Daily Intelligence: From Water Snake to Jinghe Dragon King

Liu Qing rode the dragon to the top of Jiangdu City, entered the Wanlong Palace to complete his transformation, and then emerged to wreak havoc on all sides.

First, they forced the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West to self-destruct. Although they trapped the Buddha, they wanted to kill him.

Suddenly, Dipankara Buddha rushed out and detonated his natal spiritual treasure, the coffin, to save Tathagata Buddha. However, he himself was besieged and killed by Zhao Gongming, the Three Immortal Maidens, and the Golden Spirit Mother.

Dipankara Buddha attained enlightenment in the primordial era and has gone through countless eons. As a veteran power that has spanned the long river of time, he has always cherished his own life. How could he possibly sacrifice his life to save Tathagata Buddha?

As a past Buddha in Buddhism, he should be very happy that the Tathagata died, because with the Tathagata's death, he, as a past Buddha, could take over the position of the leader of Buddhism.

He was in competition with the Buddha, and it would be good enough if he didn't kick him when he was down. Why would he save the Buddha? His relationship with the Buddha wasn't like that of the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the West, a loving couple.

Liu Qing sensed something was amiss at the time.

At the time, he was distracted by Guang Chengzi's use of a puppet to take someone's place and didn't have time to think about it carefully. He then gave the fallen Dinghai Pearl to Zhao Gongming and, seeing that the Dinghai Pearl was normal, stopped thinking about it.

Most importantly, Liu Qing witnessed Zhao Gongming, Jinling Shengmu, and the others destroy the soul of the Dipankara Buddha, causing his body and soul to perish.

Unexpectedly, today Buddha Tathagata snatched away twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls with a single move.

The twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls were also combined to reshape the Dipankara Buddha.

At this moment, Zhao Gongming, the Three Immortal Maidens, and the Golden Spirit Mother were all shocked as they looked at the Dipankara Buddha, which had been reshaped from twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls.

Liu Qing frowned as she looked at it, then suddenly realized something and her brows relaxed: "It's not Dipankara Buddha, but rather an avatar of you, Tathagata?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Gongming, the Three Immortal Maidens, the Golden Spirit Holy Mother, and others were all astonished. They were not surprised by the clone technique, as this clone technique was not unusual in the Three Realms, especially among powerful beings, it was a common and ordinary technique.

What surprised them was that Dipankara Buddha was actually an incarnation of Tathagata Buddha.

Dipankara Buddha, a great Buddha of the past in Buddhism, can be said to be second only to the Buddha Tathagata in rank within Buddhism. Such a top-level being of such status was actually a demigod of the Buddha Tathagata.
This truly shocked the immortals of the Jie Sect.

The Buddha Tathagata chanted a Buddhist prayer: "Amitabha, as expected of the reincarnation of Brother Duobao, you have seen through this humble monk's illusion with just one sentence."

Immediately, the Dipankara Buddha, which was reshaped by the twenty-four Stabilizing Pearls, trembled and transformed into the appearance of the Tathagata Buddha.

The immortals of the Jie Sect suddenly realized what was happening.

No wonder the 'Dipankara Buddha' was willing to risk his life to save the Buddha Tathagata; it turns out that the 'Dipankara Buddha' was actually an incarnation of the Buddha Tathagata.

It is likely that the Buddha secretly attached his Buddha-thought fragment to the body of Dipankara Buddha. Dipankara Buddha did not notice and still retained his own consciousness. When the Buddha was trapped by Liu Qing's Wanlong Palace's ability to alter time and was on the verge of death, he boldly replaced Dipankara Buddha's consciousness with his own Buddha-thought fragment, making the incredible act of sacrificing his life to save him.

In other words, the Buddha's spiritual thoughts were secretly attached to Dipankara Buddha's consciousness without Dipankara Buddha's knowledge.

To put it simply, Dipankara Buddha was unaware that he was an incarnation of Tathagata Buddha.

It lies dormant deep within, only to erupt suddenly when danger strikes, replacing the autonomous consciousness of Dipankara Buddha.

