Chapter 406: Enlightenment, Fomen layout

Mount Huaguo, in the quiet room of Su Chen's cave dwelling, gray-white chaos Qi lingered around Su Chen.

Su Chen sat cross-legged on the prayer mat, the Chaos Bell floating above his head.

Mysterious yellow Qi hung down, shrouding him completely.

Su Chen folded his hands in a seal, and his Hunyuan magic power surged into the Chaos Bell continuously; as time passed, Su Chen had already refined twenty innate prohibitions.

He was currently attacking the twenty-first.

This prohibition contained profound time and space laws, and the difficulty of refining it was unimaginable; Su Chen had been attacking it for a long time.

Su Chen guarded his spiritual platform and fully activated "Chaos Nine Turns."

Domineering chaos blood and Qi cooperated with Hunyuan magic power to continuously erode that innate prohibition.

Finally, with Su Chen's unremitting efforts, the twenty-first innate prohibition could no longer hold on.

As this prohibition was refined, massive amounts of law fragments fed back, surging into Su Chen's sea of consciousness.

The mysteries of time and space unfolded before his eyes.

Su Chen constantly comprehended these law fragments, integrating them into the Hunyuan Great Luo Dao Fruit within his dantian.

The chaos brilliance flowing on the surface of the Dao Fruit surged.

The realm barrier of the mid-stage Great Luo Jinxian shattered at this moment, and more majestic Hunyuan magic power surged from the Dao Fruit.

Su Chen opened his eyes, and two rays of gray-white divine light pierced through the chaos Qi in the secret chamber.

He nodded with satisfaction, his mind moved, and the Chaos Bell transformed into a ray of mysterious yellow light, sinking into his brow.

Su Chen stood up, and his bones made a series of dull popping sounds.

He flicked his sleeves, dispersing the array barrier in the secret chamber.

The heavy stone door opened, and Su Chen stepped out.

Su Chen pinched his fingers to calculate, probing the passage of time in the outside world.

Since he entered seclusion, only twenty years had passed in the outside world.

But under the distortion of the time and space laws of the Chaos Bell, the flow of time within the range covered by the Chaos Bell had been significantly altered.

He had actually practiced for a full six hundred years.

Su Chen complained in his heart: If Patriarch Patriarch Puti knew about this time difference, he would be jealous.

He walked to the stone table and sat down, casting a sound-transmission talisman.

Not long after, footsteps sounded, and Luan Luan Erjie walked into the cave dwelling quickly.

Years had passed, and the aura on Luan Luan Erjie was becoming increasingly powerful, her cultivation already reaching the early-stage Jin Xian.

She wore a capable black tight-fitting outfit, walked to Su Chen, and bowed respectfully.

"Pay respects to the Advisor."

Su Chen pointed to the stone stool opposite: "Sit. In the years I was away, did any major events happen in the outside world?"

Luan Luan Erjie did not sit but took out a jade slip and handed it to Su Chen with both hands.

"Advisor, during your seclusion, the Demon Alliance was all well. However, over in Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou, it was quite lively."

Su Chen took the jade slip, and his spiritual sense probed into it.

The jade slip recorded messages collected by the Demon Alliance's intelligence network from all sides.

A large amount of information surged into his mind.

Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou, the territory of the human race.

Over these twenty years, the Fomen had acted contrary to their usual behavior, sending large numbers of Arhats and Vajras to the lower realm.

They entered Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou on a large scale and often manifested divinity in various places.

With constant miracles, countless Buddhist temples sprang up in many countries and even remote villages in Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou.

The jade slip specifically mentioned one thing.

In the eastern part of Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou, there was a large city named Lin'an.

Lin'an City originally believed in the Daoist Sect and was quite repelled by the Fomen.

Three years ago, Lin'an City encountered a drought not seen in a hundred years.

Daoist cultivators set up altars to perform rituals but couldn't beg for a single drop of rain.

Afterward, a Buddhist Luo Han descended.

The Luo Han declared that as long as the people of Lin'an City tore down the Daoist temples, rebuilt Buddhist temples, and worshipped the Buddha day and night, they could bring down sweet rain.

To survive, the people in the city did as they were told.

On the day the Buddhist temple was built, rain poured down.

Since then, Lin'an City had completely fallen into the Fomen's territory of faith.

In just twenty years, similar things had been staged all over Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou.

The Fomen opened the door of convenience wide and accepted believers on a large scale.

Whenever there was a prayer, miracles were manifested, curing illnesses, saving people, begging for rain, and driving away disasters.

