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

Chapter 545 Buddha Pillar
"Did the demon usurp the Buddha's place, or was the Buddha originally a demon?"

Li Yanmo stared into Daoyan's eyes and asked word by word.

Daoyan stroked his beard and asked, "Is this question important?"

"In terms of the outcome, it doesn't matter, but I want to know an answer."

Daoyan stroked his beard and after a long silence, he suddenly smiled. "Someone once said that people are born with intelligence, but if they are tainted by greed, anger, and ignorance, they are born demons."

Li Yanmo knew the answer, and the Tianji Tower in his foundation-building platform finally completed the Taoist tradition of the Ghost Sect and other super sects that were trying to establish the Prison Gate.

Before Nuyao could get excited, the Tianji Tower sent her a large amount of information. She was stunned for a few seconds and her face suddenly changed.

"What!? Li Yanmo! Go! What's here... is an unheard-of monster!"

Li Yanmo's eyes twitched violently, but he did not move.

Although Daoyan did not emanate any hostility, Li Yanmo was not naive enough to think that he could get away.

Daoyan put his left hand behind his back and raised his right index finger and shook it. "Master Li, what do you think cultivators are to the world?"

At this moment, Nuyao was anxiously telling Li Yanmo about the information about the Ghost Sect and other super sects.

The torture that cultivators must endure in reincarnation is still greater than the crisis that the world can bear, and... the way of dealing with it is called Buddha.

"A person who takes advantage of loopholes?" Li Yanmo answered Daoyan's question while listening.

"Taking shortcuts? Lord Li is being polite. In my opinion, scoundrel is a more appropriate term," Daoyan stroked his beard and said with a smile, "Not only did he use a shortcut to reach the fairyland, but he also shamelessly promoted it as the righteous path, causing the True Immortals to become extinct."

"If that's all, then that's all."

"Heaven and earth gave birth to them and raised them, yet they use defying heaven as their slogan. They clearly know who harmed them, yet they blame all their problems on heaven... Lord Li, do you know why?"

Li Yanmo thought for a moment and replied, "Although Heaven is ruthless, it is also fair. It will not vent its anger on cultivators just because they shout that they want to go against Heaven. However, those who harm them may really harm them again."

“Is this a rogue act?”

Li Yanmo was speechless. Daoyan turned around and paced back and forth. "That's fine. Even Heaven is so magnanimous. Why should we worry about Heaven? At least there's death to stop them. The scary thing is, they want to deny even death."

"Life and death are determined by fate. Preserving one's life is a skill, but death is something one must accept. Yet, they've devised all sorts of methods to resurrect. Isn't that just playing rogue?"

Li Yanmo shrugged his shoulders in disbelief at Daoyan's statement. "With such means, living in vain is better than dying. Therefore, to prevent cultivators from being resurrected too easily, which would lead to an ever-increasing number of cultivators, the Great Thousand Worlds... no, it should be said that a series of Taoist sects were perfected. And to further curb the resurrection of cultivators, those sects also developed into super sects."

"The system is complete, but it's too slow. This world is already overwhelmed with too many cultivators, and the number of cultivators is still growing rapidly. Therefore, we need a place that can save all these [idiot] ghosts in one go."

Li Yanmo took a deep breath and stared into Daoyan's eyes.

"So, where is the Buddha who, for hundreds of thousands of years, has transformed countless reincarnated monks into ghost minions? Don't tell me you are that Buddha."

Li Yanmo raised his head and saw the three towering Buddha statues reflected in his eyes again. "Is it one of them? Or all three?"

These three giant Buddhas were all built by Mo Changzai as self-destruct switches to scare the Buddhists. Leng Ningshuang and Daohai both said this fact in a joking tone at that time. Li Yanmo was not very experienced in worldly affairs at that time, and was a complete newbie. Coupled with his inherent knowledge of the Dayu Dynasty, Li Yanmo believed it.

But the absurd yet smile-inducing premise is based on the fact that Buddhism is simply Buddhism, the one that was troubled by the rumors spread by Dao Hai from the Dayu Dynasty, but turned around and used incense to smoke bacon, and also developed the "lie" formula because it could not argue with the great Confucian scholars.

Instead of the Buddhist sect that disguises the methods of evil spirits as Buddhist teachings.

"Sir Li, Buddha has no form. His form is the form of all living beings." Daoyan followed Li Yanmo's gaze and looked at the three giant Buddhas. He smiled helplessly and waved his hand. The three giant Buddhas that soared into the sky disappeared in the wind like a mirage.

"Its form is based on the form of all living beings... Therefore, Daoqi is a tiger, and Daoliang is a bear." Li Yanmo's eyes twitched slightly. "If that's the case, then where is the Buddha Pillar?"

The Pillar of Tao, the Pillar of Saints, the Pillar of Soldiers, and the Pillar of Buddha. The Dayu Dynasty ended the Great Wilderness with these four pillars and supported the entire Dayu Dynasty.

Among them, the Taoist Pillar, the Holy Pillar, and the Military Pillar were all under the control of the Dayu Dynasty, but the Buddha Pillar had always been in the hands of Buddhism. This was also the reason why Buddhism, which had the smallest scale and the smallest number of people and had no Dayu Dynasty as its backing, could become one of the four gates of the universe.

But the problem is that since entering Juezhou, Li Yanmo has not seen the shadow of the Buddha pillar.

Juezhou is so small, and the Buddha pillar, as one of the four pillars that can cut off the wilderness, should be huge enough to be seen at a glance.

Daoyan smiled without saying anything, and Li Yanmo also realized a possibility at this moment and slowly moved his eyes downwards.

Leng Ningshuang paused, the huge shadow forced her to keep looking up.

Like a divine creation, the massive stone pillars towered majestically between heaven and earth, piercing the clouds as if connecting the heavens and the earth. An ancient and heavy atmosphere permeated the space between the pillars, as if even time had stood still, and a low humming sound echoed in the air.

Clouds swirled around it, and suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck, illuminating the outline of the stone pillar.

Beneath the ancient and damp roots are countless Buddha statues, each with its own unique shape and lifelike appearance. Their tattered robes are caught in the stone walls and flutter in the wind.

"Is this... a Buddhist pillar?"

As the eldest daughter of the Leng family, Leng Ningshuang has seen the Dao Pillar, the Bing Pillar, and the Sacred Pillar. The Dao Pillar is forged from all dharmas and gives birth to all dharmas, like the incarnation of the three thousand great ways. The Bing Pillar is forged from all weapons and is filled with murderous aura. The Sacred Pillar is filled with the words of saints, mobilizing the righteousness of heaven and earth in this entire universe.

Just by looking at these three pillars, you will have a strong feeling that they are the indispensable pillars of the world.

But the Buddha pillar in front of him exuded an absurd atmosphere, like a foreign object between heaven and earth.

"Is this Juezhou?"

The moment she realized this, Leng Ningshuang's face changed drastically.

"I've been tricked!"

As soon as he finished speaking, those lifelike Buddha statues suddenly opened their eyes, all of them began to move rhythmically, chanting Buddhist scriptures, and boundless Buddha light spread out with the Buddha pillar as the center.

(End of this chapter)