Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 272 Cause and Effect Cleared
The main god space.

Xu Feng handed the ten scriptures to the newcomer, Takeda Yoshito, and explained, “These ten scriptures have two uses. One is to automatically protect the master when attacked by evil thoughts, and each scripture’s automatic protection lasts for one hour. The other is to recite them actively, regardless of the language, the key is sincerity. In this case, the Buddhist scriptures will protect additional people according to your intention and fight back against evil spirits.”

The newcomer, Yoshito Takeda, was flattered and touched the scripture.

From his perspective, the captain of the East China Sea team had just taught a lesson to a senior member of the team and then forced him to hand over 20,000 reward points. He was a villain who had the final say in the team.

He never expected that the reward points he paid would actually bring a return.

As he handed over the scriptures, Xu Feng added, "Yoshito Takeda, you should still have two C-rank side quests, right?"

The newcomer couldn't help but nod.

Xu Feng continued, "In addition to these ten Buddhist scriptures, I can also provide you with four enhancements."

"The first item is a beast-type Imperial Arm. This Imperial Arm can give you the vitality of the Lion King, the king of beasts, and grant you the fighting instincts of a wild beast, as well as a power boost of dozens of times that of an ordinary person."

"The second item is to quickly develop internal strength. The ultimate success of this enhancement depends mainly on your aptitude and willpower; but I can guarantee that I will open up your meridians to a level comparable to B-grade Qigong within two months."

"The third item is technological weapons. These technological weapons are upgraded versions of the veteran's power armor, which have added the ability to damage monsters with lightning."

"The fourth thing is to write scriptures on your skin, bones and other parts of your body. These scriptures make you transparent in the sight of most spirits. Of course, this only makes them ignore you. If you rely on this ability to jump around in front of evil spirits, you will still be killed by those monsters."

Yoshito Takeda was very interested.

He naturally understood that the prerequisite for obtaining these enhancements was handing over the two C-level side quests.

So the newcomer asked, "Captain, what do those two C-rank side quests require you to buy?"

Xu Feng smiled when he saw that the newcomer was sensible.

He instructed, "Shoko, you still have one C-rank side quest left, right? Next, help Takeda pay for the side quests and reward points he's missing, and also buy me a peach!"

The effects of the peaches of immortality, a top-grade natural treasure, are extremely powerful. The Huazuo Temple, which normally takes thousands of years to cultivate, was rapidly cultivated in just over four years with the nourishment of the peaches' spiritual energy.

Moreover, a significant portion of the peaches' spiritual energy was not utilized.

If another peach were obtained, achieving the eighth level of understanding would be no problem; as for the ninth level, the spiritual energy of the peach would still provide significant assistance, but it would be difficult to achieve it as quickly as the eighth level.

Xu Feng has been practicing the eighth contemplation, "Image Contemplation," for nearly half a year. During this time, he has learned about the specific cultivation content of the next two realms.

The light of the soul!

From the eighth contemplation... to be precise, the middle seven levels of the Amitabha Sutra are all for developing the light of the mind.

Buddhism has three fundamental standards: impermanence of all things, non-self of all phenomena, and the purity of Nirvana.

The phrase "all things are impermanent" means that everything in the world is constantly changing, which is the same principle as "all things are subject to change" in the Taoist I Ching.

The difference between the eighth contemplation, 'image contemplation', and the ninth contemplation, 'true body contemplation', stems from this point; 'image contemplation' contemplates a golden Buddha image, which is essentially a Buddha that is 'unchanging' and 'constant,' while 'true body contemplation' contemplates a Buddha that is 'changing' and 'impermanent.'

In accordance with the gene lock system, the eighth perspective is the development of the basic spiritual light; the ninth perspective is the highly developed and personalized spiritual light.

The development direction of the Eighth View is clear: no matter who it is, the result of perfect cultivation is a golden body, so the Peaches of Immortality can still help people achieve this quickly.

The practice of the Ninth Contemplation is highly dependent on the individual. Although rare and precious materials can be effective, the time required to achieve mastery is ultimately determined by the practitioner themselves.

After arranging the purchase method for the second peach, Xu Feng continued, "Mei, you only got two C-level side quests this time. Fortunately, Sanada Yoji has one more C-level side quest. You can provide the side quest and reward points to help him buy a Heavenly Udumbara Flower."

Each person can only redeem for another person once per cycle.

This rule makes it difficult for Xu Feng to extract all the reward points and side quests from the other members of the East China Sea team.

Although he could still have his teammates buy rare and precious materials, after enjoying the B-grade peaches, he looked down on those low-grade rare and precious materials with lower cost performance. Even the C-grade rare and precious materials were dozens or hundreds of times less effective than the B-grade peaches! As for those rare and precious materials that did not require side quests... they were better than nothing.

