I can't be a demon.

Chapter 398: Jin Chanzi's Gift Before Death
Shen Lian instinctively wanted to escape; the situation was really weird and inexplicable.

But at the same time, he realized that the truth behind the collapse of this world was right in front of him, and that Buddha Tathagata definitely knew what Jin Chanzi had done.

While he was hesitating, Buddha Tathagata began to cough violently.

"Cough cough cough..."

The skin was actually cracking inch by inch, but the cracks healed in a short time. It could be seen that the Buddha was already riddled with holes.

Shen Lian noticed that Patriarch Bodhi also showed signs of becoming possessed.

The two are almost synchronized, and Bodhi Patriarch's condition is even more serious, as if he is helping Tathagata Buddha to withstand unknown erosion.

Patriarch Bodhi seemed to see the doubt in Shen Lian's heart and explained, "The Three Realms are on the verge of collapse. Once the Tathagata Buddha dies, the Paradise will collapse."

"Master, you..."

"I came to the Paradise this time to delay the death of Tathagata Buddha as much as possible."

Patriarch Bodhi was very free and easy, and his behavior did not seem crazy. He did not care at all that he would die with Buddha Tathagata.

Shen Lian had a subtle expression and didn't know how to respond.

He had already confirmed that the two men had no ill intentions and brought him here, which might be related to Jin Chanzi, whom he had never met before.

Shen Lian asked the questions that had always been on his mind.

"Buddha Tathagata, how did the great calamity of heaven and earth come about?"

"The calamity of heaven and earth occurs every 129,600 years. In fact, it has never stopped. It's just that Lingshan and the Heavenly Court turned a blind eye to it before."

The Buddha's facial features were squeezed together, and he sighed and said, "Everyone knows that the true scripture that caused the great calamity of heaven and earth can get out of control at any time, but the immortals and Buddhas can do nothing about it, so they no longer care about the great calamity."

"Until more than a thousand years ago, when the last catastrophe of heaven and earth occurred."

With the help of the description of Tathagata Buddha, Shen Lian seemed to see the scene of the fall of the Three Realms. Including the Three Pure Ones and the Three Buddhas, they had long forgotten the existence of the source of the catastrophe of heaven and earth.

"Shen Lian, you are the person appointed by Jin Chanzi to seek Buddhist scriptures. Come and meet him."

The Tathagata Buddha exhaled a breath of fresh air.

“It is said that the true scripture that casts an endless shadow over the three worlds…!!!”

The clear air rushed up into the sky and broke through the clouds in an instant. Shen Lian subconsciously looked up, and then an indescribable scene came into view.

"Well."

Shen Lian's heart beat four times and then stopped for two or three breaths. The fright caused his blood and energy to flow backwards.

Behind the clouds, he saw eyes as numerous as stars, each of which was as big as the moon, which made him shudder.

Shen Lian looked at the pupils and found that they came from giant insects.

Each giant insect can span thousands of miles and is impatiently approaching the Paradise, constantly gnawing at the cover with its sharp mouthparts.

A thin layer of Buddha's light blocks the giant insects from invading the three realms.

The Buddha's light may not be able to last much longer, because the body and soul of the Three Buddhas who are responsible for maintaining the Buddha's light are slowly fading away.

"There are all kinds of true scriptures, including mosquito larvae, mayflies, centipedes, and magpies."

As soon as Shen Lian had the thought of devouring, his manas almost lost contact, proving that with his current strength, he would have no chance of survival if facing the true scriptures.

He stretched out his hand, wanting to touch the scriptures that were within his reach.

"Buddha Tathagata, Master, Jin Chanzi went to the West to seek Buddhist scriptures. Is he going to... up there?"

"Well, that is outside the territory."

Patriarch Bodhi threw out a scroll of portrait. The golden cicada on it was lifelike, but its expression was full of sorrow.

Buddha Tathagata sighed and said, "Two thousand years ago, Lingbao Tianzun discovered that there was a hole the size of a palm in the Heaven Beyond Heaven."

