People reported Monk Baozhen's strange behavior to Emperor Wu of Qi, and the emperor and ministers of Qi Dynasty felt very strange. Later Emperor Wu of Qi invited him into the palace, but when he ente

People reported Monk Baozhen's strange behavior to Emperor Wu of Qi, and the emperor and ministers of Qi Dynasty felt very strange. Later Emperor Wu of Qi invited him into the palace, but when he entered the palace, Monk Baozhen suddenly divided into three people, so Emperor Wu of Qi He was very surprised and thought he was an immortal descended from the earth. Monk Baozhen used magic to show the situation in hell, allowing Emperor Qi Wu to see his father being tortured in hell, so Emperor Qi Wu ordered to greatly reduce the people's wealth, and remove those who were stabbed with awls and cut with knives. Torture is eliminated. In the Liang Dynasty, Emperor Wu of Liang, who was proficient in Buddhism, had heard of Monk Baozhen for a long time. He respected Monk Baozhen very much. After he came to the throne, he immediately invited Monk Baozhen into the palace and asked Baozhen to accept him as a disciple. , established Monk Baozhen as the "National Preceptor" of the Liang Dynasty. He specially issued an edict and told the palace officials that no one was allowed to prohibit the activities of the monk Baozhen, nor was he allowed to neglect him in the slightest, and he was allowed to enter and exit the palace freely. Monk Baozhen suddenly became higher than ten thousand people and was extremely glorious. However, Monk Baozhen never paid much attention to these honors in the world and just wanted to be free and at ease all day long.

History records that in the fifth year of Tianjian, when there was a severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River, the monk Baozhen once prayed for rain on behalf of the emperor, which was very effective. It rained heavily on the same day. Monk Baozhen later passed away without any illness at the age of ninety. After Baozhen's death, people built the Nanjiu Linggu Temple, known as the giant temple in the southeast, in memory of the monk Baozhen. The Baogong Ancient Pagoda is his tomb. The ancient Pagoda of Baogong is engraved with "Song of Baogong Bodhisattva at the Eleventh Hour", which was written by the calligrapher Zhao Meng\.

People speculate that because Monk Baozhen sounded like Jidian in Wu Nong’s soft language, people later simply called him “Monk Jigongdian”. However, since Baozhen became Jigong, it is only a guess. Maybe Jigong just has not been recorded in official history, but his influence in history far exceeds Baozhen. From this point of view, maybe Jigong monk is not a folk fiction. The characters also really exist.