Super Combat Soldier

Chapter 2339: Chapter 2337: Enlightenment in Buddhist Sect Stories (1)

Ye Tianchen was going mad, seemingly having completely lost his sanity, wholly possessed by that ominous power, even Hu Gao, God Beating Bowl, and Little Zhu Yan calling out to him went unnoticed by him as he desperately sought to kill, consumed by an uncontrollable vicious aura!

Little Zhu Yan and God Beating Bowl, these two pit masters, set up a powerful rune array, continuously blasting Ye Tianchen with the power of thunder and lightning, aiming to subdue him completely. Only then would there be a greater chance of helping him restore some sanity; otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to control Ye Tianchen, and he would eventually be entirely swallowed by the ominous power, leading to his inevitable demise!

Whoosh!

A rune net enveloped Ye Tianchen as he rose into the sky, quickly contracting and trapping him. As Ye Tianchen struggled frantically, Little Zhu Yan and God Beating Bowl urged the seals, striking him with thunder and lightning power, which indeed had some effect. The continuously growing red fur was considerably worn down, the growth slowed, and he looked much improved!

”Ah!”

Ye Tianchen let out a roar, reminiscent of a True Dragon’s birth, shaking heaven and earth. At this moment, his most potent latent power seemed to explode forth. Nevertheless, Little Zhu Yan and God Beating Bowl strained with all their might, refining a drop of lifeblood, infusing it into the rune net, making the net like a cage, tightly locking Ye Tianchen!

”Ye kid, control your inner self and gradually calm down!” Little Zhu Yan couldn’t help but shout loudly.

”You still have many things to do, you need to partake in the great world struggles, you need to become a supreme strong, achieve immortality, resurrect your departed kin. In your current state, they can never come back!” God Beating Bowl also spoke gritting his teeth.

Buzz!

Suddenly, right after Little Zhu Yan and God Beating Bowl finished speaking, the winds and clouds of the entire universe seemed to halt, and Ye Tianchen, who was frantically struggling, stopped all his movements. He stood in mid-air, still trapped by the immensely strong thunder rune net, motionless, the red fur on his body ceased to grow, yet it seemed he hadn’t regained clarity!

”Brother Ye, we need you, the villagers of Desolate Stone Village need you, those departed loved ones need you!” Hu Gao tightly clenched his fist and said.

Whoosh!

The heavy red fur on Ye Tianchen’s face suddenly vanished, revealing his face. Yet, elsewhere on his body, the red fur remained unmoving, his face devoid of expression, eyes full of blood-red hue, indicating extreme abnormality!

”Brother Ye...” Hu Gao shouted in surprise.

Ye Tianchen glanced at Hu Gao, looked at Little Zhu Yan, and again at God Beating Bowl. His gaze wandered, seemingly devoid of recognition for these three, only staring at the sky, murmuring to himself, ”Dead, you are all dead. What should I do to bring you back? How should I strive... I... Ah!”

Pfft!

With a sky-shattering roar, the mountains, rivers, sun, and moon seemed to change color. Ye Tianchen spat blood from his mouth, his entire body plummeting from the clouds, crashing heavily into the ground below, creating a massive crater!

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Hu Gao, Little Zhu Yan, and God Beating Bowl rushed over, and upon entering the dust cloud, they were surprised to find that Ye Tianchen’s body was nowhere on the ground, stunned and wondering what happened!

”Where’s Brother Ye? Where is he?” Hu Gao asked anxiously and loudly.

”This... How could it have disappeared?” Little Zhu Yan frowned tightly, asking himself.

”Could it be, could it be that the body and soul are both annihilated, turning to ashes?” God Beating Bowl said worryingly.

”Nonsense, impossible, absolutely impossible, Brother Ye can’t be dead, there are still too many things waiting for him to do!” Hu Gao cried out, as if collapsing.

Pain!

Whole body pain, heart pain too!

Unfathomable power endlessly devours Ye Tianchen, his body and mind are exhausted to the extreme, mainly because the impact is too great, Ye Tianchen would never have imagined that less than two years after the martial arts world’s magic law was thrown into chaos, his family and friends died so many!

Ye Tianchen did not open his eyes, nor did he know where he was, but slowly, in his mind, a Buddha statue emerged. This Buddha statue was very plain and ordinary, not golden and glimmering, nor resplendent and magnificent, just a stone-carved Buddha statue, appearing before Ye Tianchen, some murmurs of Buddhist sounds entering his ears, as if narrating stories to Ye Tianchen. Although these stories could not immediately remove the ominous power within Ye Tianchen, they gave Ye Tianchen a different kind of insight. And in Ye Tianchen’s mind, these stories repeatedly appeared, reflecting deeply upon them could yield unexpected gains. Ever since Ye Tianchen acquired the ”Yijin Jing” inheritance, he has had an indescribable bond with the Buddhist sect, and he himself does not know whether this connection is good or bad. The stories involuntarily emerge in his mind without his control:

The Bodhi Tree conquers demons and achieves Taoism!

