Cyber Ghosts

Chapter 184 Who am I?
Hao Ning got clear and then looked at Xiao Hong, who had already dropped on his knees on the ground with his eyes and mouth constantly flowing fire. Xiao Hong’s eyes were unclear, and he was obviously lost. Looking at his hands, Hao Ning found that the blue had not disappeared but been more than before!

“Hao Ning, save Xiao Hong!” Zhou Yuan screamed.

With a “clap”, Hao Ning immediately gave Xiao Hong a slap in the face. It could be said to be really powerful, and Xiao Hong was immediately woken up. He looked at the Manjusri who was chanting, looked at Hao Ning, and then looked at the Samadhi True Fire on the ground, and he already knew that this Manjusri had problems.

Xiao Hong reacted very quickly and sat in meditation on the ground without saying anything else: “Brother Hao Ning, I can protect myself. Don’t care for me!” While he was saying that, a flame was burning around him to protect his whole body. This fake Manjusri’s words should be unable to break through this flame.

“Who let you protect yourself!” Hao Ning was going to collapse, and he looked at Xiao Hong in the flame with a crying face. “I am letting you fight against the enemy together with me! You think too highly of me!”

Although the Buddha’s voice was large, Yunzhongzi’s Two Elements Dust Array was such a treasure, and it was naturally not so easy to wear. Therefore, Liu Shuai and others were still safe for the time being.

Seeing that Hao Ning gave Xiao Hong a slap in the face, Liu Shuai quickly grabbed his own face. After doing it, he remembered something and stared at Zhou Yuan: “It’s you, you just hit my face. I can still feel the searing pain!”

“I even have juicy pain! Don’t talk nonsense!” Zhou Yuan’s face turned red, and he made Liu Shuai’s head twisted to the front. “Look there!” Then he handed over a packet of melon seeds, “Eat melon seeds!”

“Are you crazy? It’s so urgent, and you still eat your melon seeds!” Liu Shuai turned back and found that not only Zhou Yuan, even Zhe and Ye also held a handful of melon seeds. Liu Shuai was going to collapse. He had only thought that he himself was really random but had not expected this pair of young couples would be so “big-hearted”. Liu Shuai couldn’t help but say, “It’s so dangerous, but are you still so leisurely? Don’t you feel worried?”

“Then what can we do?” Zhou Yuan said helplessly. “We have only little power, and we can’t help at all. It’s better to calm down than to be nervous.”

“Do not worry,” Zhe looked confidently at Liu Shuai and licked Ye in his arms. “The master Hao Ning is extremely powerful, and he can definitely defeat the devil!”

Ye also nodded and put the melon seeds in the hands of Zhe. “Who said that we can’t do anything? We can cheer!”

After saying, the two living treasures even applauded and shouted: “Hao Ning! Come on! Hao Ning! Come on!”

“Bah, psycho,” Liu Shuai collapsed as same as Hao Ning and then turned off the voice box. “Do you think this is the Olympics?”

The Manjusri was still continually chanting “lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha”, and the Sanskrit drowned other sounds. In the beginning, Xiao Hong could support it, but after a while, the flames on his body began to disorder. Hao Ning looked at him and found that the flames on Xiao Hong’s body actually began to fly out sparks, flying to the light circle behind Manjusri Bodhisattva. Every time a spark flew out, Xiao Hong’s body trembled once. It seemed that it would not be long and as long as Xiao Hong’s body-protecting flames all flew to Manjusri Bodhisattva, Xiao Hong would be unable to be saved.

“What can I do!” Hao Ning was anxious. His mind had been clear, but now he was a little dizzy under the Sanskrit that “Lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha.”

But how was this sentence so familiar?

Hao Ning suddenly thought of one thing and shouted: “What is the relationship between you and Puducihang !”

“Well?” After hearing the words of Hao Ning, Zhou Yuan stunned and then put down the seeds, frowning and thinking, “Puducihang, the name seems so familiar. Who is it?”

