Chapter 2452: Fish scales the size of paulownia leaves

But ever since Tang Seng met him, several years had passed. Influenced by what he saw and heard, those Buddhist scriptures, those kind deeds of Tang Seng, how could he not be affected?

Sun Wukong suddenly became extremely confused in a certain moment.

He said to himself in his heart, "Could it be that I've become like Fahai? He believes in Buddhism, but he doesn't believe in the Buddha."

Fahai always said, "The Buddha has selfish motives; he is not worthy of being the Buddha of the Myriad Heavens."

"But the true Buddhist Dharma is extremely profound, and I believe in it deeply."

Fahai was such a person; he had once sued the Heavenly Court and even questioned the Buddha, always distinguishing clearly between good and evil.

And what about Sun Wukong? He never thought that he would one day be influenced by Buddhist Dharma. He just felt that the Buddha was not a decent person at all, and felt that in the entire Western Heaven, only Guanyin Bodhisattva was a good person. Everyone had selfish motives; even if they became Buddhas, they still had selfish motives.

When he was still a monkey, he only knew how to pick peaches in the forest and play on vines; he wouldn't think about these life philosophies. However, now, he began to become incomparably confused; he felt that he had changed.

Unknowingly, the two of them had swept the pagoda all the way to the ninth-floor top.

The top of this pagoda was an octagonal platform, about six or seven zhang in circumference.

Tang Seng's clothes were already soaked through, and he was covered in sweat. He leaned on his broom, standing at the top of the pagoda, panting heavily, and said, "It's been a long time since I've swept such a high pagoda; it really is quite tiring."

Sun Wukong looked around; there were few floating clouds. The height of this pagoda was clearly several hundred meters, and because it stood at such a high place, it had already reached the clouds.

The night wind blew over, and it was actually quite chilly. Tang Seng suddenly sneezed; it must have been because he had sweated from sweeping the pagoda, so he was even colder now.

Sun Wukong flipped his palm and circulated a burst of true energy to protect Tang Seng's whole body. He said softly, "Master, be careful not to catch a cold."

Tang Seng looked at him, and then a smile appeared on his face. He could clearly feel the warmth brought by that true energy.

The night was somewhat unclear, because there were neither stars nor a moon in the sky.

A flash of golden light appeared in Sun Wukong's hand as he revealed the Ruyi Jingu Bang. The Jingu Bang emitted a scorching golden light, which soon illuminated the entire top of the pagoda.

At this time, Tang Seng and Sun Wukong saw that in the center of the pagoda top, on a high platform, was the original stand for the sarira.

Now the stand was empty, and the Buddha-light sarira was nowhere to be seen.

"Such a high pagoda, how could that sarira have vanished into thin air?"

Tang Seng walked forward, his eyes filled with extreme confusion.

Sun Wukong smiled faintly and then said, "Obviously, if it were an ordinary person, it would be impossible to take the sarira, and those cultivating monks below certainly wouldn't let people go up the pagoda at will."

"So this sarira was definitely not stolen by an ordinary person."

Tang Seng looked at Sun Wukong with confusion in his eyes and said, "Wukong, do you mean it was a demon?"

Sun Wukong walked near the high platform, checked it carefully, and then said, "It's not certain yet."

"If there were a mortal with a higher cultivation realm, they could also do it."

Just at this moment, Tang Seng suddenly looked at a certain spot under the high platform and said with some surprise, "Wukong, look, what is this?"

Sun Wukong hurriedly walked over to take a look, only to see that under the high platform, there was actually a fish scale the size of a paulownia leaf lying there. ===== CHAPTER 2454 =====