Chapter 17 The Four Divine Monks of the Cangsheng
The announcement of Shushan Sword Sect and Wutai Buddha Sect is equivalent to adding a spoonful of oil to the hot pot. With a "sting" sound, the Zhongzhou cultivator world became even more lively.
Shushan Sword Sect and Wutai Buddha Sect are the two most special sects in Zhongzhou.
The former is the temple of the Shushan Sword Sect on the Shushan Mountain in Liangzhou, so it is named.
All members of this sect are composed of sword cultivators. They do not practice the four external skills of talismans, weapon refining, elixirs and formations. Their skills are similar, and their cultivation is placed on a "sword" in their hands.
In fact, sword cultivators do not really use "swords". As long as they belong to hardware, they can be used to practice. However, they are just named after the sword. They are cultivated as a sword in which humans and swords are integrated, they are not necessarily required to use swords.
Their cultivation level is not divided according to the current mainstream states of Zhongzhou's body refining, qi refining, spirit refining, vein condensing, elixir forming, elixir transformation, transformation of gods, and returning to emptiness. Instead, they are divided into six realms: sword heart clear, human sword unity, my heart is sword, sword is heavenly heart, heavenly heart, my heart, and heavenly sword return to one.
The Yangtian Lake female sword cultivator Feng Wanjing, who Li Zisheng met in the Hundred Treasures Arena, was actually just a stage where the sword heart was clear, but just such a lowest-level sword cultivator could compete with Fang Tianya, who was half-step Qi-refining.
However, the practice method of sword cultivator looks very different from the current mainstream practice of immortal cultivation in Jiuzhou, but in fact it is the same destination. It is nothing more than the sword cultivator who cultivates himself into a treasure soldier, and the latter cultivates himself into a magic weapon. They all want to transform their original life forms and thus transcend the great horror between life and death.
This way of cultivation has extremely high requirements for cultivators' qualifications. It is one of the few cultivation schools that cannot wait for the innate little Zhoutian to come to the door to study. Instead, they have to go out to find successors.
One of the great benefits of sword cultivators is that they are easy to start and then difficult to do so, and their combat power is far better than their peers in the early stage, so although the qualification requirements for cultivators are relatively high, the Shushan Sword Sect and other sub-sects are quite large, and there are hundreds of them in total.
Now the name of the leader of the Shushan Sword Sect cannot be listed, and the name of the Tao is Cangsheng.
His cultivation has reached the stage where the sword is the heart of the sky, which is equivalent to the spiritual immortal in the Condensation Period, but his combat power must be far greater than that. Some people even think that he is the cultivator with the strongest combat power besides the old Yuanying monster on Kunlun Mountain.
The latter Wutai Buddhist Sect is a sect composed of Buddhist temples on Mount Wutai.
Mount Wutai is located in the western part of Jizhou. Because it gathers Buddhist believers from Zhendan Continent, it is called Wutai Foshan.
Buddhism in Zhongzhou is not a local religion, but an external method introduced from the southern Zhendan Continent. Its history is also quite long. The history of its introduction to Zhongzhou can be traced back to the ancient times when the Dajiu Continent was not isolated.
When the ancient gods ruled the Great Jiuzhou, there was no barrier between the nine continents in the world. Whether it was gods and monsters or part of the demons, they were very free to come and go. Therefore, during that period, a group of Buddhists came to Zhongzhou. Opening the mountain gate to preaching attracted a large number of people from the demons.
Later, it was well known that the Battle of the Sky that took place between ancient gods, Zhongzhou was surrounded by various battlefield ruins, and also blocked its path to other eight continents.
However, the Zhongzhou Buddhists, who had lost their connection with the Buddhist sect in Zhendan, were not hindered, and they still passed on their Dharma and recited their sutras. Moreover, their ideas were quite in the appetite of the demon gods of the rulers at that time, and they became the national religion of the court on earth.
The Buddhist philosophy is to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than doing good in the past life, enjoying happiness in this life; doing evil in this life, and suffering in the next life.
Also, the soul and soul of the creature after the death of the dead do not dissipate between heaven and earth. Instead, it revolves in the six realms based on the blessings and sins accumulated in this life. These six realms are: one, the way of heaven, two, the way of Asura, three, the way of human, four, the way of animals, five, the way of hungry ghosts, six, and the way of hell.
No matter what you do in this life, as long as you accumulate virtue and do good deeds, you can be reborn in the upper three realms, namely the heavenly way, the Asura way and the human realm; if you do many evil things, you will naturally fall into the lower three realms, the animal realm, the hungry ghost realm and the hell realm.
This religion that encourages people to be "good" can certainly arouse the favor of the rulers and comfort the demons in the middle and lower classes, including humans, so it was widely circulated before the Battle of Heaven. The River Tu Temple in the Thirteen Forts in Jingnan was originally a ruin of a Buddhist temple.
However, comfort is just comfort. In that era, humans faced bloody reality every day, and in the end they could only pick up the butcher knife and could not become a Buddha for the time being.
As the level of cultivation of human monks becomes higher and higher, their research on their own souls becomes more and more thorough. Finally, they discover that those masters... Well, the bald donkey is talking nonsense.
The soul and soul of the creature after death are clearly still in the world, but it is just that it is consumed by the energy of heaven and earth over time. Where do you come from the past and present life, past and future?
