Primordial World: Big shots are all my friends-Chapter 955 - 872: Baiyun Temple

The middle-aged inspector shook his head slightly, lamenting, "The Saint Monk retrieved the scripture, intending to find a dharma gate in the Buddhist Scriptures to save all living beings.

However, later on, as Buddhism’s influence grew larger, Buddhism also gradually changed, recruiting worldly experts to become martial monks, including criminals wanted by the court. With just a word of being a monk, past sins were cut off, sheltering them.

The money offered by believers was lent to them in the form of loans, and then with exorbitant interest, leaving the borrowers bankrupt, forcing them to sell their land and homes, becoming temple slaves."

The middle-aged inspector pointed to a stretch of fertile land ahead and said, "See that? It’s all temple land of Baiyun Temple, nearly a thousand acres of fertile land, with over a hundred households of temple slaves."

Tang Sanzang immediately stopped, his heart greatly shocked. The poor monk retrieved the scripture and promoted the great rise of Buddhism. It is a great rise for Buddhism, but for all living beings in this Eastern Land, is it truly saving them or oppressing them? Is what I did really right?

The Queen of Women’s Country reached out to pull Tang Sanzang and said softly, "It’s not your fault; they took the wrong path."

Tang Sanzang nodded, then asked, "Isn’t your Supervision Institute managing this?"

The middle-aged inspector said sorrowfully, "The Supervision Institute serves the court. Many civil and military officials in the court are Buddhist believers, and the current emperor is devoted to Buddhism, granting Buddhism various privileges. Even if we have the heart, we lack the power."

Speaking, the group arrived in the fertile fields, seeing plots of fertile land, roads crisscrossing.

But all the commoners here lived in thatched cottages, dressed in rags with sallow faces. Seeing Tongxin and two other monks, they hurriedly knelt. These are the temple’s temple slaves.

Tongxin Monk looked proudly at Tang Sanzang and said, "Ahead is Baiyun Temple. There’s still time to escape now."

Tang Sanzang looked at those kneeling temple slaves, heart clenching, said indifferently, "Please lead the way quickly!"

"Hmph~" Tongxin Monk snorted coldly and immediately strode towards Baiyun Temple.

Baiyun Temple was built outside Chang’an City, occupying a large space, directly taking a small mountain as its backyard. Believers came uninterruptedly all day, with Sanskrit chanting, incense gathering like clouds and fog, encircling the temple, creating a marvellous scene, from which it derives its name Baiyun Temple.

Tongxin and two other monks ran to the temple and banged on the door, shouting loudly, "Precepts Uncle, come quick! Someone is making trouble."

A group of monks wielding precepts sticks rushed out from within the temple, lining up neatly, looking more like an army than monks.

An elderly monk in a kasaya of a copper hue walked out from the gate, his expression solemn, exuding an aura of authority without anger.

The surrounding believers scattered to the sides, looking at the Precepts Elder with reverence.

"It is the Precepts Elder!"

"Pray for blessings from the Precepts Elder."

"Namo Amitabha Buddha~

The Precepts Elder’s Buddhist law is profound; it was under the elder’s teaching that my wife was able to conceive."

"Ah~ then isn’t it a Buddha’s son?"

The surrounding believers all looked enviously at that young believer.

The young believer was smug.

In front of the temple, the Precepts Elder saw Tang Sanzang, dressed in a kasaya, but couldn’t grasp his background, putting his palms together and smiling, asking, "May I know which sacred pagoda’s Buddha friend is visiting? Please state your noble name."

Tang Sanzang also put his palms together and recited, "I am Tang Sanzang, greetings to the elder."

The Precepts Elder was stunned. Tang Sanzang? The name was familiar. Thinking carefully, a thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately roared angrily, "Audacious, where did this wild monk come from daring to impersonate the Saint Monk’s name? If you don’t want to say, there’s no need to, but to impersonate the Saint Monk’s name to scam, you’re seeking death."

Tangxin Monk beside them immediately shouted, "Elder, he’s a fake monk and prevented us from capturing the temple slave, making him an enemy of Baiyun Temple."

The young girl couldn’t help but shout, "I am not a temple slave."

Those sisters who became temple slaves never returned after entering the temple, disappearing forever. I don’t want to disappear; I still have a mother to take care of. I don’t want to become a temple slave.

Tongxin Monk coldly said, "You owe our temple money, making you a temple slave."

"I have already paid back."

Tongxin Monk sneered, "Your payment isn’t enough to cover the interest." 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Tang Sanzang put his palms together, chanting deeply, "Do no evil, perform all good deeds, purify one’s mind. This is the teaching of all Buddhas.

You let greed, anger, and ignorance enter your heart. Where are you still Buddhist disciples? You are all Devil Buddhas."

The Precepts Elder struck the ground with his Zen Stick, letting out a cold snort, saying, "As you impersonate the Saint Monk, how can you not know that when the Saint Monk obtained the scriptures, he also offered the Buddha human affairs? No scripture can be easily passed on, nor man lightly. Collecting some money to save beings from suffering is the true meaning of the Buddha."

Tang Sanzang fell into a daze, murmuring, "So all this started because of me."

He shook his head slightly, saying, "Reciting Buddha, chanting spells, mouthed but not in the heart, what use is it? Though resembling a monk, inside you are demonic; there is no saving you now."

The Precepts Elder shouted angrily, "Audacious demon monk, daring to spout nonsense while impersonating the Saint Monk. Guards, seize him!"

"Yes!" A group of monks immediately rushed out, brandishing their precepts sticks fiercely at Tang Sanzang, while others wielded chains to capture him.

"Ah~" Tang Sanzang’s expression remained unchanged, uttering a single word, and suddenly, the Buddha Light shone.

The monks rushing at him all screamed and flew backward, falling in front of the temple, rolling to the ground.

The Precepts Elder’s expression turned dark, and he coldly laughed, saying, "So it’s a cultivator. No wonder he’s brazen at Baiyun Temple. We at Baiyun Temple will once again subdue a demon today, suppressing him under the pagoda.

Observing World Dharma Hand!"

The Precepts Elder pushed a palm towards Tang Sanzang, and the White Cloud surrounding Baiyun Temple was immediately drawn, forming a giant white hand, striking down at Tang Sanzang fiercely, like the hand of the heavens.

In the distance, atop a large tree, a group of people in inspector uniforms stood on the treetop.

The leader sighed, saying, "What a White Cloud Dharma Hand, every time I see it, it feels like facing the power of Heaven and Earth."

The person next to him quickly said, "Captain, should we save this monk? Such upright monks are rare nowadays."

The chief snorted, "Upright, you say? A monk with two beautiful women tagging along, and you say he’s upright?"

"Uh~" The deputy chief was momentarily speechless.

Tang Sanzang stepped forward, a trace of Da Luo’s power emanating, causing the heavenly Buddha hand to shatter instantly, turning into a cloud of mist that dispersed. Everyone around was terrified and uneasy, as if a rabbit encountering a True Dragon, feeling an innate sense of submission.

On the tree, the inspector team leader’s expression changed, shouting, "Not good, it’s a True Immortal descending to the mortal world, not a cultivator, it’s an Immortal God."