The Strange Tales of Tokyo Monk

"Today, with the Great Sun Tathagata as a witness, I appoint you as the mountain god of this forest. I hope you can always uphold good thoughts and deeds, and from now on, protect the peace and prosperity of this land, forever preserve the forest, and protect all spirits."

Pinggong Qianye threw the Dharma bowl in his hand and hung it above the mountain boy's head. He drew some of the power of Vairocana Tathagata and merged it into the mountain boy's body.

This forms a connection between the two, which is equivalent to concluding a contract.

In fact, the procedure he used to confer the title of God on the gods was a very simple one.

To ordain a deity in Shintoism, one needs to build an altar and have a corresponding number of believers nearby to pray devoutly to the deity.

The higher the priesthood you want to confer upon a deity, the more believers you will need.

Because of the order in which orthodox Shintoism confer gods, generally this spirit has already gained a good reputation in the local area and has many believers willing to worship it devoutly.

Only then did Shintoism take notice of it and give it an orthodox status.

Later, in order to save trouble and for selfish reasons, some Shinto sects first found a suitable spirit, cultivated a certain number of believers for it, and then held the enthronement ceremony.

In this case, it doesn't matter whether it is a good reputation or a bad reputation, as long as the corresponding procedures of the conferring ceremony are followed.

Pinggong Chiye had no right to comment on others. After all, his enthronement ceremony was different from the orthodox Shinto enthronement ceremony.

But he is not a Shinto practitioner, so he doesn't need to be too particular about Shintoism.

"Om Ah La Prajna De."

Pinggong recites the "Manjushri Wisdom Mantra" for thousands of nights, also known as the "Manjushri Bodhisattva Heart Mantra".

The reason for choosing the "Manjushri Wisdom Mantra" is to enlighten the wisdom of this mountain boy.

It seems to be sincere enough, but lacks wisdom.

Even the little mountain rabbit can babble a lot of words, but it can't even speak human language, which shows its obvious lack of intelligence.

This is related to race. When a mountain boy is young, he grows one day at a time. His wisdom cannot keep up with the changes in his body, and he grows so slowly that he looks a little dull and stupid.

When Pinggong Qianye recited the "Manjushri Wisdom Mantra" three times, some kind of contract was vaguely formed between heaven and earth.

Pinggong Qianye looked at the sky, the earth, the mountains, the grass, the wind and the forest, then slowly retracted his Dharma bowl. The wisdom body of Vairocana Tathagata behind him gradually dissipated.

"Phew, this scared the King of the Mountain to death."

The mountain rabbit hiding on the magic frog's head quietly popped its head out, patted its chest with its hands, and breathed a sigh of relief.

When the Vairocana Buddha appeared just now, she could clearly feel that her soul and blood were about to freeze.

In the vast bright world where He is, there is nowhere to escape.

This is still the effect that the Vairocana Tathagata did not specifically target himself.

Maybe He really only needs to glare at Him to make everything go away.

This monk is so scary!

Definitely stay away!

"Xiao Qing, you must remember in the future that you must never provoke monks! Especially him!"

Yamausagi looked down at the small green snake that had wrapped around his waist at some point, and issued a solemn warning.

"why?"

"what!"

The mountain rabbit was so frightened that he almost jumped up, "Xiaoqing, when did you learn to speak human language?"

“Just now.”

Wrapped around the mountain rabbit's waist, a slender green snake tilted its head back, blinked its watery eyes, and stuck out its tongue.

Chapter 115 Green Snake: Master, I want you to help me practice

"This, how is this possible!"

Yamausagi's eyes widened and he almost jumped up in shock, so he could no longer hold back his voice.

Pinggong Chiye, the old mountain boy, and the other two young mountain boys all cast their eyes over.

Even the magic frog she was sitting on croaked twice to express its confusion at the moment.

"You guys, don't look at me like that, please continue to ignore me..."

Yamauti lowered his head again and started talking softly to Xiaoqing who was hugging his waist.

"It looks like something good is happening again."

The old mountain boy withdrew his gaze and vaguely guessed the reason.

He had also heard the "Manjushri Wisdom Mantra" recited by Master Padmasambhava just now when he was young.

But that time, he was hiding outside the wall and eavesdropping.

The monk must have discovered its existence, but did not make it public. Instead, he recited the "Manjushri Wisdom Mantra" three times in the house to enlighten its wisdom.

Not long after that, it gradually learned human language and its wisdom increased a lot more than before.

After it gained enough wisdom, it learned to think like a human, and realized that it was because of the help of the monk that it was able to increase its wisdom and learn human language.

For this, it has always been grateful to the monk.

Later, it secretly went back again, but after a few years, the monk had passed away and was no longer alive.

Now, it heard this familiar scripture again.

This is undoubtedly a great fortune for the mountain children clan, whose wisdom is growing slowly.

"Ah...oh...shan...tong..."

The young mountain boy who was given the title opened his mouth and spoke intermittently. Under the guidance of the old mountain boy, he was gradually able to pronounce the word "mountain boy" clearly.

"Master Liansheng, please wait for one night. I have some matters to tell them about after my death."

The old mountain boy forced himself to stand there tremblingly. His time was coming. After teaching the young mountain boy the human language and some secrets of the mountain boy clan, he could rest assured and become the spirit of the Zen staff in Master Liansheng's hand.

"Grandmaster……"

The young mountain boy faced Pinggong Qianye, knelt down and kowtowed three times.

Being appointed as a mountain god is a transaction, but reciting the "Manjushri Wisdom Mantra" to enlighten its wisdom is a favor.

