Chapter 434: The Final Verdict on the Coffin Lid (Part 1)

In the Nine-Rank Bagua Formation, there were Bai Qi, Taoist Mosquito, Princess Jade Emperor, Zhang Guolao, Han Zhongli, Cao Guojiu, Lan Caihe, Han Xiangzi, Laozi's disciples, and the Eight Immortals of the Upper Cave Mansion. Only Tieguai Li, Lü Dongbin, and He Xiangu were left.

Guangchengzi, Chijingzi, Jade Ding Zhenren, Daoxing Tianzun, Taiyi Zhenren, Huanglong Zhenren, Lingbao Xudao Zhenjun also occupied the eight directions, wrapping up the entire formation, leaving only Amitabha Buddha and Zhunti Taoist Western Sect standing on the first-rank lotus platform in the center. It was so lonely that it could no longer take care of the operation of the formation.

After Laozi finished laughing, Yuanshi said: Brother Dao, there is no need to say more, just keep it. After that, he pointed with his hand, and a piece of clear light flew out, a ball as big as an acre, rising slowly, illuminating the formation with a clear color, like flowing water.

After the group of clear light rose, it exploded into eight parts with a click, and rushed towards eight directions, like a meteor chasing the moon.

The formation was originally filled with Buddha light and continuous chanting of Sanskrit. Now it suddenly changed, and a faint blood light surged from the eight directions, followed by gusts of cold wind, angry roars, and it was confirmed that there were millions of evil spirits crying at the same time, which was really scary. The whole formation was noisy, dark and hazy, and the sun was not visible.

Then, the sound of millions of evil spirits crying became louder and louder, and suddenly changed again, with a continuous rumbling sound, as if the sky was collapsing and the earth was splitting, and the void was disintegrating.

Amitabha, Zhunti Taoist saw this and knew that the nine-grade lotus platform was split into eight directions. When breaking the formation, someone sacrificed his life, which was tainted with the cause and effect of killing. Yuanshi used his supreme magic power to urge it, and he was going to break this innate treasure, the nine-grade lotus platform that was the foundation of the religion.

Amitabha roared, and the gate of the spiritual platform opened wide. White air rushed out from the top. There were three white lotuses lined up on top, each of which was an acre in size. In each of the stamens, there was a relic floating up and down, and the white air then scattered in all directions, spreading to the eight gates. The howling wind was dispelled.

Laozi smiled and said: The formation has been broken, and it is in vain. What is the use of doing it? The exquisite pagoda of heaven and earth above his head shot out thousands of heaven and earth black and yellow air, like maggots attached to the bones, one by one, staring at Amitabha's relics.

This heaven and earth black and yellow air condensed, and then split into three strands, shooting directly at the three relics on the top of Amitabha's head.

Amitabha had no choice but to fly out of the relic and fight with Laozi. The two leaders went back and forth in the formation, and the black and yellow white air was everywhere, and the white lotus of the pagoda appeared. After a few rounds, it became more and more intense.

Seeing this, Zhunti Taoist was thinking: If the foundation of the sect is broken today, I am afraid that there will be no good end in the future. He was anxious at the moment. He was furious, and he saw the sound of the collapse of the eight directions of the formation one after another, as if it was about to be crushed into powder. He knew that Yuanshi was going to destroy its foundation. Let the eight disciples of his sect eat lotus flowers from eight directions.

Yuanshi Tianzun, you destroyed the foundation of my sect to save your disciples. It is really cruel. This hatred cannot be eliminated. Zhunti Taoist was furious, and saw Yuanshi shaking Pangu Banner, covering all eight sides. He quickly used all his strength to throw the Seven Treasures Wonderful Yuanshi Tianzun in his hand.

This throw was Zhunti Taoist's anger, hatred, and unparalleled power. He saw the void cut by the seven-colored divine light, and it collapsed with a whizzing sound, and went straight through the formation.

Laozi fought Amitabha, but still had some strength left. He saw Zhunti Taoist throwing the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree at him. But he was prepared and laughed: Now that the formation has been broken, you two should not be in a hurry. Just treat it as the time of the Four Religions and Three Merchants, and sign the List of Conferred Gods. After 5.6 billion years, when the souls are reborn, it is possible to revive the religion. But now, don't think about it.

First, he pointed his hand, and the end of the golden bridge transformed by the Tai Chi diagram suddenly arched up, and the five-color light shone brightly, illuminating the mountains and rivers, blocking the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and fighting it.

After all, the Tai Chi diagram is one of the three great spiritual treasures given by Hongjun. It can determine the earth, sand, water, fire and wind, evolve all living things, and encompass all things. The Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree is inferior, but Laojun is fighting Amitabha, which divides his mind and the true god cannot be condensed from one, so Zhunti Taoist has never suffered any loss.

Laojun fought two leaders alone. Yuanshi waved the Pangu Banner from eight directions. The formation changed again and turned into a blurry chaos.

You can collect the first-grade lotus and refine it into the Yuanshen. You can rely on it to resist the disaster in the future. Don't neglect it. After Yuanshi Tianzun waved the banner, eight lotuses rose up in the chaos, each with its own color and shining brightly.

