Chapter 776: Journey to the West Sequel - Salvation Merit 2
Chapter 776: Journey to the West Sequel - Salvation Merit 2
"Where is my home?" Ruyi suddenly thought of the sacred Fusang tree, and her, and Ruoshui's 'hometown' - the ancient "Classic of Mountains and Seas". Perhaps that was her home.
When Ruyi came to her senses, she saw Yang Chan was already in tears, sobbing, "Yang Chan, why are you crying all of a sudden?" She was a little flustered and helped Yang Chan wipe her tears, but she didn't expect to be pushed away by Yang Chan, "None of your business!"
Yang Chan left, and Ruyi stopped where she was, feeling a little depressed and sad. She took a few deep breaths and then exhaled for a long time, and then she felt much better.
After regaining her rationality, Ruyi remembered that she was about to answer Yang Chan's question before she fell into her own thoughts. It seemed that Yang Chan felt that she didn't consider her a friend. Ruyi suddenly wanted to find Yang Chan to explain, but her rationality quickly suppressed this idea.
"Forget it, there's nothing to explain. Anyway, after completing the mission in this world and obtaining the luck and merit of saving the world, I will leave this world. By then, I'm afraid that few people will still remember me..."
The Sun-Moon Shuttle is almost ready. Ruyi plans to use it to travel into the legendary Saint-level world and find her way home after completing the mission in this world and becoming a Saint. "Although it's just a replica of the Sun-Moon Shuttle, three chances should be enough."
Three hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. During these three hundred years, Ruyi's cultivation had stagnated. No matter how hard she practiced, she could not break through the shackles, so she spent almost all her time refining the Sun-Moon Divine Shuttle. After three hundred years of refining, Ruyi's imitation of the Sun-Moon Divine Shuttle was finally completed.
On this day, the world suddenly changed. Day turned into night, sunny day turned into rainy day, and even the stars in the sky disappeared. Only layer after layer of dark clouds covered the sky tightly. Even the light of heaven disappeared.
The Jade Emperor, Queen Mother, and all the immortals gathered in the Lingxiao Palace, discussing the sudden change in the world.
“When heaven and earth change greatly, there will be great disasters! Alas, I wonder what exactly happened between heaven and earth, and which creatures will be targeted by this disaster?” The Jade Emperor had a worried look on his face. As the spokesperson of heaven and the Lord of Heaven, the Jade Emperor felt the breath of disaster from the great changes in heaven and earth.
From the beginning of chaos until now, the entire world has experienced a total of five catastrophes, namely the catastrophe of gods and demons, the catastrophe of dragons and phoenixes, the catastrophe of wizards and demons, the catastrophe of the Conferred Gods, and the catastrophe of the Journey to the West.
Every catastrophe is a major reshuffle of major forces. Whichever force can survive the catastrophe and gain more luck and merit will become the next ruler of heaven and earth. But what the Jade Emperor can't understand is that the catastrophe of Journey to the West just passed not long ago, so how could there be another catastrophe?
Suddenly, Shunfenger came to report: "Report to the Jade Emperor, there is news from Western Buddhism, the demon Wu Tian appeared in Lingshan, and the ancient Buddha Ran Deng... passed away!"
“The devil Wu Tian?!” The Jade Emperor had heard of this man. According to legend, Wu Tian was a monk from Xiniu Hezhou 33,000 years ago, and the great protector of the Buddha Uparada at that time - "Kinnara Bodhisattva". He had a very high status in the Buddhist world, but later rebelled against Buddhism due to a disaster, and his evil thoughts expanded, so he split his good thoughts (Wu Tian in white) and imprisoned him in the abyss of darkness. He himself became Wu Tian in black, and his magic power was equal to that of Tathagata Buddha.
"It seems that this catastrophe is related to Buddhism." After hearing the news from Wu Tian, the Jade Emperor breathed a sigh of relief. Although the three realms are one, there is struggle everywhere in essence. The catastrophe in Journey to the West was originally a struggle between Buddhism and Taoism, and Taoism lost to Buddhism. Now Buddhism is encountering an invasion by the demon Wu Tian. The Jade Emperor is not afraid but rather gloats over it.
