Journey to the West: Bound Bone Essence at the beginning

Chapter 358 Still Familiar Taste

As night fell and the gods rested in peace, a group of novice monks, led by the abbot of the Zen monastery, enthusiastically moved stacks of firewood outside the Zen room where Sanzang and others lived. Soon they were surrounded by a tight crowd.

In the courtyard, Ao Shuang watched this scene quietly and yawned out of boredom.

In the Zen room, both Bones and Monkey were sitting on the bed, looking at the shadowy figures outside and communicating secretly.

"Skeleton Bones, shall I go out and deal with them?" the monkey said via message.

"How are you going to solve it?"

"Beat him to death...forget it, if he kills a living being, Sanzang will definitely feel uncomfortable, so let's just beat him to death."

Baigu shook his head: "Not enough."

"What's not enough?"

"They are just tools. What's the point of destroying the tools?" Bone said, "Don't they want to set fire? Then let them do whatever they want, send them a gust of wind, and set the whole monastery on fire."

monkey:"……"

Sure enough, it's still a familiar formula and a familiar taste!

Soon, the abbot ordered the novices to light the forage. Wisps of open flames rushed out from the gaps between the firewood and slowly ignited the wood.

A group of monks stood in the darkness, watching the flames getting bigger and bigger. Their faces were filled with numbness and hollowness, like a group of soulless puppets.

In the meditation room, Bone raised his right hand, releasing immortal energy, which condensed into formation runes, enveloping the entire room; the monkey blew a breath, and gusts of evil wind, through the gap between the doors and windows, blew onto the flames, Borrowed by the wind, the fire turned into thousands of sparks, which fell on the adjacent houses and slowly ignited them, causing the fires to fission one by one.

The face of the abbot of the Zen Yuan suddenly changed, and he shouted in panic: "It's gone, it's gone, what are you doing? Hurry up and put out the fire!"

When the monks heard the words, they were like puppets with a switch turned on. They scattered around, looking for buckets and putting out fires. However, there were too many little flames and they couldn't be saved at all. In the blink of an eye, the entire Guanyin Temple was destroyed. Except for the Zen hall, everything in the Zen courtyard was lit with blazing fire, and the red light illuminated half of the sky.

"Boom, boom, boom."

"Elder, elder, come out quickly, the house is on fire."

In the backyard of the monastery, in the east chamber, Jinchi, who was wearing a brocade cassock, was silently chanting sutras, when the door of the room suddenly banged.

Before he could stand up and open the door, the fragile wooden door was knocked open. The abbot of the Zen monastery rushed in with several big and round monks, grabbed him and ran out the door.

"boom!"

Just when they ran out of the wing, the roof of the house was finally burned through, and large flames poured down from above, quickly igniting other flammable materials in the room.

Elder Jinchi looked back and broke out in cold sweat. He raised his hand and slapped the abbot on the face, and asked angrily: "Explain to me, what is going on?"

The abbot said with bitter words: "Elder, it must be those foreign monks who are causing trouble. When I came here, I noticed that fires were burning in other places, but the meditation hall where they were staying was safe."

Elder Jinchi took off the colorful cassock, handed it to a monk, and said: "You stay here and take care of this cassock, others follow me to the meditation hall!"

On the way from the backyard to the meditation hall, Jinchi saw fires everywhere. The monks running back and forth with buckets couldn't put them out. Many people were already kneeling on the ground in despair.

The anger in Jin Chi's heart could no longer be controlled, and he strode to the Zen hall regardless of the disciples and grandsons calling him.However, after arriving here, he discovered that the meditation hall was not safe and sound as the abbot said. It was also ablaze with raging fire. Tang Sanzang and others stood in front of the fire, looking up at the rising flames.

A burst of anger seemed to hit an iceberg, and the angry look on Jin Chi's face froze slightly.

"Elder Jinchi, we need an explanation." Seeing him coming, Bai Gu pointed at the unburned firewood in front of the meditation hall.

Jin Chi's cheek twitched. He was originally full of energy, but now he was a little short of breath.

There is no way to explain the unburnt wood. The flames can jump with the wind. It is really difficult to jump up so much wood.

"Did you offend someone? They followed and burned the entire Guanyin Temple." At this time, the abbot of the Zen Temple stood up and said.

"Impossible." Bai Gu retorted decisively: "If it is the enemy who followed us, it would be enough to burn down the Zen hall. There is no need to go to the trouble of setting the entire Zen courtyard on fire. I suspect that you deliberately let go in order to occupy our brocade cassocks. In the end, the fire could not be controlled and burned down the Buddhist monastery."

"What nonsense!" the abbot of the Zen Yuan yelled: "If we want to set fire to kill you, we only need to set fire to the Zen hall. How can we set fire everywhere?"

"Okay, stop arguing, anything without evidence is just empty talk." Jin Chi waved his hand and said with a sad face.

Bai Gu closed his mouth and gave the monkey a secret wink.

The monkey understood and said: "Elder Jinchi, after this happened, we can no longer live in the meditation hall. I believe you are not in the mood to look at the cassocks anymore. Please return the cassocks to us. We will set off overnight to find a place. live."

Jin Chi slapped his forehead suddenly and shouted: "No, I was in a hurry when I came out. I left my cassock in the room."

"You don't mean to say that the cassock was burned?" Bai Gu asked with raised eyebrows.

Jin Chi sighed: "The fire even burned down the house. I'm afraid Kasaya was not spared either."

Bone smiled: "Elder, you are too worried. The cassock is not afraid of water and fire, and ordinary flames can't do any harm to it. Therefore, it doesn't matter if it is forgotten in the sea of ​​​​fire. Let's dig it out from the ruins."

Jin Chi's expression froze: "Is there such a thing?"

"Of course, after all, it is a Buddha treasure from the Holy Land of the West, blessed by the power of all Buddhas." Monkey said.

Jinchi was silent for a long time and said: "Fortunately, fortunately, this is the case. Please wait here for a few distinguished guests. I will take people to dig out the brocade cassocks."

Bai Gu waved his hand and said pointedly: "Go, go, hurry up, don't go late and find the cassock again."

Jinchi was an experienced person, so he knew that she was "pointing" at him, and warned him not to have any twisted thoughts. He said a few perfunctory words in frustration, and turned around and left with a few close associates.

Soon after, Jin Chi led people back to the ruins of his residence, found the monk who had entrusted the cassock to him before, and said, "Nothing happened, right?"

The monk's body trembled suddenly and he said in panic: "Master, something happened."

Jin Chi's head seemed to have been hit by a sap, and he asked in a daze: "Quickly tell me, what happened?"

Dear Bodhisattva, he really just asked casually!

The burning of the Buddhist monastery is unlucky enough, what more unlucky could it be? ?
The monk looked mournful and opened the package tightly in his arms: "Master, see for yourself..."

(End of this chapter)