Chapter 490: Chapter 385 Buddha

Hui Yin looked coldly at Xia Jianlong, who had stood up, and said indifferently, “You sit down first and chant your scriptures. After you have finished the morning lesson, come and report to me.”

Feeling the scorn in Hui Yin’s eyes, Xia Jianlong slowly clenched his fists as thin strands of Gang Qi gradually surged from within his body.

After spending several months in this temple, he had come to understand the character of this old Monk Hui Yin.

He knew that though this old Monk appeared compassionate and benevolent, organizing activities involving scripture chanting and Buddha worship all day, he was actually a staunch advocate of strength over righteousness, recognizing only power, not right or wrong.

Although most people from the Mirror World shared a similar worldview, Xia Jianlong knew that Monk Hui Yin, even within the Mirror World, would be considered extremely radical.

After all, the saying “How could the Great Bright Buddha, one of the five most powerful beings under the heavens, be wrong? Even if they were wrong, it would be the world’s fault, the fault of you weaklings,” despite being said by Hui Yin, seemed too extreme even for the inner circles of Buddha Country.

Xia Jianlong understood that words alone would not persuade the other party, and having saved up strength for a year, now stuck at a bottleneck, it was time for him to demonstrate his power, insult the weak, and perhaps advance even further.

Xia Jianlong opened his mouth and said, “Sigh, Hui Yin, I had already grown weary of the days of fighting and killing. After arriving in Buddha Country, I thought of reforming myself and avoiding making enemies lightly.”

“I wanted to get along with you all on equal terms, but instead, I found nothing but distance.”

“So, I’m not going to pretend anymore. I’m going to show my true power.”

As he spoke, strands of Gang Qi took the form of dragons, manifesting beside Xia Jianlong, roaring incessantly.

“Do you think my lack of progress over these years was for no reason?”

“That’s because before mastering the third inheritance, I wanted to fully assimilate the dragon lineage within me, to devour the power my bastard father left within me…”

Suddenly, scales like those of a dragon emerged on Xia Jianlong’s face, his eyes transformed into dragon pupils, emitting an endless ferocity.

The intense pressure shook the many monks present to the point of losing control of their bodily functions.

After utilizing the power of his dragon lineage, Xia Jianlong had become a different person, his entire being filled with a violent aura.

He gave a vicious smile, revealing rows of sharp teeth: “So, Hui Yin, do not compare me with those ordinary second inheritances…”

Hui Yin, observing the transformation in Xia Jianlong, nodded thoughtfully: “With such strength, you indeed can’t be talking nonsense.”

“Let’s go. I will take you to report this important intelligence you speak of.”

Xia Jianlong, who was about to attack, paused, his dragon pupils filled with intensified malice, and he couldn’t help but curse, “Is that so… you old Monk, you change your face so quickly? Can the powerful never lie?”

Hui Yin shook his head: “Even if the powerful lie, there must surely be a reason for their suffering.”

“You motherfucker…” The scales on Xia Jianlong’s body stood erect, the power of his dragon lineage driving the violent emotions in his heart.

“I’ve tolerated you for a long time.”

“Old Monk, it seems I still want to beat you up before we talk.”

As Xia Jianlong spoke, he spat out a dragon-shaped Gang Qi that furiously blasted towards Hui Yin.

Amidst the violent explosion, Xia Jianlong’s eyes widened in shock, seeing a figure walking against the stream of his expelled Gang Qi, directly approaching him through the blast wave.

Walking through the torrent of Gang Qi as if facing a gentle breeze, Hui Yin reached Xia Jianlong and casually grasped his head with one palm.

“Ah!”

Amidst the eruption of Gang Qi, scales burst through Xia Jianlong’s flesh as he unleashed the power of his dragon lineage to its limits.

Yet Hui Yin’s palm was as immovable as a mountain, lifting him as effortlessly as if he were a chicken.

Xia Jianlong exclaimed in shock: “You… you can withstand the explosion of my dragon lineage power? Have you mastered the third inheritance?”

He thought to himself: “Anyone who has mastered the third inheritance could never be a nobody in any force. Why had I never heard of this old Monk’s great renown before? Could the Buddhist Sect under the Great Bright Buddha be hiding such a master?”

Hui Yin did not respond, merely instructing the monks to clean up the scene before picking up Xia Jianlong and taking him to the backyard.

He pulled out a cellphone and dialed a number, then held the phone up to Xia Jianlong’s face.

