Add some practice: start with a lucid dream

"No, just the opposite." Maitreya Buddha said,

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas is nothing more than what a small tribe saw and heard in ancient times."

"Small Tribe" Chen Ze chewed on Maitreya Buddha's words and roughly understood what the fat man meant.

The Book of Mountains and Seas states that "the east and west of heaven and earth are twenty-eight thousand miles apart, and the north and south are twenty-six thousand miles apart."

Even if the units are conservatively converted, it can be equivalent to the area of ​​the entire Asia today, so many people will think that it describes world geography.

According to Maitreya Buddha, if just a small tribe is so vast, wouldn't the real area of ​​the entire world be unimaginably huge?

"After that, capable people and strangers emerged in large numbers, and there were many masters of cultivation. Among them, there were not a few who enclosed the land as a boundary."

Maitreya Buddha then said,

"Today you take away a piece to make a paradise of caves and heavens, and tomorrow he takes away a piece to make a fairy mountain on the sea. Slowly, the world will become smaller and smaller."

"So many people believe that it was this kind of behavior that angered the world and the earth, which led to the end of the world, when the Dharma was not revealed and the Taoism collapsed."

"When Tathagata spread Buddhism, he visited a country called 'Yelang'."

"Its territory is vast and vast, with high mountains, rivers, lakes and seas. It can be said that it has a vast territory and rich resources."

"However, after one night, everything was divided up, leaving only a small area. The surviving king used this to ask the Han envoy for help. Others didn't know the reason. They said that the king was arrogant and arrogant, which only served to make people laugh."

As Chen Ze listened, he naturally thought of the speculations that the doctor had told him, and that the "ancient monster", the Snake, always complained about food and species resources not being as rich as before.

But as the Age of Ending Dharma approaches, won’t these cakes that have been taken away be returned automatically?

Chen Ze raised this question to Maitreya Buddha.

"Buddha is divinity." Maitreya Buddha was wise enough not to talk nonsense with Chen Ze.

"Those who cultivate deeply can still have divinity remaining even after death."

"The realm that rests on divinity will naturally remain."

Chen Ze nodded, thinking that it was like the bottomless pit in the South China Sea, which was a restricted area formed in this way.

But then, after a rough calculation, he felt something was wrong.

After all, there are only a handful of places like the Bottomless Pit in the South China Sea. Compared to the entire world, they are just a drop in the ocean, and their impact is extremely limited. The true face of modern society is similar to the perception of most ordinary people.

Even if there is an organization like the Hidden Immortal Society that specializes in dealing with extraordinary disasters, it does not encounter a few crises throughout the year, and most of the time is spent dealing with trivial matters.

The reason why a forbidden area is a forbidden area must be both a minority and an exception.

Even if we include similar forbidden places overseas or even around the world, it stands to reason that we will never be able to match the true size of the world in ancient times as stated by Maitreya Buddha.

This seems quite inconsistent. If what Maitreya Buddha said is true, then most of the area has disappeared?

"Heaven is beyond heaven." Maitreya Buddha emphasized again after listening,

"Those places that disappeared have been stuffed into Tianwaitian."

"To talk about the outer world, we have to start from the beginning."

Chen Ze listened attentively.

Maitreya Buddha is sitting upright, but unfortunately the curve of the corner of his mouth cannot be flattened, and he is still a little less solemn.

"Three feet of ice is not a day's cold, and the same is true for the end of the world. The depletion of spiritual energy is getting worse year by year, so people naturally have to find a way out."

"As I said, many people thought it was too offensive, so they united and acted together."

"What should I do? Spit out what I've eaten?" Chen Ze looked strange.

"Would they be so kind?"

"Haha." Maitreya Buddha smiled even more,

"of course not."

“Who would be willing to give it back after experiencing the feeling of detachment?”

"They believe that when a long insect is threatened, it will straighten its upper body, and when a large insect is frightened, its fur will stand up. This behavior of heaven and earth just shows that the root has been touched, and it is a manifestation of external strength and internal strength."

"So they joined forces and cooperated with each other. Instead of nibbling away in the past, they started feasting and even devouring everything."

"This group of people call themselves"

"Xuanhu Palace."

Chen Ze's eyes shone brightly, the whole world trembled, and the praying shadows that were closer disappeared silently.

"Everyone has a saying, the superior doctor can treat the disease before it is sick, the Chinese medicine can treat the disease when it is wanted, and the inferior doctor can treat the disease already."

Maitreya Buddha continued talking by himself,

"They think this is all trivial. Only hanging a pot to help the world and healing the world is the great path."

"As long as the scars are dug out, the rotten flesh is cut off, and the arm is cut off but the head is preserved, the world can be stabilized."

