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Chapter 222: The ‘Heavenly Dao’ in Samsara

“Hungry ghosts?” Ha Ge looked confused.

“Taoist Priest, I don’t see any malevolent energy on them. How could they be hungry ghosts?”

“The hungry ghost path refers to the hungry ghost beings among the six paths, not the monsters you’re thinking of.”

Zhang Feng looked at the lizards again.

“Especially in reality, instead of saying they were ‘reincarnated’ into the hungry ghost division within the cycle of six paths, it’s better to say they are another type of creature after being modified.

This modification is also similar to a virus. After a person is infected, their overall bodily functions undergo certain changes.”

As Zhang Feng spoke, he actually wanted to mention the zombies in Resident Evil.

They are essentially creatures modified by a virus.

But given the time period and his memories of this world, Zhang Feng had never seen similar zombie films, so he didn't use zombies as an example.

Otherwise, it would have been clearer.

However, even with just this explanation, they all nodded in succession, understanding that viruses can alter the human body.

At the same time, after seeing their understanding, Zhang Feng continued:

“The principle behind these hungry ghosts is actually the same as how a virus changes the human body.

And in my opinion, even the mythical creatures in legends, if explained by The Great Yama’s genetic technology, are various gene modification techniques.

Theoretically, as long as his technological level is sufficient, he can create some well-known mythical creatures and figures.”

“If that’s the case?” Boss gave this answer, “Then… isn’t he… the Creator?”

“That’s right,” Zhang Feng nodded.

“He can even create immortals?”

“Is The Great Yama still human? Is this a realm that humans can research?”

“Listening to Taoist Priest Zhang, The Great Yama is a Gold Core with a lifespan of at least five hundred years. He’s definitely not a normal human…”

Seeing that Zhang Gaoren had confirmed it, the others also spoke to each other with confusion and shock.

Because the ‘beings of the hungry ghost path’ have truly appeared now.

Especially since this kind of ‘hungry ghost’ can last for thousands of years and reproduces in a very disgusting way.

This bizarre modification and their real existence have significantly impacted their normal worldview!

At least, facing these things and a ‘Netherworld six paths’ that can modify them, they feel it’s too terrifying and have a strong psychological resistance.

It’s like a feeling of not even being at peace after death, and furthermore being tormented and dominated by others.

Especially during The Great Yama’s era, more often it was living people who were captured into the six paths.

Then, through genetic modification, their lifespan was extended, and they continued to endure torture.

This was truly a life worse than death.

Even people now are celebrating that they didn't live in The Great Yama’s ‘mythical era’.

Mythology is beautiful, grand, and awe-inspiring.

But the scene now truly before their eyes made them feel immense fear.

Similarly, Zhang Feng also saw the fear in their eyes.

This is exactly what Zhang Feng was worried about in reality.

If a ‘Technological Netherworld’ were truly established and ‘souls’ could be extracted, then stability would definitely increase again, and lifespan would certainly be extended.

Reincarnation would also make many people look forward to it.

But it also invisibly placed a huge ‘karma’ shackles on people.

Especially since the karma of this ‘personal reincarnation’ was self-determined.

To ensure absolute fairness, there could only be one Netherworld in reality, and it would be handled by humans and the Superconducting building working together for calculations.

Otherwise, if every place had a Yama Hall, it would be problematic if someone practiced favoritism.

Anyway, there are pros and cons.

And in Zhang Feng’s opinion, even without mentioning souls, just considering this gene technology, if it could be applied in reality, putting aside morality, it would have a significant impact on genetics and biology related fields, even in cultivation and big data, or even in virtual buildings and neuron breakthroughs.

‘Biotechnology’ has always been a major challenge.

Just like medicine and human lifespan in the past, they belong to the field of biology.

Including cultivation itself now, it also belongs to ‘extraordinary biology’.

The mysteries of life, the origin of humans, why humans are humans, and why humans are like a precise biological instrument, this is a very large field of study.

If it can be thoroughly researched, if one can understand oneself and adjust oneself according to the corresponding circumstances, for example, if lifespan is insufficient, modify genes to increase lifespan.

If strength is insufficient, modify muscles and meridians to increase strength and spiritual energy.

If thinking is insufficient, modify the brain.

Then humans will no longer be humans, but the legendary ‘gods’.

