Chapter 1053: Buddhist Branches (2)
A disciple of Buddhism, he is very skilled in speaking.
Master Langyue and Monk Sanzang were still muttering to themselves. Both of them wanted to convince the other party, to put themselves on the moral high ground, and then use their "lofty morals" to crush the other party!
I guess they won't fight until they figure out the crucial question of 'who is more righteous'.
Even behind Bai Zun, the huge and evil formation had already taken shape, and even behind Master Langyue, there were space ripples and vibrations, and strange-looking Asuras, Rakshasas, Yakshas, Gandharvas and other powerful beings appeared - Lu Yi didn't know who these guys were, but from their physical characteristics, Lu Yi guessed their origins.
Lu Yu was slowly explaining that the former holy land of Nalanda was indeed an extremely complicated mess.
However, it seems that Lu Yu had some problems in his reincarnations in the past, so some of his memories, experiences, and secrets passed down by word of mouth were lost. He was not very clear on some issues, but Lu Yu figured out many issues through his own analysis and guesswork.
There is no doubt that the holy land of Nalanda came from outer space.
Maitreya was once the supreme leader of the Nalanda Holy Land. He brought some of the original disciples of the Nalanda Holy Land from the outer space, passing through the still-gestating Supreme Primordial Heaven. For some reason, Maitreya temporarily stopped here. With his extremely strong Buddha power and supreme might, he forcibly gave birth to the Supreme Primordial Heaven, allowing the world embryo to transform into an immature large world to accommodate many disciples of the Nalanda Holy Land, and use it as a "resting base".
Master Langyue, as well as Master Adu, Master Kushalun and others are the most original, orthodox and authentic disciples of the Maitreya lineage in the holy land of Nalanda.
However, when they entered the Supreme Primordial Heaven, they all suffered extremely tragic injuries. Therefore, after they settled in the Supreme Primordial Heaven, some of them fell into an extremely long dormant sleep, relying on the Nalanda Holy Land to collect faith power and various other rare resources to recuperate and hope to wake up in the future.
The great master Adu and the great demon Kushalun were both in a deep sleep and had only recently awakened.
As for Master Langyue... Lu Yu guessed that she should be a well-known and important senior in the Patriarch Hall of the Nalanda Holy Land. But when Master Langyue entered the Supreme Primordial Heaven, her injuries were too severe, and she couldn't even sleep.
She could only escape into reincarnation with a wisp of soul.
When the Supreme Primordial Heaven was opened up, the means of opening up the world were too rough, the time was too hasty, and Maitreya's own state seemed to be very wrong, resulting in many mistakes in the opened up world. At least, the most important reincarnation road became rough, violent and dangerous.
After Master Langyue's soul entered the reincarnation cycle, it was obvious that something went wrong. Therefore, the time for Master Langyue to return to the Holy Land of Nalanda was delayed for many years.
By the time the delay came, the remaining disciples in the Nalanda Holy Land had already recruited a large number of indigenous disciples in the Supreme Taichu Heaven!
Those indigenous disciples are the 'innate creatures' of the Supreme Taichu Heaven like Monk Sanzang... They are the first generation of 'human race' after the creation of this world. They have great luck and excellent qualifications, and their numbers are extremely considerable!
According to what Monk Sanzang said just now, each of them corresponds to an ancient star. There are 480 million of them in total, and they are all accepted by the Holy Land of Nalanda. According to the original fate and destiny of this world, they should grow into the existence of the "Great Emperor" level. Each of them controls a great way. 480 million people together are the supreme rulers of this world!
The holy land of Nalanda accepted the first batch of innate creatures after the creation of the world, represented by the monk Sanzang.
These people have great luck and deep roots. They are all intelligent and gifted. After they join the Buddhist sect, they are favored and blessed by heaven and earth. They comprehend the Buddhist teachings at a rapid pace. In a short period of time, they break through from ordinary people and soon a huge number of Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Buddhas and other powerful figures emerge.
The creatures of the Supreme Primordial Heaven multiplied , and the "celestial race" grew stronger. They were originally the "protagonists of heaven and earth destined by heaven", and they quickly prospered and became strong. Monk Sanzang and his companions recruited disciples from this group of primitive celestial races, preached, taught, and established Zen temples in various places in the starry sky...
