Witch Wind

Chapter 392 I am Ran Min (Part 1)

Extremely remote, immeasurable, unknowable, and beyond description.

Darkness filled the air, a sea of ​​blood and a mountain of corpses.

Countless extremely distorted figures were hidden in the darkness, their breaths whistling, their eyes bloodshot, staring intently at two Taoist priests sitting back to back in a dim light.

The two Taoists were tall and thin. One always had a sorrowful expression on his face, while the other, even though he was covered in wounds and his Taoist robes were stained gold with blood, still had a faint smile on his face, showing no emotion despite being in dire straits.

In their hands, one held a blessed vajra, and the other held a seven-jeweled tree. Beneath them was a lotus flower radiating seven-colored divine light, emitting boundless brilliance to resist the encroachment of the surrounding darkness. Above their heads was a relic banner, whose radiance was even more intense than that of the lotus flower.

The banner was enveloped in raging flames. Occasionally, when it spun, a deafening thunderclap would ring out, and a bolt of fire and lightning would erupt from the banner, blasting a large group of terrifying figures in the darkness to smithereens.

Upon closer inspection, countless tiny golden specks of light could be seen floating around the two Taoist priests.

Each point of light is a vibrant planet or floating continent, above which countless Buddhist practitioners sit in meditation in the forests of the ten directions, chanting scriptures. The sounds of chanting blend together, providing a continuous source of power for the precious lotus and the precious banner.

In the surrounding darkness, terrifying behemoths lurked, occasionally letting out strange howls, and their unpredictable attacks surged forth like a tide. The golden lights flickered erratically, causing many monks meditating in the jungle to sway and suddenly cough up blood.

"Excellent, excellent." A Taoist priest gently shook the Seven Treasures Tree in his hand, and seven-colored Buddhist light broke through two invisible and strange attacks. He said softly, "Senior brother, find a way to leave this place. This world has no connection with our sect."

Another figure sighed softly, glancing around at the extraordinary darkness, and murmured, "It's just a hair's breadth away from cleansing the world and sweeping away the demons. It's just that tiny bit short..."

At that very moment, Xing Tianli reshaped the Heavenly Dao of that world, transforming it into the shape of the Nine Provinces Primordial Wilderness. He then imparted the fundamental introductory text of the "Ten Thousand Buddha Thunder Sound" to the trillions of people across the continent and on hundreds of thousands of stars.

Thus, in that world, countless people, regardless of age, gender, intelligence, or dullness, chanted Buddhist mantras and easily embarked on the easy path of cultivation through the basic method of "Ten Thousand Buddhas Thunder Sound."

In an instant, chanting filled the air, Buddhist power surged, and the entire world, because all its people had practiced Buddhist techniques, became a kaleidoscope of colors, with faint Buddhist light, as if the world had been dyed into a relic.

An incredible causal connection caused a strange aura to break through the air and bless the two Taoists.

The two Taoists were slightly startled and turned their heads at the same time to look at the world where Xing Tianli was located—across countless spatial dimensions and countless world barriers, they could vaguely see the existence of this world.

Because of the widespread practice of Buddhism, the natural order of the world is undergoing subtle changes.

If it weren't for Luo Luoqi's sneak attack, this world, with its extremely powerful origin, should have evolved into a magnificent world. After being reforged by Xing Tianli, a portion of the damaged 'essence' of this world has been repaired. It is now actively absorbing the surrounding chaotic primordial energy, gradually restoring its origin and enhancing itself.

It was clearly a world that wasn't very strong at the moment, which had suddenly been empowered.

The two Taoists suddenly perked up; the numerous wounds on their bodies vanished instantly, and enveloped in a radiant light, their auras surged dramatically. The Taoist holding the blessed pestle sighed softly, "Fellow Daoist, you do have a fine disciple...tsk!"

The two Taoist priests grinned simultaneously, seemingly envying someone's good fortune.

The blessed pestle suddenly expanded, silently transforming into a full billion miles in length, and then casually pressed down.

