Chapter 538 Karma Fire

"boom!"

The ghost hand slapped the golden-armored ape general hard on the mountain peak. The rocks on the mountain peak were broken into pieces. The golden-armored ape general's body was stained with blood, and even his armor was almost shattered.

"Roar!"

The golden-armored ape roared angrily. Li Mu originally thought that it would continue to attack. Unexpectedly, the ape monster turned around and ran away after roaring. In the blink of an eye, it fled here and there in the ruins of the Buddhist temple. Disappear.

"This ape is quite treacherous!" Li Mu was slightly stunned when he saw the golden-armored ape disappearing, but he had no intention of chasing the ape to death.

This ape is not weak. If you want to kill it, it will definitely make a lot of noise. Now the crazy sky-swallowing python is still wandering around. If there is too much movement to attract it, it will be troublesome.

The figure of the golden-armored ape disappeared. Li Mu looked around and entered the ruins of the Buddhist temple again. This time he searched very carefully, not only checking various Buddhist halls, but even a few basements.

Although most of the buildings in this Buddhist temple have collapsed and all the non-rotted things have been moved away, the former glory can still be vaguely seen. Li Mu estimates that at its peak, this Buddhist temple probably had at least tens of thousands of monks. In the history that Li Mu studied There is no such temple at all, but this temple does exist.

This is like someone once said, history is just a little girl who can be dressed up by others. Today she is given a skirt and tomorrow she is given pants. People know it, but ordinary people really don’t know it after ten or a hundred years.

Li Mu searched everywhere. Unfortunately, this temple was relatively safe and not too far from the entrance to the Lingwu Secret Realm. It was a place frequented by adventurous Lingwu students. This temple had been raided countless times, let alone The martial arts instruments were gone, not even a single Buddhist bead was left behind.

"It seems we can only find nothing!"

Li Mu checked everywhere in the ruins of the Buddhist temple, and even found the most secret place of the temple, but still found nothing. Soon he saw a pagoda that had collapsed less than half. The pagoda was about seven or eight feet high and had already collapsed. It is a dangerous building with a very secretive location. It cleverly uses the blocking of sight and location to make it difficult to find without looking carefully.

"This tower is very secretive, and it looks shaky and may collapse at any time. It may not have been raided a few times, so go in and take a look!"

Seeing the pagoda, Li Mu felt some hope in his heart, and he immediately started to work hard and walked towards the top of the pagoda without touching his feet. But as soon as he reached the top floor of the pagoda, he immediately smelled the smell of some herbs.

"You're actually hiding here?"

Li Mu walked to the top floor of the pagoda and saw that the golden-armored ape had taken off the golden armor on his upper body and was chewing some unknown types of herbs into juice and applying it to his wounds. Like a human general who was injured on the battlefield and escaped and is recovering from his injuries.

Seeing Li Mu's sudden appearance, the golden-armored ape who was applying herbs sat down on the ground in fright. His eyes kept turning in panic, and his whole body trembled.

This golden-armored ape general had sneak attacked many Shanwu students before, but he had never encountered a human as powerful as Li Mu. He could defeat it easily. Now that Li Mu suddenly appeared, he almost frightened the golden-armored ape general. The soul is in disarray.

This golden-armored ape general was actually the bell-ringing ape in this temple. He heard a lot of Buddhist teachings in the temple and learned some magical powers. Later, something happened to the temple and all the monks disappeared. He could not find anyone to take care of him. He stole a set of gold armor from somewhere and put it on, pretending to be the ape general protecting the temple.

Until later, the whole world underwent great changes, spiritual energy disappeared, various gods, gods and demons fell, were sealed, and hid and lingered.

This ape is hiding here. Presumably few people can find this pagoda. Even if they find it quietly, it will be useless if they are not strong enough.

Li Mu turned his eyes and saw that there were some human bones scattered in the uppermost room of the pagoda. Humans kill demons and demons eat humans. This is a common law of heaven and earth, and it cannot be wrong. But since Li Mu was born as a human, then He can only consider the issue from a human standpoint, and he will not consider the equality of all living beings like the Holy Mother.

Seeing these human bones, Li Mu became murderous and prepared to try to see if he could quickly and silently kill this golden-armored ape general. If he could kill this ape monster quickly and leave its intact body, then The corpse of this ape demon can be directly refined into a puppet.

Li Mu's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and the golden-armored ape general noticed it immediately. It trembled all over and hurriedly ran to the side of the pagoda wall and stretched out its hand to press hard. The golden-armored ape general reached out and pressed the pagoda. Immediately a secret cabinet opened on the wall, and there was a small golden lamp in the secret cabinet.

The little golden lamp has some mottled spots on it, which are traces left by the years, but the red flame on the golden lamp is like a bean, and it burns peacefully without increasing, decreasing, darkening, or dying out, as if it will last forever.

The golden-armored ape general saw a trace of reluctance flashing in the eyes of the little golden lantern, but he hesitated for a moment, then immediately grabbed the little golden lantern and rushed to Li Mu, kneeling on the ground and holding the golden lantern high. Send it to Li Mu.

