152: Chapter 152 "Education for All" Spreads Throughout the Heavenly Realm; Little Buddha, Admiring Its Reputation, Knocks on the Gate

Ye Xiu's lips curled into a sneer that was arrogant to the extreme.

"Very good."

With a wave of Ye Xiu's large sleeve, a gust of wind swept the dust off the ruins.

His heterochromatic gold and silver eyes looked directly past the mountains of Little Jade Capital, locking firmly onto the far west.

There lay the Luoyan Plain.

There, the coalition of righteous sects, numbering three hundred thousand and waving the banner of "acting on behalf of Heaven," were still bitterly waiting for Heaven's punishment to descend.

"State Preceptor of Yankang, Taixu!"

Ye Xiu's voice was like ten-thousand-year-old ice, permeating with the will of a tyrant that brooked no disobedience.

"I am here!"

"This old servant is here!"

The State Preceptor of Yankang and the Grand Elder Taixu stepped forward in unison.

Two distinct yet equally terrifying auras of the Shrouding the Heavens Method's Bitter Sea soared into the sky, directly shredding the remaining dark clouds.

"These few thousand people in Little Jade Capital, I leave them to you. Within three days, destroy the Divine Bridge of this bunch of trash for me. Keep those who can open the Bitter Sea; as for those who can't handle it, use them as fertilizer!"

That afternoon, everything changed.

On the white jade square, an unprecedented and tragic transformation was underway.

Thousands of elites from the righteous sects were being suppressed by Grand Elder Taixu and the State Preceptor of Yankang.

While screaming miserably as they shattered the Divine Bridge within their bodies, they were simultaneously groping in desperation for the incomparably domineering Shrouding the Heavens Method's Bitter Sea.

The scent of blood, Death Qi, and the newly born pure true essence intertwined, completely dyeing this ten-thousand-year-old immortal land into a Shura field.

Just in this atmosphere filled with Devilish Qi.

"Boom—rumble!!!"

Above the firmament in the far west, a dull thunderous sound, like ten thousand beasts roaring in unison, suddenly arrived!

It was not a normal Lightning Tribulation, but a terrifying fluctuation mixed with extremely pure Buddhist Sanskrit chants, yet permeated with hair-raising, violent Demonic Qi!

Grand Elder Taixu abruptly lifted his head, a flash of extreme solemnity appearing in those eyes that had just condensed the Pseudo-Emperor Bone:

"This aura... is it from the Great Leiyin Temple in the far west? No! This Buddha light carries heaven-shaking Demonic Qi; it's that madman from The Great Ruins!"

As Taixu's voice fell.

The sea of clouds above the Nine Heavens was savagely torn apart by a massive, ink-black beast claw!

Amidst a series of low roars that seemed capable of shattering one's Soul, an extremely burly, almost tower-like robust monk.

Like a burning black meteorite, smashed heavily onto the white jade ruins!

"Bang!"

The entire mountain body of Little Jade Capital shook violently.

As the dust settled, the true appearance of the newcomer was revealed.

He was draped in an old, tattered kasaya stained with dried, dark red blood.

His face was rugged, as if carved by a knife and axe, and his entire body exuded the pressure of an ancient Divine Beast that made ten thousand beasts submit.

And right in the center of his shiny bald head, a single horn grew, appearing as if forged from black gold and covered in complex, natural Dao patterns!

The Divine Beast Xiezhi! The master of the Little Thunderclap Temple in The Great Ruins, the peerless great Yao who called himself "Little Tathagata"—Yuan Ding!

"Yuan Ding! You traitor of the Great Leiyin Temple, you Yao monk from The Great Ruins!"

Grand Elder Taixu's Bitter Sea Divine Power surged, and he stood in front of Ye Xiu as if facing a great enemy, shouting sternly:

"Why aren't you staying in your Little Thunderclap Temple playing king, and instead running to my Heavenly Demon Sect's territory?!"

In the Major Thousand Worlds, the fierce reputation of this Little Tathagata was not the slightest bit inferior to Ye Xiu's.

He was originally the Junior Brother of the old Tathagata of the Great Leiyin Temple, possessing profound Buddhist Dharma and extraordinary talent, and was originally the best candidate to inherit the position of Tathagata.

Yet, simply because his true form was of the Yao Race, he was mercilessly expelled by those hypocritical old monks who spoke only of compassion, using the excuse that "Yao nature is hard to tame"!

"Amitabha..."

Little Tathagata Yuan Ding ignored Taixu's questioning.

He pressed his palms together, bowed slightly, and chanted a Buddhist name.

