Simultaneous travel: I am proving the great way in the heavens.

Chapter 541 Methods to Suppress Saints! The Choice of a Supreme Treasure!

Even without a target, the crane cloak that blotted out the sky still covered the entire hill.

As soon as Luo Fu had a thought.

The crane cloak that covered the entire hill suddenly flew towards Luofu, like a fishing net being pulled up, carrying the Yin-Yang Qi Bottle.

Just as they were about to fly to Luofu.

The Seven Emotions Crane Cloak gracefully draped over Luo Fu's body once more, while the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, dropped by the Golden-Winged Roc, landed heavily on the ground, becoming Luo Fu's spoils of war.

As for the Golden-Winged Roc that escaped, Luo Fu had no intention of chasing after it.

The Golden-Winged Roc was simply too fast; even Sun Wukong's Somersault Cloud couldn't match its speed in terms of pure speed.

The Somersault Cloud requires one somersault to traverse a distance of 108,000 li, but the Golden-Winged Roc's flying ability seems to be instinctive; with a flap of its wings, it can travel 90,000 li.

Such speed is something Luofu could never match.

As for using divine power or other spatial means to hunt down the Golden-Winged Roc, this is theoretically feasible, but unfortunately, Luofu simply cannot do it now.

That's right. Even though Luofu now has Immortal Golden Immortals, it is only a short distance away from becoming a Taiyi Golden Immortal.

However, in this world with its strict laws, most spatial techniques from other worlds are unusable.

For example, the Flying Thunder God technique cannot alter the spatial laws of the Three Realms. Even the Divine Might, at best, Luo Fu can only use it as a passage to enter and exit the Divine Might world.

Aside from being able to use projections left in reality to deceive the enemy, the means of spatial teleportation in reality using the Divine Might World are also unable to manipulate space.

With these spatial techniques unusable, Luo Fu really doesn't have a way to deal with these opponents who excel at flying speed.

However, for Luo Fu, leaving behind this Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle in the face of the Golden-Winged Roc was already his greatest gain.

After all, the Golden-Winged Roc is the uncle of the Buddha. The saying "Even if you don't respect the monk, you should respect the Buddha" has been a guiding principle throughout the entire Journey to the West.

Those with powerful connections were taken away, while those without were killed by the westward-bound team. Those with power but no connections, if lucky, might escape, like the Nine-Headed Insect, who fled all the way to Beiju Luzhou and was never heard from again. Those less fortunate were either killed outright or enslaved by powerful beings.

Of course, in the world of Journey to the West, it can be said that they were enslaved, but from another perspective, it could also be said that they were transformed from demons into good ones and were granted amnesty. Red Boy and Black Bear Spirit are examples of this. One became the Sudhana, the attendant of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and the other became the guardian deity of Mount Putuo in the South China Sea.

Although Luo Fu now possesses both background and strength, the more he does so, the more he understands that in the era of Journey to the West, with its strict legal system, one who lacks understanding of interpersonal relationships will find it almost impossible to move an inch. Not to mention, Luo Fu's background is actually unreliable.

He always kept in mind, and would never forget for a moment, that strength was the most important thing.

The Yin-Yang Qi Bottle left behind by the Golden-Winged Roc is currently the most useful thing for Luo Fu. On the one hand, it crippled the three great demon kings of Lion Camel Ridge and was their biggest trump card. On the other hand, if he could extract the Yin-Yang Qi and refine it into his whisk, it would greatly enhance the power of this magic weapon in his hand.

After glancing at the direction of Lion Camel Ridge from afar, Luo Fu waved his sleeve and picked up the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, which originally required thirty-six people and the number of Heavenly Gang to lift, and returned to Ruzhen Temple.

While sorting through his harvest in Luofu, preparing to refine the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, extracting Yin and Yang energies to strengthen his own whisk magic weapon.

Lion Camel (domestic).

Seeing the Golden-Winged Roc transform into a stream of light and return instantly, looking somewhat disheveled and clearly agitated.

The blue-haired lion demon and the yellow-tusked white elephant exchanged a glance.

"Third brother, what's wrong with you...?"

"My two brothers, I was careless for a moment and almost suffered a loss like Ru Zhen. Although I escaped with my life, I lost the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle," the Golden-Winged Roc said angrily.

The blue-haired lion demon and the yellow-tusked white elephant were immediately taken aback.

Although they did have ulterior motives regarding the Golden-Winged Roc, they were also well aware that the Golden-Winged Roc's strength was far beyond what ordinary cultivators could handle.

“This Ruzhen, although he is a disciple of the Buddha of the East, and there are even rumors that he is the future Ruzhen Wonderful Dharma Buddha, he is still just a rising star. How could he let my third brother suffer a loss?” Huangya Baixiang asked.

