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Chapter 23 Mind Influence, Five Elements Mountain Conquest!

As dusk falls, the western hills are shrouded in twilight!
Niu Jun sat cross-legged in a monk's quarters at Jinhai Temple. In an instant, a wisp of demonic thought crossed most of the temple, ignoring all kinds of formations and restrictions, and descended into the nine-story pagoda on the back mountain of Jinhai Temple.

The method of spiritual corruption is a demonic supernatural power that Niu Jun deduced based on the Wuxiang Tianmo Miaohua Great Divine Power of the Tianmo Clan.

As the saying goes: The void creates all things, the celestial demons are formless, they transform in all directions, and are eternally indestructible.

The Heavenly Demon Clan's Formless Heavenly Demon Transformation Divine Power, to put it simply, is a demonic divine power where the Heavenly Demon manifests in countless forms, descends into reality, and seizes the bodies of cultivators.

This demonic supernatural power is not a traditional method of soul possession, but a profound method of mind control. Although it is not possession, it is even better than possession.

After all, ordinary possession techniques can only possess one body, like a cuckoo taking over a magpie's nest.

The Mysterious Transformation of the Formless Heavenly Demon uses demonic thoughts to arouse the seven emotions and six desires of living beings, and uses these emotions and desires to nurture the demonic seed.

Once the demonic seed takes shape, it can lure living beings into the demonic path, transforming them into its own demonic manifestations, bodies that bear the demonic thoughts, ultimately achieving countless incarnations, immortal beings, and an indestructible heavenly demon, eternally free.

The most terrifying thing is that the demonic manifestation of the Heavenly Demon can also cultivate.

When a demonic thought manifests itself for cultivation or dies, its cultivation insights, magical power, physical body and blood will all transform into pure energy. Through the causal connection between the demonic seed and the celestial demon's main body, this energy will be fed back into the celestial demon's main body, allowing the celestial demon's main body to reap the benefits and make rapid progress in its cultivation.

to be frank.

If the Heavenly Demon Clan of the Journey to the West world hadn't been trapped in the Six Desire Heavens and forbidden from descending to the Three Realms except under special circumstances, they would have already unleashed a demonic calamity.

Of course, this divine power of the Heavenly Demon Clan is not invincible.

As long as one can restrain one's seven emotions and six desires, maintain a firm will, and resist the temptations of demons, one can resist the erosion of demonic thoughts.

Niu Jun's Mind Infiltration Technique was derived from the Formless Heavenly Demon's Mystic Transformation Great Divine Power of the Heavenly Demon Clan. It incorporates the power of the Great Dao Laws such as mind, destiny, void, and earthly transformations, making this demonic divine power more secretive and impossible to defend against.

As long as there is thought or intention, one will be eroded by this supernatural power and, imperceptibly, influenced by the demonic thoughts of the caster.

If we say that the Heavenly Demon Clan's Formless Heavenly Demon Transformation Great Divine Power uses the seven emotions and six desires of living beings as a medium...

Niu Jun's mental infiltration technique uses the thoughts of living beings as a medium, and through various disguises, he merges a wisp of his own thoughts into the thoughts of the other party's soul.

You have me I have you.

Ultimately, they completely merged into one, transforming it into the embodiment of their own demonic thoughts.

The so-called infection.

You can also understand it as assimilation.

Therefore, this magical technique also has a major flaw: it cannot be used on beings whose will and mind surpass one's own.

Once you cast a spell on a being whose will surpasses your own, your demonic thoughts will easily be assimilated by it, and eventually, the memories within those thoughts will be read, allowing others to trace them back to you.

Just like the Formless Heavenly Demon's wondrous transformation great divine power of the Heavenly Demon race, once the Heavenly Demon fails to block the path, the descending Heavenly Demon's thoughts will become the cultivator's cultivation resources, allowing the cultivator to turn misfortune into blessing and make rapid progress in cultivation.

Therefore, these two supernatural abilities can only be used against enemies whose cultivation level is lower than one's own, and cannot be used against enemies whose cultivation level is higher than one's own, making them easy targets for easy opponents.

Venerable Jin Hai, as a Buddhist monk, was only at the Xuanxian level in terms of cultivation, while Niu Jun had already condensed the illusory Taiyi Dao Fruit.

His cultivation level reached the half-step Taiyi Golden Immortal realm, which is more than a whole realm higher than that of Venerable Jinhai, who was at the Xuanxian realm.

But even so.

When Niu Jun used his mind-infecting technique on Venerable Jin Hai, he still carefully observed and prepared for more than a month.

Only after thoroughly understanding Venerable Jin Hai's situation and confirming that he had no trump cards did they choose to make their move.

The reason for this is that Venerable Jin Hai is not an ordinary immortal, but a venerable monk of the Buddhist sect of Mount Ling.

There are more than one Buddha or Bodhisattva at the Taiyi realm in Buddhism.

If some powerful Taiyi cultivator leaves a mark on him, Niu Jun might be caught off guard and come looking for him by Buddhist experts following the cause and effect.

Therefore, he had to be cautious when using this supernatural power.

