Volume 3 The Controversy between Immortals and Buddhas Chapter 6 Xiniu Hezhou
Rumor has it that during the 'Three Realms War' that year, the allied forces from the earth realm counterattacked and invaded the heaven realm. Two important battles broke out between the two sides in the heaven realm.
The remnant army of Demon Heavenly Court that retreated from Dongsheng Shenzhou and Nanzhanbuzhou, as well as all the fire-attributed legions, were completely wiped out in the southern region of Zhonghuang Yuzhou. This battle forced Demon Tianting to abandon Zhonghuang Yuzhou and retreat.
In the north, Luzhou is still alive.
Before this battle, a larger-scale battle broke out in Hezhou, Xiniu.
Xiniu Hezhou was originally the place where Demon Tianting trained and stationed troops. It was also where several of the most powerful races of Demon Tianting were stationed. The Allied Forces from the Earth Realm attacked this place. It was not smooth at first, but in the end, with perfect command and exquisite cooperation, Demon Tianting was defeated.
The main army was completely wiped out in Hezhou, Xiniu.
The battle of Xiniu Hezhou established the fate of Demon Heaven in the heaven, and also provided conditions for the earthly allies to attack Zhonghuang Yuzhou.
The battle that covered almost the entire territory of Xiniu Hezhou was extremely tortuous and tragic. With the end of the war, Xiniu Hezhou was basically defeated, its spiritual energy was thin, and it was full of Gobi and desert.
"There is no living thing in thousands of miles" is an unimaginable thing in Zhonghuang Yuzhou, but it is the norm in Xiniu Hezhou.
Among the ten restricted areas of life in the heaven, there are two in Xiniuhezhou: the quicksand of the vast sea and the war in the Gobi. It is said that the formation of the two restricted areas is related to that war.
The thin spiritual energy greatly restricted the monks' practice, and most of the monks had to choose to leave and move to other states; a small number of monks gathered in a few oases with rich spiritual energy.
Xiniuhezhou, like Nanzhanbuzhou, has gradually become a island inhabited by ordinary mortals who are unable to practice Buddhism.
As many powerful monks withdrew, Lingjiu Mountain, which converted to Buddhism, seized the opportunity and rose rapidly.
The Shimen gradually dominated Xiniu Hezhou.
Today, the influence of Buddhism in Xiniu Hezhou is no less than that of Heaven in Zhonghuang Yuzhou.
With the rapid expansion of Buddhism, different sects have gradually split into different internal sects, such as Mahayana, Hinayana, Tantra, Zen, Huayan, Nirvana, Miaofa, Faxiang, Vinaya, Kushe, Pure Land, Huanxi, etc.
There are nearly a hundred sects, large and small.
The most powerful one is undoubtedly the Holy Land of Buddhism: Lingjiu Mountain, also called Lingshan Mountain, where the Buddha, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are located.
It is precisely because of the existence of Shimen Lingjiu Mountain that Xiniuhezhou, which was originally called a "barren land", has surpassed Nanzhanbuzhou in strength and even caught up with Beijuluzhou.
But this kind of monopoly on a continent also has huge shortcomings:
‘There is no big city in Hezhou, Xiniu’.
In the deserts and Gobis all over Xiniu Hezhou, monks are mainly concentrated in a few oases with rich spiritual energy. With the strong rise of the Buddhist sect, some places with strong spiritual energy have been occupied by various branches and monasteries of the Buddhist sect. Other sects and races have either converted
The Shimen either moved to other continents, leaving the scattered cultivators and small sects with very little influence in Xiniuhezhou.
Cities have become irrelevant.
The most powerful Zhonghuang Yuzhou is only a southern region. After more than two hundred years of turmoil, there are still more than 300 sects that have reached the stage, and there are nearly a thousand cities, large and small. Heavenly Court only needs to control them.
If you live in major large and medium-sized cities, you can basically control the Southern Region.
Xiniu Hezhou was dominated by the Buddhist sect, and the city of monks became dispensable.
For example, Helan City is adjacent to the Buddhist holy land: "Lingshan". It is the largest city in Hezhou, Xiniu, and is only five thousand miles long. According to the standards of other continents, it can barely be regarded as the "entry-level" size of a big city.
