Chapter 64: There will Always be Someone Better
The Brahman Lullaby. It was a type of Buddhist sound technique that was similar to the Meditation Dharani.
When the Brahman Lullaby was recited, their own party would benefit from it while the enemies would suffer losses by having their minds rattled.
Those with weaker cultivation bases would be intimidated by the sound technique and bleed from their seven orifices until they die. However, Buddha was merciful to all. They would never use the word ‘die’, hence, it was called a lullaby, as though those who were afflicted were only going to sleep. Those with stronger cultivation bases would be confused into a stupor by the lullaby, rendering them powerless to react against any incoming attacks.
Currently, this sound technique was chanted by so many monks. Its power was beyond one’s imagination.
Lu Zhou was only at the middle stage of the Sense Condensing realm. It was impossible for him to withstand this.
Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt!
It sounded as though flies were having a party around the holy altar.
Lu Zhou lifted an arm. A technique had instinctively come to him, and he quickly tried to activate it. At the same time, he turned to look at Little Yuan’er and Jiang Aijian. ‘Where did Jiang Aijian go?’
Lu Zhou’s instincts told him that Jiang Aijian was skilled. Alas, he had been focusing on the plaza and did not pay attention to Jiang Aijian.
Little Yuan’er was frowning slightly. She pouted and stomped her foot in anger! However, she did not seem to be affected in any other way. Her pure heart and character that was devoid of distracting thoughts were an advantage in a situation like this. Moreover, her cultivation base was at the Divine Court realm. The beginning of the Brahman Lullaby almost did not affect her at all.
Bzzt! Bzzt! Bzzt!
The Brahman Lullaby became louder and louder as though waves were cras.h.i.+ng on the people on the holy altar.
Lu Zhou raised a wizened hand. He knew this was as far as his cultivation base at the middle stage of the Sense Condensing realm could take him. He flipped his hand and took an item card out. If he could kill the Temple of Great Emptiness’ Kong Xuan with a single strike, the monks would lose their leader, and the chant would automatically stop. However, there was a problem. By doing that, he would certainly draw everyone’s attention. This would be disadvantageous to him if he planned to bring Zhao Yue away under everyone’s noses. After mulling over it for a while, he flipped his hand again, and the item card disappeared. He decided to dodge the worst of the attack by using the Impeccable Card at the right moment. His old face remained calm.
The loud buzzing continued to disturb the minds of the people.
“Ouch! Ouch! These bald donkeys are giving me a headache!” A young cultivator standing next to Lu Zhou cursed as he held his head in his hands before dropping and rolling on the ground.
“Eh… O-old man, w-why are you not affected?”
‘That’s right! Why am I unaffected?’ Lu Zhou looked around him. Everyone’s faces seemed to contort in pain and s.h.i.+ne with sweat.
The buzzing sound intensified. It was several times louder than before.
Lu Zhou suddenly felt a wave of impact surging toward him. This was Brahman Lullaby’s greatest effect. He saw many people with a weak cultivation base spit out blood. Needless to say, they were also bleeding from their seven orifices.
A burning sensation spread from Lu Zhou’s sea of Qi in his dantian.
Bzzt! Bzzt!
“To get the mental intelligence of others, we should know that there is no difference in the hearts of the people in the three thousand worlds. They are like one world.”
“To gain the power to hear everything so that we can hear voices in all realms at will.”
“To gain enlightenment and the power of speech that can change the world with words and free the common people from sufferings.”
Lu Zhong was stunned. He was not hearing the droning chants of the Brahman Lullaby, but the contents of the Scrolls of Heavenly Writing! It was the Human Scroll of Heavenly Writing. When the burning sensation from his dantian subsided, it was replaced by a faint coolness. It spread from his dantian to his belly, chest, heart, and brain. He became wary at this moment.
Meanwhile, the sound of the Brahman Lullaby reached his ears again. He looked around him. Most of the cultivators were already sprawled on the ground. It was clear that they were in so much pain that death seemed to be the better option. The remaining cultivators who managed to stay on their feet could not move at all.
On the other hand, the monks around the holy altar joined their palms together and their eyes were closed. They were chanting with increasing fervor and urgency.
At this moment, only the Four-leaf Golden Lotus Avatar was arrogantly hovering in the center of the plaza.
Little Yuan’er was sitting on the ground now. She was not terribly affected, she only seemed annoyed.
On the contrary, Zhao Yue was unconscious.
