I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 610: Profit is emptiness, emptiness is profit

The moment Baoxiang Bodhisattva became angry with the young man, the surrounding environment changed again.

"Buddha, what do you think of this temple?"

The young man pointed to the scenery in front of him. There were tall buildings all around, but in the center there was an ancient temple. The temple had pavilions and towers, kind-looking Bodhisattvas, majestic Arhats, and under the green tiles, tall red incense sticks were burning in a brass tripod.

Although it is not as good as the thousands of years of heritage of Dongxiang Temple, this quiet temple in the chaotic city makes Baoxiang Bodhisattva happy.

He asked thoughtfully, "What is this?"

The young man took out another copy of the Diamond Sutra, on which the gilded Buddha statue looked even more majestic. "You forgot that part of the money from the lectures and books is yours. We know that you don't need these worldly things and only want to spread the Dharma, so we bought this temple as a place for you to rest. If you are dissatisfied with anything, just tell me."

Bodhisattva Baoxiang subconsciously displayed his magical power of feet, and lotus flowers rose under his feet. He circled the temple three times, and saw that the outside was densely packed with believers. These believers were not completely illusions, but the dreams of all living beings in Daxia. As long as he could save them here, when Bodhisattva Baoxiang left the formation, he would naturally be able to save them in the outside world through contact.

“Why don’t these believers come into the temple?”

Bodhisattva Baoxiang was on the second floor of a building, looking at the believers outside who seemed to have no end. He asked with a surging heart, and his anger towards the young people dissipated unconsciously.

After all, this young man really did not lie to Him. He could help Him convert tens of thousands of people in just one night. If this were the case every day, even if He could not realize His dream of converting hundreds of millions of people within a month, He would not have anything to blame the young man for.

The young man smiled flatteringly, "Bodhisattva, you are a real Bodhisattva. Although the temple is small, it is precious. If we let all of us in, the temple would not be able to accommodate us, so we need to collect entrance fees. That's right, it's what you often call temple donations. This is how Buddhism is precious. Otherwise, the daily maintenance of such a good temple and the food and drink for the monks would be a huge expense."

"How many donations do you think should we collect from each temple?"

The young man's proposal did not cross the line. After all, Dongxiang Temple already collected temple donations. However, even Baoxiang Bodhisattva had never heard of collecting temple donations from everyone who entered the temple.

He pondered for a moment, "The Buddhist sect has opened the door to benefit all living beings. How can we collect donations from everyone? If someone is devoted to Buddhism but cannot afford donations, wouldn't that be against the Buddha's teachings?"

The young man was prepared for what Bodhisattva Baoxiang said. He smiled and said, "You are so compassionate. I have a way to help you save all living beings without preventing the poor from entering the temple."

"What is this method?"

Bodhisattva Baoxiang asked anxiously.

The young man replied, "This method will not work if I tell you now, but we can first charge only one cent for incense money from each person who enters the temple. In this way, even beggars, as long as they are sincere to Buddha, can afford the entrance fee."

A penny...

Bodhisattva Baoxiang pondered for a moment and said, "This is a compromise."

As soon as he finished speaking, a huge crowd of people had already crowded into the temple. The burning red incense sticks were one after another, and the rising green smoke enveloped the entire temple. Baoxiang Bodhisattva was floating in the green smoke, and unknowingly he was sitting in the main hall preaching Buddhism.

The endless admiration and worship, along with incense and the worldly affairs, poured into the six roots of Baoxiang Bodhisattva from all directions, making the golden body of Baoxiang Bodhisattva grow inch by inch. The cyan-gold golden body of the Bodhisattva turned into bronze, exactly the same as the Sakyamuni behind him, as if it was about to cultivate into a six-foot-tall Buddha body.

Moreover, in the perception of Bodhisattva Baoxiang, this is an extremely real existence. If He can save all sentient beings in this dream, His own Buddhist teachings will be complete, which is even more important than finding Ada and others.

After all, if the formation was broken, he would not have such a good opportunity to use this formation to save all the people of Da Xia.

Thinking of this, he even felt that this was his chance. It was because Zhou Tieyi traveled east and disappeared in the sea of ​​blood that allowed Ah Da, a guy who had not even completed his cultivation to the third rank, to operate the formation. This gave him the opportunity to seize it. Otherwise, if he had a random second-rank opponent of the same level, it would not have been so easy.

The time of preaching passed very quickly. Baoxiang Bodhisattva preached in the temple during the day and in the live broadcast room at night. He gradually got used to this refreshing way of practice. His own golden body became stronger day by day. In less than a month, he had already reached the level of 10 feet.

