Chapter 7: The Vow of the Diamond Sutra's Instantaneous Enlightenment

  Duke Ning's Mansion

  Green Pine Garden

  This was the residence of Wang Guanlan and his mother. Although his mother, Wu Shi, had a maiden name of Yu Zhen, everyone in the courtyard called her Mrs. Yu Zhen. Her status within the Ning Wang Fu was not high, and she was only a servant girl in terms of identity. However, no matter what, she gave birth to a son for Wang Bi Cheng, although he was an illegitimate child, but as an illegitimate child, he also had his own treatment. Therefore, when Wang Guanlan was born, this servant girl owned a separate courtyard, with three maids and six slaves, of course, among the three maids, only one was exclusively hers, the others belonged to Wang Guanlan.

  However, her situation is much better than before.

  But no matter how good it was, it wasn't as good as now. She had become somewhat numb, staring at the mountain of gifts on the table, including gold and jewels, accessories and decorations, rare delicacies and precious medicines, as well as fine silks and beautiful clothes. Of course, there were also many things he didn't recognize, even eight strong men and eight beautiful maids!

  "Put everything away!" Just as Madame Yu Cai was stunned, Wang Guanlan simply glanced at her and said, "Everyone retreat, Qing Song Garden doesn't need so many people!"

  "Yes, Young Master Fourteen!" Lotus Heart replied with a demure expression and downcast eyes.

  "Look at Lan!"

  "Mother, if we don't accept these things, Seventh Lady will be uneasy in her heart!" Wang Guanlan seemed to know what she wanted to say and smiled slightly, "There's still a month before the small exam, I'm going to go study!" As he spoke, without waiting for Madame Yu to say anything, he went straight back to his study and began to read diligently.

  The small study was filled with the warm glow of candles, books scattered all over the desk. In this slightly damp and cold little room, Wang Guanlan sat upright in his chair, his right hand tapping away on the table, making a soft tinkling sound, while he muttered to himself, his face solemn.

  "As I have heard. At one time, the Bhagavan was in the quiet forest of Magadha... Good men, like all worlds, gradually increase day and night... Like this, the Buddhas' lifespan and physical appearance. The Bodhisattva's world is also adorned thus. Because of the sentient beings' accumulated merit..."

  If you listen carefully, you can hear that he is reciting the sutra of rebirth for Wang Cheng.

  The moment Wang Cheng pointed at Wang Guan Chao, he was already doomed. His foolish actions saved Wang Guan Lan a lot of trouble and made him secretly let out a sigh of relief.

  However, Wang Cheng was the first person to be killed by his own shadow after he came to this world. The fear and despair in his eyes when he was taken away by the guards of the Zong Mansion made Wang Guanlan very uncomfortable. To avoid having nightmares at night, Wang Guanlan returned to his study and involuntarily began reciting the Sutra of Rebirth for Wang Cheng.

  This book of the Pure Land Sutra had been lying in his study for a long time, Wang Guanlan had only read it once, and by rights should not have any impression at all, but now Wang Guanlan could recite it fluently.

  This is what Wang Guanlan got from the time-traveling gift package, at least that's how Wang Guanlan understood it - a photographic memory.

  This ability was discovered on the second day after he crossed over, and after several days of verification, he was completely convinced that he indeed had a photographic memory.

  Is there a more ideal ability for a bookworm than this?

  It was his ability to remember everything he read that gave Wang Guanlan boundless confidence in the upcoming Tongzi exam. After crossing over for several days, he had already memorized all the books in this small study and deeply buried them in his heart. Even with just a little probing and effort, he could recite them fluently. With such skills, what's there to fear about a mere Tongzi exam?

  If it weren't for today's events ruining his originally good mood, he would have already sat cross-legged on the bed, feeling an extremely excited sensation as he sensed that tiny bit of aura within his body.

  The charm of martial arts is far greater than the temptation of a beauty for a martial arts enthusiast from this world.

  Although it was just a Refining Qi realm, the internal energy within his body was enough to let him play with it for an entire night.

  But now he's not in the mood, his mood was completely ruined by Wang Cheng's last glance at him. He ran to the study to recite the sutra of the dead, not to seek psychological comfort, but just to relieve his melancholy mood.

  The "Rebirth Sutra" has only about 600 words, and Wang Guanlan repeatedly recited several chapters. Originally, he just wanted to recite it to relieve his melancholy mood, but as time passed, he unknowingly entered a strange state of mind, and gradually, he forgot himself.

  Every word that came out of his mouth seemed to have turned into a character and merged into his body, and the sound also became somewhat illusory.

  The aura around him, his yuanqi, also underwent a strange transformation.

  Wang Guanlan's eyes involuntarily narrowed slightly, and his entire attention was focused on the Jingtu Scripture, nothing else existed besides this.

  "Huh? Which Buddhist master is this, who has attained enlightenment in my Ning Wang Fu?"

  The Ning Wang Fu, as one of the powerful local forces in the Da Qi dynasty, has always been heavily guarded.

  The heavily guarded, not only the inside and outside of the palace are all guarded by soldiers, but also the center of the Ning Wang Fu, which occupies one quarter of the city, is built on top of the largest vein in the southwest. Directly connected to this vein is the treasured heirloom of the Ning Wang Fu, the peerless spiritual instrument, Tai Huang Yu Hua Mirror.

