What comes into view is a huge city with ancient and mottled walls covered with dark red dried bloodstains. The tallest building in the city is a Buddhist pagoda, which is a hundred meters high and painted in gold, as if it were made of gold.
Kongjian pointed to the city and introduced, "This is the Buddhist City, the place where Buddhism survives in the spatial nodes. The power of banishing evil spirits protects the Buddhist City from the invasion of gray fog and evil spirits at all times."
Fang Xiu nodded, knowing that this Buddhist city was similar to the White Stone Town, the burial ground, except that White Stone Town was more cruel, requiring payment for accommodation and being extremely harsh on its residents.
At this moment, Kongjian added, "However, although the Buddhist city seems safe, living there is not a worry-free experience. Every once in a while, Buddhist disciples will go out in groups to hunt down strange creatures in order to replenish their power to suppress them."
Back then, hundreds of thousands of Buddhist disciples and believers entered the spatial node, but now only one-tenth remain. If it weren't for my breakthrough to the sixth rank, Buddhism would probably have perished long ago.
Fang Xiu gazed at the Buddhist city, where monks could be seen moving about. At a glance, there were quite a few of them, even more than the monks in the Great Thunderclap Temple.
Kongjian explained, "In fact, the Buddha City is the foundation of Buddhism. Most of the Buddhists are in the Buddha City. They must guard the Buddha City and hunt down the strange creatures every once in a while to ensure the stability of the spatial node. Otherwise, the power to suppress the strange creatures will be exhausted, and the spatial node will be completely integrated into the real world. At that time, a continuous stream of strange creatures will flood in, and the real world will be in danger."
Even his subordinates dared not leave the Buddhist sect for too long, because each hunt for the supernatural was led by subordinates along with Buddhist disciples, ensuring sufficient strength to suppress the monsters.
Fang Xiu nodded. Indeed, the peaceful and idyllic life we enjoy today is only possible because others are bearing the burden. This is true for the headquarters, the Buddhist sect, and the Taoist sect.
The headquarters cleared out the strange phenomena within the country, and the Taoist and Buddhist sects suppressed the spatial nodes. Without their patching up efforts, the Xia Kingdom would have already fallen.
At this moment, Fang Xiu suddenly felt a throbbing in his heart, and his heartbeat gradually accelerated, as if he was overjoyed.
He vaguely sensed a surging power of the same origin deep within the Buddha City. He even saw a blurry image before his eyes: a darkness, in which a strangely twisted right hand covered in blood-red scales floated silently, emanating a forbidden and ominous aura that sent chills down his spine.
Forbidden right hand!
It seems that the one suppressing the Buddhist spatial node is the right hand of the Forbidden Evil.
However, Fang Xiu only glanced at it twice before looking away and severing the connection between the Heart of Forbidden Ghosts and the Right Hand of Forbidden Ghosts.
Now is not the time to take away the Right Hand of the Forbidden Demon. Once the Right Hand of the Forbidden Demon is taken away, the spatial node of Buddhism will completely descend into the mortal world.
Unless, of course, a divine artifact like the Imperial Seal of the State replaces the right hand that forbids evil.
With this in mind, Fang Xiu had already made up his mind. He decided to throw Yang Ming into the Buddhist spatial node and let him stay there with the antique until the antique could successfully nurture a spirit, at which point he would come out again.
"Let's go, to the depths of the spatial node."
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An hour later, Fang Xiu emerged from the Buddhist spatial node. His spiritual energy had been fully replenished, and even slightly enhanced. He separated a portion of his Taotie army and kept them in the spatial node. After all, it would be too crowded for a hundred Taotie to eat in one spatial node, as it could easily lead to malnutrition.
Sooner or later, he will turn all the major spatial nodes into gluttonous breeding grounds.
Raising gluttons all over the world!
The current strength of the Taotie is still too weak. If one day we cultivate hundreds of Taotie of the sixth rank, then we will probably be able to suppress the spatial nodes without even needing forbidden limbs or spiritual artifacts.
This is also a possible approach; if we can achieve this, collecting all the forbidden monster bodies will be just around the corner.
When Fang Xiu left Mount Ling, he naturally received the highest level of farewell treatment, including not only Abbot Kongjian, but also the Eighteen Arhats forming an array to see him off.
This contrasts sharply with his previous visits to Lingshan.
This scene stunned the spies from various factions waiting outside, and many of them took out their cameras to record and photograph the scene, sending the footage back to their respective factions.
"What exactly happened inside the Great Thunderclap Temple?! Look at Abbot Kongjian's obsequious manner, so arrogant before and so obsequious now, is he still the same highly respected Buddhist monk from before?"
"Anyone who didn't know better would think Abbot Kongjian was Fang Xiu's lackey. He's only been inside for a few hours. It's unimaginable what this sixth-level Buddhist expert went through in such a short time. How did he end up like this? There are no injuries on his body."
"I had previously speculated that there might be some kind of reversal, and that Fang Xiu entering the Great Thunderclap Temple might be like a lamb entering a tiger's den. But now it seems that this is clearly a wolf entering a flock of sheep."
At that moment, Kongjian, who was bowing and scraping to see Fang Xiu off, heard the discussions in the distance and couldn't help but curse inwardly, "Whom am I bowing and scraping for? Isn't it for you, for all living beings?"
The spies hiding in the distance were unaware that Kongjian was enduring humiliation for their sake, and they continued to gossip about it.
After all, they had never seen a sixth-tier expert show such respect to others in their entire lives.
Western media reports about God, as well as photos and descriptions of God, basically portray Him as the supreme being in heaven and on earth.
But now, the abbot of the Buddhist sect, who is also at the sixth level, is showing such an attitude. How can people not be shocked?
"Hey! Look, there's a stone tablet at the foot of Mount Ling. I remember it used to say 'Buddhist' on it, right?"
Many people looked over immediately and gasped in shock.
A few hours ago, there was a huge stone tablet at the foot of Lingshan Mountain with the two characters "Buddhism" engraved on it. But now... the two characters "Buddhism" are still there, but a few more characters have been added before and after them.
The Xia Kingdom Investigation Bureau was added before the name, and the office was added after it.
Put together, it is indeed the Buddhist Office of the Xia Kingdom Investigation Bureau!
This... this is a complete change of allegiance! How did the prophet Fang Xiu manage to get even the name of the Buddhist holy site, which was inherited from the previous era, changed?
Previously, all parties believed that although Fang Xiu had forced the Buddhist sect to admit defeat, his strength was ultimately inferior to that of a sixth-tier sect. Therefore, the best outcome would be for both sides to successfully negotiate a peace agreement, and for the headquarters to establish a cooperative relationship with the Buddhist sect.
But who would have thought that in just a few hours, the Buddhist sect had even changed its name? This was no cooperation at all; it had been completely swallowed up by the headquarters of the Xia Kingdom's Investigation Bureau and turned into a branch.
The name change was naturally arranged in advance by Kong Jian. He was terrified by Fang Xiu's threats and was afraid that if he did something wrong, it would lead to the destruction of the world. He went to great lengths to save the world and even planned to change his cassock into the headquarters uniform tomorrow.
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