Chapter 115 Green Snake: Master, I want you to help me practice "This, how is this possible!" Yamausagi's eyes widened and he almost jumped up in shock, so he could no longer hold back his voice. Pinggong Chiye, the old mountain boy, and the other two young mountain boys all cast their eyes over. Even the magic frog she was sitting on croaked twice to express its confusion at the moment. "You guys, don't look at me like that, please continue to ignore me..." Yamauti lowered his head again and started talking softly to Xiaoqing who was hugging his waist. "It looks like something good is happening again." The old mountain boy withdrew his gaze and vaguely guessed the reason. He had also heard the "Manjushri Wisdom Mantra" recited by Master Padmasambhava just now when he was young.
But that time, he was hiding outside the wall and eavesdropping. The monk must have discovered its existence, but did not make it public. Instead, he recited the "Manjushri Wisdom Mantra" three times in the house to enlighten its wisdom. Not long after that, it gradually learned human language and its wisdom increased a lot more than before. After it gained enough wisdom, it learned to think like a human, and realized that it was because of the help of the monk that it was able to increase its wisdom and learn human language. For this, it has always been grateful to the monk. Later, it secretly went back again, but after a few years, the monk had passed away and was no longer alive. Now, it heard this familiar scripture again. This is undoubtedly a great fortune for the mountain children clan, whose wisdom is growing slowly. "Ah...oh...shan...tong..." The young mountain boy who was given the title opened his mouth and spoke intermittently. Under the guidance of the old mountain boy, he was gradually able to pronounce the word "mountain boy" clearly. "Master Liansheng, please wait for one night. I have some matters to tell them about after my death." The old mountain boy forced himself to stand there tremblingly. His time was coming. After teaching the young mountain boy the human language and some secrets of the mountain boy clan, he could rest assured and become the spirit of the Zen staff in Master Liansheng's hand. "Grandmaster……" The young mountain boy faced Pinggong Qianye, knelt down and kowtowed three times. Being appointed as a mountain god is a transaction, but reciting the "Manjushri Wisdom Mantra" to enlighten its wisdom is a favor. "Master Liansheng, please wait a moment." After the old mountain boy said this, he asked two younger mountain boys to support him, and the four mountain boys disappeared into the depths of the dense forest together. Under the waterfall, beside the stream, only Pinggong Qianye, Yamausagi, Mowa and Xiaoqing were left. "Quack."
The magic frog lowered its posture and bowed its head to greet the eminent monk Pinggong Qianye. Pinggong Qianye spoke curiously: "With your wisdom and cultivation, you should have understood human nature and human language long ago." "Quack." The frog just shook its head. "Mr. Frog said that he didn't want to speak human language. He always thought he was a frog turned into a monster." The mountain rabbit could only raise its head again and act as a translator: "Quack, that's the language of their tribe, just like the different languages spoken by different countries and races in your human world." This is a monster that sticks to his original nature. Pinggong Qianye still had some admiration for its behavior, but at the same time he was curious: could just two quacks express such rich information? "I, I'm just helping Mr. Frog to supplement his inner thoughts." Yamausagi lowered his head and admitted in a low voice that he had added the new content when he was acting as a translator. "Why are you here too? To visit relatives and friends?" Pinggong Qianye directly skipped the magic frog and talked to the mountain rabbit. "..." Yamausagi raised his head, mustered up his courage, and glared at Hiramiya Chiye with his little black eyes. If this man hadn't come to the forest where he was and roared a few times, he wouldn't have been chased here by that hateful big tiger. "There's a ferocious tiger monster chasing us." When the mountain rabbit was silent, Xiaoqing crawled out from the mountain rabbit's waist and put its snake head on the mountain rabbit's shoulder. Hey, it’s a snake demon. It still looks green all over. Is this the Xiaoqing that the mountain rabbit mentioned just now? Pinggong Qianye suddenly became interested. It was always easy for stories to happen between the snake demon and the monk. In many folk tales and movies and TV dramas, snake spirits often get entangled with monks. "Do you have a sister named Xiaobai?" Pinggong Qianye couldn't help but ask. "No, I have been practicing alone since I was born. I don't have any older sister." When Xiaoqing spoke, she looked at the mountain rabbit deliberately, "The mountain rabbit king often takes care of me. If there is a sister, it can only be the mountain rabbit king." Pinggong Qianye's eyes looked a little strange, but if you think about it carefully. The white-haired mountain rabbit and the green snake-transformed demon Xiaoqing are, in a sense, also one white and one green. "Thank you Master Liansheng for reciting the Buddhist sutra just now, which has helped me to enlighten my wisdom and enable me to understand human nature and human language." Xiaoqing climbed down from the mountain rabbit and came to the front of the magic frog's head. He straightened his upper body, imitated the mountain boy just now, and bowed three times to Pinggong Qianye. This is a very spiritual and intelligent snake demon. Pinggong Qianye compared Xiaoqing and Shantong in his mind, and the difference in intelligence between the two was extremely obvious.
