Wanfa Daojun, starting from the Little Cloud and Rain Technique

Chapter 901 Buddha Country
If the grades of the other three Dao Seeds are also improved, the power of the Thunder Technique can be increased by at least 30%.

Ji An smiled kindly. By then, the power of the Chaos Five Elements Lightning would likely pierce through all of a cultivator's defenses, and even a Nascent Soul Ninth Level cultivator wouldn't last long against him.

However, his expression only lasted for a moment before he recovered. He hadn't gained much Daoist essence over the years, and there simply wasn't enough for him to improve.

Xuanfeng Zhenjun's expression remained calm throughout; only he and Juque Zhenjun had experienced Xuanqing Zhenjun unleashing the full power of his Dharma form.

Although the Chaos Five Elements Lightning released by the opponent at this moment is powerful, it is still some distance away from reaching its strongest state.

Xuanxiao Zhenjun seemed to be deep in thought, feeling that the other party must have other reliance, otherwise they would not have said such uncertain words.

Ji An pointed to the cave dwelling, "Let's go inside and talk."

The group returned to their cave, exchanged ideas about the upcoming battle, and devised contingency plans for potential dangers.

Azure Dragon True Lord took out two jade tablets with distinctly different patterns and handed them to Giant Que True Lord, instructing him:

"The effective communication range of these two sets of mother-child concentric jade is 1,500 li. Please contact us immediately in case of any emergency."

The mother and child jade pieces he provided were not from the same set, allowing for real-time communication between the two parties.

Juque Zhenjun put away the jade token and smiled:
"Don't worry, although I enjoy fighting, I still like to call for backup when I encounter danger."

Furthermore, Fellow Daoist Xuanqing excels in offense, and Fellow Daoist Xuanfeng excels in defense; our team is very well-rounded.

Those cultivators who have made it this far are all very clever.

Ji An pondered for a moment and said, "I suggest that we do not use the Yin Thunder Pearl for the time being. After a period of normal consumption, if we find that the defensive spiritual light of the Buddhist formation has weakened, then we can order the disciples to release the Yin Thunder Pearl to launch a saturation attack on the Buddhist formation. This way, we will have a better chance of breaking through the Buddhist formation."

Not releasing the Yin Thunder Pearl will paralyze the enemy, causing them to misjudge our combat strength.

Azure Dragon True Monarch immediately nodded in agreement, saying:

"This is a good suggestion, I agree."

Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, unleashing a large number of Yin Thunder Pearls in a short period of time would have a high probability of breaking through the outermost Buddhist formation.

True Lord Xuanxiao and True Lord Qingyang spoke in unison:

"Seconded."

Lotus Temple, Mahavira Hall.

The Venerable Master Jingci, his face grim, said gravely:
"Two weeks ago, new enemies joined the siege. Now the enemy is divided into two teams, attacking Lanruo Temple and Zhilan Temple at the same time."

According to reconnaissance, each enemy team had three Nascent Soul Stage 9 cultivators in command, which made our organized raids less effective.

The rate at which our willpower is being depleted is increasing, and the situation is very unfavorable for us. Junior brother, what plans do you have? Please share them.

He sighed deeply, worrying about the future.

The situation took a sharp turn for the worse. All the cultivators in the Central Continent united to launch a fierce attack, sending out high-level cultivators who were determined to fight the Lotus Subduing Demon Formation to the death.

The enemy was not only strong offensively, but also quite defensively capable. They summoned a monk king at the late stage of the Samsara Realm to launch a sneak attack, but it did not produce any significant results.

The enemy's defenses were very tight, and both sides suffered casualties.

Although measures were taken to encourage mortals to generate more willpower, if a few more Nascent Soul cultivators attacked the Lotus Subduing Demon Formation, the consumption of willpower would offset the increase in willpower.

Monk Jingyue frowned deeply and said in a deep voice:
"The current situation is a contest of hard power, and there are no tricks involved."

If the power of aspiration provided by ordinary people is insufficient, then let the monks suspend the use of their power of aspiration. By setting an example, the Sangharajas can conserve a huge amount of power of aspiration that could be wasted.

The cultivators must also have a tough time. With so many high-level cultivators gathered together, the amount of spiritual energy they need to replenish their mana every day is enormous.

At this point, all we can do is hold our ground, seize every opportunity to wear down the enemy, and wait for them to collapse on their own.

A large portion of the spiritual energy that temples receive each day is absorbed and consumed by the monks.

The white eyebrows of the Venerable Jingci Monk twitched a few times as he said:

“Doing this would affect the unity of the Supreme Patriarchs.”

The reason why so many monk kings were willing to travel across the ocean to the Eastern Continent was precisely to obtain more resources of vow power!
"Senior brother, what time is it and you still care about this? If we don't do this, Lanruo Temple or Zhilan Temple will inevitably be on the verge of collapse in a year or two, and the consequences will be even more serious."

