Tathagata's voice surrounded Tang Xuanzang's ears, as if he was interrogating him. Tang Xuanzang felt sweat on his forehead and felt a little panicked. If this question had been asked to Tang Xuanzang before the battle at Pingdingshan, he would never have been asked like this.
I'm at a loss. Because my mind is pure, I naturally speak freely. But now, my heart is "unclean", and it's difficult to speak my true thoughts.
What did he say? That he discovered along the way that he was actually a chess piece, and that because he was on the chessboard, the life and death of his beloved woman was now uncertain? Or that he knew that he was actually a discarded piece?
, if the mysterious Mr. Xue hadn't helped, he would have turned into a pile of withered bones by now?
Faced with Tang Xuanzang's silence, all the Bodhisattvas in the hall had ugly expressions, but Tathagata's expression was calm, as they had already expected such a situation.
At this moment, the entire propaganda campaign planned by Xitian suddenly became a joke. And it was a joke that had to be promoted.
The person who completed the pilgrimage to the West is not a devout monk. How can he convince others?
"You can't answer?"
"Lord Buddha, please forgive me. I have such complicated thoughts that I really don't know where to start." Xuanzang of Tang Dynasty could not lie, but he knew that he could not express what he was thinking. That would be a great disrespect to Tathagata Buddha.
"I don't know where to start? Anyway, the journey to the west is related to whether thousands of living beings can be relieved and liberated, and the evil in the world also needs good thoughts to fundamentally resolve it. So, no matter what, you, master and disciple, have gone through thousands of years.
All the hard work can be regarded as a great meritorious deed.
So go down and rest first, I will order the scriptures to be prepared, and I will inform you to come back to receive the good fruits this time. Please leave."
Tathagata's attitude expressed many things, the most obvious one being his dissatisfaction with Tang Xuanzang.
Tang Xuanzang’s master and disciples also felt the dissatisfaction coming from Tathagata. Some were anxious and some were worried and scared, but none of them dared to stand up and make even the slightest excuse.
The two tutu came out of the corner and led Master Tang Xuanzang out of the hall. However, they did not go out. Instead, they turned a corner and walked through a corridor to a small courtyard behind the hall.
"Master Xuanzang, this is your resting place. Do not move around without being summoned by the Buddha." After Tutuo finished speaking, he was about to leave but was stopped by Tang Xuanzang.
"Does Master Xuanzang still have something to do?"
Xuanzang thought for a moment and then asked: "This Toutuo, I wonder how long we have to wait here?"
"Oh, Master, don't worry, Buddha has his own arrangements."
In this way, the four masters and disciples of Tang Xuanzang lived in the "Western" Leiyin Temple. The only advantage was that they didn't have to worry about monsters coming to disturb them, and they didn't have to worry about food. Novice monks would bring them three meals a day.
Even though it is just plain food, it is enough to feed a big-bellied man like Zhu Ganghe.
As soon as Sun Wukong settled in, he meditated and practiced, ignoring everything. He seemed to have suddenly enlightened and wanted to take advantage of the abundant energy of heaven and earth in the "Western Heaven" to increase his strength. Little did he know that what the monkey was doing now was what Xue Wusuan had told him before.
As a monkey demon who has just entered the Wu Dao Cultivation System, Sun Wukong has received far more benefits than he expected, and he understands how correct his original choice was.
Unlike Xue Jian, Haotian, Amitabha, Jade Emperor and other powerful people who have also entered the Taoist cultivation system, Sun Wukong does not have such great ambitions. He just wants to become stronger as soon as possible and step into the Golden Immortal.
He was very satisfied, so he didn't even think about opening up a new path of his own in the Taoist system.
"Why should I go to the trouble of opening another road when there is a ready-made road paved this far?"
With this idea in mind, Sun Wukong followed the lighthouses in front of him and quickly adjusted his practice direction, quickly overcoming one bottleneck after another that had troubled him.
When it comes out, it will be nearly twice as powerful, and it is no longer far away from breaking through the limit and reaching the Golden Immortal Realm.
But the problem is that Sun Wukong's current cultivation level has improved too quickly. He has no way to use the energy of heaven and earth from the outside world to disguise the fact that he is now a demon cultivator. This is a very dangerous thing. Even if Tathagata cannot take the true form
If a dharma body comes and wants to investigate Sun Wukong, it won't take much effort to find out the clues about him now.
Therefore, Xue Wusuan left instructions before Sun Wukong went to the "Western Heaven", asking him to practice a special method as soon as he entered the Western Heaven. This method was improvised by Xue Wusuan temporarily. It is very simple, but very practical.
The reason why Sun Wukong is so "diligent" now is that he is running this method to cover up the fact that he is a demon cultivator by absorbing the vitality of heaven and earth. Although he is not sure what his current identity will be if the Tathagata notices it.
It will end, but it will definitely not be easy.
When Tang Xuanzang came in, he would sit and meditate while twirling the rosary beads in his hand, seemingly preoccupied.
Zhu Gangxi and Sha Wujing, no matter how stupid they were, felt a different atmosphere. They found that even in the west, there still seemed to be something they didn't know, and the situation was not all happy. Could it be that they ran to the West with all their strength?
Is it better not to leave one behind in this Western Heaven?
Just when Zhu Gangxi and Sha Wujing were tensed, there was already a quarrel in the Xitian Hall.
Don't think that all Buddhist cultivators are calm in temperament and gentle in their words. There are many people with hot tempers. Moreover, the incident of Tang Xuanzang is related to the face of the entire Buddhist cultivator in the upper world and the spread of Taoism in the future, as well as to all Buddhists.
Cultivation is a major matter that is closely related to each other, and no one will remain silent about something that does not concern them.
"Tang Xuanzang's master and his disciples no longer have plasticity. If we really give them the status of enlightenment like this, it will be unfair to the other Buddhist practitioners, and it will definitely become a big joke! These four masters and disciples cannot be retained."
"Don't stay? Kill? Humph! This is the last resort! If we do this, not only will we lose face, but even our reputation will be burned. How can we spread the orthodoxy widely in the future?"
"Can't kill? Then we can't reward, right? Otherwise, how will we gain a foothold in the future?"
"Why!"
The bodhisattvas who were arguing endlessly did not have the idea of "tying themselves up in a cocoon" in their minds, but no one dared to say it, because this matter was arranged by the Tathagata.
There was such a fierce noise down there, but there was no shadow of Tathagata in the main hall.
And just outside the projection of the western sky, in a small forest dozens of miles away, three figures were sitting around a stone table. This stone table looked very abrupt in the forest, just like
The momentum between these three figures is extremely inconsistent with each other.
"Your Excellency suddenly appeared in this world, maybe not to play such a little joke with Tathagata, right?" An old man with white beard smiled and looked at the man in black robe with golden nine dragons in front of him and said. And there was another man in gold robe on the right hand of the old man.