Chapter 443: Mount Hua

After Muni made his vow, he began to practice the Great Vow and Great Desire Demon-Subduing Merit Sainthood Method.

First were the Three-Corpse Demon Heads within himself; that was easy to handle. As for the remaining three external demons, one was easy: the evil thoughts of Pudu Cihang could serve as one, the Ignorance Demon, which had already been transformed into "Pudu Cihang" within this Child-Mother Golden Light Nature, and could stand in for the "Buddha Demon."

The Sacred Fire Sect combined the "Three Teachings Holy Meaning"; the second teaching was the "Yeh Teachings," so there should be a "Yeh Demon," and then the third teaching, derived from the original Persian Teachings, formed the "Persian Demon."

The three demons combined could represent the culmination of the "Western Teachings."

It would be just right to contend against the "Buddha, Dao, and Confucianism" of the Central Plains.

There are similarities and differences; foreign monks are good at chanting scriptures.

Xu Jia's method of summoning demons knew that the Yeh Demon was the "Devil" of the Western Teachings. After all, he had stayed in America, and under his command was the black man Hong Xiuquan, a master of the "Squid Teachings, Confucian Teachings, and Yeh Teachings," also a talent of three-teachings synthesis.

The original Persian Teachings, however, were truly extreme; they themselves were somewhat like the teachings of a Demon Sect. It just so happened that Muni was proficient in the original Persian Teachings.

The two of them immediately referred to the three teachings to compile the new "Holy Fire Teachings" and "Immeasurable Light Scripture"...

Creating classics is precisely the time for "writing books and establishing traditions" to spread wisdom.

When Cangjie first created writing, the Ghost Gods wept.

Now that Xu Jia and the other were integrating these teachings, originating from Buddhism, Yeh Teachings, and Persian Teachings, they were digging at their foundations, which belonged to "severely changing the world line."

For a time, there were all sorts of strange phenomena; these phenomena could not be seen in reality, but within the Dharma Realm.

Since the Western Regions were all Da Mo, consisting of small nations with few people and no laws, although the Central Plains had existed since ancient times with things like the Silk Road and the Tea Horse Road, they were not under strict control.

At this moment in the Dharma Realm, one could see all kinds of monsters: there were Yeh Teachings monsters, Persian Teachings monsters, and even more Buddhist monsters.

The local Ghost Gods were also driven one by one, wanting to pounce and kill this Sacred Fire teaching while it was still weak.

For a time, in the Heaven Beyond Heaven, in the Form Realm, within the realms where Hehua Zizaitian commanded the various demons, there were immeasurable Heavenly Demons, Heavenly Demon Kings, Heavenly Demon Lords, various Demon Gods, and all sorts of such beings.

They one after another sensed the demon edict from the lower realm.

When Xu Jia was writing the scriptures, all sorts of illusions appeared in his eyes, and all sorts of sounds appeared in his ears.

For a time, his thoughts were chaotic, receiving infinite interference; he wanted to write down light, but his brush strokes were distorted, corrected...

If Xu Jia was like this, let alone Muni Dingguang; he was not a Sage to begin with, and having been forced by Xu Jia to make a vow, how could his heart have immeasurable light? Instead, it was infinitely wanton.

His brush strokes contained even more private agendas.

The Weiji Immortal Sword was extremely angry; it escaped into the Dharma Realm and gave birth to infinite sword Qi, killing angels when angels came, killing succubi when succubi came, killing Wonderful Music Heavenly Maidens when they came, and killing Six-Desire Heavenly Demons when they came.

Sure enough, after doing this, it was much better, but Xu Jia sighed.

He secretly said: "Does it really take a Sage to write without selfishness and leave it for future generations?"

These scriptures still could not escape the logic of "religion" and the roots of superstition, making it difficult to truly enlighten the people's wisdom...

Xu Jia wanted to burn it all with a fire and rewrite it, but Muni Dingguang said: "Master, where is there such a thing as perfection? Incomplete scriptures are as they should be; you should leave some work for future generations."

Xu Jia shook his head: "Hard to accomplish great things!"

Yet he did not destroy the Sacred Fire Sect classics, so the Sacred Fire Sect Leader began to summon and refine demons, with Xu Jia acting as his Protector.

