Chapter 557: Gourd in Hand, Bottomless Pit

Once this thought arose, not to mention how Brother Qian Chen sneered in the spirit pearl, the Long-Lasting Sect Master immediately stood up and summoned his disciples with a flying talisman.

It wasn't that he didn't want to continue practicing, but the faith previously laid out by Ni Kun, which had allowed him to practice up to this point, was already somewhat insufficient. Moreover, there might be changes on those islands, and the vow-power transmitted was much lower, which should be because many people had abandoned their faith.

"Master!" A Core Formation true disciple arrived at the mansion and knelt down.

"How do you intend to deal with the territory of those evil cultivators earlier?" The Long-Lasting Sect Master didn't look at him, standing with his hands behind his back and saying faintly.

That Core Formation true disciple stood before the Sect Master, also extremely nervous, and said timidly: "The disciple is prepared to follow the old example, bestowing it upon those who have contributed to the sect and surrendered, ordering them to offer sacrifices every year!"

"No need!" The Long-Lasting Sect Master didn't explain, just saying faintly: "Bestow those islands upon the Flowing Cloud Hundred Fortune God, and order the living beings on the islands to paste 'Fortune' characters in every household and worship the Fortune God, and then exempt them from their taxes!"

The true disciple was slightly surprised to hear this. He thought for a moment, looked up, and said: "Then does the disciple need to bestow other islands as well, ordering them to worship the Fortune God?"

With the Sect Master's status, he naturally didn't need to explain to him. He just gave an order for the people below to follow, but the Long-Lasting Sect Master was ultimately wary of the Dragon Clan, shaking his head slightly: "That's not necessary, but..."

He waved his sleeve, and a thin scripture flew to that Core Formation true disciple, inscribed with "Pure and Bright Scripture"!

"You let the people below spread this scripture. All mortals within the Long-Lasting territory must recite this scripture and hold the great mantra in the scripture. The temples of those Sea-Patrolling Generals must also be ordered to spread this scripture and create some spiritual responses. In places where this scripture is recited well, taxes can be reduced!"

The disciple received the decree and rose to leave.

The Long-Lasting Sect Master sat withered for another three days, and saw that the vow-power surging from the void began to increase rapidly, soon increasing tenfold, and still growing at a high speed. With the power of the Long-Lasting Sect, establishing a Divine Dao foundation was really much more convenient than Ni Kun struggling to find trouble with evil cultivators. This was also why Brother Qian Chen sat and watched Ni Kun encounter disaster. Relying on Ni Kun, a small Core Formation god, to collect vow-power, how many years would it take for him to refine a Divine Dao Dharma body?

"Let's just make do with this for now!" Brother Qian Chen thought with disdain in his heart.

At this time, he had already cultivated magic power of the Core Formation realm, equivalent to the realm of the Buddhist Pure Land Sect's Relic realm, the Consciousness-Only Sect's Body Consciousness, the Yoga Sect's External Appearance, the Vinaya Sect's Fifth Precept, and the Zen Sect's Formless Zen.

He held the spirit pearl in one hand and the treasure mirror in the other, sitting beneath the immortal vine, with seven parts of his face looking perfect and solemn, and only three parts of his immortal demeanor.

This was the manifestation of the three external appearances of the Buddhist sect: the white hair appearance between the brows, the dark blue eye appearance, and the full cheek appearance, making even his skin appearance change by a few points from before.

The Long-Lasting Sect Master frowned slightly, secretly saying: "Cultivating this Buddhist Dharma body is good in every way, but whenever I cultivate this Buddhist Dharma appearance, I always have a feeling of wanting to convert to the Buddhist sect."

"Hmph! I cultivate Buddhist Dharma only to open up another path to prove the Dao, not to learn the compassion of the Buddhist sect and be converted!"

Although he was sure that this kind of ignorance-inducing conversion was not some ambush, but a means long laid out by the Buddhist sect, no one wanted their nature to be distorted.

