Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 419: Rotten Heart Monk Fruit

"The junior brother of Taoist Wutai who specializes in the magic way, the magic way celestial being Corrupted Heart Arhat Sikong Xi?"

Gu Nan was stunned for a moment and said a name. Taoist Minghua was curious. Gu Shang seldom told him such things, so he naturally asked after hearing it.

After thinking for a while, Gu Shang frowned and said, "I originally thought these things had nothing to do with you, so I didn't say much. Now that there is a possibility of a battle with the Wutai Sect, I will tell you a few things."

"Sikong Xi's cultivation was quite good. In his early years, he and Wutai Taoist were known as the two great geniuses of the Central Plains Demonic Path. He practiced the four major demonic systems and tried to make the principles of the four major demonic paths restrain each other, forming a dynamic balance and advancing his own cultivation step by step. But as Wutai Taoist turned to the Xuanmen, he also gave up his original path and specialized in the Buddhist and Demonic Path. Because he was good at targeting Buddhist and Taoist monks, he liked to corrupt their minds and claimed to have achieved the status of Arhat, so he got the nickname of Corrupted Heart Arhat."

"Can the Buddhist and Demonic traditions also achieve the status of Arhat?"

Taoist Minghua was a little confused, so Shao Siming began to explain.

“Don’t think that the other person is just a powerful demon when you hear about Buddha and Demon. As far as I know, before this person turned to the demon path, he was a resident bodhisattva who had attained the highest level of Buddhahood. The three resident bodhisattvas who remain in the world today are his fellow disciples. However, for some unknown reason, he later turned to the demon path, which became the greatest disaster for Buddhism.”

"Therefore, many of the Buddhist and Demonic traditions are still essentially Buddhist systems, but they are too extreme and have deviated from the right path and fallen into the demonic path. However, there is nothing wrong with the philosophy, and one can achieve the status of Arhat through practice... Wait... Who's there!"

Shao Siming suddenly turned his head to look to the side, and swung the purple bamboo branch in his hand. The sound of the tide surged and spread outward, and a monk wearing a white monk robe and looking like a handsome young man appeared not far away.

His eyes were bright, as if they contained stars, but once you looked into their eyes, you would feel as if you were seeing billions of colors, unable to tell what was real or fake.

"Amitabha, although the magic you perform has changed, the foundation should be the method of the South China Sea Tide Sound? Such magical powers are useless to me."

The monk raised his hand and pressed down, and the sound of the tide around him dissipated. Shao Siming's eyes turned slightly cold, and the purple bamboo branch shook again. Waves of wonderful sounds rang out, shattering the monk's arm and turning it into mist that dissipated in the sky.

"Sikong Xi, if you were here in person, my magical powers would naturally be ineffective against you, but you dare to say such a thing with just a little thought?"

Although Shao Siming said this, in fact the Taiyi Two-Phase Ring fell down and gently rotated around her. Chu Tai's power was revealed, causing Sikong Xi's eyes to slightly condense, and she looked at Shao Siming and whispered.

"I was wondering why Yunchi only blocked my original body and didn't care about my thoughts. It turns out that there are masters like you here who can send down magical powers across the infinite void. This perception ability is not much inferior to that of a Bodhisattva."

Shao Siming ignored the other party's compliment and just asked coldly: "Why are you here?"

"I just heard someone mention me, so I took a moment to take a look."

Hearing this, Gu Nan sneered and said, "Hehe, I have also heard a little about the abilities of the Corrupted Heart Arhat. Don't you feel ashamed to hear such a cheap trick coming out of your mouth?"

"As long as it works, why bother if it's inferior?"

Sikong Xi clasped his hands together, looked at Shao Siming and said, "I am following my senior brother's order to help take care of the situation of the surrounding sects' aura gathering. I sensed that the auras of the two useless people, He Zai and Lu Ming, suddenly dissipated. I was curious and invited them to observe. I didn't expect to see Taoist Yunchi."

"Come to think of it, isn't your Jinhua Sect also at odds with the Emei Sect? Why did Taoist Yunchi come here to protect you? Could it be that you have some kind of deal in secret, and want to plot against my senior brother?" Shao Siming could sense that Sikong Xi was not only talking to him, but also to Minghua, Gu Nan and Taoist Yunchi on the other side.

Moreover, at the same time Sikong Xi opened his mouth, an inexplicable force spread outward, trying to influence Shao Siming's mind.

"Hmph!" A cold snort came from Gu Nan's mouth, and the next second a sharp edge emerged, stabbing Sikong Xi's face and causing it to change suddenly. It was a terrifying sword intent that was even more powerful than the power of his Dao Fruit.

Sikong Xi couldn't help but take two steps back, and Minghua took direct action. The Xianlin Sword flew into the air and turned into green light and fell down.

The purple bamboo branch swayed, holding the immortal sword, and then Shao Siming muttered in a low voice: "It's hard not to have Guanyin Bodhisattva!"

An illusory lotus blossomed, and an arm with lotus patterns like eyes stretched out and suddenly grabbed the phantom. At the same time, the little finger was slightly raised, and a lotus blossomed on it. Another new arm stretched out and grabbed a few wisps of the scattered colorful mist.

"Is this the power of your Corrupted Heart Dao Fruit? Playing with people's minds and natures."

Shao Siming looked at Sikong Xi who was pinched by him, and a hint of coldness appeared in his eyes.

"No wonder Zen Master Kongtuo and Master Tianque care so much about you. You really have a deep Buddha nature. Not only did they see the power of my Dao fruit at a glance, but they were also able to restrain it. Good! Good! If you practice Buddhism, you can achieve Arhat fruit like me in less than a hundred years, and at most a thousand years, you can sit on the Bodhisattva position."

Sikong Xi looked at Shao Siming with amazement, and then asked: "But I am a little curious, what did you see from my Dao Fruit?"

Shao Siming was silent for a moment, then whispered, "View color as foam, feelings as bubbles on the water, thoughts as spring flames, actions as banana leaves, and consciousness as illusions. Your method is nothing but a variation of the five aggregates being empty. You mislead others with your empty self-nature. No wonder they are called corrupted hearts."

There was light in Sikong Xi's eyes. The first half of Shao Siming's words came from the "Parable Sutra of the Five Aggregates", in which the great monk used metaphors to tell people the essence of the five aggregates of form, feeling, perception, volition and consciousness.

Sikong Xi's method of practice is to disturb people's hearts through the five aggregates, or to sharpen the Buddha nature through the five aggregates.

However, his methods are extremely cruel, and he completely abandons all worldly rules and is not bound by anything. As a result, those who are influenced by his Tao fruit, even if they really understand the five aggregates, their own moral concepts will collapse and they will fall into the realm of evil.

Moreover, because the theory of the five aggregates is more commonly used by Buddhist and Taoist monks, this also causes Sikong Xi's Taoist fruit to have a more serious restraint on Buddhism and Taoism. On the contrary, the immortal monks are unable to understand the meaning of the emptiness of the five aggregates, and thus are not greatly affected, and their nature is not distorted.

"Amitabha, good! Good! You are indeed a genius, but why do you care about the order of the world? The Buddhist scriptures say that self-nature is Buddha nature. If everything we do comes from our self-nature, we will naturally not have troubles, and the five aggregates will be empty. We can hope to achieve the higher path. Why should we be bound by the laws of the world?"

"If there is no restraint, what is the difference between humans and animals?"

Minghua couldn't help but refute, Sikong Xi smiled and said: "Everything that exists is false. Your and my appearances are just caused by fate, and their essence is false. There is no difference between humans and animals. This is the equality of all living beings!"

(End of this chapter)