Bodhi

"Bodhi, Bodhi!" Li Yuan pinched his wrist anxiously, "What's wrong, does the wound hurt?"

Shezhi also sat beside him, looking at him helplessly.

Li Yuan held his shoulder, and felt that the thin flesh and bones under the black robe of the person in his arms were trembling non-stop, and his eyes were even more empty. He couldn't help being startled and frightened, and called his name repeatedly. Su Xuechan saw his brilliant golden pupils in a trance, and almost wanted to throw herself into his arms and cry.

"I don't want to go on like this anymore!" He hugged Li Yuan with his backhand, no matter how sticky the beast blood on his clothes was, he hugged him so tightly, as if he wanted to melt him into his body, never to be able to again Separation, "What cause and effect, what reincarnation—"

Li Yuan panicked and said, "Bodhi, you...?"

Su Xuechan's whole body was trembling, almost convulsed. If he was in the flesh, he would have sprayed three feet of red blood from his throat by now!People tend to be afraid of the unknown future, but now he discovered that the known future is even more creepy.A narrow tunnel, a huge mouth of a giant beast, and they are all unarmed mortals, helpless, keep falling, watching themselves gradually approaching the end of death without burial.

In the past, Su Lanji once roared at the thunder for him and smashed a tree of azure magnolia. He didn't understand why at that time, he just thought that his mother was worrying too much and complaining about the past, but now he finally understands that Su Lanji The mood at that time, this kind of struggle with fate all my life, dying on the spider web all my life, unable to get rid of the maggots attached to my bones, and the pain of being unable to protect my loved ones all my life——

——Thunderclouds gathered in the sky, pressing heavily on the fertile soil.

"Come on!" He gritted his teeth and let out an unyielding roar at Taixu, "Come and chop me to death——!"

"There are more than billions of beings in the world, why should we suffer, why should all this be stepped on our backs!" His eyes were red, but there were no tears, "What does the prehistoric world have to do with us, and what do all sentient beings have to do with us?" !"

Thunder bang!Although Li Yuan didn't know what he was talking about, he still felt ominous from the words. He hugged Su Xuechan and shouted amidst the thunder, "Stop it, Bodhi! Don't say it!"

Su Xuechan was choked with sobs, his body trembling like a bleak leaf in the wind, he gasped wildly, his tone already had the meaning of pleading: "Even if you have to suffer, let me bear it, it's enough for me to bear it alone! It's none of his business, and it's none of their business! Whether you want to be martyred or smashed to pieces, I just beg you not to hurt him..."

"Son of the white fox!" A thunderbolt suddenly exploded in the sky, and the sound was like the roar of tens of thousands of people gathered together, "Have you forgotten what I warned you?!"

"Then why don't you just kill Fengbo Yushi right now and stop Chi...!" Before the word "You" came out of his mouth, he was suddenly hit hard in the heart, as if he had been hit by a giant hammer, and even his soul would be smashed Broken.

On the blue sky, Emperor Wa shouted angrily: "Ignorant child, come with me!"

——Time stopped at that moment.

Zhongshan Zhulong mastered the four o'clock of the sun and the moon, and it could only stop the time of a mere plain, but after Wa Huang's drink, the whole world was stagnant, and the long river of time was artificially frozen in place. Every drop of splashing water is clearly discernible and silent.

Su Xuechan's spirit body came out again, and before he even had time to take a second look at Li Yuan behind him, he was sent to the boundless four poles by the breeze.

This is the second time he has come to Wa Palace.

Nu Wa's body hovered like a dragon, she sat on a high seat, and looked at Su Xuechan's spiritual body for a while.

"Son of the White Fox." She shook her head, "You are really brave."

With no external objects to rely on, his soul fell heavily to the ground, trembling and huddling together, he said hoarsely: "Dare to ask Your Majesty... what is fate?"

Emperor Wa's eyes were heavy: "Oh? What do you want to say, just say it."

"Why?" He seemed to have regained a little strength. He looked up at Emperor Wa, just like the people who have been pioneering the earth for thousands of years, looking up at the vast sky that dominated his short life, "Why give The room for us to struggle, but the way out is blocked? Why?"

"We can practice, we can live forever, we can grab inexhaustible power from the sun, the moon and the stars, we can fight against the catastrophe, we can fight against the rules...we can move mountains and seas, turn the world upside down, I think we can..." He said intermittently , there were already tears in the eyes, "I thought we could change our destiny...why?"

From the day he started practicing and set foot on the Dao, Su Lanji called him into the secret place passed down in the family and asked him a question.

"Achan," she said, "do you believe in fate?"

He was just an ignorant child at that time. Hearing this, even after thinking about it for a while, he could only answer: "My child... I probably believe it, everything is not all of its own accord. Providence?"

