Urban Undying Lord
Chapter 185 - 185 185 Verbal Criticism and Pen Attacks

185: Chapter 185: Verbal Criticism and Pen Attacks 185: Chapter 185: Verbal Criticism and Pen Attacks At the same time, within the nine-layered Demon Suppressing Tower at the Lesser Thunderclap Monastery.

A desiccated monk’s body was withered as if it was a dried-up corpse, seemingly long bereft of the vitality it should possess.

Yet despite appearing as a corpse, at this moment, the body was surrounded by a sinister and deadly aura, trembling ever so slightly, and the blood red in his eyes was terrifying and frightening.

“How can this be?

How can this be?”

“I have practiced the Buddha Demon Technique and endured bitterly to this life.

Has he already seen my true form?” The corpse-like figure whispered shakily, the deathly aura around him growing exceedingly chaotic.

…

Within the Lesser Thunderclap Monastery.

Buddha Light stretched across the sky, and the Buddha Dharma Image bore a sorrowful expression.

Despite the fervent prayers of numerous monks, the Buddha Dharma Image still refrained from making a move against Ye Xuan, which left many monks puzzled and doubting.

“If you dare not strike at me, then I will, before your very eyes, slaughter all these monks, eradicating your millennia-old Lesser Thunderclap Monastery.”

Ye Xuan’s eyes narrowed slightly, his expression became ominously strange, and a cruel smile curled on his lips as he walked toward the monks of the Lesser Thunderclap Monastery under the vast Buddha Light, sending an intense chill down the spine of anyone who glanced his way.

Spurt!

With a flick of his sword finger, a streak of blood swept across the void; a monk’s head was severed, leaving his headless corpse to die miserably at Ye Xuan’s feet.

From beginning to end, this monk believed that the Buddha would save him, but in his dying moments, when he looked up with eyes wide open, he saw that the Buddha Dharma Image remained motionless, until his gaze began to dissipate and he lost all signs of life, leaving the world with immense unwillingness.

“Junior Brother!”

“Qing Xu Senior Brother!”

“My disciple?”

As the monk perished at the hands of Ye Xuan, a torrent of angry shouts filled the air.

“Ts-ts-ts!”

Ye Xuan shook his head slowly, turned back and looked at the Buddha Dharma Image, his voice eerie, “Are you just going to watch them die here without a care?”

“Amitabha!”

The Buddha Dharma Image lamented, “Our Buddhist Sect can forsake life and death.

If their demise can awaken the benefactor’s kind heart, it is an act of Great Merit, a virtuous deed indeed.”

As the compassionate words of the Buddha Dharma Image ended, many monks bore stupefied expressions, unable to comprehend whether their lives should indeed be sacrificed to stir Ye Xuan’s conscience.

Spurt!

A blade sliced through the sky, mercilessly killing, and a dazzling streak of blood erupted from Ye Xuan’s hand, cutting down more than a dozen monks in an instant; their brilliant and beautiful blood stained the earth, along with the sounds of bitter wailing.

“Buddha, please have mercy and take action to subdue the demon!”

“Buddha, this man has been deeply possessed by a demon, with no hope of repentance.

If this demon is not removed today, it affronts the natural order.”

Many monks knelt and worshipped towards the Buddha Dharma Image while choking cries filled the air, yet it moved the Buddha Dharma Image not an inch.

“Ha ha!”

“I am the demon?”

Ye Xuan’s face twisted, his voice cruel and ferocious, “All around speak of the universe, through the ages speak of time, heaven as Yang, earth as Yin; in all the world, is it not that everything is one Yin and one Yang, that all living beings are divided into male and female, humans too into good and evil?

Without the demon’s slaughter, where would the Buddha’s compassion be?”

“You all clamor that I am the demon, and crown yourselves as the Buddha, then let me ask you, if one day there were no more killings in the world, if the Buddhist Sect no longer needed to enlighten all beings, what use then would there be for your Buddhist Sect?”

