Chapter 484 West
His words made me feel ashamed. I didn't even understand the land under my feet, so I became the Heavenly Lord of the East in a confused way. In fact, there is no need to say Aotian. I have seen many things along the way. This is a world where martial arts are the most respected, but only 30% of those who practice martial arts are the most. The other 70% are ordinary people. They need to work and support their families, and there are famous families everywhere, and there are also people at the bottom who don't know where the next meal will be after the last meal.
"I don't even think about you when you made a small move with the boy from the Shangguan family. Although I disdained, I don't talk about you. Shangguan Wuji did have millions of soldiers in his heart. What I want you to see is your people. You, the Heavenly Lord, the Heavenly Lord of those strong, and the Heavenly Lord of these weak people. Shangguan Wuji couldn't see these things in his eyes. I hope you can see that it borders Mount Sumeru. If those bald donkeys really come, the people who are in the brunt of them will be the people who are in the brunt of them. What are you going to deal with? Once the monks are out, they will definitely be fully prepared. If they really fight, they will definitely last for a long time. How are you going to resettle the people on the battlefield?" Aotian looked at me and said.
He asked, and I was speechless and full of bitterness.
"A battle is a must-win battle. How to win is one thing, and how to fight is another thing. I hope you can have a scale in your heart." Aotian said.
I nodded.
Aotian didn't say much, and his words made me no longer sleepy. I simply stood up and went to the nearby villages to see. This place borders Mount Sumeru, which is a so-called war-torn place. Compared with some towns and villages in the mainland of the East, it is relatively dilapidated. As I walked around, I saw a lot of things, a child with no clothes, a skinny old man, a patient with a dying patient, and a young child with a skinny bone.
I even saw Buddha statues and incense burners hidden by many families.
Although this place is in the category of Kaiyang City and Murong Jiuding has a close connection with the Western Regions, Sifang City strictly prohibits the worship of Buddhist statues. But even so, there are still people who secretly hide their offerings.
I know that they are not rebellious, they are just looking for a trace of comfort in desperate situations. If these Buddha statues are found by soldiers, they will be a serious crime of beheading according to laws and regulations.
I walked silently. Later, I didn't know where I was going. Aotian, wearing a black robe, stood beside me at some point. He looked at me, and the skeleton opened and rallied, "What did you see?"
I shook my head and sat down. This was my first secret to running the Heavenly Monument in a few months.
But this time, I am not absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Instead, release spiritual energy.
The spiritual energy in my body began to be released between the world, allowing the crops that were about to die to be reborn, allowing those crying babies to sleep peacefully, and allowing those who have not been cured for a long time to get rid of all diseases.
"Is this interesting? How many villages can your spiritual energy save? How many cities? How many people? You are always just a person, not a god." Aotian looked at me and said.
——On the second day, we set off again. No one in the villagers in several nearby villages knew what had happened. They didn’t know why the crops that had died of drought for several months were full of vitality, why there were clear springs in the dry well, and why they could be bedridden for many years but could walk in the ground today.
They didn't know, they didn't know anything, but when I saw their smiling faces, I seemed to understand something at that moment, but I couldn't catch it no matter how hard I caught it.
In front, we passed the base of the defenders, which is now deserted. In the past, Kaiyang City had tens of thousands of defenders stationed at the foot of Mount Sumeru. Because of the battle between the coalition forces and Kaiyang City, the defenders here were disbanded. However, when we came, Shangguan Wuji had already said that as the first barrier to guard the east, someone would soon come to guard here, and it was the heavy armored army that Shangguan Wuji was famous all over the world.
After climbing over this abandoned military camp and climbing Mount Sumeru, I was even a little dazed. There were almost two worlds inside and outside the mountain. When I got down Mount Sumeru, I saw the so-called Western Paradise. There were pagodas and Buddha sounds, which made people feel peaceful as soon as they came. At the foot of Mount Sumeru, I saw the training monk soldiers. We quietly went down the mountain. Although we did not use our cultivation, it was not difficult for the three of us to bypass these monk soldiers.
Compared with the vastness of the East, the territory of the entire place is not large. It has to be said that the entire atmosphere in the West is very peaceful. Even now everyone knows that war between the East and the West is about to begin. When the East is still undergoing drastic reforms, the West is peaceful. The people will work, but they will also worship Buddha. Monks can be seen everywhere in preaching scriptures, curing diseases and saving lives.
I have always had no good impression of the Buddhas in the West, such as the Buddha's meeting the sea, etc., but when I really went to the West, I had a great change. In fact, the lives of these ordinary people and the Buddhism that ordinary people come into contact with are similar to those on earth. Although the Buddhas in villages and temples do not have any powerful magic power, I can feel their true compassion.
But the problem arotian was on his body. He was now a skeleton body, with a layer of death aura wrapped around his body. This layer of death aura was soon revealed by the monks. They might think that Aotian was a dead thing, but there were three or five monks coming to recite the sutras against Aotian. Aotian also had a good temper, so he did not attack these monks. He just made them faint one by one and left this quiet village.
