The Dream Master

"Senior, what really happened back then?" Shen Luo spoke up after a long time and asked.

"What are you referring to? Is it the matter of the demonic disaster outbreak, or the matter of the collapse of the Heavenly Court ...... In the end, it's simply the same thing." Halfway through Li Jing's words, he paused slightly for a moment and smiled bitterly.

"Then please ask senior to tell me the specifics of the demonic disaster back then." In the meantime, Shen Luo said with a raised eyebrow.

If he really knew the details of the demonic disaster in advance, he might be able to stop it when he returned to reality.

If you think about it this way, Shen Luo himself is somewhat convinced that the person the spirit of the Totha Heavenly King is waiting for is him.

"My memory is crippled, and I can only tell you some of the things I know, as for how the truth behind it is, you need to explore and piece it together yourself." Li Jing said with a slight sigh of relief.

"Senior, there is no harm in telling you." Shen Luo was busy saying.

"An ancient war that swept through the three realms came to an end, and the demon lord Chi You was defeated, his head cut off, his limbs severed, and his demon soul sealed, and the three realms spent a reasonably peaceful period of time from then on. But the demon's desire to plague the three realms has never died, and some demons have attempted to remove the seal and bring their enemy back to earth," Li Jing said. Li Jing said.

Shen Li knew some of these things, but he didn't interrupt Li Jing and let him go on.

"Later, the heavens and earth began to move, the earth veins were no longer stable, and evil spirits arose everywhere on earth, and the three realms of chaos began. Both the heavenly deities and Buddhas, as well as the earthly powers, sensed the coming storm. So the Jade Emperor and the Buddha in the Western Heaven joined hands and formulated a plan for the Spirit Mountain." Li Jing continued. Li Jing continued.

"The Spirit Mountain Plan?" Shen Luo's heart was greatly puzzled.

"You must have known about the Spirit Mountain plan back then, but it had to be called by a different name, 'Western Sky Sutra'." Seeing that Shen Li looked different, Li Jing's eyes sank slightly and said.

"What? When Venerable Xuanzang traveled ten thousand miles west to get the scriptures, was that the Spirit Mountain Project?" Shen Luo's color changed suddenly, and he was shocked.

The story is widely circulated in the community, and has even been written as a novel, so the story of the five disciples who went through trials and tribulations to obtain the true scriptures is not unfamiliar at all to Shen Shi and his disciples.

But for some unknown reason, after they returned to Chang'an, they only held an unprecedented water and land conference in the Great Ci'en Temple, and then Venerable Sanzang announced that he would enter the Wild Goose Pagoda to translate the scriptures.　Since then, he seldom appeared again.

His three pupils, who were rumored to have had great powers, also disappeared?　So much so that many people have come to regard the epic experience as a literary fabrication.　How much of it is true is open to question.

"You don't know this?　And that's normal. The Spirit Mountain Project back then?　From the very beginning, it was a secret of the heavenly realm, and very few people knew about it, including Jade Emperor, Buddha, and the Supreme Lord?　Guanyin Bodhisattva?　Maitreya and Bodhisattva?　The total number of people did not exceed ten. Even the five disciples themselves?　They were all unaware of it at the very beginning." Li Jing continued.

"Since they were so secretive, could it be that the real purpose of their party?　Not to seek the true scriptures?" Shen Luo frowned.

"It can only be said that not entirely, after all, at that time within the borders of the Tang Dynasty, the demons were getting worse and worse?　The way of the world was also gradually deteriorating, and people needed the Mahayana Buddhism to be rehabilitated. After all, a person's state of mind changes into a human heart, a country's state of mind changes into a human harmony, and a world's state of mind changes into a heavenly fortune. If the great tendency tends to be good, then the turbid Qi of Heaven and Earth can be dispelled and the great calamity can be turned invisible." Li Jing shook his head and said.

Hearing this, Shen Li sighed in his heart, "In the era in which I live, Mahayana Buddhism has been spread in the Tang Dynasty, Buddhist temples have been built, and monks preaching the Dharma are walking and preaching in the world, but the evil spirits are still getting worse and worse.

"Relying on the Buddha's Dharma to rehabilitate ...... not to mention the amount of time it takes, just the matter of the world to learn the Dharma rituals, and how difficult is it?" He couldn't help but say.

"So, this is only one part of the Spirit Mountain plan, as for the other part, it is to spread the word that by eating Tang Sanzang's flesh, one can seize immortal creation and cultivate supreme mana. Using this as bait, we will lure those sneaky demons lurking in the shadows so that we can wipe them out and cut off the risk of disaster." Li Jing continued.

"Good tactics, not to mention how many hidden demons were tempted and eventually put to death one by one, but the fact that Sun Wukong, the Demon King of the generation, was taken back to Buddhism is a beautiful first move." Shen Luo couldn't help but exclaim.

"It's not as simple as what you see. Fighting Buddha was originally transformed by the colorful divine stones left behind by Nüwa's stone refining and mending, and it is not really a demon race." Li Jing shook his head.

"Could it be that Sun Wukong was originally arranged by the heavenly realm?" Shen Luo had a sneaking suspicion about something.

"How else could he have been favored by the Bodhisattva Ancestor and taught the Xuan Gong changes himself? Do you think the Longevity Monk was the only one who got scriptures? In fact, Sun Wukong, Pig Wisdom, Sha Wujing and White Dragon Horse are all sutra pickers, and each of them was born as a result of an arrangement made by the Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain." Li Jing laughed and said.

Shen Luo had a flash of light in his brain, recalling the legendary trials and tribulations on the way to get the scriptures, and doubts rose in his heart again.

"But why was it that many of the demons they encountered on their way to the scriptures were transformed by the Buddha's mount?"

"When the Heavenly Court and the Spiritual Mountain drew out the demons to stop and kill them with the matter of getting scriptures, it also divided them to a certain extent, and the demons did not have any means to target the Heavenly Court and the Spiritual Mountain? They are also actively compelling the immortals in heaven and the Buddhas in the west. Many people who are not hard-hearted and who are dissatisfied with the principles of the Heavenly Dao are now revealing their true colors," Li Jing explained. Li Jing explained.

"So that's how it is. Such tactics are already quite powerful, but why did they fail in the end?" Shen Luo suddenly realized, and then asked again, puzzled.

"I'm afraid no one can say for sure about this ......, but I can only say that there is a providence in the heavens. Six or seven years after the Tang monk and his disciples returned from their sutra retrieval, great masters including Zhen Yuan Zi and Old Bodhisattva found that the Mahayana sutra had failed to deliver the world from the rampant turbulence in the heavens and earth, and the Spirit Mountain project was declared a failure. At this time, another thing happened, and the situation became even worse." Li Jing sighed leisurely and said.

"What exactly has happened?" Hearing him say that, Shen Luo's spirit also tensed up.