Mutated Tao Chapter 45: Buddha

"Master, you don't have to explain so much to me as a guest, I can't control you, please go out, I'm going to bed."

Jian Huan clasped his hands together, bowed to Li Huowang, and walked towards the door. Just as he passed by Li Huowang, his light words drifted past.

"Don't look down on Buddhism. I was a Taoist priest before I became a monk. Taoism is actually the same, but you don't know it."

Jian Chao left, and Li Huowang was the only one left in the room. He turned his head and looked at the temple shrouded in darkness in the distance. At this moment, he no longer felt any majesty or solemnity.

Li Huowang slowly exhaled into the darkness, "This place is so dirty, isn't there a clean place?"

Since what happened that night, Li Huowang tried his best not to go out at night, so as not to spoil the good deeds of the monks and attract people's hatred.

Day by day, Li Huowang's mental state is getting better and better, basically no more nightmares.

Just when he was about to ask the abbot when it would start, he sent someone ahead of time.

"Xuanyang benefactor, the preparations for the Pudu Lent are about to start. At this time, the preparations for the Dharma conference will cost a lot of money. Please don't move around in the near future."

"Okay, go back and tell the old abbot, I already know." Li Huowang said to the little monk in front of him.

Just as the little novice left, a familiar figure flashed in and said with a surprised expression: "Little Taoist, so you live here, why don't you tell me?"

That was the old beggar before, but now he is obviously different from the previous embarrassed one.

Wearing a brand new yellow monk robe on his body, there are no stains on his face, and he looks much more energetic.

Although I just met this monk by chance, Li Huowang still felt close to such an acquaintance in this strange place.

"Monk, how are you doing here?"

"It's okay, I eat enough and wear warm clothes every day, but I can't do good deeds in the temple, so I feel a little uncomfortable."

As soon as he mentioned good deeds, Li Huowang immediately remembered what happened that night. He looked at the old monk in front of him and sighed softly. "Don't worry about how many there are, just stay there. Although this temple is a bit dirty, at least you won't be hungry."

"Come on, little Taoist priest, I'll take you to the place where I work. It's a big place." The enthusiastic old monk pulled Li Huowang and walked towards the door.

"The sun is so big, let's wait until next time." Li Huowang was a little out of interest, he had no interest in sightseeing in this temple.

"Come here!! You will never regret it if you come and see it! What an interesting thing!" Li Huowang was dragged by the old monk and walked out of the room.

After following the monk around and around, Li Huowang came to a spacious open-air compound in Zhengde Temple.

When he came here, he realized that Zhengde Temple is really big

"Dang, clang, clang!" The courtyard was filled with dust, and some monks with gauze tied around their mouths raised stone awls and hammers, and were carving Buddha statues.

Buddha statues are in two rows, one left and one right extending towards the distance of the compound.

Under the sunlight, the monks' bald heads glistened, and they sweated and concentrated on carving their artworks.

"Are you working here? The environment is not good." Li Huowang covered his nose with his hands and brows slightly wrinkled to prevent dust from being sucked in.

"Yes, I am responsible for moving the useless broken stones, and I also play a part in these Buddha statues." The old monk seemed very proud of his position.

The two walked the path between two rows of unfinished Buddha statues, observing the various functions of the statues. The monks who walked by them from time to time did not stop them, completely treating them as if they did not exist.

"The carvings in Zhengde Temple are definitely not for my own use. I can tell at a glance that they are sold to pilgrims. It seems that this monk is very capable of generating income." Li Huowang sneered secretly.

However, after the previous events, Li Huowang was not surprised by these events at all.

"There are more! There are more in front!" The old monk said excitedly, and was about to walk towards the front door.

Looking at him walking forward, Li Huowang raised his foot and followed him. Suddenly, he was in a trance and his body shook a little.

"Hey, little Taoist priest, what's the matter with you?" Seeing that something was wrong, the old monk hurried back to help him.

"What's going on?" When Li Huowang stood still again and shook his head vigorously, the strange feeling gradually disappeared.

"Are you all right? Are you infected with a cold? Why don't you go back and rest?"

Li Huowang rejected the old monk's kindness. "It's okay, I'm fine, let's go."

"Okay, anyway, if you really catch the wind and cold, you need to bask in the sun more, so let's move on."

Hearing what he said, Li Huowang looked up at the scorching sun above his head. "Could it be heatstroke? How long has it been since Chinese New Year? I don't feel hot either."

After feeling that there was no abnormality in his body, Li Huowang raised his foot and was about to follow the old monk.

But as soon as he lifted his feet, he found that the sounds around him had changed, it was no longer the clang of chisels hitting stones, but the slapping of flesh and skin.

"Huh?" Li Huowang turned his head in doubt, looked at the stone sculpture on the right, and his body froze instantly.

The stone carving just now disappeared, replaced by a pile of white meat, those are monks.

The stone carvings of Buddha statues just now, they closed their eyes piously and crowded together, their bodies wriggled like white maggots, their heads were still shining in the sunlight as before.

"This is...is this?" Li Huowang, with his eyes wide open, took a step back.

Li Huowang raised his head slowly, squinting his eyes and looking at the dazzling sun above his head, he was not dazzled.

He turned around slowly and looked at the previous statues behind him. Not surprisingly, they had all changed. Under the bright winter sun, there were dozens more mountains of meat.

"Taoist! Hurry up!" The old monk shouted excitedly in front of him, like a child eager to show off to his companions.

Li Huowang took a deep breath tremblingly, raised his feet and continued to walk forward, passed the huge gate, and another spacious courtyard appeared in front of them.

There are still mountains of meat here, but there are no longer only people in this mountain of meat, but some other things, such as pigs.

They roared in pain, but the mountain of pious monks sank them in like mud.

"Look, the carved unicorn and stone lion are so real, I want to have this kind of craftsmanship."

Li Huowang mechanically followed the old monk and continued to watch the "works" of the monks in Zhengde Temple. He saw a dog, he saw a horse, he saw a cow, he saw a donkey.

And after careful identification, he also found more abnormalities, that is, these monks are all hermaphrodites!

At this time, Li Huowang's mind was buzzing in a mess,

Suddenly an old monk stretched out a hand, dragging him to walk a few steps quickly and pulling him into an empty hall.

Li Huowang looked into the hall with a stiff neck, and as his head was raised higher and higher, the pupils in his eyes became smaller and smaller.

"Look!" The old monk pointed upwards, with a childlike smile on his face, and said with emotion in his tone: "What a big Buddha!"