Chapter 248: Returning to the Normal Life (1/2)
Chapter 248: Returning to the Normal Life
Translator: NinetalesEditor: DarkGem
”If one cultivates all twenty realms, they will become rulai?”
Qin Mu's eyes lit up. Great Thunderclap Monastery was no doubt the greatest sacred grounds of Buddhism. Rulai's Mahayana Sutra also deserved to be a sect's legacy ultimate art which was on par with Great Educational Heavenly Devil Scriptures and Fourteen Writings of Dao Sword.
The three biggest sacred grounds were indeed not for show.
Now that Eternal Peace Empire was having a snow disaster, the four seasons here were like summer. Many immigrants from Eternal Peace Empire had escaped to this place and stayed in the monasteries, many of them converting to Buddhism.
Qin Mu looked at the monasteries on the mountain peaks and said softly, ”What Great Thunderclap Monastery is doing seems to be taking advantage of people when they're down.”
Blind shook his head. ”Mu'er, no matter what their intentions are, you have to look at what they are doing. Great Thunderclap Monastery has saved the lives of these people and that is a good deed. No matter if they are using this act to promote the teachings of Buddhism, what they are doing is good. If you only magnify Great Thunderclap Monastery's intentions and don't look at what else is being achieved, you won't be any different from Cult Master Li.”
Qin Mu was astonished and nodded in acknowledgment.
One's life was nothing more than a cultivation path, and it was easy to be led astray by an extreme way of thinking. Anyone who didn't have a mature reflection and unmovable thoughts would easily be led astray by their own heart.
Being with Cult Master Li these few days, Qin Mu had been influenced by him without even noticing it.
The previous cult master of Heavenly Devil Cult had a devil nature and his mentality was of the extreme kind. However, he was a grandmaster and his words were very logical, so any incautiousness would end up with a person subconsciously absorbing his philosophy and way of thinking.
The dragon qilin came to the golden peak, and the fire clouds under his feet grew smaller as he descended onto the ground. The golden peak stemmed out from the clouds which were the same color as the white jade laid down on the ground.
This place was like a paradise.
Qin Mu looked around and exclaimed in admiration. Rolan's Golden Palace was luxurious and had the feeling of a nouveau riche. Great Thunderclap Monastery was also luxurious, but they were much more solemn and everywhere was the dignity and culture of Buddhism.
On the golden peak, pagodas stood in numbers, and one of them was especially grand. Monks with long eyebrows sat there as well as on the eaves of the pagoda, reciting scriptures continuously with their reverberating buddha voice.
'Could this be the Thousand Buddhas Pagoda?' Qin Mu thought to himself.
A female bodhisattva in white who was carrying a white vase came forward and bowed. ”Heavenly Devil Cult Master, Ma Wangshen, Madam Si, and this old Dao friend, Rulai is already waiting for you, please follow me.”
Qin Mu said, ”Thanks for the trouble, big sister.”
”Big sister?” The female bodhisattva laughed. ”Cult Master Qin is joking. Please.”
Qin Mu and the rest followed after her. On the golden peak, the buddha rays around the eminent monks shone brilliantly as they sat on the clouds. The golden rays behind them formed circular shapes that were very dazzling.
Old Rulai as the leader of all the monks sat on the highest point. His corporeal body was vast and beside him were left and right venerables. Sitting below were various bodhisattva, arhats, vajras, guardians, and some of Old Rulai's disciples who had extremely strong cultivations. There were even some monks with attainments in Dao that seemed to belong to a different race; they didn't look human.
Qin Mu and the rest came closer, and Qin Mu greeted, ”Senior brother.”
Old Rulai hurriedly got up and returned his greeting. ”Senior brother.”
The moment he got up, the other guardians, venerables, bodhisattvas, arhats and vajras all got up and said in unison, ”Senior brother!”
After everyone was done with their greetings, Old Rulai raised his hand to invite Qin Mu to sit beside him. The seat was a praying mat and if he sat down there, he would be much lower than all the monks that were floating in the sky.
”Mu'er, just sit,” Old Ma said.
When Qin Mu sat down, he felt a gentle force coming over which lifted him and the praying mat onto the back of the dragon qilin, which was quite impressive.
Old Rulai looked at Old Ma and smiled. ”Disciple, are you finally willing to let go of the mortal world and return to the mountain?”
”Return to the mountain? There's a Mount Meru in my heart, but there's no Buddha there anymore.”
Old Rulai smiled. ”When Mount Meru in your heart no more, you'll become rulai. Excellent, take out the wife and children from your heart and I'll pass away in a few days time. This Great Thunderclap Monastery will be yours to lead.”
Old Ma shook his head. ”If I was to lead this place, I'd kill all the damned baldies on the mountain.”
The expressions of all the guardians and arhats changed drastically, and they became instantly furious.
Old Rulai said, ”You still obstinately persist in going about things the wrong way. I came back slightly faster last time you were back on the mountain, but I was still a step late. You should know that the two of us still have the relationship of master and disciple. You had cut off your arm and sent it over, but I believed that you would let go of the affairs of the mortal world and return to Great Thunderclap Monastery, so I had ordered the monks to place your arm in Thousand Buddhas Pagoda. That was because I wished for you to find your way back one day. You should understand my intentions.”
Old Ma said solemnly, ”I know. But my wife and children died at the hands of Great Thunderclap Monastery, and this blood feud will have to be paid in blood.”
”Foolish disciple!” Old Rulai shouted out in his face. ”Wife and children are just an illusion, just mortal flesh! If you have Buddha nature, you should know that the evil fruits of marriage all come to nothing.”
Furious, Old Ma shouted back, ”Nothing my ass! I had already chopped off my arm, what are you still dissatisfied about? Why did you have to kill my wife and children? What about my wife and children being pink skeletons, demons that restraint me, so what if I like pink skeletons? Calling you master was giving you face because we need your help. Talk some more and I'll overthrow you, bathe this golden peak in blood, and massacre all the bald donkeys on your mountain!”