The number of Buddhist believers in Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou grew explosively.

The Heavenly Court, however, maintained an eerie silence about this.

Su Chen's spiritual sense withdrew from the jade slip.

He placed the jade slip on the stone table, his index finger tapping the table lightly.

"Tap... tap... tap."

Luan Luan Erjie stood to the side, not daring to disturb him.

She knew that when the Advisor made this movement, he was thinking.

Su Chen's gaze gradually became deep.

The drought in Lin'an City was not a natural disaster at all.

The Daoist Sect couldn't beg for rain because the Dragon Clan of the Heavenly Court, who was in charge of rainfall, had received a death order from above not to bring rain.

The Buddhist Luo Han being able to beg for rain was purely a self-directed and self-acted play.

The Fomen frantically promoting faith in Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou appeared to be for the sake of promoting Buddhism on the surface.

Combined with the changes that happened in Lingshan twenty years ago, Su Chen saw through the truth behind this.

The struggle for destiny was extremely cruel.

Since Qiao Ling turned to practice the Great Freedom Demon Dao, the True Demon had descended into the world.

A portion of the Fomen's destiny had been swallowed by the Demon Dao destiny.

Damaged destiny was a fatal blow to the Fomen, which was about to flourish.

They couldn't find Qiao Ling and couldn't solve the problem from the root.

To make up for the deficit in destiny, the Fomen chose the most direct method.

Extracting human destiny.

Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou gathered the most massive human destiny in the Three Realms.

Faith was the channel for extracting destiny.

The incense and kowtowing of believers would produce an invisible power of vows.

Borrowing this power of vows, the Fomen openly converted human destiny into Buddhist destiny.

This approach was equivalent to digging up the roots of the human race.

Excessive loss of human destiny would inevitably lead to frequent natural and man-made disasters and intensified dynastic changes.

For the sake of their own interests, the Fomen treated the mortals of Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou as medicine dregs to replenish their blood.

Su Chen sneered; this way of eating was too ugly.

The Heavenly Court maintaining silence clearly meant that the Jade Emperor and the West had reached some kind of tacit understanding.

Su Chen stopped tapping the table.

He couldn't just watch the Fomen complete their layout.

He was now a mid-stage Great Luo Jinxian, with a peak Great Luo physical body, and held the Chaos Bell.

He had the qualifications to actively place pieces on the chessboard.

The Fomen wanted to extract human destiny to fill their holes, but Su Chen insisted on severing their hands.

"Pass down the order." Su Chen looked at Luan Luan Erjie, his voice devoid of any emotion.

"Let the Demon Alliance spies hidden in Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou all move."

"Find out the locations of the three Buddhist temples with the most prosperous incense in Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou."

Luan Luan Erjie's expression became solemn, and she cupped her fists to accept the order: "This subordinate obeys."

She didn't ask another word and turned to walk out of the Water Curtain Cave quickly.

Su Chen sat at the stone table, thought for a moment, and made a decision.

He decided to go to Nanzhan Nanjian Buzhou himself.

Only by disrupting the Fomen's footing could he strive for more initiative in the upcoming calamity.

Su Chen was calculating the specific details of the action.

A slender figure appeared outside his cave dwelling.

The person wore a moon-white robe, his face as gentle as jade, like a banished immortal.

He walked in the sunlight but did not cast any shadow on the ground.

This person was Su Chen's disciple, Qiao Ling, who had been in seclusion for many years.

Over these years, the temperament on Qiao Ling had changed again.

The originally gentle face now had a trace of detachment from worldly affairs.

Clearly, his Great Freedom Demon Dao had improved again.

Qiao Ling walked into the cave dwelling, arrived at the stone table, and bowed deeply to Su Chen.

"Disciple pays respects to Master."

Su Chen looked at Qiao Ling, probing his current cultivation.

He was actually already an early-stage Jin Xian.

In less than a hundred years, he had crossed from Demon Immortal to Earth Immortal, Heavenly Immortal, Mystic Immortal, and straight to Jin Xian.

Su Chen sighed inwardly; his disciple was worthy of being the reincarnation of Tathagata, and his talent could be called monstrous.

"No need for formalities." Su Chen smiled, "Years have passed, and looking at you, the Great Freedom Demon Dao has already achieved small success."

Qiao Ling straightened up, his eyes calm: "Thanks to Master's blessing, disciple has completely integrated the Demon Dao with himself."

He paused, his gaze looking straight at Su Chen.

"Master, disciple has a request this time." ===== CHAPTER 407 =====