Niu Jun's wisp of demonic thought, after silently penetrating the array and restrictions of the nine-story Buddhist pagoda behind Jinhai Temple, did not hesitate at all. It directly transformed into a wisp of thought imbued with pure Buddhist nature and entered Venerable Jinhai's sea of ​​consciousness, merging with his divine soul.

Unaware of anything amiss, Venerable Jin Hai continued to perceive the omnipresent Buddha-nature and Buddha-light in the void, and carefully comprehend the supreme power of Buddha Shakyamuni emanating from the Five Elements Mountain.

The entire process went extremely smoothly, without arousing the slightest suspicion from Venerable Jin Hai.

At the moment when the demonic thought merged with the soul of Venerable Jin Hai.

Niu Jun had a premonition.

At this moment, it seemed as if he had gained another perspective, silently observing Venerable Jin Hai's sea of ​​consciousness.

Within Venerable Jin Hai's golden sea of ​​consciousness, the image of a Vajra Dharma Protector radiated boundless light, illuminating the entire space of the sea of ​​consciousness. In the Dharma Protector's hand, he also held a Vajra pestle.

Clearly, this Venerable Jin Hai follows the path of a Dharma protector in Buddhism, and his spiritual will is far inferior to that of a Bodhisattva or Buddha who practices Buddhism.

But this is not difficult to understand.

If this Venerable Jin Hai truly follows the path of a Bodhisattva or Buddha.

It wouldn't be so simple or easy for a wisp of Niu Jun's demonic thought to enter his sea of ​​consciousness and merge with his soul.

If you don't speak of it, your spiritual senses will detect it.

Niu Jun's demonic thoughts merged with Venerable Jin Hai's soul, revealing all of his inner thoughts to him.

Niu Jun could even influence and tamper with Venerable Jin Hai's thoughts and ideas through this wisp of demonic thought.

Of course, at this moment, Niu Jun's demonic thoughts had just merged with Venerable Jin Hai's divine soul and had not yet corrupted Venerable Jin Hai's divine soul and thoughts. If he were to forcibly influence and tamper with his thoughts, it would be very likely that the other party would notice.

Therefore, he prefers to guide slowly rather than forcibly influence or tamper with things.

As for waiting patiently until the demonic thoughts erode all of Venerable Jin Hai's soul and mind, and completely transform Venerable Jin Hai into a demonic manifestation, then we can learn about the situation at Five Elements Mountain.
Niu Jun had considered this.

But considering Venerable Jin Hai's status as a monk of the Lingshan Buddhist sect, he might one day be summoned by the Buddha to attend a Buddhist ceremony at Lingshan.

Niu Jun completely dismissed this idea.

After all, he couldn't guarantee that his method of spiritual corruption could escape the detection and perception of those Buddhist masters with great supernatural powers.

Once detected by powerful Buddhist figures like the Buddha, they will be traced back through the causal chain.

Therefore, in order to prevent things from getting complicated.

After Niu Jun's demonic thought merged with Venerable Jin Hai's soul, a special fluctuation, under the cover of the omnipresent Buddhist light and Buddha-nature, spread rapidly like a virus, constantly infecting Venerable Jin Hai's soul and thoughts.

Once the demonic thoughts had corrupted Venerable Jin Hai's soul to a certain extent, Niu Jun began to probe the situation at Five Elements Mountain using a guiding method. It wasn't that Niu Jun couldn't directly access Venerable Jin Hai's soul thoughts corrupted by the demonic thoughts, but rather that the memories of living beings are not stored in every single soul thought like biological DNA.

Only when all the thoughts and ideas of the divine soul are combined can a complete divine soul be formed, storing all memories.

As a Buddhist immortal, Venerable Jinhai possessed countless thoughts and ideas in his divine soul. These thoughts and ideas not only contained Venerable Jinhai's life memories but also his insights into the path of cultivation.

Niu Jun dared not guarantee that the thoughts of Venerable Jin Hai that he had eroded contained information about the Five Elements Mountain, nor could he guarantee that he could read all of this information in a short time.

Therefore, instead of directly reading the memories of these corrupted souls and thoughts, we can gradually find information about the Five Elements Mountain.

He preferred to extract information about the Five Elements Mountain from Venerable Jin Hai's thoughts through inducement.

"The Buddha's power is truly unfathomable. With just a six-syllable mantra, he suppressed Sun Wukong, who had cultivated the Primordial Chaos Immortal Body, rendering him unable to move."

"I spent 180 years outside the Five Elements Mountain Small World comprehending the Buddha's light emanating from the Five Elements Mountain, and the gains were comparable to a thousand years of arduous cultivation in the Spirit Mountain. If I could enter the Five Elements Mountain Small World and closely comprehend the Buddha's seal..."

"No, my duty is to guard the Five Elements Mountain territory where the Five Elements Mountain Small World is located. I cannot enter the Five Elements Mountain Small World without permission."

Under the influence of Niu Jun's demonic thoughts, Venerable Jin Hai, who was meditating and seeking enlightenment, suddenly awoke from his state of enlightenment.