Thinking of this, Zhao Gongming suddenly realized and said with a bitter smile, "Buddha, after you escaped, you allowed Dipankara Buddha to be surrounded and killed by us, and his soul was scattered. Could it be that you were using us to extinguish Dipankara's independent consciousness for you?"

"Burning Lamp's independent consciousness was scattered by us, while the Buddhist thought fragment you possessed is hiding within the twenty-four Sea-Suppressing Pearls, secretly refining the Sea-Suppressing Pearls into your own clone?"

"No wonder the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl was so easy to refine. I thought it was because it met its former master, but it turns out it was all your doing!"

The Buddha looked at Zhao Gongming with approval: "Junior Brother Gongming, you truly deserve to be the number one outer disciple of the Jie Sect. You are indeed endowed with wisdom."

Zhao Gongming's face flushed red instantly from the insult.

You bald monk, you've made a fool of me like a monkey, and you're still making sarcastic remarks here! I'm so angry, I'll make you pay with your life today!

Just as Zhao Gongming broke through his defenses and was about to step forward to fight and kill the Buddha, Liu Qing stopped him and then looked at the Buddha: "Buddha, since the past Buddha Dipankara was your incarnation, then surely the future Buddha Maitreya is also one of your incarnations?"

"Come out together, don't hide anything, or you won't have a chance!"

Under Liu Qing's gaze, the Buddha felt as if he had been seen through, a feeling that made him very uncomfortable.

Originally, he wanted to give Liu Qing a surprise at the crucial moment, but unexpectedly, it was exposed before it even started.

"Brother Duobao truly deserves to be the foremost disciple of the three religions. This humble monk is in awe!"

"Amitabha Buddha, Maitreya, if not now, when?"

The Buddha uttered a Buddhist chant, the chant deep and resonant, spreading far and wide like ripples on water. Instantly, faint Buddhist light surged in the distance.

Liu Qing followed the gaze and thought to himself, "Just as I thought."

The place where the Buddha's name was called in response was actually the Grand Canal in Jambudvipa, the section of the canal where Liu Qing killed Maitreya Buddha.

In the sudden burst of Buddha's light, Maitreya Buddha's scattered divine soul gathered from the void, quickly solidifying into a phantom image of Maitreya Buddha. A few breaths later, Maitreya Buddha's illusory divine soul arrived beside Tathagata Buddha: "Amitabha Buddha, Maitreya greets the Venerable One."

"We were originally one, and now that we have returned, there is no need for formalities."

At this moment, on the left is Maitreya Buddha, the future Buddha, and on the right is Dipankara Buddha, the past Buddha, who was formed from the Stabilizing Pearl. The Tathagata Buddha is in the center.

"The past remains unchanged, the future is ever-changing, only the present is constant. Maitreya, Dipankara, return quickly, the Trinity."

"Amitabha--"

Then, Maitreya, the future Buddha on the left, transformed into a beam of light and entered the body of the Tathagata, while Dipankara, the past Buddha on the right, also transformed into a beam of light and entered the body of the Tathagata.

The next instant, the Buddha's aura surged.

The realm of that half-step Primordial Dao Fruit rapidly increased once again. As the realm rose, thunder rumbled in the sky, flowers rained down, and the sounds of the Heavenly Dao boomed, as if welcoming the birth of a new Heavenly Dao Saint.

puff--

At the very last moment, the strange phenomenon in the sky abruptly stopped and vanished without a trace.

The Buddha groaned and said with a wry smile, "Amitabha, I knew it was just a little bit short."

Liu Qing had just witnessed the Buddha's cultivation level soaring rapidly, progressing towards the status of a Heavenly Saint, and had been startled, thinking that the Buddha would become a saint before him.

Now that he has witnessed the Buddha's efforts fail, he can't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Buddha, all your scheming has only made you a false saint; you are not a true saint in the end."

