Mysterious mirror hanging high

"correct."

Xiao Buyi added, "The Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty seems to have a secret method for tracking the ascended cultivators from the Immortal Continent. We're still not sure what method they use... Anyway, most of the Immortal Continent Daoists who ascended to the Immortal Realm are wanted, and many have already been murdered."

"Ascending to the heavens isn't necessarily safer than staying in the lower realms... Fellow Daoists in the lower realms, please make your own decisions."

The image stopped abruptly. Jing Yu looked thoughtfully at the other Divine Transformation Heavenly Monarchs and thought to himself:

"Is Penglai Tianjun's last words true?"

He always felt that Xiao Buyi's words were mostly because he was afraid that the mid-stage Jindan cultivators who were still stranded in the lower realm would lose their will to fight after seeing how powerful Ying Ba and others were, and would simply ascend to the fairyland and find a corner to hide.

This clearly states that the fairy world is more dangerous. Instead of being hunted down by the forces at the celestial fairy level, it is better to stay in the lower world and fight!

At this moment, a group of monks hurriedly came from outside Penglai Mountain. They were the gods and Buddhas from the three major Buddhist lands of Futu Fairyland.

These more than ten monks all had their brows lowered and their eyes drooped, looking listless. Almost all of them were losing energy. Several Buddhas in the middle stage of the Spiritual Transformation Realm could not even maintain their current cultivation level and were likely to fall back to a lower realm at any time.

One of the monks, dressed in a spotless white robe, had a sorrowful expression on his face. He clasped his hands together and said to the Supreme God of the Penglai Holy Land, Xiao Zhenyu:

"Master Xiao, the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty has returned to the world, and they've indeed set their sights on the Futu Immortal Continent first... Now our mountain gates have been breached, our temples destroyed... and the very foundation of our believers has been uprooted. I'm afraid we'll be unable to participate in the subsequent wars!"

"We ancient Buddhists are not like Taoist monks. We only seek freedom and ease. Without the constant offerings of incense and prayers from believers, we will only become weaker and weaker."

Xiao Zhenyu comforted him, "Masters, don't worry. Just hide in the Immortal Palace... The cultivators who descended from the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty are only at the Perfect Divine Transformation stage and cannot break through this Immortal Palace... Now we can only preserve the fire and wait for the right time."

The corner of Jing Yu's mouth twitched, and suddenly his lips moved, secretly transmitting a message to Xiao Zhenyu.

Xiao Zhenyu's expression suddenly changed, and he stared at Jing Yu intently: "Fellow Daoist Xuan Jing, is this true?"

Jing Yu nodded. "When the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty unifies the Immortal Continent, the Imperial Seal will be able to unleash its power. By then, even hiding in the Immortal Mansion will no longer be absolutely safe."

"This……"

After hearing the whole story, many of the Divine Transformation Heavenly Monarchs showed despair on their faces:

"If we just hide in the Immortal Palace, we will just be waiting for death..."

A cultivator asked, "Can we delay for a while? If a fellow Daoist in the middle stage of the Spiritualization Realm breaks through to the late stage of the Spiritualization Realm while cultivating in the Immortal Residence..."

Someone immediately retorted, "There are no immortal eyes in the immortal palace, and without the assistance of immortal spiritual energy, our understanding of the laws is as slow as a turtle. Who can cultivate to the late stage of the spirit transformation?"

"Can you stay by the Immortal Eye? After all, there is a Divine Transformation Formation..."

"The Nether Corpse Sect has confirmed that our lower realm's incarnation formations are incapable of defending against those three! Neither the immortal eyes in the sky nor the earth can defend against them!"

"Then is it just waiting to die?"

"We can't let the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty unify the Five Seas and Four Continents! We must at least defend one of the immortal continents..."

Everyone was arguing with each other, and at this moment, a golden cloud suddenly appeared at the end of the sky.

At first it was just a hazy halo on the skyline, and in an instant it turned into a golden wave covering the sky and the sun.

