The Extreme Alchemist of the Mighty Cauldron

Chapter 1571: Chapter 1669: Sudden Enlightenment, All Buddhas Pay Homage

In an era far more ancient than the antiquity, when Demon Beasts dominated the world, they were the true overlords.

The Human Clan was still a weak race, regarded as mere food by numerous powerful Demon Beasts.

During that dreadful era, an extremely terrifying Demon Tree emerged, devouring everything to bolster its own strength, with both the Human Clan and Demon Beasts unable to escape its consumption.

The appearance of the Demon Tree plunged the land into disaster, and even the mightiest of Demon Beasts could not contend with it.

As the Demon Tree devoured more living beings, its vitality and strength increased exponentially.

The Demon Tree consumed so many living beings that it grew unimaginably powerful; even True Dragons were unable to destroy it.

Eventually, all creatures in the world united against this Demon Tree, paying a tremendous price with countless humans and Demon Beasts perishing.

In the end, one person, armed with an ancient spear, nailed the chaos-inducing Demon Tree to the vast wilderness.

However, afterwards, both the Demon Tree and the ancient spear became lost, and scant records remain of the wielder of the spear, with only brief mentions in some extremely old bone and stone texts from the ancient eras.

The whereabouts of the ancient spear became a mystery, and many later generations have sought to find this spear, hoping to claim it as their own.

All should know that this was the Divine Weapon that nailed the ancient magic tree, an object that surely anyone would desire.

Yet the ancient spear never reappeared; countless Martial Artists searched the world to no avail, as if the spear had vanished completely from the realm of mankind.

In the ancient eras, many were aware of the ferocity of the ancient magic tree, yet in modern times, hardly anyone knows about the ancient magic tree anymore.

Thus, when several small cities on the border of Tang Country suffered bloody slaughters, the Tang Country Martial Artists had no idea what monster had invaded, completely baffled.

Initially, the City Lords of several large cities in eastern Tang Country thought it was a Sea Demon Beast coming ashore, but in less than two days, tens of thousands died in east Tang Country, most of them Martial Artists.

This alarmed the City Lords of those large cities; if things continued, it might reach their cities too.

Hence, several City Lords mobilized together, taking a full force to vanquish the ancient magic tree.

However, no one survived this expedition; all were killed by the ancient magic tree, which absorbed their flesh and essence, incorporating it into its own form.

The more it devoured, the stronger the ancient magic tree became.

After devouring so many Martial Artists from east Tang Country, the ancient magic tree had grown even more powerful than when it first appeared on the shores of Tang Country, so much so that even experts in the Minor Longevity Realm had almost no resistance against it.

With the fall of several City Lords, all of Tang Country was shaken, and even the Tang Emperor in Tang Capital knew the situation was dire and personally rushed to the eastern territories.

Originally, Tang Country was already the most severely affected and the heaviest casualty of the dual battles, greatly impacted by the warfare.

Now, just as it was stabilizing and recovering, this terrifying monster emerged, akin to facing persistent rain in a leaky house, leaving the Tang Emperor extremely anxious to eliminate this beast quickly.

When the Tang Emperor, accompanied by a group of royal experts, arrived in the east and found the ancient magic tree, a fierce battle ensued. Several royal experts were killed, and the Tang Emperor was severely injured himself; had the remaining royal experts not desperately rescued him, the Tang Emperor might have been devoured by the ancient magic tree as well.

Ultimately, the Tang Emperor was a bit too late; had he rushed to encircle the ancient magic tree as soon as it had entered the eastern territories, it might actually have been destroyed by him.

But by the time the Tang Emperor arrived, the ancient magic tree had already devoured too many Tang Country Martial Artists, elevating its power too quickly, such that even Great Longevity experts were no match for it in front of this ancient magic tree.

However, this siege was not without cost to the ancient magic tree, its many tendrils were chopped down by the Tang Emperor.

After this battle, the ancient magic tree temporarily retreated, leaving the borders of Tang Country and disappeared above the vast sea.

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Buddhist Sect, On Wujie Mountain.

Ever since Ling Chanzi was killed by the Heaven King of East Pole, On Wujie Mountain, only one young novice monk was left.

This young novice monk lived On Wujie Mountain, continuing as before, chanting Buddhist scriptures every morning and evening, not practicing Martial Arts, only focusing on Buddhist studies.

Since he was taken as a disciple by Ling Chanzi and came to On Wujie Mountain, he never practiced any Buddhist Martial Arts.

In today’s Buddhist Sect, monks who have not practiced Buddhist Martial Arts basically no longer exist.

This novice monk, however, was an absolute exception. He too had doubts about why his master, Ling Chanzi, did not teach him any Buddhist Martial Arts, only making him read the already well-memorized Buddhist scriptures daily.

Ling Chanzi initially did not answer the novice’s doubts and did not reveal the reason even until Ling Chanzi’s demise.

This day, the novice monk sat on top of the mountain peak, watching the distant tides ebb and flow, clouds and mist surrounding the mountains, his heart exceedingly tranquil.

As the sounds of the waves striking On Wujie Mountain echoed in his ears, the novice monk suddenly had a revelation, and a point of golden light appeared on his brow.

Below On Wujie Mountain, there was a Buddhist stupa housing many relics left behind by high monks after they passed away in meditation.

Initially when Burning Lamp Buddha died at the hands of Old Dried Corpse, Jin Zhulong, his relics eventually returned here, respectfully placed inside the stupa by Ling Chanzi.

At this moment, the novice monk’s pure Buddhist heart opened, and from the stupa at the mountain’s foot burst forth soaring Buddha Light.

Rows of brilliantly glowing relics burst forth from the stupa, continuously circling in the sky.

Images of former high monks of the Buddhist Sect reappeared; some dignified with majestic bearing, others with kind and gentle eyes, and some with fierce wide-open eyes.

Altogether one hundred and eight relics, representing one hundred and eight spectral monks, among them were Burning Lamp Buddha and Ling Chanzi.

The novice monk sat upright on the mountain peak, palms joined together, with one hundred and eight rays of Buddha Light swirling behind him.

“Amitabha!” The one hundred eight spectral high monks in the heavens chanted towards the novice monk, each spectral figure wearing a relieved smile on their face.

At the same time, in all the major temples of the Buddhist Sect, all the Buddha statues faced the direction of On Wujie Mountain as they bowed down.

The Buddhist monks were greatly shocked, some elderly monks were so excited that they trembled all over.

“All Buddhas converging homage! This is all Buddhas converging homage!”

Even a grand figure like the Buddha Head, at this moment, genuinely prostrated towards the direction of On Wujie Mountain.

Taoist Sect and Confucian Sect also had countless people gazing towards On Wujie Mountain, at those dazzling, sky-piercing Buddha Lights.

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