Chapter 322: The Purgatory of the Nuns

As the headquarters of the Vast Heaven Sect, the Imperial Capital of the Qian Kingdom naturally sees the majority of its faith belonging to the Vast Heaven camp.

Yet a portion is shared among other sects, such as the Earth Mother Sect.

The share occupied by Fomen is actually quite small.

However, the 【Water Moon Nunnery】, located on Mount Mount Fumu outside the Imperial Capital, is slightly special.

This is because the Buddha Mother has several Bodhisattvas under her command who hold divine authority over "fertility," "good fortune," and "joy." Moreover, compared to the deities of other sects, the Buddha Mother and her Bodhisattvas are the most responsive to the prayers of ordinary believers, and the cost is not high.

Therefore, there are many believers and the incense is abundant; usually, the believers going to offer incense can line the entire mountain road.

But today is very unusual.

The entire Mount Mount Fumu is shrouded in a layer of golden light, and golden Sanskrit characters can be seen flashing from time to time, isolating the inside from the outside.

At the foot of the mountain, there is constant chaos, and the screams and wails of believers ring out incessantly.

When Li Yu rushed over, he happened to see a large number of mechanical puppets appearing as "nuns," chanting scriptures while holding weapons like whisks and demon-subduing pestles, constantly driving away the commoners who had tried to go up the mountain but failed, yet were unwilling to leave.

Because of his relationship with Sister Miaochang, Li Yu has some understanding of the Water Moon Nunnery.

Seeing this scene, he immediately realized:

"It truly has reached a life-or-death moment!"

"This is the Water Moon Nunnery's Vajra Zhu Wugou Land Array, which isolates the inside from the outside. It is only activated when an external god invades or internal demons arise, causing a crisis of annihilation for the Water Moon Nunnery."

"Those steam nuns are just little gadgets attached to the formation, used to drive away the commoners so they aren't caught in the disaster."

"However, the believers don't seem to appreciate it."

What made Li Yu sigh like this were naturally those stubborn believers.

Despite being driven away, few actually left; instead, they clamored that this was a test from the Buddha Mother.

Yet from their shouting, Li Yu pieced together the scene when the disaster broke out in the blink of an eye.

"Why can't I offer incense today? This won't do. I've prepared offerings and incense; I'm going to worship the 【Child-Giving Guanyin】."

"I'm going to worship the great 【Great Compassion Buddha Mother】 to bless my family with peace."

"Move aside, I'm going to worship the 【Great Joy Bodhisattva】."

"What are you latecomers yelling about? I've been queuing up the mountain since dawn, but suddenly the golden light flared, the Nunnery Master became huge, said some Buddhist verse, and then kicked us all out, sealed Mount Mount Fumu, and now we can't get up anymore."

"I heard it too, but it wasn't a Buddhist verse. The Nunnery Master seemed to say, 'Buddha Mother above, this disciple was wrong,' and then cast the spell."

"Right, when she was casting the spell, I think I saw the Buddha Mother's golden statue in the hall become a bit eerie and shed bloody tears."

"You're talking nonsense! The Water Moon Nunnery Master is a disciple chosen by the Buddha Mother. According to the transcendents in the city, she is a Sequence 3 existence on the Buddha Mother path; how could she be wrong? You'd better watch your mouth, blaspheming the Buddha Mother's golden statue—be careful of being burned by karmic fire."

"Then explain why we can't offer incense today."

"Simple, this is the Buddha Mother's test. The believers who persist to the end today will have their wishes granted."

"But these steam nuns are hitting so hard. If this keeps up, I'm afraid I'll be beaten half to death by a whisk."

Li Yu ignored these stubborn believers who were being beaten until they cried for their parents by the steam nuns, changed his position, and found a secluded spot.

Completely ignoring the "Vajra Barrier," he went straight up the mountain.

The barrier, which could withstand the impact of a mountain-sized city, turned a blind eye to Li Yu, letting him pass right through.

Those steam nuns, equipped with mechanical eyes that had no blind spots, also acted as if they didn't see him at all.

The reason is simple.

Li Yu's "Buddha Bone" was personally bestowed by the Buddha; the vastness of his Buddha nature and magic power is something no one on Mount Mount Fumu can compare to, except for that Water Moon Nunnery Master who has likely already fallen.

Let alone at such a special moment.

Even on an ordinary day, Li Yu could sneak up this nun-filled mountain without anyone noticing.

If he were a fallen lecherous monk, the nuns all over the mountain would be in trouble.

As he went up the mountain, he guessed the process of the Water Moon Nunnery's calamity:

"The Water Moon Nunnery Master is a Sequence 3 【Arhat】. If that Immaculate Buddha Mother had descended forcefully, even if the Nunnery Master were no match, she wouldn't have been without the power to fight back and fallen immediately."

"The only explanation: The Immaculate Buddha Mother disguised herself as the 【Buddha Mother】, deceived the Nunnery Master, and successfully descended to possess her body. By the time she realized it, it was already too late."

"As a Sequence 3 existence, her only struggle was to activate the Zhu Wugou Land Array before she perished, to spare the innocent commoners from the disaster."

"As for the disciples on Mount Mount Fumu, I'm afraid..."

Li Yu's thoughts had just flashed to this point.

The scenes he saw along the way left him completely speechless.

