Chapter 550: Blocked by the Heavenly Dao! Breaking through the Lingshan formation!

The human path of the Primordial World had long been blocked by the Heavenly Dao, so even if countless living beings were slaughtered, it would not trigger a reaction from the human path.

In this way, all spirits undoubtedly became the best fuel.

Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin pushed this to the limit, almost squeezing out the entire value of their believers.

The Western Continent was already extremely barren, and the ley line energy was shattered and chaotic; under normal circumstances, even if a Saint personally intervened, it would be very difficult to set up a decent mountain-protecting formation.

Building a mountain-protecting formation with believers as the power source was the alternative method devised by the two Western Saints.

Under normal circumstances, human power is hard to resist the power of heaven and earth.

A formation set up with believers as the root is hard to compare with a mountain-protecting formation set up with the power of ley lines.

But this point became an exception in the hands of Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin.

For Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin, who were proficient in the Great Dao of Conversion, as long as they were willing to expend effort, the number of believers they could convert was an astronomical figure.

With a massive number of believers as a foundation, the mountain-protecting formation set up was no worse than one set up by borrowing the energy of the ley lines.

More importantly, Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin could squeeze out every bit of value from their believers.

An ordinary believer, without cultivation, has extremely limited strength.

But if this mortal believer is willing to burn their physical body, soul, true spirit, and even their past and future, then the power that can be erupted is extremely strong, even many times stronger than ordinary cultivators.

Every spirit, no matter how weak, hides a certain potential.

Especially within the true spirit, the hidden potential is even more considerable.

The true spirit is not an ordinary thing; unless one is particularly proficient in the Great Dao of Creation, even a Quasi-Saint powerhouse cannot create a true spirit.

Something that even a Quasi-Saint cannot create cannot be summarized as mortal.

The Heavenly Dao is impartial.

For every spirit, from the moment of birth, the Heavenly Dao has gifted a portion of potential.

If this potential can be fully exerted, even a mortal has the possibility of defying heaven and changing their fate.

However, most mortals cannot exert this potential in their entire lives.

Most mortals can only carry this potential and continue to reincarnate.

It is worth mentioning that the potential hidden within the soul and true spirit is also one of the foundations for mortal life to reincarnate.

If a mortal truly exhausts this potential and cannot get it replenished, then this living being will have their soul scattered and will have no possibility of reincarnation.

Of course, having one’s soul scattered does not mean they disappear completely.

Even for mortal beings, their true spirits are very difficult to extinguish.

Even if the soul is scattered, there will be true spirit fragments remaining.

With the passage of time, who knows, there might be a day when they regain new life.

If one views the true spirit as a living being, then the life of this living being is extremely long.

Precisely because of this, every true spirit possesses extremely significant potential.

Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin used believers as fuel, and what they burned was precisely this potential.

And they burned this potential completely to exhaustion.

Not only that, but even the traces of the true spirit’s existence—past, present, and future—were all sacrificed and burned together.

Once the believers used as fuel were burned out, they would completely disappear between heaven and earth, leaving no trace of existence.

This was the cruel part of Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin.

They truly squeezed the value of their believers to the limit, not letting go of even a single bit.

It was precisely because of this method of exploitation that Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin could exert the power of the mountain-protecting formation to the limit by burning believers, far exceeding the mountain-protecting formations of other powers in the Three Realms.

If Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin had not fallen, Lingshan’s mountain-protecting formation could be considered the most powerful in the Three Realms; unless a Saint intervened, it would be impossible to break.

The current mountain-protecting formation was maintained entirely by the incense and willpower accumulated previously, and its power was not even one percent of its prime.

It was normal that it could not withstand Sun Wukong’s attack.

Seeing Sun Wukong break through to the Quasi-Saint level, transforming into a ten-million-zhang fierce ape, and bombarding Lingshan like a berserker, a trace of relief flashed in Luo Fu’s eyes.

Through his cultivation, Sun Wukong was finally developing his own potential, becoming even more mighty and domineering than the Great Sage Equal to Heaven he had imagined in his previous life.

As the mountain-protecting formation was about to be broken, Luo Fu’s mind moved, and he contacted Ancestor Minghe and Mother Pingxin.

Carving up Buddhism was a feast for all the major powers of the Three Realms; how could they let Sun Wukong stand at the front alone?

After receiving Luo Fu’s order, Ancestor Minghe and Mother Pingxin did not hesitate at all and chose to obey.

Whoosh!

The boundless Sea of Blood began to boil, and a large number of Asuras began to act under the orders of Ancestor Minghe.

A portion of the Asuras, along with the leading Asura King, headed toward the Western Continent.

Another portion of the Asuras, led by Ancestor Minghe, entered the Nine Nether Underworld.

Besides Lingshan, the Nine Nether Underworld also had a large number of Buddhist believers stationed there.

With the fall of Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin, Lingshan was in chaos, and the Buddhist station in the Nine Nether Underworld suddenly replaced Lingshan as the strongest station of Buddhism.

Because in the Nine Nether Underworld, there was Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

The great beings left behind at Lingshan were either captured or had already fled.

The entire Buddhism now probably only had Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva as a great being left.

Moreover, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was not weak.

Being able to gain the trust of Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin and let him sit in the Nine Nether Underworld, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s strength and methods must not be weak.

Not to mention his methods, in terms of strength, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva was at least at the peak of Quasi-Saint.

The Nine Nether Underworld was not as peaceful as the Earth Immortal World or the Thirty-Three Heavens.

Because of the prohibition of Dao Ancestor Hongjun, and because of the Investiture of the Gods Great Calamity, it was rare for great beings to have conflicts in the Earth Immortal World or the Thirty-Three Heavens.

After countless Yuan eras of development, the interests of the Earth Immortal World and the Thirty-Three Heavens had mostly been divided up, and there was no need for large-scale conflicts.

The Nine Nether Underworld was different.

For any power, the Nine Nether Underworld was extremely important.

First, the Nine Nether Underworld was the place of reincarnation.

Almost all major powers wanted to get their hands on the authority of reincarnation.

Although large-scale conflicts rarely occurred in the Three Realms, small conflicts happened from time to time.

Every conflict could lead to casualties for one’s own side.

If one could master the authority of reincarnation, then as long as one’s own personnel could retain their true spirits, they would have the possibility of reincarnation.