Chapter 128

You thrust out a palm, and the illusory, boundless great hand surged straight toward the True God Core of Fozu's Broken Eye.

At the same time, the Heavenly Dome exploded with a boom.

Heavenly Dao Tribulation Thunder crashed down at this moment.

Fozu's Broken Eye clasped its hands together, and rolling golden light poured down, actually forcibly severing the Law Hand you had manifested.

"So this is your confidence?"

With Fozu's Broken Eye's own strength, it could not possibly block you.

But Duanmou cleverly utilized the power of Heavenly Dao Law and Merit, barely managing to contend with you.

All Three Teachings cultivate Merit and Fortune.

Heavenly Dao Merit and Heavenly Dao Law combined, and at this moment even more so, becoming Fozu's Broken Eye's lifesaving talisman.

Adding the restraint of the Tribulation Thunder, you could not kill Duanmou for a time.

You immediately shifted the battlefield, fixing your gaze on another True God, Chimeng.

The Chimeng Clan is a race rarer than the dragon race, its strength extraordinarily formidable, and in the old era it already dominated a star domain.

Unlike the dragon race, the Chimeng Clan accepts all half-bloods, even spending resources to help half-blood descendants return to their ancestors, granting them inheritance.

Thus, in this era the Chimeng Clan also gave birth to a True God.

Unfortunately, Chimeng made the wrong choice.

At this moment you had no scruples; when the enemy came, you could kill one if you could.

"Duanmou! Save me!"

Chimeng called out the name of Fozu, evidently the two had already reached an agreement in secret.

Duanmou, however, ignored Chimeng's plea for help, merely continually gathering the power of Heavenly Dao Merit, his eyes blazing as he fixed them on the one hundred and eight Hong Lian Petals swirling around you.

You understood Duanmou's intention.

The other party wished to purify the sin on the Hong Lian together with the Heavenly Dao, thereby gaining more Heavenly Dao Merit.

Even using Heavenly Dao Merit's power to step into the Wangxian Realm.

You felt this was a viable path; its essence resembled the Heavenly Dao Divine Office, but with greater freedom.

The Heavenly Dao Divine Office causes all beings to fully return to divinity; as long as one is recognized by the Heavenly Dao Divine Office, its overseer can be forcibly raised to the Wangxian Realm.

By contrast, taking Heavenly Dao Merit as the path of cultivation is far more difficult.

Yet it is simpler than relying on one's own strength to obtain the Immortal Divine Power blessing from the Chaos Universe.

Besides Yang Zu, who at the dawn of the New Heaven and Earth stood alone among the Heavenly Pride, the remaining great powers of the Three Teachings mostly walk the Merit and Immortal Gazing path.

"Merit and Immortal Gazing, your calculations are not bad."

You looked at Fozu's Broken Eye, "Chimeng joining this battle is also within your calculations, right?"

Upon hearing your words, Chimeng's face turned grim.

Presumably the other party also understood the meaning of your words.

Once you kill the True God Realm Chimeng, the karma you will bear will be heavier.

The Heavenly Dao originally does not protect powerful cultivators, but now you stand in opposition to the Heavenly Dao; any of your actions that defy heaven and earth will only add karma.

The more Fozu's Broken Eye can obtain from this, the greater its Merit power will be.

"This venerable one will slay you!"

Chimeng flew into a rage and lunged at Duanmou to kill him.

You coldly watched this scene, then struck again, suppressing Chimeng and shattering his True God Core with a single palm.

A True God thus fell.

Fozu's Broken Eye stared in astonishment.

You laughed and said, "Don't you understand why I saw through your scheme yet still did this? Not letting you and Chimeng fight like two dogs?"

After a brief moment of surprise, Fozu's Broken Eye sneered and replied, "Under the suppression of Heavenly Dao Law, what can you still do?"

"I will grant you a great fortune."

You disliked Duanmou's demeanor and decided to trick him once.

"What do you mean by that?"

