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For most intelligent beings, as long as this cultivation method is not used on their own people, they will not feel any discomfort or think that there is anything wrong with what they are doing.

Or rather, in the multiverse, using materials from other races as cultivation materials is probably the most common thing.

Some people might even secretly believe that their own race is a great hero fighting against other races.

Human cultivators would not have any psychological burden in using other races to cultivate this kind of technique, and similarly, other races would have no such burden in using humans to cultivate.

However, this Buddhist path was originally a cultivation path specifically for humans.

In other words, many techniques and weapon-refining methods in this branch of Buddhism are much more effective when using humans as raw materials than those of other races.

Just like that futon, the material chosen must be from a race that has hands.

Among the demon race, there are not many demons. The abbot of this temple spent a lot of effort to find those demons.

However, if you use the human race, everyone has hands, making the collection of materials countless times easier.

Therefore, Zhang Zhi would never allow this cultivation path to be spread.

Fortunately, although more than four hundred Buddhist practitioners in this temple have practiced this special Buddhist technique, judging from the surrounding situation, this Buddhist teaching has not yet been leaked out.

The area around Guangli Temple was originally a place where various forces were mixed, and there were countless kinds of demon races.

If this evil cultivation method were to spread, most of the demons in this area would probably be used by hostile races for cultivation and weapon forging, and the peaceful scene we see today would be impossible.

It seems that the Buddhist teachings of this branch of Buddhism had only been understood for a short time.

The Buddhist practitioner who comprehended the Dharma knew that his cultivation method was too shocking. If it were to spread, he might be condemned by everyone. Therefore, he had always cultivated it secretly in private from the very beginning.

The scope of the teachings is limited to Buddhist practitioners within this temple.

Perhaps that person only started spreading the word after they had acquired combat power comparable to that of a god?
However, the abbot of this temple has a high level of prestige. There are hundreds of cultivators in the temple, and under his control, all of them obey his will.

In this respect, he is much better than Yang Shi, perhaps because Yang Shi is a human.

Or perhaps it's because there are too many people with affinity within Guangli Temple;
Or perhaps it's because the monks outside of Guangli Temple weren't very familiar with some of Yang Shi's past experiences.

During this period, many of the instructions issued by Yang Shi were not carried out very well by the Buddhist cultivators outside.

After inspecting the temple, Zhang Zhi felt that Yang Shi's current situation was likely due to the numerous mountains along the Buddhist route.

Just like the Buddhist practitioners in this temple, they basically follow the lead of the abbot. Yang Shi's words are not as effective as those of the abbot.

After reviewing the timeline and the surrounding area of ​​the temple, Zhang Zhi breathed a sigh of relief upon confirming that the cultivation method of this branch of Buddhism had not yet spread.

At the same time, he began to think about how to deal with the cultivators who had pursued this branch of Buddhism.

After time rewinds, Zhang Zhi discovers that the monks in the temple, as well as the abbot, are actually quite pitiful.

However, no matter how pitiful they are, Zhang Zhi will not soften his heart.

Zhang Zhi would never allow such a cultivation path, which would bring enormous harm to the human race and could even be described as entirely detrimental, to continue to exist.

None of those cultivators who have followed this branch of Buddhism can escape.

Although, perhaps in the future, cultivators from other Buddhist paths will comprehend this branch of cultivation techniques.

However, he planned to find Yang Shi as soon as possible and have him announce that any Buddhist cultivator who practiced or comprehended this branch was a heretic!
Heretics are not only not sinned by killing Buddhist monks, but they also bring great merit!
Although there are many sects within the Buddhist path now, Yang Shi, as the nominal 'Buddha,' can still smoothly carry out these instructions that pose no harm to anyone.

Furthermore, in Buddhist practices, which are somewhat similar to faith-based cultivation, anything involving heresy is considered a major issue.

Therefore, Zhang Zhi was not worried that the matter could not be carried out.

Having decided how to deal with these monks, he moved his mind and appeared in the sky above the temple known as the Buddha Temple.

By using the Boundary Bead to investigate the number of Buddhist cultivators within the Temple of Bhuta, and then comparing it with the list of cultivators found through the Boundary Bead's time rewind, it was discovered that there were more than twenty people who were not currently in the temple.

