Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 588 White Tara Bodhisattva

"Your lion's roar contains the Dharma meaning of subduing demons and monsters, and also contains the Zen heart of great compassion. It can be said that you have grasped the true meaning, but it's a pity that it is useless..."

A faint blood color appeared in the girl's pupils, and rolling blood mist spread out from under her feet. A red light appeared in the void and quickly thickened to an inky black color, making the blood mist hazy. There were also blooming red lotuses as big as wheels, with twisted corpses sitting and lying in them.

At this moment, these corpses were struggling to get up and waving their hands towards Chu Tai, Jingguang and the girl.

"See? I can't hold on any longer. If you can't break down and digest my principles, you will never be able to break my power. And if you want to break down and absorb my principles in the shortest possible time, you are devouring my flesh and blood."

"Back then, I made three great wishes. After seeing the Buddha's light that penetrated the past, present, and future, my body also underwent a transformation. My flesh and blood contain the mysteries of the three great wishes. As long as you eat my flesh and blood, you will gain some of my principles, and you will be able to find my flaws and break my law, my way..."

The blood mist flowed, and scarlet, throbbing white flesh gradually emerged on the skeleton. Then the blood mist settled and turned into blood water flowing in it.

Many emotions of despair, terror, anger and pleading surrounded Chutai and Jingguang, praying that they could be saved.

"That's enough, stop talking nonsense!"

The pure light surrounded by noise roared like a lion, rolling up waves of sound that spread in all directions.

At the same time, rays of Buddha's light emerged from behind her. She shook the Thousand-Leaf Golden Lotus in her hand, and the golden lotus leaves fell down and turned into golden lamps floating in the Buddha's light. The layers of Buddha's light overlapped with each other, projecting the shadows of hundreds or thousands of Arhats, Vajra, and Heavenly Kings, forming a Buddhist formation that pressed down.

In the center of the entire formation is a goddess with a graceful figure, dressed in cloud-like clothes, a flying silk draped over her shoulders, a towering bun, adorned with pearls and jade.

The celestial maiden holds a four-stringed pipa in her hands and plucks it gently, like the morning bell and evening drum, bringing out waves of Sanskrit and Zen chants that echo in all directions, and together with the pure lion's roar, it suppresses the surrounding sounds.

"I received your prayer, but how to save him is my business. You don't need to tell me!"

As he spoke, the fragrance fell, and the pure glass fragrance sound and wonderful light Qi cooperated, transforming into pavilions, fields, gardens, mountains, forests, plants, birds and beasts around the pure light. Among them, the shadows of the eight groups of beings, including the gods, dragons, yakshas, ​​gandharvas, asuras, garudas, kinnaras and mahoragas, all took the fragrance as their root, and derived changes, firmly suppressing the blood mist red lotus.

Jingguang looked back at Chu Tai and bowed, saying, "I hope you can lend me a helping hand."

"what do you want to do?"

"Burn my flesh body that I left outside the heavens. Although that illusory body is a combination of the four elements, after years of practice, some of the true meaning of the way of incense has been integrated into it. Use this as incense, burn your fingers to offer to the Buddha, and lead the Buddha's light of bliss, which should be able to save this world."

"Are you willing?"

Chu Tai looked at Jingguang with a fixed gaze. In the past, when the Goddess Jingguang was listening to the Bodhisattva's teachings, she saw a golden lotus blossoming and five hundred Buddha shadows emerged, symbolizing that she would be able to be reborn in the upper grade in the future. According to Chu Tai's understanding, she would be able to achieve the third grade in the human world and then ascend to paradise.

But later, when he was communicating with Tianque, the other party bluntly said that Jingguang had the hope to achieve the present realm and achieve the sixth-level bodhisattva fruit position, which is the second grade and above according to the Taiyi Nine Grades.

The prerequisite for all this is that Jinguang can attain this level of fruition in the human world. If his physical body is burned at this time, his subsequent practice will inevitably encounter more twists and turns.

Jingguang didn't care at all and said with a smile: "It's just an illusory body made up of the four elements. What's there to be reluctant about?"

"You know what I mean."

Chu Tai shook his head and asked again: "Once you start, there will be no turning back."

