"Where are Xue Shuo and the others?"
My eyes gradually grew firm. With Si Jiangchen by my side, what was there to be afraid of!
On the opposite side, the flesh on Danba's face twitched a few times. He was the supervisor of Hongluo Temple, a monk in charge of maintaining order in the temple, with great power in his hands.
He managed to climb to this position entirely thanks to the recommendation of a person.
Sheng Shixun.
In the Tibetan area, Danba was just a wandering "fake monk", pretending to be a living Buddha and pulling those out - of - town tourists in the remote alleys of the holy city to give blessings and receive alms from them.
One winter, when the holy city was freezing cold, Danba was exposed as a fake living Buddha. He was beaten by the temple guards like a stray dog and fled everywhere. With no way out, he had no choice but to plunge into a deserted temple complex where it was said that evil spirits were sealed.
That deserted temple was said to be a place dedicated to evil gods. Hundreds of years ago, two great living Buddhas in the Tibetan area joined hands to wipe out the tribe that worshiped her and then suppressed her. Since then, the ruins had been an inaccessible place, and even the scavenging wild dogs were reluctant to wander here.
Danba fled here, cold, hungry and scared. The Tibetan people were strong and pious in their beliefs. He already felt guilty for pretending to be a living Buddha. Now that he had run to the place where the evil god was sealed, he felt that if he disturbed the evil god, he might not be able to avoid sin even if he were alive and went down to the snow hell.
It was freezing cold and the wilderness was pitch - black.
Just when Danba thought he would die silently in this desolate wilderness, he saw a glimmer of fire... It was a life - saving bonfire. There was a man and a woman by the bonfire, both looking like scholars.
Danba shouted for help and rushed over. He knew he was saved. Generally, people would be intimidated by his appearance. He had even thought out his story.
He was a certain living Buddha from the Outer Eight Temples. He had been robbed by villains while on a spiritual practice and had to flee here...
However, the old guy sitting by the fire wearing a pair of black - framed glasses saw at a glance that Danba was a scrounger. But he still poured Danba a bowl of hot mare's milk, and the woman beside him also handed him a piece of roasted and golden - brown tsampa.
"Kid, it's so meaningless to just muddle along like this."
After Danba gobbled up the food, the old man with some gray hair said to him with a pitying look, "Do you want to be a great lama in a big temple?"
"Sure! Why not!"
In the Tibetan area, who didn't want to be a living Buddha? One could have delicious food and good offerings just by chanting scriptures and praying every day, live in a magnificent temple without doing hard work, and be respected by people.
Danba's parents were poor people who barely made a living by herding for others. Naturally, they couldn't send him to a lama school, so he could never become a privileged person in this life!!
"... Well... I have an opportunity here. Are you willing?"
The old man's glasses reflected a blazing light in the dim bonfire. That light was like a fire of delusion, igniting Danba's ambition!
Roaming in the Tibetan area with the old man, Danba learned his identity. He was an expert from Beijing, specializing in the restoration of ancient buildings. Danba wondered why this guy named Sheng Shixun was so sure that he could become a lama in a big temple?!
However, he ate and drank well with him. With Danba's laid - back personality, he would never ask on his own initiative and make himself uncomfortable.
After roaming around with Sheng Shixun like this for half a month, Danba suddenly felt a change in his body!!
He could see the souls of the dead and even catch them and tear them apart at will!!
This both shocked and delighted Danba. Wasn't this a great supernatural power? Those high - ranking monks who subdued demons and eliminated evil spirits should deal with evil ghosts like this, right?!
He didn't know the cause of his change, but he knew it must be related to Sheng Shixun.
Sheng Shixun would give him a kind of extremely unpleasant - tasting tea every day. It was black, just like the liquid oozing out of a punctured eyeball, both fishy and smelly! If it weren't for the three meals and a place to sleep that Sheng Shixun provided every day, Danba would have smashed the tea bowl and run far away long ago!
After another half - month like this, Sheng Shixun began to find a teacher for Danba, but what he was taught were all harmful spells.
Danba clearly knew that Sheng Shixun had ill intentions towards him, but so what?
He was just a good - for - nothing. If it weren't for Sheng Shixun saving him, he might have frozen to death on that snowy night when he was being chased...
Sheng Shixun stayed in the Tibetan area for more than a year. Before returning to Beijing, he sent Danba to a small temple.
That temple was an ancient temple that Sheng Shixun had personally restored a hundred years ago. Inside, besides the Buddha of Tantric union, there was also a Buddha statue on the main seat that he had never seen before. Later, he learned that it was the One - Eyed Buddha Mother that he would serve for life.
Moreover, he also knew that this ferocious god was the evil god that had been sealed in the Tibetan area for hundreds of years!
However, Danba was not afraid that he had believed in the wrong god. The previous gods in the sky hadn't even made him well - fed and warmly - clothed... Instead, this seemingly fierce god could let him learn great supernatural powers and make him a respected master!
Danba stayed alone in the Tibetan area for some time before receiving a call from Sheng Shixun, asking him to go to Beijing. Sheng Shixun had already arranged a job for him in Hongluo Temple.
Danba naturally knew that as the supervisor of Hongluo Temple, he was to secretly recruit more believers for the One - Eyed Buddha Mother he worshiped!
Lin Ruhu, who had repeatedly changed his wives in order to improve his fortune and make money, was the first believer that Danba had found.
Although Lin Ruhu himself didn't know what the statue he knelt before when borrowing fortune and making money was, what did it matter?! His sincere prayers to the One - Eyed Buddha Mother had nourished the soul of the Buddha Mother like nutrients.
Danba liked to tempt the rich. Their money often came from unclear sources, and as long as there was a little trouble, they would start to suspect it was related to gods and ghosts.
This time, when the general assistant of the Fir Group called and said that the boss was coming to offer incense, Danba naturally wanted to get on good terms with Si Jiangchen and expose his desires nakedly in front of the Buddha Mother!!
What Danba didn't expect was that I, who was beside Si Jiangchen, was a guy who knew some spells. I repeatedly disrupted his plans. I even smashed the statue of the God of Wealth that attracted the resentment of the dead women. Moreover, I used Fang Aiguo's stubborn corpse soul to find his whereabouts, which made Danba feel a sense of crisis!
It was just like that pitch - black snowy night when he was cold, hungry and there were several hungry wolves around him in the wilderness, waiting to hunt him!
So, he first sent out the "wolves" around him to pounce on us!!