Wang Ping watched Kai Yun's eyes. Seeing that he was not joking, he fell silent for two breaths before asking, "Fellow Daoist, do you cultivate this life or the next?"
Kai Yun raised a brow, not expecting Wang Ping to suddenly discuss Buddhist teachings with him. He solemnly pressed his palms together and replied with grave dignity, "When this poor monk first began cultivating, I followed the Daoist Sect. Later, seeing the suffering of the world, my master led us senior and junior brothers across the land and made a great vow: to grant all living beings deliverance."
"The Daoist Sect would not tolerate us, so we could only withdraw to Zhongshan Kingdom and establish the Buddhist sect. I cultivate this life, and I cultivate the next as well, hoping to use great Dharma power to deliver all beings beneath heaven."
Wang Ping quietly listened to Kai Yun's account. Then he nodded as if in approval, yet said mockingly, "Since you wish for all beings beneath heaven to attain deliverance, why was what I saw in Zhongshan Kingdom an endless Sea of Suffering? Your deliverance comes with a threshold."
Kai Yun smiled and replied, "How can one attain deliverance without entering the Sea of Suffering? When an infant is born, it has no thoughts. Perhaps there are those who attain deliverance from the very beginning, but I have never encountered one. If one does not cultivate through the Sea of Suffering and pass through the Mortal World, how can one understand what deliverance is?"
Yulian craned her neck as she stared at Kai Yun. "Then what is the difference between your deliverance and Daoist cultivation? Aren't you simply doing something superfluous? Is it to make yourselves seem different, or are you cultivating merely for the sake of cultivation?"
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