Chapter 847: Empty Hell · Mad Ksitigarbha
In the original work, the difference in personality between Golden Cicada and Tang Sanzang was like "glass and kasaya." The former was a clear, sharp cultivator, while the latter was a religious symbol molded by worldly conventions.
But in the worldview of Journey to the West: The Great Sage's Fury, Tang Sanzang's personality and way of handling matters had already been very similar to Golden Cicada's. It was only after the disciples around him grew in number, giving him people to rely on, that Tang Sanzang gradually developed a kind of complacency born from comfort.
People were like that. Once they had someone to rely on, they became weak.
But the instant Tang Sanzang voiced those three questions, Blood Guanyin knew that Tathagata Buddha's second disciple, who had been cast down to reincarnate for treating Buddhist teachings with contempt, had returned to the world.
Golden Cicada—the man who regarded Buddhist teachings as tools to be questioned, whose Buddhist ideals were radical enough to reach the level of Zen Buddhism Shatters Idols, and who radiated utter heresy from head to toe—stood before her, questioning her very soul!
Faced with Golden Cicada's radical triple question challenging the nature of Black Spirit Mountain, Blood Guanyin opened her mouth, only to feel an unusual rasp deep in her throat. She failed to immediately give an answer to Golden Cicada's questioning.
Eternal Reincarnation appeared to have merely wrung water out of those five hundred Arhats by hand, but it had also churned Guanyin's insides. Her current physical condition was poor.
And it was not just Blood Guanyin. Even Manjushri and Samantabhadra, the two Bodhisattvas of their own camp, chanted "Amitabha" after their brief astonishment.
The two Bodhisattvas respectively represented wisdom and practice among Buddhism's Four Great Bodhisattvas. When