"It's dark for Master, and the Buddhist temples in Chang'an City have been banned by His Royal Highness. Where will we stay tonight?" Jia Shang's meaning was very clear. Should we go back to Xiao Mansion now?

After hearing this, Xuanzang sat cross-legged and looked up at the Heavenly Dao, "We will recite the scriptures here tonight in the weather!" After that, he closed his eyes and chanted in his mouth, "There is no Bodhi tree, and the mirror is not a platform..."

Several other monks looked at Xuanzang's behavior and didn't know what to do. When they heard Jia Shang's question just now, they had already thought of a place in their hearts.

Pu Guang hesitated and said directly, "Master's place is not far from Duke Xiao's mansion..."

Upon hearing this, Xuanzang stopped chanting the scriptures, looked up at the sky, then looked at the disciple standing beside him and asked, "What is Buddha?"

After saying that, Xuanzang looked up at the sky again.

"Buddha……"

Several disciples looked at each other and didn't know what to say?

After a while, Xuanzang looked at the dusk sky and said, "Buddha is everywhere!"

Jia Shang was stunned when he heard this, and his eyes lit up, "Master and disciple understand. Your Highness the Crown Prince tells us today not to be too attached to external objects. All Buddha statues in temples are external objects."

Xuanzang nodded slightly when he heard this, then closed his eyes and stopped talking.

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The next afternoon, Li Chengqian summoned Xuanzang at the Chongjiao Hall.

Li Chengqian looked at Xuanzang's face with a faint smile and said, "Master Xuanzang has been very busy these two days. The Lonely King sent someone to invite you yesterday, so it was only now that I had time to see the Lonely King."

Xuanzang's face was calm and said, "It's not because I am busy, but because His Majesty summoned me in the morning."

Li Chengqian nodded and asked, "When King heard that Your Majesty asked you to return to the secular world and become an official, why don't you?

Upon hearing this, Xuanzang closed his hands together, lowered his head and said expressionlessly, "I am dedicated to the Buddha and return to secular life."

Xuanzang thought Li Chengqian would also force him to return to secular life and become an official, so he acted like a favoritist.

Seeing this, Li Chengqian chuckled and said, "It is indeed admirable for the monk to pay homage to Buddha. However, the Lone King heard that Buddhism emphasizes saving all living beings. I wonder if monks have the wish to save all living beings?"

Xuanzang was stunned, and then showed an excited look, but soon he calmed down again, and his face was still calm and said, "Although I have this wish, I am just a low-powered person, and I am afraid I will not be able to take on this great task."

Li Chengqian looked at Xuanzang and said, "The monk really has nothing good. If you borrow a word from Confucius, you should give up halfway, but you have not done it yet..."

This is what Confucius taught his disciple Ran Qiu to do and those who are not strong enough will be abandoned. Now you paint.

Xuanzang was knowledgeable and talented, naturally knew that Li Chengqian was using the words of the Analects of Confucius, so he calmly used a sentence from Mencius, saying, "I don't know if the prince's palace wanted the poor monk to take Mount Tai to surpass the North Sea or to break branches for the elders."

This is what Mencius advised King Hui of Liang, meaning that I really can't do it by carrying Mount Tai to Beihai, but I can do it like breaking a branch for the old man.

Li Chengqian smiled confidently and said, "Even if the Lone King is threatening Mount Tai to surpass Beihai, it will be done by the Lone King and the imperial ministers. The monk just needs to do some small things to break branches for the elders."

Xuanzang did not hesitate after hearing this, folded his hands together and bowed his head and said, "I am willing to serve His Highness the Crown Prince."

Li Chengqian smiled and nodded and said, "It's so good! Master, please sit down."

After hearing this, Xuanzang thanked him and sat down on the chair on the right side of the hall.

Li Chengqian gave a wink at the little eunuch Liu Kui, who was beside him. Liu Kui hurriedly picked up the "Legend of Heaven and Earth" of the case and handed it to Xuanzang.

Xuanzang took the book cover with both hands and raised his head, looking at Li Chengqian and wondering what he meant?

