Chapter 536 Customizing Rules for the Death of Monks

There are many things that monks should avoid when practicing, one of which is being too ambitious and trying to understand things that are far beyond one's own level.

There are many examples of monks dying on the spot or becoming insane because of trying to comprehend things that are simply beyond their current level of understanding.

The sect's Taoist tradition belongs to a higher level of cultivation. In a sense, the difficulty of understanding and developing the sect's Taoist tradition is at the same level as that of becoming an immortal. The Taoist tradition of a super sect is the best example.

The moment of understanding is one's step from semi-immortal to immortal realm, and only immortals can develop it further.

This is definitely not something that a Yuanying stage cultivator can understand. If it were someone else, they might have covered their ears and shouted, "Master, please stop reciting."

But Leng Ningshuang was born in the Leng family of the Dayu Dynasty. Even some disciples of super sects are not as knowledgeable as her, so it is no big deal even if she talks about the Taoist traditions of super sects.

Leng Ningshuang hated Dao Hai's roundabout way of answering, but Dao Hai did explain things clearly.

"All the people in Ghost State are reincarnated through the Ghost Sect's lineage... to pay for the sins they committed in their previous lives."

Now Leng Ningshuang figured out some things that had always puzzled her.

The Ghost Sect's style of doing things and its methods of cultivation are extremely sinister. They are good at torturing souls and do not look like good people. They are definitely evil heretics. According to the style of the Dayu Dynasty, it is impossible for the Ghost Sect to survive until now, and it is even impossible to allow the Ghost Sect's lineage to grow.

However, the Ghost Sect not only grew smoothly, it also became a super sect with great say in Taoism. Even though the Ghost Sect has become a fish on the chopping board now, the Dayu Dynasty only cut off the Ghost Sect's industries and did not touch the Ghost Sect itself.

Combined with what the old man and Dr. Huang said, it was fate, not a disease.

Leng Ningshuang successfully sorted out the situation and looked at Xiao Cui with a complicated expression, "Have you remembered your previous life? How many times have you been reincarnated as a human?"

Xiao Cui was silent for a while and then said softly, "I was a Yuanying cultivator in my previous life. When I fought with others, I moved mountains and filled seas, and killed countless people. Now I have been reincarnated as a human for 9,760 times. Every time I did not live past the age of 18, and most of the time I died in the aftermath of the cultivators' fights. Even if I managed to escape, I would die in various accidents."

"How many times do you have to reincarnate as a human being before you can be liberated?"

"At least 7,450,000 times."

Leng Ningshuang's eyes twitched violently, "So many?"

She originally thought that she would need to reincarnate as a human being tens of thousands of times at most, but she was still too narrow-minded. The Dayu Dynasty had only a history of hundreds of thousands of years, and this Xiao Cui actually had to reincarnate as a human being 7.45 million times?

Xiao Cui didn't say anything, Dao Hai said leisurely, "A lot? Life for life, every time she kills an innocent person, she has to die for that life in her lifetime. How many people will die if a Yuanying cultivator casually throws a mountain? How many innocent lives will be tragically killed if cultivators fight each other?"

"As a soldier monk, you should know better than me."

Leng Ningshuang was speechless, and Dao Hai continued, "Qi training, foundation building, and Jindan cultivators are fine, but the soul strength of Yuanying cultivators is extremely strong. Even if they are attracted by Ghost State and forcibly reincarnated as humans before using some means to revive, they will soon awaken the memories of their previous lives."

"They don't think of this as a punishment, they even think of it as a chance for God to give them a new life."

"They will immediately start to practice and improve their cultivation. The original punishment has made them successful, so they need to be more mature and be restricted by the Taoist tradition formed by the immortal world."

"The Netherworld Palace, the Rakshasa Palace, the Ghost Suppression Palace, the Mysterious Mountain, the Blood Cave, the Spiritual Silence Cave, and the Other Shore City, these super sects that attempted to form the Prison Gate were born accordingly."

"Only when you realize that you are being tortured, it can be considered the real beginning. The filth accumulated in your body will not disappear just by repenting sincerely. Only when you endure enough torture, the filth that has stained your soul will dissipate."

Dao Hai smiled slightly, "Brother Leng, I think what I said is not a roundabout way."

Leng Ningshuang snorted, "But even if ten super sects perfected the rules for the death of cultivators, they still couldn't withstand the pressure, right? There are too many cultivators, and their number is growing all the time. Those small worlds in the Tribulation Period also breed people, and those people are also cultivating, and will die, even countless times faster than the Great Thousand Worlds, but those small worlds in the Tribulation Period don't have those ten super sects."

"Where will the monks who died in those small worlds go?"

Dao Hai raised his hand and pointed at his feet. "That small world is not completely independent of the great world, but it grew on the great world and absorbed nutrients from it. The dead cultivators will naturally go to where they should go."

"What about you Buddhists? What role do you play?" Leng Ningshuang narrowed her eyes slightly. "In order to save those ghosts trapped by obsession, Emperor Yu used Buddhism to refine the Buddha Pillar. What do you Buddhists save?"

"To save others you must first save yourself. Buddhism cannot save anyone."

"Speak human language."

“The first Emperor Yu personally cut off the Great Wilderness Era. He naturally thought that even if the rules of cultivators’ death were perfected in the future, sooner or later it would not be able to support such a large group of cultivators. The final conclusion was to get rid of the filthy aura on the body within one lifetime, hence the Buddha Pillar,” Dao Hai clasped his hands together and shook his head gently from side to side.

"Put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha right away."

…

A temple reappeared from the mist, magnificent and golden, with a golden Buddha statue against the sun. In front of the gate, a kind-looking monk in a cassock was sweeping the floor. Hearing the noise, the monk looked up, smiled and waved in the direction of Yingjiu.

A light suddenly appeared in the eyes of the exhausted Yingjiu, and his stumbling steps gradually became stronger.

"We're here, we've finally reached the Buddhist temple! Xiao Cui, Xiao Cui is saved! Xiao Cui, you will definitely -"

Before Yingjiu finished speaking, Li Yanmo had already reached out and grabbed Yingjiu's shoulder, "Yingjiu, stop."

"Immortal, Immortal! Buddhism has arrived, Buddhism has arrived! Xiao, Xiao Cui is saved! I said it was not fate!" Yingjiu grabbed Li Yanmo's hand and pointed in the direction of the temple excitedly, but Li Yanmo's expression was extremely solemn.

"Yingjiu, you've come to the wrong place. This isn't impossible to be a Buddhist temple."

"Master? What are you talking about? It's clear from the first glance here..."

Li Yanmo raised his hand and waved, the fog dissipated, and the magnificent golden walls peeled off. The entire temple seemed to have experienced several fires, and everything was blackened, but the magnificent golden Buddha statue was spotless.

"Demon."

The kind-looking monk's expression gradually turned ferocious. His robes were propped up by his muscles, and brown animal hair emerged from between his skin. In the blink of an eye, he transformed into a bear monster wearing a robe.

(End of this chapter)