Su Lanji smiled, and said: "But we are a monster clan who are first-class and not subject to the destiny! If we obey the will of God, then we will still be ignorant white foxes in the mountains and fields, running around endlessly for food and reproduction, and our lifespan is only a few dozen short. Years, how can we seek longevity, transform into a human form, how can we compete with ghosts and gods, and keep a trace of life in the world?"

Su Xuechan had never thought about this before, and was stunned for a moment.

"We have never lived in this world to obey the will of fate." Su Lanji sighed softly and stroked the top of his hair, "A person cannot follow the tide in this life, you have to fight for something for yourself .Whether you pick a peach because you are hungry, or seek longevity because you are unwilling, the purpose is the same, it is a rebellion against the destiny."

"Achan," she called out at last, "is it destined to be absolutely correct?"

Su Lanji's words were kept in his heart hundreds of years later. He knew how grand and unstoppable fate was, and he needed to work hard and think hard to find a glimmer of hope from it.But even so, he has never been discouraged, because he knows that even if it is just an empty dream of fishing in the sea in the end, it is better than doing nothing and living a mediocre life.

So he could be martyred, and he could die with Chi You in order to protect the people behind him, but at the moment Su Li looked at him with his magic eyes, he suddenly felt endless exhaustion and sadness.

His struggle is futile, in the thousands of times, how dare he try to use the power of ants to straighten the huge wheel of fate?He knows everything and saves everything, but in the end he is still the little white fox who can't help himself, facing the boundless Kunyu and the vastness of the world.

Nuwa stared at him and sighed slowly.

"Son of the white fox, you should know that whether it is cultivation or longevity, what you change is never fate, but luck."

She waved: "You come with me."

Su Xuechan's body lightened, and he raised his eyes to see that Emperor Wa's body meandered away, leading him to a pool with turbulent waves.

The water was a wonderful silvery white, and the pool was filled with endless waves of light, but even the shadows of the people by the pool could not be reflected.

"This is Nankehai," Emperor Wa said softly, "It is the medium that connects all worlds. I will make an exception and use it for you once today. You have to be careful."

As he said that, Emperor Wa waved his hand, and the waves of Nanke Sea surged, and countless bubbles and white mist emerged from it, and then gradually calmed down, condensing into a smooth and smooth silver mirror.

Su Xuechan saw in the mirror a prosperous mortal royal city full of cars and horses.

Emperor Wa tapped his fingertips, and the scene in the mirror rapidly rotated and magnified, reflecting the magnificent palace in the center of the royal city, and finally it was frozen in a dark corner.

A group of people were beating a thin and half-grown boy. The floor was extremely dirty, and colorless leftovers were splashed among the broken porcelain.

The young man was covered in bruises, his mouth and nose were bleeding, and soon there was only breath left, no breath to take in.

"He is dying, do you want to save him?" Emperor Wa's voice was faint in the void, "If you say save him, he will survive; if you say not save him, then he will be beaten to death there today. "

Su Xuechan was taken aback. He looked at the scene in front of him and asked cautiously: "He...has he committed any unforgivable mistakes? Why are those people so ruthless?"

"Who knows," Wahuang shrugged casually, "Maybe it's because he was too hungry, so he ate a bowl of meat soup from the nobleman."

Su Xuechan frowned and said, "Killing someone for a bowl of meat soup is too much...he is not guilty of death, I am willing to save him."

Emperor Wa smiled slightly: "I have no regrets, remember."

The halo on the surface of the Nanke sea fluctuated, and when I looked again, the boy was already lying on the worn-out mattress. Although his body was covered with cuts and bruises, he saved his life after all.

"You have already made your choice, now, let's see the result." Wahuang raised his hand again, but Nanke Sea suddenly caught fire!

Su Xuechan hastily took a closer look, only to see that the former bustling capital had been reduced to a sea of ​​flames, the sound of trampling iron hooves was mixed with the cries of children, and there were countless wailing screams of civilians...

His hands and feet were cold, and he couldn't believe it: "How could this happen?! Could it be that all this is because of the child from before... But I obviously saved his life!"

At this time, a handsome black horse slowly stepped out from the sea of ​​flames. The man riding on the horse had a stern face, and he could vaguely see some childhood shadows in his brows. It was the person Su Xuechan had just rescued.

"The person you saved is the hostage of another country." Emperor Wa said, "His country was defeated. While ceding land and paying compensation, he also wanted to take an heir of the emperor as a hostage and imprison him in the victorious country. He is not in the country. He was favored, and he suffered so much in this country, even eating a bowl of meat soup, he would be beaten to this point, so he swore that as long as he could go back alive, he would definitely destroy this country that had brought him endless shame."

