38.Chapter 38

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date="2020-11-26"

title="38.Chapter 38"

weight="106432"

series = ["Lantern: Reflection of the Peach Blossoms"]

mode = "manual"

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——Feng Si!

Chu He seemed to have heard something suddenly, and suddenly looked back.

However, behind him, the alien space was empty, and countless mirrors interlaced and reflected dark light.

Did you hear me wrong... Chu He turned his head, his gaze fell on the mirror in front of him, and the next second he was shocked to find that he did not know when there was another person behind him.

That person has a familiar face, with a familiar smile, even the smallest eyebrows and eye corners are exactly the same as in the memory, as if they haven't changed a bit for tens of thousands of years.

Chu He's eyes trembled slightly, but he couldn't say a word when he opened his mouth. After a long time he barely made a surprised voice:

"Sakyamuni...?!"

Sakya took a step forward and lightly put his hand on Chu He's shoulder.

——He is not a cold illusion in the mirror, but a real person, even the warmth of the palm of the hand is clearly visible through the cloth.

And that temperature comparable to the hottest fire burned every inch of nerves through the skin, and there was an unspeakable sensation in the sharp pain, which made Chu He's whole body shudder.

The amplitude of his tremor was so intense that he couldn’t turn his head back with all his strength, and he couldn’t even make a slight deflection. He could only stare at the mirror surface not far away, the smiling Sakyamuni in the mirror, and the weak. Yourself.

"Don't look back," Sakyamuni said softly in his ear.

"Why you……"

Sakyamuni laughed and said, "Little Phoenix, you have grown up."

Chu He panted violently, and his nails pierced deeply into his palms until the blood oozes out, flowing vertically and horizontally on the palm lines.

"You still... haven't changed at all, why..."

"Why I am here is not important. The important thing is, why are you still here." Sakyamuni smiled: "However, in such exciting moments of reunion after a long absence, don't waste time with boring questions like'why' Got it."

He paused, with the same gentle temptation in his tone as Chu He remembered when he was a boy:

"If you are with me, would you be willing to return to heaven, my dear...Little Phoenix?"

The hidden meaning in this sentence, it took a few seconds, little by little, like a tiny electric current crawling into the mind along the nerve endings.

——If time goes back and the years turn back, Phoenix King, who cried bitterly in the empty hall that year, would definitely think that he had received the greatest salvation in nine days and ten places; however, tens of thousands of years have passed, the clouds drifting away, and things are not. , Chu He stared at himself pale in the mirror, unable to say a word.

"I...I won't believe you anymore, Sakyamuni..." After a long while, his faint voice finally seeped out of the air like ice breaking.

"You have left too many doubts in my heart, anger and resentment have ruined me... Whether it is the things that happened on Xumi Mountain after you return to the colorless world, or the heavenly law and righteousness against the four evil ways Change, even if you order the later King of the Three Kings—"

"You hate coming to the third world," Sakyamuni said regretfully, "Sorry, I should have thought of it long ago."

Chu He swallowed, and the root of his tongue was slightly numb because of excessive tension.

"So, after these things, I can no longer trust you wholeheartedly as before... But I have also tried my best to stay away from you to avoid any Buddha's calamity. Even Maha's current affairs are hidden from everyone..."

"...I did everything," he paused and gasped, "except... there is no way to destroy his own life."

Sakya raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Have you even tried this?"

"...Yes, many years ago."

Sakyamuni seemed very interested and asked, "So, suppose it is me who wants to take your life?"

They looked at each other in the mirror for a long time, and the space behind them was vast, silent and eternal.

Chu He looked ahead, tears falling from the bottom of his eyes.

He said: "I will resist."

Sakyamuni seemed a little surprised, staring at Chu He for a long while, but the latter's beautiful eyes were clear and firm in the tears, and there was no room for wavering.

That unwavering determination is the same as when he worshipped from the snow and ice to the top of the mountain, as he pulled out twelve bloody phoenix bones in a sea of ​​blood, and as he stepped into the eight thousand zhang blood lotus pond from under the linden tree. Do not hesitate to face the obscure, dangerous and unknown future, step by step forward.

"You've really grown up..." Sakya seemed to be a little emotional for some reason, and said: "But some aspects have not changed at all. Once you find a new path, even if the bloody and smelly water is dripping, you will grit your teeth. Go to the end... So, am I too late?"

He reached out to the thousands of floating mirrors in the distant space, and with a single tap, countless bizarre images appeared on the mirrors.

