Lu Qingfeng stood proudly with the pagoda in hand, letting the gathered immortals stare at him while he remained as immovable as a mountain.
This time,
he had truly exhausted every possible scheme and put in all the thought he could.
After battling Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Buddha and the others, they each returned to their camps. Lu Qingfeng, however, used a transformation to infiltrate the formation and overheard Lingji Bodhisattva and the others discussing how to deal with him.
At once, he conceived a plan.
Relying on the fact that Cloud-Peak Step and Transformation Technique were both Supreme Divine Abilities that even Golden Immortals found difficult to see through, he transformed into Cloth-Bag Arhat and deceived Lingji Bodhisattva and Meditating Arhat. Once they reached a secluded place, he knocked them unconscious with a bamboo staff and suppressed them inside the Exquisite Pagoda.
Afterward,
he turned their scheme against them.
He transformed into Lingji Bodhisattva, Meditating Arhat, and the iron-eating beast Daoist Taiji and bamboo rat Dharma Protector Green Leaf. Using the excuse of testing the treasure, he easily collected Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Buddha and Cloth-Bag Arhat into the pagoda and suppressed them.
After that, things became much easier.
Just as he had done atop Peach Mountain in the Lesser Shu Mountain Realm,
using the identities of Pagoda-Bearing Heavenly King Buddha and the others, he replaced all the commanders among the nine million Buddhist soldiers one by one.
But replacing them was easy.
The difficult question was what to do with the nine million Buddhist soldiers.
Killing them all would not actually be difficult.
But the slaughter would be too great. Although he possessed the Yellow Court Scripture and did not fear karmic retribution, such a massacre would create boundless cause and effect. Even if he himself was unafraid, he still