Chapter 15: The Gradually Uncovered Demonic Karma
Chapter 15: The Gradually Uncovered Demonic Karma
"This is not real, this is all an illusion created by you!"
Master Fashan could no longer maintain his calm state of mind. When he calmed down a little, he shook his head and said, "Don't even think about planting the seeds of evil in my heart and destroying my Buddha heart!"
Wen Rui took a jade slip and observed and recorded it. After recording, he said without any emotion: "Is it true that you don't know it in your heart? Then I will swear a great oath to the inner demon. The dream you just experienced was taken from the innocent little demon you accidentally killed. It is a real fact. If you lie, you will be retaliated by the inner demon."
Master Fashan was stunned for a moment, speechless and unable to respond.
People who cultivate immortality will not easily swear the Heart Demon Vow. Even if they do, it is because they are forced to do so or they do not care about breaking the oath. With the Heart Demon Vow as a guarantee, Fashan could no longer doubt that the dream he experienced was a false story woven by an illusionist.
Indiscriminate killing is the precept that Buddhist monks should never violate. Saving a life is better than building a seven-story pagoda, which means the merit of saving a life. Then, indiscriminate killing is equivalent to destroying a seven-story pagoda, and the evil karma created is difficult to recoup.
Especially before the little pig demon died, Fashan personally experienced the emotions of despair, injustice, grief, and unwillingness. Mixed in with these negative emotions was his endless concern for the sow demon and his brothers and sisters. This emotion of family bond overwhelmed all the negative emotions.
When death was approaching, what the little pig demon thought about most was how sad his mother would be if he died, and who would share the burden of the family and take care of his younger siblings in the future.
What’s the difference from others?
Even more human than some people!
On the contrary, I killed the little pig demon without any explanation. What I did was simply inhuman. I wanted to slap myself twice when I woke up in the middle of the night.
"Non-my family, its heart must be different……"
Fashan gritted his teeth and said in hatred: "A monster is a monster, no matter how much it looks like a human, it is not a human!"
His voice was filled with anger, as if he was rebuking his inner wavering: "I am not wrong. I have seen the tragic conditions of countless human villages that have been harmed by monsters. To be kind to monsters is to be cruel to humans. Only by killing all the monsters in the world, whether innocent or not, can the world be peaceful and healthy!"
Wen Rui continued to write and draw on the jade slip, shook his head slightly and said, "Don't be so rude. People are divided into good and bad, and demons are divided into good and evil. Not to mention that human nature is complicated and the human heart is hard to predict. Do you want to write the word "wan" in reverse if you want to commit genocide without any explanation?
It seems that the source of the soul has not been touched. The external moral 'personality mask' belongs to the 'superego' category. You are still stubborn after this virtual reincarnation. It is obvious that you have lost face. Then the problem must be at the 'self' level. Let's continue the second virtual reincarnation experiment."
After saying that, he took out another glass bottle filled with pink solution from his arms, replaced the empty glass bottle on the "Huangliang Hat", and pressed the switch again.
Fashan’s eyes rolled back and he entered the dream world again.
……
In this life, Fashan is still an accomplished monk. Just like in this life, he is young and strong, with great magical powers. He has a bodhi heart to save the people, and also possesses the thundering methods of Vajra Dharma King.
The only difference is that his Buddhist name is "Master Fahai".
In the reincarnation dream, his memory has been blocked like a mystery in the womb, but his nature has not changed, and he still travels around to exorcise demons. However, after sealing an innocent spider demon, he fell into confusion.
In this virtual reincarnation, his determination to kill demons was not as strong as in his previous life. He was unable to determine whether his principle of distinguishing good from evil was right or wrong, and fell into anxiety.
At this moment, he encountered two demons, one blue and one white snake...
When he first saw the snake demon, Fahai wanted to subdue the demon, but he saw that the snake demon was helping a village woman's child to shelter from the rain. It was clearly a demon but it was saving people.
"Considering your kind nature and your willingness to help others, I will make an exception and let you go. Thank you very much."
