Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 851 Why is there gasoline floating on your lotus pond?
The Western Paradise, the Vulture Peak, the Great Thunderclap Temple, a sacred temple, is a promised land longed for by countless people who chant sutras and seek Buddhahood.

With the official fall of Blood Guanyin, the Black Spirit Mountain forces stopped spawning more miscellaneous troops, allowing the fleet to proceed unimpeded to the outer edge of the Spirit Mountain, where it was unsurprisingly blocked.

The advancing ships could clearly feel an elastic membrane enveloping and penetrating them, forcibly slowing their speed and ultimately intercepting them outside Leiyin Temple.

Looking down from high above, the area of ​​Lingshan Leiyin Temple, which should clearly be prefixed with "black," appears to be radiant with divine light and resplendent in gold.

The Buddha statues are towering and the temples are numerous, unlike the dilapidated state of the Buddha statues in other areas.

I thought that the Little Thunderclap Temple in Little Western Paradise was already the best, but compared with the real Great Thunderclap Temple in Black Spirit Mountain, it really did look like a poor imitation.

However, the "visitors" reacted with a variety of expressions to this scene.

The fact that the three-way allied forces had already encountered the generally distorted and deformed combat units of Black Spirit Mountain made the magnificent gold and jade here look even more dazzling.

Manjushri and Samantabhadra, along with their golden-bodied Arhats, looked solemnly at Black Spirit Mountain. This was not only because the bright and beautiful temples and monasteries in front of them contrasted sharply with the combat units in front of them, but also because the layout below gave them a strong sense of familiarity.

If they didn't truly know that they had arrived in another plane of the same origin, they might even think that what lay below was the real Mount Ling, the place where they chanted scriptures and cultivated day and night... and that was the most dangerous thing.

The pilgrimage team had rather complicated expressions. After all, in their timeline, the entire process of the eighty-one tribulations was only about a third complete. Before they knew it, they had all followed the crowd to Mount Ling, which was indeed quite remarkable.

However, Tang Sanzang, who had awakened Jin Chanzi's memories, was noticeably calmer. In a sense, this was his "homecoming" rather than a visit, and he was even more familiar with the internal structure of Mount Ling than most of the golden-bodied Arhats.

Arcade Monkey King, like his fellow disciples, didn't have any particular thoughts about "Mount Ling" itself, but Demon King Monkey King was different.

Whether from the perspective of the Demon King or from the perspective of his broken body, this was his second visit after accepting the Buddha's bestowal and then relinquishing the title of Victorious Fighting Buddha. The complexity of his feelings was unimaginable to others.

Ultimately, both of them had a deep grudge against the lord of this place, so their reasons for fighting were quite valid.

Although Black Spirit Mountain adopted a different approach to the battle than Black Heavenly Court, after the miscellaneous soldiers were wiped out, Black Spirit Mountain seemed to have retreated into a turtling mode again, making Monkey King and his companions feel a bit bored.

Unlike the NPCs, all player units received a notification the moment the bow of the ship touched the barrier.

You are attempting to enter the "Thunder Temple" area.

You must be baptized before you can enter.

Baptism? What kind of baptism? Do we have to do it like in the original TV series, mixing mud in a cold pond and then splashing gasoline around it to create a colored oil film to pretend to be a halo?
Upon seeing the prompt, Cheng subconsciously scratched his head, making a slight rubbing sound between his finger bones and skull.

Just as the notification popped up, the clear pond outside Leiyin Temple, filled with duckweed and lotus buds, began to slowly glow as if giving instructions.

The meaning couldn't be clearer: to enter Leiyin Temple, one must "wash away worldly dust and undergo a complete transformation" in that pond before being qualified to enter the temple.

However, faced with such clear instructions, the players looked at each other, but none of them moved. It wasn't that they were afraid of being the first to stick their necks out, but rather that all the information they had passively received so far showed that all the enemy units were visibly distorted and mutated, while the source of this distortion and mutation was such clear water—that was the most illogical thing!

Although the NPCs didn't have any specific spatial guidance, they all noticed the clear pool water as a guide.

"This damned Buddha, does he think we're brainless idiots?!"

The Demon King was so angry that he laughed on the spot.

The fact that so many aquatic plants could be grown in such clear water is already a contradiction in itself, let alone the fact that it's outside Leiyin Temple, forcing everyone to immerse themselves in it.

The two Erlang gods remained silent, only activating their Heavenly Eyes to scan the pool from all angles, before finally letting out a sigh.

Cheng Tian glanced at it as well, and then sighed.

Sure enough, the roots of these floating lotus flowers, which were connected to the bottom of the pond, held not only a lot of silt, but also some unsurprising skeletal remains, ranging from humans to animals.

Cheng Tian seriously doubted the nature of those plants below. They were probably no different from those in Dave's yard. If someone actually went in, they would probably be completely devoured.

Just as everyone was about to pick up their golden cudgels and axe and resume their old ways of attacking the barrier of Leiyin Temple, a figure suddenly rushed out from the crowd, plummeting rapidly with a ball of fire, and came to an abrupt stop on the lotus pond where people and beasts alike were welcome.

It was none other than Nezha, the Third Prince, riding on his Wind Fire Wheels.

He looked at the pool with an unprecedentedly serious expression, and the next second, a living hand suddenly stretched out from the pool and grabbed Nezha's ankle!

This situation surprised many people, because the scan just now clearly showed that there was nothing else in the pool.

What's even more surprising is that Nezha, whose ankle was grabbed, was not surprised at all. Instead, he immediately activated his Wind and Fire Wheels, turned the speed up to the maximum, and began to climb upwards. At the same time, he threw his Hun Tian Ling (a magical ribbon) at the group of warships.

The Arcade Monkey King reacted quickly, immediately turning his golden cudgel into a leverage point that the Hun Tian Ling could use to entangle him, and then stepped onto the railing with both feet, firmly trapping himself in place.

Upon seeing this, Cheng Tian also made a forehand-to-backhand gesture, and the ship's sails immediately changed direction, spraying hellfire in front of the ship, and the entire warship began to accelerate backward.

And so, with the combined efforts of Nezha, Monkey King, and the Hellfire Battleship, and with the arm that grabbed Nezha's ankle but for some reason wasn't burned by the Wind Fire Wheels, a standard humanoid figure made entirely of muddy lotus roots was forcibly pulled out of the pond and off the water!
The moment the lotus root human form was completely exposed to the air, Nezha suddenly turned around and stared at his cheap biological father with murderous eyes!

"Things shouldn't happen more than three times!"

The words Nezha squeezed out through gritted teeth made Li Jing's face turn extremely ugly.

(End of this chapter)