Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Throughout the four major continents, the Tathagata Buddha did not develop a place where there is still a large number of Buddhist orthodoxy.

It seems that only 100 years have passed, and Buddhism just disappeared from the Three Realms.

This once made the Tathagata Buddha suspect that Daming has secretly suppressed and even killed Buddhist believers in the past 100 years.

But after many days of investigation in the three realms and four continents, the Tathagata Buddha discovered that it was not the same thing at all.

Although Buddhism seems to have disappeared in the four major continents, it still exists in some remote mountains and fields.

Some places even continue the tradition of believing in Buddhism 100 years ago.

He even found a golden statue of the Huanxi Buddha, which was very popular more than 1000 years ago, in a small mountain village.

You must know that Huanxi Buddha died as early as 1000 years ago.

These discoveries made Tathagata Buddha a little relieved, but to be honest, it was just a little bit
And if you look carefully, if you go deep into these small mountain villages that believe in Buddhism, you will find that even in such small mountain villages that traditionally believe in Buddhism, the belief in Buddhism is still dying out little by little.

This is an irreversible process, and even the Tathagata Buddha cannot change this process.

Of course, he can also rely on his powerful magic power and his ultimate understanding of Buddhism to stay in one place for decades or hundreds of years.

In this way, Buddhism and Taoism in one place can naturally be developed.

But in the final analysis, he is just one person. Even if he has supernatural powers, clever means, and tries his best to do it, it will not affect many people.

With the current environment of the Three Realms, it is almost impossible to build a system similar to the former Buddhism.

First of all, the environment is no longer allowed.

In the current Three Realms, Tathagata Buddha has already searched the whole area. Except for Jifu and Beiju Luzhou, the remaining three states and the four seas have all been assimilated by the Ming Empire.

This kind of assimilation is similar to the assimilation of the previous Buddhism. In the area where Buddhism and Dharma spread before, no other Dharma can get involved, because Buddhism and Dharma are inherently exclusive.

If other types of factions enter the Buddhist territory, even if there is no Buddhist strongman to take action, believers will spontaneously organize to deal with outsiders.

Unless you can kill this group of Buddhist believers, or use the most extreme violent means to suppress it, otherwise it is impossible to change the thinking of people in this area.

The Tathagata Buddha, who has studied Buddhism all his life, deeply knows that changing people's thinking is the most difficult thing.

And this is how the Tathagata Buddha feels about the current Three Realms.

Although the ideas spread by the Ming Empire are not sects, their theories are more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people than sects.

Because this time, those people from the Ming Empire taught those people to think and taught those people knowledge.

He has deeply studied various books obtained from the Ming Empire, and among them he was most impressed by a sentence called knowledge is power.

This is an invisible, intangible, but real force.

Once people's knowledge increases, their wisdom will naturally increase, and as their wisdom increases, they will understand more and more truths, which has nothing to do with whether this person is a fairy or not.

The so-called immortals are nothing more than a stronger memory, and most of this memory is used in cultivating immortals. Those immortals do not know more about various principles than those mortals in the Ming Empire today.

This is a phenomenon that makes the Tathagata Buddha feel afraid, as if a mortal starts to have something from a fairy god, he really doesn't know what the three worlds will look like in the future.

But there is one thing he dares to be 100% sure of, no matter what the Three Realms will look like in the future, there will never be a place for Buddhism.

Because just like what a little guy who was arguing with him said in Sun City, the so-called power of faith is actually a kind of no-cost business. for the believers.

It is this characteristic of the power of faith, the way to get rich revenge without hard work, that makes the immortals in the whole Three Realms flock to it.

Of course, this kind of flocking is already a thing before, and the power of faith in the Three Realms has already been thoroughly studied by people, which is equivalent to being stripped of the outer gorgeous coat and showing the most dirty side naked to everyone. in front of people.

Naturally, all those who have knowledge in this area will no longer be able to believe in Buddhism.

This is also the reason why he saw that the villages that had believed in Buddhism for hundreds or even thousands of years began to decline one by one.

In fact, more and more knowledge about Buddhism has been known, and it has gradually spread to these remote mountain villages. Naturally, the devotion of mortals, immortal cultivators and Buddhists in the village has been shaken.

In addition, in the past hundred years, the Buddha has indeed stopped responding to any believers, and naturally they have lost their faith.

For this, Tathagata Buddha did not blame them.

Seeing this, he has completely given up on the four major continents.

Of course, he is not completely helpless.

He actually had a backhand before he went into retreat, and it can even be said that he had left a backhand when he planned the Westward Journey, but because the Westward Journey was not put into action before, naturally this backhand was useless .

But now, this backhand is finally possible to use.

Taking a last look at the four continents in front of him, the Tathagata Buddha finally lost any nostalgia, turned around and disappeared into the vast East China Sea as a ray of light.

"Where is he going?" Sun Wukong, who had been paying attention to the Tathagata Buddha in the sky, couldn't help asking in doubt.

"Looking at his direction, it should be the underworld."

"There's only one place for him to go." A gleam flashed in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, and he said with a smile.

Now I dare not speak of the entire Three Realms, but almost all the existing human races in the Three Realms have been influenced by the Ming Empire. This influence is subtle. By providing a large number of books and establishing a large number of schools, Zhu Yuanzhang made almost everyone understand the truth , especially the true thoughts about Buddhism and the power of faith, naturally no one believes in Buddhism anymore.

This is inevitable, as long as the Tathagata Buddha does not want to provoke the war of the Three Realms again, then he can only retreat, and there is only one place to go.

"Speaking of the underworld, I'm also really curious, what does it look like there now?" Sun Wukong said with a smile.

"To be honest, I want to know too." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

The underworld has become the territory of Empress Pingxin since the Zhoutian star formation was shattered. Other people and spies from other forces have been completely wiped out. Now the underworld seems to be a huge unknown. place.

