For the arrival of Huineng, Shenxiu was very surprised.

In Shenxiu's opinion, Huineng should take advantage of his inability to return to the temple at this moment, and intensively prepare for the battle for the throne.

But now that Huineng has condensed his divine thoughts and incarnated to Luoyang, isn't this all his previous plans useless?

The incarnation of the divine mind of the Buddha Sect must be obtained after obtaining the first fruit position of the Buddha's consciousness, it takes half of the power of the divine consciousness to condense, and the incarnation leaves the body, and its ontological strength immediately drops by half.

You must know that in addition to debate the scriptures, Zen Buddhism also has to fight the law. Only if you win both will you be eligible to inherit the ancestral throne.

Huineng sent his divine thought incarnation to Luoyang, which is equivalent to taking the initiative to send the handle to Shenxiu, how can Shenxiu not be surprised?

What exactly is his plot?

Shenxiu's thoughts turned in his heart, but he said: "Senior Brother Huineng, I don't know why you came to Luoyang?" ”

Hui Neng said respectfully: "Returning to Senior Brother, Senior Brother is here because the disciples under the Precept Hall made a big mistake, and I have come to bear the responsibility. ”

"Which disciple made a mistake and actually made a senior disciple come all the way to Luoyang?" Shenxiu asked indifferently.

Huineng looked solemn and whispered a few words to Shenxiu.

"What? "The Book of Floating Slaughter"? Shenxiu was suddenly moved and gasped, "Senior brother, it is related to the rise and fall of the reputation of my Buddhism, this kind of thing is not a joke!" ”

"How dare you deceive Senior Brother?" The corners of Huineng's mouth hooked up a trace of bitterness, "The poor monk only found out this morning that this matter was done by Huikong and the others, and then he took advantage of the cause and effect of these two people, and he must have been poisoned." And the scriptures must have fallen into the hands of the Daomen. ”

"The poor monk thought about it, and the murderer must be the national teacher Li Rong, so he didn't dare to delay for a moment, and rushed to Luoyang with the condensation incarnation. When such a catastrophe occurred, the poor monk could not escape the blame, and he must not let the senior brother rashly bear the cause and effect without knowing it. ”

"How dare they!" Shenxiu was full of anger and fear, the consequences of this incident were too serious, he could fully imagine that if he was refuted by the Taoist Sect with the "Futu Sutra" during the debate, so that everyone knew that the sages and monks of Buddhism in the past dynasties were all liars, then what kind of face would he have to face the millions of Buddhist monks?

Even if everyone knows that his Shenxiu is just unlucky, but this kind of earth-shattering event that is destined to be passed down through the ages, as a failed background board, will definitely be angered by the entire Buddhism, and when the time comes, what will he think about the ancestral position of Zen Buddhism, he will be imprisoned and thought about for the rest of his life, and he will be stinky for 10,000 years, which is his only end!

"Buddhist scum!" Shenxiu was so angry that he trembled, this matter was too vicious, he did not hesitate to pull the entire Buddhist gate to accompany the funeral, and he was going to completely destroy him!

"Amitabha Buddha ......" Hui Neng sighed, "Senior brother, this matter started because of the poor monks, and all kinds of sins naturally inflicted on me. Senior brother, Zen Buddhism must have someone take over the mantle of the master, you don't have to get involved in this matter, let's go back to Dongshan. ”

"This ......" Shenxiu looked at him for a long time as if he knew Huineng for the first time: "Senior brother, do you know that if you bear this heavenly cause and effect, you will never be able to turn over." ”

Huineng smiled slightly: "If I don't go to hell, who will go to hell?" ”

It's such a simple single sentence that makes Shenxiu completely moved!

If I don't go to hell, who will? I'm afraid every monk has said this sentence, and Shenxiu often says it, but at this moment, this sentence was said by Huineng in an extremely relaxed tone, and Shenxiu felt the incomparably heavy weight of this sentence for the first time.

What kind of great compassion and great courage is this?

What kind of perfect bodhichitta is this?

Shenxiu was like being drunk in the head, and all kinds of past things flew by in his sea of consciousness, and he looked at Hui Neng for a long time, and suddenly muttered: "Contemplating the Bodhisattva of Freedom, when he walks deep in Prajnaparamita, he sees that the five aggregates are empty...... It is the emptiness of all laws, which is neither born nor destroyed, neither impurified nor impure, neither increased nor decreased......"

He read and read, he burst into tears, knelt deeply in front of Huineng, threw himself to the ground, and cried in a trembling voice: "Senior brother Huineng has the wisdom of no teacher, and he has a deep understanding of superiority, I ...... It's better too! ”

Huineng smiled and said happily: "Amitabha, congratulations to Senior Brother Yuanzhao for his pure consciousness and eternal ignorance." ”

"Amitabha Buddha ......"

Shenxiu is gone.

He didn't stay, didn't have to stay, and couldn't stay.

Bearing the cause and effect of this matter is Huineng's great will and enlightenment, and this is Huineng's opportunity to become a Buddha, and he cannot stop it, let alone replace his merits.

Lu Heng and Li Chunfeng watched that scene from afar, and they vaguely guessed a few points, and they were all moved.

Li Chunfeng was silent for a long time before he sighed: "Senior brother, junior brother, have you seen it?" This is Buddhism. ”

He pointed at Huineng and said, "This person only needs to be dormant for a few years, and he will become a peerless monk." No matter what you and I do, the reputation of the Buddhist monks of the past dynasties has landed, and in the end, only Huineng made a wedding dress. ”

Lu Heng nodded slowly and said, "It's worthy of Hui Neng, Gao Ming!" ”

The "Futu Sutra" was made public to the world, and it was originally a catastrophe for Buddhism, but Hui Neng found the opportunity for himself to attain the fruit position in this catastrophe and turned the crisis into an opportunity.

