Chapter 2549: Across the Horizon

The Innocent Heaven Person sweeps across the mad waves of the Heaven Sea. The moment the water floods the Five Fingers Brahma Mountain, it truly has several points similar to Dizang sharing the Heaven Sea's might.

Jiang Wang doesn't doubt its power, he just feels that it should truly learn from the Original Heaven God how to scold people.

It only curses with one sentence: "Corpse worm." When it initially cursed himself at the Calamity Water, it was also very pale.

How can such language stab Dizang's heart?

In the roaring Brahma sound of the Heaven Sea, Jiang Wang rides the Kun Peng Heaven Form swiftly into the distance. The Heaven Sea is infinitely vast, he doesn't need to tumble beside Dizang.

The majestic Kun Peng Heaven Form is like his ship. He stands steadily within it, looking remotely at the battlefield where they contend for the Heaven Sea's authority. In the process of rapidly retreating, his right hand has his thumb and middle finger parallel, while his other three fingers point to the sky, holding this posture in front of him.

Long hair flutters, green shirt flutters.

Hear, Think, Cultivate, Receive Bodhi.

Body Awareness! Heart Awareness! Intention Awareness! Spirit Awareness!

Bitter Awareness transmitted the Three Treasures Four Awareness Dharma!

This is the first time he displays it with an absolute peak posture, but it is not applied to himself. Instead, following Jiang Wang's remote point, it directly falls onto the Heavenly River that traverses the Netherworld.

He is taking advantage of the intense contention between Dizang and the Innocent Heaven Person for the Heaven Sea's authority to counter-cross the Heaven Sea and try to awaken his little senior brother.

But he sees a path of treasure light, brilliantly blooming on Jing Li's body. It makes the little bald head floating and sinking in the Heavenly River like a sun that rises and falls! Lying on the riverbed, it suddenly brightens and dims.

Jing Li doesn't know what happened.

What he sees is a story he temporarily cannot understand.

This tiny body, riding a boat made of a single drop of water, wanders in a world of giant views, falling into the vast Heavenly River as if in clouds and mist, not knowing if he is awake or dreaming.

He had originally prepared seven kinds of Zen methods, nine kinds of Brahma merits, and had also learned secret techniques of the Chu Kingdom royal family from Xiong Zi Du, only waiting for the water flow covering this body to release before resisting at all costs.

But the moment the drop of water entered the Heavenly River, all bindings around his body already dissolved. And he felt an unprecedented warmth, wrapping his body and mind, as if in his mother's embrace—he has never seen his own mother, but he felt warmth!

Just like when he was young and held in his master's embrace, flying in the sky.

Infinite warmth, and boundless freedom.

He only hears, "Foolish child! Foolish child!"

He involuntarily closes his eyes, unstoppable tears flow!

How many times he slept bitterly without old sounds, never seen in dreams!

Originally all this... was master's arrangement?

At the moment of entering the water, he was still in a fierce posture of resistance, one hand clenched into a fist, one hand with parallel fingers, even sinking his body and raising his knee—but in an instant, he relaxed.

All Zen merits on his body dissipated.

He puts his palms together and sinks quietly.

As if placed in a place of profusely blooming flowers, returned to the warm Three Treasures Mountain, with a pot of fragrant steamed white flour buns steaming on the stove, and master full of grease eating roasted chicken, saying "sin, sin, I will sin on your behalf, little monk, you will only enjoy blessings later..."

What Great Chu National Teacher, what absolute peak cultivation, none of it is important.

He is willing to go home!

But... something is not right.

He seems to see a withered, thin, yellow face, just like this, squeezing to the front, jumping up and down, cursing: "You brainless stupid fool! How did you come? How did you come by yourself! You, you, you—you have no brain! Wah, you want to anger this old monk to death!!"

Every time the old monk curses, his eyebrows jump along, and the wrinkles on his face undulate like waves.

He couldn't help but let out a chuckle.

After laughing, he became melancholic.

Because there is clearly nothing in front of him.

But in his heart, there is a vague voice—"Bring him to enjoy blessings!"

Yes, it's as if someone is missing...

His face is a pure smile, tears unstoppable at the corners of his eyes, floating and sinking in the Heavenly River, bewilderedly murmuring: "I have three treasures... we three treasures... there is still one..."

At this time, a great bell rings in his ear—

"You should obtain the Universal Worthy fruit position, I will prove Vairocana Tathagata. This still lacks one Manjushri! Sincere wisdom awareness indeed! I will summon, complete the three treasures, share eternity!"

