Chapter 372: Buddhism is flourishing

There was a look of enlightenment on the face of the lead, "I see, the junior brother is planning to make a big move on the Demon Dao this time, and my Buddhism will not interfere in this matter?"

"Yes, the Great Prosperity of the Demon Dao is the meaning of the Great Dao, and it is impossible for our Buddhism to win the Demon Realm no matter what, not to mention that we have taken refuge in the Demon Ancestor, so why bother to fight the right hand with the left hand and kill each other? Zhun Ti sneered.

"What the junior brother said is that since we are no longer from the Daomen, naturally we don't have to worry about it. Jie Yin and Zhun Ti glanced at each other, and each smiled a little.

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The human world, since the death of Li Shimin, the emperor who created the prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, has fallen into turmoil, after a bloody battle of wits and ruthlessness, once as Li Shimin's concubine of the martial arts, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi's Empress Wu Meiniang, finally ascended the throne and became the first female emperor since the rise of the dynasty in the human world, and the only orthodox female emperor in history.

Wu Zetian established himself as the emperor of Wu Zhou, changed the name of the country "Tang" to "Zhou", set the capital of Luoyang, and called it "Shendu".

After Wu Zetian ascended the throne, he felt that the throne was unstable, after all, the Tang Dynasty originally belonged to the Li family, and now it was stolen by her, so she naturally would not convince the people of Li below, so she followed the story of the Li Tang Dynasty and added a sacred halo to her seizure of power.

Previously, in order to cling to the immortals, Confucius was posthumously incarnated as an idol "Xiansheng", "Taishi", and "Wenxuan Wang"; Taoism in the world completed the transformation to Taoism and was designated as the state religion, and the 5,000 words of the Tao Te Ching became a Taoist classic, and Li Er became the leader of the "Laojun" sect, and also became the "Holy Ancestor" of the Li Tang Dynasty, posthumously giving the honorific title of "Holy Ancestor Emperor".

Historical records also record that Li Shimin also proposed to ask Xuanzang to translate the Tao Te Ching and give it back to Tianzhu, but it was unsuccessful because of Xuanzang's resolute opposition. However, foreign Buddhism was clearly stipulated by Li Shimin that the status of Taoists was above that of Buddhists, so that Taoism was always pressed on the top of Buddhism.

Now, Wu Zetian saw that Buddhism had taken deep roots in China with the emergence of the Tiantai sect of the easternization, especially the most influential Zen sect, so he completely overturned the situation of the previous three religions, vigorously promoted Buddhism, and went against its own path, clearly stipulating that the status of Buddhists was above that of Taoists.

In order to be able to deify himself, Wu Zetian even teamed up with Buddhists to forge Buddhist scriptures, saying that the Buddhist scriptures had already revealed that the heroine was coming to the dynasty. In Luoyang Longmen, the Fengxian Temple is the largest grotto in the Tang Dynasty grottoes of Longmen, this cave was excavated in the reign of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian of Tang Gaozong, built in 67 A.D., the Buddha statue of Lushena in the middle of the grotto is the largest Buddha statue in Longmen Grottoes, the shape is plump, the appearance is magnificent, the clothes are smooth, it has a high degree of artistic appeal, it is a masterpiece of exquisite art. (Purely historical)

This Buddha statue, with its plump and beautiful eyes, slightly upturned lips, is smiling, and its head is slightly lowered, looking down slightly, like a wise and kind middle-aged woman, which is respectful and not afraid.

This Buddha statue perfectly combines noble sentiments, rich feelings, open-mindedness and elegant appearance, and has great artistic charm. This statue is based on the face of Wu Zetian, who completely dressed himself as the embodiment of the Buddha. And the concept of Buddha also began to enter every household with her promotion.

In this way, Wu Zetian's body was covered with a sacred coat. In particular, Buddhism has begun to spread widely in the Eastern Tushi world, and with the spread of Buddhism, Wu Zetian's image has become more and more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and her dominance has become more stable.

Later, Tang monks traveled to the west to learn scriptures and returned, and the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures of the West Heaven were transmitted, which made up for many deficiencies in the teachings of Buddhism in the East and made the people of the East more worship and believe in Buddhism, and almost squeezed Taoism out of the East Land.

Not only that, but for the Daomen, Wu Zetian also ingeniously carried out a method of praising and secretly degrading them.

For example, some of the children of the Legalist sect were appointed by Wu Zetian as cool officials, although they held a lot of power, but all of them were related to criminal law, which made hundreds of people in Dongtu Shenzhou disgusted with what Legalism did to the extreme, and Legalism suffered an unprecedented blow.

All along, the master of the Daomen is the Sanqing, and now after the catastrophe of the gods, the Shangqing Tongtian saint directly retreats and does not reappear, although Lao Tzu is the controller of the Xuanmen, but in the mortal world to compete for incense luck is not to cultivate high, but also need their own subordinates.

