Chapter 761 - 755: Grand Array of Desire

Monk Fusheng, who had just awakened, instantly realized something was amiss.

"Desire!"

"This Array can evoke human desire."

"What a stealthy killing Array." At this moment, Monk Fusheng regained his senses and understood the purpose of this Array.

Turning his head, Monk Fusheng saw the Demon-Subduing Pestle floating mid-air, emitting a golden glow.

At this moment, Monk Fusheng was in an almost spent state.

He was incapable of wielding the Demon-Subduing Pestle on his own.

The Demon-Subduing Pestle couldn’t autonomously operate without reason.

"It’s Master saving me!" Monk Fusheng quickly realized this.

With Monk Fusheng’s senses restored, the Array Spirit hidden in the shadows, secretly controlling the Array, was compelled to reveal itself.

Another member of the Void Race.

This member of the Void Race was quite unique.

His eyes had turned into mere sockets, his eyeballs seemingly gouged out at some unknown time.

His nose, ears, and tongue were all chopped off.

Even his skin had been burned, forming a thick layer of scabs.

This desire-evoking Array was too eerie and formidable.

Even the member of the Void Race serving as the Array Spirit could occasionally be influenced by the Array.

To ensure he was controlling the Array and not the Array controlling him.

The Void Race member acting as the Array Spirit decisively destroyed his own five senses.

By losing the five senses, he severed his ways of receiving desire, thus ensuring he was controlling the Array rather than it controlling him.

Monk Fusheng, as the Buddha’s most valued disciple, witnessed this and seemed to understand it too.

However, there was no time to react; the Array Spirit of the Void Race fiercely lunged at the Demon-Subduing Pestle.

"Splat!"

The Demon-Subduing Pestle pierced through the Array Spirit’s chest, a multicolored aura traveling along the Pestle, reaching outside the Returning Ruins.

Outside the Returning Ruins.

The Buddha, with closed eyes, was chanting scriptures, reinforcing the Demon-Subduing Pestle.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes.

Before him appeared a multicolored sphere, a thread of black air within it.

"Seeds of Seven Emotions and Six Desires?" Wa Huang spoke first.

Among the Four Great Primordial Spirits, Wa Huang understood Seven Emotions and Six Desires the best.

"Inside the Seeds of Seven Emotions and Six Desires lies cause and effect." The Buddha spoke calmly.

Among the Four Great Primordial Spirits, the Buddha was the most knowledgeable about cause and effect.

When the Buddha acted, he expected to be entangled with some Power of Cause and Effect.

If it were only cause and effect emerging, the Buddha could handle it.

But now, besides the Power of Cause and Effect, there were also Seeds of Seven Emotions and Six Desires.

This complicated matters.

The Buddha sought help from Wa Huang: "Wa Huang, lend me a hand."

"Alright!" Wa Huang agreed.

Outside, the Buddha and Wa Huang were entangled.

Inside the Returning Ruins.

Monk Fusheng, trapped within the Array, was completely unlucky.

Gradually, the golden glow of the Demon-Subduing Pestle faded away.

"Clank!"

The twisted-face Array Spirit yanked the Demon-Subduing Pestle from its chest and tossed it to the ground like garbage.

Then, with those hollow eye sockets, stared at Monk Fusheng.

"No!"

"Desire has been elicited again!" Monk Fusheng sensed it but was powerless.

In his spent state, Monk Fusheng had no strength to resist the Array.

Quickly, a smile that all men understood spread across Monk Fusheng’s face.

"Women!"

"Women, I want women!" Monk Fusheng howled to the sky.

The next moment, women appeared around Monk Fusheng.

Neighbor girls, seductive housewives, JK lolis, domineering big sisters, innocent school beauties, mature women...

Various women surrounded Monk Fusheng and started playing poker together.

That multi-player poker game lasted for an unknown length of time.

When the women finally disappeared, Monk Fusheng had been completely drained.

He was reduced to merely a human skin.

Monk Fusheng was dead.

He passed away in great joy, one even the Buddha envied.

"Boom!"

Outside, the Buddha and Wa Huang together had just resolved the Seeds of Seven Emotions and Six Desires and the Power of Cause and Effect.

Then they saw the oil lamp, symbolizing Monk Fusheng’s life, explode.

Explode?

This was even more severe than extinguishing!

This indicated Monk Fusheng was worse than dead, likely with no remains left.

"Buddha, you’ve wasted your efforts!" the Demon Lord kindly reminded.

The Buddha had been busy for a long time, even intervening to save, but Monk Fusheng still died.

"Alas!" The Buddha sighed and said helplessly: "I can save once but not for life."

"I intervened at the crucial time to save him once, but he needs to rely on himself to escape the Returning Ruins."

"It seems his condition was already dire even before I helped; he couldn’t escape the Returning Ruins even when I assisted."

At this point, the Buddha turned to Wa Huang and said: "Wa Huang, we can only rely on your two disciples now."

With Monk Fusheng and Mo Ke both gone, Peacock Great Ming King and Nato had become the village’s hope.

Just then, the lotus flowers representing Nato and Peacock Great Ming King suddenly shed a few petals.

Upon seeing this, Wa Huang’s face dramatically changed.

"Oh no!"

"Peacock Great Ming King and Nato are injured!"

The shedding petals symbolized injury.

The more petals that fell, the heavier the injury.

If the lotus completely wilted, it meant the person was dead.

Luckily, not many petals had fallen, indicating Peacock Great Ming King and Nato weren’t severely injured.

Peacock Great Ming King, not eager to exert himself, hadn’t ventured deep into the Returning Ruins.

Peacock Great Ming King took Nato on a leisurely tour, traveling slowly.

Thus, they encountered few Arrays.

Moreover, Peacock Great Ming King was observant, always avoiding Arrays in advance.

Peacock Great Ming King momentarily lost focus and didn’t notice Nato being attracted by a flame, leading into a canyon.

Once Nato entered the canyon, a grand Array activated immediately.

This was a flame Array similar to a Furnace of Eight Trigrams, with fire surging up rapidly, filling the entire Array.

This fire was not ordinary but the Returning Ruins flames, capable of melting everything.

Trapped within the Array, Nato struggled to withstand, crying out continuously.

Peacock Great Ming King highly valued friendship, with Nato his only friend in Wa Huang’s Palace.

Thus, he couldn’t bear to see Nato suffer from the flames’ pain.

To save Nato, Peacock Great Ming King knowingly entered the peril.

Resolutely charging into the flame Array.

"Brother Kong Xuan, don’t come!"

Seeing this, Nato was deeply moved, enduring pain as he shouted.

At this moment, Nato regretted his impulsiveness, implicating Senior Brother Kong by suffering together.