This field is the path to becoming a god.

Of course, this is a more straightforward explanation.

Because other fields and other paths are also paths.

As long as one reaches the limit, all things can attain the dao.

What Zhang Feng is doing now is precisely collecting all things and achieving breakthroughs through mutual integration and reference.

Even without breakthroughs, just the integration of Three-point Origin Severance Technique and the like, the integration of runes and Superconducting, and the railgun, this kind of integrated system is superior to individual ones.

Including the various academic fields and cutting-edge inventions before the extraordinary realm, none of them only used one discipline.

Simplest example, can a computer be built with just a piece of iron and mathematics? Ultimately, various instruments and material mixtures are needed.

It’s just that what he is doing now is not mixing existing materials, but mixing multiple extraordinary systems.

It’s also like this genetic modification, which can be integrated with ‘souls’ to achieve true reincarnation within the six paths.

Zhang Feng pondered, also learning the structure here and recalling the arrangements along the way.

It was about extracting the essence, and when building in the future, seeing what could be copied.

It also gave these people time to digest the previous information and quickly compose themselves.

Perhaps they would be needed somewhere later.

Fully utilizing human and material resources is also a form of combat power.

After about ten minutes, Zhang Feng saw them slowly finish their quiet discussions and have some psychological preparation, then he began to talk about the other four paths among the six paths.

“They all seem very mysterious, but at their core, they are all biological technologies that don’t deviate from the fundamental principle.

Of course, if the modification is too extreme and forms another biological structure, then it’s truly a complete transformation, becoming another ‘brand new life form’.

Because the last path among the six paths is the ‘heavenly dao beings’.”

“Immortals?”

“Taoist Priest… are you saying… he can really ‘create gods’?”

Their understanding of Buddhism and Taoism was not very deep, but they knew what the heavenly dao was. It was nothing more than immortals and the like.

It’s just that Zhang Feng understood more. Upon hearing their absurd statement, he uncharacteristically shook his head, feeling somewhat speechless inside.

“Heavenly dao beings are not really immortals.

More accurately, according to the six paths of Buddhism, the heavenly dao in the six cycles is actually a very special pure land.

People who are reincarnated there have extremely long lifespans.

They are not troubled by birth, old age, sickness, and death in the human world, but are carefree.”

“Like heaven in the West?” an security personnel gave an example.

“You could say that,” Zhang Feng nodded, stating directly, “At least in terms of being carefree and having a long lifespan, it is relatively similar.

However, according to Western beliefs, you can only go to heaven if you believe in their God.

But in our East, it is by doing good deeds.

With the cause of goodness, you obtain the fruit of the heavenly dao.”

As Zhang Feng spoke, he didn't want to talk so much about karma and cycles with these people.

Because they were not like the Federation citizens in the real world.

His own people basically understood and could grasp it in a word or two.

But here, if he started, he would really have to explain it thoroughly.

It was just as Zhang Feng expected.

Upon hearing Zhang Gaoren’s words, these people felt confused and impressed without fully understanding.

If you said they understood, they understood the literal meaning.

But more than that, they felt that Zhang Gaoren was incredibly knowledgeable, having a sense of ‘knowing everything from astronomy to geography’.

They even felt that Zhang Gaoren, who seemed to be in his thirties, might actually be over a hundred years old, which is why he could learn so much knowledge.

‘Karma theory?’ Ha Ge, however, truly understood and admired Zhang Feng even more.

Really, if the situation wasn’t a bit complicated and the environment wasn’t so oppressive, he would have already tried to become Taoist Priest Zhang’s disciple.

Of course, more importantly, he valued Zhang Feng’s exquisite techniques and high level of strength.

He wanted to learn these.

Whoosh—

Zhang Feng didn’t say much more to the crowd, but followed the edge of the pit, wanting to try and look down.

Now that their minds were stable, he didn’t have to worry about leaving them above temporarily.

“You don’t need to follow me.”

At the same time, Zhang Feng saw Boss, Zhou Dage, Ha Ge, and others wanting to follow, but he stopped them from coming down.

Because this large pit was a hundred meters deep, and no one knew if there were any mechanisms within the surrounding walls.

Zhang Feng couldn’t look after so many people.

He would talk about it after he had investigated and it was safe.

