Chapter 297 Zhang Wanzhi's Best Skill
Li Xiuchang didn't expect that he would gain something unexpected just by trying to learn from Buddhism.
The message he received contained detailed records of the location of the Pure Land and the method of entering it.
That is to say, let him go to the lower realm of the Pure Land, and then ascend into the Pure Land.
In addition, he also told him the location of the trial place in the Pure Land Realm.
"The place of trial is actually in the Pure Land Temple!"
Li Xiuchang didn't expect that the so-called trial place was always right in front of him.
"This idea hidden in the origin of Buddhism should have recognized that I passed the test of the Zen mind world, and then sent the message to me."
"That is to say, all trialists must reach the sixth level of cultivation and be able to enter the original world and understand the Buddha's way before they can know the location of the Pure Land."
"What a harsh test!"
It is equivalent to requiring all trialists to reach the sixth level of Buddhist cultivation equivalent to the Void Refining Stage within a hundred years before they are eligible to enter the next round of trials.
Those who do not meet the standard will not even know where the Pure Land Realm is, let alone participate in the trial.
Those who reach the standard will naturally enter the original world and realize the Tao, and as Buddhist cultivators, they will definitely understand the Buddhist Tao.
Once you understand the Buddha's path, you will trigger the consciousness in the origin of the Buddha's path and learn the information about the Pure Land and the place of trial.
Interlocking with each other, it seems casual, but in fact it is rigorous and there are almost no mistakes or omissions.
Of course, the exception of Li Xiuchang was almost missed.
He, a fake Buddhist cultivator, would never think of understanding the origin of Buddhism.
Today is because I came to the Pure Land Realm and happened to meet it after entering the original world.
In one hundred years, the conditions for those who are trying the Zen Heart Realm to reach the sixth level are not unsatisfactory.
However, those who left behind the trial probably never expected that Li Xiuchang achieved it in less than five years.
Those who practice Buddhism in the world of Zen are generally not very high in cultivation. It is almost impossible to reach the sixth level in a hundred years.
But Li Xiuchang ignored that it was them who started the test left by others in advance.
According to normal development, Buddhist practice in the Zen mind world will go through several rounds of tests and obtain several rounds of opportunities to improve, and then enter the Buddha's head space to accept the final test. The starting point will be different, and there may not be any hope of reaching the sixth level within a hundred years.
After accidentally obtaining the information about the trial place, Li Xiuchang had no intention of continuing his enlightenment and directly exited the original world.
He searched all the way to the back mountain of Pure Land Temple and saw a huge stone Buddha on a cliff.
The giant Buddha is 100 meters high, carved into the mountain, and sits beside the river. It has a well-proportioned body and a solemn demeanor.
Li Xiuchang scanned the giant Buddha with his spiritual consciousness, looking up and down inside and outside, but he couldn't see any clues.
Of course, this is not surprising. He didn’t notice anything unusual about the reclining Buddha in the Zen Mind Realm before. Zhang Wanzhi discovered the problem.
"I can't find the entrance to the trial place on my own, so I have to drag my neighbor brothers over."
However, Li Xiuchang thought that they had already angered the wooden fish master by starting the test of the Zen Heart Realm in advance. If the test of the Pure Land Realm was also started in advance, he didn't know if that person would jump.
But for Li Xiuchang, it would be meaningless to wait a hundred years before starting the trial.
At that time, he probably won't look down on this small opportunity.
"Go back and bring Senior Brother Chen Changsheng and Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi over to take a look first before talking."
Don't worry if it is turned on or not, just take a look and it won't be in the way.
The main reason is to refer to the opinions of the two senior brothers. After all, the owner of the wooden fish can leave information in the original world. Li Xiuchang does not know the value of this operation, and feels that it is very difficult to mess with.
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Li Xiuchang didn't waste any time and immediately returned to Donggeng District to recruit reinforcements.
Chen Changsheng only sent one clone for the time being, while Zhang Wanzhi followed in his true form.
When Zhang Wanzhi heard that Li Xiuchang had discovered a place of trial in the Pure Land Realm, he felt as if he had been given a shot of chicken blood, and he immediately felt energetic.
He has always been brooding about being trapped by the big wooden fish last time, and wanted to find an opportunity to take revenge and go back.
