weddingnovel Chapter 38 The Descent of the Heavenly Buddha
Chapter 38 The Descent of the Heavenly Buddha
When the Black Mountain Demon appeared, a wave of malevolent energy swept across the land, causing chaos and suffering in Guobei County.
The people of the county town fled in all directions, but could not escape the pursuit of the ghosts. Their life force was drained, and their souls were imprisoned.
Among them were the constables who had previously arrested people indiscriminately and had even once tried to harm Sheng Wansong.
Their figures were ethereal, with black chains around their necks, clearly indicating that their souls had been captured and driven by ghost soldiers and generals to the depths of the underworld.
The gates of Guobei County were tightly shut, and the souls of the dead passed through them, forming a long, winding line that stretched into the distance, seemingly without end.
The departed souls were in a daze, their minds clouded, unaware of their future fortunes or misfortunes.
Suddenly, the earth began to move, rise, surge, tremble, roar, and strike—six kinds of vibrations—the earth's veins surged, and the sky and earth changed color.
The earthquake should not have affected the intangible and formless vengeful spirits, but at this moment, these vengeful spirits were like mortals, swaying and staggering in the earthquake, unable to stand firm, and falling in all directions.
Sheng Wansong's index finger and thumb tips touch, while the other three fingers are naturally extended, resembling the sun radiating rays.
Forming the mudra of the Bodhisattva of Sunlight, it emits thousands of golden rays.
It is the sixth move of the Tathagata Palm, with Buddha's light shining everywhere!
Amidst the wailing of the ghosts, a sudden sight appeared: celestial flowers rained down from the eastern sky, golden lotuses sprang from the earth, and auspicious clouds and rays of light filled the air.
Centered on Lanruo Temple, the dark clouds within a radius of a hundred miles were completely dispelled, and the Buddha's light illuminated the world, making it as bright as day for a time.
Mysterious songs and wonderful music played in the void, chanting solemn Buddhist scriptures to cleanse the world of evil.
Enveloped in the Buddha's light, countless wronged souls emerged from the blue smoke, repenting for their sins in life. Their figures, devoted to good, gradually became transparent, their faces filled with joy, as they were reborn into the Pure Land.
Those who remain obstinate and unrepentant suffer immense pain, howling to the heavens in anguish, until their souls are scattered and they vanish into nothingness.
The Black Mountain Demon, shrouded in dark clouds, fled east and west amidst the Buddha's light. However, the Buddha's light shone brightly, and seeing no way to escape, this vicious ghost king who had entered the underworld roared, "There is no Buddha in this world! Don't try to fool me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the giant head of the Black Mountain Demon retracted into the mountain, and the next moment the mountain collapsed, revealing its true form.
Xiaoqian had heard that the prototype of the Black Mountain Demon was the Black Mountain in the underworld, but what she saw before her eyes was not so. Where the mountain collapsed, what stood in its place was a Jingguan made of 100,000 heads!
A "jingguan" is a structure made by stacking human heads layer by layer to form a tall tower.
The mound of heads before us covers an area of a thousand meters and is a thousand meters high. It contains more than 100,000 heads, including men, women, young and old, each with bloody tears in their eyes and spitting out venomous curses.
Nie Xiaoqian's pupils dilated violently as she recalled what she had heard before her death.
"I heard that at the beginning of the founding of the country, an army of the Great Liang attacked this city, killed innocent people and claimed credit for their achievements, saying that they had annihilated 100,000 enemies and slaughtered all the surrounding people to build a mound of corpses."
"The people of Guobei County and the surrounding villages and towns are all people who moved here afterward."
Upon hearing this, Yan Chixia spat viciously, "No wonder the Black Mountain Demon could rule the underworld; this little underworld was originally built upon its beliefs in its previous life."
"The resentment of these hundreds of thousands of people, when gathered together, became the Black Mountain Demon."
The Black Mountain Demon revealed its true form, its resentment soaring to the heavens.
Thousands of blood-red eyes shot out evil light, shining directly at Sheng Wansong.
Facing the soaring evil light, Sheng Wansong remained seated cross-legged, his hands forming a hand seal once more.
With your left palm facing inward, bend your thumb, middle finger, and ring finger, and extend your index finger and little finger; with your right palm facing outward, bend your thumb and index finger. Pinch the knuckles below your index fingers with both thumbs and rotate clockwise three times.
