Chapter 178: Human Heart Represents Heaven
"My beloved wife, please don't get excited," the nine-headed prince consort touched the shell with a look of pity, "As the saying goes, husband and wife are one body, I am just an ordinary man, my life span is not more than a hundred years, and my beloved wife is a dragon girl, how can I stay with her forever."
"Fortunately, your husband still has some means. I will take my beloved wife's dragon soul and complete my demon body. You and I will become one. From now on, we will live forever and share hardships together. Isn't it wonderful?"
The All-Hallowed Dragon King was shocked: "You, you are such a little thief, you don't keep your word, are you going to refine my female dragon soul? Where did you find this magic? You are so perverse, aren't you afraid of being blamed by the gods?"
The Nine-Headed Prince Consort closed the shell, blocking out the Dragon Girl's curses, and coldly looked at the All-Hallowed Dragon King: "Reputation? Can reputation allow me to live forever? As a dragon, you are born with a thousand years of life, but I am a mortal, and I am only a handful of yellow earth in a hundred years. Heaven is so unfair, how can I be afraid of his blame!"
"You are evil demons who have eaten countless people. I am committing a crime by eating demons. How can this be justified? If God blames me, I will say he is blind!"
The nine-headed prince consort laughed crazily, not like a human but more like a demon.
"Your words are refreshing to me. To be so unreasonable is a sign of deep evil!"
A voice came, startling the nine princes-in-law: Who! Who is hiding?
Sanzang landed behind the Nine-Headed Prince Consort and said, "Let me ask you, you only say that monsters eat people, but has the Dragon Girl ever eaten people? You only say that the way of heaven is unfair, but has the Dragon Girl ever done you any wrong? You only say that heaven is blind, but the Dragon Girl is the one who has lost her eyes and brains, and has betrayed her conscience with her true feelings, and has provoked a beast in human form, an ungrateful person like you!"
A dragon head grew out of the Nine-Headed Prince Consort's shoulder, biting at Sanzang: "What do you know? The demons and ghosts have committed so many evil deeds. I am just collecting a blood debt for those sentient beings. Since the dragon girl loves me, why doesn't she find the way to immortality for me? I have said it many times but I have never done anything. How can there be any true love? It's just fake."
Sanzang pulled off the dragon's head and pointed a finger at the dragon's wrist, dodging the shell in his hand: "You think she never did anything for you, but have you ever done one or two good deeds for her? Is it possible that your friendship is worth a thousand gold, and you want the dragon girl to give you her heart?"
"You villain, how did you know my daughter's movements? I already knew about your affair. She once asked me to find someone to pick the Nine-Leaf Ganoderma Lucidum. The Nine-Leaf Ganoderma Lucidum is an immortal product. Taking it can help prolong life. If it weren't for your incident, she would have been immortal now. I only regret that I recognized your face so early and caused my daughter's life to be in jeopardy!" said the All Saints Dragon King hatefully.
The nine-headed dragon was stunned for a moment, then sneered: "It's easy to say. Even if I have the magic grass, I am just a mortal body. If you love me, then you are just doing it. I hate your condescending tone. You just regard me as a vassal. How can you look at me squarely? It would be better for me to take the dragon blood myself, gain magic power, and trample on you monsters!"
Sanzang, however, was no longer interested in listening: "The donor has already entered the devil's way. The law of nature is cyclical, and retribution is inevitable. I am burdened with the calamity of killing, so please accept the calamity."
"Who are you? Oh, yes, I know you. You are a man who went to the East to seek Buddhist scriptures. You have a great reputation. You were chosen by the Buddha. You only need to perform a journey to the West to seek Buddhist scriptures, and then the Lingshan Mountain in the West will guarantee you a Buddha position. You are just one of those high and mighty ones. Have you ever seen how mortals like us survive? What qualifications do you have to teach me a lesson!" The nine-headed dragon had a crazy look on his face. His body was huge, and he turned into a nine-headed monster with a dragon body.
