West Island.
Tianzhu Temple.
The Mahayana Treasure Hall.
Four divine monks sit quietly on a futon.
Facing the Abbot of Tianzhu Temple.
The four divine monks of Tianzhu Temple.
Hui Zheng, Hui Jue, Hui Ming and Hui Xin.
All of them were strong members of the Second Grade Enlightenment Realm of the Buddhist Sect.
The Abbot before them, on the other hand, was a first-ranking, righteous enlightenment realm powerhouse of the Buddhist sect.
The Buddhist school talks about Righteous Enlightenment, the meaning of which is to open up the knack of wisdom and to realise the supreme wisdom of all truths.
But a First Grade Zheng Jue has not yet reached this level, to realise the supreme wisdom of all truths.
“Dare I ask the abbot.”
“Where did the karmic fire on the half-saints come from in the Hao Ran Dynasty today?”
The voice rang out.
It was the voice of the divine monk Huixin.
He was the youngest among the crowd, looking to be around thirty years old.
Among the four divine monks, Divine Monk Huixin had the greatest reputation, not because of his age and cultivation, but because Divine Monk Huixin was indeed reputed to be the one who was about to be rightly enlightened.
He had a clear face, his features were even somewhat beautiful, his skin was like white jade, and as he sat on the futon, his gaze was even more incomparably clear as he looked at Abbot Garan.
“Amitabha Buddha.”
“The matter of karmic fire is not my Tianzhu Temple.”
Understanding the meaning of the other party’s enquiry, Garan opened his mouth to reply, informing the other party that this matter had nothing to do with the Tianzhu Temple.
“Then is my Buddhist sect involved?”
Divine Monk Hui Xin continued to ask.
The voice was calm, but it caused the remaining three divine monks to frown slightly.
The karmic fire on the half-saint’s body was definitely related to the Buddhist sect, only that none of the people were willing to say that it involved a dispute between the Buddhist sects.
To speak of complete greatness of light would certainly not do.
When there is a light side in the world, there is a dark side, and this is a truth they understand better.
So Huixin’s breaking of the sand like this was somewhat off-putting.
However, Abbot Garan sighed as he looked at Huixin and slowly spoke.
“I know what you want to say.”
“This matter has to do with the Buddhist sect.”
“But it also has nothing to do with the Buddhist sect.”
“There are many things that cannot be said to you until you are completely righteous, you are too idealistic.”
Abbot Garan spoke, and he was very straightforward, admitting that the karmic fire on the Half-Saint had something to do with the Buddha Sect.
It was also very clear what the other party wanted to hear.
“Humph.”
Hui Xin snorted coldly, and at that moment he stood up and looked at Abbot Garan and said.
“What is righteousness when you put the living beings out of your mind?”
“I would have guessed that there was a shadow of the Buddhist sect in this.”
Hui Xin frowned as he rose and said so, looking very angry.
But when this was said, the three remaining divine monks could not help but frown.
“Unbridled.”
“How do you speak to the abbot?”
“Huixin, although you have extraordinary qualifications and are expected to attain righteousness, you are too obsessed, how do you resemble a Buddhist disciple?”
The three divine monks spoke separately, they did not like Huixin like this.
“I am obsessed?”
“It is you who are really obsessed.”
“The Buddha’s law is natural, yet you and the others want to forcefully universalize all beings and become obsessed with demons, if this continues, the Buddhist sect will end up like the Wen Gong sooner or later.”
Hui Xin laughed coldly.
He was extremely unashamed of this kind of behaviour.
The beautiful name said something about universalizing all sentient beings, but in reality?
It was not for his own benefit.
What kind of Buddhism is this?
“Huixin, you have really acted recklessly.”
“Huixin, as one of the four divine monks of the Buddhist sect, you should think of my Buddhist sect, besides, this matter has nothing to do with my Tianzhu Temple, what are you holding onto this speech for?”
Hui Jue Hui Ming spoke up separately and angrily rebuked.
Huizheng, on the other hand, was silent.
