Chapter 306: Nine Lives and Nine Worlds

"This is the first time I've seen someone like him get so carsick. Why don't you go to the town hospital right away? Don't delay any longer, or something might happen." The driver said.

Zhao Dadan got off the car with his suitcase. He hurriedly dragged me out of the van and asked me what happened.

I pointed weakly in the direction I had just come from and said in a trembling voice, "Go out here, behind that big rock."

The engine roared behind me, and as soon as I turned my head, the van drove at the speed of a racing car and disappeared soon after. Dadan held the corpse box with one hand and supported me with the other hand, cursing as he walked towards the Taishan Stone.

Every step I took felt like I had just stepped on a mountain of knives, and my skin felt like it was cut by countless sharp blades. The knife showed no mercy at all, and the pain was like the knife was slowly scraping off my skin, then pulling out my tendons and bones, and fiercely knocking out my bone marrow.

The pain was bounded by the Taishan stone. When I was boldly taken out, all the pain disappeared in just a breath.

"I said, you kid, you just felt like you were dying of leprosy, how come you are fine now?" Zhao Dadan asked me.

I took a long breath, lit a cigarette, calmed down my emotions, and looked at the tall building not far away. I can be sure that Jiang Shiyu is here!

"Hey, are you deaf or dumb? Why don't you speak?" Zhao Dadan said again.

I really didn't want to give up. I was just so close but couldn't see each other, so I tried to move forward again. When the first step crossed the Taishan stone, the disappeared pain appeared again. I straddled the boundary of the boulder. I couldn't help but tremble all over. The blue-white Taoist robe appeared again. The long robe on my body moved without wind. The sharp and majestic spirit brought gusts of wind when it burst out. The wind circled around me, and suddenly it was like a knife, fiercely rolling off all the branches and leaves around.

I half-knelt on the ground, panting. It was so close yet so far away. This kind of pain was even more unbearable than the Taoist robe. When the Taoist robe appeared, I felt like a peerless hero, holding the Seven-Star Sword to subdue demons and monsters. I was invincible wherever I went. No matter if it was Danba Dharma King or the Red-Powdered Skeleton, once the Taoist robe appeared, the Shangqing Five Thunder Sword Curse was enough to kill them both. Even if I faced the senior brother who caught the dragon with one hand, I could push him back a few steps, but what was the use of all this at this moment? Because I still couldn't step over an ordinary stone.

The Seven-Star Sword was taken out from my arms. It was the relic left to me by Wang Yi before he died. It was also the supreme magic weapon of Taoism, named 'Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword'. I held the sword in one hand, slowly stood up, and faced the Taishan Stone. I took a half step back and asked: "Why? I am already a dragon, why can't I see him!"

"Why? Even if there is cause and effect in the previous life, what does it have to do with this life? Besides, now I am a dragon, and the past and future lives have nothing to do with me. Why don't you let me see her?" I said again.

Clutching the Seven-Star Sword, I asked again: "In the dark, Taishan is blocking the way. The mountain is separated, and it cannot be climbed or crossed. Why is this? If she is a Buddha, then what can Buddha and Tao do!"

The red word 'Tai' on the Taishan Stone seems to emit golden light. It seems to be provoking me and warning me that if he doesn't let me jump over this mountain, then I can't jump!

So, I took a few steps back, and with the "heavenly power" given to me by the Taoist robe, I was completely angry. With my hand holding the sword flower, facing the huge Taishan stone, I roared: "Since you don't let me cross, then I will smash it! With blood as the guide, with soul as the sacrifice, with the magnificent heavenly power, the jade is pure and green, and the true talisman announces the alliance..."

The sky and the earth changed color, and the sharp sword energy fell from the air with the thunder method, and chopped fiercely on the Taishan stone, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea without any life. In just a blink of an eye, everything became nothingness.

Yes, all the sources of power I learned and used came from Taoism. Yuanshi Tianzun could reverse time and space with great supernatural powers, set things right, and then lock my cause and effect with the Taoist robe, bound me, and gave me the life-saving magic. Now, I used the Taoist method to break the Taishan stone in front of me, which was naturally ineffective.

But he took away my lover's right!

Anger overwhelmed my mind. I swung the Seven-Star Dragon Abyss Sword and chopped the boulder in front of me like crazy. I swung the sword again and again, using all my strength, expressing my dissatisfaction and unwillingness. Then, with a crisp sound of "bang", the Seven-Star Sword broke!

My blood was boiling, and a large mouthful of blood sprayed on the Taishan stone. Zhao Dadan came to support me and asked worriedly: "What's wrong with you! Are you having epilepsy? Are you sorry for the stone? Let's go quickly. I think something might happen if you stay any longer."

The blood flowed down the Taishan stone, and then a line of small characters appeared at the bottom of the word "Tai":

Three years of merit,

Reshape the dragon body.

Great catastrophe of heaven and earth,

Leap to immortality.

After a line of characters, my own blood gathered into four large golden characters, and the handwriting became clearer and clearer. I saw that it said: "Nine lives and nine worlds".

The golden light penetrated my spiritual platform, and I saw a picture in the dimness. It was pitch black all around, but in this void and darkness, I found a bridge emitting golden light. A monk sat cross-legged on a divine beast, and boys and girls stood on his left and right. In a blink of an eye, I came close and heard the girl ask: "Bodhisattva, the evil spirits in this river are really ungrateful. They don't want to listen to your lectures. Don't they want to be reborn as soon as possible and enter the paradise?"

"That's right, if it weren't for them, the Bodhisattva would have become a Buddha." The boy said.