In front of him, there seems to be a Bodhi treasure tree, bearing Buddha fruits.

The wind blows, and all is world-crossing compassion.

The Eternal Pure Land on the Bodhi tree is already clearly visible, waiting for him to push the door.

"No, no." Jing Li's eyes are still closed, his five senses wrinkled together. His perfect treasure body gradually withers, like floating wood in a stream. His heart is as if in a dream, but even in the dream, he shakes his head!

"No, there is still one, not Manjushri. It is my little junior brother. The first of the three treasures is not you either, it is—"

Exactly at this time, a finger of heaven's glory comes from the Heaven Sea, treasure light illuminates this body!

Body, heart, intention, spirit, all four awarenesses open!

By now, he has already obtained the cultivation of derived paths. Even in the Buddha family, he can be called a Bodhisattva. This "Three Treasures Four Awarenesses Dharma" created by the Bitter Awareness Cave True Monk should already be a useless merit, but it is an eternal memento of two absolute peak cultivators!

"I do not recognize what Vairocana Tathagata, even less do I recognize what Dizang Honored Buddha. I only know—Three Treasures Mountain Bitter Awareness Great Master!"

At this moment, Jing Li's eyes suddenly open.

That is a pair of eyes like the sun bright, and like glass pure.

Amidst the glorious treasure light, he shouts: "I am... Brahma Master Awareness too!"

Brahma, upon the master, Bitter Awareness.

At this moment, Dizang fights the Innocent Heaven Person in the Heaven Sea, fights Ji Feng Zhou in the Netherworld. While all sides are in a stalemate, a monk brilliant with treasure light suddenly climbs up from within the traversing Netherworld's Yeluo Heavenly River.

Wet all over with Heavenly River water, his pair of eyes is bright. It is impossible to distinguish whether the water on his face is water or tears.

He crawls out of the Yeluo Heavenly River.

"Little junior brother! Little junior brother!" He shouts: "Where are you?"

He is like a child who has just had a nightmare and lost his closest one! Waking from the nightmare, the first thing is to seek his relative.

"Foolish child!"

Dizang's great voice rises again.

It has to once more divide its mind to the Heavenly River, handling this suddenly rising wave in a matter that had already settled.

Jing Li's presence here is a quite meaningful move.

It wants to bestow Jing Li with the honored position of an attendant Bodhisattva, an honor surpassing all Buddhas!

Once Jing Li, with the honored position of the World Honored Right Attendant, succeeds Universal Worthy's honor, this game of chess will be won.

There is no need for the little monk to do anything more. As long as this "reason" body of the Buddha family stands, it will naturally help It weave the eternal Pure Land.

As long as Jing Li achieves, he will prove the same as It.

With the support of this World Honored Right Attendant, It can further swallow the World Honored's legacy, and then subdue the World Honored's still existing Left Attendant Manjushri, which will also be much easier.

This is the so-called "Three Saints Fusion".

But since ancient times, those who have become Buddhas have never said that they would force a strong proving.

There have only ever been those who sought bitterly and did not get, cultivated bitterly and did not see. There has never been anyone who could prove and not prove, could get and not get!

"You have heaven-born dharma affinity, Zen reason self-proving, accompanying the sutra and walking, all the way here. You don't know how much cultivation you have bitterly consumed!"

Waves surge within the Heavenly River, wave after wave rolling into ropes, drop after drop of water beads are myriad beings.

Within the water beads, countless faithful kneel to Jing Li, chanting "my Buddha," begging him to save them from suffering and difficulty, greatly emitting compassion. Heavenly River water ropes entwine his treasure body, making him unable to escape.

This is also the will of beings, to enfeoff him as a Buddha.

"Now you enter the treasure mountain and return empty-handed, how can you say you have good affinity?"

"You can save beings and not save them, it is hard to say you have good fruit!"

White waves billow, the Heavenly River twists and entwines, infinite karma force climbs his body, dragging the little monk towards the Pure Land—

"Why not become Buddha?!"

Jing Li does not listen to a single word of these individual Brahma sounds and Buddha words. He also does not care about those individual beings' ritual wishes.

He just shouts "junior brother!"

Waving his right hand, he runs on the river surface, panicking, running towards Jiang Wang—

At this time, he has already seen various demons surrounding Jiang Wang, urgently wanting to help him drive away the demons.

Little junior brother has a kind heart, purely kind, how can he be bullied by demon thoughts?

He, Jing Li, will absolutely not allow it!

—If he were truly allowed to succeed in driving away the demons, his little junior brother might just be exiled to the Heaven Sea. Indeed, he could enjoy eternal blessings.

