Chapter 291: Fatal Bait (1/2)
”Relic…”
When they heard Jiang Li's request, the higher-ups of Benevolent Travel Temple fell silent in embarrassment. They looked at each other and could not make a decision.
Those few relics were all formed by their Benevolent Travel Temple's deceased senior monks.
On the one hand, this was their ultimate treasure, and on the other hand, each relic was the remains of a senior. No matter what, they had to show respect.
If they lent the relics to others, it would probably be blasphemy to them.
However, Jiang Li was so generous to them. He had already delivered the Earth-rank medicinal pills to them, and he was only borrowing the relic for a period of time. It was not like he was asking for them directly.
If they rejected this, they would probably offend him.
”This… Alliance Leader Jiang, please allow us to discuss this.”
The few of them did not take the medicinal pills in Jiang Li's hand. Instead, they walked to the side and gathered together. They took out the communication spirit stone that directly connected to their hometown and started to communicate via voice transmission.
Jiang Li did not mind and ran to walk around the beach.
He casually scattered some sea tree seeds. After this battle, there were many sea beast corpses left behind. It could be used as fertilizer to grow the seedlings and trees.
If he planted a field of Great Sea Floating Wood nearby to strengthen the defense, with the deterrent force of this plant, it could greatly reduce the harassment of the enemy sea beasts.
He walked around and returned. The people from Benevolent Travel Temple were waiting for him. Clearly, they had already discussed the outcome.
”Alliance Leader Jiang, we have already discussed with the Abbot. We monks should do all that we can to help in this situation.”
”The relic will be transported over with the next batch of the Great Mountain Alliance's fleet.”
”In addition, my Benevolent Travel Temple will give you a secret Buddhist scripture. I hope Alliance Leader Jiang can chant it with the relic three times a day during this period.”
The Benevolent Travel Temple finally agreed to Jiang Li's request.
After all, they owed Jiang Li a huge favor. In a certain sense, Alliance Leader Jiang could be considered a person with deep Buddhist affinity.
With the gift of Shu Mountain earlier, they naturally could not be too stingy. In addition, Alliance Leader Jiang was a genius. What if his comprehension of the Buddhist scripture was also excellent?
Then, the three major forces might be connected through this medium.
Thus, Jiang Li had finally achieved a small goal.
Using the relic, it could accelerate the refinement of Ananda's blood tears.
After the Great Mountain Alliance's Mechanism City obtained the city's core, the speed of repair was more than ten times faster than usual.
Jiang Li also arranged for some cultivators who were skilled in movement techniques to scout the nearby environment and prepare for the long term war in the future.
As for himself, he left this place alone.
Ever since he became the Alliance Leader of the Great Mountain Alliance, he had always had guardians and elders by his side. Although he had some additional safety assurance, it was very inconvenient for him.
Right now, there were many things to do in Mechanism City, and it could not be defended without experts.
Jiang Li used this as an excuse to let all the higher-ups stay in the city while he rode on the Wood Dragon Rayquaza and flew in a certain direction.
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Netherworld Illusion, Fengdu City.
Jiang Li's sword cultivator clone was sitting in a simple room and reading a few books under the guidance of a male ghost.
This was the thing that Jiang Li had obtained from the husband of the Ghost King Bride, Yang Ruozhi. It was called the mystic technique manual from the Du family.
Burning Incense Dao.
This was a manual that used the secret technique of absorbing the faith in incense offerings. There were four parts: plucking incense, eating candles, listening to sounds, and reading prayers.
It was probably the kind of thing that everyone knew in ancient times.
In terms of the popularization of ancient inheritances, it was even more widespread than Jiang Li's Demon Awakening Technique.
Of course, being common did not mean that it was not good. The Dao Techniques mentioned were profound, and every word was precious. Jiang Li had learned many ancient cultivation methods and had his own judgment about the good and bad of these things in the past.
The so-called Burning Incense Dao was actually extremely common in ancient times. From the Golden Immortals to the small ghosts in the mountains, they would at least absorb two mouthfuls of faith.
However, the difference was not small.
The range of absorbing incense offerings was divided into several levels. Some were so small that there could only be one house, one village, one field, or one city. It could also be as large as a country, one region, one continent, or an entire world.
Apart from quantity and range, the speed at which they absorbed incense offerings, the conversion rate, and safety were all of the utmost importance.
In fact, the Bodhisattva Heart Sutra itself could be used to absorb the power of incense offerings, but Jiang Li was unwilling to do so.
He wanted to let the statue clone cultivate through this path, but the clone was a parallel mind formed from the Bodhisattva Heart Sutra, so it could not cultivate the Bodhisattva Heart Sutra itself.
This new Burning Incense Dao could make up for this.
In fact, to him, the cultivation method of the Burning Incense Dao was secondary. The most important thing was the ancient text he had learned from Du Xianzhu.
As he learned those words, Jiang Li gradually interpreted a portion of the monolith inscriptions he obtained from the environment of the Thousand Mechanisms Sphere.
The contents of the monument were not complete, or rather, the complete content was carved on several different stone monuments.
After reading this portion of the monolith inscriptions, he could only know that these were the last words of despair before death and promises of some things.
< My Dao Will Perish >
”My Dao will perish. Sage, neither man nor god, is undying and indestructible. Return to the palace and fall into the void, gather the treasures of the world.”
”Primordial Beginning Heavenly Venerable, in the Clear Profound Sky, in the Seven Treasures Mystic Garden, the Jade Emperor Palace, on the Ascension Throne, with countless others, speaks of spiritual treasures. It's really a unique method.”
”The True Sages, Limitless Divine Kings, Spiritual Children, Jade Maidens, and 90 million people raise six sacred forces and illuminate the heavens. There is no separation between the ten directions of the infinite Brahma Shakti. The multitudes from ten directions come as the Qilin dance and the Phoenix sing.”
”Golden Immortals of the Brahma Heaven, Mahayana Bodhisattva, the four factions and eight great sects, attend the Azure Rainbow Four Summit, circling in front of the Dao. The rain of Profundity Flowers will fall like clouds, and under the candle will be the Everlasting Limitless World, the Profound Capital Realm…”
”With a sigh, the mass will not inherit the Dao, and the heavens will be destroyed.”
”With mortals and saints colliding, the darkness breaks the light, and the world shakes. There is no peace. All the qi in the living world will become turbid, the sky will shake and the earth will crack, and bones will grow. Corpses will be buried, souls will fly away, and Fengdu City will be surrounded by iron. The Nine Nether of eternal night will collapse and be destroyed.”
”The souls suffering in hell have no hope of reaching the heavens. The cycle of reincarnation has collapsed, in the Immortal tomb and Buddhist cemetery, all sin is abandoned and virtue is eliminated. The three evils speak of suffering, and there will never be relief. At this time, how can the sinners of the world live with their meager strength…”
”My Dao is about to perish, and so will the other Dao.”
Even though the content had already been translated from ancient texts into the current language, it was not so easy to understand.
However, in general, this monument seemed to depict the extremely glorious generation of Immortals and Buddhas of ancient times.
In simpler words, there were more Golden Immortals than dogs, Zenith Heavens were everywhere, and Sages would show their faces every few days and hold banquets.
It was a scene that no one could imagine in this era.