Chapter 852 Compassionate Monk
There is no record of the Buddhist sect in the many ancient books in the Dharma Collection Building of Dancao Mountain. Xiao Lin's knowledge of the Buddhist sect was only obtained from the two people from the Western Ancient Buddha Tianzong when he was in the Liuli Immortal Mansion.
However, he was very clear about one thing, that is, in the Central Plains, the Western Ancient Buddha Tianzong and the Great Emperor Haoran Tianzong were mortal enemies. The two seemed to have been fighting for many years, but Xiao Lin did not know the reason.
Following a group of good men and women, Xiao Lin walked into the Buddhist temple filled with incense. Opposite the Buddhist temple, a bald man with bare shoulders sat cross-legged. The man had starry eyebrows and kind eyes. One hand was erected on his chest, and the other hand was placed on his knees, holding a bunch of grape-sized Buddhist beads.
The exposed skin was shining with golden light. Xiao Lin knew at first sight that this Buddha statue was made of pure gold, wearing a khaki robe that wrapped most of the body.
In front of the Buddha statue, there was a long row of incense tables filled with burning incense. In front of the incense tables, in the hall that was dozens of feet wide, there were countless cushions. On each cushion, a person knelt with his hands folded, praying devoutly.
At this moment, Xiao Lin was staring at the Buddha statue with his eyes, and there was a green spiritual charm in his eyes. During the hundred years of seclusion and hard practice, he would wash his eyes with the dew on the Jiuyao grass every few days.
The Jiuyao grass he picked was also successfully planted by him next to the True Spirit Water Pond. You should know that the Jiuyao grass originally grew by the Yellow Spring. Xiao Lin also had the idea of giving it a try, but he didn't expect that all the Jiuyao grass survived, which really made Xiao Lin excited.
The dew on the Jiuyao grass has incredible magical powers. Washing your eyes with dew over the years can have the magical power of spiritual eyes.
After the cultivation of Jiuyao Grass was successful, it could continuously provide dewdrops for Xiao Lin. Therefore, every few days, Xiao Lin would pick some dewdrops to wash his eyes. After a hundred years, Xiao Lin's eyes could see through the clouds and fog. Although he could not penetrate the earth veins and mountains, he could easily see through some tricks and hidden secrets.
In Xiao Lin's eyes, the Buddha statue was surrounded by golden mists, which surrounded the Buddha statue and then went into the Buddha statue.
Seeing this, Xiao Lin's eyes became more and more dazzling. At this time, Xiao Lin suddenly found that with the devout prayers of the good men and women around him, faint golden light spots would emerge from their heads. It was these golden light spots that gathered on the Buddha statue to form the golden mist.
It seems that this is the power of faith.
Xiao Lin suddenly realized that this Buddhist magical power is really different from the immortal way. It is actually cultivated in this way. In this way, the more believers there are, the higher the cultivation of the Buddhist disciples will be? If this is true, then all the opportunities and fortunes, and the closed-door hard practice are nothing but clouds? As long as there are enough believers, it is entirely possible to become a Buddha in one day? Xiao Lin had a question in his mind. In the Liuli Immortal Mansion, the words of the two monks made Xiao Lin very disgusted. Now with the death of Fairy Yeyue, Xiao Lin has a deep repulsion for these Buddhist disciples of the Xiji Ancient Buddha Tianzong. But this also made Xiao Lin curious about the Buddhist sect's skills. After all, knowing yourself and the enemy can win every battle. "Huh?" Xiao Lin, who was about to turn around and leave, suddenly stopped. He didn't notice it at first, but when he turned around, he suddenly noticed that behind the Buddha statue, there was a faint golden light that shot into the wall of the hall and disappeared without a trace. Xiao Lin frowned slightly, his eyes showed a hesitant expression. After thinking for a moment, Xiao Lin took a step forward slowly. His figure became blurred and disappeared without a trace.
This made an old woman beside Xiao Lin suddenly widen her eyes and show an incredible expression. She rubbed her eyes hard, patted her forehead, and her eyes showed confusion.
Behind the hall, there are rows of houses, as many as hundreds of rooms. Each of these hundreds of houses has an independent courtyard, which is also very wide, with a radius of dozens of feet.
If you look down from the sky, you will find that these houses are like grids.
But in the center of these houses, there is a very large courtyard, which is a hundred feet wide. To the west of the courtyard is a house, which is much larger than the rest.
At this time, a flash of light suddenly appeared in the courtyard, and Xiao Lin's figure appeared.
