Chapter 46: The Ancient Buddha Realm, Its Light Shines Upon the Three Thousand Worlds (Begging for Monthly Passes, Begging for Follo

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If this were the Jiang Yan of the past, he might have shown his joy on his face, but now he was as calm as water.

It was not that his emotions were numb; rather, he believed the path he walked was correct,

and naturally, he would receive the return he deserved!

To use professional terminology, it was...

A firm Dao heart.

"Hahahaha!"

The sound of mad laughter came, drawing Jiang Yan's gaze.

Shou E, appearing as if possessed by madness, murmured, "No wonder... no wonder you looked at me and smiled before you died, without resisting. In your eyes, have I always been this stupid?"

"Clearly, we were friends at the very beginning, dreaming together of opening a beautiful new world. Why? Why did you choose to walk a different path from me?"

"Once I refine you into a protective Dharma image, can we not be together forever?"

"Was it I who changed, or was it you?"

It talked to itself, looking as if it had gone mad.

One could understand it,

for the so-called grudge of the Monkey King was actually a heart-monkey formed by fear, trapping itself for thirty years.

Anyone would have collapsed under such circumstances.

Jiang Yan did not mock the other; since the mission was complete, the Lamp of Ashes shone, preparing to collect the soul.

"This is..."

The King of the Deceptive Beasts raised his head, looking at the dreamlike candle flame. His body trembled, and many memories surfaced in his mind.

Whether at the time when the egg of the Heart-Monkey appeared,

or when he betrayed friendship, changed his original intention, and chose to instigate the Heart-Monkey to challenge stronger demons.

Or even when he took out the five viscera of the Heart-Monkey and molded them into a golden body.

He had seen the flickering of firelight on all those occasions.

The dim firelight guided him forward.

"So it is... all things are fate; not a hair's breadth is up to man."

Shou E looked up at the sky, tears dripping from his eyes. His body stopped struggling, his two claws slowly pressed together in prayer, and fear no longer filled his eyes; instead, a bit of calmness appeared.

It was as if he had attained great enlightenment in the face of life and death.

His gaze shifted from the Lamp of Ashes to Jiang Yan, and he said softly:

"Actually, you and I are the same; we are both birds in a cage."

Jiang Yan frowned and asked, "What do you mean?"

"The Buddha says, it cannot be spoken."

Shou E shook his head and smiled lightly, "Fate is all ordained by 'Heaven'. If Heaven does not give it, even if ten fingers are tightly clasped, it will still slip through."

"But... this poor monk hopes the benefactor can, just as today, seize that sliver of life in this man-eating world."

As the words ended, his soul voluntarily entered the Lamp of Ashes, transforming into a white candle.

Jiang Yan frowned tightly. Through the white candle, he perceived that this fellow had not lied, but had truly comprehended something at the end of his life.

Yet he did not speak clearly,

Riddle-solvers should all die!

Jiang Yan cursed in his heart, threw the corpse to the Demon God Embryo, and turned to look at the other Deceptive Beasts captured by the Shadow-Winged Snakes.

Sensing his gaze, dozens of Deceptive Beasts trembled in fear.

For the sake of control, all the Deceptive Beasts were kept only at the Spirit-Opening Realm; even those who managed to break through by luck would be devoured by him.

In these years within the illusionary dream, they constantly drew upon their own flesh and blood to transform into blood peaches. Although they ate them back, there was inevitably some loss.

Therefore, each of them looked somewhat yellow-faced and emaciated.

"So thin, they would be suitable for making cold-eaten rabbit meat," Jiang Yan stroked his chin, lost in thought.

One sentence made them tremble so violently they nearly fainted.

As for Xiao Bai, maintaining her human form, she sat on the ground with her knees hugged by her hands, her gaze dull, indifferent to everything in the outside world.

She seemed to care nothing for life or death.

The next second,

a large number of Deceptive Beasts were thrown before her by the Shadow-Winged Snakes, raising a cloud of dust into the sky, with constant wailing sounds.

She slowly raised her head, looking at Jiang Yan, her gaze filled with confusion.

She did not understand what he was doing.

Shouldn't he be taking revenge on her?

"The kindness of that bottle of Blood-Qi Pills will be repaid with them."

