I am devoted to the Tao

Chapter 364: All time and space, eternal freedom, eternal and indestructible

"Elder Kongbei, Jingyang, what do you think we should do if Huaguang Temple seizes the ancestor's treasures and refuses to give them to us?"

Elder Jingzhen stood on the deck of the Chuanyun Shenzhou and looked at Elder Jiangchuan and Elder Kongbei.

"Amitabha!"

Elder Kongbei clasped his hands together and said, "Huaguang Temple, as the sect where the future Star Lord Buddha Patriarch once practiced, should not do such a thing."

Patriarch Ziyun shook his head up and down: "That's right, and I think Jingzhen, instead of worrying about Huaguang Temple seizing the treasures left by the future Xingxiu Zunwang Buddha, you should worry about yourself."

"Worried about myself?"

Elder Jingzhen looked puzzled: "Why are you worried about me?"

"If the treasures left behind by the Future Star King Buddha contain the divine consciousness of the Future Star King Buddha, and he sees you, his unworthy disciple, he will probably slap you to death with one slap." The Purple Cloud Patriarch replied.

"Who are these unworthy disciples? I, Jingzhen, am the most talented person in Bodhi Temple in the past ten thousand years."

The more Elder Jingzhen spoke, the lower his voice became, and he seemed to lack confidence.

"Elder Jingzhen, don't worry."

Jiang Chuan said, "Since we have dealt with Huang Chong together, if the divine consciousness of the future Star Lord Buddha Patriarch really appears."

"Jingyang, I knew that my love for you was not in vain when I was in the servants' yard."

"I will definitely find you a good coffin and help you rest in peace."

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Jiang Chuan felt that it was absolutely certain that Elder Jingzhen, a villain who cheated and deceived people and even peeped at the immortal fairies taking a bath, would be expelled by the future Star King Buddha.

As a gentleman, how could Jiang stop the future Star King Buddha from cleaning up the sect?

Giving Elder Jingzhen a wooden coffin was already a sign of his kindness. If it were Meng Zhu, Qin Yuanqing and others, they would probably grind Elder Jingzhen to dust!
"It's really strange. When Jingzhen said that, I also felt a sense of unease."

Elder Kong Bei frowned slightly: "Is this trip to Huaguang Temple destined to be full of twists and turns?"

"The future Star King Buddha Patriarch is still alive and is the future leader of Buddhism. I'm afraid no one in Buddhism would dare to disobey his orders and sabotage his plans."

Recalling the many demon tribes he had encountered, including Huang Chong, who were all extremely hostile to the future successor of the Star King Buddha, Jiang Chuan touched his chin.

"I think if there really is a force that wants to disrupt the future Star Lord Buddha's plan and doesn't want us to obtain the treasure, it's most likely the demon clan."

Then Jiang Chuan turned his head and looked at the rabbit holding Huang Yun in his arms.

"Rabbit, what is the grudge between the Future Star King Buddha and the demon race? Why do the demon race want to kill the future Buddha's successor?"

"do not know."

Rabbit shook his head: "I only know that this is an order issued by the Demon King since the end of ancient times."

"The end of the ancient times?!"

Elder Jingzhen was extremely surprised: "The future Star Lord Buddha was only born in the middle of the Middle Ages. How could the Demon King issue an order to kill the future Buddha's successor in the late ancient times?!"

"Is he going back in time like the Immortal King Ni Ming, or is it because the Demon Emperor used his supreme magical powers to predict the future and saw that the Star King Buddha Patriarch would become a great enemy of the demon race, so he issued this decree?"

Jiang Chuan's voice was not loud, but after he finished speaking, the entire board fell silent.

Elder Kongbei and Elder Jingzhen both frowned and kept thinking.

"For those at the level of the Demon King or the future Constellation King Buddha, the long river of time is no different from a flat ground."

The rabbit raised its paw and patted Jiang Chuan's head. "You won't understand even if you rack your brains. I once asked the Future Constellation Honored King Buddha, the Demon King, the World's Infinite Honored King Buddha, and the Taixu Daojun how powerful fourteenth-level cultivators are."

"The Future Star King Buddha answered me with twelve words."

"Which twelve words?" Jiang Chuan asked.

Patriarch Ziyun and Elder Kongbei both looked at the rabbit.

Even Huang Yun, who was held in the rabbit's arms, stopped struggling and looked at the rabbit.

The rabbit spoke word by word, "All time and space, eternal and free, indestructible."

hiss!
Jiangchuan, Elder Jingzhen and others all took a deep breath.

It was once recorded in ancient Taoist books.

