My brother is so cunning

Chapter 908 Killing Intent in the Sky

The two Venerable Ones, separated by a magic array shield, were defending against an army of over ten thousand demonic insects whose individual combat strength was equal to their own. By all accounts, this was a hopeless situation with no chance of survival.

The method for elite mosquitoes to destroy shields has also been improved. With sufficient absolute power, there is no need to make unnecessary sacrifices. The old, clumsy method of ordinary mosquitoes charging suicidal and crashing into the shield, splattering their blood, has long been abandoned.

The elite demonic mosquitoes only need to swing their claws and fangs, concentrating their power on a single point, and use the most exquisite martial arts techniques to deliver a basic attack. Even the great formation will tremble slightly, and dissipating this force requires a huge amount of mana.

Tens of thousands of elite demonic mosquitoes simultaneously struck the shield, causing the mana stored in the shield's mana center to pour out like a tidal wave bursting a dam every moment, destroying the magic array at a speed several times faster than the countless ordinary demonic mosquitoes that had been sacrificed before.

If it weren't for the sacred Buddhist site, the protective array at the place where Buddha attained enlightenment would have been far more powerful than the shields of other temples, and would have been shattered long ago under the swarm of insects.

The Buddhist monks possessed a level of composure far beyond that of ordinary people. Even as they watched cracks continuously burst open on the shield, the two venerable ones silently recited the Heart Sutra, their faces calm and undisturbed, their chaotic thoughts gradually returning to tranquility.

"Fortunately, my master is incredibly wise and foresaw this. He sent an envoy to the Heavenly Court to obtain control over the sun-blocking canopy. Otherwise, I really wouldn't know how to eliminate such a large number of demons with unbelievably high martial arts levels."

Venerable Sariputra looked up towards the west, his voice filled with reverence for the Buddha, and murmured.

Upali clasped his hands together in praise of the Western Paradise, saying, "Our cultivation of the 'Extinction of Defilements' is insufficient. We failed to comprehend the Buddha's foresight back then. Now we know that only the Creator Heavenly Venerable's wondrous creation that can summon the true fire of the sun at will is the only magic weapon to subdue the demonic insects."

"Stop talking nonsense. The Buddha's power and supernatural abilities are boundless. He must also have a way to eliminate the demonic mosquitoes. It's just that the time is not right for him to take action."

Shariputra said with displeasure, "Those things from the Creation Celestial Venerable are nothing more than opportunistic tricks and lucky sleight of hand obtained by stealing heavenly secrets. Our Buddhist sect values ​​the orthodox Dharma. Supernatural powers and martial arts are only considered unorthodox paths, let alone unorthodox tricks. How is your statement any different from Junior Brother Jin Chanzi's advocacy of the Heaven-Severing Secret Method and his suggestion that Buddhist disciples study the Heaven-Severing Secret Method to find a superior way to deal with demonic insects?"

"The Buddha has already publicly rebuked Jin Chanzi, punishing him to copy ten thousand volumes of Buddhist scriptures and await his punishment. Do you intend to follow in his footsteps?"

"Senior brother, please don't misunderstand. I misspoke. I had no such intention!" Venerable Upali's expression changed drastically, and he quickly explained.

Many Western disciples in Lingshan were able to glimpse Wen Rui's use of his divine eye to unleash the space-based super-focused light weapon during the Battle of Mount Tai, and they were quite dumbfounded at the time.

The Great Sun Tathagata, who cultivates on the sun year-round, can also unleash the incredibly powerful True Fire of the Sun, but its range and power are far less than Wen Rui's divine power of creation, which can cover an area of ​​tens of thousands of miles and instantly create a sea of ​​magma.

Moreover, Wen Rui's creation power consumed almost nothing; it didn't require any immortal power, divine power, magical power, or willpower. This is a miracle that even the Great Sun Tathagata could not accomplish.

When gods perform miracles that astound mortals, they also expend divine power.

Even gods and Buddhas would be utterly astonished by Wen Rui's ability to unleash a divine miracle without expending any energy.

