On the third night of the night, a figure quietly entered the Northern Zhou Imperial Palace’s Nourishing Heart Hall.
As soon as he entered the Hall of Nurtured Hearts, the figure’s face began to change, from that of a swordsman dressed in purple on a white background to that of a white-haired Daoist thousands of miles away.
“How do you feel about the Dragon Veins of Mengzhou being contaminated by a strange poison?” Qing Yu asked as he floated to the desk.
After the pacification of the gra*sland, a large number of Chinese buildings were completed, and the dragon veins of the gra*sland fell step by step into Feng Jiuyu’s control. The poison of that Bosuji could contaminate the dragon vein’s earth qi, and there was no chance that it would not be harmful to Feng Jiuyu.
“It felt, shall we say, a bit easy,” Feng Jiuyu rubbed his forehead, as if recalling that feeling, “I could sense that the dragon vein was mobilising its earth qi to intercept and even try to purify that poison. It was also because the power of the Dragon Vein was mobilised and the erosion of my will was weakened.”
After gaining control of the Dragon Vein in Mengzhou, the human will was further strengthened and Feng Jiuyu was under even greater pressure. If Qing Yu had not consciously helped him to resist the will of the human dao, I am afraid that Feng Jiuwu would have been further eroded by now.
Now when he heard this good news from Feng Jiuyu, Qing Yu’s face did not look happy, instead it sank.
“What’s wrong?”
“You said just now that the erosion of the human will has weakened ——”
Qing Yu’s eyes flashed with a fine aura, “Why would the dragon vein take the initiative to mobilize the earth qi to intercept the poison of Bosuji, and why would the will of the human path be drawn away from your mind to weaken, haven’t you thought about this suspicion?”
“Are you saying that —— this humane will has an independent self-awareness?” A look of surprise appeared on Feng Jiuyu’s face.
This was not a good thing, just like an archaic computer giving birth to a self-aware intelligence, it was not a good thing at all for the humane will to have an independent consciousness.
Having or not having an independent consciousness was in a sense the difference between life and death. Whereas before the humane will could be described as a metaphysical dead thing, the activity it now exhibits is evidence that it may be a living thing.
“Whether or not it has self-awareness will depend on how it behaves afterwards,” Qing Yu’s eyes were haunted, seemingly immersed in two abysses, “The matter of the poison of Bosuji eroding the Dragon Veins, we will carry on the sidelines for the time being and just send people for show. We, first, will see how the dragon veins themselves will act without our contribution.”
The ones who have received the poison of Bosuji are not Qing Yu and Feng Jiuyu. No matter how strange Bosuji’s poison is, it can only erode one third of the dragon veins in Mengzhou, and has no way to really affect Feng Jiuyu.
This time, Nalanda Temple contaminated the dragon veins with poison, which in turn brought an unexpected joy to Qing Yu and Feng Jiuyu. This is an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the dragon veins, and depending on what happens next, what changes will take place.
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Nalanda Temple.
In the pure water of the pool, the Dragon King and Asura were immersed in it, naked and fruitful. Threads of Brahma Qi seeped from the pool water into their bodies, expelling the bruised blood with its demonic aura, which was then purified by the pool water.
In this cycle, their breath changed from disorderly on their return to stable, and their injuries were healed.
“Which supreme power did you meet this time when you went to the gra*sland, that you were so badly injured that even Jingshengtian and Mohu Luojia were unable to return.”
The sound of light footsteps came, and a tall, flirtatious beauty with slightly grey skin and a demonic face but with a divine and noble aura slowly approached, every step she took had a dance-like grace, revealing a devastating yet pa*sionate magic.
“Exterminating Heaven.”
The Dragon King and Asura opened their eyes and nodded their heads in greeting to the coming beauty.
This beautiful woman was none other than Auspicious Heaven, once the head of the Four Heavenly Maidens, and now one of the twin heavens of Nalanda Temple, the supreme one who had inherited the Eye of Shiva – Exterminating Heaven.
“A few months ago, we all underestimated the magical beast that killed the golden-pupiled silver wolf, the sacred beast of the gra*slands. It had protection that was stronger than divine armour and strength that weighed more than a thousand mountains, and even its speed was extremely impressive.
The Pure Victory Sky was smashed to pieces by its palm, and the Mokhuloja lost its legs and feet just from the wind of the hammer, and then half of its body afterwards. Its battle prowess is far superior to that of the Golden Pupil Silver Wolf.”
Thinking of that magical beast, a look of scorn filled the eyes of the Dragon King.
He had thought that it was just a brainless magical beast that had reached the lower limit of the supreme power, but to his surprise, brainless it was, but its battle power was far beyond the lower limit.
With that powerful strength, impenetrable defence, and surging demonic energy, the Dragon King doubted that even a supreme power would be able to break that beast’s defence.
Exterminating Heaven also saw the Dragon King’s scruples, and with the Dragon King’s arrogance, to be able to say those words, it was clear that the threat that magical beast posed to him.
“The plan went awry, but being able to contaminate the dragon veins of the gra*sland is halfway successful after all. Next, we don’t need to worry about the Zhou Emperor coveting the Western Region, as the gra*sland’s dragon veins are already enough to make him anxious for at least a few years. Therefore, we can proceed with our other plans at ease ——”
In the eyes of Exterminating Heaven, an obscure destructive colour flashed, “Indra refining the Nalayan divine pestle, still need some sacrifice to please Vishnu’s will left inside the pestle, as long as Indra succeeds, Nalayan Temple three days out in unison, the day of PeaC*ck Dynasty’s resurgence is not far away.”
Vishnu, the god of maintenance among the three phases of the gods, was upholding the orthodoxy of the Brahmins and Kshatriyas belonging to the PeaC*ck Dynasty. Anyone or anything that endangered the orthodoxy would be Vishnu’s enemy.
And the greatest enemy of the Brahmins was the Buddhists.
It is said that Vishnu once pretended to be the Buddha in disguise, called the “Black Sky”, and lured the Buddhists into self-destruction, showing his hostility and killing intent towards the Buddhists.
If Indra wanted to completely refine the pestle and mortar of Narayan, he had to use the blood of the Buddhists and the bones of the monks to release the last restriction of Vishnu’s remaining will, so that he could refine the divine weapon and obtain the residual power of the god of maintenance to become the most powerful.
Of course, this sacrifice could not be made by the monks of the Nalanda Temple or the faithful of the peaC*ck remnants. In this world, apart from Nalanda Temple, there are monks who are more suitable to be used as sacrifices.
The Buddhists of the Middle Kingdom.
“Back then, the Buddha abandoned us, the PeaC*ck Remnant, and chose the people of the Central Plains as the successors to his teaching. Since this is the case, don’t blame us for using the Buddhists of the Central Plains as sacrifices.”
“I suppose the Three Phase Gods would prefer the successors of their dead enemies as sacrifices, wouldn’t they?”
At this moment, there was no longer the peaceful and compa*sionate nature of his days as an auspicious heaven, but only the cold indifference of indifference to life and the fiery flames of revenge in his eyes.
The interplay of cold and fire symbolises the hatred of the PeaC*ck Remnant for the Buddha.
The Buddha abandoned the PeaC*ck relics, leaving a nation in ruins to languish in the yellow sand for thousands of years. In retaliation, the PeaC*ck Remnant has chosen the power of the Three Phase Gods, the deadly enemies of the Buddha, and will, in the future, also use the people of the Buddha as sacrifices.
