Chapter 551: Lishan Old Mother's Question
Chapter 551: Lishan Old Mother's Question
When Guanyin Bodhisattva flew to the Lishan Mountains on the golden lotus, Wen Rui had been waiting for a long time, standing at the entrance of the mountain gate to welcome her arrival like a host.
This is not the first time that the Bodhisattva of the Lishan Immortal Sect has visited. For the past five hundred years, he and the Bodhisattvas Manjusri and Samantabhadra have found an excuse to pay a visit to the Mother of Lishan every few years.
The frequent visits gradually resolved past grudges and brought them closer. I thought that if I continued to work hard to make friends for a few hundred years, I would have a chance to convince the Mother of Lishan to become a guardian deity in the Western Church.
Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. In recent decades, when I visited Lishan Laomu, I could clearly feel her distant attitude. Whenever I talked about Buddhism in front of her, she would make an excuse that she had something to do and serve me tea and send me away.
For this reason, the Bodhisattva was very confused for many years, until she met Wen Rui in the Huanxi Zen Sect, she remembered that the Lishan Immortal Sect still had such a person hidden. As her attention to him increased day by day, her understanding of him became more and more in-depth.
It can be concluded that it was because of him that the Mother of Lishan had a drastic change in her opinion of Western religions.
Due to the estrangement of Lishan Laomu, the Bodhisattva had not set foot on Lishan for more than ten years. When he revisited the place this time, he was surprised by the changes in Lishan.
After ten years, this sect has taken off!
It's not a metaphor, but a real take-off.
The entire mountain range floated above the high-altitude sea of clouds and turned into a huge floating fairy island.
The large pit left at the original site of the Lishan Mountains was backfilled with earth in a huge amount of engineering work, and a huge amount of soil, sand and gravel were transported to rebuild a one-to-one replica of the Lishan model on the original site like a rockery.
Looking at the mortal world as a whole, even the sacred mountain of the Western religion does not have the capital to build an empty island mountain gate.
Originally, the only floating fairy mountain in the mortal world was the Yuxu Palace on Qilin Cliff of Kunlun Mountain, where Yuanshi Tianzun’s Taoist temple was located.
Now, the Lishan Immortal Sect has also put on a similar display, which shows how wealthy the sect has become in recent years.
The spirit stones burned every day to maintain the floating magic circle of the fairy mountain are enough to make a Mahayana cultivator!
When I last came to Lishan more than ten years ago, the Lishan Immortal Sect was already quite grand, with jade buildings on the mountain, carved beams and painted rafters, golden pillars and jade tiles, which were beautiful and magnificent.
After another ten years of development, the Lishan Immortal Sect was almost out of reach for Guanyin Bodhisattva.
Recalling the time when I first arrived at Mount Li to pay a visit to the Mother of Mount Li hundreds of years ago, there were only a few thatched huts on the mountain, and a group of little female demon disciples, half-naked and pale-faced, were shamelessly running naked all over the mountain.
Looking at the female disciples of Lishan Immortal Sect today, they are all wearing Tianluo Feather Robes, the top-grade fabric in the fairy world, and only fairies of higher status in the heavenly court can afford to wear this.
The Bodhisattva's spiritual consciousness probed over and found that there were nearly a thousand disciples on the Floating Fairy Mountain, and over a hundred disciples in the Heavenly Fairy realm.
It should be known that among the six major orthodox sects in the mortal world, there are only a dozen immortal-level disciples at most.
Guanyin Bodhisattva slowly floated down to the mountain gate of the floating fairy island. When Wen Rui saw it arrive, he waved casually, not even bothering to exchange a few polite words with the Bodhisattva. He turned around and flew to Chaoyuan Pavilion, the residence of Lishan Laomu on the top of the mountain.
However, many female disciples of Lishan recognized the Bodhisattva and bowed to it politely.
But the etiquette was a little strange, with the middle finger of the clenched fist pointing to the sky...
Bodhisattva was also well-informed. He had been greeted with this gesture when he came to Lishan more than ten years ago. He knew that this was the sect etiquette of the Jinling Immortal Sect, which was said to be the meaning of intercepting the way of heaven. At that time, this way of greeting was only used by some of the Lishan disciples who were interns in the Jinling Immortal Sect. Unexpectedly, now almost all the disciples of Lishan Immortal Sect have learned it, replacing the original Daoji etiquette of Jiejiao.
