As soon as he was hit by the Buddha's palm, Lu Yi was stunned.
There is a world on the Buddha's palm. From the foot of the mountain, the Buddha's palm is only a few acres in size, bare, with a few thatched huts, and not even a tree. But after climbing up, I found that the Buddha's palm is thousands of miles wide, with mountains and rivers.
Afterwards, strange peaks appeared, shining with colorful Buddha light, and the golden peaks were integrated, revealing a sense of immortality. The peaks were faintly colored glass, with countless complex patterns inside, like the ripples of undercurrents in the deep water of a river, surging up layer by layer, revealing a strange spiritual charm.
Under this sacred mountain, hundreds of flowers bloomed, strange fragrance filled the air, green grass covered the ground, and lush bodhi trees were everywhere. These bodhi trees were thick and majestic, like a group of Vajra warriors stationed in all directions. The leaves were golden green, and on each leaf, there were naturally grown delicate and exquisite words, recording a series of secret Buddhist scriptures.
There were also Bodhi seeds on the Bodhi tree.
These Bodhi seeds are different from those seen in the secular world. Each one is the size of a mung bean or a broad bean, and the largest one can be as large as the diameter of an adult's fist. They have lifelike beards and eyebrows, hands and feet, and are all in the shapes of little novice monks, big monks, and Bodhisattvas.
When the wind blows through these Bodhi seeds, they all recite Buddhist scriptures in unison. The dense Sanskrit chanting turns into visible golden clouds rolling everywhere, which inexplicably calms people's minds and makes their whole bodies cool.
These mountains, flowers, grass and trees are nothing special.
At the foot of the mountain, among the trees, an ancient temple with hundreds of large halls and pavilions stands majestically. All the buildings in this ancient temple are of a simple and heavy bronze color, and the palaces and pavilions are extremely ancient and majestic, like Buddhas squatting on the ground.
In some pavilions, smoke was wafting out and precious light was visible. Standing in the distance, Lu Yi could perceive subtle sounds of footsteps, voices, the turning of pages, and the rubbing of clothes in some pavilions. It was obvious that there were quite a lot of people in this ancient temple.
All of these are fine.
What surprised Lu Yi was that on the lintel of the main entrance of the ancient temple, there was a plaque with golden characters hanging high up, with four big characters written neatly in the middle - Great Leiyin Temple!
Great thunder sound!
Great thunder sound!
An extremely strange and complex emotion surged in Lu Yi's heart. He suddenly wanted to tear off his clothes, glue monkey hair all over his body, and get a stick to dance in front of the gate of this ancient temple.
Great thunder sound!
Great thunder sound!
How can this ancient temple be called this name?
Moreover, this plaque and the ancient temple were obviously not one and the same. Although the ancient temple was quite old, and every brick and tile showed the charm of the vicissitudes of time, it was obvious that this somewhat tattered plaque was older, more ancient, and more vicissitudes. The strong Buddhist charm emanating from the plaque was many times more magnificent than that of the ancient temple covering hundreds of miles!
At least, ten thousand times more!
This plaque was tattered and covered with sword holes and knife marks. The aura emitted by this broken plaque surpassed the entire ancient temple, the entire Buddha's palm, the entire mountain transformed from the Buddha's remains, and even the small world in the outside world with a strong atmosphere of the worldly world.
"My Buddha, have mercy on me!" Although he had already returned to his secular attire, when he suddenly saw the golden plaque, Lu Yi still instinctively put his hands together, prostrated himself deeply in front of the plaque, and paid homage.
This ancient temple, this Buddha's palm, this Buddha's remains, this piece of heaven and earth, Lu Yi was confident that he could catch up with the owner of all these relics in a very short time by relying on his own "diligent practice".
But this plaque...
Lu Yu was certain that even if he held the Nalanda Buddha Fruit in his hand, even if he possessed the two mysterious treasures, the Taichu Huntong Pearl and the Three-eyed Divine Man Picture, even if he had countless adventures over the years, and because of Yin Yuan's relationship, he had passively eaten a lot of free food, but in the extremely long period of time to come, he would not be able to catch up with the realm represented by this plaque!
