Yefutidaolu

Chapter 247 Coincidence? The Desire Realm?
Gao Jian turned his head inside and looked at Fei Xiang in front of him.

The other person was standing outside the Buddhist temple pagoda, at the threshold. From this angle, it seemed that the other person had come out of the pagoda.

This is really strange.

A minute ago, Gao Jian could have told others with certainty that there was no one inside the pagoda, because he had killed them all.

Instead of wanting to, he walked out of there...

"Mr. Fei Xiang, your timing is perfect. Are you here to see me?" Gao Jian said with a smile.

“Benefactor Gao, I heard about you from Shui Cangcang and guessed that you would definitely come to this place, so I followed you. Fortunately, this humble monk did not go astray,” Fei Xiang said with a gentle smile.

"I killed many monks today. I hope you won't blame me, sir?"

“These scoundrels of Buddhism are more than we can thank, how could we possibly blame you, Benefactor Gao?” Fei Xiang shook his head: “It’s just… these people remind me of something rather unsettling. Benefactor, did you see what’s inside this pagoda?”

"Something's not right? These monks?" Gao Jian blinked.

I don't quite understand what the other person is saying.

As they spoke, Dansha had already moved closer to the pagoda.

She knows Fei Xiang; Gao Jian told her about it. Shu Shu also knows Fei Xiang; they've even met.

Did he mean to say that there was something strange about this pagoda? At this, Dansha's curiosity was piqued, so he looked inside.

Then, Dansha and Shujian both frowned.

"What is this? A magical artifact made of human skin and bones? It seems to be of a high grade." Shu Jian blinked. "But it does have Buddhist energy. Do orthodox Buddhist techniques have this kind of ability?"

“Oh, I’ve seen these before, like the Damaru, Kapala beads, Kapala bowl, Gangdong, but… what’s that in the middle?” Dansha was quite knowledgeable and recognized that many of them were magical artifacts made from human bodies.

Damaru, Kapala, and Gangdong are all ritual implements made from human bodies, and here... they are all displayed.

The entire pagoda has at least a hundred such magical treasures hanging on the walls, radiating a dazzling light. Far from being tainted by blood, they exude an aura of precious jewels.

In addition, there are many Thangkas, which are hung up like decorative paintings.

There was a lot of skin, bone, and blood here, but... there was no trace of 'resentment' or 'yin energy'. Instead, it was all Buddhist energy and pure energy, giving people a strange sense of contrast.

Right in the middle of all these things, in the middle of this pagoda, there is a large wooden frame that looks unfinished.

Many things were hanging on the large wooden frame.

Heads, bones, and muscles of various animals, eagles, and crows.

The human skull, muscles, and blood.

Various bloodstained instruments and weapons.

It's unclear where it came from, but it has been separated into earlobes, nose tips, eyebrows, heart, lips, and tongue.

Dozens of different types of spiritual springs.

Dozens of different types of thick soil.

Leaves and twigs, as well as fresh fruit, gathered from various sacred trees.

Everything was hung on five-colored ribbons.

There were also coils of hair wrapped around the large wooden frame, which exuded the scent of various herbs, and there were some terracotta figurines of people in the middle.

“I’ve never seen this wooden frame in the middle before.” Dansha looked up at the surrounding scene.

None of the people present reacted particularly strongly. After all, they were all cultivators at least at the fifth level, so they had enough composure. In fact, Dansha and Shujian didn't find anything special about the scene.

However, it was clear that although Gao Jian and Fei Xiang did not react much, their disgust for this place was obvious.

Gao Jian walked up to Dan Sha and said, "This is a ritual used by a school of Buddhism called Zan Duo. It is a large cross made of two long wooden strips, then a diamond-shaped frame is made of thin wooden strips, and then diamonds are woven with colored threads or thin wooden sticks. It is a combination of these."

"Do you know what cinnabar, 'harvesting and breaking' means?" Gao Jian asked about cinnabar.

"It involves collecting living people, cutting off their limbs, and taking their ears, eyes, internal organs, etc., to make medicine and obtain some special effects. After all, the bodies of living beings are a kind of spiritual material, and one of the more high-end spiritual materials. This applies to the bodies of demons, and naturally to the bodies of all living beings," Dansha replied.

Although she is rather naive, she has some knowledge of simple books and is not completely ignorant.

