Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

Empty, empty, empty—

The mandala pattern on the stone gate became increasingly bright, even giving the impression of coming to life.

The central heart beats at a slow, rhythmic pace, and with each beat, the stone gate shifts slightly to the side.

It took about three minutes.

A gigantic, pitch-black cave entrance appeared before Wu Wang.

Seeing this, Wu Wang sighed.

Take a prop out of the backpack, put it on your wrist, and raise your hand above your head to make a rabbit ear pose.

[Little Fool's Telephone Watch (Epic): Wearing this watch allows you to remotely contact any target within the same instance, and the other party's voice will randomly change when they hear your voice. A tribute to the great Detective Bowknot for his technical contribution.]

[When the user is not in the instance world, as long as any substantial information about a person is obtained, it is still possible to contact that person remotely in a reasonable way, regardless of distance limitations.]

[Conditions for use: During the connection process, the hand wearing the watch must be positioned on top of the head, resembling rabbit ears]

[Note: No matter where you are, we can reach you with just one phone call!]

This is an item obtained after completing the [Anecdotes of the Pear Garden] instance.

In this instance, Wu Wang was most familiar with his second sister, and he had no other information to contact other players.

“Hey, Moshi Moshi.”

"Second sister, the situation has changed. Why don't you call the others back?"

"The stone gate is open."

Wu Wang's voice sounded slightly helpless.

He really didn't expect that Black Eye Obsession would suddenly unleash a burst attack on him at the last minute.

Who knows what will happen after this door is opened?

Wu Xiaoyou's voice also came from the phone watch: "Brother, this might be a bit difficult."

"When we left, Ruoshui noticed that Abbot Kongbei had already approached the Sutra Repository. He should be guarding there now. We can't get around him to find the log and open the stone door."

"Why don't you stay there and we'll come back to pick you up tomorrow night?"

When Wu Wang asked her to take the others away, Wu Xiaoyou knew that he wasn't planning to come out tonight.

I just didn't expect the stone gate to open now.

Wu Wang narrowed his eyes as he stared at the stone gate.

Observing the unusual appearance of the door, he sighed and said, "Then I'll have to go inside the stone door first."

"It looks like this door is going to close again. You'll have to figure out how to get in yourselves tomorrow night."

After saying that, he lowered his hand from his head.

Watching the stone gate open to its maximum width, it began to close little by little with each heartbeat.

Before it could be completely shut off, Wu Wang darted through the door.

boom--

The stone door slammed shut with a dull thud.

All that remained were the wreckage scattered outside the door, and the murky black liquid that had flowed onto the ground had silently merged into the earth, or rather, it looked as if it had been swallowed up by the ground.

The entire secret room fell into a deathly silence.

Da da da—

The sound of Wu Wang moving around in the cave echoed in his ears.

The cave behind the door gets bigger and bigger. When we first entered, it was only about two people tall, but after a short distance, it had a diameter of ten meters and seemed to be expanding continuously.

Finally, after walking for a full three minutes...

He then reached the finish line.

The scene before him, however, made him frown and ponder.

This is a cave so enormous that it defies description.

Its dome was hidden in darkness, and even when Wu Wang shone his flashlight on it, it was completely swallowed up without any reflection.

Only occasionally can you vaguely see stalactites hanging down from a corner, each one as thick as a giant pillar supporting the sky.

Wu Wang was currently at the very edge, with a row of stone slabs on the ground in front of him.

Clearly, this place was not formed naturally.

"Tsk, from a geological point of view, a cave of this size, let alone Yunzhou City, the geological structure of the entire province shouldn't be able to support it," Wu Wang joked. "This cicada has quite the architectural aesthetics."

He stepped onto the stone path and walked deeper into the cave.

The slope was extremely gentle downwards, but with each step I took, my eardrums ached slightly, as if the air pressure was constantly changing.

The fishy, ​​sweet smell in the air grew stronger and stronger, even becoming somewhat pungent.

It was as if something was rotting in front of me, or as if some spices were being burned nearby.