“Puducihang?” When the Manjusri heard Hao Ning’s words, his voice turned out to be a little lower.

“Puducihang?” Xiao Hong found the Sanskrit slightly smaller and the crisis was slightly solved. He closed his eyes and asked, “Brother Hao Ning, there is no such a Buddha!”

“Hum! You are right!” Hao Ning realized now, and he stared at the Manjusri, who was smiling in the air, and said, “But you only got half right. That Puducihang is not a Bodhisattva, but people all think that he is a Bodhisattva, and as time passes, he has regarded himself as Bodhisattva!”

“I remember it!” Zhou Yuan slapped his thigh and shouted through the voice box. “This is a character in the famous movie A Chinese Ghost Story decades ago. He is actually a centipede spirit but pretends to be a state adviser with great merits. While eating up the officials at that time, he keeps a mask of false compassion. His practice is just the Devil Sanskrit. Yes, it is just “lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha”! Who believed his ghost words would surely die!”

“Yes!” Hao Ning realized. “You are not the Manjusri Bodhisattva. What are you? I don’t know what secret method you used, and you even acquired the Devil Sanskrit!”

“Book Elf!” Liu Shuai yelled!

“I see!” Hao Ning suddenly understood. It just liked that after the use of Book Elf, Qili acquired the toad training skill, and this Manjusri Bodhisattva probably used the same method and acquired the Devil Sanskrit. It seemed that this Book Elf could help others acquire the kung fu skill not only in the books, but also in the films and television works. But it was understandable when Hao Ning thought about it. Whether it was a book or a film or the television work, it was a concentrated place of human’s belief. It was not surprising that it could be borrowed.

“I do not know what you are talking about,” the Manjusri still smiled peacefully. “I am Manjusri Bodhisattva. You are suffering from your desire, anger and ignorance. I have to subdue you and make you convert to our Buddhism.”

“Lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha”

“Lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha”

“Not good!” Liu Shuai’s expression changed at this time. “What is this skill? It can affect the Two Elements Dust Array!”

“What?” Finding that Liu Shuai was so nervous, Zhou Yuan looked at the ground in the direction of Liu Shuai’s gaze. Wasn’t it? There was a slight crack in the large array on the ground. Zhou Yuan quickly pointed to it, and the crack disappeared temporarily, but it appeared elsewhere in the next moment. For this carelessness, the sound of “Lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha” came in.

“No!” Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan looked at each other. Both of them stood up nervously, but they did not dare to speak first.

“You say.” Liu Shuai said.

“The time for me to cultivate is shorter than yours,” Zhou Yuan seemed to be inaccurate. “You say!”

“This does not seem to be the Devil Sanskrit…” Liu Shuai said tempted.

“You want to say that this is not a devil skill, but…” Zhou Yuan swallowed slobber and looked nervously at the Manjusri outside. “It’s just a real Dharma, right?”

With a “plop”, Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan both sat down on the ground, and said the words in a desperate manner. “Over, we are over. We really offended the Buddha!”

“Puff‒” Xiao Hong spitted out some golden fire red blood with his eyes closed. “Brother Hao Ning…”

Hao Ning quickly ran over to see Xiao Hong, and then stopped in front of him: “Don’t worry. I am here!”

“Young friends,” Manjusri Bodhisattva still smiled. “I have no intention of hurting you. I just want you to lay down the butcher’s knife. If Sudhana has the idea to convert to Buddhism, he will not be so uncomfortable.”

“Really?” Hao Ning seemed to be unaffected by the Sanskrit at this time. “If I put down the butcher’s knife, can I become a Buddha like you?”

“Surely,” Although the Manjusri was quite puzzled why Hao Ning had nothing, he still smiled and replied, “It seems that you have already put down the butcher’s knife!”

“So, Bodhisattva, you have not become a Buddha,” Hao Ning sneered. “Is it because of this butcher’s knife in your hand?” While saying, he pointed at the Hui sword in Manjusri Bodhisattva’s hand, “How can you let others put down the butcher’s knife without putting down it yourself?”

