Chapter 286: No Forgiveness
Wu Tian followed Li Anran's advice and called all his men back to the Abyss of Darkness to lie dormant.
Since Tathagata failed to find an opportunity to weaken Wuji's strength, he focused his energy on cultivating Daoji.
Tathagata already knew that the monkey had defected to Wu Tian, and his minimum goal for Dao Ji was to fight the monkey to a draw.
It is not easy to do this.
The monkey's cultivation has already broken through to the Golden Immortal, and with his Eight-Nine Profound Art, which is already extremely good at fighting, his strength is one of the best in the entire Three Realms.
The only two weaknesses are that they are afraid of smoke and have no magic weapons!
As for the former, the monkey himself is very clear about it and has tried every possible way to remedy and overcome it over the years.
Wu Tian also made many efforts to this end.
By now, the monkey's eyes have mostly recovered. As long as he continues to take care of himself, he can get rid of the "fire eyes and golden pupils", which sounds very serious but is actually a red eye disease caused by the smoke from the alchemy furnace.
The latter got some relief after Wu Tian bestowed upon him the Sixth-Rank Black Lotus of Destruction.
Although the sixth-grade world-destroying black lotus itself is not as good as many innate spiritual treasures, it is the incarnation of Wujitian's soul and can be remotely controlled by Wujitian to descend.
This alone is enough to crush many innate spiritual treasures.
The improvement plan that Tathagata made for Dao Ji mainly includes two aspects: the first is cultivation, and the second is strength.
Dao Ji is the reincarnation of Arhat Subduing the Dragon, and he has extraordinary talents. Tathagata only needs to arrange more opportunities and hardships for him to bless Dao Ji with the good fortune of Buddhism.
In three years, Dao Ji will at least be able to break through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal.
As for the Daluo Jinxian, it is beyond human control and can only rely on Dao Ji's own efforts!
If one wants to make Dao Ji, who is at the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, equally powerful as the monkey, one must rely on external things such as skills, spells, magical powers, and magic weapons.
The first of these is the six-foot-tall golden body that is unique to Buddhism and is also the most powerful!
The key to the six-foot-tall golden body lies in the power of incense and vows.
It is difficult for Dao Ji to break through to the Golden Immortal within three years, but it is much easier to achieve the Six-foot Golden Body!
As long as the incense and vows are sufficient, it is not difficult to create a Daluo Jinxian!
As for the possible backlash from the incense and the power of the vows...
As soon as Tathagata had a thought, he appeared beside the Eight Treasures Merit Pond. He reached out and took the only lotus seed in the pond, chanting some magic words.
In an instant.
Countless Buddha lights gathered from all directions, and merit and fortune poured into the golden lotus of merit like a tide. Circles of seven-colored misty light spread out from the lotus seeds.
In just a few breaths, a tender bud broke out of the lotus seed, grew and matured at a speed visible to the naked eye, and produced a sixth-grade golden lotus of merit.
Before the creation of heaven and earth, there was a supreme treasure in the chaos, the Green Lotus of Creation, which gave birth to the great god Pangu and created the heaven and earth.
In addition to the great god Pangu, there are five lotus seeds in the lotus heart.
Among these five lotus seeds, the mature one was destroyed by the earth, water, fire and wind that raged at the beginning of the creation along with the severely damaged Green Lotus of Creation, and turned into the thirty-sixth-grade Green Lotus of Good Fortune.
After the Three Pure Ones transformed by Pangu's primordial spirit appeared in the world, they split into three and transformed into the Panlong Shoulder Pole, the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi and the Qingping Sword respectively.
This is also the origin of the saying "Red flowers, white lotus roots, green lotus leaves, the three religions are originally one family."
The other four immature lotus seeds turned into the twelfth-grade red lotus of karma fire, the twelfth-grade golden lotus of merit, the twelfth-grade black lotus of world destruction, and the twelfth-grade white lotus of world purification.
The Black Lotus of Destruction and the White Lotus of Purification have not yet appeared in the world and have been missing since their birth.
