Chapter 627 — The Venerable Brahma Heaven King Buddha
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The boxing art Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha spoke of was in fact the Thunder Cry Eight Techniques. Shen Mu had learned the Thunder Cry Eight Techniques from Old Master Huo and passed them to Xuanliao the Demon Ape Zhankong; after Xuanliao learned them, he encountered the Old Tathagata, who felt a karmic connection and simply transmitted the complete Mahayana Scripture of Thunder Cry to him. Monk Chenghuai, by contrast, had been taught the Thunder Cry Eight Techniques by Jingming the White-Browed Monk; Monk Jingming had not himself learned them completely and had left flaws. Later, Xuanliao the Demon Ape Zhankong brought the many demon monks of Little Thunder Sound Temple to Great Tingming Temple, and in a debate on the Dharma no one at Great Tingming Temple could match him.
Monk Chenghuai hurried over upon hearing of it and debated with Xuanliao the Demon Ape, and though defeated, he was honored. Old Master Huo then transmitted the complete Mahayana Scripture of Thunder Cry to him, and so he too received the complete lineage. Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha smiled: "I too came from the lower realm and attained Buddhahood at Great Tingming Temple. You and I share a karmic connection.
I will take you to Brahma Heaven. " Beneath his smooth feet rose a lotus cloud, bearing the three of them up, rising slowly through vast clouds and mists and through layers of dragon-snake lightning, climbing higher and higher, passing through one world and then another.
Shen Mu clicked his tongue in wonder. Only now did he see that the Buddha realm's twenty heavens were in fact built around a mountain of inconceivable size. This mountain floated amid the starry cosmos; within the mountain were mountains, within the mountain were seas, and sun, moon, and stars.
It was a world unto itself, with its own world barrier.
This world was divided into twenty worlds, twenty heavens, layer upon layer, each with sun, moon, and stars in motion, each with a continent where Buddhist kingdoms stood in profusion. Had Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha not brought them, to climb to the summit — even if Shen Mu and the others flew at full strength — would likely have taken years!
Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha brought them to Brahma Heaven at the very top, where Brahma Heaven was built upon the summit of this magnificent, wondrous mountain. It was also called the Golden Summit.
Here ten thousand rays of light shone, in eternal day, with no division of day and night. In the golden clouds, mountain peaks thrust forth their heads, ten thousand fathoms of golden light, sacred and solemn.
The golden light formed many Buddhist Sanskrit characters, flowing ceaselessly in the air, wreathing each mountain peak in a wondrous spectacle of Buddhist scripture. Arriving here, they even heard a vast sound, resonant as the tolling of a bell — whether the voice of the Buddhist Sanskrit or the chanting of sentient beings reaching this place, they could not tell.
Xuanliao the Demon Ape Zhankong could not help but exclaim in praise: "Pot, bun! " Shen Mu nodded and praised: "It really is like a freshly steamed cornmeal bun.
This golden light is like the billowing steam rising from a hot bun. " Emperor Shakra Heaven King Buddha did not know whether to laugh or cry, and said: "This Buddha-son's metaphor is quite apt.
That mountain forest is where the Brahma Heaven King Buddha lives in seclusion. Many Buddha-sons have already gone over.
I will send you there. " He brought Shen Mu and the others through layer upon layer of Buddhist scriptures and Dharma texts, flew to the center of the golden sea, and landed in a mountain forest. This place was extremely quiet and elegant, with broad, level roads, and in the center a temple that looked not large.