Chapter 1473: The Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City (Second Update)
The great Buddha approaching had hair and practiced cultivation as a layperson, unlike other monks. He wore no monastic robes, appearing like an ordinary mortal from the secular world. Yet as he walked, Buddhist sounds surged forth vast and mighty, Buddha light roiling, transforming behind his head into ring after ring of halos.
Within those halos, Buddhist realms and heavens manifested one after another, totaling twenty-eight layers of heavens. At the center stood a great Mount Sumeru, with Buddhas and holy beings standing within the heavens, chanting sutras. Heavenly flowers rained down in profusion, causing even the cripple and the blind man, who had been locked in battle, to calm their hearts and cease their fighting.
This great Buddha was none other than Horse Ye from the Village of Crippled Elders, Horse the Divine Arrestor, Horse Tathagata.
He strode forward, behind him layers of Buddha light, the twenty-eight Buddhist heavens growing increasingly real. Various Buddhist treasures hung within those heavens, their precious radiance swirling, solemn and extraordinary.
Horse Ye ignored everyone, walking straight to Qin Mu's side. He raised a finger and pointed, tapping into Qin Mu's dream.
The dream opened just like that. Horse Ye stepped into Qin Mu's dream, arrived at the center of Qin Mu's brow, and sat down in the lotus position.
Hum, hum, hum—
A series of vibrations came forth. The twenty-eight Buddhist heavens behind Horse Ye's head spun around, hanging behind Qin Mu's primordial spirit. The heavens' Buddhas chanted loudly, Buddhist sounds swirling, Sanskrit tones resounding through the heavens.
Horse Ye slowly closed his eyes, but the eye at the center of his brow slowly opened.
Horse Tathagata's third eye was a Buddha eye, usually kept closed. When the Buddha eye opened, it meant the situation was extremely urgent.
But as this Buddha eye opened, a beam of Buddha light shot forth, fixing upon the Buddha Qin Mu. That dream Buddha Qin Mu immediately stopped his assimilation.
From Horse Tathagata's vertical brow eye, beams of Buddha light shot out one after another, fixing each Qin Mu in the dream. He gave a light shout, saying, "Delusion."
Those dream Qin Mus immediately fell silent. Some struggled to speak, but when they opened their mouths, they spoke only delusional words, no longer the scriptures of the Primordial Sage of Miluo Palace.
Horse Ye kept both eyes shut, but his third eye remained open, continuing to fix the countless Qin Mus in the dream. He spoke, saying, "I can help Mu'er hold on for a few days, but not much longer. I have a junior brother, Zhan Kong, whose Buddha heart is lofty. He dwells at the Great Thunderclap Monastery, and his Buddha nature has already reached the Great Brahma Heaven. Cripple, go and invite him here."
The cripple's spirit surged. His primordial spirit swiftly returned to his physical body. Suddenly, his form flickered. The blind man cried out in alarm—all his clothes had been stolen clean away, not even his socks remaining.
The blind man quickly used the Dragon Expansion Divine Spear to shield his lower body, furious, saying, "Cripple, you're taking out your anger on me with that hateful stick!"
The cripple had already vanished into the distance, tossing the blind man's underwear, socks, inner robes, and outer robes everywhere.
The mute sent over a set of clothes. The blind man hurried to a secluded spot to dress himself, still fuming, "Hateful stick beating people! Damn cripple, it was Granny Si who beat you first—I only lent a hand. If you've got the guts, go steal Granny Si's clothes…"
Before he finished speaking, a series of rumbling magnetic divine abilities came crashing down. The blind man was instantly flattened into a "big" character shape on the ground, unable to move.
Boom, boom—another series of great divine abilities pressed down. The blind man could only kick his legs helplessly, even the Dragon Expansion Divine Spear was flattened, complaining endlessly against him.
Several days passed. The cripple came rushing back like wind and lightning, both hands supporting a demonic ape with pitch-black, glossy fur. That demonic ape was as massive as a mountain, yet carried aloft, it was still snoring deeply in sleep, its snores like thunder.
The blind man felt the pressure on him lighten and finally breathed a sigh of relief, scrambling to his feet—he had been suppressed for several days already. It seemed Granny Si, seeing the cripple carrying the demonic ape Zhan Kong as he approached, had finally calmed down and let him go.
