Chapter 188 Buddhism (Part 1)
Buddhism came from the west and started in Hezhou, Xiniu.
At the beginning of the earth, the Witch Clan spread over the earth, and the Black Heaven Realm invaded, hurting both sides. All the demons in the Black Heaven Realm fell, and the Witch Clan became extinct.
The zhongyāng continent was divided into four, thus forming four continents.
At that time, the demon clan originated from Luzhou in the north, but ruled the four continents. Saints from the human race came out of Dongsheng Shenzhou and drove the demon clan to the four poles, creating a human dynasty.
But Xiniu Hezhou is a different story. The demon clan once established a thousand-year dynasty in Xiniu Hezhou, and divided the people of the dynasty into several grades. The most noble ones are the big demons and their descendants, the second highest are the ordinary demon clan, and again
They are "useful" people in the human race and those who also have human-demon blood, and then they are useless pariahs in the human race.
Whether it is useful or not depends on whether there is strength in the human race. If the strength can be used by the monster race, it is useful, otherwise it is useless.
The Millennium Dynasty stipulates that the most noble person can eat the most inferior person at will, which is regarded as a natural law and cannot be violated.
The second-class person is not guilty of killing the lowest-class person and only needs to be fined. The second-class person can be punished but cannot kill the third-class person at will.
With such resentment deepening day by day, the lowest class will always be the lowest class, in a situation where they are inferior to cattle and horses. The most tragic thing is that their descendants are all born to be the food of the best.
And the third class people are increasingly unwilling to surrender, because those with cultivation qualifications in the human race can have a certain strength through cultivation, which makes the demon clan look at them differently, but their status is not even as good as that of the ordinary demon clan, so how can they be willing to surrender.
The demon clan dynasty in Xiniu Hezhou has been stable for thousands of years. The most noble ones number in the thousands, and the average demon clan only has hundreds of thousands. However, the human race overflows, and the demon clan raises them as food and slaves.
Xiniu Hezhou is vaster than Dongsheng Shenzhou, and is much larger than Dongsheng Shenzhou. It is rich in products and fertile land, but it is not as prone to wars and wars as the human race in Dongzhou.
Therefore, the population of the Xiniu Hezhou human race reached tens of billions. As the human race population expanded to this point, a wave of overthrow of the thousand-year dynasty finally started among the third class of people.
Not many people responded to this first trend, and they were suppressed by the nobles of the demon clan with iron-blooded tactics from the beginning.
However, several great saints in the demon clan were frightened by this trend and planned to control the reproduction of the human race.
Only then did I realize that this was no longer an easy task, because there were too many human races. Although there were not many human races who rebelled last time, if we forcefully attack, more and more human races will probably jump out to rebel. By then, even if we can
If the human race is wiped out, the demon dynasty will also collapse.
And thousands of years later, when the powerful monsters in these dynasties passed away one by one in the disaster, it would be even more difficult to face it.
So the demon clan dynasty adopted a gentle policy while thinking about how to deal with it.
At this time, two human races asked to see the Demon King, claiming that they had a way to make humans and demons live in harmony.
The Demon King met the two people, who were the two saints of the Buddhist sect, Nagarjuna Longhua.
Nagarjuna Longhua borrowed the help of the Demon Emperor to promote the Buddhist sect in Xiniuhezhou, and the Buddhist sect became popular in Xiniuhezhou.
Buddhism claims that there is a pure land outside this world, and that people have six reincarnations. The sins in this life, the suffering in the next life, the suffering in this life, and the good news in the next life.
The emergence of the Buddhist sect promptly appeased the lower class people of the dynasty and eased the crisis.
Demon Emperor Dayue established the state religion, and then only hunted and killed those who opposed him among the third class, and the crisis was resolved.
However, five hundred years later, the Buddhist sect became more and more prosperous, and even ordinary monsters believed in its theory of six paths of reincarnation.
Only the most noble members of the demon race, especially those who have cultivated to the realm of gods and humans, are scornful because they know best that there is no such thing as six paths of reincarnation.
At this time of calamity, the great demons will either perish or seek a chance to be reincarnated.
It's just that the Buddha Sect is needed to appease the human race for them, and the Demon Emperor and others still tacitly agree with the Buddha Sect.
