Chapter 238: Big Brother Lin Has Come…

Late at night, a bright moon hung high in the sky, shedding its clear moonlight. It was unknown if it was because of the flourishing Buddhist teachings on this continent,

But it seemed that the moonlight in Ten Thousand Buddhas Continent was even more sacred and much brighter than in other continents.

Bodhi Holy Land of Ten Thousand Buddhas Continent was among the most prestigious Buddhist Holy Lands in the region.

The Saint Lord of Zilin Holy Land, the City Lord of Tianji City, the Abbot of Bodhi Holy Land, Complete Tranquility, and the Law Hall Master of Medicine King Valley—who was also the Senior Brother of the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley, Must Not Die—had already gathered together.

All four were born in the same century and could be considered peers in the Cultivation World back then.

For them, who were at least in the Immortal Realm, sleep was no longer a necessity.

Furthermore, at this moment, with matters still unresolved, they were unable to sleep.

They had gathered in Ten Thousand Buddhas Continent for only one purpose: to attack Great Joy Temple!

Back in the Heiwu Secret Realm, Great Joy Temple had actually colluded with Fang Jianqiu in an attempt to target various Saintesses. For Sects like Zilin Holy Land and Tianji City, this was undoubtedly the greatest provocation!

They could never have imagined that Great Joy Temple would have the audacity to try and target their own Saintesses.

This was simply rubbing the face of their Sects into the ground!

Fortunately, the opponent’s plan did not succeed.

Otherwise, the current situation of their Saintesses would be unimaginable!

But at the thought that the culprits were still “at large,” a breath was held in their chests, and they wished they could go straight to their door!

However, as the top leaders, they were no longer the impulsive young girls and boys they once were.

Great Joy Temple must be destroyed!

But! This had to be done through rigorous deliberation.

After all, Great Joy Temple was a major temple that had existed for thousands of years! Its heritage was incredibly profound.

“To destroy Great Joy Temple will not be that easy. The main concerns are Great Joy Temple’s one technique, one artifact, one person, and one array!”

Scanning the crowd, Jiang Yuerou spoke, breaking the silence.

“Indeed, Saint Lord Jiang is right.”

As soon as Jiang Yuerou finished speaking, the City Lord of Tianji City, Sikong Jing, nodded, expressing his strong agreement.

Complete Tranquility and the Law Hall Master of Medicine King Valley, Cannot Be Cured, couldn’t help but glance at Sikong Jing.

Sikong Jing was the City Lord of Tianji City, and his Realm was the Immortal Realm.

Unlike those in Tianji City who were Immortal Realms built purely from resources, Sikong Jing’s Immortal Realm was achieved entirely through his own cultivation.

After all, Sikong Jing was also a Genius on the Azure Cloud Ranking back in the day.

But for Sikong Jing to reach the Immortal Realm, it had to be said that Jiang Yuerou indeed played a significant role.

Two thousand years ago, Sikong Jing was a playboy with no other hobbies besides spending money lavishly and picking up girls.

Since he was born into a sea of gold and silver, Sikong Jing believed there was nothing money couldn’t solve.

If there was, then it was just that not enough money had been offered.

However, in the year Sikong Jing turned thirty, Jiang Yuerou, who was already in the Nascent Soul Realm at the tender age of sixteen, burst onto the scene.

Jiang Yuerou’s strength and beauty quickly spread throughout the world.

Within half a year, Jiang Yuerou was hailed as the number one beauty under heaven, with suitors all over the world.

At that time, Sikong Jing was originally just curious, wanting to see this number one beauty under heaven and see if she was truly the so-called number one.

As a result, with just one look, Sikong Jing became Jiang Yuerou’s number one simp.

Sikong Jing once tried to use his wealth to pursue Jiang Yuerou, piling up a million High-Grade Spirit Stones into a small mountain and forcibly transporting them to Zilin Holy Land.

But this mountain of Spirit Stones was directly scattered by a single sword strike from Jiang Yuerou.

That day, it rained Spirit Stones. Many Cultivators simply camped near Zilin Holy Land and didn’t leave, picking up Spirit Stones for a full half-month.

Later, Sikong Jing thought long and hard and concluded the reason for his failure.

It was because his gift wasn’t heavy enough! Not sincere enough!

Then, Sikong Jing went to her door personally, secretly taking five Immortal Weapons from his Family to propose! These five Immortal Weapons drained one-third of Tianji City’s heritage!

In the end, Jiang Yuerou didn’t even touch these five Immortal Weapons; they were thrown out of Zilin Holy Land by Jiang Yuerou’s maidservants like trash.

Later, just as Sikong Jing was doubting his wealth power, Jiang Yuerou, annoyed by countless suitors, directly threw out a sentence: “If you want to marry me, defeat me in the same Realm, or even one Realm higher!”

Thus, like countless other Cultivators, Sikong Jing cultivated with all his might. At that time, just because of one Jiang Yuerou, a severe case of internal competition appeared in the Cultivation World.

