Chapter 832

Brother Qian Chen circled the city; he lowered his hands, his fingertips brushing against the rough black giant rocks, the sutras engraved on them filled with mud-gold.

The written "Jin Gang Samadhi Amala Sutra" was gradually absorbed into the unwavering Jin Gang intent that Brother Qian Chen had summoned from the Other Shore Dao fruit.

Even the various karma entangling Brother Qian Chen and his heart-hell were shrouded by that boundless Great Vow.

Held by the Buddha at the end of time...

Letting his fingers be scratched on the rough black rock, his flesh, like yellow mud, embedded in the gullies, like lines of tadpole-like sutras, a strange thought flashed through Brother Qian Chen's heart.

"Who is bearing the karma of infinite living beings for me in the future? Strange? Isn't that Great Vow one I made myself?"

Brother Qian Chen didn't expect that summoning his future Dao fruit to bless the city walls of Huairen Town would have such strange changes.

He walked around the city slowly holding a wooden bowl, chanting the "Future Star Constellation Sutra," which did attract the attention of some townspeople, but Huairen Town was in chaos, and Brother Qian Chen was just circling the city chanting sutras, so no one bothered him.

Only one person was silently watching him.

This person looked unremarkable, just a groom among the auxiliary soldiers in the army, but behind his turbid and tired eyes, there was a trace of coldness that no one noticed.

His gaze only took up one ten-thousandth of Brother Qian Chen's attention; as Brother Qian Chen's Heavenly Eye hidden beneath his brow turned slightly, infinite karma radiated from that person's body, and immediately, all connections of past and future were seen through clearly.

His Heart-to-Heart Connection even perceived the true intent hidden beneath his various surface thoughts.

"So it is a Moon Demon that has cultivated a True-Life God-Demon..."

Brother Qian Chen's ears moved slightly, hearing the anxiety in his heart.

"The Sect Master took action personally to peel off the skins of those who returned from Wuchuan Town; even if the resident True Person took action personally, if they didn't forcibly pry, they shouldn't have been able to see through it."

"Why was it suddenly exposed?"

"The Demon-Illuminating and Demon-Breaking Mirror is an active, invasive method of investigation, and it resonates with the fundamental malevolent qi of the military cultivators here. Under its illumination, every military cultivator, and even ordinary people living in the city, are constantly having their origins investigated."

"Military cultivators constantly exchange malevolent qi with others under the light of this mirror, which is also a kind of grinding and merging of the military formation before a great battle."

"Although I constantly used my True-Life God-Demon to imitate and respond, all traces collected by the Demon-Illuminating and Demon-Breaking Mirror are thrown into the Six-Ren Heavenly Calculation Ball for deduction, and then verified by military strategists proficient in the military Yin-Yang Dao. Every trace of what happened here in the past must be calculated."

"Since I put on the human skin, although I have been careful everywhere, I have still done two things that don't fit my identity; it definitely cannot be hidden for long!"

"Within today, I fear they will suspect me..."

The Moon Demon Sect's true disciple had also cultivated the Demon Heart Secret Method, refining several clever people's Yin Demons to hide in his brain to help him think. In an instant, various thoughts, reflections, and ideas emerged; this is also a cultivation method of the Moon Demon Sect.

It is called the "Other-Transformation Demon Heart Phase," which emphasizes that human thinking patterns are also a kind of human skin.

By peeling off those people's thinking patterns and wearing them on one's own demonic soul, one can simulate other people's thinking.

This was originally a demonic art for replacing others, but a demon lord of the Moon Demon Sect found another path, creating a "Small Demon-Consciousness Art of a Thousand Transformations," unifying these various thoughts and controlling them; between thoughts, it is as if dozens of people are thinking.

If the Moon Demon hadn't put on human skin, it would ultimately put pressure on his original consciousness; the consciousness he wears cannot exceed one hundred.

This method also has great prospects.

And this demon was able to lurk until now because he was cautious enough; since infiltrating, he has done very few things that violate his identity.

The military Yin-Yang strategists haven't discovered him yet.

But who could have expected that a source-level existence of the Demonic Dao would have his heart-voice stolen by the Third Demon Ancestor of the Buddhist school, who heard every thought and movement of the entire city clearly?

My heart-voice has been stolen by the Third Demon Ancestor!