With a muffled thud, a massive gap was forcibly torn open in the boundless darkness, shattering it to reveal an incredibly magnificent landscape—a landscape so astonishing that the mountains were formed from rare treasures such as glass, agate, crystal, diamonds, gold, and silver, while the water was condensed primordial energy in liquid form. As the wind blew through the air, countless petals fell from the sky, and these petals were all innate spiritual materials of extremely high grade…

This was none other than a 'Pure Land World' of unbelievably high quality!
The other Taoist swung the Seven Treasures Tree fiercely. In myths and legends, this treasure, which had always only brushed away other people's spiritual treasures and weapons and had unparalleled defense, but had never seemed to show any killing power, suddenly spewed out boundless sword energy!
Even Buddhist sects have protectors who are proficient in swordsmanship!
Otherwise, do you think the Four Heavenly Kings standing in front of some large temples and ancient monasteries, with one of them holding a long sword, are just for decoration?

Seven-colored sword light swept across the sky, dispelling the darkness. The aura of countless strange figures hidden in the darkness suddenly weakened, and a terrifying torrent of sword light roared in. Accompanied by countless sharp screams, these figures shattered inch by inch, torn to shreds by the sword light cleaved by the Seven Treasures Tree, scattered into the smallest particles, and finally completely obliterated.

"Excellent, excellent." The two Taoists chanted in unison, then glanced again in the direction where Xing Tianli was. Together, they unleashed a beam of extremely clear, glazed Buddhist light in that direction.

A dimension that seems not too far from this world.

Beneath the feet of the Tongtian Daoist, countless corpses had filled a world—this was a middle-thousand world, whose central main continent had a diameter of over one hundred million light-years. Nearly two hundred billion stars alone orbited this continent, and countless other planets and meteors.

The vast Middle Thousand World was completely filled with the corpses of all sorts of grotesque and terrifying monsters.

It has only been a few decades, less than a century, since Tongtian Daoren last sent the newly compiled "Tongtian Sword Canon" to Xing Tianli. In Xing Tianli's dimension of time and space, only a very short time has passed. In the high-dimensional space-time where Tongtian Daoren is, even less time has passed.

In such a short time, the corpses of the monsters he killed were enough to fill an entire small world.

"Hahaha!" Tongtian Daoist raised the Qingping Sword in his hand, and the four swords of Zhulu Xianjue around him released a terrifying cold light that could slaughter everything. He raised his head to the sky and took a deep look in the direction where the two Daoists were.

"This time, you've actually benefited. After all, you're from the same lineage as the Nine Provinces. Oh well. The book I compiled, 'The Furnace of Heaven and Earth, A Stick of Incense,' was originally intended for the descendants of the Nine Provinces to spread and flourish in this void world... It's inevitable that you'll get a little benefit from it."

"Hmph, like a chick pecking at rice, how long is it going to keep munching like this?" Tongtian Daoren's eyes shot out chaotic divine light as he glanced in the direction of Xing Tianli. The dimensional span was too vast, and there were too many world barriers. With his abilities, he could only barely guess what Xing Tianli was doing.

He pursed his lips and said softly, "What's a mayfly that has just left its nest? There are plenty of mayflies like that here."

Shaking his head, Tongtian Daoist let out a loud shout, and four-colored sword lights swirled around him, instantly forming a sword formation. Countless corpses emitted terrifying sounds, and this enormous mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood was enveloped by the sword light, slowly crushing and crushing towards the core. When these corpses were crushed to their limit, a terrifying reaction similar to nuclear fusion erupted from within them.

However, no matter how they reacted, they were all suppressed by Tongtian Daoren with a flick of his finger.

Soon, the corpses that filled an entire Middle Thousand World were forcibly compressed by Tongtian Daoren into a fist-sized, pitch-black pearl. Wisps of black energy, like a raging tide, continuously spewed out from the pearl. These were the impurities, toxins, and various harmful impurities from the corpses, which Tongtian Daoren continuously melted away with his heaven-defying magic power.

Soon, the pearl became smooth and lustrous, with not a trace of harmful impurities remaining inside, leaving only the purest essence of flesh and blood and soul.

With a swift movement, he arrived directly in front of the main continent, which was a hundred million light-years in diameter, and chuckled softly, "Brother, you're quite the businessman. That powerful beast that once sat on the ground has now become our go-to errand runner and deliveryman... Heh, heh heh, a win-win situation, a perfect collaboration, brilliant!"

