125: Encountering Lu Qinghuan

"Cultivator, do you know what kind of existence you have provoked? How dare you be so presumptuous here!"

The Buddha Statue groaned, and the sound wave swept out, causing the surrounding space to distort, driving one to madness.

However, Shen Lian remained indifferent. Spiritual light radiated from his body, and the maggot nest falling from above vanished into ashes the instant it touched him.

"There is no place in heaven or earth where I cannot be presumptuous. A mere eerie path playing ghost in front of me—you truly do not know the vastness of the heavens. Reveal yourself!"

With that shout, Shen Lian stomped his foot.

The terrain instantly trembled violently.

The Heavenly Gang Totem emitted a cerulean spiritual light, layer upon layer, completely enveloping the inside and outside of the Buddha Hall.

"Ah~" With a shrill ghostly howl, the evil Buddha Statue began to shake violently.

The one hundred and eight life lines originally coiled around it shattered simultaneously at this moment.

"Roar~" The moment the life lines broke, one hundred and eight desiccated corpses simultaneously let out low, ghostly roars, their bodies exuding an eerie atmosphere.

The next moment, all the desiccated corpses slowly rose amidst the rhythmic sound of wooden fish being struck.

"Cultivator, to step onto the eerie path without respecting the rules of the Dao means you must pay a heavy price. Stay and let this Buddha ferry you!"

The Buddha's voice ceased, and one hundred and eight desiccated corpses lunged at Shen Lian in unison.

Shen Lian focused, frowning, and shouted wildly again.

"A group of lifeless zombies, and you dare to bare your fangs and brandish your claws before me? All of you, back down!"

He struck out with a palm, and a vast Dao Rhyme flowed ceaselessly, spreading outward directly from Shen Lian as the center.

As the shockwaves swept through, all evil spirits were reduced to nothingness!

"You!" The evil Buddha clearly had not expected Shen Lian to possess such strength, destroying all the zombies reinforced with evil power in a single move.

"What other tricks do you have? Just bring them out!"

Shen Lian shouted in a deep voice, stepping on the Heavenly Gang Half-Step Cloud, displaying an unparalleled stance.

The evil Buddha was completely enraged: "Very well. It has been a long time since anyone has made this Buddha so angry. I will refine you into a flesh altar and imprison your Divine Soul in the Avici Hell for life, to suffer the torment of Reincarnation in Purgatory forever!"

"Hahahaha!"

"Imprison my Divine Soul? Then I can only say that the courage of your trash talk does not match your actual strength. Come out and speak to me!"

Shen Lian used Void Concealment, his hands forming a seal, directly neutralizing all the surrounding evil atmosphere.

"Void Concealment: One Qi Divides Yin and Yang!"

The Qi of Yin and Yang, combining hardness and softness, was struck out gracefully, the vast Dao Rhyme blasting directly at the evil Buddha Statue.

Boom— With a thunderous explosion, the Buddha Statue shattered upon impact.

The next moment, what appeared before Shen Lian was a heart, fully one zhang in size, still beating vigorously.

"Is this your true form? It is truly too disgusting to look at!"

As the heart expanded and contracted, blood sprayed out, emitting an extremely resentful evil power, as if it had been enraged by Shen Lian's previous words.

"Cultivator, you are the first person in thousands of years to see this Buddha's Life Source. For you, this Buddha will surely use the most cruel means to kill you."

"Have you finished your last words? If so, then it is time for you to drink the cup of hatred!"

Shen Lian did not hesitate in the slightest, decisively unleashing the great dao human sovereign cauldron.

In an instant, the boundless Dao radiance dispersed the uneasy evil atmosphere of the entire inner world of the Golden Immortal Temple.

"You dare to blaspheme the Buddha, you, ah~"

The evil Buddha clearly had not expected Shen Lian to have this move. As the human emperor cauldron rotated, that beating heart immediately began to shrink, and was finally sucked entirely into the cauldron.

"Didn't you want to experience what Purgatory is? I can satisfy that request for you to the fullest."

Shen Lian sneered at the human emperor cauldron and directly rotated it, stimulating the surging, boundless Saint-Grade flames of the Dao.

"Ah— No—" An extremely shrill scream came from inside the human emperor cauldron, as if suffering centuries of painful torment.

Finally, after several dozen breaths, the shrill screaming gradually ceased.

The moment he withdrew the human emperor cauldron, a purple-black Medicinal Pill appeared in Shen Lian's hand.

At the same time, the surrounding scene shattered.

In the blink of an eye, Shen Lian returned to the Three Purities Hall of the Golden Immortal Temple, as if everything that had just happened was merely a dream.

