Who is still a serious fox monster these days

Chapter 523 Today's Buddhist Forest
After saying goodbye to Zhao Kuo, Chen Yuan went to meet Li Xiangyuan and her daughter.

Unfortunately, Xinyi was refining her sword skills in the sword pool, and Chen Yuan was unable to hold his daughter.

While chatting tenderly with Li Xiangyuan, he learned that more than five months had passed since he left the Earthly Fairyland.

This made him wonder what went wrong, as he had not been unconscious or unconscious during this period.

The only time he entered a deep state of meditation was when he comprehended the seventh-level wood element formation with Cang Mulong.

But at that time, the teleportation formation was being opened, so it should have only been about nine days.

Could it be that the teleportation array had actually been opened long ago, but Cang Mulong did not wake me up from my meditation, thus wasting time?
After secretly noting this matter, he left Tianjian Mountain and headed straight for the Western Border.

However, when they arrived in the western border, they found that the place was already full of demonic energy. The mortals they saw had their minds influenced by the demonic spirit and were prone to fighting and killing each other.

The monks in all the temples were contaminated with evil spirits, but strangely they did not break the precepts at will. Instead, they observed the precepts even more strictly than what Chen Yuan had seen when he first traveled around the world.

What's happening here?
He was confused, and then he didn't look any further and moved directly to the outside of the Buddhist holy land, the Buddhist forest.

However, the Buddhist forest, which had previously been filled with auspicious Buddha light and peaceful Sanskrit sounds, had now become filled with demonic energy.

The black, red and purple demonic energy enveloped the Buddhist forest like a dormant giant beast, and the escaping demonic energy made the place extremely desolate.

Bones that had been drained of their marrow were everywhere, and the skinned bodies of monks were lying all over the place.

I don't know if it's because the blood has dried up over time, or if they were already drained of blood, but now they look like corpses.

Thick demonic energy condensed on the mummy, and a strange aura covered the surroundings. The spiritual consciousness was also disturbed and it was difficult to see the surroundings.

This strange scene made Chen Yuan feel inexplicably anxious.

To be on the safe side, he did not use teleportation again, but instead flew in with a fiery divine light all over his body.

During the journey, he identified the mummies he saw one by one, and after making sure that Qinglian was not among them, he flew to the pagoda garden outside the Buddhist forest.

Unlike the last time when I accompanied Mu Ling here to return the magic weapon, this pagoda garden was now shrouded in purple-black demonic energy.

The relics were suppressed by the strong demonic intent, and the Buddha light they emitted seemed very weak.

On the edge of the pagoda garden, the tops of several pagodas have been broken, the relics inside have disappeared, and a strong demonic aura remains inside.

Did the evildoers forcibly break into the pagoda and take away the relics, or did the relics inside become contaminated by the evil spirit and break through the pagoda on their own and leave?
Although he was confused, Chen Yuan did not stop and flew directly to the center of the Buddhist forest, where many Arhats were giving lectures.

The closer to the place where the Arhat was giving lectures, the thicker the demonic energy became, especially when it was ten feet away from the place where the lectures were given. Even though Chen Yuan had the gift of spiritual eyesight, he could not see through the demonic fog in front of him.

Unable to see with the eyes and unable to detect with the spiritual sense, Chen Yuan did not move forward rashly. Instead, he separated his Huoyang clone and stepped into the magic fog ahead.

A distance of ten feet was nothing for Huoyang's clone. In less than two breaths, he passed through the magic fog and stepped into the Buddhist forest where he preached.

But in the place where the sermon was being delivered, demons with different auras were sitting lazily on the lotus pedestals.

They either peeled off the skin of the arhat's corpse in front of them, or pulled out the bones of the arhat and sucked them, or swallowed the flesh and blood, and some even did indecent things to the corpse.

The arrival of Huoyang's clone also made all the demons turn their heads to look.

"Haha, someone is finally here!"

"He is mine, don't take him away! Otherwise I will suck his marrow dry!"

