Chapter 111 [Temple of Ten Thousand Emperors, Tianxuan Patriarch]
The old, weak, women and children stayed behind to clean up the mess. They piled up the heads of the bandits in a distant place to form a mausoleum to deter other bandits who were about to attack.
The young and middle-aged men rode on their dragon-scale horses and headed towards the bandits' lair. They passed some small oases along the way. They took out Chen Da Huzi's head and told the people on this land that the horse bandits had been strangled to death. In the future, this land would be peaceful and would be ruled by the Tianxuan Immortal Sect.
The leaders and clan leaders of the oasis carefully asked Master Zhang Wu how much they would have to pay in the future in order to obtain protection.
Master Zhang Wu told Lin Xian that in the past, Qingxia Sect only collected ten kilograms of sources a year, which equaled less than one kilogram per month, making him a local protector.
But since the arrival of Chen Da Huzi, everything has changed. Qingxia Sect no longer clears out the bandits, and even if they go out, it is just a formality. And the tribes in the oasis have to pay Chen Da Huzi four or five kilograms of source every month, which is a heavy tax and makes them miserable.
"Tianxuan Holy Land wants to maintain long-term peace and stability on this land, and will not sustainably exhaust all resources."
Lin Xian waved his hand and made a covenant with all the creatures on this land: "All the exorbitant taxes of Qingxia Sect and Chen Da Huzi will be waived. From now on, all oases will only need to hand in ten kilograms of resources per year."
"In addition, every oasis needs to build a temple in exchange for protection."
"Build a temple?" Everyone was stunned, including Ye Fan, who asked in confusion: "What's the point of this?"
"The North Territory is poor and a barren land. It is rich in Originium, which is the source of suffering and the only way to survive. Living beings are fighting for this reason. This is not a way to achieve long-term peace."
"If you want to change this situation, you need the power of faith."
Lin Xian gave an example and said slowly: "The Western Desert was once a wasteland, extremely desolate. Later, the Great Emperor Amitabha moved in and changed the environment there, making it a pure land suitable for living beings to live in."
“This is an example of something that has been accomplished before and we can repeat it.”
"Amitabha the Great?" When others were reading out the real name of the Buddha, Ye Fan's eyes showed an incredible look. There was a familiar name that was well-known even on the other side of the starry sky.
From this world going westwards, after passing through ten trillion Buddha lands, you will reach the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss!
"It turns out that the Western Paradise is in the Big Dipper..." Ye Fan murmured, with an indescribable emotion, as if he was in a myth and walked into a legend.
"Buddhism has the Western Pure Land of Bliss. We should also create the Eastern Glass World, build a temple, and offer sacrifices to Patriarch Tianxuan." Lin Xian said softly, "May the sentient beings in this Pure Land have bodies like glass, clear inside and out, pure and without blemish, and bright and vast."
Great ambitions are also the art of making big promises. Lin Xian has already mastered it to perfection, and has deceived the creatures living in this barren land of the Northern Territory into yearning for it.
If one can live a rich and stable life, who would be willing to fight for a piece of source stone? In this world, cultivators are a minority, and ordinary people are the majority.
It’s just that mortals are too weak and are often dominated by a small number of monks, so they dare not speak out even though they are angry.
However, ordinary people are not without the power to settle cause and effect, and the power of faith is the greatest proof of this.
If it can be used well and led by the strongest, it can give birth to a pure land and create all living things, or even settle accounts with the Dark Supreme, and it can even be of help in achieving immortality and creating methods of longevity.
The power of faith is not humble. Those who are proficient in faith are not low in combat power. On the contrary, they are far superior to their peers. Amitabha the Great is the best proof of this.
The demon fetus, reincarnated as the present Buddha Sakyamuni, entered the fairyland, and the future Buddha Huahua also became a fairy with Ye Fan.
