Peerless Taoist

The lightning flashed, and the shadow behind Lu Yu and the old monk was stretched out in an instant.    

"Scripture collectors?"    

Lu Yu suddenly remembered the skeleton that had fallen in front of the Great Leiyin Temple.    

Those scripture collectors had fallen in front of the sacred land in despair. The Buddhist hall that had once shone with radiance had been replaced by ruins, and their faith had collapsed.    

"The people you saw in front of the Great Leiyin Temple were my disciples. They died in front of the mountain gate, and I have yet to see the true Pure Land."    

The old monk's voice echoed, filled with endless sadness and reminiscence.    

That year, he had gone through all sorts of hardships and finally arrived at the Spirit Mountain that he had dreamed of. He was in high spirits and full of ambition. Although his body was exhausted, his will was indestructible.    

However, when he finally climbed up the mountain, what he saw was a collapsed ruin and a dazzling sea of fire, which burned the sky red.    

Every Buddhist hall was empty and silent, filled with the aura of death.    

To be able to persevere until here, it was clear how strong the old monk's heart was. However, when he saw the scene in front of him, his face turned pale, as if he had fallen into an abyss.    

The old monk personally saw the powerful Buddhas in the sky being refined by the raging flames in front of him.    

An invisible force hovered above the Great Leiyin Temple. All the experts of the Buddhist Sect who were covered by the raging flames ignited and burned into ashes.    

The fire burned his body and turned him into ashes. Although the power of a Buddhist expert was extraordinary, he was still unable to deal with this kind of flame.    

The monk sat in a daze on the spot. He looked at the miserable state of the Tempest Temple and his eyes were blank. His faith in his heart was collapsing.    

Then, he saw an enormous Eight Trigrams Furnace. It opened its lid and swallowed up the entire Buddhist World.    

"You mean the Eight Trigrams Furnace?" Lu Yu caught on to this part.    

"The bronze body, the carving of the Dao, and the Eight Trigrams pattern on it, as big as a mountain."    

The old monk said, "The Buddhist World is known to be eternal and indestructible. With the blessing of the Buddha's supreme power, it was still swallowed up by that Eight Trigrams Furnace and no longer exists."    

Lu Yu took a deep breath.    

This confirmed his previous guess.    

Monkey once said that he had knocked over a corner of the Eight Trigrams Furnace and escaped from it.    

When Lu Yu first heard this, he only silently remembered it in his heart. He did not expect that it would involve an ancient matter.    

"The place where you are now is inside that magical treasure. Although I don't know how you came in, the danger here far exceeds your imagination."    

After saying this, the old monk looked deeply at Lu Yu. "You are stronger than I imagined. No wonder you can live until now. However, you must not relax your vigilance. In the darkness, there are many more powerful things."    

Outside the cold Buddhist hall, waves of thunder rumbled.    

Lu Yu could clearly sense that there was a bit of biting cold killing intent hidden in the rain.    

"This is the Law of Calamity, but there is no Heavenly Dao here. Who can use the power of the Law?" When Lu Yu thought of this, his heart suddenly sank. A bad idea appeared in his mind.    

"Could it be that the other party is in the Heavenly Realm?"    

Only a Heavenly Realm could use the power of the Law without the help of the Heavenly Dao.    

Because the other party could completely form the Heavenly Dao by himself, he was the master of all rules and could freely use them.    

"They are all dead. The Buddhist Sect has long ceased to exist." The old monk's voice was filled with endless sadness and desolation.    

After ten thousand years, things had changed.    

He was a figure who had survived from the ancient times. After ten thousand years, he had experienced countless separations and reunions.    

Lu Yu's mood also gradually became gloomy. He could feel a strong sense of sadness from the old monk.    

"What happened back then?" Lu Yu asked.    

When he came here, he only wanted to find Big Black and Monkey. He did not expect that everything he saw and heard along the way was an extremely ancient inheritance.    

"I don't know why the Buddhist Sect suffered such a calamity. I only know that all the Buddhas were cursed. Their bodies were set on fire, and their souls were incinerated." The old monk took a deep breath and began to recount the past.    

"There was a raging fire in the Eight Trigrams Furnace. Everyone who came into contact with the flames was burned to ashes. My four disciples were ordinary cultivators. They were poisoned by fire. Although they weren't burned by the raging fire, they still fell beside me."    

The old monk was probably talking about the Six Ding Divine Flame.    

After ten thousand years, the Six Ding Divine Flame still maintained its invincible power. The flame itself even had the cultivation level of the Earth Realm.    

"I sat on the ground, breathing hot air from my mouth and nose. I have already been poisoned by fire, but my cultivation level is still a level higher than the disciple's. However, I have seen the terrifying scene that I will never be able to forget for the rest of my life."    

The old monk closed his eyes. His expression was pained, as if he was immersed in a memory that he did not want to look back at.    

"After the flames, it was night. The roars of wild beasts came from the Great Thunderchant Temple. The experts of Buddhism were panting heavily as they walked back and forth in the monastery, killing each other."    

Lu Yu thought of that scene and could not help but feel a chill in his heart. It was hard for him to imagine what kind of terrifying scene had happened when the ancient Buddhism was destroyed.    

"The experts chopped the weak into pieces and devoured them with their mouths. They cut off their own flesh and blood, and their blood gathered into a river in front of the sacred mountain gate... They completely lost their Buddhist nature, and even their humanity was completely annihilated."    

No one knew what the old monk had encountered. He had seen the most terrifying thing in his life, and it had almost become his nightmare. It had almost caused his faith to collapse.    

"Where is the Buddha?" Lu Yu asked.    

"The Buddha resisted the desire to kill, but he was as thin as a skeleton. His body was emitting evil demonic energy, making him look like a fiendish demon." The old monk shook his head and sighed.    

Lu Yu was overwhelmed with shock. According to the records of the Xuan Tian Sutra, the Buddha was an existence that was on par with the Celestial Thearch and Human Emperor.    

Lu Yu had never seen the Celestial Thearch, but he had seen the Human Emperor. Back then, the Human Emperor, Ying Zheng, had left a deep impression on him.    

"Even the Buddha could not withstand such an impact," Lu Yu muttered to himself.    

"At first, I did not believe it either, but the Buddha opened his eyes and looked at me. I could feel a monstrous demonic intent from him. I could not describe that demonic intent. It was as if a single one of them was stronger than all the demons I've seen. I could not imagine that such a demonic intent would appear in the body of the Buddha."    

The wrinkles on the old monk's face increased, and he shook his head and let out a long sigh.    

The terrified scripture receiver stumbled into the temple hall and kneeled in front of the Buddha. "Master, what exactly happened here? Why did the Western Blessed and Pure Land have so many ominous signs?"    

In front of the scripture receiver.    

The skinny Buddha shed two streams of blood and tears.    

Despair, desolation, helplessness, fear.    

All sorts of emotions surrounded the scripture receiver. He did not wait for the Buddha to speak, and his eyes were also filled with tears.