Stepping on the demon door, the witch becomes the strongest.

Chapter 570 Burning down the Thousand Buddha Temple and rescuing Zhou Hongyu

After Yan Yu arrived in Bogor City, he first changed into the local people's clothes and pants, put on sunglasses, and then pretended to be a foreign tourist and walked towards the hotel in a swagger.

High-ranking wizards are often obsessed with improving their strength and dislike worrying about mundane matters. As a result, ninety-nine out of a hundred wizard territories are governed by anarchy. Major urban areas are divided up by low-ranking wizard bosses, so the security situation in each area depends on how the local bosses manage it.

Among the four major professions of sorcerers, sorcerers and Yin magicians belong to the "black magic" category, and their methods of practice often involve blood, flesh, and living sacrifices, and their temperaments are more violent; spell casters and tattoo artists belong to the "white magic" category, and because their practice requires the practice of Buddhism, they are more benevolent in comparison.

The neighborhood's chief, reportedly a devoted Buddhist, built numerous Buddhist temples there. As if the superiors favored something, the inferiors followed suit, so every household placed a Buddha statue in their living room, praying not for blessings but for safe conduct to avoid disaster.

When Yan Yu arrived at the hotel, he saw that the first floor was full of monks in robes, sitting by the window and leisurely drinking tea.

He exchanged secret codes with the shop owner, checked in, took the room card, went to the room he was staying in, searched around, and sure enough, found the intelligence information under the pillow.

During the time he was on the road, local intelligence personnel had already found out that the monk who had clashed with Zhou Hongyu that day was a disciple from the nearby Thousand Buddha Temple.

After Zhou Hongyu lost contact, Qianfo Temple also announced that it would be undergoing renovations and was closed to the public. All the monks in the temple stopped going out.

Seeing this, Yan Yu confirmed that the Thousand Buddha Temple was most likely related to Zhou Hongyu's disappearance. Continuing to read, he learned that the Thousand Buddha Temple was built at the end of last year by several high-ranking sorcerer lords. It was the largest Buddhist temple in Bogor Prefecture, known for its "thousands of Buddhas" and "heavy incense."

Ordinary people are not qualified to become monks there, only sorcerers can do so...So the Thousand Buddha Temple is more like a "sect of spiritual practice" in the traditional sense than a religious place.

Let’s go and find out first!

Yan Yu left the hotel, confirmed with his spiritual sense that no one was following him, and headed towards the Thousand Buddha Temple.

The Buddhist temple, built on a hillside, had declared itself temporarily closed to the public, so naturally the gates were tightly shut. Monk soldiers were also stationed at the entrance, ensuring extremely tight security.

Yan Yu didn't say anything, went around to the unguarded rear area, and used the wall-penetrating technique to get in.

As soon as he passed through the courtyard wall, his eyes flashed, and he quickly and seamlessly used the invisibility technique, and saw two or three monk soldiers turning from the opposite side, seemingly patrolling along the route.

The invisible Yan Yu quietly bypassed the patrol troops and headed towards the main temple.

When we arrived at the outskirts of the main temple, we saw countless monks sitting in the square in front of the gate, chanting scriptures non-stop, as if they were holding a water and land ceremony.

The temple gate was also tightly closed, and it was surrounded by raging flames, as if the entire temple was about to be burned to ashes - but strangely, these flames did not produce any black smoke, nor did they have the unique crackling sound of burning wood.

What was even more bizarre was that the entire temple, whether it was the walls, pillars or gates, showed no signs of being burned. Instead, they became increasingly redder in the flames, like an iron cauldron in a raging furnace.

No way?
Yan Yu was suddenly startled, thinking, "I was just kidding, are you really going to make it happen?" "Could it be that you locked Zhou Hongyu up in here and set fire to the temple just to turn her into a golden elixir? No, no, how can a person be turned into an elixir? You're probably going to forcibly burn her to death."

He walked around the main temple and found that he was surrounded by monks sitting cross-legged, leaving him no space at all.

If you want to sneak through these monks, you will be afraid of being "attacked halfway across the river". At that time, there will be enemies on all sides, and it will be difficult to dodge. It is better to fight your way in from the outside from the beginning.