The monk said: "The evil spirits in this river have all committed evil deeds, do not believe in cause and effect, or do not enter reincarnation due to obsession. If I do not save them, these evil spirits will be confused and repeat themselves over and over again, immortal and indestructible, and will be tormented by their obsessions at all times. It is said that hell is created by the mind. With my great vows, I will let all sentient beings have wisdom and escape from the sea of suffering. Whether they listen or not, and whether they do or not, has nothing to do with it."

The boy and girl immediately put their hands together and said, "Bodhisattva, have mercy."

But the girl became curious about these evil spirits , when the Bodhisattva was preaching, the girl squatted down, curiously watching the souls with empty eyes in the river, and murmured: "The Bodhisattva will be here forever, you should listen to the preaching."

But suddenly, the girl was surprised to find something strange, she said to the boy: "Jin Tong, come quickly, see why that evil ghost is different from the others, he is standing there motionless."

"How is it possible, the evil ghost under the Wangchuan River will not stop." Jin Tong came over in disbelief.

The boy and girl were lying on the side of the bridge to watch, but at this moment, the evil ghost in the river suddenly jumped up from the water and pounced on the boy and girl viciously. The girl could not dodge and was bitten by the evil ghost on the arm.

The Bodhisattva immediately came over and subdued the evil ghost with magic power. The boy said angrily that he would kill the evil ghost.

The girl's arm was emitting black air. After being treated by the Bodhisattva, she stopped the boy. The Bodhisattva touched the evil ghost lying on the ground with his hand, then sighed and said: "This evil ghost can stay in the Wangchuan River because he is too obsessed in his heart and cannot enter the Pure Land. You take him to the reincarnation, experience nine lifetimes of marriage, and eliminate the evil spirit of this evil ghost. In the future, he will be able to achieve Bodhi Dao fruit."

After the girl received the order, she was sent to the reincarnation with the help of the Bodhisattva, but at this moment, a Taoist wearing a Tai Chi robe and holding a dragon head jade Ruyi appeared. He looked at the direction where the dragon girl had just left and said to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva: "The time has not come yet, but the Taoist friend has planted a nine-life marriage with the dragon girl in advance. By doing this, aren't you afraid of tampering with the secrets of heaven?"

"This child has no cause and no effect. He was transformed by the evil spirit of heaven and earth and was later born because of the Wangchuan River. However, the dragon girl is compassionate. If you follow her for nine lifetimes, you will be able to eliminate the evil spirit of this child. Don't worry." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said.

The Taoist snorted coldly: "Three thousand years ago, the stone monkey was born and raised by nature, without cause or effect. All the skills he learned were the Taoist mysterious skills. But in order to comply with the will of heaven, I handed it over to your Buddhism to survive the catastrophe. That's why your Buddhism has flourished for three thousand years. Now that you still want to fight, let's fight." After saying that, the Taoist waved his sleeves at the distance. After a dragon roar, golden light flashed, and the giant dragon chased straight into the endless dark void. At the same time, I was dazzled by the golden light and couldn't open my eyes. Then there were many scenes in my mind. In a total of eight lives and eight generations, they experienced joys and sorrows, the destruction of the country and the family, and even became immortals and demons. But no matter what happened, the two were husband and wife. The only regret was that in these eight reincarnations, no marriage ended in perfection. But when it came to the ninth life, I opened my eyes! Unconsciously, I shed tears. All the memories seemed like I had done them myself. So I said painfully, "Dan Da, I really don't want to become an immortal. I just want to live...live and protect her."

"Why are you crying, man? It's embarrassing to pee like that. Come on, you can't find a woman like that anymore. I'll take you to a prostitute. There are all kinds of girls, tall, short, fat, and thin. What are you doing here?" Da Da supported me and was about to leave.

I don't know when, an old beggar came from the bushes not far behind me. The beggar was holding a pot of wine, a little bald, leaning on a crutch with one hand, coughed, and said to me: "If you are really uncomfortable, you might as well come and have a drink with me, an old beggar. My wine is a good thing. It can numb people's pain, but pain can also prevent people from losing themselves. Come on, drink some." Holding the broken sword in my hand, I looked back at the old beggar with a crutch. My mind was full of the scenes I saw in the Taishan stone, past and present lives, without cause and effect. Thinking of the conversation between the ancestor and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and the moment when the evil ghost jumped up under the Wangchuan River, all of this was consistent with the results that Yuan Beitang had deduced about me and Jiang Shiyu. Eight lives and eight lives, this life is also my last. I looked back at the lame beggar and took a long breath. But before I could say anything, Zhao Dadan pointed at the old man and cursed: "Fuck you, get out of here. Didn't you see that he was dying? Why are you still drinking? What are you thinking, old bastard, if you don't get out, I'll break your other leg too, damn it."

The beggar was obviously a little dazed. Zhao Dadan cursed him with a hoarse voice. The old man scolded him so much that he was so angry that in just a blink of an eye, the old man came close to Zhao Dadan and slapped him hard.

He was so angry that his face turned red. He pointed at Zhao Dadan and said, "I have lived for so many years and have never been scolded like this. Now I want you to eat shit, eat shit!" The beggar yelled and his face turned red. He wished he could eat Zhao Dadan alive.

What was surprising was that Zhao Dadan seemed to be crazy at this moment. He looked around and said anxiously: "Where is the toilet! I need to find the toilet! I'm so hungry. Damn it, why do I want to go to the toilet when I'm hungry!"

Seeing this, I understood, so I stepped forward and grabbed the old beggar's hand: "Daoyou, this man is my friend. Although his mouth is a little smelly, he has a good heart. Please don't be offended. Give me some face and let him go."