My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 485 Emperor Taizu Su Zheng: Father, should I say it's our first meeting?
A brief silence.

The atmosphere at the scene gradually became solemn.

"Amitabha!" Dipankara Buddha uttered a Buddhist chant, his expression returning to peace and tranquility, a thousand rays of Buddhist light seeming to shimmer deep within his eyes: "Benefactor, you may also call me... Bodhi!"

Chu Zhu's pupils suddenly contracted. If he remembered correctly, the name Puguo... should originate from the post-civilization Buddha in this timeline! The one who truly attained Buddhahood.

and many more!

"You're dead?" A look of astonishment appeared on Chu Zhu's face, and a strange light flowed in his eyes, allowing him to see through the other party's true nature. Combined with the information he held in his hand, Chu Zhu gradually understood the truth.

Clearly, Puguo and Lin Xia knew each other, perhaps even were quite close. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Puguo to relinquish his divine position to Lin Xia before his death… Even the being before him, whose assimilation occurred after death, might have been Lin Xia's doing—no, Chu Zhu calmly considered, based on his understanding of Lin Xia, it was probably Puguo who strongly requested it, and Lin Xia did just that.

This also explains why the person opposite claims to be the Buddha of the past. Because he truly is the first Buddha of the past!
“Great monk,” Chu Zhu asked softly, “you have come with such fanfare, crossing multiple provinces without any concealment! You have allowed millions of people along the way to witness your divine manifestation! Spreading pollution… what is your intention?”

Chu Zhu's body was the nation itself. So, the moment he wanted to know... a flood of information naturally rushed into his mind... He understood what these people in front of him had done!
At this moment, countless Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and golden-bodied Arhats all felt immense pressure. It was as if the entire world was against them!

"We are simply inviting you to become the Buddha of the future!" Dipankara Buddha's voice was as sincere as ever, as if he felt no sense of oppression whatsoever.

Chu Zhu's eyelids twitched. Something was wrong, very wrong. He had already ascended the throne as emperor, achieving a divine body. Under these circumstances… to issue an invitation to become a god? This was blatant provocation!
especially……

Numerous Buddhas suddenly dispersed to the surroundings, chanting scriptures aloud. At that moment, countless golden Buddhist characters were imprinted in the void, and faintly, the illusion of snow-capped mountains appeared. Temples, and indeed temples located throughout the land, were filled with countless abbots chanting scriptures.

The earth shook violently!

"...Are you courting death?" Chu Zhu laughed, but his smile was devoid of any warmth.

Those Buddhist scriptures tried to imprint themselves on him, but they could never get close. They seemed to be close to him, yet they were as if they were thousands of miles apart!

Chu Zhu once exchanged a single glance with the abbot of the Great Thunderclap Temple, a glance that seemed to last a thousand years. He received countless pieces of Buddhist knowledge and information 'gifted' from the abbot.

Therefore, he knew what it was.

The Sutra of Saving People!
It originates from the supernatural power of the eleventh abbot of the Great Thunderclap Temple: Buddha saves all sentient beings.

The various supernatural powers of this ability are described in a very mysterious and esoteric way, such as a sudden awakening or enlightenment... However, Chu Zhu prefers to call these supernatural powers—

Psychological suggestion, hypnosis, alteration of common sense...

"Although I don't know why you wanted to provoke me, you've won." Chu Zhu suddenly became expressionless. A Buddha who had lost his divine position, and a group of Buddha incarnations who couldn't recognize themselves? Heh: "But next time you want to provoke me, please let Lin Xia do it. I'd like to see an old friend too!"

The next moment, a tense and urgent voice rang in Chu Zhu's ears: "Father, calm down, don't fall into their trap. Although I'm not entirely sure what they want to do... based on my past experience, we absolutely cannot do what they want us to do!"

"I understand," Chu Zhu muttered to himself, his expression indifferent. He wasn't surprised that Nuwa and Z hadn't shown themselves; after all, based on the information he'd gathered before... these two had actually been concealing their identities all along!

For him, Nuwa herself stepped forward, which already constitutes breaking her vows.

"but."

"This is just an experiment."

Chu Zhu pointed one finger to the sky and the other to the ground: "I say: Those who stand in my way violate the laws of Heaven and openly display their extraordinary abilities to the people—their crimes are unforgivable, and they shall be executed!"

A murderous aura soared to the heavens!
In an instant, all the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Arhats froze.

then……

Above the sky, an illusory celestial guillotine stretches across the heavens.

