My God, I am the emperor, the lord of mankind.

Chapter 211

However, the rebellion only lasted for a year and was put down under the attack of Nanchen and Northern Zhou Dynasty. Xiaozhuang fled to Northern Qi Dynasty.

In the same year, Emperor Chen Wu, Chen Baxian, died of illness in Xuanji Hall at the age of 57.

The imperial edict ordered King Chen Qian of Linchuan to ascend the throne.

Since then, the royal family of the Southern Dynasties changed Emperor Wu Chen Baxian's wary attitude towards Buddhism, and treated the eminent monks of Wanfo Temple with great courtesy. They often used royal property, silk, land, and rewards to temples and monks.

This was true even until the demise of the Southern Dynasty.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the three religions stood side by side, and the status of Buddhism and Taoism became increasingly high. It was valued by rulers of all dynasties, and eminent monks from all over the world were summoned to Beijing to preach sermons from time to time. The sect flourished until a certain "Wuzong" was born, and then it declined.

However, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple has been passed down to this day. Although the Buddha transformation is no longer as frequent as in the past, it is still one of the most prestigious temples in the south.

Seeing the proud expression on the little novice monk in front of him, Wang Zuo on the side shook his head in boredom.

Why does this place become more and more eerie as I look at it——

The young novice wanted to continue explaining to Zhu Houcong the prosperity of Wanfo Temple during its peak period during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but was suddenly interrupted by Zhu Houcong.

Zhu Houcong grabbed the young novice by the shoulders and pulled him out of the Forest of Ten Thousand Buddhas.

The force was so great that there was no room for little novice monks to resist.

"Let's go to the meditation room first -"

After all, your ancestors seem a little unhappy with you staying here for so long.

Zhu Houcong thought as he looked at the golden Buddha statues with different expressions in front of him, either compassionate or angry, and saw that the right eye of the monk holding the Zen staff in front of him had opened slightly, and the hand holding the Zen staff gradually tightened.

"Business matters-"

Zhu Houcong reminded.

Seeing that the expressions of the two people beside him suddenly became a little serious, the young novice thought that the other party was impatient. However, as the Patriarch had summoned him, he could only suppress his overwhelming desire to talk and lead the way.

He didn't see that just as he turned around and left, the postures of some of the silent golden figures of the Patriarch behind him changed quietly and unconsciously.

And he showed a somewhat strange smile at the departing figures of several people.

They stretched out their hands, trying to catch the people leaving in front of them, but a golden stream of fire blocked the way of these living golden bodies.

Blocking their pursuit.

When the footsteps of the three people moved away, silence returned to the woods.

Occasionally, the chirping of birds suddenly stops, and the sound of chewing comes from the darkness. The bamboo forest looks particularly deep under the dim sunlight, but currently, everything seems to be relatively normal.

The ancient temple in front of him was lined with evergreen trees. The door was lightly knocked three times, and the young novice shouted softly into the room.

"Grandmaster...Grandmaster, the guests you invited have arrived."

There was no response from the room for a long time.

There was some confusion on the little novice's face.

He knocked on the door again. Perhaps the ancestor had waited for too long, so he took a nap first and did not hear the call outside the door.

The young novice lay on the door and listened carefully.

There is some dew on the two green pines in front of the ancestor's house, making them look particularly green.

The room was very quiet, and the young novice could hear the sound of water drops falling on the green pine trees at the door and hitting the bluestone slab.

But he couldn't hear the loud snoring that always sounded in the room at noon every day.

Even the sound of breathing disappeared.

The young novice's face instantly turned pale.

He pushed the door hard, but the door in front of him was locked from the inside. Even though the little novice monk tried his best, he still didn't move at all.

"What's wrong?" Wang Zuo asked, realizing something was wrong.

"The Patriarch...the Patriarch's..."

The little novice monk seemed to be frightened. He stammered and couldn't even speak clearly at this time.

“Get out of the way—let me—”

At this time, Zhu Houcong put his hand on his shoulder and comforted him.

Putting him aside for a moment, he then focused his gaze, feeling a familiar aura in the room from Quarry City, inhaling, and kicked out angrily.

The sandalwood door panel in front of him was immediately kicked away neatly by this kick.

The door panel weighing dozens of kilograms hit the ground hard, and the loud noise quickly woke up the monks taking a lunch break around them.

The backyard suddenly became noisy.

But this had nothing to do with the three of them. Zhu Houcong stared into the room.

After seeing the situation in the room clearly, Zhu Houcong's expression suddenly became solemn.

The little novice monk next to him was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.

I saw traces of time all over the quaint room in front of me.

Although the specifications are the highest in the entire temple, the layout inside is extremely simple, with only a table, two chairs, a blanket on the floor, and two futons for meditation.

For a monk of Fa Neng's level, such a living environment is already considered harsh.

But what made a few people lose their composure was not the simplicity in the Fa Neng room, but the figure sitting on the futon, exuding bursts of glazed brilliance, holding the Demon-Conquering Seal and entering into meditation. At this moment, all the hair on his body had fallen, as if Under the crystal-clear skin, bones, blood vessels and internal organs are clearly visible.

Fa Neng's head was slightly lowered, and no matter how much the little novice shouted, there was no response.

"The Patriarch has transformed into a Buddha!"

As the young novice shouted with fear and hesitation, the whole back hall suddenly boiled.

"What! Uncle Master..."

"How could it be! I was fine this morning~"

"Master of Magic!"

"woo woo woo woo!"

Zhu Houcong stood aside and looked at the various life scenes in the Buddhist temple in front of him. For this old man who had witnessed the prosperous age of Hongwu and Yongle with his own eyes, like the Dinghai Shenzhen of Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple, some people were sad, some were hesitant, and some were His face was expressionless, and some people secretly laughed.

But this has little to do with Zhu Houcong.

He carefully looked at the man in front of him. After hearing about the Ming army's quarrying victory, he secretly sent a letter asking the court to send someone to solve the problem of the secret treasures left by Nanliang in the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple and the recent strange phenomena in the Buddhist temple.

And according to what the old monk said, the fact that the sharks have been acting so strangely recently is probably because of the thing in the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple.

As for something that even the Sea Dragon King, who was comparable to the Nascent Soul Monster, could covet so much, Zhu Houcong decided to take action himself.

but……

Zhu Houcong stared at the monk Fa Neng who had "transformed into a Buddha" in front of him.

The expression on his face was very calm, as if he had anticipated his transformation into a Buddha and had made sufficient psychological preparations.

It is a normal and natural death.

But Zhu Houcong knew that this was definitely not the case.

Zhu Houcong knew very well how urgent the tone of the old monk's letter to Qin Tianjian was.

Before waiting for the imperial envoys sent by Qintianjian to help investigate the strange phenomenon in Wanfo Temple, how could he have ignored everything, left everything behind, and actively "transformed into Buddha" and "passed away"?

Are you really that anxious?Can't wait for a moment and want to be reborn in the paradise world?
(End of this chapter)