Chapter 844

"Of course not!" To Li Zhong's question, Qian Chen only shakes his head and says slowly: "Do you know who I am?"

Li Zhong says without hesitation: "The Guardian of Louguan..."

"And who is the Guardian of Louguan? A Primordial Spirit from the previous generation? A Louguan senior? Or... a Sect-Suppressing Spiritual Treasure?"

Li Zhong scrambles up, staring at Qian Chen, his gaze sharp and tinged with a trace of doubt: "So, what exactly are you?"

From Qian Chen's heart, a spiritual light blooms, round and perfect like a pearl.

He twists that spiritual pearl and says slowly: "I am the Guardian of Louguan, and also the Supreme Dao-Dust Pearl!"

Li Zhong's expression is blank, as if rolling thunder is in his mind; he looks at Qian Chen with awe and disbelief. No matter what Qian Chen said, no answer could be more shocking.

What is the Supreme Dao-Dust Pearl?

Is there any Daoist disciple in the world who doesn't know the Supreme Dao-Dust Pearl—one of the Three Treasures of the Supreme One, the Daoist orthodoxy! The true direct transmission of the Supreme One!

A spiritual treasure refined by the Supreme Daoist Ancestor.

Its status is so noble that even in the entire Earth Immortal Realm, there are few people or things that can compare to it.

The Supreme Daoist Ancestor is an existence of such high reach, opening worlds, passing down the Daoist school, the teacher of ten thousand generations, the source of all things, one of the three most supreme existences in the cosmic realms.

Faintly the leader of the three Daoist Ancestors!

Li Zhong finds it hard to imagine that the one in front of him is such a terrifying existence.

But thinking about it carefully, it is also understandable; besides the Supreme Dao-Dust Pearl, what else in the world is more suitable to be the Guardian of the Louguan Dao? With this spiritual treasure protecting it, even if Louguan were destroyed ten thousand times, it could stand up ten thousand and one times, and even be more glorious.

Li Zhong looks at Qian Chen, somewhat hesitant, not daring to speak.

Qian Chen, however, seems to know what he wants to ask: "When Louguan was destroyed, my true consciousness had not awakened; it was taken away by the murderer who destroyed the sect, and I met Li Er, who had also been abducted, which is why I chose him as a Louguan disciple."

"And then I sent him into the Land of Reincarnation to hunt down that murderer."

"The trip to Jiankang was when Li Er's hunt reached a critical point; he went North to Jiankang to find further clues, and finally killed the murderer overseas."

"And the Western Kunlun Ruins—why would I need any secret key from your Longxi Li clan? The Western Kunlun Mirror and I are good friends, so I borrowed the Western Kunlun Ruins to use, and incidentally set a trap to destroy Xu Fu, the Daoist Lord who had been hiding in Yingzhou for tens of thousands of years. It's a pity I didn't finish the job..."

"The Return Ruins Illusion Sea secret realm you speak of comes from this!"

Li Zhong's expression is numb, tinged with a bit of blankness—The Western Kunlun Mirror is my good friend.

Borrowed the Western Kunlun Ruins to use!

Incidentally destroyed Xu Fu!

It's a pity I didn't finish the job!

He nods slightly, yes, it's all correct! This is the Supreme Dao-Dust Pearl; what else could he say?

Li Zhong grits his teeth and sticks his finger into his throat, and after a long time, he pokes into a dark vortex acupoint behind his tonsils, coughs violently, and spits out a bronze tiger-head plaque.

The bronze tiger-head plaque, covered in a layer of mucus, is ancient and mysterious, but Qian Chen stays far away from it in disgust.

He looks at this 'stupid younger brother' with a gaze that hides a fraction of concern beneath the disgust.

Qian Chen covers his face with his sleeve, revealing only his eyes, and says: "I didn't expect the secret treasury key to really be with you!"

The bronze tiger-head plaque does indeed contain a mysterious seal of the Kingdom of the Wang Mu of the West; this object is ancient beyond compare and should be a symbol of some identity heritage. Qian Chen's thoughts drill around the Western Kunlun Ruins, and he finally finds the origin of this object.

"So it's a bronze plaque used for sacrifice... With this, one can open a bronze door in Mount Western Kunlun and enter Western Kunlun Continent."

Qian Chen says: "But it's still missing some things."

