429. True Suchness, True Suchness? Is the Buddha originally a demon? (2/2)

Step, step, step...

The alternating footsteps of Su Wu and An Gang sounded in the darkness.

Not long after entering the cave, An Gang regretted it.

He had a creepy feeling that there were many eyes around him watching him silently, but it was even dark here, so he could only follow Su Wu with his voice.

"Jun Zhuzhao, it's too dark here, I can't see anything!

Let’s not go too deep and leave first! "An Gang shouted at Su Wu who was walking ahead.

Su Wu's calm voice reached his ears, calming his mind a little: "What are you afraid of? If it doesn't work, we will turn around and go back. It's okay, Mr. An Gang!"

An Gang subconsciously nodded in agreement with Su Wu's words,

The next moment, he turned around and looked back——

Obviously we haven't gone far yet,

But now the light projected from the cave entrance can no longer be seen!

An Gang trembled in his heart, and he no longer dared to agree with Su Wu's words, and continued: "It's too dark here, you can't see anything, Zhuzhaojun!"

"Just follow me and walk forward."

Su Wu's response reached An Gang's ears.

He still remembered that Zhu Zhaojun clearly had a fire starter in his hand, and An Gang saw him using it when they were eating outside at noon.

Why is it that in such a dark environment, Zhu Zhaojun refuses to blow out the fire ignition and lights up anything to illuminate the surrounding environment?

Thoughts are spinning in my mind,

An Gang accidentally stepped on a stone on the ground.

The whole person's center of gravity was unstable, and he stumbled sideways and fell!

Bang!

The pain he expected from hitting the hard rocks on the mountain wall did not appear.

It was as if I had collided with the flesh of a living person,

Didn't feel any pain at all!

what happened?

An Gang is horrified!

At this time, Su Wu's voice sounded from beside him: "Are you okay? Mr. An Gang."

"It's okay, it's okay..." An Gang responded subconsciously. After he said the words, he realized that Zhu Zhao was actually standing next to him. Did he just bump into him?

No wonder I didn't feel any pain...

An Gang still felt something strange subconsciously.

But he couldn't think of much at the moment, so he quickly apologized to Su Wu: "Did I bump into you? I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!"

"It doesn't matter."

Su Wu shook his head,

Let go of the hand holding An Gang.

He turned his head to look at the inner wall of the cave just a stone's throw away from him.

——Purple-red weird lines are all over the mountain wall, and pieces of ‘stones’ that resemble human limbs, organs, and even complete human shapes are inlaid on the mountain wall.

With the flow of purple-red veins, these stones are also slowly squirming!

Come closer and take a look,

Su Wu could even see the subtle expressions on those people's faces. When he looked at those 'human-shaped stones',

They will also open their eyes and look at him!

He took An Gang and continued walking forward,

The ‘human-shaped stones’ on the mountain walls on both sides also gradually changed.

The 'human-shaped stones' that appeared at the entrance of the cave were all men and warriors with buns tied in buns or shaved heads. 'They' had vivid expressions and looked at Su Wu and Su Wu who walked into the cave with fear. An Gang,

The lips move,

My limbs stretch hard,

He wanted to protrude from the stone wall and asked Su Wu for help.

The further you walk into the cave, the 'human-shaped stones' on the surrounding mountain walls are not just men.

A woman wearing Wu costume also appeared;

a fat woman in shabby clothing;

Children and the elderly gathered together.

The expressions on the faces of these 'human-shaped stones' have solidified. They are inlaid on the mountain wall, motionless, like exquisite and detailed reliefs.

Mixed in among the many 'human-shaped stones' are various stones shaped like organs and human limbs.

But some internal organs are too big,

It didn't look like human organs, but rather like the internal organs of some huge beast.

These viscera-shaped stones reminded Su Wu of the gutted horses in the abandoned village.

The followers brought by the Taira clan's ghost warriors to the deserted village disappeared without a trace.

Watanabe Tsuna and Hiromasa have been dragged into Rashomon and are destined to die.

The warriors they brought were not selected for Rashomon, but there was still no news.