The void is infinite, the universe is endless.

To put it simply, there may be countless universes in a piece of space.

Jiang Chuan can now kill Di Gua who was severely injured by Taihong Immortal Furnace, but in a parallel universe, he may just be a Buddhist disciple who is always accompanied by the green lamp and ancient Buddha.

All time and space, eternal freedom, is equivalent to occupying all the universes and turning all possibilities into the fourteenth realm of enlightenment.

This can no longer be described as terrifying!
Such great power cannot be described in words!

All the words created by humans such as great, supreme, supreme, and immeasurable, combined together, cannot describe even one percent of such an existence!

"Is the existence of the Fourteenth Realm really so terrifying?!"

Cold sweat streamed down Elder Jingzhen's forehead.

If the future Star King Buddha knew what he had done,
Death is the simplest punishment.

“Maybe there are none in the general fourteen realms. After all, I was asking about the Demon King, the World’s Infinite Honored King Buddha, and the Great Void Daoist Sovereign.”

Rabbit himself wasn't sure either: "The Demon King, the Infinitely Honored Buddha King of the World, and the Great Void Daoist Lord are all recognized as the top beings in the Fourteen Realms. One could even say that after the death of the Heavenly Emperor and before the rise of the Three Saints, they were the first, second, and third in the universe."

"call!"

Elder Jingzhen breathed a sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead: "I was scared to death. I thought the fourteen realms were so terrifying."

The gap between a cultivator who has just entered the realm of True Immortal and a peak True Immortal is greater than the gap between an ordinary person and a True Immortal.

Elder Jingzhen felt that the same should be true for cultivators at the Fourteenth Realm.

Ziyun Patriarch said disdainfully: "Jingzhen, you are such a brainless guy."

"You are a dead cat without a brain!" Elder Jingzhen scolded angrily.

"Even a weak Fourteenth Realm cultivator is still a Fourteenth Realm cultivator. Killing a Tenth Realm cultivator like you is like crushing an ant."

Patriarch Ziyun rolled his eyes at Elder Jingzhen and said, "If you had any brains, you wouldn't think you were fine."

Elder Jingzhen: “.”

Can I apply to return to Qingyuan Realm now?
Jiang Chuan looked at Elder Kong Bei, his eyes flickering slightly.

A cultivator's sixth sense may not be accurate, but Elder Kong Bei is different from the average cultivator at the peak of the ninth realm.

He is one of the only two successors of the Way of Killing Gods, and is favored by the origin of the Qingyuan Realm.

If Elder Kong Bei had a bad premonition, it was most likely the origin of the Qingyuan Realm warning him.

"If the plan laid out by the future Star Lord Buddha could also be destroyed, could it really be the intervention of a supreme being from the Fourteenth Realm?"

Jiang Chuan's heart was in turmoil: "Why don't we just simulate it instead of thinking too much?"

[Ding! Simulation begins. Now randomly matching the host with a dating simulation partner.]

[Ding! Match successful.]

[The romantic partner for this simulated match is Senior Sister Qingyan Witch Xu Zhiyi.]

"Witch Qingyan has a senior sister?"

Jiang Chuan was a little surprised that he was matched with the senior sister of the Witch Qingyan this time.

"Forget it. After I finish the Xuanmingdi business, I'll go find the Qingyan Witch and ask her about her senior sister."

You took out the Sky Dao Tree and began to comprehend the Kunming Heavenly Demon Dao Fruit, hoping to break through this barrier and truly become an immortal.

[Three months later, you feel like you haven't made any progress at all.]

[Somewhat helplessly, you took out the leaves of the Wandao Tree.]

[Just like the previous simulation, directly smelt the chaotic Dao principles contained in it into one's own Dao Fruit.]

[Enveloped by the power of the Great Dao, the leaves of the Ten Thousand Dao Trees are continuously refined by you, and the Dao of Chaos rises up one after another, being swallowed and refined by your Dao Fruit.]

[You can clearly feel that your own Dao Fruit is like a sheepskin raft that is constantly being pumped with air, constantly expanding.]

[Forcibly refining the Chaos Dao Principle is like forcing things to grow, but now you don't care about such forcing things to grow.]

[Your Chaos Dao is already comparable to that of a Void Immortal at the sixth level of the Tenth Realm. In just half a year, you successfully refined the Chaos Dao Principles from the leaves of the Ten Thousand Dao Tree into your own Dao Fruit.]

[Three months later, you feel that your own Chaos Dao has advanced further, and is now comparable to a Void Immortal at the seventh level of the Tenth Realm.]