“You don’t know the essence of the Hui sword,” the Manjusri’s body was slightly trembling. “That Buddha says the Hui sword, means it is named Hui sword, not a real Hui sword!”

“Oh, it turned out to be like this,” Hao Ning clearly saw that the sword had cracked, and he sneered. “So that Bodhisattva says the Devil Sanskrit, is not the real Devil Sanskrit, but named the Devil Sanskrit!”

“How did you say this?” the Manjusri changed his expression at this time, and he looked directly at Hao Ning. The sound of “lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha” was even louder.

“Hey?” Xiao Hong slowly opened his eyes and looked at Hao Ning, who stood in front of him. “I feel better than just now.” He looked at the back of Hao Ning, who seemed to be a god of war. “Hao‒”

“You don’t talk!” Hao Ning did not turn back and warned Xiao Hong. Then he smiled and looked at the Manjusri and asked, “Why did Bodhisattva stop speaking?”

The Manjusri no longer cared about him. It could only be heard that the sound of “lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha” sounded like thunder, and it even shook the stones on the ground. There were several relatively larger stones actually being broken in this sound.

“Since Bodhisattva you do not speak,” Hao Ning continued to say to himself, “let me talk about it!”

With the voice of Hao Ning just finishing, another “Devil Sanskrit” sounded on the whole place. This Devil Sanskrit was not made by the Manjusri but came from Hao Ning and passed to the Manjusri!

“Lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha!”

“Lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha!”

With a “crack”, the Hui sword near the Manjusri actually broke into powders, and then it turned into golden lights, floating to the ground. It was strange that when the golden lights fell to the ground, the ground immediately floated a green light and it absorbed the golden lights. The green light became stronger and stronger, while the golden lights became weaker and weaker. After a moment, the golden lights were all gone. A green bamboo leaf floated from the ground, which was just the one that Zhe threw on the ground just now making Xiao Hong’s heart broken. This bamboo leaf flew into the flames on Xiao Hong and floated back and forth twice on Xiao Hong’s hands, and then the blue parasitic poison was immediately stripped from Xiao Hong’s hands and flew into the air becoming two other blue arms. Xiao Hong tried to hold the fists and then shouted with a surprise: “The poison is solved!” When he saw the two arms in the air, he was really resentful and used a fire burning them for a long time. However, he found that nothing happened on the blue arms.

Looking at the floating green bamboo leaf in the air, Xiao Hong understood, and immediately prostrated himself before the green bamboo leaf and said: “Thank you, Avalokitesvara! Thank you, Brother Zhang!”

While Xiao Hong’s voice had not finished, something on the ground suddenly moved. Although it was subtle, it was seen by Hao Ning.

“Xiao Hong, hold your heart,” Hao Ning stared at the Manjusri, and his own Devil Sanskrit still kept talking to him, “Say it later.”

Hearing the words, Xiao Hong no longer talked. With no injuries on his hands, the flames on him were flourishing.

“Why have you acquired the Buddhist Light Illuminating?” Manjusri opened his eyes and looked at Hao Ning. “How can you use the Buddhist practice!”

“Bah!” Hao Ning took a sip. “Don’t you be shameful? You should call the Devil Sanskrit as Buddhist Light Illuminating. I have seen the whitewasher, but I have never seen anyone whitewash itself in such a shameless way!”

After saying, Hao Ning approached several steps, and the sound of “lay down the butcher’s knife and become a Buddha” passing to the Manjusri was louder. In a short time, the lotus behind the Manjusri gradually withered.

“Oh, is it the Five Exhaustions of Heavenly Man?” Hao Ning picked up a term from the few Buddhist vocabularies that he knew, and he sneered: “Bodhisattva, you haven’t had enough incense yet. Why are you going to die so hurriedly?”

“Hey!” The Pixiu under the foot of the Manjusri suddenly opened the mouth and bit a bite. The Manjusri reached out a finger and pointed. A golden chain tied the Pixiu tightly. The chain seemed to be able to move, and it immediately threw the Pixiu away.