But it was this golden body that made Bodhisattva Baoxiang feel that the realm of the first-grade Pratyekabuddha was so difficult to reach. He sat in the temple and preached. He suddenly had an idea and calculated with his fingers. In a blink of an eye, he had been in this formation for fifteen days and had converted more than 500,000 people.

Although this was an extremely fast and miraculous effect, this was after all a dream. All the people who were converted were shallow believers, and there was still a long way to go before they could complete the qualitative change. He was also concerned about the Dongxiang Temple, and hesitated between going out to fight and cultivating to the first level first. Then, greed came to him, and he looked for the young man again and asked, "You said before that there is a method that can allow me to convert hundreds of millions of people in a month. Can you tell me this method now?"

During these fifteen days, Baoxiang Bodhisattva was not completely unaware of the structure of this place. At least he knew how live streaming worked. But precisely because he knew this operating concept, he did not realize that the young man was trying to harm him. He only felt that this live streaming method was simply the supreme and wonderful method of spreading Buddhism. If he could attain the first level of Pratyekabuddha, he would definitely promote this method in Baoxiang Prefecture.

When the young man heard the question from Bodhisattva Baoxiang, he smiled brightly, "Bodhisattva, have you ever heard of a stock market listing?"

Bodhisattva Baoxiang had just heard of it. Although he did not know much about the details of stocks, he knew that Zhou Tieyi and the Emperor of Daxia were both strongly advocating this method. He also heard that this method had indeed solved the financial and food crisis of the Daxia court.

Any method that can solve the world's urgent need for money and grain is naturally a good method. Even Bodhisattvas dare not despise it. Moreover, although Baoxiang Bodhisattva was of the second rank in the past, he could not even touch the authority of the Daxia Exchange. Naturally, he could only hear about it from afar in Baoxiangzhou.

But now in the dream of all living beings, he did not expect that he would have the opportunity to touch this method, which immediately made Baoxiang Bodhisattva's greed arouse.

"I have heard a little bit about this. I heard that it is a way to save the world?" The young man gave a thumbs up to Bodhisattva Baoxiang. "Bodhisattva, you are really amazing. Even in the deep mountains, you know everything about the world."

After praising him, the young man continued, "When you first built this temple, you were kind and only charged a penny to everyone who entered the temple, didn't you?"

Bodhisattva Baoxiang nodded slightly, there was no problem with this matter.

The young man then said with difficulty, "But we have to ask every believer to burn three incense sticks and provide free tea. In fact, this temple has been struggling to maintain itself, and it is only able to survive because of you, the Bodhisattva, giving lectures and selling books every day."

Baoxiang Bodhisattva thought about it seriously. He was in charge of the entire Dongxiang Temple. Instead of being angry or blaming the young man for what he said, he felt sympathetic.

The court of Daxia felt that his Dongxiang Temple was accumulating wealth and occupying land, but one who manages the household does not know how expensive firewood and rice are. What would a second-rank Bodhisattva like him do with so much money? The reason he collected incense offerings was to help more victims during the drought and allow more people to practice Buddhism.

His precious elephant may not need to eat, but how can the more than 10,000 monks in the temple not eat? Even the golden statue of Buddha has to burn three incense sticks every day!
The young man changed the subject and said, "We don't need the money from the poor. We only need to ask the rich to contribute money. We can still build more temples and save more people."

Upon hearing that the poor did not need to pay, but the rich could pay instead, Bodhisattva Baoxiang contacted the stocks of the Daxia Exchange and felt as if he had suddenly realized something, as if he was seeing flowers in the fog.

Yes, Zhou Tieyi’s method is not just to let rich people pay money. This formation is the continuation of Zhou Tieyi’s Taoist tradition, and naturally it also contains this principle.

“How to do this method.”

Baoxiang Bodhisattva asked hurriedly.

"That's easy. We allow other places in the world to build Baoxiang Temples. Every place that wants to build a Baoxiang Temple must be a local wealthy businessman or a county government. They must have money in their hands. We will collect money from them and use it to help you save all living beings. In this way, as long as half of the places in the world build Baoxiang Temples, you can naturally save billions of living beings."

The young man's method was indeed simple. Baoxiang Bodhisattva frowned and asked, "How can the county government be willing to pay for those wealthy businessmen?"

Even though He was a second-rank Bodhisattva, sometimes He might not be able to ask for incense and offerings when He went to the door, let alone build Baoxiang Temples in half of the world.

If this method was so easy, he would have practiced it all over the world at Dongxiang Temple long ago.

The young man laughed and said, "Isn't this the purpose of our Baoxiang Temple going public?"

