I Can See Your Combat Power

Chapter 830: Chapter 124: Unintentionally Planting Willows

“The consecration ritual is the foundation of the establishment of the Zen sect and is also the most valued inheritance method of the Zen. Have you ever thought, if you truly develop a secret technique that can annihilate the information of consecration, what kind of shock it would bring to Zhongzhou’s Buddha’s Country? What you are doing now is challenging the very foundation of Zen!” Chen Menglu said gravely, “Let’s not even mention the great families and noble houses, even sects below the first rank would be instantaneously eradicated when faced with the colossal entity of Zen.”

The four Buddha Lords, the eight Guardian Deities, the ten Bodhisattvas in all directions, the eighteen eternal Arahants, the thirty-four Descending Ming Kings, the thirty-four divisions of Asura heavenly demons, the ninety-eight guardian deities, the five hundred Arhats with golden bodies—these are only the top-tier forces that Zen reveals openly. Heaven knows how many more reclusive abbot Zen masters and Bodhisattvas and Arhats are hidden among the hundreds of millions of believers.

Such a force, merely looking at it can drive one to despair, let alone standing in opposition to it.

“Young friend, Chen knows not why you wish to decipher the secret scriptures of consecration, but no matter what the reason, you should stop this research now,” Chen Menglu said earnestly. “It will not only bring destruction and disaster upon you, but it will also bring destruction and disaster to the entire Longxi Alliance. Inheriting the secret of consecration is a grand fortune in itself. Although becoming a disciple of Zen would sever the ties of the Six Dusts, your brother has not died. In the future, he is destined to become the key disciple of the founder of the Sutra of No Suffering and Extinction, above thousands. Why would you, on a whim, let your family fall into a situation of no return?”

“Thank you, Master Chen,” Tang Luo nodded solemnly. “I bear no grudge against the Zen sect. My research into the consecration secrets is only to erase the Buddha Seed from my brother’s Sea of Consciousness, not to undermine the foundation of Zen. There are still two days left until the Doctrinal Questioning Assembly; if I do not achieve any results within two days, I will stop the research and seek help from Martial Saint Mountain using the questioning opportunity.” noveldrama

“Do you still insist on extinguishing your brother’s opportunity?”

“Master Chen, there is one thing I have always been puzzled about, why do you see this consecration as an opportunity?”

Tang Luo asked expressionlessly, “Using a massive amount of information to overwhelm your Sea of Consciousness, washing away your memory, erasing all your attachments and emotions toward the human world, turning you into a puppet who can only cultivate—how can such an ‘opportunity’ be something I can accept?”

“Perhaps the notion of strength and weakness seems constant to Master Chen, but in my eyes, even the Han Family, once the foremost holy land of the Human Race, could be destroyed. The thriving Buddha’s Country falling one day wouldn’t be anything astonishing.”

“After all, the Zen sect is nothing more than a group of bullies who prey on the weak. Not to mention, each holy land must have their secret techniques to break the consecration. Why haven’t we seen Buddha’s Country raging over those? Yet my research into the consecration secrets is deemed utterly wicked, as if I have opened the gates of destruction?”

“In others’ eyes, my brother might be joining Zen to become someone second to none, a sacred child. But in my eyes, he is just going to be a dog to Zen, proud of being a dog second only to one, and there’s nothing to be proud of.”

“But these are just my own views. Perhaps some people feel that being a top dog is better than being a free man. So here’s my idea: if I can think of a way to completely remove the Buddha Seed and let my brother regain clarity, I’ll ask him what he wants. If he wishes to be a free martial artist, then the Buddha Seed will be unnecessary. But if he wants to continue cultivating in Zen, then I will return the Buddha Seed to him untouched.”

Shrugging, Tang Luo said, “After all, with the appeal of being the Martial Saint of Buddha’s Country and the Elder Brother of the Path of No Suffering and Extinction, even as his real brother, I shouldn’t obstruct his future based on my likes and dislikes.”

“It’s truly good that you can think this way,” Chen Menglu nodded and said. “If you only wish to remove the Buddha Seed to restore clarity to your brother, there’s no need to waste this opportunity for doctral questioning. I can do it for you! Consecration is merely a method of blending information into the Spirit Seed and implanting it into the Sea of Consciousness. The subsequent information and images are nothing but illusions and auditory hallucinations. The Illusionary Dream Space is the dominion over all such illusions. I shall help you remove the Buddha Seed from your brother’s Sea of Consciousness. Although this cannot repay you for enlightening the path ahead, it is the only thing I can do for you at the moment.”

Though Chen Menglu spoke plainly, Tang Luo’s expression became vividly remarkable.

There’s a saying that after much fruitless searching, the answer comes easily without effort. He never expected that the solution he had exhausted himself trying to deduce would come so effortlessly to the Illusionary Master.

“Then I must thank Master Chen!” Tang Luo stood up, bowed deeply towards Chen Menglu, and said excitingly, “My brother is currently at the Longxi Traveling Pavilion in Kunwu County. I will immediately write a letter and have someone send him over!”

Chen Menglu waved his hand and said, “There’s no need for such trouble. Kunwu County is but a moment’s journey away for me. Please provide something to prove his identity, so I do not have a conflict with his escorts.”

“In that case, I must trouble Master Chen!” Without being overly polite, Tang Luo immediately took out an engraved token from his bosom. He moved aside the papers filled with deduction on the table and swiftly wrote a letter to the head of the Xiao Clan.

Wrapping the token in the letter, Tang Luo respectfully handed it to Master Chen and said, “With Master Xiao at the Longxi Traveling Pavilion, Master Chen only needs to present this letter and token upon arrival, and Master Xiao will surely understand your intentions.”

Chen Menglu took the letter and token with a smile and nodded, “Very well.”

No sooner had the sound of his voice faded than the scene in the study changed. After a brief moment of dizziness, Tang Luo found himself once again in the bamboo forest in front of Xumi Peak, with no sign of Chen Menglu.

Wanting to be the first to know the young boy’s condition, Tang Luo didn’t leave but instead sat down cross-legged and began to cultivate in the bamboo forest.

The dense Heavenly and Earthly Qi gathered towards the robust young man, being drawn in through his breath and into his body pore by pore.

From the outside, his cultivation appeared serene and peaceful, but only Tang Luo knew how turbulent his emotions were at that moment.

After fifteen years of cultivation, he had never suffered such a great loss, designed by an unknown scoundrel. Not only was his brother subjected to a forcible initiation, but he also got into a baffling fight with a Buddha Son from the Zen sect.

The plan he intended to keep hidden had completely fallen through, and he had officially entered the sight of the sacred land, bringing many inconveniences to his future actions!

And all of this chaos was stirred by that bastard named Duan Qianchou.

Heaven knows how much mental preparation Tang Luo had to do to postpone such a good opportunity for revenge, but if Chen Menglu could remove the Zen thoughts from Tang Xing’s Sea of Consciousness, he would no longer have any concerns!