Chapter 196: Can be saved, cannot be saved
There was nothing special about Li Anran's words, and Taiyi Tianzun and Yang Jian just thought he was just saying it casually.
Only Wutan noticed something strange, and had a vague feeling that Li Anran's words were specifically directed at him!
But on second thought, I felt that it was unlikely.
He was an unknown figure in the Three Realms. Even in Lingshan, few people knew of his existence, let alone the Prison God who had lived for less than five hundred years!
Is it a coincidence? Or does Li Anran have a talent for seeing into people's hearts?
Wu Tian looked at Li Anran deeply, nodded and said, "What the Prison God said makes sense. Since I want to compete with Tathagata, I can't be like him and protect those disciples who have made mistakes for the sake of so-called reputation."
He then looked at Yang Jian and said, "Your Excellency's guess is correct. It was indeed Guanyin who instructed the King of Inspiration to refine the human elixir. It was indeed me who led Wukong and his four disciples to Tongtian River."
"But Guanyin is always cautious and never leaves any traces. I don't have the evidence you want either."
Yang Jian looked calm and was not surprised.
In order to silence the witness, Guanyin directly performed a ritual to liberate all the aquatic creatures in Tongtian River in front of Li Anran. It would be strange if Wutan said that he had any solid evidence.
He stopped Wutan just to know more details.
Just as Yang Jian was about to ask, he heard Wu Tian change the subject and said, "However, her goldfish is bold and reckless, greedy, and not careful in doing things. I do have some evidence about him."
Wu Tian flipped his hand, and a white jade bottle more than one foot high appeared in his palm. He said, "In addition to using the boys and girls in Chenjia Village to refine human pills, that evil beast often went to the villages downstream of Tongtian River to kidnap boys and girls and refine them into human pills for himself. This bottle contains the human pills he secretly refined."
Yang Jian's eyes lit up, and he quickly took the white jade bottle and opened it to take a look.
Inside were two human pills, one for a boy and one for a girl, about six or seven inches long, with all four limbs and facial features intact, and they looked like children of five or six years old.
When was Wu Tian taken away?
Li Anran was a little surprised.
When Guanyin took the King of Inspiration away, he intervened and took the King of Inspiration to the Heavenly Prison.
Although he only stayed there for less than half an hour , he also looked into the life of the King of Inspiration and learned that the King of Inspiration had been secretly refining elixirs.
However, the King of Inspiration consumed all these human pills directly after they were refined. He never expected that Wutan actually intercepted two of them.
Li Anran carefully recalled the life story of the King of Inspiration that he had read, and could not find any trace of Wutan's involvement.
"Guanyin combines the ginseng fruit tree and the Buddhist golden body method. The King of Inspiration is not only a tool for alchemy, but also a tool for testing medicines."
Yang Jian was not good at making elixirs. After looking at it from left to right, he could only see that the human elixir looked similar to a ginseng fruit.
Although Li Anran had never made the elixir himself, he had read the memories of the golden and silver boys countless times and was definitely a master of alchemy theory. He pointed out the core of the human elixir in one breath.
This human pill looks somewhat similar to the ginseng fruit, but in fact it is completely different!
Ginseng fruit is bred from the innate spiritual root ginseng fruit tree. It contains a trace of innate wood energy. If you smell it, you can live to 360 years old, and if you eat one, you can live forty-seven thousand years.
The human pill is made by using young boys and girls and incense as sacrifices. Its essence is a fusion of the essence and blood of incense. After taking it, it is the body that is strengthened and tempered.
The effect is very obvious, but it is a failure!
The golden body greatly enhanced the Buddhist monks' close combat capabilities, but because it incorporated too much human incense and mortal desires, it had great side effects.
Even Buddha and Bodhisattva only regard it as a temporary tool to fight the enemy and dare not use it for a long time.
This human pill treats the body as a golden body to be tempered. It can indeed greatly improve strength in a short period of time, but over time, it will lose itself, fall into desire, and become a puppet of desire.
Guanyin must have known this and must have told the King of Inspiration.
But monsters have very poor self-control and a strong desire for power.
The King of Inspiration could not bear the temptation of increasing his strength, so he secretly refined human pills for consumption.
"The Prison God has such profound attainments in the way of alchemy!"
Wu Tian looked at Li Anran in surprise, and then said, "In addition to these two human pills, I also captured two of his monsters who were responsible for burning fire and refining pills. I will have the black robe send them to Zhenjun's Guanjiangkou later."
"Thank you." Yang Jian was overjoyed.
These two human pills alone cannot point the finger at the King of Inspiration, let alone the Guanyin behind the King of Inspiration.
But with these two monsters as witnesses, the King of Inspiration can be directly implicated, and Guanyin cannot stay out of it.
