Wandao long distance

Before the birth of heliocentrism, people assumed that the earth was the center of the known world, because people can only recognize the part that they can understand, and images that do not exist and are in memory cannot trigger imagination.

  So, what does the universe look like in the 'heart'?

Is the universe centered on the earth? After all, everyone thinks that the earth is the center, so in the "heart", the universe should conform to the cognition of the "heart".

This is on another level.

According to Buddhism, although you believe that the earth is the center of the universe, there are other "hearts" in this world. Many technologically advanced aliens "subjectively" believe that the earth is not the center of the universe.

Moreover, these technologically advanced aliens are obviously much more numerous, and their cognition is more accurate and reasonable. Therefore, with the intersection of many "hearts", a "cosmic consensus" was reached.

This consensus will not be shaken by the stubbornness or ignorance of a few "hearts".

Thus, observable "objectivity" emerged.

Under the observation of the "mind", objective reality is determined, and the subjectivity of many observers jointly determines an objective reality.

This objective reality is the 'universe'.

This is the 'origin'.

But in the eyes of the demons, especially the Heavenly Demons, it is obvious...the earth should be the center of the universe, and it is now.

If it is not in the future, then it is not, because it is just an illusion, and the reason why it is like this depends entirely on how I think.

So, what is he like to the Demon Prince?

Demon Prince...

In fact, it is a typical magic way.

To him, this world itself is what he "believes" to exist, so he can resist death, he can overcome pain, he can endure all torture, and even when he is at the fourth level, he can withstand the retribution of the second level's bad karma.

His will determines the world, even now.

He wants to exterminate the evil ways.

  ?

He wanted revenge on the demon.

  ?

He wants... He wants...

What do you want?

During the painful process of taking over another's body, the Demon Prince suddenly became dazed.

It seemed as if this small world was cast under a spell and fell into a long dream.

When he slipped out of his own spiritual space again, he suddenly realized something.

All my life, I have been focusing on the 'mission goal'.

The only thing on his mind was the 'mission objective'.

At first, he wanted to survive, so he dragged his crippled body, fought, struggled, used all kinds of ugly methods of the weak, and in his crippled state, he forcibly reached the seventh level.

After that, he obtained the Dao Yun of Mother Earth, which was the bamboo staff he carried with him at all times, which made up for his own deficiencies in nature and began his own 'Dao Foundation of Overlord'.

At first he himself thought it was ridiculous.

When he was young, the ugly scene of him struggling for survival and rolling on the ground in embarrassment, does he deserve the word "overlord"?

But the world doesn’t know, they haven’t seen it.

They could only see the invincible Demon Prince, see him challenging the limits of the world's cultivation, see him crushing others along the way, and see his road to dominance.

But only the Demon Prince himself knows that he is not an overlord, and what he has been pursuing all this time... is not an overlord at all.

He has never stood up straight since he was born, so the Demon Prince actually doesn't know how to be a human being.

He was just showing off his strength, pursuing his own invincibility, and madly pursuing to be a human being.

As a result, it failed because of Li Qi.

This then leads to an even more frantic pursuit, with the thought that one can achieve greater things in one go.

What he pursued was actually neither the devil nor the destruction of the devil.

The Demon Prince felt the 'pain' he endured.

Taking over Taiyi's body is extremely painful, a million times more painful than the retribution for evil deeds.

He was able to persevere entirely by relying on his own habitual stubbornness, just as in the countless years in the past, he relied on such stubbornness to overcome endless suffering and reach where he is today.

His stubbornness and paranoia helped him accomplish every desire and every "mission goal".

The pain was like a flood that reached above his neck, spreading his powerlessness and despair over countless years, but at the same time it was also shouting for help and hope.

That's why he ended up like this.

After enduring endless pain and everything along the way, what do you get in the end?

Looking back, the Demon Prince was actually a little envious of Li Qi.

The way of the Demon Prince can only protect himself when he is in danger.

But Li Qi's eyes were always looking into the distance.

The Demon Prince sighed.

Then, he gave up on taking over Taiyi's body.

The Demon Prince retreated.

The Demon Prince let go of his prejudice.

His cultivation began to collapse.

It has been said before that the Demon Prince is actually... only at the fourth level. He started from the third level. All of his power comes from his 'heart'. His heart is his foundation.