“I, Huixin, am not for the Buddhist sect, but only for all beings.”
“Abbot, whether you listen or not, but I must say it.”
“To cross the heart is not to cross the people, and to cross the people is not to cross the heart.”
After saying this, Huixin directly turned around and left the hall, not wanting to stay here at all.
“Where are you going?”
Hui Jue frowned and asked the other party.
“To Zhengjue.”
“Sooner Zhengjue, sooner we can drive all you false Buddhas out.”
Hui Xin’s voice rang out, appearing somewhat treacherous.
“Unbridled.”
“Abbot, how dare Huixin say such treacherous words, do you still care?”
Hui Jue’s gaze was furious, the words sounded too harsh.
What did it mean to be a false Buddha?
They had worked so hard to promote Buddhism and travelled in all directions, preferring to suffer themselves rather than wishing the world’s living beings to suffer, but in the end they were insulted by their own people, how could this not make him angry?
“Amitabha Buddha.”
Abbot Garan folded his hands as he uttered a Buddhist hymn.
Whirling around, his gaze fell on several people.
“Huixin is the only person who has been expected to achieve righteousness in the thousand years of the Buddhist sect, and his thoughts are different from ours.”
“Let him be.”
The divine monk Garan spoke, not caring about what Huixin had done.
“Abbot, Huixin’s qualifications are good and his Buddhist karma is deep, but we can’t let him be like this.”
“If this continues, when he really takes charge of the Tianzhu Temple in the future, the Buddhist sect will only be in shambles.”
Hui Jue couldn’t help but speak up, looking a bit grumbly.
“No.”
“Huixin is my Buddhist sect’s only hope.”
“Alright, don’t bother with Huixin’s affairs, let him go on his own, if he understands, everything will be understood, if he doesn’t, then let him not understand.”
After Abbot Garan said these words.
Setting his gaze on the three.
“Nowadays, the Confucian lineage has been heavily damaged, and although Zhu Sheng suppresses the demons in the world, it is said that he can suppress them for three years, but the old ca*sock has carefully observed that Zhu Sheng can only seal them for one year at most.”
“And it is the yin power that is sealed, not the demons of the world, so one of these days, have someone spread the word about this.”
“Turmoil is coming, the Buddha Sect will flourish and prosper greatly, there are already forces in the East, South, North and even Central Continents that have taken the initiative to come to Lao Cai.”
“But if the Buddhist Sect wants to truly flourish, it still needs to enter the Central Continent.”
Abbot Garan said slowly.
Informing the crowd of this information.
In an instant, the crowd revealed their astonishment and looked at Abbot Garan with a look of curiosity.
“There’s a power in the Central Continent looking for us too? Is it that power?”
It was Divine Monk Hui Zheng, who was curious.
“The Primordial Yuan Dynasty.”
Abbot Garan gave his answer.
When he answered, the anticipation in the three men’s eyes instantly disappeared by half.
I thought it was the Great Wei Dynasty, but I didn’t expect it to be the Primordial Yuan Dynasty, which was indeed inexplicably a little disappointing.
“If the Buddhist sect wants to prosper, it will have to enter Great Wei after all.”
“Right now is a once-in-a-lifetime moment for our Buddhist sect, the three plans we discussed before, you will have to make a choice today.”
Abbot Garan spoke out and informed the three.
When this was said, the divine monk Huizheng was the first to speak up.
He was the monk who had previously wanted to dethrone Xu Qingnian.
“Abbot.”
“Each of these three plans is not the superior one.”
“If Abbot agrees, the poor monk would like to make another trip to the capital of Great Wei and invite Xu Qingnian into my Tianzhu Temple, then we will use the power of faith from the Western Continent, together with the 81 Buddhist Vajras of the Buddha Sect, to forcibly transmute him, wouldn’t that be extremely good?”
Hui Zheng spoke out.
He still felt that these three plans were extremely inappropriate and wanted to convince the Abbot to use his own methods.
“Huizheng.”
“Your idea is indeed good, but it is not an easy thing to try to transmute Xu Qingnian.”