In the 700th year, chaos finally broke out in the Buddhist sect. Suddenly, countless white-robed monks appeared on the earth, preaching the Dharma among humans and monsters, saying that all living beings are equal and have Buddha nature. They can all become Buddhas immediately. Human monsters
Everyone believed what he said.
The Thousand-Year Demon Clan's dynasty originally controlled various places through the first class ruling the second class, the second class distributing throughout the country, and the third class assisting.
As a result, the dynasty gradually fell into chaos, and Buddhism was worshiped as a god in various places.
The Demon King was furious, broke with the Buddhist sect, and issued an edict to ban the Buddhist sect.
But it was too late, Buddhism spread throughout Hezhou, Xiniu.
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At this time, Nagarjuna and Longhua appeared, showing great supernatural powers to subdue or suppress the big demons one by one, until they approached the Demon King.
Finally, in the royal capital, the two saints displayed the extraterrestrial kingdom they claimed, suppressed the demon emperor, and then ascended to the throne. Only then did the Buddhist chaos subside.
The two saints ascended. It is said that the bay leaf talisman was left behind when they ascended, and contains the great path left by the two saints.
Why the two saints ascended is still a mystery to this day.
However, since then Xiniu Hezhou has become a Buddhist country, and the most noble ones are those monks in white, who call themselves disciples of the two saints. They rule Xiniu Hezhou in place of the two saints and call the two saints Buddha.
However, they did not achieve the equality of all living beings mentioned by the two saints, but instead became the first class of people instead of the great demons; the descendants of the original great demons and the monks who appeared in the human race became the second class of people.
Three hundred years later, the Buddhist kingdom was stable, and the monk king was elected from among the white-robed monks, and monks were sent to spread the Dharma to Dongsheng Shenzhou.
At that time, Dongsheng Shenzhou was still in the midst of a melee between humans and monsters, and a large number of humans fled to barren lands like the Western Region to build their homes in darkness and hardship.
The Buddhist sect came here to spread the Dharma and preach about this world and the next, which just catered to the needs of the human race, so it took root in the Western Region, which is the lineage of Lingyin Temple.
As it continued to spread to the east, changes occurred. At that time, the human race was in an era of contending saints. For thousands of years, saints continued to appear.
The teachings of this Buddhist sect were also changed, and three branches of Zen, Zhenru, and Bodhi were formed in the East.
And with the development, these three sects have had unparalleled figures. Both their doctrines and ideas have deviated from what was originally transmitted from Xiniu Hezhou and formed their own line. They do not listen to the orders of the white-robed monk king of Daleiyin Temple in Xiniu Hezhou.
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Although Daleiyin Temple was not willing to give in, the two continents were too far apart, and Dongsheng Shenzhou was not as good as Xiniuhezhou.
Although the population of Xiniu Hezhou is still higher than that of Dongsheng Divine Continent, its cultivation quality is far inferior to that of Dongsheng Divine Continent. It was born from the flames of war and has the teachings of the saints.
When the demon dynasty ruled, the great demons strictly controlled the cultivation techniques, and only enslaved the lowest-ranking people to mine spirit stones and other things needed for cultivation for them and their descendants. In the end, they regarded them as belly-wraps.
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Only some naturally intelligent people accidentally received teachings from the second class of people under this long and harsh rule, slowly embarked on the path of cultivation, and gradually developed their own systems.
But even so, both the systematicity and integrity of their cultivation, as well as the supplies they needed for cultivation, were strictly controlled by the demon clan at that time.
Therefore, when the demon clan ruled, the cultivation progress of the monks in Xiniu Hezhou was very sluggish. Just relying on the population base that far exceeded that of Dongsheng Shenzhou, there were still many real-level monks among the third class.
It was only when Buddha was born that all this changed, because Buddha's cultivation did not entirely rely on external objects such as spiritual stones, but relied on the faith of all living beings to speed up one's own cultivation, and one's own firmness of mind was also one of the keys to a breakthrough in the realm.
The white-robed monks in Xiniu Hezhou have replaced the demon clan to rule the earth, and they can also draw huge mental power from the beliefs of all living beings and turn them into the source of their own cultivation.
But in fact, it violated the equality of all living beings mentioned by the two saints, and did not change the nature of the demon clan's rule. In terms of firmness of mind, it was not as strong as the Buddhist sect passed down by Dongsheng Shenzhou. It can be said that each is good at winning.
