132 Breaking Obsession (1/2)

Gu Shenwei stood petrified with shock. He did not believe in the existence of ghosts. However, there was something in the monk's smile, which made him feel somewhat nervous.

”You finally came. Did the girl come with you? How about you come in and have a chat with me?”

”He's not Tiger Monk. His voice is deeper, and he also looks older than the dead monk. They may be brothers,” Gu Shenwei thought to himself.

A skeptical person like Gu Shenwei seldom accepted a stranger's invitation. However, at this moment, he was somehow convinced of the monk's sincerity. He did not feel threatened by the monk, so he pushed the door open and went in to kneel on a meditation cushion on the ground with his unsheathed saber placed right beside him.

After a moment, Maid Lotus, the murderer of Tiger Monk, came in. She looked even more shocked than Gu Shenwei. It seemed that she was terrified to see this monk who looked strikingly similar to Tiger Monk. However, she still chose to trust the monk and walked into this house to sit on a meditation cushion.

All the three people kept silent and still. During this moment, everything was stationary except the dancing flame on top of the candle.

Suddenly, the monk stopped smiling and dropped his head down, but his lips kept moving. It seemed that he was silently reciting a sad incantation. After a long time, he raised his head up and said smilingly, ”Lianxin has already entered the realm of Nirvana.”

Upon hearing his voice, Maid Lotus immediately discovered that this monk was not Tiger Monk. ”I'm afraid that Buddha won't allow a liar to enter Nirvana,” she said coldly.

The monk was not disturbed by what she said and went into a lengthy explanation of the whole thing.

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This monk, whose name was Lianhua, was Lianxin's brother. He had studied Death Scripture clay slab together with Lianxin for years. During the course of their research, they discovered that this scripture resembled Buddhist mantras a lot. Chanting or hearing someone recite this scripture could vibrate one's tendons and meridians, which would create a lasting and positive change in the person.

Lianhua and Lianxin were excited by their discovery. They swore to Buddha Sakyamuni that they were going to invent a Buddhist incantation based on this scripture and use it to eliminate people's killing desire and make every butcher become a Buddha. The people that they wanted most to convert were killers from Golden Roc Fort.

After years of hard work, the brothers successfully created such a Buddhist incantation and named it Breaking Obsession. Shortly after they invented this incantation, Golden Roc Fort came to Four Truths Temple asking for the Exorcism Manuscript. Tiger Monk believed that Buddha Sakyamuni must have heard his prayers and thus gave him this great opportunity to persuade six teenage killers to learn Breaking Obsession. Beyond his expectations, on the second night of the teenagers' stay in Leftslope Vihara, Maid Lotus went to visit him privately and showed him a page of Death Scripture, which he had never read before.

Tiger Monk was shocked to discover that the slave girl seemed to have a complete copy of Death Scripture. At the same time, he also decided to take this chance to try Breaking Obsession out on her. He made a deal with Maid Lotus. The girl promised to give him a complete copy of Death Scripture in exchange for him teaching her the correct pronunciation of the Chinese characters in the scripture, and he promised the girl not to tell anyone about the complete copy of Death Scripture. After he taught Maid Lotus the correct pronunciation of the characters on the clay slab, which was the beginning part of Death Scripture, he taught her the first chapter of Breaking Obsession, which was called ”Changing Misfortune for All Living Creatures Sutra.” He did not tell Maid Lotus that this chapter was not from Death Scripture, and Maid Lotus did not find anything wrong with this part. She accepted it without question and taught Slave Huan all she had learned from Tiger Monk.

Tiger Monk did not think that he was lying to the teenagers since most of the characters in Breaking Obsession were from Death Scripture. He had only put those characters in a different order to create Breaking Obsession.

Tiger Monk kept his promise to Maid Lotus and did not tell anyone else about the complete copy of Death Scripture. However, he could hardly control his excitement and wrote a letter to his brother Monk Lianhua. He told his brother how he had successfully ”persuaded” two teenage killers to learn Breaking Obsession in the letter.

When Monk Lianhua came to Leftslope Vihara to collect his brothers' belongings after his brother's death, he found several pages of notes left by his brother. After reading the notes, he guessed that the teenagers mentioned by his brother in the letter might have a complete copy of Death Scripture. He was also pretty sure that his brother had deluded the teenagers into learning Breaking Obsession.

Given that, Monk Lianhua insisted that the teenagers should not be held accountable for Lianxin's death. That was the reason why Four Truths Temple stopped investigating the death of Tiger Monk.

After explaining the whole thing to the teenagers, Monk Lianhua exclaimed, ”Lianxin worked hard to create Breaking Obsession, but he failed to break his own obsession. He was so thrilled to get the chance to teach the incantation to you that he never noticed that he himself got too obsessed with it. It was his obsession that led to his death. That's Karma.”

Gu Shenwei and Maid Lotus were speechless. They had never expected that such an eminent monk would have lied to them. Meanwhile, they felt relieved, since they discovered that Monk Lianhua did not know that it was Maid Lotus who murdered Tiger Monk.

Compared to Tiger Monk, Monk Lianhua was such an annoying person. He talked for hours, wanting to persuade the teenagers to give up their killer careers. Nevertheless, most of the things that he talked about were hard for the teenagers to understand. He went on and on even after the candle burnt out. ”We're destined to meet the people we meet. Lianxin has taught you a chapter of Breaking Obsession. That's Buddha Sakyamuni's arrangement. I guess that you've already noticed the positive change the incantation created in you. I would love to teach you the full text of Breaking Obsession. If you recite it every day, you'll...”

”No, we won't become Buddhists,” Gu Shenwei and Maid Lotus finally lost their patience and interrupted.

Now, they only cared about one thing. ”Tell us how to eliminate the influence of Breaking Obsession.”

”Well, that's easy. You just need to forget about it.” This time, Monk Lianhua's answer was very simple and clear.

However, his answer was not helpful for the teenagers. They had taken painstaking efforts to imprint those 5,000 Chinese characters, which did not make much sense to them, in their brains. Those characters would flash across their mind now and then. It was not easy to forget them.