Such an encounter would make even the Moon Demon's ancestors cry out in injustice.

"For the current plan, I must flee quickly!"

The Moon Demon Sect true disciple thought calmly: "Fortunately, although I have taken action very few times, every time it was in the most critical position, and I learned a lot of their intelligence. I originally wanted to risk changing skins and infiltrate the small team of the Tuoba family preparing to leave the city, and then sell them to the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Venerable!"

"But the arrows that shot the skin demons earlier seemed to have been shot from beside Tuoba Tao..."

"Now there is a better choice, and that is this monk..."

"Tuoba Old Matriarch allows him to enter and exit most places, and he has been in Huairen Town for the shortest time, so there are not many traces of him in the Six-Ren Heavenly Calculation Ball. Risking replacing him leaves the fewest flaws. Possessing such a freer identity, whether advancing or retreating, or even reducing flaws to defend oneself, can be done freely!"

Brother Qian Chen thought calmly that the Moon Demon Sect was only a heterodox path in the Demonic Dao, and the True-Life God-Demon cultivated by the disciples in the sect was very strange.

It is a skin bag.

This kind of True-Life God-Demon tests both the technique of peeling skin and the 'acting' after wearing it.

It is said that a Moon Demon peeled off the human skin of a true disciple of an overseas immortal sect, infiltrated it, and acted as this person until he cultivated to Soul Transformation, becoming the Sect Master of that small sect without anyone discovering it. And that original true disciple was only a cultivator of the Realm of Penetrating the Law!

This is because the Moon Demon Sect refines human skin into a demon lord, inheriting the original owner's memories, thinking patterns, cultivation, and even part of their potential.

In the hands of truly ruthless great demons, they can even peel off the fate of the person.

In the past, the Saintess of the Demon Heart Sect held the "Moon Demon Painted-Skin Sutra" and went to seduce the Emperor of the Cao family; she asked the Moon Demon Sect Master at that time to take action and peel off the human skin of the Tuoba Empress at that time, along with her fate.

But the skin peeling was successful, but the Tuoba Empress also planted a demon heart in the Saintess's body.

Both sides successfully swapped homes.

Finally, the Tuoba Empress successfully turned the tables, killed the Emperor of that generation, and then seized the Supreme Supreme Tian Mo, seizing the Dao foundation of the Saintess of the Demon Heart Sect.

"The Moon Demon of this generation is too sloppy!"

Brother Qian Chen recalled the various traces he had seen on those human skins and curled his lips, saying: "It's just ordinary, only at the level of that Yaksha skin bag; even the two most careful boutique skin bags among them haven't reached the level where I peeled the true disciple of the Ghost-Crying Sect in the past."

"Mainly, he failed to mobilize the fear of the peeled person. You must know that skin bags are easy to peel, but the heart is hard to peel!"

"Only when their heart is in extreme fear, tightened to the limit, can one slowly crack a knife wound, and then suddenly scare them, to separate the heart, soul, and body's triple skin bags."

"By the time my Demon Sutra was completed, when I peeled the skin of the Blood-Eye in my memory, peeling off even his eye-light and heart, he was far behind!"

"I really want to borrow this skin bag and spar with that Moon Demon."

"See if I can peel his skin silently, or if he finally sees through the true form of my skin bag and is hacked to death by me."

"In this way, with Tuoba Matriarch's attainment in the Demon Sutra, she is qualified to be the Sect Master of the Moon Demon Sect!"

"Since I promised her a chance to seize Longcheng, I will give her the Moon Demon's skin bag and see if she can seize Longcheng under the nose of the Great Supreme Supreme Tian Mo Little Murong Chui."

Brother Qian Chen's Zen-heart karma was all borne by the Other Shore Dao fruit, and the demonic nature doubled; for a moment, he was truly itching for a fight, so he took the initiative to walk toward the direction where the Moon Demon Sect true disciple was hiding. Sure enough, halfway there, a rude groom shouted: "Monk, come here!"

The groom laughed and broke off a piece of horse feed, and seeing Brother Qian Chen walk over obediently, he threw it into the wooden bowl in his hand.

Brother Qian Chen put his hands together and said: "Thank you, benefactor."

