Chapter 1022: The Gold-Swallowing Beast of the Military Family, the Eternal Tribulation of the Demonic Path

A six-story pagoda stood in the Wuchuan formation, and Li Zhong laid the Daxia Longque saber across his knees, guarding in front of the pagoda.

Between the bricks of the pagoda, the dense scriptures seemed to be filled with gold.

Besides the scripture bricks, there were many brick-carved Buddha paintings, sculptures of Bhikkhu masters and various Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, a total of 360 million volumes of scriptures, synthesized by the "Future Buddha's Original Life Sutra," constructing this pagoda that was not tall but as majestic as three thousand worlds.

Li Zhong's saber intent was honed between the pagodas...

Tan Wuchen touched these gold bricks, chanting scriptures in his mouth, cultivating with his own pure mindfulness.

But in the past, he cultivated the "Great Nirvana Sutra," chanting 360 million volumes of sentient beings' scriptures, and only after 10,000 volumes a day did he break through the "Nirvana Sutra."

But now he wanted to comprehend the "Future Buddha's Original Life Sutra" contained within.

With his cultivation close to the Buddhist Immortal Golden Body, he hadn't been able to cultivate even one volume of the scriptures in these few days!

"Sigh!" Tan Wuchen sighed: "That person doesn't know which high monk of our Buddhist sect, or the manifestation of a Buddha or Bodhisattva."

"Legend has it that the Buddhist sect has passed down the orthodoxy since the Second Ancestor, and the various Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and other beings in the world, scriptures, laws, and treatises, the immeasurable scriptures stored in the Great Leiyin Temple, total three baskets!"

"When I was cultivating in the Lantuo Temple in the past, I was fortunate enough to see the three baskets of scriptures stored in the Lantuo Temple."

"But that senior refined demons with a golden body, hand-wrote the Five Buddhas, manifested the Thangka of the Future Buddha attaining the Dao, and thereby refined this Vajra Samadhi Pagoda of mine, hiding the scriptures within. The total of 360 million volumes of scriptures have turned from the Buddha nature in the hearts of the 360 million people of the Juyinajie Kingdom in the past into true scriptures; chanting one volume can cultivate a golden body."

"Such a pagoda is comparable to a basket of scriptures in the Lantuo Temple!"

"In the Lantuo Temple, monks who want to read all the books only have three opportunities: one is when receiving precepts, allowing monks to enter and take one volume of scriptures as the main cultivation scripture; one is when receiving a position, allowing them to enter the scripture hall for three days every month to read and borrow one volume of scriptures."

"The last time, regardless of which monk, as long as they open the Dharma altar and debate with all the monks in the Unobstructed Assembly, refuting everyone in the Lantuo Temple..."

"They can read all the three baskets of scriptures, and no monk or layman can hinder them!"

"But this last act, within ten thousand years of the Lantuo Temple, no one has been able to achieve it..."

"Li Tan Yue! You hone your saber in front of the pagoda, it is indeed becoming sharper, but you must know that being too rigid is easy to break! It is better to hold the saber with Buddhist Dharma and grasp the saber qi in your heart with a compassionate heart; only then can you use it without blunting its edge..."

"Donor, you need a saber sheath!"

Tan Wuchen cherished Li Zhong's talent, mainly because that suspected Buddha manifestation used shocking means to refine demons into Buddhas, refining the Great Nirvana Golden Body and the Vajra Samadhi Pagoda into spiritual treasures right under his nose.

Even merging Buddha and demon, branding most of Little Murong Chui's orthodoxy, and hiding a volume of the "Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Sutra" within, a Buddhist high person, a high person, a high high high high person!

Seems to value Li Zhong quite a bit...

He wanted to save Li Zhong into the Buddhist sect and continue this fate.

Li Zhong didn't even lift his eyes, continuing to hone his saber: "This saber technique was taught to me by my brother!"

Tan Wuchen shook his head: "The saber technique taught by your brother, although it belongs to the top grade..."

Speaking of this, his tone paused slightly.

It was really that this Four Spirits Saber Technique could no longer be summarized by just "top grade"; it originated from Qian Chen witnessing the Sima family's "Bai Hu Seven Kill Saber" and then seeing the Four Spirits of Heaven.

He comprehended it from there!

The Sima family's town-clan saber technique "Bai Hu Seven Kill Saber" was only one of them.

To say it was a top-grade saber technique in the Earth Immortal Realm, Sima Yi would not agree...

