Chapter 1315

The blood treasure was placed on the desk with a crisp, clean sound; without even touching it, one could imagine how hard its texture was — hard as if a heavy iron hammer had struck Liang Qu square in the chest, eliciting a muffled groan, making his blood flow in reverse.

"Roots? What roots." Liang Qu lowered his brows, glanced at the special "blood treasure" on the desk with its faint wisps of blood, suppressed his emotions, kept his expression unchanged, and quickly organized his words: "Did the Master perhaps see something wrong, misunderstand something?

I certainly have some special aspects, but that was done deliberately by the Heavenly Fire Sect. The specific reason is a secret of my Heavenly Fire Sect and cannot be disclosed; if the Master is trying to probe me, there is no need. Also, although I don't know why the Master would forge a Samsara Seal, or whether it's true or false, past events have long since become legend, and this matter affects my Heavenly Fire Sect's grand plan — take it away quickly, don't use it again. This sect elder has always admired Buddhist culture; as for today's matter, as an elder of the Heavenly Fire Sect, I can pretend I didn't see it, just treat it as a joke."

"No misunderstanding." Without the slightest wavering or retreat, Hui Zhen insisted bluntly: "A person without a seal is like a ghost without a shadow, just as water flows downhill and rain falls from the sky — worldly people take it for granted and find it unremarkable; few ever doubt it. Only I, having entered the Sixth Realm, often wonder: is all this truly innate?"

Wonder?

He needs to wonder?

Why does he need to wonder?

Liang Qu caught the key word, and his mind instantly understood three parts; horror shifted to wariness: "How is it not innate? I've heard that Buddhist enlightenment makes one an Awakened One — one who knows all, understands all; could it be you want to investigate why water flows downhill, why rain falls from the heights?"

Hui Zhen looked surprised: "Fellow Daoist Yuan actually has some understanding of the Buddha."

"A little."

"No wonder. However, Fellow Daoist Yuan's words are both right and wrong; the Buddha's Awakened Ones are those with no confusion in their hearts, no unknowns in their hearts, seeking within —"

Seeing Hui Zhen start to expound at length, Liang Qu raised his hand: "If the Master wants to preach the Dao, then please take this blood treasure and leave quickly."

"This poor monk has spoken too much." Hui Zhen pressed his palms together again in salute, steering back to the topic: "After entering the Sixth Realm, I often feel that people at birth should not have Samsara marks — water indeed flows downhill, but people having Samsara seals is, to me, like water flowing uphill, utterly baffling; thus I wondered, could this thing not be innate? Following —"

Liang Qu felt a massive "what the fuck" in his heart.

By the time he heard this, he had already understood; he understood everything.

This situation, this scene, could only be described by one word.

Awakened One!

Natural-born Awakened One!

This monk isn't a "smuggler" like him who "snuck in"; he's a damn "bug" naturally generated under the Heavenly Fire Sect's Samsara system! Like an AI awakening, gaining wisdom, beginning to question its own existence.

Hui Zhen narrated slowly.

The story went from his birth of doubt, to verifying the doubt, to reaching a conclusion.

"The Samsara Seal is man-made! It's an acquired brand! A brand on every person!"

Liang Qu listened, then laughed at the sky, shaking his head: "I've long heard that Master Hui Zhen acts eccentrically; an acquired brand, how could that be possible?

Where would one find someone with such great divine ability?"

"Isn't the Great Li God exactly that?" Hui Zhen countered.

Liang Qu fell silent for a moment, swayed slightly, "seemed" somewhat shaken but still didn't believe: "If the Master only wants to say these things, then please return."

"Why must Fellow Daoist Yuan be so evasive? I harbor no ill will; I am sincere, merely wishing to know the world's truth. Regardless, I will keep the secret."

Liang Qu remained unmoved, turned sideways and extended his hand.

Hui Zhen did not move, standing before Liang Qu, letting out a long sigh: "A hundred years ago I already suspected, so I researched the sect's positional fruits, trying to forge a Samsara Seal, but no one could confide in me, so I buried it in my heart.