After all, he had lived in Wanfu City and even moonlighted as a strange doctor, having had intimate contact with a high-sequence nun of the Immaculate Buddha Mother path.

He had some expectations regarding the filth of this path.

But who would have thought that a righteous cultivator being polluted would be even more terrifying than the original practitioners?

On Mount Mount Fumu!

The morning bells were still ringing, pleasant incense was drifting, and the sound of chanting was endless; it seemed as if nothing had changed, and this was still a sacred place for the nuns to cultivate.

But as Li Yu drew closer, he saw scenes of horror and terror:

The nuns' cultivation process was completely different from what Sister Miaochang had described to him earlier.

They knelt on the ground, chanting scriptures that made one feel nauseous and dizzy, while simultaneously stirring up lustful desires.

When they reached the peak of excitement, they trembled and moaned, then held ritual knives and began to cut off their own left ears, right breasts, and tongue roots as offerings, placing them into black pottery bowls... After completing these "lessons," a look of incomparable satisfaction and joy appeared on the faces of all the nuns.

And this was merely the cultivation of the low-ranking or Sequence 8 nuns.

The further Li Yu went up the mountain, the deeper he went into the Buddha halls.

The scenes he saw became even more terrifying.

On the incense plaza in front of the forest of Buddha hall palaces, a foul, fishy stench soared into the sky.

He saw a large group of nuns surrounding a huge copper furnace, performing the lesson of burning away karmic obstacles.

They didn't know what kind of pollution they had suffered; they were filthy and their entire bodies were rotting.

Each one of them actively reached into their own abdomens.

They forcibly dug out their own rotting internal organs, held them in their hands, and threw them into the furnace to be burned.

Finally, they even crawled into the furnace themselves, suffering the burning of the eerie karmic fire that looked like seductive red lotuses.

But even more terrifying!

They didn't die; instead, they turned into "weird objects" that were carbonized all over, resembling black jade, and crawled out from the bottom of the furnace with twisted limbs.

In a corridor that looked like hell, it was hung full of shriveled human tongues, all engraved with what were clearly distorted versions of the "Heart Sutra."

The more advanced nuns walked through it naked, silently reciting the fallen Heart Sutra.

Once they recited a word wrong, those "human tongues" instantly turned into some kind of weird object with teeth, burrowing into their bodies and crazily gnawing on their internal organs and brains.

Going further in, there were more filthy Buddha hall palaces.

In each Buddha hall, there was a huge lotus pedestal, woven purely from flesh and blood; the surface of the lotus petals was covered in wrinkles like stretch marks, oozing a mixture of amniotic fluid and menstrual blood.

The nuns with higher cultivation sequences took off their robes, sat cross-legged naked on the lotus pedestals, and let the flesh-tendrils pierce into their Dantian, Shanzhong, and Baihui acupoints.

After that, it took only a few breaths.

Their abdomens would bulge high, and they had actually conceived a "Buddha Fetus" directly.

After another few breaths, countless blue-purple infant corpse arms would stretch out from beneath the lotus pedestals, supporting the nuns in a birthing posture, and amidst the terrifying chanting in the Buddha hall, they would give birth to hideous and terrifying infant corpses.

Each of the nuns acted like a loving mother, hugging the terrifying infant corpses and beginning to feed them fluids.

These scenes were only appearing in the outer areas of the Water Moon Nunnery.

But even Li Yu, who considered himself to have seen countless filthy, fallen, and twisted scenes.

At this moment, he could not help but fall into silence.

Although these nuns had almost all shed their clothes, revealing very beautiful figures in the buff.

Li Yu felt no sense of beauty upon seeing them, only horror and disgust, and a strong murderous intent arose in his mind.

So fast!

So thorough!

The Immaculate Buddha Mother descended on the Water Moon Nunnery at dawn, disguising herself as the Buddha Mother to deceive the Nunnery Master.

In just half a day, she had polluted the entire Water Moon Nunnery into this state?

Even if she were an avatar of a powerful evil god, she might not be able to do it.

The only explanation!

Within this, there was the blessing of another powerful divinity.

"The Lord of the Veil; he used narrative authority to process this pollution story."

"That's why it could be so smooth, and with double the effect?"

"That's why even if I use the Buddha Bone in my body as a medium, I cannot establish a spiritual connection with the 【Buddha】."

"I'm afraid at this moment, not just the Buddha, but the other true gods are also being besieged from afar by more than one evil god."

"The spiritual connections between the various sects and the six great righteous gods have also been temporarily severed."

"Barring any accidents, it will recover in a few hours, and the evil gods will pay some price."

"The side of the righteous god sects will pay an even heavier price."

Before this, Li Yu had originally thought the Lord of the Veil was just a more powerful, more evil, and more creative version of the Toad God—a god of fun, a conspirator who loved to watch the show.

But now, he knew.

Underestimated!

If the Master of the Veil were a playwright or a novelist.

They would definitely not be the serious kind, but rather the kind that is morbidly horrific and thrilling.

Moreover, they would belong to a purely chaotic evil alignment.

Perhaps this "blessing of authority" of theirs had the initial purpose of allowing the Pioneer to complete its maiden voyage, for the sake of some grand conspiracy behind the scenes.

Whether it be the Water Moon Nunnery or other invaded places of cultivation, all were merely caught in the crossfire.

Yet this collateral damage was a desperate purgatory for the nun disciples of the Water Moon Nunnery.

(End of chapter)