Chapter 637: Say one thing about me, and I'll say 1 things back to you.
Chapter 637: Say one thing to me, and I will say ten thousand things to you.
Inside the Lingxiao Palace, the Jade Emperor sat on the throne, and the immortals were sitting in the court.
Different from previous court meetings, this time there were many more guests from Western religions in the center of the hall.
The leader of the Western religious delegation was none other than the old acquaintance Guanyin Bodhisattva, but she was not the Buddha or Bodhisattva with the highest level of cultivation in the delegation. The ancient Buddha Dipankara, dressed in simple Zen robes, stood behind her.
The status of the ancient Buddha Dipankara should have been higher than that of Guanyin Bodhisattva, but this time he lowered his status, gave up the main seat, and stood in the position of a servant.
"Your Majesty, I am here to express my sincere apology for the misunderstanding caused by my disciple Happy Arhat last time. I hope Your Majesty will be magnanimous and mend the misunderstanding between Heaven and Western religion. I only hope that the East and the West will work together to protect the safety of the people in the Three Realms and seek happiness for all living beings."
The ancient Buddha Dipankara clasped his hands together, bowed his head and saluted, and said slowly: "If Your Majesty still has a connection, I am willing to bear it all. No matter how Your Majesty scolds or punishes me, if I don't go to hell, who will?"
"Thank you, Ancient Buddha. Your teaching is so sincere. I am not a tyrannical king. How can I not be tolerant?"
The Jade Emperor echoed him and they praised each other's business, and easily resolved the conflict that Wen Rui had spent a lot of effort to stir up.
Wen Rui was also standing among the immortals, watching the scene with an expressionless face and cold eyes. There was no ripple in his heart, and he even felt like laughing.
He had anticipated this situation. As the saying goes, a bad soldier will always be a bad general. The Jade Emperor can make peace with the monkeys. Even if he had ten thousand guts, he would not dare to provoke a world war between the East and the West. As long as others offer him a way out, he will definitely back down.
The Buddha of the Western Church came to the Lingxiao Palace in person to apologize. What a great honor this was! For the gods who care most about face, they would probably wake up laughing in their dreams, thinking they had gotten such a great bargain.
Perhaps it was because of this that the Jade Emperor agreed to allow Heaven and the Western Religion to form an alliance and get involved in the feud between the Western Religion and the Mosquito Taoist.
If Wen Rui were the Jade Emperor, he would not do such a stupid thing.
When it comes to which side hates Taoist Mosquito more, Western Christianity or Heaven, it must be Western Christianity.
The Heavenly Palace only lost five fairies, while the Western Church had its third-grade golden lotus of merit eaten by the Mosquito Taoist. The golden lotus of merit is the treasure of the religion that can help disciples become Buddhas. One-grade lotus pedestal corresponds to one Buddha's fruit position, which is equivalent to three Buddhas being eaten.
Compared with five fairies and three Buddhas, even a fool can figure out which is more important.
Even if the fairy disappeared, the Western religion had already wanted to conquer the Netherworld Blood Sea.
They could have used the fairy's disappearance case to force the Western Church to act in advance, and then sit back and watch the fight between the two tigers, watching the Buddha and the devil fight until both were injured, with one lying in the morgue and the other in the emergency room. If they then came out to reap the rewards at this time, wouldn't that be a strategic advantage?
It’s a pity that the gods in heaven don’t have such a sinister strategic vision. Instead, they were deceived by the sweet words of the Western religious lobbyists and were sold out and had to count money for others.
The same stupid mistake was made during the calamity of Journey to the West in later generations, so it was not surprising for Wen Rui to make such a stupid move now.
But what does all this have to do with Wen Rui? He is not a good person either and he wishes both sides would die.
After the duet between the Ancient Buddha Dipankara and the Jade Emperor was finished, they retreated back into the crowd of envoys and handed the initiative back to the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara.
