Chapter 274

Returning to the realm, Wei Yuan felt more and more that something was wrong; the little monk was not very old, but his cultivation was extremely deep, and he had various supernatural powers that only those in the Dharma Form stage possessed. When he beat him, it was like hitting a piece of taffy, both tough and unresponsive to force. No wonder he could penetrate the realm and dared to claim in front of Wei Yuan that he knew a little bit of fist and footwork.

Such natural talent in a little monk was rare even in the Great Da Da Bao Hua Jing Land and would certainly be cultivated with great care. The problem was, what was a talented disciple of the Great Da Da Bao Hua Jing Land doing running to the realm for no reason? The Grand Void Palace had always minded its own business with the Great Da Da Bao Hua Jing Land, and the two sides didn't even have the same direction of expansion. Wei Yuan asked himself that he hadn't offended any successor of the Pure Land, so there was only one explanation: this monk was attracted by the Red Lotus Bodhi.

It was conceivable that if he could attract one little monk today, he might attract a group of little monks tomorrow, and behind the little monks, there might be big monks and old monks.

At this very moment, on the damp and poisonous land of the Broken Realm, a little monk was walking alone, aimlessly.

A crisp voice suddenly sounded behind him: "Little Master, where do you want to go?"

The little monk turned back in a daze and saw two women standing behind him, charming and seductive. When the two women saw the little monk's face, their eyes lit up; such a face was truly rare in the world. It was just a pity that the area around one of his eyes was still bruised, the corner of his mouth was still swollen, and his moon-white monk robe was covered in shoe prints, which ruined his solemn Dharma appearance.

The woman on the left said softly, "Where did the little master suffer such grievances? We sisters still have a little bit of magic power; how about we go and avenge you right now?"

The woman on the right said, "Look at these injuries; my heart aches for you. Come, don't move, sister will help you wipe the wounds..."

As she spoke, she stretched out a soft, white, and delicate hand, intending to wipe away the bloodstains from the corner of the little monk's mouth.

Only then did the little monk recover from his daze, took a step back, frowned, and said, "So smelly!"

The two women were stunned; since they appeared, the surroundings had been filled with the fragrance of flowers, and there were bursts of bamboo and pine fragrance, which were elegant, and the stench of the Shaman region had been driven away—where was it smelly?

As a result, the little monk pointed at the two of them and said, "You are smelly; it's not just the smell of men, there's also a lot of other messy stuff..."

The two women's expressions changed drastically; the woman on the right had a greenish-black glow on her hand, grabbed down, and sneered, "Little monk, don't be in a hurry; once I suck you dry in a moment, you will be a part of this stench..."

Bang! Bang! Bang!

After several muffled sounds, the two women fell backward to the ground, and the little monk stood between them and chanted a Buddhist name.

The two women were actually both in the late stage of Dao Foundation and were both Heaven-rank, but in the blink of an eye, they fell to the ground inexplicably. Before falling, they only saw a tender, pink fist becoming larger and larger before their eyes, and then the world spun. Throughout the entire process, their magic power had no chance to be used at all.

At this moment, the two women were the same: left eye bruised, corner of the mouth damaged, and two shoe prints on their chests. Looking at the soles of the shoes, they should be monk shoes.

Looking at the scars on the two women's faces, the little monk inexplicably felt refreshed in body and mind, and the daze that had troubled him for a long time suddenly disappeared. Thus, he sat cross-legged and lectured the two women on a scripture, lecturing until the two women were annoyed to death.

A scroll of scriptures was lectured from dawn to dusk, and from dusk to dawn; the two women only felt that their own bodies were fine, but their sanity was about to be transcended. Fortunately, the little monk finally had an end.

After finishing the scroll of scriptures, the little monk's troubles were gone, his inside and outside were transparent, and his whole person was emitting a faint red light, like a blood sea rippling, which left the two women dumbfounded, and they dared not act presumptuously again.

He suddenly felt a sense of intuition and said, "Thank you, two female Bodhisattvas; this little monk has attained enlightenment!"

The two women trembled like they had met their natural enemy. But if they didn't make a sound to join in the fun, the little master was afraid he would do something, so one woman asked tremblingly, "What has the little master attained?"

The little monk said sternly, "This little monk is not unclear about Buddhist law; it is actually that my fist and footwork are not yet up to par, which is why I cannot pull certain obsessed benefactors back. This little monk will go back and cram on fist and footwork, and I will definitely convert that evil beast!"

After saying this, the little monk drifted away, truly having an otherworldly bearing.

