The current underworld has become like another Buddhist sect.
Even compared to Buddhism in the past, this place seems more programmed, or in other words, these ghosts are not treated as individual beings.
If in Buddhism in the past, the power of faith generated by believers was only 73%, the believers in the Paradise of Paradise would be 91%. But now in the underworld, the feedback of the power of faith that believers can get is not even 10%.
Under Sun Wukong's Golden Boy of Destruction, he estimated that this number might be only one percent.
It is said that such a social order cannot be stable, because if believers do not receive feedback, their innermost faith will quietly fade away within a period of time.
This situation cannot be solved by force. After all, force cannot make a person believe in a god from the bottom of his heart. Of course, there is no way. The power of Buddhism is such a way.
This is also the reason why Buddhism is proud to grow and develop, and even develop the Paradise of Paradise. But even Buddhism is not as crazy as here.
Now in Sun Wukong's eyes, all the ghosts here have been controlled by the power of transformation. They are believing in a god from the bottom of their hearts, and are even willing to die for this god.
And this god is Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. Apart from Tathagata Buddha, the only remaining Bodhisattva in Buddhism today.
To be honest, Sun Wukong is very curious about this Bodhisattva and wonders what he wants to do by developing the underworld into what it is now.
The one who had the same idea as Sun Wukong was Tathagata Buddha. He was also extremely curious. After all, in the eyes of Tathagata Buddha, this place was simply a bigger and crazier paradise.
From Tathagata Buddha's point of view, this is simply squandering fish. He is now extremely eager to know what Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is thinking.
Soon Tathagata Buddha was invited by a group of ghost soldiers to the endless hell below the eighteenth level of hell.
This is the deepest part of the underworld, and it is the final destination of all ghosts. Ghosts are a very strange race. They cannot actually be called a race because they cannot reproduce. For the underworld,
There is only one place where ghosts can appear, the place where humans die.
Among non-supernatural races, only humans can turn into ghosts after death, and then be guided by the underworld, enter the underworld, and become ghosts.
This kind of thing is very strange to say, and all the great masters in the three realms are also quite surprised by it. They also studied it for a long time back then, but it is a pity that although those people are good at fighting, their research level is not high.
Even the Tathagata Buddha couldn't figure out what the underlying principle was in this matter.
However, even if you don't understand this matter, it does not prevent the underworld from taking advantage of it. In recent years, the four major continents have encountered many natural and man-made disasters, resulting in the death of many mortals, and the final destination of these human beings is the underworld.
If we follow the usual logic, these people will walk on the Naihe Bridge, drink a bowl of Mengpo soup by the Naihe Bridge, and finally return to the mortal world through the six paths of reincarnation, and be reincarnated as a human being again.
Of course, those who commit heinous crimes may be thrown into the animal realm and suffer the pain of reincarnation for a lifetime.
But whether it is a guy who reincarnates into a human being or a sinner who falls into the animal realm, the destination is actually the same, that is, his soul gradually dissipates in reincarnation after reincarnation, and finally disappears completely between heaven and earth.
This is a rule between heaven and earth that cannot be changed. The result of previous Buddhist exploration is that a mortal can only experience ten reincarnations at most, but if this person embarks on the path of practice in a certain life, then his soul
It will naturally grow stronger and increase the time of reincarnation. The stronger a person is, the stronger his soul will be and the more reincarnations he can withstand.
But now, since the Zhoutian Star Formation was broken, reincarnation has been completely abandoned. The entire underworld has become a black hole, swallowing up all the dead who wandered here.
Regardless of whether the deceased was an ordinary person, a cultivator, or even an immortal. Regarding this, Tathagata Buddha finally understood why. It turned out that this was all the work of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. He turned this place into another paradise, a paradise.
A world of bliss that only belongs to him.
But the only thing Tathagata Buddha is confused about is why Empress Pingxin allowed him to do this. After all, the power of faith is extremely special. It is impossible for him to increase it, nor to take the faith that belongs to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
The power is transferred to Empress Pingxin.
In other words, Empress Pingxin did not gain even the slightest benefit from this underworld incident.
In this way, he would give full support to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva? Thinking like this, he had already been led to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's dojo.
This is a cave. The layout is very simple. The entire wall next to it is filled with various Buddhist scriptures. On the other side, there is a giant beast lying there, looking lazy.
, it is to listen carefully.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was sitting cross-legged in the center of the cave. At this moment, he was reading the Buddhist scriptures in his hands carefully. When he saw Tathagata Buddha arriving, he couldn't help but smile, slowly put down the Buddhist scriptures in his hands, and said with a smile: "Buddha, you
It’s finally here, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time.”
"Do you know that I will come?" Tathagata Buddha asked with a somewhat complicated face. This Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was the strongest person in Buddhism before him, and his understanding of Buddhism was also super powerful.
The reason why he is a Bodhisattva is just because he fell into Tathagata Buddha's plan and was forced to swear an oath that he would never become a Buddha unless hell was empty.
At this point, he could only stay in the underworld. Lingshan became the Tathagata Buddha's alone.
If Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva hadn't accidentally been plotted by Tathagata Buddha back then, it would be hard to say who Tathagata Buddha is now.
No matter how bad things get, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva can still become a future Buddha. If that is the case, then Tathagata Buddha may have no choice but to take over the entire Buddhist sect.
Of course, Tathagata Buddha at that time would never have thought that at that time he just wanted to find a place to send Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva there, but now it became his only way out.
This is somewhat embarrassing to say. The Tathagata Buddha is in a slightly complicated mood at the moment, but the Bodhisattva is still calm at the moment.
He smiled and looked at Tathagata Buddha, with a somewhat inexplicable look in his eyes: "Of course I know this, because we have discovered you since you entered the Ming Empire's sphere of influence, which is Sun City, and what you did after that
We know everything clearly."