Before Xiao Lin made any move, the door of the house suddenly opened, and then a voice came out.
"Donor, you are a guest. Please come in and taste the tea twice as much."
Xiao Lin frowned slightly, but did not show any strange expression. Long before he came to this courtyard, he had already scanned all the houses with his huge spiritual sense.
In each house, there was a monk in a monk's robe sitting cross-legged, and the realms of these monks were generally between the Qi Refining Stage and the Foundation Establishment Stage. Only three of them were in the Golden Core Stage in Xiao Lin's eyes.
In addition, the person with the strongest cultivation was the monk in the house in front of him.
This person was actually the same as Xiao Lin, both in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, but Xiao Lin did not know whether the realm division of the people of the Buddhist Sect was the same as that of the Immortal Path. His judgment was only based on the Buddhist aura emanating from these people.
"I am sorry to bother you while you are traveling outside." Xiao Lin responded, and walked into the house without any politeness.
The house is very simple. A young monk who looks to be in his mid-twenties is sitting cross-legged on a futon in the center of the house. Behind him is a golden Buddha statue, but this Buddha statue looks a little weird. It actually grew four arms and two heads.
One of the two heads has a ferocious face, and the other has a kind-hearted look, which looks very strange.
The monk waved his sleeves and a small table and a futon appeared in front of him. There was also a pot of tea and two cups on the table.
"The poor monk here only has twice the amount of crude tea. I hope the donor won't dislike it." The monk made a gesture of invitation and said to Xiao Lin.
"Thank you." Xiao Lin sat down cross-legged opposite the monk.
"The poor monk sees that the immortal skills practiced by the benefactor are not of Haoran spirit, and presumably he is not a member of the Great Emperor Haoran Celestial Sect. In this case, the benefactor can become a friend of my Buddhist sect. Is the benefactor interested in joining our West Extreme Ancient Buddha Celestial Sect? Achieve the status of Dharma Protector."
When Xiao Lin heard this, he immediately became very vigilant. Although he didn't know what his actual status was within the Buddhist sect, Zhuo Haoran obviously had this status in Liuli Immortal Mansion. Very repulsive, obviously not an identity that people expected. "
However, Xiao Lin's face did not show any signs of it, but he said calmly: "Lin has always been used to being idle and can't stand being restrained. I appreciate the kindness of the master."
Xiao Lin did not tell his real name, but chose his surname Lin.
After a pause, Xiao Lin continued: "But I don't know what you call me, Master?"
"The poor monk, named Compassion, once made a great wish to promote the secrets of our Buddhist sect, enlighten the ignorant people, and strive to escape from the sea of suffering as soon as possible and return to the ultimate bliss. All practitioners who can become the protectors of our Buddhist sect can be taught The secret method of Buddhism, the harmony of immortals and Buddhas, has the hope of transcendence.”
"Oh? Can Master Compassion solve Lin's confusion?"
"Donor Lin said it doesn't matter."
"Master Compassion keeps saying that he wants to awaken the ignorant people, so that they can escape from the sea of suffering as soon as possible and return to bliss. However, when Lin saw those good men and women, they were in a trance and their eyes were confused. This phenomenon was obviously caused by serious loss of soul power. Is the so-called power of faith the soul power of mortals? "
When the compassionate monk heard this, his expression changed, but he quickly clasped his hands together and pronounced the Buddha's name.
"Amitabha, what the donor said is heart-breaking. The power of our Buddhist faith is the ambition accumulated by people in the world when they pray sincerely. It is just an alternative method of operating the power of heaven and earth, absorbing the souls of mortals. Power, this kind of thing is what the demon cultivators call it, and it is not the essence of my Buddhist sect.”
When Xiao Lin heard this, he showed a thoughtful expression. When the compassionate monk said it, Xiao Lin understood a little bit. It was indeed as he said, when mortals make great aspirations, they seem to be accumulating the wealth between heaven and earth. The power is given to oneself, and then merged with a small amount of one's own soul power to produce a strange power.
This strange power may be what the compassionate monk in front of me calls the power of faith.
But no matter what, this kind of devout prayer will cause certain damage to ordinary mortals. Only a small amount of soul power loss will not have a substantial impact on mortals. After all, they will recover after a period of rest.
Xiao Lin knew little about Buddhism, so he started chatting with Monk Cixin politely.
Monk Ci Xin also answered Xiao Lin's questions one by one with great patience, and the conversation was quite pleasant.
