Jieyin and Zhunti stopped their tears upon hearing this, got up from the ground, and looked at Hongjun with anticipation!
Seeing the two rise, the self-corporeal body spoke:
"I will teach you two the method to become saints, but you two must help me do one thing!"
When Jieyin and Zhunti heard this, they thought, what kind of thing is this? They thought they still had some standing in Hongjun's eyes, but they didn't expect it to be for a price!
Although the two were slightly disappointed in Hongjun, they still agreed:
"Master, rest assured, not just one thing, but ten things, and we will agree!"
The self-corporeal body nodded and then continued:
"Your cultivation is already sufficient; what you lack is Heavenly Dao merit. Today, I will teach you two the method to establish a sect and become saints!"
Jieyin and Zhunti's hearts stirred upon hearing this. What was this? They had never heard of it before! However, since their master said so, it must be reliable.
The self-corporeal body spoke:
"If you two establish a sect, Heavenly Dao will naturally bestow merit upon you two!"
Jieyin and Zhunti fell into contemplation.
Seeing their demeanor, the self-corporeal body felt that they should have understood, as this was tailor-made for them by the main body.
Just as the self-corporeal body revealed a gratified smile, Jieyin and Zhunti looked up at the self-corporeal body and asked:
"Master, you said what sect should we establish?"
Upon hearing this, the smile on the self-corporeal body's face immediately froze. Looking at Jieyin and Zhunti's confused expressions, the self-corporeal body really wanted to slap them. How would he know what sect they should establish?
Suppressing the urge to act, the self-corporeal body patiently explained:
"Establishing a sect must be based on the great Dao you cultivate!"
Jieyin and Zhunti fell into contemplation again. After a while, their eyes lit up, and they thought of what sect to establish. The two spoke:
"Now, we Jieyin and Zhunti, seeing the suffering of all beings, unable to achieve liberation, hereby establish the Western Sect to ferry all beings, and to suppress our sect's fortune with the Twelve-Grade Merit Golden Lotus!"
As the two finished speaking, meritous clouds gathered above Mount Sumeru, and a large amount of merit descended towards Jieyin and Zhunti!
The self-corporeal body smiled when he saw the two successfully absorbing merit into their bodies. He had to admit, it wasn't easy. Even after he had said so much, these two still hadn't figured it out!
The inhabitants of the Primordial World watched as the Western world lit up, emitting twelve-colored glazed radiance, with deafening Buddhist chants resonating in their ears. Illusory projections of three thousand Buddha realms floated in the sky above the West. Everyone understood that Jieyin and Zhunti in the West were also close to becoming saints!
Just as Jieyin and Zhunti were immersed in the joy of becoming saints, they suddenly realized that the merit they had gained from establishing their sect was not enough for them to become saints. They were now in an awkward situation where they had to go forward.
The self-corporeal body also noticed this problem, but Hongjun hadn't told him about it! Could it be that Hongjun had miscalculated?
Seeing that the merit was about to be absorbed by them, if there wasn't enough merit to make up for it, the two feared they would never have a chance to become saints!
In this moment of crisis, Jieyin and Zhunti suddenly had a flash of inspiration. The two spoke to heaven and earth:
"We are willing to make forty-eight great vows."
First Vow: All sentient beings, as well as those in the realm of Yama and the three evil paths, who are born in my pure land, will receive my teachings and attain anuttara-samyak-sambodhi. They will never again fall into evil paths. If I attain this vow, I shall become a Buddha; if not, I shall not attain supreme enlightenment.
Second Vow: When I become a Buddha, all sentient beings born in my land shall possess the telepathic ability. If they are not able to know the minds of beings in countless billions of Buddha-lands, I shall not attain enlightenment.
Third Vow: When I become a Buddha, all sentient beings in the ten directions who hear my name, generate bodhicitta, cultivate merits, and practice the six paramitas with firm resolve, shall return their roots of merit to my land and aspire to be born there.
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Forty-eighth Vow: When I become a Buddha, all Bodhisattvas in the Buddha-lands of the ten directions who hear my name shall attain pure liberation, samadhi, profound samgitis, and abide in samadhi, until they attain Buddhahood.
The inhabitants of the Primordial World saw the strange phenomenon in the West and initially thought that Jieyin and Zhunti were about to become saints. However, they then saw the disappearing meritous clouds, followed by the voices of Jieyin and Zhunti making great vows. Everyone was confused, not knowing what the two were doing. Su Dan Novel Network
The self-corporeal body, who had been worrying that Jieyin and Zhunti didn't have enough merit to become saints, did not expect them to come up with this method of borrowing merit from Heavenly Dao.
One had to admit that people only unleash their potential when they are pushed to their limits.
After Jieyin and Zhunti made their forty-eight great vows, the disappearing meritous clouds above Mount Sumeru converged again, bestowing boundless merit!
After absorbing all the merit from making their great vows, two saintly pressures emanated from Jieyin and Zhunti.
The inhabitants of the Primordial World quickly knelt and bowed, saying:
"We pay homage to Saints Jieyin and Zhunti!"
The moment Jieyin and Zhunti became saints, in that strange space within chaos, Hongjun gained the upper hand in his struggle with the Heavenly Dao Ghi!
It turned out that the so-called divine souls of Heavenly Dao saints co-existed not with the true Heavenly Dao, but with the half of Heavenly Dao controlled by Hongjun. Therefore, the moment Jieyin and Zhunti became saints and entrusted their divine souls to Heavenly Dao, they were in fact strengthening Hongjun!
Having gained the upper hand, Hongjun spoke:
"Ghi, stop resisting. You are already being devoured by me. How much longer can you hold on?"
Ghi remained silent, only sinking into deep regret. If he had listened to Taishang, he wouldn't have ended up like this! Now, all his hopes rested on the Sanqing!
In the Demon Court, Kunpeng looked at the West with a complicated expression, lost in thought. If these two hadn't snatched his position, he might have become a saint today!
This also strengthened Kunpeng's resolve to seize Dijun's Hetu Luoshu. With the two in the West having become saints, if he wanted revenge, he had to become a saint himself, otherwise, he would just be courting death.
On Mount Sumeru, although Jieyin and Zhunti had become saints, they couldn't be happy. The two looked at each other with wry smiles. They were now heavily indebted!
The self-corporeal body ignored them and said:
"Now that you have become saints, don't forget the promise you made to me!"
After becoming saints, Jieyin and Zhunti immediately knew that the person before them was not Hongjun, but merely one of Hongjun's three corpses. However, they still dared not be disrespectful, so they asked:
"We don't know what Master wants us to do?"
Upon hearing this, the self-corporeal body said:
"It's not a difficult task, just find a way to make the Witch Clan and the Demon Clan fight again?"
The two looked at the self-corporeal body in confusion and asked:
"The ten-thousand-year deadline hasn't passed yet, why?"
The self-corporeal body waved his hand and said:
"Just do as you are told. My task is complete, I'm leaving!"
With that, the self-corporeal body headed towards chaos!