Yan Yu thought carefully and quickly, then shook out the puppet Ah Zhen.

The moment Ah Zhen landed, his hands and feet touched the ground, and golden light lit up from his mouth. Before the surrounding monks and soldiers could react, he had already spit out a long golden-red line and swept it forward with his head!

The sorcerers sat cross-legged in the square in front of the temple. Even if they reacted, how could they dodge in time? Ah Zhen's Red Feather Nine Phoenix Fire was deliberately released close to the ground. Even if you rolled on the ground, you still couldn't escape!
The Red Feather Nine Phoenix Fire swept from the right to the left, like a fifty or sixty meter long, extremely sharp sword, cutting heads off and severing bodies. Wherever it passed, there were limbs scattered on the ground, broken arms flying in the sky, blood flowing, and corpses everywhere!
This spell swept across, and although it used up almost 40% of Yan Yu's true energy, it still killed more than one hundred or two hundred sorcerers, so that the entire square in front of the temple was empty.

The remaining monks finally reacted and either retreated or shouted, but they were quickly killed one by one by Yan Yu controlling his two swords and puppets.

Before the reinforcements arrived, Yan Yu immediately rushed to the temple gate and saw a lotus incense burner placed in front of the door. It was burning fiercely inside, and a large number of sparks kept bursting out and falling into the sea of fire surrounding the entire temple, making the flames even more intense.

Looking at the style of the incense burner, Yan Yu was suddenly shocked: Isn't this the magic tool of Honglian Zen?

Of the four great heretical Zen schools in Lu, Red Lotus Zen wasn't the most evil, but it was the most vile. Its main theory held that the world was full of suffering, that living was suffering, and that death was the only way to achieve liberation. The idea that killing was saving others... was therefore a key target for mortal warriors in their previous lives.

Now it seems that the Thousand Buddha Temple was built not by a Southeast Asian sorcerer, but by the evil monk Red Lotus Zen! However, the evil Zen monks are very good at mixing fakes with real ones and deceiving people, so it is not surprising that the local sorcerers cannot tell the difference.

Thinking of this, Yan Yu no longer hesitated and directly used a powerful move combining man and sword to split the lotus incense burner into two pieces.

The fire source was cut off, and the surrounding flames slowly dissipated. Yan Yu pinched the sword gesture in his hand, and the Huangting Sword shot out again, smashing the tightly closed temple door open.

The moment the goal was broken, a golden line shot out from inside. Fortunately, Yan Yu's reaction speed was extremely fast. He jumped up with Fenyun Bagua Step and barely avoided the sweep of Chiyu Jiufeng Fire below in the air.

"Xiao Zhou!" he shouted quickly, "It's me!"

If he hadn't shouted, with Zhou Hongyu's desperate style, he would probably have been hit by several shots from the Great Light Flame Gun, and would have been killed without anywhere to escape.

Fortunately, Yan Yu called out, and the commotion inside finally died down. After a few seconds, Zhou Hongyu's face appeared.

Although her facial features were still beautiful and heroic, her complexion was swollen and red, as if she might go crazy at any moment. Considering that this girl had been roasted in the temple before, it was normal for her face to become shriveled.

Zhou Hongyu wanted to step out of the door, but he stumbled and almost tripped over the threshold.

Yan Yu swept his spiritual sense over and quickly took two steps forward to support Zhou Hongyu's body. He felt that her whole body was incredibly hot, as if she had a fever. Her temperature was probably over 70 or 80 degrees Celsius.

"Holy shit!" Yan Yu exclaimed in shock. "Xiao Zhou, is there any hope for you? If not, I'll go order a coffin for you..."

"Shut up!" Zhou Hongyu said angrily, then came to his senses and explained in a low voice, "My true energy is almost exhausted, and I've been poisoned by the fire. I need to find a place to heal quickly, otherwise I'll go crazy sooner or later. Give me the pills quickly!"

"Here." Yan Yu deftly took out the pill and stuffed it into Zhou Hongyu's mouth. "It's not safe to heal here. Let's go first."

Zhou Hongyu swallowed the pill and followed him without saying a word.

Seeing that she had no intention of speaking, Yan Yu could only ask through voice transmission:

"How did you end up in this situation? Explain."

