Lao Tzu is Ji Gong

This will reveal some of his abilities, making the Buddhist community pay more attention to him. Furthermore, the higher Li Xiuyuan's potential, the more benefits he will receive.

"Holy Monk, are you alright?"

It turned out that Mingzhu spoke up. She saw that Li Xiuyuan had closed his eyes to rest after returning to Lingyin Temple, and thought that he was injured!

After listening to Mingzhu's words, Li Xiuyuan recovered and said calmly, "It's alright, I'm fine. You don't need to worry either, I doubt that Manjushri Bodhisattva would dare to come here."

As he spoke, he thought to himself that he was only one of the eighteen Arhats. If he angered him, he would summon the other Arhats, and they would not stand idly by.

Ultimately, Jianglong is the head of the Eighteen Arhats, and his status is unmatched among all the Arhats. In Buddhism, Li Xiuyuan is second only to the Buddha, the Ming King, the Bodhisattva, and the Sage.

And there are countless monks in Buddhism!

"Ok!"

Upon hearing this, Mingzhu nodded, completely relieved. As for the Fire Spirit Orb, there was no need to worry anymore.

Li Xiuyuan said calmly, "Mingzhu, you may leave now."

After saying this, Mingzhu nodded in agreement and left.

...............

Li Xiuyuan's lips curled up as he opened his personal panel. Four or five years had passed since he last exchanged for Pangu's essence blood and the inheritance of the Ancestral Witch.

During this period, Li Xiuyuan's merit points and sin points increased significantly, but he didn't know how to use them. Now he has an idea.

Li Xiuyuan thought to himself, "As the saying goes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. These merit points and sin points should be used up, unless he wants to save them to buy some powerful items."

Once the personal attribute panel is opened, Li Xiuyuan's various attributes are displayed.

Name: Li Xiuyuan (Daoji-Wutian)

System: Saint Buddha System

Realm: Early Golden Immortal

Physical body: Early stage of Golden Immortal

Merit: 1586475

Sin: 1598745

Skills: Great Sun Tathagata Sutra, Supreme Heavenly Demon Sutra, Nine Revolutions Yuan Gong, Spatial Law, Power Law, Pangu True Body, Arhat Heaven-Turning Seal, etc.

Treasures: Top-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Black Lotus of Annihilation; Low-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Sea-Stabilizing Divine Pearl; Mid-grade innate spiritual treasure, the Divine Demon Sword; Acquired spiritual treasure, the Wind Spirit Fan; Acquired spiritual treasure, the Ruyi Monk Robe, etc.

Looking at his items and their attributes, Li Xiuyuan thought to himself that they had increased considerably over the years.

Currently, Li Xiuyuan has several options, such as exchanging for innate spiritual treasures. With millions of merit points, he can still obtain some decent innate spiritual treasures. If he can combine the thirty-six Sea-Stabilizing Pearls or the four Immortal-Slaying Sword Souls and integrate them into the Divine Demon Sword, they will be invaluable treasures.

But Li Xiuyuan didn't want to do that. First of all, the remaining three swords of the Zhuxian Sword Formation were still in this world, and it would be difficult to explain if he took them out.

The same goes for the Sea-Stabilizing Pearls. Randeng already has twenty-four of them, and if he were to take out thirty-six more, it would absolutely make everyone's eyes pop out.

Without absolute cultivation, Li Xiuyuan would not be able to exchange for replicas of the many magical treasures of this world; otherwise, he would be waiting for the chasm to come knocking on his door!

After all, with three thousand innate spiritual treasures, the gap between heaven and earth was crystal clear. In addition, it was exchanged for a treasure that had never appeared in the primordial world before.

But Li Xiuyuan didn't intend to do that. If he was going to do it, he wanted to do something big and create something powerful. He remembered that there were two of the most powerful formations in the world: the Dutian Divine Fiend Formation and the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.

Both formations are difficult to assemble, but that's not a problem for Li Xiuyuan. What he desires most is the Dutian Shensha Formation, which can summon the true form of Pangu.