When he said this, Fahai felt inexplicably confused, as if he had experienced this scene before!
In that vague memory fragment, a crane monster released a flying sword to shatter the falling rocks in order to save the travelers under the cliff. At first, he mistakenly thought that the monster wanted to harm people with a sword, so he smashed the monster's flying sword. However, he found out that it was a misunderstanding, so he let the crane monster go. When he let the crane monster go, he seemed to have said something similar.
Ever since he saw the woman giving birth, Fahai's inner demons became more and more numerous, and when he entered into a state of meditation, many demons invaded his sea of consciousness.
"Avoid lust, avoid lust. Don't abstain from lust. Don't distinguish between good and evil. Don't be surprised by strange things. The world of mortals is confusing ghosts and gods. The six senses are not pure, oh, monks..."
The inner demon was whispering in his sea of consciousness. When Fahai woke up, he was sweating profusely and was determined to get rid of the demon.
When they met the snake demon again, they were working together to control the flood and save people. Fahai helped them and couldn't help but sigh: "The living are kind, and it is worth it for me to let you live. Good, good."
However, the green snake just stared at him infatuatedly as he used his great magical power to part the torrent, its eyes flickering with unknown thoughts as to what it was thinking.
At the Kunlun Pond, Fahai met the green snake again. The evil woman did not hide her desire from the source of life...
Fahai, who had great confidence in his Buddhist faith, vowed to break through the demonic barrier and said, "Snake demon, I want you to help me practice!"
The pool is boiling.
"That rainbow is out again, so beautiful. You still don't dare to look at me after fighting for so long, so I definitely win."
"I don't need to look at you to know what you are doing."
"I didn't expect you to be my first man. It's a pity... neither you nor I have mortal feelings."
"The mighty heavenly dragon, Prajna Buddhas, World Honored Ksitigarbha, Prajna Bama Kong!"
"What? Your heart is beating so fast. You lose!"
"I won't lose to you, monster!"
At this moment, Fahai's inexplicable flashback memory fragment appeared again. The surrounding environment changed. It was no longer the lush and beautiful scenery under the Kunlun Mountains, but the vast white snow-capped Tianchi Lake! The figure that fled hurriedly was no longer the girl with a green snake tail, but a spot of pure white that almost merged with the ice and snow world.
The memory of the death began to attack Fashan, and a sharp pain pulled him back into the dream.
Feelings of bitterness, shame and unwillingness hit him, and the fear of immorality, depravity and breaking the precepts tormented him. Like a madman, he tried to prevent the White Snake from combining with mortals, as if he was completely denying that he had spent a night with the Green Snake and that he had ever had any mortal desires.
In the end, this battle ended with a flood and all the people were devastated.
On a huge rock that was about to be submerged by the rolling torrent, Fahai was holding the white snake, Xu Xian's son, in his arms, with Xiaoqing lying beside him.
"Snake demon, you have committed a sin and are now killing people. I want you to die without a burial place!"
"Fahai, you have killed many people. You have killed all the monks in Jinshan Temple. Take a look for yourself."
"Even I myself have always been successful before I was successful..."
"I came to this world and was misled by the world. You say there is love in the world, but what is love?"
"How ridiculous! You people in the world don't know this. When you figure it out, maybe I'll come back..."
After saying that, Xiaoqing turned over and jumped into the torrent.
"Xiaoqing..."
Fahai stood there in shock as he looked at the countless corpses floating in the flood, and the baby in his arms let out a clear cry.
……
Fashan opened his eyes again. His expression was the same as Fahai's in the last scene of the dream. There was no more resentment in his eyes, but only a cloudy and confused look.
He murmured, "Am I really wrong? Maybe I shouldn't have killed her... Buddha, please use all the Buddhahood I have cultivated in this life to exchange her for me, so that I can pay off this sinful debt."
Two consecutive reincarnation dreams had a huge impact on his spirit. At this moment, it was difficult for him to distinguish between dreams and reality, and he was in a state of confusion.
The confused Fashan was no longer able to respond to the outside world, as if he was still in a state of half asleep and half awake.
