Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 412

Chapter 412: Venerable Shenzang

Jiang Li hadn’t imagined that the Heavenly Dao’s emergence of spiritual intelligence could be explained by such a ridiculous reason.

When faced with injustice, people instinctively cry out, “Heaven, please open your eyes! “

And so, Heaven actually did.

“Don’t people often cry out, ‘Heaven, strike this bastard to death!’ Could this be the result of a thunder tribulation?” Bai Hongtu’s thinking was different from the average person.

Jiang Li and Yu Yin shifted their positions, trying to distance themselves from Bai Hongtu.

Old Bai could admit to being a bastard himself, so they shouldn’t be dragged into this.

Knowing that the Heavenly Dao had developed spiritual intelligence explained many things.

For example, the Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal could track the karma of everyone in Jiuzhou, even the Dao Ancestor, whose Three Corpses had merged into one. But it couldn’t track the locations of those who had ascended to the Immortal Realm.

Those who had ascended either died in the turmoil of the Immortal Realm or surrendered to the Heavenly Dao, altering the karma.

So it wasn’t that the Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal’s understanding of karma was inadequate, but rather that the situations it encountered were too bizarre.

Poor Yin-Yang Heavenly Seal, constantly worried about its own uselessness, diligently researched the cultivation methods of spiritual treasures.

“By the way, Immortal Elder, have you heard that statues of certain people cannot be broken? For example, if this person was once powerful, and their image cannot be tarnished or damaged?”

“I haven’t heard of such rumors.”

“Then do the statues of the Taoist and Buddha ancestors possess some power that makes them indestructible?”

Immortal Elder Changcun looked at Jiang Li with a strange look, puzzled as to why he would ask such a strange question. “How is that possible? A statue is a statue. The hardness of the material it’s made of doesn’t change depending on the image it’s made of. If a statue were indestructible, wouldn’t I have used Master’s statue to smash the Extraterritorial Demon long ago? Wouldn’t that be more useful than an immortal weapon?”

Bai Hongtu reminded his master, who was too immersed in the play, “It’s not an Extraterritorial Demon, it’s a fallen immortal.”

Immortal Elder Changcun glared at Bai Hongtu again. This disciple was so ungrateful, always trying to sabotage his plans.

Jiang Li was even more puzzled. “Since the Outer Demons were invented by you, Immortal Elder, then what exactly is Venerable Shenzang?”

Immortal Elder Changcun was even more puzzled than Jiang Li. “What Venerable Shenzang?”

Jiang Li then remembered that he hadn’t told him the Venerable Shenzang’s name to prevent him from gaining merit from killing people.

Jiang Li casually formed a small statue of Venerable Shenzang and handed it to the Immortal Elder.

“This is Venerable Shenzang. See if you can smash it.”

“I told you before that killing people can earn merit, but you need to believe in a deity.”

“You said this deity is the Outer Demon’s faith, responsible for distributing merit. I thought the Outer Demons had other gods, like those in charge of war and fertility. I was prepared to fight all sorts of Outer Demon gods.”

Jiang Li had come up with many hypotheses and countermeasures based on the Outer Demons Immortal Elder Changcun had mentioned.

Now it seemed that all these hypotheses were in vain.

“I’ve never seen such a figure before,” Immortal Elder Changcun muttered, and smashed it down.

Something astonished him.

It was merely a clay statue, yet it refused to shatter no matter how hard he

tried. Even without using his immortal powers, his body was that of an Earthly Immortal, indestructible.

How could the strength of an Earthly Immortal be incapable of shattering a small statue?

Immortal Changcun, taking it seriously, hammered down with all his might. A massive earthquake struck Dao Sect, yet the statue remained intact.

Bai Hongtu and Yuyin, intrigued, tried their hand at the statue, only to discover that even using Tribulation Crossing spells, they couldn’t destroy it.

“What the hell is this?”

Jiang Li explained in detail to the three of them about the Venerable Shenzang, the Shenzang Sect, the Tianyuan Imperial City’s sacrifice, and the fact that Sumi Buddha was the true culprit. Yuyin

then realized that the Shenzang Sect was behind the Tianyuan Imperial City, and that Sumi Buddha had been responsible for setting up the Soul-Exterminating Array in the city.

Bai Hongtu finally understood Jiang Li’s reason for killing Sumi Buddha.

Previously, he hadn’t questioned Jiang Li, having seen him heartbroken. Now that Jiang Li had spoken, he finally understood the truth.

Yu Yin speculated: “Killing people can gain the power of merit, how weird, could it be that Venerable Shenzang is a great figure in the immortal world who is as famous as the Taoist Ancestor?”

Immortal Changcun shook his head: “Don’t underestimate the power of merit, just as the status of the dead relies on Yinde, merit is vital to the living. This is the authority of the Heavenly Dao, and no immortal will have the ability to distribute merit.”

“In my opinion, Venerable Shenzang is not a certain person or immortal god. I suspect that He is an incarnation of the Heavenly Dao.”

Immortal Changcun looked at Jiang Li: “Didn’t you also say that the prerequisite for obtaining the power of merit is to regard Venerable Shenzang as everything, and everything must revolve around Venerable Shenzang. Everything is the embodiment of Venerable Shenzang’s will.”

“Rather than saying it is a god, it is better to say it is the omnipresent Heavenly Dao.”

Bai Hongtu suddenly realized: “No wonder Jiang Li has all kinds of great merits, but not a single one has been bestowed. I thought the ladder to immortality was broken, making it impossible for merit to be bestowed upon the world.”

“In fact, it is the method of obtaining merit that has changed.”

“The Heavenly Dao wants to kill people, but Jiang Li is always saving them.”

Immortal Elder Changcun said, “Believing in Venerable Shenzang is equivalent to acknowledging the new Heavenly Dao. No, it cannot be said to be acknowledging, but knowing. Knowing that the new Heavenly Dao has been born.”

“Anyone who knows the birth of the new Heavenly Dao and then kills people can gain the power of merit.”

“In other words, from now on, no matter you or me, as long as we kill people, we will have the power of merit!”

Yu Yin was curious: “The Immortal Elder is so sure, could it be that he has known about this for a long time?”

Immortal Elder Changcun’s face was solemn: “This is what I am going to talk about next.”

“You should know that the extraterritorial demons are too powerful. Even if the Human Emperor at that time died in battle, sometimes he could not drag the extraterritorial demons to die with him. At this time, it is my turn to take action. This situation has occurred several times in history.”

“Every time I fought with the extraterritorial demons, it was a hard-won victory, and a huge consumption of immortal power.”

“Common sense would suggest I’d have exhausted my spiritual energy long ago, but in reality, I haven’t. Do you know why?”

Immortal Changcun was not one to resort to subtlety. He quickly answered the question.

“I knew the Heavenly Dao had developed spiritual intelligence before the Immortal Ladder vanished.”

“I obtained this after I slew the first fallen immortal who descended upon the Nine Provinces.”

Immortal Changcun opened his palm, revealing a ball of golden light, radiant and gentle.

This substance was familiar to everyone; it was the same material as the Merit Gold Bricks of the Mengjiang Dynasty.

“The power of merit?!” Bai Hongtu exclaimed.

Jiang Li and Yu Yin also looked solemn.

“Yes, killing fallen immortals can also gain merit power, but the amount of immortal power converted from merit power is not enough to make up for the immortal power gap caused by my battle with the fallen immortal.”

“But merit power is better than nothing. It is the immortal power converted from merit power that has kept me alive until now. Now all the immortal power in my body is converted from merit power.”

(End of this chapter)