An inner spirit, a high level of stubbornness and self-reliance. This spirit, this stubbornness and self-reliant pride, is not only a characteristic of his character, not only works within himself, but can also affect the outside world.

As long as his heart is not corrupted, the Demon Prince is a genuine second-grade master.

But as soon as he begins to doubt himself, his foundation will collapse.

He let it go, so…his cultivation level regressed to the third level, and then to the fourth level.

He was no longer qualified to fight such a battle.

This made the demon who was entangled with Wu Xiang in the distance frown.

"Shang Fan——"

Wu Xian's countless powers suddenly leaped up, drawing a golden light with a soft, flexible yet terrified posture, breaking the dormant darkness and evil spirit.

"Do you still have time to call Shang Fan? Just look at me first." He said with a smile.

The Demon Prince awakened, but gave up on taking over Taiyi's body. Although the result was that his own foundation of Taoism collapsed, the Demon Prince who lost his heart... was nothing.

But for Wu Xian, this is a good thing.

On the first-rank battlefield, the demons are still struggling with many first-rank warriors, and the decisive result of losing Taiyi's body will greatly delay the end of the Dharma world.

This made the demon angry.

But he did not lose his composure, instead he said: "Wu Xian... if that's all, it's not enough."

Wu Xian did not reply.

Whether it is enough or not, you will know only if you keep going.

Anyway, as long as he is here, the demon has no chance of going anywhere else.

The demons are waiting for an opportunity to strike, and as we have said before, they have many backup plans.

And at the same time...

The Demon Prince is no longer paranoid.

He let it go.

The Demon Prince let go, but suddenly saw a familiar face appear in front of him.

A familiar person appeared in front of the Demon Prince whose cultivation was almost completely collapsed.

His eyes are like those of a relic bird, his hands are longer than his knees, and he exudes a gentle Buddha light.

"I've seen you." The Demon Prince sounded a little weak, but his tone was still calm.

Perhaps, this indifference has become a kind of "habit" of his. Even if he has no intention of maintaining this indifference now, he still subconsciously speaks in this tone.

"Yes, a long time ago, I lost to you." said Hua Guang Buddha.

That’s right, the one who appeared before my eyes was Huaguang Buddha.

However, Huaguang Buddha is not Sariputra, or rather... Sariputra is only a very small part of him.

In the endless cycle from past lives to future lives, the part called Shariputra is just a tiny memory of Hua Guang Buddha. The devil prince said softly: "Winning or losing doesn't matter anymore. My overlord's foundation has been shattered, and my determination to win has disappeared. What are you doing here now?"

"Shang Fan, you haven't let go yet." Hua Guang Buddha said.

"My foundation has collapsed, and now I'm only at the fourth level. I can't even maintain my reality, because even I don't believe that my heart can exist for long in this turbulent reality. Even so, haven't I let it go?" asked the Demon Prince.

"No, because...if you let go, you will lose nothing." Hua Guang Buddha said in a soft voice.

If you let go, you will lose nothing.

These words stunned the Demon Prince.

Does he care?

Of course I care.

However, the Demon Prince was tired. Taking over Taiyi's body... It was too tiring and too painful.

Why is he so tired, in so much pain, and going through so many hardships?

He felt that the demon didn't deserve the effort he put in.

So he gave up and chose not to bet stubbornly a thousand times, ten thousand times. Taking a step back, even if it meant death, the sky would be wide open.

But Hua Guang Buddha said that he had not let go.

  Haven't let go of anything?

The demon prince didn't know, so he sat up and asked, "What else have I not let go of?"

Hua Guang Buddha replied: "You haven't let it go, Shang Fan."

"That's not letting go, it's just 'forget it'."

These words made the Demon Prince's heart ache.

Yes.

That's not 'letting go'.

That's 'forget it'.

"The obsession you really need to let go of is not the devil, but the stubbornness that interprets this world. Why bother? Why do you have to let yourself carry the burden of this world?" Hua Guang Buddha said.

This made the Demon Prince fall into deep thought.

Carrying the world on your own?

Yeah, in a sense, that's not wrong.

Because, if you want to interpret the whole world with your own heart, and want to change the whole world with your own obsession, isn't this just "carrying" the world?

