Stepping on the Demoness to become the strongest-Chapter 599 - 71 Setting Thousand Buddha Temple Ablaze
Chapter 599 -71: Setting Thousand Buddha Temple Ablaze to Rescue Zhou Hongyu (Part 2)
Chapter 599 -71: Setting Thousand Buddha Temple Ablaze to Rescue Zhou Hongyu (Part 2)
It now seems that the one who built the Thousand Buddha Temple was not a sorcerer from Southeast Asia, but a monstrous monk of the Red Lotus Zen! However, Evil Zen excels at deception and confusing the mind. It’s understandable that the local sorcerers couldn’t distinguish this.
With this thought, Yan Yu hesitated no longer and executed the Sword-Human Unity move, splitting the Lotus Incense Burner in two.
Once the source of the fire was severed, the surrounding Karmic Fire indeed began to disperse gradually. Yan Yu formed a sword technique with his hands, and the Huang Tingjian sword shot out again, forcefully smashing open the tightly shut temple doors.
The moment the door broke, a golden streak shot out from inside. Luckily, Yan Yu’s reflexes were extremely fast. He used the Cloud Dividing Eight Trigrams Step to leap up and barely avoided the sideways sweep of the Crimson Feather Nine Phoenix Fire below him in mid-air.
“Zhou Hongyu!” he shouted urgently, “It’s me!”
If he hadn’t shouted, given Zhou Hongyu’s desperate fighting style, she most likely would have responded with several shots of the Great Brightness Flame Spear, leaving him nowhere to run.
Fortunately, Yan Yu did shout, and finally, the inside fell quiet. After a few seconds, Zhou Hongyu’s face appeared.
While her features remained strikingly fierce, her skin had turned a swollen and unsightly red, looking as if she could become deranged by fire at any moment. Considering this girl had been roasted inside the temple, her appearing like a cooked shrimp was no surprise.
Zhou Hongyu tried to step out but staggered, nearly tripping over the doorstep.
Yan Yu quickly stepped forward, supporting Zhou Hongyu, who felt astonishingly hot all over, just like having a fever, probably with a body temperature of seventy to eighty degrees.
“Damn!” Yan Yu exclaimed, “Zhou Hongyu, can you still be saved? If not, I might go order a coffin for you…”
“Shut up!” Zhou Hongyu snapped back irritably, then realized her tone and explained in a lower voice, “My True Yuan is almost depleted, and I’ve been poisoned by the fire. I need to find a place to heal quickly, or I’ll risk becoming deranged by fire. Hurry, give me the Elixir Medicine!”
“Here.” Yan Yu quickly pulled out the Elixir Medicine and stuffed it into Zhou Hongyu’s mouth, “It’s not safe to heal here. Let’s get out first.”
Zhou Hongyu swallowed the Elixir Medicine and followed him silently.
Seeing that she had no intention of speaking, Yan Yu could only ask her telepathically:
“How did you end up in this situation, can you explain?”
“Thousand Buddha Temple is situated high, suitable for collecting Thunderbolt Fire during rainy days.” Zhou Hongyu kept it brief, “I often came here, and they discovered me.”
“Then what?” Yan Yu asked.
“They forced me into the main temple and continuously burned me with Red Lotus Karma Fire day and night, attempting to transform me into something they called ‘Buddha’s Mother.'” Zhou Hongyu continued, “If you hadn’t come, I would have been doomed.”
“I see.” Yan Yu made an “I understand” face, but in reality, he was completely confused.
He knew a bit about Red Lotus Karma Fire, roughly understanding it to be a powerful dharma method of Red Lotus Zen; but as for “Buddha’s Mother,” he had never heard of it before and could only guess it was some kind of mutation similar to a virus infection turning people into zombies.
“So you won’t suddenly transform into this ‘Buddha’s Mother,’ will you?” Yan Yu asked to confirm again.
“No.” Zhou Hongyu replied, “Inside, I spewed Great Bright Fire, which could withstand the burning of Red Lotus Karma Fire. However, there’s some kind of evil method in the Karmic Fire. Even through the Great Bright Fire, it’s gradually affecting my mind.”
“So there’s still some of that stuff inside you.” Yan Yu quickly concluded, “How do you feel?”
“It feels like countless people are chanting scriptures inside my head.” Zhou Hongyu said irritably, “It’s maddening.”
Yan Yu quickly pieced together the clues: the refining process of this ‘Buddha’s Mother’ must involve Red Lotus Refining Body and karma refining the heart, aimed at transforming Zhou Hongyu from body to mind into a monster. Luckily, Zhou Hongyu had the Great Bright Fire to dispel evil and had already advanced to the Hua Mansion stage with abundant True Yuan. Hence, relying on the Elixir Medicine and countering with the external Great Bright Fire, she barely withstood the burning of Red Lotus fire and managed to hold on until his arrival.
Although her body hadn’t been mutated by Karmic Fire, the immediate effects of becoming deranged couldn’t be removed, so they needed to leave quickly.
The two fled the temple through the wall and were about to blend into the streets when suddenly a monk appeared ahead.
The monk, dressed in a golden-red kasaya, holding a bowl, spoke in the curry-flavored language of Lu Country:
“Amitābha. The lady donor’s Buddha nature is about to fully mature, why stop halfway?”
As Yan Yu formed a sword technique with his hands, he heard Zhou Hongyu transmit irritably:
“He’s the one who forced me into the temple!”
“Lady donor.” The monk pressed his palms together, chanted a Buddha’s name, and continued, “In your previous life, you were a Red Lotus deep below ten thousand feet, tormented by Earth Fire for ten thousand years without being extinguished. Hence, in this life, your nature is fierce and difficult to empathize with others. If you do not enter the monkhood and use profound Buddhist teachings to resolve the fierce energy you carried from birth, you will not only harm those around you but also cannot escape your own fiery fate. Our temple refined you with Red Lotus Karma Fire to assist you in becoming a Buddha, nothing else.”
Zhou Hongyu was initially stunned, then scoffed coldly:
“Lies to fool a three-year-old, do you think I would believe that?”
p>”Amitābha.” Not flinching, the monk calmly asked, “If the lady donor disbelieves, then why did she enter the temple in the first place?”
Yan Yu raised an eyebrow towards Zhou Hongyu and transmitted:
“So initially, you weren’t forced into the temple, but were deceived into entering?”
Zhou Hongyu’s face darkened as she replied:
“Don’t fuss over that! Are you going to help me kill him or not?”
“Hold on a moment.” Yan Yu turned back to the monk, smiling as he asked, “Master says she is the reincarnation of an Earth Fire Red Lotus, how about you check what my previous life was?”
“Amitābha.” After a moment of contemplation, the monk spoke, “Donor, in your previous life, you were the Palm-sized Immortal Sword of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady. Thus, in this life, you excel in various sword techniques and are unbeatable in battle, rarely meeting defeat.”
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