Dragon Sloughing
"What a pity, this is Earth Star, not the Azure Mysterious Realm."
If one were in the Azure Mysterious Realm, one could also gain a state of blessing through the evolution of heavenly secrets, and even discover more secrets.
The difficulty of going with the tide and going against the tide are completely different.
"However, even in the Azure Mysterious Realm, I don't think I've ever encountered a true opponent who can elucidate the secrets of heaven."
The closest they came was with the "female immortal" hidden in the Demon-Subduing City. Unfortunately, in order to avoid the attention of both the righteous and demonic paths, that woman refrained from using similar methods, which gave Hu Mang an opportunity.
Even though the fat man's two concubines were his bedmates, they couldn't possibly know all of his life-saving methods. The fact that they were able to dig out more than a dozen anti-black Jiangtou treasures was already an unexpected surprise.
Moreover, Hu Mang noticed that among the protective treasures he unearthed, at least five were Buddha relics.
"This fatso's real name is Chen. Could this 'Chen' be from the Chen Household?"
Hu Mang muttered to himself, pondering whether to get his hands on the other two protective treasures and then sink the ship twice more; or to rescue that fellow Wei Kaishan first.
"Um?"
Hu Mang suddenly looked up and stared in one direction.
Nascent Soul level Divine Sense?
And it's not just one share, it's three shares!
Three Divine Sense simultaneously descended upon the skies above Sumatra.
The first Divine Sense was brimming with Qi and Blood, like a giant standing tall between heaven and earth. It contained Blood Qi so intense it was almost tangible, as hot as molten lava. It seemed that every wisp of the Divine Sense carried immense power, making it hard to breathe.
The second Divine Sense was completely different, carrying a strange and twisted aura, as if it came from some indescribable being.
The third Divine Sense was completely different, carrying a warm and peaceful aura, like the spring sunshine, like the morning bell.
The Divine Sense contained a rich Buddhist light, like a golden sun, enveloping everything around it in warm radiance.
The third Divine Sense was the most troublesome, because wherever it swept, Buddhist temples lit up one after another, and the light of Buddha either covered an entire city or a port. In the blink of an eye, a large part of Sumatra was within the range of the Buddha's light.
Moreover, this Buddha light was very strange.
The plants grew wildly in the Buddha's light, their branches and leaves twisting into bizarre shapes, some like clasped hands, some like the outline of a lotus flower, and some like the silhouette of the Buddha.
The river and sea water became clear and transparent in the Buddha's light, yet shimmered with a layer of luster, as if every drop of water contained the power of the Buddha's light.
Seeing this, Hu Mang finally confirmed that his mother hadn't been lying to him; it turned out that the city full of Buddha's light and the Buddha's Arhats she had seen back then were actually real.
"But the Buddha's light you saw, old lady, shouldn't be that sinister, right?"
In Hu Mang's eyes, these people walking, working, and talking suddenly seemed to be pulled by some invisible force, like puppets on strings; some began to unconsciously put their hands together in prayer, some began to chant Buddhist mantras in a low voice, and some even knelt down and kowtowed in the direction where the Buddha's light was strongest, their foreheads bleeding from the kowtows without stopping.
"Oh no, Brother Mang!"
Hu Mang turned his head and saw that the two Foundation Establishment Lane Masters who were following him were also sitting cross-legged on the ground, with a slight smile on their faces and their faces shining with precious light.
Moreover, their skin began to gleam with an abnormal golden sheen, as if coated with a thin layer of copper.
Only Naimi was still struggling, not because of her strong will, but because her body was covered in bloodstains, which came from the Devil Cultivation Method of the Holy Son Cult that she had been practicing.
Hu Mang looked at Feng Haixiao and found that although Feng, the head of the gang, could still put up a fight, it was becoming increasingly difficult for him to resist.
As for the buildings bathed in Buddha's light, a layer of golden patterns appeared on their surfaces. These patterns writhed like living things, slowly seeping into the cracks in the bricks, the grain of the wood, and the rust on the ironware.
Blurry faces began to appear on the wall, like souls sealed within it. Their expressions were not distorted or pained, but rather carried an eerie serenity.
"How can there be Nascent Soul? And more than one at that!"
Are the powerful Nanyang forces really that deeply entrenched in history?
However, under the probing of Hu Mang's Nascent Soul Middle Stage Divine Sense, it was quickly discovered that these three Nascent Soul level Divine Sense were quite unstable, somewhat as if they were forcibly stimulated through a secret technique, similar to his state back in Demon-Subduing City.
"One has an excessively Qi and Blood that can even attach itself to the Divine Sense, Nascent Soul level physical body? And the other one gives me the feeling of being a descendant of Celestial Person being, like Jiang Kuisha? As for the last one, a Buddhist cultivator from the Saha Continent? Wasn't it said that those monks had no Law Power?"
Including the barefoot little nun who walked on the sea earlier, this was the second "Samsara monk" with spiritual cultivation that he had seen.
"Could it be that those monks who preached in Middle Earth were actually a low-budget version, and the authentic Saha Continent lineage is from Nanyang?"
Seeing the two struggling to resist, Hu Mang knew that he couldn't afford to fight this group here.
Fortunately, he was prepared. Rolling Yin Qi emanated from his body, and from within the thick, ghostly smoke, a giant snake head emerged. Faced with the environment filled with Buddhist light, it uncomfortably shook its head, then swallowed the three of them whole before disappearing into the ground.
