hotmtlnovel Chapter 941 - 514: Crafty Moves, Bai Yunzi Secures the Prize, Red Dust Buddha, True Technique Observing!
Chapter 941 - 514: Crafty Moves, Bai Yunzi Secures the Prize, Red Dust Buddha, True Technique Observing!
Great Qin Western Region.
The Sumitra Zen Institute is located on Lotus Platform Mountain, a precious mountain monastery. Though the mountain path is difficult, its incense offering ceremonies are flourishing; countless believers constantly brave hardships and traverse mountains and rivers to present their offerings.
A huge city has long since formed at the foot of Lotus Platform Mountain.
With its bustling silks and satins, noisy flutes and drums, boats clouding the waters, the bustle never ceases, night or day.
Moreover, the mighty Guicang River flows through here, bringing fertile land as far as the eye can see, watering countless fields on both banks, where waves of wheat ripple in the wind and the scent of rice blooms speaks of bountiful years; truly a sight to behold.
The Sumitra Zen Institute is divided into a front and a back temple.
The front temple is mostly where monks who study the Buddhist scriptures reside and handle secular affairs, decipher divinations, teach the dharma, and spread Buddhism widely.
Naturally, the Sumitra Zen Institute also has sources of income such as temple fields and mineral resources, but compared to the Buddhist temples in Central Continent, these are hardly worth mentioning, especially the temple fields.
This is not because the Sumitra Zen Institute is of higher virtue, but rather because Ying Si disallows it.
The back temple is mostly where cultivating monks reside, fewer in number, but their status is even more transcendent.
Because the competition on the Eastern Continent is fierce, not only between sects, but with Great Qin watching like a tiger; the criticism of Buddhism is still less tangible than the criticism that can truly sway people's hearts.
By the combined efforts and mutual support of the front and back courtyards, the Sumitra Zen Institute in the lands of the Western Region of Great Qin can be said to have an illustrious reputation.
Today, the sun rises in the east.
In the rear courtyard's treasure hall of the domineering Sumitra Zen Institute in the Western Region, many high monks are gathered together.
As the sole inheritor of the Buddhist scriptures of his generation, Jia Shenmi naturally occupies the seat of honor. His eyebrows are like snow, his energy deep like an abyss, exceedingly eye-catching. Unknowingly, he has reached the Breakthrough Limit Double Layer Realm. Should he wield the Buddha Treasure left by the Heavenly Buddha, his combat power is astonishing.
Below him, nine senior monks draped in golden red kasayas sit in high positions, all of whom are at the Dao Mastery Realm. Among them, the two leading monks have energy vast like the sea; one has touched the very edge of Breakthrough Limit, his might surpassing even the Shura Monk who once surrounded Yi Chen, and the other has already Broken Through.
"Esteemed monks, Great Qin is now extensively
Seeing such a scene, Jia Shenmi could only sigh deeply in his heart.
Although he had the highest Cultivation, such important matters were not something he could decide alone; moreover, these uncles and elder brothers had treated him extremely well in the past and did not compete with him afterward, but rather ceded the chance to inherit the sole Buddhist scripture to him.
Against such prevailing sentiments, just as Jia Shenmi was about to speak, a purple-haired young girl descended from the sky.
Who else could this person be, if not Lin Luo, the Deputy Director of the Ministry of Justice of Great Qin?
Lin Luo, holding an imperial edict, gracefully walked into the Buddha Hall.
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"State Preceptor, your plan is indeed cunning... and brilliant!"
"But will the Sumitra Zen Institute really agree?"
Inside the Imperial Palace, Ying Si and Yi Chen are gripping black and white pieces, competing for the idle title of Great Qin's Chess Saint within the study room, engrossed in a tightly contested game. As evenly matched players meet, talent encounters talent, and out of five games for three victories, each has won two. They have now entered the final determining game.
"Your Majesty, do you know what are life's three hardest bowls of noodles to swallow?" Yi Chen did not answer directly, instead, he smiled faintly and placed a black piece on the board again.
"Oh? Which three bowls of noodles are those?" Ying Si, looking at the chessboard, fell into deep thought.
"These three bowls of noodles are, of course, human relations, sentiments, and social interactions!"
"Since secret news such as the 'Thousand-World Glazed Light' and the Heavenly Buddha Relic has been leaked, at the very least, it proves that the Sumitra Zen Institute is not a monolith; there are those within who are inclined to be on good terms with Great Qin."