Immortality is above

Chapter 119 Chapter 118: The truth behind the scenes, the gains in war

Chen Liubai has never liked listening to people tell stories, because those stories are often mixed with all kinds of private information, adding fuel and jealousy to the story, resulting in distortion.

But the story of Master Yuan Kong is worth hearing.

He also came down from the mountain and came from the Nine Chambers Brahma Pure Blessed Land.

But unlike Chen Liubai, Master Yuankong accepted the mountain gate mission and came to Zhao Kingdom on his own initiative.

The main content of this task is "preaching scriptures and promoting Dharma".

Choosing to come to a soulless place abandoned by immortality to teach scriptures and teach the Dharma is an experience in the ascetic precepts of the Buddhists. It is the same principle as "refining the heart in the world of mortals".

Since it is an experience, you must abide by the relevant rules. It is impossible to force others to believe in Buddhism or worship the Buddha.

At that time, the tradition of Zhao State was still dominated by Taoism, which caused Master Yuankong to run into obstacles everywhere. He was stranded for many years and was still unable to complete his mission.

Until Emperor Yankang came to power, his pursuit of immortality failed. After listening to the scriptures of Yuan Kongyixi, he turned to Buddhism and expressed his intention to convert to Buddhism.

At that time, in front of Emperor Yankang, Lord Wong Kong was talking about "the way of reincarnation": reincarnation through the reincarnation of cause and effect, thereby achieving new life.

Later, however, things took a terrible turn.

Yuan Kong sighed: "The poor monk has long ignored life and death, but before he died, I was lucky enough to meet a layman who came here, so I would like to ask you to help me bring something back to Jiushi Mountain. This thing is quite important. It is what I brought when I was in Zhao State. It took so many years of hard work to find it.”

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After saying that, Wan Kong made up his mind, and his withered belly suddenly gurgled, as if there was spring water flowing in it.

In the beginning, the development of the situation did go as expected. Temples were built, the number of monks doubled, and everything was prosperous...

It is said that when a person is about to die, his words are also good. It is not surprising that he has such calculations for important things.

After a while, he opened his mouth and rolled something out with his tongue.

As for how Emperor Yankang fell into the devil, that is another story. Now the protagonist of the story has turned into a corpse and a mystery that may never be understood again...

Chen Liubai nodded slightly: "Then what are your plans now? I think the vitality in your body is not optimistic."

You must know that in the Buddhist system, the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons are the divisions of Arhats and Bodhisattvas. How can Vong Kong have the ability to practice them?

"Bulk, you have to make an oath. It's not that this poor monk can't trust you, but it's a matter of great importance and you have to be careful."

"Yes, that is just a puppet introduced by Emperor Yankang. He deliberately let the poor monk bear the infamy and diverted the attention of the civil and military officials of the court."

Chen Liubai frowned and heard the other side's implication. It seemed like a compliment, but in fact it was lifting the person up high and then unable to let him down.

He continued: "I have been trapped here for many years. In fact, I have become anxious, which has led to losing my original intention. I regard this place as a sea of ​​suffering, and I want to escape as soon as possible."

Comparing the two, Lao Dao's fragment was much smaller.

"Oh, what is it?"

Chen Liubai smiled: "Master, I met you by chance. You asked me to deliver something back to the mountain. It was based on trust. But for me, my promise is benevolence and justice, but it is not an obligation. There is no need to swear any oath to you. .”

Yuan Kong's voice was slow and dry, with a sense of regret in it: He originally wanted to take advantage of Emperor Yankang, but he never expected that the boat would capsize in the gutter. Emperor Yankang was taking advantage of him from beginning to end.

Compared with Taoism, Buddhism has its own practice system, which pays more attention to the discipline of mind and nature, and is often not good at killing and fighting.

At this time, Yuan Kong discovered that Emperor Yankang had already entered the devil's door before he believed in Buddhism.

And his dream of resurrection finally came to nothing under Chen Liubai's sword.

"The layout of Tianlong Temple has nothing to do with you?"

Wan Kong was silent for a while and then said: "It's a poor monk who has taken the form... If you can kill Yankang, you must be a benevolent and righteous person, and you will not engage in any behavior such as embezzlement and corruption."

A thin piece of jade, about the size of a child's palm.

Besides, how could Emperor Yankang be so virtuous and capable that he could get the Eight Tribes of Heavenly Dragons to protect him?

Not realistic at all.

After receiving the support of Emperor Yankang and promoting it from top to bottom, the Buddhist family will surely prosper.

Although reincarnation is different from immortality, it is also a continuation of life.

