Chapter 59: Bold Hypothesis Inspired by Headlights

Chapter 59: Bold Hypothesis Inspired by Headlights

Chapter 59: Bold Hypothesis Inspired by Headlights

Do you want to ask whether Wen Rui understands Buddhism?
He understood quite well, even more than the King of Understanding. When it comes to the profoundness of Buddhism, even Fashan, who had a deep wisdom and studied Buddhist scriptures since childhood, was far inferior to him.

There are only a few ways to gain extraordinary powers in the world: becoming a demon, practicing Taoism, and studying Buddhism.

The demons have lost their sanity and are driven by desire, so they should be eliminated first. The aptitude for cultivation is too poor and the progress is very slow, so they have no choice but to give up.

The only way left for Wen Rui is to study Buddhism, but unfortunately the system does not allow it. If he dares to join the Buddhist sect, his mission to revive Jiejiao will be declared a failure immediately, and he will be sent to hell and never be reborn.

After many suicidal attempts, Wen Rui finally encountered a small bug, which is that Buddhism can be learned and mastered, but not believed.

Some people may be curious, how can one achieve a profound understanding of Buddhism without believing in it?

This is actually very easy to understand. It is caused by the defects in the origin of Buddhism. The descendants of Poxun are everywhere in Buddhism. They all appear to be well versed in Buddhism, know Buddhist principles and scriptures by heart, and can use magical powers and spells at will. But they are all fake monks, and none of them truly believes in Buddhism.

The system stipulates that Wen Rui cannot betray his religion and join Buddhism, but it does not stipulate that he cannot practice Buddhism. One can learn from others' experience. Buddhism is originally Taoism, and the three religions have the same origin. The teachings of Jiejiao also allow him to absorb the essence of Buddhism for his own use.

Therefore, Wen Rui started to study the secret Buddhist scriptures a long time ago. Unfortunately, since he did not believe in Buddhism, he could only learn some Buddhist magical powers by tricks, and there was no hope for him to achieve enlightenment.

As for how he obtained those Buddhist secret books, it was also very simple, he bought them with money.

There were people in the Yuan Dynasty who were saved by Buddha. The Tathagata Buddha personally taught his disciples that "Do not sell the Buddhist scriptures at a low price, lest future generations will have no money to use them." So the disciples followed the Buddha's instructions. As long as the donors were willing to spend a large sum of gold, not to mention emptying the Sutra Repository, they would even invite Bodhisattvas or venerables to give one-on-one lectures and teachings.

The exchange rule of gold for Buddhist scriptures made it very convenient for Wen Rui to raise funds. He made mining robots to collect gold mines for refining. The Buddhist secret scriptures he exchanged for more than 100 tons of gold were several times more than what Tang Monk brought back to the Tang Dynasty.

There are many benefits to studying Buddhist scriptures. First, it greatly strengthens his spiritual power. Second, it can alleviate the pain of hell experience.

Last but not least, it gave him a deep understanding of the origin of the extraordinary power of Western religions, and made him understand a system of extraordinary power that was completely different from the cultivation of immortals.

To obtain the extraordinary power of Buddhism, one does not need spiritual roots and resources, but wisdom and enlightenment.

Wen Rui, who possesses the Iron Man template level 5 intelligence, is not lacking in wisdom and enlightenment. If there were no system restrictions, it would not be difficult for him to achieve the status of a cyber-mechanical Buddha.

Although studying Buddhism without believing in it cannot lead to enlightenment, and one can only be a fake monk and unable to display the true magical powers of Buddhism, it has also benefited Wen Rui a lot.

Especially when he was fighting against Western monks, he didn't necessarily have to be stronger than his opponents to win. If his Buddhist enlightenment was higher than his opponents, there was a great chance that he could win by talking.

Then, in terms of obtaining the blessings of heavenly merits, the more profound the Buddhist teachings, the more one can penetrate the merit system, and the more one can find the correct method to rob merits. Just like this time, Wen Rui quietly stole the merits that should have belonged to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

Heavenly virtue is a good thing. Although Wen Rui has not yet fully studied it, the known benefits are that it can improve luck, resist disasters, offset karma, increase wisdom, etc. If Heavenly virtue is accumulated enough, it can even be canonized as a saint, transcending the mundane world.

