The copy of the universe from the journey to the west

Chapter 82 Taibai presents the Jade Sceptre, and holds the Daozhen of the year! (Please first order!)
Taibai Jinxing's show of goodwill shocked Lu Chen greatly.

The Western Changgeng Star, Taibai Jinxing, who was known as the God of War and Killer in Heaven and became a first-rank official after switching to a civil servant, was actually the old man in front of him?
Lu Chen looked at Taibai Jinxing, but he was not too surprised that he was Taibai Jinxing. After all, after knowing that Taibai Jinxing was a close minister of the Jade Emperor, he was somewhat mentally prepared. He was more surprised that Taibai Jinxing would invite him to ascend to heaven to be an official.

Most of those who can ascend to heaven for the first time and become high-ranking celestial officials are from the Three Pure Ones, and there are very few from the Taiyi Xuanmen. Even if there are, most of them started from the bottom.

Just like when Marshal Tianpeng ascended to heaven, he was welcomed by many celestial beings and officials, and was directly appointed Marshal of the Tianhe Navy by the Jade Emperor.

But when Monkey King went to heaven, he only got the low-ranking position of Bi Ma Wen.

When the Jade Emperor asked Taibai Jinxing to persuade the monkey for the second time, he also said something like "All those who are appointed to official positions are promoted from humble beginnings, so why do you think the position is too small?"

Zhu Bajie, who was "appointed as the marshal to control the Tianhe River and the governor of the sailors, and was called Xianjie", could ascend to the sky and become the supreme ruler, known as the marshal, holding the scepter and holding great power.

But Monkey King who came from Taiyi Xuanmen could only be the Horse Keeper when he went to heaven, and he had to be promoted step by step.

From humble to noble?

It's just an excuse to fool people. No matter what you say, it's impossible that there is no background behind it.

Therefore, Lu Chen was just surprised and did not feel too happy.

Regardless of whether there is a conspiracy theory in Journey to the West, he probably won’t receive much preferential treatment after he ascends to heaven.

There was a conspiracy, and the Monkey King was suppressed in heaven. He was the Monkey King's fellow disciple, so he was bound to suffer.

If there is no conspiracy, it means that the Daluo Sect looks down on the Taiyi Xuanmen, and there is nothing more to say.

Isn't it better to be a free and easy immortal on earth than to be a low-ranking celestial official in heaven?

Besides, he is not a native of Journey to the West, so it is probably impossible for him to go to heaven in this lifetime... right?

Well, if I really have the strength to attack Lingxiao Palace, that's another way. I'm afraid that by then, calling on Taibai Jinxing will just be more people beating me up...

"Ruchen, what are you standing there for? Why don't you thank the angel?" The ancestor spoke at this time, but his expression was extremely calm, as if ascending to heaven was nothing special to him.

"Thank you for your kindness, angel." Lu Chen bowed and saluted, his face seemed very excited and flushed. No matter what he thought in his heart, he had to be polite on the surface.

"From the look on your face just now, do you think you know me?" Taibai Jinxing asked.

Lu Chen said: "Taibai Jinxing, you are famous all over the world, who in the world doesn't know you?"

"How great it is that everyone in this world knows you! Hahaha!" Taibai Jinxing suddenly laughed out loud, but for some reason, there was a sense of vicissitudes in his laughter.

Taibai Jinxing stopped laughing for a moment, looked at Lu Chen deeply and said, "Interesting! Very interesting!"

He turned to look at Patriarch Subhuti and said, "Great Immortal, this disciple is very good."

The master smiled without saying anything and just nodded slightly.

Lu Chen, who was standing next to him, was a little confused. Are they all riddlers?
It clearly felt like the two of them were exchanging wits, but Lu Chen just couldn't figure out why.

"However, the relationship between the ancestor and the Heavenly Court does not seem to be very harmonious."

Lu Chen thought so in his heart.

The Jade Emperor sent Taibai Jinxing here, obviously to "question the guilt". Although nominally he came only in the form of questioning, he asked the master directly twice and poached disciples in front of the master. It seems that the master is not familiar with the Heavenly Court.

After all, if the master is familiar with the gods in heaven, and the disciple wants to ascend to heaven, it is just a matter of a word. Is it necessary to go around and look for Taibai Jinxing?
Is it totally unnecessary?

"My dear friend, our meeting is predestined. I will give you this jade sceptre to protect you."

Taibai Jinxing smiled, and as he turned his palm, a piece of pure white jade with a sharp upper part and a straight lower end appeared in his palm. It was about the size of a thumb and shaped like a small sword, with the word "Taibai" engraved on the front.

"This……"

Lu Chen didn't go to get it.

The ancestor said, "It is a gift from the elder, so you should accept it."

"Yes. Thanks angel."

Lu Chen reached out to take the jade sceptre, and as soon as the jade sceptre entered his hand, it suddenly turned into a white light and disappeared from between his eyebrows.

“……” Lu Chen.

No, the golden light of the Buddha Bodhisattva was not enough, how come you gods and immortals in heaven are also doing this? ?
Lu Chen turned and looked at the ancestor.

