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"I've heard of this formation. Supervisor, how powerful is the Eight Sufferings Formation?"
The supervisor sipped his wine and slowly explained, "It's not a matter of power, but rather that it's extremely torturous."
“If a young child goes in, he can get out easily.”
"The more vicissitudes a person has experienced, the harder it is for them to break through the formation."
"In Buddhism, this formation is used to temper one's mind."
"Some people have gone through the trials and their minds have become more fulfilled, while others have become deeply entangled in them and their Buddhist hearts have been shattered."
Emperor Yuanjing looked at Hengyuan and asked, "This man seems to have suffered greatly and harbored deep resentment. Can he endure the hardships he has endured?"
The supervisor smiled and said, "If Li Chang'an wants the Great Feng Buddhist sect to establish itself as a separate entity, he must break through their three barriers."
"This little monk... what's the point of me explaining it to him?"
"Your emperorship is utterly boring, asking such a question."
Emperor Yuanjing was not embarrassed, as the old eunuch in charge of the imperial surveillance knew the actions of every emperor.
In this old ghost's eyes, everyone is as naive and boring as a child.
Because this old ghost has no feelings.
He was worried that the power of the Great Feng Dynasty had collapsed drastically compared to twenty years ago.
The power of the Great Feng Kingdom declined too quickly and could no longer compare with the Buddhist sects of the Western Regions.
If Li Chang'an loses this contest, it's uncertain whether he'll be involved.
However, historical records will certainly state that in the thirty-seventh year of the Yuanjing era of the Great Feng Dynasty, the country's strength began to decline.
"We cannot afford to lose this battle, no matter what. We have three chances."
"If this monk loses, the supervisor would better send someone out."
After Emperor Yuanjing finished speaking, word by word, the supervisor slowly turned his head.
The way he looked at Emperor Yuanjing was as if he were looking at a toddler learning to speak.
"Yuan Jing, are you teaching me how to do things?"
Emperor Yuanjing was taken aback; he had been so engrossed in his work that he had forgotten his identity.
He was the emperor of the Great Feng Dynasty, but he was nothing in front of the supervisor.
"I wouldn't dare, Yuan Jing wouldn't dare."
……
The same discussion was taking place between Huaiqing and Li Chang'an.
Li Chang'an smiled calmly, "Huaiqing, we have someone here who can get through this."
Huaiqing smiled, her beauty as pure and captivating as a lotus emerging from the water.
"That's right, there will definitely be no problem in Lin'an."
Biao Biao was clenching her fists, nervously watching Hengyuan climb the mountain.
Upon hearing this, I turned around in astonishment.
She stretched out her delicate, white fingers and pointed to her pert, upturned nose.
"I?"
Huaiqing covered her mouth and chuckled, "So innocent and adorable, no wonder Li Lang can't let her go."
Upon hearing this, Biao Biao's smile blossomed. She put her little hands on her waist and then wiggled proudly.
"In that case, I do have strengths that surpass Huaiqing's."
Li Chang'an patted her head, then took Huaiqing's hand.
"It's good for sisters to learn to appreciate each other."
Li Ru sat in the back, cracking sunflower seeds, and couldn't help but complain, "How troublesome must it be for a man to marry too many wives?"
"There's nothing we can do; there are just too many people who like him," Xu Lingyue said, adding that it wasn't Li Chang'an's fault.
……
On the giant projection, Hengyuan stepped onto the steps and entered the formation.
In an instant, the scenery faded, the steps disappeared, and darkness obscured the view.
In Hengyuan's view, he came from a poor family and his whole family starved to death when he was young.
He personally buried his family members, then left his hometown alone to beg for a living.
The world was dark and wicked, and he encountered countless evil people who committed rape, plunder, and all sorts of atrocities.
He could no longer tolerate it, and in a moment of chivalry, he killed someone. He was then pursued by the police and fled to a temple to become a monk.
After becoming a monk, he encountered his first beggar child who had been mutilated and tortured during a begging session.
He recalled his own childhood experiences and rescued him from human slave traders, sending him to a health center.
He was skilled in martial arts and personally wiped out three human slave traders.
He rescued one child after another, and his Buddhist faith began to waver.
Night after night, he sat in meditation before the Buddha.
He asked the Buddha: "Why are there thousands of lamps in the world, yet they cannot illuminate the darkness in people's hearts?"
The Buddha said, "The Dharma does not save people."
Cultivating oneself can lead to becoming a Vajra, an Arhat, a Bodhisattva, or a Buddha.
He was never able to comprehend the Buddha's teachings; that invisible shackle bound him tightly.
One day, he rescued a "black dog".
A boy whose flesh was rotting, covered with dog skin, and whose limbs were broken.
That night, he slaughtered a human trafficking organization, more than fifty people.
After rescuing the black dog, he decided to abandon Buddhism and follow the path of a martial monk, focusing solely on superhuman strength and abandoning Buddhist practices.
Because he couldn't understand this Buddhist teaching.
He couldn't see through the ways of the world.
The abbot said that without practicing Buddhism, one cannot become a Buddha.
He said that there are thousands of Buddha's followers in the world, including a few Arhats and a few Bodhisattvas.
Since I can't become a Buddha anyway, I might as well give up.
Until one day, he met Li Chang'an.
Li Chang'an rescued his junior brother and took over the Yangshengtang from him.
Li Chang'an told him that cultivating Buddhism is about cultivating the mind. If Buddhist principles don't align with your mind, what's the point of cultivating them?
Li Chang'an also said that it wasn't that he couldn't understand Buddhist principles.
Rather, it's because Buddhist principles are too narrow to encompass his Buddhist heart!
At that moment, he completely broke free of the shackles of the Jade Gate and stepped into the Vajra Realm.
He knew he had forged his own path.
This path is different from the Buddhist paths of the Western Regions.
This path is called Mahayana Buddhism.
This Buddha statue delivers all sentient beings from suffering.
Fleeting youth, white hair in the blink of an eye, one cycle after another flashed through his mind.
What outsiders see is a fleeting moment, but Hengyuan has already lived a lifetime.
He swept across the land, married the woman he loved and made her his empress, but the empress committed suicide with a powerful minister.
He became a wealthy man, but his fortune was all gone, leaving him all alone in his old age, a desolate and utterly desolate place.
He became an orphan, killed his enemy and married his enemy's wife, and eventually discovered that he had killed his own father and married his mother.
……
Biao Biao frowned and looked at Huai Qing, "You stinky Huai Qing, you're wrong!"
"Isn't it said that entering it will be very painful? Why does the head monk always have that expression?"
Huaiqing said leisurely, "This shows that Master Hengyuan has a true Buddhist heart and a firm will."
Not far away, Grand Secretary Wang Zhenwen exclaimed, "This formation is used by eminent Buddhist monks to temper their Buddhist hearts. Those who pass through it safely demonstrate that they possess Buddhist nature, which is exactly what Buddhism needs."
Beside him, his daughter Wang Simu looked puzzled.
"So, Master Hengyuan, sent by Marquis Jingning, is in line with the Buddhist nature of eminent monks from the Western Regions."
"If that's the case, why did Master Hengyuan establish his own Buddhist sect instead of converting to Western Buddhism?"
Wang Zhenwen stroked his beard and said, "I didn't know."