Chapter 17 The Four Monks of the Lies
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The announcement of the Shushan Sword Sect and the Wutai Buddhist Sect was equivalent to adding a spoonful of oil to the hot pot, and with a "sting" sound, the Central Continent cultivator world became even more lively.
The Shushan Sword Sect and the Wutai Buddhist Sect are the two most special sects in Central Continent.
The former Shushan Sword School's dojo is on the Shu Mountain in Liangzhou, hence the name.
The members of this sect are all composed of sword cultivators, they do not cultivate the four external skills of talismans, refining weapons, pills and formations, and the exercises they practice are similar, and their cultivation is placed on a "sword" in their hands.
In fact, sword cultivation is not really all about "swords", swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, etc., as long as the hardware belongs, it can be used for cultivation. However, it is only in the name of the sword, and the cultivation is the sword of the unity of man and sword, but in fact, it is not necessary to use the sword.
Their cultivation level is not divided according to the current mainstream nine stages of body refining, qi refining, god refining, vein condensation, knotting pills, yuan infants, transforming gods, returning to the void and joining the path to the sacred, but is divided into six realms: sword heart is clear, man and sword are one, my heart is the sword, the sword is the heart of heaven, the heart of heaven is my heart, and the sword is one.
The Yangtian Lake female sword cultivator Feng Wanjing that Li Zisheng met in the Baibao Ring was actually only at the stage of sword heart enlightenment, but just such a lowest-level sword cultivator could compete with Fang Tianya, who was half-step qi refining.
However, the cultivation method of sword cultivation looks very different from the current mainstream immortal cultivation method in Jiuzhou, but in fact, it is the same goal. It's nothing more than sword cultivation cultivating himself into a treasure soldier, and the latter cultivating himself into a magic weapon. They all want to transform their original life forms, so as to get rid of the great horror between life and death.
This kind of cultivation method has extremely high requirements for the qualifications of cultivators, and it is one of the few who cannot wait for the innate Xiao Zhou Tian to come to the door to apprentice. Instead, he had to go out and find the cultivation school of the heir.
One of the great advantages of sword cultivation is that it is easy first and then difficult, and the combat power in the early stage is far better than that of peers, so although the qualification requirements for cultivators are relatively high. The Shushan Sword Sect and other sects have quite a few people, and there are hundreds of them in total.
Now the surname of the master of the Shushan Sword Sect cannot be listed, and the number of the Tao is born.
His cultivation has reached the stage of sword for the heart of heaven, which is equivalent to the spirit immortal of the condensation stage, but his combat power is definitely far greater, and some people even think that he is the strongest cultivator except for the old monster on Kunlun Mountain.
The latter, Wutai Buddhism, is a sect composed of Buddhist temples on Wutai Mountain.
Mount Wutai is located in the western part of Jizhou. Because it gathers Buddhist believers from Aurora Subcontinent, it is called Wutai Buddha Mountain.
Buddhism in Middle-earth is not a native religion, but a foreign method introduced from the southern Aurora subcontinent. It also has a fairly long history. The history of the introduction to the Middle Continent can be traced back to the ancient times when the Great Nine Continents were not isolated.
When the ancient gods ruled the Great Nine Continents, the Nine Continents of the world were not blocked by the Heavenly Trench Jedi, and the human beings who were part of the gods and demons and the demon clan were very free. So, during that period, a group of Buddhists came to Middle-earth. The opening of the mountain gate to preach the scriptures attracted a large number of people from the demon clan.
Later it became known. Born in the battle between the ancient gods, Middle-earth is surrounded by various battlefield relics, which also blocks its path to the other eight continents.
However, this pair of Central Continent Buddhism, which has lost its connection with the main sect of Buddhism on the Aurora Subcontinent, has not been hindered, and they still pass on their Dharma and recite their scriptures. And their ideas were quite appetizing to the rulers and gods of the time, so much so that they actually became the state religion of the earthly court.
To put it bluntly, the concept of Buddhism is "retribution", which is nothing more than doing good in the past life and enjoying happiness in this life, and doing evil in this life. Sin in the afterlife.
Also, after the death of living beings, the souls and primordial spirits do not dissipate between heaven and earth. Rather, it is reincarnated in the six realms according to the merits and sins accumulated in this life, which are: 1) the heavenly path, 2) the asura path, 3) the humane path, 4) the animal path, 5) the hungry ghost path, and 6) the hellish path.
No matter what kind of life you are, as long as you accumulate virtue and do good deeds, you can be reborn in the upper three realms, namely the heavenly path, the asura path, and the human path, and if you do a lot of evil, you will naturally fall into the lower three realms, the animal path, the hungry ghost path, and the hell path.
This kind of religion of persuading people to be "good" can certainly arouse the favor of the rulers, and can also comfort the demon clans in the middle and lower classes, including human beings, of course, so it was widely spread before the Battle of the Heavens. The river map view in the thirteen forts in Jingnan was originally also a Buddhist temple ruins.
However, consolation is only consolation after all, and in that era, human beings faced the bloody reality every day, and in the end, they could only pick up the butcher's knife and become a Buddha for the time being.
As the cultivation realm of human cultivators became higher and higher, and the study of their own primordial gods became more and more thorough, and finally those masters appeared...... Well, the bald donkey is complete nonsense.
After the death of the living soul, the soul and the primordial spirit obviously still exist in the world, but after a long time, they have been consumed by the vitality of heaven and earth, where did they come from the past and present lives, the past and the future?
And at that time, Buddhism was on the side of the ruler of the demon god of the previous dynasty and participated in the battle of the heavens. However, these bald donkeys are not weak in their ability to watch the wind and look at the scenery, of course, they themselves call it "Tianyantong".