Even if the King of Inspiration accidentally learned the magical power of the Buddhist Golden Body, he would never be able to touch the ginseng fruit tree!
The only one who can combine these two together is Guanyin!
Wu Tian waved his hand and said, "I should thank Zhen Jun. Zhen Jun helped me and saved me the trouble. Wu Kong, let's go."
Wutan bowed to Taiyi Tianzun, and his and the monkey's figures gradually disappeared.
Only a black lotus was left at the spot, and it quickly disappeared into the void without leaving any trace.
Taiyi Tianzun frowned slightly.
The Jinguan Cave in Qianyuan Mountain is shrouded by the Nine Dragons Divine Fire Formation, but Wutan is free to come and go without any restrictions.
He couldn't help but think secretly in his heart, if one day he fell out with Wutan, would he be able to keep Wutan and stop the black lotus that came and went without a trace?
Li Anran was thinking about something else.
In the original time and space, during the thirty-three years that Wu Tian ruled the Three Realms, he imprisoned all the gods and Buddhas of the Three Realms in the underworld, and used mechanical techniques to clone monsters into fake ones and replace them.
But, no one was killed!
The whole process was more like a peaceful and friendly handover between the two parties!
The only exception is Luojia Mountain in Nanhai!
In Chaoyin Cave of Luojia Mountain, all the gods including the god guarding the mountain, Shancai Dragon Girl, mountain gods, land gods, and all the living creatures kept in the purple bamboo forest and the pond were killed by Wu Tian's people!
When Li Anran watched this passage in his previous life, he didn't think much about it. He just felt it was eerie and scary.
Now it seems that Wutan is taking revenge for the aquatic creatures who died unjustly in Tongtian River?
It was really beyond Li Anran's expectations.
Yang Jian was in a hurry to return to Guanjiangkou to receive the witness sent by the man in black robe, and immediately took his leave from Taiyi Tianzun.
Taiyi Tianzun said sternly: "Yang Jian, do you know what consequences this will bring to you and the Three Realms?"
Yang Jian said: "I should do my job well while I am in office. As long as I am still a God of Justice, I will follow the rules of Heaven and uphold the laws of Heaven. No matter what the consequences are, I am willing to bear them."
Taiyi Tianzun did not say anything, but just looked at Yang Jian with burning eyes.
Yang Jian did not avoid or give way, but looked directly at Taiyi Tianzun. There was no fear or timidity, no hatred or anger, no excitement in his eyes, only calmness and determination.
He had obviously thought everything through and was not acting on impulse.
Taiyi Tianzun sighed: "Forget it! Everyone has their own destiny, and it is difficult to defy fate! Since you have made up your mind, then do it! I just hope you won't regret it in the future!"
"Thank you, uncle master." Yang Jian bowed respectfully to Taiyi Zhenren, turned around and flew towards Guanjiangkou.
Li Anran wanted to go with Yang Jian, but was stopped by Taiyi Tianzun, who said, "This is Yang Jian's fate, you don't need to get involved. Go back to heaven quickly, your uncle Jin Ling is waiting for you in the Tianlao Palace, take her to see Jiuling Yuansheng."
Li Anran was shocked. Was this Golden Spirit Mother going to take the Nine Spirit Saint back to Jiejiao?
Li Anran asked, "What do you need to do, disciple?"
Taiyi Tianzun shook his head and said, "You don't need to do anything, and you don't need to worry about anything."
At the same time, Wutan and Monkey also returned to the cave in the Abyss of Darkness.
All the monsters were driven away by Wutan to practice in seclusion. The cave was empty and so quiet that it was a little scary .
Wutan raised his eyes slightly and waved his right hand. With a "swish", a purple light flashed and two lotus thrones appeared side by side in the center of the cave.
The monkey was thinking about something, and when he saw this scene, he was stunned and looked at Wutan with surprise.
Wu Tian said: "Wukong, I have said before that you are the Holy Envoy of the Black Lotus, and you are no different from me. If I become the Buddha in the future, half of the Buddhist world will belong to you."
The monkey opened his mouth wide, looking a little confused.
He didn't know how many times he had been shocked by Wutan's words!
But, how could he not be shocked and confused when Wutan said this ?
After a while, the monkey came back to his senses. Seeing Wu Tian's serious and sincere face, he was so scared that he waved his hands and said, "I don't want to stay in that sacred mountain. There are so many rules. I'm not allowed to do this or that. It's so annoying!"
Wu Tian smiled and said, "Then let's abolish all these annoying rules!"
Monkey: "..." Are you really kidding?
Wu Tian saw through the monkey's thoughts and said, "Buddha saves people by relying on his magical power and wisdom. Those useless rules and regulations are just shackles and should have been removed long ago."
