Chapter 556: Accumulating Vow-Power, Cultivating Buddhist Dharma Body

The Long-Lasting Sect Master obtained the spirit pearl transformed by Brother Qian Chen's split spirit and the Cheng Lu Pan fragments. He was much more cautious than Ni Kun, not rushing to refine the spirit pearl, but carefully contemplating the Sun and Moon Dharma body projected from the spirit pearl with his soul.

Gradually, he discovered that by using the silver mirror of the Cheng Lu Pan fragments to peek, he could project a scripture from the depths of the spirit pearl's Dharma body.

"Praising the Sun and Moon Light, Auspicious and Boundless Glazed Light King Scripture"

He returned beneath that gourd immortal vine, contemplating that set of Dharma formulas with the exquisite immortal sounds from the gourd, until he knew it by heart, without discovering anything wrong.

He only felt that this set of Dharma formulas was profound in meaning, and many high and wonderful places were faintly hidden with a Buddhist charm.

"It seems the origin of this spirit pearl can be considered clean, not the usual means used by the demonic path to deceive people into refining themselves into gods, demons, or evil magic treasures!"

Like Ni Kun, the Long-Lasting Sect Master was also deceived by the grand and upright aura of this Dharma body and scripture, only able to see that this set of Dharma formulas pointed directly to the secret intent of the Divine Dao, with not a trace of evil thoughts throughout the whole text, everywhere being the meaning of persuading people to be good, pure, and enlightened, failing to notice the sinister intentions behind it!

Although the Long-Lasting Sect Master did not shy away from cultivating those evil methods that required blood sacrifice or living sacrifice, people always had a tendency to think that magic treasures and Dharma treasures containing demonic intent must have some kind of hidden danger, while if a cultivation method was grand and bright, its underlying intent should also be the same.

How could he have expected that there would be a person like Brother Qian Chen in the world, who had such sinister ambushes behind a perfectly good righteous Dharma treasure!

Just like bad people associating with bad people, they would also raise seven points of vigilance. If they encountered a good person, they would instead be careless and underestimate the enemy!

It was probably because good people wouldn't harm others!

How unreasonable, wouldn't good people harm others? I, Brother Qian Zhuzhu, am not convinced...

"Many demonic cultivation methods seem cruel, but their underlying intent is quite grand. Cultivating them damages others to benefit oneself, with no hidden dangers. On the contrary, some righteous cultivation methods often require being controlled by others!"

Brother Qian Chen said with great emotion: "Speaking of the restrictions and limitations of demonic cultivation methods, they are not necessarily as harsh as righteous ones. After all, the demonic path also emphasizes survival of the fittest. As long as one's demonic nature is deep enough, even a cultivation method full of loopholes and backdoors left by demons might not be impossible to contemplate into shocking magic, counter-controlling the person behind it."

"On the contrary, in the righteous path, the method of bestowing talismans of the Primordial Origin Dao is the harshest cultivation method I have ever seen!"

"Before Core Formation, the transmitting master can report to the Heavenly Master with talismans, taking back the bestowed Dao talismans and magic power. Even after Core Formation, becoming a True Person, one must still be controlled by the Heavenly Master. Although it won't lead to the loss of the Dao foundation, if the Heavenly Master uses the seal, he can still shave away a layer of realm."

"In comparison, don't look at those old demons in the demonic path making things difficult everywhere, often refining those true transmissions with potential into materials, using their own disciples and grandchildren as cultivation resources. In fact, if some people under them are more proficient in the demonic path than them and contemplate the true meaning of the demonic path, they will pose a strong threat to them..."

Brother Qian Chen saw the Long-Lasting Sect Master being cautious everywhere, but he wasn't in a hurry, chatting leisurely with Feng Feng Xianzi: "Think about it, if the disciples and grandchildren of the demonic path didn't really have the potential to threaten them, why would those old demons be so wary, cruel, and suspicious?"

"And there are rumors that if it is a true seed of the demonic path, when contemplating the Nine Heavens Great Dao, one can receive the bestowed methods of the Demon Xie Xie Zushi. At that time, the flaws and backdoors left by the old demon in their cultivation methods will all disappear, and instead, they will be countered by these juniors..."

Feng Feng Xianzi frowned: "These are always rumors! In the eyes of outsiders, the true transmissions and disciples of the demonic path are refined into gods, demons, magic treasures, and demonic objects by the old demons to be driven. On the contrary, the righteous path is passed down from generation to generation, master and apprentice inheriting from each other, without this disaster. If you say that the righteous path's cultivation methods have deep defenses, this doesn't make sense either!"

