Chapter 964: Chapter 962: Spell-Battle Rises in the Mortal World 3
Dream Dao Attainment: Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
Capital City, the Buddha-Extinguishing Bureau.
After sending people to track down Tathagata’s whereabouts, the Stone Monkey and Lin Feng took up residence in the government office, exchanging the information they each held, trying to figure out exactly what had happened.
But both men told only half of what they knew, keeping the other half hidden. Guarded in their hearts, neither was willing to truly bare everything.
So, piecing together scraps here and there.
Adding in that dream of the Aolai Kingdom’s king, which everyone knew about.
They just barely cobbled together an approximate truth.
“So, a fellow called the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor very likely stole the Jade Emperor’s throne.”
“Then, using some method or other, collapsed Spirit Mountain, extinguished the Buddhas.”
“Even drove Old Tathagata into the mortal world to reincarnate.”
“And he even wants to stir up a campaign to extinguish Buddhism in the mortal world, hunting them all down to the last?”
The Stone Monkey stared at Lin Feng, alarmed and uncertain.
He found this cobbled-together truth somewhat hard to accept.
After all, how strong Old Tathagata was, the Stone Monkey — who had taken more slaps than he could count — knew best of all.
Before Lin Qi and the others descended upon This Realm.
Across so many Save-Loops.
The reason the Stone Monkey had died and his Dao dissipated was, every single time, that he had fallen at the hurdle of the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata.
Tathagata was simply too strong.
Sometimes, even in his dreams at night, the Stone Monkey would be startled awake by the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata’s great big slaps.
And now Lin Feng was telling him.
The unprecedented, astonishing upheaval occurring in This Realm right now was very likely caused by a fellow called the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor.
Even the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata had been driven into the mortal world to reincarnate.
A truth like that, the Stone Monkey truly found hard to believe.
“Trust me, if it isn’t him, it’s no one else.”
“You don’t know how terrifying he is.”
“Back then, wasn’t I, Lin Feng, also full of vigor, believing myself to be the protagonist of the entire Cosmos?”
“But ever since I met that fellow.”
Lin Feng’s face twitched.
Though he was unwilling to admit it.
Lin Feng knew clearly in his heart that Lin Qi was truly the most treacherous schemer he had ever heard of or seen.
“This time, though I don’t know exactly what his goal is.”
“But trust me, he will absolutely not shoot without a target.”
“There has to be some kind of scheme.”
“So don’t go hunting down that Buddha Ancestor Tathagata for now.”
“I’m afraid you’ll fall into that fellow’s trap without even realizing it.”
Lin Feng spoke earnestly, wanting to persuade the Stone Monkey not to hunt down the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata just yet, for everyone to join hands and figure things out first.
The Stone Monkey hesitated.
His hatred for the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata had long since seeped into his very bones.
It had nothing to do with whether he was the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata’s Heart Demon.
It was purely because he had taken the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata’s great big slaps far too many times.
Really.
The Stone Monkey dreamed of hitting back.
So with the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata rare fallen on hard times, run into misfortune, he truly did not want to miss this golden opportunity.
As for the Heaven-Abandoning Emperor Lin Feng spoke of.
He actually felt nothing about it. After all, in his memory, he had never taken a beating from Lin Qi.
Instead, across those many previous Save-Loops.
He had beaten the Jade Emperor many times.
Just as man and monkey were locked in dispute, the sky suddenly blazed bright.
There was Vairocana Tathagata, coming from the west.
A rolling red sun, a towering golden Buddha.
After three days of finding a place to cultivate in seclusion, the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata had also figured out the rules of this contest, and could not wait to launch a counterattack.
The Great Buddha came from the west, intending to directly use boundless Buddhist Dharma, the Tathagata Dharma Form.
Here in the capital of the Aolai Kingdom, to Ferry All Beings Across, to make the court, high and low, directly convert.
Such conduct was truly overbearing beyond compare.
What the situation was in the court, whether the Aolai Kingdom’s king had wet his pants in fright.
The Stone Monkey and Lin Feng did not know.
But in any case, they could not sit still.
Especially the Stone Monkey.
If not for wanting to exchange information with Lin Feng, he would long ago have gone after the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata alone, chasing him to the ends of the earth.
Now, seeing the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata dare to come back after leaving, descending above the capital.
