Chapter 197 Discussing Taoism with Buddha!
Chen Jue had always guessed that this [Unknown Blockade] would be something like a lifespan lock, a gene lock, or an aura lock of the Dharma Ending Age. However, after entering the realm of a true saint on earth and learning a vast amount of knowledge in the base, Chen Jue had already understood the knowledge of lifespan, genes, and the like very well.
As for the spiritual energy of the Dharma Ending Age, it is nothing more than the "innate qi" emitted from meteorites .
It stands to reason that with the powerful functions of the attribute panel, this [Unknown Blockade] should be analyzed based on what Chen Jue has learned and seen.
But up to now, this [Unknown Blockade] still has three big question marks, which shows that it is not the messy lock that Chen Jue had thought of before.
It might be the knowledge that Chen Jue has not touched yet, or it might be the upper limit of some kind of practice. Chen Jue does not know for now.
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After studying the attribute panel for a long time and still unable to figure it out, Chen Jue wandered around Yinling City.
This is a historical and cultural city like Xidu, and is also one of the four ancient capitals. It has the atmosphere of a modern and prosperous metropolis, as well as the bustling urban life like Hezhou and Anxian.
After finding a hotel to stay in and putting down his luggage, Chen Jue washed off the dust and dirt he had picked up from hiking. He also gave the robes and clothes he had worn for a long time to the hotel for dry cleaning, and he also bought a set of winter clothes for himself.
After changing into clean clothes, Chen Jue went to the street to find a restaurant to fill his stomach. People in Yinling love to eat duck, and their way of eating it is unique. There is an exaggerated saying that "there are 365 ways to die of duck".
The salted duck has white skin and tender meat, and is smooth and fresh, with a taste comparable to the poached chicken in Vancouver; the oven-roasted duck has a harmonious blend of five flavors, and is salty, fresh, sweet and fragrant; the pressed duck is tender and firm, and the sauced duck head has just the right amount of sweetness and saltiness. There is also the famous duck blood vermicelli casserole, and a dish of salted duck liver with a fresh and glutinous taste.
Chen Jue had been to Yinling once on a business trip. It was for work at the time, so he didn't tour the city carefully. He only had work meals and his trip was rushed.
Now that he had returned to his original heart and was no longer struggling for life, Chen Jue naturally felt like traveling and planned to find some relaxation in his life from his tireless pursuit of the Tao and practice.
The dishes here in Yinling belong to Huaiyang cuisine, which is similar in taste to the Ou cuisine in his hometown Wenzhou. Chen Jue felt like he was back home while eating them.
After ordering a table full of duck feast, Chen Jue also asked for a large bowl of rice to eat with it. As his body's consumption increased, he felt that a whole duck feast was not enough to fill him up, so he went out and bought a few duck oil pancakes at the intersection and continued to eat.
After feeling that his stomach was satisfied, Chen Jue took advantage of the night to visit the Qinhuai River, a famous scenic spot in Yinling, and experienced the feeling of being tipsy as "smoke shrouds the cold water, moon shrouds the sand, and night mooring at Qinhuai near a tavern".
Looking at the colorful and gorgeous pleasure boats floating on the Qinhuai River and seeing many young tourists of the same age as himself, Chen Jue felt that indulging in the beauty of the world was not in conflict with practicing Taoism.
"Only by understanding the various aspects of life and appreciating the beauty of the world can one achieve a better practice of relaxation and tension." Chen Jue thought.
After touring the Qinhuai River and seeing that it was already past 9 o'clock, Chen Jue took a taxi back to his hotel and had a deep sleep like a dragon sleeping.
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After getting up the next day, he did not continue sightseeing. Instead, he ate a big bowl of duck blood vermicelli at a street shop. After filling his stomach with a few beef pot stickers and crab roe soup dumplings, Chen Jue went straight to Niu Shou Mountain, his destination for this trip to Yinling.
This is the place where the Buddhist sacred object, the Buddha's skull relic, is enshrined. As soon as Chen Jue arrived at the Buddha's Crown Palace on Niu Shou Mountain, he was attracted by the magnificent architectural style here.