The distance between him and the Buddha's remains outside was probably as wide as an ocean.
As long as Lu Yi tried his best to fly into the sky and stir up the wind and clouds, he would be able to cross the ocean and reach the realm that the Buddha's remains had once reached.
But between this dilapidated plaque, Lu Yi and Him were separated by a "other shore".
Others have already reached the "other shore", but Lu Yi still doesn't even know how to get there.
The gap is so big that there is nothing to say.
Lu Yi bowed to the plaque in an upright manner, then sat cross-legged on the ground, chanting a sutra in a low voice... It was not the Buddhist scriptures he had learned from the Supreme Heaven, the Original Spirit Heaven, the Two Principles Heaven, or even the Pure Land Buddhahood in this life, but a... a "Heart Sutra" from his previous life.
For some strange reason, Lu Yi wanted to recite this sutra in front of this plaque.
All other Buddhist scriptures and mantras that he had learned were "not worthy" of this plaque. Only the "Heart Sutra", which Lu Yi had not understood very well in both his previous life and this life, he felt, was a perfect match for this plaque.
As the mantra sounded, a beautiful girl with snow-white skin and white-gold flames faintly visible under her almost transparent skin stood beside Lu Yi with her hands behind her back, and was slightly stunned. She raised her head and looked at the plaque that still looked dim in the sun, but was emitting a rolling Buddhist rhythm to the outside world all the time.
That plaque is a rare treasure.
But the girl didn't know the origin of the plaque. Anyway, after she and her companions inherited the ancient temple, they found the plaque in a corner of a pavilion in the ancient temple. Then, they thought it was good, so they hung the plaque in front of the ancient temple.
For many years, they had studied this plaque, but no matter what means they used, the plaque did not respond to their various attempts at magical powers and secret techniques.
But at this moment.
The plaque lit up.
The four characters "Great Leiyin Temple" emitted brilliant golden light, and finally condensed into a ray, landing squarely on Lu Yu's forehead. Lu Yu's body trembled, and the Buddha bone in his mind, illuminated by the golden light emitted from the plaque, immediately began to disintegrate.
The infinite Buddhist rhythm, the infinite Tao, and the immeasurable essence of Buddhism transformed into wisps of spiritual light, which actively penetrated into Lu Yi's soul and merged into his body.
The fruit of the Pure Land Buddha is a perfect inheritance.
The former Buddha fruit of Nalanda was a book, a monument, and a record file. It required Lu Yi to work hard to read, search, learn, and analyze the things that were useful to him.
But under the catalysis of this plaque... No, no, no...
Not catalytic.
Rather, it was a "supreme and irrefutable" "dharma", a terrifying existence whose "personality" far surpassed the fruit of Nalanda Buddha. In some mysterious way that Lu Yu could not understand or describe, it passed through immeasurable time and space, tore apart countless maze-like causes and effects and partitions, and cast a ray of consciousness towards Lu Yu.
Even that incredible and terrifying existence may have fallen or been annihilated... but he still used such incredible means to create a momentary "causal connection" with Lu Yi.
At this moment, the 'Taichu Huntong Pearl', which even the Great Emperor Taichu, the Great Emperor Taiyu, and the Great Emperor Taimi could not perceive, detect, or see through, began to linger slightly, emitting a dazzling light all over.
That terrifying existence, through the obstruction of Lu Yi's body and mind, truly "saw" the "Taichu Huntong Pearl".
A faint spiritual light grew from Lu Yi's mind. This spiritual light merged with a wisp of Lu Yi's soul, and then was gently imprinted on the 'Taichu Huntong Pearl'.
Thus, Lu Yi suddenly developed a wonderful connection with the Taichu Huntong Pearl. Lu Yi suddenly had a magical feeling of being able to use it as if it were his own arm, as if his blood was blending together - the Taichu Huntong Pearl had finally, truly, thoroughly, and 'absolutely' become Lu Yi's 'personal property'.
