Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 136

Chapter 136 Shadow King Buddha

“Shadow King Buddha?” Luo Ying had never heard of this kind of deity, and when did he become a Buddha?

“You think Shadow King Buddha doesn’t sound good, right? Acala Buddha sounds good. You can refer to it and call it Chaos Shadow King Buddha.” Jiang Li suggested.

“No, no, no, this is not a question of name at all!”

Luo Ying and Luo Zhu were confused by Jiang Li’s words.

Jiang Li pointed casually and conjured up a dignified and solemn golden Buddha statue, wearing a cassock, holding a rosary in his hand, with a shiny bald head. It looked like just an ordinary Buddha statue, but the more Luo Ying looked at it, the more something was wrong.

Luo Zhu blurted out: “Brother, you became a Buddha?”

Luo Ying rejected it outright: “How is that possible!”

The face of the Buddha statue was none other than Luo Ying.

“This is the new form I’ve designed for you. It’s the faith of all the zombies you’re dealing with—the Shadow King Buddha. This is the only way to defeat the fifth-tier zombies right now. Just accept it.”

Though he wasn’t sure what was going on, Luo Ying knew now wasn’t the time to mess around. The whale was approaching, and he gritted his teeth and admitted, “I am the Shadow King Buddha.”

As he spoke, he internally resigned himself to this murky identity. As

soon as he finished speaking, an endless stream of faith energy emerged, bathing Luo Ying in a shower of rain and rosy clouds. He seemed overjoyed to finally find the source of faith after so much wandering.

As soon as he encountered this mysterious force of faith, Luo Ying understood its purpose. It was a force powerful enough to change the world, allowing him to boost his power to the fifth tier without worrying about his body’s ability to withstand it.

This was like temporarily constructing an avatar of a fifth-tier enhancer, but this avatar was integrated into his own body.

Just as Luo Ying was about to use this power to elevate himself to the fifth tier, Jiang Li stopped him.

“This is a rare opportunity. How about trying to reach the Spiritual Transformation stage?” Jiang Li said with a smile.

Jiang Li had already explained the concept of the Divine Transformation Stage. At first, Luo Ying thought he was just trying to educate her on cultivation, but now she realized he’d been waiting for this moment.

“Okay!”

The Divine Transformation Stage ultimately boils down to one single point: transforming all things into the divine within one’s heart. The Dharmakaya School’s philosophy evolved from this single point.

Jiang Li believed that the highest level of Divine Transformation was to transform oneself into a divine being, to make oneself the divine within one’s heart.

Luo Ying followed Jiang Li’s lead, transforming himself into a divine being, using the power of faith to elevate himself to the unprecedented Divine Transformation Stage!

The moment Luo Ying entered the Divine Transformation Stage, he felt a surge of immense power, a force that even at his peak couldn’t match.

This was a cultivation system far superior to that of the Enhancer! The

Divine Transformation Stage empowered Luo Ying’s mind and spirit to unprecedented levels. Instantly, he mastered the Acala Myoko Dharma to a level consistent with the Divine Transformation Stage, performing it effortlessly.

Behind Luo Ying appeared the image of Acala Myoko, towering and imposing, with one face and four arms, radiating wrath. He bore a blazing flame on his back, a sharp sword in his right hand, a chain in his left, and both hands tucked into his pockets.

The reckless whale showed no fear of the sudden onslaught. Even at the fourth level, it had relied on its sheer weight to charge forward, unstoppable. Now at the fifth level, how could anyone possibly stop it?

Bang!

The whale slammed into the Acala image with a resolute force, like a mad dog crashing into a wall. How could the wall possibly break

? Even the image didn’t budge.

Acala’s immovability spoke for itself; it was an unshakeable image!

The image’s four arms swung together, hammering the reckless whale to the ground. They slammed it down, then tossed it skyward by its tail. Luo Ying leaped forward, clenching his hands into hammers, and brought it down with all his might, displaying unparalleled destructive power!

When the Yonggu District military detected the emergence of a fifth-tier zombie with their detectors in the distance, their hearts sank. Who could have imagined that before they could even prepare for death, they would witness the appearance of a Dharmakāya, even more powerful than a fifth-tier zombie? This wasn’t something from the Enhancer system, so the detectors couldn’t measure its level, but the Dharmakāya’s power was undeniable.

Brahma Tower burst through the air, complaining to Jiang Li, “You just ordered me to do the work with a few words. Finally, it’s done. How’s it going here… Good job, they’re hitting so hard.”

“What’s going on?” Luo Zhu couldn’t help but ask. Her brother’s strength was a good thing, but neither sibling could fathom the source of this power of faith.

“You know I’m the Human Emperor, right?”

Luo Zhu nodded obediently. Mr. Jiang had claimed to be the Human Emperor when they first met, though she had no idea what a Human Emperor actually was.

“All the Human Emperors in history have relied on the power of faith to make themselves stronger. I didn’t think of this before due to personal reasons. It was not until a month ago when Brahma Tower said he wanted to visit its Buddhist kingdom and called me the Human Emperor that I remembered that I could use the power of faith.”

“As the name suggests, the power of faith comes from faith. Ancient ancestors, gods, immortals and Buddhas, anyone you believe in will have faith, but faith is easier said than done.”

“Look, even if you and Luo Ying made a name for yourself as human heroes in the end times, and your brother became the Shadow King ten years later, you didn’t generate the power of faith. On the one hand, you didn’t deliberately cultivate believers. On the other hand, it’s because people’s mentality towards you is not faith, but worship.”

“If you operate it for a long time and promote it vigorously, people can indeed worship you and Luo Ying as gods, but it takes a long time, and you probably don’t want that.”

Luo Zhu felt a little awkward when he thought of people’s fanatical attitude towards him if he became a goddess or something like that.

“Humanities are complex, but zombies are simple and easy to deceive. So I thought of the Buddhist Kingdom created by Brahma Tower. Although it would have long since disappeared ten years ago, the method is feasible.”

“From the time Brahma Tower fled to your place until he met me, nine months passed in Kyushu time, but only one month in your world.”

“In other words, Brahma Tower could establish the Buddhist Kingdom in just one month.”

“Before Brahma Tower left, I had it promote Luo Ying, portraying him as the Shadow King Buddha. Sutras like the Diamond Sutra and the Mahavairocana Sutra were written by the Shadow King Buddha. This way, the zombies would develop faith in the Shadow King Buddha.”

This time, after converting the fourth, fifth, and sixth-level zombies, Brahma Tower, considering the fourth-level zombies’ susceptibility to wavering and unable to move with them, had the fifth and sixth-level zombies chant sutras for the fourth-level zombies to strengthen their faith.

In this way, it easily established the Buddhist Kingdom in a month.

However, this time, the zombie Buddhist Kingdom trusted only the Shadow King Buddha, not anyone else.

“Since fourth-level zombies can be converted, why not these whales?”

“Because these whales aren’t human corpses, they have trouble forming thoughts like ‘who am I,’ ‘where do I come from,’ and ‘where am I going,’ making them very difficult to convert.”

“So, is that why brother’s followers are now spread across the universe?” Luo Zhu thought of the zombies, their majestic appearances, chanting the name of the Shadow King Buddha, and chuckled.

“Hey, hey, hey, I heard it all, Mr. Jiang, you’re plotting against me!”

“And everyone else’s followers are human, why are mine zombies?!”

The Shadow King Buddha was furious. With all his might, he tore the whale in half and extracted its brain core.

(End of Chapter)