Chapter 2802 - 74: The Shenxiao Game

What is faith?

Sacrifice everything to embrace one’s desire.

For the ideal of the Black Lotus Temple’s "enlightenment under the heavens," Shujia Lan relinquished the future opportunity to ascend to a Heavenly Demon.

Willingly sacrificing oneself, embracing the Knowledge and Hearing Bell.

As a treasured possession controlled by the Ancient Nan Mountain for many years, it was almost impossible to seize the Knowledge and Hearing Bell.

Long worshiped at Ancient Nan Mountain, it has enlightened countless Bodhisattvas and Arhats, echoed by numerous Buddhas, becoming one with the Ancient Nan Mountain, united with the Buddhist fortune.

No matter where across the earth’s ends, the Ancient Nan Mountain can summon it back at any time.

In a sense, "to move the Knowledge and Hearing Bell is like moving the Ancient Nan Mountain."

Who in this world can achieve such a feat?

Thus, even a young Demon King like Yang Yu had the chance to take it out of the Mountain Gate. Walking through bustling markets, venturing into perilous places.

Of course, given the importance of the Knowledge and Hearing Bell, Great Bodhisattva Chan Fayuan also accompanies and protects it at all times.

It should be said that the Ancient Nan Mountain has sufficient caution regarding the movement and use of the Knowledge and Hearing Bell.

But the Land of Shenxiao, left by the Yu Clan’s legends from eons ago, is a very special place.

It can autonomously self-destruct to prevent Tiger Taisui’s invasion. It can isolate the inside and outside, even block many Heavenly Demons from tracking it, almost forming the embryo of an independent world.

As the recognized orthodox of Monster Realm Buddhism, Ancient Nan Mountain has long maintained its supremacy. Chan Fayuan, using the Land of Shenxiao as a chessboard to make moves, disregarded other players, shaking a single Knowledge and Hearing Bell, aiming for total possession.

While piercing hidden secrets and transcending time and space, the Knowledge and Hearing Bell also inevitably invests a part of itself into the Land of Shenxiao.

The sacrifice of Shujia Lan was magnified to the extreme in the Black Lotus sacrificial altar, firmly anchoring this part of the Knowledge and Hearing Bell in the Land of Shenxiao, indirectly instigating the world rules of the Land of Shenxiao, finally unlocking the possibility of moving the Knowledge and Hearing Bell!

If the shadow of the Knowledge and Hearing Bell falling in the Land of Shenxiao is a homing pigeon that can return at any time, what Shujia Lan now does is grab the wings of this pigeon, preventing its return to the coop.

The power of the Knowledge and Hearing Bell, originally relying on the ability of knowledge and hearing, freely traversed through secrets.

But at this moment, it is fixed within this secrecy.

Compared to the rules of a complete world, the connection established by the Ancient Nan Mountain monastics with the Knowledge and Hearing Bell over thousands of years is so fragile.

And at this crucial moment when this connection is severed and the Knowledge and Hearing Bell is fixed.

Ji Xingkong activated the messenger of faith from the End of Dharma Era’s new Buddhist Law, erasing the imprint of Ancient Nan Mountain in a very short time, beginning to inscribe Black Lotus Temple’s unique inscriptions on the ancient copper bell body.

The degeneration of both Yang Yu and the shadow of the Knowledge and Hearing Bell is merely a side-effect of this process.

At this moment, above Mo Yun City, including Tiger Taisui and several Heavenly Demons, all can clearly see the determined inscriptions moving forward on the ancient copper bell body.

It reads: "From selflessness to Bodhi."

The next sentence has already been written as "Heart of others unendorsed."

That golden light fades, the night grows long.

The old era has vanished, the new era is about to dawn!

The smile on Chan Fayuan’s face had long shattered, along with it, also broke his move in this Shenxiao game.

To possess everything, he chose to close the game first, resulting in being the first to be ousted.

At present, what to win is no longer important, what is important is not to lose anything more.

His expression is extremely serious, a kind of solemnity rarely seen... therefore it becomes real power.

Leaning on the Knowledge and Hearing Bell still stalemating in the secret channel, he solemnly asked, "Yang Yu, have you realized?!

Inside the Land of Shenxiao, Yang Yu is suppressing the invading black patterns, at the cusp of falling or not, channeling more power into the shadow of the Knowledge and Hearing Bell, thereby resisting the constraints of Black Lotus sacrificial altar.

A demon who has left home should be indifferent to worldly sentiments.

He is inherently disinterested, accepting everything serenely. Never having waves.

The true secrets of Shenxiao escape, attracting more competitors, he does not mind.

Whoever competes with him, whoever blocks his way, is no different.

This is his truth.

He is also proud. To forcefully question all competitors with the sound of the bell, to guide Shujia Lan back from its lost path, to let Lu Qilang understand his ranking... to declare "Heaven above, Earth below, only I am supreme."

This is also his truth.

Truly, as in this moment.

He is struggling, amidst the descending demonic powers of the End of Dharma, struggling with all his might. With the capability of being a new king ranked fifth on the Heavenly List, he has struggled to manifest an independent and conscious self, yet still struggles for the attribution of the Sect’s treasured possession.

But at this point, he heard Chan Fayuan’s solemn inquiry.

The conflicting expression on his face disappeared in an instant. Restored to warmth, tranquility.

He softly replied, "Under the Bodhi Tree, all causes and effects of the heavens. On Ancient Nan Mountain, boundless spiritual bonds through millennia. Our Light King’s true transmission, sacrificing for faith, how could it lag behind?"

Before my Buddha’s true transmission, of course, nothing is important. Including the doubts about Chai Asi and Peaceful Ghost Messenger, including the victory and defeat with Lu Qilang, and also including himself...

His final tone was not as intense as Shujia Lan’s.

But while responding to the Great Bodhisattva, he had already abandoned the suppression of himself.

Black patterns instantly crawled all over his warm face.

Making him appear wicked, filthy, undignified.

But the golden light ignited all over his body!

The entire body began to burn.

He burned in the sky, the fire grew fierce, the golden light increasingly intense... finally, he became a large cluster of gold-flamed Buddhist fire, using his bald head as a battering ram, collided with the shadow of the Knowledge and Hearing Bell already entwined by black patterns.

To ring a bell for a day as a monk, strike a bell for a day.