Chapter 544 Little Heavenly Master, Help Me to Be Liberated

"The three souls will never be lost!"

Zhang Zhiwei pinched Wang Ai's neck with one hand and raised it up, and pointed his other hand at Wang Ai's forehead, casting the Heart Purification Mantra.

"Roar, big-faced thief, I must kill you, big-faced thief, I must kill you!!"

Wang Ai, who was possessed by the "National Master", roared wildly, and his eyes were spurting blood for three inches. His eyeballs were full of bloodshot, which looked quite scary.

But then, the roar stopped abruptly, and the Heart Purification Mantra was like a clear spring, pouring into the brain of the "National Master" that was like a red-hot iron.

Silence, as quiet as a cardiac arrest.

The blood in Wang Ai's eyes faded, and he regained his clarity. He looked at Zhang Zhiwei and opened his mouth, just about to explain.

"Why don't you go back quickly? I'll deal with you later when I go back!" Zhang Zhiwei glared.

"Wang Ai" no longer lived up to his previous arrogance. He shrank his neck, rolled his eyes, and fainted.

After the "National Master" left, the Qi surrounding Wang Ai disappeared, and he completely returned to his original appearance.

At this moment, Wang Ai, due to over-bearing the power of the "National Master", exceeded the limit of his body's bearing, and had been backlashed beyond recognition.

Many parts of his skin were burned by lightning, festering to the bone, and white smoke was emitting from the hideous wounds. Not only the skin and flesh on the surface, but also the internal organs suffered great damage. If it weren't for the heaving chest, I'm afraid he would be regarded as dead.

This kind of injury, if it were an ordinary doctor, would almost be declared incurable and death, but for Zhang Zhiwei, it was nothing.

I saw his hands emitting red light, covering Wang Ai's whole body, and began to restore his body.

In an instant, the horrible and disgusting buds flew and connected into one piece, and new intact flesh and blood grew from the charred flesh and blood.

In less than half an incense stick of time, Wang Ai, who had almost turned into a charred corpse, had recovered. Except for the pale skin color of the newly grown skin, it was almost the same as before.

Wang Ai was still in a coma. Zhang Zhiwei carried Wang Ai on his shoulders and moved back to where everyone was.

After the monk Dengcao fled, the Twelve Labor Emotion Formation was lifted. The people who were affected before were not affected any more. The rationality in their brains gradually occupied the high ground, and most of them recovered their sanity.

Due to the instigation of the monk Dengcao, the people of the righteous path who had internal conflicts all let go of their past grievances.

The Quanxing demons who were furious also regained their rationality, knowing that things were irreversible and unwilling to fight with the righteous path again, and immediately wanted to withdraw from Fengyang Town.

But if you want to fight, you fight, if you want to leave, you leave, where in the world is there such a good thing?

The righteous people began to clear out some remnants of bandits in the town.

Most of the tough guys were cleared out by Zhang Zhiwei, and these insignificant little guys were cleared out in a few moves.

Everyone began to rest on the spot, check the casualties, and restore their internal energy.

"Senior Wang, catch it!"

Zhang Zhiwei threw Wang Ai to the head of the Wang family.

The head of the Wang family hurriedly caught it, and when he saw Wang Ai unconscious, his face changed: "Little Tianshi, this..."

"Overconsumption, rest for a while and you'll be fine!" Zhang Zhiwei said.

Knowing that Wang Ai was fine, the head of the Wang family breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

Zhang Zhiwei glanced around and saw that the casualties were small. He nodded and reminded:

"Head of the Wang family, the twelve meridians affect not only emotions, but also internal organs. You take a rest, I'll go meet that inexplicable layman Wu Man!"

After that, without waiting for the head of the Wang family to answer, he turned and went to the town's ancestral hall.

"Alas..."

The head of the Wang family wanted to persuade Zhang Zhiwei to go with them, but looking at Zhang Zhiwei's back, he opened his mouth, swallowed the words of dissuasion, and sighed:

"Looking at the momentum of the little master, he is powerful and light, and his cultivation realm is so high that it seems that he is one with the world. Who dares to treat him as a junior?"

The head of the Lu family also sighed: "It is true. I am ashamed to say that I, an older generation, have a sense of oppression when facing the little master. It really fits the saying that there is no order of learning, and the one who is accomplished is the teacher!"

At this time, he found that Lu Ci was tiptoeing towards the ancestral hall of the town. His face sank immediately and he shouted:

"Rebellious son! Where are you going?"

Lu Ci's heart skipped a beat, his face was stiff, and he turned back and said: "Father, I want to see the situation of Senior Brother Zhang!"

"You still have the face to mention the word father?" The head of the Lu family snorted coldly, and he remembered Lu Ci's previous rebellious remarks.