Shenxiu only saw the disadvantages of this matter, but did not see the benefits of this matter, and the Zen machine had been lost, so he could only go.

And Hui Neng bears this cause and effect for the entire Buddhism, which is a great calamity and a great merit, as long as the "Futu Sutra" is made public, his soaring momentum will no longer be stopped.

That's why Li Chunfeng sighed like this, Huineng is indeed much smarter than Shenxiu.

At this time, even if Lu Heng did not disclose the "Futu Sutra", Huineng still saved the Buddha from a catastrophe, and still gained great merit.

No matter what Lu Heng does next, he will achieve Huineng, this is Huineng's wisdom!

It is worthy of the six ancestors!

For a while, Lu Heng and Li Chunfeng were silent.

The time for a stick of incense soon came, and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites slowly walked up to the stage with a solemn expression, surrounded by the left and right.

Just as he was about to announce the beginning of the debate, his expression suddenly changed, and his eyes widened.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound of neat footsteps like a landslide sounded, and I saw a column of forbidden troops in all directions outside the field, with bright armor and majestic and solemn, approaching the center of the debate together.

The onlookers panicked slightly, but soon shouted to calm them down.

"The Son of Heaven has arrived!"

With the sound of the order, the people hula knelt on the ground, and the mountain shouted long live.

The attendant of the Ministry of Rites ran all the way to meet him, and after a while, the emperor entered the field surrounded by Jin Wuwei.

"The minister sees Your Majesty, the minister has missed the distance, please forgive Your Majesty."

"Qing Ping." The Emperor came down from the royal car, looked around, and asked, "Hasn't the debate begun yet?" ”

The waiter of the Ministry of Rites said: "Your Majesty, the time has come, and this is about to begin." ”

The emperor nodded, looked at the monks and the Taos on the high platform, his gaze fell on Lu Heng, and he stayed for a while before saying: "The Buddha and the Tao have been arguing with the scriptures and righteousness, and it has been six hundred years. I often know the classics of the classics, is the order of the Confucian school of its advantages and disadvantages, know the first Buddha and then the importance of Yixia, this is the final conclusion, I also have a precept, Buddhism has not yet obeyed. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked!

The meaning of this sentence is that I can be sure that the Taoist sect is stronger than the Buddhist sect in any respect, which is nothing to argue, and I have always felt that the Buddhist sect should not fight, and I have reprimanded the Buddhist sect, but the Buddhist sect does not listen.

The emperor suddenly said such a sentence before the debate, which was equivalent to a race between the two, and the referee broke the leg of one of them early!

This is obvious favoritism, the shady curtain of red fruits!

For a while, the eyes of all the monks on the high platform were red, and their faces were full of grief and indignation.

They never thought that the good situation that was supposed to be a group of Buddhist monks encircling and suppressing the national teacher and making him lose face was poured by the emperor with a basin of ice water before it began.

You must know that in such a large public, every word the emperor said is to be recorded in history, which is the emperor's official statement in public that the Buddha is the first Buddha, which is equivalent to determining that the dynasty will respect the Tao and suppress the Buddha from now on.

How can this be accepted by the Buddhist monks?

"Amitabha!" The monks chanted the Buddha's horn for a long time, but refused to respond to the emperor's words, and expressed their protest in this way.

The emperor also knew that what he said just now was arrogant and unreasonable, and he was oppressive with power, but he was also quite helpless, since ancient times, Buddhism and Taoism debated scriptures, almost all of them ended in fiasco, and look at the hundreds of Buddhist monks at today's conference, each of them seems to be practicing the Tao, on the other hand, there are only a dozen people, and they all look strange, and their appearance is not good.

Even if you only look at the surface, you know that the Daomen will lose!

Whenever the Daomen fights for some energy, the emperor will not be so anxious to set the tone for this debate. In this way, as long as the Buddhists do not want to completely offend him, the emperor, they will understand how to behave in the next debate conference.

Emperor Chrysostom Yuyan just finished saying that Buddhism is not as good as Taoism, but you immediately refuted Taoism as useless, what are you Buddhism going to do? Are you against me, the emperor?

Li Qing, Li Qing, I don't hesitate to help you, this hard work can always dissipate your resentment, right?

The emperor was very worried in his heart, looked at Lu Heng, and in his mind, as soon as his words came out, today's debate conference Daomen can be regarded as a victory, and the national teacher has established his position in the Daomen, and at the same time consolidated his prestige, which can be regarded as being able to erase the mustard between the previous monarchs and ministers, right?

However, the emperor was destined to be disappointed, if this love was before Huineng appeared, Lu Heng would really pinch his nose and accept it silently.

However, after Hui Neng replaced Shenxiu, the more ruthlessly the debate suppressed Buddhism, the more Hui Neng could be achieved.

Lu Heng didn't even have the idea of not taking out the "Futu Sutra", how could he want to suppress Buddhism through improper shady scenes?

Therefore, the emperor's move is still only the achievement of Huineng alone.

Subsequently, the emperor said some words of encouragement, and also deliberately emphasized that today's debate and fighting should be "point to point", and no casualties will be allowed.

Obviously, this is the emperor who saw that the Taoist sect was outnumbered and the Buddhist sect was overwhelming, so he deliberately put a shackle on the Buddhist gate, so as not to hurt Li Rong by the monks.

Lu Heng and Li Chunfeng glanced at each other, quite helpless, the emperor's shackles are not Buddhism, but Taoism.

God assists!