Meanwhile, the Fiend Temple’s Third Seat, an elite of the Four-leaf Golden Lotus Nascent Divinity Tribulation realm, was looking at the kasaya worn by the monk, Kong Xuan. The kasaya was s.h.i.+ning with radiant golden light.
When Kong Xuan saw that Duan Xing was still standing, he increased the strength of his Golden Body. “Arhat Golden Body!”
Double Arhat Golden Body!
“Bald donkey, is this what you mean by showing mercy to the ma.s.ses? What a colossal joke!” Duan Xing laughed as he extended his Four-leaf avatar and charged toward the Arhat Golden Body.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
When they collided, the violent vibration shook the holy altar’s plaza as well. It felt as though s.p.a.ce itself had warped.
Duan Xing activated his Dao Invisibility. His avatars left afterimages around him.
The cultivators who were still conscious looked at the Four-leaf avatars with a frightened expression on their faces. Moreover, they also saw four Arhat Golden Bodies.
Under the enhancement of the four sources of golden light, the Brahman Lullaby sound technique was enhanced to the limit! The lullaby sounded thunderous from the monks’ rehea.r.s.ed chantings.
Boom!
An explosion sounded in the air as Duan Xing’s Four-leaf avatars disappeared. He was sent flying and landed among the Fiend Temple’s ranks.
Tap! Tap! Tap!
Duan Xing tapped his meridian points to stop his wounds caused by the sound technique from worsening. He looked at Kong Xuan who was unleas.h.i.+ng his mighty power in the plaza with a cold glint in his eyes.
“The bald donkey is so powerful?!” Duan Xian pushed himself off the ground with one hand. A fierce expression appeared on his face. He wanted to move but discovered that he had been rendered immobile.
The Brahman Lullaby’s intimidating effect covered every inch of the holy altar.
Kong Xuan’s eyes were clear and bright. He had risen into the air as he shone with a radiant golden light.
‘What’s he doing? Why isn’t he stopping? He has already won!’ Lu Zhou thought to himself.
“That’s enough!” A deep voice, clearly unaffected by the Brahman Lullaby, sounded from behind the monk, Kong Xuan.
Kong Xuan was stunned. Who was it? He turned his Golden Body around slowly and saw an old man walking toward the holy altar with ease. The old man’s speed was neither rushed nor slow, and his manner was neither servile nor domineering.
Lu Zhou stroked his beard and said drily, “The Buddhist Sect has always prided itself in not taking any lives, and yet, you’ve broken that rule today. Is this the will of the Great Temple of Emptiness’ abbot, Kong Yuan, or is it your will?”
“Benefactor, why are you unaffected?” Although the monk, Kong Xuan, was filled with confidence and knowledge, he was still taken aback by the old man’s leisurely manner.
The Brahman Lullaby was chanted by dozens of monks and himself, a Nascent Divinity Tribulation realm monk. The old man should have been affected in some way at the very least.
Lu Zhou said indifferently, “Answer my question.”
“Old benefactor, are you trying to stop this old monk?” Kong Xuan widened his eyes. His instinct told him this old man would not be easy to deal with.
Lu Zhou shook his head. That was not the reply he wanted to hear. He sighed softly. “You pigheaded monk.” He raised an arm slowly.
At the same time, Kong Xuan’s Arhat Golden Body burst with a blinding golden light again, and it increased from four to eight bodies. The Arhat Golden Bodies instantly attacked.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A Buddha Golden Body that was 100 feet tall and 10 feet wide appeared by Lu Zhou’s side, keeping the eight Arhat Golden Bodies at bay! It looked like a grandfather stopping his grandchildren.
At this moment, those who still managed to retain their consciousness were filled with disbelief. The Arhat Golden Bodies that they thought were so powerful had suddenly become so weak. This Golden Body was too f*cking big! They had to strain their necks to just look at it. Most of them cried out in surprise at the sight of this.
“A senior Buddhist monk!”
“He’s a senior Buddhist monk!”
Lu Zhou swung his sleeve lightly before a small hand seal shot out from the Golden Body toward Kong Xuan.
Kong Xuan stared with his mouth agape at the incoming hand seal before he quickly abandoned his Arhat Golden Bodies and retreated! He descended on the ground immediately.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of explosions reverberated in the air as rubble flew everywhere when Kong Xuan retreated at lightning speed.
‘Deadly Strike Card is a sure-kill move. Can you really run from it?’