Fellow Taoists, please respect yourself.

Chapter 407: The Buddha Returns to the Ruins
The Seven Star Sword was pushed to its limit.

Boundless sword energy bloomed, but then condensed into one place, transforming into an extremely solid and dazzling edge.

This edge was controlled by Jiang Lin.

A Taoist priest dressed in black, holding a starlight sword in his hand, charged towards the Buddha statue sitting on the lotus pedestal.

Taiyi Jinxian, the second most powerful person in the Three Realms!
It seemed like a charge that was absolutely impossible to succeed; it wasn't even a case of a mantis trying to stop a chariot. It was just like an ant trying to make the gods bleed with its own mouthparts.

But the gods did bleed.

The sharp sword light flashed, but the Buddha sitting on the lotus platform did not react at all, allowing the long sword to cut through his chest, bringing up a burst of dark, scattered and sticky black energy.

The black energy fell to the ground and turned into hideous tentacles that twisted and entangled together, becoming a mass of inexplicable things that tried to wriggle back into the body of the Buddha.

"Pah..."

Jiang Lin stepped on it and crushed the evil creature from outside the world to death.

He raised his head and looked at the still majestic Buddha, but a god that bled was no longer a god.

Jiang Lin said with a mocking smile on his face, "As expected, although you are not just a show-off, the body of a dignified Buddhist master is not so easy to be eroded."

The Buddha did not answer, but just looked down at him.

Jiang Lin didn't mind, and just continued: "You, no, not you, it's some existence behind you, who used some method to plant you in the body of the Buddha. After a long time, you took root, grew, and blossomed and bore fruit."

"But the Buddha is not a puppet that can be manipulated by others. He may not realize it at the beginning, but if the Buddha does not resist later, it will be the biggest joke in the world."

"You occupied the body of the Buddha, stole the Buddha's position, and even used it as a springboard to pollute the entire Lingshan Mountain and even a considerable number of Buddhas."

“But the will of the Buddha still resists.”

"Add to that the joint ban by the three Buddhas of the past, future and Medicine Master..."

"You don't have the ability to attack me now."

Jiang Lin walked forward slowly.

"Perhaps to others, you are still an invincible existence now. The great power of the Tathagata Buddha's body, coupled with the extremely treacherous evil energy from outside the world, is an extremely difficult thing for anyone, even the Emperor Ziwei."

"Even though you have many restrictions, bound by the will of the Buddha, and sealed by the sacrifice of the three Buddhas."

“But then you met me.”

Jiang Lin raised his head again and slashed with his sword.

"Puff!"

Even more evil creatures from outside the world were chopped out and were stepped on to death by Jiang Lin.

He raised his head and smiled: "In front of me, your evil power is meaningless, and the great physical strength of the Buddha himself is also meaningless in front of the Seven Star Sword."

"Daozu had anticipated this day, and the World Honored One had already made the final arrangements."

Jiang Lin raised the Seven Star Sword in his hand.

"This sword has already received the blessing of the Buddha on the journey to the west."

"It is a sword that can cut off the Buddha's own body."

"Cutting flesh under the Bodhi tree to feed the eagle is a story of the Buddha."

The fierce sword light repeatedly slashed across the body of the Buddha, taking away more and more evil things from outside the world.

Jiang Lin chopped it off bit by bit, destroyed it, chopped it off, and destroyed it.

By now, Jiang Lin understood everything.

Why would the Taoist Patriarch personally come down and hold a sutra-studding conference, and why would he directly mobilize the fortune of Taoism, using the fortune of the demon race as a springboard to suppress the fortune of Buddhism by a large margin?

Why did the Taoist give Jiang Lin the Seven-Star Sword? Why does this Seven-Star Sword have no other power except for refining demons?

Everything is explained.

This is the tacit understanding between the Buddha and the Taoist Ancestor.

In other words, the Buddha, who realized that something was wrong, had reached the edge of the cliff, and falling was inevitable. The only person he could ask for help, and the only one who could save him and Buddhism was the Taoist Patriarch.

That's why Taoism suppressed Buddhism, and that's why Jiang Lin got the Seven-Star Sword in his hand.

Jiang Lin had been suspicious for a long time.

The Seven Star Sword in his hand was able to demonstrate complete suppression power when facing the Great Demon King Taiyi Golden Immortal, but when fighting against Jinwu, who had briefly climbed to the realm of a great supernatural being, within the Kunpeng small world, the Seven Star Sword did not exert its due power.

