Chapter 145 - 134: You Created It?!

Chapter 145: Chapter 134: You Created It?!

The more sacred a place was in people’s hearts, the more unfathomable the darkness it harbored.

Sometimes, when purity and solemnity reached their extremes, they became a burden instead. And to maintain this purity and solemnity, one would spare no cost.

Everyone present understood what Bi Yunxiao was implying.

Mu Hongfu’s body trembled as she gritted her teeth and said,

"Could it be that someone in the Water Moon Temple secretly cast this Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell on Rusu while she was pregnant? Was their goal to prevent the scandal of her pregnancy from spreading, trying to use this Qi Curse to erase Bell Spirit? Yet they never expected Rusu to insist on giving birth to the child anyway, though she paid for it with her life."

She couldn’t believe it.

"How could such a thing happen? Even on her deathbed, Rusu was still reminding me not to let the world know she was pregnant. She didn’t want to ruin the pure and sacred reputation of the Buddhist Sect. Who would have thought... the people of her Water Moon Temple had long been scheming to cut the weeds at their roots! They never even intended to let her have the baby!"

By using the Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell to erase an unborn life, the Water Moon Temple’s reputation would be preserved. No one would ever know that a Buddhist Sect successor of the Water Moon Temple had a child with someone else.

But...

Could someone from the Buddhist Sect truly do such a thing?

Chen Sha only asked coldly, "What is the name of the current Water Moon Temple Master?"

Mu Hongfu subconsciously looked into Chen Sha’s eyes and replied, "The current Water Moon Temple Master is named Anx Ruyue. Back then, she and Princess Rusu were the two candidates to inherit the temple. Later, Princess Rusu knew she had ruined the Buddhist Sect’s pure reputation and left the Water Moon Temple on her own. Ultimately, it was Anx Ruyue who took over."

Bi Yunxiao, however, held a different opinion. "Though Anx Ruyue could be considered one of the most exceptional individuals in the Buddhist Sect of this generation, I don’t believe she had the Power to cast the Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell fifteen years ago. To make the power of this Qi Curse manifest in Bell Spirit’s flesh and blood, and to do it so seamlessly that Gu Rusu was completely unaware back then, one would need the Power of a First-Grade Great Innate at the very least."

In other words.

The one who did this must have been one of the older generation Buddhist Sect experts from the Water Moon Temple.

Chen Sha’s expression remained unchanged. "It doesn’t matter. They’re all the same."

Bi Yunxiao looked at Chen Sha in astonishment.

She had already guessed Chen Sha’s inner thoughts. He had already mentally sentenced the Water Moon Temple—a top-tier Major Sect of the Buddhist Sect—to death.

Recalling the demise of the Jade Emperor Mountain, it felt as though it had just happened yesterday.

And now, the Water Moon Temple was about to...

However, when she looked back at the ignorant and innocent Ancient Bell Spirit, she realized the little girl was frighteningly naive. The childishness in her eyes didn’t make one find her adorable; instead, it evoked an endless, aching pity.

This was a fifteen-year-old child.

Yet she only had the mind of a five-year-old and the body of a ten-year-old.

"What a sin..." Bi Yunxiao shook her head inwardly. "If the rest of the Water Moon Temple was unaware, it might still be salvageable. But if everyone was involved, then this Major Sect of the Buddhist Sect has truly turned into a Demon..."

The Buddhist Scriptures stated: A single thought can turn one into a Buddha, and a single thought can turn one into a Demon.

Buddhas and Demons were always separated by just a single thought.

There was nothing absolutely clean and sacred in the world. To maintain absolute purity, there had to be countless unspeakable filth hidden behind it.

Back then, the Water Moon Temple’s desire to preserve the Buddhist Sect’s pure reputation was in itself an obsession with "Buddhist purity," a demonic barrier...

If someone had become so paranoid about protecting the Buddhist Sect’s pure reputation that they committed such a deed, it would explain everything.

Seeing Chen Sha’s expression, Chang Xi tactfully said nothing more.

He simply comforted Ancient Bell Spirit for a moment, drew two drops of blood from her, and then approached Chen Sha...

"Junior Brother Chen..."

Chen Sha remained silent. He merely extended a finger, and a few drops of blood seeped through his skin, falling onto a porcelain shard Chang Xi had prepared.

"I’m going to my room to prepare some things and see if Junior Brother Chen’s and Bell Spirit’s blood can match and achieve Fusion. If they can, we can perform the marrow exchange right here in the Jade Capital Temple..."

With that, Chang Xi took the two porcelain lids and walked toward his room.

But everyone who remained in the room could not feel happy.

When they learned that Ancient Bell Spirit’s Intelligence and physical defects were not innate but man-made, a single question sprang to all their minds simultaneously.

If Blood Decay Syndrome could be cured.

Then could the effects of this Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell be treated as well?

Mu Hongfu looked at Bi Yunxiao with hope.

From their brief conversation just now, she had already learned that this woman was the Sect Leader of the Queen Mother Sect. The Queen Mother Sect was renowned for dabbling in the Skills of a hundred schools. If the two from the Queen Mother Sect hadn’t recognized the Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell, she would have kept believing that Ancient Bell Spirit’s congenital disability was caused by Gu Rusu’s difficult labor.

Now that she knew it was man-made...

Mu Hongfu asked with a trembling tone, "Sect Leader Bi, is there a way to break this Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell?"

If it could truly be treated, then Ancient Bell Spirit would completely turn back into a normal little girl.

Bi Yunxiao frowned in a dilemma and said, "This Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell is considered a secret Skill even within the Buddhist Sect. When used in cultivation, it allows Buddhist Disciples to quickly enter a state of Meditation. It also possesses the functions of curing poisons and healing injuries. This is the first time I’ve ever seen a Buddhist Sect expert use it to kill. I’m sorry, but this is all I know about this Qi Curse. Perhaps only by asking a relevant Buddhist Sect expert can you get a definitive answer."

