The lower world, the Yin-Yang Heaven.
In the Supreme Taichu Heaven, Lu Yi had only been wandering for a few years, but in the Liangyi Heaven, an extremely long time had already passed.
On that day, Ling Yu and others who were investigating the death of Emperor Tai'e's son gathered here. Ling Yu forcibly transformed Liang Yi Tian into the Taoist temple of Emperor Tai'e in the lower world. With her great magical power that was almost like the "forced conversion" of Buddhism, she twisted the will of all the creatures in Liang Yi Tian, ​​tampered with their memories, and made them all become devout believers of Emperor Tai'e.
Today's Yin-Yang Heaven.
The sky, white and gold.
Earth, white and gold.
Peaks, white and gold.
River, white and gold.
Even the wind blowing through the void was platinum in color, with a bright glow of fire and an astonishingly high temperature.
The indigenous inhabitants of Liangyi Heaven have lived in this platinum-colored world for a long time, and have been infected by the Great Dao from generation to generation. Now, all the indigenous people are born with platinum-colored hair, eyebrows, and pupils, and there are faint golden flame patterns under their skin. They are born with the power of fire. Children with excellent aptitude can spit out platinum-colored divine flames with amazing temperature that can melt gold and iron, and can even burn a hundred miles away!
There is even a group of people who are extremely devout to Emperor Taimi. When they are born, they have a vertical eye between their eyebrows that shines brightly. From the appearance, except that they do not have flaming wings behind their backs, they are no different from the Holy Spirit Clan of the Supreme Taichu Heaven.
With extreme piety, these natives who were "converted" by Ling Huan, with infinite power of faith, forged a powerful kingdom of faith in this dimensional space. Countless armies of monks who devoutly believed in Emperor Taimu drove warships and swept in all directions with their powerful innate magical powers. Over the years, hundreds of thousands of heavens of all sizes in this dimensional space have been conquered by the monks of Liangyi Heaven and turned into the kingdom of faith of Emperor Taimu in this world.
Every conquered celestial realm would contribute a huge amount of faith and thought power, making this kingdom of faith stronger and stronger. With the endless faith and thought power, the resources were originally scarce. In Lu Yi's era, there had been many years when no cultivator could accumulate enough resources to ascend to Liangyi Heaven. On average, every ten thousand years, a cultivator with excellent qualifications would be born with flaming wings, soaring straight up to the Supreme Taichu Heaven!
'Puff!'
The entire Supreme Primordial Heaven world, which has been transformed into faith and 'platinum', is a deep valley in the mountains, still with beautiful scenery and green mountains and clear waters. A layer of subtle Buddhist restrictions covers this place. Many monks who are driving warships with blazing flames and patrolling in the void with murderous intent pass by the entrance of this valley and subconsciously ignore the existence of this valley.
In the valley, platinum-colored bones emitting an overwhelming heat are everywhere.
Deep inside a cave, in a simply furnished cave dwelling, a pretty girl with a strong aura stared with her brows wide open and her eyes erect, her whole body burning with platinum-colored divine flames. The raging flames even condensed into two pairs of huge flaming wings behind her that fluttered wildly... She struggled desperately, but could not move.
A strange woman with a body as white as snow, white hair, white eyebrows, white eyes, and pale lips, with a cold and terrifying aura all over her body. She was twelve meters tall and her body was as smooth as ice and snow. She stood quietly beside the stone platform where the girl was. A large eyeball between her eyebrows rolled, emitting a very thin pale white strange light, which suppressed the girl's body tightly, making her struggle hard but unable to move.
Monk Sanzang stood beside the stone platform, holding a strangely shaped knife in his hand. He slowly cut into the girl's body, turned over her internal organs, analyzed her meridians and bone marrow, and carefully explored the mysteries inside her body.
"After so many years, I finally gained something."
Monk Sanzang tortured the girl slowly and leisurely, making her watch herself being dissected and dismembered bit by bit in an extremely conscious state.
"In the past, there were Buddhist sages who were good at medicine. They once said that some plagues were actually some poisons and bacteria that were invisible to the naked eye. They infected the human body and multiplied wantonly in the human body, devouring the blood, flesh and essence, destroying the balance of the five elements in the body, and causing the disease. These poisons and bacteria can be spread through breathing, saliva, and even feces, through the eyes, ears, mouth, nose, and many mucous membranes, causing the plague to spread very quickly and have an astonishing lethality."