Moreover, at that time, Buddhism stood on the side of the demon ruler of the previous dynasty and participated in the Battle of Heaven. However, these bald donkeys had a weak ability to watch the wind and look at each other, of course they themselves called "Sky Eye Power".
As soon as they saw that the demon gods were in bad momentum, the Buddhist leaders at that time declared that "God has the virtue of living a life", withdrew from the war and strictly maintained neutrality, and returned to Mount Wutai where Buddhist temples gathered. From then on, they turned a blind eye to the outside world and waited for the humans and the demon god to decide the outcome.
The upper-class Buddhist figures escaped this disaster, but the disciples scattered all over the country were in trouble.
In a large-scale war like the Battle of Heaven, not helping each other means killing both sides. Moreover, in the later stage, the combat level has reached the level of destruction of the world, and no one on both sides will hold back. Those Buddhist temples and Buddhists will inevitably be affected by the fish.
By the end of the Battle of Qingtian, all the Buddhist sect, except for the Wutai Mountain of the sect, were uprooted.
But because of this, the high-end combat power of Buddhism was intact. They also took this opportunity to introduce Yuanshi into the Buddhist practice system and use it to polish the body, which was considered to be the shortest wooden board for Buddhist practice.
At this time, human monks discovered that there were such a group of people with great strength in Central China, but these bald donkeys were quite tactful and claimed that they were also part of human beings. At that time, there were indeed not many demon clans in Buddhism. To be more precise, these demon clans became "Dharma-protecting beasts."
So, at that time, the human monk who was about to vomit when he was fighting in the war pinched his nose and recognized it.
Of course, the grand occasion of Buddhist temples in Tianxia Temple was blown away by the rain and wind. It was from that time that Buddhism began to learn from the Immortal Sect, and the Great Mountain Gate recruited humans to teach Buddhist supernatural powers.
What is "retribution" or "past and present life"? It is now just used as a model of Zen practice and is no longer their core idea.
Not to mention that Buddhism has the status of its time, its practice method is indeed commendable.
In fact, there is only one magic trick in the Buddhist practice, and it is simple and easy to practice, and it is suitable for all living beings. That is visualization.
In fact, there is a saying that the visualization that human practitioners now use is actually learned from Buddhism. Because of this incense, they were let go.
It is similar to the visualization of the human immortal sect. The visualization of the Buddhist sect is to imagine themselves as various Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Heavenly Women, Dharma protectors, etc. Over time, these Buddhist children can give themselves some of the power of these "imagined" gods.
According to Buddhism, this is called "becoming a Buddha in this life".
Now there is no one in charge of the Wutai Buddhist Sect. The most famous ones are the so-called four great monks, Master Zangjie, Monk of the White Horse Temple, Abbot Yongming of Ashoka Temple, and Master Cihang from Lianhua Temple.
These four great monks are actually not the strongest combat power on Mount Wutai, but they are undoubtedly the four most famous monks. The main reason is that these four great masters have a very high appearance rate and are four live advertisements that have been running around all year round.
Because of these four live advertisements, the strength of Buddhism has increased sharply in recent years, just filling the gap in power in the northwest of Zhongzhou. Unlike the sects everywhere in the northeast of Zhongzhou, there are only a few large sects such as the Northern Tian Xuanwu Sect, the Western Ji Dahuang Sect and the Tianyu Sect. Therefore, the Central China Buddhist Sect, which is taking the lower-level route, has been welcomed by the mortals there.
Among the four great monks, Master Zangjie is proficient in medical skills, especially in his unique method of treating the inner demons of the practitioners. It is even more rare that he does not receive medical treatment, so he received his favor and worshipped countless lay disciples under his sect.
The monk Buxiu is good at cooking. He doesn’t know how many gluttons from the Middle Ages cultivation world are poured out in a vegetarian banquet. Even the Tianchumen wants to learn from him. His vegetarian vegetarian food is called a dish, a world, and a bodhi. It can not only replenish vitality, but also see the nature and enlighten the mind. People in the world praise him as "Caigen Zen".
Abbot Yongming was in charge of the financial power of Wutai. It was rare that he was a foreigner who was good at doing business and financial management. Not only did he manage the business affairs of the entire Buddhist sect in an orderly manner, but he also participated in the trade between the north and south of Zhongzhou. He was an important partner of Tiantongmen in the north. It is particularly worth mentioning that in recent years, he took advantage of the decline of the strength of Tiantongmen, and the fragrant flower coupon he launched had become another kind of iron coupon, and began to gradually replace the food coupons and become the currency in the northwest.
However, the most famous one is the Master Cihang from Lianhua Temple. Unlike the previous three monks, Master Cihang has only become famous in the past two years and has become a rising star in Buddhism.
In fact, it was after Liu Wuxia released the record that this "monk" who started with singing appeared. However, it makes sense that he is famous. Wuxia's singer's innate conditions are indeed good, but it is not the best. She has the first-mover advantage, and the songs written for her by Li Zisheng.
Master Cihang enjoys great reputation entirely through his deep strength. He has countless fans. She does not sing those slang songs, but only sings Buddhist music. Her voice is ethereal and clear, and has a kind of soothing power. Not only ordinary people like it, but even the middle-earth cultivators also regard her music as a tool for calmness. (To be continued...)
ps: Although Murong is still old, she still has summer vacation syndrome.
When summer comes, I am not at ease and always think about beer, seafood, beach bikini. It's like grass growing in my heart. Not to mention typing, I can't even get excited when I work.
Chapter completed!