Welcomed by the middle fingers along the way, the Bodhisattva had a kind smile on his face and nodded frequently as he flew, appearing very approachable and winning the favor of all the Lishan disciples.
Wen Rui was of course well aware of the changes that had taken place in the Lishan Immortal Sect over the past decade or so. As long as there were statues of him and temples, his clone could descend at any time.
It was only under his strong advocacy that the Lishan Floating Fairy Island project was approved and started.
The purpose of transforming the entire Lishan Mountain into a floating fairy island is certainly not just for show, but more importantly, it allows one to run away with their hometown in case of any changes.
This huge fairy island is also equipped with a super-large jump engine, which can be activated when necessary to escape billions of miles away.
The floating effect is achieved not by using a floating formation that consumes spirit stones, but by using real anti-gravity technology, with energy supplied by a heavy palladium reactor.
The Lishan Immortal Sect is indeed extremely wealthy now, but the landlord has no surplus food. At a time when resources for cultivating immortals are becoming increasingly scarce, no matter how many spiritual stones and fairy jades they have, they cannot learn from the Jade Void Palace of Master Tongtian, which has to burn countless of them just for the sake of showing off and maintaining the magic array.
Wen Rui led the Bodhisattva to the Chaoyuan Pavilion and entered the secret space of Lishan Laomu. The Four Immortals of Lishan and Lishan Laomu had been waiting for a long time.
Now there are only four disciples left of the Lishan Immortal Sect. Immortal Li Mo, Immortal Cai Yun, Immortal Yan Hua and Immortal Feng Lan all serve the Lishan Mother. The only one missing is Immortal Huo Lin who eloped to the Heaven to look for his brother Wen.
At the beginning, Wen Rui kidnapped without asking for permission, and did not even seek the opinion of Huo Linxian herself. He took advantage of her unpreparedness and attacked her with the Nether Shadow. He froze her unconscious because she was very afraid of the cold, tied her up, and stuffed her into the secret space to sneak her to heaven.
After Huo Linxian disappeared, Lishan Laomu was really worried for a while and searched for him in the mortal world for several times. Later, when Wen Rui released Huo Linxian in Lei Mansion, Lishan Laomu sensed the whereabouts of her disciple.
As a result, when Wen Rui ran back to ask the Mother of Lishan for help and asked her to be his guarantor, the Virgin Mary, who had been angry for a long time, finally took the opportunity to give him a few hard slaps on the head to punish him for his evil act of abducting the female fairy from the good family of Lishan.
"I greet the Holy Mother. I have no wish to disturb the Holy Mother while she is meditating on the mountain. It is because I have had some minor disagreements with your disciple Wen Rui, and I would like to trouble you to be a witness."
The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara spoke in a soft and friendly voice, and she bowed to the Mother of Mount Lishan like an old acquaintance. There was no sign at all that she had almost lost her Buddhist heart because of Wen Rui on the sea of Dongsheng Shenzhou.
Wen Rui had a dark face, not a single bit of good expression on his face. It would not be good for him to be too presumptuous in front of the Mother of Mount Li.
Lishan Laomu still showed the image of a kind-hearted old woman, and asked doubtfully: "Xiao Rui'er has already told me about this matter, but this kid never gets the point, and eight out of ten of his words are unreliable. He still wants to hear from you, Bodhisattva. I heard that you want to use your most precious jade bottle for a piece of stone that he picked up when he went out for a walk and gave birth to a spiritual fetus? Is it true?"
The Bodhisattva's eyelids twitched, and he nodded slowly, "Really... it's true..."
"Your treasure bottle was personally bestowed upon you by the Primordial Heavenly Venerable. It is a top-level treasure of acquired merits and virtues, and contains infinite magical powers. Even a drop of nectar inside it has the magical effect of bringing the dead back to life."
Lishan Old Mother said in disbelief, "I have also seen the stone that Xiao Ruier picked up. It is indeed a rare and wonderful thing in the world, but that's all. The spirit embryo in it has incomplete six senses, and it is difficult to transform into a human form. Its mind is even more uncertain and erratic. When choosing a disciple, I would not choose such a difficult-to-tame spirit. Are you willing to exchange your foundation for enlightenment? Did you get deceived by that bad seed who has been a bad boy since childhood?"
(End of this chapter)