Therefore, when Master Langyue's original disciples who had entered the cycle of reincarnation had not yet returned to the holy land of Nalanda, a group of indigenous disciples represented by Monk Sanzang rose rapidly in the holy land of Nalanda and quickly came to power!
Think about it, in a temple, there are only a few chief elders of the courtyards, halls, palaces, and pavilions, and some chief disciples... Under them, there are people who sweep the floor, watch the door, ring the bell, beat the drum, plant the land, water the vegetables, chop wood, cook... and even go out to recruit disciples, go out to exorcise demons...
All these people, because of their innate fate entanglements and involvement with heaven's secrets, form their own lineage!
Therefore, when the great masters among the original disciples, such as Master Langyue, finally struggled out of the cycle of reincarnation, followed the secret methods in their souls, comprehended the Buddha's rhyme, and rebuilt themselves little by little, and returned to the Holy Land of Nalanda either actively or passively...except for the nominal top leaders of the Holy Land who were still in the hands of the original disciples, the actual control of all other aspects of the Holy Land had completely fallen into the hands of indigenous disciples like Monk Sanzang.
This is where the conflict of interest arises.
This is where the contradiction and conflict arise.
However, if it was just a conflict between the original disciples and the indigenous disciples, it would be fine... There are more than just these two forces in the Holy Land of Nalanda!
The third-party force is represented by Lu Yu!
They are also the most orthodox Buddhist disciples, but they are not from the Maitreya lineage, nor are they the orthodox descendants of the Nalanda Holy Land.
In other words, Lu Yu, and his fellow travelers, their masters, and their elders are the real Buddhists. Their identities, status, strength, and qualifications are comparable to "Maitreya", or even surpass them!
For some reason - Lu Yu did not explain, but Lu Yi felt that Lu Yu was not intentionally hiding it. After all, in this life, he was Lu Yu's biological son. What did Lu Yu need to hide from him?
Perhaps Lu Yu himself lost this part of his memory during reincarnation.
Or maybe, because of certain taboos, there is an incredible power that has erased the cause and effect of all this from the source with terrifying magical powers... Unless certain conditions are met, unless certain situations are reached, Lu Yu and his fellow disciples "cannot remember" these reasons, let alone "tell outsiders" about them.
In short, for some reasons, Lu Yu and his fellow travelers were carried by Maitreya and followed the Holy Land of Nalanda all the way to the Supreme Taichu Heaven. After forcibly opening up this world, they temporarily settled here!
Therefore, the disciples represented by Lu Yu are also orthodox Buddhists, but compared to the holy land of Nalanda, they are "guests" rather than "insiders".
Therefore, in the conflict between the indigenous disciples and the original disciples of the Holy Land of Nalanda represented by Monk Sanzang and Master Langyue , the "orthodox Buddhism" represented by Lu Yu has always shown great "detachment". They do not help either side, they stay out of the matter, and perhaps some people even have the bad intention of "sitting on the mountain and watching the fight between tigers".
Lu Yu didn't say it explicitly.
But Lu Yu heard a hint of this from Lu Yu's words... In the internal disputes of the Nalanda Holy Land, the "Buddhist orthodoxy" represented by Lu Yu was not a "kind and harmless little lamb".
But after all, Lu Yu and the others have made their gestures and expressed their attitudes.
Therefore, this lineage of "orthodox Buddhism" has an extraordinary status in the holy land of Nalanda. Positions such as the director of the Sutra Repository, the guardian of the secret realm, the guardian of the secret warehouse, and even the jailer of the Buddhist Prison, all of which are "important" but "cannot affect the real power of the holy land of Nalanda", all fall on the disciples of Lu Yu's lineage.
Lu Yu thought of the Nalanda fruit.
No wonder, when Lu Yu returned to the Supreme Taichu Heaven, he was able to hand over the Ranta Buddha Fruit to himself immediately - it turned out that their lineage was engaged in such activities and was responsible for such duties in the past!
If, Lu Yu said "if" very deeply.
If there are only three groups of people in the holy land of Nalanda, it seems that a certain balance can be achieved - a triangular relationship is the most stable.
