My brother is so cunning

Chapter 949 Who is the Number One Demon in the Three Realms?
This time, Venerable Kasyapa was not as composed as he was when he fell out of the arena for the second time. The Bodhisattva Lingji and the two Arhats, Subduing Dragon and Tiger, helped him up. He wanted to pretend that nothing was wrong and push the Bodhisattva Lingji away, but the gravitational effects and nerve pain in his body had not subsided. He lost his balance and fell back to the ground.

The Western missionaries who were pushed away by him were unsure whether to help him up or not. They could only watch helplessly as the stubborn Venerable Kasyapa, like a drunken old man, thrashed about, trying to get up but failing repeatedly.

Finally, Bodhisattva Lingji couldn't bear to watch any longer and lent a hand, allowing Venerable Kasyapa to finally stand up straight.

"Venerable One, how could you be so careless? You can't even defeat a puppet with your supernatural powers?"

Lingji Bodhisattva lowered his voice and secretly asked the question.

Sensing Venerable Kasyapa's condition, Bodhisattva Lingji's keen divine sense quickly discerned that Venerable Kasyapa's situation was not good. Although his cracked golden body was healing quickly, his mind was in turmoil.

For those who have attained great enlightenment in the West, especially those who have cultivated an indestructible golden body, damage to their physical form is insignificant; damage to their perfect state of mind is the true sign of suffering a severe blow.

"The floor tiles in Lingxiao Palace are really slippery..."

Venerable Kasyapa gritted his teeth and replied, "Moreover, the Buddha's enemy Wen Rui created this puppet not to exterminate the demonic insects, but to target my disciples at every turn. This puppet poses a far greater threat to my disciples than the elite demonic insects that attacked Vulture Cave. I suspect that he created these puppets under the guise of exterminating the demonic insects, but his ultimate goal is actually to destroy my sect!"

Lingji Bodhisattva's expression changed drastically, his mood shifting between light and dark, and he became increasingly worried.

Lingji didn't say too much. Even Venerable Kasyapa, whose martial arts skills were among the top ten in the sect, couldn't withstand a single puppet and was beaten so badly that he lost all face.

Wen Rui has a hundred more of the same puppets behind him!
According to Wen Rui, these puppets can be made in as many as desired, and can even overwhelm the massive swarms of demonic mosquitoes in terms of sheer numbers.

If such a puppet army was truly created to destroy the Western Religion, then the Western Religion would have already fled into the Dharma-ending Age. Even if two saints came out of seclusion to intervene in worldly affairs, it would be difficult to change the inevitable fate of its decline.

Moreover, if the Western religion has saints, don't the Heavenly Court and the Jie Sect also have them?
In the past, under the witness of Hongjun Daozu, the sages of the three religions made an agreement to each other, promising not to use their sage power to attack each other first. In this way, if Wen Rui had any evil intentions, how could the Western religion have any place to stand in the mortal world?
That fellow's malice towards the Western Sect is obvious. In the entire Jie Sect, he is now the only disciple who is single-mindedly focused on taking revenge on the Western Sect.

In this light, the benefits the fisherman gained from seizing the Jie Sect were not even as great as the price paid for provoking such a wicked star. This truly reflects the saying that the disciples of the Western Sect always kept repeating: "Cause and effect are cyclical, and retribution is inevitable."

Although the gods in the Lingxiao Palace had not examined Venerable Kasyapa's condition as carefully as Bodhisattva Lingji, they had still taken in his disheveled state.

These immortals had never eaten monks' flesh, but they had seen monks fight, so they naturally had a certain level of insight and could tell who was superior in this contest.

Without a doubt, Venerable Kasyapa was utterly powerless against the puppet's attacks. Even his cheating and use of great supernatural powers were immediately and effectively countered. Despite his best efforts, he was driven out of the arena and nearly couldn't even stand up. The gods were initially overjoyed, feeling that Wen Rui's puppet had given the Heavenly Court a great deal of face, making those pretentious Western Sect disciples look foolish. They thought that in the future, Western Sect envoys visiting the Heavenly Court would no longer be able to look down on the immortals with such arrogant eyes.

But before they could celebrate for long, the insightful among them immediately realized what was happening, and their expressions gradually became serious. They all looked at Wen Rui and the neatly arranged puppet formation behind him.

Venerable Kasyapa was no weakling. Although he might be slightly inferior in combat to Guanyin, Manjushri, Samantabhadra, and other disciples who were Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect, he was still a highly respected Buddha-level being in the Western Sect.

Among the hundreds of immortals in the main hall, no more than one could confidently claim that he could defeat Venerable Kasyapa in just a few moves.

The Creator God casually took out a puppet and beat him into this state. In other words, if he disliked the immortals now, he only needed to give an order to close the gates of Lingxiao Palace and release the hundred puppets behind him. Today, not a single immortal would be able to walk out of Lingxiao Palace upright.

The Jade Emperor's expression was the most interesting. He was initially gloating, seemingly imagining that when the Buddha Tathagata visited the Heavenly Court, he would have Wen Rui set up hundreds of puppets to welcome him in a grand procession. The Buddha would have to be humble and cautious, and would no longer be able to put on that arrogant deity attitude of being on equal footing with him, the Heavenly Emperor.

However, sensing that something was amiss in the atmosphere of the main hall, he suddenly woke up in a cold sweat. Only then did he realize that before the day when Buddha quietly became a Buddha arrived, he, the Jade Emperor, would have to quietly become a god first.

The victorious metal puppet showed no emotion, seemingly unaware of the immense figure it had just defeated. It simply returned to its original position in the ranks, standing quietly, blending into its fellow puppets like a statue.

Once blended into the group of puppets, this super steel warrior, which had once displayed astonishing combat power, immediately became unremarkable, showing no special characteristics compared to the puppets beside it.

Wen Rui could read the air. When the Lingxiao Palace suddenly fell silent, he knew that he could no longer hide his sharpness. In the hearts of some gods and Buddhas, his level of danger had gloriously surpassed that of Mosquito Daoist, and he had been honored to be ranked first on the list of demons in the Three Realms.

There was no other way but to choose the lesser of two evils. If he chose not to resist and let Venerable Kasyapa crush a puppet, his situation would definitely be worse than it is now. Perhaps on that timeline, he would already be leading a puppet army to fight against a group of gods and Buddhas on the spot.

Even if we are feared by the gods and Buddhas, at least we haven't torn off our mask yet, and it hasn't reached the point where good and evil are irreconcilable and we are locked in a life-or-death struggle.

Pretending nothing had happened, Wen Rui activated the portal in his chest, commanding the puppets to line up and enter his personal secret realm. He then retrieved these murderous metal warriors, leaving only one as a prototype for display.

"Your Majesty, as you can see, with the anti-magic mosquito Ultron robot army I created, why would I need a bunch of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas chanting sutras on my heavenly army's head as some kind of atmosphere-building group?"

Pointing to the metal puppet prototype beside him, Wen Rui, like an arms dealer, began to promote his product to the Jade Emperor: "If Your Majesty gives me a little more time and allocates some funds, in less than ten years, I will be able to build a million-strong puppet army, wipe out the remnants of the demon race, reclaim the mortal realm, and restore eternal peace to all living beings in the Three Realms!"

(End of this chapter)