Wonderland

Chapter 1580: Demonic Tomb

Chapter 1580: Demonic Tomb

The Buddhist sect is also very clear that it is not a solution to continue to indulge in this way. The fact that Saint Ancestor Wu Lin has stopped his activities is not because he is kind-hearted and has laid down his butcher knife, but because he is accumulating strength. Over the years, he has killed countless lives, all of which have been collected into the Demon Soul Banner. He has also been using his supreme magic skills to sacrifice and refine the Demon Soul Banner.

If it were really allowed to return to one, refine a true demon, transform into and then split out its own demon soul and merge into it, then the entire Buddhist sect would face a catastrophe.

It was at this time that the three most holy ancestors of the Demonic Path actually united as one and supported Saint Ancestor Wu Lin. This made them very puzzled. After all, Saint Ancestor Wu Lin was part Buddha and demon, and all of them were on the list of those he wanted to kill.

Many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas looked at Lord Hui'an with expressions of shock and helplessness on their faces. Lord Hui'an, a giant in one of the three halls of Mahabodhi Temple, had an even more bitter expression on his face at this moment.

Buddhist sounds surround and bells ring.

The three peaks in the center of the Mahabodhi Temple are Bodhi Peak, Mirror Platform Peak and Dust-free Peak. On top of each of the three peaks stands a thousand-year-old temple, which are the three major Zen temples of the Mahabodhi Temple.

Among them, the Bodhi Zen Temple on the Bodhi Peak is the upper temple of the Great Bodhi Temple, governing over a hundred upper temples on the Solitary Sun Continent. The Jingtai Zen Temple on the Jingtai Peak governs over a thousand middle temples on the Solitary Sun Continent. As for the Wuchen Zen Temple on the Wuchen Peak, which is governed by the Buddha Hui'an, it governs over tens of thousands of lower temples on the Solitary Sun Continent.

The three major Zen monasteries seem to be in charge of different Buddhist institutions, but they all belong to the Mahabodhi Temple. At the same time, the Mahabodhi Temple is headed by the upper courtyard, forming a strict hierarchy.

Inside the Bodhi Zen Temple, in a small Zen room, a monk was sitting cross-legged. The monk looked only eighteen or nineteen years old, with ten scars on his head. He was holding a string of red sandalwood beads in his left hand and beating a wooden fish with his right hand. With every strike, a ball of golden light would flash from the wooden fish, and it would transform into various shapes, like a dragon, a phoenix, or a fish, changing constantly.

After knocking for a while, he suddenly stopped and slowly opened his eyes. The moment he opened his eyes, a figure flashed not far in front of him along with floating golden light. From the outline of the figure, it could be vaguely seen that it was the white-browed old monk Hui'an.

"Brother Hui'an, you are willing to sacrifice your original spirit to perform the magical power of mirroring the original spirit. Is there something important?" The young monk's face was calm and composed, and his eyes revealed an endless sense of vicissitudes, as if he had already seen through the essence of this world and nothing could make him excited.

"Brother Huiru, I am honored to meet you. A hundred years ago, I personally tried to test the Holy Ancestor Wulin. Now I am at least 70% sure that he is the owner of the demon soul suppressed in the Demon Tomb. It is very likely that something has happened in the Holy Moon Continent, which has led to the emergence of the demon soul. Now he is refining the Blood Buddha Demon Soul Banner. Once he completes the refining, I am afraid that my Great Bodhi Temple will encounter a disaster that has never happened before."

"The laws of nature are endless. You and I are both people who have achieved great freedom through cultivation. How can we not see through the opportunities of nature? What is meant to come will always come."

Upon hearing this, Hui'an was slightly stunned, then revealed an expression of sudden realization, clasped his hands together and said, "I appreciate your words, Senior Brother."

Thousands of miles away, the Buddha Hui'an, who was sitting cross-legged on the lotus platform, suddenly raised his head, opened his eyes, glanced at the monks below, and said, "The catastrophe of heaven and earth is the cycle of heaven, and the birth and death of all things is the law of the universe. It cannot be guessed, and there is no need to be obsessed with it. Just keep a normal mind, go with the flow, and do something."

After saying that, he turned his gaze to Qing Huan who was sitting below him and said, "Qing Huan, the Demon Tomb is ready to move because it has been summoned by the Demon Soul. You should quickly set up the Ten Thousand Buddhas Demon Suppression Formation around the Demon Tomb. As for the matter of the Demon Dao, let's not talk about it for now and let everything take its course."

"Respect the Buddha's command." Although the monks below were puzzled, they had to obey since the Buddha had spoken. After paying their respects, they turned into golden rays of light, left the hall, and shot out in all directions.

Thousands of miles east of Wuchen Peak, there is a pitch-black mountain. Within a hundred miles around the mountain, there is no grass at all, and the mountain appears black and brown in color. Within this hundred miles, from time to time, streams of pitch-black demonic energy emanate from the ground, and this demonic energy spreads out, covering an area of ​​a thousand miles.