After saying a few nice words, the Taoist Master Tongtian stomped his foot heavily, and the continent turned into a piece of gold with a 'boom'!
A gold nugget with a diameter of 100 million light-years.

Tongtian Daoren let out a long howl, took out a jade-green leaf, flicked his finger, and the leaf burned away, releasing a burst of vibrant spiritual energy. Before him, a verdant world gate slowly opened, and an extremely thin branch slowly emerged: "It's Fellow Daoist Tongtian. You always only like to draw your sword and kill people, but you haven't come looking for me in a long time... uh..."

The World Mother Tree's voice suddenly became extremely cheerful: "Is this huge piece of gold all for me?"

Tongtian Daoren smiled and said, "Yes, these years have somewhat delayed your refining of that supreme offensive treasure... Haha, but besides that treasure mirror, do you still remember the 'Taiyi Dividing Light Sword' that I taught you? The materials required are several times more than those treasure mirror."

"I can't bear to see my good friends encounter difficulties, so I hurriedly sent some materials to you after just sweeping through a world."

"By the way, take this bead to that little carp."

After a moment's thought, Tongtian Daoist pointed to the huge gold nugget at his feet: "By the way, take a look at the price difference and send it all to Little Carp. This humble Daoist must continue onward!"

Tongtian Daoren raised his head, his eyes blazing with chaotic divine light, and said in a low, eerie voice, "This chaotic realm has been nearly ravaged by you beasts, large and small. I must go and find out if the legendary 'Ancient Path of Fallen Saints,' leading to another entirely new chaotic sea, truly exists." "I won't compete with you anymore!" Tongtian Daoren took a deep breath.

The World Mother Tree responded with great joy, hastily activating its magic power to open the World Gate to an alarming degree. Dozens of incredibly thick branches quickly emerged, one branch lifting the pearl formed from flesh and soul essence, while the other branches coiled around the enormous piece of gold, hurriedly dragging it into the World Gate.

Tongtian Daoren let out a long roar towards the Middle Thousand World, which had lost its core continent and was slowly collapsing inward. With a flicker of his body, he vanished without a trace.

Inside the deep pit, seventy-two great yakshas were frantically gnawing at Lorochi. Their teeth were grinding countless sparks on Lorochi's body, but they couldn't tear off any of Lorochi's flesh—not even a scrap of fur.

Xing Tianli frowned.

Lorochi burst into wild laughter, his laughter dazzlingly bright: "Look at these demons you've raised, they can't even..."

Xing Tianli punched Luo Luoqi's writhing belly, which was almost fully repaired. With a loud bang, Luo Luoqi screamed in agony as his flesh was shattered once again. The great yakshas roared and flew towards the splattered flesh.

The void suddenly froze.

The bodies of the seventy-two great yakshas froze in mid-air, unable to move any further.

Xing Tianli looked up in horror and saw a ray of extremely clear, crystal-clear Buddhist light shooting from the far horizon. In the blink of an eye, it was in front of him and plunged into the Dao Eye between his eyebrows.

Each profound and subtle Buddhist scripture flowed into the eye of the Great Dao like water.

After countless scriptures were merged, countless golden Buddhist light words spewed out, and a copy of the "Universal Salvation Bodhi Sutra" condensed in front of Xing Tianli. After Xing Tianli memorized this short Buddhist sutra of only a dozen or so words, golden light flowed and poured into Xing Tianli's body.

His blood was surging, his essence was flowing, and Xing Tianli was drenched in sweat. A supple yet unstoppable force was gradually stimulating his Pangu bloodline, refining and purifying it little by little.

Physical strength soared from there.

Xing Tianli could also discover that his physical body had undergone extremely subtle changes—originally, his physical body was pure, primal, and wildly powerful.

Unparalleled strength, unparalleled defense, unparalleled vitality.

But at this moment, nourished by this ray of golden light, his physical body gained many other attributes—well, anyway, the complete set of combined supernatural powers that should exist in Buddhist Dharma form and Buddhist golden body were all enhanced on Xing Tianli.

To put it another way, if we consider the purple-sashed Taoist robe as a type of outer armor...

This ray of golden light is like a natural inner armor covering Xing Tian Li's body, growing alongside his flesh and blood. In the future, even if a strange creature like Luo Luo Qi enters Xing Tian Li's stomach and releases his natal Emerald Feather Poison freely in his intestines, he will have to break through this inner armor before he can officially touch Xing Tian Li's body.

