I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 703 That year, I bought the true scriptures for one penny.

The Twenty-Four Buddha Kingdoms descend upon the Wonderful Goodness Land, where the four-person pilgrimage group gathers.

Their lineage connects the human race spatially across north, south, east, and west, and temporally across the human race's past and present.

Boundless fortune and merit began to gather.

However, unlike the Blood Sea Lord, Maitreya thought of gathering them first.

At this time, the Buddhist kingdom was scattered, and the gods became suspicious of each other.

As the golden clouds emerged from the countless rivers of chaotic beings, they began to dissipate at an extremely rapid speed, not even having time to gather on a single person.

On the other side, the city god temples of the underworld radiated a pure black and white light, forming a giant black and white serpent that encircled the underworld and was present in the mortal world.

Zhou Tiege and the Emperor of Life and Death have already attained the status of saints. They simply chose the time when Buddhism was spreading south, and did not want to draw merit and fortune from Buddhism.

The City God system is an independent entity. If it were to be invaded by Buddhism, that would be disastrous.

Originally, the City God Temple had a distinction between the left and right deities. Since Mo Jian, the King of the Underworld, passed away, the City God Temple has been further divided into large and small deities. Zhou Tiege and the newly appointed City Gods, the Emperor of Life and Death, completely control everything in the Underworld, as well as a portion of the power to supervise the mortal realm.

"No!"

"It's all mine, it's all mine!"

A look of madness appeared on the face of the Blood Sea Sovereign. He could clearly sense his chance to regain his holy position, but when he reached out to touch it, it vanished like the moon reflected in water.

What a blow this must be for a deity!
What's even more hateful is that He originally thought he could use the world to challenge Zhou Tieyi, but now it seems that Zhou Tieyi doesn't even need to show up; he can be manipulated at will.

When the Blood Sea Venerable One went mad, a monstrous wave of blood rose from the Miaoshan Dojo, staining each lotus petal and devouring the monks who vainly sought ultimate bliss.

Maitreya was already besieged on all sides, and now the Blood Sea Lord began to devour the Twenty-Four Heavens with his Blood Sea, causing a third kind of decay in him.

Drops of filthy blood and sweat seeped from his once smooth and jade-like skin!
Blood Sea Lord also realized what was happening.

The current dissipation of the Buddhist community is due to the alienation and disloyalty within Buddhism.

However, the great undertaking of spreading Buddhism to the south has actually been completed. If He could devour these twenty-four heavens and completely transform the four pilgrims into Himself, then the merits would naturally be gathered back upon Him.

"He has become possessed by a demon and has chosen a path that seems possible, but is ultimately impossible."

The Great Void Illusion Lord appeared on Maitreya's spiritual platform like a layer of mist. If the Blood Sea Venerable could enter, He could naturally enter as well.

The sea of ​​blood below has already stained three layers of the Buddhist kingdom, and countless Buddhist disciples are sinking into the sea of ​​blood.

However, the three pilgrims persisted in their journey.

The second senior brother was in a spirit form. He held the [Heavenly Capital Sword] and helped Yuan Tong and Sheng Shan resist the erosion of the Blood Sea, preventing the Blood Sea Lord from assimilating them in an instant.

At this moment, Maitreya calmed down, understanding the meaning of the Great Illusion Master.

The idea of ​​the Blood Sea Sovereign seems wonderful; it is His only way out.

But this road is blocked.

Didn't you see that the Empress and Zhou Yulong both had spare power at this time, yet they didn't stop the Blood Sea Lord?

This is exactly what Zhou Tieyi meant!
Using the Blood Sea Venerable One, the Bodhisattvas and Arhats of the Twenty-Four Heavens were once again cleansed.

The killer is a demon, not a celestial being.

"To drive the ancient deity into demonic possession, truly the work of the Heavenly Venerable. He scolded me, Maitreya, for manipulating people's hearts, but He himself wants to manipulate the hearts of us gods and Buddhas!"

Maitreya laughed mournfully.

The Blood Sea Lord has fallen into demonic possession. It's not that he can't distinguish between good and evil, but rather that he can't distinguish between reality and illusion at all.

Part of the reason is that He was forced into a dead end. Zhou Tieyi left Him with only this one choice. He couldn't possibly surrender to Zhou Tieyi now and accept all of Zhou Tieyi's conditions, could he?
In another part, having completed the task of making the world recognize the truth and falsehood and reversing illusion and reality, the Taixu Illusion Master, who compromised with the Heavenly Venerable, actually recovered his power no slower than the Blood Sea Venerable, and was even stronger than the Blood Sea Venerable at this time.

If flesh and blood are the authority of the Blood Sea Lord, then spirit is the authority of the Great Illusion Lord.

