Chapter 380 The True Buddhist Country
Li Qi finalized the itinerary.
On the other side——
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In the endless realm.
In the boundless void, thousands of Buddha lights are surging.
A Buddha statue whose height is unknown billions of miles is sitting cross-legged here, holding the Buddha Kingdom, holding one hand with a finger, and smiling.
Such a huge statue, there are dozens of world groups revolving around this Buddha statue.
Each world group has millions of worlds.
But even if the size of the world is compared with this statue, it seems like the difference between a giant and dust.
Even at the speed of light, it would probably take tens of thousands of years to run from the top of this Buddha's head to the bottom of his feet.
Such a huge and magnificent Buddha statue is shining brightly.
His body radiates infinite light, illuminating the myriad worlds. The sky resounds with the roar of a lion. Many Bodhisattvas, Arhats, and laymen beat the Dharma drum, blow the Dharma conch, hold the Dharma sword, erect the Dharma banner, shake the Dharma thunder, shine the Dharma lightning, shower the Dharma rain, and perform the Dharma charity, awakening the world with the Dharma sound.
All the Dharma and magical powers have reached hundreds of thousands of nayutas of Buddha lands.
The light illuminates the countless Buddha lands, and all the worlds are shaken by the six kinds of vibrations, all rising up, with endless waves. In the world illuminated by the Buddha's light, all things are solemn, pure, bright, and beautiful, with unique shapes and colors, and are extremely subtle and wonderful and cannot be measured.
Let's look at the Buddhaland in his palm. The Buddha holds an endless land in his palm, from the ground to the sky. The palaces, pavilions, pools, flowers, trees, and all things in the country are made of countless miscellaneous treasures and hundreds of thousands of kinds of incense. They are decorated wonderfully, surpassing all gods and humans, and their fragrance permeates the ten directions of the world.
Those dozens of world groups, hundreds of millions of worlds, were all bathed in the Buddha's light, and all of them achieved the pure and liberated samadhi.
Countless worlds, countless sentient beings, under the Buddha's light, did not have desires, anger, and harm, did not attach to color, sound, smell, taste, touch, and law, achieved patience, did not count all sufferings, had few desires and knew how to be content, were free from anger and ignorance, and were always in samadhi, without any false or flattering heart.
This is a true Buddha.
The real Buddha, with the properties of "infinite light", "infinite life", and "infinite wisdom".
His Buddha name is: Amitabha.
However, the appearance of this true Buddha does not look very "healthy".
Indeed, because there is endless darkness dragging his body, the infinite Buddha light is blocked and loses the property of "reaching the ten directions of the world, like a Buddha land".
In this darkness, countless demons are sinking and emerging.
Amitabha did not destroy these demons because it was meaningless. No matter how many were killed, they could not be killed.
Because the number of demons here is ‘infinite’.
Infinite in the literal sense.
However, infinity does not exceed the boundaries of this world, so it can still exist.
It sounds strange, but it is actually a very simple truth.
How many numbers are there between the two integers one and two?
Anyone who has learned a little knows the answer, there are infinite numbers.
1.1, 1.11, 1.111, can be repeated infinitely, and there are infinite numbers in a finite size.
The same is true for the demons here. In this finite existence of reality, there are indeed infinite demons. Therefore, to ‘kill’ in the way of mortals is just a meaningless thing and a complete waste of time.
But a true Buddha has the ability to deal with things like ‘infinity’.
But the Dharma image was seen chanting verses: “Total control of the demon world, to move the demon palace, all demons are terrified, and all are subdued——”
As the Buddha’s voice resounded, the conch shells in the boundless void were loud!
He manifested his body like lightning, breaking the demon net, untying all entanglements, slapping the evil net, destroying all views, transcending the voice-hearer, and attaining the Samadhi of emptiness, formlessness, and wishlessness. He established expedient means and demonstrated the Three Vehicles. At this point, he finally attained Nirvana.
As the Buddha's voice vibrated, the indescribable mysterious fluctuations, at a speed far exceeding the speed of light, affected countless demons. In an instant, even the "infinite" was annihilated.