Think about it, if what the devil said is true, this world was born from the devil's fantasy, or... born from the devil prince's fantasy, then all these things, all of this, are essentially the 'cause' of the world caused by a certain person's thoughts.

  Can one person take on the entire world and be the cause of everything?

If one becomes that person, then naturally, he or she will shoulder everything.

Just as the Heavenly Demon and the Demon Prince did.

They believe that the world is meaningless except for themselves, and that only their own feelings are meaningful in this world.

If this world is just a dream of mine.

So, how can we let go of this world?

The Demon Prince was stunned.

Maybe the other party is right.

Why do you have to think...that these obsessions are the reason why the world exists?

Actually, there is no need for him to be stubborn.

Don’t be paranoid anymore. This is not what true letting go means.

Only when you wake up from the dream can you let go.

The Demon Prince sighed, and his eyes suddenly became dazed.

Awakening from a big dream.

Once you give up using your own spirit to interpret the entire universe, you no longer have to carry the entire universe on your shoulders.

At this moment, the Demon Prince finally 'let it go'.

This is unimaginable.

The whole universe knows how heavy the Demon Prince's paranoia is.

Not even death could take him away, and this paranoia made him invincible for so long.

It can be said that this paranoia is the reason for his existence.

But anyway, he let it go.

In just a moment, the Demon Prince immediately felt that... the Buddhist teachings in his mind, those recorded Tripitaka and Taisho Tripitaka, began to shine.

At this moment... a ray of golden light shone into his forehead.

The Humane Master appeared.

A first-class product that has been passed down from ancient times to the present day.

Moreover, he came with all the heritage of Buddhism.

The Grand Master of Humanity, whose name is 'Dan', also has a more famous title.

Duke of Zhou.

The moment the Great Master of Humanity appeared, the Demon of Troubles also appeared.

So they did not delay for too long, just a moment, and Master Rendao abandoned the Buddhist heritage collected by Rendao here, including the complete Taisho Tripitaka and all the divine wills sorted out by Rendao.

Then, the two first-rank masters were once again involved in a fight, but they had already disappeared here.

The scriptures that the Demon Prince collected from the human world with the help of the chaos caused by the death of the Human Emperor were all without divine will.

And at this moment, all these divine intentions have been completed.

The Demon Prince read the divine will in it, as if he could feel the words of the Buddha therein.

Shang Fan recalled some words that the Buddha Tathagata had said to him many years ago before his nirvana.

Thinking about that, he recited softly: "Thus have I heard."

If I smell it.

This is the true words of the Buddha that Shang Fan heard.

Hua Guang Buddha immediately put his hands together and paid homage to the Buddha.

"Thus I have heard, when the Tathagata enters Nirvana, I shall become a Buddha. With this pure faith and good roots, I shall become a Pratyekabuddha in the future after the Buddha's Nirvana, and my name shall be the Compassionate Merchant Lord."

The Demon Prince gave up the burden of the world on himself, and his heart was free at that moment.

He finally let go of his obsession and one of the most important things in the universe, his heart.

Thus, he became a Buddha instantly.

free.

The Buddha's fruit position is great wisdom and great freedom.

Moreover, this great wisdom and great freedom can enable one to escape from the causes of suffering in the web of cause and effect.

The so-called freedom means that after enlightenment, people have achieved great wisdom and have been liberated from all causes of suffering.

What is the cause of suffering?

All external affairs arise from causes, which then produce results, and the results become the next causes, and so on and so forth, in a cycle that forms a web of cause and effect that covers the entire world.

The sufferings of old age, sickness, death and all kinds of unpleasant things all have previous causes.

Not being confused by greed, anger, and ignorance, not being bound by cause and effect, not being carried away by doubt, fear, anger and other emotions in your heart, acting according to your true heart, free from the causes of suffering, and not suffering from the consequences of suffering, this is called great freedom.

Hua Guang Buddha is delighted!!

Yes, that's it.

A Pratyekabuddha is a person who is born in a world without Buddhas and attains enlightenment on his own.

In other words, when Shang Fan achieved the status of Pratyekabuddha, it meant that... this was a world without Buddha.

There is finally no Buddha in the world.

The Buddha's great wish finally took the first step. (End of this chapter)