"I just said that these bald donkeys are definitely not as quiet and easy-going as they appear on the surface. Just when those bald donkeys were chanting scriptures for me, I felt a mysterious force that seemed to pull me away." Ao Tian said.
I frowned and said, "What they should recite is the mantra of rebirth, which seems to be used to save the dead souls. They are going to send you to reincarnation."
Aotian shook his head and said, "No, there is something wrong with the scriptures. You may feel that this place is very peaceful, but after passing Mount Sumeru, I actually have an unknown premonition."
Aotian is the most powerful man in this world, so his feelings are naturally not wrong. The things that can give him an unknown premonition may be the secret of the entire West. Of course, at first I thought that Buddhism and skeletons were born with inseparable restraint, but when I thought about it, I knew that everything seemed not that simple.
"Let's go find a larger temple and pretend they have conquered me. I want to see where the mysterious power of scripture is to pull me." Ao Tian said.
Aotian is really bold, and he just did it. My elder brother could only smile bitterly at this. However, I was actually secretly glad that Aotian was walking in the West in a skeleton-dead situation, which caused the Buddha to recite the scriptures, and thus revealed the "secret" of the Western Buddhist Dharma.
When I first arrived here, I felt the tranquility and peace here, and compared it with the world outside Mount Sumeru, I even lost myself a little at that time and didn't know what to do.
Perhaps this is the profoundness of these Buddhist teachings, and they can always infect you without realizing it.
——There is a magnificent temple not far ahead. The specifications of this temple are obviously larger than those of the previous village. Aotian walked towards the temple with a swagger. You must know that he was a walking skeleton. The Buddhas up and down the temple immediately surrounded him and began to recite scriptures.
The scriptures recited were the same as those recited by monks in that village, but because these monks had higher cultivation, the comprehension power of this scripture seemed to be a little larger.
The scripture quickly subdued "Aotian" and turned the skeleton walking in the world under the sun in the sky into a pile of powder. It is obvious that Aotian did not resist this time and allowed the mysterious power of the scripture to take him away. He actually went to find the truth of the scripture at this time.
Of course, all this has nothing to do with us. At this time, we were just characters watching the show. Aotian was very skilled and brave. Although I was worried about him, I couldn't stop him. Next, my elder brother and I pretended to be a pilgrimage monk traveling here. During this period, we talked to the local people and monks, but there was nothing unusual.
It can be said that by abandoning the problems of the scriptures, everything in this place is peaceful and easy-going, and it is the word "Pure Land".
Then the problem must be in the scriptures. I even made a bold assumption that it was not that these monks had problems, and perhaps they themselves did not know that they were being used.
Buddhist monks practice very strangely. They preach the Dharma and spread Buddhist scriptures. The Buddhist scriptures themselves have the function of scriptures. While they preach the Dharma, the sentient beings' thoughts generated by the faith of sentient beings are also nourishing them.
For them, the spiritual power of sentient beings is the function of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The Buddhists rely on the spiritual power of these sentient beings to practice. I felt it because the entire West believes in Buddha. When sentient beings in the world recite scriptures and burn incense, they will generate mental power. And these mental powers eventually float towards the main peak of Mount Sumeru.
On the main peak of Mount Sumeru is this Western holy land, the small Mount Sumeru, where the saints of the West live.
All of this seems to be a conspiracy. Xiao Leiyin Temple regards the entire Western people as a cultivation furnace, and the mind power of Western sentient beings gathered into their magic power.
However, it cannot be denied that sentient beings produce thought power due to faith. Thought power is useless to sentient beings, but useful to monks. After monks practice, they can pray for blessings and cure diseases for the people.
It means that sentient beings worship God with their own faith.
God also takes care of all living beings with his own divine power.
When I figured out the key points of Western cultivation, I always had a strange feeling, it was an indescribable feeling. Behind this seemingly normal cultivation system, I always felt like there was a conspiracy, and these conspiracies were aimed at these sentient beings who believed in them.
Aotian disappeared like this, and I don’t know where he went, but with his skills, we don’t need to worry about him. My elder brother and I stayed here for half a month, and we just wandered around and did nothing all day long. Westerners used to go to the East to kill me, but now I’m here, but no one takes action.
Half a month later, monks from all over the West began to walk towards the direction of Mount Xiao Xumi. I asked about it and it turned out that this was the annual Buddhist conference in the West. The Buddhist lord would receive his people and pray for his people. At that time, the little Leiyin Temple would have nectar from the sky to ensure good weather in the world.
Although it is a bit dangerous for us to go to this Western holy land now, the problem is that Aotian's whereabouts are unknown, and the West does not send anyone to beat me, so my elder brother and I are a little idle. In the idea of not getting a tiger's child without entering the tiger's den, my elder brother and I simply follow the army of pilgrimage and start walking towards the Little Leiyin Temple on Mount Sumeru.
This is a Western event. It is inconspicuous that my elder brother and I are mixed in the crowd. Not everyone here will be ordained, so we will not be considered freaks in this regard. In this way, we followed these pilgrimage troops to outside the Little Leiyin Temple on Mount Sumeru. This Little Leiyin Temple is truly magnificent.
Chapter completed!