Journey to the West: The Intercepted Religion is destroyed, but your Buddhism is still prosperous?

Chapter 198 Tang Sanzang Meets a Ghost

Spring goes and autumn comes, and time flies by.

It has been more than four years since Tang Sanzang set out from Dongtu Datang.

Less than one-third of this journey of one hundred and eight thousand miles has gone.

They are about to arrive at the next difficult place, Wuji Country.

Lu Yu finally found out that this group of shameless guys taught by the West have always had big plans.

Since Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty Li Shimin traveled to the underworld, most of the disasters experienced along the way were related to the kings of various countries.

Once the king's gratitude is obtained, the practice of Buddhism in the whole country will go smoothly.

At that time, Western religion can easily have countless believers.

This is the case with Che Chiguo now.

Three years ago, that is when Lu Yu pretended to be Fahai and occupied the Guanyin Temple.

Just because the king of Wuji Kingdom was kind-hearted and believed in Western religion, the Tathagata Buddha sent Manjusri Bodhisattva to save him back to the West to become a golden arhat.

It was a time of several years of severe drought in the Wuji country, and the people had no harvest.

Manjusri Bodhisattva turned into a monk, and made unreasonable demands on him relying on the king of Wuji Kingdom's belief in Buddhism.

The common people had nothing to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies, but he wanted to eat delicacies from mountains and seas.

The king of Wuji Kingdom endured it again and again, but he made several unreasonable demands.

This directly angered the king of the Wuji Kingdom, and ordered someone to soak him in the moat, and let him know what a dire situation is.

Western religions love to play with this kind of fancy stuff, which is called enlightenment.

In the past, Guanyin Bodhisattva enlightened Tang Sanzang in the same way, and asked him to go to the west to learn scriptures.

It's just that Manjusri Bodhisattva played too much here, and was rescued back to the Western Paradise after being soaked for three days and three nights.

After he returned to the western world, he planned to come back to take revenge on King Wuji, but it happened that Tang Sanzang was trapped in the Guanyin Temple.

The next thing was Qiu Shouxian's rebellion, and then he blew himself up directly.

Originally, he planned to send Qiushouxian to the lower realm to harm the king of Wuji Kingdom, but Qiushouxian died elsewhere.

I don't know how the Western religion arranges this difficulty?
On this day, Tang Sanzang's master and apprentice finally came to the territory of Wuji Kingdom.

Seeing that it was getting late, a temple happened to appear in the distance.

Zhu Bajie was overjoyed immediately, and urged the white dragon horse to gallop towards the temple.

"Bajie..."

When Tang Sanzang stopped him, Zhu Bajie was almost at the gate of the temple.

Tang Sanzang still has a huge shadow in his heart about the thing of staying overnight.

Especially when seeing the temple, the shadow is quite big.

The first time I stayed at Guanyin Temple, there was a demon monk named Fa Hai.

That was the first time he tried the fear of being dominated by others.

The second time I stayed at Gao Laozhuang, another demon lord Chi You appeared.

That was the second time he felt the fear of being dominated by others.

The third time they stayed in the manor where Guanyin Bodhisattva manifested, they gave birth to monkeys with the Bodhisattvas.

Tang Sanzang left a great psychological shadow here, which made him unable to look directly at the three Bodhisattvas until now.

The fourth time I stayed at Wuzhuang Temple, but the monkeys insisted on eating some ginseng fruit.

Not only did Tang Sanzang suffer physical injuries, but he was almost thrown into the frying pan.

Along the way, every stay is a painful memory for Tang Sanzang that cannot be erased.

"Ugh!"

He let out a long sigh and followed.

"monster!"

"There are monsters..."

When he arrived at the gate of the temple, the temple was already in chaos.

After all, the three apprentices look ugly, that is to say, they are used to seeing them.

Other than the occasional nausea, there are no other problems.

"Hey, are you eating?"

"I'll add a pair of chopsticks..."

Zhu Bajie was not polite, he just grabbed the food on the table and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Eat, why don't you eat?"

"You're welcome!"

While Zhu Bajie ate nonsense, he did not forget to invite Tang Sanzang and the others to sit down.

Tang Sanzang covered his forehead and shook his head, his reputation as a holy monk of the Tang Dynasty was completely ruined.

Does Zhu Bajie look like a monk?
It's just a bandit!
I'm really ashamed of myself...

Thinking of this, Tang Sanzang ate three bowls of rice with tears in his eyes.

"Hey, brother, is there a saint in your temple?"

After drinking and eating, Zhu Bajie saw a few women who were hiding at the end of the crowd watching the fun.

Although these women are called saints, they are actually temple prostitutes.

They had to sell themselves to the monastery only because of their poor family.

This phenomenon is more common the closer to the west, at least Tang Sanzang never saw it when he was in Tang Dynasty.

Although there is such a thing as joy meditation in Western religions, most monks stick to the precepts.

Tang Sanzang sighed, this is not something he can manage.

In this way, the four masters and apprentices borrowed a night in the temple.

In the middle of the night, when Tang Sanzang was reading scriptures in his room, suddenly a strange wind blew in.

The lamp on the table was suddenly extinguished by the strange wind, waking him up from his doze.

No, no, no?
Could it be that something is going to happen again?
When Tang Sanzang was panicking, a disheveled thing suddenly crawled out of a well in the yard.

He was dressed in white, with long hair covering his facial features, slowly crawling towards him as if he had no bones.

"You... who are you?"

"Don't come here!"

Tang Sanzang yelled in fright.

"Hey hey hey..."

"Hoohoho!"

The ghost in white let out a terrifying laugh.

"Monkey save me!"

Tang Sanzang desperately shouted for help.

But until the ghost crawled in front of him, the monkey and the others didn't appear.

Depend on!
Have they rebelled again?
These damned guys!
Since no one else can rely on you, you can only rely on yourself...

Only when Tang Sanzang calmed down did he realize that he is a monk!

What are monks best at?
Swindled and abducted... Bah, it's chanting scriptures to save people!

Tang Sanzang began to sit down, close his eyes and recite Buddhist scriptures.

He was originally a golden cicada who had been reincarnated ten times, and he carried Taoism in his womb. In addition, he practiced Buddhism since he was a child, and his body exuded dazzling Buddha light.

With the protection of Buddha's light, how can the evil spirits and ghosts get close?

Tang Sanzang opened his eyes triumphantly while reciting scriptures.

"Mom!"

As soon as he opened his eyes, he was startled and couldn't help screaming.

The ghost in white was not afraid of Buddha's light at all, and was staring at him with his five sense organs in front of his eyes.

Who can resist this?

Tang Sanzang raised his legs and ran, unable to stop at all.

Fortunately, although this guy is terrifying, his speed is not fast.

Panting and hiding in the distance, he looked at the ghost in white and showed a smug smile.

The next moment, the ghost suddenly disappeared. Could it be that he was scared away by himself?

Tang Sanzang searched around but couldn't find where he went.

Just when he was about to breathe a sigh of relief, a faint male voice came from behind.

"Are you looking for me?"

Tang Sanzang's hair exploded immediately, and his hair almost grew out of fright.

He only felt a chill on his shoulder, and a blistered, white and wet hand grabbed his shoulder.

(End of this chapter)