678, Sow the seeds and reap the fruits (2/2)
The walls of the ruined temple were re-paved with thatch and mud, and the window openings were covered with wooden boards.
Following the tripod spirit, he moved the door panel and locked the temple door.
The entire ruined temple fell into a daze.
Only the candles and unburned firewood in the temple still shone faintly.
In such darkness,
Cauldron Ling turned his back to the temple door and remained motionless. Even his thinking process became sluggish - just like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand.
She looked at the candle squatting on the stove being picked up by one hand.
As the candlelight drifted, Ding Ling finally saw Su Wu's face clearly in the darkness.
“This statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is the ‘God of Resentment’. Although the God of Resentment is silent now and the possibility of its revival is slim, the statue may also hide other dangers.
Letting them wait outside is also for their safety. "
Su Wu's words slowly sounded in the darkness.
Ding Ling watched the swaying light approaching the window on the left. Senior Brother Dingyang held the candle in one hand and used a wooden stick in the other to open the wooden board covering the window.
——Finally more light shone into the ruined temple.
The female master's heart relaxed slightly.
After the wooden boards on the two window openings were propped open, although the interior of the ruined temple was still a little dark, it was no longer in a state of being 'out of sight'.
Su Wu placed the black Ksitigarbha statue on the only square table in the ruined temple.
He waved to Ding Ling and motioned for her to come to him.
"I will wake up your great-great-grandmother later and see if she has anything left for you." Su Wu said to Ding Ling who walked over with his head lowered.
Ding Ling nodded slightly.
Su Wu immediately looked at the statue on the square table.
The resentful god, who had fallen into silence with almost no possibility of recovery, was once again covered in deep pitch black.
A pair of dry and thin palms covered the entire face of the Resentful God.
Dark chains were all over his body.
Surrounded by chains, there is also a hazy, almost transparent consciousness of the deceased.
——That is the soul of Ding Ling’s great-grandmother.
The six-day old ghost's true pupils between Su Wu's brows quietly emitted light, and the energy of his mind flowed gurglingly. As he saw the bright sun, a warm breath rose from outside his body and spread all around. The soul who was bound by chains Also embraced and illuminated by the bright sun!
The soul of the ‘Great Grandmother of the Cauldron Spirit’ gradually solidified under the bright sun.
After a while, he woke up from his confusion!
As soon as she raised her face, she saw Su Wu standing next to her. The scene of Su Wu turning into Li Wei was the last memory left in her mind before she fell into coma. Now she saw Su Wu standing in front of her perfectly. , immediately looked horrified, retreated continuously, and fled away from Su Wu!
However,
The chains covering the statue of Black Ksitigarbha not only imprisoned the resurgence of the Resentful God, but also restricted the actions of Great Grandma Cauldron Ling.
Before 'she' took a few steps back, she was bound by the dark chains and pulled back to her original position.
Su Wu's expression did not change. He glanced at Ding Ling's great-great-grandmother who looked terrified, then turned to Ding Ling beside him and winked at her.
He and Ding Ling had discussed several times on how to deal with his great-great-grandmother.
There is quite a tacit understanding between the two.
Ding Ling met Su Wu's gaze, nodded slightly, and then spoke softly, calling to the consciousness of the dead that had existed for hundreds of thousands of years: "Great-grandmother, great-grandmother..."
Calling repeatedly,
As expected, the consciousness of the dead turned its head and looked at the cauldron spirit.
There is a vague resemblance between the eyebrows of grandparents and grandchildren.
But if they don't distinguish carefully, others won't be able to tell the blood relationship between the two.
"Ling, Ling'er..." The consciousness of the deceased who was bound by chains did not look like an old woman. She still looked like a young woman. However, when she looked at the cauldron spirit, there was a look of love on her face.
‘She’ called Ding Ling twice, then suddenly stretched out her hand and pointed at Su Wu, saying to Ding Ling: “Ling’er, hurry up!
This person - he is not a human, but Li Gui in human skin!
Don’t be fooled by his appearance——”
"Great-great-grandmother!" Ding Ling called the founder of the altar to his wife again, interrupting her words, "Great-great-grandmother, don't be afraid. Senior brother Dingyang is not a cunning person, he just has a technique that can make himself Temporarily changed into something strange..."
Su Wu said at the right time: "Li Gui has no thoughts, no emotions, no soul, no breath of life, etc.
I am standing in front of the old man today,
Could it be that the old timer couldn't sense my emotions?
Can't feel my breath? "
He turned into a sly creature in front of Great Grandmother Ding Ling and exuded such a violent charm, which really left an indelible impression on the mind of the deceased.
But with Ding Ling's gentle words of comfort and his timely excuses, although my great-grandmother was still a little afraid of him, she was finally not as frightened as before. Great-grandmother felt Su Wu's aura seriously. After a long time, Finally nodded: "Your method - it's really sensational.
I have lived for so long, and I have never heard of anyone transitioning back and forth between Li Kuai and the human body..."
Su Wu smiled and did not explain too much to his great-grandmother.
The 'divine head and grimace' curse seal is also a secret of his own.