With the blessing of that bit of spiritual light, the Taichu Huntong Pearl was completely bound to Lu Yi's soul, flesh and blood, and destiny.
He has completely become Lu Fu's property, and from now on they will share prosperity and adversity... Well, that's wrong. It's the Taichu Huntong Pearl that's good, and Lu Fu will be better... If Lu Fu gets injured, the origin of the Taichu Huntong Pearl will be used to heal him first!
What is even more bizarre is that under the 'command' of this 'Dharma edict', at the gate of the Great Leiyin Temple, Lu Yu, who had been reciting the Heart Sutra from his previous life , completely mastered the Nalanda Buddha fruit, realized the Nalanda Buddha fruit, absorbed the Nalanda Buddha fruit, and completely penetrated the Nalanda Buddha fruit from head to toe, from inside to outside.
The entire Nalanda Buddha Fruit, all the Dharmas, all the Taos, all the wisdom, all the bright lights therein, have transcended the constraints of cultivation and transcended the limitations of realms. Some incredible power replaced Lu Yu and 'made up' for all the 'costs' that Lu Yu originally needed to spend a long time and countless energy to pursue the 'Nanda Buddha Fruit', the supreme achievement of the Supreme Taichu Heaven Buddhism, so that Lu Yu himself did not have to 'pay' anything and completely integrated the 'Nanda Buddha Fruit'.
A grand and vast voice filled with incredible power rang in Lu Yi's ears.
This sound exploded directly in Lu Yi's mind and deep in his soul, like a divine thunder that created the world, tearing open all the obstacles and confusions in Lu Yi's heart, soul, and spiritual wisdom, and past and present lives, shattering all the fog and chaos around him, and illuminating his spirit and flesh.
“Good!”
"You can come quickly!"
The six words were imprinted deep in Lu Yu's soul. It was a ray of information, a secret, a thread of cause and effect... Lu Yu slowly stood up and bowed deeply to the plaque. A road appeared in front of him, but with his current cultivation and strength, he was not even qualified to set foot on this road.
It is like a mortal sees a golden avenue appear in front of him. When he is happily preparing to set off, he helplessly discovers that he is only eight feet tall, while the roadbed of the golden avenue is 180,000 miles high!
"Unbelievable!" Lu Yi smiled slightly, put down his hands, and looked at the white-clothed girl standing beside him. She had fair skin and a stunning appearance. "My fellow Taoist... you are really gentle."
Lu Yi pointed to the back of his head, where the blood lump was still bulging.
The person who made the move used a lot of force , that's all.
The weapon he used to hit Lu Yi on the back of his head was at least an imperial weapon... Therefore, it has been some time since Lu Yi woke up in the brothel, but no matter how much blood and energy Lu Yi mobilized to flush it, the blood lump still stood clearly on the back of his head.
Well, Lu Yi integrated the Buddha fruit of Nalanda and obtained countless Buddhist essences.
However, this improvement is in terms of knowledge, foundation, wisdom, and spirituality, and has absolutely nothing to do with his cultivation or his physical strength.
Therefore, the back of the head that should be swollen is still swollen.
Lu Yi looked at the smiling girl in white with a bit of annoyance: "In Yuncha Ridge, under such circumstances, the old Xiong Zun and the Green Emperor were ready to fight for their lives. If you want to take Prince Yuan Fu away, I will definitely cooperate with you with all my strength. Why do you have to hit him from behind?"
The girl smiled and waved her right hand. A wisp of platinum-colored divine flame spurted out and turned into a fire mirror in the void.
The mirror shone, revealing a small valley with an exquisite Zen temple inside. Ah Hu and a group of old brothers who followed Lu Yi to Yuncha Ridge were meditating in the Zen temple with a bitter look on their faces. Next to them, there was a skinny middle-aged Zen master with a shaved head, holding a ruler in his hand, circling around Ah Hu and his group.
