Who Let Him Cultivate?!-Chapter 1041 - 1040

Lu Yang made a choked noise, unable to figure out whether his second senior brother was complimenting his looks or saying he was ugly.

"I noticed you arrived in Western Heaven City during New Year’s Eve, and I thought of finding you, but little did I expect that junior brother, you surely can run, in the blink of an eye you were gone."

"I thought you had left Western Heaven City long ago, but it turns out you were right here in the Western Paradise Temple."

Ye Zijin was quite surprised to see Lu Yang. That someone at the mid-stage of Spirit Transformation could hide for so long in the Western Paradise Temple without being discovered by anyone.

"I got lucky, I had the Green Peak Sword to cover for me," Lu Yang said with a sheepish smile. There were quite a few practitioners at the Body Integration Realm in Western Paradise Temple, and it would have been difficult for him to hide until now on his own.

"The Green Peak Sword? Is that the same Immortal Sword that master shamelessly begged from Eldest Senior Sister, and she wouldn’t give it to him?"

"Yes, that’s right, second senior brother, I heard you’ve been in Buddha Country all along, how come you never came back?"

"Well, I accidentally offended someone, so Eldest Senior Sister suggested that I go to Buddha Country for training, and at the same time, I should look for clues about Time Immortal."

Lu Yang was astonished, "Who did you offend that even Eldest Senior Sister couldn’t protect you?"

"Eldest Senior Sister."

"..."

Second senior brother, you’ve been exiled, haven’t you?

Lu Yang still remembered when he was young and ignorant, he rashly inquired about Eldest Senior Sister’s age, and as a result, she banished him to the frontier to fight Demon Beasts and forge the Invincible Elixir.

"Clues about Time Immortal?"

"Eldest Senior Sister noticed that every year during New Year, the Nian Beast always comes from the west, travels around the world, and ends its journey in the west. There are legends that the Nian Beast is an Immortal Beast nurtured by the Time Immortal, so Eldest Senior Sister suspects that there are clues left by Time Immortal in Buddha Country."

Lu Yang’s expression was odd; this was truly a coincidence. He had come to Western Heaven City due to the Nian Beast as well, only he didn’t know where the Nian Beast had flown off to after dropping him here.

"Now that you mention it, coming to Buddha Country really did broaden my horizons; the paths of cultivation are all different from ours in Great Xia."

"The main practice here is that of Buddhist Cultivators, and what they value most is the Grand Aspiration Practice Method."

"Usually, once they reach the Nascent Soul Stage, Buddhist Cultivators will make a grand vow to promote Buddhist teachings, and the specific nature of the vow varies between individuals. The more important the vow is for the Buddhist teachings, the more power of Incense and Fire they will receive."

"The simplest and most common grand vow is to create a Golden Body for Buddha, which is why you always run into monks seeking alms; they are all trying to use the wealth collected from alms to create a Golden Body for Buddha and fulfill their grand vow."

Regarding the Grand Aspiration Practice Method, Lu Yang had learned some from Master Duanchen of Kaihuang Temple, but it wasn’t as detailed as what his second senior brother was explaining.

"I have seen that the temples in Buddha Country are full of smoke and miasma, and the monks are not well-cultivated. The Elders of Western Paradise Temple are even worse; they would fight after barely exchanging a few words upon seeing me, having violated the precept against anger."

"Hence, I made a grand vow to help the Elders of Western Paradise Temple renounce their pride, restlessness, and anger through my influence, to raise their state of mind to a higher level, so they might be more emotionally stable when they see me."

"I figure that by the time I fulfill my grand vow, the power of Incense and Fire I’ll receive should be enough to help me reach the stage of Transcendance Tribulation. I’m just not sure which stage of Transcendance Tribulation it will take me to."

Like how Master Duanchen made a grand vow for the prosperity of the Kaihuang Temple’s Incense, which had precedents, and upon fulfillment, enabled him to reach the Void Refinement Stage—Ye Zijin had no such precedent for his grand vow, so he could only make a rough estimate.

