Chapter 352 Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, 81 Relics
Chapter 352 Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, 81 Relics
Hell.
Deep within the eighteen levels of hell.
"Ok?"
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva opened his eyes in confusion and looked ahead in surprise.
A beam of golden light descended.
Guanyin Bodhisattva appeared before them.
"What business does the Venerable Guanyin have in my hell?"
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva clasped his hands together and asked calmly.
Guanyin sneered, "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, your disciple is quite impressive, actually destroying one of my avatars."
"what?"
Ksitigarbha was completely bewildered, but then he did some quick calculations.
He frowned deeply: "Venerable Guanyin, are you mistaken? My disciple has always been by my side and has never left."
"Bodhisattva, should we summon him for a confrontation?"
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva looked at Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva and said, "Besides, with Avalokiteshvara's strength, how could my disciple be your match?"
"Don't try to justify yourself."
Guanyin was annoyed and said coldly, "Your disciple Fahai is still cultivating in the mortal world. Don't you know what your disciple has been doing?"
"Fahai?"
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva frowned and closed his eyes slightly.
Then he began to communicate with Di Ting, who was standing nearby.
Soon, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva opened his eyes in sudden realization.
“Venerable Guanyin, Fahai is not my disciple.”
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva explained.
"impossible!"
Guanyin waved her hand and said coldly, "Is Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva trying to shirk responsibility? Fahai cultivates the Ksitigarbha Golden Body. How could someone who isn't your disciple cultivate it?"
"Also, he keeps referring to himself as the World Honored One and Ksitigarbha, isn't he your disciple?"
Guanyin was furious. How could Ksitigarbha not admit it?
"..."
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva remained silent for a while, and obtained various information about Fahai from Di Ting.
Seeing that Fahai had actually destroyed one of Guanyin Bodhisattva's incarnations, he was greatly surprised.
I was even more surprised to see Fahai cultivating the Ksitigarbha golden body.
"Amitabha!"
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva thought for a moment, then put his hands together and said, “Excellent, excellent. Fahai is indeed my disciple, my last disciple.”
"Unexpectedly, he was able to comprehend the Ksitigarbha Sutra and cultivate such magical power on his own, even though I never taught him. Congratulations! May Buddha have mercy."
He admitted it with a smile.
Such a good disciple, how could he not admit to being a fool?
Since Guanyin Bodhisattva said he was his disciple, then he must be his disciple.
Now that the disciple has caused trouble, the master should clean up the mess.
"Has Your Excellency come here to interrogate us?"
Ksitigarbha smiled slightly and asked a question in return.
"You~~" Guanyin was somewhat annoyed.
The other party is planning to renege on their debt.
"Venerable Ksitigarbha, do you perhaps wish for me to go before the Buddha to lodge a complaint?"
Guanyin looked at him coldly.
Ksitigarbha smiled and said, “Excellent, excellent. My disciple is unruly. Please forgive him. I will bear the loss of Avalokiteshvara.”
After saying that, he flicked his hand and threw a golden light to Guanyin.
Guanyin looked in surprise at the golden lotus flower in her hand.
Lotus of Merit?
This golden lotus, formed from accumulated merit, is an offering of atonement.
"Venerable Guanyin, this is an apology. How about we let this matter drop?"
Ksitigarbha asked with a smile.
"Amitabha, good, good!"
The Venerable Guanyin put away the golden lotus of merit, held the jade vase in her hand, and returned the greeting with one hand.
"I take my leave."
After Guanyin finished speaking, she turned and left, having received the benefits and compensation, she naturally departed.
As Guanyin departed, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's expression turned strange. He opened his eyes and saw Fahai, who was cultivating in the human world.
"A born Buddha, excellent, very good!"
The effects of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva have become even stronger.
Fahai, who was cultivating, raised an eyebrow and suddenly opened his eyes.
"You audacious fiend, how dare you spy on me?"
Fahai shouted loudly, and Buddhist light emanated from his body.
"Amitabha!"
Ksitigarbha's heart pounded wildly, and he hurriedly appeared, his golden body materializing before Fahai.
"Fahai, you are quite good. I will pass on the true Dharma of Ksitigarbha to you."
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was straightforward and passed on all of Ksitigarbha's true teachings to Fahai.
Moreover, with a flick of his hand, he threw out eighty-one merit lotus flowers that flew into Fahai's body.
Fahai, who was about to make his move, froze, staring at the eighty-one merit lotuses flying towards him with a strange expression.
After looking at the true teachings of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, he felt even more puzzled.