Duanmou's expression bore doubt.

You did not answer him, but instead looked toward the rolling Tribulation Clouds.

You again made a great vow: "I wish to purify the one hundred and eight Hong Lian Petals, scatter them throughout the world, protect the weak of Mortal Dust, punish injustice in the world, suppress unwarranted oppression, and balance the way of good and evil."

The Heavenly Dao's will did not respond.

Duanmou sneered, "Your karma is monstrous; how could the Heavenly Dao answer your power to protect the weak of Mortal Dust?"

You spoke again: "I wish the sin of the Hong Lian that destroys the world to be added to my body and soul."

Boom—rumble—rumble!

When you made this vow, the Heavenly Dao's will finally responded.

Duanmou looked at you, his expression uneasy, and asked, "What exactly do you intend to do?"

All the sin of the Hong Lian added to your body will utterly annihilate you, leaving not even a trace of remnant soul.

Actually, by this moment Lin Chuan's primary consciousness had already become strongly affected by the dream's reincarnation.

In a situation of certain death, the interference of the primary consciousness became even more frenzied.

Lin Chuan was not afraid of death.

Anyway, his real-world self would not suffer much negative impact, so what was there to fear?

The only pity is that there are still many things not yet understood, and this dream reincarnation will soon end.

In such a vast world, I never even met my two wives Mo Sangyu and Yun Zhi Yi, and Tu Shan Jiao Jiao was not present either.

After returning to reality, I must find a way to pull my wives into the same dream reincarnation for a bit of fun.

Otherwise, once Ye Xue arrives…

What awaits him is a deadly choice.

Lin Chuan's final major interaction opportunity has been left to his daughter Lin Qingfan, to overturn her Heaven's Mandate and make two great vows.

This time can only be seen as going along with the trend.

【Endless calamity upon you, the Karma Prison will bind you, you are firmly locked by the Heavenly Dao.】

【But you laughed.】

【Your smile is teasing, gazing at Fozu's Broken Eye.】

【The 108 petals of the World-Destroying Hong Lian turn into countless red specks of light, falling toward the Buddhist Orthodoxy's domain.】

【"You!"】

【Fozu's Broken Eye's expression drastically changes, gloomy as water.】

【"You don't like merit? I'll help you once, but I don't know if you can handle this endless merit—can your Buddhism withstand it!"】

【You burst into wild laughter.】

【Your idea is simple: you wish to use the Blood Lotus to undermine the foundation that Buddhism has laid in the Mortal Dust.】

【Why do the Mortal Dust pray to gods and buddhas?】

【It is because, when one is weak, they hope to receive protection from the strong.】

【Only after the Three Teachings' cultivators have protected the Mortal Dust for many years, forming sufficient influence, can they gain the faith of countless Mortal Dust beings.】

【To undermine such faith is not difficult.】

【When mortal beings gain the ability to solve problems on their own, their faith in gods and buddhas will continually decline.】

【The Hong Lian you have scattered throughout the Buddhist Orthodoxy can achieve this.】

【The difference between it and the Lotus Seed Descending as White Lotus is that the White Lotus protects the entirety of the Mortal Dust, and where the White Lotus resides, it will block the invasion of evil supernatural powers.】

【But the Mortal Dust also has its three-six-nine ranks; compared to the supernatural power that slaughters cities and destroys worlds at a move, the three-six-nine ranks within the Mortal Dust belong to the Mortal Dust's own order, which the Three Teachings rarely interfere with.】

【The existence of the Hong Lian will purify this phenomenon, exchanging blood for blood, punishing evil with evil.】

【Just as you vowed in your Great Vow—to protect the weak, punish injustice in the world, and suppress unwarranted oppression.】

【You, who once transformed to mortal, you who once wandered the mortal realm, know that such power will not be welcomed by many in the mortal world.】

【But you also know that someone longs for its appearance!】

【For you, this is enough.】

【At the moment your Great Vow is fulfilled, you have truly reached the end of your life.】