Jiang Yan turned away gracefully, waved his hand, and said indifferently:

"What is lost is, after all, merely an appearance."

"If one sees the marks as non-marks, then one sees the Tathagata."

"By that time, Xiao Hei will naturally return."

As the words fell,

endless historical dust engulfed him, and Jiang Yan left this realm of sickness.

"Great! We are saved!"

"Thanks to you, Xiao Bai!"

"I never expected to survive in the hands of such a terrifying fellow; my life truly has great fortune!"

"Our luck is too good!"

The many Deceit Beasts rejoiced greatly; not only had they survived the disaster, but they had also lost a "King" who exploited them, truly a double blessing.

Seeing this scene, Little White's four ears trembled slightly, and a smile from the bottom of her heart appeared:

"The luck is indeed good; I specially left you to complete the path for the lies."

"What does that mean?"

The Deceit Beasts were still in the midst of their celebration, asked casually, and did not pay attention.

However, the next second...

Countless peach wood roots swept over, pierced their bodies, dragged them into the skull of the Heart Ape corpse, and instantly melted into blood to irrigate.

Within the eye sockets of the skeleton that had originally gone extinct, a wisp of gray flame ignited.

Boom—!

The massive Heart Ape corpse slowly stood up; countless sand and stones and dust shook off, turning into a sky full of smoke and dust.

Six arms formed the Meditation Seal, the Lotus Seal, and other dharma seals; among them, the Middle Three Mountains Seal pointed at itself, and the originally empty abdomen actually grew five viscera and six organs out of thin air.

"Roar!"

Accompanied by a roar, the six-armed Heart Ape erupted with vast spiritual energy, shocking the ten directions.

Little White stood on the top of the Heart Ape corpse, her skirt fluttering, her face becoming ever more holy and beautiful, and she murmured:

"Little Black is my Heart Ape, and I... how am I not the heart demon of the Heart Ape?"

"To condense the 【Old Register of the Chaotic Heavenly Demon of the Evil Heart Bodhi】, one must arrange a grand drama of death after betrayal by a closest friend, shaping a prison of the heart.

Only by using good and evil as materials and the human heart as a furnace can the ritual of the heart being born from death be completed.

Originally, the flesh and blood of the Deceit Beast King were meant to be used last for irrigation; ordinary Deceit Beasts would also suffice, successfully birthing a Second-Rank Old Register, condensing a Divine Ability seed, and offering a sliver of possibility to glimpse the fruit position of a Great Divine Ability.

The Second Rank can already reverse the void and the real; who knows what power the legendary First Rank Old Register would have?"

Little White talked to herself; the reason she was dazed was simply because she was digesting memories from the past.

Although the Heart Ape died, it used the heart of the Age of Longevity Calamity to nurture a new Heart Demon Ape.

That is, herself!

The Bodhi Heart Ape and the Heart Demon Ape fused, successfully transforming their bones and changing their flesh,

and ascending to a higher level.

"Lies are the mask of the heart; only with them can one refine the false into the true!"

She whispered softly and glanced behind her.

Little Black's long hair floated, she wore a black skirt, and said with a smile:

"Sister, you have returned!"

"Thanks to one person."

Little White smiled slightly, looked in the direction Jiang Yan had left, recalled the words he had spoken to her, her cheeks flushed with red, and her heart beat faster.

Her eyes were filled with pathological possessiveness.

She whispered softly: "Sima Sima Luoshui, we will meet again."

A man with such a perfect heart should belong to her.

And she, too, had given her heart to the other party.

In the physical sense.

"The Old Register is complete; it is time to return to the Buddha Realm!"

The corpse of the six-armed Heart Ape formed seal dharma seals.

Hum!

Countless illusory threads wove together, turning into a mysterious Old Register like a dream, illusion, bubble, or shadow.

From it floated a phantom bronze lamp, burning with a golden flame that swayed slightly yet shone more brilliantly than the sun.

The light illuminated a domain!

Boom—!

The Disease Domain trembled; the earth shook and the mountains roiled.

If someone looked down from above the river of history, they would discover...

The entire Disease Domain was like being dragged by invisible threads, sinking continuously into the deeper layers of the Old Days at an extremely fast speed.

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