Gradually, Wu Wang saw buildings beginning to appear on both sides of the stone-paved road.

At first, there were just a few scattered stone pillars, standing there like road signs.

Then came a series of broken walls, all of which were carved. Upon closer inspection, the carvings were slightly blurry, and only the outlines of people could be vaguely discerned, just like the figures on the walls in the Jaken Dormitory.

The number of people was countless.

They huddled together, prostrating themselves and bowing in the same direction.

That was the direction Wu Wang was heading along the stone path.

Continuing downhill for a short while, the complete building came into view.

However, these were not houses for people to live in, but rather Buddhist shrines.

The rows of shrines stretch as far as the eye can see, each containing a Buddha statue of varying sizes and materials.

Some are stone carvings, some are wood carvings, some are clay sculptures, and some are... bones and flesh.

A strange thought flashed through Wu Wang's mind—

This is not a human settlement.

This is the land of Buddha!
The stone-paved road was so long it made one's scalp tingle, yet he continued walking forward.

I don't know how long we walked, but we finally left the area of ​​the Buddhist shrines and came to a huge square.

The square was paved with black stone slabs, each engraved with intricate scriptures. When Wu Wang swept his flashlight across them, the scriptures seemed to writhe in the light, like living insects crawling and rearranging themselves into even more distorted symbols.

In the center of the square stands a Buddha statue.

It's so big it's suffocating.

The lotus platform beneath it alone is over twenty meters long, and countless human faces appear on each lotus petal. They are real yet distorted, as if they are silently wailing and screaming towards the Wu kingdom.

The Buddha statue atop the lotus pedestal is over 100 meters tall.

Wu Wang had to crane his neck until it ached to see the top.

This Buddha is also entirely black, with three faces carved on its head.

On the left is an angry face, with fangs bared and eyes wide open, like a Vajra who vanquishes demons and protects the righteous path;

On the right is a face of suffering, with downcast eyes and tear-streaked face, as if bearing the boundless suffering of all living beings.

However, the face on the front is blank.

It has no facial features, only a smooth, mirror-like outline.

A faint, dark golden halo floated behind the Buddha statue's head.

Upon closer inspection, however, one can discover that what appears to be a simple halo is actually a series of eerie cocoons suspended in mid-air.

Within the halo formed by these cocoons, numerous human figures wriggled, and if one stared at them for a while, one could faintly hear the chanting of scriptures and the wailing in one's ears.

"Duye, Duye, how laughable."

“The monks outside all thought you had become a Buddha, but they never expected that you were just building a Buddha, using corpses as bricks, using obsessions as mortar, drawing blueprints from distorted scriptures, and building this thing brick by brick.”

"I was going to say that your Buddha is in hell, but now it seems that's not quite right."

"You are hell itself."

Wu Wang said sarcastically to the black Buddha.

He then slowly raised the elemental gun and aimed it at the faceless face in the middle of the Buddha statue.

boom!
The scorching fire element bullets illuminated the entire area, leaving a beautiful red trail in their wake.

Unexpectedly, the bullet did not explode or penetrate the faceless creature the moment it touched it.

Instead, it was as if it had been shot into a viscous lake and swallowed up instantly, without making the slightest ripple. The faceless face was like a black hole capable of devouring everything.

"To see the Buddha and not pay homage, but instead resort to violence, is utterly disrespectful!"

A rebuke, imbued with the sounds of Buddhist chants, came from the Buddha statue.

The deafening noise also allowed Wu Wang to pinpoint the source of the sound—

The chest of the Black Buddha!
He appeared in mid-air in a flash, hovering there.

The serrated blade in his hand stabbed mercilessly toward the chest, as if to dissect the black Buddha to see if it too harbored a black heart. Clang—

However, even with the sharpness of the Black Dragon Fang Blade, it didn't cause the slightest damage when it struck; instead, it made Wu Wang's hand go numb.

In an instant, two thin black lines, almost invisible to the naked eye, emerged from the Buddha statue and rushed toward Wu Wang with lightning speed.

