"Senior, what exactly happened back then?" Shen Luo pondered for a long time and asked.
"What are you referring to? Is it the outbreak of the demonic disaster, or the destruction of the Heavenly Palace... In the final analysis, it's just one thing." Li Jing paused for a moment and smiled bitterly.
"Then please tell me the details of the demonic disaster that year." Shen Luo said with a frown.
What he knows now about the demonic disaster is very limited, and most of it is just a legend that has not yet come true in reality. If he could really know the details of the demonic disaster in advance, perhaps he would be able to prevent it after returning to reality.
Thinking about it this way, Shen Luo himself was somewhat convinced that the person that the spirit of Tota-Bearing Heavenly King was waiting for was him.
"My memory is incomplete, and I can only tell you some of the things I know. As for the truth behind it, you need to explore and piece it together by yourself." Li Jing pondered for a moment and spoke.
"Please feel free to speak, senior." Shen Luo said hurriedly.
"In ancient times, a great war that swept across the three realms came to an end. The demon lord Chi You was defeated, his head was chopped off, his limbs were broken off, and his demon soul was sealed. From then on, the three realms experienced a relatively stable period of time. However, the demons' desire to wreak havoc on the three realms has never died, and some demons even attempted to break the seal and lure Chi You back to the world." Li Jing said.
Shen Luo knew something about these things, but he did not interrupt Li Jing and let him continue.
"Later, the heaven and earth began to show abnormal movements, the ground veins were no longer stable, monsters and evil spirits appeared everywhere in the human world, and chaos began in the three realms. Whether it was the gods and Buddhas in heaven or the powerful people on earth, they all realized that the storm was coming. The Heavenly Court felt that the demon calamity started from the demon clan, so it should start to solve the problem from the demon clan, so the Jade Emperor and the Western Heaven Buddha Tathagata joined forces to formulate a Lingshan plan." Li Jing continued.
"Lingshan Project?" Shen Luo was very confused.
"You must be aware of the Lingshan plan back then, but it has been renamed to 'Journey to the West'." Seeing Shen Luo's strange expression, Li Jing said with a slightly gloomy look in his eyes.
"What? Master Xuanzang's journey thousands of miles to the west to seek Buddhist scriptures was the Lingshan Project?" Shen Luo's expression suddenly changed and he said in surprise.
This story was widely circulated among the people, and someone even wrote this legendary experience into a vernacular novel. Therefore, the story of Shen Luo and his five masters and apprentices going through hardships and seeking the true scriptures was not unfamiliar to them.
But for some unknown reason, after the five masters and disciples returned to Chang'an, they only held an unprecedented water and land conference in the Da Ci'en Temple in the city. Then Master Tripitaka announced that he would go to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to translate scriptures, and he rarely appeared since then.
The three disciples who were said to have extraordinary powers also disappeared and were no longer known to the world, so much so that many people later regarded that epic experience as a complete fabrication by literati, and how much truth there was in it remains to be discussed.
"It's normal that you don't know this. The Lingshan Plan was a secret of the heaven from the beginning. Very few people knew the inside story, including the Jade Emperor, the Buddha, Taishang Laojun, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Maitreya Buddha and Bodhi Patriarch, a total of no more than ten people. Even the five masters and apprentices themselves were unaware of it at the beginning." Li Jing continued.