Li Chengqian looked at Xuanzang with a smile and said, "This is the master who has retrieved a sutra from India and the king of the Lonely King has found someone to translate it. Master first read it and preach it well in the future!"

Xuanzang looked happy when he heard this, and held the book in his hands and thought to himself that the prince was indeed a person with deep Buddha nature.

Thinking of this, I quickly looked down and read it. I just looked through a few pages and found that the content was very different from the Buddhist scriptures.

Xuanzang was proficient in Sanskrit and he retrieved the scriptures, although he had not translated them into Chinese, he had already read them well. What is certain is that there was absolutely no book given to him by Li Chengqian.

Xuanzang raised his head and looked at Li Chengqian in confusion and said, "Your Highness, the words in this book seem to be different from Buddhist scriptures."

Li Chengqian still smiled and said, "Master, this is also a scripture to save people."

Xuanzang didn't know what Li Chengqian was going to do, or he was not sure what Li Chengqian wanted. Hearing this, he showed a calm smile and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince thought he was bullied by a villain. This is a strange power and chaos. How can he call it a scripture to save people?"

Li Chengqian looked at Xuanzang's face gradually becoming stern, and knew that the monk's Buddhist theory was profound. If he only reasoned with him, he would probably not submit.

"Strange power and chaos?

Do you think the Lone King doesn’t know what the Buddha is?

Which of the eighteen levels of hell that you Buddhism talk about is not a strange power and a mess of gods?”

"Uh..." Xuanzang was speechless all of a sudden.

"You said that the Eighteen Hells are Buddhist scriptures, and the Lonely King said that the supreme heaven and earth are the Jade Emperor in the sky and the Emperor in the earth are the strange powers and chaos gods?"

Yes, this "Legend of Heaven and Earth" was adapted by Li Chengqian with the help of a novel of the prehistoric Hunyuan in later generations, but the central idea is to classify the two emperors of each religion, and the two emperors are the imperial emperors of the Jade of the Heavenly Court.

The upper part of each religion in heaven must be granted by the Jade Emperor to be protected by the fortune of heaven and earth, and the upper part of the earth must be granted by the emperor to be preached to the human world. Moreover, each religion must pay tribute to the heaven and the court on time.

This is a subordinate relationship, and Buddhism has always relied on its own as a monk who thinks he is a foreigner, and is obscene to the Chinese emperor and the imperial court's government orders.

Most ordinary people and even most officials are respectful to monks because Buddhism controls the cause and effect of the 18th level of hell in the past life. In order to cultivate the next life, they always turn a blind eye to their illegal and disorderly behavior.

But if Xuanzang preached according to Li Chengqian's scripture, then Buddhism would have no capital to confront the court in the future.

After a few questions from Li Chengqian, Xuanzang had already understood Li Chengqian's intentions. In the past few days, he also learned about Li Chengqian's practices, such as Li Chengqian's use of propaganda to suppress Buddhism, rather than just giving orders to suppress Buddhism like the former court.

Xuanzang looked at Li Chengqian and he could confirm that Li Chengqian really wanted to use Buddhism and him, but once he fulfilled Li Chengqian's intention, the Buddhism would disappear from the Tang Dynasty, and he was the sinner of Buddhism.

Xuanzang stood up calmly and put the "Legend of Heaven and Earth" in his hand on the chair where he sat, then walked to the center of the hall, folded his hands together and bowed to Li Chengqian solemnly, "Thank you for your kindness in the palace, but I can't understand this scripture, so I'm afraid it will be difficult to complete the task of preaching the scriptures."

As he said that, he turned around and walked out without waiting for Li Chengqian to say anything.

Li Chengqian's face turned pale. Xuanzang was the second person who had spoken to him and turned around and left since he traveled through time. The first one was Changsun Wuji, who was now walking to Hainan Island.

"The scriptures that monk and your mother have returned are all in the Eastern Palace!" Li Chengqian reminded Xuanzang coldly.

Xuanzang paused after hearing this and went out of the hall gate.
Chapter completed!