Chapter 696

Qian Chen was speechless and watched him quietly for a moment, thinking to himself: "We are total strangers, meeting by chance, and you told me the news that shouldn't be told to others? Is this appropriate?"

"Also, this Flying Boat Xiancheng can't keep secrets at all!"

"I was wondering why my wisdom was spreading so fast! You can comprehend these mysteries not because you are pursuing the Great Dao, but because the 'Great Dao' is pursuing you!"

Qian Chen glanced at the sky above. His Great Dream of the Universe had completely shrouded the immortal city, encompassing this place within his dream.

So the deeper the Buddhist disciples' Zen meditation, the more they detached from form, and the closer they got to his dream.

The closer to the source of wisdom...

At the core of his dream was a Supreme One symbolizing the Great Dao, with a blurred face!

One layer shallower, the Supreme One transformed into a Bodhisattva symbolizing the source of Buddhist wisdom, a Supreme Supreme Tian Mo symbolizing the source of demonic wisdom, and a Daoist Lord symbolizing the source of Daoist wisdom.

The three Bodhisattvas and Daoist Lords sat in a triangle, surrounding the Flying Boat Xiancheng.

One layer shallower in the dream, there was the leaping of the wisdom of all living beings. That faceless god-man flicking the prayer beads was in this layer, a kind of non-true, non-illusory appearance.

Although the Great Dream of the Universe was a great divine ability derived from the Nanhua Sect's Zhuang Zhou's Dream, combined with the Mani Sect's "Sutra of Thoroughly Exhausting the Root of All Dharma Wisdom" and the Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo's Game Dao Fruit, Qian Chen felt it becoming increasingly demonic as it was truly unleashed!

A perfectly good world of the cosmos, a classical immortal hero world!

Under the shroud of the Great Dream of the Universe, it was forced into a Cthulhu style...

Everywhere else, cultivators were struggling to pursue the Great Dao, but here—the Great Dao pursues people!

Now Qian Chen knew why the situation of Buddhist disciples falling into the demonic path appeared; it must be that those Buddhist disciples contemplated too deeply, using the Buddhist light in Qian Chen's dream to reflect their demonic thoughts.

"Anyway, the spiritual consciousness in my dream is not some Supreme Supreme Tian Mo, Yin Demon, or Nine Heavens Divine Demon, but the purest principles and wisdom."

"These people are equivalent to joining my 'Cloud Wisdom' project, sharing wisdom, big data cloud cultivation! There are no sequelae, so let them be!"

Qian Chen shook his head helplessly; these cultivators were too crazy!

He himself had never thought that they would be so active in pursuing "wisdom."

As the saying goes—if you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange, we each still have one apple! But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange, we both have two ideas!

But if we exchange all our ideas, we become one person!

Perhaps the bottom-level cultivators of this world have been desperate for too long! Encountering an opportunity, they want to grasp it tightly, regardless of how terrifying the trap behind it might be.

However, the project of sharing wisdom was carefully designed by Qian Chen.

Everyone's thoughts rise and fall, endless, and mixing in one or two of Qian Chen's shared thoughts would not cause any hindrance. Qian Chen wouldn't even pry into their memories or gain insight into their other thoughts, just using the unique logic of their consciousness, the various "qualities" of their consciousness...

Which is what he considers the "wisdom" of all living beings!

To cleanse, to temper that thought, and then split to produce new "wisdom."

Spreading wisdom, tempering wisdom, sharing wisdom...

Thus, in the great dream, condensing the wisdom of all living beings to transform into an illusory Dao Fruit. If the Dao Fruit were returned to all living beings, perhaps a path for all living beings to attain the Dao could really be walked out!

But that path is too dangerous!

If everyone could use the wisdom of all living beings and the power of the Dao Fruit of all living beings, they wouldn't have Qian Chen's restraint and would likely invite a large amount of the wisdom of all living beings down.

Their own thoughts and consciousness colliding with the wisdom of all living beings, tempered a thousand times, would naturally easily shatter their self and become puppets of the Dao Fruit of all living beings!

"The Great Dream of the Universe is truly a terrifying method of attaining the Dao!"

Qian Chen closed his eyes and calculated: "There is a saying in the Mani Sect: Three thousand wisdom beads can attain the immortal Dao! To condense three thousand wisdom beads, if it weren't for my terrifying demonic nature, I fear it would take thousands of years of accumulation. At the beginning, condensing a few wisdom beads in one thought is possible, but is human wisdom endless? After condensing eight hundred, there is a risk of inspiration drying up!"