"You brought Zhan Kong Tathagata here while he was still sleeping?" The blind man stepped forward to ask.
The cripple carried Zhan Kong Tathagata to Qin Mu's side and set down this reclining Buddha. The demonic ape Zhan Kong Tathagata's fur was even longer than before, making him look nothing like a great Buddha with vast Buddhist Dharma and heart, but rather like a demonic monster from the Nether Realm.
"He was sleeping, and the mountains were covered with monks and Buddhas. I tried to wake him, but couldn't no matter what, so I just stole him away."
The cripple complained, "The monks and Buddhas of the Great Thunderclap Monastery were also petty—they actually chased me with weapons. Luckily, I'm fast."
The blind man was speechless.
Horse Ye's voice came from within Qin Mu's layered dreams, saying, "Junior brother Zhan Kong may lack in Dharma power and cultivation, but his heart-nature cultivation surpasses mine. He is the only one close to the Old Buddha. With him here, we can hold out another month."
He sat at the center of Qin Mu's primordial spirit's brow, his form swaying unsteadily. The Buddha light from his brow eye had also dimmed, making it hard to keep those Qin Mus fixed and unable to continue speaking delusions.
Suddenly, the demonic ape Zhan Kong stood up, but his eyes remained tightly shut, his snores like thunder. Just like that, he stepped into Qin Mu's dream.
Once inside Qin Mu's dream, he continued snoring loudly, collapsing to sleep deeply, unlike Horse Ye who still needed to activate Buddhist Dharma to suppress things.
Outside, everyone exchanged glances. They saw that within the dream, the Qin Mus, under his snoring, had also all fallen asleep, breathing and dreaming along with him, sleeping sweetly.
Seeing this, everyone finally relaxed.
Granny Si put down the prehistoric divine bow and said softly, "Now with two Buddhas here, we can hold out another month. I wonder if Patriarch Wei and Shu Jun have already found the Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City and summoned the Ten Heavenly Lords…"
She looked up, gazing at the sky.
From the summit of the Ten Thousand Sacred Mountains, looking up at the sky, one could also see the Celestial Capital.
At this moment, most of the Ten Heavenly Lords should still be in the Celestial Capital, dividing its benefits, subduing the Heavenly Dao, and refining the Heavenly Duke's physical form.
Traveling from the Celestial Capital to the Ancestral Court would also take a long time.
Although there were Heavenly Lords stationed at the Heavenly Court above the Ancestral Court, their numbers were few.
"And besides, most of the Ten Heavenly Lords are injured. Can they really reach the Ancestral Court within this month and find the Jade Capital City?"
Granny Si murmured, "Even if they find the Jade Capital City, can they break into the Incense Burning Hall and kill that Primordial Sage of Miluo Palace…"
She was filled with worry.
At that moment, Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun stood in the wind, suspended in the air. Shu Jun's brow suddenly opened, revealing a Primal Chaos Divine Stone. His divine consciousness erupted, visualizing all kinds of strange scenes in the air. He said in a deep voice, "Back then, sealing the Ancestral Court's Jade Capital City—I had a hand in that too. Although everyone says to forget the experiences in the Jade Capital City, not to think about what happened inside, not to speak of the encounters there—how can one truly not think?"
He was one of the sealers of the Jade Capital City. Although he couldn't completely undo the city's seals, he could still break the seal he himself had placed.
Once Shu Jun undid the seal, suddenly an ancient, vast aura surged into the sky. The heavens and earth of the Ancestral Court shook and trembled!
Crack, crack!
Violent tremors came. An ancient divine city suddenly revealed a corner before them!
The aura of vast Dao rushed toward them, destabilizing their forms. Wei Suifeng and Shu Jun's faces were both wrinkled by the impact!
After this wave of Dao aura passed, Wei Suifeng shook the dust off his body, looking at the magnificent buildings that had suddenly appeared and the terrifying sights within that divine city. He murmured, "If it weren't to save my junior brother, I wouldn't come to a place like this even if I were beaten to death…"
Before entering the city, he left behind a great cauldron filled with star sand. A stick of incense was planted in the sand.
Shu Jun was puzzled.
Wei Suifeng said, "After we go in, this incense will draw the geographical map of our path on the star sand. If we get trapped inside, others can follow the map to rescue us."