Bao Xiang Ru Lai

"The Jinxiang Sects, Diluo Temple has 67,000 branch temples. If we were to use Nuclear Bomb, we would need 90,000?" Yang Ning shook his head.

Last time, with such a big commotion, people assumed it was Hengming who made the move, and since Southern Forest was within Taiheng's territory, they didn't pay much attention.

If Nuclear Bomb were to be used again, it would be tantamount to Hengming invading other sects.

The Myriad Saints Alliance and the Tianyi Sect will definitely have something to say about this; a world war might break out at that point.

A world war might not be a bad thing, but it can't be between the Great Ming Kingdom and other sects; it has to be between the Taiheng Sect and other sects. It would be best if all the powerful cultivators at the Spiritual Law Realm were killed.

This is something to think about, but those old foxes at Hengming might not be willing to take the blame for the trouble Hengming caused.

"Then how do we deal with these two sects?" Yang Ning looked at the vast territories of these two sects, the densely packed red dots of branch temples on the map, and the total number of registered monks reaching 640 million, and felt his scalp tingle.

Other transmigrators find themselves in cultivation worlds where not only are there few high-level cultivators and the maps are small, but a sect can only have a maximum of two thousand people.

However, the sects of Tai Heng Star each have territories that are calculated in terms of countries, and the number of cultivators is in the hundreds of millions. The high-level cultivators have not experienced any calamities that wiped them out; on the contrary, they are still alive and well.

Moreover, the world is highly interconnected; even without a mobile phone, the Identity Jade Token can receive news from the other side of the planet.

This kind of world is so extreme that even calling it hell wouldn't be difficult.

"Qi Refining Stage, oh no, they call it Arhat Realm. Cultivators at this stage aren't difficult to kill, but Great Harmony at the Spiritual Law Realm..."

The good news is that, unlike Taiheng Spiritual Law Realm of Diluo Temple and Jinxiang Sect does not spend most of his time in seclusion. He mainly practices in the temple, and ordinary believers can see him if they wish.

The bad news is that seeing it was useless; without Hengming's intervention, the Nuclear Bomb couldn't have killed Spiritual Law Realm cultivator.

"We need to find Spiritual Law Realm cultivator to study how the cave heaven is opened, and then find a way to prevent its opening!" Yang Ning pondered.

For those in the Spiritual Law Realm, speed and physical strength are not issues.

Even if something flies fast, can it ever be faster than the speed of light?

No matter how strong your body is, can it withstand a strike from light particles?

This cave is the most troublesome. Yang Ning doesn't have any attacks that can cross space, so he can't do anything if someone enters the cave.

But before that, he needs to figure out exactly how his Spirit Realm clone was exposed.

He can't sleep well because he can't figure this out!

However, he dared not leave the territory of the Great Ming Kingdom, and he was afraid of dying an unclear death if he sent another clone there.

Moreover, randomly arresting an abbot probably wouldn't be of any use; they're just executors and don't know the inside story. That's the only way.

"Lord Hengming!" Yang Ning called out.

"What is it?" Although Hengming was participating in the Li Han Grand Assembly, it didn't prevent him from having a clone to help Yang Ning.

"I have a question!" Yang Ning asked, "After cultivating to become an immortal, will one immediately ascend to heaven? Is there any way to stay in the mortal realm?"

"There's no other way!" Hengming, "After passing the Immortal Tribulation, the Immortal Gate opens wide, and those who become immortals only have a short time to arrange their affairs before they must leave!"

"Is there any way for the immortals to descend from the immortal realm and attack?" Yang Ning asked again.

"No!" Hengming, "After entering the Immortal Realm, all contact with the mortal world is lost. Normal communication is impossible, so how could we possibly fight our way from the Immortal Realm to the mortal world?"

"Is that so?" Yang Ning nodded, then asked, "So, how is your strength at the Spiritual Law Realm, senior?"

"Within Taiheng, I am invincible. Outside Taiheng, I can only be considered a mere illusory immortal!" Hengming said calmly.

"Invincible, invincible is good!" Yang Ning breathed a sigh of relief.

"What do you need me to do?" Hengming asked.

"I would like to ask you to protect me!" Yang Ning said, "I may encounter a very powerful enemy later, and I'm afraid he might harm my soul across dimensions!"

"You can see him without worry!" Hengming nodded.

Hengming Tower's job is to protect, and since this is on its own territory, there's absolutely no way something could go wrong.

"That's good!" Yang Ning breathed a sigh of relief. He wouldn't place all his hopes on Hengming, so the Nightmare Dragon Pearl was also prepared.

This item is at least at the Immortal level.

Wait a minute, so 300,000 years ago, it was permissible for beings of Immortal rank and above to appear in the mortal realm, but after the Nightmare Tribulation, it's no longer allowed?

An idea flashed through Yang Ning's mind, and then he set up a task: collect neutrinos!

Neutrinos are uncharged leptons with a mass similar to that of electrons. They can pass freely through planets, metals, and everything else.

Therefore, if neutrinos are transformed into rune computers, their detection capabilities will be stronger than those of photons and electrons, enabling them to explore the secrets deep underground. This would be very helpful for Yang Ning in understanding the history of this world and excavating underground relics.

