Chapter 802

Chapter 802: The Great World of Buddhist Cultivation

Lingjing Star, Wanfa Temple

The Buddhist cultivation of Lingjing Star, reaching the level of Arhat, will all return to Wanfa Temple to practice here, hoping to advance to the Bodhisattva level, overcome the heavenly tribulation, and finally go to Ling Star to enjoy ultimate bliss.

The chief Bodhisattva of Wanfa Temple, Bodhisattva Kongyan, saw many Bodhisattvas arriving and smiled and nodded at them, radiating a holy light.

"Bodhisattva Kongyan, I heard that Arhat Huangyuan has fallen. Do you know the details?"

"Yes, Arhat Huangyuan went to the Eastern Star Domain to teach the Dharma and was ambushed by evil forces. He has fallen, and his true spirit has been extinguished."

"Eastern Star Domain?"

"Bodhisattva Kongyan, we have explored the Eastern Star Domain for many years, but we have not found any small worlds there."

"The Buddha Lord has said there are three hundred great realms and three thousand small realms in the world. In our Lingjing World, the teachings of our Buddha are only about thirty thousand years old, and it is normal not to have discovered anything after entering the Star Domain so soon. Now that small worlds are appearing, we should praise the Dharma of our Buddha…"

Bodhisattva Kongyan spoke softly, saying that Lingjing Star was not originally a place of Buddhist cultivation. The Buddhist cultivation was brought by outsiders who took thousands of years to transform all the beings of Lingjing Star into Buddhist cultivators, and that is all.

After resting for over twenty thousand years, Lingjing Star has become prosperous today, with hundreds of arhats and dozens of bodhisattvas. Then, Lingjing Star began to explore the surrounding areas to find more small worlds to spread the teachings of Buddhism.

"Bodhisattva Kongyan, since Arhat Huangyuan has confirmed that other worlds exist in the Eastern Star Domain, we should go and teach the Dharma. Our Buddha is compassionate, and most beings in the world are evil and dirty. We should let the Buddha’s light shine upon everyone, bathing the people and guiding them to goodness."

"Good, then Bodhisattva Puxiang will go to investigate. If the traces of the small worlds are confirmed, we can report back. I will bring many monks from Lingjing World to the Eastern Star Domain to teach the Dharma."

Bodhisattva Kongyan said, and another Bodhisattva, Puxiang, quickly joined his hands together in respect and accepted the mission from Bodhisattva Kongyan.

The other bodhisattvas around were also delighted. Buddhist cultivation is slightly different from other practices; in addition to normal cultivation, it places great importance on incense and prayer power. This power comes from countless beings believing in the Buddha’s teachings, so Buddhist cultivation also values the number of beings under its care.

This has led to another saying: fortune. For Buddhism to thrive, it must spread the teachings and compete for territories. The larger the territory, the stronger the fortune, so they must continuously seize territories.

Now that the Buddhist sect of Lingjing World has discovered that there are also worlds in other Star Domains, once they succeed, the fortune of Lingjing World’s Buddhist sect will greatly increase. Individually, they will benefit significantly as well.

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Year 7620 of the Blue Star Xia calendar.

In the blink of an eye, seventy years have passed since the Cape III Buddhist cultivation event; during these seventy years, Lin Jiang has completed the management of Huaxia society.

Firstly, resources were concentrated to build ten Space Fleets, each consisting of one Space Mother Ship, three Space Battleships, six Space Destroyers, ten Space Scout Ships, and some matching space vehicles.

At the same time, there were significant breakthroughs in technology; the long-stagnant nuclear fusion technology has finally matured. Research on nuclear fusion had stopped for a long time because the energy produced by nuclear fusion was not as strong as spiritual energy, which is the highest level of energy discovered so far.

Now, due to the pressure of war, Huaxia has restarted the research on nuclear fusion and has put in a lot of effort to break through and perfect the technology. The main use of nuclear fusion is to replace the consumption of spiritual energy on Blue Star, allowing as much spiritual energy as possible to be used in space.

For this reason, Lin Jiang will also provide technical support to Qingyun, Zhou Liao, the Five Nations Alliance, and Ying Continent, enabling them to save their spiritual energy.

