Qinglian’S Heart Is Covered, Fate Meets Chapter 35

Chapter 35

Heavenly Dust Tribulation, One Billion Dust Tribulations, All Living Beings Take a Lesson

1. Citian·Lianxin Xiangchen

The mist of the Purple Lotus Pond still contains the coolness of the morning dew. You closed the sleeves of your purple clothes and stroked the purple lotus in full bloom on the pond with your fingertips. The warmth of the lotus heart spread along the fingertips, but the warmth could not penetrate the determination in your eyes.

I hold your hand, and the golden light of heaven surges anxiously in my palm, but I don’t dare to hurt you at all: “Naisheng, a billion years of suffering in the mortal world, and three hundred million years of companionship can’t bear it, let alone this far-off disaster. The fairyland in the heaven can protect you, so why bother to suffer the torture of all living beings?”

You turned to look at me, your eyebrows were still as clear as when you first met Chaos, but with a bit more compassion that I couldn’t understand: “Bai Fei, you are the way of heaven. You have seen birth and death in the three realms, but you have never really touched the suffering of sentient beings. They bent down for half a bucket of rice on the field ridge, wept for their loved ones in front of the sick bed, and struggled for life in the troubled world. If I haven’t tasted these sufferings, I can’t really protect them.”

My throat is tight, and I want to say that you are the goddess of Naisheng, who has the vitality of the three realms, and there is no need to go to this disaster in person, but when the words come to my mouth, I am blocked by the light in your eyes.You raised your hand and brushed off the lotus petals on my clothes. Your voice was as soft as the wind blowing on the lotus stamens: “Look at this purple lotus. It was born in the spiritual spring in the heaven. There is no wind or rain. But the lotus in the mortal world has to endure the scorching sun and the frost to understand the tenacity of taking root. I went through these billions of years of tribulation not to become a god, but to understand all living beings.”

At this time, a very faint light breaks through the sky. It is the “mirror” of superior civilizations – they have no magic, but they can use the stars as a screen to watch our love, hate, anger, ignorance, and entanglements in the world as a long scroll spanning a billion years.You raised your eyes to look at the light and chuckled: “Okay, let them see whether God’s love will break or become stronger in the suffering of all living beings.”

You took off the imperial crown, your purple clothes turned into a plain skirt of coarse cloth, the purple light in the lotus heart disappeared, and you became the appearance of a mortal woman.Before leaving, you stuffed the lotus hairpin back into my palm, and the purple petals of the hairpin still retained your warmth: “Wait for me, a billion years, not much. If you miss me, just look at the wind in the mortal world, it is me calling you.”

As soon as you finished speaking, you jumped down into the sea of clouds outside Nantianmen. The shadow of the purple lotus flashed away in the clouds, leaving only the lotus petals falling all over the sky and the lotus hairpin in my palm that suddenly lost its temperature.

I stood by the purple lotus pond, looking at the direction of your fall, and the order of heaven suddenly loosened in my heart.The dust-viewing mirror in the sky has been lit up, and the eyes of superior civilization are looking through the stars, falling on your fallen mortal world, and also on my lonely figure.

2. Dust Tribulation·All living beings serve as curtains

The billions of years of mortal world were pulled into a slow scroll by the “viewing mirror” of superior civilization. They sat on the other side of the galaxy, like watching the longest drama, watching how you go from being an ignorant mortal woman to experiencing the suffering of all living beings step by step.

In the 10,000th year, you were reborn in a famine-stricken village. In order to beg for half a piece of cake for your mother-in-law, you knelt in the snow for three hours. Your frozen knees were bleeding, but you still smiled and gave the cake to your younger siblings.I watched from the heaven, the lotus hairpin on my fingertips was almost crushed. I wanted to cross the immortal river to save you, but I was tied up by your words before leaving – you want the suffering of all sentient beings, not the blessing of the heaven.On the other side of the viewing mirror, there are sighs. They understand your toughness, but they don’t understand the pain in my heart.

In the 100,000th year, you became a medical woman in troubled times, carrying medicine boxes throughout the war-torn city. When the plague was raging, you stayed in the epidemic area for forty days. Your eyes became red, your body collapsed, and finally you collapsed in front of the couch where you were giving medicine to children.I came down from the mortal world, and at the moment when you were dying, I used the lotus heart as a guide to renew your life, but I didn’t dare to let you notice.When you woke up, you just thought it was God taking pity on you, smiled and touched the child’s head, and continued to brew the medicine.The light from the viewing mirror flickered, and they may have seen my hidden figure and understood the protection that they dared not declare aloud.

