Too much fruit

Chapter 755 There's Someone Here

After discussing the next course of action, Jiang Liuguang turned into a stream of Yuan Qi and returned to the sun in the sky. It seemed that what he said was true, it was indeed difficult to control the sun's true fire.

In Jiang Li's opinion, this seemed a little strange.

Generally speaking, this kind of uncontrollable phenomenon basically occurs in practitioners who have changed their paths. Because they were not on this path before, even if they have received the Dao Fruit, it is difficult for them to quickly adapt to the Dao Fruit's magical powers and the newly added strength, and they can only spend a lot of time to hone themselves.

The Dao fruits of the Jiang family are mainly human and divine, the same as the Dinghu School, while the Three-legged Golden Crow is undoubtedly a demon Dao fruit. In all likelihood, Jiang Liuguang has switched to practicing the demon Dao, which is why such a change has occurred.

"But since he has already changed his cultivation once, why would he dare to turn to the Buddha Kingdom and try to ascend to the Great Sun Tathagata in the future?" Jiang Li was suspicious.

He has already switched to practicing the path of evil, and now wants to switch to practicing Buddhism. He is not afraid of the mutual exclusion of the Tao and the fruit.

Although in theory the Three-legged Golden Crow and the Great Sun Tathagata are compatible, they belong to two different paths after all. If Jiang Liuguang had not changed his cultivation before, he would not have to worry too much, but after changing his cultivation once, he wanted to change his cultivation again. This behavior can only be said to be quite crazy.

With this thought in mind, Jiang Li, Wei Tuo and Guangli left the governor's mansion.

Before heading straight for the Jiang family's ancestral land, they must take time to take full control of Daxing City as soon as possible. This task is left to the two Bodhisattvas and Jiang Li.

When Lord Shen saw this, he was very insightful and took the initiative to lead the two former governors out to stabilize the people's hearts.

By the way, there is also room for discussion for the three great masters.

After everyone else had left, only three great masters were left in the main hall of the Governor's Mansion.

Guanyin lightly raised her palm and held up the jade bottle in her palm. With her other hand, she grasped the willow branch in the bottle, picked it up, and gently waved it. A faint Buddhist aura formed a barrier that enveloped the main hall to prevent Wuzhiqi from hearing her words with his supernatural powers.

Although Wuzhiqi did not say it directly, his six ears have been revealed more than once. Anyone with a little common sense should guess that he possesses magical powers related to hearing.

After setting up the barrier, Guanyin looked at Manjusri and said, "That future Buddhist friend of the Jiang family is too scheming."

"One is far away, the other is close. He deliberately treats me and Guanyin Buddha friend coldly, and tries to show his goodwill to Manjusri Buddha friend who is of the same clan," Tan Wuwei also said, "I can understand that Jiang Liuguang wants to show his position of standing with Manjusri Buddha friend, but this move is too insincere and may be used. Manjusri Buddha friend, are you really determined to give him the Great Sun Tathagata Dao Fruit?"

Cunning, not scheming.

"Scheming" refers to the cunning mind, while "scheming" refers to the cunning and utilitarian mind.

The former represents a person's wisdom, while the latter represents his attitude towards people and things. Jiang Liuguang was too scheming, which made the two think that he was not sincere in joining the Buddhist Kingdom and might betray them in the future, so they said this.

"That is why I want to give him the Great Sun Tathagata Dao Fruit."

Manjusri, however, showed no sign of worry, and said slowly, "The fruit of the Tao that practitioners bear can also influence the practitioner's mind. Among all the paths, Buddha, demon, and devil have the greatest influence on the mind. The fruit of the Tao of demons and devils stimulates the desires of the practitioners themselves, while the fruit of the Tao of Buddhas quietly guides the practitioners towards the path of Buddhahood."

"The Great Sun Tathagata Dao Fruit is compatible with Jiang Liuguang. After he obtains it, he will surely comprehend it every day. In addition, he has practiced the method of seducing and gained the faith of incense, which further catalyzes his compatibility with the Great Sun Tathagata Dao Fruit, deepens the changes in his mind, and even transforms his foundation into the Buddhist method. By then, he will know that we are his fellow travelers, and he cannot leave the Buddha Kingdom."

The change in one's character is secondary. The key is to tie Jiang Liuguang's future to the three people's ship. There is no more solid identity than that of fellow travelers.

"But handing over the Great Sun Tathagata's Dao Fruit for this is still not very safe, and..."

Tan Wuwei looked deeply at Manjusri, "Buddhist friend, you are a little impatient."

Jiang Li could see Manjusri's urgency, and so could Tan Wuwei.

The previous failure to force Tianxuan to fail had already frustrated the Buddhist army, and the emergence of the enlightened one had made the situation even more urgent. Now that Manjusri had the upper hand, it was natural for them to press on and pursue the victory in order to stabilize the situation.

