Chapter 129 Thousand Light King Still Abides

The red-robed old monk's expression changed dramatically, greatly surprised. He pointed at the sword in Ji Xiang's hand, his tone certain: "This is the Wisdom Sword held by Manjushri Bodhisattva!"

"No, you don't have the aura of Manjushri, nor do you possess the divine position of a Bodhisattva incarnation... Where did you get this Buddhist sword?"

The red-robed old monk's face changed several times, and finally his expression was filled with ferocity: "Forget it, if I can kill you today, the Vajra incarnation can also prove the position of Manjushri. The previous Manjushri Bodhisattva disappeared from the Dharma Realm many years ago, and the whereabouts of the Manjushri divine position are unknown, but it is mostly still wandering in some Buddha kingdom. If I hold this sword in my hand, with my profound Buddhism, I might be able to summon the Manjushri divine position to myself, and achieve enlightenment."

The old monk spoke in a low voice, talking to himself. However, having reached the peak of the mortal realm, all five senses and supernatural powers were open. Speaking in a low voice was like shouting loudly in the ear of a pure Yang cultivator, so Ji Xiang heard him clearly, and scoffed: "If you have the ability, come and take it."

Boom! The giant god legion took advantage of this gap to attack. The *yi sheng shen* (thought-born body) at the Bodhisattva level was touched by the giant god and quickly collapsed and was destroyed. Countless divine voices roared in the red-robed old monk's mind, like waves one after another without stopping!

This was the wish-power of the gods impacting his spirit. The Buddhist *yi sheng shen* would suffer heavy damage if subjected to strong mental attacks, preventing the main body from maintaining mental stability, and the *yi sheng shen* would collapse on its own.

"Your Buddhism cultivation is not yet proficient."

Ji Xiang glanced at him and mocked.

The red-robed old monk moved his lips, chanting strange syllables. As these Buddhist syllables spread out, his tottering spirit immediately stabilized. Many almost collapsed *yi sheng shen* regrouped and restored, fighting with the giant god legion.

In an instant, various Buddhist phenomena manifested. The red-robed old monk opened his hands wide, and the dharma form of the giant white bone Buddha also opened its hands.

Golden lotuses suddenly bloomed on the ground, and various Buddhist lights streaked across the sky.

"Buddha's light shines everywhere, golden lotuses spring from the earth."

Buyan-Chechen Khan was greatly amazed by the Buddhist power displayed by the red-robed old monk at this time. This was the first time he had seen the state preceptor display such great power. Only Buddhist cultivators who had reached the Bodhisattva level had this kind of phenomenon, and these Buddhist lights descended from various Buddha kingdoms and Dharma realms. The golden lotuses in the earth were also illusory spectacles produced after the Buddhist power touched the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. However, although they were illusory, these golden lotuses, as phenomena, would immediately pull people with weak mental power into a world of wishful illusions if they touched them. Unable to see through them, they would become fish on the chopping board.

Moreover, the numerous Buddhist lights carried all kinds of great power from the various Buddha kingdoms and Dharma realms. When demons and ghosts encountered this vast Buddhist light, almost instantly all evil thoughts would be erased, they would convert to the Buddha's land, and recite Buddhist scriptures.

All Buddhism, without exception, revolves around wish-power. According to legend, if the wish-power was strong enough, one could even ascend to the Buddha's kingdom in one step, and become a Buddha. That is, if the world says you are a Buddha, then you are a Buddha!

The Buddhist light shrouded down, enveloping Ji Xiang, and the red-robed old monk continued to utter strange syllables, trying to convert Ji Xiang with the unique Buddhism of the Lama sect:

"May you be illuminated by the light of all Buddhas, may the Great Black Revered God protect your body, so that you may achieve enlightenment."

"Mahakala."

As the syllables fell from the red-robed old monk's mouth, all the Buddhist light in front of Ji Xiang's eyes disappeared, and a vast, long night enveloped him. In fact, this was a hallucination manifested by the Buddhist light, but although it was a hallucination, it could truly harm the enemy, but the enemy had difficulty breaking through this hallucination. This was one of the highest applications of the art of wish-power.

All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows!

"The Dharma-protecting deity manifested to subdue the stubborn living beings, Mahakala, the Great Black Heaven God!"

The Lama sect believed that Mahakala was Vairocana Buddha, that is, the wrathful incarnation of the Great Sun Tathagata. He was the supreme Dharma-protecting deity jointly recognized by all Lamas, regardless of sect. When the object to be subdued was too strong, they would invite this god and Buddha to descend and manifest, in order to subdue the "stubborn living beings" in the world!

At this time, the red-robed old monk felt that victory was in his grasp.

"Even with Manjushri Bodhisattva's Wisdom Sword, it is difficult to escape. Since you asked me to take this sword, how can I refuse?"