Occasionally, a tiger would twist his body or fart, and the Zen master would hit them on the head with a ruler without saying a word, leaving bright red marks on their heads.
"We will bring your people out as well." The girl smiled and said, "So, can Daoist Fellow Lu Yi reveal this?"
Lu Yi flicked the blood clot on the back of his head, smiled and nodded: "Good, but if there is a chance, I must get to know the hero who did it... Um, are you going to rescue Prince Yuan Fu? You also rescued King Qiu Gui, which shows that your loyalty is really extraordinary... But why did you bring me here?"
Lu Yi looked at the girl with a smile: "Could it be that you want to recruit me into your group?"
The girl looked at Lu Yu in surprise, with a hint of amusement in her eyes, and sized him up and down: "Daoyou Lu Yu is very smart... but we all... underestimated you. Well, please come in, how about trying the Zen tea here?"
The mountain behind this great Leiyin Temple is called Lingshan.
The name of this mountain gave Lu Yi an inexplicable urge to get covered in monkey hair and dance with a stick at the entrance of the mountain...
On the top of Lingshan Mountain, there is a small pavilion, which is extremely spacious and tall, with bright lights on all sides and a great view. A gentle breeze blows by, and a few young monks are busy lighting the stove, boiling water and making tea.
Lu Yi and the girl in white sat opposite each other in the pavilion. The tea had not been served yet, but there were several fruit snacks on the table to go with the tea.
Dim sum is the most common items such as plum blossom cakes, lotus cakes, and osmanthus cakes. They have no aura or spirituality. They are just ordinary secular things made with flour, rice flour, various powders, icing sugar, honey, petals, pollen and other materials.
Even in the secular world, the craftsmanship of making these cakes can only be considered ordinary.
This is probably the level of cooking skills that a housewife in an ordinary small town can achieve after spending more than ten years in the kitchen. Although it is a bit simple, it is full of the atmosphere of worldly life. And the touch and feeling brought by this wisp of fireworks is something that the exquisite tea snacks used by the Linghu family and Emperor Taizuo can never match.
It would be even better if there were some colorful fruit plates.
The lotus roots, water chestnuts, lotus seeds, and water chestnuts were all freshly dug out of the water and fields, washed with spring water, and served. They were all ordinary secular goods, not spiritual roots or divine materials, and there was no magical effect that could make people ascend to heaven immediately after taking one pill.
It was this kind of food that inexplicably filled Lu Yi's heart with a solemn and sacred sense of ritual.
"Crunch", he broke off a lotus root that still had water drops hanging on it. There was even a few spots of mud near the nodes that had not been wiped clean. Lu Yi wiped it with his sleeve and chewed it happily with a "crunch, crunch" sound.
Lu Yu suddenly understood why great Buddhist figures like Baoguang Gongde Buddha, who once existed in Liangyi Heaven and had such noble identities, always openly "crunch" and munched on various melon seeds, snacks, cakes and fresh fruits in front of their disciples.
The lake lotus root is crisp and refreshing when eaten, and the sweet juice slowly slides into the throat, making Lu Yi feel that "he is indeed still alive like a mortal."
The smell of worldly affairs!
This lotus root has residue when it enters the mouth and stomach. Unlike those spiritual objects, it directly turns into Taoism and spiritual inspiration after entering the stomach, and turns into a hot current, nourishing the whole body.
The lotus root was eaten, leaving a lot of residue. Some of Lu Yi's internal organs, stomach, and intestines, which had long been stagnant and belonged to the "mortal" body functions, suddenly moved... The internal organs began to move, and the stomach began to secrete gastric juice, bile, pancreatic juice, intestinal juice... Wrapping up these residues, grinding and melting them bit by bit.
The villi in Lu Yi's stomach and intestines, which had long been almost 'petrified' like a zombie, began to wave rapidly, and extremely thin tubes gradually became unblocked. From the lotus root, little by little, the nutrients that were completely 'insignificant' to Lu Yi today, began to be absorbed into Lu Yi's body along these extremely thin tubes.