The Golden-Winged Roc strode up to his two elder brothers, picked up the wine pot on the table, and without even using a cup, drank several mouthfuls of wine directly from the spout before saying, "That Ru Zhen is merely relying on the advantage of his magic weapon. This fellow, though he claims to be a Buddhist, is neither monk nor Taoist. He wears monk's robes but has his hair in a topknot, and he possesses all sorts of evil and heretical methods. I was caught off guard and suffered a loss because of this."

Neither monk nor Taoist, this is not an isolated case in the Buddhist system of the Western Paradise. There are countless people who, as Buddhist disciples, dress up as Taoists.

What truly surprised the Green-haired Lion Demon and the Yellow-tusked White Elephant was the demonic and heretical methods that the Buddha Ruzhen Miaofa possessed, as described by the Golden-Winged Roc.

The Golden-Winged Roc did not hide anything. After recounting the information he had learned during his battle with Luo Fu to his two elder brothers, he emphasized, "That Ru Zhen is extremely skilled at influencing others' seven emotions. In particular, he has refined the seven emotions into silk and woven a Seven Emotions Crane Cloak. Once it is used, it can cover the sky and the sun without ever falling. It can still cause people's seven emotions to become agitated and their primordial spirit to become unstable. If you are really wrapped in that fellow's crane cloak, you may be in danger of falling into demonic possession."

The blue-haired lion demon and the yellow-tusked white elephant stared at each other in bewilderment.

It is truly astonishing that a Buddhist sect, especially one whose practitioners are rumored to have attained the true and wondrous Buddhahood in the future, would resort to manipulating others' seven emotions and using such methods and magic weapons to lead them into demonic possession.

This doesn't seem like a legitimate approach at all.

However, the Green-haired Lion Spirit and the Yellow-tusked White Elephant have different special identities from the Golden-winged Roc.

They are merely the mounts of Manjushri and Samantabhadra Bodhisattvas. The Garuda, however, is, according to ritual and propriety, the Buddha's uncle.

While the latter was arrogant, he may not have actually witnessed much of the ruthless methods of Buddhism. On the contrary, it was the two bodhisattvas, the green-haired lion demon and the yellow-toothed white elephant, who realized that Buddhism was not as compassionate and merciful as the Buddhist scriptures claimed.

The appearance of a Buddha like the True Wonderful Dharma, who possesses the means to manipulate the seven emotions of others, and even extracts the seven emotions to refine them into silk, weaving a crane-feather robe, is nothing special.

In Buddhism, those beings who become the mounts of powerful beings would be nothing less than demons capable of wreaking havoc in the human world. But being used as mounts by these Buddhist masters is bad enough, but what's even more outrageous is that these masters are often castrated.

It's important to understand that this castration is not a simple physical cutting in the ordinary sense, but a more profound and cruel method.

Of course, if it were just about dealing with mounts, these demons that once wreaked havoc on the human world wouldn't be a big deal. The key point is that these mounts, or rather, the former demons, were mostly there to do dirty work for those great Buddhist masters.

Only those who have done these dirty jobs can understand how ruthless and vicious the Buddhist community can be behind the scenes.

Great Buddhist masters are all compassionate and dedicated to saving all sentient beings. Yet, in the shadows where the light of Buddha does not reach, countless acts of cruelty are hidden.

For example, the three demon kings who now occupy Lion Camel Ridge have turned the entire Lion Camel Kingdom into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

In the words of the Buddha, the Western Continent of Niuhe is a good place where people do not greed or kill, cultivate their vital energy and nurture their spirits. Although there are no supreme beings, everyone can prolong their lives. On the contrary, the Southern Continent of Jambudvipa, where the Tang Dynasty, which unified the world and where the human race was the only one, was belittled by the Buddha as greedy, lustful, and gloating, with much killing and fighting. It is a place of fierce words and a sea of ​​evil.

What is truly outrageous is that the Buddha's statement, seemingly based on the Buddhist ideals of compassion and universal salvation, is logically self-consistent.

That's right.

Even though the Lion Camel Kingdom had been turned into a living hell by the food, this practice was considered correct according to Buddhist logic.

This terrifying reality is precisely based on the Buddhist concept of equality for all beings.

The so-called equality of all beings does not mean that everyone is equal, but rather that humans are reduced to the level of all living beings, or that all living beings are elevated to the level of equality with humans.

If humans can eat other living beings, then other living beings can naturally eat humans as well. The Lion Camel Kingdom is just a Buddhist country with a large appetite.

This seemingly magical Buddha who appeared out of nowhere is nothing more than extracting the seven emotions of sentient beings and refining them into silk. To the Green-haired Lion Demon and the Yellow-toothed White Elephant, who have a good understanding of Buddhism, this is perfectly logical and without any impropriety. In fact, it can be said to be the orthodox lineage of Buddhism.

