There are no records about Buddhism in the many ancient books in the Dancao Mountain Tibetan Dharma Tower. Xiao Lin only knew about Buddhism when he was in the Liuli Immortal Mansion.
Obtained from people.
But one thing he knew very well was that in the Middle Earth, the Ancient Buddha Celestial Sect of the West Pole and the Great Emperor Haoran Celestial Sect were sworn enemies. They seemed to be at war with each other all year round, but Xiao Lin didn't know the reason.
Following a group of faithful men and women, Xiao Lin walked into the Buddhist temple filled with incense. Opposite the Buddhist temple, a bald man with bare shoulders sat cross-legged.
One hand is placed on the knees of the cross-legged person, holding a bunch of grape-sized Buddhist beads.
The exposed skin was shining with gold, and Xiao Lin knew as soon as he saw it that the Buddha statue was made of pure gold. It was wrapped in an earthy yellow robe, covering most of its body.
In front of the Buddha statue, there is a long row of incense tables, filled with lit incense. In front of the incense table, the tens-foot-wide hall is filled with countless futons, with people kneeling on each futon.
He stood alone, clasped his hands, and prayed devoutly.
Xiao Lin was staring at the Buddha statue with his eyes, and the aura of cyan was shining in his eyes. During the hundreds of years of seclusion and ascetic cultivation, after every few days of seclusion, he would wash his eyes with the dewdrops on the Nine Obsidian Grass.
The Jiu Yao grass he picked was also successfully planted by the True Spirit Pool. You must know that Jiu Yao grass originally grew on the bank of the underworld. Xiao Lin also had the idea of giving it a try. Unexpectedly, all the Jiu Yao grass turned out to be
They all survived, which really made Xiao Lin excited.
The dewdrops bred on the Nine Obsidian Grass have incredible magical powers. If you wash your eyes with the dewdrops, you will be able to possess spiritual powers over time.
After the cultivation of Nine Obsidian Grass is successful, it can continuously provide Xiao Lin with dew. Therefore, every few days, Xiao Lin will pick some dew and wash his eyes. After a hundred years, Xiao Lin's eyes can now see through the clouds.
Although it is still impossible to penetrate the mountains and rivers through fog, some deception and concealment techniques can still be easily seen through.
In Xiao Lin's eyes, the Buddha statue was surrounded by streaks of golden mist, surrounding the Buddha statue, and then heading into the Buddha statue.
Seeing this, Xiao Lin's eyes became more and more dazzling. At this time, Xiao Lin suddenly discovered that as the faithful men and women around him prayed devoutly, faint golden light spots would appear from their heads. It was these golden light spots.
After gathering on the Buddha statue, the golden mist formed.
It seems that this is the power of faith.
Xiao Lin suddenly realized that this Buddhist magical power is really different from the immortal way. It is actually practiced in this way. In this way, does it mean that the more believers there are, the higher the cultivation level of Buddhist disciples?
If this is the case, wouldn’t it mean that all chance creation and hard work behind closed doors are just a cloud? As long as there are enough believers, it is entirely possible to become a Buddha in one day?
Xiao Lin had doubts in his mind.
In the Liuli Immortal Mansion, the words of the two monks made Xiao Lin very disgusted. Now with the fall of Fairy Yeyue, Xiao Lin has even become more disgusted with these Buddhist disciples of the Ancient Buddha Sect in the West.
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But this also made Xiao Lin curious about Buddhist Kung Fu. After all, only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one be victorious in every battle.
"Huh?"
Xiao Lin, who was about to turn around and leave, suddenly stopped. He didn't pay attention at first. The moment he turned around, he suddenly noticed that behind the Buddha statue, there was a golden light that seemed to be invisible and shot into the wall of the hall.
Above, it disappeared without a trace.
Xiao Lin frowned slightly, and his eyes showed a hesitant expression. After thinking for a moment, Xiao Lin took a slow step forward, and his figure blurred for a while before disappearing without a trace.
This made an old woman next to Xiao Lin suddenly widen her eyes with an incredible expression. She rubbed her eyes vigorously and then patted her forehead, her eyes showing confusion.
Behind the main hall, there are rows of houses, with hundreds of houses in total. Each of these hundreds of houses has an independent courtyard. The courtyard is also extremely wide, often dozens of feet in diameter.
If you look down from the sky, you will find that these houses are like grids.
But in the center of these houses is a very large courtyard, which is a hundred feet wide. To the west of the courtyard is a house, which is much larger than the other houses.
At this moment, a sudden flash of inspiration occurred in the courtyard, and Xiao Lin's figure appeared.
