On the bustling street, countless pedestrians were coming and going. Jiang Chen stood among them and walked aimlessly along the flow of people. However, his dusty aura made him seem out of place in this dusty city.
While walking, Jiang Chen suddenly frowned and looked at a young man passing by him. He felt a familiar aura from this young man's body.
"This young man..."
Turning around, Jiang Chen looked at the young man and saw that this man had sharp eyebrows and starry eyes. He was extremely handsome. He was wearing a moon-white Confucian shirt and naturally exuded an elegant and gentle temperament.
This is not the point. The point is that this young man's appearance is two or three points similar to Jiang Chen.
"Amita, is that you?"
Stopping where he was, Jiang Chen looked at the young man's retreating background and pondered silently.
He saw a bit of himself in this young man. If nothing else, this young man was the reincarnation of Amitabha.
"The smell of incense is unmistakable, he is Amitabha."
After careful perception, Jiang Chen felt an extremely rich scent of incense from this young man's body. In this world, apart from him and Cang, only Amitabha's body could have such a rich scent of incense.
spirit.
Moreover, apart from Cang, only Amitabha looks so similar to him. After all, Amitabha and Cang are both creatures created by Jiang Chen. When they were born, they would inevitably refer to his appearance, so they are somewhat similar to him.
Similarity.
"Haha, this is life!"
Jiang Chen suddenly laughed out loud. Amitabha had previously reincarnated and was preparing to go to the human world to undergo calamities in order to achieve perfection.
Originally, Jiang Chen didn't care. Even if Amitabha was reincarnated, everything was under his control.
Unexpectedly, Amitabha Buddha had only been reincarnated for a few lives, and the contact with him was cut off, and his whereabouts could never be found again.
At that time, Jiang Chen guessed that a saint must have taken action to block the secrets about Amitabha, which caused him to lose contact with Amitabha.
As for the saint who took action, Jiang Chen did not know and could not guess. The most suspicious person must be the Second Saint of the West, but who can guarantee that it was not the Saint Taiqing who took action and deliberately framed the Second Saint of the West.
Unless the saint personally admits it, it is difficult to tell whether it is true or false.
After losing contact, Jiang Chen also tried to find Amitabha, but at that time, how could he detect the saint's methods? After searching for several years, he could not find any clues, so he had no choice but to give up.
He never thought that today on the street, he would encounter the reincarnation of Amitabha by accident, which was an unexpected surprise.
"Sure enough, those who have attained the truth will have God's help!"
Jiang Chen understood that it was because he had reshaped the boundless starry sky that his luck began to skyrocket, gradually approaching the point where his wishes would come true.
Even if he does nothing, fate will spontaneously gather towards him and come into contact with the people or things related to him.
"Let me see what you have been through these years!"
In Jiang Chen's eyes, the shadows of the sun and the moon appeared, turning into two divine lights and looking towards the reincarnation of Amitabha in the distance.
Brush~~
At this moment, a bright golden light first emerged from the body of the reincarnated body of Amitabha, and then wisps of purple energy emerged. The golden light and the purple energy merged together, turning into a purple-gold barrier, blocking Jiang Chen's gaze.
outer.
"Is it the work of the two sages from the West, the sage from the East, or is it the work of both sides on Amitabha?"
Jiang Chen's expression was a little strange. Buddha's Light was the method of the Two Saints of the West, and Purple Qi was the method of Taiqing Saint. I just didn't know who was impersonating whom, or whether both sides had taken action.
"break!"
In the past, Jiang Chen couldn't do anything against the saints' methods, but things are different now. His strength is not weaker than the saints at all, so he is naturally not afraid of their methods.
Jiang Chen's heart moved, and a soft breeze emerged, sweeping over the purple-gold light shield outside Amitabha's reincarnated body.
In an instant, the light curtain shattered, and everything Amitabha had experienced in the past hundreds of years appeared before Jiang Chen's eyes.
Amitabha Buddha is a born Buddha. He is different from ordinary people and does not need to experience all kinds of suffering. He is born sacred and great, has great supernatural powers, and is superior to all living beings.
This is his advantage and also his disadvantage.
The Buddha guides the direction for all sentient beings, leads them to cross the sea of suffering, reach the other shore, and be reborn in bliss. But the Buddha has not experienced all kinds of difficulties and joys in the world, so how can he guide the direction for all sentient beings and lead them to transcendence.
