Chapter 968: Speculation

Chapter 968: Chapter 692: Speculation

Southern Border, Tianlong Temple.

In the newly born Pocket World, the Buddhist wind was clear and silent, the plants and trees peaceful.

Black Ebony and White Jiao, the two demons, were waiting early. Seeing Chen Sheng return, they hurried forward to bow respectfully:

“Master, you have returned from the Spirit Mountain, may your journey have been smooth.”

“All matters in the Southern Border are stable, without disturbances. The two of us have been on guard the entire time, without shirking our duties.”

Chen Sheng nodded slightly. Having experienced the chaos of the gold-seeking ceremony of the Spirit Mountain, his mind was still turbulent at this moment:

“Upon my return, I need to retreat for intense seclusion, to organize my Dao path and comprehend the Divine Techniques.”

“Ordinary affairs in the temple, and external movements, you two handle as usual. No need to report to me.”

Upon hearing this, Black Ebony and White Jiao immediately bowed and complied.

“We obey the command!”

“We will strictly guard the entrance to the mountain, clear the surrounding disturbances, and ensure the master’s seclusion is stable!”

Chen Sheng waved his hand slightly, and the two demons respectfully retreated and quietly left.

Once the surroundings were thoroughly quiet, with no one to disturb him, Chen Sheng slowly walked deep into the pocket world, sat cross-legged beside the Spirit Field, closed his eyes, and began to thoroughly review the details of today’s gold-seeking ceremony at Spirit Mountain.

Countless images, details, and changes in the air returned and unraveled swiftly in his mind.

After a long time, he slowly opened his eyes, a glimmer moving in his pupils, deeply touched in his heart:

“The shift of the Golden Position, all techniques are severed.”

“No matter a slight change in the upper levels, it renders the centuries or even millennia of accumulation by lower cultivators, or even an entire sect, wasted in an instant.”

“This is truly the cultivation of this land, truly despairing!!”

“So-called transcendence has no path in this world, so-called cultivation is merely surviving on a predetermined chessboard.”

Chen Sheng gently shook his head, discarding distractions, turning instead to organize his Dao path and future road, comparing them with Xianyao’s path to failure, and secretly deducing his own advantages and disadvantages.

“This time, the core point of collapse in the Golden Position transformation lies in the complete misalignment and dissonance of the ‘Silence’ imagery of the Void Sun Dao.”

“The Dao Rhyme of Void, Hidden, and Passage still match the Golden Position, only the characteristic of Annihilation has changed and become obsolete.”

“I consider myself lucky…”

In his cultivation up to now, he hasn’t even condensed the Annihilation Divine Techniques.

Therefore, the desperate plight that led countless Arhats and Bodhisattvas to falter, sever their paths, and be forced to reincarnate and rebuild did not befall him.

He recalled the desperate looks of those Arhats and Bodhisattvas who faltered at the time of the Golden Position transition today.

There was only the choice of reincarnating and rebuilding.

But later, a True Buddha descended, manipulating time and altering history.

Chen Sheng sighed even more:

“Now it seems, they might not even have the right to despair!”

“From top to bottom, they can only cultivate step-by-step according to the old inheritance, gradually stepping firmly into the pitfall, unable to extricate themselves.”

As his thoughts flowed, Chen Sheng looked once more at his own future path, frowning slightly, and said inwardly:

“Even though I know of the Golden Position shifts and avoided the major pitfall of the Silence Dao collapse, the road ahead is still difficult.”

“After the shift of the Golden Position, old Divine Techniques became obsolete, new Dao tracks unknown…”

“This fourth Divine Technique presents a challenge on my journey to prove the Golden Position…”

“The texts from Spirit Mountain record that during the last Star Sun Golden Position shift, a Buddha descended with a decree to solve it, but this time…”

At this thought, the image of that True Buddha of the Eastern Star Sun and Fate reappeared in Chen Sheng’s mind, and he shook his head lightly.

“That Fangri Buddha naturally won’t help solve it, he even intentionally concealed the Golden Position shift, not wanting us to succeed in seeking gold…”

“What exactly does the Golden Position shift correspond to?”

Chen Sheng slowly closed his eyes again, sighing in his heart:

“The information gap!!”

The lower-level cultivators are ignorant of upper-level cultivation as if they are blind men feeling an elephant, cultivating by groping around.

Even the Arhats and Bodhisattvas of the Spirit Mountain orthodox lineage, possessing top-tier inheritance, have a shallow understanding of the plotting at the Buddha level.

It seems the upper levels deliberately blockade and monopolize knowledge, building an unscalable barrier.

This is utterly different from the cultivation system in the Spirit Realm of his past life.

In the Spirit Realm’s cultivation, Dao Rhyme, Dao Principle, Dao Domain, Law, and Great Dao progress layer by layer, clearly and transparently.