Qian Chen thinks of the few ornaments he carried with him initially; one jade pendant was engraved with a scene of an immortal mountain and seemed to have a trace of the charm of the Western Kunlun Xianshan. However, that thing was snatched by someone when he was abducted by Miaokong!

It should...

It should have fallen into the hands of the old Daoist Tongshen.

"So the task the Lord of Reincarnation gave them in the past was to snatch that Western Kunlun jade pendant?" Qian Chen decides to go interrogate those 'Lords of Reincarnation' later, especially the Western Kunlun Mirror.

This legacy of the Kingdom of the Wang Mu of the West absolutely has something to do with the little mirror.

Perhaps that task was issued by her.

Qian Chen lets Li Zhong put away the tiger-head bronze plaque, looks down, and his gaze pierces through the nine-layered pagoda, reaching the bottom of the six-layered underground palace below, where the golden body of a Buddhist Yang Spirit cultivator is completely suppressed in the shadows by the pagoda.

That monk is dressed as a foreign monk, with the features of a Hu person, and a Great Nirvana Golden Body is locked by heavy chains, appearing behind him.

Li Zhong, following Qian Chen's gaze, also pierces through the ground below and sees the monk trapped within.

From that golden body, he recognizes some familiar traces of Buddhist Dharma and says urgently: "Senior, isn't this the Guardian True Person of Wuchuanzhen? Why would Senior attack him?"

Qian Chen shakes his head and says: "You only see the surface!"

"Nine is the Yang number, six is the Yin number; this six-layered pagoda is condensed from a supreme divine ability within the Buddhist school, called the 'Broken Samadhi Great Nirvana Sutra,' and the resulting pagoda is the Jin Gang Samadhi Pagoda, which contains six layers: one Constant, two Real, three True, four Good, five Pure, and six Visible."

"The pagoda body contains three hundred and sixty million volumes of scriptures, because all sentient beings possess Buddha-nature, so every living being whose Buddha-nature is awakened by this pagoda condenses into a volume of scripture."

"These three hundred million scripture bricks are actually transformed from the three hundred million living beings converted by this pagoda."

"That Guardian True Person, Tan Wuchen, is skilled in sexual power and the arts of the bedchamber; he came carrying the three hundred and sixty million living beings converted by the cultivators of his 'Broken Samadhi Great Nirvana Sutra' lineage, transforming them into this pagoda, intending to cultivate with his own mental power and use this infinite Buddha-nature to open a Nirvana world."

"If he succeeded in opening it, he could attain the Bodhisattva fruit and become another Buddhist Primordial Spirit."

"But who told him to meet me!"

Qian Chen looks at this nine-layered pagoda and asks Li Zhong: "If the six-layered pagoda is transformed from the Buddha-nature of three hundred and sixty million living beings, then what is its inverted shadow?"

Li Zhong lowers his head to ponder, muses for a moment, then suddenly looks up and says: "Is it their distracting thoughts?"

"To be precise, it is everything other than Buddha-nature."

Qian Chen slowly walks down the nine-layered pagoda with Li Zhong and says: "I entered Wuchuanzhen and saw this nine-layered pagoda at a glance; the Buddha-nature only has six layers, but the demonic nature has nine. People only see the towering pagoda, but not its inverted shadow."

"Tan Wuchen sits high in the six-layered pagoda, thinking he has three hundred and sixty million volumes of scriptures and three hundred and sixty million believers chanting secret mantras to protect him."

"But I only sat on this nine-layered pagoda, and the world was flipped; then the nine-layered pagoda stood up, and the six-layered pagoda was suppressed below instead..."

"This pagoda is named 'Womb-Storehouse One-Icchantika'; within one brick, it stores nine hundred and eighty million types of Yin demons. I used my original heart to subdue these three hundred and sixty million worlds, each world condensing from nine hundred and eighty million to one trillion two hundred billion types of Yin demons into this pagoda. Although it relies on the illusory Dao fruit, it manifests the true suchness nature."

"Then the Dao fruit was flipped, and Tan Wuchen, along with the Moon Demon that wanted to seize his golden body, were both suppressed at the bottom of the pagoda."

"Unless he converts all three hundred and sixty million sentient beings to attain Nirvana, he cannot be liberated!"

Li Zhong feels his scalp tingle upon hearing this; a Yang Spirit being suppressed so easily is truly something a cultivator of his level cannot imagine.

This Buddhist golden body guarding Wuchuanzhen basically never leaves the pagoda, only practicing sexual power with his Wisdom Queen from time to time.

