Immortal Travel of Longevity

"Five years..."

At that moment, Jiu Fengchun felt his mind reel.

"What five years!"

"What are you talking about!"

"Zen Master, what five years?"

"Didn't I... haven't I been asleep for nearly a century?"

Monk Shizhen pressed his palms together. He let out a long sigh and said, "There was no century, much less a thousand-year dream. It has only been five years."

"Impossible!!"

Jiu Fengchun snapped back to his senses. "How could it only be five years? Zen Master, you're remembering wrong! Look, look at this great hall, it's in complete ruin. And those... those..."

Shizhen said, "The great hall was forged from Buddha light. Once the Buddha light departs, it all turns to dust. There were exactly one hundred and eight Buddhist cultivators in this hall. Now that they have all passed away in meditation, it does not take years—in a mere instant, this place could come crashing down."

Jiu Fengchun froze in place. "What... do you mean...?"

Shizhen looked at him. "Has Benefactor ever considered whether the hunger in a Taotie's belly could truly be suppressed so easily?"

Jiu Fengchun trembled, staring at him in disbelief.

The next moment, he charged into the hall.

He looked up. This time, there was no change—only white bones everywhere.

"It was me..."

Jiu Fengchun realized the truth, muttering, "I was the one... who ate them..."

How could these people have passed away in meditation in a mere five years? With all their Cultivation and boundless Buddhist dharmas, how could they be so utterly unable to withstand the erosion of time?

Instead, it was him, Jiu Fengchun. While deep in that grand dream, he had constantly devoured their Buddha light to fill his own hunger. He had indirectly eaten these people, bringing about the scene before him now.

Jiu Fengchun's hands trembled. He clutched his hair and whipped his head around.

"Why!!"

"Why did you lie to me!!"

He rushed forward and seized Shizhen by the neck.

Without the Buddha light to protect him anymore, Shizhen dropped his Dharma Staff to the ground and was hoisted bodily into the air.

"Ghk..."

A hoarse sound forced its way out of Shizhen's throat. At this moment, he could not breathe at all.

"Ah!!!"

An agonized cry tore from Jiu Fengchun's throat. He let go and ran back into the hall.

"I don't believe it! I don't believe it!"

He stepped onto the great Buddha's head, climbing high up and shoving the skeletons down one by one.

"Clatter, clatter..."

The bones of countless Buddhist cultivators tumbled down, but in midair, they dissolved into dust and dissipated.

Like a cloud of dust, they were scattered in the blink of an eye by the strong wind.

Shizhen coughed up blood and staggered to his feet.

"Benefactor..."

He murmured, "This is this old monk's sole mistake. My heart has already turned its back on the Dao. I had no other choice."

Jiu Fengchun tore at his own hair. He could not believe that all of this was fake.

The passage of time was fake, the Buddhist chants were fake—absolutely everything was fake.

"Ah!!"

Jiu Fengchun roared at the sky, unable to conceal the crushing grief in his heart.

Why must it be like this!

Why!

Why couldn't he just live like an ordinary person?

Why!

Jiu Fengchun lost control of his emotions. Following a jolt to his divine sense, fur and scales gradually sprouted across his body.

"Roar!!"

Under Monk Shizhen's watchful eyes, the Taotie's towering form rose from the ground. It shattered the floor of Thousand Buddha Hall and burst right through the high roof.

"Rumble..."

This Buddhist hall, which had stood for who knew how many years, came crashing down.

The great Buddha statue hidden within was subsequently exposed to the world.

That Buddha statue stood there, yet at some unknown point, it had closed its eyes.

Watching this scene, Monk Shizhen knelt on the ground and bowed.

After bowing three times, he strode forward.

His body gradually transformed into Buddha light, and the out-of-control Taotie threw open its bloody, fanged maw.

The Buddha light ultimately condensed into a single Sarira.

Only a single sentence echoed out.

"If I do not enter hell, who will?"

Monk Shizhen left behind a Buddhist seed. In this great upheaval of heaven and earth, he relinquished the qi destiny of the Buddhist Schools, and even sacrificed himself.

He was gambling on a shift thousands of years in the future!

When that time came, the seed would sprout and grow. The Buddhist dao would not be extinguished; Buddhism would endure in the world.

Shizhen was swallowed into the Taotie's belly. At that moment, vast amounts of the Buddhist Schools' qi destiny also tumbled into the Taotie's jaws.

"Roar!"

Within that raspy roar, a moment of Buddhist chanting seemed to ring out, only to fade away just as quietly.

The Taotie's eyes glowed blood-red as it once again revealed itself to the world.

...

The moment the Buddhist Schools' qi destiny completely dispersed, many cultivators sensed it.

A taut string had snapped.

"How could it be so sudden!"

Xiao Dongxu found it hard to believe. It had happened without the slightest warning.

In a mere instant, the Buddhist Schools' qi destiny had entirely dissipated.

He raised his hand to divine the cause on his fingers, but found absolutely nothing.

He hurriedly got up, left the Main Hall, and set out to investigate the matter.

This matter was simply too bizarre. How could the vast Buddhist Schools just vanish in the blink of an eye?

"Senior Brother Xiao, where are you going!"

"I'm going to get to the bottom of this."

"Senior Brother Xiao, don't go."

"The Buddhist Schools' qi destiny scattering completely is already an absolute certainty. In this world, only the Literary Dao Lineage remains supreme. If we continue to do nothing, this realm will truly be destroyed! And we will be destroyed along with it!"

Xiao Dongxu ignored all of that. He merely paused for a step before leaving.

That disciple stood frozen in place.

He didn't understand why Senior Brother Xiao had left so decisively.

Did the safety of the world truly not matter? At a time like this, was investigating the truth truly necessary?

Xiao Dongxu headed for Thousand Buddha Hall. When he arrived, he was met with a scene of shattered walls and ruins.

The great Buddha statue sitting before the mountain was exposed to his eyes, completely stripped of the great hall's shelter.

"Its eyes are closed..."

Xiao Dongxu stared blankly. He vaguely recalled that this great Buddha had always kept its eyes open.

Why were its eyes tightly shut now?

What in the world had happened here?

Xiao Dongxu sat down cross-legged. After a moment of hesitation, he raised a hand and struck his own chest.

"Puh!"

He spat out a mouthful of blood and immediately circulated his Arts and Techniques.

"With blood as a sacrifice, yin and yang combined—invert the changes, reveal the past!"

As his Divine Abilities took effect, golden light gleamed in Xiao Dongxu's eyes. The great hall seemed to reconstruct itself right before him.

The changes this place had undergone over the past five years were completely laid bare before his eyes.

A cycle of spring, summer, autumn, and winter seemed to pass in the blink of an eye.

Until a certain moment later, when a shocked cry echoed from within the hall.

Xiao Dongxu saw Jiu Fengchun's loss of control, saw a hall full of white bones, and saw Monk Shizhen transforming into a Sarira and a Buddhist seed.

He also saw the Taotie that had reduced this grand hall entirely to ruins.

Everything was reproduced before his eyes under the power of this secret technique.

"Puh..."

Xiao Dongxu coughed up another mouthful of blood. The golden light in his eyes faded, and it took him quite a while to recover his wits.

"The Buddhist Schools..."

"The Buddhist Schools..."

"What a fine 'If I do not enter hell, who will'!"

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