Dream Journey from Shaolin

Chapter 247 Inner Demon Tribulation!

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Except for the heavenly soldiers and generals who became gods on the list of gods after death due to the battle of the gods,
There are also those immortals who ate peaches, fairy fruits, elixir and other natural treasures to become immortals, as well as those immortals who were forcibly promoted to become immortals by great supernatural beings,

Although these are not like those gods who have no physical body, they can improve their strength through practice as usual, but in the same realm, their combat ability is much lower than that of immortals who rely on themselves to overcome tribulation and ascend.
Among them, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother are the most prominent. The two were originally Taoist boys of the ancestor Hongjun, and were later forcibly promoted to the quasi-sage level by the ancestor Hongjun with supreme magic power.

Although in the Heavenly Court, the realm is considered to be the highest, but the actual combat power is not as good as some Da Luo Jinxian, or even the Taiyi Jinxian with outstanding combat power.

Compared with those of the same realm, such as Tathagata, Randeng, Luya, etc., there is almost no comparison.
The Jade Emperor could only count on the protection of the gods in the Heavenly Court when Sun Wukong made a big disturbance in the Heavenly Palace, while the Tathagata, who was in the same realm, pressed him under the Five Fingers Mountain with one hand, and sealed it with the six-character mantra for 500 years.

Therefore, the immortals who have achieved the strength of heavenly immortals through their own cultivation and crossing the catastrophe actually have a relatively high status in the heavenly court.

For example, the Eight Immortals in Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, although they became immortals later, their status in the heaven is not low, and it is not comparable to ordinary immortals.

The same is true of the heaven, and the same is true of Lingshan,
Therefore, in fact, if Jiang Ming succeeds in crossing the catastrophe at this time, no matter whether it is in Lingshan or in the heaven, he will still have such a place.

In the mortal world, on the top of Jinshan Mountain,
Jiang Ming, who kept his eyes closed all the time, was suddenly taken aback, because he found that he had appeared in a dark and deserted space without knowing when, where there was no sky, no land, no sun and no moon, as if it was a completely dead place.

He wanted to move, but found that he couldn't move at all. He wanted to use the Buddha power in his body, but found that the Buddha power seemed to have disappeared.
"Is it the heart demon robbery to become a Buddha?"

Through the past few months, in the Sutra Pavilion of Jinshan Temple, I have added a lot of basic knowledge of Buddhism,
He already knew that if a monk practicing Buddhism reaches the time when he can form a relic and become a Buddha, he must overcome the calamity of the heart demon, just like a Taoist priest who cultivates the Tao and becomes an immortal must overcome the calamity of thunder.

It's just that the heart demon calamity is mainly aimed at the mind of the practitioner, and it does not cause any harm to the body, while the sky thunder calamity is mainly aimed at the flesh body, and does not harm the soul.

However, for most practitioners, becoming a Buddha is more difficult than becoming an immortal, because the Heart Demon Tribulation is useless no matter how high your cultivation level is and how powerful your spells are, because it only targets your mind,
If you can't pass the test of the mind, then your consciousness will die directly, leaving only a body poured by the Buddha's power, which is the origin of those golden bodies in Tallinn.

To deal with the thunder disaster, you can use spells, magic weapons, elixirs, and even formations to assist in countering,
If you still can't make it through, it's a big deal to give up your body, become a ghost fairy, and go to the underworld to practice, there is always a chance.

However, no matter whether it is the calamity of the heart demon or the catastrophe of the sky thunder, they are not only punishments for those who cross the tribulation, they are also an essential improvement of the cultivation level for those who cross the tribulation.

After surviving the calamity of the heart demon, the spiritual power of the surviving robber can be greatly improved, while surviving the robbing of the sky thunder can greatly condense the physical body of the surviving robber,

Of course, the most important thing about the two is the improvement of cultivation.

And these are completely incomparable to those cultivators who have avoided calamity and become Buddhas and immortals through other tricky ways.
So why many Buddhas, immortals, and gods, except those who were punished, would voluntarily go to reincarnation to re-cultivate, just want to fight to see if they can go further,
For example, Fahai, as one of the eight celestial dragons, the boa constrictor god of Buddhism, why did he reincarnate in the human world?
In fact, according to Jiang Ming's conjecture, it is estimated that the boa constrictor god became a Buddha not by crossing the catastrophe, but by using other reasons to achieve the Buddha.
That's why he was reincarnated into a sea of ​​Dharma, and re-cultivated the Dharma in order to overcome the kalpa and become a Buddha.

However, according to the original plot, Jiang Ming guessed that it would be difficult for him to survive the catastrophe of the demons based on what he had done. After all, because of his arbitrariness, many people died, and his state of mind must not be complete.
But now that with Jiang Ming's intervention, his state of mind has been fulfilled earlier, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

In fact, Jiang Ming is quite confident about this heart demon tribulation, otherwise he would not be in a hurry to form a relic to cross the tribulation before leaving this world.

Because, if he returns to the main world, the laws of the different worlds, even if he forms a relic, there may not be a catastrophe of the heart demon or a catastrophe of the sky, so he will lose a chance to improve himself,
As for why he is sure to survive the heart demon tribulation?

First of all, he feels that in modern society, his soul baptized by so many poisonous chicken soups is definitely not comparable to that of ordinary ancients. At least he is not easy to go to extremes and go to extremes.
And because he has been traveling between different worlds these years, he has experienced things that many people cannot experience in a lifetime, and his mentality is also much beyond that of ordinary people.

Of course, these are only one aspect,

The most important thing is that he knows from the Sutra Pavilion that when he becomes a Buddha and overcomes the catastrophe, there is a kind of power that can greatly increase the success rate of surviving the catastrophe of the heart demon.
That is the power of merit!
This is why many monks pay attention to compassion and saving lives, which is better than seven-level pagodas.

Why Fa Hai is keen on killing demons and demons, saving the world and saving people, is actually mainly due to this aspect.
Of course, I don't deny that Fahai himself is kind, but he's just a bit stubborn.

Jiang Ming, who was unable to move an inch in nothingness, found that the surrounding scenes had changed again.

In the originally empty and dark world, modern buildings began to rise one after another,

Not long after, a familiar yet unfamiliar scene appeared in front of his eyes.

The blue sky, white clouds, the sun, airplanes, birds, high-rise buildings, streets, street lights, and the surrounding brothers and sisters in cool summer clothes,
At this time, Jiang Ming also found that he could move again.
He was standing on the side of the street, no longer wearing a cassock, but a poor-quality white shirt and suit pants, a tie, and a briefcase,
His eyes became confused from the original sobriety, and the memory in his mind began to disappear bit by bit.

"Old Jiang, why are you standing here in a daze, it's already [-]:[-], if you don't hurry up, you'll be late!"

At this time, a voice suddenly woke him up from his confusion,
He turned his head and saw a fat man with four steamed buns and a cup of soy milk running towards him,
"Oh, it's Old Liu!"

This is, he suddenly realized in his heart, isn't this person his colleague Liu Weibiao!
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(End of this chapter)