Chapter 771 Heavenly Dog Eats the Moon

There has always been a legend in the Three Realms. However, the monks in the human world know this legend best, and even mortals know something about it. However, few monks in the heavens and hells have heard of this legend.

This legend is called Ksitigarbha saving his mother.

In the legend, there was no Ksitigarbha, the master of the hell, but it was directly managed by the Ten Kings of Hell. At that time, Ksitigarbha was just an ordinary man in the human world, only about twenty years old, and a thorough scholar.

As a mortal, Ksitigarbha likes to study, is kind-hearted, and is extremely filial. He is a good young man with a good reputation. However, although Ksitigarbha is good, his mother is a woman with a very strange temper, violent and vicious by nature.

On weekdays, Ksitigarbha accumulates virtues and does good deeds everywhere, but his mother is arrogant and notorious, and always does some hateful things.

Although Ksitigarbha always advises his mother to be kind and be a good person. However, his mother never listened. All she thought about was how to play tricks on people and make them suffer. It seemed that if people suffered, Ksitigarbha's mother would be extremely happy.

So, this son and mother, one good and one evil, continued to live like this. Many people who were familiar with them did not know why a vicious mother could give birth to such a good son. Some people even said that Ksitigarbha's mother had accumulated great virtues in her previous life, otherwise she would have been punished long ago.

However, good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil. This is a simple-sounding proverb, but it is also an iron rule. No matter how good Ksitigarbha is, it is difficult for her mother to avoid evil retribution forever.

One day, without Ksitigarbha, a mortal, knowing anything, his mother had another evil idea in her heart.

Ksitigarbha's mother knew that not far from the town where she lived, there was a temple called "Hanshan Temple". The temple was not big, even a little small, and naturally not luxurious at all.

However, this temple is an ancient temple that has stood for more than 500 years. It is solemn and majestic, and its Buddhist name is well-known. Especially because the monks in the ancient temple are all ascetics with extremely noble virtues, they often want to benefit the nearby ordinary people even if they suffer themselves, so this ancient temple is almost regarded as a resort by local mortals.

Often if someone encounters a disaster, they will go to this Hanshan Temple to ask for a fortune, and then listen to the wonderful sound of Buddhist words, most of which can eliminate disasters and avoid disasters.

Ksitigarbha's mother had teased too many ordinary people on weekdays, and gradually felt that it was meaningless, so I don't know why, this time she suddenly set her mind on the ascetic monks in Hanshan Temple.

She knew very well that the ascetic monks in Hanshan Temple all ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddha, strictly abided by the rules and precepts, and dared not cross the line at all. Especially because "avoid killing" is the first of the five Buddhist precepts, the monks in Hanshan Temple will never touch meat. This is a tradition for hundreds of years, and it has never changed at all.

So, she wanted to change the monks. She wanted to know what it would be like if the monks in Hanshan Temple really ate meat.

Therefore, she prepared a large basket of dog meat buns and pretended to go to Hanshan Temple to worship Buddha. Because the mother of Ksitigarbha was notorious, almost everyone in the vicinity knew about it. So when the ascetic monks in the temple saw her coming, they thought that she had finally had the idea of ​​repentance in her heart, so they wanted to listen to the Buddha's voice and purify their souls.

Being able to turn evil into good is a great merit for Buddhists. Therefore, the kind-hearted monks did not think that the mother of Ksitigarbha actually came here with a malicious heart, and only put all their thoughts on how to persuade her to be good.

At first, in order to achieve her goal, the mother of Ksitigarbha naturally pretended to be extremely pious, as if she wanted to repent and change her past. When she felt that the monks believed her, she took out the dog meat buns she had prepared, saying that they were vegetarian buns she had prepared, hoping to establish a Buddhist affinity with them.

Almsgiving is a great thing that Buddhists advocate to accumulate virtue and do good deeds. Seeing that Ksitigarbha's mother was so kind, the monks naturally would not refuse, so they took her dog meat buns without any precautions, and some even ate them quickly.

Among them, the abbot of Hanshan Temple was one of them. He was very happy to see Ksitigarbha's mother come to worship Buddha and give alms with kindness. So, in order to encourage Ksitigarbha's mother's good deeds, he, who was highly respected, ate the buns that she handed over to him in front of Ksitigarbha's mother.

The abbot only took a bite and his face changed. He had never been tainted with meat in his life, and the strange and strange smell that came out of the buns made him feel very uncomfortable.

