Da Zaojun

"What should be done with this Buddhist temple?"

Chen Xiu also found it extremely troublesome. A single word, even a glance, or a single appearance could become a formless means of Buddhism, forcibly linking it to the "causes of attaining Buddhahood."

Song Wuji took out a handkerchief, which was a magical artifact called the "Cleansing and Releasing Yang Handkerchief." It was obtained from the secret realm of the Cowherd and Weaver Girl in the Huang Family Courtyard. It was created by the Seven Fairy Maidens using colorful clouds to weave the scenery of the hot spring transformed from the place where the Golden Crow fell. When unfolded, it can reveal a Yang spring and has the function of cleansing the body.

However, Song Wuji used a different usage.

The handkerchief was thrown, and it grew larger and larger in the air until it covered the entire temple gate.

The entire temple was covered up with a "barrier".

There was no actual contact, but to outsiders it appeared as a desolate wilderness.

"Namo Maitreya Buddha!"

Suddenly, a scene of Maitreya's descent into the world appeared on the cloth that Song Wuji was washing away dirt from.

The sound of Buddhist chanting continued, causing me great distress.

Seeing that the barrier was useless, Song Wuji retrieved the magic weapon and erased the extra Maitreya form on it.

Then he brought out a banana leaf fan, and then used the flame side to fan out a "fiery wind".

The scorching wind carries a faint sense of "humanity rising," with the aroma of food and all sorts of beautiful thoughts. It is most likely to disrupt these practices of "detachment from the world" and "escaping from the world to meditate," and can evoke feelings of "homesickness and longing for family."

As soon as this atmosphere arose, the Formless Heavenly Demon was even more resourceful, transforming it into "fragrant kitchen offerings," which immediately attracted "fragrant ghosts and gods" who devoured all of Song Wuji's fragrance.

Song Wuji had no way to cut off the temple's connection with the outside world for the time being. The net had already been laid, but it had not yet spread to Jianxin County. The Heavenly Weaver Girl was also related to the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination in Buddhism, so she might have been bewitched as well.

The mirage dragon was used to subdue the Heavenly Weaver Girl. He cultivated in the Rakshasa Karma Market. Although he was a mirage, he followed the principle of "refining the false to cultivate the true." However, the true nature of the formless demon was emptiness, illusion, and nothingness. He did not seek "truth" at all.

But then one hears the resounding tolling of bells and the melodious sound of conch shells, and the chanting of sutras by monks, and the surrounding soil, trees and everything else are imbued with a faint Buddhist aura.

Song Wuji calculated for a moment: "It's the karmic connection to Buddhahood that was just severed. Because I am the Lord of the Realm, I gave him the opportunity to expand outwards."

"Causal Plague!"

Song Wuji came up with this accurate description.

The greater the karmic connection, the more it will transform into nourishment for "Buddhahood" regardless of whether the connection is established or not.

This is the true path to a "Buddhist Kingdom on Earth".

Song Wuji decisively said, "Ignore him, pretend he doesn't exist. Set up barricades around this temple and don't let anyone get close."

He then immediately went to Laolong Mountain to find Xu Jia, the patriarch of corpse liberation, who had followed Laozi westward out of Hangu Pass. It is said that the Supreme Lord had performed eighty-one transformations, and the one he transformed into was Shakyamuni, the Buddha of the West.

On Old Dragon Mountain, there are now many skeletons.

There is a secret realm in Laolong Mountain that is related to the old dragon, but the old dragon has been eaten by the Black Phoenix, not killed by Song Wuji. Therefore, the secret realm token has not been found and should still be in the secret realm.

Xu Jia directed the skeletons to build the White Bone Daoist arts, and expounded on the White Bone Daoist methods and the White Bone Temple.

Upon seeing Song Wuji, he immediately spat and said, "Where did you get involved in this evil karma?"

Song Wuji then said, "This is precisely why I came here."

He immediately recounted the story of the evil Maitreya at Youmin Temple.