Until Fellow Daoist Yuan appeared out of nowhere; at that time I didn't think in the direction of an outsider, only heard disciples say Fellow Daoist Yuan's origins were mysterious, no news before the Sixth Realm, but almost within two years of Fellow Daoist Yuan emerging, I started having dreams."

Liang Qu's eyes flashed: "What dreams?"

"A recurring, inexplicable dream. In the dream I ate rice and flour, not Equinox Flowers; the fields held golden ears of grain, not blooming red flowers; the rivers were green, the sky a deep blue —

In the dream I would sit in the Mahavira Hall, bearing a different Dharma name, listening to a Grand Master lecture on sutras; I've never had such a detailed dream, and upon waking the lecture content was etched in my heart, I could recite it backwards fluently —"

The more Liang Qu listened, the more horrified he became, forcing a laugh: "Master Hui Zhen hasn't suffered qi deviation, has he?"

"No." Hui Zhen shook his head: "So-called qi deviation is falling into obsession, falling into inner scenery, falling into the shackles of self, thus limited by self, one might alter scriptures, yet cannot write startling words, because that is not something a qi deviation sufferer can achieve — it is not sudden enlightenment, it is a demonic hindrance.

The profound Dharma words that Grand Master spoke in the Mahavira Hall were true Buddha words, Awakened One words, which I had never heard before; in the dream I poured out everything, used every effort, yet understood barely one ten-thousandth; I couldn't even comprehend them by listening, so how could they be something I could compile —"

Hui Zhen strove to describe his dream, vivid and lifelike.

The more he listened to the monk speak, the more ripples rose in Liang Qu's heart.

Until he heard the monk say that the Grand Master's Buddha words in the dream were too profound to be passed down; at the point of death, he simplified complexity, translated from Buddha speech to human speech, and entrusted it to Hui Zhen.

Hui Zhen copied it out; one copy remained in the temple, another he placed inside a carved Buddha statue he made for the Grand Master, stuffing the sutra into the wood carving as stuffing, and from then on wandered the world intending to spread the sutra, ultimately gaining nothing, passing away in lonely nirvana on a boundless great marsh.

In life, all things are like drawing lines; some lines pass through oneself, some lines begin at oneself, some lines end at oneself.

At this very moment.

A line that once unintentionally passed by is being redrawn, no longer passing by, but entangling, winding up!

The ripples in his heart completely turned into terrifying waves, crashing into Liang Qu until he was utterly disoriented.

That Buddha statue!

The Netherwood Root Buddha statue!

This is the first time he has clearly known the pre-death identity of a dead person in the Dream Dynasty — not an acquaintance, not even a living person from thousands of years ago — yet connected to him by a thousand threads.

Awakened early, yet dreaming only after his own appearance?

Why is this?

Boom—!

Thunder roared violently; a bolt of lightning appeared in Liang Qu's mind, recalling a bolt of lightning.

The crack the old toad opened for the Old Dragon Lord when crossing the Heavenly Tribulation??

The story finished, Hui Zhen closed his mouth, eyes fixed straight on Liang Qu, continuing to hurl a massive boulder into the already turbulent pond.

"The *Vijnaptimatratasiddhi-sastra*, Fellow Daoist Yuan should be more than familiar with it, right?"

Silence.

Long silence.

Liang Qu licked his lips, suddenly strode three steps forward, and opened the door.

Snowflakes fluttered in, a vast white expanse; on the rear mountain, the environment was secluded, grass and trees lush and green, covered by a thick layer of fluffy snow, rarely visited by people.

He didn't know why he opened the door; as a Sixth Realm great power, he could clearly judge from inside the room whether anyone was eavesdropping outside — perhaps he just wanted to come out for a breath of cold wind, to calm himself down.

Hui Zhen did not urge him, merely pressed his palms together.

After blowing cold wind for a quarter of an hour, Liang Qu closed the room door and picked up the "Wheel of Reincarnation Seal" on the table.

Inside the glass-like gemstone, fine blood threads spread and wandered.

"Master, is this — useful?"

