Chapter 685: Calculation
Outside the Imperial City of Da Chu.
Tang Yuan stood in the sky, his blue robe swaying in the wind, looking like a banished immortal. With such grace, even the King of Chu sighed sadly: "Senior, it would have been nice if he had come earlier. "
Xu Zhi glanced at him and groaned: "Master is busy with everything, how can he manage all the sufferings in this immortal world? If you are not lucky, you are worried about the lives of the two bones in your family. "How could you have caused today's disaster if you informed my master of the crisis in Dachu earlier?"
"I don't believe it. You are the leader of the Yangshen Kingdom, and you even spread the slightest news?" Not coming out.”
Hearing Xu Zhi's scolding, Chu Qinghe's eyes showed confusion. After a while, he finally said: "If King Gu had been there sooner, would the Taoist sect really save me, Da Chu?"
As if to answer Xu Zhi seemed to be mumbling to herself again.
Although Xu Zhi didn’t know whether Tang Yuan would come, after all, it was the consensus reached by the Taoist sect to let Huazhou go to the Demon Sect.
But this does not prevent her from advocating Tang Yuan.
I saw her vowing to say: "Of course, Taoism emphasizes healing by inaction. If you don't even have the intention to save yourself, Master will naturally not take the initiative to save you, but if you have the intention to survive, My master will not spare himself, and will give you a piece of blue sky.”
When Chu Qinghe heard this, his expression became even more miserable. He looked at the hundreds of millions of people's souls still gathered outside the city and said with regret: "It's all my fault. I've hurt you all. They're all mine." Wrong..."
Even though the blood rain in the sky has gradually faded away, the soul that has been taken out is still wandering in the outside world, and it is difficult to return.
Looking at it like that, within a moment or three, you will still fall into the Nine Netherworld.
Tang Yuan passed by countless souls, looked at the remnant soul of the gray-robed old monk in mid-air, and asked: "The blood sacrifice has failed, what is the master's next plan?"
< br>Even after receiving a fatal blow from the four great supernatural powers, the gray-robed old monk still has his remaining soul alive. He can even regenerate just by putting his soul into the golden body inherited from Buddhism.
In the system of Buddhist practice for many generations, the immortal relics and the immortal golden body are extremely important links.
For example, Arhats and Buddhist masters above, even if they are not troubled by longevity, they will still take the initiative to sit in the body. After sitting in the body, their lifetime cultivation will be condensed into relics, and the physical body will be transformed into Golden body.
The reason why you can sit down and become a Buddha, according to Buddhism... is that you don’t practice enough in this life, and you can only become a Buddha in the next life.
If we turn to the Taoist sect to look at it, the reality is that there is a problem with the path to Taoism and fruition, and we can only reincarnate and rebuild it.
Like the Taoist cultivation method, it emphasizes being down-to-earth and striving for perfection from the beginning of foundation building.
Innate Dao foundation, first-grade golden elixir, pure Yang divine soul... If you go step by step like this, although the chance of achieving Yuan Shen is very slim, once you achieve Yuan Shen, there is a high probability of continuing on, and even achieving your own Dao fruit. road.
Buddhist practice is different from this. Although Buddhism also attaches great importance to basic practice and body polishing, it is far less important than Taoism.
In Buddhist practice, great aspirations, great vows, and hard work are the foundation. If you make consistent great aspirations and vows, your cultivation will advance rapidly, and you may even receive gifts from heaven and earth in a short period of time. Reaching the Arhat, that is, the realm of the soul.
However, great ambitions are difficult to achieve, at least within one lifetime, there is almost no chance of completion.
A great wish can be achieved or failed. A great wish that cannot be fully accomplished will become a shackle that hinders the monk's cultivation.
If we think about it now, with this decaying body, we will only get further and further away from the fulfillment of our great aspirations, which is what Buddhism calls no destiny in this life.
At this time, it is necessary to appear in reincarnation, with a new body without any ties, to once again fulfill the great oath that he has made.
As for the fruits of practice in previous lives, they will not be wasted and will be transformed into golden relics. As long as the body in this life reaches a certain level, it can be integrated to enhance cultivation and even be used as a tool to break through the realm.
There was once a Buddhist monk who reincarnated nine times, and each time he ended up in the state of one decline of spirit. But on the tenth time, he directly broke through the three declines of essence, energy and spirit and achieved a golden body. Arhat is the earthly immortal realm of Taoism.
Before the separation between heaven and man, Buddhism practiced in this way. Breaking through the realm with great aspirations was almost as powerful as breaking bamboo.
