Da Zaojun

Chapter 145: Destroying the Heavenly King's Palace

Monk Huizhen saw that Song Wuji was becoming increasingly difficult to deal with, so he shouted, "Set up the Demon Subduing Formation!"

Immediately, the ninth-rank monks also joined in, each taking their own position: those from the Arhat Hall, the Guanyin Hall, the Moka Hall, the Kasyapa Hall...

These monks each practiced martial arts and immediately attracted the Four Heavenly Kings of the Heavenly King Hall.

The statue of the Heavenly King vibrated and Buddha's light shot out from his eyes.

A total of eight martial monks and four heavenly kings formed the Heavenly King Formation.

Song Wuji was not panicked. Except for the two eighth-grade monks, the remaining ninth-grade monks could not touch his agile cat-like body movements at all.

Song Wuji only took a second look at the statues of the Four Heavenly Kings. This secret realm did not seem to have any magical abilities, but when setting up the formation, it could leverage the power of the Buddha statues, displaying the majesty of thousands of people worshipping them.

It was this Heavenly King Formation that allowed Song Wuji to enter a state of "growth and inversion" at this time.

Consumption doubled, recovery halved.

Not to mention the eighth rank, even an ordinary seventh rank, if trapped by the Heavenly King formation set up by these eight martial monks, would consume physical strength and true energy, and eventually die of physical exhaustion.

But Song Wuji was no ordinary man: "You offer food to monks and Buddhas, deceive people, worship golden statues, and steal wealth and land. Now you use your numbers to bully the few, claiming to be conquering demons. It would be better to smash these clay idols of yours. After all, you are the real demons."

"Suck the blood of the people, refine the fat of the people, and suck the marrow of the people."

The next moment, Song Wuji threw the Killing Knife in his hand like a copper coin dart.

The blade was pointing at the Heavenly King Zhangda among the Four Heavenly Kings.

The blade pierced into the center of the forehead, and the colorful paint on the head of the Heavenly King Zhangzhang fell to the ground with a snapping sound.

Abbot Huizhen saw this and glared at him, "The Four Heavenly Kings protect the four continents and possess incredible magical powers. Evil demons are evil demons, and they don't fear cause and effect. Haven't you heard that the angry eyes of Bodhisattvas also have the wrath of Vajra?"

Song Wuji also took out the Tiger Soul double swords and said: "I cannot see the suffering of sentient beings, I am blind to protect you, the disciples of Bo Xun who speak with kindness and keep silent about merit."

"Fighting with the monks of Tongtai Temple, I concentrated intently on observing the [Five Precepts Sword Technique] and learned its true meaning."

Song Wuji took a stance: "As I traveled, I saw countless starving people, people eating each other, children abandoning their parents on the roadside to save food, parents exchanging their young children for food, those with wives pawning them for prostitution, those who farmed without food, even small landowners and petty officials relying on loans to survive."

"Now, seeing your golden splendor and the golden body of the Buddha, I can't help but think that saving suffering is nothing but destroying Buddha."

"Amitabha, the donor has misunderstood me deeply! How could my Tongtai Temple not have compassion for the common people? It is just that I do not follow the king's will, making it difficult to perform rituals. The king hates aristocratic families and wants to use this secluded place to raise monk soldiers..."

Monk Lingxi was about to speak, but was stopped by Huizhen: "What can you say to him? No matter what the cause is, he is an evil demon from outside the domain. How can he know the compassion of our Buddha? This chaos was not caused by our Buddhist sect, but by the powerful families. The people have completely despaired of the powerful families, so they have turned to Sakyamuni, hoping to suffer in this life and become a god in the next life."

"If Buddhism doesn't give the people a little hope and leave behind this little piece of pure land, then it will truly be hell on earth."

Suffer in this life, and be a god in the next.

Song Wuji thought of the Hungry Ghost Wood in the Hungry Ghost Realm. After he obtained the glazed relics, he transformed the hungry ghosts into monks, saying that after they practiced, they would eventually become celestial beings.

But this is clearly a far-fetched excuse to whitewash itself.

Song Wuji swung his sword, and the eight martial monks in the Heavenly King formation blocked it together.

