At the border of Jizhou.
The public opinion of hundreds of millions of people gathered together and turned into a divine whip to kill the rebellious people. Taking advantage of the fate of the world, it was whipped over the heads of the team of Buddhists in the blink of an eye.
Crack!
A peerless whip sound echoed throughout the nine heavens and ten places.
In the midst of this scream, the gods and gods were shaken and frightened, and countless eyes were cast on the border of Jizhou.
this moment.
The four guardians of Shiva were under the fate of the world, their strength was limited and their magic power was weak. Just being hit by the residual power made them dizzy and their spirits almost collapsed.
The four guardians were so dizzy that they did not realize that at the moment when the whip of public opinion came, the Buddha's light bathed in Sakyamuni's whole body was already burning like a flame.
A Buddhist dharma image appeared, shining in all directions of the world. There were Buddhas chanting scriptures, flying gods dancing happily, Sanskrit sounds lingering, and strange fragrances blowing.
The nine-ring tin staff in Sakyamuni's hand turned into a nine-section fairy vine, and a giant shield was woven into it to protect Sakyamuni.
The wish-fulfilling beads, Mani beads, dust-free beads, and wind-fixing beads on the brocade cassock on his body all radiated thousands of rays of light; red agate, night-bright pearls, and relics suddenly showed the splendor of the Buddha thousands of miles away.
The endless Buddha's light shrouds the person who is seeking scriptures, and must be protected within it.
Sakyamuni stood in the Buddha's light. Against the background of the Buddha's light, he looked majestic and sacred. His face was calm and there was no trace of panic. He said: "I am the Buddha who protects me. How could a poor monk be hurt by the tricks of women like you?"
"The poor monk has a firm heart towards the Buddha and does not care about life or death. How can he be afraid of the methods of the king?"
Since the disaster in Jizhou, Sakyamuni has been firm that all the disasters he encounters on the way to seek scriptures are all arranged by Zishou.
He doesn't understand the affairs of immortals and gods. When he sees the human temple, he just sees it as a giant immortal ship. When he sees the public opinion coming by luck, he sees it as a trick.
Since these are the methods of the human king, they must be evil things, unfree methods, and rebellious actions that violate Buddhist principles.
How could Sakyamuni show his timidity in front of the king of men as a Buddhist scholar with a firm mind?
He clasped his hands together, looked directly at the public opinion and turned it into a divine whip and said, "Amitabha, Buddha bless you!"
Snapped!
The giant shield transformed from the fairy vine was beaten to pieces with a whip.
The Buddha's light reflected in the cassock was shattered by a whip.
The expression on Shakya's face didn't even have time to change to shock before he was already struck by the divine whip.
In this flash of lightning, the light of Sakyamuni's body-protecting Buddha burned brightly, and the Buddhist dharma image behind him had an angry look on his face, and he whipped his hands towards the god of public opinion.
However.
This is the human world.
Not Lingshan.
Buddha cannot protect Sakyamuni.
After Sakyamuni's death, the Buddha's Buddhist image was shattered by the divine whip of public opinion, and his firm heart toward the Buddha was even more cracked.
The next moment.
A dark shadow in the destiny of the world broke through the last layer of shimmering protection around Sakyamuni and penetrated into Sakyamuni's Buddha heart.
However, Sakyamuni, who did not understand anything about immortals and gods, was completely unaware of all these changes.
He only felt that the endless light in front of him dissipated, and the whole world dimmed.
The light of the Buddha has faded, and the whip of public opinion is no longer there.
For a while.
The only light in the nine heavens and ten earths is the human temple above the destiny of the world.
Sakyamuni lowered his head and looked at himself, and found that there was no injury or pain, so he smiled and said: "Amitabha, as long as the poor monk is firm in his heart towards the Buddha, the Buddha will protect the poor monk."
"How can a mere king use his methods to show off to a poor monk in front of the Buddha?"
He raised his head proudly and looked towards the human temple, as if he wanted to vent the grievances he had suffered in Jizhou.
However.
When Sakyamuni looked up towards the human temple, he saw only darkness.
Heaven and earth disappear, and everything dissolves.
When Shakya came back to his senses, he found that he was already in a void of chaos.
one
The cold voice rang in his ears, like a sharp knife, splitting open his Buddha heart, saying:
"Buddha bless you? If Buddha bless you, why were you guillotined in Jizhou?"
"If the Buddha blesses you, why did you go from being a member of the Kushan royal family to a wandering scholar?"
"If the Buddha blesses you, why do you need to go to the Lingshan Mountain to save all living beings? If the Buddha can't even save you, how can he save all living beings?"
When Sakyamuni heard this voice, he was startled and his eyes went straight.
He knew the sound.
Because he hears this sound every day!
This is his own voice.
This voice made Sakyamuni feel a sense of inexplicable fear, as if that voice would say something treacherous.
