Chapter 818: The Way to Liberation (3)
What is the root?
Lu Yi knew.
The old monk in the mortal world did not teach him any profound Buddhist teachings, any powerful magical powers, any unfathomable secret techniques, or any earth-shaking fighting skills... All of those were trivial matters and, in his view, were unimportant.
Once upon a time, when he was the Inverted Heaven and the Emperor of Heaven, the old monk Hongchen mastered countless unfathomable "skills". Those things were the "Supreme Treasure Book" and "Supreme Secret Records" that countless cultivators in Liangyi Heaven dreamed of. His magical powers and secret techniques, just teaching one or two of them, are enough to drive people crazy.
For example, the supreme secret spell that allows the "little immortals" of the first and second levels of the True Fairyland to curse and kill the Buddha from a distance.
Is this secret technique powerful?
Very strong, and extremely terrifying.
Such secret techniques and magical powers are plentiful here in this old monk's mortal world. I don't know how many similar things I have.
But to today's world, those things are nothing but broken bricks and tiles, without any value at all.
"We need to be clear about what our ultimate goal is."
“We need to see clearly what the reality of this world is.”
"To understand these issues and see the world clearly, we don't rely on fighting and killing, nor on social skills, nor on power, money, beauty, fame, or anything like that."
“The only thing that can bring us true liberation and freedom is wisdom.”
"But where does wisdom come from? This is my fundamental law now."
The old monk talked about the world of mortals. He told Lu Yi about the people and things he had seen over the years, the gods and monsters he had encountered over the years, and described with a smile the storms and bloody storms he had encountered. In the sky and on the ground, in the blue sky and the underworld, everyone was a god, ghosts and monsters, all kinds of strange elements, and all kinds of inexplicable existences.
If you have walked a long enough road and seen enough scenery, as long as you are not too stupid, you will be able to extract enough "commonalities" from these disturbing elements and countless scenery. These "commonalities" are honored as "Tao" by practitioners. The skills and methods to extract these "commonalities" are "wisdom".
The old monk Hongchen smiled and said to Lu Yi: "A wise person may not be very powerful as an individual... but if he wants to become extremely powerful as quickly as possible, then he must have countless ways to do it."
“Whether a wise man is powerful or not depends only on his willingness, not on his ability.”
The sea of blood was boiling, the deputy director of the Ministry of Punishment was roaring, and countless gods and demons were attacking him madly.
Lu Fu absorbed everything the old monk taught him bit by bit.
The old monk Hongchen told Lu Yi that one year, he was in a small heaven and saw a nest of ants encountering a flood. With muddy waves rolling, the ants were doomed to die, but in the end, they only lost 30% of their population, and the rest of the tribe all escaped the flood.
Before the flood came, these tiny, insignificant ants, relying on their huge bodies, formed an "ant ball" with a diameter of about three meters, floating on the flood. The flood killed the outermost layers of ants, while all the ants in the inner circle survived.
The old monk Hongchen told Lu Yi that when he passed by a small heaven that year, he happened to meet a tyrannical and evil monk. The monk had the cultivation level of a small bodhisattva in Liangyi Heaven. He acted recklessly in that small heaven, causing the whole heaven to suffer and the people to live in misery.
And this great monk finally fell into the hands of a mortal woman. Guess how she did it?
In the end, it was very simple, nothing more than a "honey trap", then, "moving his mind with deep affection", "exchanging his sincerity for his sincerity"... This mortal woman made herself truly fall in love with the great monk, and then made the great monk truly fall in love with her. In the end, the woman made the great monk and herself produce a child, and finally used this child to set a trap, so that the great monk was willing to die of exhaustion!
The old monk Hongchen told Lu Yi that one year, he passed by a very prosperous heaven. At that time, he was already the "Emperor of Heaven". As a result, he encountered a "love disaster" in that heaven and almost stayed in that heaven for the rest of his life.
The one who attacked him was just an ordinary, common woman with extremely weak cultivation.
How did she let Emperor Zuntian fall into her trap? The method was simple. Others deliberately flattered Emperor Zuntian, but she was dismissive of him... The more she was dismissive, the more curious Emperor Zuntian became. As a result, he felt that this woman was "unparalleled in beauty" and "flawless in the world", so he fell into the trap.
The old monk Hongchen also told Lu Yi that another year, he passed by a heaven, and there was not even an animal in the conventional sense in that heaven. In the vast heaven, there were only countless flowers, trees, vines and mosses.
He almost died in that heaven. And what caused all this was the most inconspicuous, scattered all over the ground, seemingly the lowest level of life, the weakest and cheapest "moss" in that world!