They merged together in ancient times. At this critical moment, the Lord of the Great Void bewitched the Lord of the Blood Sea, leading him to choose the only path of devouring the Twenty-Four Heavenly Buddha Kingdoms.

The Master of Illusion didn't care. A loser is a loser, and no amount of talking will change anything.

Zhou Tieyi could have avoided using this tactic, but Maitreya was so confident that he wanted to challenge him. He couldn't blame anyone else for his complete defeat.

"Now it's your turn to choose."

The Illusionary Lord looked at Maitreya and smiled, “You can let the Blood Lord devour all twenty-three Buddhist kingdoms. It will indeed be a little difficult for Him to deal with then. But He cannot devour the Killing Buddha Kingdom, so He will never be able to achieve perfection. When the Emperor of Life and Death and the City God Emperor return in their complete saintly state, they will have a brief opportunity to be free from the intervention of the Covenant of the Gods. That will require more effort to deal with the Blood Lord.”

"Of course, you can also choose to give up your great vow of 'eating dirt' now. Your status will regress to that of a Bodhisattva, and you will not seek the opportunity to attain enlightenment until countless future kalpas later."

Maitreya Buddha smiled sadly, "Is there even a choice?"

In the real world, he called to the Arhat who subdued the dragon beside him, "Quickly go to the Great Luo Hall and ask the Heavenly Venerable to subdue the demon!"

Maitreya Buddha seemed to be speaking to the Arhat who subdues dragons, but his voice was loud and clear, spreading throughout the world.

The terrified people grasped at this last straw.

"It should have been done a long time ago."

"Jianglong, run faster, don't miss the opportunity!"

"Maitreya was stupid his whole life, but he finally did something smart at the end!"

"Place your bets, place your bets, the Heavenly Venerable versus the Blood Venerable."

"Who would dare to open a betting pool on the Heavenly Venerable without thinking? They'd be willing to lose everything. What kind of trash is Blood Venerable, daring to try and take advantage of the Heavenly Venerable!"

At the same moment that Maitreya went to invite Zhou Tieyi, the enormous serpent of life and death descended upon the world.

The white snake head was raised high, "Blood Lord, do you dare to fight in the heavens?"

Although the Blood Sea Lord, whose mind was influenced by the Lord of Illusion, was almost insane, he was not stupid. With the protection of the Covenant of the Gods here, why should he go to heaven!

He even looked at the black snake head and said, "Youming, now that you have regained your holy position and joined forces with me, we will rule the world and hegemony. He will be unable to do anything to us. It's better than you going to heaven to be his watchdog!"

"idiot!"

The Emperor of Life and Death cursed inwardly. Although the Blood Sea Lord had been crazy before, he was at least not stupid. How could he have become so stupid after all these years? You even called me a dog, and I still allied with you.

What can you give me? To be knocked down from the throne again?
But the Celestial Venerable can offer much more. Although he will share his body with his elder brother, the authority of the Emperor of Life and Death has expanded from the Netherworld to include oversight in the mortal realm.

In fact, the power has increased rather than decreased.

This is something He has been planning for ten thousand years but has not yet obtained.

If serving the Celestial Venerable as a lackey can lead to an increase in the Celestial Venerable's power, then... it's really tempting!
At this moment, the Emperor of Life and Death simply pretended to be dead, his black snake head with its eyes tightly closed, completely ignoring the Blood Sea Venerable.

The Emperor of Life and Death completely relinquished his power to Zhou Tiege, who sneered, "You have no choice but to leave! A divine being cannot linger in the mortal realm!"

His black and white divine light fell upon all things, and then all things became like a still photograph, no longer changing.

It landed on the Blood Sea Lord and his corrupted Three Buddhist Kingdoms, but bound them firmly, and then lifted them upwards while still bound!

Both are heading to a battlefield in a higher dimension!
The Blood Sea Lord was naturally unwilling. The vast sea of ​​blood was like tentacles, trying to grab the Twenty-Four Heavenly Buddha Kingdoms, but He could no longer penetrate even an inch of these Buddha Kingdoms.

"Blood Lord, time has come."

Suddenly, the eyes on the right cheek of the giant Buddha statue opened, and the Lord of the Great Void calmly said that He was beginning to accept Zhou Tiege's power of dimensional ascension.

The face in the middle opened its eyes, looking up at the sky with a compassionate yet reverent expression. The Buddha chose this moment to say, "I see you again, God."

Within that higher dimension, the Great Luo Palace appeared. Zhou Tieyi stood at the palace entrance, looking at the Buddha, "Wu Mu, you did a good job, kid."

He reached out to the Buddha, and an even stronger pulling force came.

One by one, the blood-red tentacles were peeled away from the real world.

"No!"

The Blood Sea Sovereign struggled desperately, fully able to imagine what his fate would be after reaching a higher dimension.