“Young friend,” the Manjusri looked a little angry but still peaceful. “You are so disrespectful to Bodhisattva, and I have to subdue you with the great power, making you cultivate under my lotus platform for thousands of years to remove your hostility…”

“You subdue me?” Hao Ning laughed, “Okay, let’s have a competition! Anyway, I will find out whether it’s you the Bodhisattva or me the Fighting Buddha that is more powerful!”

“Fighting Buddha?” Manjusri Bodhisattva immediately was shocked.

“Fighting Buddha!” Zhe and Ye shouted with an adoring expression.

“D**n it! He is Fighting Buddha! He said that he is Fighting Buddha? The Fighting Buddha is, obviously ‒ oh!” Zhou Yuan was going crazy, and when he did not finish his words, his mouth had been covered by Liu Shuai. Liu Shuai nervously gave Zhou Yuan a look, and then Zhou Yuan angrily turned off the voice box and scolded, “Shameless! I have seen some people impersonate others, but I have never seen someone impersonate in the face of the real one!”

When the Manjusri was shocked, Hao Ning reached out and pointed back. The five Yin and five Yang Soul Cutter flew to the two blue arms in the air. In the blink of an eye, the blue arms had turned into the crystal blue liquid, flying to the hands of Hao Ning.

“What is this!” The Manjusri changed his expression at this time.

“Have a guess?” Hao Ning smiled. “Don’t you know it? I will tell you. This thing is called Soul Coin Material!”

While he said that, Hao Ning’s hand shook once, and part of the Soul Coin Material was accidentally shaken out and sprinkled on the back of Hao Ning’s hand, then slowly infiltrating into the ring, and the rest part was held in the hands of Hao Ning.

“Oh!” Zhou Yuan saw the spilled Soul Coin Material and couldn’t help but swear. “This Hao Ning is surely a prodigal son!” He really wished that he could help Hao Ning catch the spilled Soul Coin Material, but when he saw the material immersed in the ring of Hao Ning, he thought that it was not wasted and then he stopped talking.

“Buddha is compassionate!” The Manjusri said nothing else, and the thousands of sounds in the sky suddenly turned into thousands of palms, falling down from the sky.

“This?” Liu Shuai looked at the palms on the sky and was so scared that he sat down on the ground. “Zhou Yuan, can you remember a kung fu skill with palms falling down from the sky?”

Zhou Yuan looked at the palms that fell down from the sky and collapsed like facing the end of the world. “Buddha’s Palm?”

“Young friends,” the Manjusri smiled and sighed, “don’t blame me.”

“I will not blame you,” Hao Ning smiled. “But don’t blame me!”

While his saying, a few blue ice pieces flew out from the hands of Hao Ning, hitting the body of Doctor Xue on the ground!

“What are you doing‒ Ah! How can this be!” Just as these ice pieces hit the body of Doctor Xue, the Manjusri screamed out, no longer holding the peaceful expression.

“What happened?” Liu Shuai and Zhou Yuan also looked surprised. The things in Hao Ning’s hands hit on Doctor Xue’s body, but this Manjushri actually began to yell. Not only that, but even the numerous palms on the sky actually turned into nothingness for a moment, as if they had never appeared before.

The Manjusri Bodhisattva, at this time, even showed a ferocious face and kept trembling. Seeing this change, the Manjusri immediately made some gestures, “Wisdom Yin! Bright Yin! Bhaisajya Buddha Yin! Amoghasiddhi Yin!” Continually making several gestures, the Manjusri did not stop trembling but even trembled more heavily. The Manjusri was shocked at this time. “What kind of magic skill you used can actually hurt me the Manjusri Bodhisattva!”

“At this time, you still don’t admit that you are a fake one!” Hao Ning sneered, “Because you are used to cheating others, then even you do believe in yourself?”

“Impossible!” The Manjusri shouted. “I am Manjusri Bodhisattva, the teacher of the Seven Buddhas, worshiped by hundreds of millions of believers! My Buddhist Dharma is boundless! How can I be a fake one!”

