My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 162: A Ming Dynasty monk's mental journey
Why is there a little man in that square box?

Did His Majesty lock them in the small box? No, that’s not right. The thing on the small box was like a mirror, and the scene inside was like another world.

Also, why is the world in the mirror magnified onto the white cloth? Could it be that their souls were sucked out?

Daoyan's eyes, which seemed like they would never open, were now wide open. Everything in front of him made him feel incredible.

This is simply unbelievable. Could this be the Xuanyuan Mirror? No, as the Buddha said, one flower, one world; one leaf, one bodhi. This thing is more like the Sumeru Ring, which contains a whole new world!

Daoyan searched through all the books he had read before, whether they were Confucian classics, Buddhist texts, or even strange stories, trying to find clues about this magical thing in the books. He also exhausted the limits of his imagination to try to find a reasonable explanation for everything he saw.

But no matter how hard he tried, it was all in vain.

Mao Xiang looked at Daoyan's face full of horror and felt that the anger in his heart had finally come out. He had thought that this monk was always calm and unperturbed, but he didn't expect that he was just like this.

Just like those gentry and officials in Shaoxing Prefecture, Your Majesty's moving pictures are specifically used to deal with those who are self-righteous!

Seeing his naive look, Mao Xiang's eyes were full of smiles and he felt very happy. He completely forgot how he looked when he first saw the video, and he wasn't much better.

However, he soon stopped laughing. The content of the picture left him dumbfounded. After taking a look, he suddenly felt something stuck in his throat. Then, a huge amount of anger surged in his chest like a tide.

How dare those damn Japanese pirates run wild on Chinese territory?

Seeing the Japanese army burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of atrocities on the Chinese land, Mao Xiang was filled with rage!

When Daoyan gradually recovered from the shock he felt when he first saw the video, he gradually understood the content of the video.

At first, he was a little bit unbelievable. What was it saying? The Japanese pirates invaded China and tried to occupy the whole of China?
Did that small island east of the Ming Dynasty become so bold? When did it become so arrogant?

However, the cruel scene and the voice coming from somewhere told him all the time that all this was really happening!
Watching the Japanese army capture the city of Peking with crude and despicable reasons, his Buddhist heart was completely shattered at this moment.

An unknown rage began to burn from the depths of his heart. When he saw the cruel Japanese army raping and slaughtering men, women, young and old, as well as women and children in Nanjing, his eyes turned red instantly.

In the picture, countless civilians were shot to death by the Japanese army. The whole city of Nanjing was filled with smoke and destroyed houses were everywhere. The ground was littered with corpses and rivers of blood. His body began to tremble uncontrollably.

Nanjing, Yingtian Prefecture, the capital of the Ming Dynasty, had suffered such a disaster. Daoyan originally thought that his heart, as solid as a rock, would not waver no matter what he faced.

However, at this moment, he found that he was extremely wrong!
Looking at these bloody scenes, he could no longer bear it and tears dripped from the corners of his eyes.

At this moment, he finally understood what His Majesty meant when he wanted him to see the real hell!

This is hell, a living hell!
No, this is more cruel and more terrifying than hell. In hell, those who are bound by karma and whose cause and effect are being punished are all people. However, those civilians, the children, and the girls who died tragically under the knives of the Japanese pirates, who among them are the most evil people?
Even animals know how to repay kindness. Those Japanese invaders are worse than animals, more cold-blooded than beasts, and more evil than demons!
At this time, he gradually understood that the magical object like the Sumeru Ring was showing him what would happen in the future. The flying thing in the sky was called an airplane, and the bombs it dropped blew up houses. The machine guns that were like muskets could kill countless people in an instant, and the armored vehicles called tanks ruthlessly crushed the flesh and blood of the people.

He could no longer control himself, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, will the scene presented in this picture really happen in the future?"

Mao Xiang couldn't help but look at Zhu Yuanzhang. He hoped to hear from His Majesty that these were all false and fabricated, and that the future of China would not fall into such a miserable situation.

He also doesn't want the land of China to become a Shura purgatory!
However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not explain, but said in a deep voice: "Don't talk, just keep watching!"

Mao Xiang really couldn't bear to watch it anymore. He knew very well that he was not a kind-hearted person. On the contrary, in the eyes of many people, he was a ruthless, cold-blooded and heartless devil. He himself also thought so. How could His Majesty's lackeys not be ruthless?

He could no longer count how many people in the court had died at his hands, and he was not willing to count them. They were just a string of cold numbers without any meaning.

He also personally skinned and dug out the hearts of the prisoners. His methods made countless people tremble in fear. However, at this moment, the beastly behavior of the Japanese invaders made this Jinyiwei commander, who killed people without blinking an eye, unable to look at it anymore.

Compared with the Japanese invaders, Mao Xiang felt that he was still a human being. Those he killed were either corrupt officials, traitors, or foreign enemies. However, he could not treat unarmed civilians in such a cruel way.

The content in the picture made him feel more and more depressed. He really couldn't stand it anymore, so he hurried out, looked up at the blue sky and the sunshine, and breathed heavily, as if he wanted to expel all the depressed air in his chest.

The video inside seemed to make him walk through hell. Only after he came out did he feel that he was still alive.

Daoyan, however, did not move. At this moment, he finally realized what it meant to cause great suffering to all people and what it meant to be hell on earth!

It's ridiculous. Not long ago, he still firmly believed that in the face of his ideals, he didn't care how many people died or even if it caused great suffering.

And he said this in front of His Majesty.

Looking back now, I was just a clown who knew nothing. I was so ignorant to the point of being ridiculous. I was so pitiful and hateful!

At this time, he had lost his direction and was at a loss. In addition to endless grief for the people, he was also filled with tremendous anger towards the Japanese invaders!

Buddha was also angry. He wished he could go to the small island in Japan in person and kill all the Japanese invaders there!

The Buddha said, if I don't go to hell, who will? At this moment, he Dao Yan was in hell.

Your Majesty, when you witnessed such a horrific scene with your own eyes, your self-righteous Buddhist heart was completely shattered.

However, as he continued reading, he was shocked to find that he was still childish.

(End of this chapter)