“Today, Xuan Guang, a traitor to our sect, is punished by kneeling here and shall never rise until his body decays and turns to dust.”
When the disciples heard that Xuan Guang had been captured, they all looked up at the figure in the sky with admiration in their eyes.
Since Qing Yu’s ascension to the throne, the status of the True Martial Sect had risen steadily, and the disciples had come to respect the new Sect Leader like a god.
Now that Xuan Guang, a traitor who had been at large for many years, had been captured, the crowd naturally gave the credit to the Sect Leader and looked up to him.
At the same time, word of Qing Yu’s actions spread quickly to the outside world, and it was not long before many people knew what Qing Yu had done to Xuan Guang.
There is no way around it, even a big shot who snaps his nose has a deep meaning, not to mention the fact that Qing Yu inflicted such a severe punishment on Xuan Guang.
The more powerful Qing Yu became, the more his status grew, and his every move would naturally be noticed by the world. Many members of the Daoist clan interpreted this as a warning from the True Martial Monarch to those who serve him not to commit treachery.
Otherwise, two more stone statues would not have been placed in front of the white jade steps.
In particular, a certain Daoist hermit who was still under house arrest at the True Martial Sect was laughing bitterly, his scorn for Qing Yu deepened, and he dared not make a move.
And the Buddhists, who are the Daoist Sect’s greatest rivals nowadays, see this as a deterrent from Qing Yu, declaring that the Daoist monarch does not mind a few more stone statues of bald a*ses.
Unknowingly, Qing Yu also enjoyed the treatment of Mr. Lu Xun, with every move carrying deeper meaning.
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In the Great Zen Temple, Xin Yuan and Wu Lai are once again together. The two Buddhist supreme beings are both worried about the situation of the Buddhist sect today.
Xin Yuan has changed into more than ten different phases, both with sad eyes and faces.
“Dozens of Buddhist temples have been tragically slaughtered by the demons of the Devil’s Way, while our Buddhist sect is finding it difficult to enter the territory of Northern Zhou to take revenge, all the monks are angry and find it hard to contain.
Now, there is the True Martial Monarch to intimidate both the Buddhists and the Taoists, so that the Taoists will follow him and the Buddhists will fear him.
The abbot of the Great Zen Temple seemed to have reached the point of no return.
The Buddhist sect had recently been hit by a series of bad news, first the Great Zen Temple was attacked, leaving only one monk left behind, and then dozens of Buddhist temples were slaughtered, but the Great Zen Temple, as the head of the Buddhist sect in the Central Plains, was helpless.
The unification of the Daoist clan, which was originally a scattered group of forces in the palm of the Qing Yu Daoist monarch, has become a strong threat to the Buddhist clan.
All this has pushed the Great Zen Temple, and the Buddhist Sect, to the edge of a precipice.
“The successive blows have caused the monks to have no more faith in the Great Zen Temple. If the Buddhist Sect is to work together, it must also be given hope, and the opening of the Pure Land is imperative, otherwise, the Buddhist Sect is in danger of extinction.” Xin Yuan said in a deep voice.
The successive defeats of the Great Zen Temple, the destruction of its temples and its inability to pursue and kill those in the devil’s path had left many Buddhist temples restless and not as obedient as before. But of all the Buddhist sects today, Da Chan Monastery was the only one that could be the leader and lead the monks to fight against the Daoist sect.
Heart’s Edge’s words are not alarmist, but are indeed true.
In this crisis, Wu Lai finally relented and sighed, “Then let us open the Pure Land. At the time of the Buddha Bathing Festival, gather ten thousand monks, with you and I at the head, and open the gates of the Pure Land with one accord.”
The method of opening the Pure Land left behind by the Buddha was in fact very simple, as all that was needed was to gather enough Buddha’s power to open it. However, the amount of this Buddha power was desperately large. Even the two supreme beings, Xin Yuan and Wu Lai, were not enough to open the gate of the Pure Land, and ten thousand monks were needed to a*sist.
Heart’s Edge had been trying to persuade Wu Lai to help him. Otherwise, even if he alone had gathered ten thousand monks, he would not have dared to say that he could open the gate of the Pure Land.
Now, seeing that he had achieved his goal, even Xin Yuan, with his magnanimity, had a glimmer of joy in his eyes. However, the glimmer of joy was short-lived, and Xin Yuan used his Vajra Heart to hold his mind in place, so that Wu Lai, who was good at perceiving the mind, would not discover the joy in his heart.
“The Buddha Bathing Festival is in five days’ time, so I will first meditate and calm my mind, and I will see you then, Abbot Xin Yuan.”
“Please!”
Xin Yuan rose and personally escorted him out the door, watching Wulai leave.
Until Wulai’s figure disappeared for a long time, Xin Yuan was still standing outside the quiet room, looking at the direction in which Wulai had departed, and remained silent for a long time.
However, Xin Yuan’s eyes were not as calm as they appeared to be. In his eyes, he is sometimes vicissitudes, sometimes vigorous, sometimes soft like water. —— Although his face remains unchanged, all the various forms of life are in his eyes.
“Finally —— we have reached this day.”
Heart edge raised his head, his face seems to be sentimental and reminiscent, “If there is a hearer who has heard and believed and can believe that the Buddha is the abiding Dharma. Such a person is as rare as a blossom. If after my nirvana one hears such a sublime cla*sic of the Mahayana and has faith in it, he will know that he will not fall into the path of evil in the next hundred billion years.
This is the great Nirvana, and so it is ——”
The voice is so small that it seems like a thousand echoes or whispers, and the complexity of the emotions in each is difficult to express.
The sutra recited by Xin Yuan was the text of the Great Nirvana Sutra, which is widely circulated in Buddhism, but is there really a Nirvana in this world, a Buddha who is reborn out of silence?
This, Heart’s Edge did not say, and no one else was present to ask this question of him.
He simply looked at the sky for a while and then returned to a calm face, as if the previous sorrow and worry did not exist at all, and turned back to his quiet room to begin his daily chanting and meditation.
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Late at night, the divine capital of the Northern Zhou.
The night was gloomy, with only a curved crescent moon casting a meagre light in the night sky at the beginning of the month.
But at a certain moment, a full moon rises from the divine capital, giving this imperial capital of the Northern Zhou a frosty white glow.
“This demon body is more amazing than I expected, to have such a powerful power leaking out at the time of the breakthrough.” Yin Tian Tian looked at the bright moon in the sky and muttered to himself.
There were visions when one broke through the Tong Shen, but unless one deliberately showed off, there would not be such exaggerated visions.
The reason for such a strange appearance now was not because Yun Wuyue had deliberately made her presence known in the dead of night, but because she had failed to control all her true qi when she first broke through, thus causing it to intermingle with heaven and earth and give rise to such a vision.
“With the holy qi of this full moon, there is no harm in saying holy body, it is better not to say demon body.” Ye Lingxiang came forward and laughed.
“Then let’s call it the ‘Tai Yin Holy Body’,” Yin Tian Tian said, “If there is no moon breakthrough, then it is time for the Holy Body to be popularised within the sect. The Yin Demon Sect will have a completely strong and new atmosphere in my and Yue Wu’s hands.”
Regarding the martial arts of the Yin Devil Sect, Yin Tian Tian was actually very dissatisfied. Although she had stepped out of the Yin Devil Sect’s fence, there were still many people in the sect who were still trapped in the past.
If everyone could be allowed to practise according to the Tai Yin Way, then the Yin Devil Sect’s legacy could be pa*sed on for a long time, without the possibility of going back to the old ways of the past.
“It will be so.” Ye Lingshan said.