Besides nuclear fusion, there have also been technological breakthroughs in quantum communication. The latest space immigration mother ship will place quantum communication relay devices between Jiang Star and Blue Star. Once the setup is completed, the communication time between Jiang Star and Blue Star will be reduced by more than ten times, greatly improving communication efficiency.

At the same time, the Interstellar Teleportation Array has laid down ten more, reducing the flight distance between Blue Star and Jiang Star by another hundred billion kilometers. The travel distance between the two places is now less than six light-years. Additionally, the second batch of resources from Jiang Star has been delivered back to Blue Star, and the third batch is on its way.

Achieving all this has exhausted most of Blue Star’s current resource reserves, and even Huaxia has been drained by Lin Jiang. Unless Lin Jiang is willing to let Blue Star starve millions of people, there is no way forward; they can only rely on time and accumulate little by little.

"We have officially reconciled with the demon race. The Tianya Mountain Base on Fangzhang Continent will be dismantled within three months. The remaining human beings on Fangzhang Continent must either retreat to the small islands at the edge of Shen Continent or fend for themselves."

Cao Ying walked over to Lin Jiang and said, "To cooperate with the demon race, both sides need to show some sincerity. The sincerity of the demon race is shown by the Shenwu Demon Emperor leading a group of Demon Emperors to Cape III Planet to help guard it, while the sincerity of the human race is to give up one-third of the remaining land on Fangzhang Continent."

There are many scattered islands on the edge of Shen Continent. Most of these islands are controlled or abandoned by the demon race. The remaining one-third of the human tribe on Fangzhang Continent can move to these islands. If the islands are not enough, then they must find their own way.

"The Shenwu Demon Emperor has arrived at Cape III Planet, right?"

"He arrived a few days ago. The garrison at Cape III has already informed us, and the Demon Queen wants more information about Lingjing Star."

"Give her the language information about Lingjing Star; there’s not much else."

Lin Jiang said, "From Arhat Huangyuan’s memories, I organized the language of Lingjing Star. This information is not very complete, but after studying it, basic communication should be fine."

Now the leaders of Huaxia have all learned the language of Lingjing Star, and there are experts researching it. They can infer a lot from their language.

"Uncle, has Xia Qingshan not shown up again?"

"No, the more he reveals, the more nervous he becomes. He wouldn’t dare to appear easily."

Lin Jiang said loudly, not worried at all that Xia Qingshan might overhear him. At first, he thought Xia Qingshan was impressive, but now it seemed Xia Qingshan wasn’t so great. In their level, not only was his strength weak, but his character had flaws too. Without the mystery surrounding him, Xia Qingshan was just ordinary.

"I really wonder when those Buddhist cultivators will appear, and if we can find their hideout."

"Soon, if nothing unexpected happens, it will come quickly. After all, it has already been seventy years. In interstellar war, seventy years is not long. As for the Buddhist cultivation world, Lingjing Star, the research institute has already identified a Star Domain, located to the west of Cape III, about one hundred light years away. With our current technology, it would be very difficult to launch a counterattack; the distance is too far."

Lin Jiang said, one hundred light years, traveling at one-tenth the speed of light, they would need to fly for one thousand years to arrive. Unless they can truly break through space jumping, it would be too hard to transport troops to Lingjing Star in such a long time, especially since they couldn’t even reach one-tenth the speed of light yet.

"One hundred light years, I wonder how those monks managed it. Does Huangyuan have any memory of such secret methods?"

"Yes, but they are invisible. They have precautions in their legacy. Just searching memories won’t help, as it involves the power of rules. Xia Qingshan doesn’t want to teach it; otherwise, we could achieve it too."

Lin Jiang said, in this area, Buddhist cultivators were much stronger than they were. It involved the use of some powers of rules. If Xia Qingshan was willing to teach, they could do it too, but unfortunately, Xia Qingshan was cautious of them and refused to teach this at all.

"Xia Qingshan is too narrow-minded."

"That’s not our concern. Now we just wait for the war to break out and sort everything out."

Lin Jiang said that the development of Blue Star has reached a bottleneck stage, and various conflicts have begun to show. If a war were to break out at this moment, it might be quite good, as it could help sort out internal matters and resolve most of the conflicts.