Chapter 40: Settling Accounts

  "Alas, I was ordained as a monk at a young age and devoted myself to Buddhism. However, the Clear Water True Person ordered me to steal the Buddhist scripture 'The Heart Sword Scripture' from the Tianyin Temple's scripture repository. When I refused, she had my mother, father... all seventeen of my family members bound and brought before me. In the end, I said: As a monk, one has no family, so she relented and allowed me to find you to borrow the Ling'er fur. Otherwise... A monk's heart is filled with compassion, so I agreed to her request. Saving one life is better than building seven levels of pagodas; if Master Sun is willing to lend me the fur, it would be equivalent to building over a hundred levels of pagodas. Amitabha Buddha."

  "Really?" Sun You asked.

  "Lying will lead to Avici Hell, I am a monk who has left home and does not speak deceitful words." The beauty replied with a sorrowful face.

  "Alright, you can go."

  "Please, Master Sun, you must hand over Ling'er. If not, I'm afraid Master Sun will be doomed to eternal damnation in the underworld. I, a humble monk, am willing to sacrifice my life as compensation. If Master Sun thinks my life is worthless, I can serve him for eternity. If I break this vow, may heaven strike me with lightning."

  "You... you'd better not try to take advantage of me and leave!"

  "If the donor is unwilling, I won't get up." The beauty continued to kowtow: "Not saving a life in danger is like taking a life, it's the first taboo for monks."

  ……

  Half a time later, the absolute beauty left the valley, throwing a piece of red monkey skin into the乾坤bag, thinking it was some treasure, but it was just a fifty-year-old demon beast skin. The old lady didn't want this skin, but wanted to borrow a knife to kill someone. It's strange, her own sect had helped this old lady before, not remembering past favors is one thing, but why did she still want to kill herself?

  It turns out that Qing Shui Zhen Ren had some true words, Sun You really was eating vegetarian and reciting Buddhist scriptures, not easily taking lives. She originally meant well, letting Xi Men Shuai and Jue Se experience a bit of training, as a gift to her juniors. Who knew later she had the intention to kill Lin Fan, so she let them go send themselves to death. Qing Shui Zhen Ren didn't think that Jue Se would secretly listen to their conversation, plot against Lin Fan and Xi Men Shuai, and then go find death herself.

  The outcome was unexpectedly turned from good intentions to malicious ones, with despicable actions and thoughts. This innocent person harmed themselves, but if they didn't show some color, it would be unjustifiable. However, this innocent person's cultivation far surpassed their own.

  Jade Absolute was flying and thinking, then discovered something was off. Ximen Shuai and a small Daoist had surrounded him from front and back. The small Daoist was unrecognizable, but Ximen Shuai's Jade Absolute was familiar - the Subduing Heaven and Earth Circle, as well as the Seven Breaking Flags that made everyone jealous. Being able to be with Ximen Shuai, it seemed like things wouldn't go badly.

  One hand points at Ximen's handsome face, one hand points at Lin Fan: "If you have what it takes, let's duel."

  "Good." Ximen Shuai flew up, with the Qian Kun Circle spinning rapidly in his hand and flying towards Jue Se. Jue Se revealed a Buddha's light, and the nine Buddhist beads grew longer as soon as they encountered the wind, colliding with the Qian Kun Circle, causing both to rebound back. Ximen Shuai was stunned, looking like he had been hit on the head, and again released the Qian Kun Circle. Jue Se smiled, "This Buddha's treasure is indeed hard; even if it were to collide for ten thousand years, it would not be my Buddhist beads that break first."

  Jue Se was just about to drive the Buddhist beads to attack, when a bolt of lightning struck down, saying that it was agreed to be a one-on-one fight, but... wasn't this lightning power a bit too small?

  Just thinking of this, the second pass, the third pass, the fourth pass...

  Jue Se had never met anyone more shameless than herself, Lin Fan wasn't shameless, but his spell was the most shameless Jue Se had ever seen. It could suddenly release a Thunderbolt and continuously emit it without stopping, making her unable to move as if she were being continuously immobilized. The Buddhist beads protected her body, strongly withstanding the乾坤圈 (Qian Kun Quan), but the beads scattered everywhere, Jue Se's vital energy churned, and her true Qi was in disarray. "Ge Lao Zi, the faster this乾坤圈 spins, the greater its power."