After chatting for three or four hours, Xiao Lin stood up to say goodbye. After Xiao Lin left, Monk Cixin's face suddenly darkened. He looked outside the door in the direction where Xiao Lin disappeared and remained silent for a long time.
After a while, with a wave of his sleeves, the door of the house immediately closed.
After Xiao Lin left Jinluo Ancient Temple, he found an inn in the city and stayed there.
Sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed in the room, Xiao Lin was also thinking. Originally, he wanted to search for some information about Fairy Yeyue, but after thinking about it, he still did not ask Monk Cixin.
If Ci Xin heard that he was asking about Fairy Yeyue's caution and became malicious, he would instead alert the snake and put himself into a passive situation.
Today's conversation with Monk Cixin gave him a certain understanding of Buddhism.
The realm of Buddhism is the same as that of the Immortal Path. It is also divided into five realms, namely First Consciousness, Great Awakening, Buddha's Light, Prajna, and Nirvana, which correspond to the Immortal Path's Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Golden Pill, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation.
Buddhist disciples who have cultivated to the Buddha Light Realm will also condense the Buddhist Golden Pill. If they can go a step further and enter the Prajna Realm, they can break the pill and become a baby, manifesting the Buddha Baby, and thus possessing all kinds of incredible magical powers. technique.
Therefore, in Xiao Lin's view, the Buddhist realm is very different from the immortal way. Although there are some differences in the names, there is not much difference in reality.
But Xiao Lin's previous doubts were also answered in the conversation with the compassionate monk. The more believers in Buddhism, the higher the level of cultivation. In the five realms of Buddhism, the power of faith that each realm can withstand is also There is an upper limit.
Just like today's Xiao Lin, as a monk in the middle stage of Yuanying, the maximum mana that his body can hold is only what his current state can carry. If he wants to carry more mana, he must break through to the late stage of Yuanying. OK.
The same goes for Buddhist monks. When they reach a certain level, the power of faith they have collected will only increase in quantity, but will not change in quality. As for breaking through each level, it is also related to personal opportunities and qualifications. .
The only difference is that the process of accumulating mana for immortal monks is either through seclusion and hard training, or by collecting various spiritual herbs and refining spiritual elixirs.
The process of accumulating Buddhist power in Buddhism is to continuously develop believers and collect the power of faith.
In essence, they are all the same, which opened Xiao Lin's eyes and understood what the three thousand avenues are, different paths leading to the same destination.
At the same time, Xiao Lin also understood why he didn’t see any immortal cultivators when walking around the city. This barbarian city is located at the southernmost point of Middle-earth. It can be regarded as a wild place. Ordinary immortal cultivators will not come here at all. Go here.
In addition, the territory of Nanluo Kingdom originally fell under the jurisdiction of the Ancient Buddha Celestial Sect of Xiji, so Buddhist disciples will once again spread Buddhism and develop believers. Jinluo Ancient Temple is not only the largest temple in Nanluo Kingdom, but also the largest temple in Nanluo Kingdom. State religion.
Monk Cixin is the abbot of Jinluo Ancient Temple, and the monks under him are the ones Xiao Lin sensed through his spiritual consciousness.
After understanding this, Xiao Lin finally understood the cultivation methods of Buddhist disciples and had a general understanding of Buddhism.
Xiao Lin also learned from Monk Cixin that the Xijitian Ancient Buddha Sect is located in the Xijitian Mountains.
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In the next few days, Xiao Lin not only wandered around, but also chatted with Monk Cixin. Intentionally or unintentionally, he also made insinuations about Fairy Yeyue. Of course, Xiao Lin did not directly say Fairy Yeyue's name. , but asked vaguely about the recent major events in the Ancient Buddha Tianzong of the West Pole.
But apart from learning that the Buddhist soldiers of the Ancient Buddha Celestial Sect of the West Pole had a great battle with the heavenly armies of the Great Emperor Haoran Celestial Sect, nothing else had happened in the past hundred years.
After the two major Tianzongs experienced that great battle, they each ceased their activities and retreated to the areas under their control to recuperate.
Obviously, both Tianzong realized that they could not truly destroy their opponents, so they did not go out in full force, nor did they use all their strength.
Although Xiao Lin was a little disappointed that he didn't hear any news about Fairy Yeyue, he also understood that the ancient Jinluo Temple was located in a remote location, far away from the Jitian Mountains in the west. Even Monk Cixin returned to his sect to listen to the Dharma. This was all a hundred years ago.
So Xiao Lin left Nanluo City and continued towards the north.
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