Chapter 272: Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda
Li Anran and Nezha left the South Heaven Gate and flew all the way to the Lingjiu Cave in the Great Snow Mountain in the west.
The Lingjiu Cave in the Great Snow Mountain and the Yuanjue Cave in the Lingjiu Mountain, the dojo of the ancient Buddha Dipankara, are two completely different places.
Lingjiu Cave is the place where Tathagata Buddha attained enlightenment. It is also the place where Wujitian attacked Tathagata and was killed. It is also the place where Tathagata was swallowed by a peacock.
When Tathagata had just become the Buddha of Buddhism, he was blessed by the great fortune of Buddhism and suddenly realized the Dharma beside the stream in front of the Vulture Cave in the Great Snow Mountain.
Wu Tian was jealous of Tathagata for becoming the Buddha of Buddhism, but he himself became a traitor to Buddhism. He secretly attacked Tathagata, but was defeated and killed by him instead.
However, Wutan turned a disaster into a blessing. A wisp of his remaining soul merged into the twelfth-grade black lotus of destruction, and he refined the black lotus of destruction into the black lotus of the primordial spirit.
Tathagata originally planned to take advantage of the last opportunity when Wutan had just refined the black lotus of his primordial spirit but had not yet completely merged, and use the Buddhist to completely destroy Wutan.
It happened that at that time, Kong Xuan briefly broke free from the restraints of the Bodhisattva Cundi and escaped from Lingshan. On the way, he ran into Tathagata who was attaining enlightenment in front of the Lingjiu Cave in the Great Snow Mountain. He became malicious and swallowed Tathagata and the black lotus into his stomach in one gulp.
Kong Xuan's magical powers are no less than Tathagata's.
However, when the Saint Zhunti left the Three Realms, he left many restrictions on him.
With the help of this restriction, Tathagata broke out of his abdomen and suppressed him again.
Kong Xuan is the son of the phoenix. Lingshan covets the luck of the flying clan in Kong Xuan, but does not want to offend the dead phoenix.
Under the persuasion of the Buddhas, Tathagata promoted Kong Xuan to be the Peacock King Bodhisattva, making him the uncle of the Golden Winged Peng.
Wu Tian's soul, the black lotus, took this opportunity to take root in Kong Xuan's stomach. Then, while Tathagata activated the restriction and Kong Xuan had no power to resist, it absorbed the essence and magic power in Kong Xuan's body and completed the final fusion.
From then on, Wu Tian's soul turned into the twelfth-grade black lotus of destruction.
If one wants to kill him completely, the only way is to completely destroy the Twelve-Rank Black Lotus of Destruction.
This is something that even Tathagata cannot do!
There was no other way, Tathagata could only ask his eldest disciple Ainafa, who was best at medicine and mechanical arts, to take out the Black Lotus of Destruction from Kong Xuan's body and suppress the Black Lotus in the abyss of darkness.
With the cooperation of Kong Xuan, Ainafa successfully took out the Black Lotus of Destruction, but he himself was controlled by the Black Lotus of Destruction and became the deepest chess piece buried by Wutan in Lingshan.
Li Anran knew it so clearly because these were things Guanyin had experienced personally.
He had seen it with his own eyes during Guanyin's lifetime.
Li Anran and Nezha were traveling at an extremely fast speed. In the blink of an eye, they had already reached the top of the Snow Mountain.
From afar, one can see the Buddha's light shining thousands of feet high, like the rising sun on a golden top, creating a strange light and color on the clouds, with mist rising and auspicious air lingering. The scenery is so beautiful and magnificent, even more so than Zhen Yuanzi's Wanshou Mountain and Wuzhuang Temple.
Lingjiu Cave is located near the top of the Great Snow Mountain, surrounded by everlasting snow.
Only at the entrance of the cave, because of the year-round inexhaustible hot spring, it is spring all year round and full of flowers, which is extremely eye-catching in the white world.
The Meng Realm is a small world constructed by Tathagata using his great magical powers in the innate spiritual treasure Qiankuntu.
The Qiankun Diagram was placed by Tathagata in the Lingjiu Cave.
Also, because Lingjiu Cave is one of the Tathagata's temples, and many of the wronged souls in the Meng world are due to the sins committed by Buddhism, it is related to the reputation of Buddhism.
Lingjiu Cave is heavily guarded, and there are many Bodhisattvas and Arhats practicing inside.
Nezha was not sure he could sneak in by himself, so he came to the Heavenly Prison to ask Li Anran for help.
"In addition to the two arhats and thirty-six vajra guarding the gate, there are also day and night wandering gods and guardian garudas in the dark. There is also a magic mirror hanging above the gate, engraved with the six-character mantra."
"I tried several times, but I couldn't even get in. As soon as I got close to them, they would react. I was almost discovered by them several times!"
Nezha had obviously been here more than once. He gnashed his teeth and became angry when he mentioned this: "Tell me, if they weren't guilty, would they have sent so many people to guard a place like Mengjie that is similar to the Wrongful Death City?"
