The world is like a prison, my body is holy

Chapter 82 Undercurrent Surges (seeking monthly ticket)

"Wow, golden legend!"

Wang Wen was surprised and took the initiative to dub.

With just one glance, he determined that this mourning stick-shaped object was most likely a genuine magical tool for ghosts and gods, and its level was not low!

His judgment came from both the knowledge about magical instruments of ghosts and gods passed down to him by the Taiyi Jiuku Hushen Miaojing, and the fact that this instrument could remain intact and strong even under the full force of the Crimson Palace Thunder he unleashed.

With this guess in mind, he bent down impatiently to pick up the toy-like mourning stick and tentatively injected a burst of ghostly magic power into it.

The mourning stick, which was more than a foot long, swelled up in the wind, and in the blink of an eye it turned into an ancient weapon that was more than a person tall, covered with fine black cracks all over, and moved without wind, emitting a sinister and gloomy aura.

'Awesome! '

Wang Wen exclaimed in surprise, then continued to inject ghostly magic power, swung the mourning stick at a white zombie two feet away.

The next second, a scene that made his brain freeze... appeared!

A huge pale mourning stick as thick as a bucket and about three meters long appeared out of thin air above the zombie's head and smashed down with a heavy blow!
"Boom."

Amidst the earth-shaking noise, the poor, weak and helpless little white zombie was smashed into a lump of black flesh that was embedded in the ground and could not be retrieved!
But this blow also drained all the ghostly magic power in his Yin Shen, and even his Yin Shen was showing signs of collapse.

Wang Wen: “Fuck!”

Chen Sandao: “Fuck!”

Both the man and the ghost were stunned into place, their minds filled with the thick and long mourning stick.

It was not until the few remaining zombies fled in all directions that the man and the ghost came to their senses.

Wang Wen shouted ecstatically, "Don't just stand there, hurry up and wash the floor!"

Chen Sandao: "Washing..."

……

Just as Wang Wen and Chen Sandao were running wild in the forest...

Inside the big tent of the Maoshan camp, the tired-looking Maoshan Sect Leader, Master Hunkun, was still forcing himself to stay awake and conduct a three-party meeting through the technique of the Mysterious Mirror with Zhang Jizu, the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain who was stationed at the southern foot of Huangshan Mountain, and Jinping Daoist, the Sect Leader of the Gezhao Sect who was stationed at the western foot of Huangshan Mountain.

Although the three masters were originally restricted by the power of heaven and earth and were unable to cultivate even a trace of magic power after decades of practice, the Taoism they had cultivated for half a lifetime could not be false in the slightest.

It is said that opportunities always come to those who are prepared.

Now that spiritual energy has revived and the path of cultivation has resumed, it may be a whole new world and a brand new beginning for others.

But for these devout seekers of truth who have never slacked off even for a single day in the Dharma-Ending Age, this is like a long drought finally ending in rain, and also a time when tigers go into the mountains and dragons return to the sea... They have been waiting for this opportunity for most of their lives!

Therefore, even though the spiritual energy has only been revived for two and a half years, the cultivation levels of the three masters have already opened up a clear gap with the mainstream practitioners of the time, and they are all well-deserved masters of the time.

This is true for them, and for the other folk masters of Dharma who have never given up their own inherited traditions during the long Dharma-Ending Age!
In a world of great contention, one step faster, every step faster...

"Today, we have over 620 men returning to the camp, a total of over 5,200 men."

"Over 450 of our men have returned to the camp, totaling over 4,600..."

After Zhang Tianshi and Jinping Daoist had summarized the situation of the troops in their respective camps, Hunkun Daoist also said, "Over 420 of our men have returned to the camp, for a total of over 3,900 men."

The three sect leaders were well-versed in Taoism and could calculate the total strength of the three camps with just a thought, without the need for paper, pen or abacus.

For a moment, the three masters were silent, and even the mysterious mirror could not block the solemn atmosphere circulating between the three of them.

This force is too few...

As we all know, the White Lotus Sect is both a cult and a rebel!
When it comes to masters, the three talisman sects naturally crush the White Lotus Sect.

But in terms of people and horses, the three talisman sects combined are not as thick as the White Lotus Sect's thigh.

For this shocking plot, the White Lotus Sect mobilized all its forces. Even if the branches that built altars in various prefectures in Jianghuai were excluded, there were still no less than 80,000 troops around Huangshan!

The White Lotus Sect had so many people, but the reason why the three talisman sects were still able to set up camp at the foot of Huangshan Mountain was simply because they were afraid of falling into the trap of the three talisman sects to lure the tiger away from the mountain.

After all, although they have sufficient manpower, they also have many formation nodes to defend. The Seventy-two Earthly Evil Formation and the Ten Perfect Heaven-Repairing Formation alone have eighty-two formation nodes. Once they concentrate their superior troops and start a war with the three talisman sects, they can easily be cut off by their masters.

