Chapter 554: Buddha and Demon as One! Karma fire burns sin!

The sins of the converted evil ghosts all settled in the black part.

Accumulating countless sins made the black part look even more like hell than hell itself.

Any normal living being, as long as they fell into it, would likely be eroded and fall into depravity by the boundless sins within a breath.

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had indeed been converting evil ghosts in the Eighteen Levels of Hell all these years, but he had also been lining his own pockets.

For Buddhism, conversion was not a bitter chore, but a lucrative one.

Every believer converted would become fuel for Buddhist disciples.

Compared to converting ordinary people, the difficulty of converting evil ghosts was many times higher.

But the harvest would also be many times greater.

Most evil ghosts were not weak, and after being converted into believers, the power they provided was even more powerful.

Most importantly, evil ghosts could also provide merit and sin.

The value of merit goes without saying.

The value of sin was also not small; very few people in the Primordial World practiced the demonic path.

Therefore, most people did not know the value of sin.

For cultivators who practiced the demonic path, the value of sin was even higher than that of merit.

If ordinary people could utilize sin, its value was also not low.

Having sat in the Underworld for so many years, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had long figured out ways to utilize sin.

The Eighteen Levels of Hell was a fierce place for others, but for Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, it was a real treasure land.

Boom!

As soon as the Buddha-land condensed, it began to burn.

The golden Buddha-light turned into a dazzling golden flame, and the black sin turned into a deep, pitch-black flame.

Under Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s manipulation, the two flames flew toward Ancestor Minghe.

As they flew, the distance between them was constantly closing.

When they were about to approach Ancestor Minghe, the two flames came into complete contact.

Two flames with completely opposite attributes should have clashed violently at the moment of contact.

But at the moment the two flames shot out by Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva came into contact, an invisible force descended, and under the action of this invisible force, the two flames actually merged directly, turning into a golden-black flame.

Buddha and Demon as One.

This was the realization Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had gained after sitting in the Eighteen Levels of Hell for so many years.

The power that made the two flames merge into one was the power of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s golden body.

"Patient and immovable like the earth, meditative and deep like a secret store."

Being patient and immovable, he could suppress two diametrically opposite flames; being meditative and deep, mastering infinite wisdom, he could reconcile Buddha-light and sin.

It was a pity that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva’s "Buddha and Demon as One" encountered Ancestor Minghe.

Just as the flames were about to descend, a red lotus platform suddenly appeared under Ancestor Minghe’s feet; it was the Twelve-Grade Red Lotus of Karma Fire.

After the Twelve-Grade Red Lotus of Karma Fire appeared, it also ignited red karma fire.

To some extent, Ancestor Minghe, who seemed extremely evil, was also the greatest nemesis of the demonic path.

Ancestor Minghe controlled the filthiest Nether Sea of Blood in the Three Realms, but if you count it, he was the purest living being born from the Nether Sea of Blood.

"Rising from the mud without being stained," he and the Nether Sea of Blood could be said to be two extremes.

One could see Ancestor Minghe’s essence from his two companion spiritual treasures.

The Yuantu and Abi swords kill without incurring karma.

This characteristic is usually only possessed by merit spiritual treasures.

The Twelve-Grade Red Lotus of Karma Fire controls boundless karma fire and specializes in burning infinite karma.

These two spiritual treasures were not evil things at all.

From this, it can be seen that Ancestor Minghe’s essence was actually not evil.

This was also the reason why Ancestor Minghe had controlled the Nether Sea of Blood for so many years without being corrupted or falling into depravity by it.

The more sinful a place is, the more it can bloom holy flowers.

Ancestor Minghe was one of the holy flowers blooming in the Nether Sea of Blood.

Of course, what was pure was his essence, not his personality.

From the perspective of personality, Ancestor Minghe could definitely not be considered a kind person.

In a world like the Primordial World where the strong prey on the weak, there were no kind people; even if there were, most of them were disguised, such as Buddhism.

As for true kind people, Mother Pingxin could be considered one.

This was the reason why Mother Pingxin was called "Great Virtue."

The raging karma fire was precisely the nemesis of sin.

Before the golden-black flames could approach, the karma fire directly ignited the fire of sin.

Boom!

The black part of the golden-black flames suddenly burned extremely violently and kept making sizzling sounds, seemingly constantly fighting against the karma fire.

As the black flames were calcined by the karma fire, the golden-black flames began to lose balance, with more and more gold and less and less black.

"Explode!"

Seeing the current result, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva chose to detonate the golden-black flames without hesitation.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

Buddha-light, sin, and karma fire, three kinds of energy intertwined, like a nuclear bomb being detonated, setting off a terrifying air wave.

The Sea of Blood surrounding the Eighteen Levels of Hell was directly evaporated by half by the explosion.

The space around the Eighteen Levels of Hell, which had been specially reinforced, was also blown into a huge hole.

Ancestor Minghe was fine; with the Twelve-Grade Red Lotus of Karma Fire protecting his body, the air wave generated by the explosion did not affect him.

Even if it really affected him, it didn't matter; he could discard this body at any time.

Whoosh!

Just as the space was opened, the Buddha-land behind Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva burned violently again.

Countless believers were praying, and countless evil ghosts were wailing.

These prayers and wails were all converted into energy and injected into the golden body behind Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.