Huizhen's Amitabha Staff Technique is even more brutal. Amitabha, also known as the Guide Buddha, guides people to the Western Paradise upon death in a bottomless boat. This Amitabha Staff Technique evokes this feeling, as if Huizhen has transformed himself into Amitabha, beating people to death as a gesture of compassion, only to personally guide them to the Western Paradise. Furthermore, while the other Ninth Rank monks lack martial arts prowess, they are vulnerable to being struck by the Four Heavenly Kings' fourfold blessing when caught off guard.

"Concentrating fully, I comprehend the Heavenly King's Demon Subduing Formation..."

Song Wuji became more and more adept in the formation. In the ninth-grade ritual, there was a method of "plating", which was to arrange the universe on the plate and hold the five elements in the bowl. He had some basic knowledge of formations. What's more, this formation was a human formation, which focused on the changes in people's movements. To be precise, it was a large-scale beating and kicking in circles. In other words, it was a group fight.

It is not a formation with complicated and mysterious rituals like the Tantan formation.

"Arhat conquers the devil!"

"Weituo whips!"

"Boy pays homage to the mountain!"

"Guanyin lowers his eyebrows!"

The more the eight monks fought, the more frightened they became: "How could this evil demon's physical strength be endless!"

Lingxi was even more astonished. "When fighting me, he only needed fifty or sixty moves to defeat me. When the abbot attacked, he used another seventy or eighty moves, and he figured out the abbot's moves. When he waited for the other monks to attack together and set up the Heavenly King Subduing Demon Formation, it only took a hundred or so moves, but he was already at ease. It was as if he could see through the changes in everyone's moves, and even calculated and used the abbot's strength to counter their own strength."

He was suddenly filled with fear: "Is this something a human can achieve?"

Not to mention his surprise, even Song Wuji was surprised at himself. It turned out that he was so good at fighting. Of course, it was also related to "cheating". He was gifted in butchering an ox and stealing. One could see through the weaknesses, and the other could learn the moves secretly. The combination of the two not only allowed Song Wuji to quickly learn the original martial arts, but also gave him some ideas to improve his weaknesses.

As for the negative state brought about by the Heavenly King Formation, it only doubled the physical strength consumption, but Song Wuji's physical strength seemed endless, and he could quickly recover by eating a meatball when he had time.

Five Sword Techniques

Amitabha Staff Technique
Arhat Stick Technique
Skanda Pestle Dharma
Heavenly King Sword Technique
Song Wuji thought about this and turned all these martial arts into his own nourishment. The next moment, he used his Tiger Soul Swords to launch a move: "Save all living beings!"

It was the Buddhist martial arts that was applied. In an instant, the spinning sword was like a lotus, breaking the encirclement formed by the eight monks.

But the cassock was stained with blood, the monk's robe was torn, the weapon was broken, and the hand holding the demon-subduing staff of Monk Huizhen was shaking.

"Evil!"

"Evil!"

Monk Lingxi fell to the ground and vomited blood. His skills in the "Buddha's Sutra on the Power of the Warrior Who Moves Mountains" had reached their limit. The blood vessels in his body burst, and his rapidly increasing strength not only dropped sharply, but also put him at risk of disability.

As for the other ninth-grade monks, they fainted.

Song Wuji walked past them, digesting these martial arts, secretly comparing them with the tiger demon's martial arts. He felt that these monks' martial arts were still in the gold system, not yet the ancient system. Although there was some Zen meaning, it could not directly induce the Buddha's magic power. It was not as good as the Wind Tiger Killing Fist, which could comprehend the true meaning of wind from tiger, and when a fist was swung, a strong wind would follow.

However, these skills are also extremely exquisite. If they are performed in conjunction with the power of Buddhist rituals, they may have unexpected effects.

Entering from the Heavenly King Hall, you will find the Weituo Hall and Maitreya Hall inside.

Before reaching the main hall, I saw that the scene of the temple had changed drastically, and it looked like a Buddhist kingdom.

A fat monk, who was always smiling and had a big belly, blocked Song Wuji's way with a big bag.

(End of this chapter)