The red-robed old monk let out a satisfied sigh, as if Ji Xiang would soon fall, and this was already a foregone conclusion. He descended from the sky with such an attitude and came before Buyan-Chechen Khan:

"Legend has it that Manjushri Bodhisattva's Wisdom Sword can reverse truth and falsehood, so when he assassinated the Buddha, the Buddha panicked and said that even if he wanted to kill, he should harm with goodness, not with evil."

"But now, I invite the Great Black Heaven God with supreme wish-power to subdue this heretical being. The Great Black Heaven God is both real and false. He comes from wish-power, so he is false, but he can harm the world. But if it is reversed with the Buddhist sword, then he will become real, and can also harm the world."

"With the power of Manjushri Bodhisattva's Buddhist sword, it is impossible to break the subtlety of Buddhism, because this is originally the divine sword held by the Buddhist Dharma. It is really laughable for an outsider to hold this sword and want to kill the Buddhist Vajra."

The red-robed old monk shook his head and laughed exaggeratedly. The Buyan Khan looked at the giant gods who were still wreaking havoc and asked, "What about these gods?"

"Don't worry, these gods are just things created by that person using strange methods, using divine positions to assist the mountain and river essence and the power of wind and thunder. Although I don't know how he created these gods, the mountain and river essence they possess is now being lost. The giant gods manifested by this method cannot appear in the mortal world for long."

"When my *yi sheng shen* drag these giant gods to their deaths, these divine positions will also fall into our control. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"

Upon hearing this, Buyan breathed out a sigh of relief. In short, as long as this red-robed old monk had the ability to handle this matter, that would be fine. He waved his hand to let the remaining warriors of the royal court slowly retreat from this valley. After all, in front of these giant gods, the combat power condensed by his little force was really not enough to see.

This was the disadvantage of not having the protection of national fortune. What could a weakened national fortune of one-third bring to him? The blessing of the ancient war god on him, this orthodox monarch, did not even reach the peak of the mortal realm. The blessing received by his soldiers would only be weaker, probably not even reaching the level of innate, or even "earth immortal."

With a difference of more than five realms, in the eyes of a pure Yang cultivator, there was no difference between insects and golden core earth immortals.

The red-robed old monk smiled, his heart even more excited.

Manjushri Bodhisattva's treasure sword was about to fall into his hands, and the moment of achieving enlightenment was also coming.

"The state preceptor doesn't seem to be relaxed either."

Buyan saw that the red-robed old monk's complexion was far from as good as before. The red-robed old monk also admitted that his situation was not good:

"That person is also very strong. I used the true form of the Buddha and displayed such wonderful methods to trap and kill him within. However, even if he has a thousand or ten thousand methods, it is difficult to escape from the control of the Great Black Heaven God. That is the supreme Dharma-protector created by my Buddha, accumulating an extremely vast wish-power, and integrating the spirits of ten thousand Buddhas into it..."

"Although the divine position is not high, as long as the Great Yuan can be restored, the Great Black Heaven can also return to its former glory..."

Boom!

........

In the dark world, the Great Black Heaven God had already revealed his complete appearance.

He had six arms, his body was blue, he wore a tiger skin, a large rosary composed of fifty human skulls hung around his neck, and he wore five skull crowns. His body was entwined with snakes, and his six arms held a moon knife, a human bone bowl, a trident, an elephant skin, a big drum, and a vajra hook. He trampled on a huge white elephant god, and blazing flames burned behind him, forming a rotating fire wheel!

There was also a legend about the Great Black Heaven God, that Avalokitesvara seized his consciousness, which made him become a Buddhist Dharma-protector.

"Subduing gods, so that's how it is...."

Ji Xiang confirmed one thing when he saw the manifested six-armed Great Black Heaven God:

"This is 'Driving Gods'!"

Although the Art of Driving Gods was one of the seventy-two arts of the Earthly Fiends, it had many variations. All methods of dispatching gods could be said to have evolved from the Art of Driving Gods!

The power of the Art of Driving Gods was also unquestionable. It was difficult for others to use it to drive great gods, but if Ji Xiang used it himself, he could even invite the Celestial Worthy of the Primordial Beginning!

However, it was not yet time for the Celestial Worthy of the Primordial Beginning to take action.

"How can I invite the Great Celestial Worthy so frequently? That will cost me a lot of mana."

The Buddhist sword in Ji Xiang's hand hummed. The Great Black Heaven God stretched out his hand forward, and a long night pressed down. Ji Xiang thrust the Manjushri Great Wisdom Sword forward. With a sound of "Great," the sword grew as large as a mountain and flew over, and the fire of wisdom spewed out from the sword's edge!

The Great Black Heaven God did not dodge or avoid this attack, and still moved forward, even baring his chest, as if afraid that Ji Xiang would not stab him!

Puchi! The giant sword, like a flying peak, pierced into the chest of the Great Black Heaven God, who revealed a piercing, strange laugh. The cyan skin changed from illusion to reality, wanting to reverse truth and falsehood from the false world, with a wish-power body, and use the power of the Buddhist sword to come to the mortal world!

But Ji Xiang smiled strangely.

