Chapter 68

"Am I the kind of person who seeks revenge for every grievance?"

"Moreover, the current Sweeping Monk is already at the seventh rank of Land Immortal!"

"Ranked fourth on the Azure Cloud Ranking!"

"Looking across our Great Song, who has a higher power realm than this person?"

"So, let these old matters pass!"

Su Zhe, who was nearby, immediately said, "Your Majesty's benevolence is truly a blessing for the subjects of our Great Song!"

Zhao Xu waved his hand and laughed, "Officer Su is also becoming more and more fond of flattering me."

"No wonder I am becoming more and more fond of Officer Su!"

"Compared to Officer Su's brother, Officer Su is the one who puts me more at ease."

Upon hearing this, Su Zhe's expression froze, and he gave a bitter smile.

He secretly thought, "Brother, please give your younger brother some peace of mind."

"This time, I have sacrificed my own capital just to get you back to the capital to report for duty!"

"Please don't cause any more trouble!"

Southern Song Dynasty.

Lin'an.

Imperial Palace.

Imperial Garden.

Southern Song Emperor Zhao Qi looked at the Azure Cloud Ranking in the firmament.

Looking at the Sweeping Monk on the list.

A look of shock flashed across his face.

"What a Northern Northern Shaolin!"

"To think they were hiding such a formidable big monk!"

"In the Northern Dynasty, if we talk about heroic figures, they may not necessarily be better than our Southern Dynasty!"

"However, now, this Northern Northern Shaolin has produced a Sweeping Monk!"

"Our Southern Dynasty also has Putian Northern Shaolin!"

"I don't know if there is a figure of the same level!"

"If not, wouldn't our Southern Dynasty be overshadowed by the north again!"

"It truly makes me angry!"

The struggle between the Northern and Southern Song has lasted for many years.

Because neither could destroy the other.

Therefore, in many aspects, the emperors of the two Song dynasties would want to press the other side in every way.

However, in recent years, the national strength of the Southern Song has gradually weakened.

It has almost always been pressed by the Northern Song.

Although.

The national strength of the Northern Song is not prominent among the major dynasties.

However, compared to the Southern Song, it is still a little bit stronger.

Southern Song Emperor Zhao Qi, although mediocre!

However, he is not a fool who knows nothing.

Especially in this regard, he is still very sensitive.

Jiang Jiang Yuyan, who was nearby, saw this mediocre emperor actually getting angry here.

She was speechless about this mediocre emperor.

Jiang Jiang Yuyan looked at the Sweeping Monk on the Azure Cloud Ranking.

Her eyes were also quite shocked.

A Buddhist Vajra, for the Buddhist school, means decades of prosperity.

Northern Northern Shaolin is the ancestral land of the Zen school.

In recent years, its momentum has been slightly weaker.

However, with the appearance of this Sweeping Monk.

It will definitely restore its former prestige immediately.

It must be said that this Azure Cloud Ranking is indeed a good thing!

Those on the list, while not all receiving fame and fortune, generally receive benefits.

Of course, figures like Wood Daoist of Mount Wudang and Iron-Gall God Marquis Zhu Wushi, whose conspiracies were exposed, might have more sorrow.

At the same time, Jiang Jiang Yuyan was also rejoicing.

She had not yet broken through to the Heaven-Man realm.

And had not entered this Azure Cloud Ranking.

Otherwise, some of her plans would likely have been exposed in advance!

If that were the case, wouldn't many of the things she had carefully prepared go to waste!

How could she become a generation of empress!

Truly, what is gained in one place is lost in another.

Many things are good for most people, but for her, they may not necessarily be good.

Thinking of this, Jiang Jiang Yuyan's heart felt inexplicably relieved.

Southern Song Dynasty.

Inside the Putian Northern Shaolin Temple.

Southern Northern Shaolin Abbot Fang Zheng was leading a group of high Northern Shaolin monks, preparing to leave Northern Shaolin and head to Hanshan Temple in the Great Qing Dynasty.

As a result, before they even walked out of the temple gate.

They saw a Sweeping Monk added to the Azure Cloud Ranking!

Seeing the Sweeping Monk's resume.

Fang Zheng and his group of high Northern Shaolin monks were all dumbfounded.

Looking at everything in the firmament, they did not know what to do.

One monk even started crying in anger.

"Northern Northern Shaolin actually has a Vajra!"

"Abbot, it seems we cannot take the title of the Zen orthodox!"

"Unless our Southern Northern Shaolin can have a Great Vajra!"

"Otherwise, even if we welcome back the strongest Buddhist divine technique in the world, we will not be able to surpass Northern Northern Shaolin!"

For a time,

The high monks of Southern Northern Shaolin were all filled with gloom.

At this time,

Southern Northern Shaolin Abbot Fang Zheng sighed slightly, looked at the Azure Cloud Ranking in the firmament, and cupped his hands, "Everything is fate!"

……

Great Ming.

Guanzhong.

Seven Heroes Town.

Tongfu Inn.

Tong Tong Xiangyu looked at the Azure Cloud Ranking in the firmament, watching the Sweeping Monk who had just made the list.

Her face was filled with shock.

"My heavens!"

"This old monk, when he was young, was actually a Crown Prince!"

"What a pity, a Crown Prince of a fallen nation."

"Truly, a phoenix in distress is worse than a chicken."

"A Crown Prince of a nation, ending up as a monk!"

Lu Xiucai, standing to the side, said: "Shopkeeper, you are showing your ignorance now!"

"Do you know who Shakyamuni is?"

The crowd was completely bewildered upon hearing this.

"What-ka, what-ni?"

