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Chapter 6: The Living Buddha Child
Chapter 6: The Living Buddha Child
Being a natural genius and a grandmaster are two completely different concepts, especially when the latter has already awakened their spiritual power. The most obvious sign of a natural genius is the ability to take shortcuts, such as consuming certain heavenly elixirs or receiving the dedicated guidance of a grandmaster.
With the resources and heritage of the Great Zen Temple, they could easily create several natural geniuses in the Martial Way if they were willing to pay the price. However, such an act would be meaningless. For a grand sect like the Great Zen Temple, having a few more natural geniuses in the Martial Way would not bring about any fundamental changes.
What truly matters to the Great Zen Temple are grandmasters.
The ones who can shape the destiny of the world are the supreme grandmasters.
However, when it comes to breaking through to the grandmaster realm or the supreme grandmaster realm, external objects and resources are of minimal use.
To break through from a natural genius to a grandmaster, one must achieve perfect control over their power. And to ascend from grandmaster to supreme grandmaster, one must awaken their spiritual power, a journey that often ends in death.
This was why the abbot and the others from the Great Zen Temple were so shocked when they realized that the mysterious supreme grandmaster who had displayed spiritual power might be Lin Yuan from the Scripture Depository. The emergence of a supreme grandmaster was a rare event; the last known supreme grandmaster had been the founding emperor of the Great Li Dynasty, a hundred and eighty years ago.
Given the passage of time, it was not entirely impossible for another supreme grandmaster to appear. However, it was expected that such a figure would emerge from among the long-renowned grandmaster peaks.
As for Lin Yuan? He was just an eight-year-old child. How could he possibly be the supreme grandmaster who towered over the invincible masters of the current age? It was completely beyond reason and comprehension.
In the rear mountain of the Great Zen Temple, the elder monk with long eyebrows was also startled by the spiritual fluctuation emanating from the Scripture Depository.
"Spiritual power?"
"Has my disciple Hui Zhen already reached the realm of a supreme grandmaster?"
The elder monk's eyes glazed over as he muttered to himself. Even though he had long expected this day, he couldn't help but be emotionally stirred at this moment.
As the grandmaster of this generation of the Great Zen Temple, he had once taught Lin Yuan for two months and was well aware of his terrifying talent in the Martial Way. In the elder monk's opinion, Lin Yuan would have no problem becoming a grandmaster in the future and might even have a great chance of reaching the realm of a supreme grandmaster.
But that was supposed to be decades later.
And now, just five years had passed.
Could Lin Yuan have already become a supreme grandmaster? The elder monk with long eyebrows was even more shaken than the abbot and the chief priest.
The abbot and the chief priest were only at the peak of the natural genius realm. They knew how difficult it was to break through to the supreme grandmaster realm, but they didn't have a concrete understanding of it.
However, the elder monk was a grandmaster, just one realm away from becoming a supreme grandmaster. He constantly felt the vast gulf between a grandmaster and a supreme grandmaster. Even with the secret method left by the founder, he had no clue how to break through to the supreme grandmaster realm.
Inside the Scripture Depository, Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, suppressing the fluctuations of his spiritual power.
"This spiritual power is similar to the 'Psychic Master' evolution path of the Cosmic Human Civilization," Lin Yuan speculated in his mind.
In the Cosmic Human Civilization, evolvers were not a secret. Many evolution paths had been derived, and most citizens were aware of them.
The Psychic Master evolution path required special means to stimulate the mind, thereby mastering psychic power and exhibiting various incomprehensible abilities.
"It's only similar, not the same," Lin Yuan thought to himself.
The psychic power mastered by evolvers on the Psychic Master evolution path tended towards illusions. However, the spiritual power of a supreme grandmaster in the Martial Way was purely a killing art, and the oppression it brought was even greater than that of a Psychic Master.
Moreover, the bodies of Psychic Masters in the Cosmic Human Civilization were generally considered weak and frail. In contrast, a supreme grandmaster in the Martial Way had already surpassed the physical limits of an ordinary person and could perfectly control every ounce of strength in their body.