In order to obtain enough benefits, he can only try to piece together his teammates' side quests to exchange for higher-level items.

Xu Feng would not waste any of the opportunities that other reincarnators exchanged for, including his own.

He will also pay for the missing C-level side quests when newcomers purchase B-level rare treasures—after all, he'll enjoy those treasures himself once he gets them.

The Heavenly Udumbara Flower is one of the five top-grade natural treasures related to Buddhism.

Although the peaches of immortality are effective, they offer limited assistance in the cultivation of the Ninth View. Xu Feng plans to try a different kind of rare and precious Buddhist material.

Besides these two most expensive natural treasures.

Xu Feng then had Park Chang-ho spend several thousand reward points to purchase materials such as Bedorus leaves, fine gold, mithril, jade, amber, and agate.

These materials will be used to make ritual implements.

Some were used by themselves, and some were given to other members of the Donghai team.

soon.

This batch of exchanges has ended. Among them, the B-grade natural treasure, the Celestial Udumbara Flower, was used up first... The flowering period of this flower is extremely short. From the time it was exchanged to the time it withered, the whole process only took a few seconds.

If it were an ordinary reincarnator, they probably wouldn't realize that this treasure, worth a B-level side quest, disappeared after only a few seconds of blooming.

Xu Feng used the Swallow Domain, which was integrated with the Pure Land of Bliss, to forcibly preserve all the Buddhist power of the Udumbara Flower in the Heavenly Realm.

Although he only absorbed a small portion of the Buddha's power from the flower in those few seconds, he realized that this B-level side quest was worthwhile. In assisting his practice of the Pure Land Contemplation Sutra, this flower was even more useful than a peach!
He learned some information from the Buddhist power of the Udumbara flower in the heavenly realm.

The Udumbara flower has three ways of blooming: first, it is nurtured by a true Buddha for three thousand years; second, it sprouts when a small chiliocosm is born and finally blooms when that small chiliocosm is destroyed; third, it blooms when a new Buddha appears.

When the flowers bloom, the Buddhist power accumulated in those three ways will be released in an instant.

If he could refine all the essence of the Udumbara flowers in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, he could easily master the eighth and ninth contemplations of the Amitabha Sutra.

But... it's difficult.

Even the Pure Land of the mind can only preserve the essence of the celestial Udumbara flower for a period of time. The essence of the celestial Udumbara flower is 'Nirvana', 'emptiness', and 'extinction'.

Its function is to go from 'having' to 'not having'.

Its inspiration doesn't dissipate outwards, but rather transforms into 'nothingness'!
After exchanging it, Xu Feng realized that although this rare treasure was very effective, even more so than the peaches of immortality in assisting the cultivation of Buddhist techniques like the "Contemplation Sutra," it was not suitable for him at this time. Perhaps he could achieve a leap forward in his cultivation by using this rare treasure when he reached the twelfth or thirteenth contemplation.

"Actually, it's not entirely unsuitable... The Light of the Soul is about creating something from nothing, and this 'from something to nothing' allows me to more easily understand the true meaning of the Light of the Soul." Xu Feng was very open-minded.

After all, the price of this celestial Udumbara flower is not too expensive... at least compared to its effects, it is very, very cheap.

Once everything is ready.

Xu Feng then led most of the reincarnators from the East China Sea team back to the world of "Akame ga Kill!".

Newcomer Yoshino Ryoichi redeemed two thousand days for him.

The time it took for others to redeem their items varied, ranging from two months to one or two years, with Mei taking the longest, three years.

Apart from the newcomer Shirakawa Nagi, Xu Feng has already squeezed out most of the reward points and side quests of the East Sea team's reincarnators. This time, he is returning with most of the members and intends to settle accounts with them for their contributions.

They paid for reward points and side quests.

In return, they paid for upgrades and items that were well worth the investment.

The cause and effect are cleared.

In the future, when we enter a world of high-difficulty reincarnation, no one will owe anyone anything.

The world of Akame ga Kill!

Xu Feng was the first to help Park Chang-ho with his enhancement.

This South Korean private has very high potential.

Because he showed enough loyalty, he also obtained the most suitable Imperial Arm from Xu Feng.

“Changhao, you should know about the evolution target of the demon-possessed—the infinitely evolving dragon Tyrande. The protagonist of the manga, Tatsumi, evolved into that form, and you have a huge advantage over Tatsumi.”

"The Greatsword lineage?" Park Chang-ho said thoughtfully.