For countless years, although demonic energy occasionally emanated from this place, there had never been anything unusual. However, over the past few hundred years, the demonic energy that emanated from this place had become increasingly dense, and was even mixed with a thin layer of true demonic energy.

This true demonic energy only exists in the true demon world, just like the fairy energy in the fairy world. It is a higher level of energy and does not exist in the spiritual world.

The overflowing true demonic energy, like a magnet, absorbed and gathered a large amount of demonic energy, wrapping the area within a thousand miles around the mountain in pitch-black demonic energy.

At the foot of the mountain, a ball of golden light was moving slowly forward. Within the golden light was a monk with a curly beard. Behind the monk's head was a ball of golden light flickering. He was obviously a Buddha who had attained the first fruit.

They came to a valley at the foot of the mountain and stopped at the entrance of a cave. The entrance was only three meters high and one meter wide, and a large amount of demonic energy rolled out.

Feeling the strong chill of the demonic energy, the monk with the curly beard also showed a vigilant expression. The Buddha power in his body surged and transformed into a layer of Buddha light shield outside his body to resist the erosion of the demonic energy.

"This should be the entrance to the Demon Tomb. Rumor has it that within this Demon Tomb, there are countless remains of fallen senior monks, and even many relics left behind by monks. As long as I can obtain a few relics and comprehend the profound Buddhist principles contained therein, I will have the hope of making another breakthrough and advancing to the Second Fruition, or even a higher realm."

It turned out that the monk's name was Daowu, and he was an ordinary monk of Wuchen Temple. Normally, those who could enter Wuchen Temple were all people with extremely high wisdom, but Daowu was an exception. It turned out that many years ago, he was just an ordinary woodcutter at the foot of Wuchen Peak. One day by chance, he saved a Dharma protector elder of Wuchen Temple. The status of this Dharma protector elder was second only to that of Buddha Hui'an, but he was seriously injured when he went out to fight demons. He barely made it to the foot of Wuchen Peak, but fainted from his injuries.

Daowu happened to pass by and rescued him, bringing him home and taking good care of him day and night.

After the guardian elder's injury recovered, he returned to Wuchen Temple. Before leaving, in order to thank the elder for saving his life, he gave him a Wuchen Buddha Token. This Wuchen Buddha Token had a wonderful use, that is, with this token, one could ask Wuchen Temple for help once, and as long as Wuchen Temple could do it, they would never refuse.

It was with the help of this Wuchen Buddha Order that Daowu was able to enter the Wuchen Academy. Of course, this was also due to his chance and good fortune.

Although Daowu has wisdom, his aptitude is average. He has been muddled for thousands of years and has just advanced to the first level of enlightenment. He has long been marginalized in the Wuchen Temple and was asked to take charge of some miscellaneous affairs in the temple. Daowu also understands very well that if he continues to develop in this way, his realm will basically have reached its limit, and he will probably not be able to even survive the subsequent Buddhist calamity. If he continues to muddle along for a few thousand more years, he will return to dust.

Although Daowu was not very talented, he was very ambitious. He was unwilling to just live like this, so he sat in meditation and entered the cycle of reincarnation again.

A few months ago, he heard his uncle in the temple mention that there had been unusual movements in the Demon Tomb in recent years, and it was very likely that the demonic calamity was about to come again. It was the first time that Daowu heard the name Demon Tomb. In fact, this was not surprising. In the Mahabodhi Temple, except for those Buddhas and Bodhisattvas above the fourth fruit, basically no one knew of the existence of the Demon Tomb.

Even in the Mahabodhi Temple, the demon tomb was listed as a forbidden area, and ordinary disciples could not even approach it.

After knowing the existence of the Demon Tomb, Daowu asked his uncle intentionally or unintentionally, and only then did he know that the residual soul of an ancient true demon was sealed in the Demon Tomb. There were always high-ranking monks from the Great Bodhi Temple sitting in the Demon Tomb all year round, suppressing the demonic energy with the supreme Buddhist teachings. However, suppressing the demonic energy was not an easy job, but a task with great risks. Only those masters who had reached the third fruit level or above would be sent to sit in the Demon Tomb.

Over the countless years, many ancestors of the Mahabodhi Temple were corroded by the demonic energy in the process of suppressing the demon tomb. Either their Buddha power dissipated and they became useless, or they were corroded by the demonic energy, lost their sanity, and became the walking corpse of demons.

No matter which one it was, the final result was naturally to be beheaded by the senior monks of the Mahabodhi Temple. However, in this process, many Buddhist predecessors, after being eroded by the evil spirit, did not hesitate to burn themselves with the golden flame of Buddhism in order to avoid becoming demons, and then sat in meditation.

Therefore, within the Demon's Tomb, there are many relics left behind by the Buddhist predecessors after their death. These Buddhist relics are also divided into many categories. For example, after ascending to heaven, only the golden bone relics are left behind, because their original spirit has been integrated into the golden body and ascended to the fairyland.