"Truly wanting to condense three thousand wisdom beads requires experiencing thousands of years in the red dust, truly seeing countless loves, hatreds, and grievances, rationality and spirituality! Attaining immortality this way is not faster than other paths, perhaps only easier for those who have already walked other paths and accumulated incomparably deep wisdom."

"But compared to the speed at which I condense wisdom beads now, it is slower by more than billions!"

"How many wisdom beads have I condensed now?" Qian Chen closed his eyes and communicated with himself in the dream, calculating a number: "Twelve thousand!"

A trace of horror rose in Qian Chen's heart. He stared blankly at the sky, sighing in his heart: "This method of attaining the Dao in a dream, stealing the wisdom of all living beings, is perhaps the fastest path to attaining the Dao of a Daoist Lord! But this path..."

"The hidden dangers are too great!"

"It is a monster gathered from True Person Nanhua's free mind verification, plus the Fomen's dream attainment, the demonic path's other-transformation of all living beings, and the Mani Sect's wisdom attainment!"

"If this method were spread, those accumulated Primordial Spirits might all be able to leap through this, wrapping all living beings in a dream to shape an illusory Dao Fruit!"

Qian Chen thought about the scene of the accumulated Primordial Spirits of the cosmos one by one starting to devour all living beings in their dreams and transforming into illusory Daoist Lords, and couldn't help but feel a chill all over.

He immediately dispelled this terrifying fantasy, his consciousness returning to reality, only to look up and see Ning Qingchen looking at him with a smile that was not a smile.

The two were preparing to leave this place, and he heard Ning Qingchen say faintly: "Senior Brother, have you felt a trace of terror..."

"The Great Dao is so obscure and difficult. We struggle to seek knowledge, but we are half in the mountains and half in the water, unable to see even a little bit!"

"But today, the 'spirit treasure' and the opportunity left by the Buddha made this curtain suddenly scatter, allowing cultivators to comprehend it thoroughly... but is that really the Great Dao?"

She sighed and said: "This always gives me a feeling of the realm opened by the Kunlun Mirror, the Supreme Supreme Supreme Tian Mo's game of other-transformation!"

Qian Chen knew what she meant, nodded slightly, and said: "This matter may have its oddities, but for the masses of living beings, the rogue cultivators who rarely find liberation, it may not be an opportunity!"

Only then did Ning Qingchen smile slightly and say no more...

Before leaving, the old cultivator said happily: "Don't tell others about this secret... Actually, it's useless to tell them, the open spaces here are all occupied! Not to mention those with residual Buddhist light and fragrance, even places with nothing are all circled!"

The old cultivator finally revealed his purpose of showing off, laughing and waving his hand: "Our lifespan is about to end, so we have to use this opportunity and external objects. You young people have a great time, so it's better not to take such shortcuts!"

Qian Chen nodded, his divine sense moving slightly.

Several wisdom beads fluctuated, accompanied by a marvelous fragrance descending.

Making the old cultivator suddenly freeze, falling into sudden enlightenment...

When the sky grew dark, Qian Chen returned to the cloud tower and led out the green ox.

The two stepped forward, heading toward the southeast corner of the Flying Boat Xiancheng, and saw a hanging flying mountain in the sky, one layer higher than the Flying Boat Xiancheng, as if carved from white jade, like an immortal mountain in the sky.

Standing on a thousand-fathom height, slowly rotating on its own.

Accompanied by the sound of a bell!

Seven Primordial Infant cultivators dressed in gray-green Daoist robes, white gauze skirts, crimson gold fur robes, black cloaks, and other various robes flew out from the immortal mountain, standing in mid-air, announcing the start of the Treasure Assembly!

Ji Zhen rode the Cloud-Spraying Beast and soared into the air, flying toward that immortal mountain.

The Cloud-Spraying Beast beneath him chattered: "You say, is one side of the incense competition rumored these past few days the group of rogue cultivators who sold us the Cloud-Rising Incense!"

"If it really is, we missed a big scene!"

The Cloud-Spraying Beast spat out a mouthful of cloud vapor, its face full of yearning: "Incense that can invite the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Heavenly Realm and the sect-protecting spirit treasures! If I take a bite, I might live another two hundred years!"