These two groups of people should have been taken away by the sly creature that surrounded the deserted village, which could turn the soil into quicksand and bury people silently. They were most likely dead and turned into stones on the mountain wall.

It became a ‘killing stone’.

so,

Is the killing stone actually transformed from a living person? !

Those ‘organ stones’ and ‘placenta stones’ are probably actually the internal organs of humans or animals? !

The ‘Killing Stone Mine’ itself is extremely strange.

It never dies,

Always 'alive'? !

The so-called ghost king Tamamo Mae was annihilated by Jianzhen, and the nine tails combined with the Dongliu Island iron ore vein to form the killing stone vein. Is this also false? !

But - Grandmaster Kotetsu's ancestors clearly participated in the battle to annihilate Tamamo-mae.

What secrets are buried in this?

Go to the end of the cave,

Ahead is a huge stone chamber.

There are many traces of digging in this stone chamber.

The faces of the 'human-shaped stones' connected to this ashlar room are lifelike, but they will never give people the impression that they are real people - the human-shaped stones here are too delicate, and living people will not look like them. Exquisite.

These ‘human-shaped stones’ at the end,

It is exactly the same as the 'human stone' that Genji sent to Yasutuna Sword Forging Factory.

——The two may be the same thing.

In the corner of the spacious stone room, there are hammers, chisels and many other tools for mining ores.

On the side of the flat mountain wall where many 'human stones' and 'five internal organs stones' were stacked and inlaid, fireplaces were dug out one after another, and there was a lot of charcoal piled in the fireplaces.

There was even a pool on the ground, filled with smelly black liquid.

Several stone tables lie around the black liquid,

On the stone table, there are iron felts, axes, hammers, iron poles, gloves and other items.

All the furnishings in this stone room gave Su Wu an extremely familiar feeling.

——All of these are clearly furnishings that can only be found in a blacksmith shop.

There is no shortage of smelting furnaces and calcining furnaces,

There are a lot of blacksmithing tools such as felts, hammers, and iron rods!

There is even a hill-like pile of charcoal in the corner of the stone room!

There must have been someone here who forged something with the help of the killing stone here!

Maybe swords and weapons,

It could be any other iron tool!

Su Wu saw a rectangular hole like a shrine dug out on the stone wall facing the cave passage. There seemed to be something vaguely inside.

There is an oil lamp hanging above the 'shrine'.

"An Gang, we may have discovered something amazing.

As a knife maker,

This is simply the dream of every swordsmith! "Su Wu looked at the oil lamp opposite and spoke to An Gang. He let a tremble in his tone to show that he was very excited.

Hearing his words, An Gang's whole body tensed up: "What is it?

Zhuzhaojun, what you see in front of you may not be true.

It may be false,

Don't believe it! "

In such dense darkness, An Gang couldn't see at all.

He relied on himself and others, thinking that Su Wu was in the same situation as himself.

Neither of them can see,

How did the other party see those 'remarkable things' and 'the dream of a swordsmith'? It was obvious that Mr. Zhu Zhao was bewitched by some terrifying existence!

"wait for me here,

You'll know what I saw later..."

Su Wu didn't explain much to An Gang. He patted the other party's shoulder and walked away from him.

An Gang reached out to grab him, but only caught a handful of air.

Previously in the cave passage, Su Wu did not light the lights so that An Gang could see the surrounding scene - the reason was that the conditions of the 'human rocks' in the passage were too scary!

They are literally real people who are about to turn to stone,

There are still blood stains on the body!

When An Gang saw this scene, he was afraid that he would faint from fright.

But after arriving at the end of the passage, the 'human stones' here all looked like what An Gang knew a 'human stone' should look like. Their faces were exquisite and 'lifelike', and each of them had their hands clasped together, without any sense of terror.

On the contrary, there is a strange and magnificent beauty.

Regarding the current scene, Su Wu felt that An Gang would still be frightened after seeing it - how could there be such a large number of "human rocks" here?

But he shouldn't be so frightened that he fainted.

"Jun Zhuzhao, be careful in everything!

Don't be impulsive! "

An Gang was still shouting from behind, hoping to pull Su Wu back.