"Do you want to trade this golden lamp for your life?"

When Li Mu asked, the golden-armored ape general immediately nodded desperately and put the golden lantern into Li Mu's hand.

As soon as the golden lamp was taken into hand, the tentacles were slightly warm, and a heavy feeling immediately appeared. The golden lamp was like a heavy small heater in Li Mu's hand.

This golden lantern has been around for who knows how long, and it is full of traces of time. But what attracts Li Mu most is the flame that is constantly burning. The flame does not move at all no matter how the golden lantern moves, and it looks very magical.

This thing is hidden here by the golden-armored ape general, and it is obviously very precious.

Li Mu thought for a while, then stretched out a finger and suddenly swept it over the lamp flame.

"laugh!"

Just as Li Mu's fingers swept across, a dark golden light flashed, and his horizontal martial arts skills were instantly broken. His skin, flesh and blood were burned clean, and even the dark golden bones of his fingers showed signs of melting.

"What a strong flame!"

Li Mu was shocked, and immediately activated the Vajra Indestructible Body. The Qi of the Vajra Indestructible Body circulated, and the flesh and blood grew again. After a while, the entire finger returned to its original state.

"What the hell is this?" Li Mu's eyes showed a look of shock. With his current level of martial arts, ordinary mortal fire cannot hurt him at all. Even divine fire can be carried. Although it may not be able to withstand it, it still has to be like It's like throwing wet firewood into the raging flames. It can only be carried twice, and it will give out some green smoke.

But under the flame of this golden lamp, Li Mu's flesh and blood was instantly burned to ashes. The flame on this golden lamp was a little too strong.

Li Mu looked at the golden lantern, then turned to look at the golden-armored ape general who was kneeling on the ground. The golden-armored ape general looked nervous and racked his brains and stretched out his fingers to draw crookedly on the ground.

"Two vertical and one horizontal, the river is cut off?"

Li Mu looked at what the golden-armored ape would draw. It looked like two crooked vertical bars. The vertical bars were crooked as if to represent a river, but there was a horizontal bar below the river, which looked like the river had been cut off. .

The golden-armored ape shook his head desperately and scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously. He thought for a while and pointed at what he had drawn on the ground, and then spread his hands to make a burning sign.

"Burn? Fire?"

Li Mu frowned and guessed, this time the golden-armored ape was ecstatic and nodded repeatedly.

Then the golden-armored ape pointed to the ground and made a burning gesture again.

"River fire? Water fire?" Li Mu asked.

But this time, the golden-armored ape kept shaking his head, and anxiously he drew on the ground again, each stroke exactly the same as what he had just drawn.

"It's not painting, it's writing. This ape has seen monks writing in the temple before!" Li Mu understood immediately. Then he looked at the flames on the golden lamp, and then looked at the words written by the ape, directly on the golden armor. Another word was written next to the word drawn by the ape.

"Is this the word you want to write?"

Li Mu asked, pointing to the words he had just written.

"Squeak, squeak!"

When the golden-armored ape saw the words written by Li Mu, he danced and screamed with joy, but when Li Mu saw the golden-armored ape, his face was full of shock.

"Karma fire, are you saying that what is burning on this golden lamp is actually Buddhist karma fire?"

Li Mu asked in shock. The word he wrote on the ground was "karma". The word "karma" was only about two points less than what the golden-armored ape general wrote.

This is the ruins of a Buddhist temple, which is the place where Buddhism is inherited. And there are golden lanterns and fires. Seeing the words painted by the golden-armored ape general, Li Mu guessed that it might be talking about the most famous karma fire in Buddhism, the Buddhist karma fire.

The so-called Buddhist karma fire is also called the hell sin fire and the red lotus karma fire. It burns sins, crimes, and sins. The more serious the sins, the more powerful and terrifying the Buddhist karma fire is.

If a person is born a saint and does not have sinful karma or cause and effect, the fire of karma will be like the spring breeze blowing on the face and will not have any effect. However, if a person who has committed extremely evil crimes is once contaminated by karma, even if it is only a little contaminated, Then the sin will not be extinguished, the karma fire will not be extinguished, and the karma fire will never stop burning unless this person who has committed the heinous sin is completely burned to ashes.

This is the scariest thing about karma fire.

Just now, Li Mu was only contaminated with a little karma fire, and the flesh and blood on his fingers were almost burned away. This was because the sins on his body were not heavy, and the karma fire would be extinguished after burning. If he had a lot of sins, that little karma fire contamination would sweep through his whole body in the blink of an eye. The burning will not stop.

Murder does not necessarily mean you are guilty. This involves another important Buddhist saying, cause and effect. Only when there is a cause, there will be an effect. It is natural to kill someone for a life. If it is to avenge relatives and friends, this itself is not guilty in terms of cause and effect.

Another example is executing criminals on behalf of the country and the government. This cause and effect is borne by the country and has nothing to do with the individual.

Cause and effect and sin are invisible and intangible, but they are real. Moreover, both of them are very complicated things, and even the most eminent monks cannot explain them clearly.