Chapter 38: Given to You, Yet You Can't Catch It

Chapter 38: Given to You, Yet You Can't Catch It

The rain poured down heavily, with large raindrops splashing on the ground like marbles, scattering in all directions.

Cold Blade silently advanced towards the lower levels, holding up his terminal.

On the other end of the terminal, Zhang Chongba's deep voice could be heard:

"I know how Li Buyi secretly attacked that Heart Image Martial Artist back then!

Not only did his Fourth Realm Shackles awaken his fleshly divine abilities, but he also mastered the 'Mind Wandering' technique!

Only with this ability could he break through the blockade I set up and infiltrate Ah Qiu's home!"

The Fourth Realm Shackles, though different from the Five Limits of the Heavenly Human, had a similar effect. However, the divine mysteries within it far exceeded the capabilities of Body Forging.

Cold Blade didn't comment, simply stating:

"I'm starting to build up my momentum."

Zhang Chongba fell silent. Cold Blade's momentum meant he was preparing for a decisive strike, a life-or-death battle.

"Wait a little longer, my second uncle and I will be there soon," Zhang Chongba said in a low voice. "Jingqiu shouldn't be in any life-threatening danger. He's a Buddha Son, and Li Buyi's purpose in capturing him is to send him back to the headquarters of the Radiant Buddha Sect, not to kill him..."

"Hurry up," Cold Blade interrupted, then hung up the communication.

His gaze looked far into the distance, piercing through the heavy rain, and locked onto the figure trying to shake him off.

...

Li Buyi turned back thoughtfully:

"It seems that there are quite a few flies behind the Buddha Son."

"Don't worry, someone will help us block them soon, so they won't disturb us."

Ji Jingqiu didn't respond.

The sound of the rain in his ears seemed to drown out the entire world.

Although he didn't know how Li Buyi had bypassed the surveillance set up by Eight Brother and infiltrated his home, once he left the house, Knife Grandpa would have noticed his situation.

For now, he shouldn't be in any life-threatening danger.

Even without mentioning the Contemplation Chart, the other party's intention was not to kill him but to send him to the Radiant Buddha Sect to become a so-called "Buddha Son."

Soon, Li Buyi brought him to the lower levels of Taian City, taking many detours along the way, and finally arriving at a highly secretive abandoned building.

They entered the deepest room in the building.

Li Buyi eagerly hung the Contemplation Chart on the wall and pulled Ji Jingqiu to sit in meditation.

He said earnestly, "You teach me, and I won't move you."

Ji Jingqiu calmly replied, "Okay."

Li Buyi smiled and said, "You enter a state of concentration, release your mind, and let me enter your inner world to imprint it."

Ji Jingqiu asked seriously, "Are you serious?"

In his understanding, such a method did not exist in the world.

Li Buyi smiled and said, "I possess a divine ability called Mind Wandering, which allows me to briefly move through the mental sea and even enter others' inner worlds, as long as the owner doesn't refuse."

In fact, entering someone's inner world is an extremely dangerous act.

In Li Buyi's eyes, Ji Jingqiu was too weak, both in martial arts and mental power.

Imprinting the inner world was the only way he could think of at the moment.

He couldn't understand the Contemplation Chart at all, and to verify it, he had to enter Ji Jingqiu's inner world to investigate.

He had never been a gambler in his life.

He had never taken such a gamble, but this time, he felt he had to.

Fate wouldn't give him a second chance to encounter the Supreme Dharma!

How could he obtain the tiger cub without entering the tiger's den?

Ji Jingqiu closed his eyes and entered a state of concentration.

Soon, he sensed a greedy and delusional mind knocking on the door of his inner world.

The Pure Land, which could accommodate two people and a tiger, felt extremely crowded.

Li Buyi frowned and threw the angry tiger cub out of the Pure Land.

His gaze immediately fixed on the gently swaying Bodhi tree.

The Supreme Wisdom Light emanating from it made his face go blank, as if he was about to kneel and worship.

Even though he had never seen it before, just being close to it allowed him to recognize it as the 'Divine Miracle' that the Radiant Buddha Sect had sought for thousands of years!

