Chapter 2758: The Divine Firmament's Scheme

What is faith? Exhaust its all-encompassing search.

For the Black Lotus Temple’s ideal of “attaining Dao in the world,” Rat Jialan gave up the opportunity to pursue a future as a Heavenly Demon.

Willing to sacrifice himself, he embraced the Knowledge-Hearing Bell.

As the treasure controlled by Ancient Nan Mountain for many years, the Knowledge-Hearing Bell originally had no possibility of being plundered.

It had long resided in Ancient Nan Mountain, enlightening countless Bodhisattvas and Arhats, receiving echoes from numerous Buddhas. It had already merged with Ancient Nan Mountain, their Buddha fate intertwined.

No matter the ends of the earth, Ancient Nan Mountain could summon it back at any time.

In a certain sense, “moving the Knowledge-Hearing Bell is like moving Ancient Nan Mountain.”

Who in the world could accomplish this?

So, a young Demon King like Yang Yu also had the opportunity to bring it out of the mountain gate, to travel through bustling markets and venture into dangerous places.

Of course, given the importance of the Knowledge-Hearing Bell, Great Bodhisattva Chan Fayuan also accompanied and protected it, never leaving its side.

It should be said that regarding the movement and use of the Knowledge-Hearing Bell, Ancient Nan Mountain exercised sufficient caution.

But the Divine Firmament place, a legend of the Feather Race from ten thousand ages ago, is a very special location. It can, in a completely free situation, prevent Tiger Taisui’s invasion through self-destruction. It can isolate inside and outside, even blocking the tracking of various Heavenly Demons. It almost possesses the prototype of an independent world.

Ancient Nan Mountain, as the recognized orthodox Buddhist sect in the Demon Realm, had long reigned supreme. Chan Fayuan used the Divine Firmament place as a chessboard to place his pieces, disregarding other players. With a shake of the Knowledge-Hearing Bell, he intended to fully occupy everything.

While the Knowledge-Hearing Bell was piercing secrets and penetrating time and space, it also, inevitably, projected a part of itself into the Divine Firmament place. Rat Jialan’s sacrifice at the Black Lotus sacrificial altar was greatly amplified, firmly leaving this part of the Knowledge-Hearing Bell in the Divine Firmament place. This indirectly triggered the world rules of the Divine Firmament place, finally prying open the possibility of moving away the Knowledge-Hearing Bell!

If we say the Knowledge-Hearing Bell that fell into the Divine Firmament place’s shadow was a pigeon that could return at any time, Rat Jialan’s actions now were to grasp the pigeon’s wings, making it unable to return to its cage.

The Knowledge-Hearing Bell’s power originally relied on its Knowledge-Hearing ability to freely shuttle through secrets.

But at this moment, it was fixed in this secret.

Compared to the rules of a complete world, the connection established by the monks of Ancient Nan Mountain with the Knowledge-Hearing Bell over ten thousand years was so fragile.

And at this key moment, when this connection was being severed and the Knowledge-Hearing Bell was being fixed, Mo Xikong activated the faith insects of the End Dharma Era Buddhist New Transmission. In an extremely short time, they wiped away the mark of Ancient Nan Mountain and began to engrave inscriptions exclusively belonging to Black Lotus Temple onto the ancient bronze bell.

The falling of Yang Yu and the Knowledge-Hearing Bell’s shadow was merely the aftermath of this process.

At this moment, in the sky above Mo Yun City, several Heavenly Demons, including Tiger Taisui, could clearly see the inscriptions being firmly etched onto the ancient bronze bell.

“Attain Bodhi without self-delusion.”

The next sentence had already been written to “His heart does not prove.” The golden light was concealed, the night color was long. The old era had passed, the new era was about to arrive!

The smile on Chan Fayuan’s face had shattered, and with it, the pieces he had placed in this Divine Firmament game.

In order to fully occupy everything, he chose to end the game first. The result was the first move was made.

At present, winning was no longer important; what was important was not to lose anything further.

His expression was extremely serious, an expression almost nobody had ever seen from him.

Thus, he possessed true power.

Borrowing the Knowledge-Hearing Bell, which was still in a stalemate in the secret passage, he solemnly asked: “Yang Yu, have you attained enlightenment yet?”

Yang Yu in the Divine Firmament place was suppressing the invading black patterns on his body. At this juncture, when his body was about to fall but hadn’t yet, he put more power into the Knowledge-Hearing Bell’s shadow, using it to resist the clamp of the Black Lotus sacrificial altar.