“He has a First Grade martial artist behind him, and now he also carries the Great Wei State Luck, do you know why you didn’t succeed in transfiguring him that day?”
“It was caused by the national luck.”
“With your ability, you would not have been able to bring him into being, even if the old ca*sock himself had done it.”
“He is imbued with national luck and is a Confucian half-saint, so the path of enlightenment cannot be taken, but it can be attempted, just not as a main plan to do so.”
“We don’t have time to delay any longer, the real turmoil is about to come, if we don’t get the Buddhists to enter Great Wei and share the national fortune before this turmoil comes, it will be hard for the Buddhists to escape.”
“Make a good decision.”
Abbot Garan spoke, and as he spoke, his gaze was calm, but he gazed at the three, waiting for a reply.
“I agree with the debating of the Dharma.”
“I also agree to debate the Dharma.”
Both Hui Ming and Hui Jue agreed straight away.
Huizheng, on the other hand, was still torn.
After a while, Huizheng sighed and looked at the abbot and said.
“Since both senior brothers have agreed, then I agree.”
Hui Zheng gave his reply.
Agreeing to the matter of debating the Dharma.
“Amitabha Buddha.”
“In that case, Huijue, you proceed to prepare for the matter of debating the Dharma.”
“Start from the Eastern Continent and debate the Dharma all the way to Great Wei, using the Dharma debate to promote Buddhism, taking with you eight hundred sutra monks.”
“In this battle, only victory is allowed, not defeat.”
“If we win all the way, the Dharma will be boundless, and if we win the key debate in Great Wei, we will be able to share in Great Wei’s national fortune, and even if Great Wei does not agree, we will have achieved our goal.”
Abbot Garan commanded.
“Respectfully, I obey the dharma.”
Hui Jue folded his hands and answered.
“Huiming, you lead the millions of monks of my Buddhist sect in the Western Continent, scatter the world in all directions, subdue demons and eliminate devils, and no matter what hardships you encounter, you must not turn back, so that you can promote the righteousness of the Dharma for my Buddhist sect.”
Abbot Garan continued to speak.
“I respectfully obey the dharma.”
Divine Monk Huiming folded his hands and answered.
“Huizheng, during this period of time, you stay at Tianzhu Temple, do not go anywhere, and guard the temple.”
Abbot Garan looked at Huizheng and said so.
When this was said, the three people’s expressions changed slightly.
It was not that they were asking Huizheng to sit at Tianzhu Temple, but rather, what Abbot Garan meant when he said this was that he was going to go out.
“Abbot, are you going to be ready for this before there are any results?”
Hui Zheng opened his mouth and looked at Abbot Garan and asked thus.
“If this Dharma debate is successful, and if it is combined with the elimination of demons by millions of monks, the Buddhist sect will prosper greatly and the future will be unstoppable.”
“But if the debate fails, it will be like adding insult to injury for our Buddhist sect.
“Well, leave the superfluous matters to yourselves and go back to your preparations.”
When Abbot Garan said this, he did not go on.
Let the three leave.
The three looked at each other, and without saying anything more, they simply got up and left.
After the three had left.
Abbot Garan let out a long sigh.
The three plans for the great rise of the Buddhist sect were actually to debate the Dharma and correct the Buddha, and to remove the devil and promote the Dharma respectively.
The debate on the Dharma was a dispute over the Dharma, which would inevitably lead to the discontent of the major powers, especially if the debate was won, it would even lead to many enemies.
More than 500 years ago, the Little Thunder Sound Temple failed to debate the Dharma, and was therefore devastated.
Little Thunder Sound Temple lost to Zhu Sheng, and the loss was not unjust.
It was also the defeat to Zhu Sheng that led to the complete rise of the Confucian lineage, and the two were considered to have made enemies.
This time, however, there were no saints in Great Wei, and the only one that worried him was Xu Qingnian.
He was worried that the same thing would happen a second time.
Since ancient times, Buddhist Dharma debates had always led to great trouble, but the benefits of debating the Dharma were also irresistible.