All the plants in the heavens were derived from the moss. There were countless mosses, and each tiny moss had its own tiny and weak intelligence. When countless tiny intelligences gathered together, they became a terrifying "wisdom aggregate".
He deduced the mysteries of heaven, comprehended the great Dao, and transformed the entire heaven, making the entire world become incomparably perfect. Every falling leaf, every blooming flower, and every rustling sound of wind blowing through the treetops are all in perfect harmony with the "Rhyme of Dao".
The old monk strayed into that heavenly realm and suddenly discovered that everywhere he looked was filled with the "rhyme of Tao". He was overjoyed and immersed himself in the rhyme of Tao, trying to figure it out, learn it, absorb it, and refine it, like a mouse that broke into a rice jar, madly absorbing the rhyme of Tao in that heavenly realm into himself.
As a result, one day he suddenly woke up and was shocked to find that his own "Tao" had been "dyed and changed" by the external "Tao rhyme". His body, which was standing stiffly on the top of a mountain in that world, was filled with countless tiny moss spores. His body had become a moss hatchery!
He expended a tremendous amount of energy and finally managed to dispel the foreign Taoist rhythm from his heart.
He almost lost 90% of his cultivation before he was able to completely destroy the moss spores that had invaded his body.
One by one, all kinds of strange and bizarre things came up at random. In this gentle narration, the old monk Hongchen turned his countless years of experience, his countless years of understanding, what he saw and heard, his thoughts and ideas into drops of nectar, injected into Lu Yi's soul, and turned into his own understanding.
In Lu Yi's mind, the picture of the three-eyed god flickered violently, the Taichu Huntong Pearl emitted a dazzling dim light, and the Taimi Emperor Axe flew around his mind rapidly like a happy pony.
Extremely happy, extremely excited, extremely pleased.
The old monk's "preaching" was like a clear spring, washing away the thick dust on the picture of the three-eyed god, gradually revealing his true face. Strands of mellow and distant Taoist rhymes spread and spread in Lu Yi's mind, blending with the old monk's narration, turning into an increasingly mellow sweet wine, making Lu Yi more and more intoxicated.
Time just flies by.
On the sea of blood, the voice of the deputy chief of the Ministry of Punishment gradually faded away... At some point, dozens of dim white figures appeared on the sea of blood. They were shrouded in warm white light, and with a faint smile, they looked deeply at the old monk Hongchen, then shook their heads, sighed, and turned into a little light and disappeared between heaven and earth.
The sea of blood shrank and collapsed little by little, and finally turned into a drop of almost transparent blood, flowing back into the old monk Hongchen's body.
An extremely gentle light shone from the old monk's body, illuminating the entire Demon-Slaying Division's office. The palaces and towers that were filled with a mysterious atmosphere, and the squares and training grounds, all became quiet and peaceful under the faint light filled with the worldly smell of worldly life. It was like a summer evening with smoke rising from cooking fires in a small village, and the sounds of children's laughter and chickens and dogs were everywhere.
After an unknown amount of time, the old monk Hongchen suddenly sighed and tapped Lu Yi's forehead with his finger: "I don't know how much you can understand, and I don't know how much you can comprehend. In short, if there is a destiny, I will pass all this on to Dafeitian. If not, then forget it."
Lu Yi woke up from the sweet dream. Hearing the inexplicable words of the old monk Hongchen, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Your method of liberation is the fruit of supreme wisdom, so naturally you have to..."
The old monk Hongchen waved his hand and chuckled, "You are a generous child, I can see that, but whether Dafeitian is willing to accept this 'liberation method', hehe..."
He shook his head slightly and sighed, "This method of liberation is subtly opposed to the Buddhist teachings I passed down back then. Dafei Tian has excellent aptitude... The problem is that his aptitude is too good. He accepted the Buddhist teachings of that year in their entirety and was deeply influenced by them. I think it will be difficult for him to turn back."
He looked at Lu Yi with a subtle expression and said softly: "This is the last bit of advice... When you meet Dafei Tian, you... must not tell him that you met me. Otherwise, if you tell him this method of liberation, you will be in danger of death!"
Lu Yi looked at the old monk Hongchen in horror.
Is there a danger of death?
Is it that exaggerated?
In his past life, present life, and this life, he has lived for so many years and has seen many messy people and strange things... However, Lu Yi felt that if he told Dafei Tian the "liberation method taught by the Buddha himself", he would be in danger of death?
Do you want to have it 'exclusively'?
Dafeitian didn't seem to be such a 'greedy' and 'domineering' person... In Liangyi Heaven, everything he said and did was that of a very qualified 'Buddhist elder' who was extremely caring towards his disciples, and even extremely protective to the point of being unreasonable.
