ebookslot Chapter 58: Laozi burned the Eight Trigrams Furnace for seven consecutive days, and the big shots of
Chapter 58: Laozi burned the Eight Trigrams Furnace for seven consecutive days, and the big shots of
The third day after Yang Jian left.
Strange phenomena appeared simultaneously in various parts of the Three Realms.
The first extraordinary phenomenon came from Mount Ling.
The main hall of Lingshan has been rebuilt to three times its original size.
It's not about repairing, it's about tearing down and rebuilding.
The original main hall had a nine-zhang-high golden roof; now it is twenty-seven zhang high. The original hall doors were double bronze doors; now they are six golden carved doors. The original floor tiles were white jade; now they are indestructible golden bricks forged from the essence of the Nine Heavens.
One thousand and eighty new eternal lamps were cast on the roof of the palace.
Each lamp is made with the highest-grade Heavenly Heart Fire of Buddhism.
It never dies, day or night.
The entire Ling Mountain was illuminated by these 1,080 lamps, shining with golden light that could be seen from 300 miles away.
This is not a temple renovation.
This is an attempt to establish authority.
Buddhism is telling the Three Realms: the last time it collapsed was an accident. Now it has been rebuilt, bigger, higher, and stronger than before.
When the news reached Wuwu Manor, Pigsy was adding soil to the cabbage.
"Three times the standard?" Pigsy clicked his tongue in astonishment. "Are they afraid the last repair wasn't sturdy enough, and they want Lu Chen to smash it again?"
"Smash it once, fix it once; fix it once, smash it once more." Nezha chuckled, squatting nearby. "Brother Lu Chen, shouldn't you go again?"
Lu Chen didn't reply.
The second anomaly.
Guanyin has gone into seclusion.
After returning empty-handed from Mount Hao, Guanyin went back to the Purple Bamboo Forest in the South China Sea, closed the bamboo curtain, and sealed the cave entrance.
No one knows what she is practicing.
On the same day, Manjushri and Samantabhadra also went into seclusion.
The two Bodhisattvas disappeared simultaneously from their respective sacred sites.
It is extremely rare in the history of Buddhism for three Bodhisattvas to go into seclusion at the same time.
The last time this happened was at the end of the Investiture of the Gods war.
That time, it was for preparation for war.
The third unusual phenomenon came from the Taoist school.
The Eight Trigrams Furnace in Taiqing Palace burned for seven days and seven nights without going out.
Laozi has not left the alchemy room for the past seven days.
Qingfeng Daotong was kept outside the door and could only smell the fragrance of pills emanating from inside through the crack in the door.
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The fragrance of the elixir was different from usual.
It doesn't taste like an ordinary elixir.
It is an extremely ancient aura that only emanates when crafting top-tier magical artifacts.
What is Laozi refining?
no one knows.
However, all the powerful beings in the Three Realms with keen senses could vaguely smell that aura.
The same thought arose in their minds.
The Taoist sect is preparing goods.
The fourth vision.
heaven.
After receiving Yang Jian's report that "this person is not bad," the Jade Emperor did not attend court for three consecutive days.
Three days.
This had never happened in the Jade Emperor's thousands of years of rule.
What storms hasn't the Jade Emperor weathered? During the Investiture of the Gods, he sat motionless on his dragon throne. When Sun Wukong wreaked havoc in the Heavenly Palace, he remained calm and composed.
His absence from court for three days suggests that he is contemplating something far more difficult than the Investiture of the Gods or the Havoc in Heaven.
Venus stood guard outside the Lingxiao Palace for three days.
On the evening of the third day, the palace gates finally opened.
The Jade Emperor came out.
His expression was calm.
But Venus noticed a detail.
The Kunlun jade ruyi in the Jade Emperor's hand had a crack on it last time.
It's now broken in two.
The Jade Emperor placed the broken Ruyi on a tray and handed it to Taibai Jinxing.
"Throw it away."
"His Majesty……"
"Get a new one."
The Jade Emperor said nothing more.
Venus accepted the broken jade scepter, his heart sinking.
What decision did the Jade Emperor make?
do not know.
But it must be a very important decision.
It was so important that he crushed the Ruyi he had cherished for thousands of years.