Even if you don't have enough qualifications, you can achieve something as long as you have Buddha in your heart.
Then through continuous reincarnations, while inheriting the golden body relics of the previous life, he also inherited the great aspirations and oaths of the previous life. After repeated training for dozens of times, the accomplished Buddhist masters are even stronger than those extremely talented Taoists who have achieved first-class elixirs.
Of course, this practice model disappeared after heaven and man were separated and Buddhism could no longer control reincarnation.
Today's Buddhist disciples also need to be like Taoist disciples, who work tirelessly to polish their foundation and walk steadily step by step. Even the most catalyzing great aspirations and vows cannot be made randomly, lest they fail to complete this life. The great hope, but at the same time lost the opportunity to reincarnate again.
Practicing in this way is naturally not as good as setting great aspirations and receiving gifts from heaven and earth quickly and easily.
This is also the reason why Buddhism is so concerned about reincarnation. After losing the small reincarnation controlled by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Buddhism has almost lost an entire shortcut to quickly achieve spirituality.
It can be called the biggest weakening, how can Buddhism endure it.
After losing reincarnation, just like today's gray-robed old monk, only the remaining soul is left. If you don't want to be in reincarnation and embark on such a hopeless life, you can only live in the accommodation left by other soul arhats. of golden body.
However, because the body and soul are not very compatible, even if he can still exert his strength at the soul level, it is difficult to improve his cultivation, and he can only become a heretic protector.
For the Yuanshen Arhat who usually has a great future, this is naturally unacceptable.
However, the gray-robed old monk seemed to face his failure calmly, and said with a wry smile: "The poor monk will not occupy other people's bodies, he will only join reincarnation. This body is burdened with endless sins, and it deserves to be reincarnated." Atoning for one's sins until the true spirit is exhausted."
Buddhism believes that a person's true spirit imprint is limited. After experiencing too many reincarnations, it will be completely worn away. From then on, he will be a brand new person. People.
Hearing the excuse of the gray-robed old monk, Tang Yuan looked calm and said coldly: "Hundreds of millions of people in Huazhou died because of you. How can you alone redeem all the countless sins? Even if all your disciples in the Pure Land recite sutras day and night, will these countless people survive? "
"All the sins are my fault!"
The gray-robed old monk sighed and stopped talking.
"With your face, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to enter reincarnation, and you will have to suffer torture in the eighteenth level of hell." Tang Yuan said with a gloomy tone and dissatisfaction.
But then, he changed his tone and said, "But...fortunately it is me who is here today. I have a method that can save hundreds of millions of people in Huazhou, and I can also save you by the way. "Fan, are you willing to listen?"
The old monk in gray robe still retained a trace of compassion for the monks. When he heard that the people of Huazhou could still be saved, he quickly asked: "Donor Tang, if there is a way to save them, No matter what these hundreds of millions of innocent people ask for, the old monk will agree to it and let you do it without saying a word. "
The old monk in gray robe is not a villain. On the contrary, even in the Pure Land, he will treat you with dignity. The Bodhisattva is known for his kind-heartedness, and is not hurt by flowers, grass, or ants. The reason why he made such a decision this time is because he really believed that if reincarnation was to be rebuilt, even if it sacrificed hundreds of millions of people, it would be worth it.
For this reason...he is willing to bear the burden of sin for the sake of a better future for all living beings.
At this moment, the hope of reincarnation has failed, and the gray-robed old monk naturally begins to feel worthless for this person who died in vain. There is no light, only sin, how can he accept this.
"Are you sure you can accept any price?" Tang Yuan had a half-smile on his face.
The old monk in gray robe did not hesitate and nodded firmly.
"That's good." Tang Yuan said with a smile, "Although the people of Huazhou have lost their souls and become sacrifices to Jiuyou, after being marked with Jiuyou's mark, they can only fall to Jiuyou, but the Fifth Avenue Ten, Tianyan 49, there is always a glimmer of hope in the world.”
"At this moment, Jiuyou's consciousness has not yet awakened. He only has instinct. As long as the same number of human souls are substituted as sacrifices, he can cross the sea and save all people."
"Of course... these souls must come from the earth. Immortal world, you also know that the soul essence of all living beings is slightly different from that of people in all worlds."
Hearing Tang Yuan's words, the gray-robed old monk seemed to have thought of something, and he looked frightened. Sedao: "How could you...?"
Tang Yuan nodded with a smile and said: "I know that in the lotus pond of your pure land, there are countless souls of believers. Use them to replace the people of Huazhou."
"What do you think?"