"I didn't expect you guys to be the same."
"An existence smaller than the toxins and bacteria of the plague... a kind of almost energy-like... 'gene'?" Monk Sanzang looked at the struggling girl with a smile: "I remember there is this 'word'... What was the name of that green-skinned guy? 'Qingdi'? Yes, it should be this name, I can't be wrong."
"That Qingdi once mentioned 'genes'? It's probably something like this. I'm not a professional, so I don't really understand it."
"A kind of energy 'gene', using supernatural powers, spreads wantonly, infects the brain, and uses countless tiny 'genes' to create a group consciousness that forcibly erases the host's own 'self-consciousness', so that the 'host' is replaced by the 'external parasitic group consciousness', making them mistakenly believe that this is 'their own heart'."
"Piously worship Taimo, believe in Taimo, practice his method, believe in his way, and burn your own flesh, blood, essence, spirit, and everything to become the nourishment for Taimo and his lackeys to practice and advance."
"This method has a bit of the flavor of Buddhism, which opens the door to salvation for all sentient beings in the world."
"But the great Buddhists do things based on mutual consent...Except for those cruel and shameless people back then, such as Fahai and those younger generations who forcibly converted people, the other great Buddhists and their followers in the Buddhist kingdom are all willing to believe in that Buddha devoutly!"
"And you... just spread 'faith' like a 'plague'. Once you are infected, no matter whether you have a correct understanding and concept of Tailu, once you are infected by this plague, from your body to your soul, all the way to the 'true self' at the core of your soul, you will become Tailu's devout lackey."
"Hey, this method is a bit devilish."
"But I have to admit, it's very useful!"
While Monk Sanzang was chattering away, the girl with astonishing cultivation had been dismembered into a mess, with various parts that were flashing with platinum divine light and burning with wisps of platinum divine flames piled up randomly on the stone platform.
Finally, a fist-sized heart-shaped object with nine orifices inside, emitting amazing Tao rhythm fluctuations, constantly absorbing and exhaling the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the void, constantly transforming the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into blazing divine flames and infinitely high-temperature crystals, was peeled off from the girl's heart and quietly floated in front of Monk Sanzang.
“Heart of the Holy Spirit!”
"Living beings infected by the 'faith plague' of the Great Emperor Taimu will eventually have a crystal-like Holy Spirit Heart condensed in their hearts. It is absolutely pure, absolutely pure, generated by the human body, and filled with absolutely devout faith in the Great Emperor Taimu. He can refine it without any trouble, and each heart can provide him with huge energy."
"Not to mention where this thing came from, just from the effect and effectiveness, this is the world's top-level divine pill."
Monk Sanzang looked at this heart which contained infinite energy. Although it was condensed in the lower realm, the majestic Taoist rhyme and inspiration contained in it were almost comparable to the Holy Spirit Heart of a Heavenly Monarch in the upper realm who had opened up millions of acupoints. He could not help but shake his head.
The only intact head of the girl had three eyes wide open. Her original consciousness had been annihilated. A consciousness that came from nowhere replaced her original consciousness and threatened Monk Sanzang at the top of her lungs: "Thief Baldy, you are guilty, you will be punished... Just wait, your divine punishment is about to..."
Monk Sanzang waved his hand, and a gray divine light surged. The beautiful head silently turned into a pool of blood and was swallowed up clean by the white woman who was standing motionless beside him.
So many years.
Countless evil spirits from the lower world of Wanmiaotian, such as the White Girl, Blue Girl, Green Girl, etc., have cooperated with Monk Sanzang for so many years, and strange changes have also occurred in their bodies. Countless evil spirits finally merged into one, and the power of the infinite spirits was integrated into one body, and finally transformed into this evil being with white hair and white eyebrows, a snow-white body, and a height of twelve feet.
“Bai Zun!” Monk Sanzang shattered the Holy Spirit Heart with one finger, and smiled at the Bai girl standing in front of him: “I remember everything now. I am Zhifo Zun, the master of the Sutra Pavilion in the Nalanda Holy Land… I wasted many years in the lower world, and finally refined you, a seed of revenge.”