Therefore, Amitabha Buddha needs to be reincarnated, give up all his cultivation, and go to the human world to experience the joys, anger, sorrows, and joys of ordinary people from life to life.
Only by seeing through this vast world of mortals can Amitabha Buddha reach perfection, transcend the outside world, and become a true Buddha, guiding the way for all sentient beings.
Jiang Chen saw that Amitabha was an ordinary person in his first life. Although he was not rich, he was not poor either and lived an ordinary life.
In his second life, he was an orphan who froze to death in the snow before he could grow up.
In his third life, he was also an orphan, but this time he grew up successfully and became a beggar. He lived a life of wandering and rarely had a full meal, and finally died of illness in a ruined temple.
In his fourth life, he was a prostitute in a brothel...
In his fifth life, he was a turtle slave...
In the sixth life, he was a young master from a rich family and lived a wealthy life.
In the seventh life, he was also a young man from a rich family, but he fell into a poor family situation...
In the eighth life, he devoted himself to farming and died at the hands of bandits.
In the ninth life, that is, in this life, he joined a wealthy family and had no worries about food or clothing. However, he loved reading since childhood. He came to Luoyang to visit the great Confucian scholar.
The scene should have ended at this point, but Jiang Chen did not stop, but continued to use his magical powers to peek into Amitabha's future.
The long river of time is vast and surging forward. Soon, Amitabha's future appeared in Jiang Chen's eyes...
He wrote letters one after another in Luoyang, hoping to become a disciple of the great Confucian scholar. However, because he was a merchant, he was despised by the great Confucian scholar and no one was willing to accept him as his disciple.
Then, at this time, Amitabha's fate began to bifurcate, split in two from the middle, and lead to two different endings.
First, on his way back to his hometown, he met Huang Jiao and was accepted as his disciple, thus embarking on the path of cultivating immortality. However, in the end, due to his low qualifications, it was difficult for him to achieve anything in his cultivation, and he died of exhaustion of life.
Secondly, on his way back to his hometown, he happened to meet a kind-hearted Taoist and got his advice to prepare to go to the West to obtain the true scriptures.
But how could he, a mortal with a mortal body, travel across mountains and rivers? In the end, he died of illness in the wilderness.
The long river of time continued to surge forward, and soon Amitabha's tenth life appeared in front of Jiang Chen. It was still a fork in the road, with two different results.
The first way is that Amitabha continues to cultivate immortality. Although his qualifications are still not good, with the accumulation in the previous life, he can barely enter the Tao. However, after all, his qualifications are too poor. Although he has entered the Tao, he has no chance of immortality.
On the second road, Amitabha continued to travel west. Although he was still in mortal form, he was reincarnated near the place of his death, so that the journey he had taken earlier was not in vain.
Just like in his previous life, he died in a mortal body on his way to the west.
The long river of time and space continued to surge, and the experiences of Amitabha Buddha's eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth... one life after another kept appearing in Jiang Chen's eyes.
There is no doubt that these futures are all two branches, one leading to the path of immortality and the other to the path of Buddhism. The endings of these two paths have been doomed as early as the moment they appeared.
As far as the Immortal Way is concerned, after countless lifetimes of accumulation, Amitabha Buddha finally accumulated a deep enough foundation and achieved the realm of the Innate Taoist Master. He will make rapid progress in the future and become a giant of the Immortal Way.
As far as Buddhism is concerned, Amitabha Buddha walked a long way in his lifetime, and after dying countless times, he finally reached the Western Spiritual Mountain.
On the Lingshan Mountain, Amitabha collected the corpses of the fallen Buddhas on the Lingshan Mountain and incorporated the relics left behind by them after their death into his body. He directly realized the supreme realm of ten thousand Buddhas, and his cultivation was comparable to that of the previous Buddhas.
"Where did the body come from in Lingshan?"
Seeing the future of immortality, Jiang Chen just smiled and said nothing.
If he were an expert in the immortal way, he would arrange Amitabha like this, because Amitabha is the natural master of Buddhism and a symbol of Buddhist destiny. As long as he can be transferred to Taoism, the Buddhist destiny will return to Taoism.
In this way, the great wish of Buddhism to return to Taoism was easily fulfilled.
Such a huge temptation is placed in front of you. No one who is a Taoist saint would be able to refuse. It is inevitable to attack Amitabha and convert him into Taoism.
If Jiang Chen can still understand what the Immortals did, then Jiang Chen can't understand the future of Buddhism. All the Buddhas in Lingshan are already dead, where are the corpses that Amitabha can help to restrain?
