Zen Master Xiao Yue's Emei Sect flourished rapidly, growing more prosperous by the day.
Countless martial arts practitioners flocked to the sect to seek apprenticeship. Zen Master Xiao Yue divided them into two disciplines—Buddhist and Daoist. The Buddhist martial arts were taught by his foremost disciple, Bing Weimo Zhu Hong, and the newly recruited Golden Light took the position of Martial Arts Leader.
Within Buddhism, there was a layman named Vimalakirti who was referred to as an at-home Buddha by Mahayana Buddhism, fundamentally a Buddha just like the monastic Shakyamuni himself. The difference lay in the fact that Shakyamuni embraced the monastic life, whereas Vimalakirti depicted the lay life. He taught non-monastics how to cultivate Buddhism and attain enlightenment, blazing a trail for lay Buddhist practice.