In fact, it is also a very simple principle.
If the boundless sea of demons in front of us is the infinite in the finite, then where is the weakness of this infinity?
It is very simple. There are infinite numbers between one and two, so what is the existence that is absolutely not in this infinite number?
It is also a very clear answer.
It is a number less than one and greater than two.
If it is a number less than one and greater than two, it means that it has surpassed the infinite in this finite. If this number is greater than two, then this "greater than two" number is greater than every individual in the infinite in this finite.
It is a similar principle. Amitabha Buddha did a "subtraction" with the finite that transcends the infinite.
It sounds simple, but all the battles they fought were based on the background of the "universe".
The universe contains all time and space. There is no such thing as pluralism in the universe. As long as there is time and space, it is the scope of the universe. The bubble-like universe that mortals know should be called the "world" according to the world.
The universe is the background, not the battlefield.
Zhu Fengdan and his team fought against the infinite demons outside the world with the universe as the battlefield.
But the battles between the first-class are completely different.
They looked down at the universe from a high place, using the universe as a canvas to create their own "battles" on it.
Such battles rely purely on logic and "Tao".
This kind of battle is not a "fight" in the usual sense, but a fight for the "interpretation" of the universe. Whoever has more "right to interpret" can have a greater impact.
However, in the last fight, Amitabha was slightly better.
But the next moment, a sphere appeared in front of Amitabha.
Not in front of the Dharma image, but Amitabha himself, in the center of the Buddha Kingdom in his palm, the Buddha body sitting under the Bodhi tree that was dozens of light years high.
"Ah, you won again and drove me out of the real universe again. Are you happy?" The black ball, or... the demon, said to Amitabha in a slightly amused voice.
Amitabha said nothing and ignored the sphere. All the other Bodhisattvas and Arhats around him sat cross-legged and chanted silently. Suddenly, there were bursts of Sanskrit sounds around, and invisible pressure and Buddha light began to gather and pressed on the demon.
They started fighting directly.
As for arguing... that was unnecessary.
In the countless years in the past, countless eloquent Zen masters had argued with the demon, but the ending was simple.
The demon never lost.
Because he always has countless excuses. If he can't even make excuses, then he will cheat.
There is no point in arguing with the devil.
"Ah, this kind of reaction again, so boring." The devil began to transform from a black ball and gradually turned into a human form.
He became a strange...humanoid existence.
He had no hair, was covered with spikes and angular scales, had curved double-jointed hind legs, a vine-like mist wrapped around his body, and sharp claws on his hands.
The moment his form appeared, all the Bodhisattvas and Arhats around him who were watching his existence instantly felt that the essence of the world suddenly pressed into their fragile hearts at a speed they could not expect.
Warm and sharp, the chaos of the deep essence, some kind of terrifying expansion!
Just showing a body, Amitabha's followers felt tremendous pressure.
This is not the malice of the devil, it is just the suppression of the status.
Then, he saw the free demon said to Amitabha: "How much did you consume this time?"
Faced with this question, Amitabha suddenly spoke.
The Dharma image of this true Buddha is so huge and magnificent, but his true body is like an ordinary person, nothing special, just an ordinary old monk.
Amitabha said: "In the ten directions of the Buddha's land, there are countless worlds, and for the Buddha's land, the consumption is just a little."
"It's a little consumption for the Buddha's land, but what about those people? Every time you suppress me, a lot of people have to die. Although it's nothing to the entire Western Paradise, are their individuals not important? My Buddha is compassionate, and compassion is here?" The demon asked with a smile.
He has always been good at doing this kind of thing.
Amitabha shook his head and responded: "Their fall is for sentient beings."
"For sentient beings? Or for your Buddhist sect?" The demon curiously leaned over and asked Amitabha almost close to him.
"Isn't Buddhism one of the living beings? Not to mention, in addition to Buddhism, there are countless living beings who will be poisoned by you." Amitabha asked back.
