Female supporting role: I have a leverage system

Wen Yin and the system watched the development of the situation quietly. Fu Yu's church grew stronger and stronger, and her actions gradually spread among Taoist practitioners, causing a lot of trouble and mixed praise and criticism.

One day, Fu Yu went out to do good deeds again and saved a down-and-out prince. Later, the prince ascended the throne and benefited the people. Fu Yu felt that his chance had come, and this merit would not be less than Gui Wu's saving the village doctor.

But things backfired.

Fu Yu did feel that with the prosperity of her faith and the accumulation of merits, she could clearly feel the energy in her body becoming full, but she could not reach the boundary of promotion. She even had difficulty entering into a state of meditation, and her heart was restless.

She visited Guiwu again and told him about her predicament, but he only asked her three questions in response.

"Did the prince you saved really become a good emperor by coincidence?"

“Do you still believe in your Word?”

"Is your heart still pure?"

The three questions struck deep into Fu Yu's soul. Only she herself knew that she knew the man was the prince before she rescued him. She used her identity as an immortal cultivator to hint and promise him that as long as he treated the people well, she would allow him to live a long and prosperous life with eternal youth.

In her master's sect, she was told since childhood that cultivators must not harm mortals, and must not interfere with the operation of the secular world. This could only be stopped if a Taoist cultivator took the initiative to intervene.

She went against the teachings of her master and her own original intention.

But Fu Yu couldn't figure it out. Could it be that the Buddhist disciples were really so selfless? Was the theory of cause and effect in Buddhism really pure love? She didn't believe it!

So she asked Guiwu: "Who determines merit? Based on deeds or based on the heart? Judging from the heart, no one is perfect in the world. Could it be that all the enlightened monks in your Buddhist sect are saints? If it is determined by the heart, then if a good intention leads to a bad deed, is it considered merit or karma?"

Fu Yu asked the question that expressed Wen Yin's confusion. She couldn't help but hold her breath, waiting for Gui Wu's answer, but his response was only endless silence.

Fu Yu did not get an answer from him, and instead her mind became confused. She began to travel around again and tried to make friends with other Buddhist practitioners, but she fell into an even greater fog.

What she didn't expect was that what she thought was "doing good deeds" actually went astray and caused disaster.

The prince who was rescued by her was full of vigor and vitality in the secular world, and gradually became dissatisfied with being just a monarch of a small country. He had elixirs bestowed by his ancestors, and he had to have some great achievements to support his long life, so he began to expand his territory. As for the promise to Fu Yu, he privately believed that taking the suffering people of the enemy country under his own wings and saving them from disasters was also treating the people well. As for the casualties caused by the war, that was the inevitable price of destruction and reconstruction.

But man proposes, God disposes. The fact that the emperor had the elixir given by the immortal leaked out, and he was betrayed by his closest people, ending up with his body dumped in the wilderness.

For the sake of that bottle of elixir, the seven countries were constantly at war. Twenty years later, Fu Yu returned to her homeland and found that this small continent had become a purgatory on earth. The people were displaced, and the Taoist temple built for her by her believers had long been in ruins. It was difficult to survive, so how could she care about faith?

Looking at his smashed stone statue, Fu Yu could clearly hear the sound of his own shattered heart.

She knew that she should not be involved in the karma of the secular world, but she could not bear to see the lives of the mortals she had caused suffer. She ended the war with a quick knife, killed all those who started the war, and then used her great immortal power to restore the land that had been ravaged by the war and do charity...

The people in the troubled times regarded her as a fairy from outer space. Her surviving believers fell into a fanatical worship of her and spontaneously preached to her, for which she gained supreme merit.

But Fu Yu did not get promoted because of her huge merits. Looking at the people who regarded her as their savior, she felt devastated. She knew that she had to rebuild her Tao heart.

So, she returned to the sect and confessed to her master what she had done during her training. The master was furious and punished her by locking her up on the Xuanfeng Cliff for a hundred years to reflect on her mistakes.

Every gust of strong wind from the Xuanfeng Cliff would take away the cultivator's consciousness and spiritual power. After a hundred years, even if Fu Yu was not a disabled person, the foundation of her cultivation would have been destroyed.

Fu Yu accepted this punishment, and the fierce gale on the Xuanfeng Cliff actually calmed her heart.

She meditated on the Xuanfeng Cliff day and night. No one knew what kind of torment her spiritual heart was going through, but Wen Yin seemed to be able to empathize with her. She knew that this formation concealed Fu Yu's inner world.

During the past hundred years, the only person Fu Yu could see was her senior brother who came to visit her and bring her news from the outside world.

The troubles in the world can always change in an instant. Due to the influence of the talisman on the seven countries in the secular world, Taoism prevailed in the seven countries, and the difficulty of Buddhist missions increased. The conflict of beliefs among the people also led to constant disputes, which gradually spread to Taoism and Buddhism.

In fact, friction and discord between Taoism and Buddhism have existed since ancient times. Beliefs are inherently incompatible, and many things are just the fuse that ignites the conflicts.

And what Fu Yu did only gave Buddhism an excuse to make use of the issue. People in Buddhism accused Taoists of being hypocritical. They used to look down on Buddhists because they practiced cause and effect and sought worship. But now they take the unorthodox path, do not believe in the cycle of cause and effect, but fool the world in order to make a breakthrough. They deserve the retribution of karma.

Taoism also condemns Buddhists as greedy hypocrites who take shortcuts by offering incense and offerings, yet also covet natural treasures. They want everything, and are jealous of Taoism because their missionary work cannot match the prosperity of Taoism. On the surface, they say that Buddhism is selfless and encourages good deeds, but in fact, they are full of selfish desires.

Fu Yu just found it ridiculous. It was said to be a dispute between religious sects, but in fact, it was just a struggle for resources in the final analysis.

More and more Taoists also discovered the "shortcut" to the power of faith and began to preach. The friction between Buddhists and Taoists increased day by day.

Of course, there are also many cultivators like Fu Yu who are stuck in the quagmire and have unstable minds. Even Senior Brother Fu Yu can't help but wonder: "How did those Buddhist cultivators break through the inner demon tribulation? Could it be that Buddhism does not cultivate the mind and is not bound by the inner demon?"

This was also Fu Yu's question, and Wen Yin was also puzzled by it.

If you don't believe what you hear, you will realize that Buddhists are selfless, but human nature is selfish, and no one can truly transcend the seven emotions and six desires.

The answer to this question only began to emerge when Fu Yu had been on the Xuanfeng Cliff for more than eighty years and his cultivation was almost exhausted.

When Wen Yin heard the four words uttered by Senior Brother Fu Yu, her pupils suddenly contracted.