The new energy plan has shown initial results, and Wen Rui is in a good mood, but he did not celebrate. After all, no one celebrated with him and it was really a lack of fun. So he walked to the exit passage on one side of the hall and rushed to his next work location.

At the exit was a metal capsule that could only accommodate one person. Wen Rui got in, sat firmly and closed the hatch. The capsule then slid at high speed in the pipe.

This pipeline capsule system is an underground highway that Wen Rui spent a lot of effort to build. It covers the Lishan Mountains and has now extended thousands of miles beyond the mountain range.

The capsule can move at a speed of 6500 kilometers per hour in the segmented vacuum tube, which is 1800 meters per second, or Mach 5.3. This speed is far faster than the speed of flying with a sword, and is many times faster than Zhang Kui's ground-walking technique.

The speed is indeed fast, but the only drawback is that it takes too much time and resources to lay it out, and the sites are relatively fixed and cannot be moved to any location at will.

Despite this, it greatly accelerated Wen Rui's travel speed. This is why He Lingyun set off first on his sword, but arrived at Mopan Mountain later than Wen Rui who was moving underground.

After returning to the Jinling Sect's experimental hall in the tube capsule, Wen Rui came to the laboratory where Luan Qingyu was and stood in front of the big jar where the little phoenix was soaking again.

Turning on the 3D projection device, Wen Rui checked Luan Qingyu's cultivation data during this period. The data showed that she had reached the advanced stage of Nascent Soul, and all the monitored vital signs were normal, without any abnormal alarms.

Switching to the nanorobot spiritual power tracing mode and enlarging the image of the Dantian position, Wen Rui looked closely at the state of the Nascent Soul's condensation.

At this time, it is no longer the scene of the initial stage of Nascent Soul with only a pulsating light spot. It can be clearly seen from the outline that Luan Qingyu's Nascent Soul has begun to take the shape of a bird, just like a peeled feather egg. The beak, claws, wings, and even sparse feathers can be clearly distinguished.

This is a bit strange. The Nascent Soul of a human cultivator is in the shape of a fetus, and after cultivating into a soul, it turns into a three-inch little man. I never thought that the Nascent Soul of a demon cultivator is in the form of a living creature before transforming.

A cultivator in the Spirit Transformation Stage represents a cultivator who has successfully cultivated his primordial spirit. The physical body of a cultivator at this stage has become a boat, just a tool to cross to the other side. If the physical body is destroyed in a fight, the primordial spirit can continue to fight by leaving the body. If one is really defeated, the primordial spirit can also escape and make a comeback in a different physical body.

Of course, it is hard to say whether the new body is better than the original one, but the realm will not fall, and it is much stronger than reincarnation or re-entering the cycle of reincarnation. Luan Qingyu has clearly transformed, and it is the highest level of perfect transformation. The difference between the Tianfeng jade body and the delicate body of a human woman is very small, and there is no trace of bird left due to incomplete transformation.

But her soul was still in the form of a native bird. What was the principle behind this? Wen Rui thought about it seriously, and couldn't help but stare at the two headlights on Luan Qingyu's chest in confusion.

The monster takes human form but its spirit is that of a bird. This may conceal the secret of the genetic differences between monsters and humans.

Birds are not mammals, so why do they have two headlights after they transform into humans?
It has absolutely no functional burden. Just like the appendix and coccyx, are they just redundant in evolution?
Or perhaps because birds need strong chest muscles to fly, the headlights are actually a form of mimicry, appearing soft and flexible but actually very hard and powerful.

Driven by curiosity, Wen Rui wanted to verify it. Only by confirming it himself could he rule out this hypothesis. This is the spirit of science. So he licked his lips, rolled up his sleeves, and was eager to give it a try.

"Brother, you have been staring at my body for a long time. Is there something wrong with my practice?"