It's good that with a pull in the Heavenly River, he then sinks.

His bald head submerges in the water, and the treasure light is also drowned in the waves.

A strongly twisted melon is not sweet, but Dizang is also only strongly twisting now. If Jing Li succeeds Universal Worthy's honor, the current deadlock will resolve itself. If Jing Li is stuck here, then Manjushri is also a problem.

But Jing Li just sank down the river and suddenly floats up again!

"Dizang!" It is the new emperor of Great Chu, holding the emperor's crown in his left hand and the Red Phoenix Emperor Sword in his right hand, armored, and comes: "What do you want to do to my national teacher!?"

As soon as this body arrives, endless Great Chu national power is added to the national teacher's body.

If it is said that Jiang Wang uses the ultimate emotion and extreme desire demon intent as a rope to guarantee his safety in the Heaven Sea, then Xiong Zi Du uses the Great Chu national power as a rope, firmly hanging Jing Li, preventing him from falling to the bottom of the Heavenly River, and engaging in a tug-of-war with Dizang!

Compared to Jiang Wang's ultimate emotion and extreme desire demon intent, the Great Chu national power is much more majestic. It can support a transcendence-level fight, and it can be said to be infinitely endless.

The continuously flowing Great Chu national power, following the national system rules, provides unlimited support to the Great Chu national teacher. It is as if a path of heavenly flow penetrates Jing Li's heavenly spirit, like a fifth flood flow beyond the four waters of the Netherworld!

This is the flood flow of the human path.

Dizang's power is of course boundless, but Jing Li's treasure body has limits. It cannot disregard everything and directly tear Jing Li's corpse!

Half a golden body and a dead person may not prove the honored position of an attendant Bodhisattva.

So Jing Li temporarily floats and sinks in the water, yet he is in a stalemate here.

And there is a flame banner that arrives horizontally, penetrating the Netherworld, like a throwing spear stabbing by Jiang Wang's side, turning into a red maple tree burning with fierce flames.

The crown of this tree is like an umbrella, tall like a mountain, like the only eternally burning torch within the Netherworld.

It drapes down scorching light like silk crimson, covering those thirteen ultimate emotion and extreme desire demon shadows and Jiang Wang. It makes the demon shadows like tree shadows, and under the tree, the person in the green shirt stands alone.

Following closely after Xiong Zi Du comes Zuo Xiao, who, in the end, is a strong one who once impacted transcendence. At a glance, he sees the key points of the various demons around Jiang Wang, and first helps him consolidate the connection between the ultimate emotion and extreme desire demon intent and the Kun Peng Heaven Form, allowing him to be a bit more wanton in the depths of the Heaven Sea.

Then he merely flicks a finger towards the Heavenly River, sticking tightly to the limit of this world, as if plucking the underlying rules of the present world like plucking strings.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Several sounds of sharp wind.

Then earth fire cracks burst out, rushing into the Netherworld, killing into the Heavenly River, intimately fighting with the Heavenly River water ropes on Jing Li's body, dissolving each other, allowing Jing Li to loosen up a bit, to get a breath of freedom.

"Cultivation since ancient times is not easy, wearing stars and the moon it is also hard to see the mountaintop, hence it is said that block path enmity is not to be shared under the same sky." Dizang's voice rises: "The little monk rarely has such fortune! Now you all actually block him from proving Bodhi—do you know if you are helping him, or harming him?"

"Dizang! I have one word to say to you—" Xiong Zi Du points his sword: "When this Bodhi is to be proven, whether it is good or not, let my national teacher... say it himself!"

"If he is willing, ten thousand mountains will not block him. If he is unwilling, ten thousand kinds will not form! It's fine if you play behind closed doors by yourself, but dare to strongly abduct the Great Chu national teacher, I will not hesitate to exhaust the country!"

This new monarch of Great Chu is hovering exactly outside the Netherworld, not engaging in a direct fight with Dizang, but fundamentally not considering the consumption of national power on Jing Li's body!

This is also using national power to fight against transcendence!

The little monk has a glass Buddha heart, his will cannot be seized. If he is strongly transformed, he will lose the possibility of proving the fruit. Wanting to strongly press down the Heavenly River, he is again pulled by the Great Chu emperor with national power, trying to spread influence outside the Netherworld, expel or even kill this new monarch of Great Chu, Ji Feng Zhou is also there eyeing covetously, ready to find an opportunity to cut in at any time...

And in the eighteen mud hell prisons, the conflict is already increasingly intense.

