Chapter 12: The Immortals and Buddhas’ Family

After hearing my words, the Jade Emperor couldn't help but wave to me to sit on a stone next to him. "Your method is very good, but it's not easy to drive away the demon clan. At least you have to help me find the demon clan's nest first, and know their hiding place is good to hurry up?"

"It's just a matter of time, please don't worry, Jade Emperor."

The Jade Emperor nodded: "There is another thing in the Buddha Sect that makes me very upset."

"The Jade Emperor might as well talk about it. Maybe I have a way to solve it." In fact, I would definitely say it if I didn't answer this sentence. He clearly asked me to help him.

The Jade Emperor first made a thoughtful statement and then said, "Do you know that many members of the Buddhist sect were originally from my Taoist sect?"

I nodded: "I don't know much in detail, but I heard that the very famous Fighting and War Buddha Sun Wukong was from Taoism."

The Jade Emperor said with regret: "I don't know how I agreed to that talent exchange plan when Tathagata and I signed the Tathagata and I heaven."

"What talent exchange plan? I never seem to have heard of it!"

The Jade Emperor shook his head and said, "I have no worries to go out to promote such unlucky agreements. The Buddha Sect won't speak even more when he gets the advantage! You don't know that it should be."

"What does this agreement say?"

The Jade Emperor waved to Taibai Jinxing. "Tell me."

Taibai Jinxing gave a gift first, and then said: "The main purpose of this agreement back then was to communicate the existence and mutual benefit. According to the plan, the Heavenly Court needs to train several powerful new members, and then the Buddha Sect will guide several of them to take refuge in the Buddha Sect. In contrast, the Buddha Sect also needs to train several new disciples to return to my Immortal Sect."

"That should be no problem? Isn't this a very ordinary cooperation?"

"It's okay to cooperate honestly, but Buddhism is cheating with us. Under my Immortal Sect, there is a Sun Wukong and a Zizhu Fairy. You may have only heard of Journey to the West in the mortal world and know about Sun Wukong's land. In fact, there is also a Zizhu Fairy, whose strength is comparable to Sun Wukong. These two are our exchange talents."

"Since you said that the Buddha Sect was using fraud, have they given you two waste disciples?"

"It's good at all." Taibai Jinxing said angrily: "The two disciples sent by the Buddha Sect, one is Jiahe and the other is Nimoo. The Buddhist scriptures of the Buddha Sect are memorable and they don't know how to fight skills. What do you think we need two bookshelfs in Heaven to come back? We don't chant Buddha's name, so it's useless to ask for scriptures!"

"Or why you said you're losing a lot!"

The Jade Emperor couldn't help but say, "Later we also asked them to change people, but the Buddha Sect said that these two are the most exquisite Buddhist disciples of Buddhism."

I nodded: "In a sense, these two are indeed profound in Buddhism. They can only be both Buddhist scriptures and have no practical content. The Buddhist sect is very good at writing games. All Buddhist scriptures debate ideas based on two classics: paradox and assumption basis. As long as you read them, you will definitely be surrounded."

The Jade Emperor asked in confusion: "What is the paradox and assumption basis?"

"It's hard to explain this clearly. I'll use two examples to understand it. Paradox is positive and negative. For example, I say two sentences. The content of the first sentence is: My following sentence is correct. The content of the second sentence is: My above sentence is wrong. Who do you mean these two sentences?"

The Jade Emperor immediately began to murmur in a low voice: "The above words are right, and the following words are wrong. If the above words are right, then the following sentence says that the above words are wrong should be right. But if the second sentence is right, it means that the above words should be wrong. Then the above words say that the following words are wrong, it should be understood in reverse as the following sentence is wrong...wrong...right...right...wrong...difficult!"

I smiled and said, "Do you understand? This is the paradox. No matter how you understand it, it is wrong."

"I understand." Not only the Jade Emperor, but also the gods below nodded violently, obviously they were dizzy just now.

"Then what the assumption is based on you?" asked Taibai Jinxing.

"So that." I explained: "Give me a super simple example. Someone hung his calligraphy and paintings on a rope for an exhibition. When you went to see it, I placed a sign next to it. Instructed you to walk into the area behind the exhibition area. So the calligraphy and paintings you see are either a piece of white paper or only a few ink dots printed through the paper. At this time, others were looking at the calligraphy and paintings on the front, constantly praising them how good the calligraphy and paintings are. But you can't tell where the calligraphy and paintings are. The reason is that you have been looking at the back of the calligraphy and paintings, and of course you can't tell anything good."

The Jade Emperor immediately shouted: "I understand. This is to assume a wrong beginning as soon as you come up, and no matter how hard you try, you can only follow the idea of ​​the person who assumes this beginning, because you got the basics wrong as soon as you come up."