The gods in heaven soon figured it out and began to relax. However, they didn't know yet that this Buddha Wu Tian didn't just want a sacred mountain. What he wanted was to dominate the three realms and become the greatest "king" in this world!
Ruyi came out of the cave where she had been in seclusion and saw the sky suddenly turning dark. She immediately realized that the plot of "The Sequel to Journey to the West" had begun.
Sure enough, not long ago, Tathagata had summoned all the Buddhas in the name of the Buddha and told them about Wu Tian's origins. It turned out that when Tang Monk and his disciples were seeking Buddhist scriptures, Wu Tian had colluded with Buddhist scum to secretly seize the scriptures and plotted against them. Because Tathagata failed to intercept them, he became enemies with the Buddhist world and waited for an opportunity to take over Tathagata and dominate the three realms.
Now it happens that the ancient Buddha has passed away, demons are rampant, and it happens that the time has come for Tathagata himself to reincarnate and cultivate again. The entire Lingshan Mountain is leaderless and is soon occupied by Wujitian, who sends all the disobedient Buddhas to the underworld.
Ever since Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva did not gain any merit but instead lost a lot of luck by participating in the calamity of Journey to the West, he has become much more cautious about the so-called calamity. From the passing of the ancient Buddha Dipankara and the appearance of Wu Tian which caused changes in heaven and earth, he realized that this might be another calamity, and he has been very cooperative.
Seeing that Guanyin Bodhisattva was so cooperative, Wu Tian was very curious, so he sent someone to bring him to him and asked him carefully, "Guanyin Bodhisattva, you actually betrayed Tathagata so easily, are you pretending to be obedient but actually want to be an undercover agent?"
Bodhisattva Guanyin glanced at the 'Buddha Wu Tian' in front of him with half his eyelids closed, and replied weakly: "What undercover or not, I am not interested."
"I'm just tired. Anyway, I'm just a little Bodhisattva. It doesn't matter to me who becomes the Buddha." The kalpa is just a fight for merit. Anyway, I won't get any benefits even if I get involved. There is no difference whether Tathagata or Wu Tian is the Buddha!
Bodhisattva Guanyin saw through the true meaning of the workplace early on, and only wanted to slack off and not care who replaced the leader.
The Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva in Wu Tian's impression was completely different from the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva he saw this time. He didn't know what to say for a moment and tried to threaten and intimidate Guanyin to make him tell his real purpose. However, no matter how Wu Tian threatened, Guanyin Bodhisattva remained indifferent. Finally, Wu Tian suddenly gave up on locking Guanyin Bodhisattva in the underworld and finding a fake Guanyin, and instead chose to directly instigate a rebellion.
"From what you said, you are not looking forward to Tathagata coming back to take charge of Lingshan again!"
"Or, just follow me!"
"I really don't expect Tathagata to reincarnate and take charge of Lingshan again, but even though I won't get any benefits from working with him, at least it sounds good in terms of reputation."
"If I work with you...what benefit can I get?" Humph, the current Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is no longer the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara of the past. The current Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara does not eat cakes, but only eats real benefits.
"As long as you agree to recognize me as the Buddha, I will name you Avalokitesvara, the Self-Awakened Buddha, and you will be ranked alongside the 35 Buddhas as the 36th Buddha of Buddhism."
There are four levels of Buddhahood in Buddhism, the highest being Buddha, followed by Bodhisattva, then Arhat, and finally Vajra. Guanyin Bodhisattva was originally a Taoist disciple, and the reason he left Taoism and became a Buddhist disciple was to get a promotion and salary increase, but since he joined Buddhism, he has not been able to take that step and become a Buddha for so many years.
Now, as long as he agrees to submit to Wu Tian, it will be realized. Guanyin Bodhisattva immediately lost his previous look of despair and became more energetic. "Is what you said true?"
"I, Wu Tian, keep my word and will never lie to anyone!"
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