Chapter 407 Hidden dangers
In the core of the Great Wisdom Root Realm, here Monk Zhi sits on a huge golden lotus. The lotus has seven grades of flowers, and each grade is adorned with one of the seven treasures of Buddhism. Each treasure symbolizes wisdom, auspiciousness, longevity, stability and other different meanings. Under the beautiful wrapping, Monk Zhi seems to be in another world, just like when Zhou Tieyi displays the Buddha Kingdom in the palm of his hand. As long as this dreamlike beauty cannot be broken, no matter how powerful the force is, it is difficult to touch Monk Zhi at all.

Opposite to Monk Zhi, there are four six-grade lotus pedestals, on which sit four old monks. One of them is wearing a red robe with long eyebrows. He was originally the teacher of Monk Zhi. But when Monk Zhi's practice surpassed him, the abbot of Dazhi Temple took the initiative to abdicate and assisted Monk Zhi wholeheartedly. Monk Zhi lived up to the expectations of the Dazhi Temple for generations, and really built the Buddha Kingdom Dazhi Root Realm on the basis of Dazhi Temple.

"Intelligence, aren't you being a little hasty in forcing those newly initiated disciples to enter the Great Wisdom Root Realm?"

Monk Huanxin was happy to see another group of disciples who had cut off their evil roots entering the realm of great wisdom.

When studying the method of "cutting off the roots of evil and gaining the fruit of wisdom", just as Zhou Tieyi guessed, although the mental illness caused by Moshi disease can be cured to a certain extent through pons interruption surgery, this world can be cultivated. When people's minds are divided into good and evil, or the good and evil understood in Buddhist scriptures, then people will gradually lose their self-will and become tools of brainwashing. They think that they control the 'evil self' with the 'good self', but in fact they are constantly eliminating their own desires and getting closer to the 'good' in the Buddhist scriptures.

This makes it difficult for ordinary disciples to continue practicing after the initial stage of the method, when they enter the eighth level. Whether they practice martial arts or Buddhism, they cannot form a complete and independent self-will and cannot complete the spiritual transformation.

However, in order to complete the spiritual transformation, the good self needs to control the evil self, which requires more powerful cultivation. Suddenly, one falls into a vicious circle. This is the method of 'cutting off the roots of evil and gaining good results'. Many schools in the world know this, but they just want Dazhi Zen Temple to give it a try to see if there are better results. They themselves will not let elite disciples cut off the 'roots of evil', as that will only ruin the disciples' future.

When Dazhi Zen Temple was studying this method, it naturally discovered the flaws within it. Since personal will could not allow ordinary people to control the roots of evil when they reached the ninth level of the 'first meditation', they further completed the separation and established a pure country with only 'good' in it, allowing disciples to practice in it and making the good results strong enough to control the roots of evil in turn.

With the help of certain forces, Monk Zhi did it. He guided the water of the Yellow Spring and changed its nature to a certain extent, turning it into the River of Forgetfulness. He then established a great world of wisdom, peace and tranquility on the other side of the River of Forgetfulness.

Over the past ten years, with tens of millions of grassroots miners in the three provinces of Taihang as reserve forces, even though the "Great Wisdom Sutra" has become more difficult to get started, the Great Wisdom Root Realm has absorbed tens of thousands of disciples.

And because these miners were reported as being crazy with Moshi disease, even their parents and wives had lost confidence in them and treated them as dead people. The local officials were even more relieved. Otherwise, no local official could support tens of thousands of crazy patients, even if he was a great scholar.

Originally, this set of rules worked extremely perfectly. According to Monk Huanxin's idea, if Dazhi Temple could maintain this state for a few decades or even hundreds of years, it would be enough for Monk Zhi to ascend to the second level of Buddhism, or even the first level of Pratyekabuddha. By then, even if Dazhi Temple exposed the Great Wisdom Root Realm to the world, there would be nothing to fear.

But since a month ago, Zhou Tieyi's reforms in Shantong Prefecture have become more and more vigorous, and Monk Zhi has also been pushing forward the construction of Dazhi Zen Temple at an increasingly rapid pace.

Half a month ago, he even issued a direct order that anyone who could enter the "Great Wisdom Sutra" would be sent directly to the realm of great wisdom roots to help them practice with the help of the great wisdom roots realm.

The original process was to take place in a Zen temple, where one would study Buddhist scriptures while trying to control the consequences, and at the same time notify family members and relatives to come and see the results.

For well-known reasons, when the frontal lobotomy was first performed at Dazhi Temple, ordinary people could only live a normal life for two or three years at most. After two or three years, Dazhi Temple only needed to notify the family of the death, and the family would not pursue the matter too much, but would thank Dazhi Temple instead.