"Wishing the Master success!" The two women waved at the little monk's back and then turned and ran.

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In the realm, Wei Yuan cast the monk's troubles aside and continued to gnaw on history books, gnawing for another whole day, finally finishing nearly a hundred biographies of powerful officials.

Reading history books again this time, Wei Yuan had different insights. In fact, he had read these under Zhang Sheng's guidance when he was a child, but at that time, he was just swallowing them whole, understanding them only superficially; this time, however, he saw a completely different world in the history books. Closing the last volume of history, Wei Yuan closed his eyes; from the time of the Great Li, the lives of thousands of powerful officials and treacherous prime ministers over the past hundred thousand years flowed slowly through his heart.

In the eyes of later generations, or in the eyes of historians, these people were all treacherous officials, but the key point was the word "prime minister." Those who could be prime ministers were all outstanding figures of their time. When Wei Yuan read history now, he no longer just looked at the deeds, but would put himself in their shoes and think about why these people did what they did at that time and in that world.

Thinking this way, some things had their own different answers.

At this moment, Wei Yuan had been in charge of the Azure Void for some time; looking at history again, what he saw was no longer people and events described in a few hundred words, but grain, weaponry, soldiers, armaments, foreign tribes, cliques, and so on.

At this time, the door was knocked, and Xu Yi stood outside the door and said, "It's almost time for the new batch of Dao Foundation advancements."

Wei Yuan said, "Bring the list to me."

Xu Yi was a bit surprised, so she entered the room and handed over the roster. There were a total of one hundred and seventy people scheduled to advance to Dao Foundation in this batch, of which only seventy were from the realm, and the other hundred were all from the prisoners captured this time.

After several rounds of promotion, basically everyone in the realm who could forge a Dao Foundation had already forged one, and the rest had no hope. Only those who had newly perfected Body Forging had a higher probability of forging a Dao Foundation.

Nowadays, the only ones with potential were some teenagers, or those whose progress had been delayed in the past due to a lack of resources. This batch of people ranged from Blood Merging to Bone Forging, with Blood Merging being the majority.

And the captured prisoners were originally men in the army; whether they were the Xu family's private soldiers or Yue Qilin's men, they all had enough food and clothing, their bodies were forged in place, and they were very young. Therefore, they easily selected over a hundred who had perfected Body Forging and had hope of forging a foundation, and there were two or three hundred left, whose overall aptitude was also quite good.

Wei Yuan circled the hundred people selected from the prisoners, only ticked off ten names, and crossed out all the rest.

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Xu Yi was startled and asked, "Why is this? They all have a great possibility of successfully forging a foundation!"

Wei Yuan said, "We don't feel it because we are in the Grand Void Palace, but in fact, Dao Foundation is difficult in the outside world. Think about how much the Cui family gave us for the last batch of a dozen or so Dao Foundations? Therefore, a Dao Foundation is not a small matter; in the past, we had no choice, and we would give opportunities to anyone who had a chance. Besides, after forging a Dao Foundation, they have to be pulled onto the battlefield, which is a life of nine deaths, so it was justifiable. But now it's different; there is room for maneuver, so favors cannot be lightly granted, otherwise, they will only be slighted by others.

These prisoners are new here and have not yet made any contributions; why should they be mentioned in the same breath as those in the realm who have already been through life and death, and enjoy the same opportunities? Therefore, this time, only ten spots are given to them, and the rest are pulled over to watch from the side. We must let them know that as long as they make enough contributions, the Dao Foundation is right before their eyes! And only by making contributions can they have a chance at a Dao Foundation."

Xu Yi felt a chill in her heart; for the first time, she felt that Wei Yuan seemed different from before, becoming somewhat unfathomable, no longer the ignorant boy who was easy to talk to and would take special care of the people around him.

Her heart trembled, and for the first time, she felt a little fear.

In Wei Yuan's sea of consciousness, a green Qi gradually thickened and turned into advancement.

Wei Yuan was startled; he had only said a few words casually, so why was there still an influx of fortune? What exactly does this Xu Yi like? It's truly hard to fathom.

Xu Yi's attitude had become a bit more respectful at this time, and she asked, "Then what is special about these ten people? Do you know them?"

Wei Yuan shook his head: "I don't know any of them, it's just that they are lucky. Oh, or to put it this way, the others are unlucky."

Xu Yi was even more curious: "Can you tell that they are unlucky just by looking at the roster? Is this some new Feng Shui secret art? It's a bit powerful!"

Wei Yuan laughed and said, "People whose names can be crossed out by me at will, how lucky can they be?"

(End of chapter)