The Way of the Prehistoric World

In addition, after Mei Zihan returned to the ancient times, she never directly interfered with the journey to the west. Tang Monk, his four masters and one horse, finally arrived at the foot of Lingshan Mountain after dozens of disasters, and were later guided by the Golden Summit Immortal of Yuzhen Temple. Due to various changes, he finally obtained the true scripture and was escorted back to his country by the Eight Diamonds of Buddhism.

This journey to the west took more than ten Yuanhui. When Xuanzang returned to Chang'an, Taizong, who was still in power, hurriedly welcomed him into the palace and asked about his experiences along the way.

After the four masters and one disciple passed down hundreds of volumes of Mahayana Buddhist scriptures in the Tang Dynasty, they returned to Lingshan with the Eight Vajras of Buddhism. After paying homage to the Tathagata, they were finally granted the status of enlightenment.

I saw the Tathagata Buddha saying: "Holy monk, you were my second disciple in the previous life, and your name was Jin Chanzi. Because you did not listen to the Dharma and despised the great teaching, you were demoted as a true spirit and reincarnated in the Eastern Land. Now, You are happy to take refuge, adhere to my teachings, and take advantage of my teachings to take the true scriptures, which have great merits and results. Therefore, you will be promoted to the great position and achieve the right fruit. You are the Buddha of Zhantan Merits."

"Thank you Lord Buddha!"

After a ray of golden light came to him, Tang Monk had restored his cultivation in his previous life, gained the Buddha's status and acquired the blessings of acquired merits, and directly broke through to the quasi-sage, which made Wukong and others on the side look hot and their expressions became more respectful.

After dividing the golden cicada, the Tathagata turned his attention to Wukong and said: "Sun Wukong, because you are causing trouble in the Heavenly Palace, I used my profound magic power to suppress you under the Five Elements Mountain. Fortunately, the natural disaster was satisfied and you returned to Buddhism. I am also happy that you concealed your evil deeds." You are good, you have accomplished meritorious deeds in refining demons and subduing monsters in the Buddhism spread from the East, from the beginning to the end, so you will be promoted to a great position and achieve great results, and you will fight to defeat the Buddha."

After saying that, Tathagata raised his right hand, and another golden light fell on Wukong. Wukong knew that he was the Buddha, so he did not resist and allowed the Buddha to come. At this moment, his cultivation level quickly reached the level of Daluo Jinxian.

Later, another acquired merit was integrated into the main body. When the absorption was completed, the realm had already exceeded the level of quasi-sage. Only a monkey jumped out from the three flowers on his head. This was the evil corpse that Wukong killed, the Great Sage Qitian. And the real person after beheading the corpse. This can be said to be a battle to defeat the Buddha.

The essence of the Lingming Stone Monkey is the five-color sacred stone. This stone is transformed from the innate five-color stone and has the merit of Buddhist relics. It can be used to kill corpses. As for his teacher Jin Chanzi. Although he was successfully promoted to quasi-sage, he was unable to kill the corpse directly due to the lack of corresponding spiritual treasures and spiritual objects.

Jin Chanzi and Wukong successively achieved quasi-sage status. This makes Bajie and Sha Seng very excited. If they are later granted the status of Buddha, they may be able to advance smoothly.

However, for monks outside Buddhism, how could the Tathagata be so generous? If Wukong was known to the great powers of Buddhism, he already knew the secrets of the ancient world, and he might not be able to achieve Buddhahood.

Just when Bajie was expecting, the Tathagata said again: "Zhu Wuneng, you, the water god of the Tianhe River and the marshal of Tianpeng, drank too much and played with Xian'e at the peach party for you, and demoted you to the lower world and reincarnated like an animal. Fortunately for you, I remember that I loved the human body and committed sins in Yunzhan Cave in Fuling Mountain. Later I happily returned to the great sect and entered my ascetic life to protect the holy monks on the way. However, I still had stubbornness and my lust was not gone. Because you have done a good job in shouldering the burden, I will be promoted to your post. , be the messenger who cleans the altar.”

Bajie was dissatisfied when he heard this, so he shouted: "Master and senior brother have become Buddhas, how can they make me a messenger of pure altar?"