The blade was covered with ancient and mysterious runes, which were the embodiment of the Heavenly Laws of the Heavenly Court. Each rune contained endless power of law. They intertwined, flowed, and superimposed with each other, exuding a heart-palpitating aura.

Then, the Heavenly Blade fell from the sky!

In an instant, this newly opened little world turned blood red.

The golden light is shattering, the Buddhist text is shattering, and the golden body and the Buddha's physical body are also shattering!

"Namo Amitabha."

The deafening Buddhist chants resounded, and the numerous illusory Buddhist temples that had been pierced and shattered by the Heavenly Blade were reassembled.

Golden light filled the air; the supernatural powers of the second-generation abbot of the Great Thunderclap Temple—faith had taken effect! This second-generation abbot was clearly among the many Buddhas at this moment… As his supernatural power circulated, he exerted every ounce of his faith to its fullest extent, transforming it into a powerful immortality, attempting to revive these beings. However…

"This is an unforgivable crime!" Chu Zhu added coldly.

Instantly, the immortality was suppressed. Even the emperor has declared it unforgivable! Your attempt to use 'faith' to pull strings is suicidal!

The flesh and blood burst open again. Although it was still trembling and pulsating slightly, like freshly cut beef, it could no longer be mended and reassembled.

Chu Zhu didn't know the extent to which Su Boshen could wield his power. But for Chu Zhu, his power came from the nation, the Heavenly Laws, and the law!
A nation means that as long as one stands on one's own territory, one can obtain the highest level of enhancement. Of course, this doesn't mean that one loses power when leaving one's territory... it just means that one loses the highest level of enhancement!

The Heavenly Laws are the original laws established by the Heavenly God and all the emperors! They are the root of all laws in the world.

As for the laws, they are the laws of this dynasty, or rather, the laws formulated by the emperor himself and recognized by the public in this dynasty!

The Heavenly Laws take far greater priority than the laws of the land. As for how powerful they are… just look at the current state of affairs to know!

At a single command, hundreds of Buddhist and Taoist practitioners, at the sixth realm and even above, perished. Even those possessing immortality were rendered useless.

This is a god! This is a human emperor blessed by the heavenly laws established by God.

With the Buddha, who is most likely Lin Xia, not approaching Chu Zhu and there being an equal force to counterbalance him, the solution was that easy.

Chu Zhu stared at the mutilated bodies of the monks around him, pondered for a moment, and then waved his sleeve: "I say... the essence of blood should be extracted."

Instantly, drops of pure golden blood appeared, swirling around Chu Zhu. Over a hundred drops in total! As for those at the sixth realm, Chu Zhu didn't even bother collecting them.

This is the method of making medicinal pills!

This involves refining the possessor of a supernatural power into a great elixir, thus ensuring the power's inheritance. Chu Zhu, naturally, had also used his memories and supernatural abilities to replicate this technique—

"Interesting!" Chu Zhu stretched out his palm, and drop after drop of blood fell into his hand. He closed his eyes, carefully savoring the laws and principles contained within. Of course, Chu Zhu did not want to directly obtain these supernatural powers. Supernatural powers are unique, and this cannot be changed! However, the laws and principles contained within supernatural powers can be analyzed and comprehended—otherwise, there would be no cultivation methods like Buddhism.

The quantum computer in his mind trembled violently, frantically memorizing. But only three seconds later... Chu Zhu felt a faint stinging pain in his brain.

"?" Chu Zhu's eye twitched, and he quickly stopped. He realized that the quantum computer was about to explode from overload... After all, Chu Zhu was now a god, and even he felt a headache under these circumstances. If he hadn't become a god, his head would probably have split open.

"This is really something!" Chu Zhu shook his head, but he wasn't exactly disappointed. "It seems that although quantum computers are terrifying, they are ultimately only comparable to the fourth realm! This level of knowledge still requires my god-level human brain to memorize."

The world around Chu Zhu collapsed, and he reappeared on the altar.

"...Your Majesty!" Master Meng stammered. His cultivation was incredibly powerful; he had even cultivated an eye that could see through all illusions and point directly to the source, free from supernatural forces. Therefore, he naturally saw the terrifying war scene from before.

"Since they want war, then let them have war." Chu Zhu said without hesitation, "Nuwa Seventeen, transmit my orders!"

Although he could now call her Nuwa directly, in public, considering that Nuwa and the others needed to conceal their identities… well, Chu Zhu would still self-deceive himself by calling her Number Seventeen! Although, considering the huge commotion Nuwa caused to help him ascend to power… the effectiveness of this concealment is truly worth considering…

"Destroy mountains and temples!" Chu Zhu pondered, but his face remained calm as he spoke slowly and deliberately: "If the Buddhist temples are unwilling to bow down, then let them go bankrupt."

