My enemies became my companions

Chapter 199 Flesh Buddha

The group of four walked forward.

Yin Weiying was injured by the secret magic of the Demon Cult. According to the daughter of King Xiang, the black evil energy came from the Five Poisonous Dead Trees mentioned by the Demon Cult. Once this poisonous magic hurts the root, not only will Yin Weiying's cultivation level plummet, but he will also be possessed by demons and his Tao heart will be tarnished.

Fortunately, Chen Yi arrived in time, and Yin Weiying was only hit by a knife, and was not seriously injured. He just needed to rest for a period of time to repair his life energy.

She is the goddess of Mount Taihua and is very good at this kind of mysterious things. Chen Yi doesn't need to worry about it. In fact, even if Chen Yi worries about it, it will be useless. According to her, it is just a good intention but a bad result.

When she said this, Chen Yi pinched her waist.

Yin Weiying trembled all over, her feet went weak, and her long eyes raised and lowered. If there had not been other people present, she would have probably said words of begging for mercy and anger.

The daughter of King Xiang felt uncomfortable and guilty when she saw the nun suffering.

Did she do something wrong?
Would it be better to just let Sister Weiying keep it a secret?

Yin Tingxue couldn't help but feel sympathy when she saw the nun being bullied by Chen Yi. She knew Chen Yi's character best. Even though she was so obedient, he would still find ways to bully her.

During the time when she hated Chen Yi the most, she regarded him as the demon king Mara of Rao Buddha. She secretly chanted scriptures and prayed every night, but no Buddha came to take him in. In the end, he failed to escape and she was desperate and could only obey.

Of course, Yin Tingxue kept these things deep in her heart and never spoke them out.

The group walked through the spacious corridor, Chen Yi strode forward to clear the way. The road was still made of glazed tiles, and murals could be seen from time to time. They were colorful, and the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas in the paintings looked majestic and solemn under the dim halo.

Chen Yi casually scanned the mural without looking at it for long.

But Yin Tingxue looked at almost every mural carefully.

When Chen Yi looked at her, she suddenly whispered:

“Isn’t this the Medicine Buddha Pagoda?”

"Yes what's the matter?"

"But... these murals are all about the stories of Sakyamuni Buddha."

Yin Tingxue said this, carefully pointing to the mural.

The mural depicts the story of Sakyamuni sitting in meditation under a tree for forty-nine days and attaining Buddhahood.

"What's the difference?"

Chen Yi couldn't figure out the difference between one Buddha and another, just like many ordinary people couldn't figure out the relationship between the three Buddha statues in the main hall before they learned about them.

"Medicine Buddha is the leader of the Eastern religion, and Sakyamuni Buddha is the leader of the Western religion. The two Buddhas are not the same Buddha."

Yin Tingxue explained softly,

“This is the Medicine Buddha Pagoda, so the story of the Medicine Buddha should be painted here.”

The nun beside her nodded in agreement after hearing this. She said:

"Moreover, Medicine Buddha became a Buddha long before Sakyamuni, with a difference of 5,000 years."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yi lowered his eyes and thought.

He also remembered that among the Five Buddhas of the Western Tantric Buddhism, the Immovable Tathagata replaced the Medicine Buddha and was worshipped by the Tantric Buddhism. In the view of the Tantric Buddhism, the Five Buddhas were all incarnations of Sakyamuni Buddha.

The Medicine Buddha Pagoda built by the Hehuan Sect is filled with stories about Sakyamuni Buddha, not stories about Medicine Buddha.

Combined with the fact that the Medicine Buddha statues I saw along the way had no face...

Could it be that at some point in time, Medicine Buddha and Sakyamuni Buddha were considered the same Buddha? !
Chen Yi suddenly had an idea, but it was difficult to verify it.

I think there are huge implications involved, and it may be related to a huge legendary secret. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain the various contradictions in this Medicine Buddha Pagoda.