Mu Hongfu’s expression darkened.

The two Major Sects of the Buddhist Sect were the Pure Land Zen Monastery and the Water Moon Temple.

Since this was originally the doing of an expert from the Water Moon Temple, how could they possibly admit to the sins they committed?

And as for the Pure Land Zen Monastery...

They had always been on good terms with the Water Moon Temple. Since the two great Buddhist Sect temples belonged to the same religion, it was even more impossible.

But other than them.

Who else in the world was an expert proficient in Buddhist Martial Arts?

Chen Sha looked thoughtful.

He told the group, "I’ll think of a way."

With that, under everyone’s perplexed gazes, Chen Sha walked into his room.

He was heading precisely behind the Southern Heavenly Gate.

He intended to find some Buddhist Sect experts to ask about this Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell, seeing if there were experts from other worlds who might be able to offer him some analogous help.

***

Behind the Southern Heavenly Gate.

The world was dead silent.

Row upon row of temples stood tall.

Chen Sha walked past these temples before suddenly halting his steps. He turned to look at the clay bodies inside the temples and frowned deeply.

"Did I remember wrong? Why does it feel like the expressions and demeanors of these clay bodies have changed slightly?"

He immediately stepped forward.

Arriving in front of the clay body of the Great Vajra Realm legend named "Shif Xingyu," he observed it carefully, his frown deepening...

He remembered that the expression of this Great Vajra should have been one of complete deathly stillness.

Just like someone in a deep sleep.

Suddenly, Chen Sha’s gaze sharpened, looking straight at Shif Xingyu’s back. The clay on that part of the body seemed to have a shallow crack.

"Was this crack here before, or..."

He immediately took a few steps back and looked at Shif Xingyu’s entire body once more.

In a daze, the clay body faintly gave him the illusion that it was about to awaken.

"Could it be..."

Chen Sha turned to look at all the temples on this hillside, moved as he said, "Can they really awaken again?"

He took a few steps back in uncertainty and shock. For a moment, he didn’t have a single clue to base any guesses on.

Finally, after standing in place for a long time and noticing no other changes in the clay body, Chen Sha could only mutter to himself, "Could their awakening be coming soon?"

This meant he had to at least raise his Cultivation to the same Great Vajra Realm as these people before he could freely roam this First Heaven world. Otherwise, he would be nothing but cannon fodder.

Any random clay body awakening here would be at the Great Innate Realm at the very least.

Although his current Cultivation could dominate the Divine Land World, it truly wasn’t enough to look at in front of the unknown number of "Great Vajras" in this First Heaven.

"I’ll go find Sister Taie first," Chen Sha decided to handle proper business first.

Before long, he arrived in front of the temple of "Sister Taie" on the hillside.

This person had also left writings behind in Zhang Daoxuan’s era. Like Zhang Daoxuan, she was an Ascender from the True Realm. In terms of seniority, she could even be considered Zhang Daoxuan’s senior.

During the so-called Ninth Tribulation Period, she was the very first person to undergo Ascension.

Furthermore, while on the carriage ride to the Capital City a while back, Chen Sha had already passed two levels of trials within Sister Taie’s scene. Through those scene trials, Chen Sha learned that this Sister Taie was exactly as she described herself in her "Two Thousand Words on the Great Vajra"—a Buddhist Sect scripture-lecturing nun who had hardly ever descended the mountain in her entire life.

Just like that, she spent her whole life immersed in Buddhist Scriptures, going from a negligible small temple to becoming a local abbot, and finally entering the Buddhist Sect’s Little Blissful Sacred Land for Cultivation during the Ninth Tribulation Era.

And eventually undergoing Ascension to the Immortal Realm.

"Do you wish to enter Chapter Three, Section Three of Sister Taie: ’Paradise Scripture Tower, Chief Scripture Lecturer’..."

"Enter..."

Space and time shifted.

Chen Sha had already been to this level previously. It was a scene where Sister Taie was stationed at the Scripture Pavilion of the Buddhist Sect’s Little Blissful Sacred Land. Here, Sister Taie was essentially someone akin to a Sweeping Monk.

***

The ancient scripture tower had an extremely long depth.

Shelf after shelf of Buddhist Sect classics were displayed on the bookcases. Some of them even gave off the scent of rot and insects, and the shelves reeked somewhat of decaying wood.

Chen Sha appeared out of thin air in front of a bookcase.

Immediately, an old nun’s voice, weathered yet mellow, rang out. "Little lay Buddhist, this Paradise Scripture Tower is filled entirely with Buddhist Techniques. If you came for Martial Arts, you’ve walked into the wrong place..."

Chen Sha turned to look.

He saw a white-robed nun wearing a white monk hat. She had an ordinary appearance, and many wrinkles had already grown on her face. Yet her demeanor was kind as she looked at Chen Sha with goodwill and said, "Please leave."

Chen Sha’s expression was calm as he replied, "Divine Nun, you misunderstand. I have come neither for Martial Arts nor for Buddhist Techniques. Instead, I want to ask for your help in saving a little girl."

Upon hearing this, Sister Taie looked at Chen Sha in surprise. "So you came to save someone. In that case, I might as well listen. I wonder how I can be of assistance to you, lay Buddhist."

Chen Sha asked, "Divine Nun, have you ever heard of a Qi Curse in the Buddhist Sect called the Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell?"

Sister Taie said, "That is a Qi Curse created by myself. How could I not know it? But why do you ask about it, lay Buddhist?"

Chen Sha’s expression changed. "The Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell was created by you?!"