Red plum blossom day.
This is a remote and poor place in the Supreme Taichu Heaven, a secluded place in the corner of the countryside.
A floating land in the shape of a trapezoid, about 200,000 miles long, wide and high, with hundreds of billions of people living there. There are no rare minerals, no special spiritual medicines, that is, for cultivators, this piece of Hongmeitian has no value.
Therefore, the Heavenly Court was too lazy to set up garrison headquarters here. There were only a few small local wealthy families that had taken root and thrived here. They sent a few of their descendants to serve in the extremely distant Heavenly Court offices, occasionally sending back news, recruiting some soldiers, and providing some basic supplies, and that was all.
"Let alone anything else, this star gate channel built by the Heavenly Court is a good thing, indeed a good thing. From this matter, I support the Great Emperor Taichu." The Old Bear Zun transformed into a two-meter-tall, fat black man with a body full of flesh. He wore a centipede-buttoned double-breasted gown, but did not button it properly, exposing his chest, revealing a huge tiger head tattoo on his chest. He walked leisurely on the streets of a small town somewhere in Hongmeitian, walking carefree and shaking his arms like a senior gangster.
Behind him, there were four Vajras, also about the same height, with skin in shades of light gold, light silver, bronze, and iron black. They were wearing identical clothes and looked like four serious criminals who had just escaped from death row. They held huge lotus leaf buns in their hands and munched on the shiny, fragrant braised pork head.
They followed closely behind Lao Xiong Zun, eating the snacks that Lao Xiong Zun bought for them with his own money, but they sneered at Lao Xiong Zun's praises, staring at his back with squinted eyes and rolling their eyes.
"Back then, I followed Master Langyue and traveled around the various branches of the Buddhist sect in the Supreme Primordial Heaven, enlightening the sentient beings with predestined relationships and converting them into the Buddhist sect." Old Xiongzun took out a few big coins and threw them to the street vendor, picked up a piece of wild honeycomb the size of a human head from the stall, and took a big bite. The golden, fragrant, sweet and mellow honey immediately filled his mouth.
Old Xiong Zun narrowed his eyes in satisfaction. “At that time, with Master Langyue’s cultivation, it would take him several months, even years or even decades to rush from one lower courtyard to another…”
"Another time, I still remember running from the main temple of the Landa Ancient Monastery to a more remote branch of the Red Lotus Monastery. My dear father, Master Langyue, ran so hard that his legs were broken. It took him 378 years, 9 months, 27 days and 5 hours!"
"Why do I remember it so clearly? Because I had just walked for thirty-two years, and I had eaten up all the honey I had brought with me. I was young at the time, and I was crying and shouting for honey on the way, but Master Langyue caught me and beat me… He caught me and beat me… He caught me and beat me… He caught me and beat me… Tsk tsk, the beatings continued. Those days were dark, cruel, bloody, and merciless… So, every hour and every quarter of an hour is engraved in my heart!"
"I can't understand why, with so many powerful people in the Nalanda Holy Land at that time, no Buddha came up with the idea to build a star gate covering the entire Supreme Primordial Heaven, or a similar teleportation array system?"
Shaking his head, Old Bear Master muttered, "I only found out later. Although this is a bit disrespectful and a bit taboo, you should be the master's confidants and the most trusted people, right? You should also know what happened back then... It was not easy for a group of defeated soldiers to find a place to recuperate and save their lives... Everyone was busy recovering and recuperating, so who had time to manage their own territory?"
The four great Vajras stopped talking at the same time. They took a deep look at the back of Old Xiong Zun. Po Fa Vajra said coldly: "Xiong Heizi, we brothers are what you call the remnants of the defeated army... Hey! Are you looking for a fight?"
Old Bear Venerable shuddered, he looked back at the four Vajra Kings, and laughed dryly, "I was saying, how could I not know the people around the Master? But I don't know you four... So, are you guys coming back to the arena?"
Po Fa Jin Gang muttered in a muffled voice, "That's right! After so many years of recuperation, my cultivation has only recovered to about 70% of its peak... There is still a trace of trouble on the Jin Gang relics we have condensed. We need the power of faith of a huge number of believers to ignite the Supreme Buddha Flame and completely dispel it."
Old Xiong Zun narrowed his eyes and said, "The Supreme Primordial Heaven is now ruled by the Heavenly Court. Although the Buddhist cultivators are still scattered in all directions, many of them are good at giving advice and solving all kinds of shameful and secretive affairs because they speak well and have many tricks. Therefore, the followers of the powerful people from all sides, and even some important officials of the Heavenly Court, have kept some Buddhist cultivators as retainers and worshippers..."
"But Buddhism is not a big deal after all."
"If I want enough faith and willpower..." Old Bear Lord shook his head and said, "Difficult, difficult, difficult!"
Mighty King Kong slapped Old Bear Lord on the shoulder with his palm: "That's why I came to you... Things like the power of faith, hey... are everywhere."
With their eyes flashing with deep divine light, the four great Vajras looked at the people on the street and laughed at the same time. In their eyes, the people on the street, the people in the city, the people in Hongmei Heaven, and even the people of the entire Supreme Taichu Heaven were all thriving leeks.
With a few Buddhist methods, they can be transformed into the most devout believers, offering endless power of faith!
