Chapter 10

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Li Xuanxin took down the book and shook the dust off it. He then found a table to study it.

The books in the temple were not arranged or cataloged. He needed to read them bit by bit, but he still quickly found the Five-Colored Lotus.

After all, the Five-Colored Lotus was considered quite good even among natural treasures, so there were many records.

“Five-Colored Lotus. Born in a quiet and dry place. Born with different colors. One color for three hundred years, two colors for six hundred years, three colors for nine hundred years…”

“Eating it can directly increase one’s cultivation and have a chance to awaken the memories of the past…”

Li Xuanxin was a little stunned.

“So those are not dreams, but… memories of my previous life? Was I a peerless sword immortal in my previous life? That’s quite powerful.”

Closing the book, Li Xuanxin left the Sutra Pavilion and returned to meditate.

Being powerful in his previous life did not mean that he would be powerful in this life. He had to work harder. He had to set a small goal first and break through to the River Realm as soon as possible.

…

He meditated for a night and gained another two years of cultivation base.

In the morning, with the first ray of sunlight entering the window, Senior Brother Xuan Shui knocked on his door.

“Junior Xuanxin, are you awake?”

Li Xuanxin stood up and opened the door.

“Junior, we should go to the back of the mountain. We have to strengthen the seal of the Blood Fiend Ancestor today.”

Li Xuanxin nodded and followed behind the burly senior. The two of them were completely different.

One was rough like a bear, and the other was elegant like a crane.

When they arrived at the back of the mountain, a large number of Spirit Platform Temple disciples had already gathered. Li Xuanxin and Senior Xuan Shui also found a mat to sit down on. They picked up the wooden fish in front of them and started knocking.

“Namah samanta…”

More and more disciples gathered. In a few minutes, hundreds of people had gathered.

Everyone chanted and their words transformed into golden swastika symbols. Finally, they formed a huge swastika in the sky and slowly spun, releasing a peaceful power that suppressed evil.

The few presiding head monks before the seal also began to use the Immovable Wisdom King Incantation to strengthen the already weakened seal.

Li Xuanxin noticed that their cultivation levels were all at the River Realm. The Immovable Wisdom King Incantation they cultivated had already reached the 30th or 40th level. However, for some reason, he felt that the Immovable Wisdom King Incantation they used was not much stronger than his.

Could it be that the strength displayed by the Immovable Wisdom King Incantation was also related to the Immovable Wisdom King Scripture?

The other party’s cultivation level was several hundred years higher than his, and the Immovable Wisdom King Incantation was twenty to thirty levels higher. However, the power displayed by everyone was not very different. The only thing that could help him increase his strength was the Immovable Wisdom King Scripture at the perfected 108th level.

Therefore, if he raised the level of the Immovable Wisdom King Incantation a few more levels, could he fight these head monks to a draw?

From this point of view, it was equivalent to him having the strength to fight above his realm?

This was a new discovery, making Li Xuanxin much happier.

However, at this moment, something happened.

A blood-colored murderous aura suddenly burst out from the seal. The surrounding air instantly turned cold.

The expressions of the head monks changed.

“Oh no!”

“This demon wants to destroy the seal and rush out.”

“Hurry up and ask the other disciples to help.”

“It’s too late. The Blood Fiend Ancestor came prepared. Such a situation didn’t happen in the past few hundred years. He must have accumulated power for hundreds of years and planned for a long time. All for today, to break the seal in one go.”

“I didn’t expect this old demon to be so patient. However, we can’t let him break through the seal today. Otherwise, it will definitely cause chaos!”

Seeing that the seal was about to be broken, Li Xuanxin quietly circulated the 108th level of the Immovable Wisdom King Scripture. In an instant, the swastika Buddhist seal in the sky suddenly expanded and golden light shot in all directions!

With the enhancement of this golden light, the strength of the head monks increased exponentially. They instantly repaired and strengthened the seal that wanted to shatter!

Before the seal was completed, everyone heard a roar.

“Ahhh… you bunch of stupid monks! One day, I will definitely massacre Spirit Platform Temple and kill all of you! I will use your blood to recover my peak cultivation.”

In the end, everything fell silent.

The head monks could not help but wipe the sweat off their foreheads.

“Amitabha, good, good!”

“It was really dangerous just now. If not for the sudden increase in the surrounding Buddhist power at the last moment, we would have really been helpless against this sinister devil.”

“But… why did the Buddhist power suddenly increase in the end? Who helped? There are very few people in our Spirit Platform Temple who can do this!”

Everyone looked at each other.

Because it was too dangerous just now, no one had the time to pay attention to why the Buddhist power suddenly increased. Where could they sense the other party now?

“Do you think it’s because of that senior who mastered the Immovable Wisdom King Scripture half a year ago?”

A head monk could not help but voice his guess.

“Perhaps it’s him. Other than him, if the rest of us help, we won’t hide.”

“Senior is really a great person. He didn’t need to appear and can easily help us suppress the Blood Fiend Ancestor. His cultivation has probably reached the peak!”

Everyone sighed, while Li Xuanxin’s expression was indifferent.

Not long after, the head monks announced that the sealing ceremony had ended. Everyone left one after another.

…

For the next half a year, Li Xuanxin did not run around. He kept cultivating in peace.

Although the Immovable Wisdom King Scripture was already at the perfected realm and could circulate on its own, if he entered a meditative state, it would be faster than circulating on his own!

In the past half a year, Li Xuanxin’s cultivation level had increased every day. He had also broken through to the River Realm early and reached more than a thousand years of cultivation base.

After accumulating strength for so long, he could also go out and do meritorious deeds without worry and continue to increase the level of the Immovable Wisdom King Incantation.