Looking at the cellphone in front of him, Xia Jianlong asked nervously and confusedly, “What are you doing?”

Hui Yin said indifferently, “Didn’t you want to contact my Buddha? I have already dialed the number for you.”

Xia Jianlong couldn’t help but think, “No… Can one simply contact the Great Bright Buddha by phone?”

At the same time, a male voice came through the phone, “Xia Jianlong, what important information do you have to report?”

Xia Jianlong hesitated for a moment before he simply said, “Over the past six years, Jing Shiyu has been trying all kinds of methods to explore the condition of the Moon. Most have failed, but a small part succeeded, allowing her to gain some intelligence on the Immortal.”

He stopped there, clearly unwilling to blurt out the complete information over the phone.

“Very good.”

The voice on the other end of the phone seemed to be very interested in the information provided by Xia Jianlong and responded, “Let’s talk face-to-face then.”

Upon hearing this, Xia Jianlong thought the other party would arrange a meeting, but to his surprise, Hui Yin suddenly began to transform.

His flesh churned and turned, and the skin that was once present had vanished, revealing a frame of steel and iron bones.

Then that steel body continued to extend and expand, turning into a gigantic mechanical Buddha over three meters tall in just a blink of an eye.

Looking at the Great Buddha before him, Xia Jianlong exclaimed in shock, “You… you are not human?”

Although he had heard that the Great Bright Buddha possessed the ability to refine corpses into Buddha statues, the mechanical Buddha before him clearly differed greatly from the rumors, seeming to have applied much of the technology of the modern world.

A male voice came from the mechanical Buddha, “Hui Yin’s body has been temporarily taken over by me. Speak now whatever information you have.”

Xia Jianlong looked at the Great Buddha, filled with various metal and mechanical structures, opened his mouth and said, “How do I know if you are really the Great Bright Buddha?”

A light chuckle emitted from inside the Buddha, “Clever little fellow, very cautious indeed.”

“In that case, you come to see me.”

The mechanical fingers of the Buddha gently touched Xia Jianlong’s forehead.

The next moment, Xia Jianlong felt as if his consciousness had left his body and was sucked into the Great Buddha before him.

A myriad of lights and shadows unfolded before his eyes. He could feel himself becoming something like a signal, or as if he had directly dived into the wires of the internet, transmitting rapidly through layer upon layer of networks towards the center of Buddha Country.

The sounds of countless people chanting and worshiping the Buddha filled his ears; he could even see faces of devout prayers flashing by.

There were also various news, communications, and video lights and shadows that transformed into distorted blocks of color, rushing past him.

These scenes that happened in reality now appeared bizarre and dreamlike before Xia Jianlong’s eyes.

Just as he felt overwhelmed, the lights flickered, and he seemed to return to the real world.

“Not right…”

He looked down and realized he was now controlling a robot.

His consciousness had been stuffed into a machine.

Xia Jianlong clutched his head and suddenly looked up at the figure of the monk walking away, shouting angrily, “Great Bright Buddha! What have you done?!”

The monk turned around, his face as serene and flawless as white jade, “Free of the shackles of the flesh, your consciousness can now move freely, and you can change your form at will, transcending yin and yang, showing a thousand different faces for an enduring life. This is the ultimate freedom and leisure. Why would you be afraid?”

Xia Jianlong angrily retorted, “Why don’t you stuff your own brain in there?”

The Great Bright Buddha sighed, “It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that I truly cannot.”

“I have been cut off from this path for many years. Over the past six years, I have made over a thousand shells and killed myself hundreds of times, but I have never been able to transfer my consciousness nor escape this flesh. How would you understand my suffering?”

“Over a thousand shells?” Xia Jianlong felt a chill in his heart, thinking of the recent Hui Yin, and asked in a deep voice, “That old Monk Hui Yin, is he also a robot you created?”

The Great Bright Buddha turned his head as if he was continuing to operate something, casually answering, “Hui Yin has served me for many years. Two years ago, he fell gravely ill with no cure in sight, so I gave him one of the bodies I couldn’t use anymore.”

Xia Jianlong then asked, “He switched to such a mechanical body and could still exert the power of the third transmission?”

The Great Bright Buddha replied indifferently, “Hui Yin spent most of his life chanting and worshipping Buddha, and at the point of death, he was only at the level of the first transmission.”

“The strength you mentioned comes from the power of the shell I gave him.”