Chapter 163 - 149: Crushing All Enemies!

Chapter 163: Chapter 149: Crushing All Enemies!

WHOOSH!

WHOOSH WHOOSH!!

Amidst the hundreds of brightly lit grand halls of this Buddha City-like place, an all-sweeping sonic wave rippled outward. It shook the bronze Buddha Statues inside every hall, causing them to tremble slightly and emit a humming sound.

Some of the smaller memorial tablets and bronze statues couldn’t withstand the tremor and tumbled down from the shrines in their respective halls. Even in the Relic Tower Forest three or four miles away, the memorial tablets enshrining the ancestral spirits of past Zen Sect eminent monks wobbled and collapsed to the ground.

Suddenly, a gaunt old monk with a withered face and a loose monk robe that exposed his ribbed chest shook his drunken head. Staring at the fallen ancestral tablets, he let out a long sigh:

"Such formidable Power..."

After this sigh, the oversized monk robe draped over him like a piece of Broken rag fluttered. He flicked his sleeve and turned around, stirring up a massive air current that lifted the fallen tablets and set them upright in their original places.

"This is an unprecedented great enemy."

Accompanied by these words, the old monk’s figure vanished from the Relic Pagoda in an instant. The speed of his Body Technique was so fast that the displaced air let out a sharp, piercing whistle, overpowering the sonic howl coming from the Buddha Worship Plaza.

WHIRR~~

After a gust of whimpering air that sounded like a sonic boom, the drunken old monk had already appeared on the Buddha Worship Plaza. However, looking at the scene before him, his heart couldn’t help but sink to the bottom.

At this moment, the Buddha Worship Plaza was a far cry from the Holy Land where disciples usually worshipped the Buddha.

The ground was covered with bloody corpses piled together—bodies crushing bodies, heads against heads, feet against feet. They had all died with their bodies intact, but blood bled from their seven orifices: their eyes, ears, noses, and mouths. Even in death, many Monk Soldiers maintained wide-eyed expressions filled with incomparable hatred.

Looking further ahead, no one knew just how many of the over a hundred Zen Sect head monks had died; their bright red Kasayas were extremely conspicuous among the piles of corpses. Outside the plaza, there were many Monk Soldiers who had not been killed immediately, but their eardrums had been ruptured by the terrifying, rolling sonic waves, sending them fleeing and screaming in madness.

Such a scene, serving as a backdrop for the young Daoist standing beneath the seven great Buddha Statues, truly felt like a disaster of the Buddhist Technique foretold in ancient Buddhist Scriptures turning into reality.

The Asura Demon King had slaughtered his way into the Paradise World...

The old monk sighed and said, "Who exactly are you to commit such a massacre in one breath? You must know that a human life is heavier than a mountain, yet you have slaughtered a thousand people in an instant. Not every one of these monks necessarily had a grudge against you. Do you feel no unease in your heart?..."

Chen Sha raised his eyes and looked over.

The old monk exuded an unfathomable aura. Despite his gaunt appearance, every aspect of him revealed an extraordinary quality.

Chen Sha stood with his hands behind his back and said coldly, "I came here only to claim one person’s life. You should ask why they came to throw their lives away."

The old monk looked at the bloody corpses scattered across the ground and sighed, "Whose life do you want?"

At this moment, a deep, resonant voice drifted over from afar, ringing like a Hong bell:

"This old monk also wishes to ask, whose life do you want?"

Hearing this, Chen Sha turned his gaze toward the source.

On the distant stone steps, a Jin-robed old monk slowly walked over. He had a square face with a speck of Jin sand between his brows. As he approached, his entire being exuded an aura of profound compassion and transcendence. Seeing this image, how could Chen Sha not know who had arrived? His expression turned freezing cold:

"You are I heard?"

The Jin-robed old monk looked at the bloody corpses all over the ground expressionlessly and said, "This old monk is I heard."

Chen Sha spoke, "These people all died because of you. Do you believe that?"

The generation’s Monastery Master replied with slight coldness, "I would like to hear your explanation."

Chen Sha said plainly, "The people who died here, including Great Wisdom, Great Practice, Great Compassion, and Great Aspiration who died in Yuanjing, as well as Jingnian of the Water Moon Temple—they all wanted to sacrifice themselves to protect you. Am I wrong to say they died because of you?..."

Hearing that the Four Great Divine Monks had also died, the Monastery Master’s emotions finally showed a trace of fluctuation, though his tone remained placid. "It seems you want my life, but I am still unclear—what grievance is there between you and me?"

Even that gaunt old monk was now hunched over, listening to Chen Sha’s words.

Chen Sha looked at the Jin-robed old monk—who still didn’t know why Chen Sha had slaughtered his way to his doorstep—and couldn’t help but exhale another breath of stale air before slowly saying:

"Sixteen years ago, the Mid-Yin Purification Body Spell placed on Gu Rusu—was it cast by you?"

The Monastery Master said indifferently, "Correct."

Chen Sha’s eyes flashed as he said, "To think you would actually admit it. I had assumed the Buddhist Sect was entirely made up of the most stubborn people."

Monastery Master I heard said calmly, "Why shouldn’t I admit to this matter? In the years I have led the Buddhist Sect, I have been open and aboveboard. If you came to seek revenge for Gu Rusu, it only proves that I was too soft-hearted back then. I shouldn’t have merely purified her body; I should have executed her according to the Buddhist Sect precepts right then and there. Letting the past end in the past would have prevented implicating the numerous Buddhist Disciples who lost their lives by your hand today."

Chen Sha looked at I heard and said, "Because of the Buddha’s Curse you cast, a pregnant woman died a tragic death, and the child she birthed suffered from Innate deficiencies, ending up with limited intellect and a short lifespan. Do you not feel you did wrong?"

I heard said coldly, "I have always been strict and impartial in governing the Buddhist Sect. It is the duty of Buddhist Disciples to strictly abide by the pure rules and precepts. Gu Rusu committed adultery with Chen Canxuan, a mere Daoist Cultivator, which resulted in her bearing an impure seed. For her own good and for the pure reputation of the Buddhist Sect, I purified her body after she conceived but before the life could form within her, preventing her from birthing an impure seed and allowing her to remain a pure body. I do not feel there is any wrong in this action."

Looking at the bloody corpses covering the ground, his pupils slowly shrank into slits. "Today, my only regret is that I should have thoroughly cleansed the sect of Gu Rusu, that villain who ruined the pure reputation of the Buddhist Sect, on that very day..."