His voice echoed in the cave.

Su Wu had walked into the cave and approached the 'shrine' on the stone wall facing the cave passage.

The location where the 'shrine'-like rectangular cave was dug was not too high. Standing in front of the stone wall, Su Wu was able to look straight at the 'shrine' and see what was inside the 'shrine'.

There is a piece of yellowed paper in the shrine, with a series of bloody words on the paper.

The overwhelming malice and obsession burst out from that series of handwriting,

When it fell into Su Wu's ears, it turned into countless sharp screams: "Zhenru, Zhenru? The Buddha is actually a demon?!"

"True, true? Buddha is actually a demon?!"

"True, true? Buddha is actually a demon?!"

Alarm bells rang in Su Wu's heart.

In an instant, he lifted up his sword of wisdom——

Use the sword of wisdom,

Thousands of demonic thoughts turned into ashes!

He stared at the line of writing inside the 'Buddhist niche': Zhenru, Zhenru? Is Buddha actually a demon? !

The writer didn't know that he had gone astray in practicing Buddhism, so he left this question containing overwhelming malice and obsession.

Or maybe he has set a question here, leaving it to those who come after him - behind the blank sheet of paper, there is something vaguely there. If this is a 'question', I think only by solving the question can I pick up the blank sheet. Paper.

Su Wu reached out to take off the white paper.

But he just put his hand into the Buddhist niche,

The surrounding human stones and internal organs all squirmed, clustering like quicksand around the arm he stretched into the Buddhist niche. He could use his sly power to forcefully peel off the white paper.

But who knows if peeling off the white paper like this will trigger other changes in this killing stone vein?

Therefore, Su Wu thought for a while and gave up using brute force to untie the paper for the time being.

He stared at the column of blood letters,

After thinking for a long time,

He opened his mouth to explain: "Don't look for others, they are far away from me. Now I go alone, and I can meet him everywhere."

He is me now, and I am not him now. How should we meet before we can get the agreement. "

What Su Wu said was a Buddhist verse left by a Zen master in the Tang Dynasty when he was enlightened.

These eight Buddhist verses explain exactly what ‘True Suchness’ is.

The truth is all the empty earth and all things that are real and not empty.

This is what I saw and heard at this moment.

it's me'.

But ‘I’ am not really who I am,

I am just a part of the truth.

Suchness is everything in the eyes of all living beings, and all living beings in the eyes of all living beings.

But not all things in my eyes, not all living beings in ‘my’ eyes.

This is true.

The Zen master who left these eight lines of Buddhist verses was named Dongshan Liangzi, and his birth and death years were before "Jianzhen". Su Wu assumed that it was "Jianzhen" who left this question, so he used these eight lines of Buddha's verses. The verse is a response to the 'True Question'.

If ‘Jianzhen’ just wants to leave questions to test the latecomers,

His answer already fits the question and can pass the 'True Question'.

However, if ‘Jianzhen’ himself falls into the inner demon,

By leaving this question, he could trigger the phenomenon of Li Gui guarding dormant in the killing stone veins. Su Wu felt that he could not resist Jianzhen's confused inner demon, and he would immediately take An Gang out of here.

Never think otherwise!

The only people who know the traces of this vein of killing stone and hold the secret key to enter the vein are Axiong and Toshio Inoue.

Even Toshio Inoue is just a supplement, just taking care of this thing on behalf of Axiong!

Monks related to Axiong,

The most famous one is naturally ‘Jian Zhen’.

This is also the premise for Su Wu to make the assumption, and then think about the fact that 'Jianzhen' once gave Ah Xiong a 'Tie Binding Rope', and he might have made something with his own hands using the killing stone. All of this is consistent with Su Wu's assumption. Fit!

After uttering eight verses of Buddha's verses from his mouth,

Su Wu stared at the 'Buddha niche' intently.

The white paper in the 'Buddhist niche' remained silent, but the obsessive atmosphere seeping out of the row of bloody words on the white paper suddenly subsided a lot.

Looking at the Buddhist niche, a smile appeared on Su Wu's face.