There are no ancestors at all; I made them all up.

Chapter 325 The Beginning of One Qi
Dozens of miles away, several powerful divine thoughts were hidden in the void, watching the battle from afar.

An elderly man dressed in a star-patterned Taoist robe looked at the chaotic Buddhist light above Hanyue Temple and the collapsing moonlit landscape, and exclaimed in surprise: "Hanyue Locked Spirit Domain has actually been broken through head-on?! Just who is this person who broke into the mountain? That half-Buddha, half-demon Dharma form is something I've never heard of before! Could it be that some old monster who was immersed in the past has reappeared in the world?"

Beside her, a woman in palace attire shrouded in crimson light said in a deep voice, "Hanyue Temple is backed by the Western Wilderness Moon Wheel Zen Temple, with a profound foundation. Xuanhai is one of the best among the Nascent Soul cultivators. With the three external realms intertwined, how could it have been defeated so quickly? It seems that a storm is about to break out in Dongling Continent."

Further away, a middle-aged man dressed as a wandering healer squinted and muttered, "This man's methods are neither Buddhist nor demonic, yet he carries a hint of imperial air. Strange! Strange!"

Further into the mountains, a woman dressed in short clothes watched from afar, her eyes gleaming with admiration: "Is this Chen Qing? A man from a dilapidated temple? No one would believe it if word got out! No wonder Master Chen wanted to investigate this man; he's indeed extraordinary! But we need to find out more!"

……

These observers, regardless of which faction they came from, were all in turmoil. They found it hard to believe that Hanyue Temple had been forced into such a predicament by a single person. However, they also noticed that there was a discordant element in the rolling Buddhist light.
Smoke and dust rose from all sides of the temple!

"What a wicked plan!"

Incense smoke, like incense dust, seeps into the heart and erodes the mind, impossible to shake off!

Chen Qing quickly understood the old monk Xuanhai's plan!
But at this moment, the thoughts of incense offerings surged forth, following the power of the Buddha's essence and entering his body. Even when he changed his mind, he could clearly feel that incense was rising from the golden Buddha statues in various parts of Hanyue Temple, and in the golden torrent formed by the convergence of incense, countless people's wishes rose and fell!
"May Buddha bless my calf so I can get a good price..."

"May the Bodhisattva grant me mercy and keep that vixen away from my husband..."

"The believer is willing to donate incense oil for three years, just hoping for his child's recovery..."

"I beg Buddha to grant me a house full of gold and silver, surrounded by beautiful women, and that I don't have to work, but can just lie at home every day..."

"Passing the imperial examination with flying colors...bringing glory to one's ancestors..."

"May I be blessed so that I may avenge my family on this journey..."

"May the Bodhisattva grant me divine intervention! Let my son be my own..."

……

Prayer, obsession, greed, delusion... worldly desires and desires transform into invisible shackles, binding the soul.

In an instant, Chen Qing was filled with illusions, and the sound of prayers kept buzzing in his ears. His own thoughts were uncontrollably growing, with thoughts of "compassion," "salvation," and "granting your wishes." His ocean of consciousness seemed to be assimilated and submerged by this foreign "public opinion," and he had an impulse to devote himself to the Buddha's light and the vast number of monks!

"Hahaha!" Sensing the subtle change, the monk Xuanhai immediately burst into laughter. "Incense offerings are the thoughts of all beings, entangled in cause and effect! Our Buddha, with boundless compassion, remains untainted by worldly defilement! You possess only Buddhist affinity, yet you haven't cultivated a Buddhist heart. How dare you bear such a grand aspiration? The stronger the power, the deeper the corruption! Ultimately, you will inevitably become a puppet of incense offerings! At that time, only by joining my Buddhist sect can you resolve the karmic entanglement. There will be no other choice!"

"What a ruthless and vicious plan this Nascent Soul monk has! What a decisive action he has taken! He has actually turned the tide in one fell swoop from a disadvantageous position!"

In the distance, several obscure divine thoughts heard these words and couldn't help but marvel.

"Master Xingji, what do you think?" The woman in palace attire in the crimson glow asked telepathically, her tone revealing her surprise.

The old man in the star-patterned Taoist robe had a solemn expression: "Incense is both poison and medicine. The Buddha's position is supreme, able to accept all rivers without being tainted. However, although this person has a Buddhist foundation to draw upon the power of vows, he lacks the corresponding attainment to resolve his attachments. It's like a child wielding a sledgehammer, hurting others and himself! The more he absorbs it with Buddhist supernatural powers, the faster the backlash will be!"

