Master Mingyu was stunned when he saw this. The requirement of this trial was for the monk to endure being whipped without crying out in pain even once. Only then would he pass.
Of course, the secret realm would not let the overseer keep whipping him forever. After a while, a stone would fall from the divine statue and crush the overseer to death.
The overseer had committed countless evil deeds. His death beneath the falling stone perfectly matched the Buddhist principle that good deeds are rewarded and evil deeds are punished.
Master Mingyu had presided over the Western Paradise Secret Realm more than a thousand times and had seen countless monks make their choices within it. The greatest difficulty of this trial lay in enduring pain. Ninety percent of the monks could not hold out until the overseer received his retribution and cried out in pain. Those who did manage to persevere all clenched their teeth and endured it. That was why he had such high hopes for Xin Zhen, who had entered the state of forgetting both self and object.
Buddhism advocated recognizing pain through mindful observation, thereby reaching a state of transcending pain.
But this was the first time he had ever seen someone like Xin Ding start by beating people. And judging from the overseer's agonized screams, Xin Ding was beating him with extraordinary enthusiasm.
"Wait a moment. Why are you beating people?" Master Mingyu could not help appearing when he saw this. To a certain extent, he could control the Western Paradise Secret Realm. After a while, Xin Ding would forget that he had ever appeared.
"He was going to beat me," Xin Ding said calmly. In fact, even when he had been beating the man just now, his expression had not changed.
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