Chapter 239: When the Magic Calamity Rises, the World is in Chaos

Sima Chengzhen, who was standing blankly in the Wanxiang Divine Palace, clenched his fists tightly, his fingernails piercing into his palms. He just said in a dry tone to the group of monks behind him: "Chang'an may already be unfortunate. Do you still want to watch the millions of living beings in Luoyangcheng suffer from the ravages of the magic calamity?"

"This Wanxiang Divine Palace, as you have seen with your own eyes... the Great Heavenly Demon Stele has been taken back by the magic path. Li Linfu is very likely to have faked his death, and there must be a shocking plot. An Lushan has proven the Yang Spirit, and rebellion is imminent. Do you still not believe what Liu Luogu said?"

Chan Master Tianzhi, the abbot of White Horse Temple, pondered for a moment before saying in a low voice: "Heavenly Master Sima, at this time, there are still three days until An Lushan overturns the Divine Capital Array. And if it is as the Heavenly Master said, the god-demons that the magic path ambushed in various parts of the city have all been slashed by the Daoist path, so the Divine Capital Array should be safe. The Buddhist path in Luoyang has already selected five high monks who have achieved Dharma Forms, leading six hundred Buddhist warrior monks, and they can follow the Heavenly Master to remove demons and defend the Dao tomorrow."

"An Lushan governs the three towns of Hebei. Even if his hundreds of thousands of magic troops rebel, it is not a matter of a moment. Even if he ignores the hearts of the people of the world and rebels against the Great Tang, if he wants to break through Chang'an, he must first kill his way to Luoyang and then break through Tongguan before he can kill his way to the foot of Chang'an City."

"Tongguan is a majestic pass through the ages, guarding Guandong. Guanzhong has the ancient Immortal Qin's Guanzhong Array to protect it. Except for the Tongguan array gate, all the mountains and rivers in Guanzhong have seals and arrays to guard them. Many places are places that even we dare not easily get involved in, let alone a large army?"

"I know the Heavenly Master is anxious, but the more it is at this time, the more you cannot mess up your mind!"

Sima Chengzhen then eased his mind a little, because what Chan Master Tianzhi said was not unreasonable. The ancient array laid down by Immortal Qin based on the terrain of Guanzhong still has its power today. It is okay for a few cultivators to fly and dive through Guanzhong, but the hundreds of thousands of magic troops An Lushan prepared to rebel, except for breaking through Tongguan, absolutely cannot enter Guanzhong.

And Tongguan is a heavy pass of the Great Tang, guarded by the most elite part of the Tang army. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of border troops, even if there were ten times more, they could not break through the pass in a hurry.

By then, the power of the righteous path of the world would have already been concentrated. I don't know how many Yang Spirits and how many True Immortals there are. An Lushan will lose his name and status and become a rebel, and everyone will get to punish him. It will not be difficult to kill this thief.

Even if An Lushan has Li Linfu behind him, and even if he has a magic sect legacy spirit treasure in his hand, as long as the Chang'an Divine Capital Array is not lost, the plan to assassinate An fails for a moment. As long as An Lushan's identity as the Great Heavenly Demon is revealed, leading to the world's common condemnation, it can be considered a success for the most part.

Although the magic path of the Great Tang has recovered somewhat, the righteous path is ultimately more prosperous.

The cultivators of the hundred schools and the high Daoist and Buddhist people are all towards the Great Tang. The mere magic sect and the hundreds of thousands of rebel troops under An Lushan cannot shake the general trend. As long as the Yu Yu Jiuyou seals in Chang'an and Luoyang are not lost, and the demons of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Realm cannot merge with the magic path in the human world, making it difficult for the magic sect's power to undergo a qualitative change in a day, this magic calamity will absolutely not be able to be stirred up!

Sima Chengzhen muttered: "Chang'an still has the Shangqing Pearl, and there is also that... Saint here!"

He said those two words vaguely to comfort himself: "Although the magic path is cunning and the plan to assassinate An is not well prepared, at worst, it is just letting that demon escape. Although the common people of the three towns of Hebei are pitiful, or have to endure temporary war, Chang'an is safe, and the magic calamity will not rot the world."