Lin Yuan did not know the specifics of the strengths and weaknesses of the Psychic Master evolution path. However, he speculated that in terms of combat power, the Psychic Master might be slightly weaker.
"The Martial Way, in the context of the Cosmic Human Civilization, should be considered a brand-new evolution path, right?"
"If I can further develop the Martial Way to greater heights in this world and then present it to the Goddess of Wisdom upon my return, I should be able to receive a substantial reward."
Lin Yuan contemplated silently in his heart.
After learning about the mandatory conscription, Lin Yuan had once inquired with the Goddess of Wisdom, and he knew that she placed great importance on new evolution paths.
"Are they all waiting outside?"
Lin Yuan seemed to sense something and glanced towards the outside of the Scripture Depository.
When one breaks through to the Grand Master realm and refines their spiritual power, it is inevitable that it will be noticed by others.
Thus, it was only natural that the abbot and the chief priest would become aware of it.
Outside the Scripture Depository.
The elder monk with long eyebrows, the abbot of the Great Zen Temple, and the chief priest were waiting.
If there were other monks present, they would have noticed that the usually dignified abbot and chief priest now wore expressions of nervousness.
It was as if they were students about to meet a teacher they admired.
Anxious.
Anticipatory.
"Come in."
Just then, a gentle voice sounded in everyone's ears.
"Yes."
With permission, the abbot and the chief priest breathed a sigh of relief and followed the elder monk into the Scripture Depository.
"Greetings, Buddha Child."
On the third floor of the Scripture Depository, the elder monk and the others finally met Lin Yuan.
They immediately bowed.
They had no choice.
If Lin Yuan's achievement of the Innate Realm at the age of three could be explained as a once-in-a-millennium Martial Arts prodigy, then his attainment of the Grand Master realm at the age of eight defied all explanation.
Only the legendary reincarnation of a true Buddha, a living Buddha Child, could bring their cognition back into alignment.
Without hesitation, everyone, including the elder monk, addressed Lin Yuan as 'Buddha Child'.
"Buddha Child?"
Lin Yuan smiled faintly, neither confirming nor denying it.
Lin Yuan knew his own affairs, and he was certainly not any 'Buddha Child'.
But as long as Lin Yuan himself didn't speak of it, no one would ever know the truth.
Subsequently, Lin Yuan chatted with the abbot and the chief priest for a while.
He took the opportunity to share the insights he had gained over the past few years about breaking through from the Innate Realm to the Master Realm, presenting them as guidance.
This was like a great enlightenment for the abbot and the chief priest.
As a Grand Master inheritance, the Great Zen Temple naturally had records of how to break through to the Master Realm.
These were the precious legacies left by the founder, Bodhidharma, and the successive generations of Grand Masters.
However, even the notes left by Bodhidharma contained many things that the abbot and the chief priest only vaguely understood.
Being able to do something did not necessarily mean that one fully grasped the underlying principles and essence of that action.
It was common knowledge that breaking through to the Master Realm required perfect control over one's power.
But how to achieve that perfect control and what it truly meant was not elaborated upon, let alone how to actually accomplish it.
However, Lin Yuan, with his heaven-defying comprehension, flawlessly replicated the process of breaking through from the Innate Realm to the Master Realm and provided specific methods.
This nearly brought tears of joy to the abbot and the chief priest.
Through Lin Yuan's guidance, they finally saw hope for breaking through to the Master Realm.
If they could consolidate their cultivation for ten or twenty years, perhaps they too could step into the realm of Masters.
With just a few words, Lin Yuan had paved the way for the Great Zen Temple to have several Masters in the coming decades.
Who else but a Buddha Child could possess such ability?
It could be said that if anyone dared to question Lin Yuan's identity as the 'Buddha Child' now, the abbot and the chief priests of the Great Zen Temple would be the first to object.
(End of Chapter)
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