NOVPUB779: Chapter 779: Maitreya Buddha…
Has No Ancestors!
779 -779: Maitreya Buddha…
Has No Ancestors!
Maitreya Buddha was slain by me, and his lost soul was saved, which I am also aware of.
Since the lost soul was saved, the Buddhist Sect will surely find a way to resurrect Maitreya Buddha, and I have long been psychologically prepared for this.
However, what I did not anticipate was meeting Maitreya Buddha again under such circumstances.
Without any mental preparation, Maitreya Buddha suddenly appeared at my doorstep.
“Maitreya Buddha?” Jiang Liu said in surprise, looking at Maitreya Buddha standing at the door.
“Do you recognize me?
You must be Xuanzang, right?” Maitreya Buddha’s gaze fell on Jiang Liu, and after taking a good look, he spoke.
“Disciple Xuanzang, pays respect to Buddha…” Bowing his head, Jiang Liu spoke with reverence and saluted Maitreya Buddha.
He does not recognize me after seeing me?
Is he just inferring my identity?
Indeed, as Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva said, after the Soul-Cleansing Pool’s waters cleansed away all memories, Maitreya Buddha no longer remembers anything.
“Do not call me Buddha, for I am no longer Buddha now.
Xuanzang, just call me Maitreya Buddha!” Maitreya Buddha corrected Jiang Liu with a shake of his head upon hearing the greeting.
“Maitreya Buddha?
Not Maitreya Buddha?” Jiang Liu asked curiously, sizing up the other party again.
Truly, after the resurrection, Maitreya Buddha was entirely different from before.
Although he looked the same on the outside, the entire aura of the person was completely different.
The biggest difference was that the current Maitreya Buddha appeared very normal, but the former Maitreya Buddha almost always wore a cheerful smile on his face.
User Interface!
Looking at Maitreya Buddha before him, Jiang Liu silently exclaimed in his heart.
Immediately, the user interface of Maitreya Buddha appeared before Jiang Liu’s eyes.
ID: Maitreya Buddha (Golden)
Gender: Male.
Profession: Buddha.
Level: 90.
Equipment: …
“Level 90!?” Jiang Liu secretly marveled upon seeing Maitreya Buddha’s user interface.
Based on this level, it could only be considered the peak of Great Luo Golden Immortal, not quite at the level of Quasi-Saint, right?
“So, after the physical body was destroyed, does it mean that even if Maitreya Buddha was resurrected, his cultivation level has fallen from the Quasi-Saint level down to the level of Great Luo Golden Immortal Peak?”
Seeing the level of Maitreya Buddha, Jiang Liu whispered to himself, naturally feeling even more joyful in his heart.
Although Maitreya Buddha was resurrected, he had lost all his memories and his level had also dropped to Level 90.
In this case, the significance of my previous execution of him was indeed tremendous.
Moreover, since all Three-World Buddhas in the Buddhist Sect are of Quasi-Saint Cultivation, and now Maitreya Buddha has dropped below the Quasi-Saint level, does that mean he no longer qualifies to be called Buddha?
“You must be Zhu Bajie, right?
I have heard you are the reincarnation of Marshal Tianpeng who accidentally got reborn in a pig!”
“And you must be Sha Wujing, the reborn General Juanlian, right?”
Having lost his memories, Maitreya Buddha, with no hint of his former self, exchanged greetings with Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing as well.
“We pay our respects to the Honorable One!” Sha Wujing and Zhu Bajie also followed with their salutations.
Since he is now a Buddha and not Buddha anymore, naturally, the way they addressed him changed to the respectful title used for other Buddhas.
“By the way, Xuanzang, I heard your eldest disciple is Sun Wukong, the Great Sage Equalling Heaven, who caused Havoc in Heaven five hundred years ago.
Why is he not here?”
Having seen Jiang Liu, Zhu Bajie, and Sha Wujing with his own eyes, Maitreya Buddha immediately turned his head and asked Jiang Liu curiously.
“The Buddha is not aware!”
Although Maitreya Buddha said he is not Buddha now, Jiang Liu did not intend to change the way he addressed him: “Wukong made a small mistake not long ago in the Lingxiao Hall, and the Jade Emperor punished him to confinement for forty-nine days, so it will be some time before he can return!”
“I see!” Hearing Jiang Liu’s explanation, Maitreya Buddha nodded his head.
To Jiang Liu and the others, they were long familiar with Maitreya Buddha.
However, for Maitreya Buddha, who had lost his memories, this was his first meeting with the Journey to the West Pilgrimage Team.
So, after a brief acquaintance, Maitreya Buddha did not intend to stay for long.
Even when Jiang Liu invited him to stay for dinner, he declined.
He quickly left Exquisite Immortal Mansion and flew towards his Eastern Temple.
Since he had resurrected, he naturally wanted to check on Eastern Temple first!
“Master, Maitreya Buddha actually resurrected!
If I had known this, you should have dispersed his soul when you had the chance!”
Once Maitreya Buddha was far away, Zhu Bajie spoke up as Jiang Liu and his disciples sat at the dining table.
“Bajie, watch your words!” Jiang Liu frowned upon hearing Zhu Bajie’s words.
Although the fact that Jiang Liu killed Maitreya Buddha was not kept secret among the Scripture Seeking Team, it was still an unsolved case to the entire Three Realms.
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva specifically instructed him never to admit to this at any time.
