Under one person: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the arrogant Zhang.

Chapter 544 Little Heavenly Master, Help Me Get Rid of Myself
"Three souls will never lose their souls!"

Zhang Zhiwei pinched Wang Ai's neck with one hand and lifted him up, and with the other hand he pointed at Wang Ai's brow and cast a spell to purify his mind.

"Ang hoo, you big-faced thief, I must kill you, you big-faced thief, I must kill you!!"

Wang Ai, who was possessed by the "National Master", roared wildly, and blood spurted out of his eyes for a full three inches. His eyeballs were full of bloodshot, and he looked quite terrifying.

But then, the roar stopped abruptly, and the Heart Purifying Mantra was like a clear spring, pouring into the "State Master's" brain, which was like a red-hot iron.

Silence, like the silence of a cardiac arrest, came over me.

The bloodshot in Wang Ai's eyes faded away and he regained clarity. He looked at Zhang Zhiwei and opened his mouth, about to explain.

"Why don't you go back quickly? I'll deal with you later!" Zhang Zhiwei glared.

"Wang Ai" was no longer as arrogant as before. He shrank his neck hesitantly, then rolled his eyes and fainted.

After the "National Master" left, the Qi surrounding Wang Ai disappeared, and he completely returned to his original appearance.

At this moment, Wang Ai had been badly damaged by the backlash due to bearing too much power from the "National Master", which exceeded the limit of what his body could bear.

The skin on his body was burned by lightning in many places, festering to the bone, and creepy white smoke was coming out of the hideous wounds. Not only the flesh on the surface, but also his internal organs suffered huge damage. If his chest had not been still heaving, he would have been mistaken for a dead man.

If an ordinary doctor were to deal with this kind of injury, he would almost certainly declare that the patient is incurable and will die. But for Zhang Zhiwei, it was nothing.

Red light appeared from his hands, covering Wang Ai's entire body and starting to restore his body.

In an instant, the horrible and disgusting flesh buds fluttered and connected into one piece, and new intact flesh grew from the charred flesh.

In less than half an incense stick of time, Wang Ai, who had almost turned into a charred corpse, had recovered. Except for the fact that the new skin was a little pale, he was almost the same as before.

Wang Ai was still in a coma. Zhang Zhiwei carried Wang Ai on his shoulders and moved back to where everyone was.

After Monk Dengcao escaped, the Twelve Emotional Labor Formation was lifted. The people who were previously affected were no longer affected. The rationality in their brains gradually took over, and most of them regained consciousness.

Due to the instigation of Monk Dengcao, the righteous people who had internal conflicts all put aside their past grievances.

The Quan Xing demons, who were enraged, regained their senses, realized that the situation was irreversible, and were unwilling to fight with the righteous path anymore, so they immediately wanted to withdraw from Fengyang Town.

But if you want to fight, you fight; if you want to leave, you leave. How can there be such a good thing in the world?
The righteous people began to clear out the remaining bandits in the town.

Most of the tough guys were cleaned out by Zhang Zhiwei, and these small and insignificant characters were wiped out in no time.

Everyone began to rest on the spot, check for casualties, and restore their internal energy.

"Senior Wang, go on!"

Zhang Zhiwei threw Wang Ai to the head of the Wang family.

Patriarch Wang quickly caught it, and when he saw Wang Ai was unconscious, his face changed: "Little Heavenly Master, this..."

"You've overexerted yourself. You'll be fine after a rest!" said Zhang Zhiwei.

Upon learning that Wang Ai was fine, the head of the Wang family breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

Zhang Zhiwei glanced around and saw that the casualties were minimal. He nodded and reminded:

"Master Wang, the twelve meridians affect not only emotions, but also internal organs. You guys take a break. I'm going to go meet that mysterious hermit Wu Man!"

After saying this, without waiting for the Wang family head to answer, he turned and walked towards the ancestral hall in the small town.

"Ugh……"

Patriarch Wang wanted to persuade Zhang Zhiwei to go with them, but looking at Zhang Zhiwei's back, he opened his mouth, swallowed his words of dissuasion, and sighed:
"Looking at the aura of the young Heavenly Master, his power is strong and his spirit is light, and his cultivation level is so high that it seems as if he is one with the heaven and earth. Who dares to treat him as a junior?"

Patriarch Lu also sighed, "That's true. I'm ashamed to say that as an older person like me, I actually feel a sense of oppression when facing the young Heavenly Master. It really proves the saying that there is no order of learning, and the one who is more accomplished is the teacher!"

At this time, he found that Lu Ci was tiptoeing towards the town's ancestral temple. His face immediately darkened and he shouted:

"Rebellious son! Where are you going?"

Lu Ci's heart skipped a beat, his face stiffened, and he turned around and said, "Father, I want to go see what's going on with Senior Brother Zhang!"

"How dare you mention the word father?" The head of the Lu family snorted coldly. He remembered Lu Ci's previous rebellious remarks.