You wanted to continue your retreat, but were awakened by Elder Jingzhen. They had arrived at the Xuanmingdi Huaguang Temple.

The emerald green plateau, about a thousand feet high, stands above the earth like a divine seal.

The plateau is full of towering ancient Bodhi trees, giving people a sense of tranquility and peace.

An ancient and solemn temple sits in the center of the plateau.

The temple seems to be carved out of golden ore, glowing faintly in the sun, and is sacred and extraordinary.

When he arrived in front of the temple, what caught Jiangchuan's eyes were the huge stone pillars on both sides, on which were carved patterns of Mingwang subduing demons, Buddha preaching, etc.

The wispy fragrance rises from the incense burner between the stone pillars, interweaving with the sound of wooden fish coming from afar, creating an otherworldly atmosphere.

Jiang Chuan and the other two got off the Chuanyun Shenzhou and explained their purpose to the monks guarding the temple.

The monk turned around and shouted towards the Huaguang Temple: "Brother, Elder, Abbot, there is a swindler trying to steal the treasure of the Future Star King Buddha!!!"

Jiangchuan:? ? ?
Elder Kongbei:???

Elder Jingzhen: ???

No, what is going on?
Which eye of yours could tell that we were liars?
The monk's voice was so loud that it spread throughout the entire Huaguang Temple.

"How dare you! You actually want to cheat Bao!"

"Today I will let you liars know what the wrath of the Ming King is!"

"Kill these liars!"

Rays of light flew out from Huaguang Temple and landed in front of the mountain gate of Huaguang Temple.

The most eye-catching one was a middle-aged monk holding a nine-ring staff and wearing a red robe embroidered with golden dragons.

"I've been so pissed off by that evil disciple lately that I need someone to vent my anger on. Hmm?"

The middle-aged monk was slightly stunned when he felt the aura of Jiangchuan and the other two.

"You also have the energy of the Future Constellation Sutra."

"We are the future descendants of the Star Lord Buddha."

As Jiang Chuan spoke, he activated the Dao Fruit. Chi! Chi! Chi!
Boom! Boom! Boom!

The light of time and the sea of ​​void emerged together, interweaving and evolving into the prototype of the universe.

It was as if a real heaven and earth had descended from outside the domain. The vast and majestic aura made many monks tremble in their hearts.

"The universe evolves with time and space. It is indeed the future star scripture!"

The middle-aged monk frowned slightly. "Strange. Half a year ago, the monk named Kongchen came to our Huaguang Temple with his disciple Jingyuan. He also displayed his own aura and successfully entered the secret realm left by the Future Star King Buddha and took away the treasure."

"Including this time, the Bodhi Temple has sent people to retrieve the treasure twice. Could it be that the future Star King Buddha has left behind a Taoist lineage in other realms besides the Qingyuan Realm?"

"Elder Kongchen actually brought Jingyuan to Huaguang Temple."

Jiangchuan was very surprised, because he knew about Huaguang Temple because of the rabbit.

Abbot Kongming also learned about it from the rabbit when it descended from the treasure mountain.

Elder Kongchen, how did you know?
"I've taken the treasure twice."

Elder Jingzhen asked, "Who was the person who came to my Bodhi Temple to take the treasure last time?"

The middle-aged monk replied, "That happened over a thousand years ago. The monk's Buddhist name is Taishan."

Patriarch Ziyun was also very surprised: "Taishan, you actually came to Huaguang Temple again without telling me?"

"Are you the cat that was engraved on the stone tablet in front of the temple gate more than a thousand years ago saying 'Cats and demonic cultivators are not allowed to enter'?"

The middle-aged monk stared at Patriarch Ziyun, and then his expression suddenly changed: "All elders and disciples, if this dead cat dares to set foot in Huaguang Temple, she will be blasted into ashes immediately!"

Jiang Chuan's eyes twitched slightly: "Ancestor, what on earth did you do back then?"

"After Taishan and I failed to steal the remains of the Future Star King Buddha, we went to the stupa for a walk."

Ziyun Patriarch muttered, "There are too many formations in that place, and we really didn't get anything. These guys are really vindictive!"

Jiangchuan: "."

No, ancestor, do you want to listen to what you are saying?
The stupa is the place where the relics left by eminent monks are stored and preserved.

What's the difference between what you did and trying to dig up someone's ancestral grave and failing to get anything?
[Considering that the treasures left behind by the future Star King Buddha may have been taken away by Elder Kongchen and Jingyuan.]

[You, Elder Kongbei, and Elder Jingzhen should prepare to return to the Qingyuan Realm.]

