Chapter 6: The Living Buddha Child

Innate and Grandmaster are not concepts that can be equated.

Let alone a Great Grandmaster who has already developed spiritual psychic power?

The most obvious manifestation is that those in the Innate Realm can take shortcuts.

For example, consuming a certain spiritual medicine of heaven and earth.

Or perhaps receiving the full-force transmission of power from a certain Grandmaster.

With the foundation of the Great Zen Temple, if willing to pay the price,

it's entirely possible to artificially create a few Innate Realm Martial Tao Experts.

But such an act is meaningless.

For a Great Martial Sect like the Great Zen Temple,

having a few more Innate Martial Tao experts won't make a fundamental impact.

What can truly decide the fate of the Great Zen Temple...

...are the Grandmasters.

...and the Great Grandmasters.

The latter can even determine the great trends of the world.

However.

Whether stepping into the Grand Master Realm or the Realm of Great Grandmaster,

external objects are of minimal use.

Breaking through from Innate to Grandmaster requires perfect control of strength.

To break through from Grandmaster to Great Grandmaster, one must develop spiritual psychic power, with a slim chance of survival.

This is also why the abbot of the Great Zen Temple and others were shocked when they realized that the mysterious Great Grandmaster, who displayed spiritual psychic power, might be Lin Yuan from the Sutra Pavilion.

In today's world, a Great Grandmaster emerges only once in hundreds of years.

The last known Great Grandmaster was the founding emperor of the Dali Dynasty, one hundred and eighty years ago.

Calculating the time, it's not entirely impossible for a new Great Grandmaster to be born.

But it should be someone from among those long-renowned individuals at the Grandmaster Peak.

As for Lin Yuan?

Mere an eight-year-old child.

How could he possibly be a Great Grandmaster who dominates the era, invincible under the heavens?

This is completely beyond reason, beyond comprehension.

...

In the back mountain of the Great Zen Temple.

Elder Long Eyebrow, who was in seclusion, was also startled by the spiritual fluctuations coming from the room in the Sutra Pavilion.

"Spiritual psychic power?"

"Has my disciple Hui Zhen already stepped into the realm of Great Grandmaster?"

Elder Long Eyebrow's gaze turned blank as he murmured to himself.

Even though he had anticipated this day, his emotions still fluctuated uncontrollably at this moment.

As the Grandmaster of this generation in the Great Zen Temple,

Elder Long Eyebrow had once taught Lin Yuan for two months and was aware of his terrifying talent in Martial Tao.

In Elder Long Eyebrow's view,

it was no problem for Lin Yuan to become a Grandmaster in the future,

and he even had a great chance of touching the realm of Great Grandmaster.

But that was something for several decades later.

Now, only five years had passed.

Lin Yuan, now a Great Grandmaster?

Compared to the abbot and leaders of the temple, Elder Long Eyebrow's shock was even greater.

The abbot and temple leaders were only at the Innate Realm Peak.

They knew of the difficulty of breaking through to the realm of Great Grandmaster,

but they didn't have a concrete concept of it.

Elder Long Eyebrow, however, was a Grandmaster.

Only one realm away from becoming a Great Grandmaster.

He was constantly aware of the vast chasm between a Grandmaster and a Great Grandmaster.

Even with the secret techniques for breaking through left by Patriarch Bodhidharma,

Elder Long Eyebrow had no clue about how to make the breakthrough to Great Grandmaster.

...

Inside the Sutra Pavilion.

Lin Yuan sat cross-legged, containing the fluctuations of his spiritual psychic power.

"This spiritual force, is it similar to the 'Mind Master' evolution path of the cosmic human civilization?"

Lin Yuan speculated in his heart.

In cosmic human civilization, evolvers are no secret.

The many evolution paths that have emerged from this are well known to most citizens.

The Mind Master path of evolution requires stimulating the mind through special means.

And then he mastered the power of the mind, unleashing many abilities that were beyond imagination.

"It is only similar, not the same,"

Lin Yuan thought to himself.

The Evolvers of the Mind Master evolution path have a mastery of mental power that leans towards the illusionary aspects.

Whereas the spiritual powers of a Great Grandmaster are purely for killing and warfare, creating an oppressive force that surpasses that of the Mind Masters.