The indigenous disciples and the original disciples, one has a large number of people and holds real power, the other has a long history and is powerful, and with the "orthodox Buddhism" of Lu Yu's lineage that is "idle as a guest" acting as a middleman, then the Holy Land of Nalanda would not have performed so poorly when facing the invasion of foreign enemies!
The fourth party actually acted as a "troublemaker" in the muddy waters of the holy land of Nalanda.
Lu Shen believed that in the Supreme Taichu Heaven, the Lingshan Leiyin Temple, which was developing peripheral members and placing spies everywhere, was a bit restless. Its leader Qingsha was the representative of the fourth party, a leader and an outstanding general!
"Maitreya is an extraordinary Buddhist sage." Lu Yu said with deep emotion: "Before the Supreme Heaven of Beginning, in my vague memory, Maitreya led the Holy Land of Nalanda and a group of wounded and defeated soldiers to flee for an extremely long time, and traveled through many, many worlds similar to the Supreme Heaven of Beginning."
"Those worlds are big and small, strong and weak. Some of them were still in the embryonic stage when Maitreya brought us there, just like the Supreme Primordial Heaven. Maitreya forcefully opened them up and accepted many disciples from them."
"There is another part of the world that was already a complete world before Maitreya brought us here... Maitreya, us, and the entire Nalanda Holy Land forcefully entered and defeated the resistance of the other world, and liberated all those who dared to resist... cough cough!"
Lu Yu spoke slowly.
In short, this group of disciples of the Nalanda Holy Land, represented by Qingsha, are not natives of the Supreme Taichu Heaven, nor are they the original disciples of Maitreya, nor are they "orthodox Buddhists" like Lu Yu.
They come from several worlds, large and small, outside the Supreme Primordial Heaven.
They are of different races, forms, cognitions, and have great differences in history, culture, morality, and ethics. Among them, there are disordered minds and fickle hearts, and there are many deep-minded conspirators, or some people who are ruthless, cruel, and almost demonic.
As for these people, let’s just label them as ‘Disciples of the Heavens’!
To put it more cruelly and bluntly, the original disciples of the holy land of Nalanda are still far from being the real "great enlightened ones" and the real "compassionate Buddha". They are not the real "Buddha" . Therefore, their methods and their mentality are sometimes a bit unscrupulous and extreme.
For example, in the minds of the original disciples of the holy land of Nalanda, these 'disciples of the heavens' are protectors, thugs, hawks and dogs who patrol the mountains and keep sentry posts, and cannon fodder who charge into the front lines during battles... However, they are not 'real disciples of Buddhism', not 'close people to whom one can entrust one's mantle and bowl' in the minds of the original disciples!
The contradiction just arises.
"From what I remember, those filthy things..." Lu Yu curled his lips and sneered, "If they were taken to a brothel in the secular world, the girls who sing songs would be able to tell the stories for eight hundred lifetimes."
"In short, this is roughly the situation of the Holy Land of Nalanda."
"An original disciple who has mastered the inheritance and has the legitimate title."
"They are numerous and powerful, and they are the indigenous disciples who hold the real power."
"A Buddhist orthodoxy that lives a leisurely life, but is also full of scheming."
"And disciples from all over the world, with complicated origins, unpredictable minds, internal intrigues, and unscrupulous means to the outside world, who come from all over the world, with all kinds of races, bloodlines, forms, and thoughts."
"When Maitreya was there to suppress it, everything was going smoothly."
“But after opening up the Supreme Absolute Heaven, Maitreya suddenly passed away for unknown reasons… Those original disciples, some were in a dormant state, some were in a dormant state, and some entered the cycle of reincarnation also entered the cycle of reincarnation… So, everything became inevitable.”
Lu Yu put his hands together and said softly with a hint of sadness, "If the Blue Emperor had come to chase us when the Nalanda Holy Land had just opened up the Supreme Primordial Heaven... perhaps, when the time came for everyone to die, they could have worked together to fight fiercely, and the outcome would still be unknown."
" But the Green Emperor didn't come for a long time. Instead, he waited for the Nalanda Holy Land to recuperate in this world. After it seemed to have recovered its vitality, he sneaked into this world... At that time, he didn't even need to fight. The fighting inside the Nalanda Holy Land was already in chaos and bloodshed."