But this is a bit too hasty.

“Buddhist friend, actually you don’t need to worry too much about the abbot. Even if he can force Karma Tathagata to retreat, there will be others to restrain him.” Tan Wuwei said meaningfully.

"But I don't want to rely on others."

Manjusri's face was calm, like a quiet pond, without any waves, "I want to face the First Seat directly with my own abilities."

At this moment, beneath Manjusri's calm appearance lies a firm will and burning ambition.

"Buddhist friend, I know you have strong supporters, but your strong supporters are not your fellow believers. We are on the same path."

Manjusri also replied to Tan Wuwei with a hint of meaning, and his words also showed strong confidence, "I hope Buddhist friends will think more about how to act."

He finally left these words and turned to walk out of the main hall.

Leaving behind Tan Wuwei and Guanyin, Tan Wuwei said softly, "It seems that fellow Buddhist Manjusri is quite confident about his promotion."

The only thing that could make Manjushri have such thoughts was promotion.

It seems that Manjusri is not just for the purpose of absorbing incense, but is also preparing for promotion. I just don't know what kind of Tao fruit he intends to be promoted to.

The Buddhist inheritance system is quite complete. Even the second-grade fruits of the Tao are plural. Excluding the Tathagata's Tao that the enlightened one decided to promote many years ago, there are three other second-grade fruits of the Tao: Vairocana Tathagata, Dipamkara Tathagata, and Bhaisajyaguru Tathagata. I wonder which one Manjusri intends to set as his goal.

Or maybe he found other fruits of the Tao from somewhere else.

The same thought also appeared in Jiang Li's mind.

"I thought he was just an ambitious person who coveted the position of an enlightened being. Now it seems that I underestimated Manjusri, a third-rank master."

On the pillar outside the main hall, a fly was crawling back and forth, with unknown thoughts in its mind.

Shen Hou guessed that these three great masters had something to say, and Jiang Li certainly guessed it too.

So before he left, he secretly left a stream of Yuan Qi behind, which turned into a fly and stayed outside the main hall. With Jiang Li's ability to transform, the fly transformed by this stream of Yuan Qi looked just like a real one. The Yuan Qi was perfectly transformed into matter, so that even a third-grade cultivator couldn't see the flaw.

Although Guanyin had set up a barrier to prevent eavesdropping from afar, Jiang Li knew lip reading. He could tell what these people were saying just by looking at their lips.

Jiang Li has also figured out Tan Wuwei's blind spots in his ability to predict the future. As long as it is not exposed in the future, Tan Wuwei will not be able to know that this fly is Jiang Li's eyes and ears.

'This is a small eavesdropping, but it is quite rewarding. Wenshu is not a fool who knows nothing. He also knows that there is someone behind Tan Wuwei, but he is confident that he can stand shoulder to shoulder with the strongest, and he wants to subdue Tan Wuwei.'

'And there is something special about the Buddha's Dao fruit... When combined with incense, can it subtly change a person's state of mind and make them tend towards Buddhism...'

Jiang Li subconsciously thought of another characteristic of the Buddha's Tao fruit mentioned by the enlightened one.

Some of the three grades of Dao fruits still retain the true spirit of the original work, among which the Dao fruits of Buddha have the highest probability of being preserved, because those Buddhas can rely on incense to preserve their true spirits. The Buddha country has a very special corporate culture, which is to address each other by their positions.

Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, Bodhisattva Manjusri, Bodhisattva Guangli...these titles do not belong to them, but to the original owner of the Daoguo. The incense offered by the believers is also dedicated to the Bodhisattvas and Arhats.

The popular way of incense and spiritual practice in the Buddha Kingdom - the method of seduction, may have a big pit in it. 'The water in the Buddha Kingdom is deep enough.'

As the fly Jiang Li thought this, he flapped his wings slowly and flew away, just like an ordinary flying insect.

He flew out of the governor's mansion, circled a few times, and then seemed to smell something. He flew into an alley not far away and was about to transform into Yuan Qi and return to his original body.

however--

At this moment, a faint ripple appeared, and a big hand stretched out from it and grabbed the fly.

Behind the ripples, an illusory figure appeared, wearing a dark red robe and a Shura ghost mask on his face. Wasn't he the fourth king of the Fire House Buddha Hell who had left before, the ghost-faced man who was highly suspected to be the incarnation of the Great Venerable?
"My friend, how come you also like this peeping place? Great minds think alike."

The smiling words were transmitted into Jiang Li's mind, and the pressed palm was like a sky curtain, covering the surroundings, blocking all retreat routes, and even suppressing the space.

"Great minds think alike." Jiang Li couldn't help but complain in his heart.

This alley is not far from the governor's mansion, and its location is remote, so it can be said to be a very good escape route. When Jiang Li approached the governor's mansion, he had actually taken the surrounding terrain into his Sky Eye and evaluated the uses of various passages.