"If you practice for your own liberation, and despise the five turbidities and evil worlds, and yearn for the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, you are violating the supreme Bodhicitta, entering the side door of prejudice, and practicing the evil ways of the left path. As a child of Buddha, I should understand that there is no difference between the mind, Buddha, and sentient beings. Saving sentient beings is to cultivate oneself, and leading sentient beings to Buddha is also to cultivate oneself. Dao friends, burning my illusory body is not to destroy my practice, but to help me achieve enlightenment. Dao friends, please do it..."

Jingguang said this as he walked to the two corpses and looked back into the sky.

Shao Siming, who was guarding his body, sighed, looked to a place not far away and whispered, "Did Master see this scene at the beginning?"

"I didn't see it, but I just had a feeling that this child could achieve the highest level of Bodhisattva fruit. I didn't expect that this would be the way to start her Bodhisattva practice." Upon hearing this, Shao Siming smiled and said, "Why don't you come and send her off?"

"Fellow Daoist, you are joking. Jingguang has already made his choice. Why should I snatch such merit?"

"How about I come?"

A voice suddenly sounded, and the shadow of Yun Zhongjun appeared here. He looked at Shao Siming and said, "Your cultivation method should be to avoid killing. Although Jingguang's action cannot be said to be death, it is not in line with your way after all. In order to prevent your way from being misplaced, let me do it."

As he spoke, a spark of fire appeared from Yun Zhongjun's fingertips and fell down.

And Jingguang seemed to feel something at this time and muttered in a low voice.

"May I, in the next life, when I attain Anuttara Samyaksambodhi, have a body that is radiantly bright... a body like the bright moon, pure without any blemish, and with a vast and radiant light... so that countless sentient beings may escape from the snares of the devil, free themselves from all the entanglements of the heretics, and return to purity, without falling into the evil ways."

The girl was stunned for a moment. She felt something in a trance, looked at Jingguang, and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Rescue."

Jingguang looked back at the girl, and some supreme Buddha light gradually emerged from his body.

In a trance, there seemed to be bursts of Buddhist sounds echoing around.

"Om daleh-daleh-daleh-mama ayu..."

"This is……"

The girl's eyes widened. The pipa in the hands of the celestial maiden beside Jingguang disappeared, and she was sitting in the lotus moon wheel in the Vajra posture. White light radiated from her body, which was divided into five colors. Her face showed a dignified, kind and gentle smile. Her black hair was tied into a bun, and she wore a crown made of flower vines. Her cloud-like silk skirt turned into a beautiful celestial dress, and there were many ornaments made mainly of white pearls adorning her body.

The right hand is placed in front of the knee, with the palm facing outwards in the mudra of giving wishes. The left hand is placed in front of the chest in the mudra of the Three Treasures to stroke the Ubala flower. The thumb and ring finger hold the flower branch facing the heart. There are three flowers on it, one in bud, one half-opened, and one fully open, each shining brightly.

"White Tara Bodhisattva..."

The girl murmured softly, tears welling up in her eyes, reflecting the Buddha's light in five colors.

Jingguang stepped forward and gently stroked her tears, saying with a smile: "May your body be radiant and bright in your next life... pure and without any blemish... and not fall into the evil ways."

"Namo Guanyin Bodhisattva!"

Jingguang put his hands together, and the Buddha's light behind him became bright and brilliant, illuminating all directions and even breaking through the constraints of Fangzhu Qiankun.

Chu Tai, who was intercepting the Lotus Mother, couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the Buddha's light gradually emerging in the sky.

Outside the sky, Master Tianque watched Chu Tai burn the body of the Pure Light Goddess. The hundreds of millions of wonderful fragrances accumulated in it turned into auspicious air and scattered all over the sky. There was also a faint wisp of smoke that went straight up to the sky.

"Namo Guanyin Bodhisattva!"

Master Tianque clasped his hands together, and his two disciples also saluted.

Shao Siming stared at the fragrance disappearing into the void, watching it penetrate into the darkness and lead down an equally faint ray of Buddha's light.

The Buddha's light was so faint that it was almost invisible, but it contained a hint of immortality. As soon as it fell, it merged with the Buddha's light on the body of the Pure Light Goddess, and it was unobstructed and illuminated all directions.

(End of this chapter)