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

Chapter 660: The inside story of Tiantai Sect, transmission of the truth
Master Henglin nodded and said, "I am here for the Tiantai Sect's mission. Fortunately, I came not too late, otherwise it would be terrible."

Speaking of which, when Master Ku Rong died, Master Heng Lin was also shocked.

He had already arrived at the foot of Mount Tiantai, and as soon as Zhang Zhiwei reached the top of the mountain, he started climbing.

According to his original idea, the fight between Zhang Zhiwei and Ku Rong should take some time, and he still has plenty of time.

But he never expected that Ku Rong died while he was still halfway up the mountain, and his head rolled down. Fortunately, only one head rolled down.

Zhang Zhiwei looked at Ku Rong's head thoughtfully and said, "If the master had come too late, would the inheritance have been cut off?"

Master Henglin smiled and said, "The Buddha is there, and it cannot be cut off. It will just add a lot of variables."

Zhang Zhiwei also felt that it would not break so easily.

In history, there have been many similar incidents like the Three Wus and One Zong that destroyed Buddhism, and each time several abbots died. If the inheritance was so easily broken, those major Buddhist sects would probably not have survived until today.

"Since it won't break, I wonder what the variables you mentioned mean?" Zhang Zhiwei asked again.

Master Henglin glanced at him and said, "You have a disciple who pretends to be a candidate for the Heavenly Master in your Tianshi Mansion. Tiantai Sect naturally also has a candidate for the successor to the abbot, Fazi. When the abbot passes away, Fazi will inherit the mantle."

Zhang Zhiwei turned his head to look at the remaining Tiantai monks behind him. Compared with the false disciples in Tianshi Temple, the method for accepting the abbot's teachings should be very extraordinary, but these people don't look like that.

When he extracted the memories before, he only extracted some of them in a targeted manner. There was nothing about the method in this part of the memory.

"The Tiantai Sect's method is not here, right?" Zhang Zhiwei asked.

Master Henglin said: "The Tiantai Sect's Dharma has either been killed by you, or has gone to Japan to exchange Buddhist teachings."

Zhang Zhiwei was slightly surprised: "If Ku Rong didn't pass on his teachings, how could this be passed on to Japan?"

Master Henglin smiled and said, "Everywhere where the Buddha's light shines can be saved."

He explained: "The ordination of our Eight Han Sects is somewhat similar to that of your Heavenly Master, and both have a relatively strict screening range."

"But there are also Buddhist sects that do not need a successor to pass on their ordination. They just randomly designate a region and a baby."

"The two methods have their own advantages. The former can ensure the stability of its inheritance because it is carefully cultivated, while the latter is not restricted and can ensure the immortality of the inheritance."

After Master Henglin said this, Zhang Zhiwei understood.

The Lamaism and Nasen Island chose the king in the latter way. In the plot, Li Muxuan's granddaughter was elected as the King of Nasen in this way.

But the selection of King Nathan can also be done in another way, that is to break the golden branch and make an accurate choice. The later plot of Nathan Island is that the sacred tree started the ceremony of breaking the golden branch to select the king.

That is to say, both approaches are feasible.

The way of ordination of the Eight Han Sects and Tianshi Mansion is similar to breaking off the golden branch from the sacred tree of Nathan to select a king, and the disciple with a false surname is the one who breaks the branch.

However, the most important thing here is not the use of a false surname, because there is no complicated ceremony for bestowing surnames in the Tianshi Mansion. It only requires the Tianshi to bestow it verbally. However, there is a clear teaching ceremony for the inheritance of half of the thunder method after the surname is bestowed.

In the Tianshi Mansion, no matter whether one is a great master or a disciple who pretends to be someone else, anyone who wants to practice thunder magic must be taught by the Tianshi himself.

This teaching does not simply refer to the teaching of magic formulas, but rather a kind of bestowal of a talisman. Only after being granted the talisman of thunder magic by the Heavenly Master can one practice thunder magic. This is also the reason why the thunder magic of the Heavenly Master's Mansion has never been passed on to outsiders.

In the plot, it is clearly mentioned that there are only a few strong people in the Zhengyi Sect who are called high-level masters, and only a few of these high-level masters can learn thunder magic.

And those who have learned the Thunder Method, no matter how proficient they are, are not qualified to teach it to others.

For thousands of years, the only person who could teach his disciples the art of thunder was Master Zhengtian.

But later there was an exception, that was Zhang Huaiyi, he broke the ban and taught the thunder method to Zhang Chulan.

In the plot, Zhang Lingyu was not an arrogant person, but when he went to find Zhang Chulan to participate in the Luotian Dajiao, he was aggressive and did not stop until he forced Zhang Chulan to learn the thunder method. He then asked him to go to Longhu Mountain to participate in the Luotian Dajiao, which also shows that the thunder method is the key.