The group continued to walk deeper. The light around them seemed to dim as they went deeper. There was no evil spirit in the pagoda, but it was eerily quiet. The more Chen Yi walked, the weirder he felt. The murals he saw on the road were also much rougher in technique. Instead, there were large areas of Sanskrit. After walking for an unknown period of time, he saw Sanskrit covering the entire corridor like a tidal wave. It seemed that there was something hidden in front of him. Along the way, he could see the statue of the Heavenly Drum Thunder Sound Buddha used to suppress evil.

The road is remote but not eerie, and precisely because it is not eerie, it is particularly frightening.

Chen Yi carefully passed the Heavenly Drum and Thunder Sound Buddha and the corridor came to an end. In front of him was a space that was neither broad nor huge. As soon as they stepped into it, the group was stunned.

I saw the room in front of me, with both sides filled with large and small Buddha statues, all of which were sitting cross-legged on lotus pedestals and covered with gold foil.

Each Buddha statue was making a corresponding Dharma seal, and their faces seemed frozen in place, with their eyes lowered.

Chen Yi took two steps forward and didn't find anything unusual, so he was about to breathe a sigh of relief.

Turning back, he saw that Yin Tingxue's face was as pale as paper.

"Why are they... all talking?!" Yin Tingxue said, trying her best to cover her ears, her whole body trembling.

As the words fell, tears of blood slowly flowed down the faces of the Buddha statues with lowered eyes. The faces solidified in gold foil seemed to be making some ferocious expressions, but still looked compassionate.

Looking at this scene, Donggong Ruoshu began to tremble.

"Are there living people trapped in these Buddha statues?"

The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. Chen Yi looked at the row of Buddha statues and his scalp went tingling. Then, he immediately thought of something.

The poison in my body! The relic soup of my body!

The flesh relic soup was originally designed to allow those enlightened monks to transform into flesh-and-blood Buddhas after death so that people can worship them. It seals the acupoints and prevents the body from decaying after death. The temples then cover these monks with gold foil and worship them in the temple.

And this row of Buddha statues are probably...all Buddhas in the flesh!

Thinking of this, Chen Yi saw Yin Tingxue's painful expression again and drew his knife without hesitation.

The wind and rain came down, tearing a thin line apart. It was so sharp that the horizontal wind pushed it forward, causing dust to rise in all directions. A row of flesh-and-blood Buddhas had their heads chopped off.

Gold foil flew everywhere, heads shattered like stones, a foul smell erupted, followed by a strong evil aura.

Yin Weiying quickly took out the talisman, chanted a spell, and slapped it on the ground. A crude formation appeared, and a faint halo of light isolated the stench and evil spirit.

The nun looked at Chen Yi's clean and irrational performance and said after a moment's silence:
"These are Buddhas. Why are you giving them all away like this..."

Chen Yi sheathed his sword and watched as the layers of evil spirits approached him, but were blocked by the formation.
"The Buddha is immortal. Anyone who can be killed is definitely not a Buddha."

Yin Weiying had nothing to say.

If he destroyed the Taoist statues, he would have committed the crime of disrespecting Taoism, but he destroyed the Buddha statues, and the nun was happy to see this.

Who made it that in the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, Buddhism defeated Taoism nearly eleven times, and in the secular world, the temples were more popular.

Chen Yi turned his head and saw that Yin Tingxue looked much better. She was muttering something, as if reciting scriptures for the salvation of souls.

"Thus I have heard, once the Buddha was in the Jetavana Grove in the country of Savatthi..."

The nun also saw this scene, shook her head and laughed, not taking it seriously.

Although she understood the kindness of the daughter of King Xiang, but having the kindness of a bodhisattva does that mean she really has the power of a bodhisattva?
Every profession has its own expertise. Yin Weiying turned around and picked up the talisman in his hand.

Then, she slowly widened her eyes.

I saw the souls slowly gathering together, each with their own sorrows and joys, and then they all bowed to the girl!
The female crown was stunned on the spot.

The voice of Princess Xiang's prayer for the salvation of souls still rings in my ears.

(End of this chapter)