Lu Chen.
Lu Chen was munching on his sweet potato.
Sun Wukong suddenly shouted something.
"Hello!"
Lu Chen looked up.
"Um?"
"Say that a few more times."
"I'm afraid you're forcing Buddhism to use nuclear weapons."
Lu Chen was stunned for a moment.
"Great Sage".
"What?"
What are nuclear weapons?
Sun Wukong paused for a moment.
He scratched the back of his head.
"Old Sun doesn't know either."
"It just slipped out of my mouth."
The two exchanged a glance.
They laughed at the same time.
That kind of tacit laughter, sharing the same weariness.
Sun Wukong stopped laughing and turned to go back to retrieve his territory.
He took two steps, then turned back.
"When are you going to explain to me, Old Sun, who you really are?"
"Just say it."
"I, Old Sun, will have a drink with you."
After saying that, he flew away without waiting for Lu Chen's reply.
Lu Chen was the only one left in the valley.
He looked in the direction where Sun Wukong had gone.
Lu Chen was the only one left in the valley.
He looked in the direction where Sun Wukong had gone.
She slowly smiled.
This laugh is different from the previous ones.
There was no mockery in that smile.
"Great Sage," he muttered to himself, "you're quite interesting."
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Lingshan, Daleiyin Temple.
Emergency meeting.
This time it wasn't in the side hall.
It is in the main hall.
Manjushri, Samantabhadra, Avalokiteshvara and Ksitigarbha, the four great bodhisattvas, were all present.
Universal Salvation King, the Five Directions Protector, Wide-Eyed Vajra, Huian Practitioner, and a host of Dharma Protector Kings were all present.
The lotus throne in the main seat is empty.
Buddha did not attend today.
But the fact that Buddha was not present does not mean that he was unaware of it.
He was just waiting.
Manjushri and Samantabhadra stood below the main seat and truthfully reported what had happened that day.
The Sword of Wisdom.
The Seven Treasures Tree.
The mudra of Yamantaka Bodhisattva.
A six-tusked white elephant.
The seal of the Dharma realm.
List them out one by one.
Each item is evenly matched.
The main hall was deathly silent.
After hearing this, Guanyin slowly closed her eyes.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva sat there, his hand holding the golden ring on his staff, his face expressionless.
King Puji's face was even paler than last time.
He could no longer excuse himself with "maybe the monkeys are acting" or "maybe there are some unknown factors."
Manjushri's personal experience.
Samantabhadra's personal experience.
The two of the Four Great Bodhisattvas experienced it together.
Even if the two of them team up, it's a 50/50 chance.
This can no longer be an act.
"Two Bodhisattvas," King Puji finally spoke, his voice somewhat hoarse, "then in your opinion... what is this person's background?"
Manjushri shook his head first.
"have no idea."
Puxian also shook his head.
Then he said something that made everyone's faces change.
"But I have a guess."
Everyone looked at him.
Samantabhadra's gaze swept across the dome of the main hall, as if he were looking at something unseen.
"perhaps--"
He paused.
"He is not from this world."
In a word.
The entire main hall was so quiet it felt as if it had been emptied out.