Of course, even when chatting with his disciples, Jiang Liu didn’t want to bring up that issue.
“Master, Old Pig misspoke!” In regards to Jiang Liu, Zhu Bajie was utterly convinced of his reliability, and at his words, Zhu Bajie immediately corrected himself.
Although he advised Zhu Bajie to be more careful with his words, deep down, Jiang Liu sighed to himself.
It had to be said that Zhu Bajie made a valid point.
Wouldn’t it have been great if, when he killed Maitreya Buddha before, he had been able to completely obliterate his soul?
Unfortunately, he didn’t possess any skill capable of scattering a person’s soul!
However, thinking about it, Maitreya Buddha’s resurrection didn’t seem to have any downside for him, did it?
Having dropped to level 90, Maitreya Buddha’s strength no longer posed much of a threat to him.
The responsibility for the Journey to the West Pilgrimage Team’s tasks should still be his, right?
From now on, it wouldn’t be so easy for him to plot against Jiang Liu, would it?
As far as Jiang Liu was concerned, Maitreya Buddha’s resurrection didn’t seem to be a bad thing after all—a 90-level blue UI was not something to be afraid of.
In the following days, Jiang Liu and his companions quietly stayed inside the Exquisite Immortal Mansion, seizing the opportunity to cultivate earnestly.
Cultivating the Green Lotus Taoist Scripture, along with his Life Profession skills, Jiang Liu’s speed of accumulating Experience Points wasn’t slow.
Of course, having reached level 72, the amount of Experience Points needed to level up was increasingly substantial.
Like this, about a month’s time swiftly passed by.
One day, Jiang Liu stopped cultivating the Green Lotus Taoist Scripture and opened up his Life Skills UI.
After repairing a few pieces of equipment, a sound from his friends list went off.
Jiang Liu looked, and it was Sun Wukong’s avatar flashing.
“Master, I, Old Sun, am out!” Sun Wukong sent a message over.
“Hmm, your brother Bajie and I are still waiting at the old place for you!” Upon seeing the message from Sun Wukong, Jiang Liu naturally replied.
As Sun Wukong’s forty-nine-day sentence ended, Jiang Liu felt both happy and not so happy.
Happy because a new Spirit Mountain instance had been added to the Map of Mountains and Rivers, needing Sun Wukong to attempt to unlock it to gauge the difficulty level.
Having waited for so long, Jiang Liu was quite eager.
The unhappy part was, of course, that so much time had passed in such a dawdling manner.
After greeting Jiang Liu through the chat, Sun Wukong floated in mid-air, glaring at the Eight Trigrams Furnace that had imprisoned him for so long, filled with indignation.
He reached into his ear, pulled out the Jingu Bang, and, without hesitation, swung it at the Eight Trigrams Furnace.
Clearly, he wanted to smash the stove to vent his anger.
However, before Sun Wukong’s Jingu Bang could strike, the Eight Trigrams Furnace suddenly transformed into a stream of light and flew away, vanishing instantaneously from before Sun Wukong.
“You sure move fast, Supreme Elder Lord!” Sun Wukong scoffed, having swung at empty air, then loudly cursed in the direction where the Eight Trigrams Furnace had disappeared.
“Great Sage, it was not my idea to confine you for forty-nine days; you should hurry and find the Holy Monk—he has been waiting for you just as long!” As Sun Wukong cursed, the voice of the Supreme Elder Lord came from the sky.
“Hmph!
One of these days, I, Old Sun, will smash your Eight Trigrams Furnace!” Sun Wukong could care less about the reason; he was still visibly indignant as he spoke.
Having said that, he stowed away the Jingu Bang and turned to fly towards where his master and others were.
“Hold on…
Wait a second…” But just as he had begun to rise into mid-air, a thought struck Sun Wukong.
He looked around and realized he was currently in the Shengshenzhou Continent to the east.
“This place…
isn’t it quite close to the Eastern Sea?” he murmured to himself after reckoning his bearings.
Now that he was already near the Eastern Sea, and with the Jingu Bang in hand,
Sun Wukong deliberated for a moment, then headed straight for the Dragon Palace of Eastern Sea.
Upon his arrival, the Dragon King of Eastern Sea naturally treated Sun Wukong with great respect.
The many members of the Water Clan in the Crystal Palace were even more in awe of Sun Wukong.
When the Dragon King learned the purpose of Sun Wukong’s visit was actually to return the Sea Calming Needle, he was dumbfounded.
But as Sun Wukong inserted a Sea Calming Needle back to its original place from where he had once drawn it, the Old Dragon King was naturally overjoyed, and very grateful to Sun Wukong.
“Alright, Old Dragon King, I have now returned the Golden Hoop that I owed you—Old Sun doesn’t owe you anything anymore, I’m off!” Having returned the Sea Calming Needle, Sun Wukong spoke to the Dragon King of Eastern Sea.
As his words fell, Sun Wukong leaped up and left the Eastern Sea, summoning the Somersault Cloud and quickly arriving before Jiang Liu and the others.
“Wukong, no need to say anything else, just open the Map of Mountains and Rivers and let’s take a look!”
The first thing Jiang Liu said upon seeing Sun Wukong return was this.
(PS: I’m so tired, I’ll just update these two chapters for today, going to sleep, tomorrow is Tomb Sweeping Day…
have to burn paper and sweep graves…)
