Chapter 1055: Chapter 670: Eternal Withering and Flourishing, the Truth of Buddha, Super Lineage! (Part 3)

However, all things have two extremes, both great joy and great sorrow.

Great joy is not the frivolous laughter of the mundane world, but eyes wide open, eyebrows raised high, the corners of the mouth splitting to the ears without the slightest concealment, just like Senior Brother Ding Guang at this moment!

Usually, when a monk feels great joy, it is often accompanied by great clarity and great enlightenment.

Senior Brother Ding Guang...

What’s he so happy about, because of Meng Chuan?

The doubts in the monks’ minds were no less than his.

Senior Brother Ding Guang has always been steady, yet at this moment the corners of his eyes and eyebrows couldn’t suppress the inexplicable intense pleasure.

This trace of a smile in the eyes of the monks became the deepest perplexity.

What is there to rejoice in?

The sound of a needle dropping could be heard in the Dharma Cave, and all the monks’ gazes were fixed, just as Meng Chuan’s scalp grew increasingly numb.

Ding Guang leaned against the cave wall, his wild expression gradually restrained, yet the indescribable pressure continued to envelop the entire place, still intensifying, leaving everyone breathless.

At the same time.

The monks were suppressed with varied expressions, those with stronger physiques frowning their brows, pretending to be unaffected.

Those less skilled in hard skills, merely Innate Grandmasters, relied on their Gang Transformation bodies to withstand it, lowering their bodies and eyes with some embarrassment, but Meng Chuan was completely unaffected.

Perceiving the appearance of everyone, Meng Chuan secretly figured something out:

"From the beginning, although Ding Guang’s gaze seemed to sweep over, its momentum only fell upon me.

It seems something abnormal arose back then, rather than during the transfer of skills..."

His thoughts were instantly interrupted, yet he heard Senior Brother Ding Guang close those strange eyes and speak word by word:

"Meng Chuan?

The Five Elements support each other, full and harmonious, unobstructed; Yin and Yang are interdependent from the same source, clear and turbid are naturally divided, and Primordial Chaos is boundless; physical control is exquisitely manifested, freely shaped, unyielding to a hundred trials...

Learning the Prajna Dragon Elephant is truly beneath your talent, what I will pass on to you is called the [Everlasting Withering and Thriving True Sutra]."

As his words fell, the hall instantly plunged into dead silence.

Most of the monks were extremely puzzled, what is the Divine Techniques [Everlasting Withering and Thriving True Sutra], is it from within the temple?

How have they never heard of it...

Even more surprising to the monks was that this was their first time seeing Senior Brother Ding Guang so joyous, even actively imparting teachings, passing them to Meng Chuan, an outsider of the Three Sages!

"Meng Chuan’s talent has driven Senior Brother to such ecstasy that he wishes to impart the temple’s true secret technique?"

"The name is so dominant, it might be a top-level Divine Skill no less than the Tathagata’s Divine Palm..."

"Donor Meng’s talent is indeed extraordinary, no wonder he created a skill that even this old monk cannot fathom..."

"Caught showing off, weren’t you claiming not to have learned it..."

The monks whispered in their hearts but dared not express the slightest in front of Ding Guang.

Still standing like a pine tree, sitting like a clock.

Apart from them, a few even older venerables’ pupils suddenly contracted, their exchanged glances full of turbulent waves...

"Withering and Thriving True Sutra..."

"The abbot is in retreat and cannot be disturbed, please ask Brother Shi to notify the on-duty Divine Monk in the temple, the lost Everlasting Withering and Thriving True Sutra is likely about to re-emerge!"

The origin of Senior Brother Ding Guang, only those within the temple of the Five Limits and above are privy to.

Everlasting Withering and Thriving True Sutra...

This technique was the fundamental Divine Skill practiced by Senior Brother Ding Guang in his past life, proven through countless reincarnations with supreme wisdom, an enlightenment, not a creation.

Failing to Break Eight and enter Dao, he could still persist in such a form.

Its essence is neither life nor death, nearly transcending the shackles of the cycle of reincarnation, remaining eternally in the world in a state of neither life nor death, also the exaggerated effect of this method!

Senior Brother Ding Guang has a renowned title both within the temple and in the outside world, akin to a Martial Arts title—

[Past Buddha]

[Ran Deng Ancient Buddha]...

Exaggerated Incense Fire Divine Power also upholds this origin.

"Life breeds and multiplies, vegetation thrives and withers, finding hope within destruction, seeking dawn within the cycle of reincarnation. The Withering and Thriving Dao Principle, directly points to the heavenly path of life and death, are you willing to learn?!"

Ding Guang’s voice was like a great bell, crashing into Meng Chuan’s heart spirit, oscillating endlessly...

...

Inside the great hall.

The voice of the Immaculate Divine Monk narrating gently, with a tone of ’drawing in’, divulging the entire truth to Meng Chuan.

"...

This is the origin of Senior Brother Ding Guang, who in his life practiced the way of spiritual cultivation for thousands of kalpas, transcending Breaking Seven, yet unfortunately, fell during Breaking Eight, the greatest ability in the Buddhist Sect from ancient to present.