This means that Wen Rui summoned the power of heaven and earth with a single thought, achieving, to some extent, the supreme Daoist method of controlling the Heavenly Dao. Throughout the Three Realms, apart from Hongjun Daozu, even saints wouldn't dare claim to arbitrarily control the Heavenly Dao for their own use. The high monks of the Western Sect have all cultivated the powers of knowing past lives and eliminating defilements, which endow them with the ability to deduce and predict.

Based on observations of Wen Rui summoning the True Fire of the Sun, many eminent monks have come to an absurd conclusion: if Wen Rui harbors any evil thoughts and continuously summons the infinite True Fire of the Sun to scorch the primordial continent, even the Earth's core could be burned through, and the destruction of the entire continent would be within his grasp.

Wen Rui was already ranked high on the list of evil heretics in the Western Sect. After displaying this world-destroying level of divine power, he successfully surpassed the Demon King Mara and took the top spot.

The Venerable Sariputra's statement that the Buddha must have a method to eliminate the elite demonic mosquitoes is not entirely mindless flattery. The Buddha's palm-sized Buddha Kingdom and the Five Elements Mountain suppression technique are more than enough to deal with Golden Immortals.

The problem is that there are far too many elite demonic mosquitoes. Buddha adheres to the precept of non-killing, and most of the great supernatural powers he possesses are techniques for suppression and sealing, not techniques for killing.

Suppressing a monkey is a piece of cake, but Buddha doesn't have enough hands to suppress ten thousand demons of the Golden Immortal level with similar abilities to monkeys.

Even if it can be suppressed, it still requires constant consumption of magical power to maintain. Just like how the monkey was suppressed under the Five Elements Mountain by Buddha, he almost broke free with his brute strength. It was necessary to apply sealing talismans to strengthen the suppression effect in order to keep the monkey firmly trapped.

If the Buddha used all the magical power he accumulated through meditation to suppress demons, he would have no energy left to return to the prayers of his believers. He would have become a clay puppet, helplessly observing all the things in the world.

In fact, Venerable Upali's words were the absolute truth: only magic can defeat magic, and by the same logic, only black technology can defeat black technology. However, Venerable Sariputra and the vast majority of Buddhist disciples would never admit this fact.

"Senior brother, the intensity of the sunlight is changing. It must be because my plea for help from Mount Ling has been answered. This is a sign that the True Fire of the Sun is about to set!"

Feeling somewhat guilty after being reprimanded by his senior brother, Venerable Upali noticed the change in his environment and felt the sunlight shining on him was many times more intense. He quickly changed the subject, pointed to the golden sun hanging high in the sky, and loudly reminded him.

Sariputra's attention was indeed diverted, and he frowned, saying, "That day, the Creator Heavenly Venerable used this destructive evil technique. The true fire was enough to burn for ten thousand miles. Shouldn't we enter the Vulture Cave to avoid its sharp edge and prevent being accidentally injured?"

“Senior brother, don’t worry. I asked Lawyer Ana, who is in charge of controlling the sun-blocking canopy, and he said that the sun-blocking canopy is extremely exquisite and does not destroy everything within its range as brutally as when the Creator God uses it.”

Venerable Anuruddha was also one of the Buddha's disciples, known as the foremost in divine vision, and was a practitioner of supernatural powers in Western Buddhism whose divine vision was second only to the Buddha.

Since the Buddha could not guard the sun-blocking canopy every day, this important task fell to Venerable Anuruddha, whose most outstanding divine eye was most suitable for operating the space-based super weapon.

"The reason why the Celestial Venerable of Creation covered tens of thousands of miles with true fire that time was to target the super speed of Mosquito Daoist's Blood Shadow Divine Power. If the range was too small, Mosquito Daoist could easily dodge tens of thousands of miles in an instant."

"The operation manual that the Creator God handed over to me was several hundred pages long. After carefully studying it, I realized that the design of the celestial canopy was extremely ingenious. The descending true fire of the sun could cover thousands of miles or be as fine as a hair and focused on a single point."

(End of this chapter)