Chapter 538: Chapter 81 Central Heaven World, Endless Buddha Realm

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On the boundless Star Road, Li Qingming and his companions were still speeding through.

Upon approaching the Primordial Qi Crystal Wall, Li Qingming suddenly turned to glance at Shakyamuni and transmitted his voice, “May I inquire, Fellow Daoist Shakyamuni, what is the relation between this Endless Buddha Realm and your Western Buddha Sect?”

Shakyamuni still wore his ever-smiling face and replied in an echoing voice, “Amitabha Buddha, this little monk doesn’t know! Perhaps it’s just a coincidence that the name happens to include the character for ‘Buddha’!”

Li Qingming smiled noncommittally and pointing towards the Primordial Qi Crystal Wall in front, he said, “My friends, we’ve arrived!”

“Big Brother, let me break it this time!” Long Xuhu pulled out the Wind and Thunder Hammer, his eyes gleaming green as he eyed the Primordial Energy Crystal Wall.

Long Xuhu had been frustrated along the journey, arriving at the Central Heaven World with battle intentions every time, only to return disappointed.

Li Qingming’s earlier remarks had completely stirred up the battle spirit in Long Xuhu’s heart; he needed an outlet for his frustration.

“Alright!” Li Qingming didn’t say much, simply giving a light consent and stepping aside.

“Bang!”

Long Xuhu’s body surged with golden Tao Runes, the strength he amassed had brought his Nine Revolutions Mysterious Attack to its peak.

In an instant, his surroundings transformed, amidst the backdrop of Chaotic Spirit Qi, a vision appeared: a colossal giant stood towering with a bare chest, muscles rippling. Above his head was a Star Road, and a Green Lotus was under his feet.

“Break!”

Long Xuhu roared, his surging Blood Qi cascading out like an ocean, wave after wave crashing against the Nine Heavens.

The massive Wind and Thunder Hammer, carrying fierce Spiritual Energy, smashed directly onto the Primordial Energy Crystal Wall. In an instant, divine golden light flooded the star path ahead; engulfed in the endless radiance, he struck like a Demon God wielding a mighty hammer.

“Boom!”

The Crystal Wall, shimmering with golden light, shattered like glass in an instant under this tremendous force. A gaping hole about a hundred zhang in size appeared before their eyes.

Beyond the opening lay a cosmos effulgent with starlight, just like the Cosmic Starry Sky of Huaxia Heaven and Earth—vast, immense, and brightly sparkling.

Looking at the array of stars utterly different from those along the Star Road, Yang Jian expressed in awe, “Over a hundred Central Heaven Worlds. Finally, within this Endless Buddha Realm, we see the cosmic starry sky once more.”

“To be ranked nineteenth among All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds, it surely won’t be easy to destroy! Big Brother, begin the calculation!” Li Qingquan looked at the surrounding starry sky, casually setting up a Defense Magic Array, and spoke to Li Qingming.

“Okay, you all pay attention to our surroundings!” Li Qingming did not decline; he sat down cross-legged and pulled out a small Compass, using the method of Innate Calculation to deduce the secrets of Heaven and Earth.

In the vast Central Heaven World, countless stars. If we don’t use the method of calculation to deduce which planets bear life and search one by one, when will we ever find it?

Moments later, Li Qingming opened his eyes and pointed in the direction due east, saying, “Three hundred eighty-nine billion light-years to the east, there lies an Ancient Star with life. Within the Endless Buddha Realm where space is stable, set up the Void Magic Array, crossing the starry sky!”

“There really is life!” Long Xuhu’s excited eyes shone as he rubbed his massive Dragon Claws together restlessly.

Shakyamuni, however, appeared very calm, and from his ever-smiling face, one couldn’t discern the slightest bit of emotion.

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Above the land of Buddha Transformation on the Ten Thousand Buddha Ancient Star, a huge spatial rift appeared out of nowhere.

Li Qingming and his party stepped out from the space rift, surveying their surroundings.

This was a world brimming with light; nearby, there were stone forests and lakes, and far away, there were mountains and trees. If it weren’t for the three Great Suns in the sky, Li Qingming might have thought he had returned to Huaxia Land.

“Hm?” Suddenly, Li Qingming furrowed his brow, pointing at the stone forest not far away, he said, “It seems our luck is truly good. We’ve come to a remarkable place!”

“What? What’s with this stone forest?” Long Xuhu asked, somewhat dazedly.

“Follow me!” Shaking his head, Li Qingming led the group towards the stone forest.

This stone forest covered an area of about three hundred zhang, and at its end were two huge rock walls. Straight ahead of the rock walls was a nearly dried-up lake.

Li Qingming glanced at Shakyamuni with a meaningful look and pointed with one hand, saying, “See for yourselves!”

Upon hearing this, everyone followed where Li Qingming pointed. They saw two massive rock walls pieced together directly facing them.

On the left wall, they saw the carving of a skinny, old monk—bald head, wearing a hemp garment, a face filled with sorrow, emitting an aura of dignified holiness.

On the giant stone to the right, they saw a Buddha with a topknot, his face covered in smiles, and behind him, a Bodhi tree exuded a rich sense of age.

“Amitabha Buddha, Zhunti Buddha Mother?”

Before the others could express their surprise, Shakyamuni exclaimed with a moved face.