In other words, a Taoist who knows half of the thunder magic is equivalent to the branch breaker on Nason Island.

The condition for the Branch Breaker to become king on Nasen Island is to kill the old king. In fact, if you think about it carefully, this is the same as the ordination at Tianshi Mansion, the only difference is that one is a civilized abdication and the other is a barbaric fight.

If the abdication fails and the Heavenly Master or the abbot dies directly, it will probably trigger a random transmission.

Therefore, those big sects have been able to survive for thousands of years. Even if they have lows, even if they encounter a situation like the Trinity Sect in the plot, they can still revive after a short while.

When Ku Rong was beaten to death by Zhang Zhiwei, he had no time to abdicate, and Zhang Zhiwei was not a Buddhist, so it would only trigger random transmission.

Of course, it is said to be random, but because there is a "method", there is a high probability that the degree will be transmitted to the "method".

And here, Fa Zi was beaten to death by him...

Zhang Zhiwei said: "If Senior had not come, would the inheritance of the Tiantai Sect have gone to Japan?"

"That's right!" Master Henglin nodded.

Zhang Zhiwei looked at Master Ku Rong's head and said, "You are really lucky that there is still a head left."

Master Henglin shook his head and said, "It's not luck. When the little master attacked, he didn't hold back intentionally, right?"

Zhang Zhiwei nodded: "I really didn't hold back!"

Master Henglin said: "In fact, it was his obsession that brought his head to avoid disaster and find me."

"Obsession?" Zhang Zhiwei asked, "Obsession with passing on the teachings? He doesn't want his master's legacy to end up in Japan?"

"Yes," Master Henglin nodded, "Not only that, he is also a little unwilling."

"What are you unwilling to accept?" Zhang Zhiwei asked with a smile, "Are there any tricks you haven't used yet?"

"Not really. Being beaten to death by a junior is quite embarrassing, but he is not unwilling to accept it," Master Henglin said. "He is unwilling to accept that you said he colluded with the Japanese pirates. He has his own ideas?" Zhang Zhiwei laughed immediately. "What ideas?"

Master Henglin sighed and told Zhang Zhiwei: "Although Ku Rong made a big mistake, as the successor carefully selected by the previous generation of abbot, he was not a person who would sell out his ancestors for fame and fortune in the early years."

"He is even considered a rare aspiring monk. In order to enter the secular world, Tianshi entered the Imperial College of Literature, the predecessor of Peking University, to study. Ku Rong took advantage of the Westernization Movement to go out and see the world, travel around the world, and exchange Buddhist teachings."

"But after he got out, the scene he saw was extremely despairing. That's what he told me back then. It was like he had entered another world. There were cars everywhere, and there were dozens of stories high solid buildings everywhere that wouldn't collapse."

"Giant steel ships were sailing on the sea. They had dug a hole in the ground, and inside, there were steel monsters like long dragons moving around. Pedestrians on the street held their heads high and were full of energy..."

"Perhaps it is just as the old saying goes, you can't meet someone too amazing when you are young. We monks have green lamps and ancient Buddhas, we have no hair and no experience, but we have fewer troubles. He has seen a lot, but he has more delusions."

"After that, he traveled to many countries until he stopped in Japan, because there he met monks from the Japanese Tiantai sect, which was a branch sect founded by former disciples of the Tiantai sect. Knowing his background, they were very enthusiastic about him."

"He stayed there for a long time, and he also knew what Japan was thinking. Although Japan was not as powerful as the Western powers, it was still a strong country. Moreover, they were actively preparing for war and wanted to annex China."

"And at this moment, although China is vast and rich in resources, it is extremely weak. Even when foreign enemies are surrounding it, there are still wars among warlords. He no longer has hope here and is deeply anxious."

"Because, sooner or later, Japan will invade here. At that time, the Tiantai Sect's branch sect and ancestral temple will be replaced, or even swallowed up, and may even cease to exist. The karma accumulated over a thousand years will be destroyed by him."

"Plus, he has seen too many wars over the years and he is tired of war. He wants to find a way for his sect."

"So, he began to have in-depth exchanges with the Tiantai Sect of Bihe Mountain in Japan. He moved all the relics to Bihe Mountain and asked all the monks to go to Bihe Mountain to exchange ideas, in order to integrate into the sect."

"He did this not because he wanted to hand over the Tiantai Sect to others, but because he had a plan to use the wealth of this temple to gradually become the abbot of a branch sect."

"In this way, even if Shenzhou falls, he can still preserve the thousand-year heritage of Tiantai Sect, and even increase his power by swallowing up the branch sect."

"Even if he can't become the abbot and can't swallow up the branch sect, he can still gain a foothold in Japan. In this way, the sect can still avoid war. In short, it is a good deal."

"He has worked hard for many years and has become the head of the sect. He is only two steps away from becoming the abbot. In order to take the last two steps, he wanted to use you as a stepping stone, but he failed."