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From then on, the Eastern and Western Buddhist sects became like fire and water, each accusing the other of losing its true meaning, and itself being the authentic one.
The lineage of Lingyin Temple in the Western Regions has always obeyed the Daleiyin Temple and respected the monk king in white as the living Buddha.
The Buddha Sect had been controlling the Western Regions in the last years of the Saints. However, after the human race became more powerful and forced the demon tribes to flee to the four extremes, the demon tribes moved to the Western Regions, and Taoist sects began to influence them, including the generals of the Cang Qiong Sect.
The mountain gate was built in a place close to the Western Regions, and the Buddhist sect was suppressed.
Until Demon Buddha was born, Lingyin Temple was almost destroyed.
At that time, in order to better manage the Western Regions, Xiniu Hezhou hoped to one day use this springboard to turn Dongsheng Shenzhou into a part of the Buddhist kingdom. Therefore, he always supported Lingyin Temple in its confrontation with the three branches of Eastern Buddhism.
Many virtuous monks in white clothes were sent to Lingyin Temple from Hezhouzhou, Xiniu, to preach the Dharma to the countries in the Western Regions.
Therefore, the monks' cultivation in Xiniu Hezhou is so complex that it is not found in other places.
With the help of Lingyin Temple, those white-clothed sages selected qualified young people from various countries in the Western Regions to train them from an early age, and taught them the Buddhist teachings and cultivation methods of Xiniu Hezhou. When they grow up, they can protect Lingyin Temple and teach them to
The countries in the Western Regions then taught Buddhist teachings.
Who knew that there would be a freak among them? This young man was extremely talented, but he broke through to the realm of a real person in just forty years.
So Lingyin Temple sent him to participate in a debate meeting with Eastern Buddhism, and he became a sensation at the meeting.
But after the Dharma conference, this person suddenly disappeared and there was no trace for sixty years.
When everyone had forgotten about him, this man suddenly appeared in the Western Regions, calling himself Demon Buddha and wanting to take charge of Lingyin Temple.
The monks of Lingyin Temple fought with the monk in white who was stationed there, only to discover that this man whom he hadn't seen for sixty years had broken through to the realm of heaven and human beings, and was unable to defeat him for a while.
Fortunately, the Taoist sect and the three branches of the Eastern Buddhist Sect sent people to help him. This man could not resist the enemy and disappeared in the Western Region.
Only then did we know that this Demonic Buddha had had doubts in his heart since he had argued in the Dharma assembly, and had thrown himself into some different sects to practice.
At that time, after the death of all the saints, Xuanmen split. One branch gained power after a battle and was called Daomen, while the other branches were regarded as demonic paths.
But the Demon Buddha devoted himself to those demonic paths and practiced incognito.
This man's talent is astonishing. He originally had the cultivation method of Xiniu Hezhou Buddhist Sect, and then he obtained the cultivation method of Xuanmen. After the merger of Buddhism and Taoism, he became an extraordinary figure.
After this battle, Lingyin Temple began to decline, and the three branches of Taoism and Eastern Buddhism also penetrated into the Western Regions. Lingyin Temple was caught in a dilemma between Daleiyin Temple and them.
Another hundred years later, a black-clad monk suddenly appeared in Hezhou, Xiniu, preaching, claiming that the end of the world was coming, and only those who believed in the black-robed monk could avoid this disaster.
Daleiyin Temple denounced it as a cult and sent people to attack it, but they all went away without returning.
A hundred years later, black-clad monks in Hezhou, Xiniu built Xiaoleiyin Temple. The black-clad monk king appeared, and everyone was shocked to realize that this man was the original Demon Buddha.
From then on, Xiniu Hezhou fell into a dispute between the two temples. From the perspective of believers, control of the place, and monks, the eschatology taught by the Demon Buddha and the main altar, Xiaoleiyin Temple, were completely incomparable to the Great Leiyin Temple.
However, Daleiyin Temple was unable to eradicate this heresy. Over the next thousand years, this black-robed monk king became a thorn in the side of the white-robed monks, making Daleiyin Temple no longer flawless in taking care of the Western Regions and Lingyin.
Therefore, Lingyin Temple gradually no longer attached to Daleiyin Temple.
Chapter completed!