"This is the story of the poor monk."

I have to say that this old emperor is really a character, and he has dabbled in all three schools of Taoism, Demonology, and Buddhism.

In order to make this form more three-dimensional and real, he proposed a method for Emperor Yankang to form the Eight Divisions of Heavenly Dragons and let the eight divisions protect the Dharma, thus smoothly entering reincarnation.

However, with Yuan Kong's Taoist practice, he could only theoretically talk about it from scriptures. It was simply impossible to actually do it.

One day, Emperor Yankang suddenly launched an attack, captured the unsuspecting Yuan Kong, pierced both sides of the pipa bone, and imprisoned him.

To put it bluntly, it is actually just painting a cake and making a formal shell out of it.

But in order to gain the support of Emperor Yankang, to complete the mission and experience, and to be able to return to the mountain, Master Yunkong didn't care so much and just talked about it.

Yuan Kong showed a bitter smile and said: "I am imprisoned here and cannot move. How can I still do those things?"

The idea seems perfect, but in reality it is just a fantasy.

In order to live forever, he really fought hard.

This is a fragment of a heavenly book!

I remember that the old Taoist Qian Yang stored a fragment of the scroll in the muscles of his arm, but now Yuan Kong swallowed the fragment into his stomach.

Chen Liubai looked at him: "So, the national master who has appeared in recent years is not you at all?"

What he talks about are all methods recorded in scriptures and can be followed, so this is not considered "lies" and does not violate the rules.

It's a pity that due to the limitations of qualifications, luck, and real environment, no matter which family, Emperor Yankang got the true biography, and the "Eight Parts of the Dragon" that was finally created appeared to be nondescript, incomplete and deformed.

"Businessman, do you recognize this thing?"

The old monk swallowed the broken scroll again, looked cautious, and asked.

Chen Liubai replied: "This is a fragment of the Heavenly Book, and it is indeed a treasure."

"Then will you agree to help the poor monk get back to the mountain?"

"I want to verify the authenticity first."

"Okay, come over here and I'll give you the scrap."

After saying that, he spit out the remaining scroll of the Heavenly Book and held it in his mouth.

Chen Liubai stepped over and came to the front. Suddenly, his thoughts of law moved, a cold light flashed, and the Chen Yuan Sword appeared.

Within such a short distance, it was nailed to Yuan Kong's eyebrows without any suspense.

However, the strange thing is that the extremely sharp flying sword pierced the head that seemed to be old and frail, but it failed to penetrate right away.

"you?"

Being killed unexpectedly, the old monk let out an angry roar.

Chen Liubai remained silent, but kept activating his magic power, causing the flying sword to penetrate little by little. As the sword edge pierced, the next moment, it seemed as if it had pierced something, causing Xuan Kong to howl in pain.

A ferocious figure emerged from the skinny body.

This situation is very strange. The figure seems to be the Yin God of Wan Kong - which is not true, because the Buddhists do not practice Yin God, they practice Dharma.

So to be precise, this should be the dharma of wishing to be empty.

It's just that this appearance looked weird and incomplete. After it appeared, a gloomy demonic aura immediately filled the entire underground palace.

It was struggling desperately, but in vain. The Chenyuan Sword firmly fixed it, like beating a snake seven inches, peeling it away from the old monk's body bit by bit, and finally nailed it firmly with a "chi" sound. On the stone wall behind.

It looked like a shadow nailed to the wall.

But it still refused to give in. Its long, deformed limbs were swinging wildly, like a giant spider.

This tenacious struggle and resistance was a considerable amount of torture and consumption for Chen Liubai. His handsome face was turning pale, and beads of cold sweat the size of soybeans rolled down his forehead.

But he didn't dare to relax, because he knew that once he let the other party break free, there would be endless troubles.

Needless to say, there was a hard fight or something. If the other party ran away and hid among the people in the city, it would not be so easy to find him again.

At this moment, Chen Liubai was very lucky that he had transformed into a god in time, otherwise, there would have been another result.

As for those tactics of breaking through in the face of battle and risking death to survive, although they are good, they are really dangerous, just like walking on a tightrope. If you are not careful, you will end up dead.

He would not try it casually unless he had to.

After a full quarter of an hour, the ferocious monster's struggle began to weaken, and the color on its body obviously dimmed:

"It turns out that you have seen through it a long time ago..."

Chen Liubai didn't say anything, nor did he show any pride or complacency in predicting the enemy's opportunity.