"Disciple greets Master!"
Fahai's eyes darted around, and he immediately bowed.
Climb up the pole; it's obvious that Ksitigarbha is here to recruit disciples.
Moreover, she directly acknowledged him as her disciple, which suggests that Guanyin found Ksitigarbha, otherwise he wouldn't have come over now.
He came over and directly taught the true Dharma of Ksitigarbha, and even gave away eighty-one merit lotus flowers. What a generous gesture!
Just look at the fact that only one flower was given as compensation to Guanyin.
That is the merit accumulated by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in converting countless vengeful ghosts in hell.
"Good, good!"
Ksitigarbha smiled with satisfaction, having gained a good disciple for free.
Born a Buddhist, he was never taught; he cultivated his powerful magical abilities on his own.
So Ksitigarbha was naturally very happy to have gained such a good disciple for free.
"Practice diligently, and I will protect you no matter what happens."
Ksitigarbha suddenly gave an instruction, which reassured Fahai.
Fahai was even more delighted upon hearing this.
"Yes, Master!"
Fahai clasped his hands together and bowed.
With that in mind, things become much easier.
Master said he'd cover for us, so what's there to be afraid of?
Once his cultivation advances further, he will march to the Western Paradise, kick Tathagata down, and elevate his master to become the Buddha.
"Hahaha--"
"My good disciple, your master awaits the day you attain Buddhahood."
Ksitigarbha laughed heartily, and his figure slowly faded and disappeared.
Fahai in the room recovered and opened his eyes.
"Ksitigarbha is quite good; he really takes responsibility when things go wrong."
Fahai smiled slightly and decided to repay this master properly.
"Eighty-one lotus flowers of merit, this Master is truly generous."
He looked at the eighty-one golden lotuses of merit inside his body and smiled brightly.
This makes things much easier.
"Refining!"
Fahai immediately refined the lotus of merit within his body and, incidentally, organized and comprehended the true Dharma transmitted to him by Ksitigarbha.
What is the true Dharma? It is the core secret Dharma of Ksitigarbha.
He also possessed various insights gained from Ksitigarbha's countless years of cultivation, which Ksitigarbha generously passed on to him as his direct disciple.
Fahai felt he had to repay his generous master.
Buzzing~~!
At this moment, Fahai refined the first lotus flower of merit.
Then another Vajra relic was formed.
A lotus flower of merit, after being refined and absorbed, condenses into a Vajra relic.
Eighty-one lotus flowers of merit are just enough to condense eighty-one Vajra relics.
Boom~!
As one Vajra relic after another condensed.
Fahai's aura grew stronger and stronger, golden light surged from his body, and he was enveloped in Buddhist light, as if he were about to transform into a true Buddha.
Within the sea of consciousness, eighty-one Vajra relics coalesced and emerged.
They wanted to continue solidifying, but found they had reached their limit.
Ninety-nine eighty-one represents a limit, and no more can be condensed.
"Is eighty-one the extreme number?"
Fahai was dissatisfied, feeling that it shouldn't be like this.
But it seems that since they couldn't continue refining, they simply continued to temper the eighty-one Vajra relics, making them even stronger.
At this moment, eighty-one Vajra relics gathered together, emanating a terrifying aura.
Fahai's magical power reached a terrifying level.
He can become a Buddha and enter the Western Paradise whenever he wants.
"The golden body of Ksitigarbha, the golden body of Tathagata, the golden body of Mara Buddha—"
Next, Fahai condensed three golden bodies one by one.
The Ksitigarbha Golden Body, condensed from the Ksitigarbha True Dharma, the Tathagata Golden Body, condensed from the Tathagata Palm, and the Demon Buddha Golden Body, a fusion of demon and Buddha.
This is our biggest trump card.
The last seven lotus flowers of merit were refined into the three golden bodies.
Fahai completed his cultivation, and his magical power slowly merged into his body.
"Amitabha!"
He clasped his hands together, his whole body bathed in a faint Buddhist light, his face compassionate and kind, making people feel as if they were bathed in a spring breeze.
Just one glance is enough to convert one to Buddhism.
This is outrageous!
"Master, I request an audience with you from all directions."
At this moment, Shi Fang's voice rang out from outside the door.
Fahai smiled faintly, and with a wave of his hand, Shifang appeared in the room.
"My disciple, I am now formally passing on to you the methods of cultivation. You must comprehend your own path and the laws of cultivation."
After saying this, he pointed a finger at the center of Shifang's forehead and began to transmit the Dharma.
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