Chapter 747: Buddhism

Li Qi was in the sky, watching everything that happened below.

The little novice monk, who originally believed in Buddhism and was determined to practice Buddhism, had been working hard with the four demons as his goal, wanting to spread the concept of Buddhism and compassion throughout the world, but at this moment he was shaken.

The little novice monk trembled and asked the four demons: "Master, is it possible that... Buddhism is wrong?"

"Nonsense!" The four demons said in unison.

Then Yun Jing immediately said: "How could Buddhism be wrong? Can't you see the Buddha country we created? Are the seven treasures, peace, beauty, and compassion in the Buddha country fake? Compared with the countries established by bandits, isn't the Buddha country real enough?"

Although the novice monk was afraid, he did not bow his head, but immediately said: "Masters, rely on Buddhism to govern this Buddha country, then why can't you rely on Buddhism to establish the Buddha country?"

This made the four demons speechless and unable to respond.

Yes, the Buddha country can be governed by Buddhism, but why not use Buddhism to establish the Buddha country?

The answer is... they have tried it.

Pure Buddhism cannot establish a country.

Buddhism cannot establish a country. They need to rely on other means, such as violence, conspiracy, and trickery. They must defeat those enemies before they can establish the current Buddhist country.

After the enemies are driven away, they will use Buddhism to educate the world, so there is the current Buddhist country.

But no matter what, they can't cover up the fact that they once spread Buddhism by means that Buddhism despises.

Violence and trickery are methods that Buddhism despises, but they must rely on such means to establish the soil for Buddhism to survive.

The beautiful flowers of the Buddhist country bloom on the vicious and terrifying corpses.

The question of the little monk hit the hearts of the four demons directly, making their Taoism shaken and their Taoism stagnant.

This is the first time they have to face their own Taoism problems since they practiced.

This is the answer they must give-

Why?

Why can Buddhism only maintain the Buddhist country but not establish the Buddhist country?

If this question cannot be answered, Buddhism is not established, and this answer must be able to convince themselves and be accepted by them.

This is what Li Qitian experienced every day.

Li Qi's mind was always thinking about more profound and contradictory problems than these, and it seemed that there were endless solutions.

But for these eighth-grade monks, this was their first time to torture their hearts and their own paths.

The little monk still failed to get the answer he wanted in the end, because the four monsters could not answer it at all.

So he left in disappointment and decided to find the answer himself, even though he was just a child who was not in the grade.

The four monsters watched each other leave in silence, and then looked at each other.

The little monk did not expose the ugly things they did when they founded the country in public, but it had already shamed the four monsters.

In the end, Shitou and Qingfeng chose to leave. They wanted to find the answer like the little monk, but just maintaining the surface peace of the Buddha Kingdom could not satisfy them.

Lotus and Yunjing stayed in the Buddha Kingdom.

From then on, the four monsters became two monsters.

After several decades, Lotus died, and she was in great distress before her death. She never broke through the seventh grade in her life. The reason was because... this problem troubled her all her life.

With her talent and the opportunity of Li Qi's teaching, it was natural for her to break through the seventh rank, but because of a question from the little monk, her path ended here.

This is how it is on the road of cultivation.

Yun Jing's life span is longer.

But if he is the only one left in the entire Buddhist country... it is difficult to support the Buddhist country.

When Lotus was there, the two of them joined forces, plus the reputation of Shitou and Qingfeng who went out to explore, they could still hold the place, but after Lotus died...

The thousands of miles of territory of the Buddhist country, those floating islands combined together, began to surge undercurrents.

Conspiracies and intrigues appeared in the Buddhist country again.

Yun Jing watched all this, he couldn't sit idly by.

He must protect the Buddhist country.

And to protect the Buddhist country... pure Buddhism is useless. For those who hide conspiracies, Buddhism has zero restraint on them.

Therefore, violence and conspiracy must be used again.

In order to protect the believers of the Buddhist country, means must be used to destroy those evildoers with evil intentions.

Yun Jing thought so.

His big mirror of light became increasingly dim.

The people and sentient beings became increasingly distinct in his heart, and he became increasingly able to ‘distinguish between the enemy and ourselves’. In his heart, sentient beings had been classified into different groups according to different standards, and could be treated in different ways.