At the very least, that Boss must follow; he is a Netherworld text translator.

This text must also be learned.

But I currently don't have the extra energy to learn, so the safety of the translator still needs to be considered.

Tap—

It was also after more than ten seconds.

Following the surrounding walls, Zhang Feng successfully stood on this pile of somewhat fragile skeletons.

Although they had the influx of baleful energy from above, after all, more than a thousand years had passed.

Their toughness was about similar to some thick iron sheets.

Seemingly, they could fully support the bodies of those large lizards.

But for me, it was already like 'thin paper sheets'.

"Wailing~"

After seeing Zhang Feng arrive, these lizards were wailing in pain.

It seems they have a sense of pain, not like they appeared on the surface, liking to be gnawed by their own kind.

But their limbs were too short and too thin.

After more than a thousand years of twenty to thirty generations of reproduction, they are now born with short and thin limbs, making it difficult to move.

Zhang Feng also carefully observed them.

Seeing perhaps it was a genetic defect in the lineage, or perhaps it was done intentionally by The Great Yama.

After they are born, it is highly probable that they stay in place to eat, drink, and excrete.

After they grow up, after their bodies become large, after they can reach the mouths of their own kind.

they are reproducing through mutual eating.

To be honest, Zhang Feng felt that these lizards were too twisted.

Whoosh—

The next second.

Zhang Feng also decisively kicked up the bone fragments under his feet.

Under the enhancement of spiritual energy and strength, dozens of bone fragments, like bullets streaking at high speed, shot towards those fat lizards.

Simultaneously accompanied by the sounds of piercing flesh.

These bone fragments easily pierced their skulls, and their fat bodies also completely lost their breath.

Letting them live like this, suffering daily the extreme torture of mutual gnawing.

It's better to let them die cleanly.

Because they are the descendants of those sinners, they themselves are not bad people.

However, not killing them is also right, at least it's better to live poorly than die well.

Anyway, both sides have a point.

Zhang Feng has now already seen through the human variable in cause and effect, which is chaotic.

In some matters, there is no absolute right or wrong.

In matters where there is no right or wrong, right and wrong depend more on one's own state of mind.

If what is thought is bad, then it is a bad thing.

If what is thought is good, then it is a good thing.

After dealing with these lizards.

Zhang Feng, using spiritual energy as a spear, parted the bone fragments under his feet and continued to probe downwards.

He probed down about twenty meters and reached the end.

Then using spiritual energy to support around his body the bones that were about to bury him.

For a moment, Zhang Feng was like a submarine in a sea of bones, moving back and forth at the bottom of the large pit.

The people on the ground above then could not see Zhang Feng's figure.

They could only determine through the 'fast-moving bulge' on top of the bones that Zhang Gaoren had not yet emerged and his current location.

"Focus..." Boss watched for a while and also gave an instruction to the people around, telling them to be on guard.

Because just now everyone was looking down, while no one was guarding the entrance they came from.

And inside the sea of bones.

After searching about three-quarters of the area, Zhang Feng discovered an opening that linked downwards.

It was covered by a ten-meter square bluestone slab.

On top, there were also some formations for gathering baleful energy and earth energy, ensuring that the bones above would not crush it.

But precisely upon seeing this formation.

Zhang Feng felt that people from the Celestial Palace had definitely been to the Netherworld, because these formations came from the hands of Yangshan Zhenren and were also 'Individual Condensing' type techniques.

Then looking at the bones above and around.

Zhang Feng suddenly had a question: were these bones brought by people from the Celestial Palace, or did the Netherworld originally have them?

If it was the Celestial Palace, then it was nothing.

If it was the Netherworld, then after laying so many bones, if one wanted to go to the 'next path', wouldn't they have to swim through the sea of bones every time?

But thinking about the Thirty-Three Heavens and the Eighteen Layers of Hell, they can all use similar upper and lower layers.

Then the cycle of six paths doesn't seem wrong either.

Hoo hoo—

While thinking, Zhang Feng, while being on guard, lifted this 5-ton stone slab.

With 100 physique, a maximum basic strength of 1000 jin is actually not achievable.

But adding Foundation Establishment, plus three Dantians, as well as Inner Force and talisman formations, etc.

Let alone an increase of 10 times strength, even if it's the limit of 100 times, it is also possible.