Six more cloud platforms appeared beside Zhou Tieyi. On the cloud platforms, Phoenix Ancestor, Thunder God, Female Mother, and the Three Pure Ones sneered, "Blood Venerable, do not delay the Heavenly Venerable's decree. Time has come!"

The masses have actually miscalculated.

This duel is not a duel between the Blood Sea Sovereign and the Heavenly Sovereign.

Instead, it was the Blood Sea Sovereign, the supreme god, fighting against the Emperor of Life and Death, the City God Emperor, the Phoenix Ancestor, the Thunder God, the Female Mother, the Illusion Master, the Buddha, the Three Pure Ones, and the Heavenly Empress and the two Quasi-Saints, Zhou Yulong.

In the indescribable high-dimensional battlefield, Zhou Tiege reached out and summoned the peerless divine weapon, the Heavenly Capital Sword, and the Ten Directions Annihilation Sword into his hand. Then, looking at the sea of ​​blood before him, he laughed and said, "Let's see if you can be resurrected here."

Meanwhile, the Blood Sea Lord was facing internal constraints from the Illusionary Lord of the Void and the Buddha, as well as external pressure from Zhou Tieyi, the Thunder God, and others.

"You shameless brat from the Zhou family!"

These were the last words left by the Blood Lord.

The battle in the higher dimensions ended in an instant.

All the beings saw the holy light of life and death, black and white, rise from the ground to the sky. The Great Luo Palace opened its doors, and the Heavenly Venerable, dressed in cloud and water robes, descended from the sky on a boundless Peng bird.

Auspicious light formed clouds, spreading throughout the universe; the sound of the Dao resounded throughout the world, cleansing from the past to the future; divine dragons circled, phoenixes guarded, gods praised, and all living beings knelt in worship.

It seemed to have already stained the boundless sea of ​​blood, but it disappeared the moment the Celestial Venerable appeared, as if it had never existed. Even the word 'sea of ​​blood' began to be stripped from the memories of all living beings.

His power was truly immeasurable, and his virtue immeasurable.

"Homage to the Boundless Heavenly Venerable."

Zhou Tieyi dismounted from Tianpeng and bowed, saying, "Greetings to all living beings."

He strolled to the city of Wonderful Goodness and came before Maitreya's lotus throne, asking, "I have heard that your scriptures should not be easily passed on, but must be sold for profit?"

Maitreya's lips curled into a bitter smile as he bowed and said, "This is what the sutra is like."

Zhou Tieyi chuckled, "That's fine too. After all, these scriptures need to be compiled by someone, and you have to spend money to buy books in the human world."

Many Buddhist followers looked surprised, as they had not expected things to take a turn for the better.

Even Maitreya looked surprised; he hadn't expected Zhou Tieyi to offer such generous terms.

Zhou Tieyi took out a copper coin and said, "I'll use this one coin to buy your true scripture, is that alright?"

Maitreya looked at the one coin and felt a chill run down his spine.

He knew what it was.

The renowned [Yanhuang Tongbao]!
Zhou Tieyi didn't want to buy his scriptures for a single penny; he wanted to buy his lineage of teachings for a single penny!

But now that things have come to this, Maitreya has no other choice.

He reluctantly accepted the penny from Zhou Tieyi and handed over the Buddhist tradition to him.

Zhou Tieyi reached out, and the lineage of Salvation Buddhism condensed into a wordless scripture.

Without even glancing at them, He mounted the Heavenly Roc again and headed towards the Great Luo Palace. However, with his back to all living beings, He declared, "From now on, any offerings to monks or deities, or the sale of scriptures, shall not exceed one coin!"

He, the Heavenly Venerable, bought the true scriptures for only one coin. If you buy them for too high a price, wouldn't that mean He, the Heavenly Venerable, is forcing you to buy them?
The crowd looked at each other, and roughly understood what the Heavenly Venerable meant.

Buddhism may exist, but it must not be superior to any other religion.

All beings bowed in submission, "receiving the decree."

With this, the last problem concerning the human race's dominance was solved.

The Heavenly Venerable reigned as a saint for three hundred years, with all gods submitting and all paths flourishing.

Three hundred years later, the human race and the other races began to merge. However, this time no one objected to the rules set by the Heavenly Venerable. Even the Heavenly Emperor and the Human Emperor obediently waited to return to their positions.

After all, they were no longer facing the unfathomable Heavenly Venerable Zhou Tieyi alone, but rather all sentient beings, from gods to demons, united by Zhou Tieyi.

After the Investiture of the Gods, in the Great Luo Palace, the saints sat high on the cloud platform, bowing to the center of the platform and saying, "Praise be to the Boundless Heavenly Venerable."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and returned the greeting, saying, "Greetings, fellow Daoists."

(End of the book)

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