Tao and Heaven

Chapter 265: The Devil in the Sacred Heart, the Buddhist Questioning the Heart

The golden intestines were spread on the ground, and liquid like molten gold spread out.

The monks in the audience all stared with their eyes wide open. Even the Bodhisattvas who had already attained enlightenment could not remain calm and all stared at their intestines.

It seemed as if it might pounce on you at any second and swallow your intestines into its stomach, thus attaining the status of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

In Mahayana Buddhism, the highest level of attainment is the Buddha, followed by the Bodhisattva, and then the Arhat.

Lower titles such as Vajra, Kāla, and Great Monk are not considered true fruitions. They are just the beginning of practice and have not yet achieved Buddhahood.

Just like the Taoist golden elixir, the immortal golden elixir, the Mahayana golden elixir, and even the golden elixir of the golden elixir stage are all different. Some powerful cultivators believe that the golden elixir can only be considered a fake elixir, and the real elixir can only be achieved by entering the Mahayana stage.

Or practice the Nine-Transformation Golden Elixir.

The attainment level of each Buddha is different. There are four Bodhisattva attainments below the True Buddha: Ksitigarbha, Tianjue, Sunlight, and Moonlight.

Today, it is the True Buddha who is in charge of Buddhism. These four Bodhisattvas are like the Heavenly Lords of the Three Pure Ones. They are the leaders of all monks and the Bodhisattva masters.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is the chief of the four Bodhisattvas!
The True Buddha is the present World Honored One. As long as one attains the Bodhisattva status, he will be second only to the Buddha and above ten thousand monks.

Together with the Buddha, enter the Western Paradise of Bliss and achieve eternal immortality.

The monks' desires were swept towards Gu Wen, and there seemed to be countless whispers mixed with holy scriptures behind their heads, and it seemed as if thousands of hands were reaching out to try to grab Gu Wen.

At the same time, some other great people of rituals and views were also affected.

Those who reacted quickly turned around and ran away, while those who reacted slowly, like the monks around them, stared at the golden Buddha's intestines.

In the entire Buddhist temple, only Gu Wen and Chi Yuzi were still sober.

Gu Wen's gaze did not waver, nor did he look at the intestines on the ground, he still looked at the golden Buddha.

He asked, "You canonize me?"

As both are minor saints, Gu Wen’s foundation is not as good as that of the True Buddha, but they are equal in status.

This can be seen as an insult, or a slight.

Gu Wen had long since stopped being happy with things or sad with himself. Maybe he still had some emotional fluctuations, but he obviously would not be angry because of a few words from the Buddha.

The Golden Buddha nodded and said, "You have a deep affinity with Buddha and are predestined to be with my Buddha. Once you become a Buddha, the Jade Sword Buddha will be able to convert to Buddhism and attain the status of Heavenly Awakening Bodhisattva."

"You are more smooth than Tiansheng."

Gu Wen smiled and said, Buddha is desire, and what he wants is seen clearly by Buddha.

The Buddha also responded to his desire and promised him that he would let the Jade Sword Buddha go and even give up the chance of reincarnation.

"Can you bring the dead back to life?"

The Golden Buddha shook his head and said, "The laws of heaven and earth cannot be violated. I can make her reincarnate, cleanse her three souls and seven spirits of the mortal world, and meet you in the next life, and enter the Buddhist world together."

The rules of heaven and earth are irreversible.

To be reincarnated in Buddhism, one must enter the monastery.

The Heavenly Saint promised him that he could share the immortal fruit if he entered the Heavenly Palace, and he would be able to possess the "power of the Great Saint" without doing anything. The Buddha was a little inferior, but he also promised the immortal fruit position.

It is still unknown whether He can achieve immortality with His current level of cultivation.

Rules and regulations are everywhere, and practicing freedom is all delusion, and everyone wants to take people in and treat them like dogs.

Gu Wen shook his head, his expression faded, and he smiled: "You, a Buddha, can't even bring the dead back to life, it seems that you are nothing more than this. Why don't you become my disciple? If you die one day, I will bring you back to life."