"You ah you!"

Xu Jia said, "Do you know that Buddhism has a tradition of using temples to suppress demons?"

"The Buddhist community is actually quite vast, with monks, bodhisattvas, and arhats, all of whom first cultivate compassion and make compassionate vows to attain enlightenment." "Therefore, temples are built specifically in ancient battlefields, mass graves, and places where demons are hidden to suppress demonic influences."

“But gradually, the monks will be misled by evil spirits. In this way, the Buddha cannot save the demons, but will be corrupted by them, thus becoming a demon Buddha.”

“For example, Ksitigarbha Buddha vowed not to become a Buddha until hell is empty. But from the perspective of Mara Buddha, wouldn’t it be enough if hell were empty? So he reversed the human world and hell, turning the human world into hell and hell into a pure land.”

"This is certainly a shortcut; hell still exists, or even more hellish, but that's the idea."

"The current situation can be considered the end of the Dharma era. According to what is shown, it is the time for Maitreya to descend into the world."

"Therefore, many fake Maitreya and fake future Buddha will gain power at this time, and even try to 'compile scriptures' to make people worship them."

“Your Maitreya cause and effect theory looks like that of the White Lotus Sect’s Maitreya.”

[Maitreya of the Future Sun]

"This religion claims that we are now in the final calamity of the Red Sun. Whenever the Red Sheep and Red Horse appear, great chaos will inevitably occur. This is the last calamity in the Red Sun Calamity. Therefore, great chaos often breaks out at this time in order to bring about the White Sun Calamity."

"Now that we are at the end of the calamity, there is no reason for these evil spirits to hide in the temple. They must come out and have a good feast as soon as the chaos of demons begins."

Song Wuji then said, "He sits upright on the lotus platform, his posture ever-changing, and it seems he cannot leave the lotus platform at will."

“That’s it,” Xu Jia said. “This guy really wants to become a Buddha. It’s one thing to deceive believers, but he’s even deceived himself.”

He immediately said, "It is not difficult to defeat this demonic Buddha. The difficulty lies in the fact that if he abandons his disguise, escapes the temple, and transforms himself in countless ways, he can hide in your body, transform into countless forms, and then rise from the ashes after you have left."

"so what should I do now?"

"Only by suppressing him with our current strength can we prevent him from entering the future tribulation."

"Just as when Shakyamuni was alive, Maitreya could only be a Bodhisattva."

Song Wuji was speechless: "Is there any way from the Taoist sects?"

"Our Taoist sect finds this rather troublesome."

"It requires locking in time and space. If you learn the Seven Arrows of Nailhead, you can lock in the time and space where this evil Buddha is located and nail him to death. However, this spell requires the depletion of one's luck, destiny, and lifespan. If I were still the master of corpse dissolution, I could cast the spell for you. It would just be a matter of reincarnating again."

"But not now."

"That's not right either. If that Master Xu in the Iron Pillar Palace were willing to take action, this evil Buddha would definitely die. However, he is currently trapped in his cave and would certainly not act rashly."

"So, you have another way."

"any solution?"

"That is to find the foundation of the evil Buddha, find the time, place and ritual of his becoming an evil Buddha, and destroy it."

How do I possess the ability to travel through time?

"It doesn't necessarily have to be time travel; obsession can also work, or a certain memory, altering one's perception. It's a matter of the mind, nothing else."

“Amitabha Buddha can attain enlightenment and become a Buddha in his dreams. You can also enter the dreams of that evil Buddha and hinder him from becoming a Buddha, even if it is just a daydream.”

"And the art of marrying dreams isn't difficult, is it?"

Song Wuji understood Xu Jia's logic to some extent, but entering the evil Buddha's dream of enlightenment was still very dangerous, though it was a last resort.

If this karmic plague is not resolved soon, it may spread and become a Buddhist kingdom on earth, where all the people will be misled and worship this evil Buddha.

(End of this chapter)