Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 1080: Chapter 532: Gaining the True Essence Within Reincarnation (6k6)_4

Through information from various parties, he was almost certain that it was ninety percent true. He also didn’t think the monks of Lingyin Temple would dare to play tricks and create such a shocking event.

If everything was true, then the current Chen Mu was still in infant form. To order someone to bring Chen Mu into the palace from far away would undoubtedly involve too many variables, and it would be too disrespectful. After all, if Chen Mu had indeed transcended the other shore, escaped the cycle of reincarnation, and achieved immortality, then he truly was a Living Buddha. What’s more, he also wanted to obtain the method of transcending reincarnation.

A few days later.

Emperor Hongguang set out from the capital, once again causing a sensation nationwide.

If at first some people were still half-believing, half-doubting about the reincarnation of the ’True Upper Soldier,’ now even the emperor himself had set out towards the west for this reason, which undoubtedly convinced people by eighty or ninety percent!

Finally.

More than a month later.

Emperor Hongguang personally arrived in West County and saw Chen Mu in his reincarnated form.

At this moment, Chen Mu was still in infant form, although not in a newborn state. Surrounded by many monks, he sat upright on a Lotus Platform, watching as Emperor Hongguang approached step by step, and spoke calmly:

"Your Majesty."

When Emperor Hongguang was young, he had followed the late emperor to meet Chen Mu. After ascending the throne, although he did not particularly believe in Buddhism, he still went to Fatan Temple several times and had met Chen Mu more than once. Now, after just one look at the infant, he couldn’t help but take a deep breath.

He was, after all, an emperor, with a relatively stable state of mind. At this moment, he spoke slowly, "Since the Upper Soldier has already ascended to the other shore, why re-enter the sea of suffering? Is it to guide all living beings?"

"No."

Chen Mu slightly shook his head and said, "Guiding all living beings is just following the Momentum; entering the world is only to comprehend the mysteries of all laws."

Emperor Hongguang remained silent for a long time, then performed a Buddhist salute to Chen Mu, saying, "Could the Upper Soldier teach me?"

Chen Mu said, "All living beings have the opportunity for transcendence."

Although the Heaven and Earth Rules of this world impose great restrictions, making it nearly impossible for transcendent power to manifest, the Origin Dao is everywhere. Chen Mu had also noticed that the titles of Buddha and Dao Venerable projected and reflected across the heavens, and those scriptures themselves serve as a form of guidance.

For ordinary people in the mortal world, it is usually impossible to comprehend the Origin Dao. However, if they become enlightened through these scriptures, there is a slim chance they might be guided at the time of death, their consciousness leaving this world and reincarnating elsewhere.

Of course.

He wouldn’t speak so clearly about these things.

He came here only to comprehend the Time Dao, and everything he did was just following the Momentum.

Finally.

As Emperor Hongguang was also enlightened by Chen Mu and began to believe in Buddhism, the worldly uproar gradually started to subside.

So, more than ninety years later, after witnessing the passing of three generations of emperors, Chen Mu once again entered Nirvana. Three years later, he re-entered the world and was once again found by others, continuing to be revered as a Living Buddha, preaching Buddhism in the world while continuing to comprehend the Time Dao.

Two hundred years later.

The world was in chaos and turmoil, dynasties changed. This was something Chen Mu could not change, or rather had no interest in changing. The rise and fall of dynasties were originally the result of natural evolution.

And because of his presence, the development of these hundreds of years made the position of Buddhism in the world unshakable. Even though new generations of dynasties were established, they still had to honor it as the State Religion and regard him as the Supreme, his status above that of emperors.

For emperors, if an ordinary person had a status above theirs, they naturally could not tolerate it. But if it were a ’Living Buddha,’ they could accept it, because in the previous generations, in the succession of emperors, Chen Mu’s presence was often seen. Some emperors, when old, even invited Chen Mu to choose their successor.

Of course.

If it were only this, the founding emperor of a new dynasty might not be able to tolerate Chen Mu’s existence. But Chen Mu possessed not only the status of the previous dynasty but also followers spanning the entire world, and even his reincarnated form was publicly recognized.

Who could shake the status of a ’Living Buddha’ who had dwelt in the world for hundreds of years?

Even the founding emperor could not.

Thus,

Chen Mu continued to dwell in the world, generation after generation, until the twentieth generation, nearly two thousand years had passed, having experienced the alternation of three dynasties. Finally, one day, he told his disciples that after this Nirvana, he would leave and no longer dwell in the world.

The news spread, and the world was enveloped in grief, with countless followers hurrying to come.

That night.

Chen Mu peacefully passed away.

This time, as he had said, he would not dwell in the world again. He looked with calm eyes at the threads of time in the world, once again accelerating before him, spinning faster and faster.

Hundreds of years, thousands of years, tens of thousands of years... until tens of thousands of years later, natural disasters descended, the world was cold and frozen, ice covering thousands of miles, the world plunged into great annihilation, everything buried, and after tens of thousands of years, the world gradually warmed again. The surviving Human Race finally began to proliferate once more, and all that he had left behind was once again buried in history.

This time.

Chen Mu watched indifferently.

His consciousness was no longer drawn into this world, just watching the passage of time, watching the changes of thousands and tens of thousands of years, as the entire world was continually in cycles of reincarnation.

Until countless ages had passed, everything collapsed with a crash, the entire world sinking and finally obliterated into the Void, completely returning to a state of silent annihilation, becoming nothing but Nihility.

Chen Mu slowly closed his eyes.

When he opened his eyes again, his vision was no longer filled with nothingness but with the familiar scenery of the cave at the back of the Seven Profound Sect’s mountain. His consciousness had silently returned here.

"Time..."

Chen Mu gazed around and murmured softly.

All the changes that had occurred in that world, at this moment, seemed like dreams and illusions in his heart. Although he had once entered the world, he was only a witness, eventually comprehending the true essence of the Time Dao through reincarnation!