Lu Yang thought to himself that his senior brother’s grand vow seemed a bit too ambitious, could it actually be fulfilled?

"Wait a minute, senior brother, you’re not a monk, how can you use the Grand Aspiration Practice Method?"

Is there no restriction on this Grand Aspiration Practice Method?

"Who said I’m not a monk?" Ye Zijin removed his wig in one swift motion, revealing a bald head with nine precept marks.

"You think I was pretending to be Kong Xing just now?"

"I am a monk registered in Buddha Country’s records." Saying that, Ye Zijin put on a wig and took out a fake identity document, along with a series of counterfeit items meant to verify his identity.

Buddha Country doesn’t focus on the law, so Ye Zijin had no psychological burden when making forgeries, doing so with great ease.

"Of course, registering and shaving your head are just superficial actions. What’s most important is that you must have Buddha in your heart." After Ye Zijin chanted ’Amitabha Buddha,’ he really looked like an enlightened monk who, if he actually went out and swindled people, would certainly fool each and every one of them.

"Buddha in your heart?"

Inside the Spiritual Space, Immortal Fairy was rolling around on the bed with a pillow, completely devoid of any dignity. Hearing Ye Zijin’s words piqued her interest.

"I am right here in your heart, Little Yang, so you’re the most orthodox Buddhist cultivator there is."

The Worldly Venerable living in the Spiritual Space was teaching day and night. There was no Buddhist cultivator more orthodox than Lu Yang.

"Plus, you’ve learned the Playing Dead Technique from me, so you are my disciple. All the Buddhist cultivators in the world should address you as the patriarch when they see you."

Seeing that Little Yang had such a status, Immortal Fairy felt happy for Lu Yang.

Lu Yang’s eyelid twitched. Fairy’s words sounded right, but he felt there was something off about them.

"I’ve been in Buddha Country for so many years and discovered a great secret that Buddha Country has always been hiding." Ye Zijin spoke with an air of mystery.

"What great secret?"

"You know Abbot Master Mingyu, right? The outside world always thought he was at the peak of the Pass Tribulation, but in fact, he has a Dao Fruit Outline and is a Semi-Immortal!"

"Oh, so what’s the great secret?"

Ye Zijin was full of question marks, not understanding why his junior brother was reacting so nonchalantly to the revelation about a Semi-Immortal, something that the world did not know of.

"Actually, I have also found a clue that might have something to do with Time Immortal." Ye Zijin had no choice but to bring up another matter.

"Where?"

"In the Mahavira Hall of Western Paradise Temple, I suspect there might be a magic artifact left by Time Immortal. Unfortunately, the Mahavira Hall is tightly guarded, and I can’t sneak in," Ye Zijin confidently said.

"Fairy, is there a problem with the Mahavira Hall?"

Immortal Fairy immediately spread her Immortal Sense to envelop the Mahavira Hall quietly, without triggering any Array Methods.

"There’s no problem at all, it’s just a bit bigger than the ones I make."

"Any other clues?"

"The Scripture Pavilion also has issues. It’s rumored that the first floor of the Scripture Pavilion hides many opportunities, such as the Worldly Venerable’s Enlightenment Vision Diagram. Time Immortal’s magic artifact might be hidden there. Tonight, I secretly infiltrated the Scripture Pavilion to find out, but before I could find anything, I got caught by an Elder who was sweeping the floor!"

Lu Yang had heard Immortal Fairy describe the Enlightenment Vision Diagram before; it was just a vague image of Buddha under the Bodhi Tree, nothing special, and not as useful as directly contemplating the Yingtian Immortal. As for the other stuff, although it may count as a chance encounter, it’s not necessarily linked to Time Immortal.

Not to mention the first floor of the Scripture Pavilion, even the entire building, Immortal Fairy had not found anything valuable.

"Anything else?"

"There’s one last clue. Western Paradise Temple has a Secret Realm that only Master Ming Yu knows of. Every year he organizes monks in the Qi Cultivation Stage to enter a certain Secret Realm. No one knows what’s inside, and the monks who go in all lose their memory. That Secret Realm might have something left by Time Immortal."