This standard actually existed in many places.

Some places were wealth, some places were force, and some places were wisdom, but in general, sentient beings were divided into different categories and then distinguished.

Even the Buddhist sect was divided internally, so there were many factions.

But the question was, after such a division, were sentient beings still sentient beings?

Yun Jing didn’t know.

But what he knew was that if he wanted to protect the Buddha Kingdom that he had devoted his life to, some things had to be done.

So, in the entire Buddha Kingdom, conspiracy turmoil began.

He began to focus on combating coup plotters, pagans, and rebels.

Those groups that secretly conspired to overthrow the rule of the Buddha Kingdom, and those villains who secretly undermined the rule with lies and charm, were ‘dealt with in advance’ by Yun Jing.

Through the sophisticated manipulation of assassination, coercion, and terror, he prevented danger before it happened.

Then, he built an impregnable outpost and formed an army to occupy it, waiting for the enemy's attack and repeatedly checking their defense strategies.

Yunjing also trained some loyal judges, who always secretly paid attention to the evil and corruption lurking within the Buddha Kingdom.

When greed eroded the system of the Buddha Kingdom, when the enemy tried to lure believers into darkness, when the enemy used conspiracy and violence to make believers about to abandon Buddhism, these judges usually stood up to expose and crush the evil conspiracy.

The judges constantly fought against any evil, and they were filled with fanaticism and would do everything possible to protect the Buddha Kingdom.

The Dharma cannot protect the Buddha Kingdom, but force can.

Yunjing finally established an authoritative charter to ensure that everything works properly and does not let the Buddha Kingdom let everything go out of order when he is not there.

Order and charter can keep all of this running normally when Yunjing himself is not there, and have the ability to purify itself.

After all, Yun Jing could sense that he was getting old, and he had not yet broken through the seventh rank, and his life was about to end.

After doing all this, Yun Jing was very happy. He was in his own hall, enjoying the joy of success alone.

His measures were very useful. The evildoers who opposed the Buddhist country had been eliminated, and if they appeared in the future, they would definitely be eliminated.

He sat in the hall, enjoying his success.

But at this time, Li Qi appeared.

Li Qi came to Yun Jing's side, and now Yun Jing had transformed into a human.

"Ah, senior!" Yun Jing saw Li Qi and immediately bowed!

He still remembered that it was this person who passed on Buddhism to him.

Over the years, Yun Jing has tried to figure out Li Qi's thoughts countless times. He felt that Li Qi must be the same as himself and others, spreading Buddhism.

The four demons were influenced by his spreading of Buddhism, and then embarked on the path of spreading Buddhism.

However, Li Qi looked at Yun Jing.

When he first met Yun Jing, he was full of Buddha nature.

Now looking at Yun Jing again, he looked like an emperor, sitting alone in the hall. The Buddhist Kingdom was stable because of him, and at the same time... the Buddhist Kingdom didn't look like a Buddhist Kingdom anymore.

Staring at him for a while, Yun Jing was sweating profusely, and his robes were soaked with sweat.

At this time, Li Qi suddenly spoke: "Yun Jing, I once taught you the Dharma. What do you think of your current performance?"

Hearing this, Yun Jing immediately raised his head, straightened his back, walked to the front of the hall, and introduced to Li Qi: "Regarding this, senior, you see, we spread the Dharma and established the Buddhist Kingdom!"

He pushed open the door of the hall and showed Li Qi his magnificent palace!

Outside the palace, there are many Buddhist temples with seven layers of railings, seven layers of nets, and seven layers of trees, all surrounded by the four treasures.

There are seven large pools, filled with the eight meritorious waters, the bottom of the pool is pure gold sand, and the steps on the four sides are made of gold, silver, and glass.

There are pavilions on top, which are also decorated with gold, silver, glass, pear, huge wood, red pearls, and agate.

There are lotuses in the pond, as big as wheels, with blue light, yellow light, red light, and white light, subtle and clean. These are all born from the lotus seeds of the lotus among the four demons.

Yun Jing proudly introduced all this, and couldn't wait to introduce his achievements to Li Qi, who had taught him the Dharma.