  Taking the Tai Huang Yu Hua mirror as the center, combined with thirteen top-grade spiritual instruments and forty-two pieces of ultimate law instruments, a secret array mirror world covering the Ning Wang Fu was constructed!

  Everything that happens in the Ning Wang Fu will be reflected in the mirror world, down to the smallest detail, as long as the master of the manor is willing. Nothing can be hidden, including who pushed Wang Guanlan into the pond.

  Wang Bizheng also sat in front of the desk, his eyebrows slightly raised, and he lifted his slender index finger to draw a "circle" in the air.

  After this "circle" was completed, the space inside the "circle" turned into a clear mirror, reflecting everything that happened in Wang Guanlan's study.

  "Is it him? He's actually attained Buddhist supernatural powers, how interesting!!"

  This world also has Buddhist Dharma, and the people in the Buddhist Dharma also have supernatural powers. However, the supernatural powers of the Buddhist Dharma are different from those of ordinary warriors. The supernatural powers of the Buddhist Dharma are extremely unreasonable, they don't need to be taught by others, nor do they need to be learned, everything is obtained through enlightenment, as the saying goes "wisdom arises from stillness", and supernatural powers arise naturally.

  The Buddha ferries those who have affinity.

  If fate permits, it would be like Wang Guanlan now, unconsciously reciting scriptures while gaining insight into a Buddhist supernatural power.

  If it's not destined, then one would be white-haired and exhausted from chanting scriptures, from the age of three to three hundred, having chanted all 81 kinds of Hinayana sutras and 25 kinds of Mahayana sutras, yet only able to attain enlightenment in one or two supernatural powers.

  A good doctor can't cure every illness, and a Buddha can only save those who are predestined!!

  It's just so unreasonable!

  At least Wang Guanlan has a good relationship with Buddha tonight.

  Unbeknownst to him, the internal energy within Wang Guanlan's body had fully merged with his spirit, and under the guidance of some mysterious scripture, it transformed into a faint sword aura that emerged from his body.

  "Ksitigarbha's Vow Knife, he actually mastered this minor magical power, my son, has a surprisingly strong killing aura!!"

  At the moment when the sword energy was formed, Wang Bizheng saw the magical power that Wang Guanlan had realized, which was equal to the Vajra Sword of Mahavairocana and was called the Ksitigarbha's Fundamental Vow Knife, one of the two great killing techniques in Buddhism!

  Only Wang Guanlan was still dazed and unaware, but when the internal energy in his body was completely extracted, he suddenly opened his eyes, and a hint of confusion flashed through his gaze. The invisible knife energy followed his breath and shot out suddenly.

  Splash!!!

  In an instant, he split the desk in front of him into two halves, leaving a deep knife mark on the ground that extended all the way to the wall opposite.

  Wang Guanlan was somewhat stunned, staring blankly at the desk that had been split in two, staring at the knife marks on the floor and walls, and didn't know how long it took before he finally showed a look of realization and joy.

  "I've actually cultivated a minor Buddhist supernatural power!"

  His heart was filled with incredulity and surprise, he couldn't have imagined that just wanting to relieve his melancholy mood, reciting the Rebirth Sutra a few times would allow him to attain a Buddhist supernatural power? It really proved the saying, "The Buddha ferries those who are destined!!"

  Joy is followed by emptiness, unparalleled emptiness, spiritual emptiness, physical emptiness.

  That last blow had almost completely drained his spirit and internal energy, he was too exhausted to make a second move, all he could do was lean pale-faced against the chair, panting heavily.

  "Hmm, hmm, hmm... still... it's still too forced!"

  He was only at the first level of Qi Refining, drawing in air, the lowest level among martial artists, with internal energy barely enough to make a single slash, but this one slash's power far exceeded his imagination.

  How can the inner energy of the first layer of Qi refining cause such destruction before our eyes?

  The internal energy leaves the body, that is a means that can only be achieved in the second stage of condensing energy in the Lianqi realm, which is to say that at least you must cultivate to the fourth layer of Lianqi before you can make your internal energy leave your body. And to transform it into a knife-like energy and cut through the desk like just now, you would have to be at the level of the fifth or sixth layer of Lianqi.

  Although it's just a single slash, it can be considered a pretty good killer move. Most importantly, the Buddhist door's small magical power is increasing in power as his abilities grow, and he currently has no way of controlling this small magical power. Once he gains control over it, this small magical power will undoubtedly become an unparalleled sharp weapon in his hands.

  "It's really unexpected, the Earth Store Bodhisattva Knife, it might be due to me reciting the Rebirth Sutra earlier!" Wang Guanlan thought to himself secretly. Having come to this world for quite some time now, after a brief moment of astonishment, through the books in the room, his new worldview had basically taken shape. The famous Buddhist divine powers were naturally not something he could be kept in the dark about, it's just that he never thought that one day he would be able to comprehend a small Buddhist divine power so easily.

  "Opening the door to convenience, ferrying all those with fate, but I don't know if I've grasped a small magical power, does that count as being one of Buddha's people with fate?" Leaning back in his chair and panting for a while, Wang Guanlan struggled to sit up straight, "Unfortunately, I have no interest in shaving my head and becoming a monk!"