The itinerant doctor also stepped closer and chimed in, "Let's see how he handles this. If his mind is taken away, today won't be his day of reckoning, but he'll still become a puppet of Buddhism, his future achievements will stop here, and he'll become a lackey of Buddhism! Hmm?"

Suddenly, strange phenomena began to appear on Chen Qing's body, which was entwined with incense!

First, the Qingqiu Mystic Fire rose up, scorching away distracting thoughts, but the golden power of vows was like oil, suppressing the fire instead.

As the sword of tribulation rang out, the pitch-black lightning swept across, temporarily clearing the area with its supreme yang and yang power, but thoughts arose and disappeared endlessly.

Then the blood-red light roared, devouring the thoughts of resentment and hatred, but its own blood-red light began to dim, showing signs of being converted.

Fortunately, his projection was stationed in the Purple Mansion, shining with starlight and imperial aura, guarding the last bit of clarity in his spiritual platform, allowing him to still think of various abilities. However, seeing that the methods of several Nascent Soul cultivators had failed, Chen Qing then turned to urging the spiritual energy in his abdomen to surge wildly, trying to suppress it with force. But the pervasive spiritual energy was like adding fuel to the fire, making the power of the incense even more violent!

"These incense-filled thoughts are not evil, but rather good things. They are treasures accumulated by Hanyue Temple. Normally, they would never be used like this, as it would be tantamount to digging one's own foundation! But because there are too many, they are excessively poisonous, and coupled with their entanglement with Buddhist power and their resonance with me, they seem to be in harmony. It's really difficult to deal with them for the time being! And there's that old monk watching from the side... I might as well try to consume them..."

With this thought in mind, he changed his mind again and tried to channel this power into the Vajra Subduing Demon Divine Power!
In an instant, his supernatural powers surged, and a solid image of a wrathful Vajra emerged from his body, unleashing a torrent of demon-subduing power! However, the power of incense also intertwined more deeply with his origin through this channel.

"Since that's the case, then let's cut off the source!" Chen Qing's gaze suddenly shifted, and he grabbed with his hand, unleashing a surge of power, intending to destroy the golden statue in the temple!
However, he discovered that he had already formed a cycle with the mountain's veins and the temple's incense through the prayer beads. Forcibly severing this connection might trigger the massive amount of vow power. Without restraint, even if it didn't result in mutual destruction, it would likely gather around him instantly, making it even more difficult to suppress!
"This old monk is truly ruthless; he has used such a self-destructive method to such an extent!"

In a moment of crisis, he had a flash of inspiration and activated the exterior views of the Stele Forest and the Half-Buddha!

"My body is the Dao, my will is the Dharma! Exterior view, hold!"

The imperial aura is vast and magnificent, as powerful as a historical record!

The Buddha's light is desolate, as if all things have returned to emptiness!

Two vast external realms opened up, forcefully controlling and compressing the raging incense-burning thoughts into a corner of the Purple Mansion, condensing them into a violently churning golden bead.

"It's been suppressed for now, but it can only be suppressed, not refined. If I could obtain a superior divine method..." Chen Qing thought of the many hidden dangers in the Remnant Scroll Pavilion and suppressed his thoughts.

At this moment, he found a chance to catch his breath, but the hidden dangers remained. Xuan Hai's heart skipped a beat when he saw that Chen Qing had actually regained his footing!
"We can't give him a chance to breathe!"

He hesitated for only a moment before suddenly raising his hand to pierce his heart, forcing out three drops of golden blood that shimmered with moonlight and Sanskrit characters!
Ancient Buddha's Bloodline!
"With my crippled body, I humbly beseech the wisdom of the ancient Buddha to bless this wicked debt!"

As his blood essence burned, a hazy yet extremely high-ranking moonlight descended from the darkness, ignoring all obstacles, and directly poured into the golden bead in Chen Qing's Purple Mansion!
"Crack!"

The balance was instantly shattered!

As the sphere of thought expanded, the power of the will seemed to possess a spirit, and its impact surged! Chen Qing's two outer visions trembled violently, and were actually pushed to decay and scatter!
"This is……"

Sensing the eerie aura in the moonlight, Chen Qing's vision was suddenly clouded with mist, and he vaguely saw the figure of a Buddha who had fallen into the abyss, half of his body already decayed, revealing large patches of bones!
"Remains!?"

But deep down, he had a thought: if he could control this moonlight and inject it into the remains, he could activate and control them!
"No! This is an illusion!"

The next moment, he suddenly woke up, only to find that the scenery outside was about to collapse and the incense was about to backfire!

