Longzang

Chapter 841 Where is Buddha?
To actually undergo tribulation at this time... Wei Yuan simply showed himself, guided the third round of missiles to land, and then returned to Qingming.

Although Wei Yuan's location is on the edge of the Shattered Domain, he is no longer afraid of ordinary Nether Witches or Spirit Witches. He has not truly fought against Holy Witches, so it is hard to say.

The third volley of missiles was small, only five or six. The sorcerers below were already scattering and fleeing, with no one to gather around. So Wei Yuan fired all five missiles at one spot, where two archer sorcerers were hiding, and both were severely injured by the blasts.

Wei Yuan then returned to Qingming, just as the Heavenly Tribulation began.

The birth of the Red Lotus Bodhi is deeply connected to Wei Yuan, and it comes with the Universal Salvation Mantra, possessing boundless power. Therefore, it is already an inseparable part of the mortal world, and its tribulation is equivalent to the mortal world undergoing a partial tribulation.

This calamity was unusually strange. Ten thousand Buddhas on the cloud mountain glared angrily, and countless demon-subduing runes fell like rain, as if they were suppressing some peerless demon.

Meanwhile, the Red Lotus Bodhi Tree emitted countless rays of brilliant red light, merging all the black and red karma into the light, shooting straight into the sky! When exposed to the red light, the demon-subduing runes dissolved in patches like ice and snow.

The two sides were deadlocked for a time. Based on his extensive experience with heavenly tribulations, Wei Yuan instinctively felt that if this continued, it would likely last for a very long time. With heavenly tribulations constantly occurring in his own mental world, he was not only unable to preside over the Dao Foundation Ceremony, but also unable to deal with the attack from the Witch Clan.

Just then, Wei Yuan's heart stirred. The girl's yin and yang voice conveyed a thought: this heavenly tribulation was strange and requested intervention.

The strangeness of the heavenly tribulation wasn't unusual; Wei Yuan had never encountered a normal one, especially the inconclusive inner demon tribulation in between, the details of which remained a mystery. However, the young girl Yin Yang's initiative to intervene alerted Wei Yuan. Her essence was almost Dao-like, and she might have sensed something Wei Yuan was unaware of.

Wei Yuan knew his constitution was special and dared not approach, so he allowed the girl Yin Yang to intervene. However, Wei Yuan also wondered why, in the mortal world, the girl Yin Yang could freely use so many things, what was it that required his permission?

Wei Yuan found out the next moment.

Vast swirling golden aura soared into the sky, directly sealing off the heavens. Formless and intangible, the golden aura passed through the fiercely clashing red light and the Demon-Subduing Mantra, disappearing above the heavens. With each swirling sliver of golden aura, the myriad Buddhas of the Cloud Mountain became increasingly blurred and illusory, and the power of the descending Demon-Subduing Mantra diminished accordingly. The beams of red light surged higher and higher, transforming from capable of dissolving only a few dozen mantras to being able to neutralize hundreds.

The myriad Buddhas of Yunshan were extremely angry. Many lower-ranking Buddhas and Arhats left their lotus seats and flew down, ready to sacrifice themselves to subdue the demon.

At this moment, the Red Lotus Bodhi suddenly transformed into a glassy substance, simultaneously radiating countless rays of glassy Buddha light that soared into the sky. The Buddha light clashing between heaven and earth was truly a rare and wondrous sight.

Finally, the myriad Buddhas of Yunshan disappeared, and the world returned to its original state. Wei Yuan immediately flew to the place where the golden glazed fortune was stored, only to find that the once vast golden glazed sea had now been reduced to several small pools, with a total of about a hundred strands of fortune remaining.

This mysterious fortune that came from the Yellow Springs Cave Heaven was completely used up during the Red Lotus Bodhi's tribulation? Could it be that this golden, glazed sea of ​​clouds was created specifically for the Red Lotus Bodhi's tribulation?

It's just a Bodhi tree, why does it have such a big reputation?

Wei Yuan thought about it carefully and realized that there really was such a thing.

The Bodhi is the Bodhi tree before the Arhat Buddha of Universal Salvation. It seems to possess only one special ability: dissolving karma. However, in the Hall of Merit of the Primordial Beginning Palace, there are only a handful of treasures capable of handling karma, and even combined, they don't dissolve as much karma as the Red Lotus Bodhi. The Red Lotus Bodhi has only one method for dissolving karma: the Red Lotus Universal Salvation Mantra. Wei Yuan used it last time to refine 800,000 members of the Witch Clan in one go…

Thinking about it that way, it really is a bit... outrageous.

Wei Yuan stood there for a moment, and although he had figured out that the golden glazed luck did not actually belong to him, he had still seen it all before his eyes and had spent a long time planning how to use it, so he still felt a little empty inside.

Wei Yuan composed himself and flew to the Red Lotus Bodhi tree. The Bodhi tree had actually become shorter, its trunk faintly revealing a glassy luster, its leaves emerald green, except for a touch of bright red at the tips. Upon Wei Yuan's arrival, a young monk with red lips and white teeth emerged from the tree, dressed in a moon-white monk's robe, his entire being pure and translucent, untouched by any dust.

The young monk was no more than four feet tall, his bald head gleaming like the finest jade. He bowed to Wei Yuan and said, "Immortal Venerable's grace in attaining enlightenment is beyond words."

"You, how could you be like this?" Wei Yuan pointed at the little monk, finding the bald head incredibly glaring.

“This humble monk has always been like this, in my previous life and the one before that. It’s just that in my previous two lives, my opportunities did not come, and I died young. I had no choice but to return to the Buddha’s presence until I met the Immortal Venerable, and only then was I able to reappear in the mortal world.”

"Can you remember your past life?"

"Remember what you should remember, and forget what you shouldn't remember."

Wei Yuan frowned; these words were as good as saying nothing at all.

"Who gave you that crystal-clear fortune?"

Wei Yuan asked this crucial question, but didn't expect an answer. Sure enough, the little monk looked confused, not understanding what Wei Yuan was talking about.

However, no matter how Wei Yuan looked at the little monk, he felt something was off. Both were spiritual plants that had gained sentience and manifested in the world, yet the Ice Glass Divine Tree was the first to successfully overcome its tribulation. Wei Yuan didn't find it strange at all and naturally accepted the iced tea.

So Wei Yuan asked again, "You call yourself a humble monk, so where is your Buddha?"

The young monk said, "My Buddha is right before my eyes."

Wei Yuan suddenly felt a sense of disorientation, as if he saw a magnificent but dilapidated palace. The palace door was only half closed, and the other half had collapsed. Looking down from his vantage point, Wei Yuan saw that the entire palace was dark and cold, with only an ancient lamp burning on the table in front of him. The lamplight was dim and only illuminated an area of ​​about ten feet in radius.

There were three prayer cushions on the table. A young monk was kneeling on the left, the rightmost cushion was empty, and the middle cushion held a skeleton.

Inside the main hall, only the young monks' chanting echoed, sometimes near, sometimes far.

Wei Yuan suddenly came to his senses, broke out in a cold sweat, and looked at the little monk as if he had seen a ghost.

The young monk was completely unaware of Wei Yuan's unusual behavior and stood there quietly.

Wei Yuan calmed himself down and inquired about the little monk's supernatural abilities. After advancing in rank, the Red Lotus Bodhi still dissolved karma, but it dissolved it faster and more completely, and it could also slightly alleviate several special types of karma.

"What kind of special karma?" Wei Yuan pressed.

The young monk couldn't explain it either, only saying that he would know when he encountered it.

(End of this chapter)