Before Xiao Lin could make any move, the door of the house suddenly opened, and then a voice came out.
"The donor turns out to be a guest, how about you please come in and taste twice the tea?"
Xiao Lin frowned slightly, but did not show any strange expression. Before he came to the courtyard, he had already scanned all the houses with his huge spiritual consciousness.
In every room, there is a monk wearing a monk's robe sitting cross-legged, and the realms of these monks generally range from the Qi Refining Stage to the Foundation Building Stage. Only three of them, in Xiao Lin's eyes, belong to the Golden Core Stage.
Apart from this, the person with the strongest cultivation is the monk in the room in front of me.
This person is actually the same as Xiao Lin, who is in the middle stage of Nascent Soul. However, Xiao Lin doesn't know whether the realms of Buddhists are the same as those of immortals. His judgment is only the Buddhist power emanating from these people.
It comes from the breath.
"For those who are traveling abroad, I take the liberty to disturb you, but I also hope to see Haihan." Xiao Lin responded without being polite and strolled into the house.
The house is very simple. A young monk who looks to be in his mid-twenties is sitting cross-legged on a futon in the center of the house. Behind him is a golden Buddha statue, but this Buddha statue looks a little weird.
It actually grew four arms and two heads.
The two heads, one with a ferocious face and the other with kind eyes, look very strange.
The monk waved his sleeves and a small table and a futon appeared in front of him. There was also a pot of tea and two cups on the table.
"The poor monk here only has twice the amount of crude tea. I hope the donor will not dislike it." The monk made a gesture of invitation and said to Xiao Lin.
"Thank you." Xiao Lin sat down cross-legged opposite the monk.
"The poor monk saw that the Immortal Dao skills practiced by the benefactor were not of Haoran Qi, and he was not a member of the Great Emperor Haoran Celestial Sect. In this case, the benefactor can become a friend of my Buddhist sect. Is the benefactor interested in joining our West Extreme Ancient Buddha Celestial Sect?
Achieve the honorable position of Dharma Protector."
When Xiao Lin heard this, he immediately became very vigilant. Although he didn't know what his actual status was within the Buddhist sect, Zhuo Haoran obviously had no idea what his status as a protector was within the Liuli Immortal Mansion.
It’s very repulsive and obviously not a status that people expect.”
However, Xiao Lin's face did not show any signs of it, but he said calmly: "Lin has always been used to being idle and can't stand being restrained. I appreciate the kindness of the master."
Xiao Lin did not tell his real name, but chose his own character Lin as his surname.
After a pause, Xiao Lin continued: "But I don't know what you call Master?"
"The poor monk, whose name is Compassion, once made a great wish to promote the secrets of our Buddhist sect, enlighten the ignorant people, and strive to escape from the sea of suffering as soon as possible and return to the ultimate bliss. All practitioners who can become the protectors of our Buddhist sect can be taught
The secret method of Buddhism, the harmony of immortals and Buddhas, and the hope of transcendence."
"Oh? Can Master Compassion clear up Lin's confusion?"
"Donor Lin just said it's okay."
"Master Compassion keeps saying that he wants to awaken the ignorant people, so that they can escape from the sea of suffering as soon as possible and return to bliss. However, when Lin saw those good men and women, they were in a trance and their eyes were confused. This phenomenon was obviously caused by serious loss of soul power.
Is the so-called power of faith the soul power of mortals?"
When the compassionate monk heard this, his expression changed, but he quickly clasped his hands together and pronounced the Buddha's name.
"Amitabha, the words of the donor are heart-breaking. The power of my Buddhist faith is the ambition accumulated by people in the world when they pray sincerely. It is just an alternative method of operating the power of heaven and earth, absorbing the souls of mortals.
Strength, this kind of thing is what the demon cultivators call it, and it is not the focus of my Buddhist sect."
When Xiao Lin heard this, he showed a thoughtful expression. When Monk Cixin said this, Xiao Lin understood a little bit. It was indeed as he said, when mortals make great aspirations, they seem to be accumulating the wealth between heaven and earth.
The power is given to oneself, and then merged with a small amount of one's own soul power to produce a strange power.
This strange power may be what the compassionate monk in front of me calls the power of faith.
But no matter what, this kind of devout prayer will cause certain damage to ordinary mortals. Only a small amount of soul power loss will not have a substantial impact on mortals. After all, they will recover after a period of rest.
Xiao Lin knew little about Buddhism, so he started chatting with Monk Cixin politely.
Monk Cixin also answered Xiao Lin's questions very patiently, and they had a very pleasant conversation.
