Chapter 555

After the Sect Master of Changming obtained the spirit pearl and the fragments of the Cheng Lu Pan transformed by Brother Qian Chen's divine sense, he was even more cautious than Ni Kun. He did not rush to refine the spirit pearl, but instead carefully used his divine soul to contemplate the Sun and Moon Dharma Body projected from within the spirit pearl.

Gradually, he discovered that by using the silver mirror—the fragment of the Cheng Lu Pan—to peer into it, he could project a scripture from the Dharma Body deep within the spirit pearl.

"The Scripture of the Peerless and Boundless Glazed Light Praising the Sun and Moon"

He returned to the base of the gourd immortal vine and used the exquisite immortal sounds emanating from the gourd to contemplate that scripture, until he had mastered it by heart, without discovering anything amiss.

He only felt that the wording of this scripture was profound, and many of its subtle and marvelous points faintly contained a certain Buddhist charm.

"It seems the origin of this spirit pearl can be considered clean; it is not the usual method used by the demonic path to deceive people into refining themselves into divine demons or evil artifacts!"

Like Ni Kun, the Sect Master of Changming was also deceived by the grand and upright aura of this Dharma Body and scripture. He could only see that this scripture pointed directly to the secret essence of the divine path, and the entire text did not contain a single trace of evil intent; everywhere it spoke of encouraging people toward goodness and the meaning of purity and enlightenment. He did not notice the sinister intentions hidden behind it!

Although the Sect Master of Changming did not shy away from practicing evil arts that required blood sacrifices or living sacrifices, people always have a tendency in their thinking: they believe that if an artifact or magic treasure contains the intent of the demonic path, it must have some kind of hidden danger, and if an artifact is grand and upright, and the cultivation method is open and bright, then the intent behind it should also be the same.

Who would have thought that there is still a person like Brother Qian Chen in this world, behind a perfectly fine righteous artifact, there is actually such an evil and strange ambush!

Just like when bad people associate with bad people, they will still raise seven points of vigilance; if they encounter a good person, they will instead become careless and underestimate the enemy!

It is probably because good people will not harm others!

This is unreasonable. Can't good people harm others? I, Brother Qian Zhuzhu, am not convinced...

"Many demonic cultivation methods appear cruel, but in reality, the intent behind them is quite grand. Practicing them harms others to benefit oneself, and there are no ambushes. On the contrary, some righteous cultivation methods often require one to be controlled by others!"

Brother Qian Chen said with much emotion: "Speaking of the prohibitions and restrictions of demonic cultivation methods, they are actually not necessarily as harsh as those of the righteous path. After all, the demonic path also emphasizes the law of the jungle. As long as the demonic nature in one's heart is deep enough, even if it is a cultivation method full of loopholes and backdoors deliberately left by a demon lord, it is not impossible to contemplate a heaven-shaking magic and counter the person behind it."

"On the contrary, among the righteous path, the method of conferring registers of the Yuanshi Sect is the most harsh cultivation method I have ever seen!"

"Before Core Formation, the transmitting master can report to the Celestial Master with talismans and withdraw the conferred Dao registers and magic power. Even after Core Formation, once one becomes a True Person, one must still be controlled by the Celestial Master. Although it does not mean losing one's entire Dao foundation, if the Celestial Master uses the seal, he can still shave off a layer of realm."

"By comparison, it is not that the old demon lords in the demonic path are making things difficult everywhere, often refining those talented true disciples into materials, and using their subordinates as cultivation resources. In fact, if some subordinates are more proficient in the demonic path than them and contemplate the true meaning of the demonic path, they will pose a very strong threat to them..."

Brother Qian Chen saw that the Sect Master of Changming was cautious everywhere, but he was not in a hurry. He chatted with Feng Feng Xianzi in a leisurely manner: "Think about it, if the disciples of the demonic path did not truly have the potential to threaten them, why would those old demon lords be so fearful, cruel, and suspicious?"

"There is also a rumor that if a true seed of the demonic path contemplates the Great Dao of the Nine Heavens, he can receive the conferred method from the Demon Ancestor. At that time, all the flaws left by the old demon in their cultivation method will disappear, and instead, they will be countered by these juniors..."