He looked at the direction of Chang'an with some worry and said to the group of high Buddhist monks behind him: "I will bring reinforcements back to Chang'an tomorrow, but Li Linfu, An Lushan, and even the old magic path have been planning for nearly a hundred years. Chang'an and Luoyang may change at any time, so please suppress this Wanxiang Divine Palace and guard against someone secretly breaking the seal of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Rift."

"And since the Empress, the Buddhist path in Luoyang has had many magic path ambushes. You should also purge the inside and guard against the magic path's dark seeds."

"The day before yesterday, I asked Senior Zhang Guo Lao to purge the demons left by the magic path in Luoyang in the past. You do not want my Daoist path to intervene. I don't know how this matter is going?" Sima Chengzhen said solemnly.

The few old monks looked at each other, but Chan Master Tianzhi smiled and said: "The demons left by the Empress in the past have long been saved by our Buddhist path. Now they are the protectors of the various temples. The evil roots have been removed. Even if they were demons in the past, under the Buddhist path's great law, they cannot cause any trouble."

"The method of salvation?" Sima Chengzhen nodded slightly: "The Buddhist path's method of saving demons is indeed capable, but the magic path's method of refining god-demons is also its fundamental spell. Masters, are you so confident that you can take these demons for your own use?"

"In my opinion, it is better to guard against it. The foundation of the White Horse Dharma Realm's array in Luoyang is the countless temples in the city. As long as these protectors transformed from saved demons are temporarily placed in the Longmen Grottoes outside the city, it should be foolproof."

Chan Master Tianzhi just smiled calmly, obviously having great confidence in his own method, and these were the internal affairs of the Buddhist path, and it was not the turn of the Daoist Heavenly Master to point fingers.

Beside him, there was a fat old monk who said unceremoniously: "The method of salvation is the orthodox method of the West, passed down from Tianzhu. When the Buddhist law was passed into the Snow Mountain Demon Kingdom, it relied on this method to save I don't know how many demons, including the witch-ghost demons at the Primordial Spirit level worshipped by the local demon tribes, such as the Great Darkness Heaven, the Lord of Lion Camel Ridge... What trouble can a few Yin Spirit demons refined by the magic path cause?"

Sima Chengzhen's face changed, and he turned his head to look at them fiercely: "This method of salvation, have you used it when the Buddhist path was passed into the Snow Mountain Demon Kingdom?"

"I remember that the Buddhist law was passed into Tubo six hundred years ago?"

The old monk swaggered, slightly proudly nodded and said: "It is... why, does the Heavenly Master also want to seek a salvation and prove the righteous fruit?"

Sima Chengzhen looked at him dead-eyed, his mouth twitching, wanting to sneer but unable to laugh. The killing intent in his eyes was awe-inspiring, making the old monk angry in his heart: "You Daoist Heavenly Master, still want to kill people in the territory of the Buddhist path?"

Sima Chengzhen's tone was as if it came from hell, cold and icy: "The Snow Mountain Demon Kingdom is the place where the magic path's Black Witch Sect preached. In the magic path, the legacy is also extremely long. The Black Witch Sect is half-god, half-witch, half-demon, originating from the legacy of the human cultivators who imitated gods and demons before the Supreme Dao Ancestor proved the Dao. Although the spells are bloody and cruel, they cannot be underestimated."

"Why do you think the magic path cannot crack your method of salvation in six hundred years?"

The old monk stared and said: "If the magic path could lift the method of salvation, those protector gods would have already rebelled!"

"Fool!" Sima Chengzhen said word for word: "Your Buddhist sect has the art of salvation, but how can the demonic path not also be able to disturb the human heart, corrupt your Daoist heart, and seize the Dao with Heavenly Demons? By using the name of your protectors, they disrupt the righteous path of your Buddhist Dharma? Eroding your orthodoxy like parasitic insects—is that not the very thing the demonic path is best at?"

The old monk stared and said: "A dignified Daoist Heavenly Master, only knows how to alarmist?"