Shortly after they left, a buzzing sound filled the air, like countless people chanting Buddhist mantras in hushed tones. The sound grew denser and more urgent, while the shapes of the clouds gradually distorted, like huge, blurry faces slowly rotating in the sky, looking down upon the earth.
Ultimately, the entire area enveloped in Buddha's light seemed to be detached from this world, transforming into a huge, living Buddhist temple.
The figure of the Buddha Woman emerged from within.
His gaze swept across the area and landed on the two alleyway leaders who had been converted.
The Buddha Woman cut her finger, and the golden-red Buddha Pulp fell on the heads of the two, instantly turning them into bronze Buddhas.
The Buddha Woman placed her palm on the tops of their heads, and instantly, every scene they had experienced since stepping into the Palembang was reflected in Buddha Woman eyes.
"Interesting. Is that fatso trying to use this as an excuse to swallow up the Zheng Family Garden, and then convert and turn the Yu Household into puppets? Converting people at the Buddhist temple consumes a huge amount of Buddhist power, and the Chen Household is actually willing to do so. I wonder how much of the market share they want to take."
"Buddhism! This person actually knows the Saha Buddhist Dharma! Is he also Buddhist Abomination?!" Seemingly witnessing an unbelievable scene, the Buddha Woman's eyes widened instantly.
"No, impossible! He doesn't possess any aura of Buddhist Abomination. Could it be that he, or his ancestors, once ventured deep into the Saha Continent and obtained a method of cultivation— the Emptiness Realm Buddhist Dharma! The Emptiness Realm Buddhist Dharma!!"
The Buddha Woman's eyes suddenly turned fanatical, and as her emotions fluctuated, cracks appeared one after another on the bronze statue beneath her palm until the statue completely shattered.
On the outskirts of a peat swamp in Sumatra, a huge serpentine shadow appeared once more. With a spit, it expelled the three, including the Hu Mang, and then with a flick of its wrist, it disappeared into the swamp.
"This place is indeed suitable for establishing Yin-Yang Node."
The Hu Mang looked around and muttered to itself.
Although I had seen it once before through the "Dragon Vein perspective," there is still a big difference between the Dragon Eye and the human eye.
The environment suddenly became dozens of times larger.
The dark brown mud was as thick as ointment, and the water surface in the distance was stained a deep brown by humus, still and without ripples. Only after a long while, tiny bubbles slowly rose from the depths of the mud pit, bursting on the surface with a "pop," bringing out a damp, stale, earthy smell.
Beyond the endless black swamps and puddles, a thick, dark green barrier stretches across the distant plain. From afar, one cannot see the intertwined aerial roots, only the layered canopies of trees, slightly ethereal in the humid, steaming mist, like an emerald embankment floating between water and sky.
"The concentration of Spiritual Qi is quite high."
Without a detector, the Hu Mang could sense that the concentration of Spiritual Qi here was above average.
This is quite common in the Azure Mysterious Realm, but it is extremely rare on Earth Star.
"No wonder there are so many uncivilized tribes here, and each one is exceptionally skilled. The cultivation environment affects the quality of cultivation, and these savages haven't systematically learned cultivation methods, so it's no wonder they're heading straight for the powerful bricks."
The Hu Mang scanned its surroundings with its Divine Sense and discovered at least dozens of different types of miasma, as well as venomous snakes, crocodiles, and tigers.
This environment is actually quite suitable for cultivating Gu worms.
I wonder how Senior Brother Lu cultivated his Thousand-Year Water Cicada Gu. Raising Gu shouldn't require much Spiritual Qi, right?
Most importantly, this remote mountain forest, outside the coverage area of the Buddhist temple and sparsely populated, is ideal for murder and silencing witnesses.
If it truly is Nascent Soul cultivator, it would indeed be very difficult to kill them in a short time.
Because Hu Mang himself had tried it; the Nascent Soul Rainbow Transformation is at the true speed of light, and no one can kill that instantly. It's good enough if you're not killed instantly.
Hu Mang himself didn't know if the Nascent Soul of Earth Star, or rather the Nascent Soul of Heavenly Gate, possessed the ability to "run away at the speed of light."
However, the combat power of the Nascent Soul level and the Nascent Soul are two different things.
Especially those that are mutually reinforcing or mutually destructive to oneself.
Hu Mang's gaze fell on the area where the Buddha's light was most intense.
He believed that the other party must have been the first to contact him.
However, figuring out how to suppress the opponent before the other two Nascent Soul cultivators arrive will likely require some effort.
Unless his opponent is that fatso, Hu Mang is not very willing to reveal his trump card.
Just as the Hu Mang was pondering whether to use its Snake Vein to circle twice more, it suddenly let out a soft exclamation, because the vein with the most concentrated Qi and Blood actually changed direction and flew towards the sea off Sumatra, and the direction it flew towards was precisely where the ghost ship was located.
"It can actually mark the Ghost Dragon Vein, interesting. This way, I only need to deal with two Nascent Soul cultivators... wait, no—"
Hu Mang suddenly looked in another direction, towards the Nascent Soul cultivator who appeared to be a Celestial Person Being.
Suddenly, the Hu Mang sensed a change that only it could perceive.
Disconnection of personal networks?
Or, according to Liu Wuniang's notes— Dragon Sloughing?