Chapter 759: Buddha and Jie Dual Cultivation, God-given Disciple

"It is necessary for me to meet you in person."

Wen Rui waved and called over the little monk who had been staring at Jin Chanzi blankly, and pushed her in front of Jin Chanzi.

"Old Jin, do you want an apprentice?"

Wen Rui's tone was as if he was selling a pet. He patted Zhuoma's bald head and said earnestly, "This child is a rare Buddhist genius in the world. Not only is she very intelligent, but even though she is young, she has already experienced several reincarnations. She is only one step away from achieving the status of an arhat."

Before Jin Chanzi could react, Wen Rui grabbed Zhuoma's neck and put her pretty face next to Jin Chanzi's handsome face for comparison: "Look, you two look like master and disciple, and your appearance is similar."

"Your Majesty, please wait. I have never thought of accepting a disciple. Moreover, the future is unpredictable. It is still unknown whether my sect can hold on to Lingshan or whether it will retreat to the Land of Bliss. This is definitely not a good time to accept a disciple and teach."

Jin Chanzi seemed to have been in seclusion for too long and had a little social anxiety. He was frightened by the abrupt behavior of Wen Rui, who was too socially-minded. He didn't even look at Zhuoma carefully and waved his hands to refuse.

"Tsk, don't be so quick to refuse, check the goods first!"

When Wen Rui saw that he refused, he immediately got aggressive and acted like a profiteer trying to force a sale: "Such a good monk is hard to find even if you search the entire three realms. Just now when we passed by the main hall, the Buddha even praised him. You'd better think clearly, you will miss this opportunity. If you take in disciples in the future, they will be stupid idiots who don't even look like human beings. It will be too late for you to regret it then!"

Forced into a corner, Jin Chanzi raised his eyes and took a closer look at the fair-skinned little monk. He couldn't help but stare in amazement at the sight.

In the ancient world, it is not difficult to find talented cultivators. Every sect has a few people who are said to be the only geniuses and sons of luck in a thousand years.

If we count the alien geniuses among the demon cultivators, they are even more numerous than before, like crucian carp crossing the river, and are everywhere on the street.

But geniuses in Buddhism are extremely rare, and it is hard to find one even if you search the sky and the earth with a lantern.

After all, a genius in cultivating immortals only needs aptitude, while a genius in cultivating Buddhism not only needs aptitude, but also wisdom, good conduct, a kind heart, a strong temperament, and even needs to look back to the past life, the previous past life, or even the past ten lives, to see if the remaining self is unwavering after discarding all worries.

These conditions are already far better than those of the geniuses in cultivating immortals, but one still needs a little more insight to understand the supreme philosophy contained in the Buddha's smile while picking up a flower. Without this mysterious and indescribable insight, it will be difficult to achieve perfect enlightenment in the end.

The little monk in front of Jin Chanzi is just this rare Buddhist genius. He doesn't know where Wen Rui got this treasure from. If he misses it, he will regret it for the rest of his life!

Jin Chanzi didn't believe what Wen Rui said that in the future he could only accept inferior disciples like pigs, dogs, horses, and monkeys. But even if he could accept disciples with good qualifications and character in the future, compared with the handsome little monk in front of him who looked a bit like himself and looked a bit like a master and disciple, the difference was like the difference between the bright moon and the firefly. The gap was too big.

"Old Jin, I'm not saying anything to you as your uncle, but you're already grown up. If you don't find someone to inherit your legacy, are you really going to take all your teachings to the paradise and leave nothing for the sentient beings in the mortal world?"

Wen Rui spoke eloquently, acted like an elder, and began to preach in a serious tone: "Everyone knows the truth that 'people leave their voices behind, swallows leave their names behind'. Why can't you become a bodhisattva or a Buddha? It's because you haven't saved sentient beings. You stay in this Zen room all day long, meditating behind closed doors. No matter how good the Buddhist principles you have, if no one spreads them for you, it will all be in vain in the end?" "Emperor Wen, I respect you and have always regarded you as my teacher, but the seniority doesn't seem to be right, right?"

"What's wrong with that? From my brother's perspective, do you feel wronged when you call me uncle?"

Wen Rui waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about these details. Just tell me whether this child is a good monk embryo! Can he inherit your mantle?"

Monks don't tell lies, and true Buddhists don't lie either. Jin Chanzi nodded honestly and said, "He is the most uncut gem of Buddhist nature that I have ever seen. Only such a rare Buddhist talent can receive my true teachings. Otherwise, let alone accepting pigs, dogs, horses, and monkeys in the future, even if I receive a reincarnated spirit child chosen from ten thousand as my disciple, it will not be as good as him."

"That's it!"

Wen Rui got a satisfactory answer, and he became even more arrogant. He struck while the iron was hot and said, "This child not only has outstanding Buddha nature, but also has an extraordinary understanding of my Jiejiao knowledge. I only gave her a set of Jiejiao enlightenment textbooks during the journey and let her study on her own. When we arrived at Lingshan, she had reached the knowledge level of a high school graduate in just over a month. This level of academic ability is outstanding among all the talented students in the Monster Alliance."

"Your method of building a super laboratory in the Sea of Consciousness Altar City can be used by no one else in the world except you."

Wen Rui said with regret: "Even I can't do it because of my insufficient Buddhist practice and low precision in visualization. But she has the potential to learn this secret method. Don't you want to pass on this magical power that can save countless scientific research funds, create boundless blessings for sentient beings without consuming huge resources, and change people's lives?"

"Besides her, can you find another successor on Lingshan Mountain? Even if you can find a disciple with the same excellent Buddhist nature as her, there is no guarantee that the person can learn the Jiejiao's secret method of unlocking the sky!"

These words really touched Jin Chanzi's heart and hit his pain point accurately.

Buddhism is good and can guide people to be good.

But the suffering of all living beings cannot be resolved by just the word "goodness".

The Secret Method of Cutting the Sky has nothing to do with morality and only recognizes the cold reality. However, if one can comprehend even a fragment of the mystery of the Heavenly Dao, one can spread it and let all living beings benefit from it, completely changing the way of life, making life more convenient and solving difficulties.

Jin Chanzi has always had an idea. If Western religions can be integrated with Jiejiao, the end of science is metaphysics, and metaphysics can also be explained by science, forming a perfect closed loop that rotates endlessly. Then, will the world usher in the great perfection of the organic combination of true thought and reality?
Unfortunately, he was in Lingshan, and the monks around him only believed in the Buddha, focused on the teaching of the orthodox Dharma and the debate of Buddhist principles. They regarded the Jiejiao's Jietian secret method as a kind of Buddhist magical power. Although they acknowledged the legitimacy of its existence, they regarded it as a unorthodox practice and did not recommend it.

What's more, Jie Religion had been badly defeated by Western Religion, and there was a general atmosphere and trend of thought in Western Religion that looked down on Jie Religion and was even hostile to Jie Religion. Jin Chanzi did not even dare to reveal his knowledge of Jie Religion to his fellow disciples.

If the handsome young monk in front of him is really as Wen Rui said, with excellent qualifications in Jiejiao, then he is indeed the only disciple gifted by heaven in the Three Realms who can inherit his mantle.

(End of this chapter)

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