In that era, nearly every man regarded marrying Jiang Yuerou as the highest honor!

Watching the men around him being beaten by Jiang Yuerou until they doubted their lives, Sikong Jing cultivated even harder!

He still had self-awareness regarding his own strength; he definitely couldn’t win in the same Realm.

So Sikong Jing wanted to overtake her on a curve! He wanted to be one Realm higher than Jiang Yuerou and then challenge her!

Although it sounded a bit shameless, for the sake of getting a wife, it wasn’t embarrassing.

Finally, one day, Sikong Jing reached the Yupu Realm of the Upper Five Realms. Jiang Yuerou had been suppressing her Realm, so she was still at the Peak of the Nascent Soul Realm.

The Yupu Realm and the Nascent Soul Realm were worlds apart. Sikong Jing carried the five Immortal Weapons on his back again, determined to get a wife today!

The result—

That day, there was a heavy rain.

The heavy rain soaked the sky, ruining it quite exquisitely.

Lying on the grass, Sikong Jing never imagined that he, in the Yupu Realm, would be hung up and beaten by someone in the Nascent Soul Realm.

“You men, do you truly like me, or are you just unwilling because you can’t have me?” Jiang Yuerou flicked her long sword and turned to leave.

It was this simple sentence that left Sikong Jing stunned for a long time, and he lay on the grass for another half-month.

And it was just this one sentence from Jiang Yuerou.

When Sikong Jing got up to leave, he already saw that glimmer of light leading to the Immortal Realm.

Two hundred and fifty years later, Sikong Jing stepped into the Immortal Realm, but he never thought of looking for Jiang Yuerou again. Instead, he met the legitimate daughter of Sword Forging Valley during his travels.

The two developed feelings over time and eventually became Dao Companions, later having the only granddaughter of Tianji City and Sword Forging Valley.

That is, the now undisputed number one rich woman in the world—Sikong Wangxing.

Complete Tranquility and Cannot Be Cured naturally did not believe that Sikong Jing still liked Jiang Yuerou.

As peers of the same cultivation generation, Complete Tranquility and Cannot Be Cured had also once liked Jiang Yuerou.

Complete Tranquility’s Buddhist heart had been disturbed because of Jiang Yuerou.

Even Cannot Be Cured and his Junior Brother, the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley, Must Not Die, had fought a battle over Jiang Yuerou (both claiming they were the most suitable man for her before starting the fight).

But after being soundly beaten by Jiang Yuerou, everyone had let it go.

Eventually, Complete Tranquility returned to Bodhi Holy Land, inherited the position of Saint Lord, and stepped into the Ascension Realm.

Cannot Be Cured returned to Medicine King Valley, gave the position of Valley Master to his Junior Brother, and went into seclusion to achieve the Immortal Realm.

Now that thousands of years had passed, it was impossible to say they were still pining; everyone knew they weren’t meant to be and had long since moved on.

Cannot Be Cured and Complete Tranquility naturally knew that Sikong Jing, like everyone else, had long since let go of Jiang Yuerou; otherwise, he wouldn’t have resolved his mental block and entered the Immortal Realm.

But answering so quickly always makes it easy for people to think you’re being a simp.

“Cough, cough, cough.”

As the host, Complete Tranquility straightened his expression.

“Indeed, Great Joy Temple’s Soul-Consuming Technique, the Immortal Weapon demon subduing pestle, that Old Ancestor at the Perfection of the Immortal Realm or perhaps even half-step Ascension, plus the Soul Capturing Array passed down since the temple’s founding—these are indeed extremely troublesome.”

Sikong Jing shook his head and sighed softly: “If not for that, Great Joy Temple, with its many evil deeds—not only seizing women from other Sects as Cauldrons but not even sparing others’ Dao Companions—would have been destroyed by various Sects long ago given its countless enemies.”

Cannot Be Cured stroked his beard: “If our four houses join forces, and other enemies of Great Joy Temple move upon hearing the news, we can certainly eliminate this tumor this time. However, the cost…”

“However, the cost is that our Sect Disciples will also suffer countless casualties.” Complete Tranquility chanted a Buddhist name. “If not for this, we wouldn’t be deliberating like this now; we would have gone to Great Joy Temple to demand justice long ago.”

“Hmph!”

Jiang Yuerou gave a cold snort.

“Worrying about this and that—since when did we start having so many concerns? Back when you were all being hung up and beaten by me, I didn’t see you thinking so much.”

“…” Having the past brought up, the three men’s expressions were slightly awkward. The Old Monk also closed his eyes, pretending not to hear.

The main thing was that being beaten by her back then was true, and they still couldn’t beat her now.

“Fine, I’ll share my thoughts.”

Jiang Yuerou spoke slowly.

“I plan to issue a mission in Zilin Holy Land. Cultivators of Zilin Holy Land can voluntarily accept the mission to go and attack Great Joy Temple; it won’t be forced. Also, some Cultivators who have a grudge against Great Joy Temple can also join.