Once this thought arose, he noticed that at some point, wherever the Buddha light shone, there was fragrance everywhere. Accompanied by the vow-power chanting of those who held the mantra and recited the scripture, there was Zen singing surrounding his body. Only then did he suddenly realize the source of this conversion.

"This vow-power ultimately comes from the thoughts of all living beings. There is Buddhist Dharma in this scripture, and naturally, there is Buddhist Dharma infection accompanying the vow-power."

The Long-Lasting Sect Master noticed that the exquisite immortal sounds in his ears had also been isolated!

These Buddha light Zen singing and fragrance were endless benefits for Buddhist cultivation, but the Long-Lasting Sect Master's foundation was still Daoist methods, which was why he was so wary, worried about transforming his own true body's magic power.

"Hmm?"

The Long-Lasting Sect Master sensed something, and looked at the red-skinned gourd hanging on the immortal vine above his head. It was still swaying in the wind, emitting exquisite immortal sounds, but these immortal sounds seemed to be contending with the vow-power Zen singing, and even somewhat interfering with the transmission of vow-power.

"With these five life-bound magic treasures, I can go anywhere in the world!"

Instantly, the vow-power surging from the void was isolated, and could only enter a little through the gourd mouth. The influx of vow-power was controlled by the Long-Lasting Sect Master's heart. As long as he activated the gourd, he could cut off the induction of vow-power, and he didn't fear that the vow-power entering the gourd would convert his own body again.

A smile appeared at the corner of Long-Lasting's mouth. He thought he had escaped the Buddhist sect's calculation and said proudly: "It turns out this object can isolate vow-power. In this way, as long as I let the split spirit practice in the gourd, I can avoid disturbing the true body! And this gourd seems to have the wonderful use of restraining this method... I am no longer afraid that this method has ghosts!"

Feng Han Xian in the spirit pearl sighed, secretly saying: "It's not you practicing in the gourd, but my Fellow Daoist Brother Qian's split spirit practicing in the gourd, helping you refine a Dharma body by the way! And you don't have to fear that the spirit pearl has ghosts! Because what the spirit pearl is calculating is this gourd... You are just—an incidental one!"

Feng Han Xian's tone had a sense of unbearability. The Long-Lasting Sect Master couldn't be said to be walking on thin ice, but he was also cautious everywhere, yet Brother Qian Chen was still one move ahead, burying him in the pit!

Far away in the closed-door cultivation of the Luo Zhen Immortal Sect, Brother Qian Chen's true body suddenly opened his eyes, a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth: "Entered the urn!"

"The fourth life-bound magic treasure, finally found, can refine the wood virtue!"

The spirit pearl entrusted the glazed light, and a vague figure gradually took shape in the gourd.

The Long-Lasting Sect Master stroked his beard, laughing and talking, seemingly very proud of his caution, completely unaware that behind that figure, there were three divine characters hidden...

Brother Qian Chen's true body was also extracting the vow-power transmitted from the split spirit side, pulling out strands of golden vow-power from the void, like golden straw, and under his skillful hands, weaving them into a grass man.

Behind it was written a name—Hong Hong Xuesheng!

It was exactly the Long-Lasting Sect Master's name!

"The great divine ability conceived by the Supreme Dao Venerable Pill, initially budding. Containing the constitution of heaven, it can seize a person's fortune and longevity, and can also bestow heavenly salary and longevity. It is like the Supreme Dao Venerable opening his mouth, golden words and jade speech. Once the divine ability is completed, it can almost change heaven and earth!"

"This is a divine ability that masters the Heavenly Dao. With my current realm, I can only get its fur! However, just this bit of fur, 'Supreme Shi Siming', can also try that Dharma spell!"

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

"In this way, outside my calculations, there is another killing move... After the Divine Dao Dharma body is initially refined, I will let the incarnation help me refine the gourd as well. Then I can borrow his magic power to refine my magic treasure, and by the way, secretly refine him too!"

"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 and determined the future of the Long-Lasting Sect.