"...Instructions recorded!" Nuwa's voice was as always, though she used the playful "bankruptcy," but Chu Zhu's true meaning was: destroy Buddhism.

Although it seems that Buddhism is still most likely Lin Xia's business at present, Lin Xia has already shown hostility, so naturally, we should deal with this separately and fight it out...

Suddenly, Chu Zhu looked up at the sky, a sharp light flashing in his eyes: "This feeling is!" After a long silence, he chuckled: "So that's what it is!"

With a crisp shattering sound, fiery meteors suddenly appeared in the sky. They hurtled rapidly towards the ground...

Throughout the entire capital city—no, not just the capital city—Chu Zhu silently sensed that most of the Divine Land could see fiery meteors falling from the sky.

Chu Zhu even sensed that some foolish people's first reaction upon seeing the fire meteor was to make a sincere wish and pray.

then……

"...No!" Jia Yanyu's expression changed drastically. Without hesitation, she clasped her hands together, her magnificent robes fluttering even without wind, and clapped her hands towards the sky: "I said, let there be light..."

Instantly, strands of light spread out, like a gradually woven gauze garment, from thin to thick, and finally... holy light spread across the sky and the ground, constructing an absolute defense!

Chu Zhu knew that this was the power of words, Jia Yanyu's original divine ability.

The so-called "power of words" means that words become law.

Within the God-Worshipping Society, the supernatural power of "words" is hailed as one of the most divine powers in the world, closest to God! Regardless of its strength, the God-Worshipping Society is even more fanatical about it than about the power of light.

"...What are you doing!" Master Meng was stunned for a moment, and was about to scold him. Has he gone mad? Doing such a thing in front of the entire capital city, does he want to be killed by the emperor's heavenly blade? Then he realized something, and his pupils contracted as he looked at the cracks that appeared on the thick holy light. Without hesitation, he opened his mouth and exhaled a vast expanse of Confucian energy.

However, it was all in vain. A soft, shattering sound, like breaking glass, rang out, and everything was torn apart...

Those dazzling fireballs crashed to the ground, plunging into the capital.

In an instant, the shockwave caused buildings to collapse, and flames mercilessly consumed the lives of the people...

It only took a single breath to transform what was once a peaceful metropolis into a living hell!

"...How could this be?!" Jia Yanyu stared blankly around, her body trembling slightly. She hadn't managed to save anyone!
"...A-Zhu, why, why!" Ning Linglong suddenly looked at Chu Zhu, her face filled with shock, confusion, and incomprehension. If this was the A-Zhu she remembered... could it be that even A-Zhu was powerless?
“Not saving people is simply meaningless!” Chu Zhu sighed softly. He could “see” that the vast cities and towns of this kingdom beneath his feet were suffering calamities.

Countless cultivators, from official and religious groups to ordinary people, all took action... Chu Zhu even saw, ridiculously, that even the spies of all races lurking in the human world jumped out at this moment, vowing to defend their homeland to the death!
Shaking her head, Chu Zhu looked away.

Around the Imperial Ancestral Temple, terrifying flames spread rapidly, as if they were alive.

The world that everyone could see was completely transformed into a sea of ​​raging fire... but it never spread into the Imperial Ancestral Temple!

From Chu Zhu's perspective, he could see that the dense laws surrounding the ancestral temple were at work, protecting this ancient land!
"Aaaaah!" A roar rang out, the sea of ​​fire was torn apart, and a man dressed in a dragon-and-python robe suddenly rushed in. Flames still burned on the hem of his robe, but he completely ignored them. His gaze swept across the scene, and he suddenly knelt on one knee before Su Bo: "...Your Majesty..."

"...Call me Lord Qian'ai!" Su Bo was actually quite happy, even moved, to see his ancestor, Su Buqun. However, to prevent Chu Zhu from using this as an excuse, he immediately spoke up to stop her.

"...It's good that you're alright! It's good that you're alright." Su Buqun's lips moved slightly, but in the end, he still ignored the way he addressed Su Bo.

"How strange!" A calm voice suddenly rang out. Upon hearing this voice, Su Buqun's brows furrowed abruptly, and a look of confusion appeared in his eyes, because he felt that the voice was very familiar, and it seemed to sound somewhat like...

Then, Su Buqun heard the voice continue unhurriedly: "At first, I thought you would take immediate action! Use your divine power... to suppress the flames!"

