Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 197: Uncertainty

As Chu Tai's voice fell and bursts of Sanskrit sounds rang out, a holy golden lotus blossomed behind Chu Tai. In the center of the petals, a goddess with a makeup that looked like a bodhisattva appeared, with one foot sitting cross-legged on the lotus pod and the other foot stepping on the lotus petals.

The goddess had a look of compassion on her face, with Buddha's light surging behind her. Then a thousand hands stretched out from the Buddha's light, with lotus patterns blooming on the palm of each hand, and arms stretched out from the flowers. There were a thousand hands and a thousand eyes, a thousand eyes and a thousand hands, and in the blink of an eye they spread throughout the void, grabbing all the dead souls, white bamboos, and green fires.

Under the Buddha's light, the dead souls were liberated, golden lotuses grew under their feet, and the petals and lotus leaves turned into their clothes.

The white bamboo grows emerald green, and nectar condenses on it. With a slight shake, it purifies the filth around it.

The green fire turned into Buddha flame, which was carried by the golden lotus and transformed into golden lamps suspended in the air.

In the void, numerous prayers echoed in all directions along with the Sanskrit sounds.

Taoist Baizhu was stunned for a moment when he saw this, but the fear in his heart made him make the right choice the next second.

He immediately bit his fingertips and spurted out ten streams of blood and energy, muttering something. An illusory white bamboo appeared behind him, and the bamboo leaves swayed, spreading the Buddha's light around him.

The Taoist priest Bai Zhu jumped onto the bamboo pole, intending to climb up the pole and escape.

But just as he moved, thorns and lotus patterns appeared on his body, blending with his Dharma intent in his horrified eyes.

The terrified Taoist Bai Zhu bit his tongue again and spat out a mouthful of blood which splashed on the bamboo leaves. Streaks of blood splattered everywhere and were about to wrap him up and escape.

A little red light appeared in Chu Tai's eyes, and [Fate] appeared in his eyes. As he put his hands together, he whispered again: "Difficult! There is no Guanyin Bodhisattva!"

The Lotus Mother Dharma Image produced two more hands, which stood in front of her, and also clasped her hands together, just enough to cover the Taoist Master Baizhu who wanted to leave.

“Mercy…Mercy…”

Taoist Baizhu, whose body was squeezed and whose heart and gall were broken, begged for mercy loudly, but before he could finish his words, the Lotus Mother Dharma Image had already closed its eyes.

Blood splattered out and the Lotus Mother's image disappeared.

Chu Tai's face showed a Buddha's light and a slightly compassionate look. He stretched out his hand and pinched from the void, and a white bamboo appeared in his hand.

Seeing this scene, Taoist Mu Jing took half a step forward, protected Chang Pu behind him, and stared at Chu Tai closely.

"Fellow Daoist Taining, how do you feel now?"

Chu Tai looked back at Taoist Mu Jing, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his expression looked more compassionate. The white bamboo in his hand was gradually emitting some golden light, and lotus patterns started from the place where Chu Tai's fingertips touched, spreading little by little on the surface of the white bamboo.

"Fortunately, nothing serious happened. Shouldn't you care more about these fellow Taoists than me?"

Chu Tai looked in another direction and saw Taoist Cuizhu, who had come with Taoist Baizhu to help the local Zhushan Sect, was so frightened that he immediately left in a flash of light. The other cultivators who had come with him also fled in a hurry.

Taoist Cang Xuan, who was originally in opposition to Cui Zhu, descended on Shui Yun. Seeing Chu Tai's shocked expression, he looked at Taoist Mu Jing and asked, "Daoyou Mu Jing, what happened to Daoyou Tai Ning? Why is your aura so strange? It's a bit similar to mine, but not as serious as mine."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Buddha light around Chu Tai began to fade, and the golden lotus pattern on the white bamboo in his hand also dimmed. Chu Tai returned to his original appearance, but looked a little tired. He waved his hands in the surprised eyes of several people and said, "I'm fine, it's just that the consumption of driving the Lotus Mother Dharma is a bit large."

Chu Tai deliberately exaggerated the consumption of driving the Dharma Image, while holding up the white bamboo in his hand, he said: "Secondly, this white bamboo has been refined by the old Taoist priest and is close to a spiritual root. The Dharma principles inside are perfect. I have been casting spells to suppress its changes just now."