“This ‘Zanduo’ is one of these things. You can see that most of the things hanging on it are taken from human bodies. The living souls wrapped around them have been refined. The ceremony is presided over by monks, who chant specific scriptures. It lasts for seven days, and the ‘duo’ is burned on an auspicious day to complete the ceremony. However, we interrupted it.”

“From this perspective, including Helensabao, everyone is part of this chain,” Gao Jian said with a slight sigh.

Fei Xiang clasped his hands together and sighed, "Amitabha... Truly, such ignorance, sin, terror, and even all kinds of Mara's teachings, what a sin! The lineage of Buddha and demon practicing together has even spread here..."

"However, compared to the wet intestines, wet skeletons, and red nectar, these are nothing. In the capital, those who cultivate both Buddhism and demonism are more restrained."

Upon hearing this, Gao Jian turned to look at Fei Xiang, frowned, and said, "Is this considered restraint?"

"Yes, after all, it's something related to the Desire Realm. As for the number of victims, it's a stroke of luck amidst misfortune." Fei Xiang put his hands together and started making hand seals, as if he wanted to do something.

After he said that, both Shushu and Dansha stared at Gao Jian.

Clearly, they had heard the term 'Desire Realm', and Gao Jian had also mentioned 'Desire Realm' these past few days. Including that swindler Ye Qingmu, they all seemed to have some connection to the Desire Realm.

Even this temple in front of them is related to the Desire Realm? No way, have they stirred up trouble in the Desire Realm? Besides, what exactly is the Desire Realm? How come neither of them has ever heard of it?
Gao Jian stared at Fei Xiang in astonishment: "The Desire Realm? Master Fei Xiang, you—"

Fei Xiang's hands were still forming hand seals, but he began to answer Gao Jian's question: "The lineage of dual cultivation of Buddha and demon is a school of Buddhism. Its root is 'demon,' which is the Desire Realm, or the Paranirmitavasavartin Heaven, which is also one of the heavens."

"The beings in the Desire Realm are also celestial beings, but they are not ordinary celestial beings. They are beings that originate from the divine consciousness, and among them... there are many 'demons'."

"These demons are vicious to the bone and cruel to the heart. There are many of them, so the voices of violence and malice are endless. However, although most of the demons have been wiped out, those that remain can still affect the capital..."

"They've been almost completely wiped out, how could they still affect the capital? What kind of thing were they wiping out? Who did it?" Gao Jian raised an eyebrow, puzzled.

No, even after being wiped out, they still have the power to influence the capital, and even... Gao Jian has experienced that kind of power in the dream world...

However, after saying this, Fei Xiang revealed a subtle, almost imperceptible expression: "Benefactor Gao, do you think... the capital is very large?"

"Isn't the capital city of Shendu big?" Gao Jian retorted. Shendu, Yangjing, how magnificent it was!
Spanning thousands of miles, a place where straight roads from all directions converge, with a population of one billion, it gathers the essence of the entire divine dynasty. Just the array formations within Yangjing alone demonstrate its vastness and prosperity.

“It’s big, but not big enough. You haven’t seen the truly vast places yet, Benefactor Gao. The Divine Dynasty has also been deeply influenced by them.” Fei Xiang said, his hand seals already taking shape.

Then, he threw it outwards.

Inside the pagoda, many strange phenomena suddenly appeared.

Like a flood that fills the world, submerging and concealing all things, only the Buddha's radiant light shines forth.

All the human bone and skin artifacts before him, as well as the unfinished Zan Ting, were submerged and submerged. The Buddhist energy within them was dispelled, and then... a large amount of demonic energy was revealed.

The wildly swirling black gas faintly emitted multicolored light, rivaling even the Buddha's light!

In an instant, the Seven Treasures Platform behind Fei Xiang crumbled, and a torrent of flattering and wicked words poured forth, making Gao Jian's ears feel as if countless noises were constantly breathing out—

Demonic energy? Gao Jian didn't actually know what it was.

But within this blackness shone a multicolored light, like the 'gas' of heated asphalt, resisting the Buddha's light while simultaneously emanating the aura of the 'desire realm'.

Desire Realm...

Is it like this?
Suddenly, Gao Jian felt that the scenery around him had lost its color, as if he had fallen into some kind of dark cave, where only countless noises surrounded his ears!

The noise kept increasing, and even the hallucinations kept intensifying—

Normally, Gao Jian wouldn't be able to hear so much background noise.