"Xuan Hai is truly fighting desperately!"

On the brink of life and death, Chen Qing's mind suddenly became clear. He sensed the mountain and marsh energy that the mountain beneath his feet had not yet fully absorbed. A chaotic energy surged within his body, and the description of the "Eight Scenery Spiritual Lights" in the "Supreme Primordial Qi True Scripture" flashed through his mind like lightning!

"Mountains may stand firm, blessings may extend to all living beings... The spiritual light of the Eight Scenic Spots, accept it!"

Without further hesitation, he activated the true scriptures and methods!

The essence of the mountains and rivers that converged from all directions gathered wildly, and along a mysterious trajectory, it mixed with almost infinite spiritual energy, forcibly condensing and building within his body!
"Boom! Boom!"

Two earth-shattering roars emanated from his body!
The illusory image of a majestic green mountain rose up behind him! In the blink of an eye, it solidified!
Heavy loads support a solid foundation!
"Could this be!?"

In an instant, everyone who was watching this place widened their eyes!

But before they could sort out their thoughts, a phantom under Chen Qing's feet suddenly expanded, twisting the soil and causing the vegetation to sink wherever it passed!
The vast and expansive marshland spread like a shadow, covering the entire mountaintop in the blink of an eye!
Embrace all things, and guide the chaos!
The scenery of green mountains!

A scene of a marshland!

The scenery of the Stele Forest!

A scene of half-Buddha!

The four exterior scenes complement each other beautifully!

The newly formed mountain and marsh landscape has a natural effect on channeling chaotic willpower, and it immediately suppressed the rampant incense offerings that were about to spread!

Even without innate Qi, Chen Qing's cultivation level still broke through the bottleneck at this moment and was about to reach the Nascent Soul stage!

"This place is not a good place to advance! Nor is it a good place to undergo tribulation! I need to return to the mountain gate and set up a great formation before I can step into the Nascent Soul stage! After that, I will seek a divine method to completely resolve this problem!" He vaguely sensed that if he triggered the heavenly tribulation here, his mind would be disturbed and the power of the incense would inevitably go out of control.

Seeing the thunderclouds gathering in the sky, Chen Qing had a thought, and the nascent soul essence in his Niwan Palace expanded, barely suppressing the feeling of breaking through for the time being!
"We can only delay for a day or two at most! We must leave this place as soon as possible!"

The clouds and mist in the sky dispersed, and the surrounding earth veins roared!
"Ouch! It hurts so much!"

Xuan Hai suffered a backlash due to the decline of the mountain's spiritual energy, the complete suppression of the people's wishes for incense offerings, and the burning of his own blood and marrow!
"This shouldn't be happening! How could this be!"

Xuan Hai's body shone with Buddhist light, and his flesh peeled away like porcelain shards, revealing his dull golden body underneath. The madness in his eyes faded, leaving only a deathly clarity.

“The Buddha said that all beings suffer, and the source of suffering is the inability to let go.” He chuckled softly, golden blood spilling from his seven orifices. “Since you can’t let go of this legacy, you can’t let go of this physical body, then… let go of it all!”

"Sacrifice to Suppress Demons Seal!"

He clasped his hands together, and his remaining golden body suddenly expanded, then exploded with a bang, turning into a rain of golden rain that seeped into the mountain peak beneath his feet!

His physical body, however, instantly withered and shrank.

The entire mountain trembled, and countless ravines cracked open on the ground. A terrifying suction force erupted from the depths of the earth's veins, attempting to drag Chen Qing along with the four external landscapes into the mountain's belly and suppress them!
Chen Qing swayed, and the bluestone beneath his feet shattered.

"Old monk, since you're going to give it all up, I'll help you give it all up completely!"

As he finished speaking, he briefly released the suppression of the incense and the power of the vows, directing all the surging, chaotic worldly power of the vows towards the Vajra Subduing Demons Divine Power pattern that had reached its peak!
Instantly, his whole body shone with golden light, and the shadow of a wrathful Vajra behind him became even more dazzling!
With a thought, rolling golden light gathered in his right hand!
make a fist!

"Wrathful Vajra, subduing demons and monsters! Break!"

With a single punch, the illusory image of the Wrathful Vajra expanded, filling the heavens and earth!
The dark golden fist blade was wrapped not only with Buddhist fire, but also with the lights of thousands of homes and the prayers of all living beings!
Boom!

The surging dust crashed against the great formation of Hanyue Temple and slammed onto the ridge of Guquan Peak!
(End of this chapter)