Countless kites poured down from the clouds, each kite holding a storage bag, and scattering star sand all over the sky when flapping its wings.

As soon as those golden universe sands touched the void, they melted like snow in water, creating layers of golden ripples in the void.

Some cultivators who had reached the state of transformation tried to escape into the void, but found that the void, which they could enter and exit freely, had become indestructible - the universe sands that had merged into the void filled the vast void tightly.

"Hurry...hurry and shoot these kites down!"

Jing Yu shook his head. "It's useless... This stuff is worthless in the Immortal Realm. The universe sand they brought down from the lower realms is probably enough to fill the void of a hundred Immortal Continents."

"After we defeat this group, there will be another batch... who knows, the next time it might be those three who come in person."

"The vast void of the Immortal Continent will eventually be completely filled with this thing."

Xiao Zhenyu's face was gloomy: "Then we can't travel through the void?"

Jing Yu said casually: "They can't travel through the void..."

"But the speed of a Perfect Divine Transformation cultivator far surpasses ours... If we can't dodge and maneuver in the abyss, we'll be easily intercepted in the real world..."

"Hold on."

Jing Yuyan said, "Once the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty has completely established a foothold in the mortal world and relocated all the cultivators of the Divine Cauldron Heaven to the mortal world, I will go and talk to them in person."

----

Five years later, at Futu Xianzhou, the old site of Liuli Baoyuan

The sky was dark, and lead-gray clouds hung low, as if pressing down on this land that was once blessed by the Buddha's light.

The ancient temple, which was once a bustling place of worship, has now long since disappeared. The golden Buddha statue has been knocked over and smashed, the Buddhist scriptures have turned into charcoal, and the bloodstains left on the bluestone steps silently tell of the brutality of the anti-Buddhist war five years ago.

Not far from the original site of the temple, a majestic city had already been built. It was the capital established by the Shending Immortal Dynasty when it returned to the world.

The flag of the Xian Dynasty was planted above the city, and the tripod-shaped emblem with a black background and golden patterns fluttered in the wind, symbolizing that the ownership of this land had completely changed.

On the streets, many devout Buddhists who liked to wear monk's robes were forced to change into secular robes, with bronze plates engraved with their identities as the people of Shending hanging around their necks. They had to kneel down three times a day to the bronze tripod in the center of the city and recite the laws of Shending.

"Buddhism deceives people, falsely claiming to be free from reincarnation and transcendence. It is truly an evil path!"

A monk from the Immortal Dynasty, dressed in official robes, stood on a high platform, holding a jade slip in his hand. His voice was as resounding as a bell: "Five years ago, our Immortal Dynasty restored order and purged all the evil Buddhas from the Immortal Continent. Yet, five years later, there are still stubborn and fanatical believers who dare to worship Buddha statues in their homes!"

"You must all be vigilant. If you discover any neighbor secretly storing Buddha statues or worshipping evil Buddhas, report it immediately without delay."

"If we discover that any household is secretly storing evil Buddhist scriptures, paintings, or statues, the ten nearby households will be guilty of [collective punishment]..."

Below the stage, tens of thousands of people who were forced to convert to Buddhism kowtowed numbly. They were once devout Buddhists, but now they have become believers of the Shending Xian Dynasty.

If anyone resists, the punishment may be whipping and imprisonment at the very least, or exile of the entire family at the worst.

"Ok?"

The immortal monk took a quick glance and found that some of the people were lazy and not bowing reverently enough. He became furious and with a flip of his hand, a long whip suddenly appeared. He was about to teach this group of unruly people a lesson.

But when he raised the long whip in his hand, a bright light burst out from the void, fixing him in place, and then a gray light of Dharma swept over, and the Immortal Dynasty cultivator was instantly completely vaporized in the light of Dharma.

The next moment, the sky above the capital of Shending Kingdom shook, and a gray-robed figure stepped out.

At the same time, a voice resounded across the sky: "Fellow Daoist Ying Ba, Taoist Xuan Jing is here to visit. Could you please show up and meet me?"