I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 661 On the Westward Journey
The equal Buddhist kingdom of the netherworld.

Ever since the monks from the East China Sea set out on their journey to the West to seek Buddhist scriptures, over the past twenty years or so, they have slain demons and monsters, built temples and bridges along the way. Before the master and his disciples even reached Miaoshan City, Buddhism had already flourished again.

Within the Buddha’s kingdom, the guardian gods and ghosts of Buddhism were naturally smiling happily, and almost all the lotus flowers in the pond under the seat of the Equality King Buddha were in bloom.

On this day, Wang Fo woke up from his meditation. He looked at the six realms of reincarnation and saw that a wave that had been delayed for more than 20 years was about to start again, so he ordered the Bodhisattva of Transmigration, "Go to Xiluo Mountain and invite Venerable Miaoshan."

The Bodhisattva of Duty received the decree. Xiluo Mountain, located on the west bank of the middle reaches of Luo River, was not originally a famous mountain. However, when Miaoshan came out of Nananda Temple, she could not go back to the temple and had to take into account the movements of the people seeking scriptures, so she settled here. A new Zen temple was also built here, and everyone knew that a Bodhisattva sat here.

Moreover, this Bodhisattva is different from ordinary gods and Buddhas. She does not enjoy happiness in the temple, but travels around the world to save people from suffering.

As the knowledge of the beings in the Lotus World spread throughout the entire Daxia world, ordinary people naturally could not distinguish many things, so they also called Miaoshan Guanyin Bodhisattva, who specialized in saving people from suffering.

As soon as she received this title, Miao Shan's practice improved by leaps and bounds. Even though she was not a Bodhisattva originally, she became one within the past twenty years.

When Miao Shan saw the Bodhisattva of Guidance coming to visit her, she subconsciously blurted out, "Did something happen to the pilgrim again?"

Even she, a compassionate Bodhisattva, felt bitter at this moment.

The people only know that she follows the sounds and flies all over the world to save people from suffering, but they don’t know the difficulties of being a Bodhisattva.

During the war of thirty-three heavens, a large number of gods fell from the sky, occupied the mountains and became kings, and turned into demons.

Those of the first and second ranks among them could see the situation clearly and did not make trouble, but among the third ranks there were inevitably some who were not destined to be there and who wanted to defy fate and change their destiny, hindering the spread of Buddhism to the south and the return of the City God, thus causing many problems for the team.

In addition, the power of the various schools of thought is complicated and they have many plans for the team to obtain the scriptures.

The last point is that all living beings in the Lotus World know about "Journey to the West", so no one knows who spread it. They know that eating the flesh of the pilgrims can make them immortal, so a bunch of people who want to take advantage and get benefits have joined the pilgrims' team. It's simply a riot of demons.

There are more than 81 difficulties along the way. Miao Shan once set a record of rescuing eight difficulties in one day. There was a trap within the trap. If she hadn't had the support of the Equal King Buddha, she would have been trapped.
The Bodhisattva of Guidance saw the Bodhisattva who was outside looking for help and looked frightened, and said with a smile, "It was the King Buddha who summoned you."

Miao Shan did not dare to be negligent and followed the Bodhisattva to the Buddhist kingdom in the underworld.

At this time, the eighteen levels of hell in the underworld have been completely built, the seals of the ten kings of hell have been released, and the position of the Emperor of Life and Death has also been half-given to humanity. Therefore, the human race also adopts a policy of winning over the slowly resurrecting Yama Ghost Emperors.

Except for the three who refused to obey the rules, the other seven, four were sent to the Yin Palace of Taihang Mountain, and three were sent to the Netherworld Buddha Kingdom.
However, the prosperity of the Netherworld Buddhist Kingdom has also brought many problems.

Originally Mo Jian wanted to rule the world by punishment, but his idea was good, but the reality was cruel.

Zhou Tieyi even pushed Mo Jian and divided the affairs of the underworld into two parts: Taihang Yinting was the reward, and the underworld Buddhist kingdom was the punishment.

But if Taihang Yinting has a toll, does that mean the Netherworld Buddhist Kingdom is gone?
Especially during the rapid expansion, the surrender of ghosts and gods has intensified the changes in the Netherworld Buddhist Kingdom, and "redemption silver" has appeared in the Buddhist Kingdom.

Mo Jian looked around the entire Buddhist country and knew that it was time to deal with this matter.

However, he cannot handle this matter by himself, otherwise it will make the people below terrified, but the pilgrim team is a very useful means.

Over the past twenty years, whenever the various Taoist sects encountered problems internally, they would always use the team of pilgrims to eliminate the evil. When the time came, the blame would be on the monkeys, and it would not be possible to blame the gods and Buddhas.

The title of the Great Sage of Settlement was not given for nothing.

"Praise the Buddha of Equality in the Netherworld."

Miao Shan bowed to the Netherworld Lord, who was becoming increasingly radiant and unhindered in the center of the lotus pond.