In the instant he dodged to the side, he also inserted the serrated blade into the scabbard.

【Alatreon Fang Blade (Epic)】

Equipping this weapon grants the user a +20 Strength attribute, and wounds inflicted by this weapon will be continuously burned by [Black Flame] for three minutes; this process cannot be interrupted.

[Wound healing is reduced by 50% while in Black Flame state, inflicting continuous excruciating pain and a burning effect every second. Repeated attacks will refresh the duration of Black Flame and increase its destructive power by 50%.]

【Special Effect 1 (Cut-off): When an attack is about to hit the user but is dodged, the damage of the next attack with this weapon is increased by 100%】

【Special Effect 2 (Iaijutsu): After the user uses 【Kenkiri】 once and then sheathes the sword, the next attack cannot be interrupted and its damage is increased by 150%】

【Special Effect 3 (Dragon Rising): When the user performs three consecutive 【Slash】, they can unleash a downward attack, increasing damage by 300% and applying a black flame effect to the multi-hit damage】

See you! Iai!
This strike was delivered with even greater force.

However, it was deflected again the instant it struck, and still had no effect.

"Again!"

Wu Wang's figure seemed to dance in the air, frantically dodging the black threads that entangled him while continuously unleashing his toothed blades, creating increasingly powerful attacks.

After the Critical Eye effect was triggered three times, a strange dark flame ignited on the serrated blade.

"Che! Ju! Deng!"

A powerful strike, "Dragon Ascent," slashed down on Black Buddha's chest.

Wu Wang let out a helpless sigh.

"Sigh, is logging in a must after getting a cat?"

He looked up and glanced over, only to find that the black Buddha had a wound on his chest that was less than half a finger deep.

Although it was engulfed in raging black flames, it was quickly covered by those eerie black threads.

These threads are like weaving cloth, mending the wound.

Clearly, even with this increased power, the damage caused is minimal.

shhhhh--

More black threads wrapped around and tightly bound Wu Wang's hands.

Simply raise the person's arms horizontally and suspend them in the air.

"Ha, I knew I was right."

"Kongbei spent his entire life searching for the Golden Cicada at Cibei Temple but could not find it, while Huiming was able to sense that the Golden Cicada was behind the stone gate."

"They seem to have overlooked another question—what if you don't actually become a Buddha?"

"It's not that Jin Chan hid, it's that you hid, right? Du Ye!"

Despite being captured, Wu Wang showed no sign of nervousness and instead joked around.

The next second, the black Buddha's chest unfurled its silk threads to the sides, revealing a hollow.

Inside the hollow was a emaciated figure.

He sat there cross-legged, no longer resembling a human.

The original robe had become one with the skin and flesh, and the torn brocade revealed the peeling gold paint on the skin underneath.

It wasn't flesh and blood, but layers upon layers of dried lacquer, like the gold leaf that had been applied to the body of an ancient Buddha over the years, now moldy and cracked in this damp cave.

Countless tiny insect legs peeked out and then retracted from the cracks in the lacquered leather, making a rustling sound that sent chills down one's spine.

The head was drooping, but the back of the neck was raised high, forming a deformed mound of flesh.

Most importantly, there is a faint golden light on its abdomen, and the light shines through its skin, revealing the outline of a cicada-like insect inside.

This black Buddha is a golden statue that Duye created for himself!

Click—

Du Ye slowly raised his head, his eyes even more profound than the obsession in his black eyes.

He addressed Wu Wang in a hoarse voice, "How dare you! This old monk has already attained Buddhahood for all sentient beings! This is an indisputable fact!"

"It's just not perfect... not perfect enough..."

As he spoke, his tone turned ferocious as he said, "Therefore, I need the help of you all to become sentient beings of the Buddha of all sentient beings! This would be your honor!"

“Benefactor, the Buddha is compassionate, and this old monk will allow you to choose your own way of offering to the Buddha.”