However, the shattered monument of rules, the Three Purities statues he had destroyed himself, and the eerie pill in his palm were all telling him that everything that had just occurred was real.

"What's going on? What happened?"

At this moment, Zuo Qianyue, realizing he had returned to the Golden Immortal Temple, ran to Shen Lian's side with a bewildered face.

"Fellow Daoist, tell me, was everything that just happened real or a dream?"

Shen Lian turned and walked toward the Three Purities altar, saying as he walked: "If you can ask such a stupid question, do you not yet know the difference between reality and illusion?"

Zuo Qianyue was speechless and could only scratch his scalp while following behind Shen Lian.

Until he saw that in front of the altar where offerings were placed, an empty bronze box had appeared.

He saw a line of small characters written on the bottom of the box: "Those who break through the illusion can attain the Square and Circle."

Zuo Qianyue glanced at it and asked curiously: "What does this mean?"

Shen Lian closed his eyes and pondered for a moment, then produced the jade book iron voucher with his left hand and threw it directly into the bronze box.

Just then, the bronze box emitted ten thousand rays of rosy light that pierced the clouds, blinding people so they couldn't even open their eyes.

Shen Lian decisively activated his Eye of the Great Dao, his vision unaffected by the intense light.

He saw a purple Jade Slip inside the bronze box, attempting to float up slowly along with the rosy light, seemingly intending to fly away beyond the heavens.

"At a time like this, you still dare to use a trick on me? You almost got away!"

Shen Lian made a prompt decision, grabbed the Jade Slip directly, and then lifted his leg to kick over the altar.

Instantly, the rosy light vanished, and everything returned to its original appearance.

By the time Zuo Qianyue came to his senses, Shen Lian had already paced out of the Golden Immortal Temple.

"Fellow Daoist, wait for me!"

But by the time Zuo Qianyue ran out of the Golden Immortal Temple, he could no longer find Shen Lian's figure.

...

Leaving the Golden Immortal Temple, Shen Lian sat inside the netherworld chariot to regulate his Qi.

The trip to the Golden Immortal Temple and the massive consumption of spiritual power made him faintly feel that his own cultivation was about to Breakthrough again.

However, by comparison, he was more interested in what was inside the Jade Slip.

Inside the Jade Slip were two Saint-Grade Cultivation Technique: Indestructible Dao Body and Creation Infinite Technique.

Shen Lian was no stranger to these two Cultivation Technique, and he also knew the Creation Infinite Technique.

What he was truly interested in was the Indestructible Dao Body Legacy, because he had no Spiritual Root, and all the Cultivation Technique he practiced used martial arts as the foundation to enter the Dao.

In the previous ninety-plus lifetimes, before Shen Lian entered the Enlightenment Realm, the opponents he encountered not only had Heaven-Defying Aptitude and talent, but many also possessed various Dao bodies and golden bodies.

And because he had a useless Spiritual Root, he could not perform Fusion with any Dao body.

Engaging in slaughter with those Heavenly Dao powerhouses who easily possessed Saint bodies and golden bodies was actually not as easy as one might think.

But in this lifetime, having obtained the Indestructible Dao Body Cultivation Technique, as long as he succeeded in Cultivating it, the technique would completely undergo Fusion with his Physical Body, and he would never again have to worry about his Physical Body being unable to withstand pressure that exceeded its limits.

"Find a suitable place to first Cultivate and achieve Fusion with the Indestructible Dao Body; this trip to the Saint Realm will not have been in vain."

Shen Lian gripped the Jade Slip tightly and drove the netherworld chariot forward at high speed, looking for a place to stay.

But just at this moment, a sky full of flower rain began to fall.

"Hmm?"

Sensing the fragrance of spiritual flowers, Shen Lian's pupils constricted violently, and he struck out with a palm to forcibly stop the netherworld chariot.

At the same time, a stunning figure emerged from the sea of flowers.

Immediately after, a cold and desolate voice rang out from outside the carriage: "May I ask this Fellow Daoist, do you know the current situation of the Immortal Dynasty?"

Hearing the familiar voice, Shen Lian's eyes instantly turned scarlet.

"You asked in the wrong place. You should be asking where the entrance to the Yellow Springs of the Underworld is!"

As soon as his words fell, the netherworld chariot instantly transformed into a black cloud, and Shen Lian gently waved his Folding Fan, appearing proudly before the woman.

"Wouldn't you say so, Lu Qinghuan!"

With a suppressed roar of anger, the surrounding air currents swirled violently, triggering bursts of rumbling sounds.