Otherwise, Jiang Lin’s victory would not have been so difficult.

This is totally not the power that the Taoist magic weapon should have.

Now the mystery is solved.

The Seven Star Sword, beneath the appearance of a demon-refining sword, actually hides a sword that can slay Buddhas!
At the very end, the Buddha, with the help of the cover of the journey to the west, endowed this Taoist magic weapon with the power to destroy the Buddha himself.

In the Lotus Cave Difficulty, the most important thing was not even Tang Seng’s safety, but the Seven-Star Sword.

This is also the reason why Daozu would personally appear to take back these magical weapons.

Otherwise, two Taoist boys, a bottle of dew, a gourd of elixir, and a belt, are worthy of the Taoist master to personally retrieve them?
The Seven-Star Sword is the Taoist magic weapon, but after all, it is not an important thing, and the Taoist did not put much effort into it when refining it.

Therefore, after bearing the power to slay the Buddha bestowed by the Buddha, the Seven Star Sword's own power to refine demons was compressed a lot.

It has even reached the point where it is only effective against the Great Demon King Taiyi Jinxian.

The "sacrifice" of the Seven Star Sword brought Jiang Lin today's victory.

Sword lights flashed down, and the Buddha looked like he was being tortured to death, with his skin, flesh, and even bones and blood being cut off by each sword.

But there was no resistance at all.

Jiang Lin was not polite at all and struck with one sword after another without stopping.

In this scene, if we ignore the strange and evil environment around him, as well as the countless tentacles on the Buddha's body, Jiang Lin would look like a violent perpetrator.

It looks simple, even anticlimactic.

But don’t forget that it took so many people’s sacrifices and planning to make this scene of Jiang Lin chopping melons and vegetables possible.

More than 20 Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, led by Amitabha, used their own relics as fuel to seal off the countless evil creatures from outside the Lingshan Mountain, giving the Heavenly Court and the Fire Cloud Cave time to react.

This completely turned the most likely outcome, that the evil creatures from outside the world, Tumi, Xiniu, Hezhou, and even the Three Realms, into nothingness.

Future Buddha, past Buddha, Medicine Buddha.

The three supreme Buddhas sacrificed themselves, burned everything, and sealed the most important Tathagata Buddha, weakening a considerable part of his power.

After realizing that there was no way to save the situation, Tathagata Buddha himself never accepted the result. Instead, he was willing to destroy himself and drag the evil creatures from outside the world in his body into the abyss with him.

The Buddha forged the sword to slay the Buddha himself.

He even used his remaining will to resist and delay the pace of the evil creatures from outside the world.

The most important thing is Jiang Lin’s own special attack against evil creatures from outside the world.

Otherwise, even with so many "debuffs" added and special artifacts, it would definitely not be so easy to deal with.

If someone else stood here, even if it was Emperor Ziwei himself, he would not be able to do it as efficiently as Jiang Lin.

Jiang Lin's restraint and special attack on the evil creature from outside the world was completely unreasonable.

Even if the unreasonable evil creatures from outside this world wanted to harm Jiang Lin, it would be extremely difficult.

Those Taiyi Golden Immortals, who had become even more difficult and terrifying after being eroded by evil creatures, were actually countless times easier for Jiang Lin to deal with.

The Buddha in front of him wanted to suppress Jiang Lin, and the only thing he could rely on was the power of the physical body of Tathagata.

However, this great power was first weakened by the burning of the Three Buddhas themselves, and was also affected by the will of the Tathagata Buddha himself, and failed to play its due role at all.

In addition, there is the specially forged Seven-Star Sword that can target the physical body of Tathagata Buddha.

It is the combination of all these factors that has led to Jiang Lin’s current achievements. Without any one of them, Jiang Lin would not have been able to achieve this.

It would be more accurate to say that Jiang Lin has come all the way here alone, and is now torturing the evil creature from outside the world that has usurped the position of fruit like chopping melons and vegetables.

It would be better to say that the Buddhas of Buddhism entrusted Jiang Lin with their last lives and dignity and built such a battlefield for Jiang Lin.

"Buddhism can be destroyed, but it cannot be humiliated."

Jiang Lin spoke softly, the Seven Star Sword in his hand shining like a rainbow, and cut off the arm of the Buddha. Before the evil creature from outside the arm could come out and unleash its power, it was smashed into meaningless ashes by Jiang Lin's fist.

"From the very beginning, you chose the wrong target."