Lower-level cultivators may lack understanding, find it difficult to attain Dao, yet they can clearly understand the paths of cultivation and Dao foundations of the upper levels.

The barrier there is “Enlightenment Talent” rather than “Information Monopoly”.

Chen Sheng perceived clearly in his heart, and also vaguely saw through the cruel root of this system:

“In this world, Divine Techniques can devour each other, Dao lineages can be plundered, Golden Positions can be seized.”

“Such a cruel system of survival of the fittest and endless conflict dictates that comrades have no kinship, fellows have no integrity.”

“Even if they share the same lineage, they must guard against and conceal from each other, with the upper levels firmly suppressing the lower, not allowing any overstepping.”

However, Chen Sheng’s mindset remained steady:

“There must be a way to solve the fourth Divine Technique, if not, I’ll seek gold myself and experience it firsthand.”

“Other cultivators fail in seeking gold, their forms and spirits obliterated, with no chance of reincarnation.”

“I am different!”

“Though this dimension has its myriad flaws, it has one good trait.”

“That is the rapidity of cultivation!!”

“In the Spirit Realm, to impact Mahayana once requires the accumulation of hundreds of Primordial Assemblies.”

“In this world, impacting a Golden Position only takes hundreds of years.”

…

In pursuit of breaking through more secrets, Chen Sheng once again meticulously reviewed every detail of the gold-seeking ceremony at Spirit Mountain, scrutinizing it repeatedly.

From when the Xianyao Bodhisattva offered the Celestial Horse Red Sun Wheel, to the Gold Attribute being perfectly formed, then to the Golden Position favoring, the Union Dao mutation, and finally the birth of evil, the Buddha controlling the scene, and altering the cognitions of all living beings…

“Everyone’s memories were altered.”

“In the cognition of all beings, Xianyao Bodhisattva failed in seeking gold even before condensing the Gold Attribute.”

“But in reality, he had already crossed the most difficult hurdle, perfectly condensing the Gold Attribute, only one step away from Union and ascension.”

The history between truth and falsehood was altered by a thought of a Buddha.

Suddenly, Chen Sheng’s thoughts shifted, recalling an old affair of the Buddhist Sect.

Eight hundred years ago, the Great Freedom Bodhisattva of the Void Sun lineage also failed to condense the Gold Attribute while impacting the gold-seeking path…

“Did he truly fail to condense the Gold Attribute? Or was he, like today’s Xianyao, successful but had history altered and the truth buried?”

At this thought, Chen Sheng was thoroughly alert in his heart.

The True Buddha of the Eastern Star Sun and Fate could alter time, change cognition, and bury secrets with a mere raise of the hand…

Such adept actions were clearly not being done for the first time.

“Moreover, that Celestial Horse Red Sun Wheel contained the pure intrinsic Gold Attribute of Fangri,”

“Why did such a precious treasure of Fangri fall into the hands of Xianyao Bodhisattva of the Void Sun lineage?”

“It is too coincidental.”

A bold yet highly logical conjecture fully formed in Chen Sheng’s mind.

“Perhaps, this Void Sun gold-seeking ceremony was a chess game orchestrated by that Fangri Buddha from the very beginning.”

“Not only today, but eight hundred years ago, the Great Freedom Bodhisattva’s failure might have been the same setup, the same scheme!”

What is the true purpose of sending the Gold Attribute opportunity and actively promoting the gold-seeking ritual?

In an instant, the answer was clear as day.

Chen Sheng’s gaze hardened:

“He wants to… usurp the Void Sun Golden Position!”

In the previous life, that Taiyin Immortal Monarch also sought to plot against Chen Sheng’s Golden Position…

Even though his plans were ultimately for naught, it still illustrates the ruthless relationships among True Monarch Golden Cores!!

The struggle for the Great Dao is relentless!

“In this dimension, the contest between True Monarch Golden Cores, Buddha Great Powers might be even more unscrupulous.”

“After all, in this dimension, above the Golden Position, lies the Dao Embryo realm…”

“The Great Sun Buddha once controlled the Gold Position of the four Sun Residences, ruling over the Sun Dao—this proves the entire path is feasible!”

“At the same time, his concealment of the Golden Position shift results must also serve this point…”

“If we can’t seek gold, this Buddha has a way to seize the Golden Position?”

Chen Sheng lacks sufficient understanding of the Golden Position, and can only make guesses based on the knowledge he possesses.

“It seems, whether Spirit Mountain or the Taiyi Profound Sect, appearance aside, they may not be as upright as they seem…”

“To prove the Golden Position, even if I perfect the fourth Divine Technique, I must proceed with caution, especially against those Buddhas…”

“To quote the words of the Taiyin Fuwei Yingkui Immortal Monarch, they are my Dao enemies!!”