Chapter 241: Looking Up to See the Sun, Not Seeing Chang'an

The purple lotus at Sima Chengzhen's heart had only the last rank left, and the twelve petals were precarious, but his face flushed with an abnormal red. Chan Master Tianzhi scolded the supervisor beside him: "Quickly get me the Heavenly King Protecting God Pill!"

The supervisor was stunned, and Chan Master Tianzhi could not help but be angry: "Quickly!"

"Heavenly Master..." Chan Master Tianzhi protected Sima Chengzhen's heart and mind with his own thick Buddhist power, but at this moment, Sima Chengzhen spat out another mouthful of stagnant blood, and his soul became stronger by three points.

He said in a low voice: "By relying on the method of the lotus incarnation, I can still urge the Heavenly Master Dharma Seal for one strike. Even if I cannot completely seal the Yu Yu Jiuyou Rift, it is not a problem to stalemate with it for a few days. Soon, the righteous reinforcements from Chang'an and various places will arrive, Luoyang can be saved, and the magic calamity can also be eliminated!"

Chan Master Tianzhi closed his eyes slightly. He knew the consequences of Sima Chengzhen doing this.

Several high Buddhist monks who had cultivated into Dharma Forms and Golden Bodies around him put their hands together and said: "We shall not let the Heavenly Master specialize in beauty before us. We will definitely sacrifice our lives to guard Luoyang and eliminate the magic calamity!"

"Wait... wait until Li Taibai comes to reinforce, and this calamity will pass!"

"I fear you won't be able to wait!" Someone sighed in a low voice.

Everyone turned back in anger, but saw a figure that was there and not there, as if it were just a phantom of the heart, slowly appearing before them—a middle-aged man in the appearance of a fallen scholar, standing with his hands behind his back, his expression calm and profound.

"Li Linfu!" Sima Chengzhen said in a low voice.

Li Linfu smiled slightly and sighed: "You Heavenly Master, you are not entirely trash! At least you have a little more responsibility than these true trash!"

Chan Master Tianzhi gritted his teeth and said: "Li Linfu, the Emperor treated you not thinly, and you are also a Tang person. Why do you want to slaughter these countless Great Tang common people and stir up a magic calamity that harms countless living beings?"

"There is no why? Perhaps, this is the demon! The Empress could become a demon and ascend, usurping the Tang to become Zhou, why can't I destroy the Great Tang? In the past, my uncle Jiang Jiao and the Emperor launched a coup to kill Princess Taiping. In that slaughter, I obtained a part of the Great Heavenly Demon's legacy, and the magic path advanced daily."

"This Li Tang has forced my magic path for many years. In the past, I controlled the sovereign of Nanzhao with my subordinates, killing people and refining corpses every day, how comfortable it was."

"But that Li Tang was meddlesome, sending troops to crusade, and wasn't I poisoned to death by tens of thousands of Tang troops with the Ten Thousand Gu Corrupt Corpse Poison? They didn't dare to crusade against my Nanzhao again!"

"The Emperor used me as a Prime Minister for forty years, to sort out the Yin and Yang affairs of this world for him... At that time, I was the knife in the Emperor's hand, managing the magic path influence for him, known as the Heavenly Demon Prime Minister, clearing the Daoist and Buddhist influence in the imperial court, suppressing the generals of the border troops, as well as the unruly people in the magic path, dividing the three religions, and supporting the hundred schools."

"I have to say that when the Profound Emperor was young, he was truly a generation of wise monarchs, with great spirit and decisiveness. Compared with the current Emperor who is entangled by wealth and soul-eroding, he is like two different people. From this point of view, although Yang Taizhen is a junior, her magic path is not inferior to mine!"

"When the cunning rabbit dies, the running dog is cooked. The Emperor's ambition to drive me was gone. When he wanted to enjoy peace, I lost my value of existence. So I faked my death and escaped, using a chess piece the Emperor used to eradicate me, and formulated this plan for the chaotic world magic calamity. The process of all this was natural, and I never had a trace of hesitation in my heart—isn't this a matter of course?"

"Why, you are still surprised, and even feel that I am rebellious?"

