Chapter 453: Chapter 257: If Not Me, Who Else! Chapter 453: Chapter 257: If Not Me, Who Else! “Amitabha!”

Upon entering the main hall, he withdrew his gaze that was directed at the Buddha statue of Heavenly Tathagata Buddha Venerate.

Monk Kongjue bowed respectfully to the gaunt monk presiding over the main hall.

After the gaunt monk nodded subtly to convey a message,
Monk Kongjue was able to take a step forward and swiftly entered the true location of the Great Golden Light Temple.

It was a Cave Heaven Secret Realm that seemed completely untouched by evil qi.

A grand and magnificent temple, carved with Buddha statues of various sizes and emitting a faint golden light, appeared before Monk Kongjue.

This temple occupied most of the area of the grotto heaven.

The outer perimeter of the sky was layered with translucent glass covers, protecting the entire temple within.

Meanwhile, several subsidiary temples in the temple’s backyard housed numerous hundred-meter-tall Buddha Venerate Divine Statues seated in meditation, aimed at suppressing the underground evil qi that was continuously drawn in, material-like.

This evil qi was absorbed and suppressed to prevent it from affecting the main body of the Great Golden Light Temple.

On the other hand, the controlled evil qi also became a type of experimental resource for the high monks within the Great Golden Light Temple.

For the sake of the plan, many high monks of the Great Golden Light Temple, due to their prolonged voluntary contact with evil qi, were affected, and not being able to advance their cultivation was merely the lightest punishment.

Those who deviated or even transformed into Evil Spirits, such cases had arisen almost every year over the past century.

Because of this, the Great Golden Light Temple placed extra emphasis on inspections.

It was feared that internal strife would ultimately destroy them before the grand plan was completed.

“Abbot, I have successfully completed the mission!”

After entering the Great Golden Light Temple, Monk Kongjue, familiar with the place, found the abbot who was reading a book.

That was the abbot’s avatar from his younger days, a quite handsome white-robed monk.

However, knowing that this was one of the abbot’s three most important avatars, Monk Kongjue naturally didn’t dare to take him lightly.

“Kong Jue, how do you find that Old Ancestor?”

After receiving the box containing Evil God Remains, the young abbot asked.

“That Old Ancestor… unfathomable!”

Monk Kongjue recalled the details of this journey and provided his answer.

Then this evaluation indeed piqued the young abbot’s interest.

Immediately, the two began to replay the conversation over tea.

The young abbot also learned many recent events from Monk Kongjue’s tales.

“Advanced to the Nascent Soul Stage, just half a step away from becoming a True Dragon, that Jiao Dragon?”

“Is it that little dragon from the Ten Directions Sect? Unexpected that such a promising seed, ruined by Incense Fire only to gain such a fortune again.”

“It truly is hard to predict the ways of the world!”

The young abbot sighed, then was intrigued by the news that survivors had been rescued by subordinates of that Old Ancestor from the Mu Character Domain.

“That place… the ruins of the Ten Directions Sect?”

“That Old Ancestor would not aimlessly run over there; it seems the Ten Directions Sect has decided to pledge loyalty to that Old Ancestor?”

“Abbot, are we just going to watch the Ten Directions Sect leave?”

Upon hearing this, Monk Kongjue slightly startled and hesitantly asked.

“As for the large gamble of our Great Golden Light Temple, let others choose as they wish.”

“Moreover, the key item we needed was delivered to us by the Ten Directions Sect a few days ago.”

Upon hearing this, Monk Kongjue then felt relieved.

As long as the item had arrived, as for those people, they could go wherever they wanted.

Thinking of this, Monk Kongjue recalled Su Ping’s last suggestion and brought it up as well.

“Hehehe!”

“Since they have invited us, it is only natural for the Great Golden Light Temple not to refuse.”

“Kong Jue, you shall take the disciples of your Dharma Vein to go.”

“Take the Merit Stele, and then go to the Scripture Pavilion to claim ownership of the Scripture Pagoda before taking them as well.”

“Abbot!”

Upon hearing this, Monk Kongjue’s mouth involuntarily hung open.

He was well aware that this was clearly showing care for him.

In these crucial times, the farther one was from the Great Golden Light Temple, the safer it actually was.

“Disciple… disciple does not wish to go, only desires to serve the Great Golden Light Temple with his life!”

“Amitabha!”

“Very well, let us first use your journey as bait to probe the origins of this Old Ancestor.”

The young abbot sighed and extended his right hand, in the palm appeared a string of glass Buddha beads.

The Great Golden Light Temple had previously tried to calculate the secrets of Blood God Ancestor,
but despite their efforts, they saw only a fog.

This was also when Blood God Ancestor first emerged from Southern Desolate, with an antagonist’s flair and possessing the Blood God’s Body, considered highly desirable by the Great Golden Light Temple.

The Great Golden Light Temple resisted the temptation and did not act immediately.

The subsequent events naturally made the Great Golden Light Temple increasingly cautious.

As the matter of Ten Thousand Mountains resolved, finding that the opponent was indeed fighting the Evil God, the Great Golden Light Temple then abandoned the intent of vanquishing demons and eliminating devils.

However, this does not mean that the Great Golden Light Temple was not curious anymore.

Monk Kongjue’s journey had provided lots of detailed information.

Especially his contact with one of Blood God Ancestor’s avatars provided a great deal of information for calculations,
giving the abbot confidence to use these numerous details to counter the opponent’s arrangements to find out some leads.