Now that he has discovered the trial place left by the owner of the wooden fish, he wants to repeat his old trick and open it in advance.
Li Xiuchang and his two senior brothers came to the Pure Land Realm and went straight to the stone Buddha on the mountain behind the Pure Land Temple.
Of course, the three of them did not forget to say hello to the host.
Huiren was also surprised when he heard that the stone Buddha statue in the mountain behind his home actually contained a training ground. Their Pure Land Temple had been established here for countless years without noticing anything unusual.
Therefore, he also came to check.
Huiren said: "Our Pure Land Temple moved here later. When we moved here tens of thousands of years ago, we discovered the stone Buddha here, but we didn't find anything unusual."
The Pure Land Realm has a strong atmosphere of Buddhism. Stone Buddhas like this are very common. In total, there are not one thousand but eight hundred in the entire Pure Land Realm. Many of them were built voluntarily by ordinary believers.
"I really can't see anything unusual." Zhang Wanzhi frowned.
If there is something obviously abnormal about this stone Buddha, the two masters Fa Kong and Fa Hua must have discovered the clues long ago.
It can only be said that the trial place is indeed very hidden.
If Li Xiuchang had not obtained information from the origin of Buddhism, they would not have doubted the stone Buddha at all.
Chen Changsheng frowned and thought: "The strength of those who can leave information in the origin and the place of trial cannot be underestimated, at least they are no worse than us."
If you want to leave information in an origin that has nothing to do with the avenue itself, you must at least have a very profound understanding of this path.
Chen Changsheng thought to himself that although he could do it, it would not be easy.
"It would be difficult to detect it with eyesight alone."
Chen Changsheng flew up and threw hundreds of formation flags with his hands, inserting them into various parts of the stone Buddha.
The stone Buddha's head, eyes, limbs and other parts were instantly filled with formation flags.
These array flags had a chain reaction with each other, and each large array instantly enveloped the stone Buddha's body.
Chen Changsheng searched for the problem by sensing the changes in spiritual energy inside each large array.
Under Chen Changsheng's control, more than a dozen large formations were moving and stopping. After a moment, Chen Changsheng's eyes suddenly lit up.
He raised his hand to put away all the formation flags, then took out three formation flags and inserted them into the Buddha's eyebrows, chest, and navel respectively.
The three formation flags were connected in a line to form the simplest three-talent formation. Immediately, a group of light was visible at the bottom of the Buddha's feet.
"It turned out to be hidden on the sole of the foot." Zhang Wanzhi cursed, "It's so insidious. Who would have thought of hiding it here?"
Indeed, normally even if one knows that there is an entrance to the Trial Ground, one would usually suspect the center of the eyebrows, heart, etc. Who would have thought that the entrance is hidden on the soles of the feet of the Buddha.
After Zhang Wanzhi finished speaking, he took action to forcefully open the entrance.
But Chen Changsheng stopped him: "It is better to do less than to do more. There is no need to forcefully make enemies."
Zhang Wanzhi was unconvinced: "I'm still afraid of what he will do, but today I have to force him to come out and see me!"
Zhang Wanzhi's purpose was not to open the entrance, but mainly to force the owner of the wooden fish to show up.
Seeing the hesitation on Chen Changsheng's face, Zhang Wanzhi encouraged him: "Don't you want to talk to him? This old guy has laid out many worlds, so he should know a lot of secrets."
Chen Changsheng was slightly hesitant. He did not want to offend someone whose strength was unknown. It was not a wise move to make enemies based on nothing.
But there is some truth in what Zhang Wanzhi said.
The owner of the wooden fish should know more than them. Chen Changsheng really wanted to meet the owner of the wooden fish, otherwise he would not have arranged for a clone to stay near the big wooden fish.
After thinking for a while, Chen Changsheng took a step back and said, "Please be careful."
"Don't worry, I always do things in the most measured way."
Zhang Wanzhi flew under the soles of the Buddha's feet. A sharp awl appeared in his hand and pierced the soles of the Buddha's feet from afar.
Although the sharp cone in his hand did not touch the stone Buddha, the invisible light group in the soles of the stone Buddha's feet trembled slightly, and the surface was dented, which showed that it was affected by external pressure.
However, the light group did not explode and withstood the external pressure.