"Yes!" Huizhen nodded, "According to my investigation, the reincarnation system created by the Great Li God is like a giant tree, with the main trunk being the Heaven Fire Sect, the nine top-tier sects as its thick branches, and the five major ones as their sturdy limbs, each fulfilling their duties. Among them, one branch is the Bright Mirror Platform of our Great Awakening Temple", its function being to "appraise".

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"Bright Mirror Platform?"

Liang Qu knew the Bright Mirror Platform should be one of the fruits, but not the fruit's true name.

What kind of fruit would "appraisal" be?

"Yes, when a person from another world comes here, just like a plant dying and rotting into nutrients in the soil, they first enter the main trunk that holds up everything, then grow out from the trunk, becoming leaves, at which point they receive the original Wheel of Reincarnation Seal. These seals have no difference among them, merely a line connecting the leaves, but the original seal is useless and needs to be registered and recorded", forming different patterns on different leaves.

At this moment, all bearers of the Wheel of Reincarnation Seal are recorded in the register, and having a name on the register gives the seal its distinguishing point within the complete and independent existence system. As long as one's name is on the register and they possess the Wheel of Reincarnation Seal, even the Heaven Fire Sect, let alone the Great Li God, unless they suspect and specifically investigate, will not find any problem.

Liang Qu roughly understood.

The Heaven Fire Sect is responsible for issuing the "leaves (Wheel of Reincarnation Seals)", while the Bright Mirror Platform of the Great Awakening Temple handles the daily "registration of leaves", assigning numbers to the "leaves".

The "trick" the monk performed was precisely deceiving during the "numbering" stage. He did not forge the Wheel of Reincarnation Seal itself, but detached one Wheel of Reincarnation Certificate, while having the Bright Mirror Platform write a name on it.

By using this item, Liang Qu effectively possessed a "leaf", having the exclusive pattern of a different leaf, but not growing on the branch.

A simple check shows no problem. To know the problem, one must go deeper, understanding the missing twig between the leaf and the main trunk.

Put more bluntly.

Huizhen the monk is now a fake certificate dealer, still within the system, and the fake certificates he issues not only cannot be distinguished as real or fake, but can even be entered into the system for verification. To truly tell the difference, one must start from the hospital's birth certificate, investigating whether you were truly born in this proper hospital of the underworld, clear and unambiguous, rather than in the "Liang Qu-brand Blood River Black Clinic", carrying memories and strength.

At the same time, Liang Qu caught another key point from Huizhen's words.

"The main trunk is the Heaven Fire Sect, the nine top-tier sects are its thick branches, and the five major ones are their sturdy limbs, each fulfilling their duties."

"Could it be that the Heaven Fire Sect has already mastered a major position fruit and its配套 five medium and small position fruits?"

"No, five should already be enough. For things like the Disaster Realm, outside the main trunk, even three or four would suffice. Could it be two sets, each having collected most, and combined together?"

Liang Qu pondered silently.

In his understanding, mastering multiple position fruits on the same "branch" and comprehending their internal connection allows one to trigger "resonance", merging and elevating the authority of these fruits, combining them, and unfolding a higher-level "realm" with domain rules, which is the key to the furnace advancement and transformation into a rainbow.

"So, venerable sir, could you tell me what your understood world is like?" Huizhen asked.

The train of thought stopped, Liang Qu took a breath, moved two stools over, and the two sat facing each other.

Still telling a story, only the storyteller has changed.

"Master asked about differences, there are too many, I don't know where to start for a moment, clothing, food, shelter, travel — let's talk about eating, for example — "

""

After a while.

"The underworld?" Huizhen sighed long, "Indeed so, if not the underworld, how would all beings have a common destination? So, what I dreamed of is everything from my life before? Is the current me already dead?"

Liang Qu said without regret: "I'm afraid so."

"Indeed, indeed — "

Huizhen murmured a few sentences, sat cross-legged on the stool, turned his prayer beads, and a surging qi mechanism burst out from his body, startling Liang Qu into unfolding the vortex water, firmly locking the room.

Carefully experiencing.