“Perhaps compared to the size of the Sutra, the hole seems insignificant, but the influence of the Sutra has indeed spread throughout the Three Realms.”

First is the spiritual root of heaven and earth, which is a spiritual root that lives as long as heaven and earth.

It actually began to wither.

The immortals and Buddhas had no idea what this meant, so the Three Pure Ones stepped forward to try to remedy the situation, but to no avail. Then, after the spiritual roots of heaven and earth withered for a hundred years, they recovered without any competition.

Shen Lian foresaw and said: "Spiritual energy exhausted?"

"kindness."

"To be precise, the spiritual roots of heaven and earth are transforming the three realms, making them more suitable for the arrival of the true scripture. At this time, the hole has expanded to half a meter."

Shen Lian thought of the legend of Nuwa mending the sky. Is there only disaster outside the domain?

The Tathagata Buddha gazed at the portrait and said, "When the hole is open to human beings, the immortals and Buddhas will realize that the coming of the true scripture cannot be stopped."

"Then Jin Chanzi proposed at the meditation meeting that he wanted to go to the outer realm to observe the celestial phenomena and comprehend the Mahayana Buddhism to save all sentient beings in the three realms."

Shen Lian remained silent. Jin Chanzi's approach was actually correct.

The three realms are all adapting to the way of heaven. If the immortals and Buddhas do not adapt in advance, they will become food for insects after the true scriptures are delivered.

"No one knows what Jin Chanzi experienced outside the domain. All we know is that he returned to the Paradise in half a year, and his eyes had been gouged out by himself."

"Golden Chanzi carries the sutras obtained from the twelve volumes of the Contemplation Sutra."

When Patriarch Bodhi heard the twelve volumes of scriptures, he could not help but tremble. That was the beginning of the chaos in the three realms and the source of the way of heaven being reduced to a decoration.

If you look closely, you can see that the pupils come from individual insects.

That's right.

The true scriptures are just outside the paradise, as if they can be reached with one's hand.

Shen Lian just stared at it and had a chilling illusion. Countless eyes flashed with strange light, assessing the situation.

The Tathagata Buddha murmured, "This is outside the realm."

Patriarch Bodhi explained: "The true scriptures have existed for hundreds of millions of years, and the first catastrophe of the Three Realms was caused by their intervention."

"The Calamity of Heaven and Earth is a periodic catastrophe in the Three Realms. It is an inevitable phenomenon in the operation of the Way of Heaven and marks the end of an old era."

"The advent of the true scriptures should have opened a new era, but they were blocked from outside, causing the three realms to experience catastrophes time and time again."

Patriarch Bodhi had a bitter look on his face as he recalled his experience at the fruit tasting conference at Wuzhuang Temple.

At that time, he took advantage of the opportunity of his own true scripture to look up. The first thing he saw was the broken way of heaven, and the second thing he saw was the true scripture.

The drastic change in the way of heaven was actually caused by a hole in the paradise.

Even if he understood the true scriptures, he would not be able to fight against them, and it would even accelerate the collapse of the barrier of the Paradise.

Patriarch Bodhi went completely crazy at that time, so he chose to give up the scriptures.

After that, he was in a daze for a thousand years. If he had not met Shen Lian again, perhaps Patriarch Bodhi would not have gone to the Paradise, but would have passed away on his own.

"So, where is the hole leading to the outside world?"

As soon as Shen Lian finished speaking, the Buddha's light emanating from Tathagata's body dimmed, and the swarm of insects outside the domain immediately began to stir.

A rustling sound sounded.

Just above Shen Lian's head, where the Buddha's light had previously shone, a gap appeared.

Some mosquito larvae crawled into the gap and gnawed at the spiritual shield that protected the three realms. The rest of the giant insects followed closely behind, trying to make the gap passable by them.

Shen Lian noticed that the true scripture had the characteristic of devouring everything.

