Wandering Gods of Day and Night-Chapter 49 - 46 Ten Fingers
49: Chapter 46 Ten Fingers
49 -46 Ten Fingers
“Weren’t you all always longing for your components?
Why don’t you dare take them now that you’ve found them?”
Zhou Xuan had no good impression of the six corpses anymore, speaking with sarcasm, “Then don’t blame me for not helping.
Blame yourselves for being such cowards!
What’s there to be afraid of with your own things?
Go on, take them!”
With a loud shout from Zhou Xuan, the six corpses instead became even more deferential to Qing Lian, bowing their heads intensely.
Their cowardly display fell into Mr.
Dai’s eyes, provoking him, “Half-Body” Mr.
Dai, to curse angrily, “Everyone, get up, no bowing allowed!
She’s just a cheat!
A liar!
The Mother of All Buddhas, that wretched whore, deceived us…
For two years we regarded her as our highest faith, and what did she do?
The moment she appeared, she left, turned her back on us, treated us like despicable garbage!”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk!
Mr.
Dai, your Mother of All Buddhas, Great Vajra, how did you end up being halved?”
Zhou Xuan squatted beside Mr.
Dai, “That’s worse than being chopped at the waist!
Abandoned twice by an Alien Ghost, tsk tsk, how did you become so detested by the ghost!?”
“That wretched whore of a Mother of All Buddhas, she’s a whore!
Two years ago, she appeared in my dreams, showing her Dharma Image of Buddha, telling me that although she was an Alien Ghost, she was the Mother of All Buddhas.
She needed a ritual guided by the Five Tribulations of Punishment to enter the world!
At first, I didn’t believe it.
But in the following half a month, she taught the Dharma in my dreams.
I was enchanted by her profound and philosophical teachings.
Every day, I longed for sleep, as it was the only time I could see her and bask in the Buddha’s light she cast, serene and peaceful.
Finally, I became her follower!
She said she chose me as her walker.
I was excited and happy, nearly thirty years elapsed, and once again, I was the walker of an Alien Ghost.
But this time, I was the walker of the Mother of All Buddhas, and all I had to do was endure the Five Tribulations of Punishment.”
“So, you sacrificed your whole family, including your parents!?”
It was a roaring laughter moment, Mr.
Dai!
“Heh, weren’t they sacrifices?”
“No, they were…”
“They transformed their lives into lotus flowers, guiding the Mother of All Buddhas for her descent!”
“…” Zhou Xuan.
Zhou Xuan sneered, “If it’s so glorious, then why weren’t you the one to die from the Five Tribulations of Punishment?”
“I have been chosen as the Great Vajra by the Buddha Mother, I have my mission.”
Zhou Xuan: “…”
“So, the Netherworld Play Troupe’s dismemberment ceremony you led was also meant for guiding the Mother of All Buddhas?”
“That was to sever my connection with Food Heaven!”
“Food Heaven?
You mean the last Alien Ghost who treated you as a foot?”
“Not a foot, a walker!”
Even halved, he still had the energy to argue about terms with me?
Zhou Xuan asked, “After you’ve been at odds with Food Heaven for so long, he can still connect with you?”
“Heh, he abandoned me but appreciated my abilities, wanting me to continue working for his Tangkou.
I used to be his walker, so I have traces of him in my body.
He can control me through those traces.
If I don’t obey, he whispers by my ear through the traces, tormenting me…”
*What?*
Zhou Xuan was very surprised.
Turns out what Mr.
Dai heard wasn’t white noise but the whispers of an Alien Ghost, and he thought it was a fellow patient!
“Heh, when Food Heaven abandoned me that day, not treating me as a walker, he treated me like a dog!
Those ‘traces’ were the dog collar around my neck.
Now that the Mother of All Buddhas was descending, I had to cut off that dog chain, so I killed those six…”
Zhou Xuan pointed at the six corpses, “What’s your relationship with them?”
“They were all dogs of Food Heaven, until two years ago, they were transformed by my influence to worship the Mother of All Buddhas!
For freedom, I killed them, used their hatred for me to summon the souls in the Corridor River’s Earth Temple to devour my body and cut off Food Heaven’s dog chain!
The parts missing from these six bodies have now become parts of the Buddha Mother’s statue.
That’s their fortune.
And I, with the Buddha Mother’s help, my soul was transferred to this current body, but…
she left, the Buddha Mother despised me, abandoned me…
she’s a bitch!”
Mr.
Dai became more and more sorrowful as he spoke, even wiping away tears.
Goddamn it, communicating with these damn cultists is impossible.
Zhou Xuan only wanted to figure out now if Mr.
Dai was indeed the Blood Well Spirit Communicator.
“Can your eyes communicate with spirits?”
“No!”
“Then how did you see I was ill last time?”
“I didn’t see it.”
“You sent me a doctor’s business card, even advised me to go see a doctor.
The doctor was named Du Kaili.”
Mr.
Dai slowly shook his head, “At that time, it was Food Heaven controlling me through the traces, making me say that.”
Again with that Food Heaven!
“What was the purpose of sending me the business card?”
“When you make a dog roll on the ground, do you explain to the dog why it’s rolling?”
“No!”
“Neither will Food Heaven.”
“Damn, all that effort for nothing…” Zhou Xuan was furious now.
He had been busy all night, hadn’t slept, and was covered in sweat from rowing.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got.