So Sakyamuni hurriedly clasped his hands together, chanted the name of the Buddha, and then said loudly: "Who are you, evil spirit? Did the king of men send you here? Do you think that by pretending to be the voice of a poor monk, you can shake the poor monk's heart towards the Buddha?" ?」
The cold voice laughed disdainfully and said, "I am you. Can you deceive the world, deceive the Buddha, and deceive yourself?"
"If you don't have any doubts or resentment towards Buddha in your heart, why would I be there?"
Sakyamuni's eyes widened in shock. He looked around, but saw only darkness. He quickly denied it and said, "I'm not, I didn't. Don't slander the poor monk's innocence on the basis of nothing!"
"The poor monk devoted himself to the Buddha, experienced the cause and effect of this life, and cultivated the Buddha's fate in the next life. Everything the poor monk experienced was just a test given by the Buddha to the poor monk. How could the poor monk have any resentment? Let alone doubt about the Buddha. .”
The cold voice laughed even more wildly and said: "You used to teach the Three Vehicles method in Yixia School. Every time, you would choose the day with the worst weather. When you went to the podium, you would also scatter nails on the stairs. Carrying a brazier on his back."
"After you take the stage, you will go without drinking for three days and without eating for seven days. After suffering all kinds of hardships, you will start lecturing to the students in the audience."
"Why is this?"
Sakyamuni's Buddha heart trembled again and again. He gritted his teeth and said, "The poor monk did this just because the world is a purgatory, a furnace, and a sea of suffering, full of endless suffering. Only by crossing the sea of suffering can we reach the other side."
Shakya could not see anything in this dark chaos, but at this moment he could clearly feel a cold gaze looking directly at him.
Under this gaze, he felt unprecedented fear.
Because this look tore through his layers of disguise.
The cold voice sneered: "The reason why you did that is just because you are jealous of the world."
"You were originally from the Kushan royal family, and you grew up in fine clothes and fine food. However, the Great Shang destroyed the Kushan Kingdom, turning you from a noble royal family to a commoner."
"You hate the Great Shang, but you know that all this happened because the Kushans listened to the words of the gods and attacked the Great Shang, which led to the destruction of the country. You know that all this is the fault of the Kushan Empire. You can't find an argument with the Great Shang, and you don't dare to argue with the Great Shang. The gods vent their anger."
"So you can only hope for an afterlife, where you can live the life of a human being again."
"However, you have seen the beauty of the world, which is beyond all your imagination, so you can only use self-abuse to eliminate your yearning and deceive yourself about the suffering in the world."
At the words of this voice, Sakyamuni felt his whole body become cold, as if a thousand-year-old ice was pouring into his body from the top of his head, and even his soul would freeze with it.
He couldn't help shouting hysterically: "Yao Xie, your nonsense can't shake the poor monk's heart to worship the Buddha. You can't deceive the poor monk."
The cold voice just smiled with disdain, and then continued:
"Suffering in the world, evil in the world, becoming a Buddha in the next life, escaping the sea of suffering, and reaching the other shore. It's all just self-deception. If the Buddha has really escaped the sea of suffering, why does he still make trouble in the world?"
"If the Buddha has really reached the other shore, why would he instigate the Kushan Kingdom to go to war with the merchants?"
"Sakyamuni, the Three Vehicle Dharma you practice is just a way to deceive yourself, others, heaven, earth, and all sentient beings. You know it better than anyone else, but you just don't want to admit it!"
Sakyamuni was full of fear at this moment. Everything he had thought about had turned into an ax to chop into his Buddha heart. He held on to the last trace of his heart towards the Buddha and said with difficulty every word:
"No matter who you are, even if you kill the poor monk, you can't shake the light of my Buddha! The Buddha said that in the great bright world, all living beings have the Buddha's image, and evil cannot prevail over the good. Don't even think about spoiling the poor monk's heart towards the Buddha."
The cold voice roared and the whole chaos and darkness laughed wildly, and a black lotus appeared in front of Sakyamuni.
The entire chaotic world in front of Sakyamuni at this moment was as dark as ink, but when the pitch-black lotus appeared, he still saw it at a glance.
The black lotus is darker than darkness, with the aura of annihilation entangled on it. The twelve-level lotus platform overlaps one another. Each lotus petal seems to be the size of the world, but it seems to be only between the palms of hands.
Countless densely packed Dao seal characters flowed on the lotus petals, writing one dark "devil" after another.
And inside these magic words, there are countless Dao seal characters embedded in them.
In this way, one layer is layered one layer after another, and the Dao seal script is one after another.
Endless!
brush!
The black lotus suddenly trembled slightly, and infinite light bloomed from the black lotus like water.
The air of annihilation circulated, covering this chaotic world, and even enveloped Sakyamuni's entire mind.
when!
A loud sound of stilts on the avenue sounded, supporting the heaven and the earth, covering the cause and effect, the black light manifested and disappeared, and the huge black lotus petals shed wisps of black clouds, and the ferocious aura continued to gush out from the black mist.
This magical sound broke through Sakyamuni's mind, fell into the human world, and swept across the nine heavens and ten earths. In just an instant, the nine heavens and ten earths were shaken, and an invisible air of annihilation spread across the heavens and the earth.
