Chapter 80 Lingji Bodhisattva
The life story of the Yellow Wind Monster solved some of Li Anran’s doubts, but its status was still too low and it didn’t know many inside stories.
However, the Samadhi Divine Wind that Li Anran coveted the most was a blood gift from the Yellow Wind Monster and he couldn't learn it at all.
From this perspective, this Yellow Wind Monster has no other value except being a thick leek.
As for the golden-nosed, white-haired rat in the Yellow Wind Monster's life, it was obviously the white rat spirit in the bottomless cave of Xiankong Mountain, which was called Half-length Guanyin and Lady Diyong.
After stealing half of Tathagata's incense, flowers and precious candles, she fled to the mortal world and was later captured by Tathagata's men, including Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, and Nezha, the Third Prince.
Tathagata spared her life.
She then took the opportunity to worship Li Jing, the Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King, as her father and Nezha the Third Prince as her brother, and set up tablets in the cave and offered incense.
Later, when Tang Monk went to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, the Rat Demon wanted to obtain Tang Monk's essence to attain Taiyi Dao, so Li Jing and his son captured him and brought him back to Heaven at the order of the Emperor.
Li Anran recalled the contents of Journey to the West, and some doubts arose in his mind.
Generally speaking, when gods and Buddhas are reincarnated, only their spirits and souls are relatively less affected, while their magic powers and physical bodies have to be cultivated from scratch.
As the reincarnation of Jin Chanzi, and the tenth reincarnation at that, is Tang Seng's physical body really as powerful as described in Journey to the West?
Eating a bite of meat can make people immortal.
A little bit of Yuan Yang can allow a Golden Immortal to break through to a Taiyi Golden Immortal.
This is really too exaggerated!
What’s even more exaggerated is that none of the monsters on the way to the West had any doubts!
You know, many of these monsters are mounts that escaped from heaven or Lingshan Mountain to the mortal world.
Their knowledge was definitely not shallow, but they all believed it.
It's really outrageous!
Li Anran guessed that either Tang Seng's physical body was really more powerful than he had imagined and had the above-mentioned effects.
Otherwise, the journey to the West was just a political show, and everyone was just going along with the performance.
He is more inclined to the latter.
But, without evidence, there is no certainty.
The only thing that can be confirmed at present is that Tang Seng, or more precisely, Jin Chanzi, has been reincarnated and started his journey to obtain Buddhist scriptures in ten lifetimes.
The Yellow Wind Monster and the White Rat Demon were able to sneak into Lingshan so easily and steal the fragrant flowers, precious candles, and glass oil because Lingshan was hosting the Ullambana Festival at that time.
All the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Kāla Vajra and guests invited by Tathagata are in the Main Hall.
It was during this Ullambana Festival that Jin Chanzi personally served tea to Zhen Yuanzi, which led to Zhen Yuanzi later treating Tang Monk to ginseng fruit at Wuzhuang Temple.
It was also during this Ullambana Festival that Jin Chanzi disrespected Buddhism, offended Tathagata, and was sent down to reincarnation, where he had to go through tribulations and cultivate again.
Li Anran did not delve into these matters.
The journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures and his position as guarding the Heavenly Prison are really unrelated.
The only thought he had was, "I wish the monkey could send all the monsters he caught on the way to the West to the Heavenly Prison!"
But , this is obviously impossible.
All the monsters on the journey to the West who had no background and no abilities were beaten to death, while those who had no background but had abilities were recruited as bodyguards.
Those with backgrounds were punished by drinking three cups of wine and then taken back home by their respective masters.
There is no way he will be sent to the Heavenly Prison.
After that, Li Anran's life returned to its former peace.
After interrogating the Yellow Wind Monster and the others, Yang Jian did not take any action, as if he had forgotten about the matter.
But Li Anran knew that this was just the calm before the storm.
Yang Jian always requires solid evidence when handling cases and does not give the criminals any chance to quibble.
The Yellow Wind Monster gritted his teeth and refused to let go.
Just based on the one-sided statement of the One-Horned Demon King and others.
This evidence is a bit too thin.
He needed more and more solid evidence.
This is apparently not that difficult!
The Yellow Wind Monster's methods are not clever at all, and he left too many traces and clues!