“Hum,” Seeing the Manjusri did so, Hao Ning replied, “You haven’t sat on the lotus platform, and how can you have the Buddhist Dharma! If I were not reminded by my friend, I would have not known ‒ hey, my way of speaking has been affected by your classical words. Remember to speak the vernacular. If you don’t say the words used by the people, how can you take across the sentient beings!”

Hao Ning scratched his head and continued. “The Buddhist Light Illuminating you mentioned indeed is also a kind of kung fu skill, so it can be turned to you by my Stellar Transposition. I said I “says the Devil Sanskrit, is not the real Devil Sanskrit, but named the Devil Sanskrit”, and I meant that it’s not important how you call it. What’s important is that I have a way to give you a taste of your own medicine.”

“Impossible!” the Manjusri was already flustered and shivering. “I am Manjusri. If I am not the Manjusri, who am I?”

“Who are you? I don’t know,” Hao Ning looked at Doctor Xue, who was on the ground. “But I know that you must have a relationship with him!”

“He? How can he an evildoer be related to me?” The Manjusri shouted. “I am a Bodhisattva. How can I be with the evildoer! Do not try to hurt my belief relying on your strong magical power!”

“He really is related to you, but you don’t know it!” Zhou Yuan’s voice came out from the voice box again. “Hao Ning, you really have the way! Even can find out this!”

“Find out what?” Hao Ning had some doubts that he had not found out anything, but after all, he was concerned about face-saving, so he said aloud, “Zhou Yuan, you enjoy a lot of knowledge and the piercing eyes! Explain it!”

These words were enough to protect Zhou Yuan’s honor. The pair of piercing eyes were indeed the exclusive ability of Sun Wukong. To confuse the fake Manjusri, Hao Ning just claimed that he was the Fighting Buddha. He thought that Zhou Yuan the “Monkey Inside” must be unhappy, so he pointed out the point, telling Zhou Yuan that he admitted Zhou Yuan was Sun Wukong and he would not fight for this name with him. Sure enough, Zhou Yuan heard this sentence and felt rejoiced, no longer bearing grudges. Zhou Yuan said loudly: “Isn’t this simple? This Bodhisattva is indeed the Manjushri.” After that sentence, there was no voice!

“Um? D**n,” Hao Ning heard that sentence and his face turned green, “Zhou Yuan you counteract my efforts!” Not only Hao Ning’s face turned green, but also Xiao Hong’s face was green. Did this Zhou Yuan belong to which part? In the face of all the people, he admitted that this was the true Manjushri, and then what did the performance of everyone just now mean?

“Hey, don’t hurry. This voice box has problems in connection! Liu Shuai, hurry to help!” Zhou Yuan said quickly, then everyone heard the sound of two slaps on the microphone, “Hey, it is fine!”

“You are indeed the Manjushri’s ‒ a part,” Zhou Yuan continued. “But there must be a part of this Manjushri’s lining having been… Which word should I use? Confused? Parasitized? Occupied? In short, this is what I mean! If I don’t guess wrong, when you once were weak, someone used a way to implant a seed into your lining, so that you can still enjoy the worship of the believers, and over time, you also have Manjusri’s incense and breath. Your previous practice also showed the atmosphere of Buddhist Dharma. Otherwise, how could you deceive the Sudhana, and even deceive yourself? If it were not the emergency, you would have always thought that you are the Manjushri until ‒”

“Until the person needs you to help,” Hao Ning took the topic. With Zhou Yuan explaining this, Hao Ning also understood why Xiao Hong did not doubt at all. This was equal to the Manjusri’s version of the Trojan horse. No, it was more terrible than the Trojan horse. The people inside the Trojan horse still knew that they were spies and the enemies. While Manjusri had been seeded by someone, and over time, he really thought that he was the Manjusri!

“Impossible!” The Manjusri continued to tremble, “Impossible!”

“Impossible?” Hao Ning sneered. “Don’t you feel that your two acupoints Danzhong and Jiuwei are extremely itchy, and no Buddhist Dharma can solve?”