"He's so handsome, leave his face to me."

"Why would I bother with you guys? Let me have a bite first!"

Finally, the demon who was as fat as a pig and wearing a bright red robe spat out the severed limbs in his mouth and flew towards Chen Yuan’s Huoyang clone.

Huoyang's clone narrowed his eyes. He was sure that there were no Buddhists alive here. He put his hands together and pointed at the fat demon who was rushing towards him, then jumped up.

The sword light shot out like a volcanic eruption and instantly reached the demon's face.

The fat demon's pupils contracted. He thought it was just an ordinary mid-stage Return to Void, but he never thought he had such a sharp sword move.

But since he was assigned to attack Buddhism, he was definitely no ordinary person.

As soon as he opened his mouth, it seemed as if another world was connected to his mouth, forming a wind gate to swallow the sword light of the shocking sword.

At this time, the Huoyang clone leaped over and approached. A fierce look flashed in the fat demon's eyes. He didn't care what means the Huoyang clone was going to use, and directly sucked the Huoyang clone into his mouth.

"You fat pig, you want to eat it all for yourself!"

"Spit out his bones!"

"Leave his face to me, or I'll take yours!"

The other demons shouted loudly, but the fat demon just kept his mouth shut regardless.

His eyes, which were squeezed into a line due to obesity, showed a bit of satisfaction as he turned around to look at the other demons and said:

"He came here on his own initiative, so you can't blame me."

When the other demons looked grim and wanted to say something, they saw flames coming out of the fat demon's ears, nostrils, eyes, and mouth.

The fat demon also looked stunned for a moment, and then his extremely fat body suddenly exploded, leaving behind an extremely blazing fire sun divine light.

The fat-stuffed body exploded and splattered everywhere. Except for the demon who was greedy for flesh and blood, the others all lit up their protective magic lights to block it.

At this time, the Fire Sun Divine Light slowly dissipated, and the fat demon who consumed the substitute spirit creature said with an unpleasant expression:
"Fire Sun Divine Light, could this person be Chen Yuan?"

Several other demons gloated at this time and said:

"If there is no one else in this earthly immortal world who is good at using the Fire Sun Divine Light, then this must be it. Tang Luo, you are quite amazing. You can withstand his self-explosion and not die."

"Yes, if the Demon General knew about this, he would definitely praise you highly."

"I am so envious of you. You killed the enemy of the Demon General just like this. When you ascend to the Heavenly Demon Realm in the future, you will definitely be the first one to be ranked."

The fat demon known as Tang Luo snorted and flew back to the lotus platform where he was originally standing:
"Why bother talking nonsense? It's not like we haven't seen Chen Yuan's abilities before. He hasn't even used his Tail-Severing Secret Technique. How could he explode directly?"

"Hahahaha, so you knew. You were so eager to eat, I thought you had some sophisticated method to kill me directly."

The seductive woman on the lotus platform beside her laughed, her face full of sarcasm.

The other demons also laughed sarcastically, and Tang Luo snorted with an unpleasant expression but said no more.

Outside the lecture hall, Chen Yuan stood there with a frown on his face.

Isn’t it said that Buddhism has sealed itself off under the management of Sunlight Bodhisattva?
Why did he see the holy land of Buddhism being occupied by demons, and even the lotus platform where lectures were given was occupied by demons?

Could it be that the Sunlight Bodhisattva has also fallen?

If this is the case, then Qinglian who rushed back here to help...

A terrible thought arose in his mind, and then he suddenly felt murderous.

Just as he was about to go in with his true form and start killing people, he suddenly heard the voice of Sunlight Bodhisattva:
"Namo Medicine King Buddha, I sense the traces of Fire Sun Divine Light in the formation, it turns out that donor Chen has returned." Chen Yuan just raised his right foot and paused, following the voice transmission, he responded: "Is the Bodhisattva okay?"

"But he is a little embarrassed. Please come to the Demon-Suppressing Cliff."