The so-called Pure Altar Envoys, in terms of their fruit status, are not as good as Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, or Arhats. From this, it can be inferred that the merits gained should not be much. Therefore, Bajie is extremely dissatisfied. If he were not right at this moment, There is no way of knowing that he might curse loudly in Lingshan Mountain.

In response to this, the Tathagata simply replied: "Because you have a strong mouth, a relaxed body, and a wide food intestine, covering the four major continents, eight wastelands, and four seas in the world, there are many people who look up to my teaching. I teach you all the Buddha's things." The altar is a useful level, so why not?"

Seeing that Bajie wanted to argue again, the Buddha did not wait for him to speak, and said again: "Sha Wujing, you are a general who can roll the curtains. First, because of the peach meeting, the glass cup was broken, and you were demoted to the lower realm. You fell into the Liusha River. He is a sinner who harms living things and eats people. Fortunately, he converted to my religion. He sincerely respects the monks and protects the holy monks. He performs meritorious service on climbing mountains and leading horses. He is promoted to a great position and achieves the right fruit. He becomes a golden Arhat."

Seeing that he had been granted the right fruit and was still above the Eight Precepts, Sha Monk hurriedly bowed and said, "My disciple, thank you Lord Buddha!"

"Little White Dragon, you are the son of the Dragon King of Guangjin in the Western Ocean. Because you disobeyed your father's orders and committed the crime of unfilial piety, you are fortunate enough to take refuge in the Dharma and my ascetics. I am grateful to you for carrying the holy monk to the West every day. Since you carried the Bible and went eastward, you have also done a great job, so I have promoted you to the rank of eight heavenly dragons and horses." After saying this, the Tathagata raised his sleeves three times, and he gave the three of them the right fruits.

Seeing that he was unable to change anything, Bajie had to take over the position of the Pure Altar Envoy. After refining their respective fruit positions, the three of them had broken through to the late stage of Taiyi Golden Immortal. With the help of acquired merits, Sha Monk took advantage of the opportunity to break through to the middle stage of Daluo Golden Immortal. , while Bajie and Bai Longma only broke through Daluo Jinxian and never advanced again.

This is because the Tathagata knew very well that Bajie was born in Taoism and could not truly belong to Buddhism, so he was bestowed the least. Sha Seng, who came from Chanjiao, had several rebellious uncles who had converted to Buddhism, so he was easier to win over, and was finally given Arhat. Positive result.

As for the little white dragon, his merits were not enough in the first place. Being able to break through the Great Luo Jinxian with Bajie was already a great reward. He didn’t have much complaints in his heart. In the end, he was classified as the Eight Heavenly Dragons. However, there were many blood descendants of the ancient dragon clan among them. The emotional attachment to fellow tribesmen makes it easier for them to join.

Destiny to journey to the west has only been completed at this point. Heaven has bestowed merits and virtues in a calamity, so that all those involved in the journey to the west will have acquired merits. At one time, countless golden lights of merits descended to various dojos in the ancient world at almost the same time. .

Among them, Buddhists naturally get the most. After absorbing these acquired merits, whether they are Tathagata Buddha, Maitreya Buddha and other Buddhas, or Bodhisattvas such as Manjushri and Samantabhadra, their cultivation practices will all improve a lot.

As someone who was fully involved in the spread of Buddhism to the east, Guanyin Bodhisattva naturally gained much more acquired merit than others. A ball of golden light with a radius of more than a hundred feet was seen gathering in front of her. After absorbing and refining, it was directly chopped off again. One corpse has become a top-level supernatural power user comparable to Tathagata. Only because the spirit treasure is weak, his combat power is far inferior to that of the opponent.

Although Haotian, the Lord of the Heavenly Court, had been wronged in every way during his journey to the west, at this moment, the merits bestowed by Heavenly Law were no less than a hundred feet wide. The Heavenly Emperor was overjoyed and immediately began to retreat, eventually beheading corpses again, and was promoted to a quasi-saint-level powerhouse.

Similar to Haotian, Taishang Laojun, who lives in Tushita Palace, also received acquired merits that were no less than those of the Emperor of Heaven. However, they were never refined by him. Instead, they were integrated into the diamond bracelet of the spiritual treasure of acquired merits, making this treasure more powerful. Power, add some again.