As they continued to eat, a huge amount of scriptures surged throughout their bodies, and in the blink of an eye, new giant insects emerged.

The true scriptures have the ability to reproduce infinitely, representing an endless number.

Shen Lian's eyes were blank. No matter how his manas tried to deduce, he could only come to the conclusion that there was no way out. Deep despair surged in his heart. I guess Jin Chanzi was also like this when he was alive. He knew that fetching the true scripture would be useless.

Shen Lian finally learned the truth about this world and fell into deep confusion, not understanding what the connection between himself and Jin Chanzi was.

"Master, why did Jin Chanzi recognize me?"

Patriarch Bodhi remained silent, and Tathagata Buddha said in a deep voice: "Because he had seen you in the outer realm, the soul wandering in the true scriptures was also led by Jin Chanzi into reincarnation."

At this time, the Pure Land had not been protected by Tathagata Buddha for a long time, and the ground began to shake.

Maitreya Buddha and Dipankara Buddha rioted at the same time, and Buddha's light burst into the sky. They had no intention of stopping the hole from collapsing, but instead facilitated the descent of the true scriptures.

It can be seen that what Patriarch Bodhi said was correct, the three Buddhas do not have the same stance.

The main purpose of Tathagata Buddha is to resist the arrival of the true scriptures. After refining the true scriptures, Maitreya Buddha and Dipankara Buddha hope to restore order in the three realms.

Shen Lian frowned slightly, watching as Buddha Tathagata plugged the hole again.

After all this torment, the condition of Tathagata Buddha became increasingly unstable. It is likely that within a thousand years, he would completely turn into a pile of bones.

Shen Lian no longer hesitated, as many questions could only be answered by Buddha Tathagata.

"Buddha Tathagata, where is the body that was born from your old shell?"

“Transcendent.”

The Buddha's answer was extremely simple, and his eyes became profound, "Like the Three Pure Ones, all of them transcended the Three Realms and ascended to... the upper realms."

There was an obvious pause when he mentioned the upper realm.

Shen Lian had heard before that after the fall of the old heaven, the Three Pure Ones created the upper realm, but with the insect swarm overwhelming, how could they have the magical power to bypass the true scriptures?

He was about to continue asking, but heard the Buddha Tathagata say: "Shen Lian, there is no time left for the Three Realms, go."

"Where to go?"

Shen Lian was completely confused, and then a relic appeared in his hand.

The Tathagata Buddha murmured, "Go. No matter how many years we can hold on, we will definitely tell you before we die. Just leave it to fate and do your best."

The relic turned into golden light and penetrated into Shen Lian’s middle dantian.

The eighth-level magical power of conceiving was digested extremely quickly, and in the blink of an eye it had been integrated into the banyan tree.

With the help of the relic, Shen Lian obtained the teleportation tree that allows one to travel between the paradise and the mortal world, but he still didn't understand why the Buddha was urging him.

Rumble.

A Buddha's light suddenly appeared in the distance, and the Tathagata Buddha gave up protecting the hole, causing many Buddhas to believe that the Tathagata Buddha was at the end of his strength.

In order to seek the opportunity to obtain the true martial arts scriptures, they took the initiative to test the Buddha.

Shen Lian glanced at the two of them, then turned around and disappeared into the mortal world.

.........

The changes in the mortal world are not obvious.

After Shen Lian returned to the mortal world, he discovered that the borders of the Tang Dynasty had expanded several times, and the towns and villages were all filled with warriors with strong Qi and blood.

When he arrived in Yanliang Town, he thought he would be deeply impressed.

As a result, after hundreds of years, Yanliang Town no longer has any familiar figures, and even if the old city walls are still preserved, it is meaningless.

"After I died in my previous life, my remaining soul accidentally drifted to the outside of this world."

"Why did Jin Chanzi bring me back to life?"

Shen Lian walked aimlessly in the mortal world, while trying to find the way to practice in the celestial realm, but his own system was completely different.

The methods of immortals and Buddhas are probably no longer useful, and we can only explore them bit by bit.