The nutrients contained in this lotus root are not even enough for Lu Yi to "absorb and utilize".
It's like, a battle fortress cast , but you insist on filling it with some components made of 'cork'... This is completely useless and harmful.
These meager, weak, and insignificant nutrients went around in Lu Yi's body, and no part of his body tissue was willing to receive them. As a result, Lu Yi's body was like a nuclear fusion reactor, instantly burning and decomposing these nutrients, turning them into a tiny wisp of energy, which was spun by the Soul Gold Mill and disappeared without a trace.
Lu Yi remained silent, quietly feeling his 'body that suddenly came to life'.
This bite of lotus root gave Lu Yu a strange feeling of being truly alive... He was still a 'living being' with flesh and blood. He had not yet turned into a pure 'cultivation tool' or 'war machine' made up of 'functional components' and 'energy systems'.
He grabbed another piece of osmanthus cake and ate it slowly.
The cake is a bit greasy in the throat.
The ingredients and craftsmanship are ordinary, so the taste is naturally ordinary. The osmanthus in the osmanthus cake is not even well-cooked, and the sweetness has a hint of "noisy" moisture that shouldn't be there.
However, Lu Yi tasted from the cakes a seriousness and piety towards food, a kind of resilience and strength that ordinary mortals have for survival, a tenacity to keep living steadily no matter what happens, or even... 'paranoia'?
'Paranoia' is a derogatory word and should not be used here.
But Lu Yi thought of his previous life... In his previous life, it was so difficult to live a "paranoid" and "stubborn" life, and he could not get it... At that time, every minute and every second, as long as he was alive, was so vivid and real. Every second of "living" was like a red-hot iron, which could leave an extremely deep mark in the trajectory of his life.
And in this life... since when did it all start to become, just, floating?
It starts with picking up Ah Hu in the snow?
When Ah Hu recovered his health, he started to tame one tiger master after another?
When the Hundred Tigers Hall was established, the tiger masters wielded machetes and sticks and took over one street after another?
When your own private vault grows from being enough to starve a rat to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of copper coins, silver and gold ingots?
From the time when he met the Buddhist monks from the Vajra Temple and officially embarked on the path of cultivation?
Well, what’s the name of the old master in the Vajra Temple?
What are the names of those Buddhist practitioners in Jishengtian, those important civil and military officials who once served in the court of Dayin, the general who once had power over the world, and the empress dowager who caused trouble in the harem?
Even the title he received from Yinyuan was called "Lord Weiyang" or something else?
What is the name of the sect that I founded in Yuanlingtian?
In Liangyi Heaven, how many of his disciples, former followers, former cronies, thugs, lackeys, and disciples do he still remember?
Before ascending from Loulan City to the Supreme Primordial Heaven, the things I experienced, the people I met, the ups and downs and even the storms in my life... It was like a forgotten nightmare after suddenly waking up on a summer night. It was forgotten, drifted away, became distant, dazed, confused, and disappeared...
Countless thoughts flashed through Lu Yi's mind.
Previous life.
this life.
past.
Now.
Finally, firmly and steadily, I landed on 'this moment'.
He smiled and ate the sweet-scented osmanthus cake in his hand. His internal organs squirmed, making a thunderous sound. His body functions were completely mobilized, vivid and alive, functioning like a real 'flesh and blood creature', a 'living person'.
No longer a powerful monk.
No longer a 'Buddhist monk' who is high above everyone else and untainted by the mundane world.
"Just now, in that brothel, King Qiu Gui said, create another side of the mortal world." Lu Yi smiled and licked the powder and sugar fat of the osmanthus cake on his fingers, looking at the girl: "His words seem to have a hidden meaning. May I ask, young lady, and your fellow practitioners, who are you, and why are you doing all these things?"
The girl smiled, looking with satisfaction at the snacks and fruits that Lu Yi had touched.
"We are the natives of this world."
"We just want to live in peace."