Helan City, the largest city in Hezhou, Xiniu, is also the main transmission channel in and out of the continent. Although it is close to the Buddhist holy land "Lingshan", the strange thing is that the ownership of the city belongs to the heaven. Through the intercontinental teleportation array of Tiancheng, Wang Bin and his party were directly teleported to Helan City
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After listening to the detailed report at the Jinyun Mansion headquarters in Helan City, they gathered five capable generals from Hezhou, Xiniu, and a group of ten people immediately rushed to the place where Elder Qiu Xuan disappeared:
Xipo City.
Xiniu Hezhou is not prosperous, and not every city has a complete teleportation array. For example, Xipo City, a small city with a radius of 800 miles, is already considered a 'medium-sized' city in the entire Xiniu Hezhou, but it only builds a short-distance teleportation array.
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Xipo City is named because it is located in the mortal country: "Xipo Kingdom". Five hundred miles southwest of Xipo City, there is an endless black pine forest, winding through several gentle slope plains, thousands of miles in radius. It is tall and tall
The black pine trees block out the sky and the sun, so no light can be seen in the forest all year round; even if the sun shines brightly at noon, the forest is still dark.
"Is this right here?"
"Going back to the first seat, based on the image sent back by Elder Qiu's 'Shadow Teleportation Talisman' and our various investigations, we confirmed that the last image sent back by Elder Qiu was this black pine forest."
"Well! Is there any other information?"
"Looking back, this black pine forest has a radius of thousands of miles. Not far from the black pine forest, there is a steep mountain called Black Pine Mountain. There is a magnificent temple on the black pine mountain called 'Zhenhai Chanlin Temple'.
We suspect that the monk who captured Elder Qiu is a monk from that temple."
Wang Bin nodded, thought for a while and said:
"Jin San and Chunxuan are following me. The others disperse according to plan and wait for my signal. Let's pay homage first and then go to visit the 'Zhenhai Chanlin Temple'."
The three people immediately took off into the air and flew quickly over the black pine forest.
The end of the black pine forest is indeed a majestic and undulating mountain range. The highest main peak goes straight into the clouds. There is a faint golden light passing through the clouds and mist, shooting downwards. In the depression at the foot of the main peak, there are countless pavilions and temples hidden in the tall mountains.
In the black pine forest.
He looked at the temple in the mountain col and then looked at Elder Chunxuan next to him:
"How about it?"
Chunxuan touched the 'concentric ring' on her wrist and said:
"This is indeed it."
Wang Bin nodded slightly, and then said to Jin San:
"You stay here. If we haven't come out after two hours, we will do as we agreed before."
Jin San bowed and said:
"Yes, Master! Please be careful."
Wang Bin and Chunxuan walked out of the black pine forest and walked straight to the mountain gate.
In front of the mountain gate, a ten-foot-tall stone tablet stood beside the road, with a line of large gilded characters carved on it:
‘Heisongshan Zhenhai Chanlin Temple’.
After looking at the stone tablet, he said lightly as he moved forward:
"It is rumored that in order to promote Buddhism, the second disciple of the Lingshan Buddha Sect, Jin Chanzi, was reincarnated.
The four masters and disciples of Jin Chanzi traveled westward from Nanzhanbuzhou and Tang Dynasty to Hezhou and Lingshan in Xiniu to obtain the true scriptures. They once passed by the Zhenhai Chanlin Temple, where Jin Chanzi remained ill for three days.
The demon fairy in the bottomless pit of Kongkong Mountain: the golden-nosed white-haired rat demon, nicknamed "Half Guanyin", also used to confuse the golden cicada here with the intention of marrying her and obtaining the "Yuan Yang". After the battle, he defeated the Buddha and asked the king of the pagoda to marry him.
With the help of Prince Zha, the heavenly soldiers and generals captured the golden-nosed white-haired rat and rescued the golden cicada from the bottomless pit.
Don’t you know if this is true or not?”
"There are also rumors about this in heaven."
With that said, the two of them walked to the temple gate.