Chapter 562: Chapter 315: Immortal Su Que!

In a mountain village slightly west of the Central Plains, there is a rather large house.

Inside the house, there are rows of beds.

On the beds lie around twenty women.

Some of these women were captured by the bandits of this mountain village from the surrounding areas.

Others were taken from caravans passing through, seized by the bandits.

These women all possess decent looks.

However, their expressions are utterly forlorn.

Having been held captive for a period, they have endured torment and humiliation from the bandits, nearly losing hope of survival.

Yet, they dare not die just yet, still clinging to a sliver of hope that they might escape from this village.

Another night falls.

Every night, the bandits would come in, selecting a few women, akin to a butcher choosing live pigs, and take them away from the large room.

The women tremble in fear, waiting for the bandits to arrive.

But tonight, they wait for a long time and notice that the bandits do not come!

Thus, a few brave women stealthily tiptoe out the door to see what is going on.

They hope that tonight something major has happened in the bandit lair, leaving the bandits too preoccupied to bother with them.

That would give them the chance to escape.

These courageous women venture out, drawing closer to the center of the village.

They find that the usually rowdy bandits are silent tonight.

Their hearts are filled with surprise as they quietly make their way out of the village.

As they pass by a winding path through the village, they look into the distance at a large mansion.

In the past, the bandits would revel in drink and celebration in this mansion.

Yet now, the mansion is utterly empty, eerily quiet.

They can only see uneaten food on the table and nearly burnt-out candles.

Suddenly, their gaze focuses on the ground.

There are piles of ashes on the ground.

At this moment, the clouds shift silently, and a beam of moonlight shines down.

They see that the places where bandits used to stand guard are also covered with ashes.

They approach and discover that these are bone ashes.

The women exchange glances, then head towards the mansion.

They find that the ground of the mansion is also covered in substances like bone ashes.

"What is going on?"

One woman asks.

The others shake their heads.

One woman’s face lights up: "Then everyone else can leave!"

After speaking, this woman runs back to the large house she was originally in. 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

She relays this news to the other women in the large house.

Instantly, the faces of these women show a collective expression of disbelief.

Then, they all rush outside; passing through the center of the village, they indeed see piles of bone ashes.

The bandits who tormented and humiliated them are all gone.

"The Bodhisattva has blessed us!"

One woman says with hands clasped together.

"We prayed to the Bodhisattva many times, when did he ever bless us?"

Another woman shakes her head in response.

"Could it be the Great Saint?"

...

The women mention several popular deities but they feel they have worshipped these deities before.

However, they were still abducted by the bandits and lived days worse than death.

Ultimately, they believe that the divine apparition is not any of the gods they have prayed to.

But they do not know the name of this god.

"No matter which god it is, I must pay my respects!"

Saying this, one woman kneels down and bows a few times toward the air.

The other women follow suit, kneeling and bowing.

...

Upper Realm.

Su Que sits cross-legged in a cave, feeling the karmic force slowly manifesting within his body.

He has not only obliterated this mountain village.

He also absorbed the essence qi and spirit of some gang and Demon Sect members, using "Ten Yang Little Thunderbolt" to incinerate their corpses.

Common folk see the bone ashes and believe it to be a divine apparition, and they kneel in worship.

Su Que incorporates the "Six Desires Karmic Seal" into the "Eight-Nine Evil Technique," allowing him to sense and receive the karmic force.

He didn’t expect that, as he lacks a divine image or revered name.

Yet the karmic force generated by people kneeling and praying points directly to him.

Su Que immediately uses the karmic force to cultivate the "Eight-Nine Evil Technique."

...

Su Jing considers the possibility that Su Que may have been forcibly taken into a Buddhist temple by monks and sets out with Li Yujing, visiting one temple after another.

But at each temple, they find that the entrances are covered with bone ashes.

The ashes are swept up by the wind and float upward.

After reaching the Great Hall of the Venerable, they find the entire temple empty, with only bone ashes scattered on the ground.

They travel to several temples consecutively, finding the same scene each time.

Their hearts are full of questions, yet they continue their search through temple after temple.

Li Yujing even writes a letter to Li Xuanji, hoping he will secretly send people to seek news of Su Que.

Su Jing and Li Yujing return to the Southern Domain searching for Su Que.

They visit several large temples in the Southern Domain before heading northward into the Central Plains.

At one temple, they find monks guarding the gates, not empty and covered in bone ashes.

Nowadays, the temples have completely closed off incense offerings from devotees.

Because the Divine Buddha of Spirit Mountain fear the karmic force of devotees.

Now temples seem like places guarded by troops.

Inside the temple, monks are either practicing martial arts or refining magic.

If devotees arrive, temple monks do not lead them to offer incense but bring them to the Abbot, to determine if the devotee practices martial arts or magic skills.