Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 116

Chapter 116 Brahma Tower Appears

Hearing Jiang Li say this, Luo Ying quickly calmed his mind, slowing his breathing, which had been rapid from the intense exercise.

“I’ve been wondering what kind of event occurred in the ocean to produce something like the zombie virus. After so many years of collecting clues, I have a bold guess, though you may not believe it.” Luo Ying paused. “The zombie virus may have come from an alien planet.”

Luo Ying’s planet hadn’t yet reached the stage of interstellar migration, and he hadn’t encountered alien life, so he didn’t know that there were many planets with life in the universe.

Luo Ying’s guess was bold, but not many people accepted it. He assumed Jiang Li didn’t believe it either.

“Oh,” Jiang Li said politely.

It’s just an alien planet, nothing to be alarmed about.

“I once visited a certain country’s space agency and found near-Earth surveillance data from before the zombie crisis. They found what looked like alien spaceship wreckage crashed into the ocean. It’s possible that this alien spaceship wreckage brought the zombie virus.”

Luo Ying brought Jiang Li to the headquarters and showed him the data the reconnaissance team had brought back a few days ago.

“I asked ten fourth-level enhancers to dive into the ocean to investigate the current situation. We found that the number of first- and second-level zombies in the ocean has decreased significantly, while the number of zombies above the third level has increased dramatically.”

“And the people who came back also reported that usually the first- and second-level zombies would pounce on people they saw, even if the opponent was a fourth-level enhancer. However, this time, all the first- and second-level zombies seemed to be frightened by something. They tried to hide as much as possible and ran away when they saw them.”

Luo Ying showed a few blurry photos: “These are photos of zombies fighting each other.”

Although blurry, Jiang Li could still see that zombies such as sharks, octopuses, and dolphins were gnawing on each other, and it was bloody and violent.

“Zombies primarily target living creatures. They rarely attack their own kind unless they have a specific purpose.”

“Three years ago, I saw a zombie wipe out all the first- and second-level zombies in an entire town in order to evolve to the third level,”

Luo Ying said solemnly. “I suspect the same thing is happening in the ocean, and it’s definitely not just for the sake of advancing to the third level.”

The ocean is home to so many creatures; the number of those transformed into zombies would be astronomical. Now that these zombies have almost completely disappeared, where are the brain cores that disappeared with them?

The power contained in these brain cores is enough to create several fifth-level zombies, or even more.

Luo Ying concluded, “The zombies are trying to give birth to a sixth-level zombie!”

Just as a sixth-level enhancer can quell the zombie crisis, a sixth-level zombie can also destroy humanity.

A sixth-level zombie would be equivalent to a Fusion Stage cultivator in Jiuzhou. However, according to Jiang Li’s observation, the cultivation system in Luo Ying’s world is too crude. Even if they reached the sixth level, comparable to the Fusion Stage cultivator, in actual combat, they probably couldn’t even defeat the bottom of the Fusion Stage—the Taoist nun Xuan Ai.

As a top-tier fifth-level cultivator, Luo Ying could roughly gauge the energy required to evolve from a fifth-level cultivator to a sixth-level cultivator. A conservative estimate was that fifteen fifth-level zombie brain cores were needed, a quantity far beyond the reach of modern humans!

If humans had the energy to kill fifteen fifth-level zombies, they would have resolved the zombie crisis long ago.

Luo Ying pointed to the ocean on the map: “And those third-, fourth-, and fifth-level zombies tend to gather in this direction. This location is roughly similar to where the alien spacecraft crashed.”

Jiang Li saw no significant difference between fifth- and sixth-level cultivators; both could be dealt with in a snap. “If that’s the case, then I’ll take the ocean’s… Hmm?”

Jiang Li paused, looking up sharply in one direction. He sensed signs of a dimensional tear.

…

Above the planet, countless abandoned satellites floated, space distorted, and a small golden tower appeared in space. Its shape was indistinct, as if separated from this world by several thin membranes.

“Are there any of your kind here too?”

the golden tower asked casually, gazing at the planet.

Behind the small pagoda, a vast expanse of space appeared. A halo of Buddha’s light shone forth, a sacred and solemn atmosphere. Monks and novices, solemn and reverent, chanted Buddhist scriptures. The scene was magnificent, like another Mount Sumeru.

The small pagoda was, of course , the Brahma Pagoda.

“To answer my Lord, yes, one of our kind arrived on this planet in a spaceship. Ten years have passed, and by now, this planet should be filled with our kind.”

A monk, draped in a cassock, placed one palm on his chest and stood up to answer the Brahma Pagoda’s question.

Any Enhancer witnessing this scene would be horrified. These were no monks or novices; they were clearly a horde of zombies!

And high-level zombies, most at level four, five, and even six!

“What a sin!” The Brahma Pagoda shook, feeling helpless at the immense karma the zombies had inflicted.

Having arrived in this world, it found not a single living being nearby. None

of the ten categories of living beings—gods, humans, ghosts, insects, scales, fur, and birds—were present. Only zombies remained.

Thinking it had stumbled into the wrong world, the underworld, it searched for another planet with life, only to find, as before, a zombie-filled world.

This planet had very few zombies, only a single sixth-level one, evolved from the slaughter of all living creatures and zombies on the planet.

This zombie’s intelligence rivaled that of a human, though its IQ, like that of an infant, was far from adequate. As a Buddhist artifact, the Brahma Tower was naturally well-versed in Buddhism and a devoted believer in the Buddha, so it set out to convert.

And it succeeded.

The zombie, still in its learning stages, was persuaded by the Brahma Tower to convert to Buddhism.

Sensing the zombie’s confusion and needing guidance, and that Buddhism was ideal for enlightening reason and wisdom, the Brahma Tower decided to subdue the zombie.

By converting the zombie and establishing a Buddhist kingdom, it would be the first among the immortal artifacts to establish a state; even the Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal couldn’t keep up.

When the immortal artifacts reunite, they will overthrow the brutal rule of the Human Emperor and establish the Lingbao Dynasty. Its achievements would be well-deserved.

Even if the Buddhist kingdom wasn’t established, the Brahma Tower would still subdue the zombies.

It could see the danger posed by the zombies, a disaster capable of destroying an entire planet. Furthermore, a sixth-level zombie possessed the ability to travel through space. Wherever it descended upon, that planet would be destroyed.

According to this sixth-level zombie, there was originally another sixth-level zombie, but it had already departed for another planet.

Taking this sixth-order zombie with him, Brahma Tower returned to his home planet, intending to convert all the zombies. However, he discovered that converting fourth- and fifth-order zombies was easier, but converting those below fourth was much more difficult and time-consuming. Even if a fourth- or fifth-order zombie was converted temporarily, it wouldn’t last long, requiring repeated Buddhist chanting.

Brahma Tower couldn’t just stay on one planet to convert zombies. With sixth-order zombies traveling across the stars, spreading the zombie virus, perhaps other planets were in deep zombie crisis, with humans in need of its help.

(End of this chapter)