A demon who has left home should be indifferent to worldly affairs.

He was naturally uninterested and calmly accepted everything. He came without waves. The true secret of the Divine Firmament escaping and attracting more competitors did not concern him.

Whoever contended with him, whoever blocked his path, it made no difference.

This was his truth.

He was also proud. He wanted to challenge all competitors with the powerful sound of the bell, to make Rat Jialan return from his lost path, to make Deer Qilang recognize the ranking.

He wanted heaven and earth to be the only one I revered.

This was also his truth. This truth was like this moment.

He was struggling, in the descending Buddha power of the End Dharma, struggling with all his might. With the ability of a Heavenly Demon seed ranked fifth among the Heavenly List new kings, he had already struggled to achieve an independent and clear self.

He still wanted to struggle for the ownership of the sect treasure.

But at this time, he heard Chan Fayuan’s question.

The struggling expression on his face disappeared in an instant. He regained his warmth and calmly said slowly: “Under the Bodhi tree, all heavens’ cause and effect. On Ancient Nan Mountain, ten thousand ages’ spiritual fate. Our generation of Light King’s true transmission, sacrificing life and forgetting death for Buddha faith, how can we lag behind anyone?

Before the true transmission of our Buddha, of course nothing is important. Including the doubts of Chai A Si and Taiping Ghost Messenger, including the victory or defeat with Deer Qilang, and including himself.”

His last voice was not as intense as Rat Jialan’s.

But while responding to the Great Bodhisattva, he had already given up the suppression of his own body. Black patterns instantly covered his warm face.

Making him evil, filthy, and indecent. But golden light burned throughout his body!

His entire body burned up.

He just burned in the air like this.

The fire gradually became fierce, the golden light gradually intensified.

Finally, he burned into a blazing golden Buddha fire, with his bare head as a hammer, hitting the Knowledge-Hearing Bell’s shadow, which had already been entwined by black patterns for the most part.

A monk for a day, hits the bell for a day.

The head bell of Ancient Nan Mountain rang.

No one woke up, only he, Yang Yu, entered a dream.

His bare head cracked open, collapsed, and his entire golden Buddha fire body disappeared.

But unexpectedly, fresh blood was still there.

Fresh blood on the upper part of the Knowledge-Hearing Bell’s shadow flowed down silently, “extinguishing” the upward-climbing black patterns.

Clearly, it was Rat Jialan of Black Lotus Temple who first chose to sacrifice himself, but his body was still withering, still having a thin part.

The just now high-spirited Yang Yu, however, was the first to be gone. All the demons in the field were deeply moved.

Ape Mengji swallowed his saliva. His brain, always a step slow, now occupied the high ground, transmitting an emotion named fear towards him.

Previously encountering that absolutely beautiful woman, there were no waves. With just a flash of golden light, he woke up. This time, yet, before Yang Yu’s offensive of knocking the Knowledge-Hearing Bell, he personally felt the means of the Ape Immortal Court, and his confidence originally followed suit. But the scene before his eyes was truly somewhat frightening.

The journey of exploring the Divine Firmament place had only reached here, and everyone had not seen anything yet.

Yang Yu, the Heavenly List new king ranked fifth, was just gone?

Similarly, Rat Jialan, who had the strength of a Heavenly List new king, could also be seen having only a few breaths of life left. Withering and withering, only a section of his chest remained.

Birth and death originally were nothing. He, Ape Mengji, had not been a chick who had not seen blood on this path. He did not care that Yu Xin was gone, and was not scared at all. But did you all want to die so intensely?

Did you want to make such a big noise?

I, Ape Mengji, was born noble, only came here casually to exercise. My grandfather from the Ape Immortal Court, who had been lost for many years, was still waiting for me outside to go home!

He looked at the golden light cover enveloping him, his face expressionless. In his heart, he had already shouted open: “Grandfather! I’m not playing anymore. Can’t you take me back early?”

At this moment, calling for grandfather in his heart was not only him.

His capable subordinate, loyal little brother Chai A Si, was also extremely astonished at this time.

The Buddha said there were still fifty-eight chapters in his hand, and it was not yet time to let Yang Yu take over, yet Yang Yu was already dead.

Wait, could this also be within the Upper Venerable’s plan?

Besides astonishment, he also felt a trace of regret. These were all future pillars of the Demon Race.