Tong Tong Xiangyu looked completely confused.

Li Li Dazui cracked a melon seed and said: "Scholar, what strange and bizarre person are you talking about again!"

Guo Guo Furong crossed her fingers and glared at Lu Xiucai, saying: "Lu Lu Qinghou, speak like a normal person!"

Lu Xiucai immediately waved his hands and said: "Oh, oh, Sister Fu, don't use force!"

"It's like this."

"Shakyamuni is a person's name!"

"It is the name the Buddha had before he became a monk!"

The crowd suddenly realized upon hearing this.

Li Li Dazui said: "So that's how it is, this Buddha is also quite strange!"

"To actually have such a name!"

"Shakya... what-ni person was it?"

Lu Xiucai said: "It is Shakyamuni!"

Bai Zhantang said from the side: "What does this have to do with the Sweeping Monk?"

Lu Xiucai said: "Legend has it that before the Buddha became a monk, he was also the Crown Prince of a small nation in the Western Wilderness."

"He gave up being a Crown Prince to sit under the Bodhi tree and contemplate the Dao for seven days and seven nights."

"And as a result, he became a Buddha!"

"So, it is very possible that this Sweeping Monk will also become a Buddha!"

"After all, he was also a Crown Prince before he became a monk!"

The crowd immediately let out a collective "Tch."

They couldn't be bothered to pay attention to Lu Xiucai anymore.

At this moment.

Bai Zhantang was heard saying: "Northern Northern Shaolin is worthy of being the ancestral land of the Chan Sect!"

"To actually have another Buddhist Vajra like the Sweeping Monk!"

Tong Tong Xiangyu looked curious and said: "Zhantang, what is a Vajra?"

Bai Zhantang said: "The four paths of the world: Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, and Demonic!"

"The highest realm of the Confucian school is the Confucian Sage!"

"The highest realm of the Buddhist school is the Vajra!"

"The highest realm of the Daoist school is the Earthly Immortal!"

"The highest realm of the Demonic school is the Earthly Heavenly Demon!"

"Rumor has it that above the Vajra, there is the Great Vajra!"

"However, being able to reach the Vajra realm is already an extremely formidable existence!"

"In the eight hundred years of Buddhist history, only Bodhidharma and the former Buddhist prodigy, Monk Master Wuxin, have reached the Great Vajra realm!"

"This Sweeping Monk is already in the Vajra realm; one would think he will also be a Great Vajra in the future!"

Guo Guo Furong looked surprised and said: "Eh? Old Bai?"

"How do you know so much?"

"I didn't even know these things!"

Hearing this, a flash of reminiscence crossed Bai Zhantang's eyes.

He smiled faintly and said: "Years ago, I met a storyteller in the Jianghu."

"He was the one who told me!"

……

Wu Chao.

Shendu!

The Imperial Palace.

Empress Wu Zhao looked at the Azure Cloud Ranking in the firmament.

Watching the Sweeping Monk who had just appeared on the list.

A look of astonishment flashed across her face.

"I never imagined that there would still be a Vajra in the Buddhist world!"

"Since the passing of Monk Master Wuxin of Hanshan Temple."

"There has been no one left in the Buddhist school to carry the banner!"

"Now, Northern Northern Shaolin has produced another Vajra!"

"It seems the Buddhist school's fate is not yet exhausted!"

"It appears that my decision to spare the Pudu Cihang Pudu Cihang Jingzhai back then was correct!"

Di Di Renjie, standing to the side, bowed slightly and said to the Empress: "Your Majesty is far-sighted!"

"Your subject admires you!"

……

Great Qin.

Qizhou.

Nangong Chunshui Immortal-Asking Pavilion.

A crowd of onlookers watched the Azure Cloud Ranking in the firmament.

All were incredibly excited.

"Good heavens!"

"There is a Sweeping Monk in the Northern Shaolin Temple who is at the seventh-grade Earthly Immortal realm?"

"Legend has it that thirty years ago, there was talk of four sacred grounds in the Buddhist world!"

"They were Pudu Cihang Pudu Cihang Jingzhai, Nian Chan Sect, Songshan Northern Shaolin Temple, and Hanshan Temple."

"Unfortunately, after the Empress ascended the throne, Pudu Cihang Pudu Cihang Jingzhai was suppressed and nearly perished, and the Nian Chan Sect declined as a result."

"Songshan Northern Shaolin Temple has also seen its prestige greatly diminished since it split into Northern and Southern Northern Shaolin."

"Hanshan Temple has also been unable to recover since the passing of the Buddhist prodigy, Monk Master Wuxin."

"Over these years, the four sacred grounds of Buddhism have long existed in name only!"

"I thought the Buddhist world was on a downward slope from here on out."

"I never expected that now, a Vajra powerhouse would emerge from the Buddhist school!"

"Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, and Demonic—the four paths of the world!"

"Indeed, they all have profound foundations and are not so easily defeated!"

In the restaurant, there was no shortage of knowledgeable people.

When they spoke of these Buddhist matters, they were quite articulate.

Duan Yu, sitting to the side, listened and felt deeply convinced.

The Dali Kingdom was itself a Buddhist nation.

The Dali royal family had worshipped Buddha for generations.

Duan Yu had a deep affinity for Buddhism and felt a natural closeness to it.

Seeing that Northern Northern Shaolin had produced such a Sweeping Monk.

His face was filled with joy.

"Northern Northern Shaolin is worthy of being the ancestral land of the Chan Sect!"

"It is truly extraordinary!"

"A Buddhist powerhouse in the Vajra realm!"

"One doesn't appear for decades, or even centuries!"