Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

Rakshasa, also known as Black Rakshasa, Rakshasa Sha, Rakshasa Cha Sha, Rakshasa Qicha Sha, Arakshasa Sha, also carries the meaning of Hell's Evil Minions. Its origin lies within the Buddhist Sect, rumored to be ancient malignant deities that ruled over demons in all worlds. Influenced by the Buddhist Sect, the Rakshasa vowed to protect the Dharma and those who practice it, hence they are also considered as guardian deities of Buddhism by the world.

During the Great Yu Dynasty, the Divine Court was revered by all, and there was no division of Holy Lands in the world, with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism coexisting. At that time, the Buddhist Sect was divided into two branches:

One was the Chan Sect, the other was the Brahman Sect.

The Chan Sect revered Sakyamuni as the founder and was skilled in Buddhist doctrines, believing that all Dharma is empty. People suffer because of the impurity of the five senses, thus the disciples of the Chan Sect renounced passion and desire, cultivated their karma, and made it their duty to enlighten others and enter the Empty Gate.

The Brahman Sect, on the other hand, took Rakshasa as their core and focused on the Martial Path, upholding the doctrine of the Five Aggregates, which stated that all suffering in the world arises from the body's Five Aggregates: form, sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness. These pertain to the physiological and psychological responses of the body to the external world. To escape suffering, one must empty the Five Aggregates, including their Martial Arts which were derived from this theory.

Disciples of the Brahman Sect did not need to follow precepts, nor did they avoid the three poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion, considering the world itself to be hell. Their ultimate pursuit was to strip away the Five Aggregates of mortal life and rid themselves of worldly suffering.

However, to empty the Five Aggregates, one must peel away all physiological and psychological sensations of the human body, which theoretically can only be done through one means, and that is death.

But if you join the Brahman Sect, there is another way, for the Respected Rakshasa God they worship is the savior who came to the mortal world to strip away the human Five Aggregates.

Originally, the Brahman Sect was far less powerful than the Chan Sect, which constantly sought to transform the doctrine of the Brahman Sect to absorb them, but never succeeded.

The turning point came over 1300 years ago.

In the final years of the Wuzong era, there was great turmoil across the land, continuous wars among powers in the thirteen provinces, and the common people could barely survive. Miraculously, the teaching of the Brahman Sect overshadowed that of the Chan Sect, attracting many followers and thus their power unprecedentedly surpassed the Chan Sect.

The enhancement of power naturally led to the expansion of desires. Initially, the Chan Sect wanted to absorb the Brahman Sect, now the roles reversed, and the Brahman Sect began to infiltrate the Chan Sect, leading to the inevitable eruption of conflict.

Even a dilapidated ship has three thousand nails, let alone the Chan Sect which had always been much more powerful than the Brahman Sect. When the war broke out, leveraging their years of foundation, the Chan Sect held their ground against the Brahman Sect, and neither could overcome the other.

Both being branches of the Buddhist Sect, even if the fight was fierce, it should have been an internal conflict. However, the Chan Sect could not tolerate the Brahman Sect, whom they had always suppressed, now fighting them on equal footing, and in their fury and desperation, they called for external assistance.

This external support was the founder of Jizhou Qinjian Villa, the Grand Marshal of Soldiers and Horses of the Great Yu Dynasty, Zhao Yulong. At that time, Zhao Yulong controlled the empire's most elite soldiers and horses. Once they joined the struggle, the Brahman Sect predictably lost without surprise.

Had it not been for the aid of the Great Jin Dynasty later on, the Brahman Sect would have been annihilated.

Initially an internal conflict within one family, the Chan Sect's move to call for external help, though it helped them win, also successfully escalated the dispute into a schism.

Consequently, the Brahman Sect decided to break away from the Buddhist Sect, and would no longer engage with the Chan Sect!

After becoming independent, the Brahman Sect took a different path. The former Sect Hierarch, Duanmu Hong, renamed the Brahman Sect to Rakshasa Holy Sect and transformed into an incarnation of the Respected Rakshasa God, walking among mortals, widely accepting disciples. After decades of hard work, he miraculously established a foundation in Yongzhou, developing what was originally a faction shunned by the Buddhist Sect into one of the world's ten great Holy Lands.

On July 30th of the New Yu Era 1322, Rakshasa Festival

At the Marquis's Mansion, the five Hou siblings gathered together, with Hou Yuduan meticulously recounting the origins of the Rakshasa Holy Sect to her four elder brothers and sisters.

"No wonder out of the five masters, the other three all paid respect to Master Fanyin, but only Yuan Kong and Yuan Fa did not go. It turns out the two families are archenemies!"

Hou Yucheng, who was listening to the tale of the Rakshasa Holy Sect's unexpected rise to become a Holy Land, pondered over the recent events involving the five great masters and spoke up as if struck by a thought.

"I dislike those bald monks. That Monk Buzheng who appeared in Zhaoyang before, I felt he reeked of hypocrisy, and it was simply disgusting to look at..."

Hou Yuling, the third child, then spoke up. It seemed that the impression Monk Buzheng left on her in Zhaoyang City was rather poor.

Hou Yuxiao saw the disgust on the face of his third sister and couldn't help but lower his head and chuckle softly.

The matters concerning the ten great Holy Lands were not exactly secrets. Although he did not know the details as well as Hou Yuduan, he had perused some of it and was aware to some extent.

The centuries-old grievances between the Chan Sect and the Rakshasa Holy Sect were deep-rooted. Though they originated from the same source, their mutual hatred was entrenched.

Although the present-day Chan Sect's Leiyin Temple was known as a Quasi-Holy Land, compared to the Rakshasa Holy Sect that occupied Yongzhou, there was definitely a gap. The bigger the gap, the more imbalanced the monks of Leiyin Temple would feel psychologically, and the deeper their hatred would become.

Now that the Rakshasa Holy Sect was in decline, for Leiyin Temple to come from far away was enough to prove this hatred had probably permeated deep into the bones of the Chan Sect.

Similarly, the Rakshasa Holy Sect must also loathe the Chan Sect very much.

Although the five great masters arrived with hidden agendas, they outwardly championed the cause of slaying demons and removing devils, which is why both sides exercised restraint.