Because humans instinctively filter out background noise, just as the eyes can consciously block out unimportant scenery outside the focal point, the human body worries that ambient noise will affect hearing what others are saying, so it will deliberately ignore some background noise.

Therefore, when ordinary people hear rustling sounds, they will automatically ignore them; they will only hear faint wind sounds or some hissing airflow sounds.

However, at this moment, Gao Jian heard an unbelievable... various sounds that could not be ignored amidst the strange phenomena created by his own imagination.

That sounded like... the voice of the mortal world.

"Hahaha, with this manual, I'm destined for great things!" a young man's voice rang out.

"My son, in order to help your father break through to a higher realm... you must sacrifice yourself." An old man spoke in a ferocious tone.

"With the offering of countless souls to my Buddha, this humble monk will surely become a Buddha in the future." A solemn and dignified voice rang out.

"Sorry, I'll have to borrow your wife for a few days." It sounded like a thug's tone.

"Old woman...it must be the fiftieth year already?" It was a nostalgic old woman's voice.

"How could this be!? How could I have failed the outer disciple test!? I tried so hard!" It was a hysterical female voice.

Many voices, a jumble of noise, gathered in Gao Jian's ears.

At first, I could still make out what it sounded like, but soon, I couldn't hear anything at all. It was noisy, incredibly noisy. The chaos of the world, countless thoughts, feelings, ideas, and emotions all rushed in!

Corruption, baseness, nobility, innocence, a burning desire for dreams, the warmth of family, the encouragement of success, the anxiety of failure, joy, sorrow, jealousy, excitement, anger, and grief.

Countless thoughts, stirred by the turbulence of demonic energy, revealed the appearance of the Desire Realm—

When one thinks of wealth, the demon of wealth appears; when one thinks of riches, the demon of riches appears; when one thinks of wine, women, and passion, the demons of wine, women, and passion appear.

Suddenly, in that instant, Gao Jian felt a sense of oppression from the realm of desire.

However, he was not surprised but delighted!
Gao Jian has been waiting for this moment for quite some time.

He had been looking forward to entering the Desire Realm, but this dream world was so elusive that he had no way of entering it.

Unexpectedly, due to a series of accidents, he was thrust back into this world.

It really was... a series of unexpected events.

From the very beginning, Ye Qingmu had a connection with the Desire Realm.

They happened to run into Helunsabao again, and Helunsabao was an acquaintance, whom they had met once before while on the airship.

As the young master of the Taotie tribe, Helunsabao uses the Taotie's ability to 'devour' as its core, and he needs to consume innate energy, which is why he has eaten some children.

The storyline, which started with the cannibalism of children, leads back to Ye Qingmu's situation, where they encounter a temple that specializes in the practice of child harvesting and mutilation...

This temple happened to encounter events in the Desire Realm. In fact, the demonic energy released during the destruction of these magical treasures directly dragged Gao Jian into some kind of gap in the Desire Realm.

It's as if everything one encounters is leading one's lofty views toward the realm of desire.
Is it a coincidence? Aside from coincidence, there doesn't seem to be any other good explanation. You can't say that someone orchestrated all of this behind the scenes.

Impossible. What kind of person could possibly have their plans manipulated by even the most powerful figures in the capital, or even by the very operation of the capital itself? If they had that ability, why would they bother with Gao Jian's schemes?
Gao Jian himself had a brain; he only needed to do the math to know how incredible the computing power would be to accomplish such a thing—it was simply impossible.

Moreover... a brilliant insight is just right, and it also requires the power of the Desire Realm.

Just think about it, the power of the Desire Realm is so terrifying. Ye Qingmu had nothing, just a mere fourth realm cultivator, yet with just a fortuitous encounter in the Desire Realm, the illusion technique he obtained was enough to bewitch Dan Sha, a sixth realm cultivator.

As for Gao Jian himself, he had only opened the Niwan point of the three acupoints of the Divine Gate, but he directly opened the Divine Gate. This was also due to the cultivation method of the Desire Realm.

How powerful is this?
At this opportune moment, insightful...right when strength is needed.

He needed a foothold to stand against Helunsabao and to establish himself within the Imperial Academy.

therefore……

Faced with these many voices, Gao Jian activated the Rust Knife.

When did things quiet down?

All the sounds disappeared.

All that remains is a wisp of divine charm.

It turns out that those sounds were all Shen Yun.

(End of this chapter)