Immortal and Demon Cultivation

Countless monks in Jiaye Temple have been unable to see through the secret of the Wordless Cliff for hundreds of years, so we cannot say that those monks are stupid.

Ye Xiaochuan saw through the secret of the Wordless Cliff within a few hours, so we cannot say that Ye Xiaochuan is very smart.

The wrong direction of research doomed the outcome of the two.

The words left by Fairy Jinghai back then are right or wrong.

She said that her Buddhist practice was inherited from the Wordless Cliff, and there is really nothing to criticize about this sentence.

After all, the Wordless Cliff does not only refer to the smooth cliff, but the entire cliff including the waterfall and the stone sculpture of the big Buddha.

But this sentence has a narrower interpretation in the minds of the monks in Jiaye Temple.

Their first feeling is that the Wordless Cliff mentioned by Fairy Jinghai is the Wordless Cliff.

First of all, the ancient Buddhist Dharma must be passed down through words, and only the tall cliff can be engraved with words.

Secondly, after the Wordless Cliff bears the power of Buddha, it will emit golden Buddha light, and the verse of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng will appear.

Anyone who saw this would conclude that the secret of the Buddhist mind must be engraved on the cliff, but it was hidden by the ancient powerful people with a particularly powerful method.

This made the monks of Jiaye Temple fall into a misunderstanding for nearly 800 years.

Ye Xiaochuan is different. His thinking logic is very similar to that of the evil god back then.

After he learned that the Bodhi Gāthā was left by the evil god and the secret here was also left by the evil god, he concluded that the monks of Jiaye Temple must have fallen into the misunderstanding of the evil god for hundreds of years.

Bodhi Gāthā is the most famous verse in Buddhism. Anyone who sees this verse will try to comprehend the Zen principles contained in it.

Jiaye Temple has always felt that this is the verse left by the Sixth Patriarch Huineng over the years, and they even got the initial direction wrong.

After Ye Xiaochuan determined that the secret was not on the cliff without words, he began to think in reverse.

Since it is not on the cliff without words, the most likely place to hide the secret is the big Buddha statue.

So Ye Xiaochuan succeeded.

But confirming that the secret is not on the cliff but on the Buddha is only half the battle.

The other half is also very important.

That is the lotus throne.

For hundreds of years, the monks of Jiaye Temple have set their sights on the Wuzi Cliff. Even if someone is interested in the Buddha, it is difficult for them to be attracted by the lotus throne.

Ye Xiaochuan has always been curious about the stone sculpture of the Buddha.

Half of the stone sculptures of the Buddha are statues of the Tathagata Buddha sitting on a lotus, and there are very few Buddha sculptures of the Buddha holding a flower.

This is why Ye Xiaochuan thought that in the story recorded in the Buddhist scriptures that the Buddha held a flower to indicate that the real protagonist of the story was the Venerable Jiaye, and the Buddha was just a supporting role here.

After thinking this through, looking at the lotus platform again, it doesn't seem so dazzling.

Because, in the classics, that position is exactly where the Venerable Jiaye was when the Buddha preached in Lingshan.

If it were normal, the Buddhist disciples would have solved the secret here long ago.

However, the evil god is very good at playing tricks on people. He must have moved the stone sculpture of Venerable Kasyapa from the lotus throne to the cave behind the waterfall.

This has confused the world for tens of thousands of years.

During this period, only the Fairy of Jinghai, Lv Qinghe, was there. It is not known whether it was a coincidence or the Fairy of Jinghai understood the clues left by the evil god and solved the secret here.

Master Kongyuan and Monk Jiekong carried the statue of Venerable Kasyapa and slowly landed on the ground.

The statue of Venerable Kasyapa is easy to recognize. His figure has a big head, big earlobes, protruding cheekbones, and a very obvious smile at the corners of his mouth.

Without Ye Xiaochuan's instructions, Monk Jiekong placed the stone sculpture of Venerable Kasyapa on the lotus throne facing the statue of the Buddha.

But the lotus throne did not change at all, and no mechanism was seen.

Just when everyone was suspicious, Ye Xiaochuan suddenly said: "Put the statue of Venerable Kasyapa facing west."

Facing west?

That means facing away from the stone sculpture of the Buddha.

However, Ye Xiaochuan's firm tone made Jiekong hesitate and pick up the stone sculpture of Venerable Kasyapa again and move the position again.

When Venerable Kasyapa faced the west, suddenly, everyone clearly heard a slight strange sound coming from the lotus throne.

Jiekong immediately jumped off the lotus throne, and everyone watched attentively.

The lotus sculpture on the lotus throne seemed to come alive and was slowly opening, like a lotus that had broken free from the bud and was slowly blooming.

When the lotus petals opened, a faint golden light of Buddhism emanated from the bottom of the lotus throne.

Everyone was overjoyed! It has been eight hundred years! The secret here has finally reappeared in the world! Xuanying glanced at Ye Xiaochuan and said, "What did you see on the head of the Buddha just now?

How did you know that the stone statue of Venerable Kasyapa should be facing the west with its back to the Buddha?"

Ye Xiaochuan smiled mysteriously and said, "The Buddha said, it cannot be said, it cannot be said!"

This is really not something that can be explained clearly in just one or two sentences. Now Ye Xiaochuan is eager to know what book the evil god left on the Wuzi Cliff, so he has no time to tell Xuanying about his famous detective reasoning.

The golden Buddha light enveloped the stone sculpture of Venerable Kasyapa. Everyone waited for a while, but there was only golden light, and no book was seen.

Everyone looked at Ye Xiaochuan.

At this moment, these big guys have already regarded Ye Xiaochuan as the reincarnation of the Buddha in their hearts, and they look at this kid when they encounter any problems.

Ye Xiaochuan walked to the lotus throne without panic and reached out to touch the lotus platform.

Said: "Turn the lotus platform so that Venerable Kasyapa faces the Buddha stone sculpture."

Jiekong stepped forward immediately, and the three old monks Xuannan, Xuanji, and Xuanku also rolled up their sleeves and stepped forward to help.

The most important thing in Buddhism is greed, anger, and ignorance. Although these three old monks have boundless Buddhist teachings, they still have an obsession with the secret here.

Perhaps it is precisely because of this that they cannot comprehend the highest realm of Buddhism.

The lotus platform can indeed be rotated, but it takes a lot of force to push it.

It seems that there is some kind of mechanism connected under the lotus platform.

As the lotus platform was pushed, the surrounding mountains suddenly trembled slightly.

Everyone knew that the secret was right in front of them and was extremely surprised.

Ye Xiaochuan immediately turned his head to look at the Buddha and said: "Keep pushing!"

When the lotus platform turned 180 degrees and Venerable Kasyapa faced the stone sculpture of the Buddha on the east side, a dull sound came from the direction of the stone sculpture of the Buddha on the east side.

Everyone looked up and saw that the Buddha statue originally on the inside of the stone wall suddenly moved slowly.

This was certainly not the Buddha's manifestation, but the rotation of the lotus throne, which opened a mechanism that had been sealed for many years.

The stone sculpture of the Buddha actually separated from the stone wall and slowly extended forward for several feet. Then, the entire Buddha was slowly rotating in a clockwise direction.