After chatting for three or four hours, Xiao Lin stood up to say goodbye. After Xiao Lin left, Monk Cixin's face suddenly darkened. He looked outside the door in the direction where Xiao Lin disappeared and remained silent for a long time.
After a while, with a wave of his sleeves, the door of the house was immediately closed.
After Xiao Lin left Jinluo Ancient Temple, he found an inn in the city and stayed there.
Sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed in the room, Xiao Lin was also thinking. Originally, he wanted to search for some information about Fairy Yeyue, but after thinking about it, he still did not ask Monk Cixin.
If Ci Xin heard that he was asking about Fairy Yeyue's caution and became malicious, he would instead alert the enemy and put himself into a passive situation.
Today's conversation with Monk Cixin gave him a certain understanding of Buddhism.
The realm of Buddhism is the same as that of the Immortal Path. It is also divided into five realms, namely First Consciousness, Great Enlightenment, Buddha's Light, Prajna, and Nirvana, which correspond to the Immortal Path's Qi Refining, Foundation Building, Golden Pill, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation.
Buddhist disciples who have cultivated to the Buddha Light Realm will also condense the Buddhist Golden Pill. If they can go a step further and enter the Prajna Realm, they can break the pill and become a baby, manifesting the Buddha Baby, thus possessing all kinds of incredible supernatural powers.
technique.
Therefore, in Xiao Lin's view, the realm of Buddhism is very different from that of immortality. Although there are some differences in the names, there is not much difference in reality.
But Xiao Lin's previous doubts were also answered in the conversation with the compassionate monk. The more believers in Buddhism, the higher the level of cultivation. In the five realms of Buddhism, the power of faith that each realm can withstand is also the same.
There is an upper limit.
Just like Xiao Lin today, as a monk in the middle stage of Yuanying, the maximum amount of mana that his body can hold is only what his current state can carry. If he wants to carry more mana, he must break through to the late stage of Yuanying.
OK.
The same is true for Buddhist monks. When they reach a certain level, the power of faith they have collected will only increase in quantity, but will not produce qualitative changes. As for breaking through each level, it is also related to personal opportunities and qualifications.
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The only difference is that the process of accumulating magic power for immortal monks is either to practice hard in seclusion or to collect various spiritual herbs and refine spiritual elixirs.
The process of accumulating Buddhist power in Buddhism is to continuously develop believers and collect the power of faith.
In essence, they are all the same, which opened Xiao Lin's eyes and understood what the three thousand avenues are, different paths leading to the same destination.
At the same time, Xiao Lin also understood why he didn't see any immortal cultivators when walking around the city. This barbarian city is located at the southernmost point of Middle-earth. It is considered a wild land. Ordinary immortal cultivators will not come here at all.
Go here.
In addition, the territory of the Nanluo Kingdom originally fell under the jurisdiction of the Ancient Buddha Celestial Sect of the West, so Buddhist disciples will once again spread Buddhism and develop believers. The Jinluo Ancient Temple is not only the largest temple in the Nanluo Kingdom, but also the largest temple in the Nanluo Kingdom.
State religion.
Monk Cixin is the abbot of Jinluo Ancient Temple, and the monks under him are the ones Xiao Lin sensed through his spiritual consciousness.
After understanding this, Xiao Lin finally understood the cultivation method of Buddhist disciples and had a general understanding of Buddhism.
And Xiao Lin also learned from Monk Cixin that the Xiji Tianzong Sect is located - the Xijitian Mountains.
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In the next few days, Xiao Lin not only wandered around, but also chatted with Monk Cixin. Intentionally or unintentionally, he also made insinuations about Fairy Yeyue. Of course, Xiao Lin did not directly say Fairy Yeyue's name.
, but asked vaguely about the recent major events in the Ancient Buddha Celestial Sect of the West Pole.
But apart from learning that the Buddhist soldiers of the Ancient Buddha Celestial Sect in the West had a great battle with the Heavenly Army of the Great Emperor Haoran Celestial Sect, nothing else had happened in the past hundred years.
After the two great sects experienced that great battle, they each ceased their activities and retreated to the areas under their control to recuperate.
Obviously, both Heavenly Sects realized that they could not truly destroy their opponents, so they did not go out in full force, nor did they use all their strength.
Although Xiao Lin was a little disappointed that he did not find out about Fairy Yeyue, he also understood that the ancient Jinluo Temple was located in a remote location, far away from the Jitian Mountains in the west. Even Monk Cixin returned to the sect to listen to the Dharma.
This was all a hundred years ago.
So Xiao Lin left Nanluo City and continued heading north.