The answer from Dazhi Zen Temple was not considered to be deceiving the family members, because these disciples who had completed the initial practice had indeed "passed away", left the world of the living and came to the realm of Dazhigen in the netherworld, forming the entire system of the Buddhist kingdom.

Hearing the question from his master, Monk Huanxin, Monk Zhi fiddled with the Bodhi rosary in his hand with a calm expression. His wise eyes swept across the entire Buddhist kingdom. In his eyes, each disciple was like a shining star, forming a brilliant flowing river in time and space.

"Not urgent."

Monk Zhi replied that he had analyzed with his teacher before what would happen if Zhou Tieyi found out about Dazhi Temple. His teacher replied that when Zhou Tieyi returned to Shantong Mansion with the Mingyue System, he would have no time to take care of Dazhi Temple.

But this does not mean that Dazhi Temple will not be affected. On the contrary, if Shinto kills Zhou Tieyi, whether successful or not, the secrets of Dazhi Temple will be exposed to the people of the world. So before that, Monk Zhi must accumulate strength as quickly as possible. Every bit of strength accumulated may change the outcome of the final battle. In this case, he naturally does not need to hide it like before.

After answering, Monk Zhi looked at another old monk, who had a lot of wood and steel mechanisms modified on his body.

Dazhi Temple was originally founded by the ancestors of Gongshu family hundreds of years ago because they could not bear the internal strife of Gongshu family. Therefore, once the senior members of Gongshu family could not stand the infighting within the family or were actively excluded from the family, Dazhi Temple was the most suitable "place of exile".

"Uncle Gongshu, how is the discussion going in the Mechanical City?"

The old monk looked up, because Master Zhi's words made his heart surge with evil thoughts. A large number of shadows gathered on the lotus platform where he sat, like a rotten desire.

However, the peaceful and joyful voices of sermons coming from all directions constantly washed away his evil thoughts in the waters of the River of Oblivion, and eventually they disappeared in the distance.

Gongshu Lei put his palms together and said, "The clan has decided to cleanse again. We must not let the tragedy of the Mechanical City three hundred years ago happen again!"

He slammed the ground with a voice like thunder, without any of the compassion of Buddhism. Instead, he sounded like a Yaksha Asura who was ready to show off his strength!
Gongshu Lei and Gongshu Ting are brothers. They were once known as Lei Ting Po An and Tianxing Gongshu. They were born shortly after the fall of the Machinery City three hundred years ago.

But the reality was not as good as everyone expected. In the subsequent practice, the two brothers drifted apart. Especially when dealing with the monks from the outer sect of the Gongshu family, Gongshu Ting insisted on the concept of absorption and integration, while Gongshu Lei insisted on the concept of control and differentiation.

In the end, due to their different ideologies, the two brothers started a duel unknown to outsiders. In the end, Gongshu Ting won and became the new generation of the Gongshu family's head, in charge of the current Six Rings Mechanical City, while Gongshu Lei fled to the Dazhi Zen Temple and became an unknown old monk here. Of course, it is not that Gongshu Lei deliberately hid himself, but everyone in the world likes to hear the story of the winner. Losers like Gongshu Lei, who stayed in the Buddhist temple for many years, gradually people naturally forgot that the head of the Gongshu family had a younger brother, and he was still alive.

But Gongshu Lei was probably still obsessed with what happened back then, and even after he became a monk, he had not completely let it go, so he did not take a Buddhist name, but just called himself Gongshu Lei.

And now reform has come again!

More than three hundred years ago, there was a civil strife in Gongshujia. The cause was that the leader of the Mohist school at that time developed a diagram of the mechanism array of inkstone, which led to a qualitative change in the art of mechanism. Gongshujia himself was arguing about whether he should use the diagram of the mechanism array or continue to study the method of wood and steel, and try to control the inkstone with wood and steel as the core.

As the main family of Gongshu, they naturally had to uphold the pride of the Gongshu family. Therefore, most of them actually agreed with the wood and steel method at that time, and believed that they only needed to wait a little longer. After the key technology was broken through, they would be able to catch up with the Mohist school immediately.

But the Gongshu family, who were not from the same family, could not wait any longer. Although they practiced the Gongshu family's methods, they were not surnamed Gongshu after all. So they could not understand why the people of the Gongshu family still held on to ignorant and stubborn ideas, so they wanted to forcefully advance the ink stone mechanism array diagram in the mechanism city.

This rift was initially just a technical dispute between the two factions, but due to the deliberate instigation of some people, it turned into a fight between the disciples, and eventually turned into a civil strife, leading to the fall of the Six-Ring Mechanical City.

