Witch Wind

Chapter 377 The Tribulation of Ten Thousand Buddhas (Part 2)

Get up slowly.

Xing Tianli sat cross-legged for thirty-six years. His entire body, bones, and flesh were soaked in the endless Primordial Qi and the boundless sap of the World Mother Tree for thirty-six years. He was also cleansed by the immeasurable Daoist principles for thirty-six years.

Over countless years, the Celestial Calculator has witnessed countless powerful, weak, intelligent, and dull-witted races. Among them, perhaps three or four percent are innately strong physical beings who cultivate through physical means and engage in fierce battles. The Celestial Calculator has thoroughly plundered the paths, methods, scriptures, and techniques of these races.

In the thirty-six years that Xing Tianli had only absorbed a few drops of the essence from the endless mysteries of body cultivation, the benefits he received had already caused the 'Witch Blood Lotus' behind his immortal soul to expand to a diameter of over a thousand feet.

The nine-tiered lotus, each tier has 1,080 shimmering lotus petals.

The vast and unpredictable fighting essence surged on the lotus petals, and countless Dao patterns, like the stars in the heavens, resonated with every vital point, every tendon, every strand of flesh, every internal organ, and even the smallest cell of Xing Tian Li.

It is crystal clear and perfectly integrated.

Xing Tianli stood up, and from within his body, a powerful and resonant sound, like that of a golden bell or jade chime, suddenly emanated.

With a 'crack', starting from his brow, a fine crack slowly appeared... Xing Tianli, who had been sitting cross-legged for thirty-six years and whose body had swelled to thirty-six feet, suddenly had his skin crack open, and then a piece of dead skin half an inch thick shed off his body.

With a 'crack', thick pieces of dead skin fell heavily to the ground, making a loud 'bang' as they hit the floor.

These palm-sized pieces of dead skin, each half an inch thick, weighed as heavily as a towering Mount Tai.

This is simply the weight of the dead skin that Xingtianli has shed over the past thirty-six years.

His physical body, however, was the refinedest of the refined, the essence of the essence. At this moment, even a small piece of his flesh and a single hair weighed so heavily that ordinary living beings could hardly imagine it.

Xing Tianli gently swayed his body, and countless furnaces of heaven and earth within his body rolled up, sending pieces of dead skin into the air. These pieces were then melted and refined by the furnaces of heaven and earth, transforming into a vast amount of primordial energy, which he then absorbed completely in one breath.

My whole body felt refreshed, and every pore seemed to be radiating a shimmering light that was clearly visible to the naked eye.

Xing Tianli stretched his limbs, and his cultivation level had actually reached the pinnacle of a true Great Luo Golden Immortal during these thirty-six years, thanks to the Dao infusion from the 'Dao Dao Eye'.

Even, far beyond.

However, while it falls short in 'depth', in 'breadth', Xing Tianli's grasp of the Great Dao even surpasses that of many senior Quasi-Saints... Even some Half-Saints are far inferior to Xing Tianli in terms of the depth of their immersion in the 'Dao' and in terms of breadth and complexity.

The fortune teller really gave too much.

His magical cultivation has also reached the level expected of the peak of the Great Luo realm.

Behind Xing Tian's carp immortal soul, there are 8,100 lotuses of the Great Dao, each capable of granting a peak Great Luo realm attainment. Because of their immense vastness and the integration of the strengths of the Great Dao principles from various races, the Great Luo power condensed within each lotus is more than a hundred times that of an ordinary peak Great Luo realm attainment!
Based on this calculation, Xing Tianli's pure magical power alone is 810,000 times that of an ordinary Great Luo Peak cultivator!
If it were any other Great Luo Immortal, with such a terrifying total amount of magical power, they would naturally be able to cover three hundred million miles with purple aura and sweep across eight hundred realms with auspicious energy with a slight movement. When they walked, golden lotuses would bloom everywhere, and when they talked and laughed, the wind and clouds of the whole world would change.

However, Xing Tianli possessed an incredibly powerful physical body. Within each of his cells was a furnace of heaven and earth, containing a golden light formed from condensed magical power, depicting dragons and phoenixes—this golden light was Xing Tianli's magical power.

All the golden light was condensed like a pillar stabilizing the sea, deeply stored in the furnace of heaven and earth.

If not moved, nothing will be missed.

Therefore, from the outside perspective, Xing Tianli is just an ordinary mortal with no magical power at all. Apart from the fact that his physical body looks a bit extraordinary, he is no different from any other mortal.