On the eight lotuses, one person stood, and they were the eight golden immortals of the Chan Sect.

The eight golden immortals all said: "Respect the master's decree." Yuanshi smiled and said: "Today, the lotus platform has been broken, so that the Western sect does not exist at all. It shows that Pangu is authentic." After laughing, Guangchengzi had already sat cross-legged on the lotus. He chanted the mantra.

The white lotus under Guangchengzi was also about an acre in size and had twelve petals. As Guangchengzi silently chanted the true god sound, the white lotus flew from under his body to the top of his head and covered him upside down. It was like a canopy.

As Guangchengzi's heavenly gate opened, two clear lights rose up, staring at the white lotus that was covering it, and then stopped two or three feet above his head.

Then, a purple fairy cloud rushed out from Guangchengzi's mud palace, holding a small Taoist priest, only three feet tall, holding a sword, and rushed up quickly. In an instant, he fell into the pistil of the lotus.

It turned out that Guangchengzi had escaped from his primordial spirit and merged with the Western Dharma instrument.

The other seven golden immortals of the Chan Sect, like Guangchengzi, rushed out of their primordial spirits, and then practiced the mysterious skills to merge with their respective lotuses.

It's over, it's over, what can be done? Amitabha saw lotuses rising from all directions, and the Chan Sect's true immortals had merged with their primordial spirits. Although he was still a fourth-grade person, he was useless. It was useless to fight again, so he sighed and his face became more and more painful.

Amitabha Buddha roared like a lion, and the fourth-grade lotus platform under his feet flashed, and he actually left the formation and went into the city of Zishan.

Seeing this, Zhunti Taoist quickly collected the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and stepped onto the top of Zishan City.

Guanyin Bodhisattva, Manjusri Bodhisattva, Puxian Bodhisattva, Dingguang Happy Buddha, Dipankara Ancient Buddha, Wuchao Zen Master, and many disciples of Shushan, seeing that the situation was not good, all scattered like birds and beasts and went into the city one after another.

Zhunti Taoist stood on the top of the city and saw the army rolling in the distance under the city in the heavy snow. It was very clear that Yuanshi and Laozi had already cleared the formation. The eight golden immortals of the Chan Sect ate the eighth-grade lotus platform and stood on the left and right, staring at them covetously.

In addition, Yun Zhongzi and Xuandu, the eternal golden immortals, were generals.

Zhunti Taoist quickly took out a flag from his arms, which was full of green light and embroidered with a precious lotus. It was one of the five flags, the Qinglian Baose Flag.

When the blue lotus treasure flag was unfurled, twenty-four white rainbows were seen, running from north to south, with blue lotuses on them, and a golden relic hanging in the middle, protecting the city in front of the pass.

Taoist Zhunti took the blue lotus treasure flag to protect the city, and without saying much, he turned around and went down the city.

Seeing this scene, Yuanshi just laughed and said: This is a trick of covering one's ears and stealing the bell, but it's also showing off.

When Li Yuan heard it, he tried to figure out Yuanshi's intention and was about to advance, but was stopped by Master Xuandu, saying: Wait, the two teachers have their own orders.

Yuanshi smiled at Laozi and said: Although the blue lotus treasure flag is the most precious treasure of the five directions, I am the authentic Pangu, and once the big flag moves, it will still turn into dust. Brother, we can go forward and destroy it, so that Li Yuan's troops can enter the South China Sea.

Laozi said with a smile: Today, we have broken his ninth-grade lotus platform, and we have lost the foundation of our religion. His religion is about to be destroyed. Why should we rush for the moment? Besides, the four religions and three merchants are here. After signing the Conferred God List, we can follow the fate and send this sect's disciples to the Conferred God Platform. At that time, he will have no words.

Yuanshi said: Brother Dao is right, but Junior Brother Tongtian has obtained the four swords of Zhuxian, and the formation diagram is unified. I am afraid it will be difficult to break the formation when we attack the sky in the future.

Laozi said with a smile: After the Conferred God List is signed, even if it is you and me, we cannot regret it, let alone Junior Brother Tongtian

Yuanshi said: This time, the three merchants are to make coffin lids, and we cannot neglect them.

At that moment, the two leaders only ordered Li Yuandao: Stop, you first set up the Conferred God Platform in Chang'an City, and then hang the Conferred God List after signing it.

Li Yuan knelt down and said: I dare not disobey the law.

Yuanshi gave the three treasures of jade Ruyi, along with the apricot yellow flag and Pangu banner, to Li Yuan and said: "Once you have accomplished this, you will return to Yuxu and preach to me in the future." Li Yuan hurriedly thanked the heaven for his grace.

Laozi got off the green ox and said with a smile: "I will return to Xuandu first, and we will meet again when the four religions are discussed together."

After that, he floated up to the sky.

Yuanshi also ordered the Four Directions Jiedi to fetch the Nine Dragon Agarwood Chariot, and he also returned to the palace.