His physical body naturally possesses an extra layer of protection against various negative states, deadly poisons and curses, and unorthodox techniques.

The supreme method for saving one's life.

Xing Tianli smiled so hard his eyes narrowed into slits—heh, I never expected that simply having all the descendants of the Nine Provinces cultivate Buddhism in this world would actually attract two big shots to personally transfer their power from afar, giving me such great benefits.

This "Universal Salvation Sutra" is an extremely important Buddhist scripture.

This technique has no additional attributes; its sole effect is that, through continuous recitation, one can rapidly and limitlessly increase the quantity and quality of one's immortal soul, making it infinitely stronger and purer.

There are no additional attributes.

It's not like you'll suddenly become a Buddhist just because you've been chanting scriptures a lot.

In the past, the biggest criticism of Buddhist practices was this: as long as you practiced a Buddhist practice, even the most common and lowest-level scripture or mantra, you were considered to have a 'connection' with Buddhism.

Those enthusiastic preaching monks will keep an eye on you and use all sorts of means to bring you into the Buddhist order.

Even after ten or a hundred reincarnations, there's always a persistent and unwavering monk who might suddenly appear before you and shout, "Junior brother, please return to your place!"

However, the Universal Salvation Sutra, which can be regarded as the supreme Buddhist scripture, is completely free of such troubles.

He purely elevates and refines the immortal soul, without getting involved in karma or causing trouble. He has already severed all ties for you from the very beginning.

Xing Tianli chuckled, "In that case, if we refine more Heavenly Daos of worlds in the future, we should spread those Buddhist scriptures we just learned about more often. Ha, so be it..."

Xing Tianli's face suddenly darkened.

A thousand Three Character Classic phrases quietly surfaced in my mind, but I dared not say them aloud.

Those two saints probably had such thoughts in mind, which is why they bestowed such irresistible benefits upon us.
The purpose of maximizing the benefits is to allow Xing Tianli to wreak havoc in more worlds and spread Buddhist scriptures more widely, right?

Xing Tianli grumbled for a long time, his nose and face looking displeased, but he still didn't dare to utter a sound.

However, his immortal soul had already sat cross-legged on the Purple Palace of his spirit platform and began to silently recite the "Universal Salvation Sutra"—and indeed, its effects were terrifying, like a nightmare.

Xing Tianli, a celestial soul at the pinnacle of the Great Luo realm, only needed to recite this scripture nine times for his total celestial soul quantity to increase by 30%, and his purity also increased by 30%.

Xingtian Li has gone completely mad.

Once you reach the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, every bit of progress takes a long and arduous time. Many Great Luo peak cultivators have cultivated for tens of millions, hundreds of millions, or even countless eons, yet their cultivation and immortal soul remain as stable as Mount Tai, unable to make any progress whatsoever.

He only read the "Universal Salvation Bodhi Sutra" nine times, nine times... Although the sutra has more than 10,000 words, with the power of a Great Luo Golden Immortal's soul, how much time would it take to read it once?

After reciting it nine times, the power of the immortal soul increased by 30% out of thin air.

The seemingly insurmountable barrier between Xing Tianli's Great Luo Realm and Quasi-Saint Realm is clearly no longer a problem.

Once his immortal soul reaches a certain strength and is refined to a certain degree, quantitative change will inevitably lead to qualitative change, and his ascension to the Quasi-Saint realm will be a matter of course!
What surprised Xing Tianli even more was that, after being cleansed by that golden light, his physical body not only donned a set of inner armor, but his physical strength also quietly increased to 20 quadrillion yarths, which is equivalent to the power of two small heavens!
With such great benefits, Xing Tianli began to seriously consider that it wouldn't be impossible to spread the Buddhist tradition to the two sages in the next world... There was no way around it, those two sages had given too much!

With a 'click,' a familiar, emerald-green portal suddenly opened in front of me.

A root carrying a precious pearl drilled through, followed by a small ball of light. Within the emerald green ball of light was a small world, filled with the life essence from the heart of the Mother Tree, as well as a large piece of tree heart essence that was even larger than the world Xing Tianli was currently in.

(End of this chapter)