"Uh……"

Wen Rui was startled by the call, and then he realized that it was he who had asked Luan Qingyu not to enter a state of meditation during practice, but to stay awake and regulate his breathing according to the system's prompts.

Therefore, everything he did just now was seen by the girl in the jar.

Touching his chin awkwardly, Wen Rui said calmly, "No... no problem, I just found that your Nascent Soul form is completely different from that of human cultivators. These differences need to be studied to avoid any mistakes."

"Oh!"

Luan Qingyu didn't take it seriously. He agreed casually and continued to look at the meridian guidance map.

During this period of time, Wen Rui's uninterrupted teaching of Nascent Soul cultivation has completely won her trust. Even if he lied now and said he needed to feel her pulse to determine whether the cultivation was progressing smoothly, she would believe him unconditionally.

Wen Rui came back to his senses and thought carefully. Wouldn't it be enough to control the nanorobot to check the muscle fibers? The data would be more detailed and accurate, and it seemed that there was no need to do it directly.

The results of the nanorobot inspection came out quickly. It turned out that the pair of headlights were not muscle mimicry, but a pair of real ones, and they were even functional. Wen Rui couldn't help but fall into confusion again.

If it is not mimicry, could it be convergent evolution to adapt to the environment?
In similar ecological environments, faced with survival pressures, they make adaptive choices and grow organs that are similar in appearance and function.

The spiritual environment is the ecological environment where humans and monsters coexist. The spiritual energy also promotes the accelerated mutation of genes of those who are "covered in fur and horns, and born from eggs".

So what kind of survival pressure do the demons face that causes them to gradually converge on the human form and transform?

A hint of inspiration flashed in his mind, and Wen Rui gradually sorted out the thread. Isn't it the human race that causes the greatest survival pressure to the demon race?
As humans rise in the future, the demon race will decline further, until it is almost extinct. People say that demons harm people, but from the broader perspective of the survival of the race, humans are the natural enemies of the demon race, and they have completely squeezed out the demon race's ecological niche.

Life will always find a way out. The direction of evolution of the demon race has begun to take the route of "if you can't beat them, join them". Before the transformation, there was reproductive isolation between the demon race and the human race, but after the transformation, the reproductive isolation no longer exists.

This clearly sends a signal that the demon race is trying to gradually merge with the human race!
In fact, during the Xia and Shang dynasties, there were already signs of racial integration from top to bottom. Dayu met Fu Hao, a nine-tailed white fox, at Tushan in Qingqiu State, and Shang Tang's mother swallowed a black bird egg and gave birth to Shang Tang.

By the time of the Zhou Dynasty, the Battle of the Gods was over, and under the influence of unknown mystical factors, the chances of intermarriage and integration between humans and demons were completely cut off.

The emperors of later generations were only called the Son of Heaven. They were obviously pure-blooded humans, but they all became bastards of heaven.

If there had been no War of the Gods, and no human intervention after the war that accelerated the extinction of the demon race for some purpose, and if natural evolution had continued, would the human and demon races eventually have truly merged into a new race with savage bodies, civilized minds, and innate magical powers?

No matter how you analyze it, this new mixed-blood race is better than the pure-blooded human race, and its prospects are brighter than those of the pure-blooded human race, right?

So what is the purpose of the moralists who insist on stigmatizing and exterminating the demon race and do not want to see the birth of a new race?

This is exactly the case of "If you study without thinking, you will be confused; if you think without studying, you will be in danger; if you don't think or study, you will be frustrated; if you think and study at the same time, you will be crazy." Wen Rui's eyes suddenly lit up, countless thoughts jumped in his mind, and the blood of a mad scientist awakened.

A wise man once said: We should support whatever the enemy opposes, and oppose whatever the enemy supports. Only in this way can we better protect ourselves and launch a counterattack at the right time.

Since some people are against the birth of a new race, Wen Rui will try his best to give birth to a new race. Perhaps this new race will be the main force for Jiejiao to achieve a major counterattack in the future!

Thinking of this, Wen Rui loudly ordered: "Jarvis, create a new folder in the project library and name it 'Human Completion Project'!"

(End of this chapter)