Ruan Hongling heard Zhou Qin's voice and immediately stood up. She quickly turned her back, wiped her eyes, and when she turned around, she was already smiling: "Zhou Qin, are you back?
Have you seen my senior sister?"
Zhou Qin's heart was full of questions, but when she saw that Ruan Hongling was unwilling to answer her questions, she couldn't pursue it any further. She said, "No, I was just coming to find her. Where have you been these past few days?"
Ruan Hongling forced a smile and said, "I'm going back to the Ling Palace."
Zhou Qin asked curiously: "What are you doing back there?"
Ruan Hongling hesitated for a moment and said hesitantly: "Nothing, I'll go back and find something."
Zhou Qin stopped asking and said very wisely: "Well, then I understand. You tell me when Ziyuan comes back. I have something to tell her."
Ruan Hongling smiled slightly and was about to speak when she saw the sound of keys coming from the door and Zi Yuan pushed the door open and entered.
Ruan Hongling's eyes lit up and she said with a smile: "Sister, what a coincidence, we are talking about you!"
Ziyuan was stunned when she saw Ruan Hongling. Although Ruan Hongling used a trick to get Su Chan and Zhou Qin to go to Huangshan, and she was furious at the time, several days had passed. Even though Ziyuan was angry, a lot of her anger had dissipated. She was surprised.
Said: "Hongling? Are you back? Where have you been these past few days? Why don't you say hello to me."
Ruan Hongling smiled and did not answer her words. Instead, she pointed at Zhou Qin and said, "Zhou Qin has something to ask you. You can tell me. I will go back to the room first."
Ziyuan watched with confusion as Ruan Hongling quickly walked into her room, her ponytail swaying behind her head in panic, as if she was avoiding herself.
She shook her head secretly and whispered in her heart: What is this girl doing?
Ziyuan was puzzled. After thinking for a while, she stopped thinking about it. She smiled at Zhou Qin and said, "Zhou Qin, you have sent the letter back? How was the journey? Did they give you any trouble?"
Zhou Qin sighed lightly and said, "A lot of things have happened, and I don't know where to start."
Zhou Qin sorted out his thoughts and told everything about his trip to Mount Koya to be a student, except that he concealed the content of the illusion that the monks from Mount Koya used illusions to test him.
Ziyuan listened with rapt attention, especially when Zhou Qin talked about Ju Masako's power of using clouds to gather the true spirit of Dharmakaya and tearing the earth apart with one sword. Even though she was well-informed, she couldn't help but feel a little moved. Ziyuan lost her voice and said: "This Ju
How could Masako be so powerful? With the weather breaking the earth's energy, this is at least the realm of thunder and calamity!"
Zhou Qin nodded with fear and said: "It is indeed very powerful. In front of her, I feel like I am at a loss. Even if I want to fight, my strength will be greatly reduced."
Shion pondered for a while and said: "Your trip is very valuable. At least you know that the Goddess of Okuyuan is born with huge flaws, otherwise Tachibana Tsuruko would not be so grateful to you."
Zhou Qin asked curiously: "Has your master Wang Yuanshan ever mentioned to you the matter between him and Ju Hezi?"
Ziyuan shook her head: "I haven't heard Master mention it. If you hadn't mentioned it today, I wouldn't have known about these things. However, I can probably infer how you prompted Ju Hezi. If I guessed correctly,
Your casual words must have awakened her unintentionally, making her understand that it was the wooden barrel that was leaking everywhere. With a five-leak body to practice magic and divine power, she would naturally learn more and leak more."
Saying that, Ziyuan smiled slightly and said: "The fundamental reason why goddesses are powerful is that they can use their special physique and blood to be the same as the gods, and borrow the power of the gods to defeat their opponents. But they themselves lack physical strength.
How can a person who practices cultivation only cultivate his nature but not his life? It’s like a person who has one leg long and one leg short.”
Zhou Qin looked happy: "You are right. I have thought about it before. Now that I hear you say it, I feel more relieved. So, Master should have a good chance of winning? Even Ju Hezi said that Master
Can win!"
Ziyuan shook her head: "Not necessarily!"
Zhou Qin was very anxious and asked quickly: "Why is this?"
Ziyuan sighed softly and said: "Knowing the weaknesses does not mean that you will definitely be able to defeat her. It is like you know where the weaknesses of a giant are, but he is powerful and has great martial arts, and you can't get close to him.
If you can't find his weakness, what's the use?"
Zhou Qin was disappointed: "What should we do? How did your master Wang Yuanshan defeat Ju Hezi in the first place?"
Ziyuan thought for a while and shook her head helplessly: "I don't know this either..."
Zhou Qin bit his lip and said decisively: "No, I want to tell Master about this immediately."
Ziyuan immediately said: "No! You can't say it!"
Zhou Qin's eyes widened: "Why not?"
Ziyuan said seriously: "Li Yundong is practicing in seclusion now. If you disturb him, tell him about this matter. Although on the surface, it seems to be beneficial to Li Yundong, letting him know Tachibana Masako's shortcomings and flaws, but in fact
How to attack this shortcoming and flaw but still no answer is given. Then Li Yundong will definitely be shaken and unable to concentrate on continuing to make brave progress on the path of practice during the retreat. Instead, he will spend useless thoughts on how to find the orange.