Zhang Zhiwei listened to what Master Henglin said and laughed, "This old bald donkey is very thoughtful. He actually wants to occupy the magpie's nest. No, to say that the dove has occupied the magpie's nest is overestimating him. He doesn't know himself at all. He is not a dove, he is just a meat bun that beats a dog."

Master Henglin said with emotion: "What the little celestial master said is quite right. He really has too many thoughts and too deep delusions, so he has walked into a side door. In fact, even I, an old monk, often cannot keep my original heart. Even if I think in my heart that I don't seek attachment, this itself is also a kind of attachment. How can I solve it?"

"Speaking of which, I once discussed this with your master. I guess your master couldn't explain it clearly, so he just pretended to throw me a copy of the Tao Te Ching. I flipped through it many times, and I felt that the four words 'Tao follows nature' were the most important."

People like to talk a lot when they get old. The old monk talked a lot, and it seemed that Ku Rong’s death made him quite touched.

In fact, from Zhang Zhiwei's point of view, Ku Rong's idea was indeed stupid.

However, if we think about it from the perspective of people of this era, it is not actually very strange that Old Monk Kurong had this idea.

Because there are quite a few people who have this idea. Apart from anything else, in the last years of the previous dynasty, in order to support the declining Great Xia, many proposals that sound ridiculous now were put forward.

For example, they could sell nearly one-third of their land to raise funds to strengthen the country, or invite the Prime Minister of Japan to be the Prime Minister of the previous dynasty, or directly merge with Japan or other powers, and then ask the powers to send ambassadors to help manage the country...

If those people were like this, it is not difficult to understand why Old Monk Ku Rong had this idea.

However, Ku Rong was beaten to death by himself, and the entire Tiantai Sect deserved to be in such a state.

"Haha, that sounds nice, but he is actually colluding with the Japanese pirates. Judging from the fact that he wanted to kill the little Taoist priest, he has been courting death over the years. Under the command of the Japanese pirates, I'm afraid he has done a lot of dirty things."

Master Hutu didn't have so many thoughts. He was extremely disgusted with what Ku Rong did. If Ku Rong's head was not still in Master Henglin's hands, he would have spat at him.

Master Henglin did not get angry, and said calmly: "If you want to spit at me, then go ahead. After you've done that, I will proceed to the next step."

Master Hu Tu looked at Zhang Zhiwei next to him. Although he wanted to spit, the head was in the hands of the Shaolin abbot after all, which was really disrespectful.

Then he saw that Zhang Zhiwei had no expression on his face, and suddenly spat on Ku Rong's face.

Master Hutu was stunned, then he coughed violently a few times and spat out a mouthful of thick phlegm.

While he was coughing, Lu Ci spat first, which scared the head of the Lu family so much that he pulled him back. If the head was on the ground, he would not say anything, but the head was in the abbot's hand, what if he spat on him?
Lu Ci retorted, saying that he could urinate accurately at the target even when facing the wind for five meters, let alone now. The head of the Lu family was so angry that he wanted to beat him up on the spot.

With a few of them taking the lead, more people joined in.

After everyone spat at Ku Rong, they stopped.

Oddly enough, after being spat on by everyone, Master Henglin, who had previously died with his eyes open and unable to close them, finally closed his eyes slowly, and the hideous look of death on his face also eased a little.

"Good, good, good!"

Master Henglin chanted the Buddha's name and then sat down on the spot. He placed the human head in front of him and called over three old monks, Kuyuan, Kuhua and Kusheng.

The three seriously injured old monks came over with the remaining Tiantai Sect disciples.

All these disciples lowered their heads, not daring to look at Ku Rong’s head, nor the miserable situation around them, and recited scriptures silently.

When Master Henglin first came up, some of them still had some hope and expected Master Henglin to do justice, but after listening to the conversation between Master Henglin and Zhang Zhiwei, they immediately gave up the idea.

Master Henglin knew what they were thinking and said, "Amitabha, only a sharp knife can cut the Gordian knot. Today is a disaster for the Tiantai Sect, but isn't it also an opportunity for rebirth?"

"To be honest, the destruction of Buddhism is not a big deal. No matter how many abbots or monks die, it is all karma and is not a big deal. What is a big deal is that the Buddha's heart and Dharma will not last forever."

"I know you have resentment in your heart. Today I will give you a lecture, hoping to help you let go of your resentment. Then, I will choose someone who has enlightened himself to the truth and pass on the teachings on your behalf."

"Abbot, do you need us to get out of the way?" Zhang Zhiwei asked.

Master Henglin shook his head and said, "No need. My lecture will take some time. If you are busy, you can leave. If you want to listen, I welcome you."

"The abbot and my master are close friends. How could I miss the abbot's lecture?" After saying this, Zhang Zhiwei sat down on the spot.

(End of this chapter)