Great Vehicle Tathagata Sutra

Anyang Martial Arts School.

Zhao Cheng and Shi Yi walked out from the martial arts school's rear courtyard.

"Junior Brother, when you get back later, brew a pot of the medicine from the prescription we gave you and drink it."

"You're still young, and your vitality is abundant, but you still need to take care of your body. Don't let the chill in the water harm you and leave hidden injuries behind."

After Zhao Cheng brought Shi Yi to report what had happened today to School Master Lu Feng, the two of them left the rear courtyard together.

Because of the Silver Wolf Spirit, today's task of searching for the Buddhist treasure ended early, though it was not completely over. They would continue searching for the Buddhist treasure tomorrow morning.

It was said that after the new arrangements, every team would be assigned a Martial Warrior expert who had undergone Muscle Refinement.

Shi Yi and the others did not need to wait to head to Mount Jiuhua. The head of the Divine Constable Bureau would personally lead a team there to investigate.

"Mm, thank you for the reminder, Senior Brother."

Shi Yi nodded at his words.

The waterfall water in the mountains was freezing cold, carrying a bone-piercing chill. Staying in it for too long would harm the body and leave hidden injuries.

There might not be any problems while one was young, but once old age came, those hidden injuries would flare up.

They might also affect future cultivation.

The reason Zhao Cheng had not hidden beside the waterfall was not only because he felt it was a poor place to hide, but also because he did not want the chill of the waterfall to injure his body.

If the Silver Wolf Spirit discovered him in the waterfall, he would have had no power to resist. The cold would freeze his body until his reactions slowed, leaving him no way to escape.

"Senior Brother, you should also wash yourself properly when you get back."

Shi Yi looked at Zhao Cheng as he spoke.

Although Zhao Cheng had cleaned himself up, he had not managed to remove all the traces from his body.

There was still quite a bit of mud on him, making him look rather bedraggled.

Zhao Cheng gave a bitter smile at that.

The two parted ways at the entrance to the martial arts school.

Shi Yi headed back to his residence.

Blue Star.

"Beep beep beep~"

When Shi Yi returned to Blue Star, notifications sounded one after another from the chat app on his phone.

He unlocked his phone and opened the chat app. Most of the messages were from the class group.

After @-mentioning everyone, the homeroom teacher posted the results of the second-year final exams in the group.

Shi Yi opened the image of the results to take a look.

His name was still at the very top, ranked first.

His total score for the final exams was not perfect. He was five points short, losing two points in Chinese and three in mathematics.

There was also a file with the grade rankings, which Shi Yi opened to view.

He was still first, forty-five points ahead of second place in the grade—a lead so vast that the others could only gaze after him.

The reason there had been so many notifications was that the homeroom teacher had specifically announced in the group that Shi Yi had placed first in the entire city this time. Quite a few people had @-mentioned him to congratulate him.

Otherwise, Shi Yi had notifications muted, so there would not have been so many alert sounds at all.

After sending a message in the group to thank them, Shi Yi exited the class group.

The other person who had messaged him was his mother. She congratulated him on taking first place again, sent him a ten-thousand-yuan red packet as a reward for coming first, and then asked whether he wanted to come home and stay for a few days.

After Shi Yi declined, he closed the chat app and set down his phone.

He had already had a rough idea of how the second-year final exams had gone. After looking over the report card, he stopped paying attention to the matter.

Once exams were over, he basically never concerned himself with them again.

Shi Yi took out the pen-shaped magnifying glass and continued studying the Bodhi seed.

By now, he had a fairly clear understanding of some of this Bodhi seed's circumstances.

According to news from the Divine Constable Bureau, the one in his possession was the mother bead of the Vajra Bodhi Bracelet.

It came from the Great Vehicle Tathagata Sutra of Great Putuo Temple. I wonder what level this cultivation method occupies among the arts that can lead to immortality.

Shi Yi looked at the writing on its surface and silently pondered.

Every character inscribed on it carried a profound charm and an exceptionally distinctive style.

