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Chapter 238 - 176: All Buddhas Pay Homage

Chapter 238: Chapter 176: All Buddhas Pay Homage

As more and more people in the temple began to sense the dramatic changes in spiritual essence,

Lin Xing in the rear hall no longer had time to think about these things.

In Lin Xing’s perception, the spiritual essence between heaven and earth crazily surged into his sea of consciousness.

The overwhelming torrents of spiritual essence forced him to concentrate all his energy on his breathing technique; he could no longer attend to anything external to his body.

Under his guidance, the violent spiritual essence became slightly gentler. After passing through the back of his head and nape, it continuously struck towards the vital point on his back.

While Lin Xing cultivated the spiritual essence, trying to connect the cycle, the spiritual thoughts in his mind also absorbed the incoming spiritual essence bit by bit, becoming increasingly powerful.

The process of channeling the spiritual essence was by far faster than any of his previous practices, exceeding even his own expectations.

As time passed, the spiritual essence became more vast and mighty.

Lin Xing felt as though he was operating a small boat in a vast ocean while guiding and absorbing the spiritual essence.

The force known as spiritual essence churned like the sea. A slight misstep would tear him into pieces.

Yet, the effect of absorbing the spiritual essence was unprecedented; as the spiritual essence roared continuously, Lin Xing could feel the vital point on his back loosening up under the wash of the spiritual essence, and his breathing technique also rapidly improved.

Breathing Technique (Level 2 36%) → Breathing Technique (Level 2 37%)

After several hours, the spiritual thoughts originating from Lin Xing’s sea of consciousness absorbed more spiritual essence and gained new growth.

Spiritual Thoughts: 4.2 → 4.3 Elder

Approximately a day later, Lin Xing felt as if a burst of thunder exploded at the position of his back.

Breathing Technique (Level 2 99%) → Breathing Technique (Level 3 0%)

The surging spiritual essence instantly broke through restraints, rushed past the back, broke through his lower back, and continued through to the perineum before encountering further resistance.

With the breakthrough of his body’s vital points, Lin Xing also felt the spiritual thoughts in his sea of consciousness strengthened once more.

Spiritual Thoughts: 4.3 → 4.8 Elder

However, the improvement in the breathing technique seemed to further accelerate the speed of absorbing spiritual essence.

The already overwhelming spiritual essence began to feel like raging waves and violent storms, continually compressing his body under Lin Xing’s guidance.

After enduring for about half an hour, the spiritual essence assaulting the vital point at the perineum suddenly became slightly uncontrollable.

The next moment, as if a loud bang resounded, Lin Xing felt intense pain at the point of impact and lost consciousness.

When he regained consciousness, he sensed the surging spiritual essence continuing from the back of his head to the perineum and immediately concentrated fully on managing it.

"This speed of the breathing technique is astonishingly unprecedented; it probably doesn’t belong to any normal cultivator’s practice methods, naturally containing flaws and dangers unforeseen by common folk."

"For instance, as the scale of the spiritual essence grows larger, a slight misstep in its management might cause fatal injuries to the body."

"I must be more careful, more focused..."

Through multiple rounds of breathing techniques and near-death experiences, Lin Xing felt his skill in guiding the spiritual essence rapidly improved; the previously overwhelming and fierce spiritual essence also gradually became more tame under his control.

As Lin Xing wholeheartedly devoted himself to the process of cultivating the spiritual essence, the phenomena triggered by his practice also continually changed.

The Buddha Light Elder had been observing Lin Xing over the past day and night.

"With the Buddha’s breathing, this spiritual essence is becoming more and more surging..."

Initially, the intense surge of spiritual essence was only sensed by the Buddha Light Elder.

But as Lin Xing continued his breathing technique, the phenomenon of the spiritual essence gathering increasingly affected the material world.

First, the six stone swords surrounding the area gradually collapsed into numerous large and small fragments under the connection of the Sword Intent, forming broken, cracked flying swords.

Wisps of spiritual essence escaped from the cracks of these flying swords.

The quantity of these escaping spiritual essences was small but extremely potent, instantly alerting the surrounding statues of Buddha.

One could see each Buddha statue carefully approaching the location where Lin Xing was situated and then, as though ingesting Immortal Elixirs, they each revealed expressions of enjoyment.

The Buddha Light Elder exclaimed incredulously, "The Buddha statues are actually absorbing the spiritual essence dissipated by the Bright Buddha... Why?"

Having cultivated in the Bright Temple for so many years, the Buddha Light Elder had never seen Buddha statues absorb spiritual essence before.

As time went on, more and more Buddha statues approached Lin Xing, their expressions becoming increasingly intoxicated.

Under the crowding of the Buddha statues, the Buddha Light Elder, Bai Yiyi, and others had no choice but to retreat, watching helplessly as Lin Xing was completely surrounded by one Buddha statue after another.

Even outside the hall, Buddha statues walked towards Lin Xing’s direction, each crawling at the entrance of the great hall, like devotees yearning for the Buddha’s guidance.

