Taoist Master Xuanhuang

"However, we also need to speed things up and find a suitable deity as soon as possible."

The Buddhist monk Minghui said.

Killing is always a taboo in Buddhism, but the Buddhism here is different; there is no taboo against killing.

Even killing is done in the name of protecting life.

Therefore, they discussed eliminating a demonic saint without any scruples.

Environment changes everything, and even the Buddhist community needs to change its environment, which is like this in the spiritual practice world.

Besides, haven't things changed enough already?

The Buddhist community is no longer what it used to be; new Buddhas have appeared, so how could it continue with the old precepts unchanged?

"Sect Leader? It seems there's no need to choose, or rather, there's a large category of demonized saints that we must kill."

The Venerable Jin Guang said.

All the eminent monks knew what he was talking about: a demonic Buddha, or a Buddhist saint who had fallen into demonic possession.

The idea that one can become a Buddha or a demon in a single thought is a real phenomenon, not just a fantasy.

The bizarre types of monks and Taoist priests existed before, but this kind of Buddhist weirdness disappeared after the environment for their survival was gone.

However, there are still false Buddhas and false sects, and quite a few of them.

Monks who have gone astray can be found everywhere; corruption, bribery, breaking vows to find wives and have children are just minor issues.

The demons and Buddhas of this realm are cannibals, physically cannibalistic.

Although Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism have merged, Buddhism is still somewhat different, emphasizing self-realization.

This is because the propaganda of Buddhism seems very illusory. Whether it is the Buddhist kingdom or compassionate salvation, the Buddhist philosophy is actually a very profound subject.

But it is too illusory and detached from reality, emphasizing self-verification.

To describe an ideal Buddhist paradise, one needs a Buddhist to prove it to themselves and to transform the illusion into reality.

The ability to transform the false into the true is the most important characteristic of Buddhism.

First, they would envision an unprecedentedly beautiful goal, such as a Buddhist kingdom.

However, whether this Buddhist kingdom exists remains a question.

A devout Buddhist dedicates their entire life to the construction of this Buddhist kingdom.

In short, this is my ideal Buddha. You may doubt that he is illusory, or even that he does not exist, but I will firmly believe in realizing my ideal Buddha.

How can this be achieved?
It is through one's own practice that one gradually turns ideals into reality; this is the state of practice that Buddha attained.

But ideals, if taken too far off course, become demonic, and there are different ways to achieve them.

There is a cause for every effect, but the demon Buddha will reverse the effect into the cause.

To believe that the human heart is inherently evil and greedy, and therefore to do everything in order to prove the greed and selfishness of human nature, is the devil.

Greed and selfishness exist in people's hearts, but to change their selfishness and greed, and to teach them kindness and tolerance, that is the essence of Buddhism.

By setting an example by changing oneself, changing those around oneself, and even changing the entire environment, once these things are accomplished, one accumulates merit and attains Buddhahood.

It also has a bit of the characteristic of borrowing money to cultivate immortality.

First, borrow a certain amount of ability through a grand aspiration, then use this ability to repay the loan, and then borrow again, borrowing even stronger abilities to repay the loan.

Repaying a loan is a great vow, but it is very difficult. Some demons and Buddhas simply don't intend to repay; borrowing is the cause, and not repaying is the effect.

The result is becoming a demon, losing one's Dao heart, falling into demonic ways, and plunging into the abyss.

The Confucian ideal of self-improvement, the Taoist ideal of naturalness, and the Buddhist ideal of self-realization—these three paths can converge.

However, the Buddhist approach ultimately deviates from the norm.

There are many deities at various levels of Buddhism, some are righteous gods, and some are evil Buddhas who have fallen into demonic possession.

Nothing is more important to Buddhism than eliminating these evil Buddhas and demons.

The category that the Venerable Master Jinguang mentioned is the goal.

This refers generally to all evil Buddhas, demonic Buddhas, and sacred beings discovered to date.

For example, the Illusionary Mind Realm is a large realm where the strongest beings are at the Bodhisattva level.

In Buddhism, the fourth-level kings are called Bhikkhus, the fifth-level kings are called Arhats, and the sixth-level kings are called Bodhisattvas.

Large realms with six levels are few and far between, but the Illusionary Heart Realm is one such top-level large realm.

The reason it has become such an existence is due to its own cultivation and creation.

In other words, before, they were just a normal large realm, with the strongest being only at the fifth-order Arhat level. However, after entering the world, they developed and grew into a special large realm, just like the Civil and Martial Temples.

The strongest of the fifth-order Arhats became a sixth-order Bodhisattva.

In the Realm of Illusion, 'illusion' and 'mind' are the core elements.

The illusion here is not a mere illusion.

It's a hallucination, an illusion, a dream.

The mind is easier to understand now; the Holy Mother of Tushan, Lady White Bone, and others are experts in the way of the mind.

The Realm of Illusory Hearts is a Buddhist realm possessed by demons, and it is extremely terrifying.

