Supreme Alchemist
Chapter 2493: 2483: The Deceased Monk

Chapter 2493: Chapter 2483: The Deceased Monk

“Are you sure?”

Yun Huang parted her lips, initially wanting to blame Long Yan for being oblivious, but upon thinking about Long Yan’s personality and the development along the way, Yun Huang could see it clearly. She knew that this man, who handled emotions like a block of wood, had his own sense of justice deep down.

“Brother Long.”

Just now, that punch scared the four people, especially Chu Lu, who had never seen such immense power before, so he stared blankly at Long Yan, unsure of what to say.

“It’s alright, let’s go.”

With just one punch from Long Yan, the entire Arhat Hall turned into ruins. Although when the Golden Statues collectively attacked, the Arhat Hall had already collapsed, Long Yan became the final straw that broke the camel’s back. No building in the Arhat Hall was left intact.

At that moment, dozens of red lights shot out from the Golden Statues, trying to escape far away. Long Yan reached out and pointed at the sky, with an invisible True Qi handprint gathering the red lights back into his hand.

“Long Yan, what is this?”

Chu Meng looked at the palm Long Yan had opened, inside which were more than a dozen red crystal-like things. The girl instinctively loved beauty and picked one up to place in her palm.

“These are Ghost Grudges, the last breath some people couldn’t swallow before dying.”

Long Yan said softly, if these Ghost Grudges were allowed to escape, then in decades, a formidable grudge ghost might breed here, possibly affecting the Demon Beast Mountain Range directly.

“Ah.”

Upon hearing Long Yan’s words, Chu Meng let out a shock, almost dropping the Ghost Grudge from her hand, quickly clamping it in her palm. Chu Meng stuck out her tongue, no longer daring to examine the presence of the Ghost Grudge, placing the glowing red crystal back in Long Yan’s hand.

These Ghost Grudges would have some use for Ghost Cultivators but for normal people, they were merely attractive red crystals. However, there was a hint of golden glow on them, indicating their origin was with the monks inside this temple.

Long Yan didn’t crush them but put them into his storage ring, beckoning Chu Lu and the others to continue forward. He was determined to eradicate such a Demon’s Cave.

Actually, just now Long Yan punched with intent, but its power significantly surpassed Long Yan’s ability. The Martial Path he comprehended before was blessed by the Star Breaking Demon Decree. Its power was comparable to the Divine Fire Prison created by Long Yan’s Divine Fire. The martial path contained in this punch alone was enough for a martial arts genius to comprehend for one and a half years.

The next was the Main Buddhist Shrine after the Arhat Hall, where Buddha and various Bodhisattvas were worshipped. Since passing through the Arhat Hall, the scenery inside seemed like another world entirely.

Now shown before Long Yan was a beautiful scene of birds chirping and flowers blooming, green grass, blooming unknown wildflowers, with two or three butterflies fluttering above, looking like a pure land of the Buddhist Sect.

This was the only place since Long Yan entered that resembled a temple. But when Long Yan walked in, he discovered beneath this foot-long green grass were blackened skeletons, and many had weathered away, being nothing but white bones. These corpses lay in the grass in an eerie posture.

Long Yan felt these white bones didn’t look like dying people’s remains but rather resembled large frogs lying on the ground.

Faced with this bizarre scene, Long Yan was puzzled, but upon closer inspection, he found this wasn’t an Illusionary Realm; the scene before them was indeed real.

Passing through this green field led to a Bamboo Forest, which Long Yan felt was likely divided by that space-creating guy, Shi Ran. This space here claimed to be one piece, but its area had already exceeded the dimensions of the temple.

But it was uncertain if Shi Ran rebuilt the temple after killing everyone inside, as he pointed the direction of the temple’s building backward, something very rare among all temples.

Finally, the Main Buddhist Shrine was ahead, but Long Yan and others couldn’t proceed, because right in front of the shrine, an old monk was kneeling at the steps, motionless.

Long Yan feared it might be a trap like the Asura statue, so he only poked the old monk with a bamboo pole from afar, but the latter remained still, instead emitting a faint golden light, protecting the entire Main Buddhist Shrine with it.

Long Yan fiercely knocked on the golden barrier but shook his head at the other four. This Buddha’s Light barrier wasn’t like those combined efforts from the Arhat statues before. The golden light was heavy and dull, bearing no desire to compete with anyone, truly the martial arts of the Mahayana.

Long Yan deeply looked at the kneeling corpse of the old monk beside him, realizing the end was equally grim for a monk who attained enlightenment. His eyes were gouged out, mouth slightly open, tongue severed, causing the others to shiver with fright.

“Too cruel indeed.”

Chu Meng shook her head and said afterward, treating enlightened monks this way will result in retribution.

“Retribution, is it?”

Long Yan sighed deeply, realizing he might just be Shi Ran’s karma, then shouted loudly.

“Shi Ran, come out and face death!”

Just as Long Yan’s voice fell, an intoning of Buddhism sounded from the main hall.

“Amitabha, Dragon Benefactor, there’s no need to rush. Can’t you completely pierce that Buddha’s Light and come in?”

Long Yan spat, this old monk was skilled in Buddhism to an extreme degree. Even if Long Yan exerted all effort to break the barrier before him, the Eternal Life Buddha’s Light would instantly restore it as if untouched, which exemplifies Buddhism’s profundity.

Entering under the Buddha’s Light enclosure isn’t a simple task, let alone Long Yan was unwilling to harm this high monk’s corpse.

“Right, Junior Monk shall tell a method to Benefactor. I used his guilt to protect the Main Buddhist Shrine. Thus, collecting all the parts he lost will cause the soul sealed in his depths to naturally appear, then it depends on Dragon Benefactor’s persuasion skills.”

Though Long Yan gritted his teeth in anger, he had no choice but to follow Shi Ran’s hints. Apparently, the eyeballs acquired in the Sea of Blood were indeed part of this high monk’s body.

Though years had passed, surprisingly, the high monk’s soul hadn’t dissipated. Perhaps he could uncover what really happened inside the temple.

Heavenly Stem Yi Wood, Earthly Branch Wei Earth.

This was the last sentence said before the statue shattered, yet Long Yan felt something seemed incomplete. Could these two things be what the monk needed?

But even now nothing was fully assembled, naturally there wasn’t much time to ponder.

These two items were common, at least in the Bamboo Forest and grassland were common flowers and grass and dry soil. These two things originally were just an argument.