I smiled and nodded: "The Jade Emperor is wise. If someone assumes that spiritual energy does not exist, you will certainly not succeed in studying magic power on this basis. The same is true for the Buddhist sect. Why are so many people trapped in? In fact, he also assumes the basics. The Buddhist sect first assumes that people suffer after birth and can accumulate virtue, and then reincarnate in the next life can enjoy happiness. In this way, everyone is in his arms. In fact, the Buddhist sect has nothing to do with reincarnation. The dead are all in charge of your ten palaces. They have no right to intervene. But everyone got into misunderstandings as soon as they came up, so they were always deceived. This time, the same is true for you to sign a land agreement with the Buddhist sect. You think that the best things to exchange with each other must be exchanged for each other, but they used this loophole to send you two live bookshelfs, which made you suffer a lot."

The Jade Emperor said sadly: "Actually, we secretly contacted Sun Wukong and Zizhu Fairy. Both of them always wanted to return to the Immortal Gate."

I looked at the Jade Emperor in confusion: "They want to come back? Can't they save them with the power of the Immortal Sect? They return. Can the Buddhist Sect forcefully rob them?"

Taibai Jinxing shook his head instead of Jade Emperor and said, "There is a Vajra headband stuck on Sun Wukong's head, and there is a jade ring on the waist of the Purple Bamboo Fairy. As long as Guanyin's curse is together, they will not be painful to death. When they run back, they will have to go back obediently, or they will only be painful to death."

"I don't know about Fairy Zizhu. Didn't Sun Wukong's hoop be removed when he became a Buddha?"

"Tabai said with a ridiculous smile: "If you really take it away, you will not be able to defeat the Buddha! Sun Wukong actually missed his master of his past. The legendary Tang monk was just a prisoner, who learned a tight-knot curse to take charge of Sun Wukong to prevent him from escaping. The Buddha Sect has always praised compassion, saying all day long that I would go to hell. In the end, everyone went to hell, and didn't Tathagata sit in the Pure Land to enjoy his blessings? Who saw him go to hell? The stories circulating in your mortal world are all propaganda strategies of the Buddha Sect. Guanyin is actually the image ambassador of the Public Relations Department of the Buddha Sect, who is responsible for propaganda."

A guy with a bad face and a strange appearance in an official uniform wearing a similar emperor's robe also complained: "That Guanyin is the most sinister. He even created a child to give birth to Guanyin. He deceived a large group of mortals to burn incense and worship Buddha. In fact, whether to give birth to a child or not depends on her? The souls of the dead are all pinched in my Ten Palaces. If we don't send the reincarnated ghosts to those women's bodies, how can we give birth to children? She thinks she is Nuwa and can make a human being at will?"

An immortal official with dragon horns also stood up, and it must be the Dragon King. He also complained angrily: "That's it. Those Buddhist sects are doing all kinds of things to save all living beings and help the people seek rain. Our dragon clan's eight thousand rain and water soldiers, and the four gods of thunder, lightning, wind and rain are there. What's the matter with their Buddhist sect when it rains? Who will rain from Guanyin or Tathagata? Every time, we get information about where we go to rain. Then we go to that place to ask for rain, which is purely cheating food and drink. In terms of the ability to rain, they are not even as good as monsters. Many monsters do know the rainfall technique."

After the King of Hell and the Dragon King said this, the other gods immediately held a meeting of criticism and struggles in the Buddhist sect, and all the messy things came out. Anyway, it was just the same thing - the Buddhist sect was cheating under the banner of the Heavenly Court.

I quickly interrupted the criticism and controversy of the gods. If I continue to say this, I will enter the stage of cursing. "Actually, I think the power of heaven is not inferior to that of the Buddhist sect. The key problem is that the benevolence and virtue are not enough."

The Jade Emperor was startled. "What? Not kind enough? We are all pinching our noses and swallowing coptis chinensis. What else should we do?"

I smiled and said, "We should learn more from the Buddhist sect, so that others can do all benevolence and virtue to the face. But you can do all benevolence and virtue to the inside. So you are not as kind as them."

"What should I do?"

"The problem of Heaven is a long-term backlog, and the policy of Huaruo is no longer enough. I think, just cut the mess quickly and do it more accurately."

Taibai Jinxing asked carefully: "What do you mean?"

"The force, number of personnel, material reserves, and sphere of influence of the Heavenly Court, all of these are better than the Buddha Sect. How many people are there in the Heavenly Court? Look at the mortal world. Now the mortal world thinks that the Buddha Sect and the Immortal Sect are all in the Buddhist category, and everyone thinks that the Tathagata is the boss of this Buddhism, and you are just a supporting role. You can no longer be slow in getting to this point. Once the Buddha Sect feels that its power has expanded almost and starts to exclude you, you will have no power to fight back."