Liu Qing observed carefully and realized that this Tathagata, who had gathered the Buddhas of the past, future, and present of Buddhism into one, had become a pseudo-saint, which was nothing more than a quasi-saint in the primordial era.

The so-called quasi-sainthood is nothing more than a false saint who has the power of a saint but lacks the enlightenment of a saint, hence the name false saint.

The most powerful thing about a sage is that his sage status allows him to manipulate the power of the laws of heaven, not the power of magic.

In the primordial era, many powerful beings who had reached the quasi-saint level possessed magical power no less than that of saints, such as Kong Xuan, the son of the phoenix, Xuan Du, the true master of the Human Sect, and Zhen Yuanzi, the ancestor of earth immortals.

However, these people could only last a few rounds against a sage before being easily suppressed by the sage. For example, the sage Zhunti suppressed Kong Xuan. The fundamental reason for this is that the sage holds the laws of heaven, while quasi-sages, or false sages, only have magical power and can control the power of heaven and earth, but cannot covet the laws of heaven that are a level higher than the power of heaven and earth.

"Why not follow the example of your two teachers and pray to Heaven to grant you the status of a sage?"

Liu Qing said with a mocking expression, "It's a pity that your two teachers have driven this path to its end. The grand vows made by Heaven back then have not yet been fulfilled. If you make another grand vow, Heaven will probably stop believing in it."

"Haha, haha, Heaven is afraid that you and your master won't be able to pay back your debts and will become deadbeats!"

The Buddha was somewhat embarrassed and glared fiercely at Liu Qing: "Even if you are a fake saint, I can easily kill you!"

"Once I have annihilated you, all the fortune and merit of your arduous journey to the East, which you, the Jie Sect, have painstakingly planned, will belong to me. At that time, with the help of your fortune and merit, I will be able to become a true Heavenly Saint!"

The Buddha Tathagata glanced greedily at the vast fortune and merit floating above the Biyou Palace of the Jie Sect.

Liu Qing smiled slightly, turned away from the Buddha, and looked at Guang Chengzi: "Since the Buddha has made preparations, you couldn't have come unprepared."

"Show your hand."

Liu Qing's combat strength has always far exceeded his cultivation level. Now that his cultivation level is at the peak of the Great Luo Realm, his combat strength can definitely easily suppress a half-step Hunyuan Realm cultivator.

The Buddha and Guang Chengzi arrived together. The Buddha used his two incarnations, the past and the future, to elevate his own cultivation to the level of a pseudo-saint. It seems that Guang Chengzi was probably the same as the Buddha.

"Buddhism has the Dharma of the three bodies of the past, future, and present, while my teachings have the Dharma of the three corpses of good, evil, and the original self!"

"By my command, Guang Chengzi, all you good and evil corpses, return at once!"

The Soul-Slaying Bell tolled, its pitch rising sharply, urging Guang Chengzi's good and evil corpses to move.

After a few breaths, ripples appeared in the void before Guang Chengzi, and two Taoists walked out. All the immortals of the Jie Sect felt a sharp pain in their hearts.

I never expected it to be them.

Unexpectedly, Guang Chengzi was so ruthless that he actually refined them into benevolent and malevolent corpses!
Jade Cauldron Immortal, Yellow Dragon Immortal!
Liu Qing can guarantee that when they came out of the Wanlong Palace and fought the battle in the clouds of Jiangdu City, the Jade Cauldron True Man and the Yellow Dragon True Man were still themselves, and had absolutely not been refined into two corpses of good and evil by Guang Chengzi.

But now, only a few decades have passed, and the two souls have been annihilated, their true selves have dissipated, and they have been refined by Guang Chengzi into two corpses, one good and one evil.

It must be Jade Cauldron Immortal. When Yellow Dragon Immortal was supporting the Chan Sect and taking on disciples to pass on the Chan Sect's lineage, he was poisoned by Guang Chengzi.

Liu Qing scanned Kunlun Mountain with his divine sense, but Ding Yin, the Shu Mountain man who had previously been seen as a disciple of the Chan Sect, was nowhere to be found. (End of Chapter)