Chapter 108
Chapter 108
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 108
>Chapter Title: Buddha
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Chapter 108: Buddha
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> "Upon seeing it, the practitioner rejoices and leaps with joy. They see their own body mounted on the Vajra Throne, following behind the Buddha. In the snap of a finger, they are reborn in that land. Once reborn there, they behold the Buddha's physical form, complete with all its marks; they behold the various Bodhisattvas, their forms fully adorned."
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> The Buddhist scripture recited from Li Huowang's mouth gradually grew louder. Under the accompaniment of the chanting, his face at this moment seemed enveloped in a sacred Buddhist light.
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> At first, there was only his single voice, but before long, the monotonous chanting began to echo with reverb.
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> Chanting voices, high and low, joined in harmony with Li Huowang.
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> These voices came from the surrounding fat nuns and the abbess. Their faces simultaneously revealed the exact same piety as on Li Huowang's.
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> The temples and houses all around also synchronized with the sounds of bronze bells, hand cymbals, and wooden fish—these Buddhist ritual instruments.
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> With the accompaniment of these instruments, Li Huowang's chanting grew increasingly majestic, increasingly infused with Buddha-nature.
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> This special sound began to alter things that sound should not alter. For instance, all the colors around started to distort gradually, as if covered by a thick dark yellow filter.
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> As time passed, the chanting grew louder and louder. Bai Lingmiao, Gouwa, Gao Zhijian—even the child in Abbess Jingxin's arms—began to chant along.
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> Under the ever-increasing volume, the Fly Bodhisattva in the low pit began to stir with tremendous impact.
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> Accompanied by the chanting, it slowly floated toward the top of Li Huowang's head. At this moment, the buzzing of those flies' wings also began to match the rhythm of the recitation.
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> When the chanting reached its peak, the Flesh Body Bodhisattva suddenly opened its pitch-black eyes and plunged downward. The buzzing green-headed flies instantly enveloped Li Huowang completely.
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> The wings of the flies began to vibrate wildly, their fluttering sounds overlapping constantly with the surrounding Buddhist chants.
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> In this instant, all the people and those millions of flies were mentally linked together inseparably.
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> Humans knew the thoughts of the flies, and the flies knew the thoughts of the humans.
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> With a thought from Abbess Jingxin, the flies covering Li Huowang reconverged, forming a Black Bodhisattva seated on a lotus pedestal, holding a pure vase. Its voice overpowered Li Huowang's and led the others in continued recitation.
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> Yet this solemn scene did not last long before it was shattered by a thunderclap. Everyone turned to look in unison—the sky had split open.
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> There hovered Danyangzi, with three heads and his body covered entirely in grotesque, nauseating organs. He floated ethereally on white clouds, his three pairs of eyes mockingly fixed on the entire Anci Nunnery below.
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> "Heh heh... Child, you've become attached to appearances."
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> Without any further words, all the bloated old nuns, including Abbess Jingxin, swiftly drew strings of pure gold prayer beads from the greasy folds of their fat.
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> They wrapped them respectively around the tiger's mouths of their hands, left and right. Then, bending their index and thumbs toward their palms to form the Amitabha mudra, their bodies radiating dignity, they thrust their hands upward toward the sky.
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> "Recite the Buddha! Recite the Dharma! Recite the Sangha! Recite the Precepts! Recite Giving! Recite the Heavens! Bhikshus cultivate the six recollections! Attaining immeasurable hundreds of thousands of dharani gates!"
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> A sudden buzz erupted as the black flies forming the Buddha surged skyward like ocean waves, enveloping waves of Buddhist chants as they charged toward Danyangzi in the air.
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> Gazing at the black tsunami before him, Danyangzi's three massive faces simultaneously twisted into extremely derisive grins. Standing on his white clouds with immortal mist swirling around him, he charged headlong into the flies.
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> His writhing tentacle hands swung forcefully. A copper coin sword, spliced together from eyeballs, tentacles, and flesh, sprouted directly from his palm.
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> With a fierce swing of the flesh-and-blood copper coin sword, bits of meat sprayed out. Any flies splattered by the gore twisted rapidly.
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> Tiny, wriggling, shrieking heads of Danyangzi replaced the fly heads, swiftly turning to counterattack their fellow flies around them.
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> At this moment, Li Huowang below sat cross-legged with a grave expression, unmoved. He continued reciting the sutra from his mouth, his voice growing louder with each repetition.
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> Under the catalysis of the chanting, every white maggot writhing on the rotting food throughout Anci Nunnery swiftly transformed into flies. They flapped their damp wings and rushed toward the chaotic sky.
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> In an instant, the sky descended into utter chaos. Amid the fierce battle, black dead flies even began to rain down from the air.
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> As the battle before her grew increasingly dire, Abbess Jingxin remained utterly calm. Since she had agreed to help Li Huowang, she naturally had full confidence.
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> Li Huowang slowly pressed his palms together, his face full of compassion as he chanted softly: "Receive the true Dharma, abandon the three divisions. As all forms enter the realm of emptiness, so too do the Bodhisattva's sands of vows enter this vow. Well done, well done."
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> Accompanied by the ethereal Buddhist chant, a beam of light pierced the cracked sky, descending from the heavens and plating him entirely in the golden form of a Buddha without sorrow or joy.
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> The instant Li Huowang's body turned gold, the horrific organs on Danyangzi's body in the sky also took on a layer of gold, moving extremely sluggishly.
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> Seizing this opportunity, the swarms of flies around him surged forward at once, enveloping him completely.
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> "Buzz buzz buzz." The fly mass continued to expand, ultimately reforming into a massive Pure Vase Bodhisattva seated on a lotus, slowly descending to the ground.
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> With every inch closer to the ground, the Bodhisattva shrank inward by a fraction, and the rift in the sky above weakened by a fraction.
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> The chanting, the wooden fish beats, the bell tolls—all the sounds gradually softened.
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> On the ground, two fat nuns held mop-sized brushes, their tips dipped in the ash from the incense burners, staring at the Fly Bodhisattva nun with expectant eyes, awaiting something.
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> Seeing this, a flicker of greed passed through Abbess Jingxin's heart as she chanted. Under normal circumstances, all that remained was to wrap things up, and the contents inside those flies would be hers.
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> "This thing is rare too. Wonder what it tastes like."
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> Just as she thought everything was proceeding favorably, the unexpected happened.
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> Li Huowang, shrouded entirely in golden light, suddenly coughed once—and then more and more violently.
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> "What's happening? I can't sense what he's thinking anymore! That kid's severed our pure minds!" one old nun cried out in alarm.
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> No sooner had the words left her mouth than Li Huowang, clutching his neck, threw his mouth wide open. An extremely nauseating retching sound erupted.
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> Then everyone present witnessed an utterly bizarre sight. From the mouth of the red-robed Daoist, several writhing black tentacles dripping with viscous fluid emerged from deep in his throat.
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> It was Black Tai Sui—but not entirely. At the base of one tentacle hung half a face: Danyangzi's face!
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> "Oh dear! That Buddha isn't dead! He hasn't fully become a Buddha yet! The Buddha's actually been hiding mixed in with the Black Tai Sui inside Li Huowang's belly all along! We got it wrong! This is the real deal!"
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> (End of chapter)