My version of Heavenly Dao is too old, so it's full of bugs.

Chapter 702 When Gods Fight, Mortals Suffer; Radiation Pollution from Buddha's Relics
Yang Chan heard the sound she made and couldn't help but cover her mouth.

After hesitating for a long time, he finally couldn't help but tentatively ask:
[Woof! Woof? Woof woof woof woof woof woof!!!]

Damn bastard, what did you do to me?
【You like biting people, huh? Well, now you can bite as much as you want!】

Li Wei snorted coldly, put a biting muzzle on it to prevent it from biting, and then headed south towards Tianfu.

"Come on, I'll take you for a stroll, and while we're at it, we'll check if Maitreya and those people from the Jade Void Palace have left any hidden dangers in Tianfu County."

After all, they are Buddhist bodhisattvas and immortals.

Even a single border crossing could leave behind extremely dangerous hidden dangers, so Li Wei had to check it out personally.

As for the world giants
This thing's body is just too huge, making it too difficult to move around. In addition, it burns hundreds of billions of dollars every second, even if Li Wei had a mine, he couldn't afford to burn it all.

So Li Wei dismissed the World Giant and simply led the Tianfu army downstream, heading south.

A vast army followed, the waves raging like fury, and crouching beside them was Yang Chan, the fairy who loved to roll her eyes.
Li Wei couldn't help but feel moved and suddenly said: "Dogs bark in the deep alleys, roosters crow atop the mulberry trees; in just a few days, peach blossoms will be heavy with rain."

Heavenly Dao 0.81 immediately chimed in, "Master, what a fine poem! It couldn't be more fitting for this occasion."

Although Yang Chan couldn't hear the voice of Heavenly Dao 0.81, she couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of phlegm in disgust:
【Pooh! 】

[Damn bastard! ]

【I am Yang Jian's younger sister, the mother of the Great Sage Equaling Heaven, the Third Holy Mother! Can't you cherish me a little?!】

Li Wei shrugged: "I've fought tooth and nail for so many days, shouldn't I get to enjoy myself a bit?"

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Yang Chan was speechless.

But not the Celestial Hound or anything like that!
Absolutely not!

Just as the Lord of Chan Cave Heaven was being ambiguous and unsure how to refuse...

Li Wei's body suddenly stiffened.

Yang Chan instinctively raised her head, staring at Him with wide, round eyes in fear, terrified of being attacked by Him.

But Li Wei had lost interest; he just stared at the riverbank with a gloomy expression, a hint of murderous intent flashing in his eyes.

Faint wails reached my ears.

Yang Chan quickly stood up, looked up and gazed into the distance, and then saw a ruin filled with wailing cries.

Is this... the South City?

Since ancient times, there has always been a large city next to a great river, and this southern city is one of the largest cities in the southern part of Tianfu County, with a daily population of at least 300 million.

And now,
A giant footprint appeared in the center of the city, leveling the once most prosperous areas and crushing countless cultivators to death.

Along the edges of the footprints, countless cracks spread, tearing apart the entire city and causing countless buildings to collapse.

The once bustling southern city has been transformed into a desolate wasteland.

Because so many people died, it even triggered the laws of reincarnation in the underworld, opening a small section of the Yellow Springs Road on the ground.

In such a situation, countless ghost messengers and cultivators should appear to help collect the soul of the deceased.

But at this moment, all that can be seen is the Yellow Springs, not the ghost messengers.

Why?

Because that footprint was radiating a strong golden light of Buddhist energy, the ghost messengers were too frightened to come out.

This is the supernatural power of divine foot, one of the six supernatural powers in Buddhism. It is said that Maitreya left this footprint!!

Yang Chan hadn't cried when she was sobbing, but now her eyes welled up with tears and she clenched her hands tightly.

[That damned bald monk! He actually slaughtered innocent civilians in my Tianfu County?!]

[Perhaps not a massacre]

Li Wei followed the direction the footprints came from and saw a second footprint; following the direction the footprints went, he saw a third footprint.

The three footprints are exactly the same distance apart and form a straight line.

This is enough to show that Maitreya never deliberately changed his footing, and Nancheng was just unlucky to be in His footing.

Looking at the people suffering in the southern city, Yang Chan couldn't help but laugh bitterly:

[Hehehe, to the Buddha, a city is nothing but an ant, completely insignificant.]

[How could I not notice? It's just that Maitreya has a more important mission to fulfill!]

As the saying goes, when gods fight, mortals suffer.

It's hard to say whether it's a blessing or a curse that these mortals and countless gods and Buddhas live in the same era.

Li Wei sighed and asked telepathically, "How's the brainwashing going?"

The Heavenly Dao 0.81 said somewhat wearily, "Master, we have already cleansed three gods, and there are still about 300,000 cultivators left."

The human brain is far too complex, so even with the authority of the Heavenly Dao, it is difficult to complete brainwashing in a short period of time.

Therefore, the Heavenly Dao 0.81 had already risked its life to deal with so many people.

【Then send all these people to disaster relief!】

After dispatching his rescue troops, Li Wei suddenly looked up at the downstream section of the river:
The sage is ruthless, treating the people like straw dogs!