“Jieyin Saint, Saint Zhunti!” Li Qingquan looked at Shakyamuni curiously and, after hesitating for a while, still asked, “Fellow Daoist Shakyamuni, Saint Zhunti was your past life. Could it be you’ve really been to the Endless Buddha Realm?”

Yang Jian and Long Xuhu both looked at Shakyamuni with doubtful eyes.

The fall of Saint Zhunti, leaving behind only his True Spirit to reincarnate and achieve Buddhahood as Shakyamuni, is common knowledge in Huaxia Heaven and Earth.

Yet now, in some planet within the boundless Buddha Domain of the Central Heaven World, there suddenly appeared two imprints of Western Saints. Only a fool wouldn’t associate them with Shakyamuni.

Shakyamuni looked solemnly at the stone wall for a while before saying, “Fellow Benefactors, whether you believe it or not, this humble monk, along with Amitabha Buddha, indeed visited the Central Heaven World in my previous life, but I never entered the Endless Buddha Realm, not even heard of it. As for these two stone carvings, this monk knows nothing about them!”

“How is that possible!” Long Xuhu shouted incredulously, “According to the records of the Star Map Pavilion, this Endless Buddha Realm was created by Dharma Ancestor. Are you saying you don’t know who Dharma is?”

Shakyamuni’s face darkened like coal, and suddenly he raised his hand and said solemnly: “By the Great Dao above, I, Shakyamuni, if in my past life I ever visited the Endless Buddha Realm, may I be condemned never to achieve enlightenment and become a Saint!”

“Boom!”

Thunder erupted in the clear sky, and a purple lightning bolt cut across the Heavenly Vault, disappearing in an instant.

“Gah…” Long Xuhu was silenced by this. Such a vicious oath being taken indicated that Saint Zhunti truly had not visited the Endless Buddha Realm in his past life.

But then a question arose, if he really had never been to the Endless Buddha Realm, then how could those two carvings be explained? Could they have appeared mysteriously?

Upon hearing Shakyamuni’s words, even Li Qingming was moved,

“If not them, then what could it be?” Li Qingming frowned deeply, thinking hard, but couldn’t come up with any explanation.

Everyone sat in the stone forest, staring blankly at the stone wall in front of them.

Unconsciously, three suns had set behind the mountains, and a blindingly red blood moon rose in the sky, scattering hazy starlight.

“Rumble!”

Suddenly, a thunderous noise startled everyone. They saw two tightly joined giant stones slowly starting to separate, and a white mist emanated from the cracks between them.

The previously drying small lake also began to make a faint sound of flowing water once again. It was as if it were no longer just a small puddle but had become a sparkling great lake.

“Eh, what’s going on?” Everyone showed shock.

“How do I feel there’s something in that small puddle?” Long Xuhu stroked his dragon whiskers and said in a deep voice.

“Why don’t we go in and take a look?” Yang Jian hesitated, then suggested.

Shakyamuni looked at the increasingly thick fog in the lake and the approaching sound of water and said, “Amitabha Buddha! In my humble opinion, this place is truly strange. We should leave the stone forest first!”

Li Qingming nodded, signaled everyone to leave the stone forest, and at the same time threw some boulders, dead wood, and other objects beside him into the lake.

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As the heavy objects fell into the lake, there was no sound, which made Li Qingming suspicious. The sound of water should be heard when heavy objects fall into it, but the lake was so calm.

Hmm, something is strange!

The fog thickened, the trickling of water never ceased, and as the group left the stone forest, the fog seemed even denser.

Gradually, the entire lake and the stone forest were engulfed in this white fog.

“What in the world is in this damn place?” Li Qingquan’s eyebrows knit together.

The mist was thick and quickly engulfed the area, making it difficult to distinguish the directions.

Li Qingming asked everyone to stay put, while he flew tens of thousands of miles away to find a fierce beast resembling a sabre-toothed tiger. When he returned, he casually threw it into the fog.

Almost the moment the sabre-toothed tiger entered the mist, it disintegrated, vanishing from the world without leaving bones, a truly terrifying sight!

“Damn, what kind of place is this? A fierce beast over a zhang long enters and gets cleaned to the bone, this works even better than Corpse Dissolving Water!” Long Xuhu muttered under his breath, with curiosity shining in his large eyes.

“Fellow Daoist Shakyamuni, in the Western lands of Huaxia, is there a place similar to this?” Li Qingming turned his head to look at Shakyamuni and asked.

Shakyamuni furrowed his brows and thought for a moment before answering: “There is indeed, but compared to this place, it’s much less significant!”

“Oh? May I ask which place?” Li Qingming was startled, and at the same time, he wondered to himself: “How come I didn’t know about such a place?”

“The Eight Treasures Merit Pool!”

Li Qingming was stunned, then he chuckled and said, “So that’s it!”

Turns out, the Buddhist Sect focuses on diligently cultivating the Primordial Spirit and condensing relics, and when the relics are mature, they would go to the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, where the water in the pool would wash away the bodily impurities, forging a Golden Body.

Thinking about it, its function was indeed similar to that of the white fog.

Having realized this, Li Qingming was just about to get up and explore the lake.

Suddenly, an extremely subtle disturbance in space caught his attention, and everyone else also became alert.

In the direction of the Western Extreme, intense spatial turbulence tore through the Cangqiong, and then a dazzling radiance lit up, with several golden figures shooting out from the light. (To be continued. If you like this work, I invite you to come to Qidian to vote for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users please read on m.qidian.com.)