Li Anran observed carefully and found that in addition to what Nezha said, there was also an obvious problem with the patterns on the door of Lingjiu Cave. It was not just beautiful, but an early warning formation.
Fortunately, Nezha did not get close because of the magic mirror and the six-syllable mantra.
Otherwise, he would be discovered the moment he touched the door.
In addition, judging from the aura emanating from the Six-Character Mantra, it is almost the same as the one on the Five Elements Mountain, and it is obviously left by Tathagata!
Even if they could use the art of transformation to deceive the Arhat Vajra Guardian Galan, it would likely alert the Six-Syllable Mantra and be discovered by Tathagata.
Li Anran looked at it for a long time, but couldn't think of a foolproof plan, so he asked, "Is this the only entrance to Lingjiu Cave?"
Nezha said: "There is only this one."
Li Anran asked again: "How about using Earth Escape to go underground?"
Nezha shook his head and said, "No. The Bodhisattvas and Arhats of Lingshan chant scriptures and recite dharma here every day. The dharma has permeated this snowy mountain from the inside out. If we use earth escape, the mana in our bodies will collide with the dharma in the soil, and the noise we make will definitely be discovered by the people inside."
Li Anran laughed: "What if we use Buddhism?"
Nezha was startled, and then he saw Li Anran holding a Buddhist seal in his hand. Rays of Buddhist light swirled and gathered into a circle of Buddhist light behind his head. The vast, boundless, bright and compassionate aura was no less than that of the Buddha and Bodhisattva he had seen.
“You, you…” Nezha’s eyes widened, as if he had seen a ghost, and he stammered, “You can even do this???”
After learning about Li Jing's situation, he did not go to Yang Jian for help, but went straight to the Tianlao.
Firstly, it was because Yang Jian was the god of justice and was very busy with his duties. Secondly, it was because he knew that Li Anran knew a lot and could think of many solutions.
However, he never expected that Li Anran was so good at Buddhism!
That's not right!
This is not a question of being good or not!
Nezha suddenly realized something he had overlooked.
Essence, energy and spirit are the foundation of cultivation!
Even though Li Anran has profound knowledge of Buddhism, how can this be changed easily?
When Cihang, Manjusri, Samantabhadra and others gave up Taoism and followed Buddhism, they all made great determination and paid a huge price to do it!
Li Anran was just joking, directly transforming his Taoism into Buddhism!
Based on his understanding of Li Anran, Li Anran would never joke about his own cultivation level, so it could only be that Li Anran really wanted to change!
This completely overturned his understanding of cultivation!
"How did you do it?" Nezha couldn't help but ask.
Li Anran said: "It may be that my physique is special, I can switch freely between various exercises without being affected."
"Ah?!" Nezha opened his mouth wide.
There are many creatures in this world with unique talents, the innate fire spirit, the innate water spirit, Yang Jian's hybrid of man and god, his lotus body... and so on!
However, this was the first time he had heard of someone with Li Anran's physique!
No, it’s not the first time he heard of it. I guess even his master Taiyi Tianzun hasn’t heard of it!
"You can't be Hong..." Nezha paused, realizing that it was a bit disrespectful to say so, and changed his words: "...the biological son of Tiandao!"
He finally understood why Li Anran was able to catch up with him in such a short time!
In this world, apart from saints who are proficient in everything, the vast majority of cultivators can only and will only practice a certain type of technique that suits them.
In other words, it is the path that suits you!
Changing the technique is equivalent to changing the path. At best, one's cultivation will be damaged, and at worst, one may go astray.
Each type of martial art has its own advantages and disadvantages, which means that all practitioners have their own strengths and weaknesses, and their own areas of restraint and being restrained.
Even those innate creatures and ancient powerful beings are no exception!
Faced with this situation, most cultivators try to use spells or magic weapons to make up for their shortcomings, and when they encounter a bottleneck they can only bite the bullet and fight hard!
There is really no other way. One has to do as Cihang and Manjusri did, risking the damage to their cultivation and practicing other techniques.
Li Anran is able to practice all the skills, and they do not conflict with each other!
This means that not only does he have no weaknesses, but when he encounters a bottleneck he can also change his technique and try another path to break through!
This is so terrible!
Nezha grabbed Li Anran's arms and said sternly, "If you become rich and powerful, don't forget me."
Li Anran: "...If you keep talking nonsense, I will go back to heaven now!"
Nezha's serious expression fell, and he quickly said, "No, no, no, I'm just trying to make you laugh!" Then he half-jokingly said, "But if you can achieve enlightenment and become a saint in the future, you must protect me more!"
The two words "遮着" (cover) were naturally learned by Nezha from Li Anran, and they are vivid and imaginative.
Li Anran rolled his eyes: "I will protect you now and get rid of Li Jing!"
