Told You I Can Turn Back Time
Chapter 269 - 206: A Small Gathering and Test

Chapter 269: Chapter 206: A Small Gathering and Test

White Eagle Country

In a meticulously arranged room,

one could see the Great Bright Buddha seated in mid-air, surrounded by lit candles, with various scriptures and Buddha statues spread around. Under the radiance of the Buddha’s light, everything seemed extremely holy.

However, near the Great Bright Buddha was a camera, live streaming the scene.

But the Great Bright Buddha did not interact with the audience in the live stream.

His palms were folded into seals, occasionally changing into various hand gestures.

And in the Great Bright Buddha’s eyes, as his hand seals changed, strands of dark aura intertwined with a nearby internet cable, resonating in some way with distant devotees.

Although the Great Bright Buddha did not interact in the live stream, the number of viewers kept increasing.

Many users who clicked in and saw the quiet stream were puzzled and tried to inquire.

Immediately, other devotees or disciples of Da Guangming Temple would explain, guiding them to pray according to the Buddha-worshipping method pinned in the live stream, promising that they would receive the Buddha’s protection and blessings.

Du Kong, looking at the backend data, showed a pleased expression: "The data is growing quickly."

He said to a nearby monk, "Make sure everything is running smoothly—servers, networks, all of it. Speak up if anything is lacking, we can’t afford to hold back the Buddha."

"My Buddha’s divine powers are boundless; not even the internet can obstruct his Buddha-nature."

"In this way, spreading the Buddhist Law throughout the world is one step closer."

Just as Du Kong was elated about the flourishing Buddhist Law in the world, suddenly a staff member from the backend called: "Master Du Kong, the Xia Country Government has made a request."

"They want us to process the data and the devotion of Xia Country users locally and to submit to government regulation."

"If we disagree, they will sever all connections from Xia Country and block all Buddha Sound apps within their territory."

"Hmm?" Du Kong frowned: "Processed locally in Xia Country?"

Within Da Guangming Temple, the only one who could accept the worship of devotees and condense the power of belief was Great Bright Buddha himself.

To process the power of belief locally in Xia Country would mean to have the Great Bright Buddha go to Xia Country and subject himself to the government’s surveillance.

Du Kong was unwilling to make such concessions, and he believed that the Great Bright Buddha would not submit to the Xia Country Government, either.

Du Kong thought for a moment and asked, "When do they expect a response?"

The other party answered, "They want a response by the end of today."

Du Kong approached not far from the Great Bright Buddha, typed a few lines on his phone, and aimed it in the direction of the Great Bright Buddha.

After waiting for a moment, he heard the Great Bright Buddha’s voice in his mind: "I had anticipated that Xia Country would block the Buddha Sound apps."

Du Kong noticed what looked like a faint smile on the corners of the Great Bright Buddha’s mouth.

"I can sense there is an existence in Xia Country, much weaker than me, but they can sense my power on the internet."

"It must be them who reported my actions to the Xia Country Government."

"If Xia Country wants to ban, let them ban."

"True faith cannot be banned."

Immediately afterward, Du Kong heard two solutions from the Great Bright Buddha.

One was to have people in White Eagle Country help them develop technology to break through Xia Country’s firewall, using this world’s technology to combat this world’s technology.

The other was for him to commission a batch of Buddha statues, personally consecrated by the Great Bright Buddha, to be sold to Xia Country.

These Buddha statues, blessed by the Great Bright Buddha, would be able to break through the various obstacles in the network, helping devotees to resonate with the Great Bright Buddha directly along the internet cables.

This was combining Mirror World’s techniques with the present world’s technology to counteract the regulations of this world’s government.

"Unless they cut off the internet cables altogether, it is impossible to completely prevent the devotees’ faith."

After listening, Du Kong immediately left to take care of the matter.

However, while he greatly admired the Great Bright Buddha’s wisdom, he also understood that these two methods were only temporary fixes.

Under Xia Country’s blockade, the current and future loss of numerous devotees was inevitable.

Thinking of this, he sighed softly inside: "Xia Country’s guard against Great Zhou’s influence is still too strong, far less open and inclusive than White Eagle Country. To spread the Buddhist Law in Xia Country, it seems necessary to change their policies, teaching them to be more open, to accept the Buddhist Law willingly."

At that moment, two groups approached from ahead.

Du Kong looked up and saw it was people from the Evil-cutting Sect and the Spirit Treasure Sect.

Du Kong knew that since the Great Bright Buddha had enlightened the Evil-cutting Sect Master and Fairy Yunxiao with the supreme Buddhist Law, these two had followed the Great Bright Buddha all the way from Great Zhou to White Eagle Country.

Under the arrangement of Da Guangming Temple, they began trying to contact their respective sects.

At this moment, behind the Evil-cutting Sect Master followed more than a dozen disciples, including the old Taoist Xuan Jizi and Du Chuang, who had once broken into Zhou Tian Sect with Lin Xing.