Especially waiting for the Gold Core qualitative change, that would be even an increase of tens of millions of times.

However, judging from the start, this stone slab should be the second difficulty after the lizards.

If one's strength is insufficient, then they can only slowly endure the time to develop.

Clatter—

The stone slab opened.

Zhang Feng saw that below was a similarly huge cavern, but there was nothing inside, and one could see the end at a glance.

Especially at the bottom of the cavern, there was another even larger stone slab?

Jumped down.

He weighed it slightly, it was about ten tons.

It was twice the previous one.

Then, nothing to say, he continued to move it.

Rumble rumble—

Moved it away again.

Below was again the same kind of cavern, but this time the water-attribute spiritual energy was somewhat dense.

And below a pool of water, it was still a stone slab, and even larger.

Zhang Feng was completely confused this time, not knowing what purpose this Netherworld had.

After all, according to the six paths and the layers he had imagined.

Below the hungry ghost path should be the animal path, but in the previous cavern there were no animals, not even any bones.

And this one should be the Asura path, but there were also no constantly warring belligerent Asuras; instead, it was dense water attribute.

However, in this water attribute, there was also some stale smell of blood.

It seems it was cleaned up by someone.

But why weren't the previous hungry ghosts cleaned up?

Zhang Feng was becoming more and more confused.

But let's move it away first and see.

Rumble rumble, this 15-ton stone slab, 3 times the size of the hungry ghost one, was moved away.

This was the fifth path, the human path.

Looking downwards.

Zhang Feng saw that here was different; it was filled with something like an underground forest scene inside a rat hole.

However, there were no human creatures inside, but instead various strange and peculiar small insects.

Tap—

When he landed on the ground, Zhang Feng also startled these insects away.

And in the very center of the cavern, it was also a stone slab.

But calling it a boulder now would be more appropriate.

He pushed it slightly with spiritual energy, and it was no longer increasing by one time each, but instead directly rose to 25 tons!

Zhang Feng really didn't understand, not knowing what this secretly corresponded to in the Buddhist six paths.

Because this irregular increase did not conform to any known six paths theory.

Even according to the theory of cause and effect, it didn't say how many times or how many times of good deeds and virtuous deeds were needed to enter better six paths.

But at the same time.

Zhang Feng suddenly also had an idea, which was if according to the difficulty in the text, based on the text's description of increasing difficulty.

The 'core point' of this world perhaps is not for me to kill and slay, but rather to rely on one's own strength to achieve fast map movement and puzzle-solving?

Just like this pushing away of stone blocks is like a certain kind of 'strength test' in the text?

In terms of a game, this kind of test-based level completion is also very normal.

It's just that this is reality experienced firsthand.

Then the text felt that the six paths arrangement of this world conformed to this strength test setting, and thus I arrived.

If calculated this way.

then in the end, if the test is successful, I should be able to obtain some kind of reward?

Because just before, after killing those dozen or so lizards, a non-main quest was actually completed.

Then the remaining matters really are puzzle-solving and testing.

Otherwise, nothing was obtained in this world, and it was also a short period of 3 years, and even more so a ++ double experience world.

This itself is the greatest difficulty!

Because the time is short, unable to continue deducing cultivation progress.

When this world is completed, I will have to jump to an 8th level world.

This is clearly a maximized test of my own level.

If nothing is obtained, then it would be a huge loss.

Fortunately, under my hundredfold increase, moving this 25-ton stone was also effortless.

Boom!

At the same time it was moved away again.

Zhang Feng also suddenly jumped far away to avoid a monster suddenly jumping out from beneath the stone.

Afterwards, recovering his strength.

Zhang Feng walked to the opening and looked down, but saw a corpse.

It was sitting in this empty cavern; it was a dead 'heavenly dao creature'.

But on its bones, there was dense and numerous 'Netherworld text'.

Also at its hanging hand bones, there was also a line of text carved by the hand bones, which was Xia Wen.

'The cycle of six paths, all within my body'

'I am The Great Yama'

At the same time, next to it, there was also a line of writing.

'Yang Mountain came to visit Taoist Brother, unfortunately had no chance to see Taoist Brother's peerlessly magnificent appearance.

You and I are separated by seven hundred years, Alas, how regrettable'