After blocking out the occasional magical sounds of the female pilgrims echoing from outside the scripture hall using noise-canceling headphones and the Great Compassion Mantra, Li Youzhi set about reading scriptures inside the hall.
Regarding the netizens' suggestion to copy three thousand volumes of scriptures, Li Youzhi felt that completing it wasn't strictly necessary. After all, a group of goofball netizens had no concept of what three thousand volumes of scriptures actually meant. Take a text like the *Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra*, for instance—the entire scripture spanned six hundred scrolls, and with the commentaries of eminent monks, the word count soared past two million words.
To put it bluntly, just this single scripture contained more words than most web novel hack writers published in a year! Copying all three thousand-plus volumes of scriptures at Jile Temple would probably turn out to be a massive project taking several years.
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