Shen Lian put aside the catastrophe of heaven and earth for the moment and pondered over Jin Chanzi's actions a thousand years ago. Before he knew it, a hundred years had passed in the blink of an eye.

When he returned to his spiritual state, he followed his instinct and came to the Guanyin Temple.

Guanyin Temple is also the place where Jin Chanzi was last known to appear.

Shen Lian stepped into the Guanyin Temple alone. The inside remained the same as before. The crazy wails of Guanyin Bodhisattva echoed in the cave.

After not seeing you for a long time, Guanyin Bodhisattva's cultivation has declined again.

Only about 50,000 years left.

Shen Lian flashed to the Zen temple, but as soon as he entered the temple, he was greeted by an extremely strong sense of resentment, mixed with the chanting of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

"If there are countless hundreds of thousands of millions of sentient beings who suffer from various troubles and hear the name of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and call his name with one heart, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva will immediately hear their voices and they will all be liberated..."

"kindness?"

Shen Lian opened his eyes. There was no resentment on the altar where Guanyin Bodhisattva was sitting cross-legged. Instead, a lifeless skeleton was sitting on it with its hands clasped together.

Guanyin Bodhisattva seemed to be waiting for his second coming, and at this time she was also exhausted.

Shen Lian picked up the cassock and suddenly noticed that the Arhat Fist engraved on the back had a slight change. On the surface, it would not affect his practice, but it would cause some distortion of the blood vessels and meridians.

After a little deduction, he learned a magical method for creating a cave.

"I see. The ninety-nine eighty-one tribulations are the resources you left for me."

boom!
Shen Lian transformed into a four-kilometer-long real body. He opened his mouth and swallowed. The Guanyin Temple sank into his mouth and soon merged into one with the immortal orifices in his body.

The cultivation level in the Heavenly Immortal Realm improved slightly.

Guanyin Temple maintains a cave inside the body, which is connected to the internal organs, and also makes the small world inside the body become more and more real.

Shen Lian went to the next cave and found that all the caves were designed by Jin Chanzi.

Jin Chanzi used his own flesh and blood to create the 81 tribulations, and later asked Guanyin Bodhisattva to resurrect many great monsters.

Shen Lian swallowed as he walked, and his cultivation level improved rapidly.

When the cave dwellings of eighty-one difficulties were reunited in the body, one had reached the perfection of celestial being, and the small world became vivid.

Especially the Mother and Child River and the Falling Tai Spring in the Kingdom of Women, which give the small world the beginning of reincarnation.

All Jin Chanzi's actions had been to peel off the unaffected parts of this Journey to the West world that was on the verge of collapse, waiting for Shen Lian to incorporate them into his body a thousand years later.

After completing everything, Shen Lian arrived above Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty.

"receive!"

After the low shout, the entire Tang Dynasty suddenly rose from the ground.

Before the mortals could react, they had already appeared in the small world. The world seemed to be unchanged, yet it seemed completely different.

At the last stop, Shen Lian came to the ruins of the old heaven, uprooted the mutated peach tree and put it into the small world, and passed by the eight parts of the ghost market.

Without exception, the eight tribes of Ghost Market established a new heaven in the small world.

The flow of time in the small world quietly accelerated a hundred times, and the counterattack from mortal warriors was constantly pushing Shen Lian towards the Daluo Jinxian.

Two hundred years have passed by like a fleeting moment.

Shen Lian came to the paradise again, and the area within a hundred miles of Buddha Tathagata was extremely lively.

Hundreds of Buddhas from various sects surrounded Tathagata Buddha, and Maitreya Buddha and Dipankara Buddha were also ready to be born at any time.

The many Buddhas didn't notice Shen Lian at all.

Shen Lian passed through the mortal world, his breath was as weak as an ant.

He sat with his back against the Buddha, took out the ghost gourd and poured a cup for Patriarch Bodhi, and laughed about the dense insects around him.

(End of this chapter)