"The Thousand Buddha Temple is located at a high altitude, making it a good place to collect Thunderbolt Fire on rainy days," Zhou Hongyu said succinctly. "I come here often, and they discovered me."

"Then what?" Yan Yu asked.

"They forced me into the main temple and burned me day and night with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, hoping to transform me into some 'Buddha Mother'." Zhou Hongyu continued, "If you hadn't come, I would have died."

"I see." Yan Yu showed an expression of "I understand", but in fact he was completely confused.

He knew a little about the Red Lotus Karma Fire. He roughly knew that it was a special method of Red Lotus Zen and was extremely powerful. As for the "Buddha Mother", he had never heard of it. He could only guess that it was some kind of mutant after a cultivator went astray, similar to the mechanism of becoming a zombie after being infected with a virus.

"Then you won't suddenly turn into some kind of Buddha Mother while walking, right?" Yan Yu asked again to confirm.

"No," Zhou Hongyu replied, "I'm spewing great luminous fire inside, which can withstand the burning of the Red Lotus Karma Fire. But I don't know what kind of evil magic is in the Karma Fire, which can gradually affect my mind even through the Great luminous fire." "So now that thing still remains in your body." Yan Yu immediately concluded, "How does it feel?"

"It feels like countless people are chanting in my head," Zhou Hongyu said irritably. "It's so noisy!"

Yan Yu guessed it immediately: the refining process of this Buddha Mother should be to refine the body with red lotus and refine the mind with karma, and she wanted to turn Zhou Hongyu into a monster from body to mind. Fortunately, Zhou Hongyu had the Great Light Fire, which could destroy evil and eliminate evil spirits, and he had been promoted to the Huafu level, with abundant true energy. Therefore, with the support of elixirs, he fought against the Great Light Fire outside, and withstood the burning of the red lotus flames, barely holding on until he was rescued.

Although the body has not been mutated by the karmic fire, the influence of being possessed by the devil cannot be eliminated for the time being, so it is necessary to evacuate as soon as possible.

The two men passed through the wall and left the Thousand Buddha Temple. Just as they were about to blend into the streets, they suddenly saw a monk appear in front of them.

The monk, wearing a golden and red robe and holding an alms bowl in his hands, spoke in Lu Guoyu, which had a strong flavor of curry:
"Amitabha. The female donor's Buddha nature is about to be fully realized. Why did she give up halfway?"

Yan Yu formed a sword gesture in his hand, and heard Zhou Hongyu's voice coming over, angrily saying:

"He was the one who forced me into the temple!"

"Female donor," the monk clasped his hands together, chanted Buddhist mantras, and continued, "In your previous life, you were a red lotus planted deep beneath the earth, burned by the underground fire for ten thousand years without extinguishing. Therefore, in this life, you have a violent temper and are unsympathetic. If you do not enter the Buddhist monastic life and use the profound Buddhist teachings to dissolve the evil energy of the underground fire you were born with, you will not only harm those around you, but also suffer the fate of being burned to death. Our temple refines you in the red lotus fire to help you attain enlightenment and become a Buddha, for no other reason."

Zhou Hongyu was startled at first, then sneered:

"You think I'll believe this nonsense that you told to fool a three-year-old?"

"Amitabha." The monk remained calm and asked, "If you didn't believe, why did you follow me into the temple in the first place?"

Yan Yu raised his eyebrows and looked at Zhou Hongyu, then asked in a voice transmission:

"So you weren't forced into the temple, but were tricked into entering?"

Zhou Hongyu's face darkened and he said:

"Never mind! Will you help me kill him?"

"Don't be impatient." Yan Yu looked at the monk again and asked with a smile, "The master said that she is the reincarnation of the Earth Fire Red Lotus. Why don't we take a look at what I was in my previous life?"

"Amitabha." The monk pondered for a moment, then said, "In your previous life, you were the immortal sword wielded by the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady. Therefore, in this life, you are proficient in all kinds of sword techniques, winning every battle and rarely failing."

"Puff." Yan Yu's suspicions were instantly gone, and he burst into laughter. "Okay, okay, then I wonder who my Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady from my previous life has been reincarnated as in this life?"