'Zheng! '

The sword light roared again, and this time, it was the Buddha's thigh that was cut off. Similarly, after cutting it off, he kicked it cleanly and neatly.

Jiang Lin was breathing heavily, and his whole body looked like he had been fished out of the water.

Using the Seven Star Sword to destroy the Buddha's physical body is, after all, a very strenuous job.

"Of course, the same is true for the Taoist sect."

Jiang Lin took a deep breath, raised his hand and swung the sword.

'laugh……'

With an extremely dull tearing sound, the Seven Star Sword in Jiang Lin's hand slashed across the neck of the Buddha, chopping off the head covered with black tentacles like leeches and dropping it to the ground.

Jiang Lin looked down at the squirming evil creature from outside the world. It was different from the ones in other places, more flexible, more spiritual, and more emotional.

"It seems that you are the main body." Jiang Lin slowly raised the Seven Star Sword in his hand, with red light in his eyes.

"I don't know if the guy who set you up can see this, but after thinking about it, it won't hurt to say a word more."

'Zheng! ! '

As the Seven Star Sword fell, Jiang Lin's cold voice rang out.

"No matter who you are, or what you are, I will settle all the grudges for destroying Buddhism, causing chaos in the three realms, and all the causes and consequences."

As the words fell, the sword fell.

The last evil creature from outside the world on the Buddha's body was killed cleanly by Jiang Lin.

Jiang Lin let go of the Seven Star Sword in his hand, collapsed to the ground, and gasped heavily.

He has almost reached his limit.

"not the right time yet."

A phantom appeared behind Jiang Lin, and at the same time, a broad palm stretched out and came in front of Jiang Lin.

In that hand lay a round golden pill.

At the same time, a voice full of apology sounded behind Jiang Lin.

"This golden elixir is not from Buddhism, but was obtained by me shamelessly asking Laojun for it."

"I'll have to trouble you, my friend, to do the final cleanup."

Jiang Lin didn't stand up, but just raised his head and looked behind him.

It was a faint shadow with dots of golden light, and it looked like a middle-aged monk with a round face, long ears, and phoenix eyes.

The monk was very tall, almost ten feet tall, and he was standing behind Jiang Lin with his back bent.

Seeing Jiang Lin looking at him, the monk smiled, with some gratitude, but more of apology.

Jiang Lin struggled to stand up and bowed, saying, "Jiang Xuanying, a Taoist of the Xuan generation of the Northern Emperor Dharma lineage of the Taoist sect, greets the World Honored One."

"I don't deserve your courtesy, my friend. I am now nothing more than a remnant soul."

The phantom, that is, the real Tathagata Buddha, waved his hand with some disappointment.

Jiang Lin did not waste any time. After greeting him, he asked directly, "Why was the Buddha possessed by that evil creature from another world? Why didn't anyone find any clues after so many years? This is not the level that a top-notch master of the Three Realms should have."

Jiang Lin's words were very impolite and even sharp.

But Jiang Lin wasn't sure how long this idea would last, so he asked as directly as possible.

He needed to determine how Tathagata Buddha was tricked.

This is important, very important.

Upon hearing this, Tathagata Buddha looked a little bitter and said softly: "There is more than one Three Realms."

Just six short words made Jiang Lin's eyes widen.

The Tathagata Buddha placed the golden elixir in Jiang Lin's hands, and then spread out his hands, and a pair of yin and yang fish appeared, one with a black body and white eyes, and the other with a white body and black eyes.

This pair of yin and yang fish are intertwined, connected head to tail, in an endless cycle.

"My friend is a Taoist, so I will explain it to you in Taoist terms."

"Everything has yin and yang, and so does the world."

"One yin and one yang, the two worlds depend on each other, without worries of prosperity or decline, and without difficulties of destruction."

"This is the most ideal and perfect state, but unfortunately, extreme yang is born from yin, and extreme yin is born from yang."

As he spoke, the Yin-Yang fish in the hands of Tathagata Buddha changed.

The black and white colors that originally occupied the eyeballs of the Yin-Yang fish quickly spread to the entire body of the two fish.

The fish that originally had a white body and black eyes turned into pure black, and the fish that originally had a black body and white eyes turned into pure white.

Yin and Yang transform, and there is no Yang in Yin, and no Yin in Yang.

“Extreme means that prosperity and decline begin to change, and the balance is also broken.”

