Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 706: Buddha-Transformed Golden Immortal Lamp

The Buddha's light was rotating, and Sanskrit characters of all sizes appeared around the Yuantai in front of Chu Tai's eyes. A gorgeous flame in the shape of a red lotus condensed under the Yuantai.

Flames were dancing, and lotus-like flames flew in all directions, each emitting a soft golden light. When combined with the Buddha's light, they swallowed up one to three Sanskrit characters, and then chased, danced, and drifted with each other, combining in mid-air along a mysterious trajectory, and transformed into blue lotus flowers emitting a faint light, vaguely surrounded by fairy air.

However, among these lotuses, the Great Brahma Taoist text is still faintly visible, giving people a strange feeling that is like Buddha but not Buddha, like Taoism but not Taoism.

Chu Tai saw this and silently incorporated some of the Buddhist concepts he knew into it, while at the same time silently activating the Buddhist aura and karma within his Yuantai.

Interestingly, as the Buddhist philosophy took root, more and more blue lotus flowers bloomed, and the golden light condensed on their surfaces became thicker and thicker, gradually transforming the blue lotus into a golden lotus. However, the Brahma text inside gradually transformed into jade characters from the Heavenly Book, and the aura became more ethereal rather than pure.

As soon as the golden lotus was formed, the immortal destiny was also stimulated. After a brief enhancement, it quickly declined like a patient who had taken a tiger or wolf drug. There was even a hint of change. Following the mysterious cause and effect connection, it destroyed the primordial fetus created by Chu Tai.

Chu Tai, who also sensed the changes, stretched out his hand and gathered many blue and golden lotus flowers together, forging a precious lotus with golden petals and green patterns in the red lotus. He placed it next to the Yuantai, which immediately stimulated the Yuantai's aura to surge, revealing some lightning and fire. He then placed the golden lamp he had refined in it.

The light in the golden lamp flickered, absorbing lightning and fire, and transformed into rays of light that surrounded the Yuantai, stabilizing its breath, purifying its roots, and enhancing its immortal traces. This stabilized the immortal destiny and prevented the Yuantai from becoming an existence that was rejected and suppressed by both the immortals and Buddhas.

After the Yuantai was stable and the immortal destiny was peaceful, Chu Tai stretched out his hand and pointed. A phantom gradually emerged above the Yuantai, fell into the precious lotus, and carried a wisp of breath, turning into an illusion and falling into the golden lamp.

Chu Tai took the golden lamp in his hand again, silently concealing his fate with his own karma and destiny, and then sent the fetus into the earth veins to continue nurturing it.

During the whole process, the Buddhist aura in this virtual world changed dozens of times.

Elder Zhizhen was frightened several times. He looked left and right, and kept calculating, but he could not come to a definite answer.

The great master Mangmang, who had also noticed the change in the fate of Buddhism, spoke up to persuade him, "Brother, now that the world is changing, how can we Buddhists remain immune? I asked Miaomiao, and the fate of the immortals has also changed. Sometimes it is strong, sometimes weak. Sometimes it seems to be swallowing up the fate of Buddhism, and sometimes it is in danger of sinking and destruction."

"Swallowing the fate of Buddhism? Wait, the spiritual light that Luo Zhenren gave to that Taoist friend before..."

The first person Elder Zhizhen thought of was Luo Zhenren’s past identity, Lin Lingsu, who almost destroyed Buddhism.

"That fellow Taoist is not planning to use the spiritual light as a foundation to create another demon Taoist. But with the formation of the Western Paradise, the fate of the demon Taoist has long been cut off. Even if fellow Taoist Luo only retains a little spiritual light, it is not possible to create it..."

Elder Zhizhen thought for a moment and suddenly recalled that he seemed to have had a similar feeling some time ago, but he did not think about it in this direction at that time.

Now that I think about it, maybe Chu Tai had found some method to target Buddhism back then.

If it is a method of defeating Buddha from outer space, combined with the cause and effect of the demon in the past changes of destiny in one's own world.