This old man is plotting against your disciple right in front of you, and you don't do anything about it?

The ancestor did not speak, but Taibai Jinxing seemed to see what was in Lu Chen's eyes, and smiled and said: "This is a small item I used when I was young. It was also given to me by an elder at that time. It can protect the soul from being hurt. Other than that, it has no other effect. After you open the Purple Palace, you can control it. Don't worry."

However, he also gave a special explanation to dispel Lu Chen's doubts.

Lu Chen smiled stiffly, but seeing that the master did not refute, he could only believe the old man for the time being.

"Now that it's over, I should go to heaven and report to the Jade Emperor."

Upon seeing this, Taibai Jinxing said "goodbye" to Patriarch Subhuti, turned around, and disappeared.

After Taibai Jinxing left, Patriarch Subhuti looked at Lu Chen: "Are you confused?"

Lu Chen nodded: "Grandmaster, the jade sceptre..."

"The matter of the jade sceptre is just Li Changgeng's wish to establish a good relationship with you, nothing more."

Li Changgeng is the secular name of Taibai Jinxing. Taibai Jinxing is an official position in heaven, not a name.

The ancestor said: "As a member of the Taiqing Sect, Li Changgeng attaches great importance to morality and will not plot against a little guy like you for no reason. Moreover, this jade sceptre can also suppress the abnormality in your body."

This made Lu Chen feel relieved, and he also understood that the jade scepter could suppress the golden light of the Bodhisattva. In the past month, the golden light of the Bodhisattva in his body had not changed, and even the Buddhist sound had not appeared once, but Lu Chen thought that this was because he was in the Three Stars Cave of the Slanting Moon, and the master was in charge.

Now that the Grandmaster has made it so clear, how could Lu Chen not know that the Grandmaster has actually always known about his affairs?

I couldn't help but ask curiously: "Ancestor, what method did the Bodhisattva leave in my body? Can it be eliminated?"

"It is only a little future fruit of Buddha nature. As for eliminating it... this is the law of cause and effect, and it cannot be eradicated."

The master shook his head slightly: "If you want to get rid of it, you must first get rid of the source of cause and effect."

Eliminate the source of karma? Kill Guanyin? Or overturn Lingshan?
Neither is realistic.

Lu Chen was confused: "Grandmaster, I have never had any cause and effect with Buddhism, why should I eliminate the cause and effect?"

Not to mention the world of Journey to the West, even in the real world he has never been to a temple or burned a stick of incense?
Where does this cause and effect come from?

The ancestor said: "Cause and effect are impermanent. Where there is a cause, there must be an effect, and where there is an effect, there must be a cause."

Lu Chen understood this time and asked in surprise, "Grandmaster, do you mean that the effect comes before the cause? Reversing the cause and effect?"

Mortals tend to say that there must be a cause for every effect, and the cause comes before the effect. Without a cause, there will be no effect.

Therefore, it is normal that every effect has a cause. However, although it makes sense that every effect has a cause, it reverses the cause-and-effect relationship!
First comes the result, then comes the cause!
The master showed a satisfied smile and nodded slightly: "This young boy is teachable."

"In other words, this disciple will definitely become a disciple of Buddhism?" Lu Chen's expression changed.

"Your fruit can only be shaped by you."

The ancestor pointed to the location of the snack: "Follow your heart and follow the way. Buddha or others are not in others."

Then, without waiting for Lu Chen to ask, he swung his whisk again: "The past has its source, the future has its root, whether you become a Buddha's child or not depends on your present. Regardless of the past, the transformation of cause and effect is all due to the present. Have you realized it?"

"Disciple... is slow, please forgive me, Master." Lu Chen's face was covered with sweat. He heard something confusing and didn't understand.

Future, past, and present, does this all involve the issue of timeline?

This is really too advanced for him now!
"Don't be in a hurry, you will know when the time comes." The master said quietly.

For a moment, Lu Chen didn't know whether he should ask or not. What does it mean that he will know when the time comes?

My future is not a dream, every minute of it is planned, right?
Just as Lu Chen was about to speak, the ancestor said, "Are you still curious as to why I asked you to come here to hear these secrets?"

After Lu Chen hesitated for a moment, he nodded slowly.

He did have a lot of doubts in his mind. What the Patriarch discussed with Taibai Jinxing was obviously not something that a disciple like him, who was just receiving the Dharma transmission, should be able to hear, right?

Especially the past and future, reverse cause and effect and so on. He cannot access such profound issues and events now.

Regarding matters like 'Zhisui', even a big shot like Taibai Jinxing didn't dare to ask too much, so why did the ancestor want him to come in and listen to these secrets?
"Because this matter is related to you, you will know it in the future." said the old ancestor.

"..."

Lu Chen looked at the ancestor, speechless.

No, why are you asking if you don’t tell me?
Just pure Riddler, right?
The ancestor glanced at Lu Chen with a deep look in his eyes. Suddenly, Lu Chen's heart skipped a beat. Could the ancestor... also have telepathy?

His heart trembled, and he quickly changed the subject: "Ancestor, what is Zhisui?"

