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Chapter 392 The Establishment of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons

"How can we save this city's inhabitants, and their children?"

“I have an idea that might be of some use,” the monk said by the roadside.

Despite being a Buddhist monk, Master Dayuan remained compassionate and tried to find a solution to the problem.

Persecuted by the three demons, all the children in the city were sent to the territory of the Green Lion, White Elephant and Roc in the east, and were required to be sent every six months, with each trip consisting of a boy and a girl.

As the mastermind of the three demons, the Roc made detailed rules. It was not about cutting off the lineage of the city's inhabitants, but about ensuring that the number of children sent to the city reached one-tenth of the city's population. No matter what, the demons had to be fed.

Aside from the children sent every six months, all agricultural and commercial activities in the city must pay one-tenth of their tax to the vast demon kingdom of the Green Lion, White Elephant, and Roc.

If you harvest ten catties of crops from the fields, you have to hand over one catty of crops as tax; if you slaughter a hundred-catty sheep, you have to hand over ten catties of mutton.

No matter what we do, we must give one-tenth to the Demon Kingdom; this is the tithe set by the three demon kings.

In practice, this tax system is even more exploitative.

They found a rock in the mountains near the town and placed it at the east gate of the city, carving a statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva with the power of the seventy-five heavens.

It has a lotus pedestal, but no rain shelter.

The bald-headed Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, holding a staff, stood upright outside the East Gate, watching the pedestrians and vehicles coming and going in the small city.

Once the Tibetan King Bodhisattva statue was completed, a magnetic field was injected into the roadside to connect it with the earth, ensuring the statue's stability for thousands of years, preventing it from being moved by humans or destroyed by ordinary monsters.

"At this point, all we can do is pray to the gods and Buddhas."

When the Bodhisattva statue was erected, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the netherworld immediately responded.

A wisp of divine thought possessed the Ksitigarbha statue, and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva instantly understood the meaning behind erecting the statue for him by the roadside.

He must grant all requests that come to him and protect all living beings.

The stone statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva carved by the roadside is modeled after the appearance of the monk Dayuan. Unlike other Bodhisattvas, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva does not wear a jeweled crown or gorgeous clothes, and much of the fine work has been omitted.

The monk Dayuan went to the mountains and picked some berries, which he then offered in front of the statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

I ask myself.

The monk explained his prayers to the statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva before walking south with the roadside.

Simply erecting a statue without explaining what one is seeking is merely putting up a useless statue of a bodhisattva.

A month later, Lu Bian, Kong Que, the little fox Ping Ping, and the monk arrived at the southern coast, where they heard the news of the establishment of the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons.

"The Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons, that name does suit those three guys' level quite well," someone muttered by the roadside.

"It doesn't really have much substance."

The three demons, with overwhelming force, merged many countries in Xiniu Hezhou, and forcibly incorporated a vast region into the demon kingdom's territory using the powerful strength of the monsters.

The uninhabited areas of Xiniu Hezhou account for a larger proportion than the inhabited areas.

The Demon Kingdom has a vast territory, while the number of mortals in the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom is only twenty to thirty million, and the number of lesser demons in the whole country is only over twenty thousand.

In the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons, demons are the highest class, while mortals are the lowest.

The roadside figure had already foreseen the suffering that would befall the people of Xiniu Hezhou, apart from the demons.

The Three Kings of the Demon Kingdom stand side by side: the Azure Lion King patrols the territory of the Demon Kingdom, expanding its borders; the White Elephant King manages all matters large and small within the kingdom; and the Golden-Winged Roc King is the sun above all living beings in the country.

The peacock summoned the land gods and mountain gods. She was also the Western Buddha Mother Peacock King Bodhisattva, and could command these minor local deities. The peacock instructed these minor deities to gather information about the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons.

Before setting sail, the mountain god and the land god sent word that the territory of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom had expanded to the front of Longevity Mountain, with Longevity Mountain as the boundary.

The Wuzhuang Temple on Longevity Mountain is home to the ancestor of earth immortals, and the three demons naturally do not want to offend this Taoist patriarch over the sake of territory.