"Although it is already a rare unique skill in the world, this opportunity before us is the great opportunity for the Buddha to point out and attain the Dao, the great creation."

Tan Wuchen said solemnly: "Your brother granting you this saber technique is indeed brotherly love and the intention to save you to attain the Dao. But that senior values you and puts these Buddhist treasures containing the secret of the Future Buddha's birth and pointing out before you; that is the true opportunity!"

"If you grasp this opportunity, in the future, it is not impossible to conversely save your brother to attain the Dao!"

Li Zhong paused in honing his saber, rolling his eyes in his heart.

"That is my brother..."

He shook his head.

Tan Wuchen sighed and stood up: "Do it yourself!"

Cao Xuanwei led his troops and arrived, seeing the six-story pagoda, he dismounted.

He wore mysterious iron divine rhinoceros armor, the inner armor was the skin of the Ganges Heaven-Reaching Divine Rhinoceros offered by the Lion Kingdom, and the armor plates were polished with Western Vajra sand and cast from ten-thousand-forged mysterious iron.

This set of armor, even if a small sect like the Gold Sand Gate were sold, it couldn't be bought.

But on the Crown Prince of Great Wei, it was just right.

Even so, Cao Xuanwei looked at Li Zhong's Daxia Longque saber with envy.

He stopped beside Li Zhong and asked Tan Wuchen: "Where is that senior? Has he not come out of seclusion yet?"

Tan Wuchen looked back at the six-story pagoda and shook his head: "That senior has vast magical powers. After severely injuring Little Murong Chui, he went to refine the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title! But the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title is the demonic path leader passed down through generations in the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demonic Path. To refine this title, the demonic path will not tolerate it, and it may even alarm several demon lords to take action, even for that senior... sigh!"

"The senior's cultivation reaches the heavens, and his magical powers are immeasurable. Even if he cannot refine the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title, it should not be difficult to escape." Cao Xuanwei comforted him.

Seeing the haze hidden in his expression, Tan Wuchen asked: "Is it the military situation at the front?"

Cao Xuanwei hesitated slightly, but still opened his mouth: "Just as the senior said, after Little Murong Chui lost the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo title, he has already jumped over the wall like a dog!"

"The Little Murong clan's demon army, the Northern Border demon race, and the Rouran witch department have all invaded the south. Tens of thousands of demonic path cultivators, demon race beasts, and Rouran Hu people have come with all their strength, and the enemy is still gathering continuously."

"Its magical artifacts are fine, its cultivation is strong, and its number is vast, already surpassing the demon chaos that established the Liuzhen hundreds of years ago!"

"But that time, the late emperor exhausted the country's army and even opened the foundation hidden in the Golden Tiger Terrace to arm the military family cultivators of the Xianbei and Han families! Cultivators from various sects also came to help with all their strength. A total of several Primordial Spirit high monks from the Buddhist sect took action, and the Daoist sect also had the Heavenly Master Kou sitting in town. After that battle, our Great Wei decided to build Liuzhen on the northern border defense line of past generations, stationing a large army and leaving the most elite military family cultivators in the country to guard."

"Only with such unity of will could we protect the northern border for hundreds of years of peace."

"But now the Great Wei's empress clan and imperial clan are in endless internal strife, and the military family cultivators guarding the border are suffering day and night in this borderland. The Chang'an gentry gradually view guarding the border as bitter and the Liuzhen military family children as barbarians, and no gentry children go north anymore. The country and the clan all view the northern border as a place of exile!"

"Although the Liuzhen still have the weapons and armor cast and transported over these years! But the supplies have gradually decreased these years, and spiritual medicines, spiritual elixirs, exotic beast horses, and cultivation consumables are all exhausted!"

"Just the gap in elixirs alone is missing 6 million qi-supplementing spiritual elixirs, 2 million patches of blood-supplementing golden wound spiritual medicine, 20 million bottles of grain-avoidance pills..."

"Armor-protecting talismans for maintaining weapons and armor need 2 million sheets."

"Spirit-moistening elixirs for maintaining weapons, Mysterious Gold Quenching Sharpness Dew; Supreme One Green Wood Marrow for maintaining wooden magical artifacts, crossbow arrows, and bow bodies; Luban Divine Fire Oil for defending the city and casting fire methods; Star Sand Sharpness-Wiping Frost for re-sharpening stored weapons; Ice Soul Undying Fat for preserving exotic beast meat and supplementing the physical strength of military family cultivators and mounts; Dragon Blood Jade Marrow Paste for maintaining the physical body to prevent the physical body from collapsing during overload battles..."

