BookMe #683 - The Golden Buddha suppressed the great demon, and became a Buddha by sacrificing his life for
#683 - The Golden Buddha suppressed the great demon, and became a Buddha by sacrificing his life for
At this moment, Gu Yang was at the bottom of Little Mount Sumeru, searching for the place where the demons were imprisoned.
Gu Yang's mission was very simple: to take advantage of the absence of the Western Heaven's people and rescue the most important one imprisoned here.
As long as that one was released, the Demon Clan's highest strength would be able to rise to another level, and they wouldn't have to constantly be at the mercy of the Western Heaven.
Holding the key, Gu Yang went straight to the dungeon at the very bottom of Little Mount Sumeru. He killed many Buddhist soldiers along the way, but we won't go into detail about that.
When Gu Yang descended to the lowest level and used the key to open the last layer, he saw a vast, empty dungeon.
This was the dungeon where the greatest demon was imprisoned, as the Buddha had said!
This dungeon was filled with severed limbs and torsos, and many of them looked very fresh.
Next to the dungeon, there was a golden statue of a Buddha. Beside the statue were tools for dismemberment, and several monks were dismembering the corpse of a mortal.
These monks didn't seem to know what was happening outside. They were just focused on piously dismembering the corpse.
Their movements were as skilled as a butcher dissecting an ox, extremely proficient.
Their expressions were pious and respectful, and they chanted incessantly, seemingly the Rebirth Mantra, but in this empty dungeon, it sounded like the whispers of demons.
The monks skillfully dismembered the mortal, took out the heart, and extracted a small bowl of heart blood, then discarded the remains to the side.
The monk holding the heart and heart blood frowned, very dissatisfied.
"Alas, the mortals these days are becoming less and less devout. Today, only one mortal was willing to come and offer to the Tathagata?"
Another monk dismembering the body also kicked some corpses and snorted coldly:
"Yes, and now they only send old people. In the past, they would send young boys and girls in, which was also a good way for us to relieve boredom."
"Now, it's all because they are not devout. Heh, the world is deteriorating. These beasts really don't know how to be grateful. We are doing this all for their own good!"
"That's right, it's as if we owe those mortals something. Without us, they would have all died long ago!"
But an old monk with a kind face said:
"Amitabha! Amitabha! Good men, true diligence is true offering to the Tathagata."
"The Buddha cut his flesh to feed the eagle, threw himself to feed the tiger, cut off his head, and donated his marrow and brain. These acts of kindness and good deeds are supreme merit, which mortals find difficult to understand."
"The demon suppressed here needs to be influenced by devout and kind-hearted mortals. Those mortals are ignorant, but their village chiefs are quite sensible and will send people over. Don't worry."
Only after the old monk comforted them did the monks in the dungeon reluctantly stop complaining, but they were still indignant.
They felt really aggrieved.
Since its construction, Little Mount Sumeru has given countless mortals the opportunity to offer to the Buddha and taught them to accumulate virtue and do good deeds. It has already done all the good things possible!
Moreover, for the sake of peace in the human world, the Buddhas in the heavens used great magic power long ago to suppress a demon, preventing this demon from harming the common people and committing evil.
In order to eliminate the demon as soon as possible, the Medicine Buddha passed down the scriptures.
In the u003cMedicine King Bodhisattva Chapteru003e of the Lotus Sutra, the Medicine King Bodhisattva burned himself as an offering to the Buddha, that is, self-immolation.