Chapter 820: Terrifying Karma Power! Taking Advantage of Chaos!

For beings of the Primordial World, karma was terrifying; once entangled in a dreadful karma, one could perish at any moment.

The Yan of the Three Realms chose to shut themselves away precisely to avoid karmic entanglement.

Karma is something you can't avoid fast enough.

Who would deliberately entangle themselves in karma just to raise their cultivation base?

Aside from this, the reason incense and devotion were not valued by most was that most incense and devotion contained abundant impurities.

Most believers were not devout, so the incense and devotion they generated could hardly be pure.

The reason the Western Two Saints heavily exploited incense and devotion was that the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding was extremely barren, producing almost no heavenly treasures or rare essentials, with humans being the most plentiful resource.

To govern the entire Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding, massive investment was indispensable; without investment, the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding could never improve on its own.

Under duress, the Western Two Saints turned their attention to incense and devotion.

As long as there were people, incense and devotion could be generated endlessly.

Incense and devotion could be considered the cheapest of heavenly treasures.

Coincidentally, the Western Two Saints excelled in the Dao of Conversion; by converting believers through conversion, they could easily obtain deeply devout followers, effectively resolving the issue of impure incense and devotion.

As for karma?

The Western Two Saints paid no attention to it at all, for they had already incurred a massive karmic debt to the Heavenly Dao in their quest to become Saints.

Compared to the karma owed to the Heavenly Dao, the karma generated by mere believers meant nothing.

Yet, the Western Two Saints had utterly underestimated karma.

The Dao of Karma was profoundly mysterious; the Western Two Saints knew only its surface, not its depths.

Thus, they failed to realize how terrifying the karma generated by billions upon billions of believers could be.

In truth, the Western Two Saints had not entirely ignored the karma generated by converting believers.

To manage believer karma, they established Buddhist realms, placing all believers under cultivation within these realms.

They ensured these believers lived without want, free from disaster or illness, even granting them enhanced strength and extended lifespans, to erase the believers' karma.

This approach did indeed eliminate some karma.

For most believers, living without want, free from disaster or illness, was already sufficient to fulfill their desires.

Unfortunately, human desires change.

This was precisely why believer karma was so intractable.

You might satisfy a believer's desire for a time, but not for a lifetime.

Perhaps initially, the desires of those converted believers were simply to live without want, free from disaster or illness.

After all, ordinary beings in the Primordial World lived harsh lives.

But as time passed, they were kept like puppets, raised within Buddhist realms as sources of incense and devotion.

Over ninety percent of these believers, if awakened, would demand freedom above all else.

No one willingly surrenders freedom forever.

They had imprisoned billions upon billions of believers.

Even their pasts and futures were not spared.

Unseen, the Western Two Saints had forged immense karma with billions upon billions of believers.

Namely, in the current Journey to the West World, the Heavenly Dao had completely suppressed the Human Dao, preventing the Human Dao's power from manifesting.

Otherwise, merely by a slight stir from a Human Dao Saint, this karma alone would be enough for the Human Dao to directly devour the Western Two Saints.

The Yan of the Three Realms were almost all inept in the Dao of Karma.

Hence, none of them had detected Buddhism's grave hidden danger.

Luo Fu was exceptionally proficient in the Dao of Karma.

The Dao of Karma was profoundly mysterious and difficult to comprehend, second only to the Dao of Fate; even the Dao of Time was less difficult to master than the Dao of Karma.

Yet, before Luo Fu's godlike comprehension, such difficulty meant nothing.

He had already mastered the Dao of Fate to an extremely profound level, let alone the Dao of Karma.

Thus, from the very beginning, Luo Fu had already prepared his method to counter the Three Thousand Buddhist Realms.

Yet, Luo Fu had not anticipated that the Western Two Saints would summon the past Three Thousand Buddhist Realms and the future Three Thousand Buddhist Realms.

Then, using the power of the past and future Three Thousand Buddhist Realms, they formed the Ten Thousand Buddhas Array.

This made breaking through the Buddhist defenses increase manyfold in difficulty.

Of course, this was no major problem for Luo Fu.

As originally planned, Luo Fu ultimately shattered the Ten Thousand Buddhas Array's defense using four million Pure Heaven Divine Pearls, sending the karmic curse force into every Buddhist Realm.

Shhh!

Thick beams of conversion light, like curtains, continuously rained down upon the Buddhist Realms.

Countless fallen believers, under the relentless conversion of the light, were reconverted into faithful followers.

Yet, the curse force had not been fully contained.

Before incense and devotion could be gathered, the curse force had already spread through karma to every corner of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Array.

New believers fell every moment.

Although incense and devotion continuously converted believers, the rate of believers falling was equally swift, causing the total number of fallen believers to decrease extremely slowly, and sometimes even increase.

To completely dismantle the curse force, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Array was forced to expend all its strength, channeling nearly all its Buddha light into the Conversion Array.

At this moment, the Western Two Saints had no attention left for the million Pure Heaven Divine Pearls in the sky or for Sun Wukong and others.

The Ten Thousand Buddhas Array was Buddhism's foundation; if it failed, even winning the wager could not compensate for the loss.

Moreover, without the Ten Thousand Buddhas Array to guard them, the Western Two Saints had no confidence they could defeat Luo Fu.

"Perfect opportunity!"

Seeing that the Ten Thousand Buddhas Grand Formation, pressed by the power of the curse, could barely look after itself, Sun Wukong, without needing Luo Fu's instruction, used his意念 to control the Xukong portal and move it above the Ten Thousand Buddhas Grand Formation.