"Military family cultivators are war machines during wartime, but they are also gold-swallowing beasts to maintain."

Cao Xuanwei clenched his fists and lowered his head: "Since the Liuzhen sent out an emergency, the supplies in the country have not arrived for a month, and the demons, Hu, and witches on the opposite side have accumulated for hundreds of years! Relying on the Liuzhen soldiers, guarding might be possible, but after guarding this wave, the Liuzhen will be abolished! I don't know how many people will die!"

"That might not be the case!" The Liuzhen soldiers behind him whispered.

The personal guards brought by Cao Xuanwei stared at him dead.

The Liuzhen people, who were distinct from each other, said recklessly: "What? Your Great Wei doesn't do human things, and you don't let people say it?"

Li Zhong's heart moved, and Cao Xuanwei also raised his eyebrows slightly.

They all knew what the Liuzhen people meant...

Tan Wuchen took the list from Cao Xuanwei's hand and said in horror: "Why do you need so many things? Even if all the Buddhist temples in our Buddhist sect exhausted their family foundation, they couldn't fight a few such wars!"

"A few?"

Li Zhong widened his eyes. The Longxi gentry exhausted all their strength, and their Li family took out the foundation of the Xiliang Kingdom and couldn't fill half of the hole. The Buddhist sect could fill a few wars!

As expected of one of the three religions, the foundation is indeed profound.

Cao Xuanwei explained: "The military family of the Earth Immortal Realm inherits the various military methods and artifacts of the Immortal Qin."

So it's the Immortal Qin war method!

Tan Wuchen suddenly understood. Their Lion Kingdom's use of troops was nothing more than training some Buddhist monk soldiers, plus the help of cultivators sent by major temples. The consumption was indeed much smaller.

But Immortal Qin, as everyone knows, is read as military family cultivators contending, and written as war between two realms!

The Buddhist cultivators and monk soldiers of the Lion Kingdom can mix in the Western Desert and the Hengsha Continent.

Encountering the remnants of the Central Lands and Immortal Qin military veins.

Even with ten times or a hundred times the military strength, and even if Primordial Spirit True Immortals take action, they will be slaughtered and exterminated!

"Why are there eight types of spiritual medicine for maintaining bowstrings and arrows..."

Tan Wuchen lost his voice: "This Heaven Silkworm Tough String Fat!"

"Used for maintaining bowstrings, many bows and crossbows in the armory were built by the Immortal Han."

"Although the strings have loosened, they need to be coated with second-turn spiritual medicine Heaven Silkworm Tough String Fat to restore the spiritual energy and toughness of those bowstrings that have been stored for hundreds or thousands of years."

Cao Xuanwei explained: "Heaven Silkworm Tough String Fat is refined from the spiritual oil of Heaven Silkworm condensed silk using alchemy secret methods, mixed with the fat of six kinds of exotic beasts, and can restore all biological remains such as horns, tendons, and silk to their original state, returning to life and preserving nature!"

"Many cultivators' Dharma clothes, head crowns, musical instruments, etc., as long as they are magical artifacts made of exotic beast horns, skin, silk, and tendons, cannot do without this maintenance!"

"And this Green Luan Ming Xiao Dew is..."

"Taking the green ash from burning Green Luan tail feathers and mixing it into moon dew condensed frost, after coating, the bowstring vibrates like a phoenix cry, and when the arrow is shot, it brings its own breaking-air clear sound, breaking all evil methods!"

"Flowing Wind Condensed String Marrow?"

"Collecting the nine-heaven gang wind and condensing it into liquid, mixed with wind-grinding spiritual marrow, after maintenance, the bowstring is as light as nothing, and the arrow speed increases by 30%!"

"Blood Begonia Moistening Sound Fat?"

"Prepared with blood begonia nectar from the bank of the Yellow Springs and dumb soul sand, it can thoroughly eliminate the vibration sound of the bowstring and the vibration of vitality. Coating it on the arrow can make the arrow hide the sound of the wind and escape spiritual sense locking!"

"Golden Crow Burning Ash Oil?"

"This is a true military family secret medicine. After coating the arrow, it can ignite the Sun True Fire, burning everything, cooperating with the Immortal Han Sunset Arrow Formation, it has always been a vicious means used to exterminate those who do not submit, leaving only scorched earth!"

