Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 873 The Monk King Like the Sea
The Five-Fang Flag Spirit Treasure flew to its master's side and entered the lower dantian, where it swam joyfully in the much stronger primordial fire.

Ji An's long howl gradually subsided, and his high spirits slowly calmed down.

The improvement in cultivation brings a 360-degree, all-around enhancement. If I were to encounter that Shi Xiu who had mastered the Divine Foot Technique again, even if I couldn't inflict a fatal blow on him in the early stages of the battle, I would still possess enough powerful magic to exhaust him to death.

A smile bloomed on Ji An's lips as the thought, "The world is so big, I want to go see it," sprouted in his heart.

However, this will have to wait until the threat from the monks is eliminated. The situation in the Central Continent is bound to become increasingly tense, and he is worried that the battle will spread to the Western Continent.

He stood up, walked to the Gathering Yuan Tree, and patted the trunk:

"Old buddy, when will you be able to break through to the top level?"

Over the years, although the Gathering Yuan Tree has not benefited from refining Dao essence to improve its rank, it has received considerable nourishment from the ashes of many Nascent Soul level cultivators buried beneath it.

Among these enemies are two cultivators at the eighth and ninth levels of the Nascent Soul stage, who would undoubtedly be a great tonic for the Gathering Yuan Tree.

More than 20 years have passed since the last time the five-colored flowers matured. Based on experience, it will take about 100 years for the Juyuan Tree to produce five-colored flowers and bloom again.

To be precise, it will be less than a hundred years, because the accumulation speed of spiritual plants will be faster now that the grade of the spiritual vein has been improved.

But no matter how fast it is, it cannot hide the natural law that the higher the grade of the spirit wood, the lower the production rate of spirit items.

Ji An sighed and released the Thick Virtue Evolution Spirit Spell by making a hand seal. Now that his cultivation had broken through, the power of his spells would inevitably increase, so of course he wanted the spiritual plants in the gourd world to enjoy it as soon as possible.

The mana within his body, the Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner, and the Five Elements Dao Seeds resonated together. When the spell was cast, a subtle yet rapid tremor came from the depths of the earth. The nourishing earth element divine intent gushed out from the ground like a gushing spring, spreading across the land.

In the current Earth Element Spirit Field, the Soul Nourishing Wood and the first Golden Leaf Sandalwood planted have been upgraded to the fourth-tier superior grade. The spiritual plants in the small world have now entered the era of the fourth-tier superior grade.

The spiritual plants that nourished his soul maintained a level comparable to his cultivation, ensuring that his advantage in soul strength remained constant.

Both the Star Tree and the Yin Soul Tree are of the fourth-grade superior quality, and he can improve his soul strength by directly consuming Yin Soul Fruit.

The high-level Yin Soul Fruit also has another function: it can increase the purity of the Nascent Soul, but this effect is meaningless to Ji An.

His cultivation method is the Five Elements Revolving Scripture, and it follows the path of mutual generation of the five elements. While circulating the cultivation method, it will purify harmful substances such as elixir poisoning, which can save a lot of time and improve cultivation more efficiently.

There are two types of lightning-struck wood in the Earth Element Spirit Field: five Earth Spirit Fruit Trees and three Mysterious Leaf Sword Bamboo Trees. However, only one Earth Spirit Fruit Tree has reached the fourth-grade superior level.

The warehouse has about a hundred pounds of fourth-tier sword bamboo golden leaves. Bamboo leaves with thunderous power are the favorite of weapon refiners. Every time he returns to the sect and sees Qin Yan, the other party will pester him to trade a few pounds.

Colorful auspicious clouds descended upon the lakeside of the black earth, where the Xuan Shuang Crystal Rice grown had reached the third-grade superior level, each grain as clear and lustrous as black jade.

The quality of honey osmanthus cake and Lingshan wine made from these ingredients has also improved.