Even Lu Ci couldn't help but clench his teeth at those remarks. He felt that it was difficult to deal with, so he could only forcefully argue:
"Father, what I said before was not my original intention. I was really deceived by the demon Quan Xing!"

"You were tricked by the Quan Xing demon?" The head of the Lu family curled his lips, "Then why didn't you act in a trick when you spoke to the little Taoist priest? Instead, your attitude was extremely good?"

I say, Dad, it is important for people to know themselves. Can you compare with Senior Brother Zhang? If I provoke you, you can only punish me a few words at most. If I provoke Senior Brother Zhang, I will be slapped in the face... Lu Ci complained in his heart.

But he naturally couldn't say such things in his heart, and he was thinking about how to respond.

Seeing his brother scratching his head, Lu Ren at the side said:

"Father, there are reasons for this. Please don't blame me too much. Besides, my brother behaves like this because he wants to be close to you!"

"You said... this is a way of showing closeness to me?" The head of the Lu family sneered.

Lü Ren explained: "When I was in school, I read a few Western articles that said that this situation is actually because people feel safe with their close ones, so they can express their emotions more freely, and these emotions are naturally filled with anger."

"When dealing with people you are not close to, because you don't feel safe enough, you will develop a psychological defense and be more restrained in your emotions, so you will be more friendly to strangers."

"My brother is friendly to Senior Brother Zhang, but irritable to you, father. Doesn't this just prove that he is close to you, father? So, father, you don't have to be angry about this!"

"Really?" The head of the Lu family looked at Lu Ci with suspicion.

"Oh, yes, yes, that's what I thought!" Lu Ci nodded repeatedly.

"Brother Lu, what you said does make some sense. However, we should deal with family matters later. The young Taoist priest has gone to the ancestral temple. Wu Man is cunning and we might be tricked. We should follow her quickly!" said the head of the Wang family, holding Wang Ai in his arms.

"Brother Wang is right!" The head of the Lu family nodded and stopped nagging. He took the opportunity to back down and did not blame him in public. He was just trying to save face just now.

Immediately, the two family heads ordered the others to rest where they were, to be on high alert and guard against Quan Xing's sneak attack, and then rushed towards the ancestral hall.

Every failure makes one wiser. Because they had too many people before, they deliberately didn't bring too many people with them this time.

Zhang Zhiwei leaped a few times and arrived in front of the ancestral hall in the town in a flash.

Looking inside from the door, you can see that the platform of the ancestral hall is filled with spirit tablets, and there are lamp stands on both sides.

Wu Man sat cross-legged in front of the spirit tablet, with one hand clasped together in a palm of his hand, and with the other hand he was threading the Buddhist beads, chanting Sanskrit.

Beside him, there stood densely a group of people in simple clothes. Although they were standing, their eyes were dull and their expressions were wooden, giving people the feeling of being puppets.

These people should be ordinary people in the town, but looking at their current appearance... Zhang Zhiwei secretly said, with golden flames boiling in his eyes, staring at them, and soon found that they were all fine, just under some kind of illusion, and lost their minds...

"Amitabha, little Heavenly Master, I have been waiting for a long time!"

Wu Man opened her eyes, chanted a Buddhist name, and turned to look at Zhang Zhiwei.

"You're waiting for me?" Zhang Zhiwei tilted his head and looked at Wu Man, "Are you waiting to die?"

Wu Man was not angry at all and said, "Buddha said that life is death and death is life. Little Heavenly Master thinks that I am waiting for death, so why am I not waiting for life?!"

Zhang Zhiwei was not in a hurry to kill Wu Man. He said expressionlessly, "What else did the Buddha tell you?"

Wu Man twisted the Buddhist beads in her hand and spoke eloquently, "The Buddha said that compassion brings disaster, and convenience brings vulgarity. Too many Taoists and monks only know how to be compassionate, but don't know how to use it, which only brings disaster. They are far inferior to the little Tianshi's diamond means and the heart of a bodhisattva, who has wisdom!"

"Whatever you say makes sense!" Zhang Zhiwei grinned and said, "Go on!"

Wu Man continued seriously: "Buddha said a lot. Buddha said that if you have Buddha in your heart, you are in the temple!"

"The Buddha said that the Dharma is in the world and is inseparable from the worldly awareness. Seeking Bodhi away from the world is like seeking the horns of a rabbit. If you practice away from the worldly practice, no matter how much Dharma you practice, it will be useless."

"So, I left the Three Treatises sect that practiced seclusion from the world, returned to secular life, and practiced in the secular world."

Zhang Zhiwei listened quietly. He had read the information about Wu Man that Xiaozhan had given him. Wu Man came from the Three Treatise School among the Eight Sects of Buddhism, which was the school that pursued the emptiness of the five aggregates.

"The Buddha said, it is not far to be a Buddha. Without any effort, one can open his mind naturally."