At that moment, Li Yuan ordered the green ox and the Xuandu Zhongzi to lead three armies to station, and he brought the Eight Immortals including Guangchengzi, as well as Lu Dongbin, He Xiangu, and Tieguai Li back to Chang'an to build the Fengshen Terrace.

But Li Yuan returned to Chang'an and started to build the Fengshen Terrace. Suddenly, he saw a high platform in the imperial city, with a green jade diamond towering into the clouds and magnificent. I don't know: why waste people's money and energy. It is better to change the name of this platform.

It turns out that this demon-suppressing platform was built by Li Shihao when Zhou Qing suppressed the nine phoenixes and protected Chang'an before he became a Taoist. Now there are no demons to suppress, so it must be abandoned. It is just right to repair it and use it as the Conferred God Platform. It is probably the destiny of heaven. Therefore, there is a section that although Yuan performed the Conferred God, the Conferred God Platform was built by the leader of the Heavenly Dao.

However, the Saha Pure Land was destroyed and turned into dust by the Shura army. The five great kings transformed by Sakyamuni were killed by the hydrangea, and everyone fled to the Western Paradise Pure Land.

I have been operating for thousands of years, performing Hinayana Buddhism, and paying homage to Amitabha Buddha. I didn't expect to suffer a great test today and lose my incarnation. In the final analysis, I am afraid that this Wukong is implicated by me. I think of Zhen Yuanzi, the ancestor of earthly immortals, who met with this disaster and died inexplicably. Now I am also harmed by him and almost lost my life.

Tathagata sat on the lotus platform, his body was fat, his ears were big and drooping, like Maitreya. Although he lost the five great kings, he was still majestic, but he was very uneasy.

At this time, Taoist Wukong, Monkey, and Li Sheng brought Maitreya Buddha in and said: The teacher has returned to the West to preach the Mahayana Dharma. Let's go and see him.

Tathagata secretly said: I don't know how the battle between the two religions and the four saints in front of Zishan Pass will be decided. Then he followed everyone to the Great Leiyin Temple in the West.

I saw that there were pine and cranes in the sky, and orchids and fairy grass were growing everywhere. The killing luck outside was shrouded, but the West Paradise Pure Land was peaceful and peaceful. It was really a pure place.

West Paradise Pure Land, a country of ten billion Buddhas. Three thousand Buddhas, five hundred Arhats, Bodhisattvas and others came to pay respect to Amitabha Buddha.

Seeing that the Buddha sat down, only for the fourth-grade lotus platform, they were all shocked. Li Sheng, Monkey King, and Taoist Wukong were beating wildly in their hearts, secretly saying: My Buddhist sect is in danger.

At that moment, the Buddhas sat down, and Amitabha Buddha said: Hongmeng opened up a great catastrophe. Under the entanglement of cause and effect, the heaven and earth were remade, and the universe returned to the primitive wilderness. Even my Western Paradise is not paradise. Although you have converted to my Buddha, you still cannot be pure, and the killing catastrophe has not been eliminated. You can fight for your own chance of survival and complete your own killing catastrophe before you can be saved.

The Buddhas were shocked and were about to ask what was going on, but Amitabha Buddha had already started to preach the sutra, which was the Amitabha Sutra. In the Hongmeng, there was a flash of lightning, and the great events of pure bliss were performed.

After the Amitabha Sutra was finished, Amitabha said: All my disciples can disperse and finish the killing calamity. After the calamity is over, you can enter Leiyin again.

The Buddhas were shocked, but there was nothing they could do. They had to disperse and leave Leizhang Temple.

All the Buddhas recognized Tathagata. When they saw Tathagata coming here, they asked him one by one. They learned that the Pure Land God Heavenly Court was destroyed by the army of Saha. They were all furious and said: In the past, the Jade Emperor still relied on the door of my Buddha. Even the Pagoda Heavenly King was a disciple of Randeng. Now the yin and yang are reversed, and the hen crows at dawn, which gave rise to disasters.

Hearing that the Buddha of Infinite Life was captured by the Heavenly Dao Sect Leader, he was even more furious.

The Great Sun Tathagata said: When the sky is about to rise, auspicious signs will appear. When the sky is about to fall, evil will appear. Now the killing luck has come, the heaven is in chaos, and the devil has entered, so there is a destiny to destroy the sky in the future. You all also want to finish the killing calamity, so you can think about going to the lower world.

At that moment, all the Buddhas nodded, and the Buddha of Treasure Moonlight said: If a war breaks out, we will definitely go to help.

The Tathagata of Great Sun was overjoyed and said: If a war breaks out in the future, I will personally go to the West Heaven and ask all the Buddhas to come down to the world to finish the killing calamity.

At that moment, all the Buddhas said goodbye, but Monkey King Wukong and Li Sheng went to see the Taoist Zhunti.

The Taoist Zhunti was at Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, and he still gave Wukong the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree and the Guide Treasure Banner. He also said that there was a Blue Lotus Treasure Flag in Zishan City, and you can take it and use it for yourself. Just wait for me to sign the Conferred God List, and then there will be arrangements. Don't act rashly in the meantime.

The three monkeys were overjoyed, and immediately returned to Nanhai County, waiting for the last discussion of the four religions to make the final decision.