The golden Buddha's round face was visibly stunned, then he laughed and said, "Your desires are like those of an ordinary person, but you are a saint."

"A saint is also a human being, so naturally he has desires."

The golden Buddha has no eyes, but it can see through people's hearts.

His laughter grew louder, and he sneered as if mocking her: "You are a saint, but you are a saint transformed from a human. You believe what a mortal woman tells you? Why don't you enter my Buddha's true nature, and you will obtain infinite blessings!"

The golden Buddha grabbed Gu Wen with one palm and embraced him in the universe. The gods behind him saw this and didn't care whether he would die if he got involved in the battle between the saints. They clasped their arms and protected him in their arms.

The Buddhist hall returned to calm, the golden intestines disappeared, and everyone gradually came back to their senses.

"Amitabha, the Jade Pure Heavenly Venerable has entered our Buddhist sect, which is a great merit. We should hold a meeting of Ksitigarbha Buddha for thirty-three days."

The faint Buddhist sound spread over a hundred miles. All parties were silent for a while, and then countless divine thoughts rose into the sky, causing chaos in the world.

Jade Pure Heavenly Venerable was taken in by the Buddha?
How can this be?

True Lord Chongxu only felt a chill rushing to his forehead. He did not dare to get angry in front of the Golden Buddha. He just silently stared at the Taoist masters around him.

Something big has happened. The Buddhist community is seeking death!

No matter how powerful the Buddha is, he cannot change one fact: the world today is ruled by the Taoist sect and even more so by the immortal Qingcang.

If Buddhism really had the power, and if the Buddha could really defeat the Immortal Qingcang, then he would not have been suppressed for so long.

Jade Pure Heavenly Venerable is the only direct disciple of the Immortal Qingcang. Is the Buddha really not afraid of death?
A Bodhisattva stood up and said loudly: "Buddha, this is absolutely not possible. Yuqing is the direct disciple of Qingcang."

The golden Buddha was silent and fell into silence.

Everyone's eyes turned to the Jade-faced Monk. They were still in awe of him, but with the Buddha in front of them, the Jade-faced Monk was no longer insignificant.

Chongxu Zhenjun bowed and said, "Master, please advise the Buddha that the human race should value peace. Dao Sect has never captured that Bodhisattva."

"Zhenwu Dangmo Tianzun entered Mount Xumi and injured two Bodhisattvas in succession. Does this mean peace is the most precious thing?"

The jade-faced monk snorted coldly, and it was unclear whether he was angry or ignorant.

Without waiting for anyone to continue speaking, he waved his sleeves and turned away.

"Yuqing Tianzun and Zhenwu Dangmo Tianzun have trespassed into the holy land of Buddhism. They should receive the precepts, recite the sutras and chant the Buddha's name."

Everyone looked at each other in bewilderment. All those present were powerful men, commanding millions of people.

But in this Buddhist meeting, in this incident, they can't do anything.

The Bodhisattvas closed their eyes and meditated, but they were actually communicating skillfully. Their thoughts were so intense that the Buddha light on the lotus platform shook.

The great masters who watched the ceremony left the temple according to their sects and relationships.

When True Lord Chongxu and his companions walked down from the sacred mountain, suddenly the clouds in the distance shook, and countless white clouds began to ripple. Invisible clouds from the sky roared over, sweeping across a thousand miles of land and reaching the world.

Boom!
The earth-shaking sound of drums spread, and the clouds in the sky of Florida were swept away.

If this scene happened to Jianmu, it would cause the mountains to shake and all the monsters to flee.

"Heaven-shaking drum."

Master Chongxu's expression became solemn, and his heart was finally relieved.

The sky-shaking drums are surrounded by thousands of immortals.

Whenever there was a war, humans would use drum sounds to shake open the clouds so that immortal boats could sail and Taoist soldiers could fly into the sky.

