Me and countless me.

Chapter 256: Buddhist Training and Recruitment Methods
When Elder Jin Chi saw this scene, he was immediately frightened to death. He had not yet achieved the Arhat body, so Li Ke's stick would have resulted in his brain bursting. However, at this moment, he was dizzy and bleeding from all his orifices, so he could not move at all, so he had to stretch out his hand towards the door.

"Guangzhi, save me!"

Hearing these words, the monks standing at the door who were horrified by the changes here had to rush out to rescue Elder Jin Chi. But just as the monk named Guangzhi dragged Elder Jin Chi's hands and took him away from Li Ke's attack range, Li Ke broke free from Sun Wukong's restraints!
"Hey!!"

Li Ke shook his hands, and Sun Wukong, who had not used any magic power, flew backwards, and the whole monkey fell into the middle of the house.

In an instant, countless roars rang out. The iron-boned monkey smashed the room behind the two people and even smashed a part of the mountain. The entire Zen temple caught fire due to the high temperature generated by the friction between Sun Wukong and the air when he flew out, and a raging fire began to burn!
The ground beneath Li Ke's feet roared as a result, which was enough to prove how hard Li Ke was trying!

"The three golden hoops? Wukong! You actually used my magic weapon against me? Didn't Guanyin Bodhisattva tell you that this was a magic weapon I created?"

Looking at the three golden hoops that he had broken free from, Li Ke, holding the whisk in his hand, could not help but question.

Because he was the one who made this thing!

"I don't know!"

The monkey buried in the ruins uttered this sentence silently, but still crawled out from the ruins, patted his hair, and had a thousand urges to curse in his heart.

If he knew that this thing was made by Li Ke, do you think he would use it against Li Ke?
Li Ke took a look at the three golden hoops on the ground, raised his hand, and the three golden hoops returned to his hand. After observing them for a while, he couldn't help laughing.

“It’s actually been modified a bit, and it’s still okay.”

The things he originally made were inspired by nanomachines. Once they are put on, they will be invaded by magical nanorobots, so conventional means cannot be used to deal with them.

However, the modification of Guanyin is still very interesting. This golden hoop has many more transformation functions and can be transformed into various weapons and equipment.

It is not only a magic weapon to trap people, but also a magic weapon to enhance people's combat effectiveness, and can even be transformed into armor.

But if it turns into armor, then this armor will become a cage for the wearer.

After thinking for a while, Li Ke planned to return this useless thing to Sun Wukong, but at this moment——

"Where did this monster come from? How dare you destroy Guanyin Temple!"

With a loud shout, a black shadow holding a spear suddenly rushed towards Sun Wukong, who was brushing off the dust on his body. The steel spear in his hand flashed with cold light, revealing his superb martial arts!
Sun Wukong immediately felt a gust of evil wind coming, and thought that Li Ke was angry with him for stopping him from giving Elder Jin Chi a warning, so he swung his golden cudgel without thinking, using all his strength!

Enough to carry Huangshan, Foshan's violent force coupled with the sturdy golden hoop directly bombarded the weapon of the incoming black shadow. Almost in an instant, the monks of Guanyin Temple saw the air visibly twisted, and then a huge wave and impact erupted, rushing in all directions!

"Monkeys are really ignorant."

Li Ke snorted coldly. Without any magic power, he just swung out his fist, using the Buddhist martial arts that he and the Buddhas relied on to dominate the world!
"Fok Yuu!"

This is the most authentic Buddhist martial art!

The fist holding the Buddhist beads revealed a dignified and boundless domineering aura! In an instant, it shattered the incoming shock wave and sound waves, preventing all the monks present from being reincarnated because of the monkey's stick!
As for the black shadow who attacked the monkeys, he had no time to respond. The spear in his hand broke instantly. He screamed and flew backwards to the back mountain. Then, the whole back mountain was shattered at this moment, and half of the mountain disappeared.

"What a powerful monster!"

Sun Wukong couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. The blow he struck at the opponent was the full force he used to deal with his master! The opponent was able to take it and survive! He was indeed a powerful person. Normally, he should be able to fight with him for dozens of rounds.

But who made the other party unlucky?
"What a powerful devil! Go and catch him, but don't harm his life."

Li Ke shook his head helplessly, swung the whisk in his hand, and asked the monkey to catch the guy who should be the black bear demon.

As for stealing the robes, the Black Bear Demon was not particularly evil, because when he came to steal the robes, he was trying to put out a fire and saw the robes in the fire scene.

For the Black Bear Demon, he had no idea to whom the cassock belonged, was it Tang Seng's or Elder Jin Chi's, so it was normal for him to resist.

But it is nonsense to say that he is not greedy. However, his greed is different from that of Elder Jin Chi. It is a kind of greed that comes from the joy of seeing prey, rather than greed for the things contained in the cassock and the meaning it represents.

He is greedy for beautiful things, not for power.

Just a little punishment will do.

"Order!"

Sun Wukong scratched his head and flew away. He was a little worried that he might accidentally kill the monster, so he walked very fast. But at the moment when Sun Wukong left, the monk named Guangzhi spoke to Li Ke tremblingly.