Obviously, the founder of Xuanhu Palace regarded extraordinary power as scars and lesions. This logic is indeed a bit overbearing.

As long as the extraordinary qualities of heaven and earth are plundered and achieved in one step, there will be no such thing as the Age of Ending the Dharma, right?

Because there is no "law" at all!

"During this period, the territory of the world was shrinking sharply. Cultivators no longer worried about being visible in public, and came to the stage one after another to plunder land and compete for population."

"In the past, Chen Shengqiao took over Qingqiu to rule the Fox clan and helped him. Later, the overlord of Western Chu obtained the exotic treasure Immortal Cauldron and took advantage of the situation to rise. Finally, Liu Bang lived in the streets and lakes and used human fireworks to refine swords for decades. Once he was born, he killed all his opponents. Unify the world."

"This process did not happen overnight, and it did not come to an end until thousands of years later."

"What big event happened a thousand years ago?" Chen Ze was keenly aware of this special time.

According to the timeline, the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony took place two thousand years ago, and another thousand years later, it was exactly one thousand years ago, probably during the Northern Song Dynasty.

At this point in time, the Big Fat Snake, Dr. Deep Sea Fish, and all the demon clans from all over the world flocked to the Qinling Mountains. Qiongqi also appeared and fought against the besieging humans.

Many major events happened together thousands of years ago, and it may be difficult to explain them by coincidence.

Maitreya Buddha said the Buddha's name before replying,

"Perhaps Xuanhu Palace made a mistake, or maybe the world is not what people imagined. In the hundreds and thousands of years since the monks noticed the decline of heaven and earth, the decline of heaven and earth has become more severe. It is difficult for mortals to understand the true meaning because their wisdom roots are covered in dust."

"At this point, no matter how powerful the cultivator is, it will be difficult to stay away from the incident, and most of the people in Xuanhu Palace will die."

"So everyone unanimously came together to put aside their past grievances and make the final push."

"The cultivators made full preparations, exhausted all the power of faith, and then disappeared from the sight of mortals."

"Without the support of cultivators, the mortal dynasty will be unable to recover and will naturally fall into turbulence and change."

"This time, they were fully prepared and even united with the 'outsiders' and alien races who had been wary of them in the past."

Needless to say, the “outsiders” are naturally overseas countries.

After all, on this planet, there are not only practitioners on this land.

The foundation of the immortal gods is the power of mortal faith. Therefore, in order to maintain the soil of faith, the cultivators in this land are naturally open to the outside world, so there are few foreign systems that interfere with the Central Plains.

Alien.

"In Europe, the Crusades. In America, the Incas burned down the jungle to force the Mayans to come out and form an alliance. In Africa, the Tulum Dynasty was restored and launched a holy war. In the Arctic Ocean, the Inuit exterminated polar species and deployed on an unprecedented scale. of Glacier Altar.”

"Everything is for the purpose of creating the 'outer heaven'." "I, Buddha Tathagata, once said that the three realms of Buddhism encompass all the heavens, which are insufficient compared to the present world, but far superior to other 'realms'."

"However, all cultivators unite together and dedicate their divine realm to forge a new life far beyond the Paradise. It is outside the heavens, that is, the sky outside the sky."

To put it bluntly, it is still the same cake-cutting style as before, exclusive and creating a world of its own.

It's not unusual to join forces. The place where Chen Ze saw Wang Lingguan's divine mark was the place where they were jointly built.

It's just that this time the extraordinary ones played a big game, unprecedentedly big.

Practitioners from all over the world have united together to take out the cakes that were previously cut from heaven and earth, and to take out all the independent or related divine realms, without reservation, to truly share them and put them together.

This creates a "new world" that is unheard of, unprecedented, and far beyond the past.

"Then where is such a big 'Tianwaitian'?" Chen Ze's mind changed rapidly.

Although the divine realm is mysterious and involves the principles of space, after all, it is a "cake" cut from the real world and cannot be completely independent.

In other words, there must be an entrance to this kind of divine realm, and the entrance must exist somewhere in the real world and have physical coordinates.

For example, the entrance to the bottomless pit is in the South China Sea, the Buddhist kingdom on earth is in the Western Region, and a corner of the underworld is sealed in the warehouse of the Yinxianhui.

Maitreya Buddha was silent for a moment, his eyes narrowed into two slits and moving around, as if he was looking for something.

The invisible forces around him began to gather.

Chen Ze understood this in his heart, but he raised his sword and slashed, cutting off all the power gathered in the middle. Then, before the smile on Maitreya Buddha's face began to stiffen, he handed out the long sword.

"This" Maitreya Buddha seems to be sitting still, but in fact, in this world full of laws, the two parties have already come into contact tens of millions of times.