It was not until thousands of years ago that the Black Lotus of Destruction was obtained by Wujitian, who refined it into the Black Lotus of Primordial Spirit.
The Pure White Lotus is still missing to this day.
The karmic red lotus fell into the sea of blood in the underworld, giving birth to the ancestor of the Styx, who was also responsible for purifying the cause and effect karma between heaven and earth.
The Golden Lotus of Merit was obtained by the Taoist Jie Yin, and during the catastrophe of Conferred Gods, it was sucked away by the Taoist Mosquito, losing three of its qualities, and its rank dropped from the twelfth to the ninth.
The Golden Lotus of Merit is the most precious treasure of the Western Religion that suppresses its destiny and is closely related to the rise and fall of the Western Religion.
The Twelve-Rank Golden Lotus of Merit fell to the ninth rank, which meant that the Western Religion was no longer qualified to replace the orthodox position of the three religions of Chan, Jie and Ren.
In desperation, Jie Yin and Zhunti chose to separate the Western religion from the Xuanmen, destroy it and then rebuild it, and transform it into the Shamanism, which is Buddhism.
The twelve-grade golden lotus of merit can produce nine lotus seeds every ten thousand years, and the lotus seeds can turn into a sixth-grade lotus platform!
The golden lotus seeds of Merit can only be regarded as rare treasures!
Buddhas such as Maitreya, Medicine Buddha, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Dipamkara, Guanyin, Manjushri, Samantabhadra, etc. all have six-grade lotus platforms transformed from golden lotus seeds of merit!
However, after the twelfth-grade Golden Lotus of Merit fell to the ninth grade, the Golden Lotus of Merit has only produced this one lotus seed in the past ten thousand years!
The meaning of this lotus seed is completely different from the previous ones!
It implies the meaning of Buddhist inheritance!
When Tathagata gave this lotus seed to Dao Ji, it was equivalent to placing the future of Buddhism on Dao Ji.
And with this extremely special sixth-grade golden lotus of merit accompanying him, Dao Ji no longer has to worry about the backlash of the vows within his six-foot-tall golden body. Buddhism will take care of everything for him!
With a thought, Tathagata transformed the Sixth Grade Golden Lotus of Merit in his hand into a tattered and patched robe, then nodded with satisfaction.
“Ananda…”
Tathagata was just about to ask Ananda to convey the Dharma decree to summon Guanyin and ask Guanyin to find a time to bestow the dirty robes on Dao Ji, but he stopped halfway through his words.
After a moment of hesitation, he looked towards the bamboo forest behind the Eight Treasures Merit Pond and waved his sleeves, scattering a ray of Buddha's light.
Hualalalal——
The bamboo forest swayed gently, like the ups and downs of the waves. Countless rays of light surged and gathered together, turning into a bamboo stick, emitting endless brilliance.
It is the six pure bamboos among the ten innate spiritual roots!
At that time, after the Bodhisattva Cundi ordered the Water and Fire Boy to use six pure bamboos to fish the Dark Cloud Fairy into the Eight Treasures Merit Pond, he planted the six pure bamboos around the Eight Treasures Merit Pond. Together with the Eight Treasures Merit Pond and the Merit Golden Lotus in the pond, they formed the key to suppressing the Buddhist destiny!
Tathagata was worried that Dao Ji, with only a 16-foot-tall golden body and a golden lotus of merit, would not be a match for the monkey and Wu Tian, so he simply took out the six pure bamboos , turned them into a broken cattail leaf fan and dirty patched clothes, and placed them together.
With these six pure bamboos around, unless Wu Tian is so crazy as to destroy the foundation of Buddhism, he will have some concerns and will not be able to kill Dao Ji!
"Venerable Ananda, please go to Luojia Mountain in the South China Sea and invite Venerable Guanyin to come."
After giving Ananda his instructions, Tathagata closed his eyes, sat cross-legged, and replayed the countermeasures he had planned from beginning to end, looking for possible variables and loopholes.
He was not worried that Xuanmen or other forces would get involved.