…………
Wuwu Mountain Villa.
evening.
Lu Chen stood at the gate of the courtyard.
Thick clouds piled up on the western horizon.
The clouds were low, pressing down on the mountain ridgeline like an overturned pot.
The direction of Lingshan is under the pot lid.
The sky was dark; it wasn't a normal sunset.
It's a kind of darkness that's being suppressed by something.
Sun Wukong walked to Lu Chen's side.
"You felt it?"
"Um."
"The air pressure over at Mount Ling is off." Sun Wukong's fiery eyes swept westward. "It looks like something big is brewing."
"It's not just Mount Ling," Lu Chen said. "The Daoist sects and the Heavenly Court are all making moves."
"What do you mean?"
"All three parties are preparing simultaneously."
"What are you preparing?"
"I don't know. But it's definitely not a small matter."
Lu Chen looked at the western horizon.
The clouds have lowered a bit more.
The wind blowing in from the mouth of the valley was cooler than usual.
"bring it on."
Lu Chen uttered two words softly.
I don't know who he's talking to.
Perhaps it was speaking to that cloud.
Perhaps it was being spoken to the person behind the clouds.
Maybe he's just talking to himself.
The back mountain of Lingshan.
This place is a completely different world from the front mountain.
The front of the mountain was resplendent in gold, with 1,080 ever-burning lamps illuminating the area day and night.
The back mountain was dark and damp, with ancient trees reaching for the sky, and there wasn't even a decent road.
King Puji, accompanied by three trusted protectors, ventured into the depths of the back mountain in the dark.
He personally selected all three protectors; their loyalty was beyond question, and they were also tight-lipped.
But at this moment, the faces of these three people were even darker than the night sky behind the mountain.
Because they know what they are doing.
They were secretly investigating the Daoist Zhunti.
Master Zhunti.
Co-founder of the Buddhist community.
The Buddha's fellow disciples.
To put it nicely, it's called "seclusion for spiritual cultivation"; to put it bluntly, it's called "being sidelined and relegated to a secondary position."
But no matter what, he was still a quasi-saint.
The Buddha's fellow disciples.
To put it nicely, it's called "seclusion for spiritual cultivation"; to put it bluntly, it's called "being sidelined and relegated to a secondary position."
But no matter what, he was still a quasi-saint.
A being at the Quasi-Saint level.
A mid-level manager leading three security guards to investigate a potential sage is no different from throwing an egg against a rock.
But King Puji had no way out.
After he submitted his secret report that "Lu Chen is suspected to be a puppet of Zhunti," Buddha replied with four words: "I know."
understood.
and then?
That's all.
The Buddha gave no instructions.
It didn't say "go check".
It didn't say "don't check".
That was it, just three words: "I understand."
King Puji spent several more days in the side hall.
The more I thought about it, the more something seemed off.
If the Buddha felt that Cundi was alright, he should have said, "There's no need to worry."
If the Buddha felt that there was something wrong with Cundi, he should have ordered a thorough investigation.
What does it mean to say nothing but "I understand"?
King Puji Mingwang figured out two possibilities.
The first possibility is that Buddha couldn't easily comment. Because Cundi's identity was too special, Buddha couldn't openly investigate his fellow disciple.
The second possibility is that Buddha is waiting for someone to investigate for him.
Regardless of the reason, King Puji felt he should take action.
He was the one who "investigated for Buddha".
The road behind the mountain is getting more and more difficult to walk.
The roots of the ancient tree are coiled on the ground; one wrong step and you'll fall.
The air was filled with the smell of rotting wood and moss.
It's cold.
It's at least twice as cold as outside.
They walked for about half an hour.
A door appeared ahead.
Shimen.
It is embedded in a huge rock wall.
There were no decorations, patterns, or inscriptions on the door.
It was just a bare, gray stone with a crack split in the middle.
But from that crack, a faint fluctuation of magical power could be seen.
Extremely light.
Extremely small.
It was like a sleeping behemoth breathing.
King Puji stopped in his tracks.
The three guardians behind him also stopped.
Four people stood in front of the stone gate.
No one moved.
The fluctuations of magical power rose and fell.
When it got up, it felt like something was trying to rush out from the crack in the door.