"As the saying goes, whether it's a mule or a horse, take it out for a walk?"
"After so many years of hard work, relying on a trace of my original memory, I have performed a lot in this lower world. I don't know how many heavens I have broken, but in the end, I only succeeded in the Wanmiao Heaven... In the end, I also succeeded in creating you!"
"But it's good."
"You are not made of flesh and blood, nor do you have any self-consciousness. Everything comes from instinct. Your reproduction and cultivation do not require the rhyme of the Tao, the spirit, food, nutrition, the harmony of yin and yang, or the birth of children... All the methods of the Green Emperor are useless to you!"
"You are the enemy of the Qingdi clan from the beginning! You may even be their nemesis!"
"So, let's try. Let's try. I remember that I was once the Buddha of Wisdom, but the Buddha of Wisdom was not me... I am the Three Burials Monk, the Three Burials Monk who has buried the past, present, and future, and cut off all causes and consequences."
"I can vaguely feel that some of my fellow disciples who have not yet achieved nirvana have already escaped the calamity and returned."
"Then, let's have a good fight!"
"May the Buddha have mercy on me, Namo Amitabha!"
Monk Sanzang put his hands together, chanted a long Buddhist name, and slowly walked out of the cave, out of the valley, and appeared in front of the countless monks from the outside world who were patrolling and searching. The huge warships that were burning with flames and emitting thousands of feet of divine light suddenly stopped, and countless eyes shuttled through the void and locked onto the figure of Monk Sanzang.
“Do you guys admit your guilt?” Monk Sanzang smiled as he looked at the monks whose bodies were gleaming with white-gold divine light. He shook his head gently and said, “Forget it. What do you know? You are just a bunch of pitiful people… You have no hope. I will bring you complete relief!”
Behind Monk Sanzang, Bai Zun slowly emerged. She opened her arms and shouted in a low voice.
There are no shadows in the Liangyi sky today.
All the time, the sky, earth, mountains, rivers, and even every flower, grass, and tree here, are shining with a faint divine light, illuminating the void. The light shines from all directions, and the whole world is transformed into a huge 'shadowless lamp'. No object can leave a shadow in this world.
However, these rays of light coming from all directions could not penetrate the hearts of these monks.
In their hearts, they didn't know when, next to the Holy Spirit Heart, a 'seed of fear' had been planted. They didn't know where it came from, where it ended, what it meant, and what it was used for.
It seems that when these monks were born, before they understood the "greatness" and "glory" of Emperor Taimu, and before they had a devout belief in Emperor Taimu, this seed of terror had already been implanted in their souls and merged with their souls. No matter how devout and worshipful they were to Emperor Taimu after they were born, no matter how much "divine light" they had in their bodies, it could not illuminate the darkest corner of the core of their souls, and could not dispel the "fear" that was entangled with them.
The seeds of fear are activated.
There are no shadows on the surface of the body, but shadows grow directly from the soul, from the depths of the heart.
In the Yin-Yang Heaven, under the feet of countless creatures with divine light lingering on their bodies, wisps of inky black shadows appeared out of thin air. Before these cultivators could react, these shadows rolled back and swallowed their original bodies in one gulp.
Without any sound, the entire Liangyi Heaven suddenly became quiet.
Without any sound, the entire Liangyi sky suddenly became dim.
The sun, the moon, the stars, and the earth that had been shining brightly for so many years, all dimmed. All the light disappeared, and all living things disappeared.
Strands of shadows containing tremendous power rose into the air and gathered towards Bai Zun.
Bai Zun's aura gradually became stronger, but soon, the outflowing aura fluctuations were restrained by him, and no more leaked out. He was like a white shadow standing behind Monk Sanzang, without any real sense of existence.
"My behavior is close to that of a demon." Monk Sanzang looked at the Yin-Yang sky that turned into a deadly place in an instant and said softly, "But, whether it's a demon or a Buddha... it doesn't matter."
He smiled very subtly: "The head of the Discipline Hall has completely disappeared... Since there is no one in charge of the discipline, who cares whether I am a demon or a Buddha? I have the highest seniority in the temple, so those disciples and juniors naturally have no control over me... Buddha has mercy on me, so kind... Of course, my journey is the right path of Buddhism!"
Monk Sanzang rose into the air and with a wave of his sleeves, the entire Liangyi Heaven disappeared silently.
