It was rumored that Yang Xue once, in a single night, sewed up the corpses and reconnected the bones of thousands of lonely and wronged souls, and helped them to be properly buried. She also once caused tens of thousands of additional souls to enter the Underworld all at once, leaving the Underworld in a complete chaos.
In the mortal world, there were countless wandering and wronged souls, as well as hordes of evil spirits. Many of them couldn't even enter the gates of the Underworld. To save and超度 them would bring boundless merits, yet no one had ever been willing to do so.
He once doubted whether such a remarkable feat could have been accomplished by a woman.
Now, seeing her with his own eyes, holding a silver needle and quickly suturing the flesh and reconnecting the bones, he finally realized how bold and capable she was.
She was by no means an ordinary woman. Even a celestial fairy from the Heavenly Court, if she fell in love with a mortal, would be no different from an ordinary woman on earth. He felt ashamed for asking such a question.
The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva shook his head and smiled to himself. He couldn't believe that he had made such a mistake.
He tightened his fingers, reminding himself not to follow in Sun Wukong's footsteps just because of her extremely beautiful face and extraordinary abilities.
What he never told anyone was that recently, he couldn't transform back into his female form and appear as the former female bodhisattva. It was because a different kind of fire had ignited in his heart.
The Buddha said that a single thought of desire could turn one into a demon. But he believed that this was a kind of spiritual practice, and only with great perseverance and self - control could he safely pass through this difficult stage.
So, after their last meeting, he left a talisman on Yang Xue so that he could find her at any time.
However, when he saw her in a red dress, fluttering like a butterfly, his consciousness was shaken, and he even said a lot of uncontrollable things in a daze!
Sure enough, this was a tough test.
Perhaps this was a test sent by the sages. So he secretly stayed by her side, defying the Buddha Tathagata, trying to overcome this calamity.
Perhaps, if he could safely pass this test related to Yang Xue, in the near future, he might be promoted to the rank of Buddha.
"Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, what's wrong with you?" Yang Xue waved her blood - stained hand in front of his eyes. "Are you in a meditative state?"
The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva came back to his senses. "No, I was dealing with some matters."
"Oh." Yang Xue nodded in understanding, thinking to herself: I get it. It's like remote handling!
She helped the person on the ground up. Suddenly, as if blessed with inspiration, she could clearly feel that her cultivation had improved a lot.
Sure enough, only by relieving people's disasters and doing good deeds could one gain more cultivation.
"Let's go. They'll wake up soon." The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva turned around and walked straight towards the Nameless Cave.
"Wait for me!" Yang Xue washed her hands by the hot spring. When she stood up, she found that the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was out of sight.
Oh, really...
Suddenly, she froze.
It seemed that when she squatted down just now, she accidentally loosened the collar of her clothes...
No wonder the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was staggering and unsteady before taking off.
She suddenly burst into laughter. It seemed that even the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva couldn't escape the common desires.
Looking at the large hot spring, she thought it would be a pity not to take a soak.
Next time.
When the Great Sage came back, they could soak together.
Back in her own courtyard, she asked Qingzhu to fetch writing brushes and ink. She wrote a letter, took out the bronze mirror she always carried with her, and established a connection with the Kunlun Mirror Qingxuan. The letter then firmly appeared in Qingxuan's hands.
"Great Sage, Great Sage! Mistress has written you a letter!" Qingxuan shouted excitedly looking at the letter in his hand. "Come and see! Mistress has written you a letter!"
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In a blink of an eye, three years had passed.
Tang Seng and his disciples had been hurrying on their journey and were about to reach the Spirit Mountain.
Yang Xue stayed in her own courtyard every day, exchanging letters with Sun Wukong. By now, they had accumulated a whole wall of letters.
Since Sun Wukong knew that they could exchange letters through the mirror, he wrote at least ten letters every day and tirelessly sent them to Qingxuan.
Qingxuan even protested, saying why they didn't just talk through the mirror instead of using such a tiring and ink - wasting way.