At this moment, the Pure Moon Monk King somewhat regretted his support for the suggestion made by the Sea Monk King a few years ago to take the initiative. He never expected that the initiative would be thwarted, resulting in the deaths of many monk kings and also stimulating a certain nerve among the cultivators of the Central Continent.

Now the enemy is launching a near-total offensive regardless of cost. If dozens of monks had helped stabilize the Buddhist formation, we would never have ended up in such a predicament.

The advantage of the Lotus Demon-Subduing Formation is that the defense is divided into layers, and the power of will can circulate among all nodes. If the outer nodes are breached, it will not affect the inner defense, but it will affect the transmission of power of will between the outer nodes.

Once a single node is breached, the defenses of all nodes in that layer will weaken to varying degrees, almost meaning that the nodes in that layer are on the verge of collapse.

As nodes are continuously breached, it becomes increasingly easier for cultivators to conquer other nodes.

When the outer Buddhist formation is breached, the defense of the inner nodes will become stronger, but at the cost of a significant reduction in the node's resistance to attrition.

The outer Buddhist formation took the enemy a year to conquer, but the inner one might only take two or three months.

The Venerable Master Jingci remained silent for a long time, then sighed softly.
"If all else fails, let's use the 'Karmic Fire of All Beings'."

The Buddhist tradition holds that sentient beings are filled with the five aggregates and will experience all kinds of suffering, such as birth, old age, sickness, death, greed, anger, ignorance, separation from loved ones, and not getting what they want. Therefore, the aspirations of sentient beings are not pure and contain selfishness.

These desires, mixed with the power of aspiration, must absolutely not be tainted, otherwise they will affect the practitioners' spiritual practice.

The golden Buddha statues in each temple are both the core nodes for purifying aspirations and the places for extracting and suppressing desires and distractions.

These distracting thoughts are compressed into a dark mass of 'matter' by the Buddhist array, which is called the karmic fire of sentient beings.

Normally, these emotions would be gradually purified by Buddhism, but in order to deal with the most dangerous situation, the Buddhist practitioners decided to temporarily preserve the karmic fire of sentient beings before coming to the Eastern Continent.

With his eyes lowered, the Pure Moon Monk King knew that if he were to unleash the karmic fire of sentient beings, it would be equivalent to igniting the seven emotions and six desires of cultivators, which could very likely give rise to a 'demon'.

This kind of demon is not a phantom formed from demonic energy during the True Demon Tribulation, but rather a cultivator who has transformed into a dark creature.

Heaven and earth have a will, which is why they created the system of Xuanhuang merit. If the karmic fire of sentient beings gives rise to dark demons, the one who releases the karmic fire of sentient beings will be punished by the will of heaven in the dark, and their merit will be reduced.

If one's merits are insufficient, even after multiple reincarnations, liberation cannot be attained. Practitioners cannot experience reincarnation indefinitely; they can only experience it a maximum of five times. If the karma accumulated is too deep, there is no guarantee that they will be reborn into the human realm next time.

If one cannot be reincarnated as a human, all one's spiritual cultivation will vanish into nothingness.

The Pure Moon Monk King, feeling he still had a bright future, suddenly didn't want to get involved in this mess anymore and had a thought of retreating. He said:

"Senior brother, if it comes to this, it will hurt both yourself and others, and the price will be too heavy."

The karmic fire of all living beings will inevitably have an extremely strong impact on cultivators. In the best-case scenario, it can give rise to demons that severely injure cultivators, but the cultivators deal with the demons in time.

In the Western Continent, Buddhism flourishes, and because of the restraint of cultivation methods, demons cannot cause much trouble. If cultivators do not deal with it properly, they may lose most of the merits they have accumulated over the years.

The Venerable Master Jingci gazed at the auspicious light and mist outside the hall with a distant look, and said softly:
"Perhaps Junior Brother is overthinking it. The Eastern Continent has experienced the Tribulation of True Demons and has experience in dealing with demonic pollution. The karmic fire of sentient beings should not cause too much trouble."

We don't need to inflict too much damage on the enemy; as long as we can hold them off for a few years, we can hold out until the next wave of reinforcements arrives.

Compared to cultivators, Buddhist monks don't have much of an advantage in offense, but if they are determined to defend and can hold out long enough, they can slowly wear down the enemy.

Monk Jingyue shook his head almost imperceptibly. The seven emotions and six desires aroused by the karmic fire of sentient beings are different from the pollution of demonic energy. The pollution of karmic fire is more insidious because it is itself a human instinctual desire.

If cultivators are unaware of the dangers they face, the consequences may be uncertain, and he believes that the emergence of dark demons is inevitable.

This demon's appearance is not much different from that of a normal cultivator. As it grows stronger, it can even bathe in Buddha's light for a short period of time without showing any abnormality.

I only hope that the number of Nascent Soul stage cultivators affected is not large and that the enemy can discover it as soon as possible; otherwise, there is a high possibility of widespread death and destruction.

The Pure Moon Monk King didn't care about the suffering of the people; what he cared about was that the negative impact would diminish his merits.