Shi Yi had tried copying the inscriptions before. Though he was clearly reproducing them, the resulting handwriting differed enormously.

It was just like when Shi Yi had previously copied the golden great Buddha within it.

Neither possessed the spirit contained within the original.

He was gradually learning about the Central Great World, but he had still come into contact with far too little Immortal Daoist Magic.

There are still eighty-five characters I haven't fully recognized. Thirty-three of them aren't in the Great Zhou Ten Thousand Character Classic, so I'll need to ask Lou Xuanming about them separately.

If Lou Xuanming doesn't know them, then I'll ask someone else.

Shi Yi's character-learning speed was already very fast. In such a short time, he had gone through nearly all of the Great Zhou Ten Thousand Character Classic, though he had not learned every character yet and was still missing some.

When he spoke of recognizing characters, he did not mean merely reading and writing them. It included understanding their meanings, forming words with them, grasping their intended usage, and more.

Some characters carried multiple meanings and required a deeper understanding.

The reason for this was not that Shi Yi wanted to do slow work and produce fine goods. Rather, every word in the Great Vehicle Tathagata Sutra required him to understand it character by character, while also interpreting it in conjunction with the surrounding text. It was far more troublesome than he had expected.

In comparison, the Five Tigers Body Cultivation Fist he had obtained from Yu Daqiang of the Five Tigers Gang was much simpler. Most of its text used characters from the Great Zhou Thousand Character Classic, and only three characters required the Great Zhou Ten Thousand Character Classic to understand.

The descriptions of the cultivation method were also relatively simple.

The Five Tigers Body Cultivation Fist was a cultivation method that could be practiced to the Martial Scholar level of Skin and Flesh Refinement. In terms of cultivation level, it was roughly comparable to the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Strength Training Fist Shi Yi practiced. However, Shi Yi had noticed that in certain methods of tempering the body, the Five Tigers Body Cultivation Fist lacked some refinements. This also meant that the physical body tempered through the Five Tigers Body Cultivation Fist would be weaker than one tempered through the Lesser Heavenly Cycle Strength Training Fist.

Cultivation methods were not better simply because they were simpler. The main purpose was to temper the physical body; the more tempering effects a method produced, the stronger a person could become.

After reading it, Shi Yi completely lost interest in the Five Tigers Body Cultivation Fist.

He had the superior Lesser Heavenly Cycle Strength Training Fist, along with matching cultivation methods to follow. So long as there was nothing wrong with his head, there was no need for him to switch to the Five Tigers Body Cultivation Fist.

But this has confirmed that the Great Vehicle Tathagata Sutra is indeed a cultivation method that can lead to immortality.

The realms recorded within it, such as meditation and spirit wandering, are all realms on the path to immortality.

Its cultivation involves the soul and spirit. Compared with martial cultivation, it is more complicated and more dangerous. With the slightest misstep, one could suffer Deviant Cultivation and Soul Annihilation.

Before I try cultivating it, I need to learn more about the path to immortality and understand the taboos of cultivation. I can't rush for quick success and instant gain.

Shi Yi looked at the Bodhi seed and silently contemplated.

Naturally, he greatly wished to begin cultivating this art that could lead to immortality. However, the dangerous taboos recorded in the method made him realize that if he began cultivating it directly now, something would very likely go wrong.

Especially since he still did not understand the meanings of some characters, and could not even recognize others. Rushing into cultivation at this time would do him no good.

I need to visit the Daoist temple in Ninghe County as soon as possible.

If Shi Yi wanted to come into contact with knowledge of Daoist cultivation, the best method was to visit a Daoist temple. This was the only place he currently knew where he could access knowledge of Daoist arts.

As for the Divine Constable Bureau, Shi Yi did not want to approach them for the time being, because those people had no intention of interacting with them at all.

Some people had taken the initiative to curry favor with the Divine Constable Bureau's members, but they ignored them all.

They treated them only as disposable tools to help complete tasks. Usually, they would not even speak to them, remaining cold and aloof.