Even Lu Ci couldn't help but lick his teeth at those remarks. He felt that it was difficult to deal with, so he could only forcefully argue:

"Father, what I said before was not my original intention. I was really deceived by the demon of Quan Xing!"

"Deceived by the demon of Quan Xing?" The head of the Lu family curled his lips, "Then why didn't you speak to the little Taoist priest? Instead, your attitude was extremely good?"

I said, father, it is important for people to know themselves. Can you compare with Senior Brother Zhang? If you provoke me, you can only punish me a few words at most. If you provoke me, you will be slapped in the face... Lu Ci complained in his heart.

But such inner words naturally cannot be said. He was thinking about how to deal with it.

Lv Ren, who was standing aside, saw his brother scratching his head and said immediately:

"Father, there is a reason for this. Please don't blame me too much. Moreover, the reason why my brother is like this is also a manifestation of his closeness to you!"

"You said... this is a manifestation of closeness to me?" The head of the Lu family sneered.

Lü Ren explained: "When I was studying in the academy, I read a few Western articles that said that this situation is actually because people feel safe with people they are close to, so they can express their emotions more freely, and this emotion is naturally full of anger."

"And with people they are not close to, because they don't have enough sense of security, they will have a kind of psychological defense, and their emotions will be more restrained, so they will be more friendly to strangers."

"My brother is friendly to Senior Brother Zhang, but he is irritable to you, father. Doesn't this just show that he is close to you, father, so you don't have to be angry about this!"

"Really?" The head of the Lu family looked at Lu Ci with a suspicious face.

"Ah, yes, yes, that's what I think!" Lu Ci nodded like pounding garlic.

"Brother Lu, this is indeed true, but this family matter should be taken care of later. The little Tianshi went to the ancestral temple, and Wu Man was cunning, fearing that there was a fraud, so we should follow him quickly!" The head of the Wang family said while holding Wang Ai.

"Brother Wang is right!" The head of the Lu family nodded, and stopped nagging. He walked down the stairs and didn't blame him in public. He just didn't want to get away with it.

Immediately, the two heads of the family ordered the others to rest on the spot, be on guard, and prevent Quan Xing from attacking, and then rush to the ancestral hall.

Every failure makes one wiser. Because of the large number of people, they didn't bring many people this time.

On the other side.

Zhang Zhiwei jumped a few times and came to the ancestral hall in the town in a flash.

Looking in from the door, you can see that the platform of the ancestral hall is full of spirit tablets, and there are some lamp stands on both sides.

Wu Man sat cross-legged in front of the spirit tablet, one hand made a single hand clasped, the other hand moved the Buddhist beads in his hand, and kept chanting Sanskrit.

Beside him, a group of people in simple clothes stood densely. Although these people were standing, their eyes were dull and their expressions were wooden, giving people a feeling of puppets.

These people should be ordinary people in the town, but looking at their current appearance... Zhang Zhiwei said secretly, with golden flames boiling in his eyes. He stared over and found that they were all fine. They were just under some kind of illusion and lost their minds...

"Amitabha, Little Heavenly Master, I have been waiting for a long time!"

Wu Man opened his eyes, chanted a Buddhist name, and turned to look at Zhang Zhiwei.

"You're waiting for me?" Zhang Zhiwei tilted his head and looked at Wu Man, "Are you waiting to die?"

Wu Man was not angry at all, and said: "The Buddha said that life is death and death is life. The little Taoist priest thinks I am waiting to die, so why am I not waiting to be born?!"

Zhang Zhiwei was not in a hurry to kill Wu Man, and said expressionlessly: "What else did the Buddha tell you?"

Wu Man twisted the Buddhist beads in her hand and said eloquently: "The Buddha said that compassion brings disaster, and convenience brings vulgarity; too many Taoists and monks only know compassion, but they don't know how to use it, which brings disaster, and they are far less intelligent than the little Taoist priest's diamond means and bodhisattva heart!"

"Two mouths, how can you All of them make sense!" Zhang Zhiwei grinned: "Go on!"

Wu Man continued seriously: "Buddha said a lot, Buddha said, if you have Buddha in your heart, you are in the temple!"

"Buddha said, Dharma is in the world, and it is inseparable from the worldly awakening. Seeking Bodhi away from the world is like seeking the horns of a rabbit. If you leave the world to practice, even if you practice more Dharma, it will be useless."

"So, I left the Sanlun Sect, which practiced seclusion, returned to the secular world, and practiced in the world."

Zhang Zhiwei listened quietly. He had read the information about Wu Man given by Xiaozhan. Wu Man came from the Sanlun Sect among the eight sects of Buddhism, which is the sect that pursues the emptiness of the five aggregates.

"The Buddha said, you are not far from the Buddha, without any expedients, you can open your mind naturally."