"The Buddha said that all the methods of practice in the world are to seek tranquility of mind, the so-called cessation. Although there are many methods of Buddhist practice, in summary there is only one, that is cessation and contemplation!"

Master also said this when he was teaching the Fa to Zhang Zhiwei. All the methods of inner cultivation in the world can be summed up in one word, that is, "observation." It's just that the things to be observed and the angles are different.

"The Buddha said that Bodhisattvas do not accept blessings, do not seek rewards, and do not suffer from karma!"

"The Buddha said that if you practice in favorable circumstances, you will never become a Buddha. If I don't go to hell, who will?"

Wu Man's speech speed became faster and faster:
"The Buddha advocated educating all sentient beings. Although hell is dangerous, if no one is willing to go to hell, then who will save the sentient beings in hell who need to be educated the most? Therefore, I returned to the secular world and joined the Three Treatises School and joined Quanxing!"

"The Buddha said, if there is a person who gives his life as alms, and spends countless hours giving without asking for anything in return, this person will have great blessings."

"The Buddha said that seeing an enemy is like seeing one's own parents!"

"To treat enemies as if they were one's own parents and relatives, and to treat enemies and relatives equally, is the realm of Buddha. Therefore, after I entered the Quanxing, I treated all people in the Quanxing as if they were my own children and relatives..."

Wu Man talked incessantly.

Zhang Zhiwei's eyes flickered, and he actually saw the shadow of Wu Gensheng on Wu Man's increasingly impatient face.

Don’t Wu Man’s words correspond to the current Wu Gensheng?
It is said that Wu Gensheng is a born madman, without temperament and without roots. It turns out that he believes in Buddhism, or rather, he does not believe in Buddhism, but practices Buddhist principles in his every move.

Perhaps, when Wu Man first entered Quanxing, he had the same idea as Wu Gensheng now, and did similar things, but he eventually fell.

It can be said that Wu Man and Wu Gensheng are the same type of people. No wonder Wu Gensheng was able to save Wu Man and help him gain enlightenment and liberation.

But Wu Gensheng could save Wu Man who was sinking in the world, but who could save him who was in a bad mood because of something? !

After all, it is easier to save others than to save yourself.

Wu Man was still talking fluently.

"Buddha said, simplicity is truth, calmness is happiness!"

"The Buddha said, worry comes from attachment, trouble comes from attachment!"

"The Buddha said, 'As the mind is, so is the Buddha; as the Buddha is, so are sentient beings. The mind, the Buddha, and sentient beings are three without difference!"

"Buddha said..."

"Buddha said..."

"The Buddha said that only by permanently eliminating ignorance can one achieve Buddhahood!"

At this point, Wu Man's expression was no longer as calm as before, and became impatient.

His face was ferocious and his voice suddenly rose in pitch, his words became overlapping and as if echoing, he had lost all his Buddha nature and there was even a hint of resentment in them.

"I remember every word the Buddha said, and I can recite every principle in the Buddhist scriptures. In the entire Three Treatises School, no one can compare with me in terms of preaching, chanting, and expounding Buddhist principles. But what's the use of understanding Buddhist principles? What's the use? What's the use?!"

Wu Man changed his sitting position to kneeling, his face was bulging with veins, extremely hideous and distorted. He looked emaciated and like a demon, with tears and blood flowing from his eyes. He shouted out all his struggles, hesitations, and confusions to Zhang Zhiwei:
"I can't do it. I can never truly see the five aggregates and understand emptiness. I can't break through ignorance. I can't break through ignorance!!"

The five aggregates in Buddhism are form, feeling, perception, volition and consciousness. They are the perception of all temptations from the outside world. Letting go of the five aggregates means letting go of all temptations in the world. This coincides with the idea proposed by Yang Zhu, the founder of all nature, that one should not take even a single hair or a single thing. They share the same concept.

As for ignorance... its literal meaning is dimness and darkness, generally used to describe a lost mind.

In a narrow sense, it refers to the stupidity among the three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance. One does not know what he is thinking or doing. Therefore, people often use "getting angry for no reason" to describe being angry.

Generally speaking, all knowledge, views and actions that are not in accordance with the rational and lawful rules are ignorance. Greed is ignorance, anger is ignorance, love is ignorance, hatred is ignorance...all troubles are ignorance.

Wu Manming cannot see the five aggregates and cannot break ignorance. What he calls ignorance refers to the latter.

Wu Man looked at Zhang Zhiwei with burning eyes:
“Little Heavenly Master, the headmaster once told me that you are a Bodhisattva above the tenth level. You once discussed the Dao with the Great Ying Immortal Zuo Ruotong, helping him realize the Dao and break the miasma of Ni Sheng. You once discussed the Dao with the head of Wudang, helping him break out of his cocoon and become a butterfly, freeing himself from the prison of Wudang Mountain. Please help me to be free!”

(End of this chapter)