"But I didn't expect you to not lift a finger... Is it because you're afraid of expending your already limited strength to protect the people?"

"But that doesn't make sense... Your divine power comes largely from the people. If a large number of people die, you lose your roots, and the chances of losing control... will increase significantly, right?"

"Ultimately, almost all of your power comes from your divine position! Very little comes from your own cultivation... To be honest, this is truly the first time I've seen someone as unique as you! A founding monarch, yet weak in strength... Under such circumstances, you still dare to directly inherit the divine position..."

There was dead silence.

Master Meng looked as if he had seen a ghost, vaguely guessing what was going on. Cold sweat poured down his forehead, and he stiffly turned his head to look in the direction from which the sound came.

"?!" Su Buqun's expression shifted, unable to believe the guess that had surfaced in his mind.

Jia Yanyu frowned, and Ning Linglong held her breath, cautiously asking, "...Master, what exactly is this...?"

Jia Yanyu: "..."

Could she admit that she didn't actually know what was going on? How embarrassing! Jia Yanyu's heart clenched at that moment. It was that feeling again, as if only she had been left out… Why? Both the old eunuch and the old scholar knew!

Although her strength was slightly inferior to the old master, it far surpassed that old eunuch! What on earth is going on...?

The flames of calamity were suddenly torn apart.

One by one, figures slowly emerged from the sea of ​​fire.

"?" Su Bo's body trembled slightly, disbelief, even fear, appeared on his face, his lips turned white, and he stammered, his voice a mixture of emotions: "You...you all..."

"...Emperor Xuanzong! Emperor Wuzong! Emperor Xiaozong! Emperor Shizong..." Jia Yanyu's eyes twitched as she recognized many familiar faces among the group.

But the problem is... not all of these people...

She swallowed hard, her gaze falling on the person at the very front. To stand before all the emperors, this person's identity... seemed to fall into only a few categories...

"Your Majesty!" Su Buqun finally knelt down with a thud, his voice choked with sobs, tears streaming down his face, staring straight at the man at the front.

“…Su Zheng?” Chu Zhu said softly, his eyes gleaming with an inexplicable light, as if he were sighing, lamenting, or simply observing with cold indifference.

"Yes!" Su Zheng smiled, but his completely black pupils showed no emotion, creating a stark contrast with his expressive face. It even gave onlookers the impression that he was a fake.

"As expected!" Chu Zhu looked up at the sky again. Damn it, although he had guessed it before, Buddha dared to take away all his accumulated wealth over the years and deliberately send him here to die... there must be a reason.

In fact, the reason Chu Zhu ignored Z's warnings was to see what kind of amazing thing he could pull off...

But now, the other side has pulled off this top-notch move, which is still giving Chu Zhu a bit of a headache!
"Can you explain this to me?" Chu Zhu rubbed her temples. "By the way, your state seems to have been contaminated, right?"

After all, black pupils were a feature previously seen in Nuwa when she was partially corrupted.

"You couldn't have come in before, right? At first, I wondered if it was from a previous civilization... but now it seems more likely that God imposed some great restriction on us?"

Chu Zhu's words, though seemingly speculative, were actually quite certain: "But why did the restriction open when those bald monks died? If it can be opened simply by their deaths... doesn't that mean they could also open it if they all went to their deaths together normally? Shouldn't you have been in here long ago...? Strange! Can you explain this?"

“Of course,” Su Zheng nodded frankly, “No, Father! How could you be so naive?”

"?"

A brief silence.

Everyone present fell silent...

Su Buqun was initially incredulous when Chu Zhu said that the other side had been corrupted, but seeing that the other side did not refute him, he even felt his worldview shattered and his heart breaking... However, after hearing what the Taizu Emperor, whom he revered, said, he was stunned and fell into deep thought. He picked at his ear.

He looked around and saw that everyone around him had a similar expression. Especially Su Bo... at this moment, he looked dazed, even more incredulous than if he had seen an old sow that had never cultivated fly into space on all fours.

"...?" Su Buqun stared stiffly at Chu Zhu, who had tacitly agreed, then at the Emperor Taizu, who seemed completely unfazed by the corruption. He almost fainted...

No... how could this be?! The young and naive rebel who rebelled and established the Great Chu... was the father of the founding emperor! The true, original Supreme Emperor?!
"I see..." Chu Zhu nodded with a hint of regret. "In that case... I'll just have to forcefully extract the answer from your head!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chu Zhu suddenly raised his palm, and a vast Buddhist chant resounded throughout the heavens and the earth.

"...The Sutra of Saving People!"

(End of this chapter)