The Stone Monkey let out a howl, and immediately offered up the Dharma Form of the Victorious Fighting Buddha. Without another word, he struck directly toward that enormous, towering, holy, immortal Tathagata Dharma Form in the sky.
Boom!
Heaven split, earth cracked, the whole city was startled.
The clash of Primordial Spirit Dharma Forms already counted as the pinnacle of power collision in the mortal world.
Otherwise, they would not be called Land Immortals by the world.
At this moment, tangled in battle.
The entire capital of the Aolai Kingdom seemed about to split apart.
“You skin-monkey, you dare block me.”
“Truly you do not know death!”
The Buddha Ancestor Tathagata took a staff from the Stone Monkey and was instantly enraged.
How many years had it been.
The Stone Monkey had always been toyed with in the palm of his hand, slapped across the face more times than could be counted.
Today, the monkey had turned against heaven itself and struck him.
The Buddha Ancestor Tathagata was furious, no longer caring to first Ferry Across the Aolai Kingdom’s king and ministers.
He reached out a hand — the Tathagata Divine Palm.
He seized the Stone Monkey directly in his hand, and, without a care for anything else, was about to drop another Five-Finger Mountain to suppress this Stone Monkey.
“Tathagata. Do not strike.”
“We are all on the same side!”
Lin Feng hurriedly jumped out to stop him.
The grudge between the Stone Monkey and Tathagata was, in his view, merely a small matter.
Joining hands to deal with Lin Qi, that was the great matter.
So he hurriedly ran out to try to break up the fight.
But the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata only gave Lin Feng a cold glance — at that Primordial Spirit Dharma Form so clearly out of place with the Buddhist order — his tone indifferent.
“You are that brat called Lin Feng?”
“You’ve come at a good time. It saves me the effort.”
“Come, you must die too!”
The Buddha Ancestor Tathagata held the Stone Monkey in one hand, and without a shred of hesitation reached his other hand toward Lin Feng.
Among the three competitors — the Stone Monkey, the Demon Buddha, and Lin Feng.
The Stone Monkey was his Heart Demon, to be temporarily suppressed, not urgently slain.
The Demon Buddha had gained the favor of the Buddhist Supremes; killing him would not do, best to simply suppress him and be done.
Only Lin Feng, this thrown-in extra.
What grade was he, to be worthy of being this old monk’s enemy?
Just beat him to death and be done!
The Buddha Ancestor Tathagata thought this way, and did exactly that.
Lin Feng had originally wanted to break up the fight, but suddenly discovered the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata wanted to beat him to death, and was instantly so furious he erupted into a storm of profanity.
“Old Tathagata, you truly are no son of man!”
“Damn it, Brother Monkey, let’s take him together!”
Lin Feng, in a fit of rage, abandoned any plan to join hands with the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata.
He joined hands with the Stone Monkey to stand against the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata together.
In an instant, heaven split, earth cracked.
The whole vast capital was instantly torn into pieces — truly, immortals brawl, mortals suffer.
Just as it looked like all living beings would be plunged into misery, how many innocent commoners about to become wrongful ghosts.
A single Amitabha.
The Demon Buddha, hurrying with all his might, finally arrived in time.
Seeing the three locked in battle, the Demon Buddha’s gaze flickered.
He did not choose to join the battlefield, but without a moment’s hesitation swayed his own Primordial Spirit Dharma Form.
Rushing about the capital, busy putting out fires and saving people, Ferrying All Beings Across.
The Buddha Ancestor Tathagata and the others had long since sensed the Demon Buddha’s arrival.
Seeing the Demon Buddha not join the fight, but instead busy saving people.
The Buddha Ancestor Tathagata mused thoughtfully, but was glad for it, and increased his assault, wanting to beat Lin Feng to death before the Demon Buddha intervened.
“Fuck!”
“You fucking sick or something!”
“Why are you chasing me to beat me?”
“Go kill the monkey!”
Lin Feng was disgusted by the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata chasing him down.
It was clearly the Stone Monkey who had struck the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata. What was the meaning of chasing him to kill?
You really think this old man is a soft persimmon to squeeze, huh?
Lin Feng, in a rage, raged for a moment, then tore open his throat and shouted at the Demon Buddha, “Master, save me first!”