Myriad Paths

Amitabha Buddha sits under Bodh Gaya.

Any sect is a huge theoretical system with various doctrines, and Buddhism has a lot of doctrines.

This is mainly because of the monastic system established by the Tathagata at the beginning.

Buddhism has no leader.

Unlike the obvious witch gods in the Wudao, the human emperor in the human way, and the emperor of heaven among the gods, Buddhism does not have a strict class system. All the organizations of Buddhism are more like an academic forum.

At the beginning, Buddhism did not have a specific leadership mechanism, nor did it have any rules and shackles. Everyone could freely express their views under the Tathagata's door and in this big framework, and communicate or persuade others through debate.

This is called "debate on scriptures".

Before the compilation of the Great Tripitaka and the Taisho Tripitaka, the content of these debates was not in the original text, and they were all thrown away after the debate. The Tathagata supported everyone to explain the scriptures with their own different understandings, based on different understandings and developments of the scriptures.

Therefore, Buddhism has produced so many schools.

These schools of thought include the Buddha's own thoughts, the works of others, and both stale things and universal philosophy.

This is because the Tathagata is very tolerant, which is also a manifestation of "compassion". At the same time, it is also the pursuit of "wisdom".

Buddhism talks about "wisdom" and "enlightenment" from beginning to end.

All this is for the great wish of the Tathagata, which is "awakening the world".

Let all living beings in the world be enlightened.

Buddha means "enlightenment", and what the Tathagata hopes is that all sentient beings are Buddhas.

Therefore, there is no monopoly in Buddhism. What you say and what you get is the retribution for what you do. Even the Buddha himself cannot change any cause and effect.

This is called "birth, residence, destruction and emptiness", "karma retribution".

But I don't know when, the great bodhisattvas, arhats, and even these Buddhas, without exception, have become the Dharma images with halo behind their heads and compassionate and solemn.

These things are not the mortals who were enlightened by wisdom at the beginning.

The Buddha was inevitably made into various huge and solemn Buddha statues.

Buddha became another name for God.

Buddha no longer means "enlightened person", but a respectful title for a person with great supernatural powers.

And the ultimate existence of great supernatural powers, Amitabha, is like this.

Amitabha has a compassionate heart. He saw the sufferings of the world, so he created the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss to promote Buddhism in the Pure Land, eliminate the sufferings of sentient beings, and save the world with great supernatural powers.

Therefore, chanting the name of Buddha became the most popular method. Countless sentient beings believe that this method is easy to start and has a high success rate, and it takes less effort and gets quick results.

After all... as long as you concentrate on chanting the name of Amitabha, you can be reborn in the Pure Land and escape the suffering of reincarnation without having to practice hard yourself.

Namo Amitabha is definitely the most famous Buddha name in all time and space. Many people have to chant it no matter whether they believe in Buddhism or not, whether they have something to do or not.

Therefore, when sentient beings chant the Buddha, they are not chanting their own enlightenment, but the great supernatural person called "Buddha".

Amitabha was pointed out this by the demon, and he had nothing to refute.

He used the power of Bodh Gaya, and it was the same, because in Amitabha's heart, the Buddha was right.

So, this is why he stood up.

The demon followed Amitabha's demonic thoughts and entered the Western Paradise.

In the Pure Land, demons are growing!

The demon army is vast and countless, and the demon fire is burning, as if it wants to burn the essence of the children in the Pure Land of Bliss, making them wither and die. However, countless demons were seen, exhaling in one breath, burning the temple monks, various spirits, and the original heavenly beings in the Pure Land of Bliss to ashes.

All entanglements, desires, heat, troubles, difficulties, oppression, slander, and chaos are completely burned by the equal and correct Dharma praised by the Buddha.

In just one moment, countless hundreds of thousands of billions of great demons arrived at the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, each of them brought countless hundreds of thousands of billions of celestial maidens, all of whom were good at the five desires, beautiful and charming, holding various precious toys, wanting to confuse the minds of sentient beings.

In the Dharma, some of them possessed human bodies or appeared in their own form, claiming to have achieved perfect enlightenment, praising desires, breaking the Buddha's precepts, and passing on lust to demon teachers and demon disciples.

