I'll kill you after I finish this game!

Skadi tore through the space and quickly closed it up, while the pierced sky gradually began to repair itself.

After being knocked away by Skadi, the fat monk charged straight toward the sun at an incredibly fast speed.

Just as he was about to crash into the scorching sun, the fat monk's body suddenly cracked with golden fissures and then shattered instantly.

Then a Buddha with a golden body hundreds of feet tall appeared. He stopped on the surface of the sun, raised his hand to straighten his crooked chin, and looked at the earth with a rather complicated expression.

Shila-

In the instant that space distorted before the Buddha, Skadi's figure appeared before him.

Skadi looked at the golden giant before her with great interest, arms crossed, eyebrows raised, and said:

"It seems to be the Buddha, Tathagata."

"Amitabha Buddha, what exactly is the female benefactor's purpose?"

The Buddha, whose golden body was hundreds of feet tall, was now chanting Buddhist mantras. His expression and demeanor were no longer like those of the fat monk he had been before. A sacred Buddhist aura of supreme yang and strength swirled around him.

His eyes held compassion and peace as he looked at the 'tiny' Skadi before him. He stopped trying to be obsequious and went straight to asking about her background and purpose.

He had misjudged the other party before, thinking it was just an elf, but someone with such power shouldn't be an unknown figure in the Three Realms.

"Whatever your purpose, go down and let's talk."

Skadi raised her hand and pointed with her thumb at the massive Earth behind her. Then, a spatial singularity reappeared behind her, and she teleported away from Buddha's sight.

The Buddha paused for a moment, then the golden light of his body began to recede, and his enormous body shrank to the size of a normal person at a visible speed.

He was no longer the fat monk from before, but a handsome barefoot man of moderate height and with a full head of fleshy hair.

With a thought, he traversed thousands of miles of void and immediately appeared in the pavilion that Skadi had casually created, and sat on the stone bench opposite her.

Shila-

Skadi's palm surged with magnetic energy, drawing in a large amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth. With a wave of her hand, she casually created two cups of hot tea with ethereal spiritual energy on the stone table in front of her.

Skadi pushed a cup toward Buddha, picked up her own cup of hot tea, looked at Buddha, and said:

"I don't quite understand the significance of the journey to the West for your Buddhist community."

Yes, I don't understand.

What other significance did the journey to the West have besides the eastward transmission of Buddhism? And what were these bald monks arguing about?

"...The world is full of suffering, and the twenty-two scriptures of India are for the purpose of saving all beings from suffering."

“Monks don’t lie. Go ahead and fool others with this. If the suffering in this world could be saved by a few scriptures, what were you doing all this time?”

Skadi was very impatient with the Buddha's serious nonsense and spoke directly.

"Regardless of what you think, the prosperity of Buddhism is an inevitable trend of this era."

Buddha calmly took a sip of hot tea, no longer spouting grand theories, and directly stated that everything was inevitable.

Upon hearing this, Skadi's expression calmed down, and she looked the Buddha up and down with a strange look in her eyes.

It was determined that this guy was not the enlightened and enlightened Buddha of the world, but just a Buddha with great power in cultivation.

After all this, it turns out that a Buddha who claims to have seen through all the aspects of human life actually cares about whether Buddhism is prosperous or not, and about the so-called struggle for destiny.

"Buddha, do you care more about your Buddhist community or about all sentient beings?"

"......"

"From what you just said, the latter is clearly inferior to the former."

Skadi's voice suddenly turned cold and indifferent, and her gaze toward the Buddha before her was devoid of any politeness or respect.

There is a statement that Skadi made that is quite controversial.

If Buddha is not greedy, why does he need people to make offerings to him?

If the Buddha does not crave vanity, why should people kneel and worship him?

The Buddha said that all beings are equal, so why does he sit high on Mount Ling? Why is he divided into Bodhisattvas, Vajras, messengers, and so on, into different ranks?

The Buddha and Bodhisattva statues enshrined in Buddhism should not be regarded as deities, but only as teachers, that is, enlightened beings, who guide sentient beings to become enlightened beings.

It's just that people have mistaken Buddha for a god.

In Skadi's eyes, the Buddha before her was not some enlightened being or teacher, but rather a god called Buddha.

Skadi and the Ultimate Monk often discuss Taoism and Buddhism, and naturally they have their own views and insights.

However, there is one thing that the Ultimate Monk and Skadi have in common: they do not see Buddha as some lofty deity, but as a spiritual symbol of transcendence, enlightenment, and profound understanding.

All beings reap the rewards of their actions.

All living species are fundamentally the same, without distinction of high or low, noble or base, and all sentient and insentient beings can attain Buddhahood.

That is, birds and beasts, stubborn rocks and plants can all become Buddhas.

This is Skadi's understanding of 'equality of all beings'.

At the same time, when Skadi and the Ultimate Monk are asked whether the Buddha is greedy or not, this is the only answer they will give regarding the golden Buddha statues or donations in temples.

The money you give as incense is not to Buddha, but to those who practice Buddhism and their temples. The person you respect is not Buddha, but the desires in your heart.

It's not that Buddha covets your donations, but that you covet Buddha's power. Buddha cannot make people rich, and monks certainly cannot. Buddha can only give you wisdom and compassion.

Cultivating Buddhahood leads to Buddhahood, Bodhisattvahood, and Arhathood.