The monkey was slightly startled, not because of Wutan's words, but because when Wutan said this, the calmness and gentleness that had always been in his mind disappeared, and was replaced by arrogance and arrogance.
However, this momentum was only exposed for a moment before Wu Tian restrained it again, and changed the subject, saying: "Wukong, let me tell you a story."
The monkey was a little confused by Wutan, but still nodded.
"Buddhism was not originally called Buddhism, but Western Buddhism. It was founded by two saints, Jie Yin and Zhunti, who served as the first and second leaders of Western Buddhism respectively."
"The paths that the two saints realized are similar, but also different. Saint Jieyin saves himself, while Saint Zhunti saves others. Thus, there is the distinction between Hinayana Buddhism and Mahayana Buddhism. Tathagata is the leader of Mahayana Buddhism today, and the World Honored One of Lingshan Buddhism."
"The person I want to talk about is Kinnara, a disciple of Uparata Buddha, the former leader of Mahayana Buddhism..."
As Wu Tian continued to tell the story, the monkey gradually realized that Wu Tian was telling his own story.
Mahayana Buddhism believes that all sentient beings have the innocent Buddha nature that is neither born nor destroyed, neither dirty nor clean, and neither increases nor decreases, so all sentient beings can be saved.
These living beings include ordinary mortals and beasts, as well as those who are extremely evil and treacherous.
Therefore, Mahayana Buddhism has the saying "Put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha instantly."
Although Kinnara, also known as Adevanagari, is the great protector of the Mahayana Buddhist leader, he is skeptical about this view.
Therefore, Uparata Buddha, the leader of Mahayana Buddhism at that time, sent him to the southern part of Xiniuhezhou to preach, hoping that he would change his ideas through preaching and realize that all sentient beings have Buddha nature and all sentient beings can become Buddhas.
However, after persuading A Liu, the descendant of a family of thieves, to stop stealing, persuading A Dao, a gangster who loved fighting, to stop fighting, persuading the local prostitute Di A Xiu to stop being a prostitute, and the local high priest went back on his word and threatened with his life, causing A Xiu to break her oath not to be a prostitute and then commit suicide.
The original doubt turned into denial, thinking that some people in this world can be saved, while others cannot.
When facing people who can be converted, there is no need to worry about the means or methods. As long as you can convert them, it doesn't matter even if it violates Buddhist precepts.
When faced with someone who cannot be saved, one must use thundering means to resolve the cause and effect on him, let good and evil be rewarded, and send him into reincarnation early. Perhaps he can be saved in the next life.
Such a heretical idea made Uparata Buddha furious. He thought that Wu Tian had been possessed by a demon and expelled him from Buddhism.
However, Wu Tian did not change his ideas because of this. Instead, he believed more and more that he was not wrong and began to practice his ideas. For this reason, he even killed many Buddhists who he thought could not be converted but were converted anyway.
In the eyes of Uparata Buddha, this meant "deeper into the devil."
Afterwards, Tathagata inherited the position of the leader of Mahayana Buddhism from Uparatha, and gradually strengthened Mahayana Buddhism until he replaced the position of the then leader of Theravada Buddhism, Dipankara, and made Dipankara the ancient Buddha.
During this period, Mahayana Buddhism converted a large number of demons and monsters and named them the Eight Heavenly Dragons, the guardian gods.
Wu Tian believed that this move was a big mistake and that Mahayana Buddhism had deviated from the teachings of the saints and gone astray.
So, he headed towards Lingshan with the Twelve-Rank Black Lotus of Destruction that he had obtained by chance, intending to seize the throne of the Buddha from Tathagata and transform the Buddhist world with his own ideas.
As a result, he was no match for Tathagata. His physical body was defeated by Tathagata's six-foot-tall golden body, and only his soul remained, hiding in the twelfth-grade world-destroying black lotus to survive.
Just when Tathagata was preparing to refine his residual soul, the peacock, which the Saint Jie Yin had forcibly converted and taken as his mount during the catastrophe of the Conferred Gods, suddenly attacked Tathagata for some unknown reason and swallowed him and the Black Lotus into its stomach in one gulp.
Tathagata broke through the peacock's back and came out. Later, under the advice of the Buddhas, he canonized the peacock as the Buddha Mother Peacock King Bodhisattva.
It is for this reason that there is a later saying that the Golden-Winged Peng Eagle is Tathagata's uncle.
Wu Tian was reborn with the help of the power of the Peacock King Bodhisattva.
His rebirth is equivalent to being nurtured by the twelfth-grade black lotus of destruction.
Originally, the Twelve-Rank Black Lotus of Destruction was just his magic weapon, but now it has become his soul black lotus!
Unless Tathagata can completely destroy the Twelve-Level Black Lotus of Destruction, there is no way to kill him!