Moreover, in the cosmic human civilization, the flesh and blood of the Mind Masters are generally considered weak points, and appear somewhat frail.

But a Great Grandmaster's body has long surpassed the limits of ordinary people, and they are able to perfectly control every bit of their strength.

Lin Yuan did not know the specific advantages and disadvantages of the Mind Masters' evolution path.

But he speculated in his heart that in terms of combat power, the Mind Masters should be somewhat weaker.

"Martial Tao, when considered in cosmic human civilization, should be considered a completely new evolution path?"

"If I can deduce the Martial Tao to a higher level in this realm and later present it to the Goddess of Wisdom for evaluation, I should be able to obtain a substantial reward..."

Lin Yuan silently pondered.

After learning about the forced conscription, Lin Yuan had asked the Goddess of Wisdom and knew that she highly valued new evolution paths.

"Are they all waiting outside?"

Lin Yuan seemed to sense something and glanced outside the Sutra Pavilion.

When breaking through to the realm of Great Grandmaster, condensing spiritual powers inevitably led to spreading the news.

As a result, it was only normal for the Abbot and the heads of the monastery to notice.

...

Outside the Sutra Pavilion.

Elder Long Eyebrow, the Abbot of the Great Zen Temple, and the heads of the monastery were all waiting.

If there were other monks present, they would notice that

the Abbot and the heads, who normally presented themselves with the poise of high monks, were now showing a trace of nervousness on their faces.

It was as if they were schoolchildren about to meet a teacher they admired.

Uneasy.

Expectant.

"Everyone, come in."

Just then, a gentle voice rang out in everyone's ears.

"Yes."

After receiving permission, the Abbot and the heads exhaled slightly and followed Elder Long Eyebrow into the Sutra Pavilion.

"We greet the Buddha Child."

On the third floor of the Sutra Pavilion, Elder Long Eyebrow and others finally saw Lin Yuan.

They immediately bowed and said.

They had no choice.

If one could explain Lin Yuan reaching the Innate Realm at the age of three as a once-in-a-millennium Martial Tao prodigy,

then stepping into the Realm of Great Grandmaster at the age of eight was something that could not be explained by any stretch of common sense.

Only the reincarnation of a true Buddha, a Buddha Child on earth, could reel back people's cognition.

Everyone, including Elder Long Eyebrow, did not hesitate to address Lin Yuan as 'Buddha Child'.

"Buddha Child?"

Lin Yuan slightly smiled, without admitting it, nor denying it.

Lin Yuan's own family knew their own affairs; he was not any 'Buddha Child'.

But as long as Lin Yuan kept silent about it, no one else would know.

Next, Lin Yuan spoke a few words with the Abbot and the heads.

He took the chance to share his enlightenment about the breakthrough from the Innate Realm to the Grandmaster Realm over the past few years, explaining it in a way that offered guidance.

This directly enlightened the Abbot and the heads like an epiphany.

The Great Zen Temple, as a Great Martial Sect with a Great Grandmaster's heritage, naturally had records on how to break through to the Grandmaster level.

These were the precious heritages left by Patriarch Bodhidharma and successive Grandmasters.

However, even the manuscripts left by Patriarch Bodhidharma contained many things that the Abbot and the heads found difficult to fully grasp.

Being able to do certain things doesn't necessarily mean understanding all the principles and essences of those things.

They all knew that to break through to the Grandmaster, one needed to perfectly control every bit of their own strength.

But exactly how to control it perfectly, and what it means to do so, was not elaborated, let alone how to achieve it.

Yet Lin Yuan, relying on his Against-Heaven's Understanding, was able to faithfully replicate the process of breaking through from the Innate Realm to the Grandmaster Realm, giving specific methods and means.

This almost moved the Abbot and the heads to tears.

With Lin Yuan's guidance, they could now at least see the hope of breaking through to the Grandmaster level.

If they could absorb this guidance for ten or twenty years, perhaps they too could step into the domain of Grandmaster.

With just a few words from Lin Yuan, he nearly cultivated several Grandmasters for the Great Zen Temple's future in the next few decades.

This capability...

If not the Buddha Child, then who else could achieve it?

Indeed, if anyone now dared to doubt Lin Yuan's identity as the 'Buddha Child',

the Abbot of the Great Zen Temple and the several heads would be the first to disagree.