In fact, under the nose of the White Lotus Sect, the three talisman sects openly and aggressively summoned people from all walks of life to join them. Their plan was indeed to lure the main force of the White Lotus Sect down the mountain, and then concentrate the masters of the three sects to directly attack the Ten Perfect Heaven-Repairing Formation and interrupt the rituals of the formation.

After all, the time for the practice of cultivation is too short, and the gap between practitioners and ordinary people is not so big that it cannot be made up by numbers.

Even the three masters are currently unable to achieve the inhuman level of fighting against thousands of troops with a single sword, not to mention that there are a large number of martial arts masters in the White Lotus Sect.

This has led to the fact that both the White Lotus Sect and the three talisman sects are currently cautious and dare not act rashly.

But in general, the White Lotus Sect still firmly controls the initiative. They only need to sit back and wait, relying on the advantages of formations and military strength to respond to all changes with the same attitude.

The three talisman sects not only had to race against time, but also had to attack the mountain and break the formation...

The three sect leaders have been worried about their beards and hair falling out in clumps these days, but they still have to act nonchalant in front of outsiders, pretending that "we have a great advantage."

Retreat if you can’t win?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Even if the Great Zhou court accepted it with a pinch of its nose, these orthodox Taoist sects would never recognize it!

The underworld is the retreat for disciples of these prestigious sects. They must uphold the orthodoxy of the underworld. If they fail to ascend to heaven, they may still be able to transfer to the underworld as ghosts and gods, specializing in the ghost way...

If they hand over the underworld to the White Lotus Sect, their retreat will be completely cut off. By then, even if the founders of various sects are far away in countless worlds, they will probably jump to their feet and curse them for being unworthy descendants who have ruined their ancestors' country!

You have to know that when the Heaven and the Underworld had not yet left this world, each sect had a patriarch serving in the underworld, looking after the younger generation like them. In the past, when the disciples of the three sects went out to gain experience, they could really say: "My family has people in heaven and on earth!"

This is also the reason why when the White Lotus Sect was plotting to take over the underworld, the three talisman sects did not ask the Buddhist masters for help, and the Buddhist masters just turned a blind eye and pretended not to see it!

From a standpoint, the Buddhist masters did not personally stand on the side of the White Lotus Sect because they believed that "all eggs should not be put in one basket"... After all, there was a precedent of destroying Buddhism in this dynasty.

Killing relatives for righteousness?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!
After a long silence, Master Hun Kun asked in a tired voice, "Brother Zhang, have the Imperial Guards and the Auxiliary Armies responded?" Heavenly Master Zhang shook his head with a sullen expression, "The Imperial Guards cannot be moved without the Emperor's order. The Auxiliary Armies commanders from Xuanzhou, Chizhou, Hangzhou, and other places have connections with our Heavenly Master's Mansion. They have managed to gather five thousand troops to support us, but according to my calculations, the fastest force won't arrive at the foot of Huangshan until the evening of September 9th, and there are only a few thousand of them."

Upon hearing this, Master Jinping sighed deeply and said, "Those who strike first gain the upper hand; those who strike later are controlled by others... Brother Liu, do Senior Zhang, Grandmaster Zhao, and Sect Leader Fang have any response?"

Master Hun Kun lowered his eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "Senior Zhang has been missing for half a century. It is unknown whether he is still alive. I can only send people to leave letters for him according to the several contact methods he left behind. As for whether he can read it or arrive in time, I have no idea. Master Zhao is in the frontier. The disciple I sent to deliver the letter has not replied yet, and I don't know if he has been found. As for Fang La, he is a man who forgets his principles when he sees profit and changes his attitude according to the situation. It is better not to mention him!"

Three pieces of bad news were released one after another, followed by another long silence.

After a long moment, Zhang Tianshi spoke calmly, "Brothers, don't worry too much. The White Lotus Sect is powerful, so we should avoid its sharp edge and attack its weak points with our strength. If there is no good news by September 9th, I will hand Old Demon Wang over to this Taoist priest to deal with. Brothers, each of you should defeat him. Knowing that our three sects are united and determined, we can still bring the White Lotus Sect to its knees."

Upon hearing this, Master Hunkun and Master Jinping nodded in agreement, but they still felt heavy in their hearts.

How can it be considered using the real to defeat the fake if they rely on just the three of them to break the formation and kill people?
Now that the game is clear, shouldn't the White Lotus Society be on guard against the three of them going all out?
But if there is really no better way, this is the only way.

As long as the three of them can remove one key point of the Seventy-two Earthly Evil Formation and one of the Ten Perfect Heaven-Repairing Formation, and then work together to kill the White Lotus Sect leader Wang Ze, they can make his formation incomplete and his rituals flawed. Even if they still cannot stop the Vacuum Homeland from evolving into the underworld, they will definitely make his authority lack.

