Within the Stone Hall, the vast Dao sounds of the sages came to an abrupt halt.
Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti, two future sages, fixed their gazes like torches, locking onto Ming Xin, who sat cross-legged on the prayer mat.
The aura emanating from the depths of Ming Xin's sea of consciousness, piercing through his body, was icy, murderous, and brought an end to all things!
Yet within the boundless intent of nirvana-like slaughter, there was a trace of an indescribable, strange Buddha nature—one that seemed capable of severing all karmic shackles, bringing ultimate liberation and protection!
Though this aura was still immature, far from matching their own sage might, its essence was lofty, its conception unique, and its Dao resonance pure.
Above all, the supreme artistic conception pointing directly to the Primordial Dao, using slaughter to attain the Dao, shook even these two sages, who had heard the Dao Ancestor's Primordial Dao and were well-versed in the world, to the very depths of their souls!
The gray-black vertical mark on Ming Xin's brow had already transformed into a slowly rotating Dark Gold Killing Buddha Wheel. At the wheel's center, a blurred Dharma Image phantom sat cross-legged on a gray-white karmic fire lotus platform, holding the Nirvana Killing Sword.
It radiated a chilling aura. This was the initial condensation and manifestation of the true meaning of the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture within his sea of consciousness!
"This... what is this?!" Daoist Zhunti exclaimed in a low voice, his eyes swirling with the light of wisdom as he tried to parse this unprecedented Dao resonance.
For the first time, a look of almost unseemly shock appeared on his gaunt face. "Neither Buddha nor demon... yet both Buddha and demon... slaughter as the bone, nirvana as the soul...
This... this is the embryonic form of a Primordial Dao resonance?! Could it be that my disciple, under our very preaching, has comprehended the Great Dao on his own?!"
Daoist Jieyin's withered frame trembled slightly. The light in his eyes, which had borne the sorrows of countless ages, was no longer that of discovering a treasure, but rather the ecstasy and disbelief of one who had trekked through boundless darkness for eons and finally glimpsed the light of dawn! His parched lips quivered violently, and his voice carried an unprecedented excitement and hoarseness: "No... it's more than just an embryonic form! This Dao... this Dao points directly to the origin!
Using Killing to Stop Killing, using nirvana to bear... to bear compassion?! What a shocking, yet... yet directly pointing to the true essence of our Western nirvana and liberation, this Dao is! My disciple... Ming Xin!"
The gazes of the two sages were filled with an unbelievable shock, ecstasy, and a kind of expectation that saw infinite possibilities!
They had never imagined that merely passing down their fundamental scriptures and preaching to stabilize their disciple's foundation could catalyze such a shocking result!
This was no simple enlightenment; it was the opening of an unprecedented path to the Primordial Dao, one of limitless potential!
At this moment, Ming Xin slowly opened his eyes. In his left eye, the Nirvana Buddha Flame condensed like an abyss; in his right, a Demon Abyss vortex was deep as the sea.
The violent Primordial Dao resonance that had burst forth from his body gradually receded, but the Dark Gold Buddha Wheel on his brow and the Killing Buddha Dharma Image phantom did not dissipate; instead, they gained a deeper profundity and control.
He looked at his two masters, who were stunned beyond words, his gaze clear and calm. He slowly raised his hand and gently tapped the Dark Gold Buddha Wheel on his brow.
Hum—!
A highly condensed stream of light, woven from countless Dark Gold slaughter runes and gray-white Nirvana Flames, shot toward Jieyin and Zhunti as if crossing time and space!
This was not an attack, but a stream of inheritance information bearing the fundamental mysteries of the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture!
"My masters, your kindness in teaching and preaching is beyond my ability to repay. This is the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture, which I have created based on your Great Dao foundations, combined with my own origin and meager insights.
Its core principle is—'Killing to protect life, severing karma, not people'! Please, my masters, appraise it!"
The light stream merged into the brows of Jieyin and Zhunti.
In an instant!
A torrent of Dao resonance, far clearer, more vast, and more systematically complete than what they had sensed earlier, Carrying the icy, murderous True Meaning of Slaughter, the will of nirvana that ends all things, the resolute conviction to sever karmic bonds, And at its core, the shocking principle of "killing to protect life," slammed violently into the Dao hearts of the two sages!
