Traveling the Heavens in Thunderbolt

Chapter 173 The whole story
Faced with Wei Zhuang's resolute fight, Emperor Tathagata had to use the unique Buddhist techniques, the first three meditation techniques, between Bodhi and Buddha, in order to neutralize the power of Mo's Mechanical City.

"After this move, the war smoke will be extinguished." As he spoke, Emperor Tathagata stepped on the Buddha seal and soared into the air. The Buddha's light was calm and filled the entire Mohe Hall.

The holy weapon inserted diagonally into the ground was bathed in the Buddha's light, inducing merits and virtues, and revealed its true appearance. This rare divine weapon was in the shape of a sword of suffering, with a flaming red lion head on the handle and white crystal inlaid in the center of the blade, shaped like a flame. There were six Sanskrit-shaped rings on the back of the blade, the main color of the blade was amber gold, with patterns engraved on it, and a swastika Dharma wheel on the front end, emitting a dazzling light, echoing the Emperor Tathagata from a distance.

It was in this state of suffering that Emperor Tathagata developed his famous weapon, "Buddha Punishment Zen".

When the Mohists saw this strange phenomenon, they exclaimed, "This is the legendary state of the divine weapon being spiritual and the unity of man and weapon."

Everyone in Liusha understood that this move was no trivial matter. It had the ability to change the color of heaven and earth before it was used. However, their aura locked them and they could not escape. They could only take it head-on. Among them, Hidden Bat, who had the weakest will, could not help but complain in his heart that he would be defeated here.

Just when Emperor Tathagata was about to launch his ultimate move, a man stood in front of Wei Zhuang and others. He wore a bamboo hat that covered his face, and a black cloak. He held a sword in his hand that was as black as ink, without a blade or edge, and as flat as a ruler.

The visitor was none other than Yan Dan, the current leader of the Mohist school, who had hurried back after receiving a message from Dao Zhi and learning about the situation inside the Mohist mechanical city.

Gao Jianli, Da Tiechui and others stood in front of Wei Zhuang and other members of the Quicksand Organization. Although Yan Dan did not understand their intention, he also understood the crisis and immediately shouted, "Master, get out of the way."

Emperor Tathagata, who was in the air, saw the man blocking Wei Zhuang, and the Mohist people called their leader. He immediately understood that it must be the Mohist leader who came, so in order to avoid accidental injury, he suddenly stopped his attack.

Such an earth-shattering move was eliminated so easily.

After the Buddha's light faded away, Emperor Tathagata slowly fell to the ground with his expression as usual without any influence at all. It was obvious that he had not been affected by the backlash of the moves, fully demonstrating his innate cultivation of Buddhism.

"Are you the leader of Big Hammer and his gang? Why are you trying to stop me? Do you know that this man invaded the Mechanical City and killed many Mozhe?"

Facing Emperor Rulai's question, Yan Dan replied cautiously: "I know, but now is not the right time."

"Well, Master of Mohism, I hope you won't regret your choice." After Emperor Ru said this, he stepped aside and handed over Wei Zhuang and other members of the Liusha to the real owner for handling.

Yan Dan saw that the visitor was extraordinary and rescued the Mohist people. Although he did not know the man's identity, he did not dare to be negligent in the slightest. He immediately returned the courtesy and began to deal with Wei Zhuang and others.

After Emperor Tathagata stepped back, he saw Gai Nie coming forward and realized that he would have to face him eventually.

"Who are you? Why do you appear as Tianming? Where is Tianming now?" Gai Nie asked anxiously.

"My name is Emperor Tathagata. I am a person from another world who should have died. By chance, my spirit remained immortal and I came to this world. And Tianming is my reincarnation in this world."

"Spirit, reincarnation, you said Tianming is your reincarnation, then why do you appear, have you taken over Tianming's body?!" Because Buddhism has not yet come to the world, the meaning of reincarnation is unclear, but because there is the Taoist concept of possession, Gai Nie thought that Emperor Tathagata took over Tianming's body, and he decided to take action regardless of his own injuries.

Emperor Tathagata said: "Don't worry, I am just a remnant of consciousness that will soon dissipate, and Tianming is my reincarnation, I can't do this. If Tianming hadn't encountered danger this time when opening the Xuanwu water valve, I would not have woken up."

"What is reincarnation?"

Emperor Tathagata patiently answered him, "Reincarnation comes from the Buddhist theory of samsara. The so-called samsara is also called circulation, rotation, and the cycle of life and death. It means that all living beings are born and die. After death, the soul is reincarnated and reborn as another person, turning like a wheel, in an endless cycle. Fundamentally speaking, I am just Tianming's previous life. He is the future me and I am his past him. Everything I have, he will also have." "You mean Tianming is fine." Gao Jianli, who had been paying attention to the situation here from the beginning, interrupted at this time.

"It is indeed fine, though."

"But what?" Gai Nie asked quickly, fearing any complications.

"When his spirit awakened, I discovered that there was a spell hidden in his body that sealed his memory. To prevent him from hiding other means, I took action to dissolve it. But because I don't understand spells, I erased it along with the memory."

Gai Nie understood what the memory was, and said, "That's fine. The memory of the past is harmful to Tianming, so it's better to disappear."

"Neither you nor I are Tianming, and we are not qualified to make decisions for him. How can we know whether he wants this memory or not? It is ultimately just wishful thinking."

Gai Nie understood what Emperor Tathagata meant, but he always believed that memories of the past were useless to Tian Ming, so he did not argue with him on this point and asked, "When will Tian Ming come back?"

"Right now." As soon as the words fell, Emperor Tathagata's body emitted a strange light, his figure began to appear and disappear, and Tianming's figure began to appear.

Emperor Tathagata instructed Gai Nie, "This remnant of my consciousness can only appear three times to resolve the crisis. After three times, it will dissipate. In addition, my appearance also represents the revival of Tianming's memories of his previous life. He will receive my martial arts and experiences, and it is entirely up to him to choose what kind of person he will become. I hope you can guide him." After he finished speaking, the brilliant light dissipated, Emperor Tathagata's face disappeared, and Tianming's body returned.

And the demon-suppressing ring sword of Buddha Xing Zen also disappeared.

Yan Dan, who let Wei Zhuang go, and the Taoist Xiaoyaozi, Confucian representative Zhang Liang and others who followed him, saw Emperor Tathagata transform into dawn. Even though they were knowledgeable and experienced, they still felt it was unreal.

But when Tianming returned, the first thing he said when he opened his eyes was, "Hey? Uncle, where is this place? Why am I here? Where is the bad guy Wei Zhuang?"

When Gai Nie saw Tianming coming back, he asked, "Tianming, do you remember what happened?"

“Of course I remember.” Tianming immediately recounted how he, Shaoyu and Yue’er entered the forbidden area of ​​the Mohist school, how they passed the level, how they split up with Shaoyu after finding out about the pursuers behind them, and how they created the “Way of Heroes” and later met an old man with the same mechanical hand as Master Ban in a prison, and how they listened to his instructions to open the Xuanwu water valve.

"Do you remember what happened after you opened the basalt water valve?"

"After that, I only know that when I was about to return to the surface, countless metal tentacles suddenly shot out from the water valve and dragged me underwater. I don't remember anything after that. Uncle, did you save me?"

Looking at Tianming's innocent eyes, Gai Nie couldn't lie, so he replied: "It wasn't me, you were the one who saved you. Do you have any memory of this?"

Tianming thought about it carefully and suddenly said, "Uncle, I remember now."

"Remembered something!" Gai Nie asked hurriedly.

(End of this chapter)