"On the contrary, the righteous path being passed down from generation to generation just shows that it has established a heritage order!"

Brother Qian Chen said with a mouth full of crooked logic: "Elders must have restrictions on juniors. All Dao methods can be broken, so they don't fear their own Dao lineage being passed on by some unfilial disciple. And the demonic path essentially advocates survival of the fittest. If one is not careful, it will lose control, which is why there are such strict and bloody restrictions! How many of the true demons and heavenly demons in the world killed their own masters and destroyed the Dao lineage to come out? And in the righteous path, have you heard of a few times?"

Brother Qian Chen said meaningfully: "So, in the eyes of the demonic path, those who have experienced various cruel tempering, fought out a path from 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 qualifications, but don't have many vicious calculations in their bellies, and haven't mastered human feelings, are just fertilizers for those true seeds!"

Other than some guesses, the fact that those who truly understand the demonic thoughts and adapt to the demonic path can contemplate the true transmission of the Demon Xie Xie Zushi from ordinary demonic cultivation methods was verified by Brother Qian Chen himself, without half a lie.

As the only living descendant of the Supreme Louguan Dao, and the person with the highest seniority, most respected status, and equal status to the Dao Venerable of the Beginning of Civilization, he also held the three identities of the revival ancestor, the sect-protecting spiritual treasure, and the Dao lineage source. The Dao lineage methods he obtained now were only eleven.

But the first time he revealed the demonic thoughts in his heart, he was stuffed with a pile of overbearing magic by the Nine Heavens Demonic Dao.

"Moon Demon Skin Painting Scripture", "Infinite Demon Dragon Transformation", "Blood Sea Demonic Scripture", "Seven Emotions and Six Desires Bewitching Saint Great Art", "Twelve Yuan Chen White Bone Divine Demon", "Heavenly Demon Blood Transformation Divine Saber", "Abi", "Yuantu", "Primordial Heavenly Demon Dharma Seal"—every one of them was an extremely profound demonic inheritance, almost like cabbage that didn't cost money, just short of the Nine Heavens Great Dao appearing in person and begging: "Please, cultivate it!"

In comparison, the inheritance of the Supreme Louguan Dao was very messy, and he had to exchange for it from the Lord of Samsara!

Truly an unfilial descendant!

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

"So you can rest assured, my calculation is not entering any demonic thoughts, but a proper righteous style!" Brother Qian Chen patted his chest and said: "Before, I contemplated the Buddhist Dharma formulas. Many of the heart-to-heart divine abilities, after cultivation, even old demons of many years will have their fierce malevolent qi eliminated, eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddha, converting to the Buddhist sect! In comparison, I don't distort their soul cognition, nor have I forcibly converted them, just borrowing their hands to polish my own cultivation. How can there be a problem?"

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

"This part does borrow some of the demonic path's methods!"

Brother Qian Chen smiled: "But these are all minor details. The way of man is to use the insufficient to serve the surplus. This time, gathering the strength of the crowd and borrowing his strength is also the orthodoxy of the Divine Dao. Speaking of which, the Divine Cultivation lineage also cultivates itself into the holy spirits and incarnations of gods. Since they all think it's the right path, why can't I do this?"

Feng Feng Xianzi heard this and only smiled bitterly: "Anyway, it's not me that you are harming. As long as you don't implicate the innocent, that's fine!"

"You can rest assured. I am very displeased with the style of raising people as slaves in this Dragon Palace territory, but with the Dragon Clan's constraints, it's hard for us to do anything. It's just right to borrow this person's hand to slaughter a round."

"Taking on the living beings for you, collecting vow-power for you, bearing the backlash for you, running around for you, and in the end, having to end up with skinning, bone-pulling, and being swallowed clean..." Feng Feng Xianzi said silently in his heart: "This Long-Lasting Sect Master is really pitiful! Even though I have a deep hatred with him, seeing his fate, I can't help but feel unbearable!"

The Long-Lasting Sect Master contemplated the spirit pearl for several days and finally began to cultivate that set of Dharma formulas.

He easily condensed a bit of glazed light with his magic power, and saw that in the islands where Ni Kun had previously laid out his faith, there was a continuous stream of vow-power cast, blessing the bit of spiritual light condensed on his brow.

Brother Qian Chen looked up at the straw man and revealed a faint smile.

