Chapter 1280: Eight-Treasure Merit Pond

The Human Race's Martial Dao emphasizes Refining Body; later, after the Military School emerged, new innovations were made to the Martial Dao, yet overall it has not departed from the Martial Dao originally founded by the Martial Ancestor.

However, it also opened up many new secret methods for the Martial Dao, making the Martial Dao even more open.

And the art of Refining Body is the foundation of the Martial Dao, because the Martial Dao values the Fleshly Body, and is even entirely centered on the Fleshly Body.

This is different from the Immortal Dao, which is based on the Primordial Spirit.

As for the art of Refining Body, the strongest in the Honghuang is the Wu Clan; the Wu Clan's Nine-Turn Profound Art is an Inheritance from the great god Pangu, and the Taoist Sect's Eight-Nine Profound Art is also a supreme method created by the Saint based on the Nine-Turn Profound Art.

However, the Eight-Nine Profound Art is also extremely difficult; there are not many in the entire Honghuang Sanjie who have successfully cultivated it, and as for those who have achieved the Great Luo through their Fleshly Body, currently there is only Yang Jian.

It is precisely because he cultivated the Eight-Nine Profound Art that although Yang Jian is a newly promoted Great Luo Golden Immortal, his combat power is extraordinary; today, he is likely a top-tier existence even among all Great Luo Golden Immortals.

After all, when it comes down to it, he has the Chan Sect standing behind him, and as the number one among the third-generation disciples of the Chan Sect, both his Qi of Luck and opportunities are extremely strong.

And more importantly, Yang Jian is not only a disciple of the Chan Sect, he also has great connections in the Heavenly Court, so the resources he obtains are also very rare in the Three Realms.

Compared to him, the monkey is much worse off.

Although the monkey's origin is no worse than the other's, the Bodhi Patriarch he later apprenticed under would not play any role in his future attainment of the Dao, or rather, this apprenticeship was actually just to resolve karma.

Of course, if the monkey truly enters the Buddhist Sect, to say he is worse off is certainly not the case; the position of a Buddha in the Buddhist Sect is itself not low.

Coupled with the Qi of Luck and Merit from the Journey to the West Calamity, the monkey having no problems becoming a Great Luo Golden Immortal in the future, and becoming the Dou Zhan Sheng Fo, the monkey also reached the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

Compared to Yang Jian, he is not much worse.

And now, having cultivated the Nine-Refinement Golden Body Art, perhaps he will surpass his peers.

"A favor of transmitting the Dharma, exchanged for a portion of Merit; by then, you and I can be considered to have resolved our karma."

The Journey to the West Calamity has begun, the Buddhist Sect has already begun preaching in Nanzhan Buzhou, and the journey to the west is also about to start.

Therefore, the portion of Merit that belongs to Su Fan will not be lacking.

"Then, out of the eighty-one calamities, which one should I choose?"

Su Fan is pondering; among the eighty-one calamities, most were prepared by the Buddhist Sect and the Heavenly Court's immortals and gods, with only a few involving beasts without backgrounds, so those beasts died miserably.

Su Fan has no interest in those beasts; those who died miserably were almost all worthless, and they deserved to die anyway.

However, there are a few good ones, whether it is the Black Bear Spirit or the three true demons of the Taoist Sect, Huli Daxian and his companions; especially the latter three beasts who cultivated Taoist methods, they were true cultivators of the Taoist Sect and had not been tainted by the killing calamity.

It is a pity that the three were in the territory of the Buddhist Sect, and the Buddhist Sect naturally would not allow their existence, eventually using the monkey's hand to behead the three.

These three demons had no backing; if they truly had backing, the three might have had the possibility of reaching the Golden Immortal realm in the future, and even with the Merit from the Journey to the West Calamity, there was a great possibility of them becoming Taiyi Golden Immortals if nurtured properly.

As for the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, that would depend on themselves.

Relying solely on resources is impossible to cultivate; a Great Luo Golden Immortal has already attained the Dao, and in ancient times they were revered as Dao Lords or Divine Lords.

Only by entering the Dao can one be a Great Luo Golden Immortal, relying entirely on oneself.