The groom was close now, and after confirming again that Brother Qian Chen had no cultivation, he laughed and said to him: "Come and chant a sutra for my horse! It's a good partner; pray for it so it doesn't die on the battlefield!"

Brother Qian Chen stood in front of the horse and chanted the "Buddha-Spoken White Bone True-Form Sutra."

The groom came behind him, and his fingers flicked out invisible, thin fingernails like knife blades.

His hands were steady enough to paint the "Three Thousand Skin Bags Painting" of the Moon Demon Sect's direct lineage on a grain of rice; it is the map of the true forms of the skin bags of three thousand various living beings in the cosmos that the Moon Demon Ancestor peeled off.

It is also the inner chapter of the "Moon Demon Painted-Skin Sutra" that has never been circulated, recording the refining methods of more than three thousand types of skin demons.

Generally speaking, this kind of skin bag painting, which is vivid in every detail, wouldn't fit in a courtyard if spread out, but the true disciples of the Moon Demon Sect can engrave it on a grain of rice.

The true lineage of this sect only tests the level of skin peeling.

Therefore, when the groom's fingernails instantly swept across Brother Qian Chen's spine, there was not even the sound of a mosquito bite, and Brother Qian Chen's skin bag had already been sliced open from behind.

Brother Qian Chen was still chanting the "Buddha-Spoken White Bone True-Form Sutra."

This sutra tells of a Buddha in the future world who preaches to living beings who are obsessed with skin appearance and have not realized emptiness. On the first day, he peels off his skin bag to show his flesh appearance; on the second day, he even strips off his flesh appearance to show his white bone appearance.

Finally, he strips off his bones together to show the various appearances in his heart.

Then he lets go of his heart-appearances and realizes true emptiness.

This sutra tells the principle that after detaching from various color-appearances, emptiness is realized...

The Moon Demon Sect true disciple hidden beneath the groom's skin bag only treated the sutra in his ears as the buzzing of mosquitoes.

Moon Demon Painted-Skin includes two paths: peeling skin and painting skin.

Peeling skin is about substitution, replacing everything about a person; externally, it is peeling off other people's various name-appearances, and internally, it is peeling off one's own various name-appearances.

It contains extremely high Buddha-Dharma!

Moon Demon Sect disciples generally cultivate the external but not the internal; Brother Qian Chen has seen many who peel other people's skin to replace their identities.

Only Tuoba Matriarch has been able to peel her own skin, cultivating both internally and externally, and realizing the meaning of name-appearances.

She also achieved this demonic path by chance.

Painting skin is the cultivation and acting of name-appearances, and it is also a slow grinding of one's own heart, replacing other people's skin bags and color-appearances, gradually realizing the letting go of one's own skin bag and color-appearance.

Therefore, this sutra is correctly cultivated as demonic, becoming free in other transformations.

Inversely cultivated as Buddhist, it is all emptiness.

The "Buddha-Spoken White Bone True-Form Sutra" that Brother Qian Chen chanted is exactly the principle of Middle-Way Emptiness, which is the opposite of the "Moon Demon Painted-Skin Sutra."

And Brother Qian Chen is too proficient in the "Moon Demon Painted-Skin Sutra"; this preaching of his, seemingly the Moon Demon Sect true disciple is focused on peeling Brother Qian Chen's skin and ignoring him, but in reality, every word and sentence is explaining the root of his demonic nature.

Every word and sentence was engraved deep in his heart.

This ability to preach is not something that can be done without realizing all the doubts and attachments in his heart, following his original heart and nature, and subtly instilling the principles; it is already a very high-level conversion method of the Great Vehicle, comparable to empowerment.

If he had been allowed to peel Brother Qian Chen's triple skin bags and expose the true suchness and emptiness without appearance to him, he might have been converted on the spot.

Before he could repent, his demonic power would have been transformed into the correct fruit of the Buddhist school within a single shout.

If it were before, there would have been such a possibility.

But at this moment, Brother Qian Chen's Zen-heart karma was borne by the Other Shore Dao fruit, and the demonic nature doubled; the Xuanzhen Taiyi Demon Ancestor bore the various contradictions of his original heart for him, just like when the Xuanzhen Taiyi Demon Ancestor converted the Buddha in the past.

The Brother Qian Chen who remained had his original heart restored to liveliness, and he no longer had such compassionate and conflicted thoughts!