As for the Spirit Treasure Sect, aside from Fairy Yunxiao, there was only a stunningly beautiful young girl following her.

The girl wore revealing clothes, her tender little feet bare as she floated in mid-air. Upon seeing Du Kong, she giggled and instantly appeared in front of him.

"Are you Du Kong?" she asked.

Just as Du Kong was about to react, he felt air suddenly materializing into more than a dozen hands, directly grabbing onto his head, neck, hands, and feet, immobilizing him.

The girl then crossed her arms over her chest and lay in the air, looking down at him and said, "Da Guangming Temple dares to seduce my disciple? You’ve got quite the nerve!"

"Do you want to become White Eagle Country’s sub-sect of Spirit Treasure Sect?"

Du Kong felt a sudden force from the hands gripping him, and in a moment he was torn apart, his head held in one hand up in the air.

Du Kong, held helplessly in the hand, said, "Gu She Fairy, please calm your anger. Fairy Yunxiao was moved by the calling of Buddha and sincerely accepted the baptism of Buddhist Law. It was not seduction..."

Gu She Fairy hooked a finger, and the hand holding Du Kong’s head brought it close to her face.

Gu She Fairy’s delicate feet stepped on Du Kong’s face, giggling as she asked, "You’re saying the Bald Da Guangming didn’t use the Buddha Sound Heart Veil on my disciple?"

"Then you licking my feet right now isn’t because I forced you, is it?"

Just then, accompanied by the ripples of Buddha light, the figure of the Great Bright Buddha appeared before everyone.

The Great Bright Buddha said indifferently, "Gu She Fairy, there’s no need to be harsh on the young. If you have any anger, take it out on me."

Gu She Fairy snorted coldly, "Even now you dare use heart veils on me?"

As she spoke, countless strange shadows appeared behind her, some with cat ears, some with tails, some with cow hooves, some with wings, and even some with fish-like lower bodies.

Fairy Yunxiao couldn’t help but touch her own backside when she saw this and sighed, "Ah, Master still likes to mess around..."

The Great Bright Buddha explained, "I am preoccupied with other important matters and cannot leave them aside, so I had no choice but to greet everyone with a heart veil."

"This time, I invited everyone here because Xingxiao proposed that we gather together before the two-world conference begins, for a meeting of the nine major sects of Great Zhou."

"I think his idea makes a lot of sense."

Upon hearing this, Gu She Fairy’s face showed a hint of interest, "Oh? Xingxiao wants to have a gathering? Where is he? How many old ghosts from the other sects have arrived?"

The Great Bright Buddha replied, "Apart from our two sects, Zhou Tian Sect, Divine Dragon Gang, Taihe Sect, and Taiqing Sect have already arrived."

"The remaining Shi Lin Temple, Ming Mountain Sect, and Emei have also been invited."

During the conversation, waves of Buddha light flashed before Gu She Fairy’s eyes, projecting images only she could see.

Gu She Fairy laughed out loud, "A memory of the future? You think you can fool me?"

The Great Bright Buddha shook his head, "I never stoop to deceit. If Gu She Fairy doesn’t believe it, this meeting offers a chance for you to receive memories of your own future as well."

...

Xia Country.

Director Lv Ming looked at Lin Xing and said, "Da Guangming Temple probably won’t agree to our request. I’m afraid the Buddha Sound APP will be blocked starting tonight."

"But Da Guangming Temple is unlikely to give up on so many followers within our country’s borders. They will surely try every possible means to break through the blockade."

Lv Ming looked at Lin Xing, then at Zhao Wanxi and continued, "So, we’d like to ask Miss Zhao to cooperate with us in studying your extraordinary power."

"According to your account, your power is similar to that of the Great Bright Buddha, so we want to see if we can stop the Great Bright Buddha from a technological standpoint."

Lin Xing turned to Zhao Wanxi and asked, "What do you think?"

"Study?" Zhao Wanxi inquired back to Lv Ming, "How do you plan to study it?"

Thinking about her powers being studied made Zhao Wanxi feel uneasy, and she couldn’t help but lean closer towards Lin Xing.

Even though she had gradually adapted to the conveniences of modern life, because Zhao Wanxi had always lived in the isolated place like Building C, she hadn’t actually had much contact with modern people.

And among the three people she had always interacted with – Lin Xing, Bai Yiyi, and Jing Shiyu – after observing for a long time, she found Lin Xing to be the most trustworthy.

Lv Ming smiled slightly and assured, "Don’t worry, our research is very gentle and will definitely not harm you."

Saying this, he took out a tablet computer, pointed to a row of social media accounts on the screen and said, "These are the accounts you will use for the experiments. There are accounts with a lot of followers, some with few, from different regions, of different types."

"Using these accounts, we’ll have you interact with different targets through follows, shares, comments, etc. – various interactions of different directions and degrees."

"There are also reactions to disconnections, blocks, bans, silencings..."

"In short, it’s about exploring the basic rules of your ability through continuous controlled variable experiments."