Fiancée Stolen by MC, I Trip Them up-Chapter 355 - 257: A Monk’s Life Is Still a Life!

Hearing the girl’s words, the protagonist was suddenly startled.

"I’ve seen the Buddha? When did I see him, why don’t I know?"

The girl replied, "The biggest one inside the Great Hero Hall is the Buddha... I think he used to be called that name, then later he turned into a creature that’s almost like a tree, I don’t know what his new name is."

The protagonist took a deep breath, showing a look of shock on his face.

"The Buddha’s golden body is actually his true form?"

"The Buddha turned into a monster?"

"The Nether Tree!"

The information from the girl’s words was too much, and it took the protagonist a long time to gradually accept it.

"How did the Buddha turn into a monster?"

The protagonist didn’t beat around the bush, directly asking the most crucial and also the question he most wanted to know.

If the girl was truly the Artifact Spirit of the Treasure Tower as she claimed, and was omnipresent within the tower.

Then she would be the most direct witness to the Buddha’s mutation.

No one would know better than her what exactly happened.

"This matter began a long time ago." The girl shook her head, "I can’t remember exactly when, I’m always insensitive to the changes of time, anyway, it was definitely many years ago."

Upon hearing this, the protagonist urged, "The specific time isn’t important, what’s important is what actually happened!"

The girl thought for a moment, as if searching for memories that had been sealed for a long time.

After a while, she said, "I don’t remember the specific situation very well. At that time, my consciousness had just been born, and I was very confused about many things..."

"I only remember a very terrifying man in black telling the Buddha that he betrayed the great way, and then he was killed by the Buddha..."

"Later on, I kept observing the Buddha, and that terrifying person never appeared again, but black aura emerged in the golden light on the Buddha’s body, the mutation probably started then!"

Hearing the girl’s words, the protagonist suddenly thought of the black aura that captured the old monk’s Divine Soul.

Although there was no evidence to prove that the man in black mentioned by the girl was related to the black aura that captured the old monk’s Divine Soul, the protagonist’s intuition told him that the man in black was definitely involved!

The protagonist finally found a clue about the old monk, and instantly breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as there is direction!

The protagonist’s biggest worry was that, like before, he searched all over the Secret Realm but found nothing in the end!

The protagonist asked the girl, "Did the Buddha ever mention the origin of the man in black?"

The girl replied, "No! After the Buddha discovered that black aura appeared in the golden light on his body, he went directly into seclusion and didn’t come out until much later."

Although he had already guessed the final answer, hearing the girl say this, the protagonist still asked hopefully, "Did the Buddha manage to clear away the black aura?"

"No!"

The girl mercilessly shattered the protagonist’s last glimmer of hope: "When the Buddha emerged from seclusion, the black aura had already taken over half of his body."

At this point, the girl seemed to recall something, with a hint of disgust in her tone.

The girl said, "You’ve never seen a half-golden, half-black Buddha. That appearance was not only very evil but also extremely disgusting, I had nightmares for several days after seeing it."

Nightmares?

The protagonist was taken aback: "Do you sleep?"

"Metaphor! That’s a metaphor! Do you understand what a metaphor is? I’m an Artifact Spirit, do you think I sleep?"

The girl’s voice suddenly rose by several pitches as she spoke.

"You are so uninteresting, nothing like that previous guy who was more interesting."

"It’s a pity that guy was too dangerous, I sensed a lot of my kind from him, otherwise I would have gone to play with him!"

The protagonist fell silent.

He never expected to be despised by an Artifact Spirit one day.

And even ridiculed for not being as good as Zhao Yi.

Although unhappy, the protagonist did not act out.

He had more important things to do.

The protagonist asked, "What did the Buddha do after emerging from seclusion? Did the black aura start capturing people’s Divine Souls, and where were the captured souls taken?"

The protagonist originally intended to directly ask the girl if she saw where the old monk’s Divine Soul was taken.

Before he could say it, the protagonist suddenly remembered the girl previously said that there were some places in the Treasure Tower Secret Realm she couldn’t go.

No need to think, those places were definitely the ones Zhao Yi mentioned, the Secret Realm Worlds infested by the Nether Tree.

The Great Hero Hall, where the Nether Tree’s true form was located, must be the most dangerous and well-protected area, the girl couldn’t possibly know what happened there.

This time, the protagonist guessed right.

Hearing his words, the girl shook her head and said, "The black aura on the Buddha is very strange, I feel like he can discover me, so I’ve been avoiding him all these years, I don’t know if he started capturing people or where the captured people went."

After finishing, the girl added, "But I do know what the Buddha did after emerging from seclusion!"

"What did the Buddha do?" the protagonist asked.

The girl replied, "After the Buddha emerged from seclusion, he gathered many people from the Buddhist Sect and then built the Great Hero Hall."

"After the Great Hero Hall was completed, those monks called Bodhisattvas and Vajras moved in to help the Buddha suppress the black aura."

"The remaining monks recited scriptures at the entrance, and their chanting was so loud and annoying, I still remember it even now!"

After listening to the girl’s words, the protagonist couldn’t help but envision in his mind the scene of tens of thousands of Buddhist disciples working together to construct the Buddhist Holy Land. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Unfortunately, the sacred hall painstakingly built by the predecessors with countless efforts eventually turned into a den of evil.

For a moment, the protagonist couldn’t help but sigh deeply.

"What happened next?" the protagonist asked.

The protagonist wanted to know why the Great Hero Hall became a den of evil.

This was also the answer Zhao Yi wanted to know.

The protagonist understood that Zhao Yi had said the opposite deliberately to make him go in to find out what really happened.

The protagonist investigated but came up empty-handed.

Now he could only place his hopes on the girl!

"Later?" The girl’s tone paused for a moment, then continued, "Later, the Bodhisattvas and Vajras who went into the Great Hero Hall never came out, I don’t know what they are doing inside!"

"Half of the monks chanting at the door died, and the remaining half kept going out to bring new monks to their deaths."

The girl might truly have no sense of time, she thought for a long time before finally saying, "This situation continued for a very long time, about hundreds of thousands of years, the monks who died there are too numerous to count!"

After finishing, the girl suddenly thought of something and suggested to the protagonist, "If you really want to know how many people died, you could count how many inscriptions are on the pillars of the Great Hero Hall, each inscription represents a life, that’s how many people died!"

Hiss!

The protagonist gasped sharply.

No wonder!

The protagonist suddenly understood why Zhao Yi told him to look at the Great Hero Hall and the riverbed.

Golden Seal?

The protagonist staggered, feeling as if the worldview he held for over a decade suddenly shattered.

It turned out that the Golden Seal was actually the Divine Souls of the Buddhist Sect disciples.

One Golden Seal, one life.

The protagonist suddenly clenched his fist tightly, gritting his teeth:

"Buddha, how cruel you are!"

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