Black Myth: Journey to the West: Simulate becoming an immortal!

Chapter 105: Weird, Weird, Weird
"If you keep walking, you'll be lost."

The ethereal and pleasant voice of the Stone Mother echoed in Chen Xi's mind.

At this moment, Chen Xi felt as if struck by lightning, and a chill ran up his spine from the soles of his feet.

This, how is this possible? !
Why is what Lingji Bodhisattva said exactly the same as what the headless monk said!!!
Could it be that Lingji Bodhisattva is really not dead, and he is the headless monk?

But if that is the case, how could such a powerful person fall into such a situation?

If He really wasn't dead, how could Huangfeng Ridge be ruled by the Yellow Wind Monster?
Chen Xi's expression kept changing. Shi Mu's words really shocked him.

He quickly asked, his tone no longer as calm as before.

"Is this the only sentence left by the Bodhisattva?"

"When He left, was there anything unusual? Or did He leave you any other instructions?"

After hearing this, Shi Mu thought quietly for a moment before speaking.

"There was nothing unusual about the Bodhisattva, but I could see at the time that he seemed to be a little uneasy."

"He once specifically instructed me that if the holy monk comes, I should help him to continue on his journey and fulfill his destiny."

"I still need these children I've conceived to help the holy monk."

After Shi Mu finished speaking, Shi Cangcang and Shi Shuangshuang, who were waiting beside Shi Mu, couldn't help but move.

Chen Xi glanced at them and felt a little confused.

How can these weak stone monsters help him?
At this time, the Stone Mother bent down and stroked Shi Cangcang and Shi Shuangshuang.

"Saint monk, although I don't know the deep meaning of the Bodhisattva's words, I will let these children go with you on this trip."

"I have heard the Bodhisattva's admonitions. We were evil people for nine lifetimes, and that is why we have now been reborn as this body of stone..."

The Stone Mother lowered her head and gave the same instructions to the two stone monsters. Her words were filled with tenderness and reluctance.

"Children, now that the holy monk has arrived, he needs your help, so you should follow him."

"If you can help the holy monk, fulfill the destiny and save this demonic world from suffering."

"If you can use your infinite merits to dissolve your past sins, free the stubborn stone, and no longer have to suffer with me, then my mother will be satisfied."

As Shi Mu gave these instructions, Shi Cangcang and Shi Shuangshuang suddenly revealed some sadness and reluctance.

Shi Mu raised her head slightly and looked at Chen Hui.

"Holy monk, I'll trouble you with what happens next."

Shi Mu's entrustment made Chen Xi feel pressured, and his shoulders seemed to be a little heavier.

Now, his future is still uncertain, so he can only take things one step at a time.

Does a person like him really have the ability to be trusted?
Chen Xi turned around and wanted to greet the Toad Spirit and Shi Linlin.

However, when he saw Shi Linlin's current appearance, he was shocked!

At this time, Shi Linlin was still immersed in the farewell that had just taken place.

It became more and more dazed, and kept muttering to itself.

"No, no, no, I was transformed into stone by a Zen master, how could you be my mother!"

"No! No! I was conceived by my mother, and my mother is a stone."

Shi Linlin swayed her body, and her posture became more and more crazy.

The words coming out of its mouth were very confusing, illogical, and seemed extremely painful.

Seeing this, Shi Mu seemed a little distressed.

It struggled to get closer and gently stroked Shi Linlin.

"My child, if you feel bad, stop thinking about it. If you can't tell the difference, then just let it be."

"Mother knows you haven't had a good time these years, as long as I still remember you, that's all."

"As long as you can live a good life in the future, it doesn't matter if you forget about your mother..."

"Child, it's okay, mother is here..."

Mother Shi continued to comfort her softly, and Shi Linlin's confused thoughts gradually calmed down, and she no longer looked painful.

This……

As Chen Xi looked at this scene, his doubts grew instead of diminishing.

What is the connection between Shi Linlin and Shi Mu?
Didn’t Shi Linlin say that his mother wasn’t made of stone?
After much thought, Chen Xi decided not to get to the bottom of the matter.

Continuing to ask questions now would only make Shi Linlin more confused and would not be helpful to the current situation.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, Chen Xi did not dare to delay any longer, for fear of missing the headless monk.

Taking advantage of the little time left, Chen Xi wanted to get some useful information from Shi Mu about the matter of the headless monk.

In this way, he could confirm whether the headless monk was Lingji Bodhisattva as he thought!
However, unexpectedly, even the Stone Mother who lived here and had even seen Lingji Bodhisattva did not know who the headless monk was.

Shi Mu only knew that the headless monk had existed in Huangfeng Ridge a long, long time ago.

