Buddha

Night. Li Huowang, wrapped in a blanket, silently kept watch in a dense thicket.

The night was very cold without a bonfire, after all, it was only March.

But at this moment, he didn't dare to light a fire, lest the light in the dark attract the monks' pursuit.

Taking advantage of the faint moonlight in the sky, Li Huowang reached out and took the Dao bell from his arms.

The incredibly powerful Pills that Danyangzi gave him were almost finished, and this was the only thing he could offer now.

But when he thought of the Abbot holding it so easily, Li Huowang felt a strong unwillingness.

The other party wanted to deal with him, but he could only run away. This feeling was really uncomfortable.

"In this chaotic and bizarre world, everything is about strength. If I want to gain a foothold here, I must be strong enough!"

"Even someone like Danyangzi can become so powerful, why can't I? No matter how bizarre the cultivation methods of this world are, I must obtain them."

"I want to protect myself, and I want to protect the people I want to protect. If I can't ask for it, I'll steal it. If I can't steal it, I'll rob it. If I can't rob it, I'll resort to dirty tricks!" Li Huowang's expression gradually became ferocious.

Just as he thought of this, Li Huowang was stunned, and he touched the back of his neck with a puzzled expression, as if he was thinking about something.

"Namo - he luo da na - duo la ye ye ~"

A clear and ethereal chanting sound broke the silence of the forest.

Almost as a conditioned reflex, Li Huowang stood up abruptly and quickly observed his surroundings.

But it was pitch black all around, and he didn't find anything. The simple little traps he had set up earlier didn't react at all.

"Namo - a li ye - po luo jie di - shuo bo la ye." The ethereal chanting sound rang out from the darkness again, this time closer.

"Quick! Get up! Let's go! Run separately, forget the Donkey Cart! Idiot! Do as I taught you before!"

Under Li Huowang's reminder, Bai Lingmiao was about to follow Li Huowang subconsciously, but the Fool carried her on his shoulders and rushed towards the east.

Li Huowang crossed the bushes, jumped back onto the road, gritted his teeth and rushed forward quickly. In any case, the monks' target was only himself. If he really couldn't escape, there was no need for others to die with him.

In the darkness, Li Huowang kept running, but the chanting sound, which he didn't know where it came from, always followed closely, and his nose began to smell the incense from the temple.

As he ran, Li Huowang suddenly stopped. His pupils shrank as he stared at the pitch-black road ahead, where many fly-sized red dots were shaking slightly.

"Pu tuo ye - pu tuo ye - mi di li ye - na luo jin chi" The chanting sound became louder and louder.

Finally, the thing in the darkness slowly appeared. It was Buddha, a giant head, a tall body, but a big-bellied Buddha with extremely thin legs.

The red dots that Li Huowang saw in the darkness before were actually bundles of incense sticks inserted into the Buddha's body. These incense sticks inserted into the Buddha's flesh trembled as the Buddha's huge body swayed.

The tall Buddha surrounded by white smoke should have been full of immortal energy, but when the environment was changed to the dim wild Forest Path, it was a completely different matter.

There was more than one such Buddha, but seven of them. They stood side by side, swaying their bodies as they walked towards Li Huowang.

They stepped in simple, repetitive steps, swaying from left to right. They were like humans but not quite, their expressions were like smiles but not quite, like anger but not quite.

When he was completely exposed to the moonlight, Li Huowang also saw the appearance of the leading Buddha. He recognized that Buddha, it was Jian Dun's face. "Amitabha, Benefactor, your heart is not at peace."

Li Huowang looked up at the fleshy Buddha in front of him, who was at least four meters tall, "Are you finally not pretending anymore? You trash who worship monsters!!"

"Benefactor, this Monk doesn't know what you're talking about. Please come back to the temple with me. Danyangzi's karma is on you. If you leave with it, you will have big trouble, and the common people of the world will also have big trouble."

As Jian Dun finished speaking, he pressed his hands together forcefully. The sound of tearing flesh echoed as countless hands without skin or flesh grew out from behind him.

In an instant, like a peacock spreading its tail, the seven Buddhas from before had transformed into seven terrifying and horrifying Thousand-Handed Buddha of flesh and blood.

"Ring ring ring~!!" As Li Huowang vigorously shook the Daoist bell in his hand, the surrounding environment began to distort. The lines of the surrounding trees rapidly twisted, forming Lord You.

However, amidst the ringing, the chaos around them did not affect the Buddhas. They stood there like reefs.

As Li Huowang scooped up the dirt from the ground and stuffed it into his mouth, "Kàn gèn kěn!" Lord You, leaving afterimages, flew towards the Buddhas along the ground.

"Tai!" A massive Buddha palm slammed down forcefully, instantly kicking up dust.

However, the incorporeal Lord You completely ignored this attack, directly burrowing out from the back of the palm and pouncing towards the Buddha's large face.

As Lord You completely burrowed into the head of one of the Buddhas, the tall figure began to sway. The massive hands waved about incessantly, as if swatting flies.

However, this was ineffective. Before long, the massive Buddha collapsed heavily to the ground, its facial features beginning to melt. The body, which should have been unaffected, also began to distort along with the surrounding illusions.

"Bang bang bang!!" The remaining six Buddhas quickly formed a circle back-to-back, then slammed down hard onto the ground like stone piers, pressed their hands together, and began chanting obscure Buddhist scriptures. "Rúlái ādūluō~ sān mò~ sān pútí~"

As soon as the chanting began, Li Huowang immediately noticed that something was wrong with Lord You. The lines that made up its body began to twist involuntarily.

Seeing this, Li Huowang shook the Daoist bell in his hand even more vigorously. "Chì jiǎn! Kǎo gāo gāo yùn qú!!"

Upon hearing Li Huowang say that he was willing to pay more lifespan, Lord You struggled to maintain its body and charged towards one of the Buddhas.

Accompanied by a ground-shaking sound, another Buddha fell to the ground. However, this was already the limit of what Lord You could do.

In the loud chanting, Lord You fell from the air to the ground.

Seeing that Lord You was useless, Li Huowang stopped ringing the bell. However, as everything around them returned to normal, Lord You on the ground did not dissipate.

All the lines on its body began to fade from their original color, turning into a pinkish flesh color. The always-intangible Lord You was actually given a mortal body by the chanting of those Buddhas.

Having a physical body, Lord You looked like a large mass of earthworms tied in a knot, slowly wriggling on the ground.

A giant palm with a swastika symbol in its center slammed down heavily.

"Splatter" Lord You's flesh instantly turned into a pile of mush.

The giant palm, smeared with Lord You's flesh, slowly lifted and pressed together heavily. The remaining five Thousand-Handed Buddhas swayed as they walked over, standing in a row in front of Li Huowang. "Amitabha, Benefactor, please return with us."