Traveling through time as a goblin, just wanting to live a leisurely life

Master Zhengguang and Yigan stared with their eyes wide open at the magnificent Buddhist temple in front of them.

"what happened?"

Master Zhengguang asked.

Yigan didn't dare to say a word.

"What did you do!"

Noticing that Yigan looked unhappy, Master Zhengguang asked sternly.

"Nothing...nothing. I just poured some Heart Dust into the incense burner."

Yi Gan immediately became intimidated, shuddered and then confessed directly.

"Xin Chen? It's actually Xin Chen!?"

Master Zhengguang was surprised.

Most of the immortals in the fairy world know about the dust in the heart, because in the process of cultivating to become an immortal, practitioners often need to train their state of mind and eliminate the dust in the heart.

For those big guys who have already cultivated and ascended to heaven, they have more or less cleared away some of the dust in their hearts.

But these are all things that happened in the mortal world. Since he ascended to the fairyland, no immortal has seen Xin Chen again.

Master Zhengguang put the heart dust in front of his nose and smelled it. The magnificent temple actually shook again, as if it was about to expand again.

He immediately guarded his mind and suppressed his inner desires.

It is obvious that the changes in the temple are driven by the desires in Master Zhengguang's heart. No one expected that even after ascending to the immortal world, Master Zhengguang would still be affected by Xin Chen.

No one expected that Master Zhengguang actually had a desire to expand the temple.

Master Zhengguang took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and seemed to enter a state of meditation in an instant.

Yi Gan sat on the mat with a nervous mood, sweating profusely.

This was the first time it had committed suicide in the fairy world, completely changing its original cowardly state.

Among them, there are negative emotions of being bullied by the magician, the joy of getting the Heart Dust, and the rebellious mentality of wanting to slap Master Zhengguang in the face...

In the final analysis, its brain was controlled by the goblin instinct, and it planned this suicidal act.

It feels great when it commits suicide, but when it remembers that this is the fairyland and any fairy can kill it with ease, it instantly breaks out in a sweat.

Feeling like sitting on pins and needles, uneasy, and nervous... Yigan couldn't stand or sit. Finally, after thinking for a while, he picked up the gavel and started hitting the wooden fish again. Master Zhengguang seemed to have said that chanting Buddha's name can calm the mind?

Knock...knock...knock...

“Ah… Amitabha… Amitabha… Aba… Amitabha…”

The incoherent Buddhist chanting and the sound of the wooden fish rang out again, and Master Zhengguang, who had been closing his eyes in meditation, opened his eyes.

"Ugh!"

He sighed, and Yigan's ears pricked up, but the gavel in his hand could no longer knock.

"I originally thought that being able to ascend to the immortal realm proved that I was more advanced in my practice than humans, closer to attaining enlightenment and becoming a Buddha, and on the right path. But I didn't expect that it was this pride that blinded my heart and prevented me from seeing my deepest desires."

Master Zhengguang sighed again and continued:

"Originally there is nothing, so where can dust gather? If I really have no desires, why would I need a Buddhist temple? To chant Buddha's name with all my heart? To seek the truth with all my heart? It's fine to have desires, but the worst thing is that I have desires but I can't see them and I don't admit them. Thinking about it carefully, my state of mind has become worse during these days in the fairy world than before I ascended."

Master Zhengguang looked at the trembling Yigan and asked:

"By the way, why am I so deeply affected by Xin Chen, but you are not hurt at all?"

Yi Gan was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that he had also absorbed a lot of smoke from the burning heart dust, so how come he was not hurt at all?

No, it has desires, and it is precisely because of the burning desire to die that it scatters the dust of its heart into the incense burner.

Goblins are creatures whose intelligence is driven by instinct. Although they have brains, they use them for instinct. They are completely different from immortals like Master Zhengguang who use wisdom to restrain desires and practice diligently.

"Because I'm a goblin, a creature whose brain is driven by instinct, my desires are naturally maximized. So the Heart Dust can't strengthen my desires at all."

Igan said.

After listening to this, Master Zhengguang thought about it for a while and then burst into laughter.

"Hahahaha! All my life I have regarded desire as a scourge. I have used precepts to restrain myself and Buddhist teachings to improve myself, so as to avoid falling into the abyss of desire. But when I really encountered strong temptation, I was worse than a goblin who let desire control his brain."

Master Zhengguang calmed down again, looked at Yi Gan who was still holding the gavel and sweating profusely, and said:

"Don't be afraid. I won't hurt you. I also want to thank you for bringing the Heart Dust today. It allowed me to discover my blind spots in cultivation. Be it fate or karma, it was because I was arrogant and forceful in asking you to cultivate in the past that you are now teaching me a lesson with the Heart Dust."

"From today on, you don't have to come here to chant Buddha's name every day. You can do whatever you want and follow your own path. Next, I will enter into a state of meditation and contemplate what I have cultivated in the past few hundred years of my ascension. The Buddhist temple will be temporarily closed for a while."

After listening to Master Zhengguang's words, Yi Gan gradually relaxed.

"Then I don't have to chant the Buddha's name and do morning prayers every day?"

Igan asked.

"No, I've been chanting Buddha's name for my whole life, but I still can't resist temptation. My performance is not as good as you, a goblin who has indulged in desires all his life. What qualifications do I have to ask you to chant Buddha's name?"

Master Zhengguang said self-deprecatingly.

Yi Gan was very happy and felt that he was finally free. But when he saw Master Zhengguang's face suddenly become haggard because of his self-blame, he felt a little uncomfortable.

"Then... shall I leave?"

Yigan didn't know what he could do for Master Zhengguang, and it was absolutely impossible for him to come back to chant the Buddha's name. So he decided to leave first and let Master Zhengguang adjust his mentality.

"Let's go. I'm going to be in seclusion now. This temple will not be open for the time being."

Master Zhengguang said.

Yi Gan nodded, said goodbye to Master Zhengguang, and walked out of the Buddhist temple.

But when he reached the door, Yi Gan turned around and looked at Master Zhengguang in confusion.

"Master, won't you change the temple back?"

Igan asked.

"Change back?"

Master Zhengguang was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, that's right... I don't quite understand what you're worried about, but I feel that the temple becoming so magnificent is not what you want. Since you don't want it, why not change it back?"

Igan asked.

Master Zhengguang was stunned after hearing this, then he laughed:

"Hahaha! You see things more clearly than I do. That's right, we just need to change it back. But even if I change the temple back now, it will be reborn. If my state of mind is not up to par, it's useless to tear it down. I still have a long way to go in my cultivation. When the day comes when I can tear down the temple myself, I can directly change it back to its original state."

"Isn't this easy? I can just help you take it apart, right?"

After Yi Gan finished speaking, he tore down a wall with a bang.

A vein on Master Zhengguang's forehead jumped.