Chapter 281

The Hell of Knives.

Jiang Jian walked within it, his entire body protected by the golden light of the Wang Dian, remaining unbothered by the intrusion of karmic force.

Between his pupils.

A frost-white vortex emerged.

Karmic fire.

The next second.

Jiang Jian stopped his footsteps, looked at the sinful ghost not far in front of him, and flicked his finger lightly.

A wisp of searing white flame emerged silently.

The karmic fire swept over the sinful ghost without a sound.

In the blink of an eye.

It absorbed all of its sinful karmic force, leaving nothing behind!

The source of the karmic fire increased by a trace, to an imperceptible degree.

As for that sinful ghost, its sins were entirely wiped away, and it returned to its appearance from when it was alive, looking itself up and down with an expression of extreme shock!

"Many thanks, Wang Dian!"

The sinful ghost came to its senses, flopped down onto its knees, tears and snot streaming down its face, and kowtowed to Jiang Jian incessantly, "My sins have dissipated; I can finally be reincarnated!"

A Yaksha walked over quickly, first bowing respectfully to Jiang Jian, and then taking the sinful ghost into the air to fly toward the reincarnation vortex.

Jiang Jian's expression was calm.

As his thoughts stirred.

That wisp of karmic fire split into two, then into three.

In an instant, it transformed into thousands upon thousands of tiny streams of light, surging and sweeping toward the boundless sinful ghosts of the Hell of Knives!

Boom!

As soon as these fragmented flames of karmic fire appeared, they roared and swept in all directions at a terrifying speed!

Like a spark starting a prairie fire, they rose up to the heavens!

Wherever they passed, all the sinful karmic force on the sinful ghosts was absorbed clean, leaving not a single bit behind!

In the blink of an eye.

The scarlet Hell of Knives had transformed into a field of frost-white!

More and more sinful ghosts had their sinful karmic force absorbed by the karmic fire, returning to their appearances from when they were alive.

With Jiang Jian as the center, these sinful ghosts knelt down one after another, bowing to Jiang Jian, their hearts filled with reverence and gratitude.

Soon.

These sinful ghosts, cleansed of their sins, were taken away by Yaksha ghost soldiers to be reincarnated!

At this moment, as the absorption of karmic force increased.

Those thousands of fragmented karmic flames burned fiercely in the hell, the fire growing ever more intense!

Every wisp of frost-white flame, thin as a hair, had grown into a pillar of fire as thick as a cartwheel!

Dense pillars of searing white fire swept madly through the Hell of Knives!

Endless karmic force returned to them!

Although the Hell of Knives was vast and boundless, containing billions of sinful ghosts.

These searing white karmic fires surged exponentially.

Gradually swallowing the entire Hell of Knives!

"Reporting to Wang Dian! The little ghosts are short-handed!"

A Yaksha descended and knelt before Jiang Jian, his tone urgent, "There are too many sinful ghosts waiting to be reincarnated; the billions of little ghosts are not enough!"

Jiang Jian glanced at him without speaking.

Instead, he flicked his sleeves and took a step, his figure disappearing directly from where he stood!

The next second.

Before the reincarnation vortex.

Jiang Jian walked out from the void, looking at the black and white vortex before him with a calm expression.

He was waiting.

Waiting for his karmic fire to devour all the sinful karmic force in the Hell of Knives!

In the story world of the "Ksitigarbha Ten Wheels Sutra."

Karmic fire is something elusive and intangible.

Even the heavens and the various Buddhas and Bodhisattvas cannot actively control this object.

In their dealings, they are even more cautious.

Striving to avoid being entangled by karmic force and falling into hell.

Yet here, Jiang Jian is able to actively control the karmic fire!

In this story world.

Controlling karmic fire is a completely inconceivable thing!

Besides this.

Jiang Jian also discovered.

Only where his heart senses and his eyes reach does this world become clear.

Further away, it is a blur, as if it hadn't been loaded at all.

Wherever he goes, that place becomes incomparably real.

After he leaves.

The places he once passed through become blurry again!

Precisely because of this.