The best quality spiritual rice takes twelve years to mature, so it cannot be supplied in large quantities yet, but it is more than enough to meet his needs.

In the shallow waters of the lake, a lotus leaf with golden veins grew as large as a millstone, and a golden lotus flower bloomed in its bloom.

This golden lotus is currently a mid-grade fourth-order plant, and Ji An has no idea what its function is, which is quite troubling for him.

He killed quite a few Buddhist cultivators, but he didn't obtain many scriptures, so he couldn't determine what kind of spiritual plant it was.

Ji An made a hand seal and released the Dragon Soaring, bringing life to all things. The clouds and mist, crackling with lightning, rolled and churned, with the Azure Dragon and the Black Dragon hidden within them.

The rain continued to fall, and mist rose up. On the other side of the lake he was facing, four Tianyuan pear trees struck by lightning swayed in the thin mist.

With a water-controlling incantation in his hands, Ji An quickly dived into the bottom of the lake. The deepest part of the lake was about 250 feet deep, and without the illumination of the Pure Water Lotus, the bottom of the lake would be completely dark.

Seven precious dragonfish at the Golden Core level live in this deep water, as well as a blue water turtle at the Golden Core stage. All of his tamed beasts have been upgraded to the Golden Core stage!
While maintaining the water control technique, Ji An channeled his magic power to create a waterless area at the bottom of the lake, and then released the Dragon Soaring to Life once again.

Near the spring at the bottom of the lake, there are two fourth-grade superior-quality Pure Water Lotuses. The spiritual energy concentration in the surrounding waters is close to the fourth-grade supreme level. This is the most precious place in the Calabash World, apart from the Gathering Yuan Tree area.

Ji An had quite a few fourth-tier lotus seeds. Since he didn't have any medicinal herbs to grow for making pills, he would occasionally take out some lotus seeds to make soup.

It tastes good and can enhance magical power and spiritual strength.

After casting the spell, he released a golden light that soared across the ground and flew to the sky above the azure spiritual field, where he once again released the Dragon Soaring to Life.

In this spiritual field, there are five fourth-grade superior Bodhi trees, and more superior spiritual plants will be cultivated in the future.

There are also thirty-six lightning-struck trees here, exceeding the number in the Crimson Spirit Field, making it the spirit field with the most lightning-struck trees in the Calabash World.

Among them are five Youyue Cangyu trees, two Biluo trees and two Yunding jade trees, nine Canglong trees, and eighteen Feiye mulberry trees.

Of these spiritual plants, only one Azure Jade Tree and two Azure Dragon Trees reached the fourth-grade superior level, while there were also two Azure Jade Trees of the fourth-grade mid level, which greatly alleviated his need for spiritual tea. In the white spiritual field, the spiritual fruit bearing the Seven Luminaries Golden Branch slowly showed signs of ripening; it was still at the fourth-grade mid level.

There are also two Vajra Bodhi trees here that have reached the fourth-grade superior level, which can be used to refine Vajra Body Tempering Ointment in the future.

Ji An released the Thick Virtue Spirit Transformation Spell, and then flew to the Crimson Spirit Field.

On the small island in the middle of the lava lake, the leaves of the hibiscus tree are as red as fire. It has now reached the fourth-grade superior level, and in the future it will be able to eat mulberries of even higher grade.

There are twenty-four lightning-struck trees here, far fewer than the number of other wood-type spiritual plants. Among them are twelve Crimson Cloud Pines, five Dragon Blood Trees, three Fire Immortal Apricots, and four Spirit Peaches. One of each of these spiritual plants has reached the fourth-grade superior level.

He has made a great breakthrough in cultivating Pearl Blood Rice, reaching the third-grade low-level. When he returns to the sect, he will send some of the two kinds of spirit rice seeds to the Department of Agriculture so that the disciples can also grow high-level spirit rice.

If a decent output can be guaranteed, Golden Core cultivators will have another avenue to rapidly improve their cultivation.