"Otherwise, why do you think that with the background of this little nun Langyue, she was still only the 'number one in the outer sect' when the Nalanda Holy Land was destroyed?"
"She has been unable to recover her past life's wisdom."
"She has been unable to regain her previous life's cultivation."
"In fact, there were many times when she was out preaching and her beloved disciples were robbed. She narrowly escaped death hundreds of times and almost died... Do you really think she likes to raise black bears, wild boars and the like?"
"She was forced into a corner, so she had no choice. She wanted to recruit a proper disciple, but she couldn't. So she could only use her title of 'Number One in the Outer Sect' to recruit a group of powerful demons for her to command."
"How did she get the title of 'Number One in the Outer Sect'?"
"Talismans, pills, formations, weapons, the best in the outer sect? Haha, a serious Buddhist disciple has all the power in himself. With one palm strike, he can suppress the Zhou Tian and destroy all the demons... Why does he need those fancy things?"
"Is she so bored that she studies those useless and unorthodox methods?"
"She was forced into no other options. She fiddled with those things just to protect herself and have more ways to save her life! If she had been able to recover her wisdom and cultivation from her past lives and attain the status of a Buddha, would she have spent her days drawing talismans and cutting grass roots and tree bark?"
Lu Yu sneered: "So, you see, Sanzang... Pujiezi... Which life's Buddhist name was this? I'm a little unfamiliar with it... Anyway, it's Sanzang, you see, Monk Sanzang hates the little nun Langyue so much, why is that?"
"Hehe, in the battle back then, it was his group that rushed to the front."
"Four hundred and eighty million first-generation indigenous disciples, and the many disciples they recruited, tsk tsk... corpses piled up like a mountain, blood flowed like a sea... What can we do?"
"At that time, the lower houses and monasteries of the Nalanda Holy Land were all over the world. The abbots, supervisors, receptionists, and disciples of the lower houses and branches in every star, every floating continent, every celestial region, and every star region were all from his lineage."
"The Qing Emperor is coming, and they will definitely be the ones to get stabbed."
“So, there were heavy casualties… a disastrous death… and in the end, they were all wiped out!” Lu Yu shook his head and said, “As far as I know, their group of disciples, the group of innate creatures that the Nalanda Holy Land had collected in the Supreme Primordial Heaven, were all wiped out…”
Lu Yu shook his head slightly and sighed.
He continued to mutter.
Lu Yu also roughly understood what the four former disciples of the Nalanda Holy Land, as mentioned by Lu Yu, wanted to do.
The original disciples represented by Master Langyue want to awaken Maitreya, let Maitreya return to the world, let the holy land of Nalanda return to the right track and become the most orthodox, purest and most original holy land of Nalanda in their hearts.
As for the people headed by Lu Yu, they didn't want Maitreya to return to the world... they just wanted the glory of Buddhism to shine on the Supreme Taichu Heaven again. In other words, a great power from Buddhism could descend and revive, but the great power from Buddhism that descended and revived might not necessarily be Maitreya!
The disciples of the heavens, represented by Qing Sha, also suffered heavy casualties that year. Moreover, during the war, many of them surrendered to the Qing Emperor... Therefore, the "disciples of the heavens" with different hearts and minds, what they think about is the purest thing - "to survive"?
Lu Yu had never had any contact with Qing Sha, but he could roughly judge what these guys were thinking.
As long as I can survive, I can do anything.
Even, as long as they could survive, they could leave the Supreme Taichu Heaven - after all, they also came here from outer space, so if they were forced to do so one day, it would be fine to just leave.
As for Monk Sanzang, his intentions are quite terrifying.
"He seems to want to avenge those fellow disciples he tore apart back then... Hehe!" Lu Yu's eyes flashed with a sinister and mysterious light: "I think he wants to rebuild the world!"
"He wants to restore the fate of Supreme Taichutian to its original trajectory!"
"He seems to have cut off the past, present and future, and wants to die together with others, putting on a desperate posture... In fact, perhaps among all of us, his heart is the wildest."
"He wants to become the creator of the new world... or even... haha! Could he have a bigger ambition?" Lu Yu looked thoughtfully at the monk Sanzang, whose body was gushing with blood, and nodded gently: "Of course there is!"