In the millionth year, you were a poor scholar who studied hard. In order to overturn the verdict of your father who died unjustly, you walked three thousand miles to Beijing. The soles of your shoes were worn out and your clothes were ragged, but you argued your case in court. Even if you were suppressed by the powerful, you never bent your spine.I turned into a scholar rushing to take the exam and walked with you on the last journey. We stayed in a ruined temple at night. You cooked brown rice porridge, gave me half a bowl, and said with a smile, “We are both fallen people from the end of the world.”I looked at the light in your eyes and suddenly understood that the suffering you want from all living beings is never self-abuse, but the backbone that remains straight in the midst of suffering.There was no sound on the other side of the viewing mirror. Maybe they also tasted the warmth of the world in this bowl of brown rice porridge.

Hundreds of millions of years passed slowly on the screen of the observing mirror.You have been a peasant woman, sweating profusely on the ridges of the fields; you have been an actress, performing all the joys and sorrows on the stage; you have been a soldier, fighting in blood on the battlefield; you have been a loving mother, guarding your child in front of the sickbed… You have thoroughly tasted the suffering of every life, and you have firmly guarded the kindness of every life.

I moved between the mortal world and heaven, sometimes becoming a passer-by beside you, handing you an umbrella to protect you from the rain, and giving you a lamp to illuminate the road; sometimes I stayed in the purple lotus pond, looking at you in the observing mirror, and my concern for you was boiled into bowls of cold and hot lotus heart porridge.

The eyes of superior civilization have never left us.They see you struggling in pain, they see me sinking in care, and they see our love turning into a billion-year obsession across the distance between the mortal world and heaven.They may not understand the love of God, but they understand this “worldly ignorance” – for one person, they are willing to stay alone for a billion years, for the sake of all living beings, they are willing to give up the honor of heaven.

3. Return to dust·Only you are Rui

On the last day of a billion years, the mortal sunset dyes the sky red. You are sitting by the lotus pond in the south of the Yangtze River. You are already a white-haired old woman, holding a smooth lotus-shaped jade pendant in your hand – that is what I secretly gave you in the first thousand years.

I turned into an old man and sat next to you. The evening breeze blew and the lotus fragrance spread.You turned to look at me and suddenly smiled: “Bai Fei, I recognize you.”

My heart trembled, and the golden light of heaven almost lost control: “You…”

“From the snowy night in the 10,000th year, to the epidemic area in the 100,000th year, to the ruined temple in the millionth year,” you stroked the jade pendant, the light in your eyes was still clear, “I remember them all. It’s just that I’m going through a tribulation and can’t recognize you.”

At this time, the dust-viewing mirror in the sky suddenly lit up, and the light of superior civilization was overwhelming, but there was no longer the alienation of the past, and there was a bit more awe.They have seen a billion years of earthly calamity and a billion years of protection, and finally understand the love of God and the suffering of all living beings.

You held my hand, your white hair tangled with my black hair, and your voice was as soft as the whisper of a lotus heart: “For a billion years, I have tasted the suffering of all living beings, and I understand that the most painful thing is not hunger and cold, nor separation, but seeing you by my side, but not being able to recognize each other.”

I held you in my arms, and a billion years of longing turned into purple lotuses that bloomed in the mortal world.The lotus fragrance spreads across the south of the Yangtze River, across the mortal world, across the galaxy, and reaches the observing mirror of superior civilization.

They may remember this billion-year catastrophe, remember the love and hate of God, remember the suffering of all living beings, and remember this love that becomes more and more tenacious in the worldly ignorance.And for me, as long as I hold you, that’s enough.

You leaned on my shoulder, looked at the purple lotus in the sky, and whispered: “Bai Fei, from now on, if you don’t return to heaven, you will guard this mortal world, guard this lotus pond, and guard our home.”

I kissed the top of your hair. Your position as the Emperor of Heaven has long since become a cloud. Waiting for a billion years is just for this sentence: “Okay, home is where you are. You have already tasted the suffering of all living beings. From now on, I will protect you without worries.”

The dust-viewing mirror in the sky gradually darkened, and the eyes of superior civilizations quietly receded. They finished reading this billion-year scroll and took away a legend about love and suffering, persistence and infatuation.And beside the lotus pond in the mortal world, the purple lotus is in full bloom, the evening breeze is gentle, and you and I depend on each other. This is the warmest place and the strongest bud in a billion years of earthly calamity.