As for the physical body...

Yes.

Physical body...

Xing Tianli took a deep breath—his arms trembled slightly, and the entire Tower of Creation shook violently, almost causing it to flip over.

The power of 10 billion stars!

For the past thirty-six years, Xing Tianli has not seriously and properly tempered his physical body; he has only been comprehending the Great Dao—he hasn't even begun the proper condensation and transformation of Pangu's essence blood.

Just like any ordinary Great Luo Golden Immortal, while cultivating his magical power and comprehending the Great Dao, he was naturally immersed in the Great Dao, which passively strengthened his physical body... Thus, his physical strength has also been raised to the level of 10 billion stars.

One ray is the weight of the sun in my hometown in my past life!

Liu Jing and the others were also jolted awake by the violent tremor. However, while their eyes shone with colorful light and their physical bodies awoke, their immortal souls remained immersed in the endless Daoist energy, as if they were trapped in a quagmire, unable to pull themselves out.

They breathed slowly, gradually gathering their spirits and circulating the unfamiliar, suddenly a hundredfold or a thousandfold increased magical power within their bodies, struggling desperately to regain their senses from that boundless and incomparably beautiful Great Dao.

Over the years, Xing Tianli has gained the most profound insights and learned the most from the 'Way of the Physical Body'.

The three women of Liujing are also of the Wu clan bloodline.

They naturally benefited greatly, and naturally, they also achieved great success on this 'Witch Blood Path'—after thirty-six years of passive enlightenment, the three women's cultivation level also rose to the half-step Great Luo realm.

However, the physical bodies of the three women... under the forceful cleansing of the Daoist aura emanating from Xing Tianli, their physical bodies also reached the level of tens of millions of stars, which far exceeded the physical strength that should be expected in the Taiyi Realm, and they truly stepped into the threshold of the Great Luo Body Cultivation.

Black Hyenas were especially fortunate, as they were a race that followed the path of physical combat.

His cultivation level barely reached the Taiyi realm—just like the shape of his head, which was pig-headed and pig-brained. His comprehension of the Great Dao was extremely poor. He had been passively listening for thirty-six years, and Xing Tian had forcibly improved his cultivation level for thirty-six years like feeding ducks with a carp, but he had only managed to reach the Taiyi realm.

But what about his physical body?

An astonishing 100 million units of power—no wonder he's a naturally tough, tank-type fighter. Despite his low cultivation level, his physical body is incredibly strong.

As for Ms. Zhong...

She clearly has no talent whatsoever in physical cultivation; to this day, she hasn't even reached the level of a single celestial being.

However, her entire body had already transformed into an almost invisible and intangible shadow. An incredibly terrifying curse, carrying overwhelming resentment, surged and churned within her body. Its profound and unfathomable sinister power even made Xing Tianli feel a slight chill.

She must have awakened her innate abilities during these thirty-six years of listening to the Dao, and obtained some kind of great supernatural power inherited from her clan's bloodline; otherwise, her aura would not have been so eerie that even Xing Tianli found her troublesome.

Although Zhong Nu's cultivation path was a solitary path of curses, her cultivation level had reached the pinnacle of the Great Luo realm.

At this moment, her body was like a black hole, frantically devouring the primordial energy within the Tower of Creation, rapidly refining it into her own magical power. However, if she wanted to cross the Taiyi and Daluo realms and replenish her magical power cultivation, at her current refining speed, it would take her at least ten thousand years.

Xing Tianli shook his head, took out a branch from the World Mother Tree, and blasted it directly into Zhong Nu's body.

Instantly, a tremendous power arose out of nowhere, and her efficiency in replenishing her mana increased by more than ten thousand times. It seemed that in less than a year, her mana cultivation would be able to match her Dao cultivation.

Everyone gained a lot.

Xing Tianli smiled and nodded. He walked out of the Tower of Creation and stood at its spire, looking ahead. The white-faced little donkey quietly appeared and nudged Xing Tianli's leg with its head.

Xing Tianli took a deep, deep, deep breath.

Fragments of stars rapidly melted in the furnace of heaven and earth, and endless primordial energy surged into his body, rapidly tempering his Pangu bloodline. Strange Dao patterns surged within his essence blood, and an incredible aura of essence blood permeated his entire body. Furthermore, the sap of the World Mother Tree filled his body, rapidly transforming into the nutrients his physical body needed.