The saying "Man proposes, God disposes" is exactly this meaning.

The three masters each hung up their phones and issued a series of instructions overnight.

Undercurrents surge...

……

At the same time, on the top of Huangshan Mountain and Lotus Peak.

The leaders of the White Lotus Sect were also working overnight to gather information on the troops from the Three Mountains of Talismans.

It was midnight, and the myriad moonlight rays fell on the top of Lotus Peak like a pearl curtain, illuminating an illusory space filled with faint golden smoke and the echoing sounds of thousands of people chanting in the void. This illusory space, which was countless kilometers in size, was located in the narrow space of less than ten square meters on the top of Lotus Peak, like a huge temple resting on a thin bamboo pole.

Thousands of white-robed monk ghosts sit in this illusory space, silently chanting the Maitreya Sutra and blessing this illusory space.

This illusory space is the "vacuum hometown" evolved by the White Lotus Sect with the will of millions of believers and the spiritual energy of Huangshan Mountains.

Its status in the White Lotus Sect's teachings is the same as the Western Paradise in the minds of Buddhist believers.

But its nature is no different from the blessed land and cave of Chenghuang Dharma Realm.

But it is obvious that the current state of Zhenkong’s hometown is not important.

As long as their plan succeeds, they are very confident that they can transform their vacuum hometown into the underworld, a real small world.

The so-called Ten Perfect Heaven-Repairing Formation...

It is not like the goddess Nuwa who refined the five-colored divine stones to fill the gaps in the sky.

But it is to make up for the missing rules of the way of heaven.

To put it bluntly, after the Heaven and the Underworld were withdrawn from this world, although the laws of nature in this world are still functioning normally, there are inevitably many deficiencies.

What the White Lotus Cult is targeting is the missing part of the reincarnation rules.

And what they have to do is not to forcibly open up the underworld by human power.

All it takes is gathering all the necessary conditions to establish the underworld and presenting them to the Heavenly Dao: "Boss, please assess our company's qualifications to manage reincarnation."

The Tao Te Ching says: Heaven and earth are heartless, and treat all things as straw dogs.

The Tao Te Ching also says: The way of Heaven is to reduce the surplus and make up for the deficiency.

In a rule mechanism without emotions, good or evil, and only automatically filling in its own deficiencies, there is a high probability that the Heavenly Dao will recognize the White Lotus Sect's qualifications to manage reincarnation, and will bestow infinite power to help them evolve their vacuum hometown into the underworld.

Does this method of operation look familiar?
Doesn’t it seem to be exactly the same as the Buddhist method of achieving enlightenment?

Inherited from the same source, naturally no difference...

Therefore, this plan is both the best time and the only chance for both the White Lotus Sect and the entire Buddhist sect of the Great Zhou!
"It's just a bunch of rabble, don't take it too seriously."

After the White Lotus leaders, dressed in white clothes and wearing white lotus crowns, reported on the progress of recruiting troops from the three talisman sects.

The old monk with white eyebrows, who sat high on a nine-petal lotus platform in the center of the thousands of white-robed monks, closed his eyes and spoke calmly, "Order the spies to keep a close eye on the three sect leaders. They must closely monitor their whereabouts and report back regularly. If necessary, they can be relaxed on the outside but tightened on the inside, feigning defeat to lure the enemy in. Don't drive them into a corner and force them to make a desperate bet!"

The White Lotus leaders kneeling before the lotus platform kowtowed devoutly upon hearing the words, saying, "We will follow the Venerable's command!"

At that moment, a leader hurried in, knelt down and kowtowed before the lotus platform, "Your Excellency, Lady Meng reports that Bai Wuchang's lamp has been extinguished, and his magic weapon, the mourning stick, has been lost."

The old monk with white eyebrows said calmly, "Tell the Punishment Department to retrieve the mourning stick."

The visitor kowtowed again: "I will follow the Venerable's command!"

Then he knelt down and retreated.

The old monk with white eyebrows was silent for a moment, then suddenly spoke again, "Does the Chacha Division know the whereabouts of Zhang Yong?"

A leader knelt forward and kowtowed, saying, "Your Excellency, the Investigation Department has recently discovered three more clues to suspicious tombs and is rushing to the open museum to conduct autopsies."

When the old monk with white eyebrows heard this, his shoulder-length eyebrows trembled slightly.

After a long while, he finally responded, "Send an order to Fang La. I have granted his request for the position of Eastern Ghost Emperor!"

"I will follow the Venerable's command!"

The old monk with white eyebrows waved his hand and said, "You can leave now."

The leaders kowtowed again and enthusiastically shouted in unison: "The world is dark, only the Buddha shines, cleansing all realms, all Buddhas come to pay homage!"

The old monk with white eyebrows accepted it calmly.

(End of this chapter)