Tan Wuchen couldn't help but shiver.

Fortunately, his Lion Kingdom is relatively far from this group of lunatics in the Central Lands...

No... it's not far enough, at least when the Immortal Qin came, it was quite convenient.

How they came, there is no record left in the Lion Kingdom, only hearing that the Buddhist orthodoxy of the Lion Kingdom was interrupted for tens of thousands of years.

In the three baskets of Buddhist scriptures, there is no lack of records about the Immortal Qin crossbow army.

Qian Chen is the witness; those are read as crossbow "arrows," but in fact, they are intercontinental ballistic missiles and strategic nuclear missiles!

"These are all second-turn spiritual medicines."

Li Zhong couldn't help but say: "A bottle of second-turn spiritual medicine is worth tens of thousands of Three Mountain Talismans. Many Jin Dan cultivators are reluctant to buy it. The usage here..."

"A bottle of second-turn spiritual elixir can coat quite a few arrows." Cao Xuanwei looked at Li Zhong in surprise: "And, isn't it normal that Jin Dan cultivators can't afford it? If they could afford it and buy it, our Great Wei would have already taken action to exterminate them!"

"Mere Core Formation, and you dare to peek at the military family inheritance?"

"Grain-avoidance pills also need first-turn spiritual elixirs?"

Li Zhong swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Must use top-grade spiritual grain, opened in a furnace of magical treasure level, refined by a Primordial Spirit level alchemist! Ensuring there is not a trace of pill poison or impurities inside, capable of providing the vitality needed for three days of cultivation for a cultivator. Ten pills need one stone of top-grade spiritual grain, and one stone of top-grade spiritual grain is worth tens of Three Mountain Talismans, which can fill a room if changed into low-grade spiritual grain!"

"20 million bottles of grain-avoidance pills, that is 20 million stones of top-grade spiritual grain..."

"Great Wei's tax burden for a year, you will eat it all in one battle?"

Inheriting the Immortal Han official system, the six ministers and high officials, and the dispatched prefects are called two thousand stones.

Because their earliest salary was two thousand stones of spiritual grain a year!

The Immortal Han's national strength was stronger, using top-grade spiritual grain like the Southern Jin Purple Pattern Dragon Tooth Rice. But the Liuzhen opened their mouths and dared to ask for the salary of 10,000 True Persons of the Immortal Han, which is also—terrifying and awe-inspiring.

Originally, Li Zhong didn't understand the Chang'an imperial court, wondering why they forced their own direct descendants, the military family cultivators of the Northern Wei who shared the same roots, to such a situation.

Didn't understand why they didn't even give supplies when the war was imminent.

But seeing this list, he understood!

If they kept supporting the Liuzhen, Chang'an would not be the capital of Great Wei, but a supply station for the Liuzhen, and the entire imperial court would be gradually hollowed out!

Behind Cao Xuanwei, the Liuzhen garrison commander coughed twice: "Hmm, hmm... these, besides military supplies for the great battle, also include salary arrears owed by the imperial court."

Cao Xuanwei's personal guards said angrily: "Is this salary arrears? You are trying to suck the bone marrow of the imperial court!"

The Liuzhen people said angrily: "These years, we have maintained the weapons ourselves, and all kinds of military equipment in the armory have been preserved intact! No one dared to resell or deduct the magical artifacts, divine weapons, and battle armor of immeasurable value! We Liuzhen people are so poor that we can't even afford to have children, and we haven't let down your imperial court!"

Cao Xuanwei sighed, secretly thinking: That's exactly it, that's why it's terrifying and awe-inspiring!

These years, supplies have gradually decreased, but the Liuzhen military family children still hone their physical bodies and refine their martial arts, and the armory still operates intact.

All military equipment is preserved intact. If the imperial court doesn't try hard to restrict them, lower the cultivation of their descendants, and reduce the proportion of qualified battle soldiers, I'm afraid they won't even be able to sleep.

Now the imperial court sends fewer supplies because the sharp spirit of the Liuzhen military family children has not dissipated!

They dare not not send supplies because the sharp spirit of the Liuzhen military family children has not dissipated!

Raising soldiers, raising soldiers, raising soldiers in troubled times is to sweep the world and trample on those who do not submit; raising soldiers in prosperous times, you have to guard against them eating people!