Ironically, although this civil war ended with a tragic victory for the Gongshu clan, after a large number of disciples were killed and injured, in order to maintain the overall external competitiveness of the Gongshu clan and prevent the large amount of resources, academies, and mines controlled by the Gongshu clan from being divided up by other schools of thought, the Gongshu clan had to cede more basic power to outsiders. At the same time, they also had no more time to study the method of using Mu Gang to control the inkstone, and had to accept the inkstone mechanism array diagram in its entirety.

As someone who had listened to his parents telling the tragic story of the past, Gongshu Lei was extremely wary of outsiders from the Gongshu family. At the same time, he realized more deeply than others that the steam engine studied by Zhou Tieyi and Gongshu Sheng was like the inkstone mechanism array diagram at the beginning, and it was the fuse that ignited the current balance of the Gongshu family.

Moreover, the steam engine is more pure and will change a large number of low-level practitioners. If Gongshujia cannot seize the initiative this time and gain the power to suppress outsiders, once the outsiders start civil strife under the instigation of some people with ulterior motives, Gongshujia's victory will not be a pyrrhic victory, and the name of Gongshujia will have to be changed in the future.

This is something Gongshu Lei absolutely cannot accept!

Monk Zhi turned his rosary beads, holding the beads of wisdom in his hand, and looked in the direction of Shantong Mansion. He sighed softly, "Zhou Tieyi's Feipeng will arrive at Shantong Mansion today."

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In the mine under the Dazhi Zen Temple, when Zhao Fuer entered the Buddhist kingdom of Dazhigenjie, the means of communication that Shenxiu left on Zhao Fuer were blocked from both inside and outside and became completely ineffective.

However, before entering the Buddha Kingdom, Zhao Fuer sent back a message, "Don't be fooled by the appearance of the Great Wisdom Root Realm!"

There was fear and depression hidden in these words, which made Shenxiu feel terrified. He realized that even the Great Wisdom Root Realm he knew through Zhao Fuer was not the whole story. There were still some huge hidden dangers hidden in it, which could even make Zhao Fuer, a second-generation rich man who feared nothing, feel fear.

Shenxiu thought for a moment, but he did not rashly report the news back to the Fahua Temple.

When Monk Zhi was preaching throughout the world, he was serving beside him. He knew how much the chief lecturer praised Monk Zhi, so he was not sure whether his news would fall into the hands of people who supported Monk Zhi after it was passed back to Fahua Temple, thus completely trapping Zhao Fuer.

Similarly, he did not dare to tell the Queen Mother easily. The Queen Mother was mysterious and unpredictable. Zhao Fuer did not trust her, and Shenxiu was also cautious.

After all the calculations, it is certain that the person least likely to collude with Dazhi Temple is the 'enemy' Zhou Tieyi!
One reason is that Zhou Tieyi debuted late and rose rapidly. Most forces in the world kept their eyes on Zhou Tieyi and tried to recruit him, but Confucians did not have the strength to do so. Although Monk Zhi of Dazhi Temple was unparalleled in wisdom and eloquence, there was still an essential difference between him and Zhou Tieyi in Shenxiu's mind.

After all, he was the one who realized the Buddha’s kingdom in his palm within just a few days.

Shenxiu sighed in his heart. He initially thought that Zhou Tieyi had spent a month to comprehend the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm, but in the subsequent fights, Shenxiu was certain that the time Zhou Tieyi took to comprehend the Buddha Kingdom in the Palm was much shorter, which might be beyond everyone's imagination.

When Monk Zhi first came to the Fahua Temple, he also comprehended the Buddha's kingdom in the palm of his hand, but it took him at least five years to get started.

Therefore, Monk Zhi was not as intelligent as Zhou Tieyi, and naturally could not defeat Zhou Tieyi in debate.

In addition to intelligence, the second reason is pure profit. Other forces have no way to solve the ink stone disease, so they support Monk Zhi's method of "cutting off the roots of evil and gaining the fruit of wisdom" with an attitude of giving it a try, and eventually they get deeper and deeper into trouble. However, Zhou Tieyi has already developed the Mingyue system and promoted the experiment. Even when he was in the mine, officials from the county government came down to explain it with newspapers published by the Mountain Copper Mansion.

This shows that the Mingyue System has been effectively tested and the results show that it can treat the mental disorder of Moshi disease. It is much safer than the method studied by Monk Zhi. That is why Zhou Tieyi dared to announce it to the world in a high-profile manner and gain the support of people all over the world, including the Emperor of Daxia.

Since Zhou Tieyi has a successful and advanced method, it is natural that he would not support Monk Zhi's old and dangerous method. Zhou Tieyi has never been a person who would help others.

After thinking these two points clearly, Shenxiu no longer hesitated and headed towards Shantong Mansion. Along the way, the crescent moon was almost hidden and thick dark clouds in the mountainous area covered the sky.

(End of this chapter)