It has already controlled nearly a hundred billion living beings through various evil methods, which is extremely strange, and even indistinguishable from the bizarre.

They started their actions a long time ago; it shouldn't be called spreading the Dharma, it should be called pollution.

It began corrupting living beings long ago, planting a seed of illusion in their hearts through delusion. Once the seed of illusion is planted, it means that the living being has surrendered everything to the Illusionary Mind Realm.

It's the kind of thing that you can make someone live if you want them to, and they'll willingly die if you want them to.

Moreover, the contamination happens very quickly. The first person to be contaminated needs to go through hallucinations, but subsequent contamination is much easier.

As long as a statue of the Illusionary Buddha is erected, anyone who worships it will be infected with the Illusionary Seed.

Those of value will be granted the Dharma to cultivate, while those of little value will be slowly drained of their vitality, and everything will be contributed to the illusory mind of the demons and Buddhas.

Does it feel familiar?
That's right, the Demon Buddha of the Illusionary Heart Realm is the Xuanhuang Dao Master he studied under.

The Daoist Master's divine cultivation system was modified and copied from Illusionary Heart Magic.

The Xuanhuang Dao Lord statue bestowed a soul seed, altering the extraordinary field of a divine cultivator, granting an incapable being extraordinary qualities, thus enabling them to cultivate.

The magic of the Illusionary Heart Realm also bestows Illusionary Seeds, but its power is limited and cannot give an ordinary person extraordinary qualities.

However, it allows those who are capable of cultivating themselves to do so.

Want to make rapid progress? It's very simple.

Spread the idols, harvest more beings who cannot cultivate, and then harvest everything from these beings who cannot cultivate, especially their very essence, and transform it into the source of your own progress.

By spreading the corrupted images of demons and Buddhas, every being granted the ability to cultivate through illusion will spare no effort to promote them.

In a very short time, the entire Illusionary Heart Realm came to control nearly a hundred billion living beings.

They only stopped expanding after Zhenxiu discovered it.

If it weren't for Zhenxiu discovering this situation and causing quite a stir, it's hard to imagine how serious the pollution would have been.

Initially, the evil Buddha statues even attempted to corrupt genuine practitioners.

However, the invading soul discovered that it was detected by the visualization within the true cultivator's soul as soon as it entered, and was then quickly suppressed and refined, becoming nourishment for the visualization diagram.

In their words, it was like the little devil encountering the devil ancestor, who then swallowed the little devil whole.

They really think so.

In the eyes of normal people, Xuanhuang is the right path, the glorious Great Way.

In their eyes, Xuanhuang is just like them, infecting countless living beings to achieve their own goals.

This is how the Xuanhuang Dharma works for them.

A being possessed by a demon cannot be reasoned with; it's like being obsessed, as we often say. This is truly a person possessed by a demon.

In their eyes, everything is evil; they judge others by their own standards: "If I'm like this, you'll be too." Strangely enough, this is how cultists, planted with the seeds of evil, view the universe.

However, in the realm of illusion, those evil Buddhas and saints acknowledge Xuanhuang as the Buddha.

He also firmly believed that the Buddha Xuanhuang was reincarnated to enlighten him.

Otherwise, how could I have learned so much from the Buddha's system of spiritual cultivation?
This is why the Buddha has a thousand faces, each with its own unique expression.

They are learning one aspect of the Xuanhuang Buddha, while true practitioners are learning another aspect; we are all one family.

A completely delusional person; it doesn't make sense.

Even if you kill them, they won't think they were wrong before they die; they'll just say they were unlucky to have lost.

Closer to home.

When they were discovered, nearly a hundred billion alien creatures in the surrounding area had already been contaminated by them.

Moreover, several of the sacred realms bordering them that were not as strong as theirs had been converted by them.

All I can say is that they are very hardworking and very strong.

The dark side is ten times stronger. I don't know if this rule applies here. It feels like it has to work harder than the divine cultivators and true cultivators who are strongly supported by Xuanhuang.

Fortunately, they were discovered, and the cultivators quickly mobilized to isolate this alien realm.

We've tried to find a solution, but there's only one: to exterminate nearly a hundred billion lives. That's incredibly difficult.

It's not that killing is difficult, but that no one wants to bear the guilt of nearly a hundred billion lives.

Besides, the opposite side is a large realm, and a special large realm that has mutated from a large realm.

It's impossible to eradicate her. Even the so-called "Demon Queen of Worlds," Xingmu Yuanjun, can only destroy tiny realms.

If even a medium-sized realm cannot be destroyed, then this mutated large realm is even more likely to be destroyed.

This is extremely difficult to resolve and is beyond the current capabilities of the cultivation world.

We can only put it on hold for now, prevent it from spreading further, and then wait until we have the ability to solve it.

Unfortunately, before he could resolve the situation, the heavens and earth were unsealed, and the fourth-tier kings (bhikkhus) within were already able to emerge.