Through writing books and establishing traditions and the trials of ten thousand demons, although his intelligence had not completely passed the test, it had also been sublimated, and he soon captured a Yeh Demon and a Persian Demon.

The Yeh Demon was a demon that twisted the principles of the Yeh Teachings, shaped like an old priest, riding a black goat and holding a little boy.

The Persian Demon was a fire demon under the light; the original Persian Teachings advocated "fire offerings," which meant burning heretics to death, and even their own believers would sit in fire to enter the kingdom of the Persian Teachings' main god.

The three demon heads, mixed with the Pudu Cihang of the golden light centipede, gradually merged into one, refined into the Child-Mother Golden Light Nature; vaguely, there were infinite desires, infinite wishes, both good and evil, Buddha, Sage, Virtuous, and Bright, all like the demon heads, yet the demon heads were kind-faced, just like gods, Buddhas, and Sages.

The Three-Corpse Demon Heads within Muni Dingguang's body hooked onto his Yang Spirit; their system did not include demon-slaying, and the previous deviation in cultivation was also the work of the Three-Corpse Demon Heads.

Now that the demon heads were hooked out, these three demon heads had strength no less than his Spirit Embryo, and even became stronger by borrowing these evil desires and turbid thoughts.

In Western sects, unless they were those ascetic sects that strictly observed precepts, it was basically very difficult to subdue the Three-Corpse Demon Gods; various beautiful virtues were hard to uphold, but falling was very easy.

The priests of the Yeh Teachings liked little boys, and the nuns of the Yeh Teachings also liked little boys.

Buddhist monks received incense-offering guests during the day, and at night the guests received them; Arhats pointed sticks at sticks, and the abbot treated the little novice monks as his harem—literature about selling one's backside never goes out of style anywhere.

The Persian Teachings were basically in the same situation, or rather, the dark side of religions all over the world was like this.

The Sacred Fire Sect Leader Muni, having not obtained the purity of the three teachings, now mixed the dregs of the three teachings together.

Moreover, he himself was not a good thing either, otherwise he wouldn't have brought forty-seven thieves together with him to burn, kill, and loot, causing chaos in the Western Regions.

He himself never had much Merit, but his karmic sins were not few; at least, becoming an Immortal through the orthodox Immortal Dao was impossible.

It was just that he had cultivated a Spirit Embryo and had practiced the "Universe Manipulation Great Method" to the second turn, already possessing inconceivable power.

The Sacred Fire Seed's flames burned, expelling all darkness and demonic atmosphere.

The so-called "Bright Venerable" was gradually conceived, but it was the angry appearance of a three-headed World-Destroying Wisdom King.

This three-headed Wisdom King was like a stitched-together monster, possessing the light of the Yeh Teachings, the light of Buddhism, and the light of the original Persian Teachings' Sacred Fire doctrine.

The three-phase light carried a sense of scorching world-destruction.

That Child-Mother Golden Light Nature Sarira absorbed all these demon heads and evil thoughts, and also transformed infinite desires, making the three-headed Wisdom King turn from virtual to real.

Although Muni Dingguang had the thought of using "madness" to test Xu Jia, Xu Jia's face was clear and calm, with the Weiji Immortal Sword hovering to his left and right, as if he could kill this Wisdom King at any moment.

He had no choice but to vigorously subdue the demons, merging internal and external demons, and even refining the Sacred Fire seed, the Child-Mother Golden Light Nature, and even the Earthly Fiend Spirit Root treasure tree into one.

In an instant, the Earthly Fiend treasure tree turned into pure gold, the Sacred Fire burned, and the Earthly Fiend Fruit on it turned into seventy-two kinds of gemstones: pearls, coral, agate, jadeite, jade, sapphire, ruby, tourmaline, opal, ivory, rhinoceros horn, tortoiseshell... Under the treasure tree was a Venerable of immeasurable light, kind-faced, and the previous demonic atmosphere was completely transformed.

That Light Scripture and Sacred Fire Teachings were held by him, leading all living beings to break through the darkness and move toward immeasurable light.