[Then you remember the opportunity you gained through the soul-searching battle in Dragon City in the simulation.]

[In the Middle Ages, the eleventh-level Buddha, the Destroying Golden Buddha, slew an eleventh-level Heavenly Demon King. However, as it would take a long time to erase his Dao fruit, the Destroying Golden Buddha set up a formation in the Red Rock Mountain of Xuanming Land, his hometown. With the power of the formation, he drew on the power of heaven and earth, and over a long period of time, completely erased the Dao fruit.]

[Now that so many years have passed, the Heavenly Demon King Dao Fruit within it should have been erased.]

[Although you killed Di Gua, all the treasures on Di Gua were divided up by Rabbit and Ziyun Patriarch.]

[Refining the Heavenly Demon King Dao Fruit World is enough to save you several or even dozens of sixty years of hard training.]

[Riding the Cloud Piercing Divine Boat, you brought Elder Kongbei and Elder Jingzhen to the front of Hongyan Mountain.]

The majestic red mountain, viewed from afar, looks like a burning flame standing on the earth.

The entire mountain is sparsely covered with trees, with only a few patches of green, and huge rocks of various shapes are everywhere.

Some are shaped like monkeys, some like giant bulls, and some like millstones.

A blood-red river flows down from the top of the mountain, passing through huge rocks of various shapes. Under the setting sun, it looks like a flowing jade river, sparkling and glittering.

"Is this really the place where the Evil-Slaying Golden Buddha suppressed the Heavenly Demon King?"

Rabbit kept looking at the Red Rock Mountain in front of him: "No matter how I look at it, it looks like a mine with a lot of iron ore."

"If it were that easy, and it were discovered, wouldn't the Heavenly Demon be able to easily rescue this Heavenly Demon King?"

Jiang Chuan waved his sleeves, folded the void, and the entire Cloud Piercing Divine Ship arrived directly at the top of Hongyan Mountain.

"Yunlai."

Jiang Chuan pointed his finger, and immediately the moisture in the air was transformed into swirling clouds.

In just two or three breaths, the red peak of Hongyan Mountain was directly covered by the rolling sea of ​​clouds.

At this moment, the sun is setting in the west, and the sun is about to set, blooming with thousands of rays of light.

The rocks on Hongyan Mountain contain a large amount of iron ore, which reflects the sunset and turns the rolling sea of ​​clouds on the top of the mountain red.

"Huh? This is..."

As the white clouds turned red, in the rabbit's perception, strands of array patterns that were ten times thinner than a hair emerged from the sea of ​​clouds.

"Although the Evil-Slaying Golden Buddha suppressed the Heavenly Demon King in Hongyan Mountain, he also imprinted the formation pattern leading to the place where the Heavenly Demon King was suppressed in the void near Hongyan Mountain."

Jiang Chuan raised his finger and pointed at the hidden array pattern: "Only at certain times will the array pattern emerge."

"Stop talking, Jingyang, activate the formation quickly!"

Elder Jingzhen's face was filled with anticipation: "The Eleventh Realm Heavenly Demon King must have a lot of good stuff left!"

"No matter how many treasures are left, they all belong to Jingyang." Elder Kong Bei glanced at Elder Jing Zhen.

"He even killed the Eleventh Realm Innate God Clan. It would be a waste to keep some treasures in his hands. It would be better to give them to me." Elder Jingzhen said seriously.

Jiang Chuan said angrily: "I would rather feed it to the birds than give it to you."

"Why don't you feed me?" said the Purple Cloud Patriarch dissatisfiedly.

"Do you still need me to feed you?"

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With the temperament of Ancestor Ziyun, whenever he sees a treasure, he flies faster than anyone else.

If Jiang had not taken action, he would have been swallowed by the Purple Cloud Ancestor.

Does he need someone named Jiang to feed him specially?
"Congeal!"

Jiang Chuan then formed hand seals and combined the array patterns in the sea of ​​clouds into an array of half an acre in size.

hum!hum!hum!
As Jiang Chuan urged it, golden Buddha light bloomed from it, covering Jiang Chuan and the other two.

The next moment, a small temple with black tiles and gray walls appeared in Jiangchuan's eyes.

The small temple seemed to have gone through a long time, and it was full of traces of time.

In front of the small temple, there was a monk in gray clothes. The monk had a childish face, like a boy of seventeen or eighteen years old, but his long, snow-white eyebrows hung down to his chest.

Sensing the aura of Jiang Chuan and the other two, the gray-robed monk slowly opened his eyes, revealing a pair of deep blue eyes.