He calls himself Monk Daosheng, which seems to have nothing to do with Lingji Bodhisattva.

"This……"

The more Chen Xi listened, the more confused he became. Since the headless monk was the so-called monk Daosheng, why did he say the same words as Lingji Bodhisattva?
He frowned, somewhat confused.

However, although he did not learn anything about the headless monk from the Stone Mother, he did not gain nothing.

At the very least, he found out from Shi Mu that...Shi Gandang.

"It is said that Shi Gan Dang was once the mount of Lingji Bodhisattva. Because he committed a serious mistake, he was sealed here by the Bodhisattva to reflect on himself."

"The evil demon has given up his teachings. His sins are hard to redeem. He will be stripped of his six eyes and buried in the earth forever."

"As for the awakening method mentioned by the holy monk..."

Shi Mu seemed a little hesitant and considered for a while before speaking.

"The Bodhisattva has established three things: water dripping through a stone, a stubborn stone nodding its head, and a stone being boiled in a pot rotting. If one of these three things is accomplished, then you will be liberated!"

Chen Xi was stunned and his heart sank.

If you want to call out the stone, you need water dripping through the stone, the stubborn stone nodding, and the stone boiling to pieces!

How is he supposed to do this?
What's more, he doesn't have the time to think about these things...

"Wait a minute..."

Just when Chen Xi looked grim and didn't know what to do.

He moved his ears slightly and heard a familiar strange tone coming from outside.

This situation is just as the human skin paper predicted.

"It's him!"

Chen Xi's eyes fixed, and without thinking about anything else, he quickly said goodbye to Shi Mu.

Immediately afterwards, the divine power of feet came into play!
Lotus flowers bloomed under his feet as he ran straight towards the sound!

At this moment, the questions and confusions in his heart had already piled up like a mountain.

The headless monk and Lingji Bodhisattva, what is the relationship between the two?
What does the so-called liberation of the stubborn stone mean?
How on earth could he release the so-called Stone Guardian?
You can't really just let him wait for water drops to wear through a stone, can you?

No matter what, Chen Xi had to take this opportunity to stop the headless monk and ask him about all these things clearly.

It was just as the sun was setting and the sky was getting dark!

Chen Xi rushed out of the crystal cave, and Shi Linlin, Shi Cangcang and Shi Shuangshuang, who were entrusted by the Stone Mother, followed closely behind him.

The toad spirit was squeezed so hard by them that it almost couldn't catch up.

In a short while, Chen Xi found the source of the sound.

I saw a huge rugged rock standing on a piece of yellow land.

The headless monk sat on top of the rugged rocks, playing the sanxian and boiling stones.

From time to time, it gestured with its hands and sang strange tunes in its belly, looking very crazy.

"Gu Guguai, Gu Guguai, the bones of the ninth-generation evildoer in stone~"

"All causes and effects are debts, and reincarnation does not only bring suffering to the world~"

"We met without knowing each other, the wanderer bids farewell to his loving mother~"

"Today I meet destiny, cooking in a stubborn stone pot~"

"Monkey hair fossil demon, six words crushing the loess~"

"The six eyes are able to return, the demons are vanquished and the tigers are tamed~" Chen Xi's expression changed as he listened to the headless monk's strange singing.

This time, the lyrics sung by the headless monk were unexpectedly different from those simulated by the human skin paper!

It seems that he didn't make any mistakes this time.

And if he remembered correctly, the lyrics of the headless monk seemed to come from Monk Zhigong.

As the saying goes, weird, weird, the grandson marries the grandmother.

Cows and sheep sit on the kang, and relatives are cooked in the pot.

The daughter eats her mother's flesh, and the son beats the drum made of his father's skin.

Everyone came to congratulate him, but I saw how miserable he was.

According to the original meaning, this line should refer to the suffering of sentient beings in the cycle of reincarnation.

Relatives have never recognized each other. There are two people in the word "meat", and the person inside is connected to the person outside.

Living beings eat the flesh of other living beings. Think carefully about cannibalism.

The closest relatives may be the sentient beings you have killed.

The most hated enemies may be your own parents and children.

Everything is a continuation of cause and effect, and all beings are in reincarnation.

The monkey hair in the song turned into a stone demon and was pressed into the loess by the six characters. Could it be referring to the origin of this stone demon?
Could it be that the headless monk is hinting at something by singing this song?
Nine generations of evil people, meeting without knowing each other
Isn’t this referring to Stone Mother and Stone Phosphorus?
The lyrics sung by the headless monk seemed to vaguely fit in with what he had just experienced.

Or he might hint at the secret of Huangfengling in some way.

Chen Xi stared at the headless monk intently. This guy must have been watching him secretly.
What exactly is this guy's purpose?
Could it be that this is what is called destiny?