He even felt that Hong Hong Xuesheng alone was not enough as a coolie, and was already planning how to trick the entire Long-Lasting Sect into the big pit of this gourd, so that it would be convenient for him to take it away!

Feng Feng Xianzi looked at the subtle changes in Brother Qian Chen's face and muttered in his heart: "What vicious strategy is he thinking of now?"

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

"No wonder the demonic path is all mountains of corpses and seas of blood, and the old demons who killed their way out of conspiracies can't beat you Daoist true transmissions, and were driven to the corners of the Earth Immortal Realm!" ===== CHAPTER 559 =====

Feng Feng Yangzi also agreed: "Everyone, the time for the Divine Ao to appear is in one month! When the time comes, everyone help me seize the Divine Ao. After the great success, I promise to help everyone explore the Gui Xu three times. If I violate this oath, heaven and man will punish it together!"

True Person Yunhe smiled and spoke, but while waving his sleeves, he quietly sent out a talisman letter. The other Soul Transformation True Persons also agreed verbally, but what they did behind their backs was not something Brother Qian Chen could know!

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True Person Yunhe's letter flew thousands of miles away!

Inside the Qingyu Sect, a Daoist with a broad belt and elegant crown was riding on a frost-feathered crane. Seeing the spiritual light arrive suddenly, he reached out to take the talisman letter, unfolded it, and looked at it, laughing: "The Tian Yuan Divine Ao, which has been missing for hundreds of thousands of years, has appeared, and there is also the Gui Xu Illusion Sea. The ancestor ordered us to investigate that object, and we have already searched the entire overseas. If there are still clues, they can only be in such a hidden place as Gui Xu!"

"In that case, we must investigate it!"

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Changming Sect territory!

For more than a year, in the ten thousand miles of territory under Changming's jurisdiction, with millions of people chanting "The Scripture of the Peerless and Boundless Glazed Light Praising the Sun and Moon," and the collected incense and wish power continuously blessing him, True Person Hong Hong Xuesheng had condensed the Glazed Dharma Body of the Peerless and Boundless Glazed Light Praising the Sun and Moon.

He looked up at the red-skinned gourd on the immortal vine.

"Although the gourd hides my Dharma Body achievement, I let the disciples under my seat spread the scriptures widely, which has already attracted the probing of those few elders!"

"Fortunately, with the help of the newly refined Dharma Body, I contemplated the ancestor's legacy in the gourd and understood the Pot Heaven prohibition for refining the gourd."

"It turns out that after this immortal vine gourd opens the Pot Heaven, it is equivalent to a cave heaven that can move at any time. Not only my Dharma Body, but even the island's spiritual veins can be moved into the gourd, absorbing primordial qi from the void and transforming it into spiritual energy!"

"In this way, when I finish refining the gourd, wouldn't I be able to move the entire Changming into the gourd and carry the sect and great teaching with me?"

Thinking of this, even with Hong Hong Xuesheng's city, he couldn't help but get excited: "How can the Dragon Clan control my Changming now? I can also truly control Changming in my hands, no longer being restrained by those old and rotten people..."

"A true cultivator should carry his own Dao lineage and sect with him, and control the sect, rather than being controlled by the sect."

"No wonder when the ancestor Qiongming gambled with the Dragon King in the past, he could collect the endless water of the four seas with one gourd. No wonder the ancestor had such great supernatural powers, yet preferred to live in a small island. It turns out that the ancestor's true cave heaven was that immortal vine gourd!"

Just as Hong Hong Xuesheng was full of ambition, a talisman edict came from outside the sky...

Seeing the divine light on the talisman edict, Hong Hong Xuesheng's face sank, and a trace of fear appeared.

His face was gloomy, but he could only respectfully take the talisman edict. He unfolded the talisman edict issued by the Long Gong, read it a few times, then put away the talisman edict, his tone uncertain: "Tian Yuan Divine Ao?"

"The Long Gong has actually teamed up with Penglai again, asking us to wait for orders at any time?"

The red-skinned gourd beside him shook, as if it were also surprised by this news!