  "All laws are dust!" The ultimate move was released, and a burst of Buddha's light enveloped the entire body, transforming into a layer of clothing that wrapped around the ultimate color, shining brightly. The lightning immediately lost its paralyzing ability.

  Lin Fan shouted: "Hit!"

  The Green Jade Buddha Knife flew out and struck the body of Jue Se, who sank down in great anger: "Niu Bi Zi actually stole my Buddhist treasure knife... Ah, the Buddha is going to pass away!"

  Above, the Green Jade Buddha Knife chopped and killed, below, the Qian Kun Circle spun around. The two clashed, and with a single bite of her teeth, the nine Buddhist beads exploded simultaneously. Not only did they counter-shock the Qian Kun Circle and the Green Jade Buddha Knife back, but also shook the two weapons to the point of trembling endlessly. This was an omen before hibernation. However, Absolute Color didn't fare any better either. These nine Buddhist beads were found after spending over a year searching, and another year spent refining them with her heart. In an instant, they turned to dust.

  Lin Fan said, "You have no credibility."

  "He agreed, but I didn't."

  Ximen said: "I agree to a one-on-one fight, but he doesn't agree, and I have no choice."

  "Shameless." Absolutely stunning rebuke.

  "That's you."

  "Haha." Jue Se suddenly burst out laughing, Yu Feng knelt down in mid-air, his eyes welling up with tears: "Two heroes, I have an 80-year-old mother above and a three-year-old child below, spare my life."

  "Hey, you... are one of the top eight masters, how can you be so spineless?"

  "Jue se zheng se dao: Wei bao chou pi nang, wan fa jie kong."

  Translation:

  "The ultimate truth is that for the sake of preserving this foul skin bag, all laws are empty."

  Ximen Qing looked at Lin Feng and said: "What do you think?"

  Lin Fan waved his hand: "I already have an opinion."

  Just as he said this, a line of Sanskrit appeared on the foreheads of Ximen Commander and Lin Fan, and a voice that was both familiar and unfamiliar asked: "Where is Vajra?"

  Two gigantic golden Buddha statues appeared in mid-air and smashed down, shocking Xi Men Shuai. The Qian Kun Circle immediately counterattacked, but was nearly crushed by the Buddha statue and fell downwards. Xi Men Shuai hastily retreated, but the Buddha statue stretched out its large hand and slapped him flying with a palm. Lin Fan's side was the same, but he didn't use the Green Jade Treasure Sword to block it; instead, he shot out a soybean from his sleeve.

  Scattering beans to form soldiers, a knife shield soldier appeared in the air, looked down and let out a shrill cry, then fell downwards. Lin Fan pinched a spell seal and switched places with the knife shield soldier, and Vajra smashed the knife shield soldier into powder. After one move was over, Vajra's large hand slapped towards Lin Fan, who threw away his bamboo sword and still used the switcheroo technique, but the bamboo sword under his feet was slapped into powder.

  Lin Fan flipped over and walked away, pointing at his own Vajra: "Hurry!"

  A burning stone the size of a watermelon flew down rapidly from mid-air and smashed onto King Kong's body, causing his shoulder to sink in immediately. His body also fell downwards. This is the authentic Taoist magic, Flying Fire Meteor. It is the advanced spell of Thunderbolt after the fusion of Earth Thunder and Fire Thunder, with immense power. Lin Fan had just started practicing it, so his understanding was limited. Moreover, since Lin Fan's five elements were balanced, he couldn't effectively unleash the power of Earth Thunder and Fire Thunder, otherwise this one hit would have been enough to take down King Kong.

  The color is quite astonishing, if you want to talk about the thunderbolt, the most sinister one should be the water thunder of Gui, and the most powerful one should be the Taiyi divine thunder. Apart from the Leishan sect, other orthodox sects also cultivate thunderbolts, but their knowledge of the method is limited. The Yunqingmen's ability to control instruments is quite high, while the thunderbolt does not seem to be outstanding. Can a small disciple actually release a fusion of earth and fire thunder? Is the rumor wrong?