Chapter 506: Body-Mind Connection

A streak of cyan-gold suddenly pierced through the tribulation clouds in the sky!

Hidden within this tribulation lightning were endless sharp blades! They were similar to Wei Yuan's Golden Light Water Blade Art, but their essence was countless times higher.

This was the Golden Essence Lei Jie, a type of Dharma Form tribulation, and a fairly advanced one at that. Wei Yuan was greatly alarmed and was just about to go over to see if he could do anything when the scenery before his eyes suddenly shifted. In an instant, he was teleported to the sea, a full thousand zhang away from the grand formation.

Subsequently, yin and yang Qi appeared, weaving a black-and-white cage around Wei Yuan. This cage was not meant to restrict his movements, but to isolate his aura and destiny.

The young girl Yin-Yang then appeared beside Wei Yuan, transmitting a thought: You cannot go near.

Why? Wei Yuan felt both bewildered and incredulous. This was clearly his own Mind-Reflection World, yet he had been moved.

The second heavenly lightning bolt fell. Zhang Sheng held the Great Radiance Demon-Subduing Sword and slashed back. The quality of this sword was far higher than the original Great Radiance Demon-Subduing Sword, but it was still only human-rank. The sword light she unleashed only neutralized one percent of the tribulation lightning's power. Fortunately, most of the heavenly tribulation was absorbed by the remnant soul of the You Shaman nearby.

The remaining hundred zhang of Golden Essence Divine Lightning fell upon Zhang Sheng like a waterfall. Countless invisible golden blades sliced through her soul body, and in the blink of an eye, she was covered in wounds.

Wei Yuan watched until his fingernails were almost digging into the flesh of his palms, yet he was powerless. The heavenly tribulation was a life-and-death ordeal every cultivator had to face; how many cultivators, out of fear of the tribulation, only dared to take the step toward the Dharma Form right before their death?

The Golden Essence Lei Jie ended, and Zhang Sheng had already collapsed to the ground, on the verge of death.

But she struggled to crawl up, and another immortal sword took form. This sword was scorching and brilliant, like a red sun—it was the immortal sword False Sun. However, the one in Zhang Sheng's hand was far stronger than the original False Sun, already possessing one-tenth of the Dao rhyme of the immortal sword Great Sun.

The Yin-Yang Great Furnace Formation slowly rotated, repairing Zhang Sheng's primordial spirit. Zhang Sheng's gaze remained clear, but while the third heavenly tribulation was still brewing, she quickly used the immortal sword to write in the formation:

"Wei Yuan, my disciple:

If you see these words, it must mean your master has perished in the heavenly tribulation. However, this is only due to my lack of preparation; the path of the Dao has already been cleared. The ancients said, 'If one hears the Dao in the morning, one can die content in the evening.' As I am about to perish under the heavenly tribulation, I record this path here for you to use as a reference in the future..."

Wei Yuan saw this clearly from afar and was again filled with great anxiety. However, the young girl Yin-Yang's warning and the anomaly of the second heavenly tribulation made Wei Yuan vaguely understand that it was better for him not to go over.

Zhang Sheng writing a last will was also out of helplessness; the second heavenly tribulation was already this terrifying, and there were so many more to come. At this rate of increasing intensity, she would never be able to pass this thunder tribulation, not even in the Heaven-Cyan Palace.

Zhang Sheng had only written half of her last will when the third tribulation lightning formed.

But unexpectedly, the intensity of the third tribulation lightning dropped by several levels, barely different from the first. In this round, Zhang Sheng unleashed both immortal swords, each weakening the heavenly lightning by one percent, and she passed through it with ease.

Then came the fourth and fifth thunder tribulations, both with power similar to the first.

Three more immortal swords appeared beside Zhang Sheng: Thunder Silk, Black Silk, and White Silk, each capable of blocking one percent of the heavenly tribulation's power.

Sure enough, as long as Wei Yuan did not get close, the heavenly tribulation had no oddities. Wei Yuan looked at the tribulation clouds in the sky, which were still slowly condensing the sixth thunder lightning. At this moment, there was a pile of matters outside waiting to be handled, so Wei Yuan exited the Human World Fireworks to deal with the aftermath first.

In this battle, the Shaman tribe lost another 350,000 men, and Qingming also suffered 170,000 casualties, the vast majority being civilians. The Shaman tribe's greatest losses came after their morale collapsed and they were hunted down, as well as being washed over by Wei Yuan's missiles. The casualties during the pursuit alone reached 100,000.