"I wonder what the purpose of Wang Fo's summons is?"

Mo Jian spoke compassionately, "I see that the sentient beings in the three realms are about to encounter a great calamity. This calamity is a quantitative calamity. All the causes and effects accumulated before will be eliminated in this calamity, allowing the entire world to be reborn. Therefore, the impact is huge, and everyone below the level of a saint will be in the calamity."

Miao Shan remained silent. She was not surprised by this.

Over the past twenty years, not only has the situation inside Daxia been turbulent due to the fall of the gods, but outside Daxia, the vast world is blocked by the thirty-three heavens, but this is only a strong enough moat. Now in the dream realm, no one can stop it, so the gods outside are also trying every means to provoke chaos in Daxia.

Yuan Meng, who had been suppressed to the limit, got a chance to breathe in recent years. His strength did not decline but increased, and he continued to put pressure on the northern front. This made the Queen Mother who seized the Xia Dynasty criticized by various schools of thought. Therefore, some of the various schools of thought also supported the restoration of the Xia Dynasty.

Therefore, whether it is the crown prince in the north, the fourth prince Li Jing in the south, or the seventh prince Li Hao in the Ten Thousand Mountains in the southwest, they have all been ready to make a move recently.

The only reason why the world is not in chaos now is that the Queen of Heaven is the second sage, and has formed a fragile alliance with Taoist Zhou Yulong and Buddhist Mo Jian to stabilize the current situation.

Mo Jian continued, "When I became a Buddha from the Mohist school, the cause and effect was not resolved."

Miao Shan suddenly looked up, and even the Bodhisattva who led her found it incredible.

Of course they knew about it.

The current great figure of the Mohist school has specially changed his name to 'Xu Wugui'. It is said that this great figure is very close to being a sub-sage. Although the migration of Buddhism to the south in recent years is the will of the Heavenly Venerable, he has not disobeyed openly, but he has made many small moves. As a human being, he has seven emotions and six desires, happiness, anger, sorrow and happiness, and even a saint is no exception.

For Xu Wugui, he could accept Netherworld Buddhism, but he could not accept that a traitor of Mohism could still be the leader of the Netherworld!

The Bodhisattva of Guidance said in horror, "The King Buddha is the Lord of the Netherworld..."

Mo Jian waved his hand and said, "That's because the true Lord of the Netherworld has not returned to his position. Besides, as I just said, in this catastrophe, everyone below the saints is doomed, and I am no exception. Rather than being driven out of this position by others, it is better for me to step down from this position myself."

He looked at Miao Shan again, "I came to you because I have something to tell you..."

Mexico City.

Although the great master Xu Wugui was not as good as Mo Jian, he also felt the fluctuations in the future, so he sneered a few times, "The karma of that day will be repaid today!"

After that, he went to the Six Ring Mechanical City. In the imaginary space, the huge imaginary bridge had long disappeared, replaced by a towering tree, one end of which connected to the netherworld, and the other end connected to the sky, with a dragon seal like a necklace, auspicious and colorful.

Gongshu Ting's virtual eye moved, and sensing Xu Wugui's visit, he opened the passage.

In the past two or three decades, due to the sacrifices of the previous generation of Mohist masters and the emergence of the new avenue of steam engine technology, the Mohists and Gongshuists have reached a consensus on many issues and are almost treating each other with respect.

The moment Gongshu Ting saw Xu Wugui, Xu Wugui did not hide his thoughts, which naturally allowed Gongshu Ting to see certain future scenes through the interaction between the two sects.

He couldn't help but let out a wry smile and said, "Haven't you let it go yet?"

Xu Wugui laughed, "The world changes so fast. Thirty years ago, you probably never thought that you would persuade a Mohist master to let go of his hatred, right?"

After being asked by Xu Wugui, Gongshu Ting didn't know how to persuade them anymore. Yes, how could a Gongshu person have the nerve to persuade the Mohists to let go of their hatred? It sounded awkward.

Gongshu Ting said, "We must report this matter to the Heavenly Lord."

Now Mo Jian, Zhou Yulong and the Queen of Heaven jointly control the Thirty-three Days to defend against foreign enemies. If something happens to Mo Jian, the defense of the Thirty-three Days will also have flaws, which requires advance preparation.

Xu Wugui nodded and said, "I mentioned it when I visited last year."

"How did you bring it up?"

"I asked him if the name Xu Wugui needed to be changed?"

When Xu Wugui changed his name, he was making an important oath to avenge the previous Mohist leader Tian Fu. At that time, Zhou Tieyi participated in the succession meeting of the Mohist leaders and promoted the development of steam engine technology, which was actually a disguised acknowledgement of this hatred.

Tian's father had done Zhou Tieyi a favor, so Xu Wugui wanted to avenge Tian's father, and even the Heavenly Lord could not stop him.

"So what did he say?"

"He didn't say anything."

Gongshu Ting sighed, this was his agreement.

"Besides, this is not a personal vendetta!"