But they both said in unison, "You don't understand!"
Yang Xue knew that she was afraid that if she saw the Great Sage's face, she would not be able to resist flying to him.
"Knock, knock, knock!" Just after sending out a letter, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Yang Xue stood up, put the letter on the table into a box, and placed it on the bookshelf beside.
The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva pushed the door open and entered. Seeing her actions, a hint of sadness flashed across his eyes.
"The mortal world has been in turmoil recently. Xuan You has gathered all the demons and assembled at the Southern Heavenly Gate." His eyes couldn't help but fall on the light - yellow dress she was wearing today. He noticed that she had embroidered several peonies on it herself, and they looked so vivid. "I wonder if you'd like to go and take a look."
"Not going!" After Yang Xue flatly refused, she suddenly looked up at him and said, "By the way, you've been coming and going here quite often in these years. Don't you need to go out and protect all sentient beings?"
"I have countless incarnations." He said calmly, walked to the table, and put an oil - paper package in front of her. "The kid sent this."
The kid the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva mentioned was the child they had rescued in the forest three years ago.
Yang Xue's eyes immediately sparkled. She couldn't help but sniff and excitedly took the paper package. "It smells like meat!"
In these years, because the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva was around and he didn't like the smell of meat, and Puti also forbade her to eat meat, Yang Xue hadn't eaten meat for a long time.
"Eat it later," the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva covered his nose. "The Buddha Tathagata's inner demons have become more serious. He promised not to make things difficult for you anymore, nor will he underestimate you and regard you as the White Bone Demon with only 500 years of cultivation. He has reached a consensus with the Heavenly Court and won't continue to make things difficult for you. How about..."
"Not going, not going!" Yang Xue angrily listed all her grievances over the years. "If it weren't for them back then, my Great Sage might have been killed long ago! Just seeing that Six - Eared Macaque makes me angry. I had originally planned to let him go on the pilgrimage to the West on behalf of the Great Sage, but the Buddha Tathagata was eyeing me menacingly, wishing he could find an opportunity to get rid of me."
"If you had shown your strength earlier, he wouldn't have underestimated you and wanted to kill you." In these three years, the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva had implicitly and explicitly informed the Buddha Tathagata that Yang Xue was no longer the little demon she used to be. She didn't achieve her success by luck, but was a true sage who had suddenly emerged in accordance with the Heavenly Dao.
Gradually, the Buddha Tathagata no longer had the intention to kill her. Instead, because of Sun Wukong's various behaviors, he was on guard against her everywhere, for fear that Sun Wukong would give up the pilgrimage.
But Yang Xue had a long memory. She would never forget what these people had done.
"I was quite ostentatious back then, okay? Didn't I remove the golden hoop? It's them who underestimated me!" When it came to this, she got excited and casually murmured, "Since Xuan You is an unruly one, I'd like to see if he can attack the Lingxiao Palace and successfully usurp the throne!"
"Yang Xue, Xuan You once intended to recommend Sun Wukong as the Demon King. His intention was obvious. If you go, maybe you can stop him." He had already calculated that the emergence of the sage could prevent the disasters in the Heavenly Court.
Moreover, she had an old acquaintance with Xuan You. Maybe she could resolve the conflict in time. After all, once a war broke out, the Three Realms would face a great disaster.
"Avalokitesvara," Yang Xue walked up to him. Seeing him suddenly look nervous and take a step back as if facing a great enemy, she couldn't help but laugh. "What are you so nervous about? I'm not going to eat you. If you keep nagging, the meat will get cold and won't taste good."
"I'm not nervous," he turned around and walked to the table, picked up the calligraphy and painting on the table, trying to cover up his embarrassment. "This trip will be beneficial to you. If you can achieve something, people will naturally accept you as a sage..."
"If I am a sage, I am. If not, I'm not. Why do I have to prove it?" Yang Xue took a step forward and playfully got close to his ear. "What if I'm not? After all, I'm not a good person."