As for the acquired merits attributed to the Golden Horn, Silver Horn boys, and their mount Qing Niu, Lao Jun did not take them away. Instead, he ordered the three of them to directly refine them, and they also improved a lot in their cultivation.

In addition, many generals in heaven who have been granted the title of gods have also obtained some merits, including Li Jing, Nezha, Yang Jian, etc. Although they are restricted by the list of gods and their daily cultivation is extremely slow, they can also refine their merits to To enhance the realm.

The most incredible thing is that there is a mass of acquired merit of more than one hundred feet, which appears outside the Chaos Island in the South China Sea. If the journey to the west is counted, it should belong to the Bull Demon King and his family.

According to Heaven's calculations, even if the Bull Demon King's family escapes from bad luck, there will be no such merit. The reason why they changed their mind at this moment is because Heaven knows that Mei Zihan has returned to the primitive world safely, as if to alleviate the situation. relationship.

Seeing the embarrassment on the Bull Demon King's face, Mei Zihan ordered: "Since heaven has sent down merits, you can collect them yourself. Some acquired merits are dispensable and will not hinder me as a teacher." .”

After hearing this, the Bull Demon King relaxed and took advantage of the situation to collect the merits from outside the island. Originally, he himself did not care about some acquired merits. However, firstly, this was the first merit he had gained and he could not give it up easily. Secondly, there was an iron fan in it. As for the princess and the red boy, he felt guilty about his wife and children and did not want to see the other party in trouble.

After the meritorious deeds were given, the Dao of Heaven did not help to restore the wilderness. As a result, the three regions of Beiju Luzhou, Beihuang and Northwest Desolate were still desolate. Except for the area around Dihuo City, there was not even a single living thing.

In order to determine the spread of Buddhism to the east, Tiandao called it "Repairing the Great Desolation". However, the westward route never passed through the original battlefield. Except for some demon forces, most of them were located in the center of human forces.

Through the propaganda of Tang Monk and his disciples, Buddhism has been widely spread along the journey to the West. Even in Dongsheng Shenzhou, within the traditional influence of Taoism, Buddhism is no less powerful than Taoism, and sometimes even surpasses it. Xuanmen is a step ahead.

Seeing this, the two sages in the west were naturally extremely happy, while the three sages in the east were extremely sad and angry, especially Yuanshi Tianzun. He originally thought that after the Battle of the Gods destroyed the Jie sect, the Chan sect would become famous.

However, he never expected that not only would Ran Deng, Manjusri, Samantabhadra, Jusun and Cihang defect to Buddhism, which would greatly reduce the strength of his sect, but also that the Tianding Journey to the West would lead to the great spread of Buddhism, which would lead to his gaining qi. His luck was actually worse than before becoming a god.

As for the Shangqing Tongtian Cult Leader, because of its sphere of influence, most of them are located in the eastern part of Dongsheng Shenzhou, the Eastern Wasteland and the East China Sea, which are the farthest away from the mainland of Buddhism, and have not been eroded too much by Buddhism.

Moreover, because of the sharp decline in Jiejiao's momentum at this time, and no strength to compete with Buddhism, seeing Yuanshi being trapped, he couldn't help but feel a little happy in his heart.

On the contrary, Taiqing Laozi, because of the Taoism he established, had few disciples in the first place, so he did not have much luck. After the spread of Buddhism eastward, the threat to him was the least.

However, because he was the head of the Three Pure dynasties, he had to make some calculations, including accepting the Eight Immortals of Shangdong and Changmei Zhenren as registered disciples, using them to live on the ancient continent, secretly obstructing the spread of Buddhism in the West.

The Eight Immortals of Shangdong and the Changmei Immortal were both ascended people, and were later collected by Laozi from the earthly immortal world as Taoist disciples. Among them, Lu Dongbin's previous life was Dongwang Gong, the first of the ancient male immortals. After his death, The true spirit was taken in by Taoist Hongjun. After going through tens of thousands of reincarnations, the soul was completely repaired, and then reincarnated on the earth. After ascending, he became my disciple. (To be continued...) ()