Lao Tzu, the original two have always worn a pair of pants, and now the power of the most powerful in the world has also been hit, and the whole Taoist door is most suitable to describe with the words "lingering and breathing", and even many Sanqing Taoist temples that were once prosperous have been destroyed and abandoned, and are rarely patronized. This is worse than ever, and even the Taoist classics are almost lost, which shows that its decline is extreme!

As a Dongtu sect, it was so humiliated by outsiders on their own territory, and many monks up and down the Daomen were naturally indignant, proud of the fact that they had always looked down on the remote places of Western Buddhism, and now they couldn't accept this fact, a group of Daomen immortals couldn't wait to go down to kill this bold and reckless Wu Meiniang, and they couldn't wait to start a war with Buddhism immediately and fight it out.

It's a pity that although the soldiers below have this heart, the two people above who are really in charge don't have this idea.

As the two supreme saints of the Mixed Yuan Daluo Jin Immortal, they actually retreated at this moment, and they have always claimed to be "Pangu Authentic", and the second Qing of Hongjun is the first and the second is actually in retreat. Without even explaining a word to his disciples and grandchildren, he went into retreat, which made countless monks puzzled.

However, the retreat between the two only caused confusion among some juniors in the Daomen at most, and the rest did not cause much trouble. However, the Buddhism in the outside world, without the obstruction of the Taoist Sanqing, the power of the Buddhism is like a fire, burning, as if the entire Three Realms must be unified.

And without the heavenly saints as the backstage, in the face of the two saints of Buddhism, any resistance is as small as ants. After the retreat of the two saints, the disciples of the sect and Lao Tzu also went back to retreat, and without the support of the backbone, the saint sects from all walks of life almost collapsed one after another, to the point of destruction.

However, this is not really the end yet.

The various sects retreated, and even Nuwa had to recruit all the demon clans of Beiju Luzhou to the heavenly realm, so that they could temporarily gather to sit down in Bai Ze, so as not to be affected by the Buddhism. As the most special realm in the universe, no one dared to interfere, because there was that supreme existence behind him, and no one dared to violate it.

However, although no one in the Heavenly Realm dared to infringe on it, the Heavenly Court above the Nine Heavens, that is, the space that Guangming and Yao Chi deliberately created at the junction of the Heavenly Realm and the Flood Desolation in order to fool Sun Wukong, it was also the place where many gods of the Heavenly Court discussed things, and it was also the place where the Heavenly Court gave orders.

Now that Buddhism is about to flourish, the figures of Guangming and Yaochi in the heavenly court have disappeared directly, and although the rest of the heavenly gods have also left clones, their bodies have also gone home to retreat, and it is obvious that they also know that the power of Buddhism is too great now, and even the emperor and queen of heaven are afraid of it, not to mention them. As a result, Buddhism occupied the heavenly court and monopolized the nine weather fortunes.

And in the Netherworld Blood Sea, the Styx, the ancestor who is known as the immortal Styx River in the sea of blood, how can his combat power be comparable to that of a saint? At this moment, under the general trend of the Heavenly Dao, it is also the object of direct crushing, and the entire sea of blood has been directly reduced by half, and the other half is directly cut off by Zhun Ti and turned into a blue sea, as a necessary place for Buddhism to lead ghosts into the religion - "Sumeru Sea", and the book "The sea of suffering is endless, and turning back is the shore".

In the underworld, the Bodhisattva of the Jizo King, who was originally very low-key, also began to compete with the Ten Halls of Yama for the right to reincarnate at this moment. The Netherworld Mansion is equivalent to a vast Thousand Ages Realm! If you can really take away the luck here, enlightenment and sanctification are just a matter of raising your hands.

In the face of the rudeness of the King of Jizo, the King of the Ten Palaces originally planned to kill him directly, but just when they were about to make a move, Xudu sent a message to them, telling them to ignore it and give control of the underworld to the Buddha. Although the Ten Palaces of Yama were very puzzled, they had to listen to the words of Xudu.

For a time, the entire Flood World Realm, the three worlds of heaven, earth, and man, almost all the luck gathered on the body of the Buddha, this vast luck is enough for a person to immediately become holy, but it is a pity that although the Buddha is booming, the number of people is scattered too widely, but even so, this vast luck has also added countless geniuses to the Buddhism, and there are more than a dozen Da Luo Jin Immortals to break through to achieve quasi-saints.

What shocked the gods and Buddhas even more was that the Buddha, who had initially reached the pinnacle of quasi-sainthood, was even more fortunate at this time to reach the great perfection of the quasi-saint, and only needed to comprehend the laws of heaven before he could become holy on the spot.

All in all, Buddhism is prosperous, prosperous, and completely prosperous!

A fire of prosperity burned all over the Three Realms, invincible, vertical and horizontal, and downward, and there was no rival.