Xing Tianli's physical body has been awakened.

With a physical body possessing the power of 10 billion yao, every cell was soaked in the abundant essence of Pangu's blood—condensing 8,100 lotuses of the Great Dao. Xing Tianli's Pangu bloodline had been elevated to an incomparably terrifying level.

Every cell in his body instantly transformed into a black hole, frantically devouring the primordial energy and the primordial liquid of the World Mother Tree.

The endless devouring power caused even Xing Tianli to feel a trace of pain.

Fortunately, he had collected enough star fragments beforehand, and he also had a sufficient stockpile of World Mother Tree branches as his trump card.

Physical strength is increasing at an insane rate. It's an unreasonable increase, an increase so rapid that even the most powerful races with top-tier aptitude and bloodlines are trembling with fear.

Ten billion...

Two hundred billion...

Eighty billion...

One hundred billion...

Time passed slowly, and Xing Tianli's eyes flashed with a dark blue divine light. His body swelled to a height of tens of thousands of miles, and his entire body was wrapped in strands of chaotic energy that formed a giant dragon that looked like a living creature.

Three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

The millions of fragments of stars, large and small, that Xing Tianli had collected were all devoured—the primordial energy transformed from these star fragments was merely a drop in the ocean compared to the needs of his current physical body, and could not satisfy even the evolutionary demands of a single cell.

Ultimately, everything still depends on the branches of the Mother Tree of the World.

In the last transaction, the World Mother Tree gave Xing Tianli all its branches, twigs, and primordial essence. Over 99% of this essence was absorbed by Xing Tianli, and his physical strength finally stabilized.

Eight thousand one hundred lotuses of the Great Dao bloomed, each exuding the aura of the Dao. These lotuses of the Great Dao varied in strength, but by sheer coincidence, after the Dao patterns were added to Xing Tianli's Pangu essence blood, he directly gained physical strength of eight hundred and ten trillion luminaries.

Ordinary body cultivators at the peak of their cultivation, their physical bodies, depending on their aptitude, bloodline, comprehension, and cultivation techniques, are at most ten trillion luminaries. This is the limit of a peak body cultivator at the peak of their cultivation.

Xing Tianli possessed physical strength that was eighty-one times that of a normal, proper, peak-level body cultivator at the Great Luo level!

Xing Tianli had a vague understanding: ordinary Quasi-Saints who follow the path of physical cultivation, those Quasi-Saints whose achievements are very average, their physical strength is probably only at the level of tens of trillions of stars.

His physical strength at this moment is quite formidable even among quasi-saints.

Of course, among the infinite knowledge of the 'Great Dao Eye', there is information on some terrifying, naturally powerful races—those guys who do not cultivate magic power, do not cultivate Dao cultivation, have no supernatural powers, do not understand magic, and just rely on a powerful physical body to rampage around.

The physical strength of the children of this race has reached tens of trillions of luminaries!

Where can I go to seek justice?

The world is vast and boundless, filled with wonders and mysteries.

Xing Tianli calmed his mind and silently recited the Daoist scriptures to purify and soothe his spirit, forcibly suppressing the slightest bit of restlessness and anger in his heart.

"In the end, you're still just an ant." Xing Tianli suddenly burst into laughter, laughing so hard he bent over backward, tears streaming down his face. "You don't even qualify to be a mayfly... Xing Tianli, you're still just an ant, what are you so smug about?"

'Ants'!
'ephemera'!
As Xing Tianli uttered those two words, he felt a cool sensation throughout his body, and the arrogance that had just arisen vanished without a trace.

Absorb magical power.

To absorb the physical body.

To cultivate one's Daoist mind.

My whole body felt cool and refreshed, and my Daoist heart was as clear and transparent as a drop of crystal.

Xing Tianli shook his body, and with a series of cracks, his body gradually returned to its normal height of nearly ten feet.

The Great Dao Eye between his brows slightly opened, and the boundless, dark stardust in front of him suddenly lit up. Countless twisted and strange Dao patterns emerged from the stardust. The stardust that was originally impenetrable and without any path appeared as a winding thoroughfare under the gaze of the Great Dao Eye.

Xing Tianli greeted Liu Jing and the others, and the Tower of Creation slowly moved forward.

After traveling at a hundred times the speed of light for nearly half a month through this exceptionally thick stardust, the world suddenly opened up ahead, revealing a magnificent and radiant world before them.