Zhang Wanzhi's eyes narrowed, and the sharp cone in his hand suddenly turned at high speed, like an electric drill!
At this time, the light group seemed to be unable to bear it any longer, and traces of light leaked out.
But at this moment, Chen Changsheng's expression changed slightly.
He took a step forward, interrupted Zhang Wanzhi, and said, "The other party has already sensed it."
"how do you know?"
"Because..." Chen Changsheng took a breath, "The big wooden fish in Wanshan Realm moved!"
Li Xiuchang asked quickly: "Senior brother, have you seen the owner of the wooden fish?"
Chen Changsheng shook his head: "The other party didn't show up. What I left there was just a clone, and I couldn't stop him."
Zhang Wanzhi, however, looked calm: "It's okay, you two stay away first and leave the rest to me."
Chen Changsheng said solemnly: "Do you want me to come and help?"
"No need!" Zhang Wanzhi said confidently, "In a world where I can attack with all my strength but cannot ascend, how can I still be afraid of him?"
Huiren on the side smiled bitterly: "Donor Zhang, please take it easy, don't hurt the monks of my Pure Land Temple."
"Don't worry, I am sensible and will not hurt your people."
"Even if you don't hurt anyone, it's not good to hurt flowers and plants. Monks are compassionate..."
Before Huiren could finish speaking, he was pushed away by Zhang Wanzhi, because at this moment a huge wooden fish fell from the sky!
"Come so fast!"
Zhang Wanzhi was a little surprised. It only took a few minutes for the big wooden fish to move from the Wanshan Realm to the Pure Land Realm.
how did you do that?
Li Xiuchang, Chen Changsheng and Huiren quickly stepped away to make room for Zhang Wanzhi.
Zhang Wanzhi took out an umbrella and opened it, covering the sky and the sun.
The big wooden fish pressed against the umbrella, and as the umbrella rotated, it bounced away.
However, the big wooden fish quickly stabilized, as if someone knocked the wooden fish and made a sound out of thin air.
The sound was not loud, but it was extremely powerful. It caused the umbrella surface to wrinkle and made a tooth-breaking squeaking sound.
Zhang Wanzhi held on to the giant umbrella and soared into the sky. When he got close to the big wooden fish, he suddenly closed the umbrella and used the umbrella as a stick to hit the big wooden fish.
Boom, boom, boom!
The big wooden fish was struck so hard that it trembled and made constant noises.
When Huiren heard the noise, he realized something and sat cross-legged in meditation.
At this time, when the Buddhist monks in Pure Land Temple heard the sound of the wooden fish, some stood on the spot, while others sat on the ground, and they all entered a state of enlightenment.
The sound of the wooden fish spread to the surroundings, scattering the smoke and clouds accumulated over the Pure Land Temple, exposing the Pure Land Temple to direct sunlight for a long time.
"Is this okay?" Li Xiuchang looked at Huiren who had an epiphany on the spot, feeling a little envious.
He is also a half-Buddhist, so how come he has no enlightenment?
He continued to pay attention to the battle above his head, and saw Zhang Wanzhi knocking on the wooden fish one after another, looking up at the sky, and without waiting for the opponent to counterattack, he shouted:
"Is it what a hero does to hide his head and show his tail? Why don't you come out and see him!"
After he finished shouting, two full breaths passed before a figure emerged from the clouds.
He was a handsome young monk, wearing a purple and gold cassock, with his hands clasped together and his face showing compassion.
"What are you calling me for?"
"Are you the owner of the wooden fish?" Zhang Wanzhi asked.
"So what?"
The expression on Zhang Wanzhi's face suddenly changed, from a serious look to a friendly smile.
He smiled heartily and said: "You are indeed a talented person, rich and handsome. I have never seen such a handsome Buddhist monk!"
The handsome monk's expression froze and he opened his mouth, suddenly not knowing what to say.
Zhang Wanzhi couldn't handle this sudden big turn.
It would be fine if other people said he was handsome, but it was Zhang Wanzhi who praised him!
"What's your name, Master?" Zhang Wanzhi walked over and asked in a swaggering manner.
The handsome monk hesitated for a moment before replying: "The poor monk's name is Shitian."