Xu Wugui sneered and took out a mirror, which reflected everything in the Netherworld Buddhist Kingdom.

After the soul was escorted to the evil river by the city god's ghost messenger, it should have fallen into the evil river and floundered for a while before being pulled out. However, from here on, to the subsequent trial and suffering in hell, as long as the evil ghosts brought enough "travel money" along the way, they would be able to pass unhindered.

Xu Wugui laughed and said, "Back then he said he wanted to use punishment as a warning to the world, but now it seems that he is just that!"

Gongshu Ting understood why Zhou Tieyi kept silent on this matter, because Zhou Tieyi was also at fault.

In order to promote silver bills and ghost money and to perfect the peerless magic weapon Yanhuang Tongbao, Zhou Tieyi even offered sacrifices to the netherworld so that the faith of the human world could be transferred to the netherworld through paper money.

More than 20 years have passed, and now the time has come for change. Otherwise, if the paper money from the underworld is allowed to continue to bribe the underworld, perhaps this system can be maintained for hundreds or thousands of years, but the times ahead will definitely be the darkest times, causing the underworld to become corrupt and degenerate, and then in turn affecting the world of the living.

"Where are you going to start?"

Gongshu Ting asked, Xu Wugui came to him, he must want to integrate the power of the three mechanical arts, otherwise it would not be enough to involve a Netherworld King Buddha.

Xu Wugui smiled and said, "Of course I borrowed the monkey's hand."

After he finished speaking, Gongshu Ting stretched out his hand. The second-grade Gongshu family skill, 'Imaginary Numbers', used imaginary numbers to deduce the laws of heaven and earth, while the first-grade Gongshu family skill, 'Dayan', added the uncertain observer factor of humans to the imaginary numbers, and instead moved from the pure mathematical level to the mysterious level, which could slightly affect the fate of all living beings.

Under the influence of Gongshu Ting, the group of people who were seeking the scriptures happened to arrive at a small town where the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and many of them ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddhist scriptures.

The monkey Yuantong said to the monk, "Master, I have finally had some free time these days. Please don't run around anymore."

Naturally, they also read "Journey to the West" which came out from the Lotus World, but when they saw the book, they found it extremely absurd. They knew the stories in the book, but even so, their life trajectories gradually moved closer to those of the people in the book.

Especially Yuantong, he really can't tell whether he is a person in the story or outside the story. Back then, the three gods and Shinto tied the cause and effect to him.

Although Zhou Tieyi finally suppressed the wills of the gods, on the one hand, the Heavenly Emperor who was the main force behind the suppression was still in the outside world; on the other hand, Yuan Tong was related to the spread of Buddhism to the south and to the Shinto gods. Zhou Tieyi took the initiative to shape Yuan Tong into the image of Sun Wukong, and naturally it would be difficult for him to change this fact later.

Therefore, Yuantong often calls himself "Laosun".

In fact, in general, Yuantong was quite satisfied with this monk from Qinglian Temple. He was not as annoying as the Tang Dynasty monks in the books. But sometimes it is not the monks who look for trouble, but the trouble that looks for the monks.

Just two days after they had rested, the owner who served them vegetarian food passed away. However, the owner's son dreamed that his father, who had done good deeds all his life, was suffering in the underworld, so he came to ask Yuantong to find out the reason.

This eats people with a short mouth and takes people with short hands.

The family treated them with delicious food and drinks, and spoke respectfully. Yuan Tong naturally couldn't pretend to ignore them. He said to the monk wearing a skull necklace, "Junior Brother Sha, the Netherworld is where you usually stay. Why don't you go and see what's going on so you can be prepared."

Shengshan stood up. He knew that this was definitely another disaster, but he didn't know who was behind it. He couldn't hide. But he still reminded Yuantong, "Big Brother, my last name is not Sha."

Yuan Tong was also annoyed by his inability to distinguish the truth from the false, but he did not like to find the reason in himself, so he waved his hand and said, "Then Monk Sha still has a surname of Sha, right? He just converted to Buddhism, so he became a monk, and called himself Sha. Junior brother, you have died once, and now you have changed your appearance. What's wrong with having a surname of Sha?"

Shengshan was speechless for a moment. He borrowed the hair left by the deceased master from his master's family, then blew up a gust of gloomy wind and went to the underworld.

With the hair as a guide, Shengshan used his magical powers and indeed intercepted the kind-hearted old patriarch in the evil river. He was about to stop the soul, but the ghosts and gods of the netherworld Buddhist kingdom were not easy to mess with. "How dare you, who are you? How dare you stop the Buddhist kingdom's ghost messenger and rob the soul? Today I will capture you and send you to the eighteen levels of hell to suffer!"

Those ghost messengers were used to being arrogant and domineering in the underworld. After all, they had the King of Buddhas behind them, so they naturally had no scruples and attacked Shengshan directly, making Shengshan frown for a moment. How could this equal Buddhist country become like this?
(End of this chapter)