Ascension Through Eternal Tribulation
Chapter 54

Fate Jade

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Outer Scenery cultivators had long ceased to fear heat or cold.

Yet as Li Fuchan stood behind Huici, staring at the mouth that had just closed, a chill crept up his back and made every hair on his body stand on end.

What a man-eating monk.

No matter how he looked at them, these Buddhist Cultivators exuded an evil he could neither name nor explain.

Whenever the Great Compassionate Venerable Wisdom King arrived, a hundred li around him became Buddhist Land, and every living creature fell to its knees in worship. They called it universal salvation, but in truth, it was merely imprisonment under another name.

Now Huici had spoken of eating people with such righteous conviction. One opening of his mouth, one inhalation, and thousands of lives had been swallowed whole, without so much as a belch.

He suddenly recalled something Huici had mentioned earlier.

Perfected in Wisdom and Conduct had a Buddhist kingdom within his belly. At the time, it had sounded utterly inconceivable. Now that Li Fuchan had witnessed this scene himself, those scattered fragments instantly fitted together, and everything became clear.

So the "saving people" Huici spoke of meant delivering them all into the Belly Buddha Land, keeping them inside that so-called Buddhist kingdom. What kind of salvation was that?

Li Fuchan glanced at Huici again. His gaze settled on those increasingly lustrous hands, and he thought a layer deeper.

Huici was probably not cultivating this Buddhist kingdom within his belly merely for some compassionate, universal salvation.

He was accumulating cultivation.

Most likely, it was all for the day he would contend with Mu Suli.

Even in the Buddhist Land, the weak were meat for the strong. To avoid being eaten, one had to eat others. Now he was swallowing mortals, swallowing Flying Light, swallowing everything

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