"Two Saints of the West, are you making a bet between two parties?"
Jiang Chen thought silently.
There is no doubt that the future of Buddhism must be the work of the two sages of the West.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. The two sages of the West learned this very well. Therefore, while betting on Jiang Chen, they also bet on Tathagata Buddha and others.
If Jiang Chen wins, Amitabha will become the master of Buddhism and lead the West to great prosperity. The two sages of the West will naturally be happy to see this happen.
But if Jiang Chen loses, Tathagata Buddha and others win. That doesn't matter. The two sages of the West have planned in advance to draw Amitabha into Buddhism, so that Amitabha can lead Buddhism as the successor of Tathagata Buddha and continue to strengthen the West.
In short, Amitabha is the key. As long as he is around, the West will prosper. As for which force Amitabha belongs to, it is not important. What is important is that the West can prosper.
The two sages of the West only care about the results. As long as the West can prosper, they will not mind whoever presides over Buddhism, even if it is not their disciples.
"It's amazing what a saint can do."
Withdrawing his gaze, Jiang Chen said slowly, even though he had destroyed the Buddhas in Lingshan Mountain and refined them into the eight-part pagoda, a human being could make them reappear in the world with a single thought.
Otherwise, in the future of Amitabha Buddha, there will be no scene of gathering the corpses of ten thousand Buddhas and attaining enlightenment in one step.
However, if you want to say that he is awesome, then you have to look at Jiang Chen. Even a saint cannot plan the future for a person and make him 100% achieve the state of a great supernatural power.
Looking at the future of Amitabha, whether it is in Buddhism or immortality, the lowest level is the realm of quasi-sage perfection. Is this the work of a saint? No, this is Jiang Chen's ability.
Because the Amitabha Buddha created by Jiang Chen has the potential to become a person with great supernatural powers, the saint can only train him to become a quasi-sage and perfect person after saving him.
"Even the disciples are being robbed. These saints are really becoming less and less promising as they live longer."
Jiang Chen couldn't help but feel a little angry. Amitabha was his disciple after all, and the creatures he created were like his children.
He personally sent Amitabha to be reincarnated, hoping that he would experience the reincarnation of countless lives, achieve enlightenment and transcendence in the world of mortals, understand the true meaning of Buddha, and become one of the few masters in the world.
All of this was arranged properly, but I never thought that those saints saw that Amitabha's qualifications were so outstanding that they wanted to save him and take him under their tutelage without even saying hello.
He was robbing his disciples so blatantly, and his behavior was like poaching Jiang Chen in front of him and not taking him seriously.
If it was before, if you didn't take Jiang Chen seriously and didn't take him seriously, nothing would have happened. After all, no matter how talented Jiang Chen is, how can he defeat a saint?
But it's different now. Jiang Chen's status is higher and he can work on an equal footing with the saint. If the saint doesn't take him seriously, it will be troublesome, which is equivalent to forming a karmic relationship with him.
In the future, there will rarely be disputes.
…
"Break it all for me!"
Jiang Chen's eyes gradually turned cold, and then, an invisible force surged out of his body, destroying all the arrangements left by the saint on Amitabha.
At this moment, Amitabha's fate was brought back on track, and his future changed again.
Next, he successfully became a disciple of the great Confucian, and after completing his studies, he traveled around the world and eventually became a great Confucian. This was his destiny in this life, to become a great Confucian and educate the world.
And his next reincarnation will continue to struggle in the world of mortals, fighting from life to life until he can understand the true meaning of Buddha and awaken his true spirit, then he can transcend the world of mortals and restore his true self.
"Now that I have met him, let me help Amitabha Buddha so that he can transcend as soon as possible."
After thinking about it, Jiang Chen followed Amitabha and walked forward with him.
Amitabha's path to becoming a disciple was not smooth, and he went through many twists and turns before he successfully became a disciple of the great Confucian. Jiang Chen originally had no intention of interfering with his life, but he actually encountered it, so it would be unreasonable not to help him.
Moreover, Jiang Chen also has a treasure to give to Amitabha.
Jiang Chen can't always stay by Amitabha's side, but looking at the current situation, saints from both the East and the West are staring at him. It's hard to guarantee that Jiang Chen didn't notice, and Amitabha has been calculated by the saints again.
Therefore, he wanted to give Amitabha a treasure so that he could avoid the sage's plan.