Lin Yue transmigrated to a world where high-level martial arts were commonplace and became Kong Chen, a young novice at the dilapidated Pure Land Zen Monastery. He also became bound to the “Buddhist Survival System.” Its missions were all trivial chores like “sweep leaves” and “recite scriptures,” and its rewards were limited to tiny boosts to his constitution and a faint Buddhist aura. He only wanted a peaceful life, slacking off as a laid-back monk.
But in other people’s eyes, his “Buddhist daily routine” was all profound spiritual practice. When he swept leaves, his senior brother Wu Neng mistook it for “cultivating stillness through motion,” imitated him, and actually broke through in his palm technique. When he told the abbot, “Don’t rush things,” the martial arts school happened to withdraw its troops, and he was hailed as having been “enlightened by the Buddha.” During a wave of demonic beasts, he hid in the bell tower, but the sound of the bell drove them back, and half a line of scripture sent their leader fleeing. He became a “master who repelled beasts with Buddhist teachings.”
As rumors spread of “words becoming law” and “Buddhist light purifying evil,” he was forced to lead the Buddhist alliance, command the righteous path against the demonic path, and mend spatial rifts. In the end, he was revered as a “Buddhist sage.” Kong Chen, who had only wanted to sweep the floor, looked at the whole world worshiping him as a “holy monk” and could only smile bitterly. The imaginations of people these days really make this poor monk want to hide back in the monastery and sweep leaves!
