Sanskrit Killing

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, Wu Xiang, the martial monk Tan Zhi of Tongtai Temple in Jiankang, was seriously injured and returned home on a rainy night. He left behind a blood letter with the four characters "Buddha will not save people" and died. Everyone in the temple was kept secret, and Tan Zhi secretly investigated, only to find that Huiyuan, the leader of Tongtai Temple, was taking advantage of Emperor Wu of Liang's death in a Buddhist temple to secretly transfer gold and silver from the treasury to redeem his body, train monks and soldiers, and liaise with the Northern Dynasties, plotting to separat Jiankang and establish a "Buddhist Kingdom" in troubled times. The female doctor Shen Miaoyin often went to the temple to treat monks and nuns, and she became acquainted with Tan Zhi. She was born into a poor family, her father died due to loan sharking in the temple, and she secretly joined the "Pure Society", a mutual aid organization for poor families. The two team up to uncover the truth about Huiyuan's tampering with Bodhidharma's martial arts and massacre of dissidents in a desperate situation where the nobles are strife, the court is ignorant, and Hou Jing's rebels are suppressing the situation. When Hou Jingbing came to Jiankang, Huiyuan took the opportunity to launch a temple coup and put Emperor Wu of Liang under house arrest. Tan Zhi was forced to break the precepts and kill to stop killing. In the flames of Taicheng, he and Hui Yuan started a life-and-death showdown between Zen martial arts and secret martial arts. When he rescued Emperor Wu of Liang, Jiankang was in ruins, the Buddhist bells were still ringing, and the dream of the Buddhist kingdom was shattered. Buddha does not save people, people save themselves.