"Then how do we solve it?"

"Didn't you just report that the Buddha Sect pretended to be the power of the Heavenly Court to grab credit? Then we might as well smash their sign."

"Smash the sign?"

"Didn't Guanyin claim that she can make those mortal women pregnant and have children? You send some people to keep an eye on all the children sent to Guanyin Temple. Record all the people who go there to pray for their children. Let him forget about these recorded people."

The King of Hell was startled when he heard this: "Isn't it too poisonous?"

"Do you want to be more poisonous or are you going to be replaced?"

"Then I'll be a little more poisonous!" The King of Hell quickly sat down and stopped talking.

I immediately said to the Dragon King: "Didn't you say that the disciples of the Buddha Sect always checked out your rain information first and then ran to those places to pretend to ask for rain?"

"Yes!" The Dragon King complained: "Every time I get the rain order from the Heavenly Court, they will arrive first and pretend to ask for rain. In fact, it is not the rain they ask for. We just do our own business according to the rules. Now, no one worships my Dragon King Temple, and the incense is almost broken. Our Dragon King of the Four Seas has been lying on his parents for a while. It's so miserable!"

I nodded: "This is easy to do. The Jade Emperor will still issue rainfall orders in the future, but he will give the Dragon King a certain amount of free space. The Dragon King is allowed to change his mind temporarily according to the situation. If the Dragon King arrives at the raindrop and finds that the Buddha Sect is pretending to be you and praying for rain, you can go to another place to rain immediately, or just go home. Anyway, you don't rain in the place where they ask for it. If you do a few more times, you will no longer believe their words."

The Dragon King nodded straight after hearing this, and the Jade Emperor also agreed to the plan.

I pointed to the plague god and the decay again and said, "Didn't the Buddha Sect say that they believe in them. Is it possible to burn incense all day long to avoid disasters and diseases? You two go out for a long time. When you see who worships Buddha and wants to cure diseases and eliminate diseases, you can stay at his house for one night. Don't kill people, just keep a breath. This publicity effect is better. Whoever wants to pray to Buddha and eliminate disasters will make him so bad that he wants to commit suicide, and who wants to pray to Buddha and cure diseases will make him so sick that he can't even get out of bed. By the way, didn't the fairies of the Tao Immortal Sect just say that the Buddha Sect likes to make some merit fragrances?"

A beautiful fairy stood up and said, "Yes. The Buddha Sect asks believers to pay for their temples, and sometimes they use this money to build roads. Although building roads is a good thing, they don't use the money of the believers in the land, nor are they the paths that the Buddha Sect cultivates themselves. For those who pay for these money, they give a incense, saying it is Gongde incense, and after going home, they put the ash in water to drink it to cure the disease."

"Then can these incense really cure diseases?"

"How is that possible!" The fairy said angrily: "If you eat some incense ash, you will cure your illness. What do you want a doctor to do? However, those incense has indeed blessed a little weak magic power, and eating it back can refresh your mind. If you don't know, you think it really works."

"Okay. In the future, in addition to continuing to work on your own, you fairies who rescued the wounded will also focus on those who have received Gongdexiang and go back and concentrate to send the news to the King of Hell." I said to the King of Hell again: "If you receive the list given to you by the fairy, let Hei Bai Wuchang go to these houses to name one by one at night. Gongdexiang becomes the Soul-Breaking Incense, I think who dares to eat it."

The Jade Emperor clapped his hands and said, "It's indeed amazing, but there will be troubles over time, right?"

"I said, this is a matter of cutting the messy things with quick knife. The Buddha Sect is so closely connected with you that many things can't be explained clearly. They are like poisons, which have penetrated into your arms. Now the only way to get rid of them is to cut them off with your own arms. In a short period of time, it will definitely hurt others and yourself, but it will be better after this stage. In the future, you must step up publicity. Learn from the Buddhist Sect and send more low-level personnel to run. If you don't contact mortals all day long, of course they don't know your contribution. If it rains in the future, you will also send some Taoist priests and other methods, and then it will rain again. If anyone does good deeds and accumulates virtue, don't be like now

This will give him some benefits and run away. If you want to show your spirit in the air, you can see that you have arrived. It is best to say a few more words to encourage others to do more good deeds and accumulate virtues in the future, so that mortals will know that it is actually the Heavenly Court that manages their fortunes. It is not the Buddha sect that is in charge of them. By the way, there is also the King of Hell. Your side is the key. What mortals are most afraid of is death. When you are seducing your soul, don’t you have to recite all the good and bad things that this person has done in his life? In the future, just talk about it in the world. Don’t you have to see your soul and explain your public morality and bad deeds. In particular, you should tell those who worship Buddha that doing good deeds is considered public morality, and believing in Buddhism is not considered public morality. See who will believe in them in the future."