"Yes... If it's a normal Claymore, it only needs to actively awaken while using Demon Possession to transform into Tyrande form. Tyrande, as a Dangerous Species, has a much higher potential than the Dragon's Descendant in the Claymore world. Its consciousness can easily devour the consciousness of demons."

Xu Feng had Park Chang-ho merge with the Imperial Arms Demon, and then explained: "However, when I modified your bloodline, I pursued stability too much, which resulted in you being unable to awaken on your own and being unable to obtain Tyrande's power in a simple way."

"Fortunately, my Swallow Fruit has evolved a lot."

Xu Feng chuckled and said, "This makes the originally very complicated surgery much simpler... All it takes is deep fusion, and then having the Tyrande consciousness possessed by the demon replace the 'demon' consciousness in the Greatsword bloodline... Just like that, you can become Tyrande!"

As soon as Park Chang-ho understood what those words meant, he felt a strong sense of hunger.

Furthermore, he noticed that his perspective was gradually rising!

"This means... the modification is complete?"

The South Korean private's eyes widened. "My current form... is a dragon?"

He could tell from the height comparison between himself and Xu Feng that he was now about ten meters tall and twenty or thirty meters long. This size was not large among dragons, but he had become a true magical legendary creature.

This modification... was too fast! Too simple!

The captain hadn't done anything yet; he'd only said a few words to him.

"No, the modification is only halfway done. We still need to address Tyrande's consciousness issue," Xu Feng said with a smile.

Simple?
In fact, the whole process was quite complicated. In that instant, he dismantled the Imperial Arms of Demon Possession, then fused the core of Tyrande's consciousness hidden in Demon Possession with Park Chang-ho's demonic power core, and finally stimulated the awakening of demonic energy... There were countless small details in each step.

Before he began practicing the Amitabha Sutra, this series of transformative surgeries would have taken at least a month.

Taking into account the time needed for Park Chang-ho to adapt to his new body, it will probably take two or three months to barely complete the transformation.

Now, Xu Feng's strength has increased significantly. His ability to perceive subtle details, the intensity of his mental power, and the depth of his transformation of the Swallow Fruit have all undergone more than two qualitative leaps. As a result, the entire surgical procedure has become very simple.

Xu Feng continued, "After transforming into this form, you need to fight with Tyrande's consciousness for control of the body. In the original story, Tatsumi faced this problem and almost failed, but was eventually rescued by Akame at great risk."

“You won’t have to face that kind of danger from him anymore… The simplest way is to return to the Main God Space, where the Main God will eliminate Tyrande, who is trying to invade your consciousness; however, that would mean you wouldn’t have enough time to train, wasting the infinite potential for this body’s evolution. So, I’ll help you deal with Tyrande’s consciousness!”

Xu Feng pulled out the rain from the new village.

The gold, black, and red rune chains reappeared the moment he raised his sword, wrapping around Park Chang-ho as if to save Hei-tong.

Immediately, the runic chains extracted the dragon soul from the giant dragon that Park Chang-ho had transformed into.

This is one of the reasons that Xu Feng didn't say: it would be too wasteful to let the main god erase Tyrande's soul!

Tyrande's soul was captured by Shinmura Ame, and the future master of Shinmura Ame can then draw upon a portion of the power of this super dangerous species.

Unlike when he had to cooperate with the consciousness of Murasame when he saved Kurohime, Xu Feng now directly and forcibly restrained the consciousness of the new Murasame... The Buddhist power containing the power of the Great Sun had long since tamed En no Ozuno in the Murasame, making it dare not resist in the slightest.

After a single slash.

Park Chang-ho felt that the whole dragon had become much more relaxed.

He instinctively flapped his wings and immediately took to the sky.

The dragon seemed to be unrestrained by gravity, constantly changing direction in the sky.

A moment later, Park Chang-ho transformed back into human form and landed on the ground.

Xu Feng smiled and said, "This is another advantage you have over the original protagonist, Tatsumi. With the bloodline of the Greatsword, you can switch freely between human and dragon forms using the energy of demonic energy, while Tatsumi can only maintain the dragon form."

Park Chang-ho nodded excitedly and said, "Captain, I feel like my demonic energy has evolved as well. If my demonic energy was mist before, it's like it's condensed into water now. After replenishing enough energy, my total demonic energy can probably increase several hundred times!"

Park Chang-ho discovered that after fusing with Tyrande's body, a super dangerous species, his improvement was extraordinary.

It was so exaggerated that he even doubted it was real.

"Just as I expected... Tyrande is, after all, one of the best among the dangerous species, so this kind of improvement is normal; next, eat more to replenish your extraordinary energy, and also train your control ability. Don't let the increase in total energy lead to a decrease in control." Xu Feng reminded her with a smile.

(End of this chapter)