Looking at the Five Elements Mountain miniature world not far ahead, which was constantly radiating boundless Buddhist light, he couldn't help but sigh, and then a strange greed arose in his heart.

Cultivating outside the Five Elements Mountain Small World for 180 years is comparable to a thousand years of arduous cultivation on Mount Ling, allowing Venerable Jin Hai to reach a higher level of understanding of the Great Dao.

This made him unable to resist a feeling of greed.

If I could enter the Five Elements Mountain miniature world and closely comprehend the Buddha's six-syllable mantra, how many times would my cultivation speed increase?
In fact, this thought was not the first time it had surfaced in Venerable Jin Hai's mind, but it had never been stronger than it was this time.

The feeling was so intense that he couldn't help but start thinking about how he could deceive the perception of the Arhat Sitting on the Deer and sneak into the Five Elements Mountain Small World, and how he could deceive the Buddhist guardians in the Five Elements Mountain Small World and get close to the Buddha's Six-Syllable Mantra seal on the top of the Five Elements Mountain.

Everything is so natural.

It was so natural that Venerable Jin Hai didn't notice anything amiss.

After all, even immortals have emotions and desires, and even Buddha has the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance.

Buddhist immortals like Venerable Jin Hai are not truly without desires or wants.

On the contrary, their desires are beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Their yearning for power and cultivation is even deeper than ordinary people's yearning for money and material possessions.

Therefore, Venerable Jin Hai did not think there was anything wrong with his desire to closely study the Buddha's seal, nor did he think that having such a thought was a mistake.

After all, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier.

A temple that doesn't aspire to be a monastery of the Buddha is not a good temple.

It was this intense longing that caused Venerable Jin Hai's soul to fluctuate violently, and all his soul's thoughts and memories were briefly synchronized.

This also allowed Niu Jun to easily access Venerable Jin Hai's memory at that moment, and to learn about the Buddhist sect's arrangements inside and outside the Five Elements Mountain Small World.

Of course, for Niu Jun, this alone is far from enough.

Therefore, by taking advantage of the corrupted soul and thoughts of Venerable Jin Hai, he began to further guide Venerable Jin Hai's thoughts and ideas.

For example:
"Back then, Sun Wukong was known as the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, but he had many demon brothers and immortal friends. If they came to rescue Sun Wukong, how could I cooperate with the Arhat Riding the Deer to resist them?"

"If demons were to infiltrate the Five Elements Mountain miniature world from the direction I am guarding, how should I stop and defend against them?"

"Are there any other loopholes in the formations and restrictions outside the Five Elements Mountain small world?"

"What if Sun Wukong breaks free from the Five Elements Mountain and fights his way out of the Five Elements Mountain's small world?"

"I wonder when the Buddha will summon us to Mount Ling to participate in the Dharma assembly."

"If a demon were to infiltrate the Five Elements Mountain miniature world, would the Buddha's six-syllable mantra seal attack it?"

"..."

A myriad of thoughts arose in Venerable Jin Hai's mind, causing him to ponder deeply and respond based on the information he knew.

This situation made him vaguely aware that something was wrong.

Yet I still don't know where this feeling comes from.

"When people have free time, they tend to think more, even ancient Buddhas and saints are no exception."

"Is there a problem with this?"

"It must be no problem!"

"So my thinking about these random things isn't just overthinking, but rather preparing for the worst, because these things are all possible."

"He who does not plan for the long term is not fit to plan for the short term; he who does not plan for the whole is not fit to plan for a part."

“Back then, the Bodhisattva criticized me for not knowing how to think, and told me that when faced with a problem, I should not act immediately, but think and consider more. Now, I am thinking about these things, and that is thinking!”

Upon realizing this, Venerable Jin Hai quickly suppressed the uneasy feeling in his heart and began to think again.

This time he thought more deeply.

It includes reflections on the Five Elements Mountain, the Buddha's seal, and Sun Wukong.

There are also reflections on the situation of Buddhist sacred mountains, and related thoughts on great Buddhist supernatural beings such as the Tathagata Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Dipankara Buddha, Manjushri Bodhisattva, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.

One moment he was thinking about how to sneak into the Five Elements Mountain miniature world, get a close look at the Buddha's six-character mantra, and mock Sun Wukong.

One moment he was thinking about how to break through to the Golden Immortal realm and become a Buddhist Arhat.

Then he would think about how to gain the favor of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and what supernatural powers these Buddhist masters had used, and what their strength and level were.

In addition, Venerable Jinhai also thought about the Heavenly Court, overseas immortal islands, demon races, dragon races, the Underworld, extraterrestrial demons, and other powerful forces, and wondered how he would face these powerful forces if he were an ordinary demon.

In the end, Venerable Jin Hai even reflected on his Buddhist practices and supernatural abilities, and began to recall and summarize his life's insights into spiritual cultivation.

I don't know how long I pondered this.

Venerable Jin Hai seemed to have figured something out, and smiled as he held up a flower.

"Amitabha!"

"This humble monk has had too many distracting thoughts today."

(End of this chapter)