"The Yin Realm, which originally represented turbidity, has become full of vitality, and the Yang Realm, which originally represented clarity, has turned into a strange and evil realm."

The thoughts of Tathagata Buddha controlled the Yin-Yang fish in his hand, causing it to show changes corresponding to what he said.

Black turns to white, white turns to black.

Jiang Lin listened quietly, barely able to accept this information which contained a huge amount of information.

There is more than one Three Realms.

But it is yin and yang.

The place where he was now should have been the turbid Yin world, but because of the Yin-Yang relationship, it became the vibrant Pure Yang world.

In contrast, what should have been a pure and spiritual yang world turned into a strange and evil pure yin world.

“Such a change cannot come naturally.”

Jiang Lin said firmly.

He had experienced the way of nature and carried the luck of the Dao Sect. He knew very well that this natural balance was basically impossible to be broken by natural evolution, or even develop to such an extreme.

"Of course not under normal circumstances. But what if the similar elements in Yin and Yang that stimulate each other have their own will?"

The Tathagata Buddha shook his head slightly and said, "Just as luck needs a carrier, yin and yang also need a carrier. This is also the law of nature."

"So, who are the ones who carry the Yin and Yang worlds respectively?"

When Jiang Lin heard this, he thought of the original Yin-Yang fish, the black eyes of the white fish, and the white eyes of the black fish.

"It's the Great Heavenly Lord!"

It dawned on him.

"Yes, it's the Great Lord."

The Tathagata Buddha nodded with a smile and said, "The Great Celestial Lord of the Yin Realm is the most yang in the Yin, while the Great Celestial Lord of the Yang Realm is the most yin in the Yang."

"Yang means to hold fast, so it is said that the Yangguan is held fast, and the essence does not leak out."

"Yin means flooding, so it is said that the Yin gate is flooding, and the ground is full of flowers."

"But the balance of yin and yang, appropriate release and appropriate restraint, is the best change."

"Yang Tianzun of the Yin Realm did everything he was supposed to do. While maintaining his own identity, he also appropriately influenced the Yin Realm and maintained the changes of Yin and Yang."

"But Yin Tianzun of the Yang Realm did not do this. Instead, he wantonly indulged his own desires and used his own Yin to color the entire Yang Realm."

"He even looked towards the Yin Realm that had already transformed into the extreme Yang, wanting to infiltrate his own power into it and transform both the Yin and Yang Realms into a Yin realm that was flooded with peony."

"The Great Celestial Venerable had no choice but to leave our Three Realms to fight against the other side of himself. But if he relaxes himself and sticks to his own Yang, how can he resist the Yin that has completely sunk, completely disregarded the consequences, and released it wantonly?"

"This ultimately led to the Buddhist sect and the old monk becoming what you see now, my friend."

There was a hint of bitterness on the corners of Tathagata Buddha's mouth.

Jiang Lin nodded slightly and had some guesses as to why Tathagata Buddha fell into the trap.

"Has that Yin Tianzun ever been to our Three Realms?"

The Tathagata Buddha nodded slightly.

"Yes, he has been here before. He was the one who released these evil creatures from the outer world, and I was also infected by them at that time."

As the Tathagata Buddha spoke, he sighed.

"No matter how powerful this old monk is, how can he be a match for a stronger Great Celestial Lord?"

“Even if they are both powerful masters, the difference between the strong and the weak is very clear, not to mention the old monk and the Great Celestial Venerable. It was inevitable that they would be infected and eroded.”

There was no conspiracy or plan, Yin Tianzun just acted directly and forcibly polluted Tathagata Buddha and Buddhism and turned them into chess pieces for him in the Three Realms.

It was also because of this that the Great Heavenly Venerable made some discovery and left the Three Realms to fight against the Yin Heavenly Venerable.

But even the Great Celestial Master couldn't do more.

"But you can."

Tathagata Buddha suddenly looked at Jiang Lin and said firmly: "You can stop him, and you can also restore the proper order of the Yin and Yang three realms."

"why me?"

A rare look of confusion flashed across Jiang Lin's eyes.

He pressed on, "Do you know some secrets about me? Do you know something about my origins?"

Jiang Lin had only a vague idea about this and only had some extremely superficial guesses, which were not even guesses.

Upon hearing this, Tathagata Buddha just shook his head slightly and murmured, "I shouldn't be the one to tell you..."

As soon as he finished speaking, the Buddha's light went out.

The Tathagata, the World Honored One, will return to the ruins and become oblivion.

(End of this chapter)