My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1005: Extraterrestrial Demon
“I know that the Jade Emperor, who has attained enlightenment over a thousand times, was born into this world. Wen Rui has only attained enlightenment in two hundred years. How could I not know his background?”

With his back to Kasyapa, the Buddha slowly said, "If it weren't for his special status, would I have always tolerated him? Do you really think that Buddhism has no ruthless methods?"

"If I hadn't been forced to do this, would I have made this decision?"

“Suppressing Wen Rui will surely bring three top figures from the Jie Sect to my side: Lishan Laomu, Doumu Yuanjun, and Puhua Tianzun Wen Zhong. Each of them possesses extraordinary abilities and the power to overturn the world.”

"My religion consists of the three Buddhas of the past, Dipankara Buddha, and Maitreya Buddha, and only by joining forces with me can we barely contend with them."

"Not to mention, Wen Rui has been spreading the teachings of the Jie Sect for many years. The mortal lineage in the Southern Continent has been completely taken over by the Jie Sect. He is deeply loved by the Tongtian Daozu. Even if that saint is restricted by the Hongjun Daozu and cannot directly take action, bestowing a few magic treasures on those three top figures of the Jie Sect would be enough to help them win."

Venerable Kasyapa asked in bewilderment, "Buddha, if that's the case, why are you still so determined to attack Wen Rui?"

"Because Wen Rui's background and origins concealed a deeper secret, I used my profound wisdom to observe the three realms and the fundamental nature of things, and finally glimpsed a wisp of his destiny."

The Buddha said solemnly, "All the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the sect have used their supernatural powers to deduce Wenrui's past and present lives, but the information they know is a vast primordial chaos, shrouded in confusion. You have also tried to deduce them; have you gained anything?"

Kasyapa smiled bitterly, "According to my deductions, Wen Rui transcends the Three Realms and is not within the Five Elements; he is like the void, possessing nothingness..."

The Buddha laughed and said, "Your magical powers are vast, but you can only see the affairs of the universe. You cannot know the things beyond the heavens. Have you not considered that if Wen Rui is the demon soul of a demon from beyond the realm, reincarnated into a mortal body, then calculating his past life destiny, wouldn't it be the result of emptiness and nothingness?"

"what!"

Venerable Kasyapa was shocked, but then suddenly realized and murmured, "No wonder... During the Investiture of the Gods, he went against the will of Heaven and went against the principles of Heaven and the righteous path that we represent. Even though his cultivation time was short and his cultivation was shallow, he still caused countless damages to the Investiture of the Gods."

"I initially thought that as a disciple of the Jie Sect and the son of a high-ranking official of the Yin Shang Dynasty, he was fighting so hard because of differences in stance and belief. But after the World Honored One's advice, the more I thought about it, the more suspicious it seemed!"

The Buddha's words opened up new avenues of thought for Venerable Kasyapa. His mind became increasingly active, and the more he thought about it, the more horrified he became: "No wonder he is close to demons and monsters, but doesn't treat mortals differently, completely ignoring the revelation from Heaven that the human race should flourish."

"His creations, the 'Creation Divine Power' and the 'Heaven-Severing Secret Method,' are completely different from the cultivation methods of Buddhism and Taoism, and it is impossible to tell that they are inherited from the Taoist methods of Tongtian Jiaozhu."

"Since his rise to power, the predictions of the future by those who possess the knowledge of destiny and the knowledge of the elimination of defilements have become obscure and the secrets of heaven are unpredictable. It is likely that if he succeeds, the end of the primordial world will come, the universe will return to chaos, and there will be no future to speak of."

As each point was verified, Venerable Kasyapa found it increasingly reasonable, and all the questions he had not been able to understand before were answered.

"Your Majesty, do you possess irrefutable evidence that Wen Rui is the soul of a demon from beyond the realm?"

Venerable Kasyapa said with deep concern, “This matter is of utmost importance. If there is irrefutable evidence, we only need to report it to the three sages: Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Tongtian Jiaozhu. These three sages bear the responsibility of maintaining the foundation of the Heavenly Dao and protecting the order of heaven and earth. How could they allow the demonic seed to run rampant in the world and reshape the rules of order? At that time, there will be no need for the World Honored One to take action; Tongtian Jiaozhu will clean up the mess himself.” “Alas…”

Tathagata sighed deeply and shook his head, saying, "There is evidence, but unfortunately it is not conclusive. Wen Rui's destiny in his previous life has been completely obscured by some unknowable and unspeakable being from beyond the realm. Only in some of his past experiences in this life are there some clues."

"What experience? What clues?"

Venerable Kasyapa pressed for an answer.

Five hundred years ago, when the Investiture of the Gods was first established, the world had just returned to stability.

The Buddha slowly recounted: "At that time, Wen Rui was still on the run, living in constant fear, and was almost captured by the Western Zhou pursuers sent by Jiang Shang. At his lowest point, he encountered a visitor from beyond the realm who traveled through the void. This visitor was also an unknown being whose destiny could not be delayed, but he taught him mysterious and unpredictable secret techniques from beyond the realm and gave him several mysterious magic treasures, enabling him to save his life in dire straits."

"Visitors from beyond the realm? Mysterious magical artifacts?"

Venerable Kasyapa said incredulously, "The three thousand worlds of the primordial era, with their countless heavens and secret realms, are already inconceivably vast and boundless. Yet there are heavens beyond heavens, and even heavens beyond the void?"

"I also expended immense magical power to glimpse a remnant of the past and learn that Wen Rui had actually been in contact with beings from beyond the realm."

The Buddha said, “There are two visitors from beyond the realm. One of them has an incomparably powerful divine sense, having reached the realm of the Profound Void, and has long since comprehended the emptiness of all things, making him extremely cold and cruel. If he had come alone, I would have been able to sense him even if I were on Mount Sumeru. But the other visitor from beyond the realm has a completely different divine sense from the first. His desires in the mortal world are so deep that no foolish being can compare to him.”

"The fact that these visitors from outside the region traveled together was a deliberate arrangement to conceal their whereabouts. The latter neutralized the former's powerful spiritual fluctuations, which made it impossible for me to detect them back then."

"However, those two visitors from beyond the realm made a mistake. The one with the weaker spiritual fluctuations was extremely lustful and greedy. He had intercourse with a local demoness from the primordial world, leaving behind the bloodline of the demonic seed from beyond the realm. This touched a thread of destiny, which is why I was able to see this long-forgotten past through my ability to perceive destiny."

"Cold-blooded and cruel, greedy and lustful—two extremes complementing each other? That must be an extraterrestrial demon! And it must be the supreme demon king among the extraterrestrial demons, the kind that has destroyed countless worlds!"

Venerable Kasyapa said, "They actually crossed the void to come and rescue Wen Rui, and even gave him a life-saving magic treasure. There is no doubt that Wen Rui must be their accomplice!"

"I also think so, but all the past images are what I get from meditation, and there is an unseen supreme will behind the scenes interfering with the secrets of heaven. This image cannot be shown, and can only be explained by me verbally."

The Buddha said helplessly, "As the saying goes, empty words are not enough. Although I am the Buddha, ordinary people should believe me. But even the Buddha's words and prophecies are far from enough to convince a saint."

“Just now in the Great Buddha Hall, I did not explain to the monks that there were too many people talking. If the monks spread the word, it would alert the enemy. Wen Rui only needs to manipulate public opinion and muddy the waters. On the contrary, it would become our Western Sect’s unfounded slander against him.”

(End of this chapter)