Bai Zun took a deep breath, and the annihilated Yin-Yang Heaven, the origin of the entire world, and the endless energy were all swallowed up by him.
Standing in the Yin-Yang sky, outside the sky.
Looking around, tens of thousands of heavens, big and small, were originally like burning coals, embedded in the hazy chaos, embellishing the sky of Liangyi Heaven. These heavens, big and small, were conquered and opened up one by one by the "believers" of Liangyi Heaven Taimu Great Emperor in recent years, and turned into the world of Taimu Great Emperor's dojo.
Monk Sanzang put his hands together and began to chant a sutra to save the souls of the dead.
Bai Zun raised his hands, opened his mouth, and took a deep breath.
In the chaos, hundreds of thousands of heavens, big and small, were extinguished one after another according to their distance from the Yin-Yang Heaven. All the living beings in the heavens felt fear growing in their bodies, and shadows emerged, devouring their original bodies. All their spirits, energy, and spirits broke through the air and sank into Bai Zun's body.
The heavens, both big and small, collapsed and shattered. The origin of the world, the Dao rhyme and spiritual inspiration contained in the world, all turned into dragons of all sizes, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of miles long, shaking their heads and wagging their tails, and flew over through the air.
Bai Zun took a deep breath and swallowed the core essence condensed after the destruction of these worlds.
The essence and energy of hundreds of thousands of celestial realms, both large and small, are gathered in one body... The Qi in Bai Zun's body is already so huge that it is beyond imagination... At the core of his body, a faint light flickers, and a huge amount of power accumulates in such a tiny body. The quantitative change is almost a qualitative change, and unpredictable changes are about to happen.
"Let's set off!" Monk Sanzang smiled, looked up and looked towards the spatial dimension where the Supreme Taichu Heaven was located.
“We may be crushed to pieces, or even doomed… but it doesn’t matter.” Monk Sanzang said quietly, “I struggled out of that great calamity, not because I’m afraid of death, not because I want to live through many more great calamities… but because I want to give you some trouble!”
Monk Sanzang said softly, "You destroyed the inheritance of my Nalanda Holy Land and burned countless scriptures of my Buddhist predecessors... The death of those disciples is one thing, but those scriptures, which I value a hundred times, ten thousand times more than my life... Tsk, this matter is not over yet!"
Monk Sanzang laughed, and waved his right hand lightly towards the void, causing it to break apart, revealing a crack that led directly to the dimension of the Supreme Primordial Heaven. He took the pure white Bai Zun with him, and sank lightly into the crack. With a wisp of chaotic energy, the two disappeared without a trace.
The spatial dimension where Liangyitian is located has experienced the disaster caused by Linghu Jun's collection of "Sky Crystals", and then the actions of Monk Sanzang today. Basically, all the celestial realms with some influence have been destroyed, and the entire spatial dimension is almost dead.
To have the bustling scene of today with thriving population and cultivators traveling through the void again...it will take who knows how many great catastrophes to come.
The Supreme First Heaven.
A star field where all information has been completely erased from the star map issued by the Supreme Heaven.
The branches and leaves of the tree withered, leaving only a trunk that was a hundred miles thick and more than three thousand miles long, floating quietly in the dark void like a dead object.
Near this big tree stump, countless broken walls, countless broken beams, bricks and tiles, various shattered window frames and doors have turned into pools of garbage, condensed into long rivers of garbage, floating randomly in this void.
Occasionally, among this pile of garbage, you can see a few dark golden bones, a few golden skulls, and some broken and melted Buddhist instruments such as the Vajra Pestle, the Demon-Subduing Pestle, the Lotus Sword, and the Demon-Slaying Sword, which can still be vaguely seen in their original form...
In some places, there are even small land masses with a radius of tens or hundreds of miles, hiding in the torrent of garbage. On these small land masses, there are actually some spiritual energy left, which nurture some small spiritual springs and streams, and breed some grasslands and forests. Some birds and beasts rely on these small land masses cautiously and reproduce secretly.
The eyes of some birds and beasts are clearly filled with strong spirituality and the light of wisdom.
But they are extremely cautious, restraining their wisdom and pretending to be beasts and birds without intelligence. They reproduce here in fear and trepidation and protect some dying heritage.