The origins of those three demons were only ordinary, but being able to cultivate to the True Immortal realm, they were clearly people of firm will.

Su Fan is considered part of the Taoist Sect; although he is of the Human Race, what he has cultivated all along is closely related to the Taoist Sect.

The Taoist Sect is not the Profound Gate; the Profound Gate was founded by the Dao Ancestor, while the Taoist Sect is Laozi, which is to say it is related to the Taiqing Saint.

The Taoist Sect of the Human Race has a great relationship with the Human Teachings.

And the Human Teachings is the main sect of the Human Race; the Taiqing Saint has always been the teacher of the Human Race, after all, cultivating the Immortal Dao also accounts for half of the Human Race.

During the Yin-Shang period, the Human Race's Qi of Luck was allied with the Jie Sect, but in reality, the one that occupied the most of the Human Race's Qi of Luck at that time was still the Human Teachings, and the Kongtong Seal at that time was also controlled by the Human Teachings.

Su Fan has no objections to the Taoist Sect, nor does he have any resentment toward the Profound Gate; on the contrary, he does not approve of some of the Buddhist Sect's philosophies.

Of course, he has no intention of stopping the rise of the Buddhist Sect; with his current cultivation and status, although he cannot stop the rise of the Buddhist Sect, if he really were to push back, he could indeed bring significant difficulties to the rise of the Buddhist Sect.

It is just that doing so would bring no benefit to himself, and would instead offend this behemoth that is the Buddhist Sect.

He does have a backing; with Zhenyuanzi Daxian, a Half-Saint, behind him, there is no danger in facing the Buddhist Sect directly.

But Su Fan naturally does not like to do things that harm others without benefiting himself, even though he dislikes the Buddhist Sect, as some of the Buddhist Sect's actions are no different from the Demonic Path.

However, he will not stop it either; rather than stopping it, it is better to participate in it, and then demand a portion of the benefits in exchange for the peace of the Human Race in Xiniu Hezhou, which would be better for him and for the Human Race in Xiniu Hezhou.

Why is the Human Race in Xiniu Hezhou so miserable, with the Buddhist Sect even turning a blind eye? It is nothing more than for the faith of those believers; only when you suffer will the believers believe in the Buddhist Sect when it descends.

Faith and incense are not unique to the Heavenly Court's Divine Dao; the Buddhist Sect has the Eight-Treasure Merit Pond, which can convert the power of incense.

The Buddhist Sect's Eight-Treasure Merit Pond is a treasure land; although it is not a Spirit Treasure, the Eight-Treasure Merit Water inside is not a whit inferior to the Three-Light Divine Water, containing vast power.

For immortals and gods who are reincarnating, once they enter the Eight-Treasure Merit Pond, they can recover their original cultivation at the fastest speed.

It has the same effect as the Nine-Turn Golden Elixir.

However, the Eight-Treasure Merit Pond requires vast power of faith and incense, which in turn requires a vast population of believers.

So in the end, it is the Human Race and other Ten Thousand Races in Xiniu Hezhou that suffer; Xiniu Hezhou is not only the Human Race, but other Ten Thousand Races are also like this.

It is just that the Human Race's power of faith and incense is the most and the best.

After all, the Human Race is considered to have wisdom; they are born with wisdom, unlike other Ten Thousand Races, where most of the creatures of the Ten Thousand Races, if they do not embark on the path of transcendence, are no different from wild beasts.

Having no wisdom, they naturally cannot provide incense.

The Human Race can indeed be said to be uniquely gifted, born with wisdom, which is also the reason why the Human Race could become the hegemon.

No matter how many shortcomings the Human Race has, there is one point: being born with wisdom allows them to embark on the path of transcendence, a point that the Ten Thousand Races cannot compare to.

Therefore, they want to preach in the Human Race even more, especially in Nanzhan Buzhou, the base camp of the Human Race, where the number of humans is greater and it is most suitable for the survival of the Human Race.

However, Nanzhan Buzhou has always been a land of the Immortal Dao, and the Buddhist Sect could not touch it before.

It is also because the Profound Gate owed the Buddhist Sect karma before that the Buddhist Dharma could move east.

And the Buddhist Sect also paid a certain price to be able to preach among the Human Race.