For some reason, Chen Xi's mood became more and more irritable.

Especially when he heard the lyrics, "Today I have met the destiny, and my family is cooking in the pot."

He had a vague bad feeling in his heart.

Under the rugged rocks, there is a large iron pot.

There was boiling water in the pot, bubbling with bubbles.

There's nothing in it, just waiting to be filled with stones!

At this moment, Chen Xi thought of what Shi Mu said, that only when the stones in the pot were boiled into pieces could Shi Gan Dang escape!

His pupils shrank slightly as he realized something.

"You are such a secretive person, you never speak your mind and you keep talking nonsense!"

"Who are you and why are you acting like this?!"

Chen Xi put aside the random thoughts that popped up in his mind, and a hint of hostility appeared between his brows.

He stepped forward and asked sternly.

The divine power of feet is ready to be used at any time to capture the headless monk.

However, the headless monk did not respond to Chen Xi.

It was mad, shaking its body, repeating the same lyrics over and over again.
It casually threw a hard stone, which fell into the big iron pot.

In an instant, the stone shed its outer skin, revealing its smooth and lustrous inner lining, and became extremely soft and elastic.

"Today I meet destiny, cooking in a stubborn stone pot~"

Shi Linlin muttered to herself, looked at Chen Xi, and then looked at the big iron pot.

It followed Zen Master Wuchao for a long time, and although it didn't learn any real skills, it was not troubled by witty remarks and riddles.

To Shi Linlin, the headless monk's words were almost a clear statement.
No wonder the Bodhisattva my mother mentioned needs a group of little demons like these to follow the holy monk.

No wonder the Zen master said that Huangfeng Ridge is the place where the stubborn stone can be liberated.

"So, the place where we can help the holy monk is here..."

Shi Linlin looked at the big iron pot and muttered to herself.

For a moment, Shi Shuangshuang and Shi Cangcang couldn't help but feel an instinctive fear in their hearts.

"Quack? Then Stone, why are you talking to a pot?"

The toad spirit seemed to notice that Shi Linlin seemed to be a little strange, and asked in confusion.

Shi Linlin did not answer, but just smiled bitterly.

Seeing this, Chen Xi's expression became even uglier.

He had already realized what the headless monk was planning.

He immediately stepped forward and tried to stop Shi Linlin.

Unexpectedly, Shi Linlin shook her body and politely declined him.

"Holy monk, that's all"

"I don't know why, but I feel very tired, very tired."

“It seems like I have experienced a lot and seen a lot.”

"Now the Zen master has passed away, and he entrusted the scriptures to you, the holy monk."

"Now let me lend a helping hand to you, the holy monk. This is the wish of the Zen master and also my mother."

“This may be my destiny.”

When Chen Xi heard this, his outstretched hand froze in mid-air, not knowing what to do.

Destiny, it’s damn destiny again!

"You, wait a moment, calm down, maybe we have another solution..."

Shi Linlin said nothing more and pushed Chen Xi's hand away.

Then, in the shocked gazes of the monsters, it jumped lightly and fell into the big iron pot.

The scalding water caused the rocks to crack and explode.

Shi Linlin was in great pain, but did not forget to ask questions to the headless monk.

"Master, if you have compassion, can you tell me?"

"Which of the things in my head are real and which are false?"

"Why do I remember that I have an old mother who is sick in bed?"

"But if that old mother is my mother, then what is the Stone Mother?"

"Am I enlightened by a Zen master, or was I born from a stone mother?"

The headless monk stopped plucking the sanxian and stopped singing.

It made sounds in its belly, with a compassionate tone.

"Shiwazi, you are obsessed"

"True and false, false and true, what is true and what is false?"

"Reincarnation never stops, all beings are sinking, why can't everything be true?"

"You were transformed into stone, and you were born from stone. It all depends on whether you believe it or not in the end."

"Thank you, I understand..."

Shi Linlin let out a muffled laugh of relief, and then the stone body peeled off, quickly sank into the pot, and fell apart.

In a moment, two smooth, plump, and extremely round white bone eyeballs were left in the big iron pot.

"Gua, this stone, Master Buddha, why is this happening?"

When the Toad Spirit saw that Shi Linlin, with whom he had been getting along all the way, had died just like that, he was confused and puzzled for a moment.

Chen Xi clenched his fists, anger growing in his heart.

This damn headless monk
But he also knew that this was Shi Linlin's own choice.

And Shi Linlin made this decision so that he could cross the 800-mile Huangfeng Ridge.

Chen Xi benefited from this, but he felt very uncomfortable.

Although he knew that he looked very hypocritical.
Is it really necessary to do so?

(End of this chapter)