Chapter 334: The power of faith, the crisis of Buddhism

The Greedy Monk and the Black Emperor looked in the direction where the sound came from, but Ye Chen did not do so. Long before he entered, he knew that there was someone else in this Wan'an Temple. As for who it was, there was no need to guess.

The wooden door slowly opened, and the old monk trembled out of the house, his eyes were full of turbidity, not at all like the clearness of a monk.

He now had a cane in his hand, and his palm full of age spots tightly grasped the cane, not daring to relax, as if he would fall down if he put down the cane in his hand.

Just like the jade talisman that had been corroded by 99%, his whole person exuded the meaning of aging, even the Greedy Monk felt his scalp tingling.

The old monk in front of him was once a true immortal!

"I have been waiting for my friend."

The old monk spoke, not using the previous title of donor, but calling him my friend, indicating that he had regarded Ye Chen as a fellow traveler.

"I know."

Ye Chen spoke, without any ups and downs in his emotions, looking at the old monk in front of him.

The old monk smiled and walked slowly towards the stone table, looking at the leaves on the stone table, a little confused.

Shouldn't the young monk have cleaned this place long ago?

Oh.

Yes.

He is not here.

After coming back to his senses, he still walked to the front of the stone seat, looked at the leaves and dust on the stone bench, and gently flicked those leaves off with his hands.

He was already, almost unable to stand up.

The greedy monk took a step forward and wanted to clean the stone table, but was stopped by Ye Chen.

The old monk does not need help from others.

With a knowing smile, the old monk looked at Ye Chen without saying anything, but quietly cleaned the leaves on the stone table and said.

"In the past, the little monk got up at noon and cleaned the temple up and down, inside and out. This child, I didn't ask him to do this, he is very obedient."

As he said, the old monk smiled and tried his best to clean the leaves under his hands.

"Cough, cough, cough."

Accompanied by a series of violent coughs, the old monk took a slight breath, raised his hand again, and soon, the stone table had been completely cleaned by him.

"He has been very obedient since he was a child. No matter what I say, he will listen. I like money, so he will find ways to make money for me. The only pilgrim was scared away by him like this. There was no other way, so he found a way to scrape off the gold plating on the Buddha statue."

"I know that this child has no other ideas, just wanting to make me happy, so I don't blame him. What's wrong with following your heart?"

"Later, when you came, Xiao Shi was very happy. It was the first time that a pilgrim paid so much money. Although he was afraid, he still tried his best to restrain himself and cleaned up the entire temple as usual. He was only seven years old."

"I tell you, Xiaoyou is a very capable person, a fairy in the sky. If you learn skills from him, you will have a great future. He agreed without thinking, and I didn't say anything to him because I knew that he wanted to make more money."

After saying this, the old monk panted slightly, as if saying these words was a burden to his body.

The greedy monk and Heihuang were silent when they heard this. They once asked the little monk why he wanted to become a Buddha.

The young monk replied that after becoming a Buddha, one can burn out relics, which sound very valuable.

Why do you want to worship Ye Chen as your master?

Being a god should make the master live a better life.

In fact, the young monk has told these little thoughts to the greedy monk and the black emperor, but how could the old monk not know what he was thinking, just let him do it.

After hearing this, Ye Chen looked at the old monk and asked.

"Senior and I know each other's affairs, so I want to know what happened."

The old monk seemed to come out of the memories of the past and sighed slightly. When people are about to die, they can't help but like to reminisce. It turns out that even the former true immortals are the same.

Taking a deep breath, the old monk looked at Ye Chen and said.

"After you left, it was still the same as before, but half a month ago, I felt an inexplicable breath, it was a familiar breath, I knew that the people from Lan Ke Temple had arrived. Then I asked Xiao Shi to stay in the temple, and I went out by myself, wanting to meet my old friend."

"But I didn't expect that my old friend didn't see me, but just went around in circles with me. Finally, I suddenly realized that a bad old man could be cared about by people above the nine heavens. Later I found out that their target was Xiao Shi."

"I'm back, it's true, Xiao Shi is gone, taken away by the people from the Great Leiyin Temple."

When Ye Chen heard this, he immediately understood that the people from Lan Ke Temple made the old monk feel a crisis. He was no longer the true immortal he used to be, so he was very concerned about this matter, but he didn't expect that the target of Lan Ke Temple was the little monk.

The old monk hid the little monk very deeply, and ordinary people couldn't see it, so the only explanation was that Ye Chen was seen when he met the Buddhist disciples of Ximo at Wan'an Temple.

And the person who saw him was the little nun before.

Anyone who can be called an old friend by the old monk must be a true immortal.

What influence did the young monk have on Buddhism that made the two true immortals care so much about him?

As if guessing Ye Chen's thoughts, the old monk coughed and began to speak.

"A long time ago, there were several ancient Buddhas in Lan Ke Temple. They were all monks who were left over from millions of years ago. After they founded Buddhism, they died one after another, leaving only three."

"And the ultimate goal of these three is to find someone who can completely change the Western Desert. Now the Western Desert is prosperous on the surface, but it is in crisis everywhere."

The old monk spoke and revealed a shocking secret.

Ye Chen frowned and looked at the old monk without speaking.

The old monk rested for a while and continued to explain.

"On the surface, the Western Desert is nourished by the power of faith and looks like a pure land, but the power of faith is an extremely dangerous thing. The power of thought cannot be used at will, and it will produce karma. Once the karma occurs, the entire Western Desert Buddhism will be destroyed."

Ye Chen understood that the power of faith is a double-edged sword. It can create a Buddhist pure land, but it can also destroy the entire Buddhism.

The karma is called cause and effect. This kind of thing is extremely feared by even the true immortals.

Once the karma occurs, the entire Western Desert will be wiped out.

The young monk Emperor Shitian is the key figure here.

It is normal for the Buddhist immortals to pay so much attention to the inheritance of the entire Western Desert.

But why did the old monk hide him?