Chapter 138 Teacher Buddha dared to ask her to kill Li Zhou at this time, it must be...
Speaking of the Buddhist kingdom, Master Liaochen recalled the old events of the previous dynasty.
Daxia worshipped Buddhism. When Zen Buddhism was at its most prosperous, there were more than 500 Buddhist temples and over 100,000 monks and nuns in the imperial capital alone. Even the emperor often listened to eminent monks explain the Dharma and ate vegetarian food to show his piety to Buddhism.
Buddhist disciples love to talk about saving all living beings, however, the huge number of monks and nuns do not make life better for all living beings.
Monks and nuns had the privilege of being exempt from labor and taxes, so the shortfall naturally had to be made up by ordinary people. The construction of Buddhist temples occupied a large amount of fertile land, and more and more people lost their land and had no choice but to sell themselves to the temples as slaves. The monks of that era were essentially no different from the aristocratic families of today.
Precisely because of the excessive worship of Buddhism, there was a large-scale anti-Buddhist movement after the fall of Daxia. Buddhist temples were demolished, Buddha statues were destroyed, and monks and nuns were treated like rats crossing the street. Once encountered by people, they would be beaten at the very least, and killed at the worst.
The Buddha worshipped in Yehean is a Pratyekabuddha, which in Sanskrit means a Buddha who was born in an age without Buddha, and who attained enlightenment on his own without any teacher's guidance.
This Buddha is in charge of wisdom and karma, so Master Liaochen always believed that her coming to the Li Mansion and forming a bond with Li Zhou was the guidance of the Buddha.
Now it seems that the Buddha did intend to guide her to Li Zhou, but his purpose was not to ask her to monitor Li Zhou and ensure that Li Zhou would not lose control, nor was it to ask her to help Li Zhou so that He could expel the infiltrating gods more quickly.
The Buddha she had worshipped for so many years was actually no different from other gods. Everything she did was to increase her followers and expand her own authority.
Obviously, the Pratyekabuddha was a virtuous person who suddenly realized the truth about life and death and attained enlightenment in that chaotic world where people were cannibalizing each other.
Obviously, He had seen the chaos of the proliferation of temples and was aware of the consequences of the overdevelopment of Buddhism.
Could a wise Buddha be so short-sighted?
As soon as Master Liaochen asked this question, she sneered in her heart.
Didn't she already know that there was no difference between Pratyekabuddhas and other gods? She actually thought that the Buddha would care about the chaos in the world.
Even if this world is destroyed, He can still go to other worlds and wait for the troubled times to pass, and for mortals to grow up again like leeks in the fields.
Master Liaochen felt that she had not yet transcended life and death and was just a mortal. After seeing through the true face of the Buddha, she couldn't help but feel disheartened.
However, what frightened her even more was that she knew that if she could revive the Buddhist kingdom, this tremendous merit would enable her to become a Buddha instantly.
That is becoming a Buddha. Which monk in this world does not want to be forever free from birth and death, and be free from disasters and calamities? Which monk does not want to cultivate a golden body and achieve the supreme enlightenment?
Just thinking about the scene of herself being called a certain Buddha, Master Liaochen felt an uncontrollable shudder, as if her soul was nourished.
Master Liaochen looked at the Buddha statue, whose light was withdrawn and whose spirit seemed to have faded away, and for the first time questioned the Buddha's teachings: "Is it really so? If I kill Li Zhou, I can revive the Buddhist kingdom and attain Buddhahood in this life?"
The gorgeously dressed Buddha statue lowered its eyes slightly, and a thought came into Master Liaochen's mind. He answered her affirmatively, "Yes."
So……
Master Liaochen stood up from the cushion, put on a pomegranate red cassock, wore a necklace, hung up the scale-patterned plate, and bowed respectfully to the Buddha statue again. As if she had made some kind of resolution, she turned around and walked straight to the courtyard where Li Zhou was.
A golden light emanated from the Buddha statue, and the Buddha's divine consciousness, which had just left this place, quietly sent out a ray of it and attached itself to her.
Baby Li Zhou stretched, rubbed his eyes which were still a little blurry from just waking up, and looked at Yue Niang who was reading.
Next to Yue Niang was the small school bag she had made for Li Zhou. There were many pockets of different sizes in the bag, which could hold stationery, coins, and Li Zhou's favorite snacks.
Although Zhuo'er only had to walk from his own yard to Master Chen's yard to go to school, since other children had to carry school bags when they went to school, Zhuo'er naturally had to have one too.
