Chapter 44: The essence enters the body, and the white snake attains the Tao
Before White Snake realized himself, he was a water snake that lived in mountains, forests and swamps all year round.
Due to the white albino characteristics all over its body, the white snake has never been well received by its peers and can only live alone near Longyou Lake.
So on the shore of Longyou Lake, the lone White Snake witnessed the whole process of Zexin Temple from being sparsely populated to being crowded with people, and then from being crowded with people to being unpopular.
One day, when the dragon's blood turned into rain and fell from the sky, spreading all over Longyou Lake, White Snake knew that the worshiped Dragon Girl Bodhisattva had died.
Because Dragon Girl Bodhisattva, in addition to her well-known compassion, is most famous for her ability to turn stone into gold.
It's not a cover-up, but a real magic that turns stones into gold mines and then extracts gold from them.
Thanks to this, even when Zexin Temple was in its lowest condition, Dragon Girl Bodhisattva has been working hard to save the people nearby.
Although White Snake is unsophisticated, she is not an ignorant person after having lived for hundreds of years. She has long been accustomed to the intrigues and conflicts among human beings.
For this reason, White Snake once specifically advised Dragon Girl Bodhisattva not to spend her whole life on such "futile" things.
Faced with White Snake's kind advice, Dragon Girl Bodhisattva just smiled and caressed White Snake's waist, saying that she had her own sense of propriety.
The final result can be imagined. When the military disaster came, Dragon Girl Bodhisattva finally paid the price for her actions and became a dead soul under the sword.
Even his own body was suppressed under the Suolong Well and turned into a genuine ghost Bodhisattva.
Not to mention sad, White Snake was just a little sad at the final fate of Dragon Girl Bodhisattva, but that was all.
Giving up on human form, giving up on becoming a human being, the White Snake chose to live in seclusion among mountains, forests and rivers, away from the world, devouring the essence of the sun and the moon in the most primitive and crude way.
As for Dragon Girl Bodhisattva’s previous enlightenment?
After seeing the fate of Dragon Girl Bodhisattva, White Snake had completely given up.
Until one day hundreds of years later, when White Snake felt the aura of Dragon Girl Bodhisattva again, the overwhelming resentment had already swept through the entire Longyou Lake.
Surprised, stunned, suddenly...
When White Snake realized what had happened, she had arrived at Zexin Temple again.
Looking at those demonized plants and assimilated creatures, White Snake, who had never had any empathy, suddenly felt a throbbing feeling.
In a daze, White Snake seemed to understand Dragon Girl Bodhisattva's original state of mind.
Watching so many lives disappear, in addition to shock, there is also a sadness spreading in my heart.
At that moment, White Snake seemed to have found the motivation to move forward again, and the compassion that she had deliberately abandoned.
Maybe I can't protect someone like the Dragon Girl Bodhisattva, but I can't helplessly watch the once compassionate Bodhisattva turn into an evil ghost seeking revenge on the world.
Therefore, the white snake, which has never been so brave, swallowed up the overflowing resentment with its own power, and then tamed the demonized plants, barely maintaining this extreme "balance".
However, White Snake overestimated her abilities, and as more and more resentment began to leak out, she gradually became out of control.
From the beginning, it just expelled all creatures who dared to approach Zexin Temple, and then took the initiative to cause trouble in Longyou Lake...
White Snake realizes that he is being infected by resentment, and gradually becomes the incarnation of the Ghost Bodhisattva in the human world.
She didn't want to lose her life, so she only had time to order the domesticated plants to guard Zexin Temple, and even completely destroy it if necessary, and then she swam along the grain transport river to the tributary of the Yangtze River.
In that vast river, even if I lost control and ran away, I was determined not to cause too many casualties.
It's a pity that White Snake didn't calculate it at all. After all, she still underestimated people's hearts.
The dignitaries in Runzhou have long been aware of the existence of White Snake, and know that it has been entrenched in Zexin Temple.
They don't care about the good and evil of White Snake, and they don't want to know whether the other party is protecting Zexin Temple or has other agendas.
Those high-ranking officials only knew that as the governor of Runzhou was infected and the Qintian Supervisor took over the order of Runzhou City, their own situation of taking advantage of the opportunity to enrich the country and suffer hardships would be exposed.
Under this situation, they did nothing but lure the white snake lurking in the Yangtze River to the dam in Nandu, destroying the rice fields downstream in one fell swoop.
And in the second year, when the White Snake returned to Longyou Lake and Huiji was severely damaged, they used the same tactics to destroy the Nandu dike again to cover up the corruption in the reconstruction of the dike the previous year.
In a sense, the "balance" that White Snake strives to maintain never existed from the beginning.
The resentment of the real dragon continues to overflow, and the rivers burst their banks and swallow up the fertile fields...
Compared with the lives that died directly due to the resentment of the real dragon, there were more than tens of millions of lives that died due to river flooding and food harvest failure in the next two years?
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When the black blood in White Snake's body was purified by Pei Wende, she realized what had happened in the past two years and gave up completely.
Everything he did had no meaning at all, and he could not protect a living being like the Dragon Girl Bodhisattva.
Perhaps this was a mistake from the beginning. I should not have been reborn because of my kind thoughts at that moment, nor should I have tried to resolve the resentment of a Bodhisattva without overestimating my abilities.
At least, before Pei Wende took out the golden lotus, this was the truest thought in White Snake's heart.
"This 'essence' is the 'gift' left to you by Dragon Girl Bodhisattva, and it is also the 'yoke' I give you."
Under White Snake's shocked gaze, the monk who was suspected of being the "Vajra Reincarnation" released his palm and allowed the golden lotus to slowly fall to the center of White Snake's eyebrows.
In an instant, the gestating "essence" seemed to have found its true body, integrating into the white snake's body without any hindrance.
This is the most correct use of this "Jingso".
He is indeed a "life" that is still in the process of being conceived, but the condition for the birth of this "life" is the white snake.
White Snake originally cultivated the most primitive and savage way of wild beasts. He could only continuously devour the essence of the sun and the moon to strengthen his body and increase his strength.
But after the "essence" was integrated into the body, White Snake actually gave birth to a soul out of thin air.
"Amitabha!"
Just like what Pei Wende said, this "spirit" was originally a gift left by the Dragon Girl Bodhisattva to the White Snake.
However, before White Snake discovered this "spirit", Pei Wende, who was more suitable for this "spirit" than she was, noticed the existence of this "spirit" in advance.
Now that Pei Wende gave it to White Snake, it can be considered that the property has returned to its original owner to a certain extent.
The only difference is that along with the "essence" integrated into the white snake's body, there is also the golden lotus originating from Pei Wende.
Chapter completed!