Chapter 1060: Chapter 1054: Buddhist Fire
The despicable and shameless Ancestor had distanced himself from the battlefield.
From hundreds of miles away, he watched the Body Integration Daoist techniques surge.
Seeing the three Body Integration realm experts enter the Dusheng Nunnery, Li Wei stood in the air with his hands behind his back.
Having single-handedly broken the Dusheng Nunnery’s grand array—something even three Body Integration experts struggled to breach—it was hard for him to avoid feeling a bit proud.
Li Kuanghua stood beside Li Wei, pointing at him blankly. “Ancestor, are… are you alright?”
Hearing this, Li Wei frowned and looked down.
He saw that half of his body had already been blasted to pieces. Buddhist runes were crawling over his wounds like maggots.
“…”
Li Wei fell silent for a moment.
In the battle at the Dusheng Nunnery, in order to allow Li Kuanghua to break through, he had faced Nun Dairou all by himself.
In the end, Nun Dairou was also truly infuriated. Disregarding everything else, she had used her true abilities against him, intending to finish him off so she could deal with Li Kuanghua.
At that moment, Li Wei was also scared. He grabbed Li Kuanghua and ran, pushing his spatial laws to the absolute limit, and his time laws as well.
Everything was fine while he was running, but now… his physical body was burning, and his soul was being annihilated under the Buddhist Dharma mark.
After so many years, Li Wei finally felt extreme pain once again, as if countless ants were biting and tearing at his body.
“Calm down, calm down!”
Li Wei took a deep breath, slowly turned his head, and looked at Li Kuanghua, who was covered in sweat.
He said calmly, “It’s quite interesting. The Demoness Dairou actually has a second type of Dao—Buddhist Fire. Once tainted by her Buddhist fire, death is certain. This is also her trump card.”
“Go on. Yunlin and the others are waiting for you. Our Li Clan’s reckoning with them has only just begun.”
A gentle breeze blew through the cloudy sky, and the black fire on the Ancestor’s body flickered.
The terrified Li Kuanghua was stunned for a moment.
As expected of the Ancestor! Even with half of his body destroyed, and his physical body and divine soul ravaged by Buddhist fire, he remained so calm and breezy.
No matter the situation, he always maintained this demeanor of a heavenly being.
She immediately complied. Sensing the bloodline auras of her clansmen nearby, she hurriedly went over.
As soon as Li Kuanghua left, Li Wei’s face turned pale.
“Holy shit!” he growled through gritted teeth, before dissipating on the spot like a wisp of blue smoke.
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[You have died…]
[This descent into the game world consumed 5,000 points of Clan Will.]
[Currently entering the Ancestral Space in an illusory form…]
Li Wei reappeared in the Ancestral Space. The trip to the Mountain of Esoteric Stratagems had yielded a massive amount of Clan Will.
Although he had consumed some over the years, he still had a reserve. This Clan Will was enough for him to resurrect dozens of times.
The scene of facing Nun Dairou in the Dusheng Nunnery just now remained vivid in his mind. Li Wei couldn’t help but get goosebumps.
“I still underestimated the Body Integration realm, and I underestimated the Demoness Dairou.
I thought that by deepening my application of spatial and time laws through decades of cultivation, I would already be able to arm-wrestle a Body Integration expert. I was way off.”
Inside the Dusheng Nunnery, he couldn’t do anything besides run away and cause destruction.
Nun Dairou was also a shrewd schemer; she had long prepared a sure-kill method. Fortunately, he reacted in time at the very end and brought Li Kuanghua out.
“But it’s no wonder Void Refinement realm cultivators dare to scheme for Body Integration realm opportunities.”
Li Wei carefully pondered this battle.
In his view, reaching the Void Refinement realm meant the gap between it and the Body Integration realm didn’t look huge, yet it was also a world of difference.
The Spiritual power intensity of Nun Dairou at the Body Integration realm wasn’t excessively stronger than his.
His current strike was comparable to a 0.5-gram antimatter bomb, though the range wasn’t as large. Nun Dairou’s Spiritual power was, at most, twice as strong as his.
What made Nun Dairou truly powerful was her Body Integration pressure.