Masako’s flaw.”
Zhou Qin said anxiously: "But isn't the most important thing right now is to defeat Masako Tachibana? What's wrong with studying your opponent?"
Ziyuan laughed: "Zhou Qin, you are wrong. The only opponent for each of us is always ourselves! Strengthening yourself is the most important thing. Studying your opponents will only lead you into a narrow dead end! You don't want to
I feel that Masako Tachibana is the most terrifying enemy in the world. There is no end to enemies, and there will always be opponents stronger than you. Do you think Mount Koya is the strongest religious force in Japan? You are wrong!"
Zhou Qin was shocked: "Is there any force more powerful than the Zhenyan Tantric Sect?"
Shion nodded and smiled: "Yes, in terms of Buddhist power, Shingon Tantric Buddhism is only ranked second in Japan. The number one Buddhist power in Japan is the Pure Land Sect!"
Zhou Qin was speechless: "Pure Land Sect? Isn't this a branch of our Chinese Buddhism?"
Shion nodded slightly: "Yes, Pure Land Buddhism and Shingon Tantric Buddhism are similar. They are both schools that took root after Central Plains Buddhism spread to Japan. And what is different from Shingon Tantric Buddhism is that Pure Land Buddhism is often active at the forefront of Japanese history.
Even during the most active Warring States Period, Honganji Temple, the headquarters of the Pure Land Sect, even secretly trained and reserved a large number of monk soldiers. At that time, in order to win over the Pure Land Sect, the various daimyo conducted various political transactions and even marriages with it."
Zhou Qin was stunned when he heard this: "A monk also gets married?"
Ziyuan smiled and said: "Yes, some monks from the Pure Land Sect can get married and have children."
Zhou Qin laughed dumbly: "Some of these flower monks believe in them?"
Ziyuan said: "Don't underestimate them. The monks and soldiers of the Pure Land Sect were famous all over the world. They recited Buddhist scriptures and killed people with swords. It was a common thing. Even a powerful name like Takeda Shingen wanted to please them. Qian
Over the past hundred years, the influence of Pure Land Buddhism has penetrated deeply into every corner of Japan."
Zhou Qin clicked his tongue and sighed: "When I met those monks in Mount Koya, I already felt that some of them were so strong that they were a little perverted, but what I didn't expect was that there were actually more perverted cultivators in Japan than them!"
Ziyuan smiled slightly and said: "Shingon Tantric Buddhism is too complicated because of its many schools. The ancient Yi sect and the New Yi sect often fight, so the sect's organization is relatively loose. The Pure Land sect is much more strict, and this sect has always been privately held in Honganji Temple.
It trains an extremely secretive monk army, which has been preserved since the Warring States Period. No sect in the world of spiritual practice has such an extremely disciplined and aggressive spiritual 'army'."
Zhou Qin sighed: "I have learned a lot...Fortunately, the place where the letter was sent this time was not the Honganji Temple of the Pure Land Sect."
Ziyuan laughed: "However, if you think that the Pure Land Sect is the most powerful spiritual sect in Japan, then you are wrong again!"
Zhou Qin was horrified: "Is there a stronger spiritual sect than the Pure Land Sect?"
Shion said: "That's right! The most powerful one in Japan's spiritual world is neither Shingon Tantric Buddhism nor Pure Land Buddhism, but Japan's national religion, Shintoism! In Japan, almost all Japanese people believe in Shintoism. According to tradition,
When Japanese children are just a few days old, their parents will take them to shrines to worship Shinto gods. There are 82,000 shrines in Japan, and these shrines are Shinto religious sites, and among the Japanese, most of them believe in Buddhism.
There are 96 million people, and more than 100 million believe in Shintoism. Although the difference is not large in terms of numerical comparison, because many people believe in Buddhism and Shintoism at the same time, the number of Shinto believers is actually much higher.
It’s more than that!”
"Furthermore, even Tachibana Masako and Tachibana Tsuruko you met before, as well as Tachibana Tachibana who participated in the lotus picking competition, they were actually Shinto goddesses in the past. However, due to factional exclusion and struggle, they finally chose to join the Shingon Tantric Sect.
It’s just a convergence.”
Zhou Qin felt the hairs on her body stand on end. She asked subconsciously: "On the day of the fight, will these Pure Land Sect and Shinto Sect also go?"
Ziyuan nodded slowly: "That's right! That day is the day when the major schools of Shingon Tantra are running for the position of general manager. This day is not only a big day in the Japanese spiritual world, but also a day that the Japanese people are paying attention to. This day
One day, not only the Pure Land Sect, Shingon Esoteric Sect, Shinto Sect and other spiritual sects, but also other Japanese sects such as the Lotus Sect, Tendai Sect, Hosho Sect, Onmyodo and other sects will go!"
Zhou Qin was speechless after hearing this. She originally thought that Shingon Tantric Sect was already an incredible top sect in the Japanese spiritual world, but she did not expect that the strongest will have its own strong hand. Shingon Tantric Sect is just an iceberg in the Japanese spiritual world.
Just a corner!
If this is the case for a small country like Japan, what about the vast China?
Zhou Qin couldn't help but look out the window. For a moment, worry crept up her brow: How many sects of practice are hidden in this land of China that I don't know about? How many masters are hidden? Master, on the day of his martial arts fight, he can handle it.