When a Buddhist monk who has never ascended to heaven passes away, he or she will usually leave behind three kinds of relics. One is the five-bone relics formed by the monk's blood and energy, which are divided into five types according to the attributes of his or her wisdom during his lifetime: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. The second type is the essence relics transformed from the monk's spirit. The third type is the most important Vajra relics of Buddhism.

For Buddhist monks, the main purpose of cultivation is to condense a golden body. The condensation of a golden body requires a huge amount of merit. With the improvement of realm, the size and power of the golden body will increase several times. Buddhists do not cultivate their physical bodies, but only refine their golden bodies. After ascending to the fairyland, they use the formed golden body to carry their own souls.

The three kinds of relics are three types of energy carriers left behind by Buddhist monks after their death. Unlike the immortal monks, after their death, their true spirits will return to reincarnation, while their own essence, blood, and magic power will dissipate between heaven and earth.

Not all Buddhist monks who passed away in meditation would condense the three types of relics. The probability of condensing the three types of relics is very small, especially the third type of Vajra relic. Even if a hundred eminent monks passed away in meditation, they might not be able to condense one.

However, among the three types of relics left by Buddhist monks, only the Vajra relics are truly useful. Although the five-bone relics also carry some of the Buddhist principles that the monks comprehended during their lifetime, they are not too much. Most of them are the energy and blood of their lifetime.

Buddhist monks do not cultivate their physical bodies. Although their qi and blood power is much stronger than that of ordinary people, it is of no use to them. As for the essence relics, they are transformed from the Buddhist spirit and carry a large number of remaining memory fragments of the Buddhist monk. Once absorbed into the body, they will produce a mixed consciousness, which is not only unhelpful to oneself, but may also cause great harm. After all, if a person carries too many memories of others, then whether this person is still himself is another matter of debate.

Therefore, the only thing that is truly useful to Buddhist monks and what they dream of is the Vajra Relics left behind by the predecessors. The Vajra Relics are the golden bodies of Buddhist monks when they pass away. They contain a huge amount of merit power. Once the Buddhist monks swallow them, they can absorb the merit power and condense the golden body, thereby greatly increasing the power of the golden body.

In fact, the so-called first fruit realm, second fruit realm, and even the great sun realm, all represent different golden body realms. Daowu believed that with his own qualifications, it was impossible for him to advance to the second fruit realm, so he thought of finding another way. If he could get the Vajra Relics left by the senior monks and swallow them, there would be a great chance that he could break through the current realm.

There are many eminent monks in the Mahabodhi Temple. Over the countless years, there have been many relics left behind by eminent monks after their death. However, compared to the number of monks, these relics are simply too few. Even those disciples with excellent qualifications may not be granted a Vajra relic, let alone him, a disciple of the Buddhist sect with low qualifications.

The Demon's Tomb was different. The relics left by the monk who passed away inside were not brought back to the temple, but left in the Demon's Tomb. This was what Daowu accidentally learned from his uncle. If he could get one or two Vajra relics, he would be able to reach great heights in one step.

Looking at the entrance to the Demon Tomb in front of him, Daowu couldn't help swallowing his saliva. At the moment, there were no Buddhist disciples guarding the Demon Tomb because it was the interval between shifts. He had spent a lot of effort to get the news.

But looking at the cold demonic energy gushing out of the demon's tomb, he still felt a chill in his heart.

Just as he was still hesitating, a golden light suddenly appeared in the distance. The golden light that covered the sky and the sun was slowly rising from the mountain where the Wuchen Academy was located, accompanied by the desolate sound of scripture chanting, and was heading towards the direction of the Demon's Tomb.

"The Ten Thousand Buddhas Formation?" Dao Wu's face changed when he saw the golden light all over the sky, but he immediately thought of the reason. The Demon Tomb had been moving frequently in the past few hundred years, and it was obvious that the Wuchen Court had felt threatened. They planned to suppress it with the light of Ten Thousand Buddhas transformed by the Ten Thousand Buddhas Formation.

If he was discovered, not only would his wish to find the Vajra Relic fail, but he might even be imprisoned for hundreds of years. Thinking of this, he made up his mind, plunged into the demon's tomb, and disappeared without a trace.

As soon as he entered the Demon Tomb, golden light fell from the void. Within the golden light, Buddhist monks appeared, sitting cross-legged and shrouded in Buddha's light. Almost in an instant, the mountain where the Demon Tomb was located was covered. Layers of Buddha's light, carrying endless scriptures, pressed down towards the Demon Tomb. The demon clouds in the sky immediately began to dissipate, and only wisps of dark demonic energy swam back and forth in the Buddha's light like fish.

"This is true demonic energy. Use the Ten Thousand Buddhas Formation to refine it." A voice sounded in the void, and it was Qing Huan.

(End of this chapter)