However, it would be difficult to achieve without the Twelve Ancestral Witches, but it's not a problem for Li Xiuyuan. With the Merit Shop and the Sin Shop, he can easily exchange for them.

But Li Xiuyuan had no intention of directly exchanging for an Ancestral Witch. He wanted to obtain a drop of Ancestral Witch's essence blood, and before that, he needed to find a vessel, he thought to himself.

Li Xiuyuan once read a prehistoric novel and thought the setting was quite good: create twelve sword embryos, nurture them, and then inscribe the Dutian Divine Fiend Array on them.

The grand formation used a world-destroying black lotus as a catalyst, with the sword embryo and formation diagram inscribed on it. However, Li Xiuyuan felt it was still insufficient. If simply inscribing the formation diagram was enough to summon the true form of Pangu, it would be a joke.

Li Xiuyuan himself possessed the true form of Pangu, but his power was far inferior to that of Pangu. In his view, carving out the array diagram, summoning Pangu's power, and then adding it into his own body would definitely allow him to greatly increase his cultivation level in a short period of time.

However, before that, twelve sword blanks are needed. Li Xiuyuan borrowed the power from the prehistoric novel to summon the true body of Pangu and integrated it into himself, which is indeed very feasible.

Chapter 298 Law Sword Embryo

Of course, Li Xiuyuan was just using it as a reference; he couldn't possibly copy it entirely. After all, it was a novel, and he wouldn't dare compare it to reality. He just thought the idea was great.

With a thought, Li Xiuyuan checked the sword embryo in the shop. Each of the twelve Ancestral Witches was born with control over a certain law, and he wanted to better integrate the power of the Ancestral Witches into it.

We must find twelve sword embryos; only in this way can the power of the Ancestral Witch be better preserved within them.

With a thought, Li Xiuyuan discovered that the prices of various sword embryos differed. For example, the fire sword embryo only required 100,000 merit points, but the sword embryo with space required 400,000 merit points.

The one based on the Time Law is the most numerous, requiring a staggering 700,000 merits, which is almost the price of a Primordial Spiritual Treasure.

However, it is indeed worth the price. With the sword blank containing the Sword of Time, it is possible to forge a sword that contains the laws of time. Naturally, you get what you pay for.

Li Xiuyuan wanted a powerful weapon, so he gritted his teeth and bought all the sword embryos corresponding to the major laws of the twelve ancestral witches.

The result was predictable: even with a total of three million merit points and sin points, they were all lost.

However, Li Xiuyuan felt it was worth it. Once he mastered this sword formation, he would be able to contend with a saint with his quasi-saint level cultivation!

Even ordinary saints are no match for them.

With a thought, Li Xiuyuan saw him sitting upright on the Black Lotus of Annihilation. The pitch-black lotus platform emitted a faint black light. In addition, there were twelve swords in the air, each of a different color.

For example, a sword based on the law of fire is naturally fiery red. A sword based on the law of water, however, is the exact opposite color.

The sword embryo containing the laws of space appeared as if it were nothingness, placed before Li Xiuyuan. In short, each sword was different.

Li Xiuyuan divided the World-Destroying Black Lotus into twelve parts, and inscribed the formation on them according to the combination of the Dutian Divine Fiend Array, so that the twelve swords could be completely integrated into it.

Even with Li Xiuyuan's cultivation at the Golden Immortal level, it was still very difficult, and it took him half a year to finish carving it.

With a thought, Li Xiuyuan sent out the World-Destroying Black Lotus. Each petal contained a small, crystalline sword, which would be completely invisible unless one looked closely.

Moreover, only Li Xiuyuan, the master of the Black Lotus of Annihilation, can see the sword clearly, unless someone with a much higher cultivation level than him.

Looking at the sword formation above, Li Xiuyuan felt that something was missing, even though the sword embryos corresponding to the twelve Ancestral Witches were all carved on the Black Lotus of Annihilation.

However, he was still far from being able to summon Pangu's true form. At this moment, he couldn't even activate the formation. But Li Xiuyuan wasn't worried; he would eventually find the reason.