Will he want to kill Lu Yi and bring disaster to Lu Yi?
Lu Fu looked at the old monk Hongchen without comment and smiled brightly.
The old monk Hongchen looked at Lu Yi with a subtle expression. He smiled, raised his head, looked at the sky, then he waved his hand lightly. More than ten thousand bright lights behind him collapsed and fell off little by little with a slight tearing sound, "click, click", and finally turned into a palm-sized warm Buddha wheel with twelve thousand nine hundred layers inside and outside.
The material of the Buddha wheel is extremely strange. It is neither gold, silver, copper, nor scrap iron, nor is it jade, amber, clam, agate, etc.
The old monk Hongchen handed the Buddha wheel to Lu Fu, who subconsciously took it with both hands. He felt that the small Buddha wheel was as light as nothing, smooth and moist to the touch, like a ray of light, a cloud, a thought, or... It was just a trace of "existence".
"This is the Buddhaland that I have finally cultivated after countless years of hard work."
"He was once the Upside-Down Heaven, and he was once the Emperor Heaven. But now, he is still a little short of the 'Red Dust Heaven'."
The old monk Hongchen looked at the small Buddha wheel with some reluctance, and said softly: "I can't bear to part with it, but if I don't, I can't get true liberation... This is sin, this is crime, this is entanglement, this is cause and effect... If I don't cut it off, I can't get peace."
“But if I were to let Him go like this, I would not be able to bear it. I have spent so many years, so many years of hard work, so many lives and deaths, so many rounds of blood, sweat and heavy calamities... Tsk tsk, just abandoning Him like this? Even if I understand the ‘path to liberation’, it is not so easy to give up.”
“So, I’ll give it to you, I’ll give it to you!” The old monk Hongchen waved his hands, and Buddhist treasures that shone with a faint light continued to emerge. He stuffed them all to Lu Yi: “I’ll give them all to you, take them well, control them well, and treat them well… After all, they are the result of my hard work and efforts over the years.”
"Although you have inherited my method of liberation, you will inevitably need the power of Dharma protectors on your path to liberation. I will give you these external objects... Keep going, keep going steadily and steadily."
The old monk Hongchen stood up and took off his ordinary coarse cloth monk's robe very simply, turning it into a soft and graceful cloud-like light and throwing it to Lu Yi: "Take it, take it, take it all. In this way, I will feel relaxed and can really embark on that road."
Naked and laughing loudly, the old monk Hongchen clapped his hands and turned into an extremely gentle and subtle light, blending into the void and disappearing.
Lu Yi looked at the mountains of Buddhist treasures around him with a dull expression and his mind went blank.
Is it really that clean and neat, leaving?
The Buddhist kingdom that he cultivated through countless years of hard work.
Plunder countless gods and demons accumulated in the heavens.
And all these Buddhist treasures that exuded such a terrifying aura that Lu Yi subconsciously didn't dare to touch were just given away and left like that?
"You left so cleanly and peacefully." Lu Yi pondered for a long time, and suddenly laughed: "But, I, Lu Yi, am just an ordinary person. The stronger the power, the better. The longer the life, the better. The more means and treasures to protect the law, the better!"
"You have lived for countless years and are tired of living, so you seek liberation."
"I am just an ordinary person. I haven't even lived to achieve my small goal of a thousand years. What can I say to a 'great enlightened being' like you who has lived through countless great calamities?"
Shaking his head, Lu Yi stood up, raised the Buddha wheel, and gently pressed it against his heart.
A surge of majestic and blazing Buddha power came, and the Buddha wheel penetrated into Lu Yi's body like a living thing. Countless powerful and terrifying Buddha seals, accompanied by low Sanskrit chanting, rapidly connected with Lu Yi's body, soul, every cell of his body, and every thought in his mind.
All the 'burdens', all the 'concerns', all the 'cause and effect', all the 'sins' that the old monk had taken off from the mortal world, Lu Fu inherited them all without hesitation and fear!
Strength fills my whole body.
Layers of bright light slowly bloomed behind him like lotus flowers.
In every Pure Land Buddhist kingdom, countless gods and demons whose cultivation base was at least above the third-order True Buddha cheered in unison and worshiped towards Lu Yi with joy, shouting loudly without stopping, "Great Master Fahai, whose magical powers are like the sea, whose power is boundless, the most supreme and noble, whose light shines throughout the universe, is immortal and indestructible, and resides forever in the void!"
Lu Yi shuddered, feeling horrified by the titles shouted by these gods and demons, and got countless goose bumps all over his body.
