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"Amitabha!"

"Chairman Li, our Buddhism is a saintly sect with Mahayana Buddhism and the Three Treasures of Mahayana Buddhism. It can help the dead ascend to heaven, save the distressed from suffering, cultivate the body of infinite life, and achieve no coming and no going. As long as your country is willing to send a disciple, I believe that our Buddhism will not let you down."

Guanyin looked at Li Shimin, the Prime Minister of the Han Dynasty, and spoke to him seriously.

"Bodhisattva, you don't need to tell me more about this. Just tell me what benefits will come from agreeing to hold a Buddhist ceremony and select people to go to the West to seek Buddhist scriptures?"

Li Shimin rolled his eyes at Guanyin in annoyance and spoke to her in a deep voice.

"If Chairman Li is willing to hold the journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures, I, the Buddhist sect, am willing to add 20 years to Chairman Li's lifespan."

Guanyin looked at Li Shimin and spoke to him in a very seductive way.

"Buddha, if you talk like this, then there is no need for us to continue chatting."

When Li Shimin heard what Guanyin said, he immediately frowned and spoke to Guanyin in a cold voice.

As the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, Li Shimin had a certain degree of autonomy in state affairs.

However, this little autonomy could not support Li Shimin in seeking benefits for himself.

Especially things like this involving saint sects are likely to affect the fortune of the entire human race.

Moreover, what Guanyin mentioned was obviously a written order. Without a reasonable explanation, this order could not even be carried out.

"Well, in Buddhism, we have the water from the Xiantian Spirit Pool and the Eight Treasures Merit Pool. It can not only cleanse the body, but also improve a person's cultivation talent."

"We are willing to contribute to help the human race, especially your Han country, to train a group of excellent practitioners. What do you think?"

"What level of cultivation can a cultivator cultivated by the water of the Eight Treasures Merit Pond achieve at most?"

After hearing Guanyin's words, Li Shimin was silent for a moment, and then asked Guanyin seriously.

"The water in the Eight Treasures Merit Pond not only possesses innate spiritual energy, but also possesses a certain amount of merit power. So it can at least allow a person with a talent for cultivation to cultivate to the realm of True Immortal."

As soon as Guanyin heard what Li Shimin said, she understood that Li Shimin was interested, so she couldn't wait to explain it to him.

"Oh, the realm of true immortals, that's fine. But Buddhism requires half of the water for the Eight Treasures Merit Pond to be paid in advance, and the remaining half will be paid after the pilgrims set out."

After hearing what Guanyin said, Li Shimin looked at Guanyin seriously and spoke to her in a deep voice.

"No, we can pay part of it in advance, but we cannot give away all the water in the Eight Treasures Merit Pond before the journey to the West is over."

When Guanyin heard what Li Shimin said, her eyes widened.

What if something unexpected happened to Cheng Xuanzang on his journey to obtain Buddhist scriptures? If the Han Dynasty cut off its support for Chen Xuanzang, then Buddhism would suffer a great loss this time.

"That's fine. You can pay one third first. After the pilgrims set out, they can pay another third. When they come back, you can bring back the last third. That should be fine, right?"

Li Shimin looked at Guanyin and his face darkened. Fearing that something might go wrong, he took a step back helplessly and then said to Guanyin.

"Is that so? Sure. Chairman Li, let's do this."

After hearing the suggestion made by Li Shimin, Guanyin thought about it carefully, but was still a little hesitant.

But Jie Yin and Zhunti, who had been paying attention to the conversation between Guanyin and Li Shimin, realized after some calculations that the high-ranking officials of the Han Dynasty already knew some basic information about Journey to the West and it was impossible to fool them completely, so they sent a message to Guanyin and asked Guanyin to agree.

"That's good, Guanyin Bodhisattva, please pay more attention to me in the future."

After hearing what Guanyin said, Li Shimin's face immediately showed a happy smile. He smiled and stretched out a hand and spoke to Guanyin in a friendly manner.

"Please ask Chairman Li to make arrangements as soon as possible."

When Guanyin heard what Li Shimin said, she smiled slightly, felt relieved, and said to Li Shimin.

"Please rest assured, Guanyin Bodhisattva. Our Han Dynasty is the most trustworthy and will never do such a treacherous thing."

When Li Shimin heard what Guanyin said, he nodded quickly and solemnly assured Guanyin.

After the talks between the two sides ended, Li Shimin and Guanyin, representing the Han Dynasty and Buddhism respectively, jointly revealed and signed a contract at the Tiandao.

With the guarantee of heaven, Li Shimin quickly issued the relevant documents.

He also convened the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and the department of religious management. These three departments jointly held a Buddhist ceremony, directly revealed the matter of the journey to the West, and selected people from the entire Han Dynasty who could go to the Leiyin Temple in Niuzhou, Xihe to obtain the scriptures.

Although the entire human race in the southern continent of Jambudvīpa has repeatedly suppressed the living space of Buddhist and Taoist ideas because of the ideology of communism.

However, people who envied immortality still came in an endless stream. Therefore, many Buddhists quickly gathered after receiving the news.

Fortunately, the top management was not blinded by the immediate benefits and deliberately set an age limit when screening the entire group of people who were going to obtain the scriptures.

After all, the distance to the West to obtain the scriptures is very far. If some old men and old ladies, those believers who have persisted for many years, were reported, they would probably die on the way before they could go to the West to obtain the scriptures.

After seeing the human race independently screening out the elderly, Guanyin felt relieved.

After all, the current Chen Xuanzang is not the child who grew up in the temple.

All the Buddhist knowledge he has now was forced into him by Guanyin.

Although he may know more than some younger people, if compared with those old believers who have remained faithful for many years, Chen Xuanzang is very likely to fail and lose to these people.

So when they saw that the human race had excluded this group of people, they immediately felt sincerely happy.

Everything on the human side has been prepared, except for the personnel to sign up. Guanyin completely relaxed and quickly returned to the Buddhist college where Chen Xuanzang was.

He began to urge Chen Xuanzang to sign up for the screening activity for the Journey to the West on the official website of the Religious Affairs Bureau.

After all, after this screening activity is completed, the pilgrims will have to undergo special training from the Han government before they can officially take up their posts.

Fortunately, Guanyin came back in time, otherwise Chen Xuanzang would have been kicked out of the Buddhist College because of too many absences.

After all, Chen Xuanzang had not been to class for some time and had been frequently criticized by the teacher.

Just like that, Chen Xuanzang, reluctantly, signed up for the screening activity for those who would go to the West to seek Buddhist scriptures on the official website of the Religious Affairs Bureau.