Chen Yuan's face looked strange when he heard this. The holy land of Buddhism was occupied by the devil, but the eminent monks of Buddhism went to the Demon-Suppressing Cliff instead.

To say this was a coincidence would be ridiculous.

While thinking, he turned and flew towards the Demon-Suppressing Cliff.

He climbed over the mountain and slowly descended. Before he reached the bottom of the cliff, he saw a layer of Buddha's light flowing at the bottom of the cliff, which seemed out of place in this Buddhist forest shrouded in demonic energy.

But what puzzled Chen Yuan was that this incompatible Buddha light formed a certain balance with the demonic energy, as if they were perfectly integrated together.

With doubts, he flew to the bottom of the cliff and saw Qinglian, whom he was worried about, as well as Sunlight Bodhisattva, Dingguang Arhat and others.

However, the absence of Red Lotus Arhat made Chen Yuan feel a little depressed.

Nodding to Qinglian, he looked at the Sunlight Bodhisattva sitting in the first seat.

Today, the Sunlight Bodhisattva is as big as a dancing elephant, and the little novice monk in snow-white clothes has the feeling of a modern saint monk.

"Namo Medicine King Buddha, I'm sorry to have made a fool of myself, donor Chen." The Sunlight Bodhisattva clasped his hands together and performed a Buddhist salute.

Chen Yuan nodded in return and asked curiously:

"What happened? Even with the Bodhisattva in charge, those demons were able to commit such atrocities?"

"The demon general had extraordinary means, confusing the celestial phenomena and causing the eclipse of the sun to happen earlier than expected. I was blinded by him and many Arhats died. It was all my fault."

The Sunlight Bodhisattva sighed and narrated what had happened that day.

When the solar eclipse occurred, although the Sunlight Bodhisattva was puzzled as to why the time was different from the calculated time, he did not think much about it because it was only a few days off, and simply thought that the number of days had changed and he had calculated the day wrong.

Afterwards, the fake Chen Yuan visited him and discussed with him the matter of repairing the Taizang Liuli Universe Light Array.

The Sunlight Bodhisattva had no doubts about him and thought that Chen Yuan had returned from the outside world with something new, so he allowed him into the Buddhist forest to preach.

However, the fake Chen Yuan was actually a demon general. As soon as he came in, he threw out the chessboard, covering the entire western border.

Later, he sacrificed the lives of tens of thousands of extraterritorial demons and forced his move to become the main chess pieces, or points in the formation.

Seeing that the other party was about to turn the Western Territory into a demonic realm in one fell swoop, the Sunlight Bodhisattva used the great magical powers in the "Medicine King Buddha's Original Vow and Merit Sutra" to carve the Ten Commandments of Buddhism into the chess pieces on the chessboard.

This resulted in the Western Territory being infected by the evil spirit in the chessboard, but at the same time it was controlled by the Ten Commandments of Buddhism.

All the monks were possessed by demons, but they became more and more strict in observing the precepts.

The demon general Kong Changhen saw that the matter was irreversible, so he attacked in anger.

The Sunlight Bodhisattva used his strength which had not yet fully recovered to forcibly display his great magical powers. His vitality was already greatly damaged, and he was unable to protect all the Arhats in his hasty fight.

He retreated to the foot of the Demon-Suppressing Cliff with the Arhats who had not died in the first moment of the conflict.

Because of the star-shaped chessboard, the lecture place and the Demon-Suppressing Cliff became two opposing points. The Arhats formed a formation here and finally gained a firm foothold.

Kong Changhen saw that there was nothing he could do, so he left several demons who were destined to be his main chess pieces at the lecture site to suppress the Sunlight Bodhisattva and others under the Demon-Suppressing Cliff.

In order to prevent chaos in the Western Territory, Sunlight Bodhisattva and others chanted scriptures day and night to increase the pressure of the Demon-Suppressing Cliff, thereby forcing the demons at the lecture site to stay in place.