After a moment's hesitation, and confirming that all the high-ranking members of the temple were inside, Zhang Zhi didn't hesitate any longer. With a thought, the three-in-one innate spiritual treasure appeared in his hand.

He gave a curt "Go!"

With a slight flick of his wrist, he tossed the three-in-one innate spiritual treasure in his hand toward the location of the Temple of the Buddha.

Then, the three-in-one innate spiritual treasure transformed into a square seal, which slowly pressed down on the Temple of Buddha below.

The seal that had just left Zhang Zhi's palm was originally only the size of a fist, but it swelled up in the wind and, in the blink of an eye, was almost the size of a small mountain.

In Zhang Zhi's gaze, the huge seal slammed down towards the temple.

Immediately afterwards, a loud bang was heard, and the entire Buda Temple, including the Buddha statues, Buddhist artifacts, and the Buddhist monks inside, all turned to ashes after that loud bang.

For a three-in-one innate spiritual treasure that is now at the gold level, annihilating those beings that are at most at the purple level is naturally effortless.

Zhang Zhi reached out and beckoned, and the three-in-one innate spiritual treasure slowly shrank and flew back into his hand.

Looking down at the original location of the temple, where everything inside had turned to ashes, with no living creatures or anything else remaining, his gloomy expression softened slightly.

He turned his gaze away from below and sighed inwardly.

Although he couldn't bring himself to be soft-hearted, he still felt a pang of emotion.

Those Buddhist practitioners within the temple, or rather, the one who comprehended this branch of Buddhism, were merely pitiful individuals manipulated by fate.

The culprit behind all this was actually the Buddhist cultivation path, but it also had some causal relationship with the elephant demon.

Because Yang Shi and the elephant demon had a falling out some time ago, he drew a boundary for the Buddhist path.

After that, the elephant demon sent several demons at the weak divine power level to guard the area near the Buddhist territory that the elephant demon had marked out.

Buddhist practitioners are free to travel outside this area, but any actions involving the propagation of Buddhist practices or Buddhist teachings are not permitted.

The elephant demon wanted to do this in order to suppress the expansion of Buddhist paths.

The elephant demon currently enjoys considerable prestige within the Jin Kingdom, and the weak divine power realm cultivators stationed in the vicinity are carrying out its orders without reservation. Some are even going so far as to exceed the elephant demon's commands altogether.

For most of the beings around them who were at the highest level of the legendary realm, those beings from the Jin Kingdom who were at the weak divine power realm were beings whose life or death could be decided at a glance.

The surrounding forces naturally carried out the gods' demands without the slightest hesitation.

Some forces, in order to avoid trouble, or because they were worried about being implicated in Buddhist cultivation paths, or because they were worried that those beings at the weak divine power level would find an excuse to cause them trouble;
Or perhaps they already had connections with Buddhist sects and were worried about being purged by the Jin Kingdom, so they directly refused entry to any Buddhist cultivators.

Any Buddhist practitioner who enters their sphere of influence, regardless of whether they are spreading Buddhist teachings, will be killed without exception.

After all, the Buddhist path to other territories was originally for the purpose of spreading Buddhist teachings.

Another point is that the sphere of influence drawn by the elephant demon in the Buddhist path is actually much smaller than the area actually controlled by the Buddhist path.

During this period, a large number of Buddhist cultivators perished outside the territory designated by the elephant demon.

Of those Buddhist cultivators who perished, only a small portion died at the hands of the demon race in Jin Kingdom; the vast majority died at the hands of the surrounding demon forces.

In fact, some forces originally had a good relationship with Buddhist sects.

This resulted in a devastating loss for the Buddhist community.

However, the Buddhist approach to controlling people's minds is indeed as good as its reputation suggests.

Even though there are countless deaths outside, there are still many Buddhist practitioners who want to infiltrate other forces to spread Buddhism!
It should be noted that Yang Shike had ordered Buddhist practitioners from all sides to refrain from rushing to spread Buddhism in various places in the short term.

Even so, many Buddhist practitioners still infiltrate other forces regardless of their own lives.

Temples scattered throughout various regions were particularly hard hit.

The same applies to Buddha Temple.

The temple is not far from the boundary marked by the elephant demon.

