Six Ways of Fumo

Chapter 1599 Six Character Mantra
"If there is a demon, there must be a demon. It's not in the temple, it's around here!"

Wan Shugao walked around the ruined temple in a serious manner and said: "To catch ghosts and subjugate demons, you must be bold and careful. You must first see the surrounding environment clearly."

Liang Kexiu followed behind and nodded repeatedly, but Zhao Bing was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he regretted taking over the job of the guide.

After turning around and standing in front of the temple door again, Wan Shugao said, "You can go in now. I'll go in first and you follow me."

Raising their legs high and stepping lightly, the three of them slipped into the temple like thieves, but nothing happened.

Use a flashlight to look at the pagoda in front of you. It is built with bluestone bricks using local materials.The tower is more than ten feet high and rests on the top of the ruined temple.The diameter of the tower base is about three meters, but there is no tower door visible from the opposite direction.

Each bluestone brick was engraved with strange words, but Wan Shugao didn't recognize them.

After looking at it for a long time, Wan Shugao asked: "Sister Kexiu, are the words on this a Buddhist talisman?"

"This is the six-character Buddhist mantra written in Sanskrit, Om Mani Padme Hum." Liang Kexiu pointed and introduced:

"It is also called the Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Guanshiyin Bodhisattva Mantra, which symbolizes the compassion and blessing of all Bodhisattvas. Its connotation is extremely rich, infinite, and supreme, and contains the great power, great wisdom, and great compassion in the universe. This mantra is the subtle power of Guanshiyin Bodhisattva. My original intention is that a long time ago, Guanyin Bodhisattva himself upheld this mantra and practiced to become a Buddha..."

Wan Shugao grinned and said: "It turns out I was the one who tricked you, I understand. Sun Wukong was pressed under the Five Elements Mountain, and these six words were posted on it."

"Brother Wan, this is not deception, this is the supreme mantra of Buddhism." Liang Kexiu shook his head and said seriously:

"This mantra contains subtle and inconceivable merits, and it also has immeasurable samadhi methods. All Vajra protectors and the eight deities and dragons are all willing to support it. If this mantra is worn on the body, touched in the hand, hidden in the home, or written on the door, everyone can meet it. Turn bad luck into good luck, disaster turn into good luck, everything you ask for is satisfied.”

"Okay, okay, you're right." Wan Shugao chuckled.

Buddhism and Taoism are different, and Wan Shugao is not interested in Buddhist things, except Buddhist nuns.

"Brother Wan, what do you mean I win?" Liang Kexiu was very stubborn, pointing to the Sanskrit words and said: "A pagoda and a six-character mantra have suppressed evil spirits for thousands of years. Isn't it the power of Buddhism?"

"But now that I can't suppress it anymore, why don't we ask our Taoists for help?" Wan Shugao asked with a proud face.

"That's because I don't have enough foundation. If my master was still here, it wouldn't be like this." Liang Kexiu rolled her eyes at Wan Shugao with dissatisfaction.

"Okay, okay, don't argue, it's too sentimental." Wan Shugao turned on the flashlight and walked towards the back of the pagoda, saying: "Let's take a look at the layout here first. Maybe there is a pagoda gate behind..."

Liang Kexiu finally stopped and followed Wan Shugao around the pagoda to check.

Going to the back of the pagoda, Wan Shugao and Liang Kexiu were both stunned, and blurted out: "The altar? Has anyone been here before?"

On the back of the pagoda, there is a stone table.It is said to be a stone table, but it is actually a stone platform with a big stone at both ends and a stone slab on top.

The stone table is huge, like a big bed.It is full of beautiful things and offerings!
The strange thing is that these offerings are completely different from those in ordinary temples.

"What, what are these things?" Liang Kexiu turned on the flashlight, her voice trembling.

Wan Shugao also felt creepy, so he shined a flashlight over it, identifying each one one by one, and said: "This is fox skin, this is... tiger bone? And this, tree root; and this turtle shell, this is... snake gallbladder?" What is this white mass?"

"Monkey brain, this is monkey brain, fresh monkey brain!" Hunter Zhao Bing followed behind and said tremblingly: "This is bird feathers, this is... an ant nest."

Wan Shugao stood speechless. Such an offering had only been seen in his life, and he had never heard of it before.

In addition to fox skins, tiger bones, snake gallbladders, tree roots, turtle shells, monkey brains, bird feathers and ant nests, there is also a bowl of water on the altar table. The water bowl is distinct, half purple and half red, which is very strange. .

What's even weirder is that there are three white flowers growing on the stone table.

The white flowers are about the size of a palm and are in full bloom. They have a faint fragrance and are a species I have never seen before.

And you can't see the roots of the flowers, only the stems standing on the offering table.

"How come flowers grow on the stone?" Liang Kexiu said with cold sweat dripping from his head: "There is also water in the bowl. Why don't the two colors mix?"

"Yes, who arranged this? What does it mean? These three flowers seem to represent three incense sticks, using flowers as incense. What evil method is this? And who is it dedicated to?" Wan Shugao touched it Chin, puzzled.

Zhao Bing almost cried with fear and said: "If it wasn't a ghost, who else could it be? It's rare for someone to come to this place once a year."

"First, let's see how this flower stands on the stone." Liang Kexiu thought for a long time, then reached out to pick a white flower.

"Wait!" Wan Shugao grabbed Liang Kexiu's wrist and said, "Don't touch these things."

"Why?" Liang Kexiu asked.

"If something goes wrong, you will become a monster. This offering is too monsterous, so be careful." Wan Shugao let go of his hand, looked around, and said:

"Based on common sense, the altar table should be placed facing us so that we can see it when standing outside the temple door. But this altar table is placed at the back. It can be seen that the things being enshrined are not visible. It is speculated that the things being enshrined are suppressed under the pagoda. The male ghost. According to the scene, this altar table was moved recently. The female ghost should not have such great ghost power."

Liang Kexiu nodded. The stone platform weighed at least three to five hundred kilograms. It was indeed not easy to move it here.

"Then what should we do now? I think we should go out and return the way we came." Zhao Bing said pitifully.

"With me here, what are you afraid of?" Wan Shugao glared at Zhao Bing, then looked at the offerings on the stone table, and said, "Let me see if there is any deception in these things."

After finishing speaking, Wan Shugao took a few steps back, pointed the tactic in his hand towards the altar, and shouted: "There is a magic formula for killing ghosts in Maoshan, and it is unknown whether the master has received it..."

Liang Kexiu and Zhao Bing retreated to the side, watching intently.

However, after Wan Shugao recited the incantation three times, the things on the offering table did not change at all, they were still the same.

The night wind blew in from the open temple door, and the three white flowers on the stone slab moved with the wind, enchanting and whirling, as if they were mocking Wan Shugao's magical power.

"It's not a cover-up, nor a change in ghost power. These things are real."

Wan Shugao loosened his fingers, pondered for a moment, and said, "Sister Kexiu, let's withdraw, guard the temple gate, and wait until daybreak to make plans."

"Amitabha, Om Mani Padme Hum..." Liang Kexiu clasped her hands together and recited a Buddhist mantra, nodded and said, "Okay, get out first."

(End of this chapter)