The Demon King, reborn in Japan as a monk

"I ask you, what method do you practice, and what path have you attained?" Ishihara Akira continued to press.

The monk remained silent.

Unfortunately, the so-called "Buddha in this very body," while called a Buddha, is essentially just a mummy and doesn't even qualify for inclusion in proper Buddhist scriptures! Moreover, in terms of its evil nature, it pales in comparison to another form of practice recorded in Buddhist scriptures—the charnel ground!

At least the practice in the charnel grounds also carries the meaning of cutting flesh to feed all living beings and all things, and contains the core Buddhist thought of universal salvation.

What is the Buddha in this very life?

Besides leaving behind a mummy for believers to worship, even the process of becoming a Buddha is extremely painful—for the first three years, one can only eat some nuts or seeds to remove fat from the body, which is not only hungry but also extremely painful.

Then they were forced to eat sawdust and wood, and drink a poisonous tea until they were half-dead. Then the monks and disciples buried them in a pre-prepared pit, leaving only a bell beside them to communicate with the outside world. The bell was pulled periodically to alert the outside world to whether the buried person was alive or dead.

Only after the person inside has completely died will the monks open the tomb, dig out the monk, and then, depending on the specific circumstances, sculpt a golden statue or sculpture and place it in the main hall of the temple for believers to worship.

To put it bluntly, it's a cruel way to satisfy oneself.

Even if one becomes a Buddha, it is merely a Buddha of an external path, not a Buddha of the true Dharma.

Before Ishihara Sho, the true Buddha of the Dharma, Mara, the patriarch of the heretical sects, is the ancestor of the heretical Buddhist lineage. There is really not much dignity to speak of in front of the source of Pratyekabuddha.

"How dare those who practice heretical and unorthodox methods and cultivate heterodox paths question and punish me before this Buddha?"

After speaking, the boundless halo behind Ishihara camphor shone brightly, and countless phantoms of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Vajras began to emerge in the void, forcefully transforming the phase space before him into a state resembling the Buddhist paradise of Mount Sumeru. With lowered brows and downcast eyes, he coldly gazed at the monks and abbots among the fighting forces...

In the extraordinary world, under extraordinary rules, even a gaze possesses power.

So the next moment, the monk felt a sudden weight on his body, his knees buckled, and he involuntarily knelt down.

"boom."

"The abbot?!" the others exclaimed.

“You lack great wisdom, courage, and fearlessness, and you have no compassion in your heart, nor the resolve to sacrifice yourself for righteousness. You are truly not a member of our Buddhist community. Now, in the name of the Master of All Dharmas and Lord of All Buddhas, I hereby decree to strip you of your Buddhist status and remove you from your Buddhahood. Do you accept this?” Ishihara Sho ignored the others and continued to speak to the monk.

"Disciple... is not convinced!" Monk Zhen remained silent for a while before suddenly supporting himself on one leg, then looked up and roared at the Tathagata transformed from Ishihara Sho.

"You call me a demon, so what? You dare to use the name of Buddha to carry out judgments, who do you think you are!"

After saying this, the monk stood up completely from the ground.

His aura surged forth, causing the entire phase space to tremble.

"So, you're going to disobey orders?" Ishihara Sho asked slowly, still with an inscrutable air.

"So what if it is?" the monk sneered.

"Subdue!" Without wasting words, Ishihara Sho immediately used a technique similar to the Dharma of Heaven and Earth, making his body extremely large, and then pressed down with his palm, just like the real Buddha suppressing Sun Wukong, pressing down on the monk.

“I am not a chimera,” the monk shouted.

"Hey, old monk, what do you mean by that!" Chimera said, displeased.

The monk did not speak, and the concepts of right and wrong, up and down in the world were quickly reversed. Even Ishihara Akira's hand, which was originally pointing towards the monk, turned halfway and slapped towards the sky.

“I’m not the same person I used to be.” Ishihara Sho chuckled. With a thought, the rules of phase returned to the state everyone was most familiar with—up, down, down, left, right, left, right, and then his palm still slapped towards the monk without any politeness.

Chapter 585 Helping You Become a Demon

Heavenly Demon, Reborn as a Monk in Japan

Instantly, the monk's expression changed.

As an old demon god who has lived for many years, although not as long as Nephthys—who has lived for more than 4000 years, he has lived for more than 500 years from the end of the Sengoku period in Japan to the present day. He knows very well how difficult it is for a new demon god to fully master the power of phase!

After all, phase is an open force, the operating system of the world's rules. The demon god is the operator. A newcomer, or a computer novice, can easily learn to use a computer, but editing programs on a computer is not something you can do just by knowing how to click on a window.