As soon as they saw that the momentum of the demon gods was not good, the Buddhist leaders at that time declared that "God has the virtue of a good life", withdrew from the war and strictly maintained neutrality, and returned to Wutai Mountain, where Buddhist temples gathered, to close the mountain gate, and since then they have not heard anything outside the window, just waiting for humans and demon gods to divide the victory and defeat.
The upper-class figures of Buddhism escaped this catastrophe, but the disciples and grandchildren scattered all over the country fell into blood mold.
In a large-scale war such as the Battle of the Heavens, if the two sides do not help each other, they will kill both sides, and in the later stage, the battle level will reach the level of destruction of the world, and no one on either side will leave their hands behind. Those Buddhist temples and Buddhist disciples were inevitably affected by the pond fish.
By the end of the Battle of the Heavens, all the other lineages of Buddhism in Central Continent were uprooted except for Wutai Mountain of the main sect.
But because of this, the high-end combat power of Buddhism was intact, and they also took this opportunity to introduce Yuanshi into the Buddhism cultivation system, and used it to polish the body, which can be regarded as making up for the shortest piece of wood in Buddhism's cultivation.
At this time, there are still such a group of strong guys in Central Continent now, but these bald donkeys are still quite knowledgeable, claiming that they are also a part of the human race, and there are indeed not many demon clans in Buddhism at that time, more precisely, these demon clans have become "Dharma Protector Beasts".
Therefore, at that time, the human monks who were about to vomit in the war also pinched their noses and recognized it.
Of course, the grand occasion of the Buddhist gate of the world's temples and temples was also blown away by the rain and wind. It was from that time that Buddhism began to learn from the immortal gate, and the mountain gate was opened to recruit human beings to teach Buddhism.
What "karma says", what "past and present lives", is now just regarded as a mode of meditation practice, and is no longer their core ideology.
Not to mention, Buddhism can have the status of the past, and its practice method is indeed commendable.
To put it bluntly, there is actually only one method for Buddhism, and it is simple and easy to do, and it is suitable for all sentient beings. That's visualization.
In fact, there is a saying that the contemplation ideas that human cultivators are using now are actually learned from Buddhism, and because of this incense, they were let go.
Similar to the contemplation of human immortals, Buddhism's contemplation is to imagine itself as the various Buddhas, bodhisattvas, arhats, celestial maidens, Dharma protectors, and so on in their teachings. Over time, these Buddhists will be able to equip themselves with some of the power of these "imagined" gods.
According to Buddhism, this is called "becoming a Buddha in the body."
Nowadays, there is no person in charge of Wutai Buddhism, and the most famous are the so-called four great monks, the master of Tibetan mustard in the Hanging Temple, the monk of the White Horse Temple, the abbot of Yongming of the Asoka Temple, and one is the Cihang Master in the "Women's Jungle" Lianhua Nunnery.
These four great monks are actually not the strongest combat power on Wutai Mountain, but they are undoubtedly the four most famous monks. The main reason is that these four great masters have a very high appearance rate, and they are four live advertisements that have been running around all year round.
Because of these four live advertisements, the strength of Buddhism has risen sharply in recent years, which just fills the gap in the power of the northwest of Central Continent. Unlike the sects that are full of land in the northeast of Central Continent, there are only a few large sects in the northwest, where the land is relatively barren, such as the Northern Heaven Xuanwu Sect, the Western Extreme Desolation Sect, and the Heavenly Imperial Sect. So the Middle-earth Buddhist Gate that took the lower route was welcomed by the mortals there.
Among the four great monks, Master Zang Mustard is proficient in medical skills, especially for the cultivator's inner demons have a unique method of healing, and it is even more rare that he does not accept medical fees, so there are countless lay disciples who worship him by his favor.
Endless monks are good at cooking, a vegetarian banquet does not know how much to pour the gluttony of the Central Continent cultivation world, even the heavenly kitchen door also has to learn from it, his vegetarian food is known as a dish and a world, a taste of a Bodhi, not only can replenish the vitality, but also can see the nature of the heart, the world praises it as "vegetable root Zen".
The abbot of Yongming is in charge of the financial power of Wutai, and it is rare for him to be an outsider but he is good at business and financial management, not only to take care of the business affairs of the entire Buddhist sect in an orderly manner, but also to participate in the north and south of Zhongzhou, and is an important partner of Tiantongmen in the north. It is particularly worth mentioning that in recent years, he took advantage of the fading strength of Tiantongmen, and the fragrant flower coupons he launched became another kind of iron coupons, and began to gradually replace food stamps as the common currency in the northwest.
But the most famous of them all is the Cihang Master of Lianhua An. Unlike the previous three monks, Mrs. Cihang also became famous in the past two years and became a rising star of Buddhism.
In fact, it was only after Liu Wufangxing's record that this "divine monk" who also started with singing appeared. But it makes sense that people are famous. The innate conditions of the flawless singer are really good, but they are not overwhelming, she has the first advantage, and there are songs written by Li Zisheng for her.
And Cihang Shitai completely relied on her profound strength to enjoy her fame and countless fans, and she didn't sing those vulgar slang songs, only Buddhist music. Her voice was ethereal and clear, with a soothing power that not only mortals loved, but even Middle-earth cultivators used her music as a tool for calming their minds. (To be continued......)
ps: Although Murong is also a big man, he still has summer vacation syndrome.
When it comes to summer, I don't feel comfortable in the room, and I always think about beer and seafood beach bikinis, which is like grass growing in my heart. Not to mention code words, even work can't lift the spirit.
Let me overdo it a little bit, and delay the rest of the episode a little. I'm sorry, guys.