It was the spiritual origin of all things, claimed to have been born in the initial moment of the universe's creation!

At this moment, Li Buyi finally realized the opportunity he had encountered.

This was indeed the Supreme Dharma!

It was also the Fire Mansion Buddha Hell Contemplation Chart, which the Mu family claimed to be the beginning of the Federation's contemplation, but no one had truly mastered it for ten thousand years!

It was the contemplation inheritance that the Radiant Buddha Sect had sought for countless years but never obtained!

The Bodhi tree before him was small, but in the mental sea, it would eventually support the heavens and the earth, establishing a supreme divine kingdom, just like the initial divine kingdom created by Mu Shuai, one of the Seven Heroes, ten thousand years ago!

At that time, he would become a deity!!!

Compared to this, all heavenly human inheritances were nothing but garbage!

For the first time in his life, Li Buyi had taken a gamble and won big!

Realizing this, Li Buyi trembled as he began to imprint.

However, no matter how he tried, he couldn't imprint even a fraction of the divine essence of the Bodhi sprout.

Disappointed, he turned his experience with the Fire Mansion Buddha Hell Contemplation Chart was a significant event, he couldn't imprint the Bodhi sprout's divine essence.

He looked down at the Pure Land beneath his feet.

He wanted to try imprinting the Pure Land, but the result was still failure.

"Why?! Why can't I imprint your inner world?!"

"How did you comprehend the Fire Mansion Buddha Hell Contemplation Chart and plant this precious tree? Are you hiding something else?!"

Li Buyi was both angry and disappointed.

Suddenly, he remembered.

The Mu family had produced three Supreme Grandmasters over the years, but none of them had reached the 'Seeing the Bodhi' realm in the Fire Mansion Buddha Hell Contemplation Chart.

It wasn't that they were unwilling.

It was simply beyond their abilities.

Throughout the generations, the Mu family had provided opportunities for the Martial Sun to comprehend it, but so far, no one had seen the Bodhi, let alone derived a Pure Land.

This situation couldn't be resolved by a simple 'imprint.'

However, instead of regaining his composure, Li Buyi became more anxious.

The opportunity to become a deity was right before him, yet he couldn't grasp it, and this urgency was like a fire that grew stronger as it burned, consuming his calmness and caution, causing him to lose his rationality.

Moreover, even the Martial Sun of past generations couldn't comprehend it, so what difference did it make if Ji Jingqiu was a natural Buddha Son?

He must have another opportunity!

Snatch it over!

Since he entered, Ji Jingqiu's eyes had never rested on the Bodhimanda Sprout; instead, they were on the bloody and fiery land outside the Pure Land.

He had always been curious about what the Pure Land was.

Only now did he clearly understand.

It was the manifestation of all the hardships he had once experienced. It was everything about him.

In response to Li Buyi's probing question, Ji Jingqiu nodded, "There are certain prerequisites, supreme conceptual techniques, where is the simplicity?"

"I knew it!" Li Buyi's spirit was uplifted, his expression distorted with an almost pleading excitement as he said, "Tell me, give me. I won’t hurt you. When I ascend to the Divine Realm, I will appoint you as my Divine Chosen!"

Ji Jingqiu slowly rose to his feet. "It's very simple, actually right in front of you."

As he stood up, the Bodhimanda Sprout, which had been continuously emitting a clear light, gradually retracted its glow, and the Pure Land that it enveloped also dissipated.

He raised his head and looked toward the sky beyond the Pure Land. The blood-red rain pattered down on his hard face as he muttered, "As long as you experience everything I have experienced, that's all."

Li Buyi also stood up, puzzled and asked, "How do you relive everything you've been through? Is it going to take over a dozen years to replay your life's path?"

Many thresholds of the conceptual diagrams also encompass the "Heart Mirror." Only by experiencing the mental state of the founder back then could one cross the threshold.

Ji Jingqiu was silent, merely raising his head to look.

Heaven tilts northwest, earth sinks southeast.

Burning, drenching fresh blood poured from the sky onto the curtain of the world. All things seemed to sink into the Suffering Sea.