God knows how these gods and demons came up with such a long, boring and unliterary title in such a short time.
Moreover, within such a short period of time, countless gods and demons in the 12,960 Pure Land Buddhist countries knew of this honorable title, and they all sang it in unison in a serious and excited manner!
Lu Yu couldn't help but wipe the cold sweat from his forehead - could it be that when the old monk was in the mortal world, he liked this tune?
As the thought flashed, countless Buddhist treasures around him flew up like a swarm of frightened locusts, turning into streams of light that flew into the layers of bright light behind Lu Yi. These Buddhist treasures were like huge, heavy shackles, and with a dull roar, they fell into the Buddhist kingdoms and suppressed the key points of the Buddhist kingdoms.
The sound of "clang clang" was endless. These Buddhist treasures took root and suppressed and sealed off these pure lands of Buddhism one by one.
A thought came to his mind, and Lu Yi couldn't help but feel horrified.
The Buddha's wheel left by the old monk Hongchen, or we can call it 'Hongchen Heaven', contains countless gods and demons, which are all transformed from the billions of living beings he has forcibly converted by ransacking many heavens over countless years.
These gods and demons were extremely powerful and nearly immortal. Some of the most powerful ones were so powerful that even the old monk Hongchen had to spend a lot of effort to suppress them properly and drive them freely.
Now the old monk has 'liberated himself' from the worldly world, to put it bluntly, he has left behind all causes and effects, all burdens, and gone to find his own fun... His realm is too high and far, and Lu Yi cannot understand for a while what kind of charm his so-called 'great liberation realm' has.
However, the gods and demons in the Red Dust Heaven, those ordinary gods and demons whose cultivation was only at the Buddha level, could be driven by Lu Yi with his current cultivation. However, those whose cultivation exceeded the Buddha level, even reached the Buddha Lord level, and even surpassed the Buddha Lord level, reaching the terrifying existence of the strength standard of the "Upper Realm"...
Without the suppression of the old monk Hongchen, without his constant "conversion" or "brainwashing" day and night, these extremely powerful gods and demons leaders would be able to break free from their shackles and force their way out of the "Hongchen Heaven" in as much as thirty to fifty thousand years, or as short as thirty to fifty years.
It is conceivable that as the 'heir' of the old monk's 'all causes and effects' in the mortal world... once these gods and demons leaders are freed from prison and understand the causes and effects of their past and present lives, it would be strange if they don't crush Lu Yi into ashes!
Even more than just Lu Yu, all those who were involved with Lu Yu, all those who might be involved with Lu Yu...even the heavenly realm of Liang Yi Tian, would become the target of these gods and demons' revenge. With their abilities, it would definitely be an indescribable catastrophe!
Therefore, the old monk Hongchen left a backup plan. He used all his Buddhist treasures and combined them with the 'Hongchen Heaven', the supreme Buddhist kingdom that consumed countless materials and countless hard work to create, to set up an incomparably mysterious 'Hongchen Ligui Nirvana' Buddhist formation.
All the gods and demons that were too powerful for Lu Yi to control were forced to fall into a deep sleep. They became the core of this Red Dust formation. Their endless power, their countless thoughts, their inextricable resentment towards the Red Dust Monk, and everything tangible and intangible would be extracted and refined by the formation, becoming the nourishment to assist Lu Yi in his cultivation and progress.
"So, I have a bunch of pretty powerful fighters." Lu Yu muttered in a low voice, "But, they are not invincible. Those who are truly invincible in the lower world have been forced into 'eternal sleep'... Unless I get a power comparable to the mortal world one day, otherwise, they will always sleep in the mortal world."
"There is only one treasure!"
Lu Yi looked at the extremely soft, clear and bright wisp of cloud and mist in his hand.
This treasure is the coarse cloth monk's robe that the old monk Hongchen wore before. Its body is a top-level "heavenly weapon" that the old monk Hongchen got back then. It is subtle and has infinite magical uses. Its benefits cannot be fully described in words. It was once called "inverted cassock", once called "Emperor's Dharma Seal", and now the old monk Hongchen calls it "Hongchen Pocket"!
"Red Dust Pocket? This name... Ha, yes, you turned into a coarse cloth monk's robe, and it only contained more than a hundred pounds of flesh and bones. It is indeed just a pocket." Lu Yi shook his head and roughly guessed the meaning of the old monk Red Dust.
"But, that's not a nice name. From now on, you can be called, called..."
Thoughts that were a thousand times more complicated than usual kept pouring out of Lu Yi's mind.