Gradually, the light was internalized; Muni stood up, and in every movement and thought, he felt the faith and prayers of many Sacred Fire believers.

This was precisely a technique of the "Divine Path."

Xu Jia said: "Becoming a god is not about being high above, nor is it about possessing power... Now that you have mastered the power of the Sacred Fire, as you said and wished, it is time to implement it."

"I will." Muni Dingguang sensed the thoughts of all living beings; whether he was subtly influenced by Xu Jia's Register method, or perhaps his temperament was shifted by that demonic great method, or perhaps he really woke up, in any case, he answered.

"That is good."

Xu Jia said: "Then I allow you and Huogong Toutuo's Diamond Gate to preach together in the Oasis, help me establish such a civilized nation in the Western Regions, and then spread the teachings out."

"What about you, Sect Leader?" Muni thought he couldn't do it well; most of the classics just now were woven by Xu Jia, and his current behavior felt like stealing the fruits.

"I have obtained the Heavenly Fire, and now I also have a Karmic Connection with the inheritance of the Dutian Liehuo Zushi, so I am going to take a look."

This was one of the main purposes for Xu Jia coming to this realm; these days, he had been hitting here and there, and although there were some gains, it was not the original plan.

Having taken the Heavenly Fire that the Sacred Fire Sect had stolen from the Heavenly Emperor an unknown number of years ago, Xu Jia already had a way to enter the core area without needing the Dutian Fierce Fire Inheritance of Huogong Toutuo.

"Develop well."

Leaving behind this sentence, Xu Jia then rode his sword and left the Western Regions.

From Kunlun Mountain to the Gobi, then from the Gobi to Da Mo, and heading south from the grasslands, the earth gradually became fertile and the population grew dense; familiar ancient city walls and ancient buildings became increasingly numerous, and the Red Dust Qi also condensed above some important towns and cities, which ordinary clear and spiritual people could not even touch.

On the way, there were occasionally a few sword immortals flying on swords, but they all flew lower than Xu Jia and were also slower.

Looking down from a high altitude, some spiritual mountains and great rivers also became more numerous, the heaven and earth Spirit Machine was also much deeper, and the aura of gods could also be seen occasionally, all of which were things like City Gods.

After Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty founded the nation, he bestowed great titles upon the City Gods of the world; although there were City God spirits before this, they were not as widespread.

Now that the Sacred Fire Sect had been beaten into uselessness by Xu Jia and the doctrine had been revised, and it had not yet spread to the Central Plains, naturally it was not yet the Ming Dynasty.

It was not even the Yuan Dynasty yet, roughly around the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin used a staff to challenge Huashan and played a game of the "Precious Dragon Chess" with Ancestor Chen Tuan, losing Huashan to Ancestor Chen Tuan, which made Huashan a destination for practitioners of the world; although Ancestor Chen Tuan opened a sect at Huashan, he did not occupy Huashan alone.

It was precisely because of this that Huashan was a mixture of fish and dragons; the so-called Huashan Sect was actually not a specific Daoist temple or Buddhist temple, but a collection of these temples, each sending representatives to engage in Dharma battles and scripture debates, and the one who won the combination of the two would serve as the Huashan Sect leader, commanding all the Daoist and Buddhist temples.

However, because those of the righteous path who should have ascended had already ascended, leaving only the heterodox and demonic paths, the Huashan Sect gradually shifted from the lineage of Ancestor Chen Tuan to the hands of this heterodox "Dutian Liehuo Zushi".

Although Dutian Liehuo Zushi was of the heterodox path, he had obtained part of the Daoist lineage of "Huo Long Zhenren" and was not lacking the reputation of a Grandmaster of a generation; after wasting more than three hundred years, he also proved the Heavenly Immortal realm through the heterodox path, ascended to Shangjie, and became a Fire Department Spirit Official.

Dutian Liehuo Zushi was already the last shred of dignity for the Huashan Sect; after he ascended, the heterodox and demonic paths became increasingly prosperous, gradually bringing in many foul and evil people and demonic sect disciples.

It was just that no one had the qualifications to overcome the difficulties and obtain the inheritance left behind by Dutian Liehuo Zushi: the eighteen Dutian Liehuo Qi, a Gourd of Dutian Liehuo spirit crows, and the Dutian Blazing Fire Great Method.

