"This old monk cannot guess."
Master Lucian shook his head.
Quinn Ye took a deep breath.
Using a loud and clear voice, he said: "The Buddha told the eagle, 'I cannot bear to see you eat this innocent dove, nor do I wish for you to starve to death.'"
Master Lucian was startled.
"As the saying goes, If I do not enter hell, who will?"
"Thus, the Buddha took out a scale, placed the dove on one side of the scale, and then cut flesh from his own body."
Whoosh!!!
Hearing these words, everyone was stunned.
For a time, the entire venue was dead silent.
Only the sound of gasping and sucking in breaths of cold air could be heard from time to time.
Master Lucian was like he had suffered a heavy blow, his whole person instantly falling into a daze.
And below the platform, Monk Hugo and the others received an even stronger mental impact.
Quinn Ye didn't seem to notice the crowd's abnormality and continued speaking.
"That dove looked small, but no matter how much flesh the Buddha cut, it could not lift its weight."
"When the Buddha cut off the last piece of flesh from his body, the scale finally balanced."
"Heaven and earth changed color for it, and the true Buddha was born from this!"
Speaking up to here, Quinn Ye looked at Master Lucian.
"Master, do you understand?"
Master Lucian stared blankly at Quinn Ye.
He didn't speak for a long time.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Below the high platform, Hugo and the other monks knelt down one by one.
Their faces were full of piety and solemnity.
"My Buddha is merciful!"
"My Buddha is merciful!"
"My Buddha is merciful!"
...
The monks kept chanting.
They were all deeply shaken by the story Quinn Ye told.
Master Lucian also finally recovered his senses from the story.
He took a deep look at Quinn Ye.
Then bowed deeply toward Quinn Ye.
"Please accept a bow from this old monk!"
Quinn Ye responded with a smile. After Master Lucian bowed, his face was full of deep emotion.
"If I do not enter hell, who will? The words of the Buddha are truly deafening and enlightening. Thank you, Benefactor Ye, for conveying the words of the Buddha to us mortals."
Quinn Ye smiled: "Now, do you understand why I answered your question this way?"
Master Lucian smiled bitterly: "This old monk understands. If that great evildoer is willing to enter Buddhism, my Buddhism naturally should give him a chance."
"But the sins of his past cannot be eliminated just like that."
"People of my Buddhism should bear the punishment on his behalf and repay his sins for him."
"This is exactly the so-called If I do not enter hell, who will?"
"Even if there is an even greater evil, compensating for it with my own life is also a form of deliverance!"
Quinn Ye nodded.
"Correct."
Master Lucian sighed, a look of shame on his face.
"To think that I received such teachings from Benefactor Ye today. This old monk feels that my years of cultivation have truly been in vain."
Quinn Ye waved his hand: "Master is being too modest."
Seeing this situation, the crowd below the platform cheered for Quinn Ye one after another.
Emperor Dominic Su had a look of excitement.
"Expert Ye is truly formidable. With just a few words, he has convinced that demonic monk."
"Yes, I truly didn't expect Expert Ye's Buddhist attainments to be so profound," Lance Xu said, full of respect.
"That Buddhist philosophy just now truly leaves one with an endless aftertaste," Chad Chen sighed with emotion.
"Hearing this, even I have the urge to become a monk," Gary Gongsun laughed.
The most excited, of course, were Hugo and the others.
They felt more and more how correct their choice to follow Quinn Ye was.
"The previous All things in the world can become Buddha, and the current If I do not enter hell, who will?, are both supreme truths of Buddhism."
A faint layer of golden light brimmed on Hugo's face.
To be able to listen to two different supreme truths of Buddhism at once was a massive Fortuitous Opportunity for him.
The other monks were similar to him, their bodies covered in a faint layer of golden light.
Their respective Buddhist cultivation levels had all improved to varying degrees.
This was all thanks to Quinn Ye.
In their eyes, Quinn Ye was no longer just the Holy Son of Buddhism, but simply a unique, unparalleled existence within Buddhism.
At this time, Master Lucian on the high platform revealed a complex expression.
"Actually, this old monk has one final question."
Quinn Ye originally thought it was all over.
You still have questions?
He almost wanted to curse.
Standing on this platform for too long, Quinn Ye didn't dare to move, and his legs were about to go numb right now.
But he still had to pretend to be calm and breezy.
So annoying.
"There's no harm in asking," Quinn Ye forced a dry laugh.
Master Lucian composed himself and asked his final question.
"The people of the world are ignorant, blinded by all sorts of mundane things, unable to see through illusions. How exactly should we people of Buddhism persuade and guide the people of the world?"
Another tricky, yet extremely difficult question to solve.
How to persuade the people of the world?
This was a difficult problem that Buddhism had not solved for many years.
Although Buddhism's influence was great, relying solely on preaching Buddhist Dharma to make the people of the world achieve a great epiphany was simply too difficult.
Like Master Lucian; along his journey, although he was followed by a hundred thousand believers...
They were all bewitched by him using a Buddhist secret art.
As long as the secret art dispersed, these people would return to normal.
They were not truly delivered and enlightened.
This old monk is truly difficult to deal with; these questions are harder to handle one by one.
Quinn Ye also felt a bit of a headache.
Fortunately, he was prepared.
He thought for a moment in his heart and had an idea.
"The people of the world are not ignorant," Quinn Ye said with a serious face.
Master Lucian was startled, but did not agree.
"If the people of the world are not ignorant, why don't they achieve an epiphany early on and join Buddhism?"
Quinn Ye asked in return: "Is joining Buddhism the only way to be considered not ignorant?"
"Uh, this..."
Master Lucian was momentarily speechless.
Quinn Ye smiled: "The boundless universe has a myriad of forms. Every person who descends into this great wide world is unique."
"They will all experience their respective lives, and will see their respective brilliance."
"Take a mortal, for example. He will experience birth, aging, sickness, and death. He will have joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness. His life passes in a flash, no more than a hundred years."
"Perhaps this mortal, when his life is approaching its end, will lament the brevity of time, and he will still be nostalgic for his life, which actually wasn't all that happy."
"Can you say he is ignorant?"
Master Lucian frowned tightly. He felt something was wrong, but for a moment he couldn't think of any words to refute.
"As for cultivators, they have long lifespans, fighting their whole lives just for higher realms and broader worlds."
"Their lives are magnificent and colorful. Perhaps they will fall obscurely, or perhaps they will fade into the crowd."
"But if you look back and ask, do you think they would regret it?"
"I think, probably no one would regret it."
Speaking up to here, Quinn Ye couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
"You feel the people of the world are ignorant only because you do not truly understand the people of the world. Only when you truly understand everything in the world and see through all the suffering of the world can you work towards delivering the people of the world."
"Before this, you and I are both merely passing travelers in this mortal realm."