Buddhism emphasizes Nirvana, attaining enlightenment in the present and becoming a Buddha in the future. This has really come true. Two-thirds of the great Amitabha Buddha attained enlightenment and became immortals. The remaining one-third is the Past Buddha Amitabha, who will remain in the human world forever, wandering in reincarnation, living in the past and in the hearts of all living beings.
If you keep thinking about it, there will be a response. This is a road that leads directly to the Immortal Emperor. A towering building rises from the ground, and Lin Xian is making various preparations for the future.
"May I ask what the Tianxuan Patriarch looks like? Do you have a portrait?"
The leaders and clan leaders of the oasis all agreed to build the temple. Compared with the real source, they did not care about such illusory things.
Ye Fan looked at these Northern Territory natives with pity. They were still too ignorant and did not understand the power of theocracy.
Once the Tianxuan Temple is established and rooted in the hearts of all living beings, no one can erase it. No matter how many times Buddhism has been destroyed on the other side of the starry sky, it has never been destroyed.
It’s not that Buddhism has such a strong vitality, but that sentient beings living in despair need a belief to rely on, lest the string completely collapses.
Be it belief or anesthesia, worshiping imaginary things is to live in the present. It is a kind of spiritual sustenance, different from material things.
"Grandmaster Tianxuan?"
"The source of the holy land is a Tianxuan Quasi-Emperor, or a Tianxuan Emperor."
Lin Xian thought for a moment, then laughed and said, "There are too many ancestors in our Tianxuan Holy Land. You must all listen carefully and worship them one by one."
"In the temple and the ancestral hall, we must enshrine Emperor Tianxuan, Emperor Wanqing, Emperor Wushi, Emperor Xukong, Emperor Hengyu, Emperor Henren, the Nine Generations of Invincible Saint Body, Taiyin Human Emperor, Sun Saint Emperor, and Douzhan Saint Emperor..."
Everyone was stunned when they heard this. There were too many Tianxuan ancestors, all gathered together.
The more Ye Fan listened, the more he felt something was wrong. It was normal to worship Emperor Tianxuan, Emperor Wanqing was his mother's family, the Ninth Generation Great Saint Body, Emperor Wu Shi was from the Saint Body lineage, Xu Kong Heng Yu was Yan Huang, and Tai Yin and Tai Yang were the ancestors of the human race. All of this made sense.
What the hell is the reason for worshipping the ruthless emperor? Because of the Heaven Devouring Demonic Art!
And there is the Fighting Saint Emperor, he is no longer the emperor of the human race!
"It's not a good idea to worship a ruthless person. Worship the Nanling Heavenly Emperor. His achievement is to flatten the Tianduan Mountains. As for the Fighting Saint Emperor..." Lin Xian laughed and said meaningfully, "This is used for moral kidnapping."
"Moral kidnapping?" Ye Fan was stunned. What the hell is this?
Lin Xian smiled without saying anything. The Fighting Saint Emperor passed away, which implicated Beiyuan and Beiyu. The son had to pay for his father's debt.
Given the character of the Fighting Saint Ape lineage, when the Saint Prince sees his father’s temple being enshrined on this land and learns about the past, will he not take action when Tianxuan encounters a disaster in the future?
The Holy Prince has taken action, is the Fighting Buddha still far away? The Fighting Buddha has taken action, is Mount Sumeru still far away?
"Add Amitabha the Great and Guangming Emperor to the list. In fact, I have long been a shallow believer of theirs. Wuliang the Heavenly Venerable." Lin Xian coughed and said leisurely, "There is also Wuliang the Heavenly Venerable. We live on Beidou and have to pay rent to them."
"Oh right, Chaos Body King... Never mind, this is too hellish."
"Emperor Fuxi, Emperor Nuwa, Queen Mother of the West, Emperor Jiuli, Emperor Shenzhou... these are all real ancestors, they all need to be added."
Ye Fan took a deep breath when he heard this. This was no longer the ancestral hall, nor was it a shrine. This was the Temple of Ten Thousand Emperors!
(End of this chapter)