——It is a fierce roaring beast under the golden bell of heaven, with swords and axes added to its body, rather than kneeling; it is a demon that is not universal in the sea of ​​blood, and all living beings convert but stand upright; with the dark sky as the background, from the turtle The man walking on the smoky ground, kneeling on one knee on the battlefield, said in a hoarse voice with blood: "I'll propose to you..."

In more distant places, the mirror reflects the warm white light, everyone is together, everyone is happy and complete, there is neither cold loneliness nor sad watch.

"Is this your faith now?" Sakyamuni asked softly in his ear, "Is this the love you finally recognize now?"

Phoenix closed his eyes, tears streaming down his pale and transparent face, turning into thousands of tiny flashes in the void.

"You dare not admit it." Sakyamuni laughed, seeming to find it very interesting: "——You dare not."

He raised his hand on Phoenix's shoulder and pulled down his shirt.

From the neck to the collarbone, the slightly convex bones of the shoulders to the large areas of skin behind, they were all exposed to the air, and there was a breathtaking shimmer in the darkness. It looks so cold and jade-like texture, but when touched, it has unimaginable warmth, delicacy and softness, just like the owner of this beautiful body, the fragile heart under the heavy envelope.

"Then, the little phoenix who dared to pluck up the courage to confess his love to me..."

Sakyamuni let go, and half of his white robe fell to the ground:

"...Are you still here?"

He lifted up the long hair of the phoenix and leaned over to make a kiss on the bare shoulder.

Chu He wanted to push him away with his backhand, but his fingers trembled fiercely and without any strength, he was easily grasped by the Sakyamuni in his palm, his fingers interlocked, lingering and afflicted.

"Remember the thousand years of kneeling under the Bodhi tree? Why did you choose the two trees in the forbidden land of heaven?"

"If I don't see you, will you kneel for tens of thousands of years until you die?"

Chu He couldn't answer, his lips opened slightly, trembling uncontrollably.

Sakya laughed and stretched out his hand from behind to block his unfocused eyes, feeling the moist eyelashes in his palm, fluttering like the last lingering butterfly in the wind and snow.

"Kneeling for a thousand years..." He gently kissed the soft and cold lips, and asked with a chuckle: "...under the Bodhi tree, what did you think?"

"..."

"Is it all related to me?"

"..."

Her lips and tongue were entangled with her breathing, and the sobs in her throat were blocked back with gentleness and could not refuse. It sounded like some kind of secret cry. For a long while, Sakyamuni grabbed Chu He's chin, turned his head slightly, and said softly, "Answer me."

They just looked at each other like this, the countless mirrors in the dark and vast alien space glowed with cold light, the world disappeared, and the eternal silence, the world seemed to be the only two of them left, all the past disappeared and disappeared.

"...That was a long time ago..." Chu He finally said hoarsely after a long time, and every word contained tearing blood.

"I already...don't remember..."

Sakyamuni paused slightly.

In the next instant, Chu He's hand commander | guns appeared, and he turned around and swept, violently shattering countless mirrors!

--boom!

Hundreds of millions of fragments flew and gleamed, like bursting stardust, a tsunami that set off, swept every inch of the vast space in an instant. The figure of Sakyamuni was instantly rushed out of a kilometer away, and then returned to Chu He in the next second, his figure soaring like a fierce bird about to attack its prey——

The energy wave melted the last trace of his disguise, and the face of King Jiang III was revealed!

He stared at Chu He condescendingly, and smiled slightly: "——I haven't seen you for many years, don't come here without problems, Your Royal Highness?"

After he finished speaking, he kicked his chest and kicked Chu He out!

With a series of loud noises, Chu He flew out and smashed through the huge mirror. His momentum didn't slow down, and he directly collided with seven or eight mirrors. Then, King Jiang III, who followed him, caught his throat. Bang!" A sound nailed to the top of the smooth giant mirror!

"How did you recognize me?"

"..." Chu He gasped and coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood, and then said hoarsely after a long while: "I didn't recognize it."

——His calm voice has not changed at all, but the meaning behind this sentence is so clear that King Jiang III suddenly felt a little absurd: "What did you say?"

"I didn't recognize you, it's just a coincidence." Chu He's throat was pinched by iron-like hands, and his voice sounded very weird. It turned out to be a bit like a slight mockery: "But I recognize it now."

King Jiang III stared at his unchanging face exactly as he remembered, and finally realized that it was not a lie.

It wasn't because his voice was natural and his expression was real, but because he was disdainful-disdain that was too lazy to cover up with lies.

He finally let go and took two steps back. Chu He fell off the smooth mirror surface, staggered a few steps when he touched the ground before he could barely stand still, and then choked blood from his lungs.