Jiang Jian came before the reincarnation vortex, standing above the Hell of Knives.

Every moment, he stared at the karmic fire raging within, preventing it from slipping out of his sense.

As time passed.

The vast Hell of Knives gradually became clear!

The frost-white fire pillars, originally the size of cartwheels, had long since transformed into a boundless sea of searing white fire, sweeping through every corner of the Hell of Knives, devouring everything indiscriminately!

Crack!

A clear, crisp sound came from the depths of his soul!

Jiang Jian's heart trembled.

As he sensed carefully, he immediately knew.

His source of karmic fire had received terrifying nourishment and had actually improved!

Although the karmic force of the Hell of Knives was simulated.

It was, after all, simulated using the divine aura remaining in the wonder realm.

In essence, it was not entirely false!

Even like the Ksitigarbha monk's staff.

After being brought to the real world.

Its heaven-reaching power remained only one in ten thousand.

But for the karmic fire, which had never had any progress, it was already quite considerable!

The real source of karmic fire burned fiercely in the depths of his soul.

The original frost-white flame gradually changed color, actually transforming into a terrifying blue-white!

Its rank had truly been elevated!

At the same time.

The Hell of Knives.

The sinful karmic force of billions of sinful ghosts was completely cleared!

Yaksha ghost soldiers came and went, exhausted, sending those sinful ghosts who had been cleansed of their sins to the reincarnation vortex to be reborn!

The searing white sea of fire that filled the hell suddenly condensed!

The next second, it gathered rapidly toward the center.

Finally, it transformed into a wisp of blue-white flame and quietly dissipated.

Below the reincarnation vortex.

Jiang Jian lowered his gaze, looking at his fingers.

A wisp of twisted flame appeared.

As it burned quietly, the surrounding space collapsed silently, revealing pitch-black cracks.

"Not stained by sin, not tainted by karma."

"This is the true karmic fire."

Jiang Jian flicked his robe, and the blue-white flame quietly dissipated.

"There is one more thing."

His eyes showed contemplation, and he took a step.

His figure disappeared again.

When he appeared again.

Jiang Jian had already landed below the portal of the Hell of Knives.

Here.

It was still continuously sending sinful ghosts.

"In the story."

"Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva pities all living beings and is willing to wither away at Yinshan, not attaining Buddhahood."

"Such a Bodhisattva should have become a Buddha."

As his emotions surged.

Jiang Jian endured the intense pain in his soul and forcibly cut off a wisp of the karmic fire source!

This cutting off was a true separation!

Jiang Jian intended.

To let this wisp of karmic fire source remain forever before the Hell of Knives.

So that any sinful ghost, before entering the Hell of Knives, would have its sinful karmic force instantly washed away and be sent directly to reincarnation!

In this way.

The Hell of Knives would truly be empty!

It was just that.

The improvement the karmic fire had just received was too great.

Even if a small amount was cut off now.

Compared to before, the progress was still immense, completely incomparable.

That wisp of blue-white flame circled around, stayed before the Hell of Knives, twisted and changed, and finally transformed into a giant gate of karmic fire!

Now.

One only needed to wait for the remaining sinful ghosts to be taken away from the Hell of Knives and enter the reincarnation vortex.

The great vow made by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva would immediately come true!

After all.

The Hell of Knives is one of the eighteen levels of hell in name and reality.

The "hell" spoken of by the Bodhisattva.

Although it was not specified which level of hell it referred to, or if it referred to all hells.

But if the Hell of Knives were truly empty.

In a certain sense, it would have perfectly achieved the vision of "hell not being empty."

As time passed.

Jiang Jian seemed to perceive.

An indescribable aura coming from the back of Yinshan.

"Wheel-Turning King."

The voice of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva suddenly entered his ears.

Jiang Jian's gaze tightened, and the scene before him changed abruptly.

In the blink of an eye, he had left the Hell of Knives and returned to the back of Yinshan, before the Bodhisattva's seat.

The Bodhisattva was dressed in mysterious black Buddhist robes, walked down from the seat, and looked at Jiang Jian with eyes that held neither sorrow nor joy.