Li Anran was complaining about Nezha, but Nezha's eyes lit up and he nodded repeatedly: "Yes! Let's deal with that bastard Li Jing first! I'm relying on you this time!"
Li Anran: “…”
Li Anran didn't say anything more. He stretched out his right hand, made Nezha shrink and jump in. Then he used the earth escape technique and moved towards Lingjiu Cave from underground.
Just as Nezha said, this great snow mountain has become a Buddha land with every blade of grass, every tree, every stone and every piece of soil under the illumination of Buddha's light for tens of millions of years. It embodies a large amount of Buddhist teachings.
Once brought to the mortal world, they can be used directly as Buddhist instruments.
If non-Buddhists use the earth escape technique here, they will be attacked and suppressed by the vast amount of Buddhist teachings that have been condensed in the entire Snow Mountain for tens of millions of years.
Even a Daluo Jinxian would be scared to death if encountering such a situation, let alone trying to sneak in quietly.
However, after Li Anran transformed his magical power into Buddhist teachings, the suppression turned into a blessing. Not only was he not restricted in performing earth escape, but he was able to do so more smoothly than before.
Although Lingjiu Cave is one of Tathagata's temples and has an extraordinary status in Buddhism, there are not many valuable things in it.
Qiankuntu and Mengjie can only be regarded as the black material of Lingshan!
There are not many people who are interested in them and dare to actually offend Lingshan. It is almost impossible for a Buddhist cultivator who is interested in them and dares to actually offend Lingshan and avoid Arhat Vajra to exist!
Lingshan is located in the mountain of the Great Snow Mountain, and only a few restrictions have been set up.
The purpose is just to better gather the Buddhist teachings and make the Buddhist land of the Great Snow Mountain more pure, and there is no need to be wary of the earth escape technique.
Li Anran and Nezha entered the Lingjiu Cave smoothly.
Lingjiu Cave is divided into two caves, inner and outer caves.
The outer cave is where Tathagata originally preached. On the surrounding walls are scriptures left behind by him when he preached. Many Bodhisattvas and Arhats sit cross-legged in front of the stone walls, comprehending the mysteries contained therein.
The inner cave was where Tathagata once lived, and no one else was allowed to enter without permission.
Lingshan obviously didn't expect that someone could sneak in here quietly. There was no stone door blocking the inner and outer caves, nor were there any magic mirrors or six-character mantras hanging there .
There were only two King Kongs guarding outside, one on the left and one on the right, to prevent anyone from accidentally entering the inner cave.
Li Anran carefully avoided the stone walls where the Buddhist scriptures were kept and successfully sneaked into the inner cave.
Li Anran carefully observed the surroundings and made sure that there was no special arrangement in the inner cave before he revealed his figure and stretched out his hand to let Nezha jump out.
"Is this the Qiankun Diagram?" Nezha saw the Qiankun Diagram hanging on the wall at a glance.
There are stars shining in the upper part of the picture, and thousands of pagodas in the middle. Countless mortals are sitting cross-legged around the pagodas with their hands clasped together, looking pious and respectful, and faintly one can hear bursts of chanting.
Wisps of the power of incense and faith continued to fly out from the wronged souls, first gathering in the pagoda in front of them, and finally gathering together in the largest pagoda in the center.
And inside the pagoda, a golden Buddha was sitting cross-legged with a compassionate look on his face, chanting scriptures.
Countless golden Sanskrit words flew out of his mouth, filling the entire picture.
Rays of Buddha's light fell like starlight, shining on everyone, making their expressions even more pious and respectful.
These things on the Qiankun map are not paintings!
But it is the real situation in the Meng world!
Those wrongfully killed souls could not rest in peace during their lifetime, and were caught in this ignorant world after death. After being brainwashed by the Buddha's light and Buddhist teachings, they provided the power of faith to the unknown Buddha so that he could cultivate his six-foot-tall golden body!
Even though Li Anran has always been indifferent, when he saw this scene, he felt a bit of anger in his heart.
Nezha was furious and said, "These bald donkeys in Lingshan are really sucking the marrow out of people! They don't even let go of the souls of those who died in vain! Let's go! Let's go and destroy these harmful things now!"
As he said this, he was about to jump into the Mongolian world.
"Nezha, calm down!"
Li Anran pulled Nezha back and said, "The Meng Realm is a small world built by Tathagata. The laws must be different from those in the outside world. If we rush in like this, we will definitely alert the enemy!"
Nezha shouted, "If we want to alert the snake, then alert the snake! Tathagata has done such a thing, even if I confront him face to face, I am not afraid!"
Li Anran sneered, "You are not afraid, but what about those wronged souls? With our strength, we can just destroy a small world. What are they going to do?"
Nezha's expression froze and he was speechless.
Li Anran said: "If you want to find those mortals who were silenced by Li Jing, we must be patient! Let's wait for a while, and when more wronged souls are sent in, we will follow them in! Find out the situation and then make a decision!"
