The old monk only hoped that his future life would go smoothly, that’s all.
The purple talent was already quite rare, coupled with Fa Shun’s solitary existence, with a clean foundation, naturally he was valued by Fa Yun Temple.
However, Fa Shun did not choose to stay in the temple for peaceful ditation, but after contracting with the [Gemstone Elephant], he decided to travel with his master, once again facing this cruel world.
Because he still didn’t understand why his master could so naturally take the suffering of others as his own responsibility.
What the master did was very monotonous, apart from practicing with his contractual partner, reciting scriptures, ditating, explaining scriptures to him, and imparting knowledge, he helped all beings and traveled far and wide. Silently healing mortals every day, chanting for the dead, chanting scriptures over the red barren land, trying to transform those low-level magical beasts full of resentnt.
However, all of this seed so out of place in the grand sche of the southeastern domain.
A Four-Star Spirit Master has the power to lead a much better life, can bully n and won, collect the won he wants in the na of a mage, can establish his own branch, gather followers, and collude with the upper echelons of certain cities...
Others did so, but the old monk did not. He just quietly did what he could do.
The young Fa Shun did not understand these things, and also found them difficult to comprehend.
But he grew increasingly respectful of his master, using the [Gemstone Elephant] to carry his master, roaming the world together.
Because he knew, it was precisely due to his master’s deeds that he could live in this world.
Many people were grateful to them.
However...
The southeastern domain had far too much suffering.
He had witnessed the cruelty of the world and tasted helplessness, even Fa Yun Temple itself was sowhat tainted.
Suffering, injustice, death, filth...
All of these were like a poisonous fire, burning Fa Shun’s heart day and night.
He once resented why the Buddha did not manifest and sweep away the world’s evil.
Yet the master always had only one sentence.
"If the heart is still, the filthy swamp is a lotus pond."
In the blink of an eye, thirty years had passed.
Master Hongzheng peacefully passed away at the age of one hundred and thirty.
Fa Shun, nearly forty now, returned his master’s golden body to Fa Yun Temple, then turned and left, continuing to cultivate and roam the world, doing what his master had done in the past.
Only, the resentnt and flas in his heart had never subsided for an instant, allowing him no peace in this world.
Perhaps it was his master’s blessing from heaven, or perhaps this Dharma na truly had an effect, Fa Shun’s luck was always quite good.
According to the secret tradition of Fa Yun Temple, the [Gemstone Elephant] evolved into a [Gemstone Giant Elephant], and then into a [Jade-Tusk Treasure Elephant], and he, through various trials and miraculous encounters, successfully advanced beyond his master to beco a Five-Star Spirit Master.
A turning point occurred during one outing.
At sixty-seven, Fa Shun fought hard with the Tier Five Leader of the Clan to draw away a small beast tide, suffering heavy injuries, retreating deep into the wilderness, and hiding in the ruins of an ancient, extrely quiet temple.
It might not have been left by a predecessor of the Blue Star, but might have been an Otherworld structure that fell out after the essence within the Secret Realm was depleted and the spatial barrier could no longer be maintained.
While healing there, he saw a surviving mural.
A Bodhisattva sat serenely in a pile of skulls, with raging flas about to scorch their body, yet their expression was exceedingly compassionate and peaceful.
At that mont, Fa Shun felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
Because he felt he saw his master’s face on that Bodhisattva.
"If the heart is still, the filthy swamp is a lotus pond."
He suddenly understood his master’s mindset.
The chant says quiet yet always illuminating, illuminating yet always quiet.
Quietness is the nirvana and stillness, an absolute emptiness and stability within.
Illumination is prajna wisdom, the insight into all things, a clear and unimpeded observation.
Attaining these two, one attains great freedom.
Even if the three realms are unsettled, like a burning house, all beings being scorched by fire, yet whether the Pure Land exists or not has never depended on the external world but whether the heart can maintain that [Serene Illumination] amidst the boundless hell.
So...
The fla in his heart changed, from a fire of anger burning the mind to a candle fla illuminating the soul.
The Seed of Intent coalesced.
And his True Intent originated thus.
No matter how the human world is, beneath his feet is the Pure Land.
Even if standing in hell, even if a step back leads to boundless skies, he would not sink into depravity.
——Perhaps it is precisely this True Intent that allowed him, at the mont of maintaining the seal, to connect with the last lingering Buddha thought within the Secret Realm.
The relic-like Divine Object Fa Shun used to reinforce the seal was left by the previous abbot of Fa Yun Temple.
Even if the seal was shattered, the power within was not completely depleted, but managed to trigger the last vestige of Will in the Secret Realm, regaining so control over the origin of the Secret Realm.
The ghosts of the Rule were the last echo of all beings in this Secret Realm, twisted into their form.
Yet how could they be willing to beco demons?
Thus, the last Will willingly joined hands with Fa Shun to bury all evil.
And now...
Was the mont to fulfill True Intent.
The next instant, with the unfolding of Fa Shun’s domain, the array covering the entire Nirvana Hall, even the core of the whole Secret Realm, shook violently.
In the grand hall, golden light etched deep, indelible marks in the void-space barrier, charging directly to the do.
——Those were the ans Fa Shun prepared early on after entering the [Nirvana Hall]!
Since this Secret Realm was polluted by Demonic Qi, once out of control, it would cause imnse catastrophe, then might as well, along with the final Will of the Secret Realm, directly destroy it!
The destruction of the Secret Realm would cause extrely terrifying destructive power, threatening even a Six-Star severely.
Even if a True Master could find a way to escape, Lin Guang’s appearance now, helping him to slay a formidable enemy, was already the most perfect outco in his plan.
As long as one or two of the remaining three Six-Stars could be dragged to die together here, and the source of the Demonic Qi destroyed as much as possible...
Then everything outside, would be left to that young warrior.
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