Chapter 541: The True Face of the Demons Refined by Buddhism

Yingjiu's difficulties as a monk continued. The Buddhist sect did not show any mercy to Yingjiu because he was brought by Li Yanmo. They tortured Yingjiu to death and made him copy a large number of Buddhist scriptures in a short period of time. Although Yingjiu always gritted his teeth and said that it was okay and that he could hold on, he still lost weight day by day.

Li Yanmo also realized that this was just like being an ascetic monk.

Facing Li Yanmo's doubts, Daoyan just smiled and replied, "When God wants to give a man a great responsibility, he must first make his mind suffer, his muscles and bones tired, his body hungry and empty, and his actions frustrated, so as to stimulate his heart and endure his nature, and increase his ability to do what he could not do before."

Li Yanmo was speechless, while Daoyan laughed and turned away.

Today, Yingjiu made another mistake. Because he missed Xiaocui, Yingjiu accidentally wrote Xiaocui's name on the scriptures while copying them. The monk in charge of the precepts was furious and severely punished Yingjiu, which directly led to Yingjiu's serious illness.

Buddhism was not so cruel as to force Yingjiu to do heavy work while dragging his seriously ill body, but Yingjiu became thinner and thinner, as if he had no flesh and his skin was tightly attached to his bones.

Li Yanmo finally figured out the problem. Why did he feel that those mummies looked familiar when he passed through the evil demon tribe?

Because all the mummies in the temple were Yingjiu himself.

And that bear demon in cassock is probably Yingjiu himself.

"Master Daoyan, what kind of Buddha is this?"

Li Yanmo looked up with emotion, and the black-robed monk Daoyan had appeared behind him at some point.

"Of course it depends on you, the donor...what kind of Buddha do you want?"

Daoyan stroked his beard and laughed. Behind him, the sun tilted to one side, and the moon rose with the stars, but in a moment, the moon and the stars fell together, and the sun took their place, and this cycle repeated itself. In a moment, winter passed and spring came in Juezhou, and Yingjiu was sweeping the snow in the temple with his eyes lowered.

After a year of hard training, Yingjiu seemed to have realized something and rarely made mistakes.

The tender green branches pushed away the snow, and a new group of people became monks. They went through the same ascetic practice as Yingjiu.

Some people, like Yingjiu, persisted silently, while others lost control and made a scene because of the overly strict precepts. As for those who could not endure the asceticism, Buddhism not only did not punish them, but even treated them with good food and drink. It is not known whether this was intentional or unintentional.

It was Yingjiu who was in charge of treating those who were doing nothing but enduring the hardship with delicious food.

Li Yanmo also had his eyes broadened.

Beneath the holy land of Buddhism, there are casinos and brothels everywhere, with a dazzling array of goods and so many tricks that it's dizzying. As long as you are a Buddhist disciple, you can use them for free and indulge in lust without restraint. But if you are not a Buddhist disciple, you will need to pay high fees.

"You Buddhists are really good at having fun," Li Yanmo glanced at Daoyan.

Daoyan laughed helplessly, "If you don't know what kind of desires there are in this world, how can you be sure that you can really control yourself?"

Li Yan did not answer, but just watched the development in front of him.

The monks who originally thought they could not endure the ascetic training were immediately able to endure it and indulged in lust without restraint. They thought that the ascetic training was just laziness and did not care even if they were punished. They would even do it perfunctorily and then continue to live a carefree life.

"You shouldn't let them indulge themselves."

"Why?"

Li Yan was speechless.

Of course it is because this is a holy place of Buddhism. These monks stayed here not to become Buddhas, but to indulge in lust, which is simply putting the cart before the horse.

"Master Li, do you think Buddhism has put the cart before the horse?"

Li Yanmo was not surprised that his thoughts were seen through, "What else?"

"Master Li, a person can only save himself. Strict rules enforced by force cannot save anyone. They will only destroy everyone's self and eventually produce a bunch of rigid and stubborn idiots who can only chant sutras," Daoyan said quietly with his hands behind his back. "Only when you realize and let go can you be a Buddha."

"What if you are stubborn and refuse to change your ways?"

Daoyan did not answer, but just turned his head to look.

"Ridiculous! Ridiculous! Ridiculous!"

A middle-aged monk couldn't help but throw the thing in his hand to the ground.

Yingjiu was startled and quickly bent down to pack his things, while trying to persuade him, "Daoqi, calm down."

"Calm down, how can I calm down! Daoliang! Stop cleaning up!" The middle-aged man called Daoqi kicked away the things on the ground, grabbed Daoqi's shoulders and forced Daoqi to look at him, "Daoliang! Don't you find it strange? Why are we who abide by the precepts suffering more and more every day, while those guys who indulge in lust are fat and fat, with greasy faces!"

"Daoqi, we shouldn't think like that. We didn't start practicing hard just to compare ourselves with others," Yingjiu shook his head.

Dao Qi opened his mouth, staggered back a step, and held his head in his hands. "There has to be a beginning, right? There has to be an outcome, right? They said it wasn't a disease, but fate. Only if we go to Juezhou will we have a chance... Because of this sentence, I left the person I loved the most on the day of my wedding..."

“What on earth am I doing right now?”

"road……"

Yingjiu reached out to grab Daoqi, but Daoqi dodged him.

"We have been deceived... We have been deceived! There is no Buddha here at all!"

Amid the roar, Dodge's body gradually swelled, hard animal hair emerged from his skin, and the ferocious tiger head was raised. Daoqi, who was just an ordinary person, suddenly saw a surge in cultivation.

Yingjiu was so frightened that he fell to the ground and subconsciously called out the other person's real name, "Li Yuan?"

Daoqi, who had transformed into a tiger demon, wrapped himself in a cassock, staggered back a step and turned into a gust of evil wind and left. Although it was clearly an important place in Buddhism, no one tried to stop him, and no one even looked up to see him.

Daoqi, who had transformed into a tiger demon in cassocks, headed straight for the territory of the evil demon clan and wandered around in the wasteland, not knowing why he existed.

Sometimes it turns into a human, sometimes it turns into an animal.

Until a young man with ragged clothes but bright eyes appeared.

Daoqi happened to be a human being at this time. Seeing Daoqi wrapped in a monk's robe and with a bald head, the young man excitedly stepped forward and said, "Master! Have I arrived at the holy land of Juezhou Buddhism?"

Daoqi's cloudy eyes slowly opened, "What's your name?"

"Master, my name is Li Yuan!"

"You... abandoned your family?"

"No, I'm here to save them! They said this is the only way!"

“Ah…Ahhhh!”

Daoqi's body suddenly grew in size, and his ferocious tiger head bit off Li Yuan's head in one bite.

Soon, the second Li Yuan, the third Li Yuan, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth...

After eating countless Li Yuans, Dodge built a temple there and erected a Buddha statue.

Dodge smiled kindly when facing Li Yuan who appeared again.

"You have arrived at the holy land of Buddhism."

Daoqi took the scriptures and taught Li Yuan to chant until Li Yuan died on the cushion. More and more Li Yuan died, and the first Li Yuan who died on the cushion had become a mummy. Daoqi's cultivation became higher and higher, and he emitted Buddha's light, and the huge Buddha statue became bigger and bigger.

"This... is your Duji?"

"nature."

"Then why did you want to refine Daoqi into a ghost?" Li Yanmo looked at Daoyan expressionlessly.

It's not that the demons use Buddhism to refine ghosts, but that the method of refining ghosts is disguised as Buddhism.

(End of this chapter)