Guanyin stepped forward with a flower basket in her hand, clasped her hands together and said, "Your Majesty, I have already explained the whereabouts of the five fairies in Yaochi in detail. The criminal who abducted the fairies and framed our sect was none other than the Blood Demon Ancestor, the ancient demon king known as Mosquito Taoist." "This beast is full of tricks and wants to use this incident to destroy the alliance between Heaven and our sect. As a result, some gods in Heaven fell into the trap without noticing and suddenly became hostile to our sect, which almost led to terrible consequences. Fortunately, the Buddha saw through it and found out the truth."
When Guanyin Bodhisattva mentioned the words "individual gods", she glanced in Wen Rui's direction intentionally or unintentionally, and the hint could not be more obvious.
Wen Rui was not someone who could tolerate other people's weird remarks, so he immediately stepped forward and walked out of the immortal class, clasping his hands and protesting:
"What Avalokitesvara said is wrong. Even if five fairies were abducted by Taoist Mosquito, there are seven fairies missing, two of whom were rescued from your uncle, the leader of the Tathagata sect. Now they are caught red-handed, with witnesses, material evidence, victims, and confessions. The case is as solid as a mountain. The uncle of your leader is still being whipped in the prison. How can you say that it is a plot to sow discord among 'individual gods' in my heaven?"
"A fly won't bite an egg without cracks. If you teach the leader to keep his butt clean, he can't blame others for saying he stinks!"
Bodhisattva Guanyin was speechless for a moment, and the flower basket in her hand was shaking slightly. It seemed that she was very angry, but she had to suppress her anger in such an occasion.
"Emperor Wen, that Demon King Peng is not the uncle of the Buddha. He is just talking to himself and bragging about himself, using the name of the Buddha to deceive people."
"Hehe, he's not my uncle this time? His accomplices, the Green Lion Spirit and the White Elephant Spirit, are just temporary workers of the Western Religion, right? Lion Camel Ridge has nothing to do with your Western Religion? He tried to clear himself from the incident. I found out a lot of secrets when I interrogated the Demon King Peng. He was instructed by some high-ranking officials of the Western Religion to create a terrifying atmosphere, intimidate ignorant people, and force them to pin their hopes of survival on worshiping Buddha and burning incense..."
"Slander, all shameless slander, the devil is just making random accusations, there is absolutely no such thing!"
Guanyin Bodhisattva's face was as cold as frost and she flatly denied it.
"It's hard to say. Don't you Western religions like to scare mortals with the horrors of hell, tricking them into believing that they will go to hell if they don't believe in religion?"
Wen Rui sneered and said, "After all, the hell described in the scriptures is still too abstract. Let's create a real hell in reality and let mortals see it with their own eyes. Seeing is believing, and they will believe it more."
"shut up!"
The Buddha's heart of Guanyin Bodhisattva was shaken again, and her blood pressure was so high that she could not hold it together due to Wen Rui's heart-piercing words.
You can't blame her for being angry, because Wen Rui was blatantly slandering her. Demon King Peng did not confess those words, but that did not stop Wen Rui from blatantly spreading rumors.
Now the Demon King Peng has been completely subdued by being beaten with small whips by two fairies assigned by Wen Rui. Even after being tortured into admitting that he is a little white rabbit, he quickly agreed.
"Emperor Wen, stop now, why don't you retreat!"
The Jade Emperor couldn't bear to watch and said, "The Western missionaries are guests from afar and are also close allies. Regardless of right or wrong, our Eastern Celestial Empire should treat them with courtesy."
Wen Rui then stiffened his neck and retreated back to the immortal class. Although he stopped talking, he did not stop his small movements. He took out a jade bottle from his bag and held it in his hand, provocatively showing off the treasures he had looted from Guanyin Bodhisattva who was holding a flower basket as a spare magic weapon.
The gods in heaven who were watching the fun were really impressed today. For the first time, they saw the expression of wanting to eat someone on the face of the usually elegant, calm, and compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva...
(End of this chapter)