"What I am rebelling against is not the Dao. What I have done is all for my own benefit! Slaughtering Chang'an and Luoyang to prove the Primordial Spirit, driving An Lushan to destroy the Great Tang's hearts, and waiting for me to usurp it. Since there is this opportunity, why not do it? As for the life and death of the common people in the world, what does it have to do with me?"

Li Linfu's face showed a trace of confusion, and he sighed: "Why, you are still surprised, and even feel that I am rebellious?"

Chan Master Tianzhi trembled with anger, and the high Buddhist monks beside him, and even Zhang Guo Lao and Sima Chengzhen, all had awe-inspiring killing intent in their eyes when they looked at Li Linfu.

They had seen too many magic cultivators who still had a persistence in their hearts. They actually thought Li Linfu still had a trace of nostalgia for the Great Tang, but they didn't expect this person to be completely a demon's heart. In terms of philosophy, the two sides were already irreconcilable!

Sima Chengzhen sneered: "Even if we are smashed to pieces, we will not let you succeed!"

Li Linfu smiled slightly: "You Heavenly Master, you indeed still have one strike of power. If you fight to the death, perhaps you can really seal the Yu Yu Jiuyou Rift... but, what if you seal it again?"

Sima Chengzhen looked at Luoyangcheng. At this time, the magic cultivators and god-demons who were slaughtering wantonly, under the concerted efforts of the righteous cultivators who rose up to subdue demons in Luoyangcheng, had been controlled in various places. The situation was improving. Although the casualties of the Luoyang common people were heavy, the Buddhist path had already protected most of the wards. The demons of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Rift, under their bitter suppression, had never rushed into the city to seize bodies...

As long as they persisted and waited for reinforcements to arrive, this magic calamity could be eliminated.

Sima Chengzhen looked back at Li Linfu. He and the group of high Daoist and Buddhist people behind him all had the determination to die for this. Even if their souls were scattered, it was worth it.

Li Linfu sighed long. He also turned his head to look at Luoyangcheng. His eyes crossed the city wall and looked at the endless darkness outside the city. In that darkness without light, it seemed as if there were towering demon gods watching Luoyang, and it seemed as if there were countless demons dancing wildly in the dark night.

At this time, the sound of wind came from afar...

The sound of the wind, mixed with the sound of weapons colliding, passed through the sails, bringing the breath of countless people. In the darkness, the Dharma eyes of Sima Chengzhen and others could see that a wolf smoke of blood qi rushed into the sky in the distance. The rolling wolf smoke had the blood qi of hundreds of thousands of people gathered. Just this wolf smoke alone could make the demons and evil spirits retreat.

"This is?" Sima Chengzhen stood up.

Woo woo woo!

A huge horn sound came. In the darkness outside the city, thousands of blood-red flags suddenly stood up. The blood flame firelight on the flags illuminated a small piece of darkness. In the dots of firelight, dozens of huge tooth ships were flying in the sky, crashing toward Luoyangcheng.

On the tooth ships were countless figures of border troops, magic cultivators, Hu people, and Han people. They stood neatly on the ship's side, silent, with only the slight rubbing of weapons and armor.

After a loud horn sound, a deafening shout rang out on the five-tooth great ships. This shout was like the ten thousand zhang waves stirred up by a tsunami, and also like the sky-filling wild sand raised by a sandstorm, swirling toward Luoyangcheng... Even the majestic city wall of Luoyang was trembling constantly in the roar.

Luoyangcheng originally had a city-protecting array. Even such building ships and flying ships could not break the barrier protecting the whole city. There were also divine thunder cannons placed in various parts of the city wall, originally waiting for the war to fire ten thousand cannons at once, making these flying ships unable to approach the city at all.

But tonight, under the destruction of the demons. The city defense array and the White Horse Dharma Realm collapsed, and many elite Tang troops on the city wall also divided part of their strength to return to protect the common people.

Luoyangcheng was like a weak woman exposing her chest and abdomen, with no power to resist.

Now the magic cultivators in the city had been suppressed, and the infinite demons of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Realm, although they had the spirit treasure Great Heavenly Demon Stele, could also be delayed... but these hundreds of thousands of border troops rushing into Luoyang would cause the situation on both sides to collapse completely.