"That monk, you destroyed our temple! You also beat up our master! How are you going to explain this?!"

Li Ke almost laughed out loud.

He was able to throw Sun Wukong out and smash the Zen temple, and these monks still asked him how to argue?
"Explain?"

With a flick of the whisk, the violent gust of air immediately made the monks retreat, and they were all horrified to see a groove left on the ground by the whisk!
"No discussion!"

After Li Ke finished saying this, he looked at Elder Jin Chi in their arms and sneered.

"But if you really want to know why, then go and ask your master! Ask him whether his earthly ties have been severed and his golden sea has dried up!"

As soon as Li Ke finished speaking, Elder Jin Chi, who was barely breathing, twitched all over. He had just experienced boundless fear at the moment the golden hoop fell. He experienced the confusion and fear he had faced when he was a child, facing natural disasters and man-made calamities, and the eight sufferings of the world, as well as the scene of himself devoting himself to practicing and saving others.

Those gratitude, those praises, those life extensions and money are nothing in the face of death, in the face of absolute violence, and are nothing on the path of one's life.

Why do you want to become a Buddha?
Is it for money?
Is it for the praise of others? Is it for the luxury of living?

What is it for?
Elder Jin Chi felt a little dazed. He remembered that he was looking at the white-haired figure but his eyes could not see clearly. At this time, Li Ke sensed Elder Jin Chi's confusion.

His telepathy was revealed silently, he heard Jin Chi's confusion, so he sighed, put his fingers together to form a sword, and then pointed at his own forehead!

The next moment, his figure changed from a monk who looked like he was carved out of jade into a kind middle-aged woman.

This woman had white hair on her forehead, her hands and face were covered in sand, and her clothes had some holes. She was clearly an ordinary woman who had struggled in this world.

She was seen stumbling forward, calling out in an anxious and sad tone.

"My son! My son! Where are you? I miss you so much! Where are you? Come back soon, I have prepared dinner!"

Elder Jin Chi stood there in a daze. At this moment, all his former wealth and glory disappeared, as did his noble status. He fell from Guangzhi's arms as if all his strength had been drained, and knelt on the ground.

That woman was clearly his mother who had passed away two hundred years ago!
White mist instantly enveloped the entire place. Elder Jin Chi stared at the woman intently, trying to think whether his mother was like this. But just as he was thinking, a child stumbled towards the old woman, and the moment the child turned his head——

"Mom! I saved a grasshopper!"

The child was holding a grasshopper that had fallen into the water. Looking at the grasshopper in his hand, the fog in Elder Jin Chi's heart instantly dissipated. He remembered his childhood, why he became a monk, and why he wanted to save others.

War, anger, roaring, sadness, powerlessness, similar people, desperate people, and those monks and Bodhisattvas who protected them among the monsters and rebels.

He thought of what kind of existence he wanted to become. He raised his shaking hands and put them together. In a short moment, in front of his mother and himself, Elder Jin Chi reviewed his life. The simple monk robe on his body began to glow slowly, looking extremely gorgeous, but Jin Chi no longer cared about these things.

He saw clearly how he had fallen.

At first, he was trying to make money in order to help more people, but then he discovered that the dignitaries didn’t care about the temples, they only cared about the monks’ attire and influence, and would make donations based on these, and then he began to pursue these things.

Gradually, gradually, I even forgot why I needed money, why I wanted so much money, why I needed those gorgeous robes, why I wanted those honors and certificates.

Until the end, he forgot his original intention.

"I was wrong."

Elder Jin Chi slowly lowered his body, and the moment he knelt and kowtowed, the golden light on his body retracted and he turned back into an ordinary mortal again.

"You understand."

Li Ke changed back to his original form and slowly walked past Elder Jin Chi.

"Don't forget your original intention, and you will achieve your goal. However, it is easy to get the original intention, but it is difficult to keep it. You should continue to practice with these disciples of yours."

Elder Jin Chi was a person who had gone astray, but how many of his disciples were good people? Elder Jin Chi was not strict in teaching and indulged his disciples. Among these disciples, how many of them were serious about saving the world and saving people, rather than coming for the treasures and status that Jin Chi had collected to save the world and save people?

Everyone knows that gold is useless to Buddha, but who would worship a Buddha statue without gold embellishments?

"Yes...disciple, remember this."

Elder Jin Chi knelt down and kowtowed to thank Li Ke for his wake-up call. Looking at the Guanyin Temple destroyed by Li Ke, he no longer had any resentment in his heart. Instead, he felt as if all his troubles and sins had disappeared.

Li Ke shook his head, because Jin Chi was acting like that again, but it was also an improvement.

"Whether you can achieve enlightenment or not depends on you."

After saying that, Li Ke left, leaving behind Elder Jin Chi who was full of gratitude and the other monks who were confused.

Some of them reacted, some were still confused, and some had already developed hatred towards Li Ke, but these were just a breeze.

However, among Buddhists, his treatment of Elder Jin Chi was actually the most compassionate.

It is not derogatory, because if it was Guanyin Bodhisattva who came to deal with Elder Jin Chi, he would not be beaten up and then tortured mentally.

