"Buddha Bone Śarīra?" Linglong murmured, and Chen Jue's expression shifted at the words.
While extensively reading Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucian classics earlier, Chen Jue had encountered descriptions of Buddha Bone Śarīra. The "Śarīra" here was not a Buddhist cultivation realm similar to the "Golden Elixir," but an actual physical object.
According to legend, the earliest Śarīra were beadlike objects formed after Shakyamuni's remains were cremated. Some later eminent monks who attained enlightenment also left Śarīra after cremation.
Śarīra were divided into bone Śarīra, hair Śarīra, and flesh Śarīra. Most were hard and beadlike, somewhat resembling the glass marbles we played with as children, only smaller and multicolored.
Buddhist scriptures attributed the appearance of Śarīra to eminent monks attaining perfection in their cultivation and merits. From a scientific perspective, Śarīra mainly consisted of recrystallized bone material formed after burning.
Opinions differed on whether these Śarīra possessed mysterious powers. But after encountering the Psychic Shielding on Zhao Zhen and his nine clones, Chen Jue felt that some things in this world probably could not be fully explained from a scientific perspective.
It was like trying to assess the efficacy of Chinese medicine from the perspective of Western medicine. With a different starting point, it was difficult to discover its original effects.
Moreover, since Zhao Zhen had cultivated Yoga Mahamudra to Shakyamuni's level, it was not impossible that he could uncover a Psychic Shielding effect within actual Śarīra.
"Could the mind, spiritual imprints, and martial consciousness all be like primordial qi-not something illusory, but some kind of radiation or fluctuation that, like primordial qi, current scientific instruments cannot detect?"
"And because Buddha Bone Śarīra carry the spiritual imprints of eminent monks, they can emit similar radiation or fluctuations that produce shielding and interference?" Chen Jue speculated instinctively, exchanging a shocked look with Linglong.