He used the Nightmare Dragon Pearl to protect his soul, while simultaneously summoning a Lawful Nightmare Power to transform himself.

There's no way around it; if you're not good enough, you're ashamed to show your face.

"I'm starting!" Yang Ning reminded Hengming, then closed his eyes and began to absorb Shenxiu's memories.

If you were to ask when these people from the Spirit Realm first appeared, the answer would undoubtedly be here!

With a muffled boom like a great bell, a magnificent scene of golden clouds covering the ground and lotus flowers blooming like a sea appeared before Yang Ning.

Beneath the sea of clouds lies a landscape of beautiful mountains and rivers, filled with the sounds of birds and the fragrance of flowers, with one or two birds exuding Savage Wilderness and untamed aura occasionally flying across the sky.

What a magnificent Savage Wilderness scene!

Yang Ning sat upright on a lotus platform in the air. He keenly sensed that this was no longer Shenxiu's memory.

It seems that someone used his memories as a medium to lead him to a virtual world.

That's right, this is a virtual world constructed with mental power, and no one is better at understanding this than him!

"So it was you behind those people!" A clear voice rang out beside Yang Ning. Yang Ning hurriedly turned around and saw a young man dressed in white, bald, with androgynous features, looking like a man and a woman at the same time, like an adult and a child at the same time.

The young man was holding a string of Buddhist prayer beads in his hand, chanting incantations as he fiddled with the beads.

The image of "Puxian" reminded Yang Ning of a character from a novel he had read long ago.

"Puxian, Puxian, who saves all virtuous people?" The white-robed monk repeated the name twice with great interest, then smiled gently, "Not bad, this humble monk likes this name very much. From now on, it belongs to this humble monk!"

"Um," Yang Ning shook his head, "I advise you not to. Puxian is a Bodhisattva in Buddhism, with cultivation equivalent to Great Luo Immortal. You can call yourself his disciple, and he might not mind because of his Bodhisattva heart, but if you steal his name..."

"However, this name carries a heavy karmic connection with me, as if it were born to me!" the white-robed monk said with a smile. "Therefore, I will be called Puxian!"

"Alright!" Yang Ning shrugged. He was just saying it casually. After all, Puxian was just a fictional character created by novelists and people from ancient religions, and might not actually exist.

Etc!

"Cause and effect?" Yang Ning frowned and asked, "So, you perceived us through cause and effect?"

"That's right!" The white-robed monk nodded. "Three thousand people, connected by cause and effect, as if they were one person. Such a magnificent sight is something I have never seen before in my life!"

Yang Ning was speechless. He had never seen the causal thread before, so how would he know that the Spirit Realm clone had such a huge loophole?

"Would you like to know the solution?" the monk asked again.

Yang Ning nodded. "Of course!"

"I can teach you the Great Karma Technique, which will be able to disrupt the natural order of cause and effect!" the monk said. "Naturally, no one will be able to disrupt your plans through cause and effect!"

"But what if there are other abilities in this world?" Yang Ning asked, "What if there are no flaws in the cause and effect, but there are flaws in the cause and effect?"

"Life, in the grand scheme of things, is nothing more than destiny, an entanglement of cause and effect!" the monk laughed. "Destiny is beyond anyone's control, so as long as cause and effect are disrupted, you will have no worries from now on!"

Yang Ning nodded and asked, "So, what is the price?"

"Learn my Divine Ability and serve me, shall you?" The monk said, "This humble monk can also teach you the Great Salvation Technique, the Great Reception Technique, the Great Precious Appearance Technique, and the Great Merit Technique, ensuring a smooth journey before you reach the Immortal Realm!"

Yang Ning clicked his tongue in astonishment. "I've been scheming and plotting for just one Supreme Divine Ability, and you just casually mention five?"

"What do you want to do?" Yang Ning asked.

He was a materialist who believed in pragmatism.

Your Divine Ability is indeed very useful, so why shouldn't I want it? I can just believe in it for now.

I have always been a devout follower of Mahayana Buddhism and a believer in Ultraman Tiga.

The premise is that you don't have any ideas about ruling or destroying the world.

It doesn't matter if it exists, as long as it doesn't destroy Taiheng before I become an immortal.

As for what will happen after I become an immortal?

Who cares if the floodwaters rise to the sky!

"This humble monk has no great ambitions," the white-robed monk said, pressing his palms together and chanting in Buddhist hymns.

"May all people in this world turn to goodness, and may everyone become a Buddha!"

"May all the heavens and myriad realms be filled with the Buddha-lands of my earth!"

"May all living beings under heaven be free from defilement and oppression!"

"May this vast world be as clear as a pearl, free from the ravages of all demons."

Yang Ning immediately became respectful. "May I ask your name, sir?"

"This humble monk Puxian!" the white-robed monk said. "However, before this, people all called this humble monk the Reception Salvation Precious Appearance Tathagata Buddha!"

After a professor explained it to many people, they now know that Tathagata is not a name that belongs to any one person, but rather a state of being, an attitude.