If there is a sufficient supply of spiritual rice, it has the same effect as taking elixirs.

On the shore of the East China Sea, a treasure ship that was a thousand feet long and two hundred feet wide docked, and many Buddhist monks and nuns disembarked in an orderly manner.

After establishing a foothold on the shores of the East Sea, the Buddhist monks dispatched three monk kings to fly across the vast ocean back to the Western Continent and inform them of the situation there.

The Pure Moon Monk King stepped forward a few paces and clasped his hands together in prayer before a gaunt monk:

“Amitabha, it is truly an honor to meet the Venerable Monk Ruhai in the Eastern Continent.”

Like the Sea Monk King, one of the most renowned monk kings in the Western Continent, whose cultivation has reached the late-stage perfection of the Reincarnation Realm. Now, he only needs to accumulate enough merit to advance further and escape the suffering of reincarnation.

“Excellent, this old monk is of meager virtue and does not deserve such praise from the Pure Moon Monk King.”

A slight smile appeared on the thin face of the Sea Monk King. His purpose in coming to the Eastern Continent was to accumulate merit so as to escape the cycle of reincarnation.

The way Buddhist monks acquire merit is different from that of immortal cultivators. They can also acquire merit by capturing meteorites from outer space, but this method has a large element of luck and is not the mainstream.

Buddhist practitioners are more adept at cultivating the water of merit using the power of sentient beings' vows, and one can also gain merit by washing with water.

Upon learning of the actual situation in the Eastern Continent, the Sea Monk King felt that this was a golden opportunity. If a temple could be built here to spread the glory of the Buddha, he could gain more devout believers and accumulate merit.

What needs to be done now is to devour the power of those cultivators as quickly as possible, thereby accepting billions of living beings as believers.

After exchanging pleasantries, the Pure Moon Monk King, accompanied by several monks at the late stage of the Reincarnation Realm, flew to Lotus Temple.

Upon arriving at the Mahavira Hall, one finds that all the monks seated there are of the same level of spiritual attainment.

After the monks were seated, the Venerable Jingyue began to speak:

"I will explain the situation here to you monks in detail. Let us come up with a plan to see how to wipe out the cultivators' forces as soon as possible."

This continent is divided into five regions: the East Sea, the South Sea, the Central Continent, the Western Continent, and the Far North.

The True Demon Tribulation has caused immense damage to this continent. According to our intelligence, over two hundred Nascent Soul level cultivators have perished in the Central Continent alone.

The losses in other states were relatively smaller because the main force of the True Demon army was focused on attacking the Central Continent.

"We have designed two plans. The first plan is to gather all forces to break through the gates of several Nascent Soul sects in the Central Continent. In this case, the Central Continent will not have any late-stage Nascent Soul cultivators to oversee it, and it will be unable to organize effectively."

The drawback of this plan is that the attack will be very costly, likely resulting in significant losses, and it will also alert other forces, causing them to quickly form alliances.

"The second option is to clip their wings and focus our main attack on other regions outside of Central Continent. After we devour these Nascent Soul forces, Central Continent will have no external support and can only be slowly devoured by us."

The drawback of this method is that it takes longer, but its advantage is its reliability.

After speaking, the Venerable Jingyue remained silent and waited quietly. The two plans had not been discussed properly, but now that the Venerable Ruhai and others had arrived, everyone could brainstorm and come up with a perfect solution.

The second group of monks who arrived in the Eastern Continent whispered among themselves, carefully weighing the pros and cons. Everyone wanted to achieve the greatest results with the least cost.

The purpose of the monks who crossed the vast ocean to come to this continent was to spread the glory of the Buddha.

In this process, one accumulates merit and virtue, thereby breaking through to a state of transcendence.

Ru Hai's gaze turned serious as he asked:
"What is the current situation in each continent? How many Nascent Soul cultivators are there in each region?"

(End of this chapter)