Feng Feng Xianzi frowned and said: "These are always rumors! In the eyes of outsiders, the true disciples of the demonic path are one by one refined by the old demons into divine demons, artifacts, and demonic objects to be driven. On the contrary, the righteous path is passed down from generation to generation, with masters and apprentices succeeding each other, and there is no such disaster. If you say that the defense behind the righteous cultivation method is very deep, this does not make sense either!"

"On the contrary, the fact that the righteous path is passed down from generation to generation just shows that it has established a tradition of order!"

Brother Qian Chen said with a mouthful of fallacies: "The elders must have restraints on the juniors, and all Dao methods can be broken, so they don't fear their own Dao lineage being passed out by some unfilial disciple. And the demonic path essentially advocates the law of the jungle; if one is not careful, it will get out of control, which is why there are such strict and bloody prohibitions! How many of the true demons and heavenly demons in the world have killed their own masters and destroyed their Dao lineages to emerge? And among the righteous path, have you ever heard of it happening a few times?"

Brother Qian Chen said meaningfully: "Therefore, in the eyes of the demonic path, those who have experienced various cruel trials, fought a path out of the impossible, fought with people, fought with heaven, and fought with all living beings, immortals, and Buddhas, are the true demon seeds!"

"The rest of those who only have aptitude, but do not have many vicious calculations in their bellies, and have not practiced human feelings, are just fertilizer for those true seeds!"

Others may have guesses, but the fact that those true cultivators who truly understand the demonic mind and adapt to the demonic path can contemplate the true transmission of the Demon Ancestor from ordinary demonic cultivation methods is something Brother Qian Chen has verified personally, and it is not false at all.

As the only living descendant of the Supreme Louguan Dao, he has the highest seniority among the Supreme Louguan Dao cultivators, the most respected status, and is a person who sits on equal footing with the Wenshi Dao Venerable. He holds the triple identity of the revival ancestor, the sect-protecting spirit treasure, and the source of the Dao lineage. The Supreme Louguan Dao lineage methods he has obtained so far are only eleven.

But when he first revealed the demonic mind in his heart, the Nine Heavens Demonic Path stuffed a bunch of powerful magic methods into him out of thin air.

Things like "The Scripture of the Moon Demon's Painted Skin," "The Transformation of the Infinite Demonic Dragon," "The Blood Sea Demonic Scripture," "The Great Method of the Seven Emotions and Six Desires Confusing the Saints," "The Twelve Yuan Chen White Bone Divine Demons," "The Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Blood-Transforming Divine Blade," "Abi," "Yuantu," and "The Original Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Dharma Seal"—every single one is an extremely profound demonic inheritance, just like Chinese cabbage that doesn't cost money. It's just that the Nine Heavens Great Dao didn't appear in person to beg: "Please, practice a little!"

By comparison, the inheritance of the Supreme Louguan Dao is very messy, and he still has to redeem it from the Lord of Samsara!

What an unfilial descendant!

"So..." Feng Feng Xianzi asked cautiously.

"So you can set your heart at ease. My calculation is not entering any demonic mind, but a proper style of the righteous path!" Brother Qian Chen patted his chest and said: "Before, I contemplated the Buddhist cultivation methods. Many of them are supernatural powers of mind-to-mind transmission. After practicing them, even an old demon of many years will have his fierce aura eliminated, eat vegetarian food and chant Buddha, and convert to Buddhism! By comparison, I am not distorting their soul cognition, nor have I forcibly converted them. I am just borrowing their hands to polish my own cultivation. How could there be any problem?"

Feng Feng Xianzi said: "So deceiving others to practice for you, and turning your own cultivation into your resources, this is also a tradition of the righteous path."

"This part does borrow some practices from the demonic path!"

Brother Qian Chen laughed: "But these are minor details. The way of man is to take from the insufficient to serve the sufficient. Gathering the strength of the masses and borrowing their strength is also the orthodoxy of the divine path. Speaking of which, isn't the divine cultivation lineage also about cultivating oneself into a holy spirit or incarnation of a god? Since they all think this is the right path, why can't I do the same?"

Upon hearing this, Feng Feng Xianzi could only smile bitterly: "Anyway, the one you are harming is not me. As long as you don't implicate the innocent, that's fine!"

"You can set your heart at ease. I really can't stand the style of the Long Gong territory raising people as slaves, but with the Dragon Clan holding us back, it's hard for us to do anything. It's just right to use this person's hand to kill a round. If he wants to achieve the divine path, he must take on the burden of the living beings here!"