It requires a long period of learning and practice.

It took the monk quite a while to fully grasp the power of phases and achieve the ability to change the rules with a single thought.

And it's really not short, at least the units are measured in years.

But Ishihara Sho is doing well. In just a few days, he has become so proficient in using the phase rules, just like an old demon god. How could this not alarm him and other demon gods?

In this way, it would be impossible for them to use the power of phase to restrain Ishihara Sho...

Because phases are public and their nature is the same, the only difference lies in the user's degree of control over them. If the difference is too great, then the power of phases can indeed be used to suppress a certain demon god. However, if the degree of control on both sides is the same—for example, right now, when one side has just changed the way the rules are presented, and the other side has a corresponding means of correction to respond—trying to use phases to fight back is like two children pulling on a rope, which is just endless nonsense.

Therefore, at times like these, the magic one cultivated in life becomes important.

However, the abbot still lacked confidence in this matter...

There's no other reason than that Ishihara Sho's performance was too unique—he killed Chimera in just a few moves, and now he has merged with the Buddhist Kingdom, which has rendered some of his methods ineffective. In addition, there's Ishihara Sho's current operation of impersonating Tathagata...

Everything was a reminder, and it had even affected the effectiveness of his demonic methods on Ishihara Sho, leaving him with little confidence in defeating Ishihara Sho.

Even so, the monk couldn't just admit defeat now. As long as his phase remained, he wouldn't die easily. With a thought, countless clods of earth suddenly surged out of the void, like iron filings attracted by a large magnet. They rapidly enveloped the monk's body, growing larger and larger until finally, as if awakening from a slumber, he stretched out his body and transformed into a giant stone giant, raising his hand to collide with Ishihara Sho's large hand.

"Boom!"

The air vibrated, and the giant's hand, which the monk had gathered using demonic means, immediately collapsed under Ishihara Shō's immense power, leaving it with only one arm. Then, Ishihara Shō's attack continued relentlessly, pressing down on the monk.

The monk remained unmoved, as he was completely hidden inside the stone giant's body. Even if he were moved, no outsider could see it. However, six pitch-black vortexes, resembling black holes, suddenly appeared near the stone giant's waist. They then spun rapidly, unleashing a powerful and peculiar force that collided with Ishihara Sho's palm once again.

"Boom!"

This time, Ishihara's attack was blocked, and not only was it blocked, but it also caused a slight change in the color of Ishihara's face.

"The power of the Six Paths?" Ishihara Akira exclaimed in surprise.

Then the enormous body stretched out and stood on the ground, taking a stance. Before the monk could unleash the power of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, it threw another punch.

With a roar of boundless blood and qi and a rampage of vast spirit, a more realistic image of the Six Paths of Reincarnation immediately appeared in the void. Images of gods, demons, yakshas, ​​and monsters surged out from the reincarnation channels, like an army of monsters or a burning legion, rushing towards the Six Paths of Reincarnation created by the monk.

Gods, demons, yakshas, ​​and monsters entered the monk's six realms of existence, and silence fell once more...

However, this did not last long. Soon, with the stone giant exploding on its own, countless demons and monsters rushed out from the re-exposed body of the monk, like a hundred ghosts descending to earth, and rampaged around.

Upon seeing this, the other demons' expressions changed, and they all took action to suppress all the demons and monsters that rushed in front of them.

"No!" At this moment, the monk, who was not dead, suddenly let out a desperate roar.

"Since you dare to be my enemy, you must be prepared to lose everything." Knowing what had happened, Ishihara Sho slowly shrank his body, returning to his normal form, and said calmly to the monk who was emanating a strong aura of despair.

Before the monk could speak again, Ishihara Akira suddenly pointed at him, and the monk froze in place.

The other demons, unaware of the situation, maintained a tacit agreement and did not intervene in the battle between Ishihara Sho and the monk.

Just like when Ishihara Sho fought the Chimera before.

……

After a long while, the monk suddenly knelt down and prostrated himself, saying, "This humble monk pays respects to the Buddha Tathagata."

"Master Monk!?" The other demons exclaimed in astonishment upon seeing this.

"With Buddha before you, why do you not bow?" The monk straightened his upper body, still kneeling, and turned to the demons beside him, shouting loudly.

"Master Monk, have you gone mad?!" the demons questioned, their disbelief growing ever stronger.

"What did you do to him?" The Empress frowned and asked Ishihara Akira, another party involved in the scene.

"Having encountered the true Buddha and glimpsed the true Dharma, you will repent and turn over a new leaf, taking refuge in me. Is there any problem with that?" Ishihara Akira asked with a smile.

That's what they say, but the reality is...