After a long while, Li Xiuyuan suddenly realized that the sword formation lacked spirituality. First of all, the sword formation had no intelligence, and the sword embryos corresponding to the various ancestral witches could not be combined together at all.

Li Xiuyuan needs to be able to command them, just like the Fire Spirit Pearls. If all of them could develop sentience, it would be somewhat possible to summon the true form of Pangu.

However, this was still not enough. The power of the twelve Ancestral Witches needed to be added to the sword embryos. So Li Xiuyuan came up with a solution: to exchange for the essence blood of the Ancestral Witches and integrate it into the various sword embryos.

If they truly develop sentience, these sword embryos will be like little ancestral witches, naturally able to control the major laws, and with swords as their vessels, they will naturally be extraordinary.

Li Xiuyuan was thinking about it and prepared to do it. However, when he saw how precious the Ancestral Witch's essence blood was, he was shocked. Each drop of Ancestral Witch's essence blood required 300,000 merit points.

You should know that even with Pangu's essence blood, Li Xiuyuan only spent one million points. The combined value of these twelve Ancestral Witches is still less than that of Pangu!

However, Li Xiuyuan still planned to purchase it in order to obtain his own Heavenly Divine Fiend Array, even though he had already exhausted all his merit points and sin points.

It can only be stopped in the short term. Li Xiuyuan has already bought twelve sword embryos of laws, so it is absolutely impossible for him to stop.

With several million points spent, Li Xiuyuan could have bought a supreme innate treasure with another two million, but he had no regrets.

First of all, even if he obtained the innate supreme treasure, it would be difficult for Li Xiuyuan to control it properly given his cultivation level! Moreover, he has the World-Destroying Black Lotus and the Divine Demon Sword, so he will not lack magical treasures in a short period of time.

As for why Li Xiuyuan created the Heavenly Divine Fiend Formation instead of the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation, the main reason was that his cultivation level was too low.

The Heavenly Divine Fiend Formation can be used as a trump card, but it would be difficult to unleash the Immortal Slaughtering Sword Formation.

Li Xiuyuan thought to himself that he would immediately put the World-Destroying Black Lotus back into the Demon Lord's lower dantian to nurture it.

Li Xiuyuan hoped that the twelve sword embryos would soon develop sentience, as his Dutian Shensha Grand Array had already completed its first step.

Once the essence of the Ancestral Witch is incorporated and the sword embryo is formed and develops sentience, the true form of Pangu can be summoned.

Li Xiuyuan originally possessed the true form of Pangu. If he were to sit in the main formation and integrate those powers into it, his cultivation would increase greatly in a short period of time.

Simply put, in Li Xiuyuan's vision, those sword embryos and array diagrams were merely to bring over the power of Pangu's true body, with his Pangu true body serving as the real vessel.

Seeing the sword embryo in his dantian, Li Xiuyuan thought to himself, "It seems that it will be very difficult for it to develop sentience, and it will take a long time."

Fortunately, Li Xiuyuan doesn't need to use the Dutian Shensha Grand Formation at this moment, so there's no need to be too anxious.

Chapter 299 Disciple Descends the Mountain

"what!"

Li Xiuyuan's mind raced. It turned out that Chen Liang and Zhao Bin had come over. The fact that the two of them came at the same time meant that something was up.

After a while, the two men arrived outside the meditation room and heard a 'bang bang' sound; they had knocked on the door.

Li Xiuyuan said calmly, "Come in!"

As he spoke, his voice drifted out and reached the ears of the two men.

"Disciples Chen Liang and Zhao Bin greet Master!"

The two men bowed to Li Xiuyuan, and after exchanging glances, they made their decision.

Upon hearing this, Li Xiuyuan's lips curled up. He pondered for a moment and then asked, "What business do you have with me?"

As he spoke, he glanced at the two of them.

“Master, we feel that our cultivation is not progressing much further in the mountains, so we plan to go down the mountain to continue our practice.”

As he spoke, Zhao Bin, as the senior brother, was the first to address Li Xiuyuan.

Upon hearing this, Li Xiuyuan narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "I see! You want to graduate."