Words appeared on the Inner Vision Divine Tablet:

[Great Black Heaven God Mahakala (Yuan): Saving all degenerate beings in the Dharma Ending Age, subduing all stubborn beings in the world!]

[Former Seventh Rank of Great Karma in the Heavenly Department!]

[Present Twelfth Rank of Great Karma in the Heavenly Department.]

[The image of the Great Black Heaven God that has been passed down since the Yuan Dynasty, manifested in this image in response to the summons of Mongolian monks. In the past, during the Yuan Dynasty, Phagpa once created a golden statue of the Great Black Heaven God for Kublai Khan, which was offered incense by the Yuan court. This statue was originally located on Mount Wutai, and later flowed north with the fall of the Yuan. When it was offered incense, all Yuan court Dharma masters who summoned it would immediately manifest to assist. After the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the incense of the Great Black Heaven declined in the Central Plains, and almost no one worshiped it.]

[Recite the seventh section of the Great Compassion Mantra three times, "I remember in the past countless kalpas........" - Externally manifest the divine form as "Thousand Light King Still Abides Tathagata", to break the Black Heaven World!]

[Or manifest as the Godly General Who Slays Ghosts, forcibly tearing apart this world.]

Godly General Who Slays Ghosts?

This was a trump card, who would use their bottom card right away?

The Great Black Heaven God cast a curse on Ji Xiang, but the attack from the magnificent wish-power was blocked by a world of suffering illusion. At this moment, this god could not help but reveal a look of astonishment, while Ji Xiang smiled strangely:

"Do gods also have emotions? That kind of emotion just now is clearly not possessed by a natural god!"

Some gods loved to laugh, and they were always smiling when they manifested. Some were crying, some were angry, such as the Wisdom Kings, who were always angry. This was their "divine personality," and the world worshiped them with such an image.

However, the Wisdom King who was in charge of anger, if he was summoned and manifested with such a divine power similar to the Art of Driving Gods, would never show human emotions such as "surprise" or "confusion."

Pure gods have no humanity.

The Great Black Heaven God's eyes moved. From this moment of silence, Ji Xiang guessed some things and revealed: "As expected, you are not an ordinary subdued god, summoned by a divine power similar to the Art of Driving Gods. You are not the Great Black Heaven God, but a Buddhist disciple holding the divine position of the Great Black Heaven God."

"However, you should just be a wish-power incarnation, like the *yi sheng shen* displayed by those at the Bodhisattva level."

The Great Black Heaven God revealed a look of surprise, but soon began to grin again. He did not speak, and this spiritual thought was about to break through the limitations of truth and falsehood and come to this dark world.

But next.

Ji Xiang recited the seventh section of the Great Compassion Mantra, and the second recitation came from the swastika seal between his eyebrows. It was Compassionate Vow Vajra helping at this time.

In an instant, a vast Buddhist light burst out from his body!

A thousand Buddhist lights illuminated the heavens, a layer of gold covered Ji Xiang's body, and a thousand golden arms gradually unfolded from behind him, while the Great Black Heaven God was instantly pushed out of this dark world by the thousand golden palms!

The black Buddhist light suddenly exploded!

......

Boom!

The black Buddhist light shattered, and a thousand golden arms stretched out from it! The red-robed old monk's words were not finished, and the next moment, those thousand golden palms rained down from the sky!

The white bone Buddha waved its hand forward, but there was no way to hit these golden arms.

The spells gathered by wish-power could not attack these golden Buddhist powers.

The arms and palms fell down, and the golden light curtain also submerged this land. The red-robed old monk saw Ji Xiang's black robe turn into a golden kasaya, and the revealed Buddhist form caused him to lose his mind for a short time.

That image was also circulated in the Lama sect.

Thousand-Hand Guanyin?

No.

That appearance was not right, the kasaya of Thousand-Hand Guanyin was not like this.

Who....is it?

"In the past, countless kalpas ago, there was a Buddha who appeared in the world, named Thousand Light King Still Abides Tathagata. That Buddha, the World Honored One, out of compassion for me and for the sake of all sentient beings, spoke this vast, perfect, unobstructed Great Compassion Heart Dharani. With a golden hand, he stroked the top of my head and said these words."

The voice from within the black Buddhist light spread out at this time.

Thousand Light King Still Abides Tathagata.

An ancient Buddha from a distant age, the teacher of Guanshiyin.

The golden light in front of the red-robed old monk's eyes dissipated. His body was not harmed, but he stared with wide eyes, and his body collapsed directly onto the ground like mud.

Buyan was by his side, and everything happened too quickly. He did not even have time to react.

The red-robed old monk's body was not damaged in any way. What was destroyed by the golden light was his spirit and soul.

And all the wish-power he possessed was turned into dust under the illumination of the thousand Buddhist lights!

"Now.....let's talk, Khan."

"Is it you who dies...or you who dies?"

Ji Xiang put away the image of Thousand Light Buddha, changed back into black clothes, stood beside Buyan, and raised his hand.

The thunder that had stopped in this world flashed again!