If the sect doesn't accept geniuses, they will become giants once they leave?

Chapter 523: Buddhist Movements
Li Yanmo and Jiang Baili looked at each other for several seconds and then tacitly skipped this sensitive topic.

"When I was in the Eight Desolations, I saw something underneath the Eight Desolations."

“Impossible, if you saw what’s underneath, you would never be able to talk to me so calmly as you are now,” Lily Jiang yawned, holding her chin and smiled, “I said this, you can understand what is under the world, right?”

"Probably a little bit," Li Yanmo patted his head, "So what exactly is the Naraku demon clan? The Ten Thousand Demons Mountain wasn't originally called the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain, but a place similar to the Eight Desolations."

"How should I put it? As the saying goes, everything happens for a reason. Since everything in the world has appeared, there must be a reason for its appearance." Lily Jiang picked up the pipe, leisurely stuffed it with herbs, lit it, and took a light puff.

The herbs burned to ashes in the flames.

With a light blow from Lily Jiang, the white medicinal smoke like a veil dispersed, but underneath was charred ashes.

"Ten Thousand Demons Mountain... was a mistake, a lesson, and even more of a warning. I also heard it from my ancestors," Jiang Baili glanced at Li Yanmo. "By that time, the Dayu Dynasty had already established the Daoist sect, and the Dayu Daoist tradition was thriving. To completely eliminate the problems left over from the Great Wilderness, Emperor Yu led his army to slay demons everywhere, but this action actually caused problems in the operation of the Great Thousand World."

"Demons are an anomaly of heaven and earth. It's not normal for demons to run rampant in the world, but the Great Wilderness Era is too long, and this abnormality has persisted for too long. Trying to correct it has become abnormal."

"The Mountain of Ten Thousand Monsters was originally called the City of Ten Thousand People. It was a place of peace and prosperity for the people, and it was not suitable for those seeking immortality. Dayu originally intended it to be a paradise, but it collapsed when the last monster was killed. This was also the first time that the Naraku monsters came into being."

"But this is just the historian's interpretation. Perhaps the Naraku demon race had already appeared during the Great Wilderness, but the cultivators of the Great Wilderness Taoist sect at that time were even more evil than the demons, so they couldn't be seen."

Lily Jiang glanced at Li Yanmo, thinking that Li Yanmo would at least show a surprised expression, but unexpectedly, Li Yanmo just raised his eyebrows.

“Your reaction is so bland,” Lily Jiang expressed her thoughts truthfully.

"What expression do you think I should show?" Li Yanmo stood up and poured himself a cup of tea. "It's about that. People who have been seriously ill for too long may have reached a kind of symbiosis with the illnesses in their body. Some illnesses may not be killing them, but attacking other illnesses. If you treat them all at once, the slightest mistake may cause some hidden illnesses to erupt."

Lily Jiang asked in surprise, “Have you studied medicine?”

"I heard it from hearsay, but it seems I was right," Li Yanmo glanced away, sipping his tea to hide his expression, "Then I understand why the Dayu Dynasty spent so much effort dealing with the millions of Taoist sects instead of those demon tribes that exist in broad daylight."

"But this disease must be cured."

Lily Jiang stood up and took the teacup from Li Yanmo's hand, and raised it to Li Yanmo, "Isn't it cured well now?"

After saying that, Lily Jiang took a sip of tea.

"Ugh—how did you make such bitter tea?"

"Good medicine tastes bitter, so of course there are a lot of good medicines in it."

Li Yanmo laughed, then dodged Jiang Baili's tea-splashing attack sideways, patted his butt and left.

Looking at Li Yanmo's back, Lily Jiang turned the empty but still hot cup in her hand.

After leaving Luoyang Town, Li Yanmo had been thinking about what Jiang Baili said. The past and present of Wan Yao Mountain evoked Li Yanmo's memories from a few years ago. Leng Ningshuang had once talked about the balance of the universe.

The Great Desolation Era gave rise to the righteousness of heaven and earth, or rather... the Dayu Dynasty. While the Dayu Dynasty successfully curbed the demonic proliferation by using the righteousness of heaven and earth to slay demons, it also made the demons more cunning, even capable of exploiting the righteousness of heaven and earth. Of course, the worst consequence was that the very cultivators who were supposed to be slaying demons and monsters also exploited the righteousness of heaven and earth to elevate their realm.

While Li Yanmo was thinking, Shen Ziqing came over. Seeing that Li Yanmo's brows were furrowed as if he was thinking about something, Shen Ziqing hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Master, there has been some progress regarding the business, but...something unexpected has happened."

"Something unexpected?" Li Yanmo frowned immediately.

Today, Taoism has been split into two, with many sects headed by super sects such as the Six Paths Sect and the Tianyin Demon Sect registered in the Tianxu Tower. For these sects, establishing trade routes will do more harm than good, and they are eager to immediately establish trade routes connecting the entire world.

The other part is the Ghost Sect and the Dou Sect, which represent the super sects of Taoism that surrendered to the Dayu Dynasty.

These super sects were frightened by the war preparations of the super sects of the Tianxu Tower Alliance and confiscated all their assets except the sects themselves. They had neither the ability nor the courage to make any trouble.

The demon clan was scared out of their wits just by hearing that Tianxu Tower was intending to interfere in the affairs of the dragon clan.

The only thing that could get in the way was the Immortal Palace.

Li Yanmo became a little nervous when he thought of the Eternal Black Hand taking action. "What happened?"

"Actually, it's... the Buddhist sect," Shen Ziqing scratched his face, as if he didn't know how to start. After pondering for a long time, he lowered his voice, "Master, you know, our mission in Tianxu Tower is not only to help the common people, but also to kill monsters. However, some disciples from third-rate sects reported that when they killed monsters, they found that those monsters could use Buddhist teachings, and--"

Shen Ziqing lowered his voice even more.

"According to Heishanqi, every time they want to kill a demonic monster, a Buddhist disciple appears and claims that the demonic monster is their mount. Because they weren't properly supervised, the mount escaped and wreaked havoc. Then they take the demon away."

Li Yanmo raised his eyes slightly, "Is this confirmed to be true?"

"It's true. I just asked around and found out it's not something that's just happened recently," Shen Ziqing took out a jade token from his bosom and handed it to Li Yanmo. "Master, what should we do about this?"

Li Yanmo took the jade token and recalled the two tiger monsters he encountered when he first met Shen Ziqing. The first tiger monster tried to use Buddhism to turn Shen Ziqing and the others into ghosts, and the second tiger monster was in the shape of an arhat.

This is actually very strange.

In order to slay demons and monsters, Dayu allowed the military sect to be blessed by the righteousness of heaven and earth, which enabled the demons to use Buddhism to exploit the loopholes in the righteousness of heaven and earth.

That's the truth, but the problem is that just because there are flaws in the righteousness of heaven and earth, that doesn't mean there are flaws in Buddhism. Of course, the moon waxes and wanes, and no one is perfect, so there's no such thing as a flawless Dharma. But Buddhism is supposed to restrain desire, while demons are known to indulge in lust.

Even if there are loopholes in Buddhism, they will never be discovered by the lustful demon.

Unless there is someone who is proficient in Buddhism to guide those monsters.

"What did Dayu say?"

(End of this chapter)