Under her Great Dao of the “Green Mountain,” one would bear a heavy burden; wherever she looked, her Daoist techniques would manifest.
Wherever her will deemed to be a green mountain, that place became a green mountain, and cultivators would be forced to suffer the suppression of the green mountain.
Li Wei’s cultivation base could withstand it, and his spatial laws allowed him to dodge it.
A Void Refinement cultivator with a slightly lower cultivation base and no special laws would likely explode and die.
Moreover, the application of techniques at the Body Integration realm relied more on the use of certain techniques, such as the Buddhist fire burning Li Wei’s physical body and divine soul.
As for the world of difference, it lay in the fact that within the “Dao” of a Body Integration expert, laws could still be used.
Yet Li Wei discovered that no matter how he used his spatial laws, it was extremely difficult to cause any damage to Nun Dairou.
It was as if he were a miner using “spatial laws” to form a hoe.
By entering Nun Dairou’s vicinity, he had entered her “Green Mountain,” and it was very difficult for a single person to hollow out an entire mountain.
“It’s not that the Void Refinement realm is completely incapable of dealing with a Body Integration expert.
As long as one exhausts the opponent’s Great Dao, it can even cause them to fall, just like the Zhao Clan’s Ancestor back then.”
Gaining a deeper understanding of the Body Integration realm also gave Li Wei some peace of mind.
Now that Body Integration experts were contending in Shadowfell Prefecture, and their enemies were also at the Body Integration realm, as long as they weren’t invincible, there was nothing to be afraid of.
Amidst his thoughts.
“Hmm?”
Li Wei let out a soft sound of surprise and vanished from the spot. When he reappeared, he was already beside his clansmen.
In the Dusheng Nunnery, ruins of Buddhist temples devastated by the Ancestor of the Azure Cloud Li Clan could be seen everywhere.
Spatial Spiritual power still wreaked havoc, leaving the Dusheng Nunnery riddled with scars.
Outside the Buddhist pagoda, thousands of Buddhist disciples sat cross-legged.
Even with three Body Integration realm almighty experts gathered in the cloudy sky, they still blocked the way with faces full of devotion, chanting Buddhist scriptures.
The vitality and souls within their bodies were gradually dissipating; those with weaker cultivation were turning into dry bones.
Inside the Buddhist pagoda, Crown Prince Fei Heng squatted in a corner with a blank expression on his face.
Nun Dairou and the two Dharma Masters sat cross-legged in front of their respective Bodhisattva statues, their expressions solemn.
“We hold Crown Prince Fei Heng in our hands; they won’t dare to act rashly.”
Nun Dairou’s expression was cold.
Facing these three Body Integration experts, she originally had plenty of time to prepare many of her trump cards.
But that person from the Li Clan had arrived suddenly, destroying her cauldrons and destroying half of the Buddhist temples and Buddha bodies in the Grotto-Heaven Paradise.
Now that the Grotto-Heaven Paradise’s grand array had been broken, she didn’t have many choices either.
“Hongzhen, you have prepared for many years. Break through the Dao. Hongdan and Hongjie’s believers will also be handed over to you. Once you have broken through the Dao, face the enemy together with me.”
“Yes, Nun,” Dharma Master Hongdan said without any complaints.
But Dharma Master Hongzhen’s expression changed.
“Nun, we have prepared for many years, liberating the people of the world toward goodness and protecting the world. If I truly break through the Dao, from now on, the people of the world will view our Buddhist sect… as demons!”
“Hmph.” Facing formidable enemies at this moment, Nun Dairou acted uncharacteristically.
Gone was her usual compassionate appearance; her face was covered in gloom.
“If we do not become true Buddhas, how can we liberate the great world? Between great good and minor evil, the Buddha chooses the great good.
The ignorant people of the world need to be enlightened.
Even if they harbor resentment when sacrificed, once they undergo rebirth and see that we have forged the Buddha Paradise, it will be a completely different scene.”
Dharma Master Hongzhen hesitated for a long time, but seeing the resolute expressions of Nun Dairou and Junior Sister Hongdan, she had no choice but to nod.
She immediately formed hand seals, and Buddhist light bloomed from within the Dusheng Bodhisattva behind her.
