When Li Mujue drew a lot at Shuiyun Temple, he already knew: the so-called merit task meant taking bones to make an umbrella handle and peeling skin to make its canopy.
The fat monk’s delusion, the thin monk’s greed, the tall monk’s wrath... each became a streak of blood on the Buddha-Mother Umbrella.
Buddha or demon?
Uncanny or immortal?
[Human-skin uncanny garments + Chaos Seed + proving the Dao through devouring]