Transmigration: A person in a martial arts world, cultivating to ascend to immortality

Led by soldiers, Jiang Yuchuan went directly to the emperor.

The emperor summoned Jiang Yuchuan in the imperial garden.

It was called the Imperial Garden, but due to a severe drought, the garden was now completely barren, devoid of any flowers.

"In recent years, I have heard of Master Yichuan's great name quite often!"

The middle-aged emperor looked at Jiang Yuchuan standing in front of him with a half-smile.

"You audacious bald monk! Why don't you kneel before His Majesty!"

Before Jiang Yuchuan could reply, the old eunuch standing behind the emperor pointed at Jiang Yuchuan and shouted sternly.

"This humble monk greets Your Majesty."

Jiang Yuchuan did not kneel down, but simply put his hands together and nodded slightly to the emperor.

"--presumptuous!"

The old eunuch glared, about to say something more, when the emperor, sitting in front, immediately raised his hand to interrupt him, "It's alright. Worldly understanding naturally cannot bind a high monk like Master Yichuan."

Then the emperor raised his hand, signaling all the guards, eunuchs and palace maids around him to retreat, leaving only him and Jiang Yuchuan.

After everyone had retreated, the emperor stood up, put his hands behind his back, turned his back to Jiang Yuchuan, and began to tell Jiang Yuchuan the story in a calm tone.

The protagonist of the story is a little boy from a wealthy family.

The boy's mother died during childbirth, leaving him without a mother's protection. As a result, the boy suffered greatly from the prayers of his five older brothers when he was young.

The boy's father, having listened to the slander of an old monk with a white beard, regarded the boy who had caused his mother's death as an omen of bad luck. Therefore, he ignored him and coldly watched him suffer the bullying and ridicule from his five older brothers.

If it weren't for the boy's wet nurse secretly providing him with warmth and protection, he probably wouldn't have survived.

But fate did not show him any pity for his tragic situation; instead, it ruthlessly took away his only support.

From then on, the boy became disheartened, abandoned love, and vowed to make everyone who had bullied him pay the price.

After more than a decade of enduring humiliation and secretly plotting, the grown-up boy finally got his wish, personally killing his father and five older brothers, including the old monk who raped and murdered his wet nurse, and becoming the head of the family.

But as soon as he took the position of head of the family, the man dreamed that a monk would take away everything he had worked so hard to achieve.

The man already hated monks, and this dream made him want to kill all monks.

However, Buddhism has been passed down for thousands of years, and temples of all sizes are scattered all over the country. It is impossible to eradicate them all. Therefore, men can only take it one step at a time.

The first target the man targeted was the largest temple near the imperial city—Daguo Temple.

The emperor stopped the story here, turning to look coldly at Jiang Yuchuan and saying directly:

"I greatly admire Master Yichuan's actions. As long as Master Yichuan agrees to renounce Buddhism and return to secular life, I will grant you whatever you desire, whether it be wealth or status!"

Jiang Yuchuan did not answer directly, but instead asked, "What if this humble monk refuses?"

"reject?"

The emperor smiled and said, "Then I will have no choice but to send the monk to see the Buddha ahead of schedule."

"Amitabha."

After a moment of silence, Jiang Yuchuan put his hands together, chanted Buddhist mantras, and said no more.

The emperor stared at Jiang Yuchuan for a while, his face grim, then raised his hand and summoned the soldiers waiting in the distance.

"Where are the guards? Take them away!"

Jiang Yuchuan, who refused the emperor's request, was taken to prison.

The following day at noon, Jiang Yuchuan was escorted to the execution ground by a group of soldiers and tied to a high platform made of firewood.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Yuchuan knew without a doubt what kind of punishment he would face next.

"It seems this illusion is about to end..."

Jiang Yuchuan did not struggle at all. Under the astonished gazes of the soldiers, he sat down cross-legged, twirled his prayer beads, and began to chant scriptures with his eyes lowered.

When the time for execution arrived, the soldiers in charge threw torches and set fire to the firewood beneath Jiang Yuchuan.

The fire quickly engulfed Jiang Yuchuan completely.

Despite being engulfed in flames, Jiang Yuchuan did not stop chanting scriptures.

Just as the fire engulfed Jiang Yuchuan, he suddenly felt the special energy accumulated within his body erupt instantly.

Under the influence of this energy, Jiang Yuchuan's body burst forth with intense golden light, and then he slowly rose into the air, resembling a golden Buddha descending to earth.

"I see."

After finishing reciting the Buddhist scriptures, Jiang Yuchuan transformed into a golden light and vanished into the sky.

……

After emerging from the illusion, Jiang Yuchuan slowly opened his eyes.

Only then did they realize that the surrounding scenery had changed drastically. The Ink Pool, the Golden Lotus, and the Stone Buddha statue had all disappeared, replaced by the martial artists who had disappeared into the Stone Buddha Cave earlier.

These martial artists sat cross-legged with their eyes closed, their expressions ranging from anger to sadness to pain, clearly indicating that they had not yet broken free from the illusion.

Jiang Yuchuan ignored these people and opened his palm to look at a golden-red bead the size of a fingernail that he had brought out from the illusion.

“Relics…”

Judging from the spiritual power contained in this relic, its owner was definitely a Nascent Soul cultivator in his lifetime.

Only the relics formed after a Nascent Soul Buddhist monk passes away in meditation will remain intact for thousands of years.

Although Jiang Yuchuan was not a Buddhist cultivator, a relic at the Nascent Soul level still had considerable value to him.

"It's a pleasant surprise."

After carefully putting away the relic, Jiang Yuchuan slowly raised his head and looked up, his gaze instantly locking onto the golden Buddha floating in the air.

Jiang Yuchuan leaped up, took the golden Buddha, sealed it, and stored it in his spatial storage.

"We've finally found them all!"

With all five spiritual items gathered, the remaining task is to fuse them together.

As for what changes or hints the fused spirit will exhibit, Jiang Yuchuan has no way of predicting at this point.

Once the golden Buddha is taken away, the illusion will also disappear.

Jiang Yuchuan glanced at the crowd below who were about to wake up, then immediately concealed himself and left the place.

Before leaving, Jiang Yuchuan carved a scripture that he had snatched from a Buddhist monk in his previous life onto the surrounding stone walls as a small compensation for taking the relic.

As for how much the monks of Dafosi Temple can glean from this Buddhist scripture, that depends entirely on their understanding.