Prince Suddhodana travels to seek Tao, practices asceticism for six years, then thirty years old, bathes and eats to restore vigor, searching alone for the place of enlightenment. Arrived at a spot, serene and flat, lush green grass, a tall flourishing Bodhi tree in the midst.

The Crown Prince thought, ”This is truly the place to achieve perfect enlightenment,” and approached the tree calmly, asked for the soft, green auspicious fine grass, spread it around as a seat. The Crown Prince calmly sat cross-legged facing the east under the tree and vowed: ”If I do not achieve Supreme Equanimity and perfect enlightenment, I would rather shatter this body than leave this seat!”

At that time, the earth was vast and clear, sky clear and bright, white cranes and blue magpies circled right and left, auspicious clouds filled the void, revealing a scene of universal joy. The Crown Prince sat on the seat, radiating light illuminating heaven and earth, the pain ceased temporarily in the three evil realms of hell, hungry ghosts, and beasts. The light soared up to the palace of the Demon King in the Six Desire Heavens, dimming the Devil Palace.

At that time, Devil King Boxun’s nameless wrath rose three thousand feet high, and immediately summoned the Devil’s Son, Deviless, Devil Soldiers, Demon Generals to harm and obstruct. The Devil King’s eldest son, Shang Zhu, advised: ”Son observes Prince Suddhodana’s mighty divine virtue, far surpassing us all. I hope Father withdraws this command, otherwise, I am afraid regret will come too late.”

The Devil King relied on his divine abilities, changing at will, and did not heed his son’s advice, mobilized the entire devil army to harass the Crown Prince. Then countless terrifying demons, night spirits, evil ghosts, poisonous insects, and malicious beasts surged around the Crown Prince like bees and ants, densely surrounding him, grotesque shapes, ugly sounds, terrifying enough to frighten any person. Yet the Crown Prince sat upright, unmoved, without the slightest fear or disturbance.

The Crown Prince entered the ’compassion samadhi,’ no evil could harm him, the devil soldiers achieved nothing and retreated. The Devil King worried the Crown Prince would achieve Tao and surpass his own position, abandoning him for Heaven and Earth instead following his teachings. So he sent three most seductive and beautiful demonesses to tempt the Crown Prince, who dressed and adorned themselves gorgeously, with fragrance overwhelming, surpassing Heaven and Earth’s beauty by ten thousand times. Their graceful and charming shapes, thousandfold allure would ensnare the heart of anyone.

Wave Riding Micro Step brought them before the Crown Prince, with sweet smiles, eager to charm. But the Crown Prince had severed desires, even distinguishing between male and female, human or self was long gone. Heart like the Void, where then could arise dust? Instead, he compassionately admonished them:

”Though you are beautiful in appearance, your minds are not righteous, even your bodies, outwardly lovely, are foul inside, like vase filled with dung, unaware of shame, dare you come deceive others?”

Having spoken, with the Crown Prince’s divine power, these three women perceived inside their own bodies, seeing skeletons, skin-covered sinews, hair growing all over, impurity flowing from the seven orifices and pores, sweat, phlegm, tear secretions, pus, blood, excrement, urine, filled with filth, intestines steaming with decayed food, repulsively foul, and among it all myriad small and fine parasites spreading through all parts of the body. Such stench and filth made them nauseous. The Devil King saw the allure of beauty failed again and thunderously furious, personally brought the most ferocious, terrifying devils to harm the Crown Prince.

Yet, despite earth-shattering disturbances, not a hair of the Crown Prince was harmed. The Crown Prince told him: ”In a past life you merely built a monastery, follows eight precepts for one day, gave a Pratyeka Buddha a bowl of rice, due to this merit became the Demon King in the Six Desire Heavens. I—from countless kalpas past (a kalpa is a long period; one world complete and destroyed is one great kalpa)—accumulated infinite merit and wisdom, perfected the six perfections and ten thousand practices. So, attacking me is no different than using an egg to strike against a stone!”

The Crown Prince shone pure light, the devil crowds fell and scattered, surrendered, Boxun alarmed ran back to the Devil Palace.

The Crown Prince sat cross-legged under the Bodhi tree for forty-eight days, at this point on the evening of December 7th, having experienced realms beyond human terror and beauty, subdued demon resentment; the skies were clear, wind gentle and harmonious, the Crown Prince manifested various meditation states, comprehended all matters of past and future across worlds in ten directions. On the eighth child hour, when the morning star appeared, he suddenly enlightened.