Tathagata naturally could not do this, so he had to ask Ainafa to take the black lotus out of the peacock's belly and seal it in the abyss of darkness.
Disaster is also an opportunity!
Wu Tian survived the calamity and practiced hard in the abyss of darkness for three thousand years. Not only did his cultivation recover to its original state, but he also broke through from the initial stage of Daluo to the middle stage of Daluo.
Wu Tian was not in a hurry to take revenge.
He found that his cultivation had not reached a bottleneck, and as long as he continued to practice, he could improve again.
So, while practicing hard in the Abyss of Darkness, he guided the demons into the Abyss of Darkness, recruited them as his subordinates, and made arrangements in the Three Realms.
This is also the reason why so many monsters can cross the Weak Water!
Only Zhu Bajie was ignored by Wu Tian because he had obvious traces of Emperor Donghua and the Human Cult on his body. He relied on his thick skin and flesh to practice the Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong and entered the Abyss of Darkness.
In the original time and space, the reason why Wu Tian admired Tang Seng so much was because Tang Seng's previous life, Jin Chanzi, had questioned the Mahayana Buddhist scriptures preached by Tathagata at the Ullambana Festival.
Wu Tian saw his own shadow in him.
However, compared to Wu Tian who put his ideas into practice, he was regarded as a demon by Uparata Buddha, expelled from Buddhism, and suppressed and sealed in the abyss of darkness.
Jin Chanzi only raised doubts, so he was only rebuked by Tathagata for disrespecting Buddhism, and his spirit was banished to reincarnation. It was not until he successfully obtained the Buddhist scriptures in the West that he regained his enlightenment and became the Sandalwood Merit Buddha.
The monkey was stunned when he heard this. He never expected that there was such a deep connection between Wutan and Lingshan.
What he didn't expect was that after Wu Tian finished speaking, he asked him directly: "Wukong, you have already guessed that the disturbance in Heaven was a trick of Tathagata. But do you know why Tathagata values you so much? He spared no expense and teamed up with the Jade Emperor to set up such a big trap to lure you in?"
The monkey shook his head like a rattle and asked, "Why?"
He himself had thought about this question before, but never had an answer.
Before, he might have thought that he had great magical powers and that Tathagata wanted to bring him to Lingshan to be a bodyguard, or a thug.
However, after experiencing so many things, especially after seeing strong men like Li Anran, Luo Xuan, the Golden-winged Roc, and magic weapons like the Golden Dragon Shears and Hunyuan Golden Bowl.
The monkey still felt that he was very powerful, but not powerful enough to make Tathagata spend so much effort on him!
Although he fell into Tathagata's trap, the peaches and golden elixirs he lost were all real!
Not to mention the karma and favors that Tathagata owes for this!
The monkey himself didn't have the nerve to say that Tathagata had made a fortune!
Wu Tian said word by word: "Because you are the last disciple of Saint Zhunti!"
monkey:"???!!!"
The monkey blurted out: "I am not a disciple of the Saint Zhunti, I am a Bodhisattva..."
The monkey suddenly remembered the oath he made when he left the Xieyue Sanxing Cave on Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, and quickly covered his mouth.
But he heard Wu Tian say: "Bodhi Patriarch is the Saint Zhunti!"
The monkey widened his eyes. Hearing the name from Wutan's mouth that he had not dared to mention for more than five hundred years, he felt a trembling all over.
Wu Tian continued, "Wukong, in all these years, haven't you ever looked for the Three Stars Cave on the Slanting Moon in Lingtai Fangcun Mountain again?"
The monkey shouted: "Of course I have looked for it, but..."
Wu Tian interrupted and said, "You didn't find anything, right? You didn't even find the slightest trace?"
The monkey nodded vigorously.
What he actually wanted to say was, "But the master didn't want to see me, so he used his great magical powers to hide the Lingtai Fangcun Mountain."
Patriarch Bodhi had not allowed him to return to the Three Stars Cave of the Slanting Moon on the Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, nor had he mentioned the name of Patriarch Bodhi to anyone, otherwise he would have been skinned and bones ground, and his soul would have been banished to the Nine Netherworlds, never to be able to turn over.
The monkey did the latter, but he couldn't help but deliberately fly over the area where the Xieyue Sanxing Cave was located on the Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, thinking that it would be nice to take a look at it inadvertently.
However, Lingtai Fangcun Mountain seemed to have disappeared. He passed by it countless times but could not see any trace of it, and he never met his senior and junior brothers!
The monkey could only understand that Patriarch Bodhi did not want to see him.
Wu Tian said: "That's because the Three Stars Cave of the Slanting Moon on Lingtai Fangcun Mountain is not in the Three Realms, but in your heart!"