"I often see my great-great-grandmother in my dreams. Now I see my great-grandmother's soul. I thought it was only me who recognized my great-grandmother, but my great-grandmother would not recognize me..." Ding Ling spoke softly beside him.
Great-grandmother turned to look at Cauldron Ling, Xinghun was getting closer to her.
‘She’ stared at the face of this descendant of the bloodline and said lovingly: “The reason why Ling’er saw me in her dream was that my great-grandmother used some tricks.
I knew Ling’er much earlier than Ling’er knew my great-grandmother.
Since you were born, I have been watching you silently with the help of ‘Madam Wangyan’.
Even my own biological daughter - I have never taken such a close look after her - it was you who made me, an old woman who should have died a long time ago, determined to do something to leave a way out for my descendants...”
“Great-grandmother...”
The two of them exchanged softly.
The various mysteries about the ‘revival of the resentful god’ were also solved as my great-grandmother told her story.
Su Wu’s guess was indeed correct.
——The resentful god itself has no thoughts.
It imprisoned my great-grandmother’s soul, and in order to escape this painful imprisonment, my great-grandmother tried many ways, and finally found that as long as she helped promote the revival of the resentful god, the resentful god’s imprisonment of itself would gradually be relieved.
Great-grandmother immediately began to plan for the revival of the God of Resentment.
As the brain of the ‘God of Resentment’, she pushed many things to the current situation.
“You reap what you sow.
The fruit of today is also the cause of yesterday.” Great-grandmother sighed, “Although I was influenced by the God of Resentment at that time and jumped off the cliff to commit suicide. But he has ignored me for many years, which has long made me want to die.
I have been imprisoned by the chains of the God of Resentment until now, and I have thought about many things.
In fact, I can’t blame anyone for my death.
I can only blame myself for giving the wrong thing to others when I was young, not knowing how to love myself, and hastily deciding on a life partner, which ruined the lives of both me and him. The fault is all mine…”
Su Wu was silent and did not speak.
Great-grandmother reached out to touch Ding Ling’s cheek, but she was just a consciousness of the dead after all. Her palm passed through Ding Ling’s face like a bubble, without any substantial contact with the other party.
She shook her head and sighed, "I am imprisoned by the chains of the resentful god, and I am suffering every moment.
Now that the cause and effect are gone, I don't have much attachment to the human world.
Ling'er, next I need your help to help me cut off the chains so that I can be free forever."
The great-grandmother had said before that once the chains were broken, her soul would collapse and disappear.
Tears flashed in Ding Ling's eyes. The previous conversation with the great-grandmother finally made her know what a warm thing family affection is. Now that she knew that she was about to leave, her heart was suddenly filled with reluctance.
The great-grandmother comforted Ding Ling with a few words in a gentle voice, and then looked at Su Wu: "Young man, is there a way to help me cut off the chains of the resentful god on my body?"
Su Wu nodded, but looked at Ding Ling next to him.
Ding Ling's eyes were slightly red, and she nodded to him gently: "This chain can only bring pain to my great-grandmother. Although the chain can keep my great-grandmother's soul, it also makes her suffer every moment. As a descendant, the only thing I can do for my great-grandmother is to help her cut off the chain that imprisoned her. Brother Ding Yang, please help me." "You're welcome." Su Wu shook his head and fished out the 'Big Red Lotus Taizang' from the darkness. The red lotus bloomed on the blade, dazzling the eyes. He looked at his great-grandmother and said slowly, "Old senior, do you have anything else to say to Junior Sister Ding Ling?
My knife is very fast.
With one cut,
it should be able to cut the chain in an instant."
The great-grandmother looked at the red lotus-blooming knife in Su Wu's hand, then turned to look at Ding Ling, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I assisted the resentful god in piecing together the puzzle, and I have often observed that puzzle until now, but I also found that the puzzle is not complete and has great defects.
If you see the puzzle behind the statue, you must not be greedy because of its magical power and practice yourself according to the puzzle.
-That will definitely cause big problems!"
The puzzle behind the statue of the resentful god was deliberately left by Jianzhen.
Su Wu could not know where Jianzhen got the puzzle from-he could only speculate that this puzzle was closely related to the 'complete charm' obtained in the realm of heaven and man.
He also glimpsed the complete charm in the realm of heaven and man.
It's a pity that after leaving that realm, the complete charm also disappeared from his mind.
In Su Wu's opinion, everything left by Jianzhen carries a great hidden danger. Jianzhen himself is even a terrible disaster. Therefore, he will take the puzzle seriously without the great-grandmother's reminder. He will not practice casually according to the picture.
"Thank you for your reminder, old senior. I will remember it!" Su Wu nodded.
Ding Ling also pursed his lips in response.
"Cut off the chain." Great-grandmother said with relief.
As soon as she finished speaking,
the sword surrounded by red lotuses dragged a red light in the darkness, and the red light suddenly broke through the darkness and "passed" through the chains around the black Jizo statue!
The chains broke all at once!
The great-grandmother who was bound by chains did not disappear with the chains at this moment - she showed a strange smile, and suddenly turned into tiny specks of smoke and dust, intending to pounce on the cauldron spirit - but at this moment, the big red lotus turned into a round sun, which also contained the tiny specks of smoke and dust, and refined them all into nothingness!