"Do you want to constantly fight in the Asura realm to generate anger for this old monk, or go to the animal realm to become an insect to provide nourishment, or go to the hell realm to endure torture for all beings, or go to the human realm to shave your head and become a monk while also satisfying the cultivation of the hungry ghost realm?"

"How about I show you the way?"

After saying this, the halo of light formed from cocoons above the Black Buddha's head slowly floated to Wu Wang's front.

Countless black threads rubbed against the cocoon's outer shell around the cavity, like a human hand gently caressing its child.

Du Ye revealed a sinister smile and said, "There are very few people who can enter this Heavenly Dao to cultivate. This old monk thinks that you, benefactor, are also fortunate enough to have such an opportunity. What do you think?"

His words also connected the thoughts in Wu Wang's mind.

The dining hall is the realm of hungry ghosts, the release pond discovered by the fortress and the heart of ashes corresponds to the realm of animals, the Arhat Hall where the mug was beaten up is the realm of Asuras, and the torture of the worshippers in the Dharma Hall is the realm of hell.

The entire Compassion Temple is actually all about humanity!
In addition, there is the Heavenly Dao Cocoon at this moment.

All beings are Buddhas, all beings are Buddhas. What Kongbei said is that the power of the vows of all beings helps them to attain Buddhahood through their karma.

In reality, it is even more brutal.

Its true meaning is that it is a Buddha who was created through the sacrifice of all living beings!

All the monks and pilgrims in Cibei Temple are actually wrapped in layers of cocoons, providing nourishment for the day when this black Buddha, hidden in the underground Buddhist kingdom, emerges from the cocoon!
Before Wu Wang could continue thinking, Du Ye manipulated the black threads to throw him into the Heavenly Dao Insect Cocoon.

The next second, just as Wu Wang was about to touch it, the cocoon vanished.

He was slammed directly onto Black Buddha's torso.

[Code deleted]!
However, the cocoon that was supposed to disappear for ten seconds reappeared the next moment.

Wu Wang felt his mind churning, as if he had been subjected to some kind of intense shock.

Even with his superhuman mental strength of four digits, he was now starting to sway precariously.

hum-

At the same time, the enormous black Buddha trembled slightly.

It emitted a strange buzzing sound from its entire body, like the hissing of millions of insects, so piercing that it gave one a splitting headache.

The cicada in Duye's abdomen was rampaging inside his body.

It caused him immense pain and also left him somewhat bewildered.

He had never felt the cicada put up such fierce resistance.

What exactly did they just do?!
Countless black threads swept towards Wu Wang, seemingly intending to dissect him and find out what was going on.

Wu Wang's figure also flickered and disappeared from the Buddha statue, appearing on another edge of the square, panting heavily.

He certainly realized something was wrong.

When using the [Source Code Engine], he seemed to feel two boundless forces colliding, and his mental energy was completely wiped out in an instant.

This feeling of complete uncontrollability gave Wu Wang a sense of familiarity—

The power of the Venerable One!

"If... the cicada is a creation of [Twisted]".

"So now it's a question of 'eternity'?"

A sudden realization flashed through Wu Wang's mind.

The Source Code Engine was obtained from a dungeon of the Eternal City and can be considered a creation of the power of Eternity.

These two venerable ones are fundamentally opposed.

When the effects of their creations meet, the most intense collisions will naturally occur.

Therefore, simply targeting the Black Buddha's derivative, the Heavenly Dao Insect Cocoon, would consume over a thousand points of Wu Wang's spiritual power.

At the same time, the opponent's [distorted] creation will obviously also be impacted.

Although it still doesn't seem to be able to kill directly, at least this kind of impact hurts much more than being cut by a serrated blade.

Otherwise, the cicada wouldn't have been jumping around like that.

It's good that it hurts!

Wu Wang's lips twitched and he twisted his neck to look at Black Buddha.

He smiled amicably and said, "Dormammu, I'm here to discuss terms."

"Before that, let's get to know each other better."

"Until you're willing to negotiate with me..." (End of Chapter)