The abbot believed that even if he couldn’t get to the Old Ancestor’s main body, at least some background should be ascertainable.

Whether it was indeed an Immortal descending to earth, or an ancient being recently awakened from some Ancient Relic.

The Great Golden Light Temple was really curious.

A golden light flashed across the glass Buddha beads.

After several breaths.

Crack!

Monk Kongjue heard a crisp sound and suddenly saw that the beads of the young abbot’s hand strand all bore cracks!

The young abbot looked at the Buddha beads in his hand,
a trace of distress flashed in his eyes.

Yet he calmly placed the hand string into his sleeve and made it disappear.

Then he spoke lightly,
“This was just a probe. It was within our expectations that the other party would have such challenging protection.”

As he said this, the young host casually threw the remaining tea from his cup.

The droplets transformed into a water curtain in mid-air.

The projection within it showed a lake at the Great Golden Light Temple.

This lake was situated beneath the foot of a kilometer-high Golden Buddha.

The lake was filled with golden lotuses.

Twelve high monks and the middle-aged and elderly hosts, these two significant avatars, sat cross-legged above the surface of the lake.

Surrounded by the intersecting golden light emitted by the golden lotuses, they chanted scriptures simultaneously.

The elderly host stretched out his hand and a phantom golden lotus appeared in his palm.

Then, with the aid of this lotus, the elderly host began to use Divine Skills to calculate.

The Great Golden Light Temple did not directly calculate Su Ping.

They chose the clearer-based black Jiao Dragon, Ao Li, attempting a roundabout method of seeking the truth.

Initially, it went smoothly.

The illusion of the black Jiao Dragon, Ao Li, emerged above the golden lotus.

Significant events from Ao Li’s life began to appear, though without details, still revealing that Ao Li had received aid from a noble person during certain periods and encountered calamities at others.

But as Ao Li’s power increased, the predictions became increasingly vague.

Eventually, it reached the point in time when Ao Li met the Blood God Ancestor.

The elderly host immediately increased the output of his mana.

Suddenly, an illusion of the Blood God’s Body also appeared.

All the monks accelerated their scripture chanting as well.

It was then, in the time when Ao Li had already capitulated and received an invitation to enter the Pot Cave Heaven,
At that very moment!

A sudden pressure struck, causing all the monks on the lake to stop their chanting abruptly.

“What is… going on?”

Dazed for a moment, a high monk saw the golden lotus in the hands of the elderly host wither and vanish, immediately letting out a cry of alarm.

Soon after, they discovered that all the golden lotuses on the lake had withered.

Turning the lake into a realm of death.

The large golden eyes of the Golden Buddha overlooking the lake also started to crinkle, with new cracks continuously appearing.

In the end, they were replaced by two deep dark holes instead of their original eyes.

“Amitabha!”

Even before Kong Jue’s shocked mind could comprehend what had happened, the water curtain in the room disappeared.

The young host brought his palms together, closed his eyes briefly, then suddenly opened them, making the expression of an Angry-eyed Vajra:
“Kong Jue!”

“You should lead the team.”

“The background of that old ancestor… might surpass our estimation.”

“You going… will put our minds at ease.”

Kong Jue nodded deeply, still picturing the withering of the golden lotuses in his mind.

As a monk who could enter the core circle of the Great Golden Light Temple,
Kong Jue naturally knew about that golden lotus lake.

It was one of the holy lands of the Great Golden Light Temple!

Each golden lotus was a Dharma Artifact of incense fire with many wonderful uses.

The former host had conducted calculations there using an array, dealing with an Evil God Avatar sealed within the Underground Palace Secret Realm.

Yet, it only required the withering of an inconspicuous golden lotus in the lake.

You should know back then, the calculation involved not just an avatar but the actual Evil God!

But this time,
more than just hundreds of golden lotuses in the lake withered–they all did!

Even then, this sacrifice was still not enough; it also ruined the eyes of the Golden Buddha, which had been sustained by thousands of years of incense fire and Buddhist blessings!

The background of this old ancestor, even if an Immortal descended to earth, could not be so exaggerated!

Could it be, just like those legendary tales, he is a reincarnation of an Immortal King, Immortal Emperor!

This mission under his command is indeed a very serious responsibility, one that only someone of my ability can undertake!

Kong Jue steadied his heart and began discussing the specifics with the young host.

Within Pot Cave Heaven,
Su Ping was unaware that another significant force trying to uncover his background had paid a heavy price and had thereby started to become suspiciously paranoid.

Upon obtaining the Demon Soul from the trade, he immediately began to study it.

The method for using the Demon Soul seemed not much different from that of a Demon Core.

Of course, the actual success rate was much lower.

Like the Demon Core, unless it finds an extremely suitable host,
otherwise, it is just a sacred treasure used in a desperate gamble.

After understanding the relevant information, Su Ping first refined the Demon Soul into a Guardian God.

Blood Qi Soul surged into it just like it cost nothing while the Blood Chains also restrained it.

During this period, the Demon Soul instinctively tried to resist, but was immediately suppressed by Su Ping exerting the power of the Blood God’s Body.

Having completed all this,
Su Ping took the Demon Soul back to Water Blue Star.

Then he released the restrictions on the Demon Soul and let it find a host.

After hovering in the sky for several breaths,
something unusual finally occurred.

With a swish, it transformed into a beam of red light and flew toward a direction.

Su Ping immediately followed after it.

With the Blood Chains, he wasn’t worried about losing track of it.