Compared to the Hangu Pass where Laozi attained enlightenment, this Buddha's Crown Palace was built with a huge investment. There is a white elephant leading the way to the entrance. The main body is a large and a small dome based on a lotus throne, a pagoda with carved beams and painted rafters, and the magnificent Thousand Buddha Hall and Ten Thousand Buddha Corridor, which enshrine countless Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats. In your ears are the refreshing Sanskrit chanting, and everything you see is related to Buddhism.
Chen Jue spent 98 yuan on the ticket and felt it was well worth it after strolling around the Buddha's Crown Palace.
When they arrived at the relic palace 44 meters underground, Chen Jue saw the Buddha's skull relic that was enshrined in a golden niche and looked like a human skull fossil.
This is the skull relic left after the cremation of Buddha Sakyamuni. There is only one piece left in the world and it is the most supreme sacred object in Buddhism.
On the pitted skull of Sakyamuni, Chen Jue saw colorful relics, which looked like the seven treasures of Buddhism. Under the illumination of the surrounding lights, they looked restrained and extremely mysterious.
First, look at those colorful real relics with the naked eye. With Chen Jue's current eyesight, although there is a distance, he can still see the densely packed colorful relics on the top of the skull.
After carefully observing these relics with the naked eye, Chen Jue used the divine induction of [Sacred Heart] to observe them. Suddenly, he discovered that countless seven-colored lights were emanating from the top bone relic, which was the spiritual magnetic field that Chen Jue had just comprehended.
However, the spiritual magnetic field emanating from the Buddha's relic is much stronger and more dazzling than that of ordinary people. Chen Jue can sense the incomparably powerful Buddha nature left by the Buddha 2,500 years ago.
"Shariputra, form is not different from emptiness, emptiness is not different from form. Form is emptiness, emptiness is form."
"The spiritual magnetic field formed by these relics is almost turning into a rainbow, and it is as rich as oil paint!"
"Shakyamuni is indeed a saint among Buddhas. He has reached an incredible level of spiritual practice!" Chen Jue secretly exclaimed in his heart, overwhelmed by the "rainbow light" emitted by the Buddha's skull relic.
It is said that after Sakyamuni's Nirvana , his disciples obtained 84,000 huge relics from the ashes of his cremated body, weighing as much as one stone and six dou.
Although many eminent monks of later generations also had relics circulating in the world, at most they only numbered tens of thousands. This is enough to show how incredible the Buddha's practice of Buddhism had reached.
Under the influence of such a powerful spiritual magnetic field, all the tourists who entered the relic palace became exceptionally quiet, including Chen Jue himself, who was calm in his heart, as if he had practiced a set of Tantric Mahamudra and was affected by the [Sanskrit resonance].
This is an unobservable mental magnetic field interfering with reality, reaching the level of concreteness!
Thinking back to the relics carried by Zhao Zhen and his clones, Chen Jue suddenly felt that this kind of spiritual magnetic field should be the same as the "innate qi", which is some special energy similar to electromagnetic radiation waves.
Since they are energy, we can use scientific thinking to explain why they can materialize and form relics and meteorites with dark gold patterns.
"Laozi left Hangu Pass, comprehended the non-eternal way, lived for a hundred years and then retired from the world. Sakyamuni attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, achieved the supreme enlightenment, and was also able to control life and death. He died at the age of eighty, leaving behind these relics."
"As a modern true saint, if I can understand how to visualize and materialize the spiritual magnetic field and the innate Qi, can I also obtain similar relics and crystals of the innate Qi?" Chen Jue looked at the Buddha's skull and felt something in his heart. He felt that he should learn some physics when he had time and not limit himself to physical subjects.
But before that, Chen Jue still wanted to use the many relics left by Sakyamuni on the Buddha's skull to test his own level of spiritual practice.
He found a corner and sat down as if no one was around. Then he made a series of Tantric hand seals in front of him, and his self-created [Spirit Refining and Longevity Method] came out of his mouth with a "Wei~Wu~" sound.
For a moment, all the Sanskrit music playing in the entire Relic Palace was drowned out by Chen Jue's self-created soul-refining pronunciation.
Countless seven-colored spiritual magnetic fields that are invisible to mortals burst out from Chen Jue's mind, interweaving and colliding with the dense and indissoluble spiritual magnetic field of Sakyamuni around him.
In this real world, it is difficult for Chen Jue to find a true saint like him. He can only cross the long river of history in this way and discuss the spiritual magnetic field left by the Buddha 2,500 years ago!