But one of the Wisdom Queens was a chess piece long laid out by Murong Chui; while practicing Joyous Zen, the Moon Demon beneath the Wisdom Queen's skin suddenly drilled into his golden body.

The Moon Demon is so mysterious; this should have been completely hopeless.

But with this pagoda protecting him, even if the Moon Demon Sect Master infiltrated, laid out by the Demon Dao, and used various layouts, Murong Chui personally took action, using the Conquest Dao Seed to break his Zen heart, he only managed to infiltrate the Moon Demon into his golden body.

This Jin Gang Samadhi Pagoda, with three hundred and sixty million mental powers added, Tan Wuchen was still able to struggle against the Moon Demon.

It entangled his Yang Spirit, making the Moon Demon unable to completely peel off the skin of the Great Nirvana Golden Body.

Qian Chen walks down the nine-layered pagoda step by step, walks into the six-layered underground palace, and arrives at the very bottom.

Tan Wuchen puts his hands together, chanting the "Nirvana Sutra," and the golden body behind him is the projection of the three hundred million golden bricks of the six-layered pagoda, of Constant, Bliss, Self, and Purity.

Among them, "Constant" is the indestructible and unchangeable nature of sentient beings, condensed into the body of the golden body.

"Bliss" is the "Great Bliss" different from the pleasure felt by worldly sentient beings, which is the transcendence of the world's suffering.

These two are Constant Bliss, which is the eternal Buddha-nature of the golden body.

If the Dharma is real, true, the master, and the reliance, and the nature does not change, it is called "Self."

"Purity" means the Tathagata nature is good, pure, and unstained.

Therefore, "Constant" is the "Dharma Body," "Bliss" is "Nirvana," "Self" is the "Buddha Body," and "Purity" is the "Buddha Dharma"; the four combine into the Great Nirvana Golden Body.

The golden body is originally one; if Gao Ling came, even if he were given three thousand years, he wouldn't be able to cut the skin of the golden body, and even if given another three thousand years, he wouldn't be able to separate the skin and flesh of the golden body, and even with another four thousand years, he wouldn't be able to peel the name and reality of the golden body.

Because Constant, Bliss, Self, and Purity are originally one; how can the skin be peeled off?

But the Moon Demon Sect Master is formidable; wearing the skin of the Wisdom Queen, while practicing dual cultivation with Tan Wuchen, he used the sexual power of Great Bliss to flip his cultivation.

He turned momentary desire into "Constant," the pleasure of human desire into Great "Bliss," sinking into the appearance of desire into "Self," and the filth of sexual affairs into "Purity."

Thus flipping the Buddha-nature.

Making the Great Nirvana Golden Body and Tan Wuchen's body and mind separate, thus the skin and flesh separated, and then filth broke the appearance of the golden body's skin, starting to peel the skin at the very moment Tan Wuchen's body and mind were not in harmony.

Although because of the help of the Buddhist treasure Jin Gang Samadhi Pagoda, he failed to finish the job, he still gained the upper hand.

He could replace Tan Wuchen's skin at any time and master the fundamental array of Wuchuanzhen.

Li Zhong watches this Guardian True Person, naked, with a look of pain on his face; beneath the skin of the golden body behind him, lumps constantly bulge and wander across the one-zhang-tall golden body, as if something is constantly devouring the flesh and blood inside.

The solemn and sacred golden body is thus devoured by the demon beneath the skin.

It makes one's hair stand on end to watch.

Qian Chen just points a finger, and the infinite Yin demon distracting thoughts of the Womb-Storehouse One-Icchantika Demon Pagoda above condense into a kind of great flipping demonic nature, falling upon the Great Nirvana Golden Body, which was intentionally isolated by the Buddhist school; the various non-Buddha hearts in the hearts of sentient beings suddenly merged with the golden body.

Instantly, the lumps beneath the golden body's skin stop moving.

Then, in an instant, the Great Nirvana Golden Body suddenly turns into a huge golden human skin, floating up.

The Moon Demon wails within the skin...

Then the next instant, the wailing disappears, and the golden body's skin fills up again.

But the solemn skin still has deep Buddha-nature and is transcendent, yet what is wrapped inside becomes increasingly terrifying and bizarre, making Li Zhong unable to help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

Tan Wuchen opens his eyes, looks at Qian Chen dressed as a novice monk, and can only smile bitterly and kowtow.

"Greetings, Lord!"