Instead, they were thrown directly into hell and then into the cycle of reincarnation. If they were not destined to be together, they would never be able to practice cultivation again. It was not as easy as being scolded by him and then having the opportunity to repent and make amends.

Although, it is not easy. If Elder Jin Chi wants to attain enlightenment again, he must turn all the disciples who were led astray by him back to the right path, which is actually a very difficult thing to do. If he fails, he will never have the chance to transcend, and will be entangled with these disciples for generations until they become enlightened.

But this is already the greatest compassion.

This is the screening mechanism for becoming a god or a Buddha. It is extremely cruel. And it is precisely this cruel screening mechanism that makes the seekers who come out of it so terrifyingly strong.

But it is precisely because of this cruel screening mechanism that even the Heavenly Court is short of staff.

However, just when Li Ke was thinking this, Sun Wukong flew over with a black bear that rolled its eyes, and landed in front of Li Ke with a smirk on his face. He looked at Li Ke with a broken iron spear in his hand.

"Good Master, this fellow's weapon is not good enough. I, Old Sun, broke it with one blow. Please wait here for a while. I will go to the Lord Lao and ask him for seventy or eighty gourds of elixir to save this black bear..."

Sun Wukong felt quite embarrassed. The opponent had obviously come here with good intentions, but his weapon was broken by him in a hurry and he lost the battle in a daze. His armor was also broken by him for this reason. He couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

But there is nothing that can be done about it. No matter who has a master like Li Ke, he will not be polite when he attacks!
It's a pity that the black bear's abilities were limited. He and Li Ke were fighting with magic powers and spells, and the fight was not very smooth. So the monkey wanted to revive the black bear, and then the two of them could have a good fight and have a good fight!

"You, you..."

Li Ke shook his head, then stretched out his hand to check on the black bear. He saw that the black bear carefully opened one eye, as if observing whether the monkey was still there, and when the monkey looked over, it instantly closed its eyes.

He had already determined that he could not win, so he planned to lie on the ground, rely on his opponent for a while, and grab some pills or spells.

At worst, you can extort some money from them.

Li Ke immediately saw what he was thinking, so he looked at Wukong.

"This bear is obviously hopeless. Wukong, go get some spices and find a big pot. I haven't eaten bear paws for a long time, so I'll have some meat with you today."

Sun Wukong was also a playful guy. He immediately pulled out a strand of monkey hair and it turned into a sharp knife.

"Okay, okay. Master, you just asked me to deliver that stupid map as a favor. I can buy some spices in the Tang Dynasty, or hire a chef to make a set of leather armor for you, so that you don't get bumped on the road, and no one will mess with you."

So the next moment, the black bear who was pretending to be unconscious immediately broke free, came in front of Elder Jin Chi, pointed at Li Ke and Sun Wukong's noses and started cursing.

"I don't think you two are bad people. Although you smashed the temple and destroyed my weapons, you didn't hurt Jin... and the other monks. You can barely be considered human beings, but you are such cannibalistic villains! Violent robbers! Aren't you afraid that the Bodhisattva will blame you?!"

He spoke with great righteousness, but because of fear, he pulled up the last intact Guanyin statue from the ground and held it in front of him, as if he would smash the Guanyin statue first if the attack continued.

There was no way. Although his weapon was shattered by the sudden attack from the Hairy-faced Thunder God, making it impossible for him to continue fighting, the Black Bear Demon knew in his heart that even if his weapon was not broken, with the monkey's reaction speed and attack power, he would only survive for a few dozen rounds at most.

It's not that I can't fight, it's just that I have no magic weapon and no master. If I lose the fight, I'm afraid I will die. I can only rely on my sturdy door to escape.

But when pulling out the Guanyin statue, the black man saw the gem inlaid on Guanyin's crown, and could not help but think of what Elder Jinchi said about this gem having Buddha nature, and that it was often worn by Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, so he turned his eyes and grabbed it with his hand, and the gem fell into his big black claws!
Li Ke clearly saw that the Guanyin statue suddenly opened its eyes wide.

"This black bear is finished! Miaoyin is angry."

Li Ke glanced at the broken weapons on the ground, thought for a while, clasped his hands together, and decided to introduce the Black Bear Demon to work for Guanyin.

As for the reason why Guanyin was angry, it was very simple. It was not because she cared too much about the statue, but because the black bear stole things!
So he looked at the black bear demon with a serious face.

"Don't worry, benefactor. Although my disciple has injured you by mistake and broken your weapon, we are not unreasonable people. We will compensate you and give you some money."

The black bear demon immediately opened his eyes wide, causing Elder Jin Chi to reveal a guilty look.

Because the black bear demon learned his greed from him.

He was so ashamed that he wanted to dissuade the black bear demon, but he saw the statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva held by the black bear demon and glared at him fiercely. So, Elder Jin Chi closed his eyes and chanted Buddha's name helplessly, allowing the black bear demon to open his eyes wide and ask excitedly.

"what business?"

Li Ke smiled slightly, knowing that the black bear would still need some training before it could be used in Guanyin's hands, so he spoke very sincerely.

"I have a way in Lingshan, but the risk is a bit high..."

(End of this chapter)