Within their corrupted alien realm, these beings at the Bhikkhu level are stronger than ordinary fourth-tier kings.

Unlike other games, which suffer from unsustainable and short-lived performance, these games do not have this drawback.

Because polluted creatures are one of their energy sources, they can absorb the essence of these creatures without restraint and turn it into a continuous source of power for themselves.

Because of this characteristic, the Illusory Mind Realm began to expand again after the birth of the fourth-level Bhikkhu.

The true cultivator's isolation only blocked them inside.

However, once a fourth level exists, true cultivators cannot stop it; if they are not careful, they will be killed.

Although this kind of pollution cannot pollute myself because I have a visualization to protect me, it can at least kill you, right?

The evil Buddha already knows how to deal with genuine cultivators.

It can be said that if a demonic saint from a medium to large realm wants to cause trouble, the current true cultivators really have no way to deal with it.

They can neither defeat nor destroy medium to large-scale domains.

I feel utterly powerless.

Unless the three highest-ranking deities or even the Dao Lords of the cultivation world personally intervene.

Aside from true cultivators at this level taking action, no other true cultivators can do anything about it.

But the Dao Lord no longer cares about anything in the world, and the three great gods are the foundation, so they will not take action at all.

The only solution is for those who truly cultivate themselves to find a way.

Medium to large-scale demon-possessed realms, as well as realms that, while not infected by demons, are unwilling to accept their fate, are the biggest troubles in the cultivation world.

The Illusionary Heart Realm is not an isolated case; there are more than a dozen of them.

There are also realms at the level of heretical and demonic paths, but that's a problem that the Taoist sects should be concerned about.

There are countless other realms, such as the realm of paper doll makers, the realm of shadow puppeteers, the realm of seeking titles, the realm of animal creation, and so on. The unorthodox and heretical realms of Taoism are even more numerous.

There are also two large-scale mutated realms in the Daoist sect, whose level of harm is no less than that of the evil Buddha in the Illusionary Heart Realm.

The most famous of these is the Realm of Devious Paths.

That's right, it's the kind of thing I, the Taoist master, have achieved.

It is a large-scale realm that has evolved by combining bizarre abilities with the profound body-refining techniques of Xuanhuang.

The sixth-order being within it calls himself the Ancestor of the Deceptive Path.

An existence that cultivates itself into Cthulhu is no less corrupt in terms of flesh and spirit than in terms of illusory mind.

Even more evil.

After all, the pollution of the mind only affects the mind and soul; it generally still makes one look like a person, and most people can't tell the difference.

The corrupted path is different; the creatures here are all 'three-headed and six-armed' and 'strange-looking'.

If it weren't for the fact that it's inland, you'd think it was some kind of octopus-themed realm by the sea.

Seeing a cult-like statue will corrupt your mind.

Furthermore, once a person is contaminated, the contamination will spread to their family members and ancestors for five generations, creating a deep-seated bloodline contamination.

Even cultivation methods can be contaminated.

They were discovered because of Xuanhuang.

A being from another realm who had learned the Three Great Laws of Xuanhuang had his relatives corrupted. The corrupted relatives even tried to corrupt him through their bloodline, but the old demon ate the little demon instead.

It was also devoured by the visualization diagram and the invincible Xuanhuang magic of this being.

The creatures infected in the Ghostly Realm were similar to those infected in the Illusionary Realm, and were similarly isolated and cut off.

The cultivators who can guard this realm are all true cultivators, true cultivators who have learned the three great laws of Xuanhuang.

Ordinary cultivators wouldn't dare come here; they'd get infected.

These three great laws naturally restrain all evil spirits and heretics. They devour the weak, but true cultivators can refine them.

It's like the big fish eating the small fish.

If there are evil spirits and heretical paths, then naturally, heretical scholars cannot escape them either.

The most famous is the Doom Empire's territory.

There are quite a few empires of this level, such as the Nest of Disaster and the Realm of Destruction.

There is a reason why Confucianism is considered superior to Buddhism and Taoism.

It's strong on the positive side, and strong on the negative side too.

Buddhism and Taoism can only handle one or two large-scale mutated realms, while Confucianism has discovered three.

At one point, the Confucian elites felt like crying.

Is it better than those three companies in this aspect? There's no need for that!
The result is that it is necessary, very necessary.

The heretical Confucian scholars are even stronger than Buddhism and Taoism.

How could the most prominent field of study for thousands of years be anything less than excellent?
Buddhism and Taoism are indeed very strong, but Confucianism, the most prominent school of thought, is at least three times stronger than them.

Take the Doom Empire for example.
A distorted school of thought, a group of scholar-gods, control the court, creating disasters; the more disasters they cause, the stronger they become.

When they were discovered, they had already developed into dozens of dynasties and empires with a population of hundreds of billions.

It does not rule over living beings, but rather the dead spirits destroyed by disaster.

Referencing the ghost cultivation system established by Xuanhuang.

Very scary.

...(End of chapter)