They were usable talents for his Chai A Si Great Emperor. To die like this, meaninglessly, how could it not damage the overall situation of the Demon Realm?

Thus he asked in his heart: “Upper Venerable grandfather! This death and injury are too great, too pitiful, should we not come out and advise?” The Upper Venerable was too lazy to pay attention to him. Advise what? It had reached this point.

Should he advise Rat Jialan not to die, advise Yang Yu to live on?

It would be strange if Rat Jialan didn’t angrily take you, Chai A Si, away.

Instead, Yang Yu’s last words, “For Buddha faith, sacrifice life and forget death. How can I lag behind anyone,” made him suddenly think of the grassland where, initially, the new God Crown Great Priest Tu Hu had lectured him on the three hearings and three Buddha faiths.

He had always not known how to explain the “faith” within this sentence of Buddha faith.

Was it true, was it sincere, or was it a message?

He only knew that this “three hearings and three Buddha faiths” meant “like obtaining wide hearing,” “like making known hearing,” and “like I hearing,” and also represented the existence of three mouths of treasures in the world.

Now, he unexpectedly saw it all.

The bell sound that had rung in Ancient Nan Mountain for ten thousand years seemed to bring him some inspiration at this moment. It was close at hand, vaguely present.

Our Buddha is compassionate!

In Mo Yun City, Great Bodhisattva Chan Fayuan’s expression was pitiful.

At the moment he should make a decision, he directly gave up Yang Yu, wanting to fully preserve the Knowledge-Hearing Bell.

And the given up Yang Yu not only had no resentment, but instead actively burned his remaining body.

Knocking this bell, fulfilling the duty of an Ancient Nan Mountain monk.

The bell sound of the Knowledge-Hearing Bell rang again in the Divine Firmament place.

That shadow connecting the original once again described the secret to Chan Fayuan.

Allowing Chan Fayuan’s Heavenly Demon power to catch the trace and trace back to the Divine Firmament.

Thus Chan Fayuan flipped his palm and pushed.

That fixed Knowledge-Hearing Bell, which had been suspended motionless in the high air, suddenly jumped forward. It shouldn’t be said forward.

Because its direction of jump was not in this Demon Realm’s position.

It jumped towards the secret of the Divine Firmament place that it so well knew!

Rat Jialan and Mo Xikong were binding the pigeon’s leg, making it unable to return to the cage. The distance between the pigeon and the cage was the secret of the Divine Firmament place; it was a distance not existing in the meaning of time and space. The secret of the Divine Firmament place again touched the world rules of the Divine Firmament place, directly freezing this distance and the pigeon and cage on both sides of the distance.

In this process, Mo Xikong used supreme divine ability to pry open the world rules of the Divine Firmament place, cutting off the connection between this pigeon cage and its owner. He then took advantage of the situation to wipe away the mark of this cage and engrave the mark of Black Lotus Temple on it, thus completing the replacement. At the same time, Rat Jialan also made efforts to tame that bound pigeon, and with Mo Xikong’s help, brought down Yang Yu, using the life and death of this true transmission of Ancient Nan Mountain to restrain Chan Fayuan’s actions.

After the pigeon returned to the cage, both the pigeon and the cage would be prefixed with Black Lotus and gain new life.

And Chan Fayuan’s emergency response at this critical juncture was to directly give up Yang Yu after informing him. Then he pushed the cage back to that segment representing the true secret of the Divine Firmament. The pigeon couldn’t fly back, so he pushed the cage over. This was the so-called “If the mountain does not come to me, I go to the mountain.” In this process, Yang Yu took the initiative to sacrifice himself, burning the rope that bound the pigeon, so that the pigeon could return to the cage earlier.

He didn’t know what Chan Fayuan wanted to do, because this was not in the prior plan. He just did his best and did a little more.

But he achieved wonderful cooperation with Chan Fayuan.

The two monks, old and young, with Bodhi wonder in their hearts, shortened the process of the Knowledge-Hearing Bell’s recovery.

That sentence on the ancient bronze bell, “His heart does not prove open lotus flower,” had already been engraved to the last stroke of the word “lotus.”

But Mo Xikong’s so-called faith insects of the End Dharma Era Buddhist New Transmission fell into emptiness! The Knowledge-Hearing Bell had already fallen into that segment of true secret.

It was not any place within the Demon Realm, nor was it in the Divine Firmament place. It did not exist in a concrete space, but was pushed into that segment of secret.

