"That little scent just came rushing up." Fourth Master Gray squeaked.
"Do you mean my Buddha nature, or my smell?" Rinpoche smiled at Fourth Master Gray.
Fourth Master Gray was clearly stunned for a moment.
Luo Bin, however, was not surprised at all.
The Rinpoche before him was stronger than he had been before.
Back then, Rinpoche had not yet attained enlightenment. With his current power, understanding Fourth Master Gray was hardly worth mentioning. What he had just said carried far deeper Zen meaning and implications.
"I meant both. What of it?" Fourth Master Gray squeaked again.
Rinpoche cut a finger from a corpse beside him and offered it to Fourth Master Gray.
Fourth Master Gray froze again.
He did not bite into it.
Without making a point of it, Rinpoche had once again fulfilled the request Luo Bin had made when they first met.
Only this time, he had cut a piece from a body he had once reincarnated into.
"I don't have an appetite right now. Forget it." With a squeak, Fourth Master Gray retreated into Luo Bin's Monk's Robe.
"Mr. Luo, do you think reincarnation is right?" Rinpoche asked a question Luo Bin did not know how to answer for a moment.
Luo Bin fell silent.
"You needn't hold back because of our relationship." Rinpoche still wore a smile.
"Let me put it another way." With a conflicted expression, Luo Bin said, "Soul seizure."
Luo Bin said no more.
That was already his answer.
Rinpoche nodded, then said, "A hundred turns through the Sacred Mountain can lead one onto the stairway to Heaven. Those who succeed enter the Buddhist Grotto and become reincarnated Living Buddhas."
"A Living Buddha should live only one lifetime. I believe that is the right way."
"Many years ago, however, a band of