"You're right to take revenge!"
The thin mist in front was like a glass wall tinged with a faint purple glow, blocking the crazed One - Eyed Buddha Mother.
My words made the wildly rolling eyes of hers freeze for a moment.
"What... did you say?"
The One - Eyed Buddha Mother couldn't believe that I would approve of her revenge on the world. After all, I was the one who had most thoroughly tried to stop her!
"If someone treated me like that, I'd do the same."
I was never a pure - hearted person. I believed in getting even for every grievance. "But among those you've taken revenge on, is there the tribal chief who harmed you? The lamas who judged you? Or the lecherous customers who tortured you to death?!"
My series of questions made that single eye start to roll wildly up and down again. "No! So what if there aren't? Everyone in this world is as venomous as them. They all deserve to die!"
"..." Then, "Don't you feel an emptiness here?"
I pointed to my chest and asked her, "You can't even tell your enemies apart and just cause chaos. Do you feel happy about it? You must have harmed many people in these hundreds of years. Then... Do you feel the satisfaction of avenging your great hatred?!"
"Ugh!!!"
The One - Eyed Buddha Mother was hit right in her sore spot. She let out a howl involuntarily, and the purple - black mist around her churned violently, like her inner struggle and unwillingness.
I could understand the deep - seated resentment of her being tortured to death. When I was being hunted by the Du family and starving, gnawing on raw corn cobs in the green sorghum fields, I also had dark thoughts. Why should I be the only one suffering so much? I wanted to drag everyone in the world into the abyss with me!!!
However, I was luckier than the One - Eyed Buddha Mother when she was alive. I had A Wen by my side.
He would hand me a piece of candy when I was on the verge of a breakdown. He would silently squat down and carry me on his back when I was exhausted...
If the One - Eyed Buddha Mother had had a loved one like Du Wenzhong by her side, maybe she wouldn't have ended up like this!
Now I had personally taken away the three souls of the great villain who had made my life a living hell and sent him to prison. Watching Du Peiyun, who had made me lose sleep, being led onto the police car like a fool by the police officers, I felt as refreshed as if I had eaten a hundred servings of ice cream.
The One - Eyed Buddha Mother had gained power after being enshrined, which must have taken at least a hundred years. Those scoundrels who had bullied her must have rotted away long ago, leaving only bones!!!
"You don't understand!!! You don't understand!"
The One - Eyed Buddha Mother raved madly. When she was thrown off the cliff, her desire to live was so strong that although her body was smashed to pieces, a wisp of her spiritual consciousness refused to return to the underworld. It turned into a fierce ghost and wandered the mortal world all day long.
Tibet was a place that revered nature. There were not only Buddhas, immortals, and Bodhisattvas but also stones and trees that could become the incarnations of gods.
The One - Eyed Buddha Mother soon found a place to stay. As a fierce ghost with boundless resentment, she could perform miracles to make the ignorant Tibetan people kneel in worship. She began to listen to their wild desires!
Unlike the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who were high and mighty, she boasted that she would grant every wish, but every wish fulfilled required an equivalent exchange.
She was not a Buddha or a Bodhisattva, those clay statues without spiritual consciousness, with a compassionate face but doing nothing. She would appear in her believers' dreams and ask them to make a statue for her. She called herself the Buddha Mother and used her most hideous face to intimidate those ignorant believers...
She fulfilled many people's wishes and gained many souls!
Those stupid people initially only asked for trivial things, and the price they paid was naturally bearable.
However, humans... were always insatiable. They asked for more and more each time until they sacrificed their own lives!
I don't know how many years passed. The One - Eyed Buddha Mother thought she had become a real god. She wanted to go back to the great temple to take revenge... But she could no longer find that magnificent temple standing on the mountain peak, and she couldn't even remember what those beasts who had killed her looked like...
She searched frantically on the snow - covered mountains but only saw the charred ruins. Years of war had reduced a glorious temple to a pile of rubble hidden by overgrown weeds.
Just as I had guessed, she wanted to take revenge but could no longer find her enemies. This feeling of throwing a punch but hitting thin air made this evil ghost, who considered herself a god, transfer her anger to everything in the world!
The One - Eyed Buddha Mother's single eye rammed fiercely towards me. Unfortunately, the mist protecting me was also her clone, and it was evenly matched with her in the entanglement. She had never gotten the upper hand since she started opposing me. Now, even in her own spiritual consciousness, she couldn't do anything to me.
I let her thrash around in this dim void. The space, which had already been shaken by my Yin Five - Thunder Spell, became even more unstable. Everywhere, there were faint glimmers of cyan - white lightning trying to tear through the mist.
"Do you still want to take revenge?!" I asked casually only after that single eye was blood - streaked from ramming.
"What are you talking about? I can't even find them. What can you do?!"
The One - Eyed Buddha Mother had searched every corner of Tibet. She even made her believers ransack other Buddhist temples, which led to the temple enshrining the Buddha Mother being raided by the righteous, and the believers were beaten to death. Since then, the One - Eyed Buddha Mother had been gradually forgotten...
"Have you searched the underworld?"
I was certain that this so - called god or Buddha, who had originated as a fierce ghost, would never have the guts to go to the underworld. Even though she had gained power from the offerings of her believers, in essence, she was still a ghost, and she had an innate fear of the underworld, which captured ghosts!!!
However, if we wanted to avenge the One - Eyed Buddha Mother now, we naturally had to check the Book of Life and Death in the underworld. Only there could we find out where people went after death. All things in this world were recorded in the Book of Life and Death. Even high - ranking monks and lamas who had transcended the cycle of reincarnation were clearly recorded in it.
"Come with me. I'll help you take revenge!"
I stared into that single eye and said seriously, "If you don't agree... just wait to be annihilated!"
"... You... How dare you threaten me?!"
The One - Eyed Buddha Mother shrieked and pounced on me again. "If I'm destroyed, how can you be better off? You'll also be shattered by your own Five - Thunder Spell and perish with me!"
"Hehe..." I sneered coldly. I had known she would say this, so I naturally had a response ready. "I'm just an ordinary fortune - teller, while you're a god worshiped by thousands of believers. Dying with me... Well, it's quite good!"
"Ugh!!"
The One - Eyed Buddha Mother's single eye started to roll in its socket again, as if pondering the meaning of my words. After a while, she finally asked, "Can you... let me avenge myself?"
"Not necessarily." I shook my head and told the truth.
Was the Book of Life and Death in the underworld something that just anyone could look at? Although I had a friend, Chen Daoyi, who was an intern "Judge of the Underworld", I still couldn't be 100% sure!