Chapter 1056: Chapter 1054: The Huichang Persecution of Buddhism 1
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
“Holy shit.”
“So ruthless and decisive, so cruel and merciless?”
“He was a Half-Step Dao-Fusion Realm Bald Donkey, and he just killed him like that.”
“He didn’t even think about subduing him and making him his own?”
Seeing Lin Qi clasp his hands and squeeze.
Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie felt their scalps go numb, their hearts aching in sympathy.
As if the ones being squeezed in Lin Qi’s hand like mosquitoes were the two of them.
It was a squeeze and an explosion, simply…
But before they could grieve over the death of the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata like foxes mourning the death of a rabbit.
They saw Lin Qi spread his hand open again.
And the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata in his palm had not been crushed into a bloody mist as they had imagined.
Instead, he was sprawled limply in Lin Qi’s palm, fast asleep, completely unconscious.
Seeing this scene.
Great Sage Candle Dragon and Great Sage Taotie both felt a sense of déjà vu.
In the next instant.
The two Demon Race Great Sages had a sudden realization, and remembered.
Without another word, they turned to flee.
But it was already too late.
Because Lin Qi was already smiling as he waved the Empress Wa Banner.
The Supreme Emperor Weapon’s majestic might swept across the universe.
Wherever it passed, human and demon alike all fell asleep.
“Your Majesty, no!”
Great Sage Candle Dragon shrieked, then was struck by the Empress Wa Banner. His head drooped, and he slept quite well.
Great Sage Taotie was speechless with shock, but before he could open his mouth, he directly followed in Great Sage Candle Dragon’s footsteps, was struck on the head by the Empress Wa Banner, and instantly began snoring.
Wu Ancestor instinctively wanted to summon the Six Paths of Reincarnation Disk that Lin Qi had bestowed upon him to resist the Empress Wa Banner’s suppression.
But his mind stirred, and he abandoned the idea.
He silently took a hit from the Empress Wa Banner, and likewise fell asleep.
It wasn’t just them.
The armies of humans and demons that had set up the Grand Formation of the Myriad Stars and the Grand Formation of the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons also fell into a deep sleep under the Empress Wa Banner’s suppression.
Finally, the Empress Wa Banner stopped in front of Fang Yun’s family of three.
Xiao Ali blinked her cute Kardashian Big Eyes, covering her head timidly.
“Grand-Master, Ali is good, don’t hit Ali, okay?”
“Master.”
Fang Yun and Bai Ling’er also spoke up nervously, worried that Lin Qi had killed too enthusiastically and would kill them too.
“You’re already here, so you might as well join in.”
“Relax, it’s just a sleep.”
Lin Qi spoke lightly, waving the Empress Wa Banner to give Fang Yun’s family of three a hit as well.
“Grand-Master, hit me.”
Xiao Ali jumped up, actively using her little head to bump into the Empress Wa Banner, speaking in a sweet childish voice.
“But after you hit me, you can’t hit Daddy and Mommy anymore.”
“Wuu wuu, my precious daughter, Daddy loves you to death. Master, hit me and Ling’er, Xiao Ali is still young, spare her.”
“Yes. Master, don’t hit Xiao Ali, Fang Yun and I are willing to take her punishment.”
“Grand-Master, hit me, Ali is also willing to take the punishment for Daddy and Mommy.”
Watching this loving family.
Lin Qi laughed in exasperation.
“I’m only putting you to sleep, so you can come with me to the Old Tathagata’s dream.”
“Why are you showing off?”
“Bullying me for being alone?”
“You really deserve a beating!”
As the words fell.
The Empress Wa Banner did a Phoenix Three Nods, lightly tapping the foreheads of Fang Yun’s family of three.
The next second.
The family of three fell asleep in perfect order.
Lin Qi looked at the people lying all over the ground before him, his gaze finally resting on Xiao Ali.
He pondered for a moment, then without a shred of hesitation sat down cross-legged.
“The Great Dream of Many Autumns, what year is it tonight!”
……
The First Year of Huichang, June, the Qingyang Festival.
The New Emperor Li Yan, who had just ascended the throne not long ago, ordered a vegetarian feast inviting both Buddhist and Daoist factions into the palace to preach the Dharma.
After the feast, news spread.
It was said that the New Emperor Li Yan had granted the Daoist priests purple robes in the palace, and strictly ordered Buddhist monks not to wear them.
When this news came out.
In Chang’an City, many temple monks felt indignant, but had not yet realized the danger approaching.
They did not know that next would come a great event that would be written into the history books and would completely and profoundly change Central-Earth Buddhism.
Known in history as: the Extermination of Buddhism under Huichang!
At this moment.
In Ci’en Temple, a young novice monk carrying water suddenly froze, and when he opened his eyes again, his gaze was filled with shock and rage.
“Heaven-Abandoning Emperor, you dog!”
“If you want to kill, then kill! If you want to skin, then skin!”
“Don’t think you can use such shameless means to humiliate and subdue this old monk!”
He gnashed his teeth, his tone both furious and hateful, with killing intent thick in the air.
Instantly frightening the novice monk also carrying water beside him so much that his bucket fell to the ground, soaking his monk’s robe.
“Little, Little Lin, what are you doing?”
The novice monk, now soaked, finally snapped back to his senses, and angrily shoved his companion named Little Lin.
Little Lin was caught off guard and fell heavily to the ground. He immediately turned vicious. “Little brat, you dare insult me too!”
“Master, bad news!”
“Little Lin has gone mad, he’s going to kill someone!”
Splash splash.
As the novice monk shouted, a group of Great Monks quickly ran over. Seeing Little Lin, who instead of properly carrying water was muttering to himself, insisting he would kill someone.
They were all greatly alarmed, and immediately bound Little Lin and sent him to the Commandments Hall.