“Your Majesty, I would like to report to Lingji Bodhisattva of the Great Leiyin Temple in the Western Heaven for condoning the Yellow Wind Monster in the Yellow Wind Cave of the Yellow Wind Ridge to cause trouble in the area and collect money… The Yellow Wind Monster used magic to stir up wind and waves, overturning 3,672 ships… He colluded with demons and evil spirits to massacre more than 70 people in the family of Mr. Zhang in Zhangji Town and the whole family of Mr. Li in Fengyu City…”
Three days later, there was an early morning court session in Heaven.
As soon as Yang Jian started talking, the entire Lingxiao Palace suddenly became quiet and dead silent.
All the gods' eyes suddenly fell on Yang Jian, their faces filled with shock and disbelief, wondering if there was something wrong with their ears.
Although the Heaven is supreme and the Jade Emperor rules the three realms, Lingshan is also among them.
As the god of justice, Yang Jian is in charge of the laws of heaven.
If Lingji Bodhisattva violated the heavenly rules, he was qualified and even had the responsibility to report to Lingji Bodhisattva.
But this is just on paper.
Since the catastrophe of the Conferred Gods, although the Xuanmen sect has occupied most of the clergy positions in the Heavenly Court, it has inevitably begun to decline due to the split between the Chan and Jie sects and the death of a large number of elite disciples in the catastrophe or their conversion to Western religions.
Western religion changed its name to "Buddhism", took advantage of the situation and grew rapidly.
Today, Buddhism, which was once confined to a corner, is no weaker than Taoism.
In the mortal world, Buddhism is the dominant one in Xiniuhezhou, and Xuanmen is the dominant one in Dongsheng Shenzhou. They each spread their beliefs to Nanzhanbuzhou.
In the underworld, Buddhism has the Lord of the Underworld, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and Taoism has Huang Feihu, the Great Emperor of Heaven and Earth, who is also the Benevolent and Holy Emperor of Mount Tai.
In heaven, because Xuanmen occupies a large number of divine positions in Heaven, Heaven can almost be regarded as the base camp of Xuanmen.
The Lingshan Mountain in the West is the base camp of Buddhism.
The two are not in competition with each other, but they are somewhat on equal footing.
And now, Yang Jian is going to visit Lingji Bodhisattva in Lingshan Mountain in the West Heaven in the Heavenly Palace?
What is he trying to do?!
The Jade Emperor was also shocked and looked at Yang Jian solemnly, as if he wanted to see what he was thinking.
Yang Jian looked calm as he recited the memorial he had prepared long ago, and then handed over all the evidence he had collected to the Jade Emperor.
Then he stepped aside and looked straight ahead, as if he was just doing something ordinary.
At any other time, the immortals would have surely started to talk and chatter noisily, but today the Lingxiao Palace was exceptionally quiet.
All the immortals lowered their heads and looked down, wishing they could be treated as statues or clay sculptures.
What they were thinking was...
Is this Yang Jian attacking Lingji Bodhisattva?
Or is it that Xuanmen is attacking Lingshan?
If it's the former, it's fine. If it's the latter...
Then the three realms are about to change!
The Jade Emperor took the letter and read it over and over again in his hand.
This includes confessions from evil spirits such as the One-Horned Ghost King, evidence of the Yellow Wind Monster harming lives for money, evidence of the Yellow Wind Monster colluding with demons and evil spirits, evidence of the Yellow Wind Monster offering the extorted money to Lingji Bodhisattva to atone for his sins, and so on.
The chain of evidence is complete, the evidence is conclusive, the content is clear and flawless, just like Yang Jian's style in the past.
However, the Jade Emperor still asked uncertainly: "Yang Jian, are you visiting Lingji Bodhisattva of the Great Leiyin Temple in the West Heaven?"
Yang Jian said in a deep voice: "The day before yesterday, I was ordered to capture the evil spirits that escaped from the Eighteen Hells, and I learned about this incident by accident. I was shocked and did not dare to slack off in the slightest. I personally went to the Southern Continent to investigate."
"What I saw and heard was shocking. If it weren't for the irrefutable evidence, I would not have believed that all of this was related to a Bodhisattva. As a judicial god, I cannot sit idly by. What I want to visit today is indeed Lingji Bodhisattva of the Great Leiyin Temple in the Western Heaven."