“Senior brother, I think this matter should be carefully considered. The impact is too great. It would be best to discuss it with the other Sangha leaders.”

If many knowledgeable people share the burden when Heaven and Earth bring down punishment, the losses will be much smaller.

The Venerable Master Jingci nodded and affirmed:
“Such an important matter should of course be discussed with all the Supreme Patriarchs. Everyone has the right to know.”

He felt that even if the decision could not be passed now, it would inevitably be passed in the future. The current situation was not just a simple matter of the Buddhist formation being breached; it was a battle for life and death.

Unless the many monk kings are willing to admit defeat and leave the Eastern Continent, they will definitely fight for their own interests.

Back then, the monk kings abandoned many benefits to come to the Eastern Continent, but now they are slinking back. The benefits that originally belonged to them in the Western Continent have already been divided up, and it will be difficult to take them back.

For all the monk kings, fleeing the Eastern Continent was the last resort.

He began to consider the possibility of negotiating with Zhongzhou, and whether the Buddhist monks would leave this place for Zhongzhou or hide somewhere.

The Pure Moon Monk King took a deep breath and pondered:

“Senior brother, I once went deep into the Land of Desolation to investigate. In the eyes of cultivators, that region is simply uninhabitable, but for us, it is not like that. It is just a barren wasteland.”

I think we need to find a way out now, so that we won't be left with nowhere to go if the battle goes badly.

The Land of Absolute Spirits is extremely vast; the area merely at the border of the Central Continent and the Western Continent is a hundred times larger than the Buddhist Domain we currently possess.

Barren land can be gradually transformed. Planting golden lotuses in temples and irrigating them with water from the merit pond can easily turn desolate land into an area suitable for ordinary people to live in.

The early stages may be difficult, but as long as the spark is preserved, there is always a chance that it will one day spread like wildfire.

The eyes of the Venerable Jingci suddenly lit up, and he lowered his voice to say:

“Junior brother, now that you have mastered the Divine Speed ​​Technique, you can secretly take supplies to the Land of Desolation for construction.”

He gritted his teeth, took out a pale yellow pebble, and handed it over.
"This is a Buddhist kingdom spanning three hundred miles, which can accommodate many mortals. In addition, you can select a group of monks with production skills to assist you."

The term "Buddha Kingdom" is used by Buddhist practitioners, while immortal cultivators refer to it as a "small world." Buddhist practitioners who have transcended the mundane realm can possess a Buddha Kingdom within their palms to nurture sentient beings, hence the name "Buddha Kingdom" for their small worlds.

He and Jingyue came from the same Buddhist temple, and this Buddhist artifact was a treasured possession that he had always kept close to his body.

The Monk King Jingyue raised his eyebrows slightly. He knew very well his senior brother Ai's miserly nature, and the fact that he was now willing to offer the Buddhist Kingdom to support him meant that the other party was feeling unprecedented pressure.

Reaching out to receive the Buddhist treasure, he felt a slight warmth emanating from it, and a smile played on his lips.

"As the decree commands, senior brother, wait for my good news."

With a Buddhist kingdom, a Buddhist land can be created in a desolate place without disturbing any cultivators.

At this moment, he felt extremely fortunate that the Buddhist cultivators' techniques had almost no requirements for spiritual energy, otherwise he would not have been able to follow this path at all.

The Venerable Master Jingci looked at him with deep eyes and solemnly said:
"Next, I will summon all the Sangharajas to a meeting. After the meeting, my junior brother can go out, and try not to attract the attention of others."

If the other Sangharajas knew they had a way out, their resolve to defend the Buddhist formation would weaken.

Even if this Buddhist realm is destroyed by cultivators, it will still serve to weaken the enemy.

The Venerable Monk Jingyue smiled and said, "Please rest assured, senior brother, that I will handle things properly."

Two months later, outside the gate of Lanruo Temple.

The Golden Core cultivators were divided into dozens of groups, with each Nascent Soul True Monarch in charge of five groups. They formed arrays using themselves as nodes and used their magical treasures to attack the Buddhist arrays.

The magical artifact trailed colorful lights, like countless shooting stars falling.

The Buddhist formations of the monks emitted a pale golden light, like the surface of a lake after a downpour, rippling with countless waves.

Ripples collided with each other, and the Buddhist array trembled incessantly.

Ji An was positioned at the very center of the magic circle, a position that allowed him to quickly provide support to any location.

Unless it's a sneak attack by the monk who has mastered the power of supernatural speed, it's difficult for any enemy to overcome his protection.

He made hand seals, and his magical power surged within his immortal veins. The five Dao Seeds simultaneously emitted brilliant light, and strands of light formed from mysterious substances merged into his magical power.

All the five flags emitted a wondrous rhythm, resonating with the Dao seed.

He elegantly released the Chaotic Five Elements Thunder, and beautiful 'fireworks' exploded along with the Buddhist array.

(End of this chapter)