Erlang Shen said beside him, "Isn't it going to fight like this?"

"If you don't fight, what are you going to form an alliance with them?"

"Good plan." The Jade Emperor smiled and said to Taibai: "Record all these and follow this in the future."

"It's been recorded."

The Jade Emperor immediately said to me again: "It seems that you are of great use to the heavenly court. This time you offended the Buddha Sect, which is also considered to be out of the heavenly court. Don't worry, I will send someone to protect your land."

"No, no." I am a double spy, with a bodyguard in the court all day, so how can I get along in the future? "Actually, the Jade Emperor really needs to be determined and help me take care of my city more. I am not afraid of them at all. The souls of adventurers cannot be detained, and the Buddha Sect can't do anything to me."

"Don't worry. Your city heaven will definitely help you protect it. The Buddha Sect dares not do anything to you."

I thanked the Jade Emperor first and said, "The Jade Emperor just said that Sun Wukong and Zizhu Fairy want to return to the Immortal Sect. I wonder if you have any contact recently?"

"Of course there is contact. What are you asking about this?"

"If it's convenient, you can ask them to come to me, or tell me a time and place to meet them. The Immortal and Buddha families have many great abilities, but I have many left-wing ways. Sun Wukong's Vajra headband and the purple bamboo fairy's green jade ring can't be opened with your correct method. Perhaps my bad idea will be effective."

When the Jade Emperor heard this, he immediately asked excitedly: "Can you really open those two things? As long as you can help them return to the Immortal Gate, I can give you 10 ancient divine beasts to help you guard the house and fight on the battlefield with you."

"That's not accurate, and I won't know if I don't try it. But since the Jade Emperor has offered such good conditions, I will definitely work hard. If we really succeed, we will benefit each other!"

After chatting with Jade Emperor about something insignificant, I was sent back to Aisinger. This strange landscape painting was also left in Aisinger. This painting is not a space channel, and it is impossible to directly reach the heaven from here, and the people in the heaven cannot reach here. What I just saw with Erlang Shen was actually illusions. The space inside this painting is a bit similar to holographic projection, and can be held for remote meetings, but it cannot be used as a channel. Jade Emperor said that he would arrange people to do their duties day and night in this space in the future. If there is anything, I just need to send someone into the illusion space of this painting and inform the heaven.

Regarding the matter between Sun Wukong and Zizhu Fairy, the Jade Emperor finally gave me a plan to find them by myself. It was not that the Jade Emperor didn't want to make a move, but because they were seen by the Buddha Sect and had no way to make a move. Unless I went to their cave to find them myself, they would not be able to meet me no matter what. However, the Jade Emperor gave two detailed maps, which was easy to go if I wanted to.

When Erlang Shen left Aisinger, I quickly rushed to the demons' nest. In the past two days, I have been busy running around the demons' nest in the Heavenly Court. Speaking of which, I am a member of the four major forces, and it seems that I am awesome, but in fact I just ran errands.

When Shui Xu and the others saw me, they were the first reaction to catch me and asked if it was successful. I had to shake my head. Shui Xu asked a little nervously: "Has the Heavenly Court transformed its magic power?"

"no."

"Didn't you steal it?" Yin Yao asked.

“Not it.”

Qionglin then asked, "What the hell is going on?"

"Please, don't be so anxious, okay? You have seen big scenes before, so you should know some things yourself. Heaven is not a vegetable market, can you just go around? This time Heaven sent many gods to pick me up and escort me all the way to the Jade Emperor. When you came back, the team doubled. How do you tell me how to steal?"

"Then have you seen the magic power?"

I said with some uncertainty: "It's very strange to say. I actually saw three purple balls of light in the heaven."

Qionglin looked at Xiashuixu and said, "Three groups? Could it be that the magic power was divided?"

Shui Xu shook his head: "I didn't see it again, ask me, who should I ask?"

Qionglin immediately turned to me: "Can you judge the type of demonic energy?"

I shook my head: "The three groups of purple energy have different magnitudes. The closest one is in Douluo Palace. The other two groups are in Tiantai Pavilion and the other is in a very far place. You can see a little shadow."

Yin Yao said: "The Dousu Palace is more likely to be the place where you specialize in alchemy. The one that is particularly far away is probably Chang'e's Jade Rabbit."

"Ah? Jade Rabbit is also a monster?"
Chapter completed!