He suddenly had a new understanding of this inner world.

He said, "My entire life is right here."

"If you want it, just take it."

Li Buyi followed his gaze and raised his head.

The sky was drenched in blood rain.

In an instant, he was soaked like a drowned chicken, frowning in confusion at what strange phenomenon this was, his expression suddenly changed!

In an instant, unprecedented pain spread throughout his body, making him howl in anguish.

It was as if all the scenes of his first half-life were vividly replaying, countless souls who had died by his hand with hideous faces, one after another pounced at him, dragging him into hell, pulling him into the sea of suffering!

A myriad of emotions welled up from his heart, and he struggled to maintain his mind as a void, holding steadfast.

He withstood life, aging, sickness, death, enmity, separation, and the burning of the five aggregates, but he fell at the last hurdle.

Unattainable!

The path to divinity right before him, the touchable supreme heavenly legacy...

But he could never reach it, unable to attain it, unable to achieve it!

At this moment.

Li Buyi saw a black sea.

Deep and profound, the surface of the sea seemed calm, but what he saw was an incessant surge of darkness and despair. Once he stepped in, it was hard to extricate himself.

He wanted to escape, but the waves of the sea of suffering, deep and bottomless, engulfed him, sweeping him into the ocean floor again and again.

Struggling within, he could never transcend.

He wanted to escape this inner world but was terrified to find that he could not do it at all!

This inner world seemed to come alive, trapping him.

Li Buyi recalled a bizarre legend—

Legend had it that the ancestor of the Mu Clan once connected the inner world to the Sea of the Heart, attempting to shoulder the weight of the sea of suffering for all beings with his own strength.

...

At this moment.

Just like Li Buyi, Ji Jingqiu was also undergoing tribulations.

He was swallowed by the surging, cold, black tide.

But in that ocean of pain and despair, he saw a faint glimmer of light.

It was resilience and hope.

It was a blade of grass that grew amidst the suffering, no matter how much it burned, it never gave up.

It was a life that, despite being amidst hardship, never bowed to defeat.

Something seemed to flow through his heart.

It was the countless times of rising up, the countless times of struggling, the countless times of wanting to live on...

At this moment, those figures who had struggled in the hardships of life came one after another, and then silently vanished.

It was so.

Life is unpredictable, the world is unpredictable, and all beings are unpredictable.

His life was filled with hardships and injustices from the very beginning, but he also gained something invaluable from them.

Ji Jingqiu extended his hand.

The faint, unextinguishable light landed in his hand.

【My heart reaches the other shore, myriad tribulations do not touch the body】

At this moment, there was no Pure Land of Crystal.

But when he sat down—

The sky rained blood, the earth, water,wind, and fire ravaged, yet nothing could harm him.

The sea of suffering could not hurt him, and tribulations could not befall him.

...

In Li Buyi’s eyes.

In the vast, boundless ocean filled with pain and despair, an ancient, weathered, green crystal lamp suddenly lit up.

Its light was clear and bright, illuminating the depths of the sea of suffering, as if it were lighting a path of transcendence for all beings.

He reached out his hand in a daze, wanting to grasp the green crystal lamp.

But what he touched was the head of a blood-red tiger, a monstrous blood-colored tiger that slowly emerged from the darkness. Its eyes were cold and wild, brimming with a thick aura of malevolent energy.

It seemed to grow larger and larger, each drop of blood rain nourishing its body.

It lowered its head and began to feast.

"Buddha... Buddha, save me!" Li Buyi's heart and liver were torn apart.

Not far away.

Ji Jingqiu looked down at him, his gaze devoid of joy or sorrow, without a ripple.

I will give you the conceptual diagram, but you don't understand it.

I will bring you to the inner world, but you can't bear it.

The opportunity to transcend is here.

But if I give it to you, you can't handle it. What can be done?

The chapter from last night at 1:30 AM added a part about Old Mu's words. It was an issue from the update yesterday. If any friends who read before that can return to read it again, it's after Ji Jingqiu sent a message to Sister Mei.

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