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Chapter 1568 Mahabodhi Temple

Chapter 1568 Mahabodhi Temple

Although Xiao Lin was eager to go home, he knew that there was no rush, so he simply calmed down and began to travel in this Golden Light Region.

Xiao Lin has been practicing for less than ten thousand years. He has a long life span, so even if he lives for tens of thousands of years, it would be very normal. In the past, he was either undergoing trials or practicing hard, and rarely enjoyed life.

So Xiao Lin took Xiao Hei with him, and Xiao Hei also shrank his body and turned into a small black dog, wagging its tail and following Xiao Lin closely. The man and the beast traveled around in this golden light area.

Although the Golden Light Domain is very vast, it is not a continent, but a piece of land isolated overseas. The reason why it is called land rather than a super island is because the northeast corner of the Golden Light Domain is connected to the Lone Sun Continent.

More than a decade passed quickly.

During this period of time, Xiao Lin traveled almost all over the Golden Light Region, visited many Buddhist sects and temples, and came into contact with some high-level and even top-level monks.

At the same time, I also gained a certain understanding of the Buddhist sect in the spiritual world.

There is no difference in realm between Buddhist monks in the spiritual world and those in the mortal world. They also have five major realms: initial knowledge, great awakening, Buddha's light, prajna, and nirvana. Any Buddhist monk who enters the realm of nirvana is also named Buddha.

A cultivator in the Nirvana Realm is equivalent to the Spirit Transformation Realm in the world of immortal cultivation.

The only difference between the realm division of Buddhism and the one Xiao Lin knew in the mortal world was the spiritual world Buddhism. After advancing to the realm of Nirvana, the path of cultivation was divided into two types, one was the golden body of Bodhisattva, and the other was the golden body of Buddha.

Among them, the Bodhisattva's Golden Body Fruition Position cultivates the true Dharma of Buddhism's great aspirations, emphasizes the purpose of saving all living beings from suffering, makes great aspirations, and thereby spreads faith, tempers the mind, and thus constantly improves one's own realm.

Buddha is different. He took the path of transcendence, based on the Buddhist Vajra Meditation. He tempered his inner self, controlled his spirit with his heart, comprehended the great way of heaven and earth, and condensed the golden body of Buddha's light.

There is no specific realm division above the Nirvana Realm. The Buddhist monks are distinguished by the number of golden body Buddha fruits. After advancing to the Nirvana Realm, golden light will overflow from the Buddhist monks, forming a faint golden halo behind their heads. The Nirvana Realm monks only have a faint golden halo.

As the realm continues to improve, the number of light golden halos behind the Buddhist monk's head will gradually increase. A Buddhist monk with two light golden halos is equivalent to the realm of the Void Refinement Stage, and so on.

Although the Buddha's light cultivated by Buddhist monks will overflow when it reaches a certain level, many Buddhist monks will also use some concealment methods to hide the golden body Buddha fruit. Unless they reveal their golden body, it will be fully revealed.

Xiao Lin also learned that once the Bodhisattva has achieved the golden body and achieved his ambition, he would return to the temple and practice Vajra Meditation. Therefore, Bodhisattvas and Buddhas are essentially one family, but their paths of practice are different, which also represents different functions.

After all, Buddhist monks need a lot of power of faith to strengthen their primordial spirit, achieve the golden body of a bodhisattva, educate all living beings, and make great aspirations. They can be worshipped by a large number of believers, and he will also introduce these beliefs into the Buddhist kingdom of his own temple and provide support for all the Buddhist monks in the temple.

Therefore, Buddhist practitioners who have reached the state of Nirvana are generally called first-fruit Buddhas or first-fruit Bodhisattvas, and the next level is the second-fruit Buddha or second-fruit Bodhisattva.

But after Buddha and Bodhisattva advance to the fourth-fruit Buddha and fourth-fruit Bodhisattva, they are equivalent to the cultivators in the tribulation-crossing period in the world of immortal cultivation. At this time, they will face the first great tribulation of Buddhist cultivators, that is, the Nirvana tribulation. After crossing it, they will be advanced to Mahavairocana Buddha. The golden Buddha light halo behind the head of Mahavairocana Buddha will merge into one and turn into a golden sun in the shape of the sun.

Whether it is supernatural powers, golden body or meditation, they will reach an amazing state, which is equivalent to the Mahayana cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation.

At the same time, Buddhist monks, like immortal cultivators, need to comprehend the great principles of heaven and earth and the three thousand rules. After advancing to the realm of Great Sun Buddha, they will be able to perfect the comprehended rules and condense the Great Sun Golden Body. After condensing the Great Sun Golden Body, they will be able to shed their skin and ascend to the immortal world with the golden body.

In this regard, it is easier than for immortal practitioners. After the immortal practitioners have perfected the power of rules, they still need to complete two steps. The first is to condense the body of a semi-immortal, and the second is to merge the primordial spirit with the power of rules so that the physical body can ascend to the immortal world.