With the power of his Eight-Nine Profound Arts, as long as he made a slight change and drilled into these places, even Tan Wuwei's supernatural power of reverse knowledge would not be able to track him.

But Jiang Li never expected that someone else had also chosen this alley, and this person was a man with a ghost face.

Jiang Li is not the only one who can choose the right place, others can do it too.

This ghost-faced man was cunning enough. He had apparently left, but in fact he had sneaked back and was squatting here, eavesdropping.

With this latent ability, if you say that you are not the incarnation of the Great Lord, Jiang Li will swallow all the five weapons of the God of War alive.

The big palm suppressed it, and the space solidified like amber, trying to freeze the fly inside. Jiang Li could not let his Yuan Qi fall into the hands of others, and the fly suddenly changed.

It transformed from a tiny flying insect into a stream of primordial Qi, and then further into a vague human figure, using the Qi to transform into a shape and put up resistance.

The solidified space suddenly began to expand. The big palm was clearly only half a person's height above the ground, but the blurry figure under the palm was standing upright. And judging from his height, he was actually just an ordinary person.

A strange sense of contradiction appeared in the perception, and many yin and yang lines flashed among the faint distorted ripples.

Jiang Li's incarnation was just a stream of vital energy and did not have strong power, so he decisively used his cleverness to change the space and create conflicts.

"Ok?"

The ghost-faced man made a surprised sound, as if he had not expected that Jiang Li's Fenghou Qimen had already reached such an accomplishment. He also followed the trend, and the Eight Diagrams of the Land appeared in his palm, and he reached into the expanded space, still grabbing it with one palm, like catching a flying insect, trying to take the vague figure into his palm.

Seeing this, Jiang Li's Yin and Yang lines around his body separated and combined, and his body turned into a stream of Yuan Qi, with countless Yin and Yang lines arranged inside, like a long dragon, crashing into the big palm.

The two collided, causing faint ripples and a slight breeze, but it did not cause any noise.

The ghost-faced man hid here and eavesdropped, also because he did not want to be noticed by others, especially not caught by Tan Wuwei's magical powers, so he was extremely restrained when he took action, and even tried to cover up Jiang Li's movements.

Jiang Li, on the other hand, used all his strength as this incarnation, using various methods to compete with his opponent.

Both of them used the Qimen changes as a means to interact with each other, without showing too much power. Only the ripples in the space changed slightly, and the yin and yang lines and hexagrams intertwined, showing the changes of the Qimen.

The long dragon transformed by Jiang Li collided with the big palm, and suddenly disintegrated into countless yin and yang lines, breaking into pieces, flying out from the changing and distorted space, breaking away from the ghost-faced man's palm, and recombining into a blurry human figure not far away.

The extremely subtle changes and the profound perception made the ghost-faced man's eyes shine.

"I didn't expect that your Fenghou Qimen and Yidao have advanced to this level."

The ghost-faced man said with a half-smile, "There are not many people in the world who have this ability. Do you still want to hide your identity?"

He had completely seen through the details of this blurry figure and guessed the other party's identity.

"It was discovered after all."

Jiang Li sighed and said, "Yes, there is really no need to hide your identity."

The blur disappeared, revealing the true figure.

"I am the incarnation of the Great Master." He said this in a tone of "I have been discovered by you."

"You can call me Wudi."

He was wearing a green robe and a white mask on his face. His exposed eyes quietly changed, revealing upright dragon and snake pupils.

The ghost-faced man froze for a moment.

“Hehehe…”

He laughed calmly, "What a coincidence! My name is Wu Zhen. It turns out you and I are from the same family."

"Who are you and I? I am the incarnation of the world's number one troublemaker. How dare you claim to be from the same family as me?" Jiang Li said disdainfully.

"Of course we are one family," Wu Zhen's laughter turned into a sneer, "I am the incarnation of Gongsun's son-in-law Jiang Li, and Jiang Li is a sworn brother of the Great Master. Could it be that we are still two families?"

"Really? I don't believe it. Jiang Sikong is a pillar of the dynasty, a man who stands tall and upright. How could there be a sneaky incarnation like you?"

Jiang Li continued to talk nonsense, and his figure began to gradually melt away.

He transformed this primordial Qi into the five turbid evil spirits and was about to commit suicide on the spot, leaving the other party with nothing.

No matter what, we can't leave any handle in the hands of the big brother.

Wu Zhen couldn't help but twitch his eyes at such shameless words. This good brother was so shameless once he put on the mask that he even boasted about himself.

At the same time, ripples appeared in his eyes, and he keenly perceived the changes in the other person.

"I don't have a shameless clone like you."

Wu Zhen suddenly stood up, and the four plates of heaven, earth, man and gods suddenly appeared. Strange rituals and formations were intertwined, and in an instant the heaven and earth seemed to freeze in an instant.

(End of this chapter)