Countless demons, not breaking the precepts, violated the Bodhisattva precepts, and destroyed the Buddha's Nirvana. All other miscellaneous karmas were burned for kalpas, and because the six chaotic delusions became karma, the twelve divisions were revolving from this.

Even the demons themselves transformed into the appearance of the Tathagata, borrowed his clothes, and sold the Tathagata, committing various karmas, and talking about the Dharma. But he is not a monk with full precepts, so he misled countless sentient beings.

Such evil spirits bewitched their hearts and minds, and sentient beings in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss fell into depravity. Some were reborn nine times, and some were reborn for hundreds of millions of years. They made true practitioners become demon followers, became demon people, lost their omniscience, fell into the Avici Hell, became the demon of love and vision, and lost the seed of Tathagata.

The devil has reversed the situation.

If this continues, Amitabha’s defeat is inevitable.

Li Qi’s plan has failed.

When Amitabha retreats, even if Li Qi’s devouring plan has been completed, he will inevitably die without a burial.

Then, at this time, under Bodh Gaya, next to the countless dust worlds around the Bodhi tree, Amitabha put his hands together and chanted a Buddhist name.

What he chanted was: "Namo Amitabha."

Then, the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss withered.

The devil suddenly widened his eyes, and all his strength suddenly withdrew, trying to withdraw!

But it was too late.

Amitabha entered Nirvana!

Wu Xian and Huang Long appeared next to the Demon Prince in just a moment, and Wu Xian seemed to want to ask something.

But the Demon Prince widened his eyes and looked at everything in amazement.

This is not what was agreed upon!

The plan did not say that Amitabha would die!

"What is your plan?" Wu Xian asked at this time.

Huang Long also said: "Can Li Qi persuade Amitabha to enter Nirvana? Or are you also in the dark?"

"I don't know." The Demon Prince held his crutches with one hand, his face full of disbelief: "In the plan, I will use the formless realm to suppress the desire realm, Amitabha will stop the demon, and Li Qi will use the suppressed desire realm and the demon's eyes as a springboard to erode the demon's body, hoping to find a way to the first rank."

"But Amitabha did not say that he would die."

When the Demon Prince said this, he found that his fingers were shaking a little.

The situation was out of control.

Without the help of the first rank, how can it be accomplished? Death is a small matter. What the Demon Prince is worried about is that there will never be any chance to affect the Heavenly Demon.

"Oh." Wu Xian looked at the battlefield.

Huang Long had disappeared silently.

In the center of the battlefield, Li Qi was unaware.

Of course, Li Qi is not a super macho man. If he can still be distracted by swallowing the Heavenly Demon, he will be invincible.

So he just trusted and handed over everything in the outside world to others, and concentrated on doing what he had to do.

Apart from that, Li Qi didn't care about anything and didn't pay attention to it.

He was fully immersed in the power of the Heavenly Demon, ready to use it for his own use.

Just like Wanbantian swallowed the Desire Realm.

Wanbantian has used its own possibilities to swallow the Desire Realm and is slowly digesting it. Li Qi is also rapidly analyzing the information in the Desire Realm.

As long as the analysis is sufficient, then when you really face the Heavenly Demon, you will be able to find an opportunity.

Anyway, now the demon has Amitabha to help him hold it back. This is a golden opportunity. The snipe and the clam are fighting, and Li Qi is benefiting from it, even though the snipe was invited by Li Qi and the clam was lured by Li Qi using himself as bait.

Strictly speaking, he is not a fisherman, but the fish that the snipe and the clam are fighting for.

But what does it matter? As long as the two sides are deadlocked, it's fine. Who says fish can't eat meat?

It's just...

Li Qi suddenly felt something was wrong.

There's something wrong.

Is the body of the demon so easy to chew?

It's too smooth. He devoured the power of the demon and absorbed incredible knowledge and information from it. The deconstruction of the basic elements of the world, all kinds of secrets and understandings, all poured into Li Qi's body from the body he chewed.

This was too smooth. Li Qi was ready for his teeth to break, and it was understandable that he would be killed by the drinking. However, the demon was so soft, juicy, and delicious.

Li Qi couldn't stop at all.

He found that he couldn't stop.

If he stopped swallowing the demon, he would feel a strong sense of emptiness.