After hearing the whole story, Chen Yuan said with a gloomy face:
"Kong Changhen has achieved the Return to Void in the Heaven Beyond Heaven. Logically, he should not be able to enter and leave the Earthly Immortal Realm at will."

"After all, he is one of the demon generals under the Great Freedom Emperor. It is not surprising that he has any strange methods." Sunlight Bodhisattva shook his head and said:

"The Western Territory has now fallen. Although it has not yet completely turned into a demonic territory, if this calamity is not resolved, the demonic intent will take root in people's hearts, and demonic chaos will continue in the future."

"Namo Medicine King Buddha, I beg you to help me, Mr. Chen, and kill Kong Changhen to put an end to this demonic chaos."

"Even if the Bodhisattva doesn't tell me, I will not let go of those who pretend to be me."

Chen Yuan responded, then looked at Qinglian and said, "Can I talk to Qinglian alone?"

“No, I have used the power of the Eastern Pure Lapis Lazuli World to protect this place. People who come in can purify their evil intentions, but I cannot stop the formation to let people out.”

Sunlight Bodhisattva clasped his hands together and shook his head. Chen Yuan sighed inwardly and sent a voice message to Qinglian:
"It's so dangerous, you should wait for me to come back."

Qinglian shook her head and replied:

"I come from the Buddhist sect. Although I am yours, I will always come back to help if anything happens to the Buddhist sect."

Chen Yuan nodded and said nothing more. Instead, he looked at the Demon-Suppressing Cliff again.

After confirming that Red Lotus Arhat was not there, he asked, "Why can't I see Red Lotus Arhat?"

Sunlight Bodhisattva closed his eyes and said with great regret:
"When the conflict broke out that day, Honglian was set on fire and burned himself, and he passed away."

Chen Yuan frowned. Red Lotus Arhat had helped him many times, and even blocked Fei Yuer's attack from thousands of miles away for him, but he also died because of the devil's calamity.

He nodded slightly with an expressionless face, and said in a low voice:
"That Kong Changhen can come and go in the Earthly Immortal Realm at will. If he intends to hide, I have no idea where to find him. Does the Bodhisattva have any good ideas?"

Sunlight Bodhisattva shook his head, and Chen Yuan said:

"I am confident that I can kill all the demons in the lecture hall. If I kill them, can I force Kong Changhen out?"

The Sunlight Bodhisattva still shook his head, and this time he spoke:
"Those demons cannot be killed."

"Why can't I kill him?"

Sunlight Bodhisattva clasped his hands together and said with a serious face:
"They have been engraved into the Ten Commandments of Buddhism by this little monk. As one of the main chess pieces, they are now the Ten Commandments of Buddhism in the Western Territory."

"Killing one person will break one commandment. If you kill them all, you will break five commandments. By then, there will be no need for Kong Changhen to take action, and the Western Territory will become a living hell."

"The three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance confuse and bewilder us, and there is no possibility of recovery."

Hearing this, Chen Yuan frowned and said:
"So even if the demonic calamity ends in the future, they won't be able to kill us?"

"Yes, even if the demonic calamity ends, they can only be influenced by our Buddha in the future and transformed into Dharma protectors, forever under the Demon-Suppressing Cliff."

The Sunlight Bodhisattva nodded, with a helpless look on his face.

"I understand." Chen Yuan nodded: "Does the Bodhisattva have anything else to teach me?"

Sunlight Bodhisattva shook his head:

"Although I can protect myself, I am actually trapped here. The worry of the demonic calamity is entirely up to Benefactor Chen."

"Okay." Chen Yuan responded, looked at Qinglian again, turned around and turned into the divine light of fire and sun and disappeared.

The matter of the Buddhist forest has been clarified. The Sunlight Bodhisattva cannot help, so we can only ask the Heavenly Demon Palace for help.

Hai Dongbo is good at deduction. If he cooperates with the Heavenly Demon Palace, perhaps he can find Kong Changhen's whereabouts!
(End of this chapter)