Only the Dutian Liehuo Sword Formula, which was passed down to a few disciples back then, had spread out.

These disciples argued with each other and agreed to compete once every ten years to fight for the orthodoxy of Huashan and inherit the Daoist lineage, but fearing they would not be able to win the struggle, they often befriended others to help them fight.

At this time, it was once again the decennial battle for the Huashan orthodoxy, but this time, it was not just a bunch of heterodox people from the Huashan Sect making trouble; many more people had come.

The Heavenly God calculator Mud Bodhisattva said that this time the inheritance of Dutian Liehuo Zushi would certainly appear, and the Huashan Sect should welcome a great flourishing.

A withered Huashan Sect is a good Huashan Sect; there is no un-withered Huashan Sect.

Thus, this time, the Shushan Sect, the Nine Flowers Mountain Earth Store Temple, the Five Platforms Mountain Five Platforms Sect, and the Zhongnan Mountain Tower Viewing Terrace all dispatched people.

They were not specifically sending people to snatch the inheritance, but were indeed supporting the disciples and followers of the Huashan Sect orthodoxy who had been displaced back then.

When the Huashan Sect withered back then, various righteous sects, under the name of "preserving the Daoist lineage," had collected quite a few techniques and Divine Abilities; although they did not involve the True Transmission, they could be considered orthodox introductory Daoism and Foundation Establishment methods.

On the contrary, the people of the Huashan Sect now were all a group of heterodox people, and not many had practiced Foundation Establishment through proper Huashan Sect Daoism.

In short, all the sects were here to get a share of the pie.

When Dutian Liehuo Zushi ascended, he did not take his external objects with him.

If one were to talk about treasures, the famous ones were naturally the eighteen Dutian Liehuo Qi; these were the instruments of Dao-verification for Liehuo Zushi's successful Daoism in his later years. The eighteen flag surfaces recorded the techniques, Sword Formulas, artifact refining, pill refining, and Divine Abilities of Dutian Liehuo Zushi... they were the core inheritance.

Besides this, Dutian Liehuo Zushi had also collected a mass of Southern Bright Li Fire, rumored to have been refined into a Southern Bright Li Fire Sword, which was a supreme flying sword; it was just that it had not been refined by the time he ascended. Now, the recent ten thousand zhang of rosy clouds at Huashan was exactly the time for this sword to mature and appear in the world.

As for the "Ten Thousand Crow Pot," this pot was the famous magic treasure of Dutian Liehuo Zushi, containing tens of thousands of Fire Crows inside. These Fire Crows covered the sky and earth and could refine everything; the essence, energy, and spirit of those burned to death would be refined by the Fire Crows, and finally, after being purified, they would be fed back to Liehuo Zushi for refining, which was why it was said that Liehuo Zushi had ten thousand years of Dharma Power when he ascended.

However, with ten thousand years of Dharma Power, the lightning tribulation was also great, so he spat out nine thousand years of Dharma Power and ascended with only a thousand years of Dharma Power; anyway, once the Dharma Power was gone, he could just cultivate it again after reaching Shangjie.

Whoever obtained this Ten Thousand Crow Pot would be equivalent to obtaining nine thousand years of Dutian Liehuo Zushi's Dharma Power.

As for other treasures, such as the "Fire Date Spiritual Root," "Golden Crow True Feather," and the like... they were quite ordinary.

The mere guardian of Dutian Liehuo Zushi's inheritance objects were nine Fire Dragons that had given birth to primordial spirits.

These Fire Dragons were the "Nine Dragons Ascending Immortal Way" great method practiced by Dutian Liehuo Zushi; the nine Protector divine dragons were refined from nine different types of true fire of heaven and earth. They were both Divine Abilities and could be considered magic treasures, and they had even developed intelligence, just like real divine dragons.

These nine Fire Dragons would also truly break free this time, evolving from spell primordial spirits into true living beings.

In short, that was the situation.

Waiting for Xu Jia to land on Huashan's "Jade Maiden Peak," seeing so many people, he could only sigh: "So many people!"

(End of this chapter)