The simplest way is to open the mountain gate and let the demons go. The demons wreak havoc in the world and the Buddha saves the world... When countless demons are rampant in the world and countless people are in dire straits, the great Buddhas suddenly come and save the world... Wouldn't the power of faith surge up like leeks watered with farm manure?
Harvesting faith is not too easy for the powerful Buddhists!
Old Xiong Zun smiled and murmured, "Yes, it is easy to collect the power of faith... But if you want to harvest the power of faith peacefully... It's not that easy! Just look at this Heavenly Court, haha! Today's Heavenly Court is not easy to deal with."
Vajra stuck out his tongue and licked the tiny pieces of meat wrapped in the lotus leaf clean. He shook the lotus leaf and threw it into a garbage basket on the side of the road. His two big eyes widened as he looked at a cooked meat shop on the side of the road that specialized in selling all kinds of roast meats. There were seven or eight suckling pigs and more than twenty roast geese hanging in front of the store.
Old Xiongzun ate the honeycomb in his hand clean in just a few bites, then walked to the door of the cooked meat shop and bought a few large silver ingots.
Soon, Old Xiong Zun walked in front, carrying a roast goose, nibbling on the roast goose that was specially coated with honey. The four great kings followed behind him, each with a roast goose and a pork elbow hanging on their belts, and a golden suckling pig in their hands, eating happily.
Vajra gnawed the tender ears of the roasted suckling pig with great relish. While chewing, he said vaguely, "If we hadn't hidden ourselves in a secret place and fallen into a state of suspended animation, using the power of infinite faith to repair our golden bodies and condense our relics...how could the Holy Land of Nalanda have been destroyed?"
"Since we have returned, then... Heaven? It's bullshit!"
Old Bear Reverend raised his eyebrows, and without turning back, he asked softly: "So, Little Bear, I am very curious, who were your enemies back then?"
The four great kings shut their mouths at the same time.
After a long silence, Guangshi Jin Gang said softly: "It cannot be said, it cannot be thought of, it cannot be heard... If His image appears in your mind, or His name is spoken, or even in an environment without any shelter or treasure to protect you, if you have any unfavorable thoughts... then you will follow the breath and there will be unexpected disasters."
"The four of us brothers have our own secret methods blessed by the Supreme Being to protect us, so we won't have any thoughts of cause and effect... But you, you haven't practiced enough, and you don't have any secret methods to bless you. If you knew about it, it would be a disaster!"
"However, you only need to know that the so-called Blue Emperor who led the destruction of the Nalanda Holy Land behind the so-called Heaven Court... is just a pawn under the command of our opponent. Under the command of the enemy, the existence of such a Blue Emperor cannot be said to be as numerous as the grains of sand in the Ganges... but it is also innumerable, right?"
Old Bear Zun shuddered.
It was a sunny day in Hongmei. The three suns belonging to Hongmei were hanging high in the sky. The scorching sunlight generously spread over the entire continent. The high temperature around even made the air on the streets and roofs twist and jump, but Old Xiong Zun could not feel any temperature. His whole body seemed to be soaked in an eternal cold spring, and the chill penetrated into his bones.
The Green Emperor... such a powerful enemy, yet he is just... one of the numerous and large-scale wholesalers?
Old Xiong Zun subconsciously touched his chest. Some time ago, he and Qingdi had a big battle in Yuncha Ridge. Although he poked a few transparent holes in Qingdi's chest, he knew very well that the Qingdi was just a clone... If it was the real Qingdi, could he defeat the opponent... that would be a "haha".
And the Green Emperor himself is actually just a small minion!
Lao Xiongzun suddenly felt that the roast goose on his hands, which was covered with a thick layer of honey, was not so sweet anymore.
"Wu..." Shaking his head, Lao Xiongzun looked up at a brothel on the side of the road that was still lit up with a row of pink lanterns in broad daylight, and murmured, "Well, we've arrived."
I don't know what kind of charm this brothel called "Drunk in the Red Dust" has. In broad daylight, it is still crowded with guests. In the lobby on the first floor, hundreds of square tables are not vacant, and all kinds of colorful beauties are running around like butterflies, serving the wealthy guests who spend money like water at the square tables.
There are stairs spiraling up around the lobby, and through the hollow skylight, you can see the second, third, and higher floors. Many gorgeous girls are laughing and walking back and forth, and there are drunken young men who are running around in the corridor without restraint, causing all kinds of ugly behaviors.
The air was filled with the aroma of wine, meat, and cosmetics.
Occasionally, accompanied by the loud laughter of some young man or a prodigal son, pieces of gold and silver would fall from the courtyard, causing the wealthy guests at the square table to laugh and curse.
"Lingshan, the meeting place of the Great Leiyin Temple... is here?" The Four Vajra were also experienced and knowledgeable Buddhist masters... but when they suddenly saw this colorful world, the suckling pigs in their hands slipped out of their hands and fell directly to the ground.
"Do you have a sense of déjà vu of the Buddhist scum?" Old Xiong Zun smiled brightly: "Do you want to grab the demon-subduing pestle and kill these Buddhist scum?"
The corners of the four Vajra's eyes twitched violently, and their breath became hotter.
“Buddha has mercy on us. In this way, it is more than appropriate to let them lead the tide of this world.” The four Vajras sneered at the same time, without any warmth in their eyes, only extremely fierce murderous intent.