Therefore, at its peak, this temple had more than a thousand Buddhist cultivators above the Transcendent Realm, but not long ago, only a little over a hundred remained.

More than a thousand Buddhist practitioners of the transcendent realm perished on their journey to spread Buddhism abroad.

Many of those Buddhist practitioners who perished were actually relatives and friends.

Take the abbot, for example. Of his fifteen sons who followed the Buddhist path, apart from three who had already passed away, the remaining twelve all died recently.

Therefore, Zhang Zhicai said that the Buddhist practitioners in the temple, as well as the abbot, were actually pitiful people.

It was precisely because of the elephant demons, or rather the Jin state's frantic obstruction of the development of the Buddhist path, coupled with the large number of Buddhist cultivators who perished during this period, that the Buddhist path became aware of the crisis.

This branch that has emerged should actually be the Buddhist path itself, which evolved in order to cope with this crisis, or perhaps it was deliberately created by the cultivators.

In Buddhist tradition, not just anyone is qualified to build a temple.

Only those who comprehend a certain Buddhist teaching within Guangli Temple, receive the title of Buddhist disciple, and are outstanding enough to be recognized by the vast majority of Buddhist practitioners within Guangli Temple, are qualified to go out and establish temples to spread the Dharma.

The person who supported the construction of this temple was a Buddhist practitioner who was already extremely knowledgeable about Buddhist teachings.

However, his original cultivation level was not high, only at the Legendary Realm.

Because of the large number of disciples who had died in the temple during this period, and because he was powerless to do anything about it, when he was reciting the Buddhist teachings he had come to understand in front of the Buddha statue in the main hall, a strange Buddhist teaching suddenly appeared in his mind.

This Buddhist teaching is naturally a branch of Buddhist cultivation methods.

The faster you can cultivate that Buddhist skill, the higher the level of resentment in an area.

Then, unable to resist the temptation of that branch of Buddhist cultivation techniques, the Buddhist practitioner began to try practicing that Buddhist skill.

As he continued chanting Buddhist scriptures in the main hall, more bizarre Buddhist teachings and practices appeared in his mind.

After forging a Buddhist artifact and killing a demigod-level demon, things spiraled out of control.

Finally, step by step, they turned this Fudashi Temple into a living hell.

Actually, if this incident hadn't happened, and he had continued to follow the orthodox Buddhist path step by step, his future certainly wouldn't have been too bad.

After all, he was originally a disciple of the Buddha, a peak in the Buddhist path.

Not to mention, those who are recognized by the Buddhist path as candidates for the Buddha's position in this renowned branch are top-notch in terms of ability, comprehension, and potential.

Of course, the branch of Buddhism that he comprehended was something that Zhang Zhi disliked.

That's why Zhang Zhi didn't hesitate to turn that Buddhist monk, along with the Buda Temple he built and all the disciples who taught him, into ashes.

He shook his head with a hint of regret, thinking that this was another waste of a promising member of the clan.

Then it occurred to me that this Buddhist path was far too evil.

Even though the current 'Buddha' Yang Shi is someone I arranged, judging from the situation at the Temple of Buddha below, the future direction of this Buddhist path will definitely not be as I and Yang Shi planned before.

This Buddhist path will lead them to try every means to break free from the control of themselves and Yang Shi.

It could even be said that this Buddhist path actually has its own consciousness, and the recent activities of the Buta Temple below and those Buddhist practitioners are the best proof of this.

Furthermore, the fact that so many mountain peaks have appeared on the Buddhist path is actually because the Buddhist path has realized that the first person it has chosen with affinity will not completely follow its will.

Therefore, the Buddhist path used various subtle means to cultivate so many Buddhist disciples within it, in order to weaken Yang Shi's control over the Buddhist path.

Opening up this Buddhist path within the Lingbao Small World is truly a matter of unpredictable fortune and misfortune.

As for that elephant demon?
Although His approach of besieging the Buddhist path was somewhat excessive, if He hadn't blocked the Buddhist path, this branch of the Buddhist path certainly wouldn't have appeared.

However, on the other hand, if he hadn't blocked the Buddhist path this time, he wouldn't have been able to discover the evil nature of this Buddhist path.

Therefore, this time, we can barely say that His merits and demerits cancel each other out. (End of Chapter)