Yue Niang sewed a puppy on the book bag. The puppy wore a tiger-head hat, tiger-head shoes, a gold collar, and a bellyband.
Li Zhou pointed at the puppy and said, "It's dressed the same as me."
Yue Niang pursed her lips, her eyes full of smiles: "Does Zhouer like puppies?"
Li Zhou glanced at the title of "Happy Puppy Certified by Mom" on his dashboard and proudly said, "I am the cutest puppy."
Yue Niang finally couldn't hold back her laughter and patted the top of her head: "Who says they are dogs?"
Since Zhuo'er was awake, Yue Niang put down the book and planned to play with the child for a while.
But the next moment, she saw the bee lying on Li Zhou's shoulder raised its head and looked intently outside the door.
She had never asked about the origin of this bee, but her intuition told her that the identity of the bee was probably comparable to that of the dragon in the basin.
Seeing it in this posture, Yue Niang frowned and looked over with some uneasiness.
She saw Master Chen walking in from outside.
Yue Niang's frown relaxed again, and she said in surprise, "Why isn't the nun worshipping Buddha? Do you have something to say?"
She usually saw it all. Apart from teaching Zhuer and Dalang, Master Liaochen spent most of her time doing her homework in front of the Buddha statue.
Master Liaochen said calmly, "I have something to talk to Zhou'er about today."
Yue Niang pretended to listen, but Master Liaochen glanced at her, shook her head and said, "I want to talk to Zhou Er alone."
Yue Niang glanced at Li Zhou in confusion. The latter was quietly burying his head in his book bag, his mouth puffing up and down, not knowing what he was doing. He felt his mother's gaze and quickly raised his head, pretending nothing had happened, but he didn't know that he had been betrayed by the pastry crumbs at the corner of his mouth.
The snacks that Yue Niang prepared for her during class didn't even last until the class started.
"Master, do you mean that I should avoid it too?" Yue Niang retracted her gaze and looked at Master Chen, with a hint of vigilance in her eyes.
Nun Liaochen lowered her eyes, a golden light flashed in them, and when she raised them again, they returned to normal, and she said in a firm tone: "The following words are not suitable for Yue Niang to hear."
"I'm her mother."
"Really? Could a mortal be the mother of an evil spirit?"
Yue Niang's pupils dilated slightly, and she subconsciously reached out to pull Li Zhou, who had not yet reacted, into her arms, her face darkening.
At this point, the malicious intentions of Master Liaochen were obvious. What did she want to do? Did she finally remember that the purpose of the Li Mansion was to kill the evil spirits?
But Zhuer... Zhuer... Zhuer is still just a child.
"...What do you want to do to Zhu'er?" Yue Niang covered Li Zhu's ears, afraid that she would hear these heart-breaking words. Li Zhu tilted his neck in confusion and looked at his mother. The pastry crumbs at the corner of his mouth fell on his shoulder and were caught by the bee and returned to her hand.
Li Zhou took the snack crumbs and sipped them into his mouth. He vaguely heard Master Chen say, "I was thinking of giving you a chance to live."
Master Liaochen glanced at Yue Niang, picked up the necklace, and recited quickly: "I pay homage to the all-knowing Buddha who has realized the great lamp of the three worlds. I pay homage to the supreme Dharma and all the great monks who are worthy of the truth. I have heard that the peaceful Pratyekabuddhas have realized the cause and effect, and their hearts are pure and free from afflictions. They are good at observing the precepts and are always pure..."
As she chanted, a towering footprint emerged behind her, with an eight-spoked Dharma wheel engraved on each toe.
Golden Buddha light emanated from the footprints, attacking Yue Niang and Li Zhou.
Yue Niang hugged Li Zhou and retreated fiercely. The next moment, her eyes went dark and she was covered by Master Lechen's cassock.
Master Liaochen attacked them while using her robes to protect them.
Yue Niang looked at Li Zhou in the dark, her heart full of questions.
She couldn't see that outside the cassock, Master Liaochen turned on her toes and turned her head to face the towering footprint. She was surrounded by jewels and exuded a determined murderous intent.
The Pratyekabuddha dared to ask her to kill Li Zhou at this time, it must be because there was sufficient evidence to show that Li Zhou was in a bad condition at the moment and there was an opportunity to take advantage of him.
She is Li Zhou's teacher and one of the sentient beings in the Three Realms. If the gods and Buddhas want to kill her students and abandon the mortals in the world, then she will give it a try even if she is just trying to stop a chariot with a mantis arm.
If Buddha wants to kill Li Zhou, he should just step over her dead body.
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