Chapter 76. It turned out that Changming’s strength was even more unfathomable – Jinyu Translations
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There seemed to be an impenetrable wall around Yun Weisi and Sun Buku, isolating them from others.
Sun Buku squinted slightly, and then laughed all of a sudden.
“It’s been a while since we last met, but I didn’t expect Daozun Yun to have learnt how to play jokes on others. In the past, you would start fighting me as soon as we had a single jarring note in conversation, yet now you’ve mastered the art of quarrelling. It seems to me that the Nine Layers of the Abyss has actually changed you a lot. Perhaps Daozun Yun has achieved enlightenment.”
They were sizing each other up.
They had not met for years, but Sun Buku showed no signs of getting old. It was not surprising. After all, if someone of their cultivation realm actually got older, it could only be at the time when they had met with disaster and were about to perish.
But Sun Buku’s demeanour that used to be swaggering and self-important was now more reserved and calm.
Great skills often appeared amateur, just as great wisdom often appeared foolish. Obviously, Sun Buku’s cultivation had advanced.
As for how far it had advanced, Yun Weisi could not tell. Only by engaging in a fight with him would Yun Weisi be able to measure Sun Buku’s real strength.
Xu Jingxian had been looking at them for quite some time, but they were not bantering flirtatiously. So it seemed that they did not really get along.
It was rumoured that Sun Buku was wholeheartedly dedicated to studying Buddhist doctrines. He was the first person to pass the forty nine ordeals to become a school head since his Buddhist sect’s foundation. It was evident that his Buddhist heart was as resolute as a mountain rock.
Forty nine: lit. seven by seven, forty nine altogether: “magical number” in Buddhism. For example, the soul of a dead person goes through tests for 49 days before its fate regarding the next reincarnation is decided
Buddhist heart: by analogy with Daoist heart, how strongly one is devoted to Buddhism, I guess
Although he had worshipped Jiufang Changming as his teacher, after the latter had left Buddhism, Sun Buku did not follow him and continued to cultivate on the path of Buddhism. Moreover, he denounced his teacher for having a weak Buddhist heart, and declared that Jiufang Changming did not deserve to cultivate the path of Buddhism.
It was also said that Yun Weisi and him were as incompatible as water and fire. They used to fight a lot, but people rarely saw Sun Buku doing battle with anyone since Yun Weisi had left for the Nine Layers of the Abyss. People believed that Zen Master Buku had already reached the grandmaster level, so famous masters did not dare challenge him without careful consideration, and the bright younger generation were also unworthy of making Zen Master Buku go out to fight in person.
Xu Jingxian had not met Sun Buku either up until this moment.
Out of fear of Buddhists and Daoists, Xu Jingxian did not go near any of them. She would have never anticipated that this head of the Qingyun School, which was the chief sect of Buddhism, this famous leader of bald donkeys, was a monk with such a devilish appearance.
There was a year when a disciple of the Qingyun School, Bei Shu, rebelled against his sect. This man had a remarkable aptitude, but he was overwhelmingly ambitious and coveted the position of the school head. He tried seducing Sun Buku into evildoing by hook or by crook, and set eight traps for him, including trials of power, beauty, cultivation, treasures, and spiritual medicines, waiting for Sun Buku’s human nature to expose its lust. But the latter did not fall for his traps, while Bei Shu himself did not manage to overcome the trial of treasures. He stole the Golden Glass Beads Staff from the sect and ran away.