Billions of kinds of world secrets, where can sentient beings seek them?

Chan Fayuan certainly did not want the Knowledge-Hearing Bell to be lost like this.

His reliance in this move lay in the incense connection between the Knowledge-Hearing Bell and Ancient Nan Mountain over ten thousand years, and in the Buddha fate left by many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas on the Knowledge-Hearing Bell. That kind of connection was only temporarily cut off. When the world rules of the Divine Firmament place lost guidance and Mo Xikong’s means were eroded by time, that kind of long-term connection could still recover.

Ancient Nan Mountain could then borrow this connection to seek back the Knowledge-Hearing Bell. It wouldn’t even take too long.

Because at this moment, Chan Fayuan had already urgently communicated with Ancient Nan Mountain. Around his body, countless Sanskrit sounds were already floating, leaping up! That was Ancient Nan Mountain’s call to the Knowledge-Hearing Bell, temporarily not ringing yet.

Only because it was not yet the best timing.

It must be said, Chan Fayuan’s emergency response was truly a divine stroke. In the situation where Black Lotus Temple had sacrificed many lives, he had managed to carve out an opportunity and gain the possibility of preserving the Knowledge-Hearing Bell.

In this game, Ancient Nan Mountain lost a Yang Yu, Black Lotus Temple lost a Rat Jialan, the attempt to obtain the Knowledge-Hearing Bell failed, and a large number of faith insects of the End Dharma Era Buddhist New Transmission were sacrificed.

If a cruel comparison were made, it would be truly unclear which side suffered a greater loss.

At this moment. The Knowledge-Hearing Bell had fallen into a secret. The engraving on the bell body was not yet complete, which also meant that it was not stable and would soon be completely eroded.

But Rat Jialan had, just now, burned out the last point of his life force.

Rat Jialan was already dead. He had climbed and stained the Knowledge-Hearing Bell with his life until his death!

But the opportunity to seize the Knowledge-Hearing Bell was lost. How could Mo Xikong be willing?

His pair of terrifying eyes dense with black and white spots suddenly closed.

Terrifying power was being unleashed.

In the secret that no one could see, the black words engraved on the Knowledge-Hearing Bell began to self-destruct one by one, hitting the bell one by one.

He wanted to smash it, to sink it, at least to knock off all its marks.

Or directly destroy this segment of secret. If I cannot engrave it, you can forget about summoning it back.

Just let this Knowledge-Hearing Bell forever sink into that segment of secret!

Black Lotus Temple will never own it, and Ancient Nan Mountain will then gain and lose again.

You seek death!

Chan Fayuan glared, no longer caring about any Bodhisattva demeanor. With a roar, he punched out, shattering the boundless dark color like glass.

Every piece of shattered dark glass echoed Mo Xikong’s mad laughter: “I will not kill you yet. Let this bitter fruit of losing the Knowledge-Hearing Bell be swallowed by you night after night for the rest of your life!” Chan Fayuan was violently angry like a madman, but how could he stop Mo Xikong now? Ancient Nan Mountain was still a distance away from here, and the several Heavenly Demons spectating in the field only wished the Knowledge-Hearing Bell was lost, fundamentally not being able to make a move.

A Buddhist treasure, right before their eyes, was about to disappear like this.

In the Divine Firmament place, however, a voice suddenly rang out. No, that’s not quite right. “This voice said thus. Let’s restart.” The following sentence, belonging to the same voice, rang in the secret of the Divine Firmament place. Chan Fayuan’s violent anger and Mo Xikong’s roar abruptly stopped in an instant. Because at this very moment, both of them lost their vague perception of the Divine Firmament place. Neither the Black Lotus sacrificial altar nor the Knowledge-Hearing Bell’s shadow sent any more messages.

Of course, they also couldn’t find that segment of secret, and there was no way to destroy or summon back the Knowledge-Hearing Bell. It wasn’t only the two Great Bodhisattvas who were surprised and angry at this moment.

Tiger Taisui, Deer Ximing, and Spider Yi, who had always sat and watched the two groups of bald men fight, also changed color.

Because, just like Chan Fayuan and Mo Xikong, their ability to interfere with the chess game from the outside was also lost at this time!

Up to now, the third player participating in the Divine Firmament game had made a move! But it was definitely not Chan Fayuan, definitely not Mo Xikong.

It wasn’t Tiger Taisui, nor Deer Ximing, nor Spider Yi.

Who could it be?

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