It even pierced through the Dusheng Nunnery, shooting straight into the cloudy sky.
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Inside the Thunder Fire Demon Cave.
Holy Monk Yidian, who had been hiding for many years, suddenly opened his eyes, a look of anger visible on his face. Golden light rippled in his large, cloudy eyes.
As his vision pierced through the Thunder Fire Demon Cave, he saw specks of golden light shining in the cloudy sky; that was the power of faith of all living beings.
“People should inherently believe in themselves rather than gods and Buddhas, and those in the Buddhist sect should liberate themselves rather than others.
Yet there are Buddhists playing gods and ghosts, making fools out of benevolent believers and feeding on the power of faith.”
He wanted to stand up, but remembering that Min Tiange had still not revealed himself, he let out a sigh.
“It’s too late. I can only blame myself, this poor monk, for leaving these fish that slipped through the net back then.”
But just as his words fell, a hint of shock flashed across Holy Monk Yidian’s expression as he looked toward Westfall Prefecture.
“Strange.”
At this moment.
All across the world, around the temples built by the Dusheng Nunnery, the believers who worshipped the so-called Bodhisattva of Rebirth, Dusheng Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva Ward walked numbly toward the temples.
They burned incense, worshipped the Buddha, and chanted Buddhist scriptures, their power of faith flowing toward Shadowfell Prefecture.
The bodies of these believers weakened and aged at a pace visible to the naked eye.
In the Eternal Immortal Sect of Westfall Prefecture.
Within the forbidden grounds where Li Jianning was cultivating, he was currently forging his dantian.
Ancestor Lan, who was originally staring at him in appreciation, suddenly raised his head and saw the power of faith in the cloudy sky above Azure Cloud Prefecture and Westfall Prefecture, heading in specks toward Shadowfell Prefecture.
He let out a cold snort. “Opportunistic tricksters, ruining the reputation of us Daoist cultivators. How unlucky.”
He then raised his hand and waved his sleeve. The continuously rising power of faith was suppressed back down by this wave of his sleeve.
The old Daoist’s face darkened as he cursed, “I wish upon you, Fake Bodhisattva, that all you desire remains unattainable.”
At the same time.
All across the world, almighty experts cursed inwardly, each deploying divine abilities to block the stolen power of faith.
“Doing this again; this is the second batch.”
“This time it’s the doing of the Buddhist sect, even worse than the past, sigh.”
“This is fatal, excavating even people’s souls. Utterly lacking in virtue. If this happens time and time again, the people of the world will imitate it, and the world will fall into chaos.”
“…”
But even with divine abilities deployed, half of the faith power still flowed toward Shadowfell Prefecture.
This faith power converged in the direction of the Dusheng Nunnery’s lotus statue.
Zhao Guang glared angrily, having already sensed the anomaly inside the Dusheng Nunnery.
He even saw Dharma Master Hongzhen, her face full of compassion, standing in front of the Dao Gate. At this moment, Dharma Master Hongzhen’s Dao path could not be clearer.
And what Dharma Master Hongzhen was doing filled his heart with rage.
If it weren’t for the fact that Fei Heng was in the hands of these demonesses, people like her would be deep-fried in the Department of Immortal Suppression a thousand times over!
At the same time.
Li Wei and his clansmen also stared at the specks in the cloudy sky; this power of faith was heading toward Dharma Master Hongzhen.
“The Dusheng Bodhisattva soothes the minds and souls of the people. The believers in its temples lose their desires because of this—but in truth, their souls have been stripped away, the portion belonging to ‘evil’ forcibly extracted.”
Li Wei said softly, “Dharma Master Hongzhen fought Kuanghua to suppress her mind. This so-called ‘tranquility’—once a person’s soul is stripped away, they will naturally become tranquil… even if their very lives are taken along with it…
Entering their sight.
In front of Dharma Master Hongzhen stood a Dao Gate.
As the faith power of all living beings arrived, the souls of living creatures appeared one after another behind the Dusheng Bodhisattva.
These souls were originally the “evil” parts of people. Having also been drained of their vitality, they actually wailed like vicious ghosts and then crawled densely toward Dharma Master Hongzhen’s Dao Gate.
How is this the Buddhist Dao? This is hell.
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