Countless thoughts arose, and then, like soap bubbles, they all burst under the shining light... He suddenly remembered his past life, his present life, and the time when he was still in the capital of Dayinhao, leading a group of tiger masters from the Baihu Hall, selling fried stinky tofu piece by piece, selling red oil wonton bowl by bowl, and saving copper coins one by one.
Even now I have the power to move mountains and seas.
Even though I now have the authority to command the attention of everyone.
Even now...
In the final analysis, “ What am I asking for ?”
Lu Yi smiled, and with a wave of his hand, the wisp of cloud light turned into a thumb-sized bright light, and then condensed into a small lotus platform. He smiled, and the lotus platform rose into the air, quietly landed on his head, and turned into a nine-layer thousand-petal lotus platform light and shadow above his head.
As Lu Yi moved, the light and shadow of the lotus platform appeared and disappeared, and a little clear Buddha light was emanating, as if countless lotus flowers were floating and dancing behind his head at any time.
"Eternal Life!" Lu Yi said softly, "From now on, you are the Lotus Platform of Eternal Life, the most powerful treasure that protects me in my pursuit of immortality."
As soon as the six words "the most powerful treasure to protect the way" came out, the sandalwood merit staff in Lu Yi's hand shook violently, and the monk's robe for saving others and the cassock for liberating others simultaneously emitted chaotic Buddha light... The three Buddhist treasures bestowed by the Buddha of Precious Light and Merit all gave rise to a sense of resentment at the same time.
The Lotus Platform of Longevity emitted a faint Buddha light, which gently brushed towards the three Buddhist treasures.
very good!
Time suddenly became quiet, and the three Buddhist treasures became extremely well-behaved at the same time!
The gap in rank was too huge, and the original owner's cultivation was far worse.
The three Buddhist treasures quickly recognized the reality and became extremely obedient. Lu Yi even felt that his control and use of the three Buddhist treasures were a hundred times more agile than before. He didn't even need much mana input to drive the three Buddhist treasures to exert a hundred times their power!
"Hehe, you are still bullying me because I'm just a little monk!" Lu Yi smiled and shook his head.
The resentment of the three Buddhist treasures was easily suppressed.
But in Lu Yi's mind, the Taichu Huntong Pearl was glowing dimly, and the Taimi Emperor Axe was emitting cold light. The two treasures of unknown origin were shaking slightly, like two vicious dogs hiding in the darkness, eyeing the plump buttocks of their prey, waiting for the opportunity to rush up and take a big bite, coveting the Longevity Lotus Platform with bad intentions!
Lu Yi felt a little melancholy.
He could only send a wisp of thought over to appease the Taichu Huntong Pearl and the Taimi Emperor Axe...If there is a chance, when he, Lu Yi, has enough cultivation, he will definitely let the three masters compete to see who is his, Lu Yi's true 'strongest treasure to protect the way'!
The disturbance in my mind subsided slightly.
Lu Yi finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked into the distance.
It was still the Demon-Extermination Division, and it was still the square in front of the main hall. Lu Yi's cultivation had not improved at all, whether it was his physical strength or magical power, or even the number of magical skills he mastered, there had not been the slightest increase.
But... the perspective is different, the height is different, with the same cultivation, the same body, and the same pair of eyes, what can be seen will naturally be very different.
At a glance, the thick smoke that originally covered the top of the Demon-Slaying Division, which was like chaos and made Lu Yi unable to see through or grasp it, and even couldn't figure out what kind of existence mode it was, has become extremely thin.
There was a clear light flashing in his eyes. After spending a quarter of an hour, Lu Yi had already figured out the general details of this layer of smoke.
"Resentment, death, and endless disaster." Lu Yi's heart skipped a beat and he patted his head gently: "I'll ask the Buddha what happened to the ancient city of Loulan. Why did it become like this?"
"Yeah? He really is at ease. He is not afraid that a little monk like me from the lower world will encounter some powerful and vicious creature here and die like this?"
"It doesn't matter if I die. The liberation method you just passed down... and the Red Dust Heaven you entrusted to me, as well as so many treasures, so many gods and demons, didn't they all suffer the disaster along with me?"
"You, old man, are really generous enough!"
Lu Yi muttered something incoherently, and pointed his finger. A god or demon shaped like a white elephant, with a jade body, six fangs in its mouth, and standing on a white lotus, slowly walked out of the "Red Dust Heaven" and crawled obediently in front of Lu Yi.
Lu Yi patted the big guy and sat on his back. With a light shout, the white elephant demon god opened its mouth and spewed out a ball of white lotus, which emitted countless white lights that parted the clouds and smoke above the Demon-Exterminating Division’s office, and strode out with Lu Yi on its back.