Daoist Jieyin's whole body shook violently. The sorrowful expression on his gaunt face froze instantly, replaced by an extreme shock and sudden enlightenment!
He seemed to see a brand-new path: nirvana and liberation were not only achieved by crossing the sea of suffering and illuminating ignorance!
Using supreme killing power to sever all evil karma and causes in the world, cleanse the demonic atmosphere, and forcibly carve out a pure land—was this not also a form of great compassion and great liberation?!
"Killing... to protect life..." he murmured, the Nirvana Buddha Light in his eyes churning violently, as if new light was being conceived within the desolation.
Daoist Zhunti's eyes flew wide open, his wisdom light blazing with unprecedented intensity! He saw the domineering wisdom within the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture—the use of absolute power to shatter illusions and end karmic obstacles!
This formed a strange complement and mutual confirmation with his own path in the Great Nirvana Supreme Scripture, which saw through illusions and relied on wisdom and willpower!
"Severing karma, not people... Good! A fine 'severing the shackles of karma, not slaughtering living beings themselves'!
This is great wisdom! Great courage! Great perseverance!" He clapped his hands in praise, his gaunt face full of admiration and approval.
A full half-hour passed before Jieyin and Zhunti came back to their senses from the impact of that grand and unique Dao resonance.
They exchanged a glance and saw in each other's eyes the uncontrollable storm of emotions and unprecedented relief!
"Good! Good! A fine 'Killing to protect life, severing karma, not people'!" Daoist Jieyin said three times in succession, and a rare, heartfelt smile even broke through his sorrowful expression.
"This thought seems murderous and vast, but it actually nurtures the purest, most essential truth of the Buddha! Using slaughter as a means, with protection and transcendence as the ultimate destination! Ming Xin, my disciple, your Dao has grasped its true essence!"
Daoist Zhunti's eyes blazed, and his tone was decisive, carrying an irrefutable affirmation and expectation: "The conception of this scripture is lofty, its potential immense, beyond imagination! My disciple Ming Xin has the bearing of a sage!"
The bearing of a sage!
This was the highest praise from two future sages! Its weight was enough to shake the entire Primordial World!
"This scripture also brings great inspiration to the two of us!" Daoist Jieyin said solemnly, the Nirvana light swirling unceasingly in his eyes.
"Good! Let us contemplate this Dao together with our disciple!" Daoist Zhunti waved his whisk, and the light of wisdom enveloped the three of them.
Without further words, the master and disciples reached an instant consensus. Jieyin and Zhunti no longer simply preached to Ming Xin. Instead, they unreservedly released their own insights from the Great Nirvana Bright Scripture and the Great Nirvana Supreme Scripture, Especially the Primordial Dao comprehension gained from listening to the Dao at the Purple Cloud Palace, and engaged in the deepest level of confirmation, collision, and fusion with the newborn Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture in Ming Xin's sea of consciousness!
Within the Stone Hall, the Dao sounds rose again! But this time, it was no longer one-way instruction, but the resonance of three vast, grand, yet homologous and divergent streams of Great Dao sounds!
Daoist Jieyin's nirvana of annihilation, Daoist Zhunti's wisdom of emptiness, Ming Xin's nirvana of killing Buddha!
Three kinds of Dao sounds intertwined, tangled, and collided, like three surging rivers stirring up sky-piercing waves at their confluence, erupting with unprecedented Dao resonance and spiritual light!
Ming Xin held a Bodhi Seed in his mouth, his mind fully immersed in this unprecedented feast of enlightenment.
With the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture as his foundation, he greedily absorbed and digested the essence of his two master saints' great Dao, constantly verifying, correcting, and perfecting his own path.
The Killing Law grew more condensed and pure under the tempering of Dao sounds, while the power of Buddha and demon achieved a deeper balance and fusion in the collision. His realm was rapidly solidifying and rising!
Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti also benefited greatly. Ming Xin's core philosophy— "Killing to protect life, severing karma rather than people"—
was like opening a new window in their inherent Great Dao of Annihilation, showing them another possible path toward ultimate liberation!
In particular, the concept of using slaughter to end karmic obstacles provided highly feasible theoretical support and practical direction for their future purification of the Western demonic aura and establishment of a Buddha pure land!
