The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 29 Cause and Effect
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Quietly walking around near the Daxiong Palace, Pei Wende saw at a glance Hui Ji who was reciting the Ten Wheel Sutra of Ksitigarbha and using the form of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to ward off demons.

Compared with the monsters and ghosts he encountered before, Hui Ji at this moment truly fits the image of a practitioner in Pei Wende's mind.

Holding the magic formula, reciting the mantra, the gods and Buddhas come to the world...

This typical image of an eminent monk even made Pei Wende forget Huiji's previous unreliable words and deeds.

And with the gradual spread of Bodhi Buddha's light, Pei Wende felt that the restlessness and murderous intent in his heart were subsiding, and he returned to the state before he was affected by the evil spirit.

"What the hell is going on today, what happened here?"

"Why does it feel more dangerous outside than inside the temple?"

Unaware of the existence of the green snake, Pei Wende could not help but curse in a low voice as he looked at the howling evil spirits outside the temple.

"And those ghosts, what the hell are they doing now?"

As the illusion in his eyes reappeared, Pei Wende was pulled into the illusion created by Li Lifu before he could react.

This time, it is also telling the first half of Li Lifu's life.

It's just that the difference from before is that this time the illusion has a different perspective, a perspective that only the real Li Lifu has.

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In this illusion, Li Lifu's first 16 years are still the same as before.

As a standard second-generation ancestor and playboy, although Li Lifu strongly opposed the marriage with the young lady of the Lu family because of his sexual orientation.

But after running away from home and spending all his money, he went home resentfully and was forced to accept the marriage arranged by his parents.

However, after getting married, Li Lifu still did not forget that he was in love with the same sex, and would run out to hang out from time to time.

In this regard, although the youngest daughter of the Lu family, who has become the wife of the Li family, has no choice but to accept this fact silently and keep it a secret for her husband.

After all, the two elders of the Li family are devout Buddhist believers, and they must not be able to accept all kinds of absurd behaviors of their sons.

This situation was maintained until the "falling horse incident", that is, when Li Lifu sneaked out of a private meeting again, something that would affect his future life happened.

On the surface, it seems that Li Lifu just fell off the horse unfortunately during the private meeting, which led to the loss of all past memories.

But the fact is that Li Lifu fell off his horse because he saw a scene of a fierce tiger fighting a giant snake during a private meeting.

A terrifying giant tiger with eye-catching eyes, a ferocious green-scaled serpent...

The battle between these two monsters disturbed Li Lifu's horse, causing Li Lifu, who was not in a hurry, to fall off the horse immediately and fell into a dying state.

It can be imagined what happened afterwards, the fierce tiger and the giant snake could almost be said to have lost both sides, and no one benefited.

After the great battle, the green-scaled serpent chose to return to the mountains, intending to use a long time to heal the wounds caused by this battle.

Driven by instinct, the fierce tiger whose head was hit killed Li Lifu who was the only witness, and then logically inherited his identity and returned to the Li family.

If the normal plot develops, this is nothing more than a fierce tiger changing its identity to operate in human society, which is no different from every previous disguise.

It's a pity that what the fierce tiger never expected was that it gradually forgot the fact that it was a tiger because of its brain injury.

When the vicious tiger fully awakened as "Li Lifu", it completely forgot its former title of "Tiger", and completely regarded itself as a human being, a well-known playboy in the Tanzhou area.

After losing the tiger's restraint, the ghosts who were bound by him began to appear frequently to do evil, making Tanzhou, which was rarely populated, a paradise for ghosts.

It was not until four years later that an eminent monk from Chang'an came here to live in seclusion and suppressed the ghosts who made troubles here, and only then did the chaotic Tanzhou enjoy 16 years of peace.

Of course, as the last ghost of the tiger, Li Lifu didn't know the details.

During the four years before he was killed by the tiger, he just followed the fierce tiger resentfully, watching the tiger take everything away from him bit by bit.

family, friends, life...

Those things that clearly belong to oneself are becoming the tiger's "life" little by little.

Perhaps because the tiger lost his memory, Li Lifu almost completely inherited all his memories and personality during his lifetime, and became an independent existence completely different from other ghosts.

So his resentment towards the tiger is not limited to the experience of being skinned and enslaved after death, but also the anger of seeing everything about him being replaced by others.

So one day, this kind of resentment and anger accumulated to the extreme, and finally it broke through the shackles of the ghost, and began to really turn back against the tiger.

From that day on, the Li family's house was frequently haunted by ghosts, but no one knew why.

This situation continued until the concubine died inexplicably, the mistress was petrified, and the tiger pretending to be Li Lifu also seemed to remember some memory fragments and chose to leave the Li family voluntarily.

Of course, in the eyes of the uninformed, this dude "Li Lifu" has been restless for a few years, and after his parents died, he fell into his old ways, and did the absurd thing of giving up his family business and becoming a monk .

In the years after leaving home, Tiger has never given up trying to dig out his past memories, trying hard to recall what he had forgotten.

However, due to the misplaced cognition of identity, Tiger's efforts have no effect at all.

The more I think back on my memory of being "Li Lifu", the more distant the memories that originally belonged to the tiger...

The only thing Tiger can be sure of is that the memory he lost is not as simple as described to outsiders, and there are still some secrets hidden in him that even his parents don't know.

And it was this secret that caused him to be targeted by some evil spirits, and became a walking disaster and a doomed lone star.

This kind of guessing became more accurate after the tiger met the angry green snake and fought with the opponent-I must have done some sinful things in the first half of my life to be hated so much.

But the tiger didn't complain about it, but gradually accepted all this in the process of practicing in Mulian Temple.

Be it evil ghosts or green snakes...

No matter what outrageous things I have done, the karma that is fed back to me now is the guilt I must bear.

With this kind of mentality that is close to atonement, the tiger, who doesn't want to harm others anymore, can only assume the "unfeeling" attitude of a monk when facing his daughter who comes to him.

—Recommendation ticket—/—Monthly ticket—

(End of this chapter)