Didn't you see that even the union of bliss and emptiness in the practice of the Buddha of Bliss, using desire to control desire, is one of the eight hundred heterodox paths of the true Dharma?
The Buddha's teachings on controlling desires and emotions are relatively subtle.

"According to Third Brother, this 'True Wonderful Dharma Buddha' only managed to make Third Brother suffer a loss because he caught him off guard." Yellow-Toothed White Elephant suddenly seemed to realize something. He said, "However, since he was able to make Third Brother suffer a loss, he must not be an ordinary person. It is better to resolve enmity than to create it. If he is willing to return the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, we may not be unable to turn hostility into friendship with him."

"What are you saying, Second Brother?" the Green-haired Lion Spirit said indignantly. "It is clearly that Ruzhen Miaofa who has come to interfere with my Lion Camel Ridge. Now he has taken away Third Brother's Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle by force, relying on his ability to manipulate the seven emotions. How can we reconcile with Third Brother's enemy? We must make that Ruzhen Miaofa taste the power of Lion Camel Ridge."

The green-haired lion demon and the yellow-tusked white elephant started arguing first.

The Golden-Winged Roc, however, had no doubts and said, "My two brothers, that Ruzhen Wonderful Method is nothing more than relying on cunning methods. Let me go find the Peacock Princess and borrow a magic weapon to capture that Ruzhen Wonderful Method."

The moment the words fell, the Golden-Winged Roc turned around, spread its wings, and with a flap of its feathers, its figure suddenly disappeared from the spot.

As the Golden-Winged Roc disappeared, the Green-Haired Lion Demon and the Yellow-Toothed White Elephant, who had been arguing fiercely just moments before, suddenly paused for a moment, looked at each other, and burst into laughter.

It was as if the argument just now was a performance put on for the Golden-Winged Roc.

Clearly, the three demon kings of Lion Camel Ridge, though seemingly brothers, do not actually share the deep affection they appear to have. Instead, their relationship is filled with a treacherous undercurrent of intrigue and scheming.

This is not surprising, since among the three demon kings of Lion Camel Ridge, the Green-haired Lion Demon and the Yellow-toothed White Elephant have long since become the mounts of the two great Bodhisattvas of Buddhism, while the Golden-Winged Roc, nominally the uncle of the World-Honored One Tathagata, is living a carefree life in the human world.

Putting aside their strength, the Green-haired Lion Demon, the leader, and the Yellow-toothed White Elephant, the second-in-command, were far inferior to the Golden-Winged Roc in terms of their status within Buddhism.

The difference in their origins meant that the three demon kings of Lion Camel Ridge were destined to be nothing more than cooperating partners.

When dealing with the westward-bound team, they were still able to barely maintain unity and a consistent stance.

But now, facing Luofu, this mysterious and unpredictable future Buddha Ruzhen Miaofa, who seems to have appeared out of nowhere, the Green-haired Lion Demon and the Yellow-toothed White Elephant will definitely only go through the motions. At most, they will show some solidarity in front of the Golden-Winged Roc, but when it comes to actually fighting, they will definitely keep their brotherhood in mind and pretend they can't reach him by phone.

Whether or not the Golden-Winged Roc knew the true thoughts of his two elder brothers, his behavior at this moment was that of a mindless brute.

When the Golden-Winged Roc went to find the Peacock Princess to borrow the treasure, hoping to take back its Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle from Luofu.

Inside Ruzhen Temple.

Having startled the Golden-Winged Roc, Luo Fu began to study how to transform the Yin and Yang energies within the Yin-Yang Two-Energy Bottle into his own supernatural abilities.

In theory, the innate Yin and Yang energies that have been refined into the Yin-Yang Two-Energy Bottle can be refined into supernatural powers, just like the Five-Colored Divine Light of the Peacock King.

The power of the Five-Colored Divine Light is self-evident; even a saint could be swept away by it if he is not careful, at most he would just be unable to suppress it.

Compared to the Five-Colored Divine Light, the so-called Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle is simply a joke.

As for extracting the innate Yin and Yang energies from the Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle and refining them onto the whisk, in Luo Fu's mind, this choice could only be a helpless one made out of necessity.

The reason is simple: this whisk, formed from the Yin and Yang energies, was not crafted by Luo Fu himself, but rather originated from Laozi's Eight Trigrams Furnace.

Indeed, the magical treasures produced in Laozi's Eight Trigrams Furnace are almost all top-tier in the Three Realms.

But Luo Fu knew very well that the magical artifacts in this world had backdoors.

Who knows what kind of backdoors the creator of a magical artifact might leave inside? If one is not careful, they could easily snatch the artifact back from someone else.

Unlike the Investiture of the Gods, once a disciple obtains a magical treasure, they can pose a fatal threat to their master at any time.

The magical artifacts produced after the Investiture of the Gods have clearly had this loophole patched up.

(End of this chapter)