Strange Cards

Chapter 276 Human Skin Buddha

"What is that little monk afraid of?"

Shiyu was deep in thought, while Baiyu had already begun burning incense to offer to the Buddha.

After Bai Yu lit the incense, he placed three sticks on the incense stand in front of each Buddha statue. At that moment, the incense emitted a strange fragrance.

A immediately realized something was wrong and used her ghostly power to seal Bai Yu's mouth and nose.

"You better hold your breath, kid! This stuff is rhinoceros horn incense!"

"If you inhale this stuff, it will affect your mind and may even make you see ghosts. If you inhale it now, you won't even have a chance to run away when the fight breaks out."

"Rhinoceros horn fragrance?"

"That's right."

Shi Yu quickly gave Bai Yu a few instructions, and after Bai Yu sealed her mouth and nose and used her ghostly power to temporarily keep her body breathing, A continued.

"Raw rhinoceros horn should not be burned, for it has a strange fragrance."

"If a person's clothes are stained with blood, they can communicate with ghosts."

"This stuff is incense carved directly from raw rhinoceros horn, and its effects are even more severe."

"The people inside are being controlled by Shengxixiang."

"The Buddha enshrined here is probably not a good thing either. Let's take this opportunity to leave quickly."

Shi Yu nodded, and after letting Bai Yu leave, she emerged from the shadows.

Shi Yu looked at the seventeen Buddhas and felt that something was wrong with them.

"The corners of these Buddhas' mouths..."

"Why are there hairs and bits of flesh?"

"What's with all that blood?"

Shi Yu forced himself to endure the nausea and approached a Buddha statue. He placed his left hand on the hilt of his sword, connected with the aura of the Asura, and then reached out his right hand to touch the Buddha statue.

The Buddha statue felt neither gold nor silver, neither iron nor copper; its softness was like that of a living person.

Moreover, these Buddha statues were still warm, unlike people who had been dead for many years.

When Shiyu's hand touched the kasaya, she smelled a familiar scent; the strong rusty smell proved that it was blood.

"The blood on the Buddha statue..."

Shiyu looked at the robes draped over the Buddha statues and suddenly realized something.

"Are these robes made of human skin?"

"These Buddhas are made of human skin robes!"

After realizing this, Shigure drew his demonic blade and rushed out without regard for anything else, but at that moment the temple doors suddenly closed.

Shi Yu tried to activate the black hole, but found that a special force field here suppressed it. At this moment, the seventeen Buddhas stiffly turned their heads and looked at Shi Yu with strange smiles on their lips.

At this moment, the Buddhist believers also stiffly turned their heads, looking at Shiyu with eerie smiles on their lips, exactly the same as those on the Buddha statues.

Shigure then drew his demonic blade and unleashed the full power of his Asura form without reservation.

"Do you really think I'm easily intimidated?"

The terrifying power of the Asura erupted without reservation, and the phantom of the Eight-Armed Asura King appeared behind Shigure.

As soon as the phantom of the Eight-Armed Asura King appeared, the Buddha statues suddenly turned their heads, and at that moment the doors of the temple opened.

Shi Yu rushed out and looked at Bai Yu standing outside.

Give me the seven of spades.

"Let me see if we can seal off this Buddhist temple."

Bai Yu handed the Seven of Spades to Shi Yu, who then took it and threw it into the Sky Path.

"Fight!"

The Seven of Spades quickly transformed into a streak of light and entered the back of Shigure's right hand. At that moment, Shigure's hands swiftly drew a complex pattern. Then, Shigure extended his right palm and pushed the pattern directly onto the door of the Buddhist temple.

After the pattern touched the gate of the Buddhist temple, Shiyu discovered that the entire aura of the temple was suppressed by the seal. Shiyu then took Baiyu's hand and ran while saying this.

"There are seventeen evil Buddhas inside, which I have temporarily sealed away with the Seven of Spades."

"But those guys are not to be underestimated either. I don't know how long the seal on the Seven of Spades can last."

"Let's hurry and find Sister Liu An!"

After the two arrived at the main square of the Buddhist temple, Shi Yu quickly found Liu An using the steel claw. After Shi Yu told Liu An about the seventeen evil Buddhas, Liu An took out a piece of paper and said...

"Xiaoyu, look at this."

"I found this in the dining hall of the Buddhist temple."

"But in fact, it was Steel Claw who found it. He said there was something in a corner of the Buddha statue in the cafeteria, and that's how I found this note."

"To become a Buddha, one must first go mad."

"Feeding Buddha's flesh to eagles is the greatest act of kindness."

"Cutting flesh to cook porridge, feeding people to eagles."

"If an eagle eats my flesh, I will skin it."

"The eagle chants Buddhist scriptures, guiding me to Buddhahood."

"To attain Buddhahood through disguise is to accumulate merit without ceasing."

After reading the note, Shi Yu's brows furrowed into a deep frown, which prompted Liu An to speak softly.

"I also know the story behind this: Buddha cut off his own flesh to become an eagle."

"But I didn't see any meat porridge in the cafeteria, or even any porridge at all."

When Shi Yu heard the word "porridge" in Liu An, she immediately remembered that Qing Tian, ​​who was giving a Buddhist lecture in front of the South China Sea Amusement Park that day, had distributed two buckets of porridge.

After realizing this, Shigure finally connected all the storylines, resulting in a terrifying tale.

"Sister Liu An, we have to go."

"The people here cannot be called living people; they are all people who ate meat porridge and turned into 'eagles,' or they can even be called dead."

"They ate meat porridge? Don't they ring a bell during if you break your fast? There's no way we didn't hear such a loud noise."

"What if they're outside giving sermons and controlling people, and they're feeding these people meat porridge?"

"That day, I took Miaomiao there and we ran into Qingtian. If I hadn't controlled Miaomiao's consciousness and prevented her from falling into depravity, she would probably be a puppet now."

"What kind of madman came up with this idea of ​​a way to achieve enlightenment? This is utterly inhuman."

Liu An and Bai Yu looked at Shi Yu with puzzled expressions, but after Shi Yu finished telling the whole story, the two of them were greatly shocked.

"Using preaching and chanting to control people..."

"Then let those people eat meat porridge and become eagles, then take their human skin and sew it into a cassock to wear, and let them offer incense to you, so that your merits may lead to Buddhahood."

"Who the hell came up with this idea?"

"Wait, why are these people who came to the Buddhist assembly today still wearing human skin?"

Bai Yu raised a question, and at that moment a leisurely voice came from afar.

"That's because we haven't had time to peel them yet."

The three turned their heads and saw Abbot Qingtian standing in front of the gate, holding a golden staff.

"Seventeen Buddhas also mean at least seventeen Buddhist assemblies."

"Just how many people have you harmed?"

Shiyu drew his demonic blade, and his black cloak was quickly ignited by the Asura Karmic Flames.

"How many innocent people die from a natural disaster, like an earthquake?"

Have you ever hated the heavens? Have you ever hated the earth?

"We are merely using these people who were going to die as stepping stones for our own enlightenment."

"Compared to death, at least they are still alive now."

"As for me, all I want is to become a Buddha."