Myriad Paths

Emperor Tuocheli is a fourth-grade demon king.

Now he is dying.

Another fourth-level madman is chasing him, and he can't beat him!

This madman suddenly appeared from the city he controlled. He should have suddenly broken through from the fifth level to the fourth level. Generally speaking, this kind of character will become his appetite.

Emperor Tuo Zheli is a very powerful fourth-grade man. It stands to reason that very few wild fourth-grade men can survive a single move in his hands. Even if he is a fourth-grade man from the Great Dao Tong of the world, only ten at most can be equal to him. Just one or two.

However, when he used his magical power, he was caught off guard.

Can't beat it!

How the hell could this happen? A wild fourth-level man, who has just broken through, can chase him and kill him?

What are you doing? Which powerful person is this reincarnation?

But no matter what Tuozhelidi thought, the fourth-grade man in front of him was obviously very powerful, and he had already been chasing him to another dream city.

However, Emperor Tuochele breathed a sigh of relief when he arrived.

Here, there is a third-grade person in charge. No matter how strong the fourth-grade person is, he won’t be able to win against the third-grade one, right? It was many, many billions of years ago that there was a genius known as the Demon Prince.

It is said that he is in the fourth rank and dominates the heavens. No fourth rank can defeat him, even if he is surrounded and killed.

But even such a person cannot fight against the third grade.

The higher the grade, the greater the gap.

The gap between the third grade and the fourth grade is larger than the gap between the fourth grade and the ninth grade.

Emperor Tuo Zheli was relieved.

Sure enough, the third grade took action. This third grade here...he remembered that he was from the lineage of Wuyun Demon, directly subordinate to Yin Demon, and his name was Fu Zang.

Fu Zang took action, demonic shadows surged, the world around him began to shake, and countless "whispers" began to appear in the ears of all living beings.

Spoken out of the mouth are hundreds of thousands of billions of nayutha asamkhya words, so-called words that are not pleasant, are not good words, are not pleasant words, are not lovely words, are not benevolent words, are not words of holy wisdom, are not words corresponding to saints, and are not words close to saints. , I deeply hate the disgusting words and cannot bear to hear them, so I use my words to insult them.

However, at this time, a protector god suddenly arrived.

The body is black and blue, in a squatting position, with the devil's feet on it. It has two sides, one with two arms, and both arms hold a staff. The other side holds a yue knife in the right hand and a Gabala bowl in the left hand.

This outfit is that of Mahakala.

Fu Zang immediately turned around and left.

Mahakala is the protector of the Dharma, and his killing power is extremely powerful among the third-level gods. Even ordinary third-level gods are difficult to resist.

This dream city was also shattered.

Emperor Tuozheli was also destroyed instantly.

At this time, the shadow of the evil demon appeared in the sky.

Mahakala immediately prepared to run away like Fu Zang.

However, Li Qi's dharma body also appeared here.

So, Yin Mo just glanced at it and left. He was not prepared to have a head-on conflict with Li Qi, at least not now.

The matter ended just like that, and a large dream city with a third-level city was destroyed.

Mahakala then bowed to Li Qi and said, "I have seen Zhizhu."

Li Qi looked at the Mahakala in front of him and couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

Not only the gap in status, but also the gap in impressions of Mahakala.

The Mahakala he met back then was a ferocious protector, powerful, ferocious and domineering, and Li Qi had once obtained the demon blood in his hands, so he had a relationship with him.

But after the Buddha died...

It is said that a long time ago, when the Buddha had just entered nirvana, when the enemy troops were about to kill the temple protected by Mahakala, all the pandits and monks fled after hearing the news, and Mahakala also fled with a sugarcane stick on his shoulders. Deep forest.

At that time, a monk asked: "Dharma Protector, you are the Dharma Protector who is entrusted by Vajradhara and is worshiped by the monks at all times. You can protect the Dharma and punish those who destroy the Dharma. How can you run away in such a panic for such a big event?"

At that time Mahakala replied: "The karma has matured and I have no choice. When the time is ripe, I will naturally avenge you."

After saying that he ran away.

Li Qi heard that not long after, Mahakala took action and killed the humane general who burned the Buddhist temple. He personally ended the life of the person who burned the Landa temple, threw his body in front of the pandits and said: " Take off their skin and make a statue that looks exactly like me. This statue is indistinguishable from me.”