Soon, he could entrust his divine sense, manifesting a Buddha shadow gathered by glazed light, and cast several kinds of Buddhist Dharma spells.

Although they were just small mantras like Pure Clothes, Pure Water, Pure Hands, and Pure Qi, they already showed the wonders.

The Long-Lasting Sect Master casually snatched some mortal food. Originally, this kind of food had mixed essence, and cultivators would not eat it after Foundation Establishment and before Core Formation, so as not to consume magic power to purify the turbid qi entering the body.

But after he chanted the Pure Water Mantra, he saw a mass of glazed light fall on the food, dissolving nine layers of mixed qi. The original bowl of low-grade spirit grain and mixed grain actually had a trace of pure spiritual qi, equivalent to the effect of yellow essence rice!

He tried the Pure Qi Mantra again, and spread the round light transformed from the bit of brightness on his brow, making the spiritual qi around his body even purer.

This was because he was in the belly of the Long-Lasting Sect where spiritual qi was most abundant, and even the immortal vine gourd spiritual root he snatched was planted here, so the spiritual qi was originally pure. If it were in a place with deep turbid qi, what kind of effect would it have?

The Long-Lasting Sect Master was horrified: "No wonder the high monks of the Central Lands build temples and establish shrines. Besides places with abundant spiritual qi like spirit mountains and great rivers, they don't avoid places with deep human red dust and turbid qi!"

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

The Long-Lasting Sect Master sensed that this magic power cultivated by vow-power was independent of his own cultivation, and even his own magic power had improved a bit, realizing that the Buddhist method was strange, not like the Qi Refining path that tabooed dual cultivation, but instead had the wonderful use of complementing his own methods.

Feng Feng Xianzi muttered in his stomach, but he also knew that without Brother Qian Chen, he would definitely not be able to take away the secret treasury, so he sighed and said bluntly: "The ancestor used the technique of the Pot Heaven to open up a mustard seed space as a secret treasury. Now it is hidden in this immortal vine gourd!"

With his Dao practice, the initial shallow magic power was almost achieved in one go, and soon he cultivated that bit of brightness on his brow from a tiny bit of light to the size of a grain of rice, as bright as a candle.

There were also several mantra methods that were cultivated without cultivation, having divine abilities like shrinking the earth into an inch, and wisdom eye divine abilities, and even cultivated a circle of Buddha light as thin as a cicada's wing. Although it was weak compared to the Long-Lasting Sect Master's own cultivation, it was already a fierce self-defense means among cultivators who penetrate the law!

At this time, the Long-Lasting Sect Master had no more doubts about this encounter, only thinking that his own fortune was not shallow, to have obtained such a spiritual object with a great origin in the Buddhist sect.

"After I entered Soul Transformation, I knew that my foundation was lacking, and the method to enter Soul Transformation was not perfect. Every bit of progress required great effort. I have long heard that the Buddhist sect widely saves those with affinity and opens the door of convenience, and it is also a righteous fruit, not inferior to the Immortal Dao."

"It's just that those few Buddhist sects overseas either only accept female cultivators like Mount Mount Luojia, or only have some shallow Buddhist Dharma, counting as side-branch transmissions of the side door. Now that I have obtained such a divine object, cultivating a Buddhist Dharma body, isn't it the best of both worlds? Even if this body has a ten-thousandth of a chance, there is still the purity of thousands of years of incarnation, and it is said that by entering Buddha from Dao, one can attain the fruit position of a Nascent Soul Golden Body!" ===== CHAPTER 557 =====

"This wave! This wave, he is on the first floor, and I am in the atmosphere!"

Brother Qian Chen turned over countless vicious calculations in his heart again and decided the future of the Changming Sect.

He even felt that Hong Hong Xuesheng alone was not enough as a coolie, and was preparing to pit the entire Changming Sect into the big pit of the gourd.

Now he was pondering how to let other forces within the Changming Sect discover the change in the immortal gourd, preferably to pack the entire sect into the gourd, so it would be convenient for him to take it away!

Feng Feng Xianzi looked at the subtle change in Brother Qian Chen's expression and muttered in his stomach: "What vicious plan is he thinking of again?"

"Sure enough, we side-path loose cultivators are not ruthless, and the Dragon Clan is just a group of stupid loaches. If you really want to talk about it, it's still your Daoist lineage that is ruthless!"

"No wonder the demonic path is all old demon lords who killed their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood and conspiracies, yet they still couldn't fight you true descendants of the Daoist path and were driven to the corners of the Earth Immortal Realm!"