"Master Liansheng, please wait a moment."

After the old mountain boy said this, he asked two younger mountain boys to support him, and the four mountain boys disappeared into the depths of the dense forest together.

Under the waterfall, beside the stream, only Pinggong Qianye, Yamausagi, Mowa and Xiaoqing were left.

"Quack."

The magic frog lowered its posture and bowed its head to greet the eminent monk Pinggong Qianye.

Pinggong Qianye spoke curiously: "With your wisdom and cultivation, you should have understood human nature and human language long ago."

"Quack."

The frog just shook its head.

"Mr. Frog said that he didn't want to speak human language. He always thought he was a frog turned into a monster."

The mountain rabbit could only raise its head again and act as a translator: "Quack, that's the language of their tribe, just like the different languages ​​spoken by different countries and races in your human world."

This is a monster that sticks to his original nature.

Pinggong Qianye still had some admiration for its behavior, but at the same time he was curious: could just two quacks express such rich information?

"I, I'm just helping Mr. Frog to supplement his inner thoughts."

Yamausagi lowered his head and admitted in a low voice that he had added the new content when he was acting as a translator.

"Why are you here too? To visit relatives and friends?" Pinggong Qianye directly skipped the magic frog and talked to the mountain rabbit.

"..."

Yamausagi raised his head, mustered up his courage, and glared at Hiramiya Chiye with his little black eyes.

If this man hadn't come to the forest where he was and roared a few times, he wouldn't have been chased here by that hateful big tiger.

"There's a ferocious tiger monster chasing us."

When the mountain rabbit was silent, Xiaoqing crawled out from the mountain rabbit's waist and put its snake head on the mountain rabbit's shoulder.

Hey, it’s a snake demon.

It still looks green all over. Is this the Xiaoqing that the mountain rabbit mentioned just now?

Pinggong Qianye suddenly became interested. It was always easy for stories to happen between the snake demon and the monk.

In many folk tales and movies and TV dramas, snake spirits often get entangled with monks.

"Do you have a sister named Xiaobai?" Pinggong Qianye couldn't help but ask.

"No, I have been practicing alone since I was born. I don't have any older sister."

When Xiaoqing spoke, she looked at the mountain rabbit deliberately, "The mountain rabbit king often takes care of me. If there is a sister, it can only be the mountain rabbit king."

Pinggong Qianye's eyes looked a little strange, but if you think about it carefully.

The white-haired mountain rabbit and the green snake-transformed demon Xiaoqing are, in a sense, also one white and one green.

"Thank you Master Liansheng for reciting the Buddhist sutra just now, which has helped me to enlighten my wisdom and enable me to understand human nature and human language."

Xiaoqing climbed down from the mountain rabbit and came to the front of the magic frog's head. He straightened his upper body, imitated the mountain boy just now, and bowed three times to Pinggong Qianye.

This is a very spiritual and intelligent snake demon.

Pinggong Qianye compared Xiaoqing and Shantong in his mind, and the difference in intelligence between the two was extremely obvious.

One of them still speaks haltingly, while the other can already speak fluently, as well as an average human.

This is probably what is meant by qualifications.

But it is also normal. After all, Shan Tong takes the route of strong brick flying, which does not require too much intelligence.

Pinggong Qianye chatted with Yamausagi and Xiaoqing for a while before he fully understood why they appeared here tonight.

He himself was the source of the incident.

"What did you just say that big tiger was called?"

"Tiger Vanguard, that's what Grandpa Shan Tong called it."

Yamausagi's tone was somewhat indignant. What Tiger Vanguard? It was obviously just a hateful big tabby cat!

“That’s a great name.”

Pinggong Qianye showed a smile on his face. It was not easy for a tiger demon with such a name to live so long.

After finishing this topic, the atmosphere became somewhat silent.

Pinggong Qianye took out a few wild fruits from his bag, including wild plums and myrtles, squatted down, and washed them in the stream.

Looking back at the mountain rabbits and other monsters, they had no interest in these commonly eaten wild fruits in the mountains.

Pinggong Qianye sat on the jade bed where the old mountain boy had lain before, eating wild fruits, sometimes chatting with Shantu and Xiaoqing, but more often, he admired the moonlight in the mountains.

All in all, this should be his first time camping in the mountains.

In order to save time to get here today, he crossed a large area of ​​mountains and forests and took a straight line, so that he could arrive here from Arakawa District within one day.

After eating the wild fruits, Pinggong Qianye drank a few sips of the clear mountain spring, then sat on the jade bed, silently chanting scriptures and practicing.

About half an hour later, Pinggong Qianye felt something rubbed against his trouser leg. He opened his eyes and saw that it was Xiaoqing who had come down from the mountain rabbit.

It should be a bamboo green snake that has cultivated into a demon. It has a slender body, emerald green all over without any other colors, and is about one meter and two meters long.

It looks very beautiful, especially when it is coiled into a circle, it looks like a string of clear green bracelets.

Its eyes are not bloody red, but black and white, revealing its ignorance of the world.

If you look closely, you can see that it has dimples on both sides of its head, similar to human dimples.

At this moment, it was swimming near his trouser leg, wanting to get closer to him, but a little scared, with a hint of curiosity in its eyes.

Pinggong Qianye bent down and stretched out his right hand. Xiaoqing blinked her watery eyes and crawled over along his right hand. She curled up in his palm, raised her snake head slightly and looked at him.

The cool touch is a temperature unique to cold-blooded animals like snakes.