Elder Zhizhen was shocked, but the next second, he looked at the Western Paradise and felt that this seemed to be a solution. In recent contacts, Elder Zhizhen has confirmed from the mouth of the Great Master Mangmang that the so-called Western Paradise is essentially just a ray of high-quality Buddha light, the product of the exploration of Buddha nature by sentient beings in the past tens of millions of cycles.

If he and others were to enter it, they would most likely be assimilated and become part of the Buddha's light.

Moreover, from what the Bodhisattva Mangmang said, as well as some of the experiences of the Eight Immortals that had been heard previously, the Buddha and Bodhisattvas of the Western Paradise seemed to be more in favor of the continuation of the cycle.

'In theory, once we start to destroy the changes in the universe and disrupt the operation of the triple life network, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will definitely take action. And if that Taoist handles it well, he may be able to suppress Xitian when necessary and buy us time.'

After comforting himself with a few words, Elder Zhizhen chose to turn a blind eye and no longer care about the changes in the fate of Buddhism.

Upon seeing this, Master Mangmang did not say much. He only mentioned it once when he was communicating with True Man Miaomiao, and said a few words when Chu Tai communicated with him later.

"Fellow Daoist, I know you want to single out the practitioners from the Western Heaven sect, but when you do these things, you still have to be careful not to cause unnecessary trouble."

After hearing the advice of Master Mangmang, Chu Tai secretly felt moved in his heart that Elder Zhizhen was indeed an old practitioner who relied on his own small reincarnation to stay awake in the cycle again and again, and he guessed the problem so quickly.

In response to this, Chu Tai took out his own golden lamp for everyone to watch when everyone gathered. Although the Buddhist Pure Land did not have the two powerful people, the Queen Mother of the West and the Lord of Exorcism, like the Heavenly Palace, the quality of the Buddha's light was extremely high, and when necessary, it would produce phantoms of the Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, etc. If he refined his own golden lamp, he could restrain one or two of them.

While expressing his ideas, Chu Tai also handed the golden lamp to Master Mangmang, Elder Zhizhen and others for careful observation.

As Lu Dongbin, who had received the seal of the Buddha before, after seeing the golden lamp, he clapped his hands and exclaimed: "This treasure is very good. We, the Eight Immortals, have been entangled with the Buddhist sect for a long time, and it is often difficult to separate them. Once we confront each other, we will be easily restrained. With this treasure of yours, even if we really confront the Buddha, we will not be completely defenseless."

Huo Ranzi also admired Chu Tai's clever mind: "When Daoist Luo transformed himself into an immortal, although he had made some achievements, it was difficult to hide his Buddhist roots. Daoist's move is even more clever. True fire forged the golden Buddha, and the Zen heart gave birth to the nature of Taoism. This move is also a great way for us to protect ourselves from Buddhism invading our foundation."

As he said this, Huo Ranzi hoped that Chu Tai could share the method of refining the golden lamp and the light inside with everyone.

Elder Zhizhen's face changed slightly, and Master Mangmang wanted to say something but stopped. Chu Tai saw it and said that the golden lamp was just completed and it was difficult to maintain it due to fate. If it was separated, it would inevitably be targeted, so it would be better to polish it a little more.

Hearing this, Huoranzi expressed great regret, while Luo Zhenren and Xu Shenweng also sighed repeatedly.

Elder Zhizhen's expression improved instantly. He had changed from his original attitude of "out of sight, out of mind" to the point where he could accept it as long as it didn't spread.

Elder Zhizhen even took out some of his own insights on cultivation and asked Chu Tai to integrate them into the golden lamp, forging it with the light of the lamp to prevent his own cultivation method from being affected by the fate of this world and from plotting against everyone in the future.

Chu Tai could see that Elder Zhizhen's move was also to better determine the status of the golden lamp, but he took out the golden lamp to prevent everyone from thinking too much, so he followed the other party's idea, refined the golden lamp once, and incorporated his method into it.

(End of this chapter)