The so-called immortal boat is a large mobile formation formed by countless formations, and the so-called Taoist soldiers are cultivators who have only practiced Qi training and only practiced the way of forming formations and gathering Qi.

They are the only one who is not even a cultivator. They can neither fly with a sword nor breathe the wind or drink the dew.

They are even no different from ordinary people. They can get sick, feel hungry and thirsty, and grow old and die.

But it is different when a crowd gathers together. A hundred people can defeat a golden elixir, a thousand can defeat a Yuanying, and ten thousand can defeat a Zhenjun. The fact that half a million Taoist soldiers suppressed the demon ancestor during the war is still talked about today, and it is also an example that is constantly promoted in Taoism.

It may be a special case, but Daobing is definitely a kind of "power" that can be quickly cultivated. Ordinary True Lords above the Anti-Void Realm need at least 500 years to grow, and generally more than 1,000 years.

Often, a small or medium-sized sect can only guarantee that there will be a True Lord in charge in every generation.

It only takes five years, or even three years, to train ten thousand Taoist soldiers, and they can be produced stably. After hundreds of years of cultivation, Zhenwu Palace has been training Taoist soldiers, and their quality is much higher than that of the war years.

In the past, it was only about numbers, but now a special legion composed of foundation-building monks has emerged.

The eight hundred years of Dao Sect's construction is systematic, celestial, and institutionalized. It is by no means as simple as a sect, a hegemon, or an immortal.

True Lord Chongxu is within the system and is a powerful man of the new generation. He is very clear that the seemingly weak Taoist soldiers will burst out with immeasurable power when mobilized by Taoist Sect.

He looked back at Mount Sumeru and saw that the monks were still there and the Buddhist temple had stood for thousands of years.

I still remember what Master said.

"Time used to pass very slowly. What was the case a thousand years ago was the same a thousand years later. Everyone was busy practicing. Even if someone took his place, it was just a different face in the same position."

"Time flies now. A hundred years has changed. Before I closed the door to the outside world, people ate dry food during the busy farming season and liquid food during the slack season. Now, they eat dry food for three meals a day."

"Every decade changes, but every hundred years remains the same, and yet many old antiques from the big sects still don't understand."

Buddhism doesn’t understand either.
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Sanqing Mountain.

The melodious sound of drums came from thousands of miles away, small but very real.

The white fox shook its long ears and said, "If you don't make a move, your precious disciple will be bald when he comes back."

Outside the house, Huayang walked in quickly, bowed and said, "Master, Jade Pure Heavenly Venerable is imprisoned by the Buddha and is in critical condition. Please draft a decree so that I can mobilize troops and command the Heavenly Venerables of the world."

The Dao Sect has a very strict set of regulations regarding the mobilization of Dao soldiers and Heavenly Lords.

For example, the Three Pure Ones could mobilize no more than 10,000 people, and could command no more than three Heavenly Masters. Further down, all the way to the City Lord's Mansion of a certain city, any deployment of more than 100 Taoist soldiers had to be reported to the Taoist Master.

Qing Cang was still sewing the second piece of clothing. This time it was red, an extremely bright color that even women rarely wore.

"No hurry, with Akabane following him, nothing will happen to him."

Hua Yang said anxiously: "Chi Tianzun is only in the Dao realm, at most he can be regarded as a half-immortal, how can he interfere in the affairs between saints. The Buddhist sect is good at deceiving people, so we must not take it lightly."

Qing Cang paused his movements, looked up at Huayang, and instantly his unparalleled power knocked him away.

This time, it took a minute before a faint vibration was felt.

The white fox narrowed his eyes slightly, looked around a hundred miles, and said: "Although no one was hurt, dozens of acres of spiritual fields were plowed."

"Nothing, Huayang will clean it up by himself and come back later."

Qingcang continued to sew clothes. A quarter of an hour later, Huayang came back, covered in dust.

