Fiancée Stolen by MC, I Trip Them up-Chapter 356 - 258: Cooperation!

"Hey, are you alright?"

The young girl asked curiously when she noticed the protagonist was silent for a long time: "What are you thinking about? Are you planning to count those inscriptions?"

Protagonist: "..."

He’s not so bored that he’d go around counting things for no reason.

The protagonist simply hadn’t expected that behind the Buddhist Sect’s hundreds of thousands of years of heritage, there was actually hundreds of thousands of years of blood and tears.

At this moment, the question that had troubled the protagonist for many years finally had an answer.

For example, the Buddhist Sect’s heritage spanning hundreds of thousands of years, its foundation far surpassing the Heaven-Facing Sect and the Zhao family, yet its development had always been lukewarm.

Also, the sects within the Cultivation Realm generally have graveyards or Monument Forests, like how the Sword Sect has the Sword Tomb; where were the high monks of the Buddhist Sect placed after their passing?

Now, the protagonist understood everything.

The reason the Buddhist Sect couldn’t develop was that the Buddha had been secretly siphoning off its strength.

All the high monks who reached nirvana in the Buddhist Sect were devoured by the Buddha!

Even though it was the dark aura on the Buddha that did these things, like Zhao Yi, the protagonist also placed the blame entirely on the Buddha.

Unlike Zhao Yi, the protagonist had been deeply studying the Buddhist Scriptures since childhood and was very familiar with the Buddha’s teachings.

Zhao Yi could only guess that the monster was the Buddha, but the protagonist could be certain; the monster and the Buddha were one.

From the young girl’s description, the protagonist easily guessed what the dark aura was.

Heart Demon!

The Buddha’s cultivation was based on Buddha’s Great Dao, which emphasizes compassion and saving all beings.

The protagonist heard some secrets about the ultimate battle tens of thousands of years ago from the Sage of Time.

After stripping away the Sage of Time’s embellishments of that war, it was easy to discover that the war was actually unjust.

The Buddha, the Sword God, and other sages of the Cultivation World accepted benefits from the Spirit Realm and the sages of the Three Thousand Small Worlds, not only placing the battleground of the ultimate battle in the Cultivation World but also allowing the sages of all the Small Thousand Worlds to join forces to seal the Cultivation World.

Initially, the Buddha was immersed in the joy of obtaining the Supreme Treasure Divine Artifact and didn’t realize his actions were contrary to his great path.

By the time the Buddha noticed something amiss, the heart demon had already taken root.

Thinking of this, a mocking look appeared on the protagonist’s face.

The Buddhist Cultivation Technique is upright and yang, originally supposed to be the nemesis of heart demons.

Yet the founder of the Buddhist Sect, the Buddha, was invaded by a heart demon, eventually turning into a terrifying monster.

It’s simply too laughable, too ironic!

Thinking of this, the protagonist suddenly looked up at the Treasure Tower.

The fact that the Buddha was turned into a monster by a heart demon invasion must not be spread outside.

If this were to get out, the hundreds of thousands of years of foundation of the Buddhist Sect would be utterly destroyed.

Perhaps predicting the thoughts in the protagonist’s mind, the young girl promptly said, "I’m not going to waste time gossiping all over. In fact, if it weren’t for today’s special circumstances, no one would know about my existence at all!"

After saying this, the young girl hesitated a bit: "That other guy might also know, but he has no evidence, it’s just speculation, so you have to keep this a secret for me!"

Although the young girl didn’t explicitly state it, the protagonist knew she was referring to Zhao Yi.

Nodding slightly, the protagonist agreed, "Don’t worry, I will keep your secret."

After saying this, he asked the young girl, "What did you mean by special circumstances earlier? And why did you tell me to run away at that time?"

Upon hearing the protagonist’s questions, a touch of human-like impatience appeared in the young girl’s voice.

"You sure have a lot of questions. If I had known, I wouldn’t have chosen you!"

"The special situation I was talking about was that monster in the Great Hero Hall; it just completely devoured the Buddha."

"Or to put it another way, the Buddha has fallen into the Demon Dao and completely turned into a monster!"

"After the Buddha fully embraced the demon, the monster’s power surged, and those Bodhisattvas and Vajras in the Great Hero Hall won’t be able to suppress it for long."

"At most five years, at least three years, and the monster will completely break free. Wouldn’t you call that a special situation?"

"As for why I told you to run, that’s even simpler!"

"You have a special barrier covering you, concealing your presence, which is why the monster didn’t notice you before."

"After the Buddha demonized, the monster’s power changed significantly, and you were too close to it. The barrier on you would soon be assimilated by the monster."

"If you hadn’t left earlier, in the next moment, you would have become a new pattern branded onto the monster’s black roots!"

The information from the young girl was so overwhelming that the protagonist took a long time to fully digest it.

First was the timing.

The protagonist saw in the River of Time that the Nether Tree appeared in the Three Thousand Small Worlds three years later.

So, the young girl’s prediction was correct.

Next was the monster’s predicament.

The protagonist just found out that the Bodhisattvas and Vajras of the Buddhist Sect were suppressing the monster.

This gave the protagonist some insight.

That is, the power of the Buddhist Sect can actually restrain the monster.

It’s just that the Bodhisattvas and Vajras aren’t strong enough, so they can’t slay the demon and banish evil.

If one could master enough of Buddha’s Great Dao, perhaps they could directly suppress that monster.

However, it’s very difficult!

The protagonist thought of the monster’s true form being the Buddha and suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness.

The Buddha is the founder of the Buddhist Sect.

Although the protagonist didn’t know how much of Buddha’s Great Dao the Buddha possessed, no one in the Cultivation World could have more than Him.

This path, therefore, is not feasible!

Finally, the monster’s methods.

The protagonist also just learned that the monster can assimilate everything around it. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Suddenly, he recalled what Zhao Yi had said earlier, that there was a Red Forest in the Treasure Tower Secret Realm, and its aura was very similar to the monster.

Now it seems that the Red Forest should indeed be the world assimilated by the monster.

"You contacted me because you sensed the danger?"

As he said this, the protagonist couldn’t help but sigh inwardly.

He remembered Zhao Yi had said he wanted to make a wager with the Treasure Tower’s Artifact Spirit.

Betting whether the monster would devour the Treasure Tower Secret Realm first or first attack the Cultivation World.

It seems now that the Artifact Spirit of the Treasure Tower lost this bet.

But Zhao Yi didn’t win either.

The growth rate of the monster surpassed everyone’s expectations.

After the Treasure Tower Secret Realm, the Cultivation World is sure to bear the brunt!

In the face of that terrifying monster, there are no winners in the Three Thousand Small Worlds!

"Yes, I am in trouble!"

The young girl did not hide her situation, but straightforwardly said, "That was my mistake. If I had known earlier that the monster was so difficult to deal with, I should have dealt with it even if it meant risking exposure, or at least banished the Buddha into the void."

Everyone feels annoyed when unexpectedly losing control of a situation they thought they had a handle on, and the Artifact Spirit of the Treasure Tower is no exception.

When the young girl spoke, her voice contained noticeable regret: "Because I was too cautious, I missed the best opportunity to eliminate the monster. By the time I realized, that thing had already assimilated several secret realms within my core, and I could no longer expel it!"

"So, now there’s only one way left!"

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