However, Spirit Platform Temple was a holy land of the Buddhist Sect. There were not many large-scale missions around. Perhaps he should consider going out and traveling.

This way, he could obtain more merit points.

Otherwise, when could he obtain enough merit points to max out the Immovable Wisdom King Incantation?

Not to mention, he still wanted to learn the divine techniques of other monasteries—Tathagata Divine Palm, Thousand-Hand Buddha…

With this thought, Li Xuanxin went to the front hall to find his master.

Master was still fortune-telling. In front was an old man.

“Master, I came all the way here to calculate where my son is. He hasn’t returned home for three years. Is he still alive?”

After Hui Jue calculated, he said, “Your son made a fortune overseas and will be back in a few days. He wants to bring you to enjoy wealth.”

“Really? Master!”

“Amitabha. Monks don’t lie. I naturally won’t lie.”

“Thank you, Master. Thank you, Master!”

The old man kowtowed to Hui Jue repeatedly. Then, he took out two copper coins that were shiny from sweat and stuffed them into the Merit Box piously.

“Buddha, protect me.”

He bowed to the Buddha before walking down the mountain with a wooden stick.

Li Xuanxin walked forward and teased, “Master, monks don’t lie. You’ve broken the rules in front of the Buddha.”

Hui Jue glanced at Li Xuanxin and scolded with a smile, “You brat, you’re still young, but you’re already teaching your master a lesson.”

After cursing jokingly, he sighed again.

“This old man has a tough life. He came all the way to Spirit Platform Temple just to seek hope.”

“I deduced that his son had already left the world. If I told him the truth and made him despair, it would be too cruel.”

“Therefore, I lied to him and gave him some hope.”

“In a sense, I’m not lying, because in his heart, he might have already guessed it, but he was unwilling and did not dare to believe it.”

“Otherwise, he wouldn’t have come here.”

Li Xuanxin nodded.

The Buddhists were not saints. It was impossible for them to not lie entirely.

As long as the goal of lying was not to harm others, but to help others, why not?

If he was too strict with the rules of the scriptures, he would lose his kindness and become a heartless machine that only cultivated the scriptures. That would go against the original intention.

Cultivation was to cultivate the heart. Only by having good intentions could one be considered a Buddha.

“By the way, Master, I have something to tell you.”

“Go ahead.”

“Recently, it’s very difficult to find a mission at the foot of the mountain that requires expiation. I want to go out and travel for a few years and see the outside world.”

“You’re going out to travel?”

Hui Jue was a little stunned.

“That’s right. Ever since I was saved by Master six years ago, I’ve never left a radius of two hundred miles. I also want to go out and take a look and broaden my horizons to improve my state of mind.”

Hui Jue nodded.

“This is a good thing. Besides, I’ve also heard from the monks in the temple that there are indeed fewer demons and ghosts at the foot of the mountain this year. There are also fewer missions to expiate souls.

“However, you should stay in the temple for the next two days.”

At this point, Hui Jue narrowed his eyes and smiled.

“Your junior has already been chosen to enter the Zen Heart Court.”

“So fast?”

This time, it was Li Xuanxin’s turn to be surprised, but he was pretending.

His cultivation base was too high. It had long surpassed Master Hui Jue’s by several times.

He could tell at a glance that his Junior Brother Xuan Mu’s cultivation level was high. As long as he judged according to the rules of entering the Zen Heart Court, it was very easy to determine.

Hui Jue nodded and said excitedly, “That’s right. Even I didn’t expect your junior to be so fast. In just half a year, he has already cultivated the Immovable Wisdom King Scripture to the sixth level.”

“Before he entered the temple, his cultivation base had already reached ten years. After eating the Great Recovery Pill I gave him, his cultivation had increased by another ten years. In addition to his half a year of bitter cultivation, he had increased his cultivation base by six years. Now, he already has twenty-six years of cultivation base and had reached the right to enter the Zen Heart Court.”

“I think he still has room to improve. Perhaps, after entering the Zen Heart Court, he still has a chance to enter the Talent Ranking!”

“Talent Ranking? What is that?”

“The Talent Ranking is a ranking list made by people in the martial world. According to age and cultivation level, it records the most talented geniuses in the various sects in the world. As long as they are below the age of forty, they have a chance to be recorded.”

“For example, the current number one on the Talent Ranking is Ji Tiandao of the Heavenly Sword Sect! He is only 39 years old this year and has started cultivating at the age of nine. It is said that he has already reached more than 2,800 years of cultivation base.”

“He is known as the number one among the younger generation of the righteous path!”

“So powerful!”

Li Xuanxin could not help but be shocked.

He had entered the sect at the age of nine and was 39 years old now. In other words, after thirty years of cultivation, he was already about to reach the Firmament Realm with nearly three thousand years of cultivation base. Such strength was truly terrifying.

Li Xuanxin was 25 years old this year. After cultivating for a year, he had only reached 1,400 to 1,500 years of cultivation.

Putting aside the Five-Colored Lotus he had eaten, if it was only based on cultivation, he had only gained more than 800 years of cultivation base in a year.

The other party did not have his fortuitous encounter but he could gain more than 130 years of cultivation base a year.

This cultivation speed was already extremely terrifying.

Li Xuanxin would not look down on him just because he cultivated faster than him.

This was because he knew that he had the enhancement of a cheat. In a sense, he could not rely on his own efforts.

He knew his limits.

The other party was truly talented!

Hui Jue suddenly smiled.

“There’s no need to envy him. There are as many lists in the martial world as there are hairs on a cow. There’s a list and you’re also on it. Furthermore, you’re the one who rules the martial world. No one can compare to you.”

“Even the famous number one on the Talent Ranking, Ji Tiandao, can only eat dust behind you.”

Li Xuanxin was stunned again.

There was such a ranking?

Moreover, he was number one?