At this moment, even the thirty-three days were shaken. The light of the stars in the sky decreased sharply, as if they were afraid to avoid some huge terror. The boundless sea also retreated thousands of miles in an instant, and the sea surface was frozen.
The gods and gods only felt a ray of annihilation inexplicably arise in their souls. Vaguely, they saw something that looked like a flower but not a flower shrouded in a ferocious black mist flashing before their eyes.
The gods and gods were shocked, but when they looked again, everything had disappeared.
An invisible black light swept across the world.
In an instant, whether it was the sense of annihilation in the gods and spirits, or the ferocious aura flowing between heaven and earth, everything disappeared. No matter how the confused gods and gods deduced, they could not deduce any clues.
between heaven and earth.
Xingchen is already fine! The four seas recede and become frozen!
The gods and gods looked at each other in confusion.
Just...what happened?
No...what happened just now?
Why am I so nervous?
Di Xin established the human temple to deal with Buddhism and those immortal gods who were causing trouble for the human race. The poor Taoist is not an enemy of the human race, so why should he be nervous?
At this moment, all the gods and gods forgot all the strange things just now.
It was as if nothing had ever happened.
…
at the same time.
The dark and chaotic world where Shakya is now.
The huge black lotus holds up the entire dark and chaotic world, exuding the ferocious power of annihilating the world.
Facing this terrifying black lotus, Shakya's mind was frozen. He wanted to close his eyes and did not dare to look at the black lotus again. Then he did not know that this world was actually in his mind.
How could he close his eyes and not see in his own mind?
The more Sakyamuni wanted to close his eyes, the more he stared at the black lotus with wide eyes. He could clearly feel that the black lotus was emitting strands of black energy and entangled his Buddha heart.
He was so frightened that he began to recite Buddhist scriptures in a panic, trying to stabilize his Buddhist mind.
at this time.
In the middle of the terrifying black lotus, a figure suddenly appeared.
The man was sitting among the black lotuses, wearing a black robe, with disheveled hair, and a face full of arrogance and coldness.
His appearance is exactly the same as Sakyamuni.
He looked at Sakyamuni, his eyes penetrated all of Sakyamuni's defenses and disguises, and he slowly spoke, using the cold voice that Sakyamuni was already familiar with: "What is evil? What is righteousness? What Medicine Master Tathagata declared at Lingshan: There is nothing." There is no appearance of a human being, no appearance of self, no appearance of all sentient beings.”
"Buddha said: Save all sentient beings! But don't you remember what Buddhism did in Kushan? They died of starvation thousands of miles away, with over ten thousand corpses floating on the ground, but they still forced Kuishang to use all the strength of the country to attack the merchants."
"When the Great Merchant's troops overwhelmed the Kushans, the Buddhists immediately withdrew, leaving the Kushan people to face the Great Merchant's wrath and immortal creations."
"Sakyamuni, you are just trying to escape by practicing Buddhism. You are just escaping from your own responsibilities by focusing on Buddha."
"As a member of the Kushan royal family, not only can you not lead your people to live a happy life, but you have made them become pawns of the immortal gods."
Sakyamuni's eyes widened as if they were about to burst, as if he wanted to see the differences in the figure opposite who looked exactly like him but had a completely different temperament.
He looked at the other party in horror. Every word he said was like a sharp knife, piercing into his Buddha heart and creating more cracks in his Buddha heart.
Sakyamuni's face was full of horror and collapse. After a long time, he raised his hand tremblingly, pointed at the figure on the black lotus, and said, "You, who are you? Why did you become a poor monk?"
Although he said this, the Buddhist monk Sakyamuni now believed that the person in front of him who looked exactly like him was him.
Because everything the black-robed Sakyamuni in front of him said was something that he had hidden deep in his heart, even to the point where he had forgotten it.
Because of this, the Buddhist monk Sakyamuni was even more frightened.
On the black lotus, the black-robed Sakyamuni sat high, looking down at the Buddhist monk Sakyamuni and said: "I am you, and you are me."
"You said Buddha, then I will show you what a real Buddha is!"
After his words fell, the black lotus under the seat bloomed and released a black light, covering a chaotic space, stirring the cause and effect of heaven and earth, and breaking the long river of time and space.
Behind the black-robed Sakyamuni stands a golden body, with great light blooming all over him. The light of the unintentional Buddha stretches across billions of miles, illuminating all darkness.
In the Buddha's light, countless seal scripts of the Great Way rolled out from it. In each seal script, there was endless Buddha's meaning flowing in it.
The Buddha's heart, which was already about to collapse, seemed to gain infinite strength at this moment. Tears filled his eyes and he shouted loudly: "Buddha, everything just happened is a test for the poor monk!"
"It must be so!"
However, the next moment...
The golden light suddenly turned into endless light spots and dispersed, and a dark darkness appeared in the golden light!
The Buddha is gone and the demons are gone.