One of them still speaks haltingly, while the other can already speak fluently, as well as an average human. This is probably what is meant by qualifications. But it is also normal. After all, Shan Tong takes the route of strong brick flying, which does not require too much intelligence. Pinggong Qianye chatted with Yamausagi and Xiaoqing for a while before he fully understood why they appeared here tonight. He himself was the source of the incident. "What did you just say that big tiger was called?" "Tiger Vanguard, that's what Grandpa Shan Tong called it." Yamausagi's tone was somewhat indignant. What Tiger Vanguard? It was obviously just a hateful big tabby cat! “That’s a great name.” Pinggong Qianye showed a smile on his face. It was not easy for a tiger demon with such a name to live so long. After finishing this topic, the atmosphere became somewhat silent. Pinggong Qianye took out a few wild fruits from his bag, including wild plums and myrtles, squatted down, and washed them in the stream. Looking back at the mountain rabbits and other monsters, they had no interest in these commonly eaten wild fruits in the mountains. Pinggong Qianye sat on the jade bed where the old mountain boy had lain before, eating wild fruits, sometimes chatting with Shantu and Xiaoqing, but more often, he admired the moonlight in the mountains. All in all, this should be his first time camping in the mountains. In order to save time to get here today, he crossed a large area of mountains and forests and took a straight line, so that he could arrive here from Arakawa District within one day. After eating the wild fruits, Pinggong Qianye drank a few sips of the clear mountain spring, then sat on the jade bed, silently chanting scriptures and practicing. About half an hour later, Pinggong Qianye felt something rubbed against his trouser leg. He opened his eyes and saw that it was Xiaoqing who had come down from the mountain rabbit. It should be a bamboo green snake that has cultivated into a demon. It has a slender body, emerald green all over without any other colors, and is about one meter and two meters long. It looks very beautiful, especially when it is coiled into a circle, it looks like a string of clear green bracelets. Its eyes are not bloody red, but black and white, revealing its ignorance of the world. If you look closely, you can see that it has dimples on both sides of its head, similar to human dimples. At this moment, it was swimming near his trouser leg, wanting to get closer to him, but a little scared, with a hint of curiosity in its eyes. Pinggong Qianye bent down and stretched out his right hand. Xiaoqing blinked her watery eyes and crawled over along his right hand. She curled up in his palm, raised her snake head slightly and looked at him. The cool touch is a temperature unique to cold-blooded animals like snakes. It was a night at the end of July, and the cool touch gave people a very comfortable feeling. "Master Liansheng..." Xiaoqing raised her head and hesitated, not daring to speak. "What's the matter?"
Pinggong Qianye gave it an encouraging look. He was very happy about this little snake demon whose intelligence was enlightened by his reciting of the "Manjushri Wisdom Mantra". "Master Liansheng, can you help me with my practice?" Xiaoqing finally mustered up the courage to say this. Wait, something's not right here. Pinggong Qianye was stunned. A green snake demon actually asked him to help it practice? This is simply the opposite of Tiangang! He didn't even say the classic line: "Snake demon, I need you to help me practice!" This green snake demon actually dared to ask me to help it practice? It's really the opposite of Tiangang! "Master, is it not possible?" Seeing that Pinggong Qianye had a strange expression on his face, Xiaoqing shrank her body and buried her head, fearing that her words would cause the monk in front of her to blame her. "Xiaoqing, come back!" The mountain rabbit sitting on the magic frog's head finally couldn't bear it anymore, so he stood up straight, put his hands on his hips, and looked very angry. Besides Mr. Frog, the only person left by his side was Xiaoqing. If Xiaoqing follows this scary monk to practice, wouldn't I be even more lonely? Besides, how could a monster actively request to practice with a monk? The harmonious coexistence between monks and monsters in novels is all fake and is used to deceive monsters with pure hearts! It was obvious that it was those hateful monks who forcibly captured the monsters and kept them by their side, wanting to convert them with Buddhist teachings in order to show the boundless power of Buddhism. "Master Liansheng..." Xiaoqing ignored Yamausagi's calls, but slowly stuck out her head, and looked at Pinggong Qianye with her watery eyes, filled with tears, expectantly and anxiously. This green snake demon is truly gifted! Although he has only just begun to understand human nature, his natural movements and expressions are ignorant, simple, innocent, and bewildered... It's simply a killer weapon. If it grows up, the charm it reveals will definitely be even more terrifying! Pinggong Qianye only thought about it for a while, then quickly retracted his thoughts and said calmly: "Why do you want me to help you practice?" "I just think Master Liansheng is very powerful. If I can practice with you, I can become very powerful too." Xiaoqing expressed her simple little thoughts, which were very pure and innocent, just to become more powerful. (End of this chapter)