For the Cultivators who participate in the crusade, after Great Joy Temple is captured, I will not take a single cent of the spoils; they will all be distributed and shared equally among them.

In addition, these Cultivators can also receive rewards from Zilin Holy Land.”

Saying this, Jiang Yuerou glanced at the three: “As for what you want to do, I don’t care, but since Great Joy Temple has dared to provoke my Zilin Holy Land this time, there is no longer any need for it to exist!”

“Amitabha.”

Complete Tranquility chanted a Buddhist name.

“Since Benefactor Jiang has said so, then my Bodhi Holy Land will naturally respond. My Bodhi Holy Land is also willing to join this crusade. Bodhi Holy Land will issue a Demon-Slaying Order; monks can choose for themselves whether to slay the demons.”

“My Tianji City’s combat power isn’t much, but we have plenty of money.”

Sikong Jing’s expression also became serious.

“They actually dared to target my precious daughter! They must have a death wish! Anyone who eliminates a monk of the Golden Core Realm or above from Great Joy Temple can become an honored guest of my Tianji City!”

“My Medicine King Valley seconds this!”

Cannot Be Cured’s temper was already bad, and he had been holding in a belly full of anger over the lack of progress in attacking Great Joy Temple.

Now that they were finally going to take action, his mood instantly brightened significantly.

“In that case, we will meet again at Bodhi Holy Land in three months.”

Jiang Yuerou nodded.

“But even if the four major Sects attack together, and even with the four of us, destroying a Sect with thousands of years of heritage is by no means an easy task! We must not relax! Over these few months, everyone must do their best to prepare.”

“Mhm, this Old Man shall take his leave first.”

“I’m also going back to see my daughter first.” If it weren’t for the need to deal with the Great Joy Temple matter, Sikong Jing wouldn’t want to leave his daughter; after all, he was a total doting father.

“This poor monk shall see you all out.” Complete Tranquility stood up to see the three off.

However, just as the four walked out of the hall, Jiang Yuerou stopped her footsteps and gazed intently in the direction of Great Joy Temple.

“Saint Lord Jiang, what’s wrong?” Sikong Jing asked.

“It’s nothing, just a familiar feeling.” Jiang Yuerou withdrew her gaze and shook her head. “It’s probably that my mind has been too overworked lately, creating an illusion.”

At the same time, on a mountain Peak in Bodhi Holy Land, a young lady with a graceful figure was reading a scripture in her hand.

Buddhist light flickered behind the girl, and golden lotuses drifted around her.

A Dream-Eating Tapir, which looked like a mixture of four different animals but was extremely cute, flew around the girl, its short legs jumping happily on the golden lotuses surrounding her.

The Dream-Eating Tapir opened its small mouth and swallowed a golden lotus.

With just one golden lotus, the Dream-Eating Tapir let out a burp and lay on the girl’s well-proportioned, fair legs, letting out a satisfied elephant-like trumpet.

And on the Dream-Eating Tapir’s body, strands of golden silk emerged, though they soon disappeared and were hidden.

Just as the well-fed Dream-Eating Tapir was enjoying the girl’s lap pillow, it faintly sensed something unusual from its master and raised its head.

At this time, its master had already put down the scripture and was looking in one direction.

“Wu~”

The Dream-Eating Tapir floated up and tilted its head in confusion.

“Momo.” Looking at the Dream-Eating Tapir, the girl’s clear eyes brightened, “Big Brother Lin has come.”

“Wu~”

The Dream-Eating Tapir lay on the girl’s delicate shoulder and rubbed against her cheek.

Although it was still young, the sentient Dream-Eating Tapir could feel the girl’s heartfelt joy.

It seemed that for the girl, wherever that human appeared was the home in her heart, the Buddhist scripture she recited.

In the northern lands of Ten Thousand Buddhas Continent, Lin Xun broke through the Void Realm.

Normally, even if Lin Xun was in the Spirit Refining Realm, traveling through the Void Realm would take three or four days.

But now there was no time left.

If he didn’t return for three or four days, not only would Sikong Wangxing’s birthday have long passed, but he feared Qinger would be posting missing person notices at the government office.

So Lin Xun used the Void-Breaking Bead that the Old Man had given him, spending most of the night to finally arrive at Ten Thousand Buddhas Continent.

Accelerating his flight, Lin Xun could already see the continuous mountain ranges.

Above the mountains, incense smoke drifted. Despite being Great Joy Temple, there were still Buddhist scriptures being recited, making it look like a normal temple.

Joyful Chan is actually a form of cultivation in Buddhist Tantra and is considered orthodox.

However, in this world, Great Joy Temple had taken the wrong path.

The monks of Great Joy Temple, for the sake of cultivation and even their own desires, used women as Cauldrons. Outer Great Joy Temple Disciples didn’t even spare ordinary commoner girls, making them targets for everyone to eliminate.

“Better go and come back quickly.”

Lin Xun looked at the sky.

There was still one hour before dawn; he might even be able to rush back for lunch.