Although it seems easier for Buddhist monks to ascend, that is relative. It is also very difficult to achieve Nirvana and rebirth and advance to the Great Sun Buddha. Many Buddhist monks, after Nirvana, are not reborn, but extinction. Therefore, the number of Buddhist Great Sun Buddhas is far less than the number of Mahayana cultivators.

Under normal circumstances, the combat power of Vairocana Buddha is slightly stronger than that of a Mahayana cultivator.

After understanding this, Xiao Lin truly understood the hierarchy of Buddhism. In the entire Golden Light Domain, there were hundreds of Buddhist temples and sects of all sizes, but most of them were second- or third-rate. The strongest in the Buddhist temples were mostly Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who had just condensed the Golden Body, which was equivalent to the level of a cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Stage.

As for the second-level Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, which were equivalent to the realm of immortal cultivators in the Void Refinement Stage, they were much rarer. At least Xiao Lin had never encountered any in his more than ten years of traveling.

During these ten years, Xiao Lin finally understood the meaning of the four words "Vajra Meditation" left by Chu Wu before his death. That is, if he wanted to surpass the first level, he must first practice the Buddhist Vajra Meditation method to an extremely high level.

There are three levels of Vajra Meditation: rock in water, immovable as a mountain, and nirvana in stillness.

If one wants to advance to the realm of super-first-grade immortal martial arts, one needs to practice Vajra Meditation to the stage of Nirvana, the third level of Vajra Meditation, which is like a rock in the water. It means that one's heart is like a rock in the water, which cannot be shaken and is extremely hard. Even if it is eroded for thousands of years, it will only become harder.

Being as still as a mountain means that the mind is like still water and the body is as still as a mountain, and no external objects can disturb it, just like the ancient sacred mountain that has stood for billions of years.

As for the Nirvana of Stopping, it is the highest realm of Vajra Meditation. The first two realms are external realms, while the third level of Nirvana of Stopping is an inner realm. It means that the heart stops beating completely, and one becomes like Nirvana, falling into a dead state. In this way, it is naturally impossible to be disturbed by any external objects. Even if a demon comes, it is just a body without a soul, which will not produce any influence on the cultivator's state of mind at all.

Vajra Samadhi is the path of practice taken by the Buddha. Normally, only Buddhas above the third fruit can practice Vajra Samadhi to the third level.

After learning all this, Xiao Lin couldn't help but be excited. His Holy Scale Burning Heaven Art had already been cultivated to the fifth level, and there were signs of breaking through to the fourth level in recent days. This was under the premise that most of the blood and energy he cultivated had been inexplicably sucked away. If his blood and energy had not been sucked away, he would have been at least at the second level of the Immortal Martial Realm at this moment, and might even go a step further and advance to the first level of the Immortal Martial Realm.

If he could cultivate Vajra Samadhi, it would not only help him break through to the Super First-grade Immortal Martial Realm one day, but would also be of great benefit to him in overcoming the last heavenly tribulation.

Now that he is in the continent of Gu Ri where Buddhism is prevalent, he naturally does not want to return empty-handed.

Anyway, he has not yet found out the reason why his blood and magic power were sucked away, so he is not in a hurry to return to the Northern Sky Region. If he can find a way to obtain the secret method of practicing Vajra Meditation, it will be a great opportunity.

So Xiao Lin immediately thought of the Mahabodhi Temple in the Fulian Mountains.

This Great Bodhi Temple, according to rumors, is the birthplace of Buddhism on the Lonely Sun Continent and is also a holy place for Buddhism. The Buddhist and Taoist sects on the Lonely Sun Continent are very different from the Xiji Ancient Buddha Tianzong that was destroyed when Xiao Lin was in the mortal world.

There are innumerable Buddhist sects and temples in the Gu Ri Continent, but with the Mahabodhi Temple as the center, almost all the Buddhist temples and sects under its jurisdiction are branches of the Mahabodhi Temple.

There are ten upper houses, one hundred middle houses, and countless lower houses under the Mahabodhi Temple.

Among them, the presidents of the ten upper houses and the white-robed elders were all sent by the Mahabodhi Temple. Their cultivation was at the level of the Great Sun Golden Body Buddha, which was equivalent to the existence of the Holy Spirit Ancestor.

As for the abbots of the 100 middle courts and the elders in yellow, they were sent by the ten upper courts. Their cultivation had all reached the realm of Great Sun Buddha, which is equivalent to the realm of Mahayana cultivators in the world of immortal cultivation.

As for the countless lower houses, they were not dispatched by the one hundred great middle houses, but the lower houses selected their own chairmen and blue-robed elders, and then reported to one of the one hundred great middle houses nearby. Only after obtaining approval could they officially become the chairmen and elders of the lower houses.

It can be said that the entire Buddhist sect is a super sect with a strict hierarchy from top to bottom, occupying nearly half of the entire Gu Ri Continent.