"Your style is really unchanging and direct for thousands of years... But there is no need to look at me with such disgusting eyes. I only came to see you after I withdrew from the law." King Jiang III looked at him curled up. He coughed, laughed and asked: "Is it because you caused too much psychological shadow last time? So that you can hardly forget it now?..."

"You think too much," Chu He wiped the blood from the corners of his lips, and straightened up while pulling up the shirt.

"Oh? Then don't you feel surprised to see me?"

"My surprise is that you dare to blaspheme the incarnation of Buddha."

Unexpectedly, the King of the Third World did not move or refute, and he said leisurely after a long while: "Do you think I am blaspheming the Buddha... No way. I just treated you in the same way that Sakyamuni was many years ago. Look, You didn’t even find any flaws, which means you actually know—"

Chu He turned around with a punch!

However, the wrists between the lightning and the fire were held in the air, and then with a "bang!", King Jiang III pushed him onto the cracked mirror behind him, and the fragments suddenly fell to the ground!

Chu He sternly said: "Are you sick?!"

"Perhaps," King Jiang III gave a weird smile: "But it doesn't matter, you don't know it yet? I'm already enchanted..."

Chu He's first reaction was ridiculous, but he didn't really laugh, because immediately after the descending III King Ming stretched out his hand to untie his cuff.

——The position of his arm resting on the elbow, the black magic pattern on the muscles formed the sign of the Asura Taoist secret curse, it turned out to be a sign of enchantment!

Chu He stared straight at the black magic pattern, his face was rarely blank because of his extreme astonishment.

"Before it became a mark, it was originally a wound...Yes, the wound on my body, one of the five great tantric kings. You don’t know? Why was no one close to you on Xumi Mountain back then, no one with you Speaking, even afterwards everyone looked at you with disgust and fear, whispering behind you in the corner..."

Wisdom King approached Chu He, and his tone was almost malicious:

"Do you think it's because you were born ominous and bear the most evil aspect? No, it's not like that."

"You have been cursed from the first day you came to Xumi Mountain. Except for certain people, anyone close to you will encounter bad luck and accidents, and some people will even fall into the 33rd heaven. Entering the Six Paths suffers from reincarnation... and the wound on my body is the one that suddenly appeared on my arm after the day you made your wish to cross the blood sea..."

Chu He's ears buzzed, he couldn't hear what King Jiang III was talking about, and he even forgot to break free from the hand held by him.

"...In the long run, over time, people who originally wanted to get close to you regard you as an ominous sign, and in this alienated and indifferent environment, you can only get closer and closer to specific people..."

"Understand, Your Highness Phoenix King?"

"You can continue to be so defiant and stubborn with sad hope. You will never know those bloody truths and rotten secrets, and you will always stay in the illusion that others have meticulously drawn for you..."

"Enough!" Chu He roared out, and suddenly slammed King Jiang III away!

Surprisingly, he was caught off guard. After retreating for several steps, he saw Chu He stepped on countless broken glass in the void and strode towards the distance.

His robe sleeves and hem flicked back with the wind brought by his steps. From this angle, his sideburns blocked his cheeks, and he couldn't see the expression on his face.

However, King Jiang III suddenly remembered a similar scene many years ago. The phoenix cut his long hair under the two trees of Suura, got up and stepped on the boundless lotus, and walked towards the vast sea of ​​red smoke and blood-how straight the back of the boy was at that time. As if all the hardships and dangers in the future can be eased, no matter how fate will be waiting ahead, what a hideous smile is revealed.

If the innocent courage had been smoothed out by tens of thousands of years, what now gave him a stronger and more complete faith?

"--Do you want to go to Zhou Hui?" King Jiang III sneered and said, "It's too late. This round is to hunt him down. Now outside the Thousand Degrees Mirror Realm, there is deadly death everywhere. sea--"

Chu He paused, his expression changed drastically.

"In the sea of ​​death, everything corrodes and the flesh and blood melt, and the minions and flesh and blood of the monsters have turned into foam, and they will never turn over when they fall into the sea of ​​blood."

The Emperor Wisdom King stretched out his hand to a little far away, and images were reflected on countless suspended broken mirrors, and at the same time the roar of anger that shook the world and the earth sounded!

"Or we can make a bet on how long this monster can last in a sea of ​​death..."

A sneered sneer appeared on King Ming Wang's face: "Since he was born in a sea of ​​blood but represents the way of heaven, then you can come and see-this time, the sea of ​​blood or heaven, who else can save him?"