"Taking on the burden of the common people for you, collecting wish power for you, bearing the backlash for you, running around for you, and in the end, still having to end up being skinned and boned, and eaten clean..." Feng Feng Xianzi said silently in his heart: "This Sect Master of Changming is truly pitiful! Even though I have a deep hatred for him, seeing his end, I, the poor Daoist, can't bear it!"

The Sect Master of Changming contemplated the spirit pearl for several days and finally began to practice that cultivation method.

He very easily condensed a point of glazed light with his magic power, and he saw that from the islands in the spirit pearl where the character for 'blessing' bestowed by Ni Kun was, a continuous stream of wish power was projected, blessing the point of spiritual light condensed between his eyebrows.

The Sect Master of Changming only felt that this glazed divine light was extremely marvelous. He easily refined those blessed wish powers and condensed a faint swastika symbol, which emitted a sense of purity and brightness.

Soon, he was able to entrust his divine sense, conjure a phantom of a Buddha gathered from glazed light, and perform several types of Buddhist magic.

Although these were only minor spells like purifying clothes, purifying water, purifying hands, and purifying qi, the marvelousness was already beginning to show.

The Sect Master of Changming casually took some worldly food. Originally, this kind of food had mixed primordial qi, and cultivators would not eat it after Foundation Establishment and before Core Formation, so as not to waste magic power to purify the turbid qi entering the body.

But after he chanted the Purification Water Spell, he saw a ball of glazed light fall onto the food, dissolving ninety percent of the mixed qi. The original bowl of low-grade spirit grain and mixed grain actually had a trace of pure spiritual energy, equivalent to the effect of yellow essence rice!

He tried the Purification Qi Spell again, and turned the point of light between his eyebrows into a round light that spread out, and the spiritual energy around his body became even purer by a trace.

This was because the place where he was located was the hinterland of Changming where the spiritual energy was most abundant, and even the immortal vine gourd spirit root he had snatched was planted here, which was why the spiritual energy was pure. If it were in a place with deep turbid qi, what kind of effect would it have?

The Sect Master of Changming said in horror: "No wonder the high monks of the Central Lands build temples and establish shrines. Besides places with abundant spiritual energy like spirit mountains and great rivers, they also do not avoid places with deep worldly turbid qi!"

"Many temples have extremely prosperous incense, people coming and going, and deep turbid qi, yet high monks and great virtues frequently achieve success? It turns out that the Buddhist method is so convenient that it can separate the clear from the turbid. And it can use wish power and incense to replace spiritual energy, transform magic power, and increase cultivation!"

The Sect Master of Changming sensed this kind of magic power cultivated by wish power, which was independent of his own cultivation, and even his own magic power had improved by a trace. Only then did he know that the Buddhist method was strange, unlike the Qi Refinement path which avoided dual cultivation, but instead had the marvelous effect of complementing his own method.

So he continued to absorb wish power and continued to practice that point of swastika light.

With his cultivation, the initial shallow magic power was almost achieved in one go, and soon he cultivated that point of light between his eyebrows from a tiny glimmer to the size of a grain of rice, as bright as a candle.

He also cultivated several spell methods without practicing them, such as the supernatural power of feet that could shrink the earth, the supernatural power of wisdom eyes that were like magic eyes, and even a circle of Buddha light as thin as a cicada's wing. Although it was still weak compared to the Sect Master of Changming's own cultivation, among the cultivators of the Penetrating Law realm, it was already a powerful means of self-defense!

By this time, the Sect Master of Changming had no more doubts about this encounter, only thinking that his own fortune was not shallow, which was why he had obtained such a spiritual object with a great origin in Buddhism.

"After I entered the Soul Transformation realm, I knew that my own foundation was lacking, and the method to enter Soul Transformation was not perfect. Every bit of progress required great effort. In this way, the path of the Primordial Spirit is difficult to find. I had long heard that Buddhism widely saves those with affinity, opens the door of convenience, and is also a righteous fruit, not inferior to the immortal path."

"It's just that those few major Buddhist sects overseas either only accept female cultivators like Mount Mount Luojia, or some only have some shallow Buddhist methods, which are considered branches of the side path. Now that I have obtained such a divine object, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to cultivate a Buddhist Dharma Body? Even if there is a mishap with this body, I still have the thousands of years of purity of the incarnation, and who knows, by entering Buddhism from the Dao, I might achieve the fruit position of a Primordial Spirit Golden Body!"