"You are a human, but you help monsters. You say that justice is the law of nature and retribution is inevitable. Where were you when my parents were devoured by monsters? Where is the retribution? You must become a Buddha, so you can say these light words. What about mortals? I just want to stand out and avoid being persecuted. What's wrong with that?"
Sanzang remained silent, and finally raised his fist slowly: "I was wrong. Buddha Wu Tian appointed me as a pilgrim. Along the way, I encountered many obstacles. I saw monsters, ghosts, and sentient beings, which were all troubles. I only want to help sentient beings escape from the sea of suffering, not to become a Buddha. Donor Jiu Tou Jiao is right."
He put his fist at his side, ready to strike: "I am willing to give up my position as the Buddha in the West Heaven to speak for all living beings. I am willing to commit murder and make the gods and Buddhas disappear into thin air. I am willing to fall into the boundless hell and transform into a demon to seek the right result for all living beings."
Then he punched out.
"Gods and Buddhas should not exist. I will not become a Buddha!"
The sky and the earth turned upside down, the rivers surged, the jade pillars collapsed, the Dragon Palace rolled, and a violent aura swept through, turning the nine-headed dragon into powder and splitting the vast river in two. The clear blue sky and the rolling sea of clouds could be seen.
Sanzang stood still, clasping his hands together. 'Without the Heavenly Buddha, I am confused.'
And in the far west, a Buddha was born. After a few days, several celestial dragons and bodhisattvas returned to their positions.
"It seems that the Bibotan disaster and three burials are over, and the Buddhas have returned to their positions." Dongquan looked at the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Their appearances were similar to the Wansheng Dragon King, the Dragon Girl, and the Nine-headed Dragon, but they were hidden under the Buddha's light and looked solemn and majestic.
Gu Qingyuan retracted his gaze: "Three three tribulations, nine nine tribulations, sixty-four tribulations have passed, and there are still seventeen tribulations. The Heaven-destroying Plan should be implemented."
"What kind of power does Sanzang have that we are all waiting for it?" Dongquan was a little confused. He was good at hiding things, and would never answer some questions unless asked.
Gu Qingyuan opened his mouth and said: "After my observations, investigations everywhere, and using my magical powers, I have vaguely discovered that there is something flawed in the laws of nature in this world." His words were earth-shattering.
"Perhaps it's not that there's something wrong with the way of heaven, it's just that there's something missing!"
Dongquan rolled his eyes and said, "Just tell me, why waste your words."
"There is no variable," Gu Qingyuan said, "According to my speculation, before the earth and the sky were connected, the gods were given the throne, the immortals ruled the world, and there were laws of heaven and earth to follow, which was the law of heaven."
"The heavenly rules have become a large net, with incense as the source and priesthood as the nodes in the net, regulating all living beings. The heavenly rules remain unchanged, and the priesthood is stable, trapping all living beings in one place and making it difficult for them to escape."
"It was originally a strategy for stability, but the incense is poisonous, the thoughts of sentient beings are mixed, and all kinds of injustices have accumulated, polluting the priesthood and the immortals and Buddhas. The Heavenly Dao has no policy to deal with it, so we can only let it go."
"This incense system is fundamentally flawed, and the Heavenly Principle has not changed. The first to be polluted are the gods in Heaven. Perhaps the Heavenly Principle did something, or perhaps the Immortal Venerable took action, causing the connection between the Earth and Heaven to be lost."
"The heaven and earth saved themselves by sending down Sanzang as a variable. The same should be true for Fang Han. I searched for a long time before I found Sanzang. He has the luck of heaven and earth, and he must do something to change the world. I just gave him a push and let him follow my path."
"What exactly do you want to do?" Dongquan asked hesitantly.
Gu Qingyuan smiled slightly: "Of course I can't work in vain."
"I will use this world to prove my golden elixir fruit!"
"Replace the will of heaven with the will of human heart!"
(End of this chapter)