Chapter 523: Buddhist Movements
Li Yanmo and Jiang Baili looked at each other for several seconds and then tacitly skipped this sensitive topic.
"When I was in the Eight Desolations, I saw something under the Eight Desolations."
“Impossible, if you saw what’s underneath, you would never be able to calmly ask me questions like you are now,” Lily Jiang yawned, holding her chin and smiled, “I said this, you can understand what is under the world, right?”
"Probably a little bit," Li Yanmo patted his head, "So what exactly is the Naraku demon clan? The Ten Thousand Demons Mountain was not the Ten Thousand Demons Mountain at the beginning, but a place similar to the Eight Desolations."
"How should I put it? As the saying goes, everything happens for a reason. Since everything in the world has appeared, there must be a reason for its appearance," Lily Jiang picked up the pipe, leisurely stuffed it with herbs, lit it, and took a light puff.
The herbs burned to ashes in the flames.
With a gentle blow from Lily Jiang, the white medicinal smoke like a veil dissipated, but underneath was charred ashes.
"The Ten Thousand Demons Mountain... was a mistake, a lesson, and a warning. I also heard it from my ancestors," Jiang Baili glanced at Li Yanmo, "At that time, the Dayu Dynasty had already established the Dao Sect, and the Dayu Dao Sect was thriving. In order to completely eliminate the problems left over from the Great Wilderness, Emperor Yu led the army to slay demons everywhere, but this move caused problems in the operation of the Great Thousand World."
"Demons are anomalies of heaven and earth. It is abnormal for demons to run rampant in the world, but the Great Wilderness Era is too long, and this abnormality has lasted too long. Trying to correct it has become abnormal instead."
"The Mountain of Ten Thousand Monsters was originally called the City of Ten Thousand People. The country was peaceful and the people were safe. It was not suitable for seeking immortality. Dayu originally wanted to make it a paradise, but it collapsed when the last monster was killed. The Naraku monster tribe also appeared for the first time."
"But this is just the interpretation of the historians. Maybe the Naraku demon race had already appeared in the Great Wilderness, but the cultivators of the Great Wilderness Taoist sect at that time were more evil than the demons, so we couldn't see it."
Jiang Baili glanced at Li Yanmo, thinking that Li Yanmo would at least show some surprise, but she didn't expect that Li Yanmo just raised his eyebrows.
“Your reaction is so bland,” Lily Jiang expressed her thoughts truthfully.
"What expression do you think I should show?" Li Yanmo stood up and poured himself a cup of tea. "It's about that. People who have been seriously ill for too long may have reached a kind of symbiosis with the diseases in their bodies. Some diseases may not be killing them, but attacking other diseases. If you treat them all at once, the slightest mistake may cause some hidden diseases to break out."
Lily Jiang asked in surprise, “Have you studied medicine?”
"I heard it from hearsay, but it seems I was right," Li Yanmo looked away and used tea to hide his expression, "Then I understand why the Dayu Dynasty would spend so much effort to deal with the millions of Taoist sects instead of those demon tribes that exist in plain sight."
"But this disease must be cured."
Lily Jiang stood up and took the teacup from Li Yanmo's hand, and raised it to Li Yanmo, "Isn't it getting better now?"
After that, Lily Jiang took a sip of tea.
"Ugh - how did you make such bitter tea?"
"Good medicine tastes bitter, so of course there are a lot of good medicines in it."
Li Yanmo laughed, then dodged Jiang Baili's tea-throwing attack by moving sideways, patted his butt and left.
Looking at Li Yanmo's back, Lily Jiang turned the empty but still hot cup in her hand.
After leaving Luoyang Town, Li Yanmo had been thinking about what Jiang Baili said. The past and present of Wan Yao Mountain evoked Li Yanmo's memories from a few years ago. Leng Ningshuang had once talked about the theory of balance in the universe.
The Great Wilderness Era gave birth to the righteousness of heaven and earth, or in other words... the Dayu Dynasty.
Although the Dayu Dynasty successfully curbed the proliferation of demons by using the righteousness of heaven and earth to eliminate demons, it also caused the demons to become more cunning, and they were even able to take advantage of the righteousness of heaven and earth. Of course, the worst thing is that the monks who are supposed to slay demons and eliminate evil also use the righteousness of heaven and earth to improve their realm.
When Li Yanmo was thinking, Shen Ziqing came over. Seeing that Li Yanmo's brows were furrowed as if he was thinking about something, Shen Ziqing hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Master, there has been some progress on the business path, but...something unexpected happened."
"Unexpected things?" Li Yanmo frowned immediately.
Nowadays, Taoism has been split into two, with many sects headed by super sects such as the Six Paths Sect and the Tianyin Demon Sect registered in the Tianxu Tower. For these sects, establishing trade routes will do more harm than good, and they are eager to immediately establish trade routes connecting the entire world.
The other part is the Ghost Sect, the Dou Sect and other super sects that represent Taoism and surrendered to the Dayu Dynasty.
These super sects were so frightened by the war preparations of the super sects of the Tianxu Tower Alliance that all their assets except the sects themselves were confiscated. They had neither the ability nor the courage to make trouble.
The demon clan was scared to death when they heard that Tianxu Tower intended to interfere in the affairs of the dragon clan.
The only thing that could get in the way is the Immortal Palace.
When Li Yanmo thought about the eternal black hand taking action, he became a little nervous, "What happened?"
"Actually... it's from the Buddhist sect," Shen Ziqing scratched his face, as if he didn't know how to start. After pondering for a while, he lowered his voice, "Master, you know, our mission in Tianxu Tower is not only to help the common people, but also to kill monsters. However, some disciples from third-rate sects reported that when they killed monsters, they found that those monsters could use Buddhist teachings, and -"
Shen Ziqing lowered his voice even lower.
"According to Heishanqi, every time they want to kill evil monsters recently, Buddhist disciples will appear and say that those monsters are their Buddhist mounts. Because they were not properly supervised, those mounts escaped and committed crimes. Then they took those monsters away."
Li Yanmo raised his eyes slightly, "Is this confirmed to be true?"
"It's true. I just asked around and found out that this is not something that has only happened recently," Shen Ziqing took out a jade token from his arms and handed it to Li Yanmo, "Master, what should we do about this?"
Li Yanmo took the jade token and recalled the two tiger monsters he encountered when he first met Shen Ziqing. The first tiger monster tried to use Buddhism to refine Shen Ziqing and the others into ghosts, and the second tiger monster was in the shape of an arhat.
This is actually very strange.
In order to slay demons and monsters, Dayu allowed the military sect to receive the blessing of the righteousness of heaven and earth, which enabled the demons to use Buddhism to exploit the righteousness of heaven and earth.
This is the truth, but the problem is that just because there are loopholes in the righteousness of heaven and earth, it does not mean that there will be loopholes in Buddhism. Of course, the moon waxes and wanes, no one is perfect, and there is no perfect law. But Buddhism is supposed to restrain desires, while demons are lustful beings.
Even if there are loopholes in Buddhism, they can never be discovered by the lustful demon.
Unless there is someone who is well versed in Buddhism who can guide those monsters.
"What did Dayu say?"
(End of this chapter)
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