Bodhisattva, please help me in my spiritual practice!

Haiguang Temple in Tianjin is an underground Buddhist temple.

Although there wasn't a single candle lit, the hundreds of square meters of basement were as bright as day.

The brilliant sunlight burst forth from the central Buddha statue, illuminating the surrounding gilded Buddha statues and making the figures of Bodhisattvas, Vajras, and warriors even more radiant and magnificent.

In each of the four corners of the secret chamber sat a Tantric monk, who continuously chanted scriptures, guiding the Buddha's power to gather from the mandala and converge on the central Vairocana Buddha.

This Great Sun Tathagata Buddha is the embodiment of the late Qing emperor's imperial destiny. As long as this Buddha statue is not destroyed, the late Qing emperor will be divinely aided, and no matter how great the danger, he will be able to turn the crisis into safety.

Suddenly, a man walked in from outside the passageway. He was carrying a golden bundle and was none other than Tagawa, who had been ordered to capture the local land god.

He opened the bundle and shook it, revealing two newly captured earth gods.

The two earth gods were shaken off and placed in the mandala, instantly turning into something smaller than a mouse.

After the land gods were captured, they looked at Tianchuan with resentment. However, the moment their resentment rose in their hearts, the brilliant Buddhist light transformed into a whip of light, striking the land gods and tearing their robes, causing them excruciating pain.

"Amitabha Buddha, harboring resentment is disrespectful to Buddhist principles and deserves this punishment."

A Tantric monk spoke up.

Another Tantric monk opened his eyes and said, "I hereby punish you by making you circumambulate the Buddha thirty thousand times to atone for this sin and achieve supreme merit."

Upon seeing the arrangement of the place, one of the local earth gods' expressions changed drastically, and he was about to start cursing, but was quickly stopped by the earth god next to him.

This was because not only were they shrunk to the size of mice, but there were also dozens of landowners around them.

This Tantric monk told them to circumambulate the Buddha 30,000 times, but it wasn't just about circling the Buddha statue. There was a large millstone under the Buddha statue, and the millstone rope was attached to the earth gods.

As the Earth God pulls the millstone, the earth's energy in Tianjin is continuously drawn from all directions and gathered on this Vairocana Buddha, maintaining the operation of the entire mandala.

Suddenly, another person spoke up from one of the corners. This person had only recently become a monk, with stubble on his scalp and a white lotus flower growing on his neck. However, this lotus flower was not sacred, but rather eerie, with its roots embedded directly in his flesh.

Fortunately, the vast Buddhist light surrounding it suppressed the growth of the flesh-and-blood lotus, preventing it from continuing to grow and expand.

"Tagawa, why did you only capture two local deities today?"

Yuichiro Koizumi asked.

After the White Lotus Curse erupted that day, he came here to seek help from the Tantric monks. He originally thought it was just a small matter, but after a month of trouble, he not only could not leave this place, but also needed to chant sutras every day to suppress the White Lotus Curse.

Fortunately, the Tantric monks gave a precise timeframe for the treatment: the Great Sun Tathagata, the original form of the late Qing emperor, had truly taken root and sprouted on the earth's veins in Tianjin, and naturally possessed the ability to completely eradicate the White Lotus Curse.

"Deputy Minister, the local earth gods are becoming increasingly cunning. There are many empty shrines now, and they keep moving around among them, making them quite difficult to catch. Moreover, I have discovered something."

"What is it?"

Tian Chuan glanced warily at the other three monks, but he couldn't bypass them. He could only grit his teeth and say, "Suddenly, many small statues of a deity called General Wu Gong have been erected in Tianjin. At first, I didn't find any trace of the deity in these statues and didn't pay any attention to them. But in the past two days, I've been secretly investigating and discovered that these General Wu Gong seem to be related to a hoodlum who has suddenly risen to prominence in Tianjin in the last month or two!"

He emphasized the words "sudden rise".

Yuichiro Koizumi instantly understood what Tagawa meant.

This mission wasn't just for the two of them; other players also entered this World Fruit!

However, for the past month, they had been focusing on the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty. It took them more than half a month to rescue him, and then he was trapped here to heal his injuries, which is why they did not discover him.

Are you sure?

Tagawa nodded. "Although I haven't met the other person, I'm about 90% sure."

At this moment, a Tantric monk spoke up, "Takakawa now has the merit of offering sacrifices to Buddha, with Bodhisattvas and Arhats accompanying him, so naturally everything will go smoothly for him."

Rays of Buddhist light burst forth from the mandala, directly condensing into a myriad Buddha emblem that blessed Tian Chuan.

Tagawa was overjoyed and thanked the Tantric monk.

Yuichiro Koizumi glanced at the monk who had bestowed blessings upon Tagawa, but the monk remained silent after doing so.

The ability to directly imbue a single rune with power is beyond Koizumi's comprehension. It seems the construction of this mandala has provided an extremely powerful blessing to these monks.

However... Koizumi Yuichiro felt the white lotus growing on his neck. Why couldn't they eradicate the white lotus curse on him?

In that instant, Koizumi already knew the answer in his heart, and the image of the last Qing emperor appeared in his mind.

It's not that they can't, it's that they don't want to!

Even if the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty was incompetent, he still understood the basics of imperial politics. When Koizumi was so rude at Zhang Garden, although he pretended to be polite on the surface, he was actually already prepared to trap Koizumi.

Even now, Koizumi recalls that his being under the White Lotus Spell was related to saving the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty!

Damn!

His face was grim. He ordered, "Tian Chuan, after you've gathered all the information, go to the military camp and mobilize troops. You must eliminate them in one fell swoop!"

With the blessing of Buddha's light, Tagawa's strength swelled. Now, holding the imperial edict from the last Qing emperor that could suppress Shintoism, he was full of confidence. "Please rest assured, Vice Minister."

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Inside the post station, Ao Peng learned from the local earth deity why he had been unable to seize the late Qing emperor's influence and diminish his imperial fortune. He then asked, "If I wanted to destroy this mandala, what preparations would I need?"

The local deity smiled wryly, "The True Man has already cultivated to the point of enlightenment; why would he need to ask me about this?"

"To destroy this mandala, the key is not Buddhist teachings, but the lingering imperial fortune within it. Although the Qing Dynasty has fallen, for some reason, it has retained a few years of imperial fortune to prolong its existence. This imperial fortune has an absolute suppressive effect on our magical abilities. To break through it, we need to rely on another imperial fortune!"

"I have heard that Mr. Sun is a man of great virtue. Now that he has arrived in Tianjin, if the Master were to invite him, he might be able to break the mandala. However, Mr. Sun has voluntarily abdicated and lost his imperial destiny. I wonder if he can keep the mandala in check."

Ao Peng immediately understood.

Fortunately, he himself carried an imperial destiny, the fire of the Yellow Emperor's ancestral temple!

In the past, Mr. Sun Yat-sen spread the spirit of humanity among all people, and today this spirit of humanity is gathering again in this era.

The causes of the vast world produce the effects of the microcosm.

So Ao Peng said, "I wish to destroy the altar and shatter the Demon Emperor's delusional ambitions. I request the local earth deity to summon the surrounding gods to join me in defeating the enemy!"

This is naturally what the land desires, but Ao Peng's words are simple, yet he has no proof. How can he convince the surrounding gods?

Ao Peng also thought of this, so he opened his palm, and a flame of humanity bloomed in his hand, which was the proof.