When he entered the Shutuo Temple, Yi Tian remembered the token of the city lord's mansion he received when he was guarding the Army Shattering City outside the Spirit Realm Gate. Then he took out these things as proof of his identity. De Yun was also a knowledgeable person, so he checked them together with the people in the temple's discipline hall.
After a while, they finally confirmed his identity. Speaking of which, the Army Shattering City in the Spirit Realm had become famous in the past few years. There were many people in the Buddha Spirit Realm who knew about this place. After a while, De Yun came out of the hall and told him to leave quickly from the back door of the temple.
Yi Tian just smiled faintly and then walked out from the corner of the Shutuo Temple according to the instructions. When he reached a place where there was no one outside, he restrained his spirit pressure and his figure gradually became blurry. Finally, he disappeared.
After using a concealment technique, Yi Tian quietly returned to the Shutuo Temple. After passing by several halls, he found that the highest cultivation level of the monks here was only at the late Deity Transformation stage. There weren't many like De Yun.
Then he came to the forbidden area where the abbot was. He glanced around and found that although the remaining restrictions here were strong, they were only set up by a Deity Transformation stage cultivator. After a green light flashed on his body, Yi Tian took a step forward and directly passed through the restriction boundary and entered inside.
After a while, Yi Tian found that the forbidden area of the Shutuo Temple was even simpler than he imagined. In addition to the spirit qi being much denser than outside, there were only some simple stone tables, stone stools, stone beds, and similar things left. It seems that the eminent monks in the temple are also people who cultivate hard. Yi Tian sighed with emotion. Buddhist cultivators first train their minds and don't pay attention to superficial things like spirit cultivators.
As he walked, his spiritual will slightly probed and found a monk with a late Deity Transformation stage cultivation level sitting in the depths of the cave. Fortunately, his cultivation level was a whole stage higher than the monk, so the monk couldn't find his existence.
After walking for a while, he came to the place where the monk was in seclusion. Yi Tian glanced over and saw a skinny old monk sitting cross-legged in front of the stone wall with his back facing him.
In front of him was a huge smooth stone wall. There were no engravings on it, only the words' Great Void Dreamland 'were engraved on the ceiling.
Clearly, it was not a coincidence that the old monk was sitting cross-legged here. There was also a story behind the smooth stone wall in front of him. Yi Tian's gaze swept over it a few times. For the time being, he didn't find any tricks, but in his heart, he was certain that there was something fishy about this place.
He found a Yi Tian in the depths of the cave and sat down quietly. Then, he stared at the stone wall and sized it up.
After an unknown period of time, a 'ka' sound was suddenly heard, and a hole was opened in the restriction outside the cave. A voice was heard, "Master, the special envoy of the Great Thunder Monastery, Monk Jie Ding, has arrived at the monastery. He has agreed to come and view the Shutuo Jade Annulus. Please give us your instructions."
"Jie Ding is here." Yi Tian's eyes lit up when he heard that. He didn't expect to meet him again. The 'Shutuo Jade Annulus' that the messenger was talking about should be this smooth stone wall in front of him.
Yi Tian looked over and began to search every inch of the stone wall. However, this time, he still didn't find anything.
The old monk sitting cross-legged in front of the stone wall nodded for no reason and then said, "Lord Special Envoy, please come and comprehend the 'Shutuo Jade Disc'. Whether or not you succeed will depend on your luck and you can't force it."
"Yes." After the voice from the outside world stopped, the restriction of the cave was closed again. Yi Tian didn't think too much about it. He could only take one step at a time and wait for Monk Jie Ding to come before making any plans.
After a while, he heard a Buddhist chant from outside the restriction. Then, the monk in front of him stretched out his hand and gently opened a gap in the restriction. Then, he heard footsteps. Yi Tian looked up. It was Monk Jie Ding. At this moment, he was wearing a grey monk's robe. He held a prayer bead in his hand and nothing else.
Yi Tian was very impressed with Jie Ding. This was the standard attire of the Great Thunder Monastery's ascetic monks. Who would know that he was Chi Wuji, the Young Palace Master of the Mythical Flame Palace in the Spiritual Realm hundreds of years ago?
However, Monk Jie Ding's cultivation had reached the peak of the Spirit Severing Stage. If there were no accidents, he would definitely enter the Body Integration Stage within a hundred years. Yi Tian was also amazed. The reincarnation technique of the Great Thunder Monastery was indeed powerful. Monk Jie Ding's aptitude was already in the Transcendent-Grade. His cultivation was also very high.
Although he was now one whole level higher than him, the speed at which Jie Ding caught up was also shocking. It probably wouldn't take him more than a thousand years to reach the same level. In the future, when Monk Jie Ding entered the Mahayana Stage, it would be much easier for him to cross the bottleneck of the Mahayana Stage because he had the memories and spirituality of the top ten.
Jie Ding walked up to the skinny old monk, put his palms together, and said, "Greetings to Senior Brother De Xiu from the Great Thunder Monastery."
It turned out that the old monk was also from the 'De' generation. He must be from the same generation as De Chong and De Jing.
However, the way Jie Ding addressed him was very interesting. His Dharma name was obviously two generations higher than De Xiu's. At this moment, it seemed like the seniority had been messed up.
De Xiu said slowly, "You're the reincarnation of Divine Monk Jie Ding, right? Alright, alright. Although you call me Senior Brother, I can't accept it."
"Senior Brother, you don't have to worry too much. You don't have to look at the surface," Jie Ding said in an easy-going tone, "The person standing before you is only Monk Jie Ding. He's not some divine monk."
"If that's the case, I'll have to accept it," De Xiu quickly replied, "Since you're here today, I'll naturally open the door for you."
De Xiu then pointed at the stone wall in front of him and said, "This is the 'Shutuo Jade Annulus' that has been passed down from generation to generation in the Shutuo Temple. However, I haven't been able to find any clues after studying here for a thousand years. I guess the opportunity isn't in my hands."
Monk Jie Ding replied, "The opportunity is a personal matter. However, cultivators like us have to face difficulties in order to achieve immortality. Even if we can't achieve perfection in this lifetime, we can still reincarnate and cultivate again to improve in the next lifetime. With this cycle, there'll always be a moment of success."
"You're right, Divine Monk. However, the Hinayana Buddhist Sect only cultivates in this lifetime. I'm afraid …" De Xiu seemed to be hesitant as he said this.
Monk Jie Ding smiled and said, "Abbot De Xiu, you're wrong. There's nowhere in the world that you can't find shelter in. Moreover, there's no distinction between Mahayana and Hinayana in the first place. It's just that the younger cultivators have forcefully divided it. If you're willing, Abbot De Xiu, you can make a trip to the Great Thunder Temple. "
What he meant was, of course, making the stakes clear. De Xiu cupped his hands and thanked him, "Thank you for your guidance, Divine Monk."
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