"But I don't like killing. If I were allowed to come out, I don't know how many fewer people would die in these countless years. Everyone knows that the Heavenly Demon of Transformation is kind and easy to talk to. I just give them choices and never kill anyone." The body of the Heavenly Demon turned and the voice changed.
She turned into a beautiful and delicate girl and sat next to the Buddha.
This scene looks very harmonious.
Bodhi tree, old monk, Buddha light, scriptures, and a beautiful girl sitting next to her with her legs exposed, shy but curious.
Unfortunately, people who know the inside story will only feel chilled.
"The choice given by the demon will eventually pay a price." Amitabha looked at the girl and said so.
"I have never charged any price. The so-called price is just the internal fighting of mortals." The Heavenly Demon shook his calf, pouted, and said dissatisfiedly.
In fact, this is also the case.
The demon never charges any price, and she doesn't need those meager things. The respect of mortals, their precious things, and even their lives and souls are meaningless to the demon.
The meaning of their existence is just to provide the demon with an interesting thing that is no longer boring, and the meaning of the existence of this world is the same.
Those so-called prices and tragedies are just the result of the internal struggles of mortals. The price is taken away by others, and the life is killed by others. The demon does not like to kill in most cases.
"It is clear who the source is. The sacrifice made to stop you is far better than the chaos in the heavens and the world after you are released." Amitabha said so.
"Alas, really, you all make sense, then you are right, by the way, I want to eat, do you want to eat with me?" The demon yawned, lay down bored, and said so.
Amitabha did not speak.
So the demon prepared to eat by himself.
She twisted her fingertips, and a huge world appeared in the void in this Buddha land.
Amitabha frowned slightly, but did not make any actual moves.
Because it was meaningless.
This world quickly occupied the sky at the moment, but it was not enough to cover the Buddha Kingdom in the palm of his hand, not even one percent.
But it was magnificent enough, the edge of the world flickered in the sky, and the red stars on the horizon became more and more brilliant.
This was a world on the verge of destruction.
There are countless lives that are gradually annihilated, wailing quietly, bright stars exploding, and visible and invisible electromagnetic waves scattered in the dim space.
This wailing may have started from ancient times, or it may have been brewing and accumulating for a coincidence. In the end, the waves of energy were smoothed, and there was only a pile of monotonous colors as far as the eye could see.
This is the beginning and end of a world, and all of this is manifested above the Buddha Kingdom in the palm of Amitabha Buddha, occupying one percent of the sky of the entire Buddha Kingdom.
A world where billions of stars are heading towards destruction, and naturally, the creatures inside are about to fall into death.
"Look, they died by themselves, and it has nothing to do with me." The demon said easily.
The other Bodhisattvas and Arhats around him all showed indignant expressions, but no one came out to stop them.
Because it was too late, the world could no longer be saved.
This world hanging in the sky has long been demonized and degraded under the gaze of the demon, heading towards internal strife and destruction.
A fourth-grade world, with a length and width of hundreds of thousands of light years, has tens of millions of star systems, and the number of mortals in it is unknown... but there is no doubt that they all went to destruction.
The demon watched the self-development of mortals with interest.
She never killed, mortals just killed each other.
She just... pushed and said a few words.
Then, the demon's palm clenched lightly.
The small part of this world that was displayed shrank rapidly and turned into an existence similar to a "starry sky ball", suspended in the hands of the demon.
When the world floats in the void, it is generally smaller than the actual size inside, but not as small as this.
However, under the power of the demon, a world of hundreds of thousands of light years can also be compressed into a small ball.
The pair of delicate little hands that looked weak and powerless lightly twisted the world at the fingertips.
Then, she swallowed the world whole like eating candy beans and took a light bite.
With a click.
The extremely thick world barrier was chewed like the sugar coating of a candied haws.
Amitabha looked at the scene and said, "Does this mean anything to you?"
"It means nothing to me." Tianmo said.
It really means nothing. Eating ten more is just a taste.
"But...it means a lot to him." Tianmo said, and a figure made of pure demonic energy appeared beside him.
It looks a lot like...Li Qi.