New Mount Shu

New Mount Shu

"A variable?!"

Buddhist light blazed.

On a golden mountain, Zen Master Fakong of Gold Mountain Temple sat with his palms pressed together, helping several Mount Shu elders refine the Blood-Robed Old Devil. Suddenly, his expression changed.

When it came to calculating fate, the Buddhist and Daoist traditions were evenly matched.

Unorthodox cultivators and devil cultivators, however, were generally poor at it. They often blundered into their own deaths, leaving themselves in dire straits.

Take these three sword duels!

The Mount Shu Sword Sect had used the karmic fortune of the Seven Swords to forge extensive ties with the Buddhist tradition. It had also brought the Qingcheng Sect and other reputable sects to its side—or persuaded them to seal their mountains—before forcing the unorthodox cultivators and devil cultivators who refused to submit into an alliance. Then Mount Shu could brand the whole lot as devil cultivators and wipe them out in the name of the righteous struggle against evil!

Even this third sword duel was full of calculations. Mount Shu had drawn most Dharma Body experts, including the Three Wonders and Four Oddities, into the righteous camp.

It had also devised a specific countermeasure for every Old Devil of the Five Directions Devil Palaces.

For the Blood-Robed Old Devil before him—the hardest of them all to deal with—Fakong had personally stepped in to suppress his ferocity with Buddhist teachings. The Mount Shu Immortal Formation had been brought out as well. Under the power of the Grand Pure Divine Talisman, three days and nights of refinement would leave the Blood-Robed Old Devil dead beyond any chance of survival!

But when Fakong used Buddhist Future Sight to calculate what lay ahead, he discovered that a shadow had somehow fallen across the Mount Shu Sword Sect's once-radiant future!

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