At this time, Sima Chengzhen's hair and beard were all spread out, and he was furious: "Xuanhui, the dispute between our Daoist and Buddhist paths caused the great disaster of the eternal magic calamity in the past. After that, the two families swore an oath that the Daoist and Buddhist paths would support the righteous path together and be for the common people of the world. Although there were internal fights, they could not abandon the distinction between righteous and evil, and the distinction between Dao and Demon because of this. Under the order to remove demons, the two families are of one heart... If it is because of your arrogance and prejudice, harming our great plan to remove demons, how can we atone for our sins?"

As soon as this sonorous voice fell, a thunderous roar erupted, and the entire Pure Land Dharma Realm shook violently.

In the void above their heads, a valley surrounded by mountains like lotus flowers, emitting clear brilliance, like a pure land full of lotus flowers and seven treasures, shook violently.

With a loud "Boom," the southeast corner of the peaks emitting Buddhist light collapsed. Far and near, one could see a corner of the White Horse Dharma Realm shattered. Tens of thousands of Buddhist children meditating and cultivating in the Pure Land fell to the ground, and spiritual beasts with Buddhist nature, like bats, bumped around blindly. On the ground, five-colored deer and lions fled in panic, looking for a safe area in a panic.

Sima Chengzhen's face changed greatly. His escape light rose from his feet, whistling through the air, rushing out of the White Horse seal, and looking at Luoyang from above the White Horse Dharma Realm Pure Land.

I saw that many temples spread throughout Luoyang, which served as the foundation of the seal Dharma Realm, had already caught fire in more than half. A god-demon stood tall on the Yongning Temple, with human heads on its neck, half of which was a white-bone Buddha, and half of which was a newly cut bald head with precepts.

Behind that god-demon, dozens of black-clothed magic cultivators were holding long banners, drumming up Yin fire, and hitting strings of white-bone magic flames at various parts of the temple, burning the little novices and monks with weak cultivation in the temple into fireballs.

The locations of the various Buddhist temples were all busy places in the wards, and there were many common people's houses around.

At this time, it was the dead of night. Magic cultivators rushed out from various houses in Luoyang, taking advantage of the collapse of the White Horse Dharma Realm, the disappearance of the seals that suppressed spells and divine powers, and even magic power, to slaughter wantonly. They rushed into one house after another, and in the blink of an eye, there were wails everywhere, and blood flowed into streams.

In an instant, thousands of demonic cultivators suddenly launched an attack. Those handling snakes, those riding black winds, those stirring up countless living souls to move like ghost kings, those refining corpses, those driving parasitic insects, and those casting poisons—these most cruel and evil demon lords did not entangle themselves with the Buddhist disciples rushing out from the temples; they simply went into the residential areas to burn, kill, and pillage.

The tranquility of Luoyangcheng was broken in an instant.

The magic cultivators who killed and created chaos everywhere used blood, resentment, and living souls to start shaking the magic banners, hitting human bones into the foundations of the Buddhist temples, and spreading fresh human skin onto the glazed tiles of the temples.

Blood mist and black smoke rolled, and the wailing living souls were tortured by the magic cultivators and god-demons with various cruel means, emitting resentment that soared into the sky... Those temples and pure lands with Buddhist light and spiritual light collapsed under the impact of resentment, living souls, and magic. The array foundations polluted by blood were broken one by one under the manipulation of the protector god-demons in the temples.

The majestic Dharma Realm covering Luoyang began to disintegrate slowly under the blood sacrifice of hundreds of thousands of living beings killed in an instant, under the rebellion of the protector god-demons worshipped in the temples, and under the slaughter and impact of thousands of demons from various small magic sects.

The high monks and great virtues who hurriedly returned to the Dharma Realm with Sima Chengzhen were all stunned when they saw this scene.

The fat monk who had just mocked Sima Chengzhen jumped up as if he had been slashed by a sword, emitting a howl that did not sound like a human at all. His eyeballs were filled with bloodshot eyes in an instant, not like a high monk, but like an Asura who had killed until his eyes were red.

"Magic cubs! Buddha will fight you to the death... kill all these demons, kill them!"

"Kill!"

The monks in the Luoyang temples were suddenly impacted and chaotic for a while, but in just a few breaths, the temples that did not have god-demons saved as protectors came to their senses and first protected the wards where the temples were located.