Repelling the Shaman tribe twice in a row, especially the scene where Wei Yuan challenged them before the formation and no one from the Shaman tribe dared to fight, instantly ignited Qingming's morale.

Originally, Li Zhi's Mountain-Suppressing Army had run into some trouble, with 10,000 casualties out of 50,000 elites, and some were already clamoring to go back. But seeing Wei Yuan so heroic, these people fell silent. Coupled with Li Zhi's timely rewards and generous compensation, the army's heart was finally stabilized. At this moment, Wei Yuan's reputation was at its zenith, second to none. Leveraging this reputation, Wei Yuan mobilized the civilians once more and then discussed matters with Feng Chutang for a full half-day.

In the blink of an eye, it was dusk. Feng Chutang was currently wrapped in black karma Qi, bundled in a fur coat, lying on a chair, and said powerlessly: "The way of destiny should be like this, but there are too many variables; no one can exhaust all possibilities. Whether to do this or not is up to you."

Wei Yuan's expression was solemn, and he hesitated: "I will consider it further."

"Wait a moment." Feng Chutang called out to Wei Yuan and said: "If Hongye keeps refusing your challenge and just waits for you outside the Shattered Domain, you actually have no good way to deal with it."

Wei Yuan nodded and left silently.

He subsequently went to the temporary residence of the two monks. At this moment, the little monk was lying quietly on the bed, his eyes covered with white bandages. The Kong Que Buddha Mother was chanting sutras beside him. Following the sound of his chanting, a sense of peace and compassion permeated the room, and the dense karma was being dissolved bit by bit.

Seeing Wei Yuan arrive, the Kong Que Buddha Mother rose to welcome him and led Wei Yuan into the room.

Wei Yuan came to the little monk's bedside and saw bloodstains seeping through the bandages. He sighed inwardly and asked: "Is the little master's injury serious? Does it still hurt?"

Hearing Wei Yuan's words, the little monk snorted and turned his head toward the inner room, ignoring Wei Yuan.

The Kong Que Buddha Mother said: "The physical body is but a skin bag; it will naturally be discarded when reaching the Dharma Form. Pain is merely a delusion of the heart. If the original heart is pure, one can naturally be fearless of pain. My junior nephew only needs to rest quietly for three days to recover, but to engage in a major battle again, I fear it will take seven days."

Wei Yuan asked again: "Then, with so much karma, is it really alright?"

【In one look...】

The Kong Que Buddha Mother said: "How could it be not alright? However, my Buddhist sect is most skilled at dealing with karma. On this point, Zhao Shi Zhu Wei, possessing Buddhist nature, should be clearer than anyone."

Wei Yuan originally wanted to stay a while longer, but the Kong Que Buddha Mother activated the indoctrination mode, continuously telling Wei Yuan about the wonders of joining the Great Treasure Radiance Pure Land, especially that the Great Joy Wang Fu possessed a divine ability that no other Buddha had, called the Body-Mind Connection.

Specifically, the Body-Mind Connection meant that when the body feels joy, the heart feels joy. Regardless of whether the woman or man likes it, as long as they cultivate Joy Zen with the Wang Fu, they will wholeheartedly fall in love with the Wang Fu.

Wei Yuan was shocked, never having expected such an overbearing divine ability. If this were in a storybook, it would be enough to be the main villain spanning the entire book.

Wei Yuan looked suspiciously at the Kong Que Buddha Mother, not understanding how the Great Treasure Radiance Pure Land, which clearly had a good reputation, could have a Dharma Form like the Great Joy Wang Fu. Moreover, this Dharma Form seemed to have an extremely high status, appearing in the Kong Que Buddha Mother's words to be on par with the Great Sun Tathagata.

The Kong Que Buddha Mother guessed what Wei Yuan was thinking and said: "It is not as the benefactor thinks. As for the specifics, the benefactor will know once you come to the Pure Land to see."

Wei Yuan felt a sense of vigilance and immediately declined politely.

But before leaving, Wei Yuan still expressed his sincere gratitude. The two monks were the pillars in the army formation, and the role they played far exceeded the number of enemies they killed.

After leaving, Wei Yuan visited the cultivators of the Primordial Palace one by one. In this battle, there were simply too many Great Shamans of the Shaman tribe; even those like Sun Yu and Yu Zhizhuo, who were not skilled in killing, had gone into battle and returned heavily injured. Xu Henshui was the most severely injured, but fortunately, he had life-saving elixirs on him, which he took before the battle, preserving his primordial spirit and sea of consciousness without leaving any sequelae.

(End of chapter)