The key to his victory over Wutan lies in Dao Ji!
As long as Dao Ji remains steadfast, he will be invincible!
Tathagata is full of confidence in this.
He has been teaching the Three Canons of Mahayana Buddhism to Dao Ji in his dreams over the years. It is impossible for Dao Ji to believe Wu Tian’s misleading words!
And even if Dao Ji really wavered, he still had a backup plan to reverse the defeat!
only……
"It's better not to go that far!" Tathagata thought secretly.
at the same time.
Qianyuan Mountain.
Golden Light Cave.
Li Anran reported all the news he heard from Wutan to Taiyi Tianzun.
Hearing that Wu Tian wanted Li Anran to look for the relic, Taiyi Tianzun frowned and showed displeasure: "This Wu Tian really thinks you are just an errand for those demons and monsters under his command!"
"Master, please calm down. I have already rejected this matter."
Li Anran hurriedly told Taiyi Tianzun his explanation of how he persuaded Wu Tian, and explained for Wu Tian: "Most of Wu Tian's disciples are useless and can only cause trouble. Sun Wukong is the only one who can accomplish anything. He had no choice but to find his disciples."
Taiyi Tianzun's expression eased slightly, he snorted coldly, and said disdainfully: "That Wu Tian has spent thousands of years to train only a bunch of useless monsters and demons. I don't think he has any chance of winning this bet."
He added: "Tathagata has always been a long-term thinker and never willing to take risks. His talk of reincarnation is probably just a cover."
"The so-called spirit boy is just a puppet. He may have hidden his original spirit in the spirit boy's body. He can return at any time if he wants."
Master is indeed Tathagata’s old rival, and his understanding of Tathagata is really deep!
Li Anran was a little surprised.
In the original time and space, Tathagata was hiding in Qiao Ling'er's body. Once he encountered real danger, he would show his Buddhist power.
Wu Tiandu had no way to deal with Qiao Ling'er, so he could only follow the path designed by Tathagata to find the relic.
Taiyi Tianzun continued, "He and Wu Tian made a rule that no one should be killed, because they were afraid that the Buddhist sect would suffer a great loss of vitality due to this gambling fight, and that our Xuan sect would take advantage."
"As long as Wu Tian does not take action, the Buddhist sect will at most lose some Arhats and monks, and die a few Vajra Kasyapas. The core forces like Buddha and Bodhisattva will not be affected in any way."
Having said that, Taiyi Tianzun frowned slightly.
Taiyi Tianzun was not optimistic about Wu Tian from the beginning to the end, even after Tathagata persuaded the gods and Buddhas of the Three Realms to make such an outrageously arrogant concession as letting Wu Tian rule the Three Realms for thirty-three years!
He agreed to Wu Tian's request and secretly lent him a helping hand just to cause trouble for Tathagata and weaken the strength of Buddhism.
But now, these three rules have been announced.
The scale of this gambling fight was strictly limited.
It is impossible for both sides to suffer losses, and the damage to Buddhism will be minimized.
In this case, it doesn’t have much meaning to Xuanmen!
Taiyi Tianzun regretted letting Li Anran participate, but since things had come to this point, he couldn't stop him, so he just reminded him again: "Don't think that Tathagata and Wu Tian are fighting to the death now, but their original intention is to make Buddhism prosper for a long time."
"You must be more careful. Don't trust Tathagata or Wu Tian easily, and don't take any risks. Protecting yourself is the most important thing. Remember?"
Li Anran responded: "Disciple understands."
After talking about Wu Tian and Tathagata, the two started talking about Nezha.
It is said that when Nezha was reincarnated, he cut off the causal aura on Li Jing's body and broke the golden beads that Jinzha and Muzha used to find Li Jing.
Taiyi Tianzun couldn't stop shaking his head, his face full of disappointment.
He didn't want Nezha to be foolishly filial to Li Jing.
On the contrary, Taiyi Tianzun completely looked down upon Li Jing, a man with mediocre cultivation, who bullied the weak and feared the strong, had no sense of responsibility, and did not protect his own shortcomings at all!