"It turns out to be Brother Shitian." Zhang Wanzhi walked up to the monk and was about to shake hands with him, but saw monk Shitian step back and distance himself.
"Don't be so stingy. I know we have our differences, but there is a good saying in Buddhism. It is better to resolve enemies than to make enemies. If we don't fight, we don't know each other. We might as well make friends and resolve this conflict. I believe Buddha sees it. I will be happy to see you." Zhang Wanzhi said with a generous look.
"It is better to resolve enemies than to make enemies. This sentence does not come from my Buddhist school." Shi Tian corrected him.
"That's not the key." Zhang Wanzhi waved his hand, "The key is, would Master Shi Tian be willing to have one more friend of mine?"
Shi Tian woke up at this time and remembered why he came this time, and said: "Since we are friends, you shouldn't mess with my arrangements or disrupt my plans."
"That makes sense." Zhang Wanzhi put away his sharp-cone fairy weapon, "I will not try to open the entrance to this place of trial again. I will repair the damage that has been done."
So easy to talk to?
Shi Tian suddenly didn't know what to say.
He came prepared for a fight, but how could he fight?
He didn't reach out to hit the smiling person. Zhang Wanzhi grinned from ear to ear as soon as he came up. How could he start?
He didn't speak, but Zhang Wanzhi had something to say.
"Today, I, Zhang Wanzhi, apologized to Brother Shitian in front of the Buddha, and promised to repair the entrance to the trial place. If Brother Shitian has any other requests, just ask them, and I will try my best to fulfill them!"
Shi Tian was silent for a few moments, then said helplessly: "I will repair the entrance to the trial site on my own. It's enough if you promise not to destroy it again."
"Brother Shitian is indeed generous. He is worthy of being an eminent Buddhist monk. Such a magnanimity is beyond my reach."
Zhang Wanzhi was showered with free compliments, lifting Shi Tian to the sky.
Li Xiuchang was stunned below. Is this how senior brother Zhang Wanzhi solved the problem?
He thought there would be a fierce battle.
Unexpectedly, he could convince a powerful enemy just by flattering him.
It's not unreasonable for Senior Brother Zhang to be popular and charming.
However, this is indeed the best result, and they are indeed unreasonable in this matter.
Chen Changsheng smiled: "Old Zhang can be reliable once in a while. What he is best at is actually not refining weapons, but making friends.
"At first, I didn't know each other, and I only became friends with them through Lao Zhang."
This was the first time Li Xiuchang heard about this.
After careful questioning, I found out that except for the "dog man and woman", the other senior brothers did not know each other. They all met Zhang Wanzhi first and then became friends through Zhang Wanzhi.
Li Xiuchang was distracted for a moment. When he looked up again, he saw that senior brother Zhang Wanzhi was already on Shi Tian's back.
Shi Tian's expression was obviously unnatural, but he was too embarrassed to push Zhang Wanzhi away.
The two of them didn't know what they were talking about. After a while, they saw Zhang Wanzhi and Shi Tian falling down together.
"Master Shitian." Li Xiuchang greeted politely.
Zhang Wanzhi smiled and said: "Xiuchang, thank you quickly, Brother Shitian. He has promised to send you to the trial place for trial first."
ah?
Is this okay?
Does this make me recognize my senior brother?
Li Xiuchang gave 10,000 likes to Senior Brother Zhang Wanzhi. At the same time, he responded very quickly. He was immediately moved and said: "Thank you, Senior Brother Shitian."
Shi Tian smiled stiffly and said to Li Xiuchang, "You're welcome."
Chen Changsheng sighed inwardly, an introverted and honest person could easily become Zhang Wanzhi's toy.
Shi Tian explained: "The purpose of setting up this trial is to select Buddhist talents. Since you meet the requirements, I really shouldn't let you wait for another hundred years. This is not to facilitate you, but to make up for the loopholes."
He was completely unaware that these remarks were just instilled in him by Zhang Wanzhi.
Zhang Wanzhi gave him a meal to analyze the unreasonableness of this rule, and the key point made Shi Tian feel that it made sense.
"I will open the entrance for you. When you complete the trial, I will seal the entrance again and wait for the tester a hundred years later."
Shi Tian waved his hand, and a ray of Buddha light penetrated into the soles of the stone Buddha's feet, and a portal slowly emerged.