Ji Zhen glanced at it and said faintly: "I don't know if you can live another two hundred years, but your single horn is a very rare material for the incense path, called the Cloud-Descending Spirit Rhinoceros!"

Hearing this, the Cloud-Spraying Beast was so nervous that black smoke sprayed from its nose!

Its four hooves were in a mess, and it almost slipped off the cloud!

The Cloud-Spraying Beast looked at Ji Zhen nervously and whispered: "Little Ji Zhen, how did you know?"

Ji Zhen did not answer. He had been undercover in the demonic sect for many years and was valued by Xie An; how could he not be a person with delicate thoughts?

Those three rogue cultivators had bumped into them inexplicably, so of course he had to investigate them thoroughly!

The Cloud-Spraying Beast, which had been nervous for a while, gradually returned to its old ways. It turned its head to look at the other cultivators flying to the immortal mountain, seeing that most of them were driving magic tools, and the better ones were flying cars or cloud tents. By comparison, the Cloud-Spraying Beast ridden by Ji Zhen stood out.

Such a mount is comparable to the top-grade sweat-blood horses of the mortal world among cultivators, or the top-grade luxury cars of later generations. It should be that wherever it goes, people will look up to it a few points. No one dared to block the path of Ji Zhen's cloud escape!

The Cloud-Spraying Beast felt it had face, and couldn't help but urge the cloud mist to be three points more imposing, with rolling auspicious clouds spreading for several miles.

It stood on the cloud head, looking left and right, and suddenly saw a green shadow in front, grinning: "Hehe, there's a fool leading a green ox, but he just won't ride it! He probably wants to imitate the predecessors of the Daoist Sect, but can't get the green ox divine beast transformed from Taiyi Yuan essence. He can only pick up a cow with pure green fur from the mortal world to fill the facade..."

"Hee hee, the green ox can't support the escape light, so he can only wrap the cow with the escape light and walk!"

"This wave, this wave is not a person riding a cow, this is a cow riding a person!"

The green ox walking faintly in front heard this, suddenly turned its head and looked, spitting a mouthful of hot air from its nose.

Thinking to itself: "This Cloud-Spraying Beast is afraid it's a fool... I, the old ox, don't dare to tease the Master like this. Those splashing mud-loaches from the Long Gong were all skinned. This stupid horse is just a foot-force raised by the Long Gong, and it dares to provoke the Master's bad luck!"

The Cloud-Spraying Beast behind paused and whispered: "Little Ji Zhen, did you say that green ox looked back at me?"

"Junior Sister, lean on the old ox for a while. I estimate that there will be no lack of Transformation Gods at this Treasure Assembly, and there may even be Primordial Spirit True Immortals present. You and Phoenix are together, the green ox can protect you a bit!" Qian Chen instructed.

Ning Qingchen nodded, held the phoenix, and rode on the green ox's back!

The Cloud-Spraying Beast behind saw a female cultivator holding a big yellow chicken riding on the ox's back, and grinned again: "Leading a cow and holding a chicken, how does this look like a farmer and his wife going to the market?"

Ji Zhen pulled its reins, pinched its ears, and said coldly: "The eyes of that chicken are pregnant with a divine light divine ability; opening its eyes can take your life!"

"The cultivation of that green ox is even far above yours, and the senior leading the green ox is at least a Transformation God!"

"If you cause trouble for me again... I will skin you and take your Cloud-Descending Spirit Rhinoceros!"

The Cloud-Spraying Beast then tucked its tail, not daring to speak, looking at him pitifully with raised eyes, and hurried on its way.

Not long after, it saw a blue-clothed cultivator holding a sable, its mouth moved, and just as it was about to open its mouth, it was whipped on the butt by Ji Zhen...

There was another little female cultivator with ribbons wrapped around her body flying beside it, looking at it curiously with her head tilted.

The Cloud-Spraying Beast shook its mane and became majestic again. The cloud head beneath its feet suddenly surged, like waves rolling endlessly, setting it off as particularly majestic.

Suddenly, it heard the little female cultivator say: "That fellow Daoist, do you sell the Cloud-Descending Spirit Rhinoceros of your Cloud-Spraying Beast?"

The Cloud-Spraying Beast fell down beneath its feet, and the cloud head was scattered!

Looking up, it saw the little female cultivator smiling, looking at its single horn, her eyes shining...