He supports Nezha in dealing with Li Jing!
Nezha was extremely happy that he could attain enlightenment and improve his cultivation because of this thought!
But, Nezha’s approach is really too rough!
Not even superficial effort!
It can be said that it has damaged the reputation of his master and even the Xuanmen!
When Taiyi Tianzun learned about this, he became furious and ordered Jinxia Tongzi to take Nezha back to the Jinguan Cave.
Because Nezha instigated Li Anran to go with him to the Mengjie to search for those wronged souls, he was punished by Taiyi Tianzun to suppress volcanoes and comb the earth veins for two years.
This time, Taiyi Tianzun directly made the punishment indefinite!
When will Nezha reflect on his mistakes? When will this end?
Since then, Nezha has been sorting out the veins of the earth in the volcano for these years and has suffered a lot.
Taiyi Tianzun's original intention was to temper Nezha's character, so that Nezha would not be impulsive in the future and think twice before acting, and by the way, he could also earn some merits.
But, Nezha’s mind is full of——
I don't regret it!
I made a lot of money!
Taiyi Tianzun: “…”
For things like this, it's far less effective to figure it out yourself than to point it out directly!
Taiyi Tianzun could only feel helpless and disappointed.
Li Anran pleaded with Taiyi Tianzun: "Master, Brother Nezha has been combing the earth veins in the mortal world for many years, being roasted by the earth fire day and night, and has suffered enough. Please show some leniency and spare Brother Nezha this time."
Taiyi Tianzun is a protective person by nature. Nezha is his most beloved disciple, and he watched him grow up. Nezha is also extremely competitive, and is the second of the three generations of disciples of the Chan sect to break through to the Golden Immortal level.
Taiyi Tianzun had long wanted to exempt Nezha from the remaining punishment, but Nezha was too stubborn and not only did he not understand his good intentions, but he was also reluctant to admit his mistakes to him.
As a master, he couldn't bow to his disciple, which is why it has been delayed until now.
Now, with this step given by Li Anran, Taiyi Tianzun nodded without much hesitation and said, "Forget it! For your sake, I will forgive him this time! If he does such a treasonous thing that damages the dignity of the master again next time, I will punish him for both crimes and will not forgive him!"
Li Anran: "Thank you, Master!"
Li Anran bowed respectfully, took his leave, and soon arrived at where Nezha was.
Nezha was sitting cross-legged on the crater, using his magic power to suppress the volcano that was rolling and about to erupt, while combing the veins of the earth to resolve the problem fundamentally.
He noticed Li Anran's appearance and was a little surprised at first: "Li Anran, why are you here?"
But soon, he reacted and said happily: "Master, have you forgiven me?"
In order to punish Nezha, Taiyi Tianzun ordered Li Anran, Yang Jian and others to meet Nezha. It had been eight years since they last met!
"Nezha, aren't you usually quite clever? How come you can't think straight in this world and are so dumb?"
Li Anran looked at Nezha's miserable appearance and was speechless: "Don't you know how your master treats you? Don't you know how he sees Li Jing? You have been struggling for so many years when you can just admit your mistake!"
As Li Anran spoke, he made some hand gestures.
Nezha is the incarnation of lotus. Under the roasting of the earth fire, he has to sort out the abnormalities of the earth's veins. It is very difficult and can be regarded as a kind of training.
However, Li Anran is proficient in various magic spells, so it is not easy for him to do this.
In just a moment, the volcano that had been roaring just now died down, and the ground veins returned to normal.
"I did nothing wrong! Why should I admit my mistake?" Nezha muttered softly.
He was unexpectedly stubborn when it came to Li Jing's affairs.
"Okay, okay, you're right, okay?"
Li Anran rolled his eyes, waved his right hand, cleared the dust and dirt off Nezha's body, and pulled him towards the Temple of Justice in Heaven.
The gambling battle between Tathagata and Wujitian is about to begin, and it is time for him to discuss with Yang Jian what to do specifically.