Once the debate is successful, in the eyes of the world, the Buddhist sect will be high above the world, and it will be a battle for both the system and the hearts of the people, a battle for faith.
As for the subjugation of demons, it is even more likely to stir up controversy.
Apart from the Western Continent, there are also many other continents where many powers have taken root. If the Buddhist sect rashly goes to other continents to subdue demons and promote Buddhism, this is actually a kind of invasion.
In other words, they were helping Wei to suppress the scourge without the latter’s consent.
At present, however, the foundations of Confucianism have been severely damaged, so doing so is not a big problem, although it will still cause trouble, but at least there is an excuse.
After all, in a few years’ time, the world will be in chaos and the position of Buddhism is bound to rise.
And all this is still thanks to Zhu Sheng.
This was why he was in such a hurry; once he missed this opportunity, he would have to wait at least a few thousand years before he could encounter such a thing.
Seventy percent of the Confucian Way had been destroyed.
This in itself was an incredible event.
For the Buddhists, this was indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
As for the third plan.
It was the final plan.
If the Buddhist apologetics failed and the Buddhists failed to remove the demons and promote the Dharma, then the third plan would be the last chance.
Once the third plan was used, the Buddhist Sect was destined to prosper, but it would also pay an extremely painful price.
Extremely.
Extremely.
Tragic.
So much so.
In the blink of an eye, three days pa*sed.
Two pieces of news, spreading from the Western Continent, led to countless controversies for a while.
One, after a lapse of five hundred years, the Buddhist sect once again opened the path of debating the Dharma, starting from the Eastern Continent.
Secondly, the Buddhist monk Huiming had led a million monks to the four continents to quell the demons and save the world.
When the news came out, it instantly provoked all sorts of abuse.
“Defending the law again? Has the Buddhist sect forgotten the lesson of five hundred years ago?”
“Five hundred years ago, the Little Thunder Sound Temple debated the Dharma and what kind of harm did it do to everyone? And this is forgotten?”
“Another Dharma debate? The Buddhists really do have Confucianism on their mind.”
A stream of voices rang out, and there were extremely many curses all over the place.
Immortal clans, demon clans, demon dao, martial artists, and all the major continental lands were cursing the Buddha Sect.
It was simply because the Buddhist apologetic method was really extremely pitiful.
It uses the law of heaven to argue the truth of wisdom.
To put it in the simplest way possible, once the Buddhist school has started the debate, it is using the Buddhist faith and the Buddhist qi as the basis to bet against other systems.
The core purpose of the debate is to determine which system is more suitable for all the peoples of the world and for the nature of heaven and earth.
If you can’t beat the Buddhists, then you lose and you have to admit that Buddhism is profound and is the way of heaven and earth.
If you are a martial artist, then some of the qi of the martial lineage will be taken away by the Buddhists.
And as you get higher in rank, then more of the qi that belongs to your lineage will be taken away.
But the qi luck that the Buddhists get is not given to the Buddhists.
Rather, it requires the Buddhist Sect to debate the Dharma all the way through, and succeed in all of them, without failing once, preferably not even in a tie, but having to win all the way through in a row.
They must win the debate against the Immortals, against the Martialists, against the Demons, against the Demons and against the Confucians.
When the final sublimation is completed, then all these qi will be added to the Buddhist school, and the world will have to respect the Buddhist school as the first system.
In this way, Buddhism will truly flourish and be respected by the whole world.
The benefits will be endless.
Five hundred years ago, Buddhism was indeed very close to succeeding in gathering an infinite amount of qi, and all it needed was to argue its way to victory over Confucianism, and then Buddhism would be at its peak.
Unfortunately, the Buddhists did not expect the emergence of a literary sage in the Wei Dynasty.
This shattered their dreams.
At the same time, all of the Buddha’s qi was placed on Zhu Sheng, causing Confucianism to flourish.
The Confucian Way had always been favoured by heaven and earth, and with the Buddhists giving away so much qi, plus the fact that the Confucian Way had produced a literary sage.