Zhenyuan Daxian pinned down the eastward expansion of the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom at the foot of Wanshou Mountain, preventing it from bordering the Southern Continent.

"Peacock King Bodhisattva, it is said that the Great Thunderclap Temple has moved to a new location and is now open to monks and nuns throughout the land. The Buddha is going to preach the Dharma to all beings in the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons." The local deity told everyone this news with great fear.

"Where is it?" the monk asked. "Don't worry, it's just Little Thunderclap Temple," someone by the roadside replied.

“Yes, yes. What this Venerable One says is correct. The new Great Thunderclap Temple was built on the site of the old Little Thunderclap Temple. I heard this from the local earth god.” The earth god quickly replied.

"..."

Boats have been built by the sea and roadside, but they haven't set sail yet because they're waiting for the local land gods and mountain gods to gather information about the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons.

However, after hearing that it was a fake Great Thunder Temple, the monk Dayuan no longer wanted to take the detour by sea.

"I'm going to Xiaoleiyin Temple," the monk said resolutely.

"Where are you going?" the peacock asked.

"I must uphold the orthodoxy of Buddhism and not allow those demons to distort the scriptures," the monk said solemnly.

"Is this the Dharma-ending Age that the Buddha spoke of? Mara, the Demon King, has infiltrated the Sangha and is destroying the Dharma." The monk gazed at the sky.

"Then go ahead." The peacock raised its eyes and glanced at the monk.

"How could you, an outsider monk, be a demon who has cultivated in the Great Thunderclap Temple?" the peacock said.

“It’s better than doing nothing,” the monk said.

The monk left, and no one stopped him by the roadside.

Pingping tugged at the corner of the roadside robe, somewhat worried about this last pure Buddhist monk.

"There's little chance of anything happening. After all, he is just a mortal incarnation of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and demons wouldn't dare to harm him."

In order to rectify Buddhism, the monk Dayuan embarked on the journey to Xiaoleiyin Temple alone.

Lu Bian, Pingping, Kongque, and other landowners had mostly relayed the message and had also set sail, proceeding along the original planned route.

"I said……"

I stood by the roadside at the bow of the boat, watching the waves surge across the sea.

"Isn't the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons interested in the sea?" someone asked by the roadside.

"The four seas—east, west, south, and north—are all under the jurisdiction of the Four Sea Dragon Kings, who are also ministers of the Heavenly Court. If the Kingdom of Ten Thousand Demons were to encroach upon the seas, it would surely attract the attention of the Heavenly Court," the peacock said.

"This time, Dapeng established the Demon Kingdom in a much gentler way, without massacring mortals. He has great ambitions and wants the Demon Kingdom to last a long time."

"As long as they don't harbor resentment, it will take many years for the Eastern Heavenly Court to become aware of the Demon Kingdom of the three brothers."

Another month passed, and the three of them docked their boat. They converted the boat into a car, and he put the stone statues of the Mighty King Bodhisattva and the Victorious Fighting Buddha on the car and pulled it away himself.

Walking from south to north, the peacock and the little fox arrived at the Kingdom of Women once again.

Peacock requested to come to the Kingdom of Women to buy some women's products, and only Shun Sui was available by the roadside.

Now, even the Western Liang Women's Kingdom has been renamed the Women's City. The royal family that rules over the women of the kingdom has been replaced by the female demons.

Outside the City of Women, water was being pumped from the Mother-Child River by a water truck, and several female demons, their mouths and noses covered, were drawing water from the river.

I glanced at it from the roadside and immediately understood why they were using water from the Zimu River.

This is to force mortals to give birth to monsters' blood offerings.

Not every mortal in every place submits to the rule of demons. In some places, people would rather die than submit, even if it means their lineage ends. However, this still led the demons who ruled the Ten Thousand Demon Kingdom to come up with this solution.

The Zimu River has been listed as a top-tier rare resource in the Wanyao Kingdom and is strictly controlled to prevent mortals from damaging its water source.

As I towed my cart across the river bridge, I saw the True Immortal Ruyi standing by the Zimu River, overseeing the situation.

This evil Taoist has now also sided with the three demons: the Green Lion, the White Elephant, and the Roc.

(End of this chapter)