Yang Ning found the name familiar, and after realizing who it was, he immediately became respectful. "Bao Xiang Ru Lai, so you are Bao Xiang Ru Lai?"

The Buddha enshrined at Diluo Temple Jinxiang Sect is none other than the Bao Xiang Ru Lai, isn't he?

This man is the leader of the Buddhist sect!

"It seems that the world you inhabit also has the name of this humble monk?" asked the Bao Xiang Ru Lai.

"Aren't you in my world?" Yang Ning retorted.

"Once you have cultivated the Great Reception Technique, you will know that all those in the world who sing my name are as if I have personally come to them!" said the Bao Xiang Ru Lai a smile.

Yang Ning nodded. Responding when called by name is a skill possessed by every powerful being.

But the only technique capable of traversing star systems and worlds and still producing a reaction is the Great Reception Technique.

If that's the case, this is a galaxy-level communication technology that can traverse star systems and worlds, and might even extend to star clusters!

Yang Ning was actually a little tempted.

"So, why me?" Yang Ning asked. "Or do you say this to every young person?"

"Anyone with Buddha Heart can become a Buddha!" Bao Xiang Ru Lai smile. "I see that you, benefactor, are a person with a profound Buddha Heart!"

Yang Ning didn't believe it. What did it mean to have a Buddha Heart? It should be referring to one's aptitude.

Moreover, the ability he displayed to create three thousand incarnations seems quite compatible with Buddhism. If I were a great Buddhist master, I probably wouldn't be able to resist the temptation to take him as a disciple.

In a sense, Buddhism should value talent more than Daoism, because Daoists allow marriage and children, and if you have Divine Ability Law Technique, they would certainly be more willing to pass them on to their sons.

Although some Buddhists do marry and have children, it is not the mainstream practice.

Since there are no children, the best will naturally be chosen from among the apprentices.

"So, benefactor, what is your choice?" Seeing the hesitant expression on Yang Ning's face, Bao Xiang Ru Lai smiled like Maitreya Buddha.

The uneven quality and moral standards of disciples, coupled with poor management skills, are problems that plague any sect. Even with rules and regulations and constant self-inspection, corruption can still fester.

This is human nature.

Many times, Bao Xiang Ru Lai thought about creating 30,000 clones to manage the temples himself! Unfortunately, he couldn't create clones; he didn't have the Great Clone Technique.

People say that Buddha has three thousand forms, and that is indeed true. However, he can only create four or five forms each time, and he has to recall them before he can create the next batch.

He's not as amazing as ordinary people make him out to be.

Therefore, you can't imagine how excited the Bao Xiang Ru Lai was when he saw the same causal line on three thousand people.

If we accept this person as a disciple, wouldn't teaching one person be equivalent to teaching thousands or tens of thousands of people? If we then assign these thousands or tens of thousands of people to various places as abbots, would we still have to worry about problems with temple management?

In fact, Yang Ning did not trust the greed of ordinary people, so he used his clones to monopolize all official positions throughout the Great Ming Kingdom.

The two of them were thinking the same thing.

Yang Ning sighed deeply. Five peerless Peerless Divine Abilities!

I'm really tempted!

Pity!

"I'm sorry, I can't agree to that!" Yang Ning said.

"Why?" asked the Bao Xiang Ru Lai. "You may not know the strength of my Buddhist sect. My Buddhist sect spans countless stars and millions of worlds, with hundreds of millions of believers. If you come, you may very well become the next World Honored One!"

He was serious, after all, his cultivation level was almost at its peak.

Ascension is no problem for him, but he can't let go of the vast empire he has built; he needs to find someone to inherit it.

He also had some disciples, but they were either poorly aptitude or had bad character and were selfish.

He could still keep things in check while he was alive, but if he ascended to heaven, he really couldn't imagine what Buddhism would become.

Yang Ning had no idea that even the head of the Buddhist sect would worry about the issue of succession; he simply didn't trust Bao Xiang Ru Lai.

After all, he didn't know Bao Xiang Ru Lai, nor did he know what kind of person he was.

As for the Buddhist temples' propaganda about great compassion and universal salvation, just listen to it and don't take it too seriously.

Fans also said that their brother is really hardworking!

Yang Ning shook his head, indicating he was no longer planning to talk.

"Are you blaming this humble monk for killing your three thousand Dharma bodies?" Bao Xiang Ru Lai. "How about this humble monk resurrects them and offers you a pool of merit water as compensation?"

"Or, why don't you become the abbot of the Baoxiang Sect, Diluo Temple, and experience the atmosphere of our Buddhist community first?"

Yang Ning was completely numb, so he simply flicked the Dragon Pearl and left this space.

Only the Bao Xiang Ru Lai remained, along with his ever-brighter eyes.

"Neither humble nor arrogant, maintaining one's integrity in the face of such temptation—how profound is the Buddha Heart!"

"This young man can even break through the junior monk's guiding realm; he must have some secrets!"

Light-years away, on a planet filled with golden light, a monk who was preaching suddenly stopped.

"World Honored One?" The disciples below the stage looked bewildered. What happened? Why did they stop talking?

When they looked up, they discovered that their teacher, who had just been sitting high in the sky, had vanished without a trace!