To ensure the return of the Buddha's relics after his Nirvana, Maitreya will not waste a single moment, and will not stop even if he senses the presence of city lights. Therefore, Nancheng is the first, but certainly not the last. Next, we must speed things up; save as many as we can.

Li Wei was about to leave

But at that moment, a deafening roar suddenly echoed from the ruins of the southern city.
A boy covered in blood and tears flew up from the ruins, followed by countless colorful lights that condensed into a special word in mid-air and shone on his head.

[Doctoral degree!!]

Does this mean that the child has passed the exam and attained a celestial position?
Li Wei's body stiffened involuntarily, his eyes filled with surprise and disbelief.

Although this child seems to have strong test-taking abilities and high scores, he shouldn't have met the requirements for ascending to immortality, right?

How did He pass the celestial test?

at this time,

The laws of the Cleansing Life Orthodox Sect suddenly became active, and actually became entangled with the Buddha light in Maitreya's footprint, digging out the negative emotions left behind by countless people before their deaths from the ruins!
Pain, despair, resentment, fear.
These negative emotions somehow interacted with the Buddha's light, coalescing into countless phantoms that suddenly lifted the boy up.

Upon seeing this, Li Wei's pupils contracted involuntarily. He couldn't help but move closer, staring intently at the figure shrouded in Buddhist light, and uttered a soul-searching question.

【What's this? 】

As the master of the pantheon of the Cleansing Life Orthodox Church, Li Wei was completely baffled by the changes at this moment.

He saw only the myriad cultivators gathered in a staircase, like a high platform, lifting up the young man and bestowing upon him pure divinity.

All that could be seen were countless souls giving their scores to that boy, forging a path to immortality for him.

All I saw was...
Countless causes and effects!!

A brush sound.

The boy's eyes, however, were filled with a ferocious glint as he roared at the sky like a wild beast:
[Thief Buddha!!!]

[Did you see that? You didn't kill me, you didn't kill the civilians in the south of the city. They're all sobbing... they're all holding me up!]

The Buddha's light grew even brighter, and it actually carried countless figures into the boy's body, completely elevating him to the status of a human immortal.

Boom!
The great tribulation of ascension poured down, instantly engulfing the boy's figure; even Li Wei could not see him clearly.

But there's no need to look anymore, because He knows that is...
The Heavenly Dao 0.81 solemnly declared: [This should be the radiant power leaking from the Buddha's Nirvana relics!]

What a terrifying existence!

Clearly, only one relic remained, and it was still in the hands of Maitreya Buddha.
But it still possesses an incredibly powerful ability to change the world, even affecting Li Wei's ongoing ascension exam?

Li Wei carefully sensed the rhythm of the Cleansing Life Orthodox Church's laws in the air, his tone revealing undisguised reverence:

As the saying goes, it's all about timing and fate.

[With a single stomp, Maitreya ended the lives of hundreds of millions in the southern city, and sowed the seeds of terrible karma for Buddhism.]

[Are the relics from Buddha's Nirvana an instinctive way of averting disaster for Buddhism?]

Even Heaven's Way 0.81 cannot answer this question, but it knows:

Fate is unpredictable, and cause and effect are mysterious. Even a being of Buddha's stature, with just a sip or a bite, can have unimaginable and enormous consequences.

Perhaps this being has already begun to make its move.

Upon hearing this, a flash of murderous intent crossed Li Wei's eyes: "That boy might be a pawn He's using against me."

I don't know, and it's impossible for me to know.

Li Wei glanced at the fallen beings in the ruins of the southern city, then at the ascending youth, and suddenly smiled:

Interesting! Let's give Him a chance to grow!

He ascended to immortality through exams, yet he received enlightenment from Buddha and also experienced the tragic fate of a demonic prodigy whose entire family was wiped out. If he grows up, he'll surely be an interesting character.

Master, just in case!

[Haha, I may be cautious, but I'm not a serial killer, okay? Of course! If this guy ever dares to lay a hand on me again, don't blame me for grinding him to dust.]

Li Wei took one last look at the boy, then turned and rushed towards the southern part of Tianfu County.

For some reason, he had a strong intuition that this was by no means the only person affected by the Buddha's Nirvana relics!

As expected.

As Li Wei continued south, he saw two more cities that had been trampled down by Maitreya.

Although no more top-scoring students who ascended to immortality were born among them, there were still traces of the Buddha's Nirvana relics, and some of them were even saved by the Buddha's light.

Moreover, Li Wei gradually noticed traces of the Li Yuxu Palace.

【Something's wrong! 】

If the Buddha's relics only leaked some radiation after his Nirvana, Yuxu Palace probably wouldn't have kept people in these places specifically to inspect them.

They should be busy hunting down Maitreya.

Just as Li Wei was thinking this, Heavenly Dao 0.81 suddenly tensed up and said with some surprise, "Master, I think I just sensed the aura of Bodhisattva Wenzhu."

What?! Are you sure?!

Heavenly Dao 0.81 said nervously, "Although it was only a fleeting moment, I'm absolutely certain I wasn't mistaken."

Li Wei frowned, looking around. As he looked, a chill ran down his spine: [Could they be planning to play dirty tricks?]

(End of this chapter)