After death, existing forever with a heart of thousands of kalpas, proving the truth of everything with the Everlasting Withering and Thriving, integrating the karma of three lifetimes throughout the ages, receiving endless incense from billions of beings, ultimately achieving the Lamp-light Tathagata status, entering the ranks of a thousand Buddhas in the Majestic Kalpa, as the most honorable Past Ancient Buddha..."

Meng Chuan’s expression was one of shock.

He had previously thought of Senior Brother Ding Guang’s origins as extremely mysterious.

Learning the truth was even more astonishing...

He found two imprints appearing in his mind.

One was the [True Scripture of Eternal Withering and Flourishing], the other was [Prajna Dragon Elephant], which he asked Senior Brother Ding Guang to teach him as well.

However, besides these two imprints, Meng Chuan also noticed a golden light entering his body, seemingly sketching briefly before disappearing in an instant.

"No wonder... no wonder..."

First, put these things aside.

Upon hearing the words of the Immaculate Divine Monk, Meng Chuan’s heart felt as if a mystical light had opened up, revealing many secrets of Shaolin in his mind all at once.

The secret department of incense within Shaolin Temple, the strategies of the temple’s high-ups on dealing with demon taint, and more suddenly became much clearer.

And... the Future Buddha fruit?

The abbot’s prophetic revelation...

The bamboo grove’s lockdown, was it a coincidence or did Abbot Xuanmou anticipate something, thus doing so?

Was he going to pick the Future Buddha fruit, but Abbot Xuanmou realized the time was not ripe, predicting failure, hence proactively preventing it?

It was definitely not a matter of not wanting him to pick it.

Abbot Xuanmou is such a powerful figure, possessing a multitude of ways to prevent it, why choose the lowest ’avoidance’ method?

And how did the abbot know?

Could the abbot be... the World-Honored One?

Initially, he thought the Tathagata was like the True Martial Emperor of [Wudang], a spiritual leader, an embodiment of Incense Fire Divine Power.

Now, it seemed...

A bold conjecture suddenly arose in Meng Chuan’s mind...

With that thought, he probed, asking the Immaculate Divine Monk.

Does Shaolin have the Past Buddha in existence, and is the Tathagata... also a living person?

Relying on having the Scripture of Withering and Flourishing, Meng Chuan’s tone was also somewhat bold, no longer restrained.

Such words carried a hint of blasphemy when spoken.

But he had no choice; it concerned the potentially superlative trait of the Future Buddha fruit, Meng Chuan had to ask more aggressively...

The Immaculate tapped his finger on the table, his expression somewhat conflicted.

This matter was very secretive, few within Shaolin knew about it, and Meng Chuan was an outsider...

No, that’s not right!

The Immaculate seemed to realize something, his expression instantly brightened, no longer troubled.

Numerous high monks within the temple had sought to learn the [True Scripture of Withering and Flourishing] from Senior Brother Ding Guang, but all had failed, including himself!

Senior Brother Ding Guang had once confessed that the method of practicing this script involved breaking through tribulations and rebirth of the spirit.

But the current path of practice had shifted from Martial Arts through Qi Blood to Dao Principle cultivation, with no one specifically cultivating the spiritual path.

Moreover, the ’Mysterious Qi’ of today, or ’Innate Qi’, no longer existed; even with unparalleled Spiritual Power talent, he could not solely rely on the spiritual path to reach the extreme limits of Senior Brother Ding Guang’s era.

However, the second method of practice was also the entry method studied by Senior Brother Ding Guang after ’entering Nirvana, leaving the physical body’.

The conditions for it, as stated in the words within the Dharma Cave...

Only Meng Chuan accomplished it...

He inherited the [True Scripture of Eternal Withering and Flourishing] which no one in the temple could practice, becoming the ’only disciple accepted posthumously’ by Senior Brother Ding Guang who had closed and then reopened the door...

It was not about imparting the method, but a predictive declaration...

The person appointed by the Past Buddha’s future prediction!

The core figure of the temple, truly one of them!

In that case, the Immaculate Divine Monk candidly stated:

"Junior Brother Meng, the Tathagata the World-Honored One is the Dharma Body of Abbot Xuanmou, and also the sacred fetus of Breaking Seven, Junior Brother, you have halfway entered Buddhism without expertise, no need to overthink, just consider Abbot Xuanmou as the World-Honored One, and the World-Honored One as Abbot Xuanmou."

"..."

Sure enough, it’s real...

It’s really the Tathagata.

Moreover,

how did I go from being a donor to a junior brother?

The Immaculate’s gaze carried a solemn meaning, Meng Chuan suppressed his doubts, stretched his neck to listen:

"Abbot Xuanmou, is indeed the direct disciple of Senior Brother Ding Guang!

Although Senior Brother Ding Guang did not explicitly state it, you inheriting his method, being the sole inheritor in the temple, substantively grants you the title of registered disciple.

Same generation as the abbot, also the abbot’s junior brother, senior to everyone except the Divine Monk."