These only represent different levels of their awareness and wisdom, just like your primary school, middle school, and university—not fixed levels, but stages of cultivation.

The Buddha sits not so that you may worship him, but so that you may walk the path he has walked and sit beside him.

"I'm really disappointed. I thought we could have a proper discussion, but I've clearly misjudged him."

Skadi put down her hot tea, stood up with disappointment and helplessness, and looked at the Buddha before her with a calm but bored expression, saying:

"If your Buddhist sect were to flourish and become the mainstream religion in the world, that would be a source of suffering for all beings. Monks do not engage in production, do not marry or have children, and if this continues, will the country be destroyed and families perish?!"

Although Skadi studied and understood Buddhist principles, she was also aware of the drawbacks of Buddhist teachings.

Because if you don't look at the profoundness of Buddhist principles, those basic doctrines are almost entirely anti-human, anti-social, and anti-moral.

Human beings need material possessions and wealth to live, not abstract concepts like spirit, soul, or mind.

They were very successful on a spiritual level, but their achievements on a material level were too limited for humankind.

At the same time, Buddhism has had a very negative impact on the development and progress of civilization. It would be better if it didn't become mainstream, but once it did, just look through history books and see what happened to those countries where Buddhism flourished. You'll then know who is the root cause of suffering for all beings.

Upon hearing this, the Buddha frowned, and his gaze toward Skadi became even more serious.

"donor........"

"Shut up, you idiot, you have no right to lecture me."

Skadi suddenly sprang into action, unleashing a powerful Maha Wheel Fist, 999,999 horsepower, enhanced with some fourth-dimensional cosmic power, which slammed into the head of the Buddha before her.

The head resembled a watermelon struck by a heavy object, but unlike a mortal's head, the red and white mixture didn't splatter everywhere. Only the Buddha's light dissipated, dimmed, and finally disappeared.

Having killed the Buddha before her, Skadi looked expressionlessly to the west. Her super vision traversed the void to see the Great Thunderclap Temple, then she snorted coldly before disappearing back to Miss Duan's side.

The Buddha who was killed by Skadi was merely an incarnation, not the true Buddha.

The true essence still resides at the Great Thunder Temple on Mount Ling.

This punch was Skadi telling those bastards at Lingshan what her stance was: she hated them, she was hostile.

At the same time, the Buddha, who was sitting on the lotus platform in the Great Thunder Temple expounding Buddhist principles, suddenly stopped, and a sharp glint appeared in his calm and compassionate eyes.

"Venerable One, what has happened?"

When Guanyin Bodhisattva saw that the Buddha had stopped expounding the supreme Buddhist principles, she knew that something had happened.

"The westward journey has been thwarted; an unexpected event has occurred."

The Buddha spoke in a deep voice, explaining the reason, which caused the expressions of all the Bodhisattvas and Arhats present to change.

The mission to spread Buddhism to the west was a very important matter for the Buddhist community, as it was related to the prosperity of Buddhism and the struggle for destiny.

They absolutely could not tolerate anyone disrupting their pre-planned journey to the west, but when it came to Skadi, a being of unknown origin, their first thought was whether the Heavenly Court was secretly interfering with their plans.

Regardless of whether it is them or not, they will eliminate any force or entity that dares to obstruct them.

Therefore, after taking a stand against the woman of unknown origin, the Buddhist sect was also preparing to take action.

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Chapter 31: The Hand of God in Nuclear Conflict

Meanwhile, after Skadi left and returned, it was already night.

A dense aura of demonic energy began to permeate the forest, and Miss Duan prepared to take Skadi along to confront the monster from Gao Village.

However, while they were waiting for nightfall, Chen Xuanzang, after saying goodbye to his master, brought Sha Wujing to Gao Village ahead of time.

Although Chen Xuanzang had no exorcism skills, as a disciple of Mahayana Buddhism, he saw through the illusion created by the monster when he entered the restaurant.

Accompanied by Sha Wujing, Chen Xuanzang, led by the characters in the illusion, entered a bustling and lively restaurant.

However, in the eyes of the two, the restaurant in Gao Lao Zhuang was a scene of corpses strewn everywhere. Countless bodies were piled up here, and some were even hung up like roasted pigs and roasted over flames, which looked extremely shocking.

Using magic to conceal their presence, Miss Duan and Skadi entered the restaurant after Chen Xuanzang.

They were not fooled by the illusion. The sight of corpses lying all around them made Miss Duan's eyes twitch, and she felt that this monster was very difficult to deal with.

However, when she saw two living people among the countless corpses, namely Chen Xuanzang and Sha Wujing, she couldn't help but be stunned, and her eyes gleamed with a strange light.

What are these two doing here? Are they trying to steal the mission?

Because of the competition among exorcists, Miss Duan immediately assumed that Chen Xuanzang was there to steal her business the moment she saw him.

But considering Chen Xuanzang's kind-hearted nature and his exorcism philosophy, Miss Duan dismissed her subconscious idea.

"I am an exorcist, reveal yourself."

Just as the people in the illusion were enthusiastically introducing the restaurant to Chen Xuanzang and Sha Wujing, Chen Xuanzang spoke up expressionlessly.

"Sir, what are you saying...?"

boom!

Before the woman in front of him could finish speaking, Chen Xuanzang demonstrated his intentions with a punch to her left eye.