"The world is bustling with people all for profit. These wealthy businessmen and county governments also want profit. Buddhism alone is definitely not enough. We have built so many temples, and each temple has to pay us money. Then our Baoxiang Temple can naturally make stable profits. We send the temples to the stock exchange for listing, so that more wealthy people in the world can buy the temple's stocks. As long as the stock price rises, the Baoxiang Temple branches in the hands of these wealthy businessmen and county governments will naturally be more valuable. So they are naturally willing to build more Baoxiang Temples. More Baoxiang Temples will make Baoxiang Temple's stocks continue to rise, and Buddhism will naturally continue to rise, never stopping, until all people in the world practice Buddhism and can become Buddhas. At that time, there will be no distinction between inside and outside, and no comparison of money. Profit is emptiness, and emptiness is profit. Bodhisattva, don't you agree?"

Bodhisattva Baoxiang recited earnestly, "Benefit is emptiness, emptiness is benefit..."

The Buddha's light behind him suddenly expanded, as if he had touched the essence of Buddhism. The joy on his face became more and more intense, revealing his great happiness at listening to the supreme Buddhism.

Yes, this method is so good, why didn’t I think of it before? I will wait until I can attain the first-grade Pratyekabuddha in this formation, and then get out of the formation. While Zhou Tieyi is not back, I must get Dongxiang Temple listed on the Daxia Stock Exchange. By then, don’t say that the Queen Mother only allows a temple to have a thousand acres of land. Even if a temple does not have any land, as long as the stock price of Dongxiang Temple continues to rise, good men and women all over the world will continue to flock to the embrace of Buddhism!
This is the true supreme Buddhist Dharma!
After Baoxiang Bodhisattva comprehended the supreme Buddhist Dharma, in a moment of thought, countless Baoxiang Temples sprang up in the dream of the formation. Countless wealth gathered on the golden body of Baoxiang Bodhisattva like golden light. These temples spread for thousands of miles, like lotus flowers emerging from the ground, supporting the golden body of Baoxiang Bodhisattva and continuing to gild the golden body, making his golden body of Bodhisattva grow unprecedentedly, allowing him to transcend the illusion of the formation in an instant and touch the core of the formation.

This is a structure that looks like a bird's nest, with people coming and going all around. On the plaque in the center hangs five large gold-plated characters "Daxia Exchange".

The final result of Zhou Tieyi's use of the Mingyue System was the Daxia Exchange. Naturally, the base of the 'All Living Beings Array' was also in this 'Daxia Exchange' which was neither virtual nor real.

Bodhisattva Baoxiang looked at Ah Da outside the exchange with a smile of victory on his face, "Donor Zhou, it seems that I have won this round, but through you, I have comprehended the supreme Dharma, so I will naturally not harm you. As long as you are willing, you can retreat on your own."

Ah Da looked at the Bodhisattva Baoxiang, "Monk, did you really win?"

When asked by Ah Da, Bodhisattva Baoxiang frowned subconsciously, but at this time his heart was already filled with the mundane world, but the Buddha's light around him became more and more dazzling, shining like a real sun.

With the help of the connection of the 'Daxia Exchange', He really spread Buddhism in the dreams of sentient beings through a stock called 'Baoxiang Temple'.

Baoxiang Bodhisattva stretched out his palm, and unknowingly the Bodhisattva's golden body had transformed into the Buddha's golden body, six feet tall and perfect in every inch.

He affirmed, “Of course he won.”

Ah Da laughed loudly and with force of both hands, he pushed open the door of 'Daxia Exchange' for Baoxiang Bodhisattva. Countless grievances of the worldly world poured out from the door like a rolling wave with no end in sight, directly submerging Baoxiang Bodhisattva. Even though Baoxiang Bodhisattva had a perfect golden body, he felt as if he was about to suffocate.

What surprised him even more was that there was no such thing as the rising Baoxiang Temple in the Daxia Stock Exchange. Because of the flooding of the sea of ​​blood, the rolling of earth dragons, and the severe drought in the world, the Daxia Stock Exchange had naturally plummeted in the past one or two months. The accumulated resentment of hundreds of millions of sentient beings had nowhere to vent. Baoxiang Bodhisattva was willing to test the law with his own body and connect the resentment of these sentient beings, so all the resentment naturally had an outlet.

But Baoxiang Bodhisattva still couldn't believe the scene before him. The black resentment continued to erode his golden body, and the worldly dust continued to pour out from his eyes, ears, mouth, nose, tongue, and mind. He was like a person choking on water, still struggling and shouting, "No, no! It should keep growing, the Dharma should keep growing, and it should never stop!"

Suddenly, the familiar figure of the young man appeared in front of him. He saw that the young man had transformed into Zhou Tieyi without realizing it. "It's not that the Buddha Dharma has grown, but that the greed in your heart has grown, so you have this disaster."

(End of this chapter)