As for the other half, it is the world of the devil. As the saying goes, there are devils only when there are Buddhas, and there are no devils without Buddhas. The devil cultivators occupy half of the entire Gu Ri Continent. Countless devil sects occupy nearly half of the eastern part of the Gu Ri Continent.

Of course, there are many immortal sects and other directions of practice on the Gu Ri Continent, but compared with the Buddhist and demonic paths, they are almost negligible.

One hundred thousand years ago, in today's Gu Ri Continent, the Three-Day Buddha of the Great Bodhi Temple and the leader of the evil ways, the Formless Heavenly Demon, reached an agreement, which is the legendary Buddha-Demon Cease-War Agreement.

It was agreed that the two major forces would use the Snowy Wind Mountains in the center of the Lonely Sun Continent as the boundary. People from the two major forces could enter each other's territories, but they could not preach their sect's teachings or recruit believers in each other's territories. The Buddhist sect could not enter the area east of the Snowy Wind Mountains to spread its faith, and the demon monks could not enter the area west of the Snowy Wind Mountains to kill ordinary mortals and Buddhist monks and refine various demonic instruments.

It is the signing of the agreement that has brought about the current superficially peaceful situation between Buddhism and the devil.

But in fact, once a demon cultivator enters the Buddha realm, he will be hunted down. Similarly, once a Buddhist cultivator enters the demon realm, he will become the target of public criticism. Especially in recent years, there have been more and more disputes of this kind, and there seems to be a storm on the horizon. The peaceful situation that has lasted for many years is also showing signs of breaking down.

Moreover, many immortal cultivation sects began to emerge on the continent of Gu Ri, and some spheres of influence established by other races were constantly encroaching on the territories of Buddhism and the Demonic Sect.

For countless years, once such forces appeared, they would usually be quickly destroyed by Buddhism and the devil. However, in the past 30,000 years, such sects have gradually begun to increase, and Buddhism and the devil have begun to fight each other openly and secretly, causing the two major forces to be unable to cope with it. Some forces have even begun to unite to resist the erosion of Buddhism and the devil respectively, and have become increasingly powerful.

Later, more and more forces joined in and established a powerful organization in the Snowy Mountains. They began to fight against Buddhism and the evil sects. This organization was called the Alliance for Keeping the Righteousness.

No one knows who the leader of the Shouzheng League is, but everyone knows that his realm is unfathomable. He once single-handedly resisted the joint siege of a Great Sun Golden Body Buddha and a Demon Saint, and he still responded calmly. After several days of fierce fighting, the two sides still could not determine the winner, and the leader of the Shouzheng League left calmly after some ridicule.

From then on, the reputation of the Shouzheng League soared, attracting countless monks and races oppressed by Buddhism and the devil to join, and the strength of the Shouzheng League also increased exponentially.

Now it has occupied the northern part of the Lonely Sun Continent, covering three areas with the Wind and Snow Mountains as its center, and has become a new and powerful force on the Lonely Sun Continent.

After understanding the approximate distribution of power in the Lonely Sun Continent, Xiao Lin began to think. Now he has three main goals. The most important one is to find out the reason for his loss of magic power and strive to restore his realm as soon as possible. The second is to obtain the Buddhist sect's secret method of Vajra Meditation. The third is naturally to find the cross-domain teleportation array into the Immortal and Mortal Sea, enter the Immortal and Mortal Sea, and then return to the Holy Moon Continent through the cross-domain teleportation array in the Immortal and Mortal Sea.

Of course, he had no idea about the first goal for the time being and could only put it aside for the time being, so what he had to do now was to obtain the Vajra Meditation method of the Buddhist sect.

Vajra Samadhi is a very profound magical power in Buddhism and one of the thirty-six great magical powers of the Mahabodhi Temple.

Among them, in the lower-level Buddhist sect, it is very easy to obtain the scripture of the first level of Vajra Meditation, the Rock in the Water. Xiao Lin has already obtained it from a lower-level Buddhist temple in the Golden Light Region.

This rock in the water is the foundation of Vajra Meditation. Xiao Lin has mastered it in just ten years.

As for the second level of scripture that is as immovable as a mountain, it can only be found in the top 100 Buddhist temples in the middle courtyard. This is also the reason why Xiao Lin came to the Lone Sun Continent.

Of course, the third level of Nirvana only exists in the Golden Sutra Tower in the Mahabodhi Temple. Ordinary people cannot enter it at all, let alone an immortal cultivator like him.

After thinking about it, Xiao Lin decided that if he wanted to obtain complete golden light meditation, he had to sneak into the Mahabodhi Temple.

However, those who can enter the Mahabodhi Temple are either Buddhas with a high level of Buddhist realm, or people with top Buddhist roots and great affinity with Buddha. Xiao Lin does not seem to satisfy these two requirements.

Xiao Lin had no choice but to go to the Lonely Sun Continent to look for opportunities.

(End of this chapter)