"You?" Tathagata Buddha frowned slightly. Isn't there only one Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in this entire underworld?
You guys are from there!
"Haha, this is the second thing I want to tell Buddha." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said with a somewhat incomprehensible expression: "Buddha, we have discovered another road beyond the golden fairyland. On this road, other
Anyone can only be a foil, and it is completely impossible to compare with our findings."
"What path?" Tathagata Buddha asked curiously.
"The path of evolution." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said with confidence: "Let me explain to you this way, a person's power has its limit after all, even the Golden Immortal. If you want to go further, you can only become the master of the world.
, but even if you really become the master of the world, so what?"
"In addition to immortality, what else can you have? Even after becoming the Lord of the World, your cultivation will not make any substantial progress. Isn't it a joke to be such a Lord of the World?" Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha laughed.
Follow the path.
When Tathagata Buddha heard these words, he was immediately silent. He always had the feeling that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had something in mind and was laughing at himself.
"Isn't it good to live forever?"
"You want too much." Tathagata Buddha said with a frown.
"Of course immortality is good, but we can give you more." The smile on Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's face became increasingly weird.
He reached out and waved, and the cave in front of him suddenly changed and turned into a closed space.
In this space, there are seven huge light groups rising and falling like breathing.
One of them is the biggest, and the remaining six together are probably just as big as that big one.
"Is this?" Tathagata Buddha looked at this scene and felt a little panicked for no reason. The scene in front of him was really too weird, especially after he felt the familiar aura from several of the light groups.
"This is me..." The Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in front of him suddenly turned into a woman in black as he spoke. The face of this woman was very familiar to the Tathagata Buddha. She was none other than Empress Pingxin, the master of timing in the underworld.
"You...you..." Tathagata Buddha said twice, but he was still too shocked to speak out. After all, the scene in front of him really overturned his three views.
He had always felt that he could deal with the most outrageous things calmly, but now it seemed that it was obviously not enough. He simply did not have the strength to deal with the ridiculous things in front of him.
"This is me too." Another voice sounded, but the face that appeared had turned into that of King Qin Guang of the underworld.
"This is also me!" Another voice sounded, this time it turned into Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva again.
"We are both one and separate, and this world is our ontology. We have transformed into the will of heaven and become a whole." A voice that was neither yin nor yang, neither male nor female came from the ground in front of him.
Zao Bodhisattva spoke in the air. When combined, the voice seemed extremely indifferent, like a rule-based product without emotion, but when separated, it was an individual containing desires and fantasies.
"How is this done?" Tathagata Buddha was really curious at this time. After all, compared with becoming the ordinary master of the world, this was indeed more bizarre. In front of him, Tathagata Buddha felt that he was indeed no match.
After all, the other party is a combination of seven golden immortal level individuals. Just as Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said, they can exert the combined power of their seven.
"Join us and you can appreciate the scenery we have seen." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's voice sounded again, with every trace of temptation.
Tathagata Buddha has no doubt that he is telling the truth, because he is now the Lord of the world, and he can see many things that he could not see before when he was a golden immortal.
But Tathagata Buddha was very resistant to wanting to join this collection of consciousnesses that looked extremely dangerous at first glance.
Because he could see very clearly that this so-called collection of consciousnesses actually had priorities, and the main consciousness was Empress Pingxin of the underworld. This was also the reason why his consciousness seemed so huge.
If he agrees to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, wouldn't he become a vassal of Empress Pingxin? He is now a vassal of Tao Ancestor. He doesn't have much resistance to becoming a vassal of Tao Ancestor. After all, he was once a boy of Tao Ancestor, but if
To be honest, he was still a little dissatisfied with being turned into a vassal by Empress Pingxin.
Although it took a long time for Empress Pingxin to become enlightened, and even surpassed Taoist ancestors when she became enlightened, she was really nothing compared to the amazingly talented Taoist ancestors.
After all, when the Zhoutian Star Formation was still there, she was almost locked there. Her daily task was to accept the souls of the four major continents, and then use the Six Paths of Reincarnation to send them to the mortal world for reincarnation.
Even though one hundred thousand years have passed, she still dare not make any overstep and work hard to fulfill her duties as the tool of Dao Ancestor.
It wasn't until the Zhoutian Star Formation was shattered that he was truly freed from it. To be honest, compared to Dao Ancestor, the Ping Xin Empress really had to lean back.
Even Taoist Patriarch agreed with the way Tathagata Buddha advanced to become Lord of the World. He did not think that the method developed by Empress Pingxin would be better than the method approved by Patriarch Dao to become Lord of the World.
Even though the opponent's seven people are now united into one, and the will of heaven formed seems to be much stronger than his, he firmly believes that there must be some hidden danger in it.
Either these people still don't know it, or they know it but deliberately don't tell themselves, just to lead themselves into a pit.
In this regard, Tathagata Buddha is naturally one hundred and twenty unwilling.
"Don't worry, I think no matter what, I have to take a look at the whole picture of the current hell before making a decision." Tathagata Buddha said with a smile.
The Tathagata Buddha in front of him didn't know whether he was Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva or not. Hearing this, his eyes couldn't help but squint. His eyes seemed to be able to see through the world, and he stared at Tathagata Buddha. Tathagata Buddha was also very calm.
He looked at him, not showing the slightest bit of dissatisfaction.
Not to mention anything else, just his unflinching temperament and acting skills are already unique in the world.
"Haha, that's good, I'll accompany the Buddha to see it." Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's face soon returned to a smile, and he took two steps closer to the Tathagata Buddha again. A faint opportunity locked on him and he stretched out his hand to make a request.