“The wrongdoings of Food Heaven are too many to document, and I know them better than anyone.
I won’t survive today, so I must tell you everything.
You must spread it once you…”
“Bang!”
“…Ah…” Mr.
Dai’s halved body was kicked far by Zhou Xuan.
“Stop with the nonsense, who’s got the time to chat idly with you!”
Zhou Xuan had come to the Dai Mansion thinking Mr.
Dai was the Blood Well Spirit Communicator, and upon learning the truth, realized it was all a misunderstanding.
Zhou Xuan didn’t want to stay there a minute longer.
As for Food Heaven’s crimes, he lacked a strong sense of justice, and even if he did, wouldn’t he need to weigh his own abilities first?
It was a thirty-year-old Alien Ghost…
It’s fine to privately criticize, but there’s no need to go looking for trouble!
Zhou Xuan strode towards the door, the six corpses still bowing to Qing Lian, and Mr.
Dai screamed in pain, not for the kick from Zhou Xuan.
“It hurts, Mother Buddha, my insults were in anger, please come back, I’m still your loyal follower, my love for you this life…”
“Her~~tui, a house full of bootlickers!” Zhou Xuan ground his teeth in annoyance.
…
On the path out of the secret passage, Zhou Xuan wore an angry expression until he emerged from the Lotus Pond.
Back on the canopy boat, picking up the oar, he finally relaxed with a smile to himself, saying,
“I’ve improved my acting skills recently; Mr.
Dai didn’t notice anything odd about me…
His acting, on the other hand, is quite poor.
He didn’t even remotely look genuinely sad!”
In Zhou Xuan’s view, the Mother of All Buddhas hadn’t abandoned Mr.
Dai; she was inside him.
After all…
the Perception ability of the six corpses was quite remarkable.
They kept bowing but didn’t dare take their body parts; surely they sensed the Buddha Mother’s presence.
Zhou Xuan wasn’t afraid to face the ghost of the Buddha Mother.
He confirmed Mr.
Dai knew nothing about the Blood Well, which made fighting unnecessary.
Without profit and all risks, it’s a deal he absolutely wouldn’t take.
…
At the central entrance of the Great Buddha Passage in the Lotus Pond, a Wind Lamp lit up.
A slender black silhouette walked into the passage, taking unhurried steps.
…
Mr.
Dai lay in a pool of blood, still half-bodied, surrounded by fragments of meat and bone, which crawled towards him like they had eyes.
As the meat and bones piled up, it was as if an invisible hand was arranging the pieces, sticking them to his body, slice by slice, clump by clump.
The placement was precise, without the slightest error.
Mr.
Dai enjoyed the reconstruction of his body, while the six corpses turned to bow to him.
“You six brought a wolf into the house.
Had the Buddha Mother not sensed someone communicatin’ spiritually lookin’ for me, settin’ this bitter flesh story, the Buddha Mother’s location would be out to the world…
Just you wait, once my body is restored, see how I punish you all…”
The six corpses shivered like chaff in the wind; they hadn’t known the Buddha Mother had truly descended, only wanted to retrieve their body parts.
“Hmph!”
Mr.
Dai looked up to the sky, saying, “Inviting the Netherworld Play Troupe, we shouldn’t have called the Zhou Family’s Troupe, that Young Master Zhou Xuan is cunning as a fox!”
“Food Heaven was right, Zhou Xuan is a prime sacrifice!” A voice not belonging to a man or woman emanated from Mr.
Dai’s head.
The voice belonged to the Mother of All Buddhas.
Her real-world presence hadn’t been for the two years Zhou Xuan guessed, nor even aligned with when Mr.
Dai was consumed and reincarnated, but only two days ago.
For two years after Mr.
Dai sacrificed his family, the Mother of All Buddhas appeared only as a will form in his dreams, in his consciousness.
Two days ago, she first descended into Qing Lian’s corpse and then manifested physically, hiding in Mr.
Dai’s body.
Her time in this world was so brief that her body was extremely weak, slumbering most times, awakening only in utmost need.
Yet Zhou Xuan’s topic unexpectedly piqued her interest.
“Welcome the Dharma presence of the Buddha Mother,” Mr.
Dai clasped his hands, pressing them to his forehead.
The Buddha Mother’s voice was ice-cold, “My body is frail, I need the best sacrifice, Great Vajra, capture Zhou Xuan and bring him before me in the shortest time…”
“He was just here…” Mr.
Dai complained bitterly, Zhou Xuan had been there, and she hadn’t swallowed him.
Then, when he was gone, she wanted Mr.
Dai to catch him?
“There was a shadow following him!
That shadow…
was formidable.” The Buddha Mother wasn’t shy about admitting her current weakness.
Every Alien Ghost has weak power when they first appear in the world, so there’s no need to hide it.
“Great Vajra, I hope that next time I wake, Zhou Xuan will appear before me as a sacrifice…”
“My brother is not a sacrifice, you are!”
Zhou Lingyi entered the room, holding a Wind Lamp, wearing an expression neither warm nor cold.
“I’ve been looking for you for a long time, Ten Fingers, you’re quite patient, hiding in a follower’s dream for two years, only revealing yourself in the last two days.”
The Mother of All Buddhas,
is merely a deceptive title used by the Alien Ghosts to deceive followers.
This Alien Ghost’s true name is ‘Ten Fingers’…