"Huh? The descendant of the Future Buddha. Not only is he the descendant of the Future Buddha, but he also has the energy of Taoist Zhuzhao and Demon Lord Anyu. This generation is truly blessed!"

"Fellow Daoist, is he the incarnation of the Golden Buddha who destroys evil?" Jiang Chuan felt that the monk in front of him had the aura of a demonic cultivator.

"I am not the incarnation of Poxie. I am the Sun-Slaying Demon King who was suppressed here by Poxie."

The Sun-Slaying Demon King stared at Jiang Chuan and the other two. "During the years I was suppressed, I read many of the Buddhist scriptures I had robbed in the past, and gained great enlightenment. I know that my sins are grave, and death is not a pity."

"But my Dao Fruit World and the treasures I left behind are enough to create a powerful cultivator. If I give them to any cultivator casually, it will surely bring disaster to all living beings in the future."

"If you want to obtain the treasures I left behind, you must discuss the Dao with me and convince me."

Jiangchuan looked at Elder Jingzhen and Elder Kongbei, and then spoke.

"Well, today the three of us will discuss Dao with fellow Daoist Slaughter Sun."

"Let me ask you, does everyone have Buddha nature?" Lu Ri slowly stood up and looked at the three people.

Buddha nature refers to the pure nature that all people possess, but it is obscured by afflictions.

By practicing and removing the veils of afflictions, one can manifest and achieve Buddha nature.

Elder Kongbei clasped his hands together and said: "All living beings have Buddha nature."

"Is Daoist Fellow Lu Ri's question so simple?" Elder Jing Zhen was very confused.

This question was asked by one of the twelve realms of Bodhisattvas in Buddhism, Bodhisattva Precious Crown, to the Lord of Buddhism, the Buddha of the World, the Infinitely Honored King.

The Buddha, the Infinite King of the Worlds, replied that everyone has Buddha nature, that is, everyone has the potential to become a Buddha.

"What is Buddha?" the Sun-Slaying Demon King continued to ask.

Jiang Chuan and the other two frowned in unison.

In a sense, the question asked by the Sun-Slaying Demon King is no different from what you should eat tonight.

Even Buddhists themselves have different opinions on what Buddha is.

The Buddhahood achieved by the eleven can only be regarded as a Buddha achieved in terms of spiritual practice.

It is the most widespread and most recognized type of Buddha among monks.

Some people also believe that Buddha is a kind of enlightenment.

That is, Buddha represents the complete enlightenment and insight into the truth of the universe and life.

The Buddha understands the nature of all things in the world, the relationship of cause and effect, the cycle of life and death of all beings, and many other phenomena, and through his own wisdom and practice, he has found a way to get rid of suffering and gain liberation.

And the view that Buddha is a realm of morality, that Buddha should possess noble virtues such as infinite compassion, equality, and kindness.

The Buddha treats all sentient beings with compassion, regardless of their status or closeness, and is committed to saving them from suffering.

There are several different understandings of Buddha within Buddhism.

If we really talk about it, it's like you talking about your righteousness and I talking about the law. We each have our own reasons and it's difficult to convince anyone.

"What is Buddha? I guess after some time, there should be a clear answer to this question." Jiang Chuan pondered for a moment and spoke again.

The Sun-Slaying Demon King frowned slightly: "Why does it take some time to get a clear answer?"

Jiang Chuan said seriously, "When I ascend to the throne of Heavenly Emperor, unify all the heavens and myriad worlds, and clearly define what a Buddha is, the answer will naturally become clear."

"Where on earth did the Future Star King Buddha find this madman as his successor?"

The corners of the Sun-Slaying Demon King's eyes kept twitching: "Or is it that I have been locked up here for too long, and all the Buddhist disciples have turned into lunatics."

"If you want to talk about Jingyang, just talk about Jingyang. Why bring us along?" Elder Jingzhen was very dissatisfied.

“The bigger your heart is, the wider your road will be.”

Jiang Chuan said proudly: "As an unrivaled and unrivaled genius, I will definitely become the Emperor of Heaven in the future."

The Sky Dao Tree is Jiang's natal magic weapon. If he doesn't become the Emperor of Heaven, can he be worthy of the Heaven?
"At the very least, when I become the third generation leader of Buddhism and define what a Buddha is, I will definitely have the answer to your question."

Well, considering that the Sky Emperor couldn't defeat the Heavenly Emperor and was killed by the Demon King and Taiyi Daojun, it makes sense for him, Jiang, to prepare a retreat route, right?

(End of this chapter)