"You saved him, but this country also fell because of it."

Su Xuechan was tongue-tied, he stared blankly at Nan Kehai, and said in a trembling voice, "What happened here...is it true?"

Nu Wa nodded: "It's absolutely true."

In other words, just because of a single thought, he wiped out a country!

He panted heavily, but before he could react, Emperor Wa lit up Nankehai again, and what appeared on the mirror this time was a vast expanse of wind and snow.

There was a man in the snow, carrying a heavy bundle of firewood, walking on the side of the road with difficulty. After walking for a while, he suddenly stopped, squatted down slowly, and lifted an object out of the snow , Be careful to put it where pedestrians can't step on it.

With sharp eyes, Su Xuechan could tell that it was a dead bird that had frozen to death by the roadside.

After a long time, a big house finally appeared in front of his eyes. He stood in the snow, stood wearily and rested for a while, then walked slowly to the courtyard behind the big house, opened the door, and piled the firewood in the corner.

At this time, there was a row of firewood next to the wall like a hill.

He returned to the room and wiped his sweat with a dirty sackcloth. After a while, another man dressed as a manager came in from the inner courtyard door, holding his hands leisurely and wearing the same clothes. Warm and warm, he wandered around in the yard, and when he saw the pile of firewood, he was half critical, half grudgingly satisfied, and snorted out of his nose.

Hearing this sound, the man came out of the house quickly, nodded and bowed to the steward, and kept gesturing to the steward, saying "ahhh".

It turned out to be a mute, Su Xuechan thought.

The steward was furious, stretched out his legs and kicked the mute out, cursing and saying: "Why, the master asked you to do some work, and it made you very tired? You know that you want money all the time, money, money, money Waiting to buy coffin boards!"

The mute was thin and thin, and was kicked to the ground by him. For a while, he struggled on the ground and couldn't stand up. Seeing his state, the steward couldn't help but spit on him again, turned around and walked away in a big way. .

The mute fell down in the snow and couldn't help whimpering. He looked at the steward's back, and his eyes were full of hatred at that moment.

Su Xuechan hadn't escaped from the previous tragedy of national ruin and family destruction, so she didn't speak when she saw this scene, but just watched.

As night fell, a fire suddenly lit up in the dumb house.After a while, I saw him carrying something in his arms, opened the door curtain and walked out. He staggered on the snow, passed through the courtyard gate, avoided several guards on night patrol, and walked secretly towards the main house. The screen also changed perspectives along with him.

"He wants..." Su Xuechan couldn't help but speak.

"He's going to commit murder." Emperor Wa said leisurely.

Sure enough, the dumb man was carrying something long and stepped up the courtyard wall outside the main house. Unexpectedly, when he was about to turn over, his foot slipped and he fell down suddenly. There was a sound of bone shattering, not only himself He hit the ground heavily, and the polished hatchet in his arms flew out of his clothes, but he was so dumb that he couldn't even cry out in pain, so he passed out.

Everything stands still at this moment.

Emperor Wa said: "How about it, let's see now, do you still want to save him?"

Su Xuechan was silent. He silently looked at the fainted mute. The knife he used to attack was lying on the ground not far away, and the edge had been slightly covered by the fluttering snow.

"If you save him, he will survive," said Emperor Wa. "If you don't save him, he will lie here until dawn, until he is frozen to death under the wall. Make a decision quickly."

Su Xuechan looked at the mute quietly, and said, "I'll save you."

"Why?" Emperor Wa asked with great interest, "He's going to kill someone."

Su Xuechan persisted and repeated: "I will save."

Emperor Wa didn't ask anymore, she looked at Nan Kehai, and a handful of heavy snow fell from the overwhelmed branches, splashing all on the dumb body.

"Ah!" The mute suddenly uttered a hoarse cry, and with his head and body covered in snow, he suddenly touched his throat in a daze.

In the extreme cold and fright, he could make a sound again—he was no longer the mute that everyone despised and bullied!

Overjoyed, he stood up supporting his broken leg, and suddenly saw the hatchet on the ground.

He hesitated for a while, and stepped forward to hold the hatchet in his hand. The light of the blade reflected in his eyes, like a clear spring pouring on his head suddenly in the cold winter months.

He shook his hand, threw the knife out, turned around resolutely, and limped towards the boundless wind and snow.

"Do you still want to see the ending?" Emperor Wa said.

Su Xuechan took a deep breath: "No need, as long as he has a clear conscience, it will be the best ending."

"Then do we want to continue?" Emperor Wa asked.

Su Xuechan said: "No need, I have no right to decide the life and death of others."

Emperor Wa smiled.

"So, tell me now, for them, what is fate and what is luck?"