It was merely that Ishihara Sho used his own knock-off version of the Six Paths Reincarnation Fist to suppress the Sangju's Six Paths power. In the process, through the connection of cause and effect, he found the Sangju's inner conviction—the world he wanted to save—his ideal kingdom, which he had built in the phase. Then, demons descended, slaughtered in a frenzy, and directly destroyed the entire ideal kingdom, shattering the Sangju's perfect state of mind and causing him to fall into demonic possession. This gave Ishihara Sho an opportunity to use the methods of demonic Buddha to convert him into his own believer.

In other words, from the moment the monk woke up, he was no longer the demonic monk, but the incarnation of Ishihara Sho's demonic disciple!

"The abbot?" Upon hearing this, the Empress gave Ishihara Sho a deep look before turning her gaze back to the abbot.

“The Buddha is right,” the monk said solemnly as he rose.

After saying that, he walked up behind Ishihara Akira and stood down, just like a disciple or follower.

Chapter 586 Siege

Heavenly Demon, Reborn as a Monk in Japan

However, this attempt failed to blow open the city gate!

The reason is simple: the city gates of Dadu were covered with sheet metal. Although it was thin, it was still much more resistant to burning flames and the impact of explosions than a plain wooden city gate. But it didn't matter. As the saying goes, if a city gate can't be blown open, it's simply because the firepower is insufficient. If one attempt doesn't work, then try a few more. With the smelting technology of the current era, we can produce the steel of later generations.

So after a moment of surprise, Ishihara Sho decisively regrouped his power and directly used flames to condense a fire-like humanoid figure behind him, similar to a Dharma image or a substitute. Then he threw a punch, and the fire-like humanoid figure behind him fired countless fireballs at the city gate like a machine gun, amidst strange cries of "Ora ora ora..."

"Boom boom boom boom..."

This time, even the iron sheet on the city gate couldn't withstand it. After a few moments, it shot out in all directions along with the shattered wooden gate, revealing the street scene inside the capital.

Of course, there were no residents, only Yuan Dynasty soldiers who had been waiting there for the enemy to attack...

However, Ishihara Akira did not choose to rush into the city gate and wreak havoc. Instead, he waved his arm, and a huge wall of fire appeared in the city gate, enveloping the not-completely-collapsed city gate and blocking the inside and outside of Dadu in place of the city gate.

They also burned the remaining dilapidated city gates to ashes.

Then Ishihara Akira sat down in front of the firewall at the city gate, looking in the direction of the Ming army camp, waiting for the arrival of the next batch of soldiers.

Unfortunately, the Yuan Dynasty did not want Ishihara Akira to wait so peacefully. In just a moment—when the Ming army left the camp and was on its way here—the wall of fire behind him seemed to be controlled by someone. It suddenly split apart out of thin air and turned into two huge fiery hands, which slammed down on Ishihara Akira again.

"Ok?"

Ishihara was somewhat surprised, but he still inhaled and exhaled, freezing the attacking fiery hand with a visible burst of cold air. Then he controlled the frozen hand to shatter, turning it into countless ice shards that disappeared into the air.

Then, the figures of more than a dozen martial arts masters and even Tantric lamas appeared in the city gate, which was no longer blocked by city gates and firewalls, and came into Ishihara Akira's sight.

It also made him understand why the wall of fire he had created suddenly turned against him—

Among the dozen or so newly arrived martial arts masters, six were from the Ruyang Prince's Mansion and were subordinates of Zhao Min.

Yes, they were Zhao Min's subordinates, and servants who had cultivated the Eternal Heaven Divine Art. Following the secret guidance of Ishihara Akira's clone left by Zhao Min—Eternal Heaven Canglang—they divided the Eternal Heaven Divine Art into six parts. Although they all cultivated the Eternal Heaven Divine Art, the forms of power they wielded were different for each of them.

Some cultivate the power of the Fire God, some the power of the Water God, some the power of the Thunder God, and others the power of the Heaven God, the Earth God, and the Blood God, using these to achieve the powerful effects of the Eternal Heaven Divine Art.

The fire wall that Ishihara Sho had previously released was countered and controlled by the cultivator of the Fire God's power.

Then, the six servants and warriors of the Ruyang Prince's Mansion who had cultivated the Longevity Heaven Divine Art instantly entered a divine power state. One of them had his body surrounded by swirling clouds and entered a state of divine power. The superpower he gained was very simple: to sense changes in celestial phenomena and to have a certain influence on them.

For example, if a cultivator of the Thunder God's power needs rainy weather, he can use the special abilities of cultivators of the Fire God's power and Water God's power to create a suitable rainy weather environment, allowing the cultivator of the Thunder God's power to receive the greatest blessing.