These border troops of the three towns of Hebei were enough to slaughter Luoyangcheng, stir up huge blood sacrifice power, and completely break through the seal of the White Horse Dharma Realm.

Luoyangcheng was trembling slightly. This was because the tooth ship flying ships had already defeated the sporadic resistance on the city wall, the ship's bow hit the wall, and waves of magic troops easily drowned the resistance of the defenders on the city wall and came toward Luoyangcheng, which had no resistance.

Amidst the countless noisy shouts, the dull, thunder-like footsteps sounded like drumbeats, knocking in the hearts of the righteous high people one by one.

An old monk closed his eyes in despair...

The Heaven-Tilting Magic Calamity finally descended completely. These hundreds of thousands of border troops who cultivated the magic path could very easily provide bodies for countless demons. The border troops wanted to swallow the demons to cultivate, and the demons wanted to possess the border troops. This was the cruel slaughter of the magic path, but no matter who survived, they would all become the most terrifying and cruel—soldier-disaster demons in the world!

Sima Chengzhen let out a cry like a night owl, half-crying and half-laughing. His arms were trembling, and he formed a lotus Dharma seal in front of his chest. The purple lotus at his heart had its last rank of petals falling one by one, slowly.

"Guard Luoyang!"

"Guard the common people!"

The Heavenly Master Dharma Seal floating in front of Sima Chengzhen shattered violently, triggering the Nanyang Founding Heavenly Master Seal that suppressed the White Horse Dharma Realm Pure Land, shaking again.

At this time, the righteous crowd already understood Sima Chengzhen's determination.

Led by Chan Master Tianzhi, dozens of high Buddhist monks with at least Dharma Form and Golden Body realms triggered the wish-power accumulated by the White Horse Dharma Realm for a hundred years. Countless Buddhist magic tools and magic treasures flew all over the sky, and Buddhist disciples sat cross-legged and chanted sutras.

At this moment, a strong aura that swept across Luoyang erupted within the White Horse Dharma Realm.

A Buddhist light suddenly expanded, sweeping across the magic cultivators in the city, and one demon after another screamed and turned into flying dust in the Buddhist light.

Even the leading magic troops who rushed into Luoyang were staggered by this impact of Buddhist light. The thousands of people at the very front all melted in the Buddhist light and turned into flying dust.

At this moment, Luoyangcheng seemed to have risen a sun. After the Buddhist light swept across Luoyangcheng, it suddenly shrank back into the White Horse Dharma Realm. Everyone and everything it passed disappeared. The White Horse Dharma Realm seemed to open a giant mouth, putting the tens of millions of living beings in Luoyang into it.

This was the Buddhist path pouring out all its strength to take away the living beings of the whole city.

"Suppress the Dharma Realm!"

Sima Chengzhen's soul and Dao foundation burned with a layer of golden fire. Zhang Guo Lao held the fishing drum and rushed to block Li Linfu regardless of his life. The two fought, setting off a huge roar, like two god-demons fighting over Luoyangcheng.

The spirit treasure Heavenly Master Dharma Seal slowly covered the White Horse Dharma Realm. The city-protecting Dharma Realm array of Luoyang and the Yu Yu Jiuyou seal were reversed, protecting the White Horse Dharma Realm.

Chan Master Tianzhi roared: "Fellow disciples, sacrifice your lives to defend the Dao in one move!"

After saying that, he burned his own Golden Body. Golden light like blood flowed down. Dozens of high monks with Dharma Forms and Golden Bodies melted their bodies in the Buddhist light, using their cultivation and thought-power, together with the sarira of high monks worshipped in countless Buddhist pagodas in Luoyangcheng.

At this moment, at least hundreds of thousands of sarira shone brightly, and together with the blood of the Golden Body, they turned into infinite sutras, surrounding the White Horse Dharma Realm, transforming into a city wall.

Tianmo Sheli as bricks and stones, Golden Body as iron juice, a huge mandala, accompanied by the thought-power worshipped by the Buddhist path for countless years, with thousands of magic tools such as Jin Gang pestles, prayer beads, and kasaya, and dozens of magic treasures as the core, condensed into the Dharma bodies of the Four Heavenly Kings, Four Bodhisattvas, Four Vajras, and Five Great Vidyarajas, sitting in various parts of the mandala.