"This karmic fire is not a means you should possess."

His words were calm.

But falling into Jiang Jian's ears.

It made his heart tremble suddenly!

At this moment.

He clearly thought of.

The words spoken by the real Li Hai Long Jun before he perished.

"All my memories are so real."

"So much so that."

"I often doubt whether the world I am in truly exists."

"Or rather."

"It is just the delusion of a fool."

As the Long Jun whispered softly, his consciousness quietly dissipated, finally transforming into a dreamlike bubble.

Jiang Jian raised his head abruptly, looking at the Bodhisattva.

In the depths of his heart, there was always an unreal sense of fragmentation.

Is the living being before him truly just simulated?

Or rather.

Did he really exist in another distant world?

But Jiang Jian knew that the answers to these questions were simply unreachable.

It was very likely that he would never know the truth.

"You have passed the trial."

The Bodhisattva finally spoke, "Your approach surprised me a little."

He paused, not continuing to elaborate on this matter.

Instead, he changed the subject.

"I must leave Yinshan to listen to the thunder."

"From now on, you shall guard Yinshan in my stead and be the master of the Ksitigarbha Hall."

Hearing this.

Jiang Jian breathed a sigh of relief.

The Bodhisattva flicked his robe.

The Ksitigarbha Jade Seal appeared, floating before Jiang Jian.

This seal presented a mysterious black luster, depicting the suffering of evil karma, and was engraved with all the manifestations of living beings.

Every moment, pitch-black streams of light circled around it, surrounding the Ksitigarbha Jade Seal, making its jade brilliance overflow and bloom with dots of fluorescent light.

Jiang Jian reached out his sleeve and took the Ksitigarbha Jade Seal.

This object looked light, but it felt heavy in his hand.

Touching it, it felt cold and piercing, like ice and snow.

"Yinshan Wonder Realm."

Jiang Jian's gaze was heavy.

In the story world, this was just a token of the Ksitigarbha Hall.

But placed in the real world.

Once he obtained this object, it meant that he had truly become the master of the Yinshan Wonder Realm!

Suddenly.

Jiang Jian perceived.

Behind Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, that heaven-reaching and earth-shattering majestic dharma image actually bloomed with ten thousand rays of light, and the golden light of merit roared out, illuminating the firmament!

At the same time.

The Bodhisattva before him had Buddhist light rolling through his robes, and it looked like he was about to leave.

"Bodhisattva."

Jiang Jian spoke abruptly.

The brilliant golden Buddhist light around Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva paused slightly.

Jiang Jian stepped forward, his thoughts racing, and he bowed respectfully, trying to say: "I want to learn a divine ability."

In his thinking.

Since the Ksitigarbha monk's staff and the Book of Life and Death could both be transformed from virtual to real, and manifested in reality through the divine aura stored in the wonder realm.

Then.

The strange and varied divine abilities in the story world could certainly also be transformed from virtual to real and brought into the real world!

If he relied on the Ksitigarbha Jade Seal to take away the Book of Life and Death.

Then his three chances to transform from virtual to real would only have one left!

Jiang Jian knew.

His resource preparation was quite solid.

In the short term.

He would not lack treasures to use.

What's more.

When these supreme treasures were used, most would consume soul source power.

Even if he possessed ten supreme treasures, according to his current soul condition, he could only use one or two at the same time, and it was absolutely impossible to activate them simultaneously.

In this way.

Rather than racking his brains to choose another treasure to bring out.

It would be better to find another way to practice a divine ability.

In the real world.

Divine abilities could be said to be extremely rare.

Every time a divine ability was obtained, it had unimaginable benefits for the foundation storage of the Divine Palace Realm.

Hearing this.

The Bodhisattva turned to the side and looked at Jiang Jian.

Between his slender fingers, he was holding drifting flower leaves, which scattered and fell.

A short while later.

When Jiang Jian's heart was slightly lifted.

This Bodhisattva finally spoke.

"Good."

"What divine ability do you want to learn?"

(End of this chapter)