The mother of Ksitigarbha, who saw the abbot of Hanshan Temple eating dog meat buns, finally vented her evil taste. So, she couldn't act anymore, laughed wildly in Hanshan Temple, and told the truth directly.

Knowing that they had eaten dog meat, almost all the monks vomited on the spot. The abbot's face instantly became extremely ugly, and his old body collapsed on the ground. He stared at the mother of Ksitigarbha, but couldn't speak for a long time.

Seeing the miserable appearance of the monks around her, the mother of Ksitigarbha was even happier. She came here today to see this miserable scene in front of her. She thought it was "funny".

However, no matter how wildly Ksitigarbha's mother laughed at this moment, the kind-hearted monk would never blame her, but only blamed himself for not being able to distinguish clearly and constantly chanting "sin" in his mouth.

As for the abbot of Hanshan Temple, his reaction was the most intense. He practiced hard all his life and devoted himself to Buddhism. In this way, he, who was over 70 years old, had a faint feeling that he might be about to step into the land of bliss and transcend.

Who would have thought that a bite of bun today would destroy all his life's hard practice. He has been chanting Buddha for many years, but today he broke the precepts. How could he have the face to go to the land of bliss to meet the Buddha?

So, the more the abbot thought about it, the more sad and miserable he felt, and the more he thought about it, the more depressed he felt. Finally, not long after, he died of grief and anger on the spot, and sat in front of Ksitigarbha's mother.

This time, Ksitigarbha's mother was also frightened. She didn't expect that after eating a bite of bun, the abbot's reaction would be so intense. So, she finally escaped from Hanshan Temple and ran down the mountain.

Many times before, Ksitigarbha's mother could always successfully escape after doing evil, and even walked away openly. But this time, when the heaven and earth were finally angry because of the death of the abbot of Hanshan Temple, the retribution of reincarnation came, and she could not escape anyway.

Ksitigarbha's mother ran and ran, and kept running. But after running for a long time, she found that the road down the mountain was terribly long, as if there was no end. Until one moment, when she was exhausted and in a trance, she suddenly found that there was a door in front of the path she was on.

"It's a way out!" Ksitigarbha's mother thought so, so she ran over without hesitation and pushed open the door.

What greeted her was not the familiar way home, nor the bright sunshine, but only the endless sea of ​​fire and suffocating high temperature.

Ksitigarbha's mother was frightened and wanted to turn back. But when she turned back, she found that the door was gone, and all around her were countless horrible and bloody scenes - that was the scene of the eighteen layers of hell!

Reincarnation sent Ksitigarbha's mother to hell, and turned her into an ugly vicious dog. Since then, Ksitigarbha's mother has been trapped in hell, suffering from torture and punishment to atone for her sins.

Not long after, Ksitigarbha, a mortal, knew all this. He felt deeply remorseful for everything his mother had done, but as a son after all, how could he let his mother suffer in hell?

So he resolutely broke through the mortal world and began a long period of hard practice. And because of his perseverance and extraordinary talent, he finally achieved the Great Dao after many years.

So he resolutely stepped into hell and came to the sea of ​​​​cultivating demons. He met Yama Luo, hoping to save his mother. But how could Yama Luo agree to his conditions? Unless there is such an existence, whose status and power are higher than Yama Luo.

Such an existence is only the master of the realm that hell does not have yet!

This became the new goal of Ksitigarbha. So he continued to practice hard on the sea of ​​magic for tens of thousands of years, and finally achieved great power, was recognized by the hell world, and named himself Ksitigarbha, commanding the ten Yama!

Finally, Ksitigarbha saw his suffering mother. However, the power of reincarnation was so strong that he could not turn his mother from a dog back to a human. In desperation, he could only choose to open the door of hell and let his mother out first.

But he didn't expect that his mother had suffered so much in hell, not only did she not repent at all, but she even ran away after rushing out of the eighteen layers of hell.

I don't know where it came from, the mother of Ksitigarbha, who turned into a dog, obtained extremely powerful power. So, she decided to take revenge on the world that had thrown her into hell and turned her into a dog.

And the way of revenge she thought of was to seize the light of the night between heaven and earth, and let the night fall into complete darkness from then on. So, she began to chase the moon, and as long as she caught up, she would use her great magical powers to eat the moon alive.

There is also a legend in the three realms. This legend is a sequel to Ksitigarbha saving his mother. It is called Heavenly Dog Eating the Moon.

According to the legend, Heavenly Dog is the incarnation of Ksitigarbha's mother, and in front of her, the brightness of the bright moon will be completely obscured.