"The country has good weather and good harvests, and the country is peaceful and the people are safe. All good roots and blessings, there are good men and women who hear the Dharma and hold the name, all of which are protected by all Buddhas! The sentient beings in the country often use their clothes to hold all kinds of wonderful flowers at dawn!"

"Such a paradise has achieved such merits and solemnity! Senior, have you seen the prosperity of Buddhism?"

Yun Jing looked at Li Qi expectantly.

And Li Qi scanned everything in front of him.

In fact, he had seen all this a long time ago.

He even knew more about the Buddhist country they created than Yun Jing himself.

So, after reading all this, Li Qi asked, "Do you think this is Buddhism?"

"Why not? I remember the Buddha country that the senior described to us. Everything is built according to the ideal Buddha country." Yun Jing said.

"Well... do you think there is any difference between this Buddha country and other countries? Why can it be called the Buddha country instead of an ordinary country?" Li Qi asked again.

This question made Yun Jing stunned for a moment, but he immediately began to talk endlessly.

He began to introduce the advantages of the Buddha country.

He introduced it for a full quarter of an hour without stopping.

He reported how many temples, all monks, and the three thousand great temples were reported one by one.

The weather was good, the Buddha was devout, the good men and women believed in it, and all sentient beings had the heart to recite the Buddha, the Dharma, and the monks. The temples were everywhere, and monks could be seen everywhere. All sentient beings thought of the Buddha, and they were compassionate to each other. All people were happy and in harmony.

Then, he looked at Li Qi: "Can't such a country be called a Buddhist country? When I used my body to feed the birds and beasts in the past, I saw countless famines and evil things, but in the Buddhist country, there is no such thing. All of this is brought about by Buddhism!"

Li Qi nodded in agreement.

Then, Li Qi asked: "Indeed, all of this can be said to be brought about by Buddhism, but...if there is no Buddhism, wouldn't all of this happen?"

Yun Jing was puzzled and asked in return: "If there were no Buddhism, the world would be full of ignorance and stupidity, so people would fall into the twelve causes and conditions, and cry and grieve from death, and suffer immeasurable pain. However, under Buddhism, the insane can be calm, the poisoned can no longer move, and the imprisoned can be liberated. Can this be achieved by other things?"

Li Qi did not answer this question.

Because he had already felt that Yun Jing's life was coming to an end.

He was dying, and the eighth grade had a life span.

"Senior...I did a good job, didn't I?" At the end of his life, Yun Jing looked at Li Qi and said so.

Li Qi did not answer, but just stared at him.

Yun Jing only felt an eager feeling of wanting to be recognized in his heart.

Since Li Qi taught him the Dharma, he has had more obsessions.

If this obsession has been holding him back and making him unable to rest.

He wants someone who is authoritative and powerful enough to recognize his actions in this life.

Li Qi remained silent.

Yun Jing became more and more anxious. He began to feel upset. Li Qi's attitude was like... like he was saying that he had 'done something wrong'.

He couldn't accept this answer.

His life began with compassion and he accepted Buddhism, but now, looking back, did he really do the right thing in his life?

Li Qi still didn't speak.

Yun Jing wanted to vent his anger. He became more and more anxious, and the fire of anger was raging from his heart, but he couldn't vent it in front of Li Qi.

Because Li Qi was too strong. When he was young, he didn't understand Li Qi's strength.

But now, he has experienced the world and countless battles. He has deeply understood that the man in front of him is probably an extraordinary powerful person.

It is the kind of strength beyond his understanding. Even the strongest man he has ever seen, the demon lord who rules the boundless territory, can hardly reach the other party.

Time passed slowly, and Yun Jing gradually weakened.

He seemed to feel that he could not get an answer, so he collapsed and waited for his life to pass away.

Just as he was in a trance and dying, Li Qi walked up to him and said, "The reason why Buddhaland is Buddhaland is not because of Buddhism, but because of you..."

Is that so?

Is it because of me?

Without getting an answer, Yun Jing closed his eyes completely.

But this is what Li Qi saw.

The reason why Buddhaland is Buddhaland is not because of Buddhism, but because of Yun Jing.

Living and working in peace and contentment, worshipping the Three Treasures, all of this is not Buddhism, but just Yun Jing's kindness.

Is this Buddhism?