Bai Yiyi suddenly blinked and said to the first Buddha statue that squeezed in front of Lin Xing, "That Buddha statue... why does it look somewhat like Lin Xing?"

The others also looked in the direction Bai Yiyi was pointing, and in the next moment, they all let out a cry of astonishment.

Under their watchful eyes, the Buddha statues closest to Lin Xing’s side had all changed their facial features—be it the ears, eyes, or mouth... all had started to resemble Lin Xing.

Yet the Buddha Light Elder was excited and exclaimed, "Indeed, it is the coming of Buddha, the statues have each been enlightened."

Bai Yiyi, however, frowned, instinctively feeling that this wasn’t the case.

As Lin Xing’s breathing exercise broke through to the third level, the momentum of spiritual convergence surged once again.

Suddenly, faint glimmers of light appeared in the air, moving back and forth like shooting stars, sometimes visible and sometimes not.

It seemed to represent a large amount of spiritual energy dispersing, which hadn’t been absorbed by Lin Xing yet, constantly spreading throughout the entire hall.

Bai Yiyi took a deep breath and felt an increasing vigor in the puppet’s body, as if each breath could gain a massive replenishment.

Bai Yiyi thought to herself, "The concentration of spiritual energy is increasing. Has Lin Xing’s breathing exercise caused a change in the environment? Temporarily creating a place with high spiritual concentration?"

As the gathering of spiritual energy intensified once more, the first to be affected this time was the Buddha light hovering over Lin Xing’s head.

The Buddha light began to expand slowly, centering around Lin Xing’s body, inch by inch it spread towards all directions, gradually encompassing the six flying swords around him.

With this change, the Buddha statues around him once again transformed, their bodies leaning forward as if they were seizing every opportunity to get closer to Lin Xing, their faces revealing expressions of enjoying supreme bliss.

On the other side, the Buddha Light Elder and Bai Yiyi, among others, were already squeezed out of the hall by the statues.

They looked towards the direction of the hall and could see under the cover of the Buddha light, layers of statues with faces intoxicated and ecstatic, surrounding Lin Xing performing their worship.

All of this truly made Lin Xing, who was sitting cross-legged at the center, resemble the legendary Great Bright Buddha.

"The return of the Great Bright Buddha, the day of the great rise of the Buddhist Law has come!"

The Buddha Light Elder said this and then knelt down on the ground, overwhelmed with emotion and began praying sincerely.

Throughout the past day and night, Wanxi mostly spent her time worshipping Buddha to fulfill the Buddha time but was also occasionally woken by the disturbances caused by Lin Xing.

At this moment, observing the countless statues worshipping the central Lin Xing, Wanxi whispered to Bai Yiyi beside her, "Ancestor, what should we do next? How long will senior brother keep up his breathing exercise?"

Before Bai Yiyi could respond, an invisible force had already arrived by their side.

A gentle breeze swept over the ground in front of Bai Yiyi and Wanxi, causing countless dust, leaves, and weeds to form lines of text appearing.

Wanxi’s heart stirred, "Is Lin Xing using spiritual thoughts to write and talk to us?"

She glanced at the Buddha Light Elder, who was still earnestly praying, thinking this must be to deceive him.

Wanxi quickly scanned the text on the ground and understood Lin Xing’s plan.

"Senior brother will practice his breathing to the sixth level here while the Ancestor stays to protect him."

"I’ll continue to worship and on the last day, I’ll head to She Shen Cliff. Then, according to the agreed time, I’ll open the Immortal Gate at She Shen Cliff and bring senior brother and the Ancestor over..."

Suddenly, Dong’er said, "Shall I accompany you when the time comes?"

Wanxi nodded, "Sure."

But she suddenly frowned, as if something was amiss, feeling like she had forgotten something.

Shaking her head, Wanxi still prioritized her time to continue worshipping Buddha.

On the other side of the front hall.

The Evil-cutting Sect Master, who was originally seriously worshipping, was engulfed in a peaceful and serene atmosphere.

Unlike Wanxi, who was having wonderful dreams, the Evil-cutting Sect Master felt bursts of pleasure, increasingly unable to resist.

"Hisss... this feeling..."

"Like being wrapped by gentle palms... repeatedly kneading... rubbing..."

"How can there be such a comfortable thing..."

"Is worshipping Buddha really this exhilarating? How come there are believers who can’t persist?"

The Evil-cutting Sect Master, indulged in the pleasure brought by his worshipping, felt he could probably continue for three days of Buddha time without issue.

But as the disturbance from the rear hall’s breathing exercises grew louder, he was suddenly jolted awake.

This abrupt disconnection from the pleasure of worshipping made the Evil-cutting Sect Master first feel an immense emptiness and frustration.

But he quickly regained his composure, a strong sense of alertness emerging in his heart.

"Such formidable tactics, the Great Bright Buddha has imperceptibly influenced me step by step during my worship, letting me sink into the pleasure."

Looking towards the rear hall, the Evil-cutting Sect Master thought inwardly, "That old monster is making such a big scene, could it be an attempt to point us in the right direction, to prevent us from slowly being brainwashed by the Great Bright Buddha?"