Chapter 614: The Point Of Buddhism? (1/2)

“It’s all my fault, all my fault…” Nalan Xuejian cried while latching on Feiyun; quite a pitiful scene.

On the other side, Monk Jiu Rou had a fight with Formless.

Formless recalled his Buddhism and stood straight up, looking as flawless and gallant as ever: “Amitabha, A great monk of Buddhism like you shouldn’t help the villains against honest people by letting the heretics leave. They should pay for their sins.”

Monk Jiu Rou actually liked Formless very much. Such a young and capable Buddhist was a rare sight, capable of emitting the image of Buddhas following him. This was a fetus, a potential seed to become a saint. His future was unfathomable.

“Brat, do you know who they are?” Monk Jiu Rou held a big jar in one hand and the Invincible Buddhist Staff in the other; his breath stinks of wine as he asked with a smirk.

Formless stood on top of a shrine; the wind caressed his fluttering white robe. He answered: “Buddhists are meant to be good and save everyone, clearly seeing the difference between good and evil, not afraid of tyranny nor evil, not scared of illness and death for it is part of the karmic cycle. One shouldn’t hold back their fist just because of the opponent’s background.”

The monk laughed boisterously in response: “Be good and save everyone? Holding back the fist? Brat, do you know what Buddhist cultivation is?”

“Buddhist cultivation is a path towards enlightenment. From not knowing to knowing; all living beings are capable of reaching this zen state of mind, and once reached, that’s success for their dao.”

“You’ve read this in the scriptures, right?” The monk looked down on this response: “No, Buddhist cultivation is about learning how to conduct oneself.”

The monk rarely cared to debate with other people but he wanted to teach Formless.

“How to conduct oneself?” Formless had a pensive expression.

The monk saw the flash in his eyes and nodded approvingly: “What about regular cultivation?”

Formless replied: “Cultivation is a means to do good and avoid evil in a karmic manner. Teaching people to do good things to reap the karmic fruit; be wary of evil acts and evil-doers, avoid unnecessary thoughts and bolster and improve one’s mind in order to have a Buddhist heart…”

“This is from the scriptures too?” The monk interrupted.

Formless moved his beads around and nodded: “The Buddhist scriptures are written by the great sages, they’re not wrong.”

The monk replied: “In my opinion, cultivation is to improve on one’s defects. No one is perfect, so there is no limit to cultivation as a way to become a better person. This is more realistic than your idealistic spiel about being a savior.”

The monk stopped speaking and went inside the shrine.

“Improve on one’s defects?” Formless fell into rumination again. The images and light of Buddhism appeared once more during his meditation, looking just like a jade Buddha.

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After entering the shrine, Monk Jiu Rou saw Feiyun and Xuejian hugging and crying pitifully, especially Xuejian. Who knows what they were crying about?

He gritted his teeth, feeling that this boy has always taken advantage of Nalan Xuejian.

“Whoosh!” He waved his sleeve and opened the cages for Wu Qinghua and the two female geniuses.

They looked quite beaten as they turned and bowed towards the monk to express their gratitude.

Afterward, Chi Yao took out her jade sword and gathered energy to create Buddhist runes. She unleashed a slash straight for Feiyun: “Feng Feiyun you animal, die!”

“Sister Chi Yao, why are you attacking him for no reason?” Xuejian blocked in front of Feiyun then released a plume of clouds with her delicate hand, successfully stopping the slash.

“Xuejian, move aside, if I can’t kill this monster, I will commit suicide before Buddha.” Chi Yao thought that Feiyun had raped Chan Ling’er so she hated him to the bones.

Huaji Ningxiang also had an unfriendly gaze, gathering energy in her palms in order to cross him over.

“Chi Yao, Ningxiang, what are you two doing?” Chan Ling’er entered with Formless.

The two of them were completely surprised and stared at her in astonishment. After a long while, Chi Yao asked: “Didn’t that devil…”

“You misunderstood him.” Ling’er explained the whole thing. Of course, she left out the part when he ripped out her clothes and took out her dudou.

“I see.” Chi Yao glanced coldly at him.

Feiyun wasn’t afraid at all and smiled: “Miss Chi, are you going to commit suicide in front of Buddha now?”

Chi Yao saw his wretched smile and thought about how he groped her breast earlier and became quite angry, wanting to raise her sword again.

Alas, Ling’er pulled her back. After all, they might be roast meat if it wasn’t for Feiyun.