This time Yun Miao also came along. In order to prevent Hua Yang from continuing to talk nonsense, he spoke first, "Master has his own plans. How can I allow you to point fingers at me? I wonder what ingenious plan Master has?"

"No."

Qingcang said without hesitation.

"It's just a good opportunity to take this opportunity to find out how deep the rebellious disciple's obsession is, and to use this bald donkey to suppress him. Let him stay by my side for a few hundred years in peace, practice well, and don't run around."

Huayang, Yunmiao, and even the fox fairy all had slightly changed expressions when they heard this.

The word "inner demon" is extremely taboo for both human and demon.

Because it does not distinguish between cultivation levels, humans, demons, Buddhas, or Taoists. As long as there is emotion, there will be inner demons.

According to common sense, the higher the level of cultivation, the lower the possibility of developing inner demons, because one has seen a lot and naturally becomes indifferent to it. Some people have also experienced inner demons.

The human race has a saying that there is no inner demon above the Mahayana.

How can a saint have inner demons?
Could it be...

The figure of a woman emerged in the minds of the three men. They were all deeply involved in the events of that year.

That year, a goddess came down to earth and picked up a servant, saying that he was a genius comparable to Daozi.

That year, a genius named Hong Chen emerged.

That year, an immortal named Hong Chen defeated twelve demon ancestors in a row, ranked first on the three lists, and became famous through the ages.

"The way of man is the way of love. The love that I have for the world is the greatest love."

Qingcang's fingertip was pierced, and a drop of blood turned into a stream of light and flew to the west.

"My disciple is just the opposite. He is devoted to his feelings. As long as it is a love that he recognizes, he will give everything he has, regardless of everything. He is like this for me and for that girl."

She picked up another new piece of clothing, imagining how Gu Wen would look after putting it on, and a hint of tenderness appeared at the corners of her cold mouth.

"Xiaoqing is not bad, at least it makes me happy."

From the beginning, Li Yunshang only had a preference for Gu Wen, but in essence, he was not much different from other human compatriots.

But ever since Gu Wen defeated twelve demon ancestors for her and was willing to give up the main road to take back the elixir of immortality, she also had a little crush on him.

There is no love without reason, and her preference was also influenced by Gu Wen.
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Mount Xumi, along the Lingshan Mountain, after passing nine thousand temples, you can see a hall named Zhenru.

Inside the hall, a 6-foot-8-tall nun with a holy and pretty appearance knelt on the ground with her head bowed, like a sculpture, and remained there for who knows how long.

Suddenly, footsteps were heard behind me, and two figures, one tall and one short, walked in.

They came to the nun and did not kneel down, but stood there and looked directly at the golden Buddha.

The nun moved slightly and turned her head slightly, her eyes as clear as glass reflecting an ordinary face.

She began to struggle, infinite Buddha's light pressed on her, and the slightest movement was like moving a mountain.

After moving a little bit at a time for several days, he finally took out a wrinkled spiritual fruit.

The Jade Sword Buddha raised his hand and extended it to the Taoist in green, and for a moment it seemed as if he had returned to the mortal world's bazaar.

"Little nun, I can't help you for free. I need some compensation. How about you give me all the spiritual fruits you get in the future?"

"I can do it."

Gu Wen was force-fed an expired spiritual fruit, and Buddha's light appeared in his eyes. The scene reflected was not a golden Buddha, but a busy city.

……

Bian Jing, Longqiao, a quiet mansion.

Gu Wen opened his eyes, his head was dizzy. He lifted the silk curtain, and the precious jade beads collided with each other, making a crisp sound.

A short middle-aged man with a pointed face walked in and shouted, "Sir, I found out the name of your fiancée!"

"Fugui, please shut up. Do you think I'm deaf?"

Gu Wen was quite dissatisfied. After calling the maid to help him wash up, he drank a few sips of tea before asking, "What's your name?"

"Her surname is Yu, and her single character is Hua. It is said that she went up the mountain to practice Taoism in the early years and worked as a Taoist nun for several years. She is very magical!"

(End of this chapter)