During the time Chu Tai was speaking, the golden lotus patterns on the surface of the white bamboo in his hand had completely faded, and some images of evil spirits and ghosts appeared again on the pale bamboo skin, and wisps of evil energy seeped out from the inside of the white bamboo.

Taoist Mu Jing was heartbroken and cursed, "What a waste of talent! This spiritual bamboo that is about to transform into a spiritual root should contain endless spiritual energy, but now it is covered by yin energy, evil energy, and death energy. Even if it breaks through completely, I'm afraid it is not suitable to stay in the human world."

As they were talking, Chu Tai could see that Taoist Mu Jing wanted to go forward and take a closer look several times, but he was worried that this treasure was Chu Tai's trophy, so he stood there hesitant and conflicted.

In this regard, Chu Tai praised: "Daoyou have a keen eye and immediately saw the problem with this white bamboo. That's why I dare not let go, for fear of accidentally destroying it."

While speaking, Chu Tai took out the Su Chen Qing Mang and pierced it into the white bamboo from the bamboo joint, absorbing the Yin Qi and dead Qi, and merging them into the Yin Jing Meng Bo Qi of the Nine Springs, warming the Qing Mang and making the Su Chen thick.

During this period, Taoist Mu Jing wanted to speak up to stop it, but after seeing Chu Tai's method, he fell silent. Taoist Zheng Yang, on the other hand, was shocked and asked, "Can a magic weapon be sacrificed like this?"

"Of course you can, but this technique requires a higher level of mana and external factors."

As Chu Tai explained, he activated the new Nanyan Cave Fuxiyao Zhenqi with the six characteristics of "soft, wonderful, hidden, spiritual, pure and clean" to stimulate the vitality within the white bamboo, and then used the characteristic of "life" to continuously strengthen the foundation of the white bamboo.

Slowly, the white bamboo in Chu Tai's hand began to absorb some of the Nanyan Cave's Fuxiyao true qi, constantly neutralizing the yin and death energy inside, curbing the trend of falling towards the dark direction, and balancing the relationship between yin and yang, life and death inside.

At the same time, Taoist Cuizhu, who had fled in a hurry earlier, also realized that something was wrong.

The female cultivator, who looked to be in her early twenties, stood still, looked in Chu Tai's direction, and whispered, "I've been cheated."

As a cultivator named Cuizhu, the identity of this female fairy is naturally not simple. Her father is the previous Cuizhu elder of Zhushan Sect and is also the powerful figure in the current Zhushan Sect headquarters.

It was with the help of his father that Taoist Cuizhu was able to inherit the name Cuizhu, become an immortal, master the corresponding Dharma, enter the fifth-grade realm, and occupy the inheritance of the Zhushan Sect.

Therefore, Cuizhu's knowledge is higher than that of Taoist Baizhu, Taoist Mujing and Taoist Cangxuan. After the initial panic, Taoist Cuizhu carefully recalled what had happened before and immediately guessed that Chu Tai's previous condition might not be complete.

"If I had tried to snatch it just now, the spiritual bamboo cultivated by Bai Zhu might have become mine. With that spiritual bamboo as a trigger, my Dharma will can also go a step further and get closer to the Dharma of [Bamboo Sea and Blue Waves]. With the help of my father, I can return to the main altar. If I can also obtain the Dharma of [Cloud Forest] from Taoist Mu Jing..."

A strange look emerged in Taoist Cuizhu's eyes. He called over a monk from the Zhushan Sect, wrote a few letters, and asked him to deliver them to several places. Then he immediately returned to the temporarily opened Taoist temple.

The next moment, a strange fragrance floated in the Taoist temple, followed by countless bamboo leaves dancing in the air and bursts of green air swirling. Talismans flashed on the thousands of green bamboos standing around, and one split into two, two split into four, and in the blink of an eye, a sea of ​​bamboo appeared.

Chu Tai, Mu Jing and Cang Xuan, who sensed the changes in the other party's gathering place, looked at each other and sighed: "It seems that this Taoist Cuizhu is still planning to fight with us."

Taoist Cang Xuan frowned: "Can't we take this opportunity to attack directly and make her admit defeat?"

(End of this chapter)