It is the hand seal in the Buddha's palm, the Vajrakilaya Seal, also known as the Earth Seal.
Once the seal was completed, a golden Buddha a thousand feet tall appeared in the high sky, its Buddha light shining brightly and completely extinguishing the evil light.
"The Seventh Palm of the Tathagata Palm - The Descent of the Heavenly Buddha".
The golden Buddha statue, with its kind and benevolent face and dignified appearance, raises its right palm and strikes down with boundless power, as if the sky were collapsing.
"Ahhhhh!"
Inside the mound of corpses, a cacophony of cries and curses erupted. A bald monk roared, "On the day of the massacre, I begged you a thousand times to protect a mere child, and you did not appear! Now you come to subdue me?!"
The pent-up resentment materialized, covering the Jingguan (a mound of corpses), and gushed down as a black waterfall, shaping the Jingguan into a black mountain that shot into the sky and crashed into the golden Buddha.
With his eyes tightly closed, Sheng Wansong's golden Buddha eyes behind him opened, revealing the tragic events that had befallen the Black Mountain Demon.
Seeing the Black Mountain approaching, the Golden Body Palm transformed into Mount Sumeru, with the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth flowing between its five fingers.
Facing the thousand-meter-high Black Mountain, Mount Sumeru, towering a thousand feet high, pressed down on it.
When the two mountains collided, Black Mountain collapsed instantly, and the heads of 100,000 people fell like a torrential downpour, blotting out the sky and the sun.
"You were wronged in life, and after death you committed heinous crimes."
"There is no Buddha in this world. I have crossed over from another realm to offer you a chance to be reborn in the Pure Land."
Sheng Wansong recited the Prajna Sutra, his palms radiating compassion.
Of the vengeful spirits under his palm, only a few who sincerely repented and cried out "May Buddha have mercy" were able to be reborn in the Pure Land; the vast majority remained obstinate and their souls were scattered.
With a single palm strike, the Black Mountain Demon was annihilated. The Heavenly Buddha descended to earth, his palm strike undiminished, continuing to press down.
The Tathagata Palm is not a Buddhist technique created to save people; it is a genuine martial arts palm technique.
Rather than its power to deliver souls from suffering, its destructive force lies in its ability to inflict harm.
Under the Buddha's palm, the ancient temple on the mountain collapsed instantly, and then the mountain itself cracked open, bursting forth with dazzling golden light that blinded people.
Until the strange phenomena disappeared, the morning sun had already risen.
The mountain in front of them had collapsed more than half of itself, leaving only a huge palm print on its base, with every detail clearly visible.
Sheng Wansong descended from the sky, holding a pyramid-shaped pagoda in his right hand, which shone with golden light.
The Black Mountain Demon entered the underworld and incorporated it into his Black Mountain.
Sheng Wansong used the Tathagata Palm to subdue the demon, reshaping it into a golden pagoda and placing it in his palm.
Now that it was broad daylight, Nie Xiaoqian's soul had nowhere to hide and was absorbed into the golden light emitted by the pagoda.
"They say a golden house is for keeping a beautiful woman, so I'll call you the Golden Pavilion."
After speaking, he flipped his hand over and absorbed the Golden Pavilion into his primordial spirit.
The Golden Pavilion is not a real pagoda; its essence is the underworld, a non-existent entity, which is why it can house the primordial spirit.
This matter is settled.
Sheng Wansong and Yan Chixia locked eyes. The latter's old face immediately became uneasy, his rough palms rubbing together as he hesitated, unsure of how to speak.
Seeing this, Sheng Wansong laughed and said, "There are no Buddhas or immortals in this world."
"I have merely mastered a Buddhist supernatural power."
Yan Chixia breathed a sigh of relief and murmured, "I knew it, I knew it."
Despite this, Yan Chixia clearly did not fully believe such claims, and his words and actions remained restrained.
Compared to him, "innocent" children are much simpler.
An Lan slapped her hands until they were red, repeating the action over and over, "As expected of my master! So amazing!"
After a short rest, the three of them went down the mountain. The area around Guobei County was littered with corpses, with only a very few survivors.
"I will dig graves here and let these people rest in peace."
"Young Master Sheng, if you have other important matters to attend to, please go ahead."
Sheng Wansong nodded to him, said nothing more, and led An Lan out of the city, heading south again.