The reason why Cao Xuanwei stood up for the Liuzhen military family children to ask for military supplies from Chang'an, the reason why the Liuzhen military family children dared to say they didn't need the imperial court to raise them, and the reason why such a terrifying consumption of spiritual materials could appear after the Immortal Qin, when the Earth Immortal Realm's immortal dynasty was completely declining...

And even why the military family orthodoxy entered the demonic path!

It is all because a part of the war machine created by the Immortal Qin ruling the myriad realms of the cosmos was passed down, and also because after the collapse of the Immortal Qin, the military family cultivators turned to the demonic path across the board!

So these military assets.

These spiritual materials of immeasurable value!

If the imperial court doesn't give them, the soldiers will take them themselves!

In the inheritance of military family cultivators, they have never forgotten the—Military Demon Path—that uses all living beings and things as resources, war plunder, slaughter, and uses the corpses, flesh, blood, and souls of all living beings as military assets!

One stone of top-grade spiritual grain refines ten first-turn grain-avoidance pills.

The flesh and blood of one adult living person can refine ten military demon army meat balls. If there is no spiritual grain, just use all living beings as food!

The Little Murong Department, the Rouran Department, and the Northern Border demon race surround the Liuzhen for a great battle.

As long as the Northern Border Great Array is not lost, the Liuzhen military family children can continuously grind the enemy's flesh and blood, and then open the military family demonic path inheritance, refining these into resources, and the whole army will enter the demonic path.

Military family malevolent qi turns into malevolent demon qi, plundering everything, devouring everything, slaughtering endlessly.

"Senior, come out of seclusion quickly!"

Cao Xuanwei sighed in his heart: "If the Liuzhen Great Array is not lost, the Northern Border demon race and Little Murong Chui may not be able to attack, but the demonic path inheritance in the military family is too deeply rooted. If the imperial court cuts off supplies, I'm afraid it will force them into demons!"

"Whether the demons of the Liuzhen are terrifying, or the demon army of the Little Murong Department is terrifying, that may not be known!"

In Cao Xuanwei's heart, only the Buddhist high person Qian Chen, whose cultivation was unfathomable, whose magical powers were immeasurable, and who almost defeated Little Murong Chui head-on, coming out of seclusion could suppress all the instability in the Liuzhen.

Since the Wei and Jin dynasties, the reason why the demonic path has gradually risen and the world has been in chaos.

And why there have been several thousand-year demon tribulations.

It is because the war system of the myriad realms created by the Immortal Qin and Immortal Han, the war machine that conquered the myriad realms, after its foundation and main body collapsed, still retained a part of the inheritance that entered the demonic path and scattered to all sides of the Earth Immortal Realm!

Without the vast resource supply and logistics of the Immortal Dynasty, the military family is really gnawing at the flesh and blood of the Earth Immortal Realm itself, gnawing at the bone marrow of all living beings!

But Cao Xuanwei seems to have forgotten!

The six-story pagoda left by Qian Chen, its reverse side is the Womb-Storage One-Icchantika.

It is even more the Demon Sutra that branded the methods of Little Murong Chui and the Yu Yu Jiuyou group of demons—the "Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Sutra"!

As the ancestor of the demonic path, leaving the reverse side of the Buddhist Dharma, the Demon Sutra, in the Liuzhen, this stubborn root of the military family and fertile soil of the demonic path, Qian Chen's scheme must have exceeded Cao Xuanwei's imagination.

Cao Xuanwei looked at the six-story pagoda, his gaze seeming to pass through countless scripture bricks, seeing the golden body surrounded by endless Buddha statues in the pagoda, under the support of 360 million Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis!

On it were depicted the Five Buddhas!

Surrounded from all angles, one could see his body from all four sides, with the Earth-Touching Seal, the Dharma-Teaching Seal, the Giving and Fearless Seal, and the Meditation Seal!

But within the golden body that he could not see, there was a statue of an eight-armed demon god, standing in the nine-story pagoda.

That world, heaven and earth were inverted, and groups of demons were dormant.

Endless Demon Sutras also surrounded the nine-story pagoda.

Qian Chen's God of Yellow Mud stood in front of him, and he and the Demon God looked at each other. His gaze probed into its eyes, and suddenly a leather bag was opened by Qian Chen.

In the six-story pagoda, a person slowly emerged from the eyes of the golden body, appearing in front of the golden body.

Twisting that Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Talisman, Qian Chen also felt something in his heart, looking outside the pagoda...

? Hehe, back in Dali!

? First code a chapter to give a surprise, start vacation tomorrow, this time really have to rest until the end of the month.

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