"I really didn't expect that there would be someone like you in this soulless land... I'm sorry, I admit it, but what I said before is true. I am indeed from Jiushi Mountain, and the mission experience is also true. . I came here to lecture on sutras and spread the Dharma, but I was never recognized, was blocked everywhere, and was even rejected and expelled by others, and was ridiculed with blank stares. I was unwilling to accept it, so I approached Yankang... It was probably at this time that my mentality changed. Internal demons breed, from Buddha to demon..."

Chen Liubai remained silent, using his thoughts, he continued to urge the flying sword to penetrate deeper.

"Ah! Ah! Ah!"

"Yuankong" became crazy: "Why don't you speak? I am not willing to give in! What mountain gate missions and ascetic precepts are just an exile. You also said that 'if hell is not empty, you will never become a Buddha', bah, I am deceiving myself and others. ...Hahaha, I shouldn’t regret it, I shouldn’t have made such an ambitious wish. It turns out that some things are really impossible to do..."

Chen Liubai was silent, with a determined look on his face. Chen Yuan Sword suddenly burst out with a dazzling light, penetrating more than an inch into the stone wall.

This stab finally stabbed the ferocious strange shadow to death. The shadow suddenly became mottled, and then exploded with a "bang", as if it was splashing ink, splattering the entire stone wall black and dirty everywhere.

At the same time, the skinny body on the lotus platform began to catch fire.

The fire was transparent, showing a magical milky white color, and burned silently.

Chen Liubai began to breathe heavily, as if he had just been fished out of the water, and his clothes were soaked with cold sweat.

Earlier in the Forbidden City, he didn't feel any difficulty in slaying the devil with his sword. Then he broke through the palace with his sword and killed Yankang. He also acted lightly...

Until I met Yuan Kong.

The story Yukong told was mostly true, but for Chen Liubai, he didn't care about the so-called "true or false".

He never liked listening to stories.

In fact, from the moment he saw the other party, Chen Liubai was wary, not only due to his naturally cautious temperament, but also based on comprehensive judgment based on various situations.

Even though Emperor Yankang was the king of a country and could squander various resources at will, given his background and age, it would be difficult for him to gather the "Eight Dragons and Eight Tribes" in more than ten years.

Buddhism gives birth to demons, and the two poles change. Isn't it just talk?

Just as love gives rise to hate, the prerequisite is that you must love deeply before you can hate deeply.

Therefore, Chen Liubai has always suspected that there are others behind Yankang.

He didn't know why "Yuan Kong" didn't escape. Maybe he was unwilling to do so, and maybe he thought he could deceive Chen Liubai...

But now, everything has passed. As for the specific details, they will turn into dust and go with the wind with the death of the person involved.

After breathing for a while, Chen Liubai felt better and immediately used his thoughts.

Whoosh!

Chen Yuan Sword flew back and landed in the palm of his hand.

He twisted it up and looked at it carefully, worried that it would be contaminated, but at first glance, the edge remained unabated, shining, and seemed to have become sharper.

This is because Chen Liubai and Feijian have established a good mental connection, and participating in more battles can promote each other, just like a "friend in need" between people.

If he could go one step further and refine it completely, then this sword would become one with him, no longer separate from each other.

What a sword!

With this weapon, your strength is doubled.

Chen Liubai happily put the sword into his pocket, and then went to see what was happening on the lotus platform.

At this time, the mysterious white fire had burned the old monk's corpse into a pile of ashes.

There was a strange light flickering in the dark ashes.

He walked over, opened his mouth and blew, blowing into the wind, blowing the ashes away, immediately revealing what was hidden inside.

Unexpectedly, not one, but two.

One of them, which can be determined in advance, is the fragment of the Heavenly Book.

The material of the fragment of the Heavenly Book is unknown. It seems to be made of jade, but it is definitely not the jade of this world.

It contains the mysterious laws of Taoism, and with the blessing, it ensures that this thing cannot be destroyed.

No matter if it is karma fire or other fires.

And another thing, with brilliant golden light, turned out to be a strange golden body of Buddha statue.

It is about half a foot tall. It is not a normal Buddha statue at all, but is made up of different images.

If you look carefully, there are eight images in total, corresponding to each one. Isn't it the same as the eight parts of Tianlong?

Could it be said that the Dharma is hidden in the golden body of this Buddha statue?

Faced with the Immortal Golden Body and the fragments of the Heavenly Book, Chen Liubai did not rush to seize them. Instead, he used his Dharma to carefully detect and investigate them.

After an investigation, I found the hidden clues.

Poof!

A ball of karmic fire wrapped around his Dharma thoughts and quickly burned up.

(End of this chapter)