“What are the Danzhong and Jiuwei?” the Manjusri asked while trembling. “There are no such words in Buddhist vocabulary!”

“Oh, they are two points on the stomach,” Liu Shuai’s voice came out. “It can be seen that we should not tend to go overboard on only one subject. Don’t always learn the one. If you have time, you should look at some other books, such as biomedicine, classic Chinese medicine and so on…”

“Heresy!” Manjusri said, “How can it be stronger than our Buddhist Dharma!”

“I said you are fat, and you are even out of breath!” Hao Ning laughed with anger, “Do you still not believe? I tell you, the reason why you feel so itchy is not that you have been tricked by some magic skills, but ‒” Hao Ning pointed to the body of Doctor Xue on the ground, “that on Doctor Xue’s body I have put an incurable hidden weapon‒Life and Death Charms! And the ordinary Life and Death Charms use water, while I used the Soul Coin Material! Therefore, this itch will not only be in the body of Doctor Xue, but also in the person who has a relationship with him. You feel so itchy, and it can only prove one thing, you and this Doctor Xue are really the same!”

“Ah, ah‒it turned out to be the Life and Death Charms!” As Hao Ning’s voice just finished, Doctor Xue’s body immediately blasted, and a little blue man rolled on the ground. “You are so vicious, actually using the Life and Death Charms! Ouch, itchy! So painful! I can’t stand it!”

“Aren’t you dead?” The fake Manjusri could no longer control himself at this time, and he was scratching his whole body, “How are you still alive?”

“The Life and Death Charms made by this Soul Coin Material are so powerful…” Hao Ning looked down and thought. When he saw that while the blue on Xiao Hong’s hands was absorbed by the bamboo leaf, the body of Doctor Xue moved once, he had thought: There were the cause and effect between the blue and Doctor Xue, and if this blue was absorbed and Doctor Xue could still move, then this Doctor Xue would probably do not die yet?

If Doctor Xue was still not dead, the problem would be complicated!

The sword of Manjushri had really been inserted into Doctor Xue, and the blue on Doctor Xue’s body did not go up through the sword. If this Manjushri were true, it could also be interpreted that Manjushri’s Hui sword was so powerful. But according to the latter things, the Manjusri was also a fake one. A fake Manjushri could be free from being parasitized by the Parasitism Trick of Doctor Xue. There were only two possibilities. One was that Doctor Xue’s control of Parasitism Trick had been already very powerful and he could choose whether to attack others. Another possibility was that Doctor Xue and the Manjusri were just the same!

The first possibility could hardly happen, because if Doctor Xue’s control of Parasitism Trick had been very good, then Xiao Hong would not have been just like this. And the blue arms in the air had not moved for a long time, which also meant that Doctor Xue’s control over Parasitism Trick had not been so powerful. So, it was very likely that Doctor Xue and Manjusri were somehow the same.

Hao Ning just took the chance to have a try, and the Life and Death Charms did hit the Doctor Xue, while Manjushri also felt uncomfortable, which confirmed the idea of Hao Ning‒of course, he also had other methods. If this Manjushri had not been affected, he would use the rest of Life and Death Charms to hit the Manjusri, in order to protect themselves.

But Hao Ning had not thought that Zhou Yuan could even find out the ins and outs of this strange Manjusri, at which himself was not good.

“I will fight with you!” In a blink of an eye, the blue light man on the ground turned into a blue little sword and quickly came to Hao Ning. Who knew that when it had not been to Hao Ning, it was stopped by a golden lotus?

“Evildoer! How dare you hurt people!” Although Manjusri Bodhisattva felt the whole body itchy, he still screamed and asked with a serious voice, “What kind of demons are you? Why my Hui sword couldn’t kill you?”

“Um?” Hao Ning was hesitant at this time. This Bodhisattva still did not understand that he himself and Doctor Xue were a group, and he still consisted of stopping Doctor Xue from doing evil. Was he serious?