The next moment, the long sword appeared in the hands of Maitreya Buddha for his use.

After taking a deep look at Chen Ze, Maitreya Buddha swung his sword, and the principle of change was immediately revealed. The power of the law symbolizing change gathered the surrounding light and twisted it into a singular point.

The singularity slowly solidified, expanded, and turned into a sphere, or a planet.

The long sword flicked.

The planet expands infinitely, like the projection of a three-dimensional model, with infinitely rich details changing on it.

Textures on mountains, rivers, trees, flowers, and rocks

The details are constantly changing, but the overall outline has been roughly formed.

Although there is no scale or reference, it can be seen that there are more than a hundred continents on this planet, and the ocean is divided into numerous large and small waters.

"This was the ancient world."

As soon as Maitreya finished speaking, he saw that a "bad spot" without any color suddenly appeared somewhere on the ever-evolving world model.

As soon as it appeared, this bad spot suddenly grew in size, swallowing up a small area around it, including mountains and seas.

Compared to the entire planet, this dug-out area is just a drop in the ocean.

But this is only the beginning, and then more and more bad pixels are born one after another, big or small, as countless as the gravel in the desert, scattered everywhere.

More and more areas are being devoured, but the planet's adaptability is incredibly tenacious. It can always splice and close the gaps and adjust the remaining boundaries into a suitable shape.

"Until the casting of 'Tianwaitian' is put on the agenda." Maitreya Buddha threw the borrowed sword in his hand towards the model.

As soon as the long sword left his hand, it turned into countless fractals and hit them like raindrops.

The raindrops were thick and fast, and every drop pricked the planet, and it was riddled with holes in the blink of an eye.

Moreover, the raindrops did not dissipate even after they settled. Instead, they connected with each other and echoed each other, outlining patches of necrotic areas, devouring everything in their path at a thousand times faster than before.

Not only that, there are some special ones among the countless raindrops, which are particularly powerful and solid. Like hailstones, they form an eye-catching landmark hub after falling to the ground.

It's like the eye of a large formation.

In the blink of an eye, the entire world was like a collapsed building block or a crumpled map. The original space kept collapsing, folding, folding, and shrinking again, until they all collapsed into the hubs of those "eyes of formation".

It's like dozens of mouths that can't get enough to eat, swallowing up the entire world.

And the world is still not dead.

The remaining bits and pieces are once again integrated, blended, spliced, and new boundaries are drawn.

Further on, there are fewer and fewer bad pixels, leaving only the dozens of key points shining brightly, like beacons in the night sky.

Since then, the world has gradually stabilized. Occasionally, bad points left over from history will collapse, returning the space that was eaten up, but not causing much change.

In the end, there were only seven continents and four oceans left in the world.

Compared with the big round ball at the beginning, it is now not as big as a melon seed kernel.

"This is the world today."

Maitreya Buddha clasped his hands together and said the Buddha's name in a deep voice.

Chen Ze took the finalized world model into his hands and examined it carefully. The remaining bad spots overseas were sparse and blurred, presumably because Maitreya Buddha did not understand it well.

A bad spot represents a divine realm, a temporal scar.

Domestically, the markings are relatively clear, with dozens of large and small places, and it stands to reason that there should be dozens of forbidden areas.

However, Chen Ze compared the information of the Yinxian Society and his own personal experience and found that the information on Maitreya Buddha is still outdated.

Just like the bad spot in the South China Sea, which symbolizes the bottomless pit, many of them have long been turned into dust of the past.

But this map is not completely without reference value.

For example, the coordinates of the Buddhist kingdom on earth in the Western Region, or those dazzling entrances to the "Tianwaitian" that are like the hub of a great array.

There are only two such places in the country.

A darker one is located in the northwest, which is the ancestor of mountains, the Kunlun Mountains.

And another shining hub is among the four directions, the ancestral line of China, the Qinling Mountains!

Where Chi Songzi went, demon clans swarmed together, where Qiongqi appeared and fought with humans, where countless mysteries from ancient times to the present gathered in the Qinling Mountains!

"Waixu. Abi." Chen Ze calmed down and looked at Maitreya Buddha again.

"According to your statement, countless monks joined forces to create this 'Tianwaitian' just to find Abi?"

"How to find it?"

Maitreya Buddha said without thinking,

"The first thing to build this 'Tian Wai Tian' is to last forever, so all the survivors invested in it thousands of years ago when 'Tian Wai Tian' was first formed."

"Not all of them, but nine out of ten."

"But even if the sky outside the sky is unprecedented and is a refuge that unites all people, it cannot truly last forever."

"So after I survived, I naturally tried every means to find the rumored Abi's location."

"This is what those who enter need to worry about." (End of Chapter)