The ancestor did not give a clear answer, but just said: "You can know the five immortals of heaven and earth."

"The disciple knows it."

Lu Chen nodded: "There are five kinds of immortals in the world, gods, humans and ghosts." This is known to all cultivators with a heritage.

The ancestor said: "Yes, the gods, humans, and ghosts of heaven and earth are all five immortals, and there is no distinction between high and low. However, there are high and low people, and there are different paths for immortals. Since the emergence of the immortal way, the teachings have come. The great way of the celestial immortals is the orthodox one because it was first taught by the Three Pure Ones. The celestial immortals, those who are born in the Three Pure Ones, can ascend to Daluo Heaven, so they are called: Daluo celestial immortals. Those who are not divided into the Three Pure Ones, because they practice the Xuanmen Taoism outside, the original source they practice is indestructible, and they live as long as the heaven and earth, and shine as brightly as the sun and the moon, they are also celestial immortals, but they are not orthodox, so they are called Taiyi celestial immortals. Later, the Western Brahma sect emerged, called the Golden Immortal, and the Taoist fruit they obtained was the Great Awakening, called the Great Awakening Golden Immortal."

Then, he glanced at Lu Chen and said, "I am also a Great Awakening Golden Immortal."

In an instant, Lu Chen was covered in cold sweat and felt a chill in his spine.

What do you mean?
Self-destruction? Are you giving up pretending?
Even if Patriarch Subhuti suddenly said, "I am the present-day World Honored One of the Western Lingshan Mountain, Sakyamuni Tathagata," Lu Chen would think it was very normal.

However, after thinking about it, Lu Chen felt that something was not right. If Master Subhuti was a Buddhist, he probably would not watch the Bodhisattva's golden light being suppressed by the Taibai Jade Sceptre, right?
"Taoism has the Daluo Sect and the Taiyi Xuanmen Sect, so there may be similar views in Buddhism... Hinayana Buddhism? Or Pratyekabuddha?"

The Hinayana Buddhism focuses on saving oneself, and the Pratyekabuddhas are those who attain Buddhahood through self-realization without any Buddhist guidance. They are considered a branch of Buddhism and have the same purpose as the Taiyi Xuanmen of Taoism.

Although it belongs to a large sect, it has clear branches and factions within it, and some even call each other heretics.

Just like Taibai Jinxing calls the ancestor "great immortal", high-ranking Buddhist practitioners can also be called immortals. However, as the leader of the civil servants in the heavenly realm, Taibai Jinxing will certainly not use some partial titles to replace the main titles in diplomatic affairs.

So the Great Awakening Golden Immortal mentioned by the founder is a real immortal, not a title that the Bodhisattva Buddha on Mount Lingshan gave himself in order to integrate into the Eastern Taoism, but an immortal who became one by practicing the Buddhist way?

His thoughts were turning around a thousand times, and flashes of inspiration came to his mind, and he had some guesses. Therefore, Lu Chen did not ask, but just listened quietly to the master's explanation.

The ancestor also observed Lu Chen's thoughts. Seeing that his expression only trembled slightly, and then his breath returned to normal, he nodded slightly, satisfied with his mentality, and continued: "In ancient times, innate creatures practiced to become immortals. There were many celestial immortals, followed by divine immortals. Later, the Great Immortal Zhenyuan of Wuzhuang Temple opened up the way to earthly immortals, and thus the method of earthly immortal blessed land was created."

"Over the years, the time of innate creatures disappeared, the number of acquired creatures increased, and there were more and more practitioners of Qi training, so there was a division between upper and lower levels. The five paths of immortality also gradually became the levels of practice. Each corresponds to the four realms of practice."

Lu Chen understood what this meant. Ghost immortal refers to the process of refining essence into Qi, refining Qi into spirit includes human immortals and earthly immortals, and the next level, refining spirit into emptiness, refers to divine immortals and celestial immortals.

"And the True Flow is about refining the void. Break through the void barriers of one's own body and refine one's own void path into the True Path. When you entered the sect, you said that you only wanted to preserve the truth of your whole body, and this truth is the truth of the True Flow. Those who obtain the truth can also be called True Immortals."

The ancestor said slowly: "In the sky and on the earth, there are sentient beings in the three realms, immortals and gods everywhere, bodhisattvas and Buddhas, Taiyi immortals, Daluo immortals, and Dajuejin immortals. Although they can jump out of the three realms and are not in the five elements, they can live as long as the heaven and earth and shine as brightly as the sun and the moon. However, most of them cannot realize that ray of 'truth', so they cannot merge with the Tao and realize the true flow of Tao, so they are called scattered numbers. Only the true flow can escape the end of heaven and earth in one yuan and one era, because the true flow has become the law, the Tao, and the nature of all things..."

At this point, the ancestor paused, looked at Lu Chen with his eyes, and said faintly: "Be true to yourself! Be the same as heaven and earth! Those who control the years are the ones who truly flow and merge with the Tao, transcending the primordial qi, and are the best of the best. They control the years of heaven and earth, reverse the cause and effect of all living beings, and split the sky and the earth, as if they can do everything."

(End of this chapter)