But there was not a shred of compassion in his chant, only endless resentment and violence that felt like substance!

As he chanted the Buddhist name, in the Void Realm behind him, a terrifying Dharma form emerged—half compassionate golden Buddha, half blood-dripping Xiezhi!

His bloodshot, copper-bell-sized eyes looked past Taixu, staring fixedly at the young man in red robes drinking casually on the high platform.

"This humble monk, Yuan Ding, greets the Demon Lord."

Little Tathagata's voice, like muffled thunder, exploded over the ruins:

"This humble monk has heard that the Demon Lord has opened the gates of convenience here, teaching a supreme true method called 'Shrouding the Heavens.' I have also heard that the Demon Lord once said this Shrouding the Heavens Method is 'non-discriminatory in teaching'!"

"This humble monk has come specifically to knock on the gate today, only wishing to ask the Demon Lord one question—"

Little Tathagata stepped forward abruptly, the black gold horn on his head erupting with blinding eerie light, and he roared hoarsely:

"Your human rules say my Yao Race background is lowly and unworthy of cultivating the Great Dao of Longevity!"

"The fake Buddhas of the Great Leiyin Temple say my true form is the Divine Beast Xiezhi, with innate Yao bones, and I cannot cultivate to the pure Other Shore!"

"They cut off my Buddha position and severed my future! Just because I am not human!"

"This humble monk dares to ask the Demon Lord: does your [Shrouding the Heavens Method] have such bullshit distinctions between human and Yao? Can your Bitter Sea contain this ancient great Yao, filled with slaughter?!"

This roar, every word dripping with blood, made the eardrums of the thousands of Cultivators present ache.

Everyone looked at Ye Xiu.

Since ancient times, humans and the Yao have walked different paths.

The righteous sects even viewed the Yao Race as beasts that drank blood and ate raw flesh, fit only to be skinned and deboned to refine Magic Treasures.

Would this Demon Lord accept a Yao Beast?

"Hahahaha! Hahahahaha!"

Facing Little Tathagata's question filled with hostility and grief, Ye Xiu laughed wildly at the sky, his bright red wedding robes dancing wildly in the wind.

"What a fine Divine Beast Xiezhi! What a fine Buddhist outcast!"

Ye Xiu smashed the wine gourd in his hand into mid-air, leaped up, and looked down at the robust Yao monk below like a tyrant ruling over the world.

"Those old bald donkeys say your Yao nature is hard to tame?"

"I think they are blind as dogs, afraid of your Xiezhi true form that can distinguish right from wrong and judge truth from falsehood, exposing their hypocritical skin!"

Ye Xiu formed a sword with his fingers, pointing straight at the Nine Heavens, his heterochromatic gold and silver eyes erupting with an unbridled arrogance:

"Listen well, big monk!"

"In my, Ye Xiu's, rules, there is no distinction between human and Yao, only those with the guts to fight Heaven!"

"My [Shrouding the Heavens Method] does not worship gods, does not seek the Other Shore! It cultivates the supremacy of the self, and refines the Physical Body to become an Emperor!"

"Never mind that you are a great Yao Xiezhi, even if you were a stone or a blade of grass. As long as you have the guts to poke a hole in this Heaven, my Bitter Sea can contain your heaven-shaking Yao bones!"

These wild words, arrogant to the extreme and viewing all living beings in Heaven and Earth as equal, were like a bolt of divine lightning from the Nine Heavens.

It directly split open the endless stifled resentment and hatred that had been festering in Little Tathagata's heart for hundreds of years!

"Good! What a 'non-discriminatory in teaching'! What a 'supremacy of the self'!"

Little Tathagata roared to the sky, his laughter mixed with the fierce growl of a Xiezhi.

Two lines of turbid blood tears rolled down his rugged cheeks.

"I, Yuan Ding, have bitterly cultivated Buddhist Dharma for hundreds of years, yet it is not as good as the Demon Lord's single sentence that reveals the heavenly secret!"

"The fake Buddhas of the Great Leiyin Temple will not deliver me; today, I shall deliver myself!"

"This hypocritical Buddhist Divine Bridge, this Buddhist Dharma filled with the stench of copper, I—don't want it anymore!"

Amidst the terrified gaze of everyone, this Yao monk from The Great Ruins, whose strength was unfathomable, actually made an extremely cruel move!

He abruptly raised that pitch-black, sharp claw capable of tearing apart mountains, and without the slightest hesitation, stabbed it fiercely into his own lower abdomen!

"Puchi!"

Golden Buddha blood sprayed out wildly!

"Shatter—for me!"