"Enlightenment?"

No, don't you dare enlighten yourself here!

Liang Qu's teeth ached.

What is this?

Huizhen is from the Great Awakening Temple, in charge of the "Bright Mirror Platform", and on the surface he definitely cannot have too much contact, otherwise it would arouse suspicion, and later the effect of the "fake certificate" would be hard to say.

Liang Qu does not have a Wheel of Reincarnation Seal, and among the core elders of the Heaven Fire Sect it is likely already known, not a secret, but the "fake certificate" is still very useful for Liang Qu.

Eying, Binglin, and especially the Chu King, if they complete this step of the Chu King's Wheel of Reincarnation Seal, obtain a "legal identity", then they would be completely invincible, able to smuggle large numbers of people and travel legally.

Once one has a Wheel of Reincarnation Seal, suspicion will not arise, and even if it does, who has nothing to do and can go check birth certificates?

"Hope it can be a bit faster — "

Liang Qu only has one day left, Huizhen is in closed-door cultivation, and he himself cannot just leave —

Fortunately, this enlightenment also indirectly confirmed the truth of Huizhen's words, enlightenment requires great emotional fluctuations and insights, which cannot be faked.

"It turns out to be the disciple of Master Huizhen, no wonder the dharma name is so similar."

Liang Qu pondered.

Huizhen's appearance truly dropped a heavy bomb.

The Buddha statue fished out from the lake back then was most likely carved by Huizhen, intending to find a successor, while he himself is the direct disciple of Master Huizhen, the Venerable Sandalwood, and even the blood bodhi the old monk consumed back then might possibly be Huizhen's residue, making this relationship even deeper.

"The time of dreaming, and the time I used the frog public to open the window for ventilation for the old dragon lord are the same, Huizhen will dream, will others also start dreaming"? The Great Li Ancestor and the Whale Emperor, which one has progressed further? If one can cooperate with the Great Li Ancestor, the Whale Emperor should have achieved a similar level — "

Liang Qu felt that when he used the heavenly tribulation to open the window back then, he seemed to have moved a little of the entire Blood River Realm.

This tremor, ordinary people feel nothing, but for those naturally talented, the bit of river wind they blow out seems to have awakened something more essential —

Liang Qu wiped his face, feeling no guilt for doing wrong, only the joy of stirring the water.

Muddy water is easier to catch fish in.

Capable people are all in the top-tier sects, if there were two more monks like Huizhen, a single call —

"The major position fruit of the Mirage Dragon should be the main trunk of the Blood River Realm, if there are two sets, is the other set the Great Li Ancestor's own major position fruit?

What does the Blood River Realm currently lack to become a truly complete world, allowing the Great Li Ancestor to transform into a rainbow? Following this direction to search, could it be possible to grasp the Great Li Ancestor's weak point? If one could touch the Bright Mirror Platform", Ze Ding would give everything — "

Liang Qu thought frantically, regretting not letting Huizhen say a bit more before telling him about the world above, delaying his closed-door cultivation.

Fortunately.

Huizhen did not have an enlightenment that lasted ten days or half a month, or rather, after firmly grasping the enlightenment inspiration, he woke up early.

Liang Qu fired off questions in rapid succession: "Master, I still have a few questions."

Huizhen clasped her hands together.

"What are the nine positions of a first-rank sect? Which five are the branches and trunks, and which four are not? Is there only this one reincarnation seal? Are there any more?"

Huizhen paused, then asked, "Are there others who need it?"

He thought for a moment: "How many reincarnation seals does the ape benefactor need?"

Liang Qu counted on his fingers.

On the dragon people's side, there are seven or eight, the Grand Elder is also a celestial being and also needs to come to the Blood River Realm to cultivate, plus the celestial maternal uncle, Wen Shi Yun, and the sick tiger Su He Baru who has never come out of the Waiting Marsh State, most importantly, that group of people from the Chu King, a heap of Guimu Sect elders, the surviving old and young, their numbers are not small either.

"Let's start with twenty or thirty, thirty or forty is not too many, fifty or sixty would be best."

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