The auras of the two saints also continuously settled and sublimated in resonance, advancing toward a higher level.
Within the Stone Hall, time lost all meaning. Only Dao resonance flowed, and laws arose and perished.
In the blink of an eye, three thousand years had passed!
On this day, within the silent Stone Hall, three vast auras awakened simultaneously like slumbering ancient divine dragons!
Boom!!!
A golden Buddha light, withered and deep, yet nurturing eternal radiance at the end of annihilation, shot into the sky!
On Daoist Jieyin's body, immeasurable Nirvana Buddha Light condensed into a massive golden lotus of nirvana, as if bearing all the suffering and hope of the Western lands!
The lotus bloomed with twelve petals, emitting an overwhelming pressure that surpassed the Great Luo and towered above the Primordial Unity! Golden Immortal of the Origin!
Daoist Jieyin, through the path of nirvana and annihilation, had officially entered the realm of Golden Immortal of the Origin! (Quasi-Saint)
Hum!!!
Another silver light, clear and pure, with wisdom perfectly fused, erupted! Around Daoist Zhunti, the light of wisdom flowed unceasingly, manifesting as a towering phantom of the Wisdom Bodhi Tree!
The tree's shadow swayed, and between its branches and leaves flowed the supreme Dao resonance of seeing through illusion and perceiving true suchness! A vast aura surpassing the limits of Primordial Unity spread out! Golden Immortal of the Origin!
Daoist Zhunti, through the path of annihilating wisdom, had likewise attained the fruit of Golden Immortal of the Origin! (Quasi-Saint)
And almost at the same time!
A cold, murderous aura—ending all things yet containing protection and transcendence within extreme killing intent—erupted in dark gold and gray-white, like a peerless murderous sword drawn from its sheath, fiercely tearing through the shroud of the first two saintly pressures!
Ming Xin rose to his full height, his gray hemp robe fluttering without wind! The dark gold Killing Buddha Wheel at his brow was solid as substance, the central Killing Buddha Dharma Image phantom clear and distinct, the Nirvana Killing Sword in its hand seeming ready to sever the river of time!
A complete, decisive, Buddha-demon unified powerful aura exploded forth!
Primordial Unity Golden Immortal—Perfection!
Only the final step remained before leaping out of the river of time and condensing the Great Luo Dao Fruit!
With his foundation as a Form Transformation of a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure and the foundation of a self-created Origin-level cultivation method, once he stepped into Great Luo, he would surely be among its top existences!
The three powerful auras shone upon each other within the Stone Hall, then slowly calmed and converged.
Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti felt the vast power of their Golden Immortal of the Origin realms, then looked at their disciple Ming Xin, whose aura was complete and edge sharp.
Their eyes were filled with relief and pride. In just three thousand years, master and disciples had all broken through! How could the West not flourish?!
"Good! Our realms are now stable." Daoist Jieyin spoke, his voice carrying the grand majesty unique to a Golden Immortal of the Origin.
Daoist Zhunti counted on his fingers, a flash of wisdom light in his eyes: "The time of the Second Lecture at Purple Cloud Palace is near; we cannot miss this opportunity."
Ming Xin understood in his heart and bowed: "This disciple is willing to accompany both masters there!"
"Good!" Daoist Jieyin and Daoist Zhunti nodded simultaneously.
Without further words, the three simply settled their minds.
Daoist Jieyin waved his sleeve, and the Stone Hall's restrictions opened. Daoist Zhunti lightly swept his whisk, and a rounded, wise clear light wrapped around the three.
The next moment, three startling rainbows shot up from the peak of Mount Sumeru in the West!
One withered golden light, one silver radiance of wisdom, and one dark gold gray-white light of slaughter and annihilation!
Tearing through the barren sky of the West, ignoring spatial barriers, they sped with astonishing speed straight toward the Purple Cloud Palace deep in chaos beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens!
The winds and clouds of the Primordial World stirred once more. The Second Lecture at Purple Cloud Palace was destined to stir new waves because of this master-and-disciple trio from the West.
And Ming Xin, bearing the Great Nirvana Killing Buddha Scripture, unified as Buddha and demon, would truly step onto the most top-level stage of the Primordial World!
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