After a round of trouble.
Little Lin’s buttocks were swollen to the sky, lying on a wooden board, his mind and body awakened by the long-lost pain.
He realized that he had indeed become a young novice monk with no strength to truss a chicken, not even as tall as a cartwheel.
The spiritual power and divine abilities that could once pluck stars and seize the moon, manifest in the Sage Manifestation Star River, had all turned to illusion.
It was even as if everything he had once been as the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata was merely a great dream.
There was no Buddha Ancestor Tathagata who sat in Spirit Mountain, cultivated for countless years, could contend with Saints, and was half a step from entering the Dao-Sacrifice Realm, peering into Supreme might.
It was merely the absurd great dream of a young novice monk in Ci’en Temple who had not yet completed his tonsure or received a dharma name.
“No.”
“Fake, it’s all fake.”
“It’s not some great dream.”
“This old monk is the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata, this old monk is the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata!”
“Heaven-Abandoning Emperor, don’t try to play tricks! Come out, and have a real fight with this old monk!”
“We’ll settle both superiority and life and death!”
Little Lin roared.
Unable to accept the reality that he was not the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata, but merely a young novice monk in Great Ci’en Temple during the Huichang era.
He had boundless Buddhist Dharma, supreme divine abilities.
Lin Qi couldn’t fool him, couldn’t fool him!
“Master, bad news.”
“Little Lin’s madness hasn’t improved at all, it’s gotten worse.”
“He’s actually saying he’s the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata now.”
“Amitabha, my Buddha is compassionate, Buddha forgive the sin.”
“Little Lin has gone mad, he didn’t mean to blaspheme the Buddha.”
The novice monk in the same room repented and apologized on Little Lin’s behalf for the great disrespect, while hurriedly going to find the master.
Soon.
A group of Great Monks came again.
Seeing Little Lin still shouting that he was the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata, their faces turned iron-blue.
Without another word, they rushed forward.
To give Little Lin another treatment for his madness.
Little Lin laughed wildly.
“Get lost. A bunch of ant-like mortals, how dare you blaspheme my Buddha!”
“This old monk will send you all into the Eighteen-Layered Hell, never to be reborn!”
“Kill, I’ll kill you all!”
“Amitabha, this old monk will hit you!”
The Great Monks trembled with anger, and at one command.
Little Lin’s buttocks suffered calamity again.
……
And just as Little Lin was being beaten.
In Chang’an City.
A family of three also opened their eyes in a daze.
Before they could figure out who I am, where am I, what am I supposed to do.
A Daoist in purple robes came, ordering them to follow him into the palace.
The family of three had no choice but to follow along in a daze into the palace.
They met the newly ascended New Emperor.
The New Emperor seemed to be granting names to two eunuchs.
One was granted the name Qiu Shiliang, the other Yu Hongzhi.
But the two eunuchs were unruly and unconvinced, seemingly not liking the emperor’s names.
“Grand-Master.”
The little girl in the family of three suddenly spoke, calling out to the emperor.
The emperor immediately smiled and beckoned, indicating the little girl to come over, then held her in his arms.
Then again to the two unruly eunuchs.
“Do you two remember your names now?”
The two unruly eunuchs exchanged a glance, and nodded with sullen faces, indicating they remembered.
But they were still very unhappy.
Family, who understands.
Even in a dream, they were being sent to be eunuchs. Which Demon Sage could endure such humiliation.
Lin Qi, that little brat, simply wasn’t human.
“Alright.”
“Since you remember, then go down and do your work.”
“As for you.”
The emperor, no, it should be Lin Qi, waved his hand.
Holding Xiao Ali’s hand, he pondered for a moment, then looked at Wu Ancestor, who was silently playing the role of the minister Li Deyu. “Do you still remember how many princesses Emperor Wuzong of Tang enfeoffed?”
“This humble one does not remember.”
Wu Ancestor answered honestly. “But it’s just some trivial matters. Your Majesty may enfeoff as you please.”
“This Venerable must mirror Earth’s history, and continue the broken path.”
“So I cannot be careless.”
“Forget it.”
“Then let’s not cause complications.”
“You stay in the palace, just don’t let the historians know.”
Lin Qi waved his hand, his gaze burning as he looked toward the direction of Ci’en Temple.
The Huichang Persecution of Buddhism, a period of history recorded in Earth’s annals, engraved in the hearts of the Buddhist order.
Now, the ancient history was unfolding.
The important character Lin Qi was already under control, everyone in place.
Next, it remained to be seen what the young monk Little Lin, transformed from the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata, could do.
……
In Ci’en Temple.
The pitiful Little Lin had received another beating, and was punished to copy Buddhist scriptures before the golden statue of the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata, repenting for his sins.
Little Lin was so angry he wanted to go mad again.
What kind of logic was it for oneself to kneel to oneself, for oneself to repent to one’s own Buddha statue.
But the Great Monks guarding outside the door glared like tigers, the commandment rods in their hands still stained with blood.
Little Lin could only swallow his anger, silently telling himself that a wise man does not fight when the odds are against him, while calming himself to think about what exactly Lin Qi wanted to do.
Could he really be naive enough to think that turning him into a young novice monk with no strength to truss a chicken.
Could wear away his indomitable Dao heart, one that would not perish even if heaven and earth perished, would not rot even if the sun and moon rotted?
Simply wishful thinking.
“Even if you can make the whole world deny this old monk’s existence.”
“But in this old monk’s heart, I know I truly exist.”
“I am Tathagata… ouch, stop hitting, stop hitting.”
“Fuck, you motherfuckers have the guts, then beat me to death!”
Little Lin screamed, wailed.
Before the golden statue of the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata, he did not notice that the clay Buddha statue suddenly blinked, and looked toward the depths of the imperial palace.