He had no idea that all kinds of strange instruments were placed around him, and the "yellow sorghum hat" on his head was connected to many wires connected to those machines.
In front of one of the machines, Wen Rui and He Lingyun had just moved their gazes away from a light screen, which was playing the dream that Fashan had experienced.
There were still traces of tears in the corners of He Lingyun's eyes. In her last dream, she saw the little pig demon die. She almost cried out loud on the spot. She was so angry that she wanted to kill Fashan immediately to avenge the little pig demon.
However, after watching the second dream, He Lingyun was very confused. The young demon cultivator with absolutely zero experience in love really couldn't understand the extremely complicated emotional entanglements, but her anger and hatred towards the vicious monk weakened a lot.
He Lingyun felt that the vicious monk was no longer just a furious statue of a golden-faced, fang-toothed Vajra, but a human being with flesh and blood, who was also capable of worldly desires and was unable to extricate himself from the torrent of the mortal world. At least he was somewhat anthropomorphic.
The dream of reincarnation evolving on the screen opened her eyes. As a female monk who only knew how to practice cultivation, she had never seen such a lifelike film and television story. It was like opening the door to a new world for her. She was almost instantly addicted and forgot her original purpose. She only thought about when Senior Brother Wen would start the third dream of reincarnation so that she could follow the next episode.
The story of the little pig demon was extremely tear-jerking, and the tragic ending made her empathize with the story, and she recalled with empathy the endless grievances that the disciples of Lishan had suffered.
The story of the Green Snake is extremely complicated but also extremely touching. The White Snake and the Green Snake naively broke into the human world and naively fell in love, which also made the little crane spirit curious about the world and couldn't help wanting to sacrifice themselves to give it a try.
This is exactly the case of "learning well is like climbing a mountain, while learning bad things is like sliding down a hill". She couldn't help but steal a glance at her senior brother who was busy taking notes beside her, watching him fiddling with those complicated machines with great seriousness.
The more the girl looked at the weird and sloppy Senior Brother Wen, the more she found him pleasing to the eye. Her heart beat faster and she completely forgot how badly she had been deceived by this damn scumbag.
Wen Rui was concentrating on the experiment. He said to Fashan, who was stunned, "Is this the 'Anima' hidden in your heart? I finally dug it out. I guess it must be a very beautiful female fairy, but you killed her with your own hands."
He Lingyun, who was secretly glancing at Wen Rui's serious profile, suddenly realized what he said and said in surprise, "Yes, in the second episode, uh, the second reincarnation, Xiaoqing committed suicide, but he said that he killed her. Could it be that he had a similar experience in his dream?"
After thinking for a while, He Lingyun frowned and said, "It's different from the reincarnation in the dream. He actually killed the female demon who had feelings for him with his own hands. How cruel! The Western religion claims to guide people to be good and compassionate, but it actually accepted such a villain."
“There must be something hateful about a pitiful person, and there must be something miserable about a hateful person.”
Wen Rui turned his head and said, "If he was born a vicious person, he would not have been able to escape the wisdom of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva and become his disciple. If he was not sincere in his devotion to Buddha, he would not have been able to cultivate so many authentic Buddhist supernatural powers."
He Lingyun was stunned: "Isn't he a bad guy?"
Wen Rui smiled: "I have always wanted to teach him that we cannot simply judge a demon by its good or evil. You have been listening to him all the time. Can't you draw inferences from his example and learn that we cannot simply judge a person by his good or evil?"
He Lingyun was stunned again. She had been here, keeping out of the matter with a bystander mentality, but she never expected that Senior Brother Wen was also teaching her.
Wen Rui said meaningfully: "It's a pity that people who have experienced great sorrow may not necessarily develop a heart of great compassion..."
As he spoke, he picked up a pen and wrote on the jade slip. After writing, Wen Rui took off the empty glass bottle on the "Yellow Sorghum Hat" and replaced it with a new bottle filled with gray solution, saying: "The experiment is going smoothly. I believe the answer will be revealed soon."
(End of this chapter)