This kind of emptiness was the worst feeling in the world, which was enough to drive Li Qi crazy and make him talk nonsense.

But when he started swallowing, it was as wonderful as it was before.

This feeling is hard to describe, but to put it in a metaphor, it is like crawling hundreds of kilometers in the middle of a thirsty desert, being severely dehydrated, and the blood in the body is as thick as syrup, and then encountering an oasis.

Pure, sweet, delicious, and crystal water flowed into Li Qi's body.

That was not water, it was life turned into liquid, the most delicious nectar in the world.

After drinking a lot, he reached out and touched his forehead. His forehead, which was originally dry, was now wet with clean and refreshing sweat beads that had just emerged.

The tongue that had long been dry also had saliva again. The most important thing was that the sticky and syrupy blood became clear again and could flow smoothly. The brain became clear and bright, and the thinking became faster. The nutrition from the outside world began to continuously expand Li Qi's original strength, making him strong, smart, and fast.

It was so comfortable.

But this was definitely abnormal. The demon would never let Li Qi swallow it so easily, and this comfortable feeling also made Li Qi feel strong horror and fear.

This can't be allowed to develop like this.

A decision must be made to resist such things.

Li Qi used all his willpower to do this.

However, even if he cut off his senses, mechanized his mind, and cut off all his thoughts, he could not control the behavior of continuing to devour the body of the demon.

Li Qi had to shatter his inner world, break his hands and feet, block his throat, and force himself to stop, using physical means to prevent himself from continuing to swallow.

Fortunately, he succeeded.

After breaking his hands and feet and tying his throat, he finally stopped eating.

He finally had time to raise his head and see what was happening around him.

However, when he looked straight ahead, he was suddenly stunned.

The body of the demon was suppressed.

The gradually spreading death of a first-grade entangled him, suppressing his body and entangled his power, so that he could not move.

How to say it...

It was just like what Li Qi had experienced before.

All forces are essentially the combined force composed of countless component forces.

As long as the state of 'zero combined force' is maintained, it can be said that this force does not exist.

Now, all the 'forces' of the demon are in a state of non-existence. In other words, the demon is completely defenseless at this moment and has no resistance at all.

Why does this happen? Even if four or five first-grade masters work together, they may not be able to do this, right? Why?

However, when Li Qi continued to observe in depth, he knew why.

Because he saw Amitabha.

Amitabha, who only had the last bit of power left and was about to completely disappear in a few minutes, appeared in front of Li Qi in the form of a Dharma body.

"Li Qi." Amitabha smiled.

"My Buddha, this is different from what we agreed." Li Qi sighed and looked at the floating dust world around him, which was part of the 'Pure Land of Bliss'.

Now, the Pure Land of Bliss is empty.

Originally, Li Qi and Amitabha agreed that Amitabha would use the power of Bodh Gaya and the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss to delay the demon, so that Li Qi could gnaw off a large piece of meat.

Then, Li Qi would use this piece of meat to forcibly improve his cultivation. Just like what he said before, if it works, then it works. If it doesn't work, then he must strive to improve his cultivation and leave alive.

With a part of the body of the demon, Li Qi will no longer be in the dark. He can use it to improve his strength while conducting targeted research on the demon.

When the Tathagata was there, because he directly suppressed the demon in the formless realm and could not interfere, he never specifically chopped it up for research. Now he just fills this link.

However, what Li Qi didn't expect was that Amitabha did not use the power of the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. In fact... he disbanded the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and drove away all the creatures in it.

The Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss is now just an empty shell.

So Amitabha is still at a disadvantage with Bodh Gaya, and even invaded by the demon inside.

He took the initiative to destroy the Pure Land of Bliss and released the "living beings" in it.

Li Qi could see clearly what he was doing, but he didn't know why he was doing it at this time.

If he did it now, wouldn't he bury Li Qi in the ground?

After Amitabha's death, the demons would definitely escape quickly. By then, even if Li Qi came, he would be helpless and would die miserably.

Li Qi never expected that he would be stabbed in the back by Amitabha at this time.

He had planned for this for so long, ran around so much behind the scenes, made all kinds of calculations and plans, and even risked his life, but in the end he was sent away by Amitabha...

However, Amitabha just smiled and said to Li Qi: "You will eat both me and the demons."