The monk teased him, knowing that he did not believe it at all, and shook his head and said:

"Donor, it doesn't matter if you don't believe it. Once my red lotus fire burns, all memories of past lives will naturally emerge."

As he spoke, he threw the bowl out, and the bowl mouth spun upside down, releasing a large amount of deep red fire, which transformed into seven or eight long red dragons and rolled towards Yan Yu and Zhou Hongyu.

Zhou Hongyu's cheeks puffed up, and he was about to spit out the bright fire, but Yan Yu picked him up by the waist, performed the Fenyun Bagua Step, and quickly ran away.

"Let me go!" Zhou Hongyu refused to leave and struggled, shouting, "I want to burn him!"

"Nerve!" Yan Yu sneered, "You're on the verge of going insane now. If you get burned by his Red Lotus Karma Fire a few more times, do you plan to die with him?"

"I haven't gone crazy yet!" Zhou Hongyu bared his teeth and claws, trying to kick him.

"Stop it." Yan Yu slapped her hard on the butt.

Snap! It's quite elastic.

Zhou Hongyu's face flushed red. Although his blood had been boiling from being roasted, he still felt a nameless fire rushing to his forehead. He simply grabbed Yan Yu's arm and bit it hard.

Unexpectedly, Yan Yu cast the elephant spell, which almost broke her teeth.

The Fenyun Bagua Step is not a magical movement technique, it can be used simultaneously with the Xiang Curse, so Zhou Hongyu fell into his trap, his upper and lower teeth hurt, his head was noisy, and his body couldn't struggle to get free. For a moment, he was actually a little defeated and couldn't help shedding tears of helplessness and rage.

Yan Yu broke the elephant curse, turned on invisibility, and jumped onto the roof of a nearby hotel with Zhou Hongyu in his arms, then used the wall-penetrating skill to go down.

Fortunately, there was no one in the room.

When he put Zhou Hongyu down, he found that the girl was wiping her tears. Suddenly, he felt a sense of pride in his heart.

I can make the evil woman turn to good and break the defense of the chili pepper. I am so powerful!

Zhou Hongyu was a strong-willed person, so she naturally didn't want him to see her cry. She wiped away her tears with force and said coldly:

"I need to heal."

"Then I'll stay by your side to protect you." Yan Yu dragged a chair and sat down, looking at Zhou Hongyu in his eyes, but his spiritual sense began to scan outside the room.

Zhou Hongyu sat cross-legged on the bed, trying to stabilize his mind and fight against the karmic noises that kept churning in his sea of consciousness. But he saw Yan Yu staring at him straight, and his emotions could not be stabilized. He glared at him angrily and said:
"What are you looking at?"

"Take a few more glances while you're still alive," Yan Yu replied. "You won't be able to see it when you die."

Zhou Hongyu was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked:

"You also believe what that evil monk says? You also think... I'm the reincarnation of some earthly fire red lotus, and that I'll burn myself to death sooner or later?"

"You're definitely not the reincarnation of the Earth Fire Red Lotus," Yan Yu said. "That evil monk is just talking nonsense. If you believe him, you'll be refined into the Buddha Mother. If you don't believe him, he'll certainly not give up and will continue to burn you with his devilish fire. Even if you're burned to death by him, he'll still be right. It's just a trick with words, what's so strange about it?"

Zhou Hongyu was speechless again, and after a while he said:
"...He tricked me into joining the temple, saying that I had caused the death of my grandmother, and that her soul was trapped in my body, being burned by the earth fire within my spirit, tormenting her day and night, unable to escape."

"Didn't your grandmother die of a cerebral hemorrhage?" Yan Yu asked in surprise, "You actually believe such nonsense?"

Zhou Hongyu shook his head and said coldly:

"That reincarnation talk is definitely nonsense. But he's right about one thing: my temper and personality will inevitably lead to harming myself and others sooner or later. It's inevitable."

"You'd better stay away from me in the future, so as not to be harmed by me like this time..."

Before she finished speaking, Yan Yu had already come up to her and said with a frivolous smile:

"You're trying to hurt me, aren't you? Call me 'good brother' and I'll forgive you."

(End of this chapter)