The heartland of the Western Regions was also known as the Western Heaven Buddhist Domain.
It was said that within the Buddhist Domain stood tens of thousands of temples large and small, with tens of millions of formally ordained monks and hundreds of millions of believers supporting those temples and monks.
The people living here mostly believed in and revered Buddhism, willingly devoting everything they had to the Western Regions Buddhist sect.
Some believers were fanatically devout!
When Wang Chen, who had just arrived through teleportation, came back to his senses, he beheld a profoundly shocking scene.
Upon the vast square, countless people lay prostrate in a sea of black.
They worshipped toward the Buddhist temple with their limbs and bodies pressed to the ground, chanting Sanskrit, their dark, gaunt faces filled with piety.
The prayers of countless people converged together, delivering an immense shock to the cultivators, Wang Chen included!
The Buddhist chant invaded their minds!
Wang Chen's expression changed. He immediately gathered his essence and guarded his oneness, staunchly protecting his mind as his consciousness instantly sank into the Primordial Dao Stele entrenched within his Sea of Consciousness.
The Primordial Dao Stele was unfathomably mysterious. Wang Chen's understanding of this treasure did not even amount to the tip of the iceberg.
Yet the Primordial Dao Stele had helped Wang Chen survive several deadly crises. This had allowed him to glimpse a fraction of its true nature and grasp several techniques for borrowing the stele's power.
When Wang Chen's mind and will merged with the Primordial Dao Stele, the Sanskrit chants invading from outside immediately became so faint as to be nearly inaudible.
They no longer affected him in any way.
But while Wang Chen had the Primordial Dao Stele for body protection, the cultivators from the other sects