"The Buddha said, all the methods of cultivation in the world are to seek tranquility of mind, the so-called cessation. Although there are many methods of Buddhist practice, in summary, there is only one, that is, cessation and observation!"

Master also said this when he was teaching Zhang Zhiwei. All the methods of inner cultivation in the world can be summed up in one word, that is, "observation", but the objects and angles of observation are different.

"The Buddha said that all Bodhisattvas do not accept blessings, do not seek rewards, and do not suffer from karma!"

"The Buddha said that practicing in favorable circumstances will never lead to Buddhahood. If I don't go to hell, who will?"

Wu Man's speech speed became faster and faster:

"The Buddha advocates educating all sentient beings. Although hell is dangerous, if no one is willing to go to hell, who will save the sentient beings in hell who need to be educated the most? Therefore, I returned to the Three Treatises School and joined Quanxing!"

"The Buddha said that if there is a person who gives his life as alms, and after countless time, only gives alms without asking for it back, this person will have great blessings."

"The Buddha said that seeing enemies is like seeing your own parents!"

"To see enemies as your own parents and relatives, enemies and relatives are equal, this is the realm of Buddha, so after I entered Quanxing, I treated all the people in Quanxing as my own children and relatives..."

Wu Man talked endlessly.

Zhang Zhiwei's eyes flickered, and he actually saw the shadow of Wu Gensheng on Wu Man's increasingly impatient face.

Doesn't Wu Man's words correspond to the current Wu Gensheng?

It is said that Wu Gensheng is a born madman, without temperament and without roots. It turns out that he believes in Buddhism, or in other words, he does not believe in Buddhism, but practices Buddhist principles in every move.

Perhaps, when Wu Man first entered Quanxing, he had the same idea as Wu Gensheng now, and did similar things, but he eventually fell.

It can be said that Wu Man and Wu Gensheng are the same kind of people. No wonder Wu Gensheng was able to save Wu Man and let him realize and be liberated.

But Wu Gensheng could save Wu Man, who was sinking in his whole nature, but who could save him when his mood became serious due to certain things? !

After all, it is easier to save others than to save oneself.

Wu Man was still eloquent.

"Buddha said that plainness is true and calmness is blessing!"

"Buddha said, worry is born from persistence, and trouble is born from persistence!"

"Buddha said, like the Buddha in the heart, all living beings are like the Buddha. There is no difference between the Buddha in the heart and all living beings!"

"Buddha said..."

"Buddha said..."

"The Buddha said that only by eradicating ignorance can you achieve the Buddha's path!"

Having said this, Wu Man's expression no longer remained calm as before and became irritable.

His face was ferocious, his voice suddenly rose in pitch, and his words became overlapping, as if there were echoes, and there was no Buddha nature at all, and there was even a hint of resentment in it.

"I remember every word the Buddha said, and I can speak every principle in the Buddhist scriptures. In the entire Three Treatises sect, no one can compare with me in terms of expounding the scriptures, reciting the Buddha's name, and expounding the Buddhist principles. But What’s the use of understanding Buddhism?”

Wu Man changed his posture from sitting cross-legged to kneeling. His face had bulging veins and was extremely ferocious and twisted. He looked haggard and like an evil ghost. Blood and tears were flowing from his eyes. He shouted out all his struggles, hesitation and confusion to Zhang Zhiwei:

"I can't do it. I still can't truly see the five aggregates and emptiness. I can't break the ignorance. I can't break the ignorance!!"

The five aggregates in Buddhism are the form aggregate, the feeling aggregate, the thinking aggregate, the formation aggregate, and the consciousness aggregate. They are the perception of all temptations in the outside world. Letting go of the five aggregates means letting go of all the temptations in the world. This is in line with what Yang Zhu, the founder of the universe, put forward. , don't pluck a hair, don't take a cent, they coincide with each other and have the same philosophy.

As for ignorance...it literally means dimness and darkness, and generally describes the lost state of mind.

In a narrow sense, it is the third poison among the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance. You don't know what you are thinking or doing. Therefore, people often use "unknown anger" to describe anger and anger.

Broadly speaking, all knowledge, views, and actions that are not reasonable and dharma are all ignorance, greed is also ignorance, anger is also ignorance, love is ignorance, hatred is ignorance... All troubles are all ignorance.

Wu Manming cannot see the five aggregates and cannot break ignorance. What he calls ignorance refers to the latter.

Wu Man looked at Zhang Zhiwei with burning eyes:

"Little Celestial Master, the master once told me that you are a Bodhisattva of more than ten realms. You once discussed the Tao with Daying Immortal Zuo Ruotong and helped him realize the Tao and break the confusion caused by adverse conditions. You once discussed the Tao with the leader of the Wudang Sect. , help him break out of his cocoon and become a butterfly, and be freed from the prison of Wudang Mountain. Please help me to be freed!"