Over the years, the Ming Empire has sent countless spies, but without exception, all the spies will completely lose contact after entering the underworld. Obviously, these people are probably in danger.

Since 20 years, Zhu Yuanzhang has completely given up the opportunity to enter the underworld.

After all, this is an impossible task no matter how you look at it.

"The reason why it is so difficult to enter the underworld is probably because of that divine beast called Di Ting."

Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a while and said, "With this beast here, no matter how many people we send in, we can't hide from his eyes and ears."

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned Truth Listening, Monkey King next to him couldn't help but feel moved.

He seems to have heard of this guy, the mount of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, in the original trajectory, this guy is an accomplice of Buddhism, or it can be said that he himself is a fully domesticated beast of Buddhism.

Thinking of this, Sun Wukong suddenly felt ready to move.

"Your Majesty, how about I go to the underworld?"

"Among the laws I have comprehended, there is a hidden law that can prevent me from being calculated by others. With this law to protect me, I should be able to hide from this guy's eyes and ears. As long as I can avoid this guy's eyes and ears occasionally, naturally I will be able to find out the truth of the underworld."

"And even if it's really impossible, if I want to leave, even if Empress Pingxin wants to stop me, I'm afraid she may not be able to do it." Monkey King said with a smile.

Although this guy is not in good shape, Zhu Yuanzhang knows that the horror of this Monkey King, it can be said that in the current Three Realms, he should be the existence of the physical ceiling.

Such a physical ceiling naturally has the confidence to say these words.

"Okay, since Wukong wants to go, let's go."

"But be careful in everything, and don't be left careless." Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly.

After all, Empress Pingxin has never made a move in the past 10 years, and he doesn't know how powerful that empress is now, so it's better to be careful in everything.

"Okay!" Sun Wukong bared his teeth and smiled.

Speaking of which, this is the first time he has gone out of the mountain after his mastery of divine channeling. I hope this time will be a pleasant trip.

Sun Wukong's efficiency is very high. Now that he has made up his mind, he naturally has nothing to hesitate. Soon he said goodbye to Zhu Yuanzhang, and his figure turned into an afterimage in a flash, chasing the footsteps of the Tathagata Buddha.

He now has a lot of power of laws. Whether it is the law of wind or the law of space, his speed has been improved to a higher level than before. Even now he doesn't even need to use somersault clouds, he can do ten times in an instant. Thousands of miles.

Coupled with the law of concealment on his body, and this kind of divine channel method of restraint and rest, even if he followed closely behind the Tathagata Buddha, he was still not noticed at all.

Soon, the two of them walked to the current entrance of the underworld.

The junction of Beiju Luzhou and Xiniu Hezhou is known as the largest pass in the world known as the Ghost Gate.

From this pass, to the north is Beiju Luzhou, to the west is Xiniu Hezhou, and to the bottom is the legendary underworld.

In the past, before the Zhoutian star array was broken, it was actually very simple to go to the underworld. You only need to go underground, and then continue to dive, and then you will naturally enter the underworld.

But now that the Zhoutian Xingchen formation is broken, these usual experiences are naturally useless, and if you want to go to the underworld, there is only this ghost gate that is exposed in the mortal world.

This pass is half guarded by two powerful ghost generals, and two ghost generals at the level of golden immortals guard the pass, which shows how much the underworld attaches importance to this pass.

It also reflects how separated the original underworld and the four major continents are.

It can be said that after the disappearance of the Zhoutian Xingchen array, the entire Three Realms will not only have those golden immortals who have lost their immortality, but also those who have long been accustomed to it before, or have already been subtly taken for granted. matter.

It's like the current hell, you can find it just by diving underground, but now if you keep diving, all you can find is endless pressure and hot magma.

"Who is coming?" At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in the ears of Buddha Tathagata.

Naturally, Monkey King who followed behind him also heard it.

The one who spoke was naturally the strong Golden Immortal who was closing the gate of hell.

"I am the Tathagata Buddha, and I came here specially to meet Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva." The Tathagata Buddha said calmly.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was originally arranged by the Tathagata Buddha. Originally, he wanted to let Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva erode the authority of the underworld little by little, and kick out the influence of Taoism from the underworld little by little.

But now apparently it is no longer needed.

His enemy has long since changed from Taoism to the current Ming Empire.

But now if the Tathagata Buddha wants to enter the underworld, he still has to rely on the face of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

Soon, the two golden immortals received the news, allowing Tathagata to enter the underworld.

And at the moment when the two of them let go, Monkey King's figure turned into a streamer and passed through the gap of this Golden Immortal Formation in an instant.

Although the two golden immortals who guarded the pass sensed something, they didn't bother to care about it soon after checking that the formation was still intact.

Tathagata Buddha really had some awareness, but soon he was relieved.

After all, this is the underworld, not his Buddhist sect, and it also has its own set of operating rules. If you don't follow this set of rules, the result will be obvious, and I'm afraid you will be kicked out by the underworld immediately.

The Tathagata Buddha is very clear about this.

So before he figured out what the rules of this place were, it was impossible for him to do these unnecessary things.

"Wow, there are actually cities being built one after another!" Monkey King almost jumped up when he saw the situation after the ghost gate.

What he likes most are the big cities of the Ming Empire with highly civilized urban development.

Because there, you can get anything you want. ,

And there are more delicious and fun things that I have never even heard of waiting for me.

He thought that there was such a city in the underworld, but he was soon disappointed.

Because these cities are just superficial, there are still only walking corpses inside, and there is no vitality at all.

But soon he discovered the difference. The people inside, not to be precise, ghosts, actually seemed to be programmed by someone, living like a machine every day.

And each of them is producing the power of faith all the time