The supreme method of the Esoteric Sect—the Womb Realm Mandala!

Dozens of high monks of the Luoyang Buddhist path used their death and the disappearance of their souls without bringing any cultivation from their previous lives as the price to forge a supreme barrier seal.

Outside, the Womb Realm Mandala sat in town, and inside, the spirit treasure Nanyang Founding Heavenly Master Dharma Seal suppressed it. In Li Linfu's angry eyes, the Buddhist and Daoist paths joined forces to send the Luoyang common people into the White Horse Dharma Realm, and then transformed the White Horse Dharma Realm into a copper pea that could not be steamed, boiled, hammered, or fried, and even if a Heavenly Demon descended to take a bite, it would have to break two big teeth.

Moreover, such a solid seal blocking the Yu Yu Jiuyou Rift also invisibly restrained a portion of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Realm's power.

Although the demons of the Yu Yu Jiuyou Demon Realm could immediately merge with the magic troops of the three towns of Hebei, creating hundreds of thousands, nearly a million demons with at least Core Formation realm. The magic path's power in the human world would suddenly expand a hundred times...

But wanting to break through the White Horse Dharma Realm and blood sacrifice the tens of millions of living beings inside would take at least three months of grinding. This period of time was enough for the righteous path of the world to gather several Primordial Spirit True Immortals, nearly ten Post-Heaven Spirit Treasures, and gather an army of a million cultivators to kill their way over to remove demons and defend the Dao!

Therefore, Li Linfu could not stay in Luoyang. Now he had only one way out, and that was to kill his way to Chang'an and unseal the second Yu Yu Jiuyou seal. Only then would the magic troops under his command be enough to contend with the entire righteous path.

Luoyang fell, and the Daoist and Buddhist paths sacrificed one Heavenly Master and dozens of high people with Dharma Forms and Golden Bodies to seal tens of millions of common people into the White Horse Dharma Realm.

Zhang Guo Lao wailed, disheveled, and was knocked down by the furious Li Linfu. The White Horse Dharma Realm emitted a golden light, taking him into the Dharma Realm.

He staggered to the ground and saw Sima Chengzhen sitting cross-legged on the spot, surrounded by a layer of golden powder and bone ash. The purple lotus at his heart had withered, and the soul within it had disappeared. Although his physical body still had a breath, it had no feeling.

Zhang Guo Lao hammered the ground with his fist and cried: "Fellow Daoist! Fellow Daoist... why am I the only one left?"

At this time, a little novice rushed over, holding a lotus flower, bowed to Zhang Guo Lao and said: "Master burned his Golden Body to shape the mandala. Before reincarnation, he could only use the merit of three lives to turn into a lotus flower to protect the Heavenly Master's soul, so that his soul would not disperse!"

Zhang Guo Lao looked at that lotus flower. Sure enough, a faint soul could be seen in the heart of the flower. Although it was not as good as a mortal at this time, let alone that half-life cultivation, at least the person was still alive.

He carefully took the golden lotus. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

I saw the soul in the lotus flower sitting in the heart of the flower, muttering to himself in a lost soul: "Luoyang is gone. Even with all our strength, we can only protect these Luoyang common people. The magic army and the Yu Yu Jiuyou demons have merged, and the magic calamity has really descended! We cannot save the common people of Guandong and Guanzhong!"

"Tongguan can block those hundreds of thousands of border troops, but it cannot block these magic troops at this time!"

"Between the two capitals, blood will flow into rivers, and I don't know how many living beings will die unjustly, and even their souls will not be at peace... We have lost. Now, the common people of the world can only rely on them!"

"Zhang Guo... take me back to Chang'an!"

"Chang'an!" Zhang Guo Lao held that lotus flower and turned to look to the west.

At this time, outside the mandala Dharma Realm, magic qi soared into the sky, covering the sky and the moon. Countless demons whistled and danced. The magic army lost the population for blood sacrifice, and at this time, they were also swallowing those demons, their physical bodies alienating into demons. Every moment, the demons outside the mandala would become stronger by one point.