And those indifferent eyes watching the Netherworld...

The situation instantly becomes greatly unfavorable!

Dizang, however, laughs.

The Buddha face is instantly joyful, and instantly sad again.

Within the Heaven Sea, a sad voice resounds: "Manjushri, Manjushri! I see you are injured and sad!"

"Once there was nothing at all, straw sandals accompanied the end of the world."

"I am not afraid of your obsession and lack of enlightenment, only afraid of your sorrowful heart not repenting!"

Dizang's voice is mournful and sorrowful.

The rumbling Five Fingers Brahma Mountain suddenly closes, a huge vortex forms in the depths of the Heaven Sea, endlessly swallowing and flowing!

The Innocent Heaven Person rolls up floods mountains of vast flood, which is actually swallowed and poured down, forming a huge inverted bucket in the Heaven Sea sky!

Jiang Wang, who painstakingly escaped for half a day, is instantly sucked near.

Before such a terrifying vortex, the majestic Kun Peng Heaven Form is also like a small fish! There is fundamentally no ground for resistance.

The giant Buddha body in the Netherworld's Heavenly River has one eyelid peeled open alive by Ji Feng Zhou, peeling out a huge Buddha pupil, exposed outside—within the Buddha pupil, it is exactly the storming Heaven Sea. The Brahma palm presses the Heaven Person, the vortex swallows the Kun Peng.

It is Dizang fighting with Ji Feng Zhou in a relaxed manner, putting more great power into the Heaven Sea. After all, the heaven path is its core advantage.

Then, with this five fingers closing, the turbid water person is instantly peeled until only the turbid body remains, and above the turbid body, Brahma flowers bloom successively. Black Mandalas float in the turbid water!

"What do the ignorant have! What do believers seek?" The Innocent Heaven Person opens that pair of treasure eyes, gradually seeping with stains: "Do not speak of the past, that is my story with the World Honored One, you are not allowed to defile it!"

Dizang's voice instantly intensifies: "You already had a transcendence honor in the Buddha gate, and yet you bowed under Kong Ke, finally tied up in the Sin Sea by It. Manjushri! Could this be the fate you resisted? Could this be your ideal?"

Majestic Brahma voice, voice after voice like a striking bell.

Each voice makes the Innocent Heaven Person's water body ripple, shaking Its body and mind.

It sways, then alone with the turbid body ascends the Five Fingers Brahma Mountain.

"You fundamentally do not understand... you fundamentally do not understand!"

The Innocent Heaven Person continuously annihilates the black Mandala flowers on its body, and black Mandala flowers continuously grow again. But in such a process, It still continuously ascends, leaving the stains of the Sin Sea on this heaven path Brahma Mountain.

"You climbed up from the World Honored One's corpse, already three thousand years have passed! What exactly do you know?"

"You are only a little bit of unshattered obsession, a little bit of impure desire after extinction. With a little bit of heaven path pity, tasting a little bit of the unshattered past, what qualification do you have to discuss fate with me, discuss ideals!"

It alone climbs this steep Brahma Mountain, terrifying heaven path power and Dizang endlessly collide!

As strong as Jiang Wang's majestic heaven form, he can only strive for a bit of breathing space amidst the Innocent Heaven Person's repeated impacts, swimming towards the outside of the vortex. But once the Innocent Heaven Person's power is bombarded and scattered, he is immediately swallowed back by that vortex again.

He exhausts all his strength, and is only repeatedly at the edge of this vortex.

And on the Five Fingers Brahma Mountain, a straw-clothed, barefoot monk actually walks face to face, from the mountaintop all the way down the mountain, exactly opposite the Innocent Heaven Person.

Just setting out, they meet.

Two transcendence ones, meet halfway up the Brahma Mountain.

The turbid water person instantly has a clear face—drooping eyebrows, mung bean eyes, wine dregs nose, wind-catching ears, yellowish buck teeth, pitted skin.

As if all descriptions of ugliness can be manifested on this face.

And the figure opposite It is straw-clothed and barefoot, wearing a hat, with its face hidden in shadow.

Mountain wind hitting the cliff walls makes a symphony of sounds.

In the collision of heaven path power, this hat woven of yellow bamboo suddenly flies up.

That straw-clothed, barefoot monk raises his head, looks at the hat, and his face shows sincere joy, as if seeing a bird released.

Gugu, gugu

Indeed a bird, the hat turns into a white dove, flying to a higher, farther place. However, its pair of eyes are like red gems... with the freedom of blood.

The Innocent Heaven Person kneels on the mountain path.