Tens of thousands of suns, large and small, follow graceful trajectories, orbiting a continent with a diameter of trillions of miles in the very center.

Each sun is extremely far apart, and near each sun, there are more or less planets orbiting the sun.

On the central circular continent, among the stars that revolve around the sun, tiny streaks of light flashed rapidly, streaking across the sky and bringing with them wisps of minuscule flames.

There are powerful cultivators traversing the void, freely traveling between continents and stars.

Whether above the continent or around the stars, one can see floating palaces and pavilions, as well as floating islands and caves.

This was clearly an extremely advanced cultivation civilization.

However, under the gaze of Xing Tianli's Dao Eye, this strange world was clearly centered on a circular landmass with a diameter of trillions of miles. Yet, on that landmass, only ordinary mortals lived, and very few cultivators, whose auras were so weak as to be negligible compared to Xing Tianli, were hidden in some famous mountains and rivers.

The most powerful cultivators in those famous mountains and rivers are only at the level of Earth Immortals.

Truly powerful cultivators reside near tens of thousands of suns, on stars totaling over two hundred thousand.

Moreover, it is quite clear that the relationship between these stars is not very harmonious. They seem to be divided into two or three different camps, with distinct borders between them, much like countries.

As Xing Tianli paused to gaze into the distance, on the border between two opposing forces, a massive army was piloting a hundred-mile-long floating warship, engaging in an extremely brutal battle.

Warships were packed tightly together, and large groups of heavily armored body cultivators, like ordinary mortal warriors, brandished their gleaming weapons and charged back and forth in a frenzy.

Each warship has over 100,000 similar heavily armored body cultivators, ranging in cultivation level from Qi Refining to Spirit Transformation to Earth Immortal.

Above those warships, there were some celestial beings. They wore wide-sleeved immortal robes and calmly treaded on flowing clouds, or flew on immortal artifacts, or rode on various powerful immortal birds and beasts. They casually controlled various immortal artifacts to collide in the air from dozens of miles away.

Occasionally, a few of the most powerful celestial beings would gather their energy and chant incantations, accumulating enough time to brew a cup of tea, before unleashing an extremely brilliant celestial spell with exceptional light and flame effects.

However, these immortal techniques were not only very slow to execute, but also had excellent light and shadow effects. In Xing Tianli's eyes, their speed, accuracy, and lethality were all laughable.

It was just a big firework display, a complete waste of time. Even if some unlucky guy was hit by chance, he would only break his bones and cough up blood, without seriously injuring anyone... Well, even if someone's body was broken in two, in Xing Tianli's opinion, that wouldn't be considered a serious injury!

Xing Tianli waved his sleeve, and a large amount of stardust appeared out of thin air around him.

A gust of stardust-laden wind rose gently, carrying stardust and the invisibly invisible Tower of Creation, flying towards the battlefield—Xing Tianli had seen something interesting at the heart of the battlefield.

It was a Buddha statue carved from a floating mountain.

The Buddha statue is in a reclining position with a smile on its face. Its compassionate aura is like a spring breeze and gentle rain, rippling slowly outwards in waves.

This Buddha statue stretches for hundreds of miles from head to toe.

The Buddha statue supports its head with its left hand, and makes a mudra with its right hand at its chest. In the palm of its right hand, it holds up a small temple about a mile in circumference.

The temple may appear small, but it has a unique spatial design. From a distance, the small temple, which is only about a mile in circumference, has many pavilions and halls. At first glance, it seems to have at least tens of thousands of buildings, such as Buddhist halls, scripture halls, bell towers, drum towers, and scripture pavilions.

Above the temple gate hung a plaque with four large gold-lacquered characters: "Ten Thousand Buddhas Thunder Sound".

What stirred Xing Tianli's heart was that he recognized those four large gold-painted characters—and they were written in an extremely fluent Liu Gongquan style of calligraphy.

In his previous life, Xing Tianli, as a liberal arts student, could only be described as having calligraphy that looked like chicken claws scratching.

However, he had at least seen some calligraphy models and recognized that the plaque was an imitation of Liu Gongquan's calligraphy!
The fortune teller was right. The head of the little monk that Xing Tianli encountered in the Black Abyss came from this world, from this small temple held up by the Buddha's palm.

However, it is clear that the reason for the two factions' conflict is to seize the reclining stone Buddha and the Wanfo Leiyin Temple held up in the palm of the stone Buddha!

(End of this chapter)