The Tianjie Six-Drum Array was destroyed by the demons in the first time, and now the demons rushed into every ward to slaughter wantonly.

Cultivators in the city kept meeting the demons. In the city of Luoyang, it was like a hornet's nest that had been fiercely poked by the magic path. In an instant, tens of thousands of spells flew up from all over the city, and the light of flying swords shot up from the streets and alleys, illuminating the sky over Luoyang.

A demon who had just slaughtered a family of more than ten people flew into the air with a trail of blood light, looking at the dense escape lights rising in Luoyang and then flying toward the place of slaughter, shivering all over, and screaming: "How can there be so many cultivators in Luoyang? Some small countries controlled by our magic path don't even have this many people!"

He had just shown his head when he saw a monk whose eyeballs were redder than his magic path rushing down from the sky, swinging his Buddhist beads, and smashing his head and the heads of several other magic cultivators around him.

The furious cultivators of various families in Luoyang killed whoever they saw with black mist and blood qi. They unreasonably bombarded and killed the magic cultivators. Many unlucky ghosts who were mixed in and were not those magic path demons were also bombarded and killed by the righteous path indiscriminately just because their escape light was a little off.

Within two short quarters of an hour after the magic path's surprise attack, counterattacks began in various parts of Luoyang.

But Chan Master Tianzhi did not have half a joy. His hand holding the prayer beads was trembling, and he said tremblingly: "It's too late! It's too late... first go to stabilize the Dharma Realm seal, otherwise if the demons of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Rift rush out of the seal, we will all be sinners through the ages! Luoyang, leave Luoyang alone for now!"

When he said this, his whole body's Buddhist light was trembling, and the sound of his Zen heart breaking was heard clearly by Sima Chengzhen beside him.

Sima Chengzhen grabbed Chan Master Tianzhi's hand and said: "There is no other way now. We must first stabilize the White Horse Dharma Realm. If the Dharma Realm collapses and the Yu Yu Jiuyou demons rush out of the seal and merge with these magic cultivators, this kind of tragedy will become a hundred times more intense in the blink of an eye."

Chan Master Tianzhi's blue veins on his hands were bulging, but he could not control the monks who saw the demons ravaging and whose eyes were red. Following the shaking of the White Horse Dharma Realm beneath his feet, Sima Chengzhen looked back and saw countless black smoke in the Yu Yu Jiuyou Rift, carrying dense, countless demons, not a bit less than Luoyang's population, rushing out from the deep abyss rift.

Like infinite profound darkness, they swarmed toward the White Horse Dharma Realm above.

Just waiting to come out in full force and kill the demons cleanly, the Luoyang Buddhist disciples had to turn back and fall toward the White Horse Dharma Realm, first meeting those demons.

Countless ferocious and strange demons climbed out of the abyss, along the collapsed southeast corner of the Dharma Realm, and rushed into the Dharma Realm.

A demon with bat wings on its back and its whole body shrouded in black mist climbed onto the Dharma Realm. Facing it was a thick Jin Gang pestle, with Buddhist light burning like light flames on the pestle. With one stick, it smashed the demon's head, and the dozens of demons that rushed out with it were also twisted and shattered under the Buddhist light.

A monk who was born burly, eight feet tall and manifesting a Jin Gang body, roared: "Demon, go die for your grandfather!"

But in the blink of an eye, he was drowned by hundreds of times more demons...

An old monk in mid-air who scattered Buddhist beads and shattered a black tide gathered by hundreds of demons heard the sound and looked back, saying with grief: "Disciple!" His Buddhist beads swung like meteor hammers, roaring, and scattered the demons rushing into the Dharma Realm one by one. Just in this instant, hundreds of thousands of Yu Yu Jiuyou demons rushed into the White Horse Dharma Realm. ===== CHAPTER 240 =====

High in the air, an old monk who had scattered Buddhist beads to shatter a black tide gathered from hundreds of demon lords turned his head at the sound and said in grief: "My disciple!" His Buddhist beads swung like meteor hammers as he roared, striking down the demon lords rushing into the Dharma realm one by one. Yet, in this very instant, hundreds of thousands of demon lords from the Nine Heavens had already rushed into the White Horse Dharma Realm.