How should I put it, Li Qi was a little unable to hold himself tight.

When encountering an opponent stronger than him, Mahakala runs away in a hurry, but when the time comes, he will ruthlessly take revenge on mortals, which is really shameless.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the existence of such Dharma protectors, such Arhats and even great Bodhisattvas that the World Honored One Tathagata finally chose the Buddha's annihilation.

"Then, let's continue." Li Qi nodded slightly and said to Mahakala.

Even so, Mahakala is indeed professional in exterminating demons, so there is no harm in using him now.

In addition to Mahakala, the ‘Kindian’ is also functioning normally.

The person who broke through the fourth level and hunted down Emperor Tuo Zheli was the person who opened the palace.

Just after the city of dreams was shattered, a large number of people floated out of the void. These were the people Li Qi summoned. They immediately started working and carried out rescue in an orderly manner.

In addition, other places in the universe are also beginning to re-disseminate 'Buddhism'.

However, these Buddhist teachings have been screened. Li Qi has no intention of reinventing Buddhism. Don’t mention it.

The resources of Qidian were fully demonstrated at this moment.

A large number of manpower, each carrying abundant resources, slowly eliminated the traces of the Demon Dao Dream City in this universe according to Li Qi's arrangement.

The demon-killing operation is slowly proceeding, and it seems that the time for the Demon Dao to react should be soon.

But Li Qi has also made preparations.

Time passed little by little, and soon about fifteen years passed.

Fifteen years is indeed a very short period of time, which is almost fleeting for the second rank.

And after such a short time, Maudgalyayana also brought good news to Li Qi.

He contacted Avalokitesvara, the attendant Bodhisattva of Amitabha.

And Avalokitesvara also agreed to meet with Li Qi.

This made Li Qi very happy, and he almost immediately put down the things in his hands and rushed over.

On the way, he was also constantly learning some things about Avalokitesvara, so that he could communicate well with the other party, hoping to reach an agreement to kill the demon.

Why is Avalokitesvara named Avalokitesvara?

If there are countless hundreds of thousands of millions of sentient beings who suffer from various troubles, and hear the name of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, and chant the name with one heart, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva will immediately hear their voices and they will all be liberated, so he is called "Avalokitesvara".

This is his great supernatural power. Avalokitesvara can hear the round light of the ten directions and pervade the ten directions.

The Buddhist verse says: Wonderful voice of Avalokitesvara, the sound of Sanskrit and the sound of the sea tide, is better than the sound of the world, so we must always recite it.

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva is also a supernatural power, and is good at saving the world with great supernatural powers, so people often recite his name, because he can hear every recitation.

The compassionate Bodhisattva, as long as the sentient beings in distress chant his name, the Bodhisattva will immediately hear their voices and go to save and liberate them.

This is because Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva once made a great vow that if there are sentient beings suffering from various troubles and terrors, if they can remember themselves and chant the name of Avalokitesvara, they will be freed from such suffering and troubles.

Therefore, Amitabha and Guanyin Bodhisattva are the most famous "Buddha names". Monks like to recite them whenever they have something to do, and even ordinary people like to recite them.

Like Amitabha, people recite his name just to seek his protection.

Monks like the Buddha and Bodhisattva of the same lineage of supernatural powers the most, because as long as they recite their names, they can get benefits, so their names are praised.

But is this really what the Tathagata wants?

The more Li Qi understands Buddhism, the more he feels the situation faced by the Tathagata.

Imagine...

When a person says "Buddha", is he thinking of the Tathagata or "himself"?

If he thinks of the Tathagata when he says "Buddha", then Buddhism is not Buddhism, and all the Buddhism that the Tathagata has obtained has become a worldly shackle.

Buddhism is not supernatural power.

Buddhism pursues "enlightenment", and "Buddha" means the enlightened.

Why can't the enlightened be themselves, but must be a great supernatural power?

When all sentient beings think that others are the enlightened ones, and others are the "Buddha", then... it is indeed time for the Buddha to die.

Thinking about this, Li Qi finally arrived at the current dojo of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.

But he saw countless precious lights, pouring down on the dust in the ten directions.