Like the morning bell and the evening drum, like the Nine Heavens Thunder, when Ye Xuan’s words rang out, they instantly rendered all the monks of the Lesser Thunderclap Monastery stupefied, some mumbling to themselves.

“Without demon’s massacre…

where…

where is Buddha’s compassion…

Without…

demon’s slaughter…

how could there be Buddha’s compassion?”

Their tongues sprouted lotuses as their words condemned fiercely; Ye Xuan’s simple phrase encapsulated the world’s good and evil, casting all the present monks into a state of bewilderment, causing the Buddhist Law and Profound Meaning they had believed in for years to seemingly crumble in an instant.

“I slaughter Heaven and Earth, I massacre the Human World, yet people revere me as a Divine King, whereas your Buddhist Sect’s so-called salvation of the world is nothing more than a wishful idea of your own.

Today, I, Ye Xuan, will annihilate your Lesser Thunderclap Monastery and see if your Buddha will come to save you.”

“Kill!”

Sword pointed to the sky, murderous aura filling the heavens, Ye Xuan’s face ruthless and ferocious.

Right in the eyes of the Buddha Dharma Image, he unleashed a sky full of Sword Qi, brutally piercing through the bodies of numerous monks.

Thud, thud, thud!

Blood sprayed, corpses floated everywhere, countless monks turned into cold deceased bodies falling at Ye Xuan’s feet, and with each step he took, the number of corpses beneath him grew.

Alas, from beginning to end, the Buddha Dharma Image remained silent and watched.

Even the compassionate Buddha Light that surrounded him disappeared without a trace at some unknown time, and the sinister look in those eyes became even more tangible.

“Buddha, tell me, tell me, if there really are no demons in this world, then is there no Buddha either?”

“Buddha, I have always believed that Buddhist Law could salvage the world, that it could lead us monks to the Western paradise after death.

But why is my heart telling me that we were wrong, truly wrong?”

“What Buddha crap, my fellow brothers, won’t you awaken?

If he truly were Buddha, how could he watch Ye Xuan mercilessly massacre us?”

Various indignant questions and furious curses resounded within the Lesser Thunderclap Monastery, the monks’ faith completely collapsing, some frantically fleeing, trying to escape from this place to avoid the calamity of death.

“You worthless fools.”

Suddenly!

A sinister roar erupted from the mouth of the Buddha Dharma Image, a dense aura of death enveloping him, the pitch-black Dharma Body radiating an extremely brutal air, causing all the monks to stand in terrified silence, fixated on the Buddha they worshipped, as if their souls had already left their bodies.

“Haha!”

Ye Xuan viciously sneered, “Do you see now?

This is your so-called Buddha, this is his true face.”

“No…

it can’t be…”

“Why…

why is it like this?”

Numerous monks trembled and whispered, unable to believe the scene before them.

At that moment!

The Buddha Dharma Image surrounded by the aura of death, his compassionate face no longer visible, looked at Ye Xuan with eyes revealing unprecedented wariness.

“Ye Xuan, I must say, you have seen through my Dharma Body, your Cultivation must certainly be above mine.

But don’t be too proud, once I absorb a great amount of blood qi and my Cultivation returns to its peak, that will be your time of death, Ye Xuan.”

Hum!

The void trembled, ripples spreading, the Buddha Dharma Image instantly transformed into a streak of dark light, escaping into the void and disappearing, clearly knowing that even if he gave it his all, he was no match for Ye Xuan.

Why would he risk his life against Ye Xuan for the sake of these monks of the Lesser Thunderclap Monastery?

That was also the reason why the Buddha Dharma Image had been enduring in silence from the start.

“Thinking of running?”

“Can you escape?”

Ye Xuan’s figure remained still, a trace of cruel coldness curling at the corner of his mouth, for in front of him, Ye Xuan, no one had ever managed to flee safely.