In the past five hundred years, Confucianism has been able to get all the wind and rain it needs, with at least half of the credit coming from the Buddhists.
Naturally, when the Buddhists were about to start a new round of debates, the major powers began to ridicule the Buddhists.
They felt that the Buddhists had come to give Confucianism its luck again.
However, in reality, the people knew that this time was completely different from the last time.
Last time, a Vermilion Saint had emerged.
How could another saint come out this time?
Is the Buddhist Sect that unlucky?
Moreover, today’s Tianzhu Temple was far stronger than the Little Thunder Sound Temple back then.
Therefore, it is very likely that this time the Buddhists will succeed in arguing the Dharma.
In particular, this time the Confucian Way has been decimated by 70%, and the Confucian Way’s qi has dropped significantly.
Now that the Confucian Way has been wounded at its foundation, the Buddhist Sect is taking advantage of the situation and is playing its game too well.
But there is nothing that can be done about it.
After all, if I were in the Buddha’s shoes, I would have done the same.
But understanding is understanding, but cursing is still cursing.
The news was conveyed quickly.
In a flash, it had reached the Great Wei Dynasty.
At this very moment.
Great Wei Dynasty.
Kyoto.
The King’s Palace of Peace and Chaos.
Xu Qingnian had returned to the royal residence three days ago.
Three whole days.
Xu Qingnian did not go out for a single moment.
He was in his study writing the new state policy of Great Wei.
The content of the state policy.
Xu Qingnian started in two directions.
Agricultural and commercial development.
The development of the service industry.
The purpose of the development of agriculture and commerce was to feed the people of Great Wei, to fill the treasury of Great Wei, and to promote economic transactions, in which the merchants played a great role.
But Xu Qingnian is more concerned with restraining these merchants, after all, as long as they see profits, they will probably jump on them like crazy.
If we don’t find a way to restrict them in advance, then there will be monopolies everywhere, and the people will still be suffering.
These three days.
Xu Qingnian had written out the strategy for agriculture, commerce, government and industry.
But it was also extremely clear what Great Wei needed at the moment.
A breakthrough.
A complete breakthrough in technology.
In agriculture, fertilisers and labour-saving tools had to be developed.
The good fields of Great Wei had already been divided up, but there were a lot of barren fields, and even many uncultivated fields left vacant.
Although the people were willing to cultivate them, many did not choose to do so, or they were unable to do so.
This led to a shortage of manpower.
Therefore, if the Great Wei agriculture wants to achieve real abundance of food and clothing, it has to come up with ‘fertiliser’ ploughing tools’ itself.
The business is much better to say, control foreign exchange, increase taxes, set up a set of commercial law, such as anti-monopoly law and so on all added, of course, also support all kinds of small merchants, this is good to say.
The most important thing is of course free education.
Education is the foundation of the country and determines the upper limit of everything, no matter what it is.
But this point of free education can only be implemented if the state treasury is full.
The last one is work.
Xu Qingnian had almost no clue.
Xu Qingnian understood the concept of artillery.
But that kind of artillery is not very meaningful to manufacture, it is okay to bomb the readers, but to bomb the martial artists to bomb the cultivators, it is better to wash up.
“Ugh.”
A long sigh.
Xu Qingnian stopped writing.
For a moment, he had some brain pain.
Fertilizer, industry, and artillery.
If these three things could not be solved, one could not talk about unifying Zhongzhou in ten years.
If these three things could be solved.
Ten years was a conservative estimate.
With a bit of luck, three years might be enough to unify the Central Continent.
“God, please, show me a clear path.”
Xu Qingnian took a deep breath, he really had a feeling of being at his wits’ end this time.
It was at this moment.
Suddenly, a voice rang out.
“Your Majesty.”
“Real Lu is waiting for you in the lobby, saying that he has something for you.”
As Yang Hu’s voice rang out.
Xu Qingnian couldn’t help but get up.
Real Lu?
Lu Ziying?
At that moment, Xu Qingnian couldn’t help but walk towards the door.