The forests, trees, and ponds all played the Dharma sound, and the light intertwined like a precious silk net. This was unprecedented for all the people, and all of them obtained the Vajra Samadhi. At that time, the sky rained hundreds of precious lotus flowers, blue, yellow, red, and white, intertwined and mixed, and the ten directions of the void became seven treasure colors. Only the dust lands in the ten directions were seen to merge into one world, and the Buddhist chants were sung.

Li Qi looked around, and then saw Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva in front of him.

Sitting cross-legged, with a plump and dignified appearance, a gentle and elegant demeanor, wearing a jeweled crown on his head, wearing a heavenly robe, sitting on a cattail leaf seat and a lotus stamen, with his hands clasped in front of his chest, and twenty hands raised on each side of the left and right. In the forty raised hands, they held Dharma instruments such as the sun, the moon, the pure bottle, the vajra, and the Qiankun belt.

Li Qi carefully looked at the Avalokitesvara in front of him.

Then, he sighed: "So... Bodhisattvas are also like this."

The reason for this sigh is that Li Qi clearly saw the infinite "response body" of Avalokitesvara.

The upper Avalokitesvara, manifested by the Samadhi of the universal manifestation of the color body, has thirty-three bodies.

It is also called the "thirty-three Avalokitesvara".

The thirty-three Avalokitesvara are not various images, but different appearances of Avalokitesvara himself. Thirty-three is actually a classification of imaginary numbers, and there are far more than thirty-three bodies.

Moreover, these "bodies" are also different. Simply count them, there are the body of the voice-hearer, the body of the Brahma king, the body of the self-reliant god, the body of the general, the body of the Vaiśravaṇa, the body of the small king, the body of the elder, the body of the householder, the body of the Upasaka, the body of the boy, the body of the girl, the body of the celestial being, the body of the dragon, the body of the Yaksha, the body of the Gandharva, the body of the Asura, the body of the Garuda, the body of the Kinnara, the body of the Mahoraga, the body of the Vajrapani, the body of the animal, and so on.

This is not a transformation technique, but a real ‘body’. These different bodies are actually ‘independent’.

Completely independent, all minds exist independently, there is no entity at all, all faces are her entity.

This is actually very similar to Li Qi’s form.

Li Qi is like this now.

His countless fragments, like Guanyin’s ‘33 bodies’, are all independent, and when they are combined, they are still independent.

How to say it... It should be difficult for mortals to understand.

For mortals, a person’s body is a unified whole, so the soul should also be unified.

However, for great supernatural powers like Li Qi and Guanyin, their minds and souls are never unified, and they may not even have "commonalities".

Mortals often observe the world and themselves through very naive, simplified, and lies-filled colored glasses, especially when observing themselves.

But in fact, even mortals are not like this.

Because on the surface, all people seem to have an innate and inevitable need. They must imagine themselves as a whole, so that they can maintain their own consistency and will not have the shakes of "I am me".

Although this kind of enthusiasm is often shaken by huge shocks, it can always recover as before.

It's like a person and his companions standing on the sky tower, staring at the abyss below. At a certain moment, he found that he had the feelings, abilities and possibilities of a murderer in his heart.

He would want to push his companions down, or jump down himself.

But this thought will only appear for a moment, and the sense of division will only last for a moment. He will soon become a whole again, a rational person again, turn back to his own body, and control his behavior.

Few ordinary people realize that they are actually composed of multiple properties, and it is difficult for them to get rid of the illusion of unity.

They cannot perceive that they are actually composed of many selves.

If they consciously feel this separation, they may be locked up and diagnosed with schizophrenia to prevent them from doing bad things.

But no one is a pure monomer, not even the most naive and childish people. Each "I" is a very complex world, a small starry sky, a chaotic kingdom composed of countless chaotic forms, stages and conditions, heredity and possibilities.

Everyone strives to see this chaotic kingdom as a single whole, and the tone when talking about the self gives people an illusion that the self is simple, fixed, and has clear outlines.

However, after admitting that consciousness and the universe itself are chaos...

Just like Li Qi and Guanyin Bodhisattva, they have realized the complexity of themselves and even the entire universe.

The universe has never been simple, and a single thing can be described, just as they themselves are not the same.

"I never thought that Guanyin Bodhisattva would have the nature of Taiyi." Li Qi looked at Guanyin Bodhisattva and said so.

Guanyin Bodhisattva also responded: "Witches... believe that the world is contradictory, which is rare."