Rapidnovel Chapter 159: Amitabha
Chapter 159: Amitabha
Chapter 159: Amitabha
Thinking about it logically, spirit stones were condensed spiritual qi of heaven and earth. They needed a spiritual vein to condense into spirit stones. And depending on their quality and the percentage of impurity, spirit stones were separated into low, mid, high, and perfect tier spirit stones.
For a sect, their control of spirit stone mines and the quality of the mine was crucial. As condensed spiritual qi, the amount contained was greater than the spiritual qi in the air of most places even though they contained impurities. As such, spirit stones were used in many applications such as formations, forging materials, pill qi enhancers, or even just resources to absorb spiritual qi.
Compared to spiritual qi in the air, absorbing the condensed qi in spiritual stones was actually easier, but cultivators would have to take time to flush the impurities within their bodies after absorbing the condensed spiritual qi. Only a perfect-tier spirit stone had no impurities, but the sheer scarcity of them made it that cultivators treated them as high-tier spirit stones. It simply wasn’t worth it to gather perfect-tier spirit stones.
It would not be an exaggeration to gauge a sect’s foundation and power by looking at the number and quality of their spirit stone mines.
Tianyi felt like slapping himself. There was the perfect specimen on him the whole time for him to study and base his new energy-storing technique. However, he had subconsciously treated spirit stones as pure currency most of the time because of his unique cultivation method and the energy-producing power of his Heavenly River Stellar Avatar. For him, it would take longer to absorb the condensed qi and expel the impurities, so he hadn’t absorbed condensed qi from spirit stones since he was in the Qi Gathering Realm.
Not only that, weren’t there rumors of spirit springs that can aid cultivators in restoring their spiritual qi and cleansing them? However, although a solid state should have been more problematic for qi to take, spirit streams were rarer and did not have as much impurity.
Tianyi was broken out of his thoughts by a poke from his side. He turned to see Daoyi looking at him.
“...Brother Xi?”
Realizing what he had just done, Tianyi coughed into his fist and turned towards Daoist Moneybag and gave an apologetic smile. “My apologies, Brother Moneybags, something just occurred to me, and I couldn’t help but ponder over the matter.”
Handing over the Jade Diffraction Sword, Daoist Moneybag gave an amiable smile that showed that he wasn’t offended in any way. “No worries. I hope what occurred to you wasn’t problematic?”
“No, it’s rather beneficial, actually.” Tianyi smiled but didn’t elaborate.
After that small episode, the Fortune Banquet continued, but throughout it, Tianyi’s thoughts started to drift off as he entered a daze. It reached the point that anyone with any semblance of detection could sense Tianyi wasn’t paying attention. Whenever Tianyi wasn’t fully controlling his cultivation, a heavy pressure akin to that of a unity venerable would descend, causing others terrible difficulty not to notice.
“Senior Brother, how about we leave?”
Tianyi was once more broken out of his thoughts by Daoyi. He snuck a glance at her before he answered back.
“If I leave, what about you? You were also invited to the Fortune Banquet, and leaving would be too rude to Daoist Moneybag.”
“The Fortune Banquet doesn’t interest me that much. I lost interest after a while. Daoist Moneybag is a capable person. He won’t mind if we leave early. Besides, you thought of something important, didn’t you? If you don’t capitalize on the inspiration, you might lose it.”
Tianyi felt his mind waver at Daoyi’s words. After deliberating for a while, he decided to leave with Daoyi.
“If you must.” After attempting to persuade Tianyi once, Daoist Moneybag didn’t prevent Tianyi from leaving anymore and even gave a cheery send-off. “Haha, since it’s like this, you must grasp this chance. I heard that Sword Empress Xi reached Unity Realm at forty-three years of age. Perhaps you’ll break her record?”
“Who knows. Although I’m at the peak of the Nascent Soul Realm, I don’t know how long I will stay at this level.” Tianyi said. He was already thirty-three years old this year. Thinking back, if he were on Earth, he might be considered someone who was nearing middle age, but in the Huang Realm, he was still considered ridiculously young for his realm.
And no, he did not consider himself a wizard.
“This old man would also like to know. I didn’t even know the Buddhists would participate in the Demon Slaying Expedition until we arrived and were informed of the matter. I had thought it weird that we were told that a total of eight sects would accompany the Buzhou Immortal Sect into the Demon Cage Realm, yet after all these days, only seven sects have arrived with no news of the eighth. It would do us good to have a greater understanding of our allies.” Boundless Mountain’s immortal elder added.
Sect Master Xia didn’t miss the fact that the elders of the Bright Ascension Sect and Boundless Mountain seemed to have formed a team, nor did he acknowledge the grim face of the Leakless Sect’s immortal elder.
“The Buddhist Pure Land is far more active than you imagine. Ultimately the Buddhist Pure Lands, their realm, is an artificial realm created from separating all karma. So in order for their disciples to advance, they have to temper themselves outside the Buddhist Pure Land.” Sect Master Xia began.
“The Buddhists have numerous means left by Tathagata, the Buddha. They are able to send their disciples to any of the numerous realms in the Three Thousand Immortal Realm System. The exception, of course, is the Huang Realm and the Numinous Realm. To enter the Huang Realm, the would need the Buzhou Immortal Sect’s approval, and the Numinous Sword Sect’s approval to enter the Numinous Realm.”
“Do they not need the Eight Pillars Sect or the Saintly Scholar School’s approval?” The Leakless Sect’s immortal elder interrupted and asked.
Sect Master Xia wasn’t mad at the interruption and even smiled kindly at the speaking immortal. “How can they compare to the Buzhou Immortal Sect?”
The Leakless Sect’s immortal elder was struck speechless by Sect Master Xia’s declaration, but before the silence could turn awkward, it was dispelled by the immortal elder from the Dust Veil Sect.
“As expected of the master of the Heaven Continent and the oldest sect of the Huang Realm.” The immortal said as he stroked his long graying beard.
Sect Master Xia accepted the compliment as naturally as he breathed air before he continued. “Not speaking of the Divinity Realm, the Buddhist equivalent of the Immortal Realm is the Mahayana Realm or the Fetterred Realm. They aren’t exactly the same, but the difference in power is negligible. They don’t pursue the myriad daos, but severing themselves from all attachments.”
“As for their mortal realm, it is separated into five realms: the Dalit Realm, Shudra Realm, Vaishya Realm, Kshatriya Realm, and Brahma Realm. In terms of cultivation method, you can consider it primarily a mix of martial cultivation with some soul methods. In terms of soul, they can’t compare to our nascent souls and soul nourishing grandmasters, but their willpower is unyielding. So their soul defense is superior to ours at the same realm.”
“Speaking of the Buddhist cultivation realms, I heard that they originally came from another system, is that true?” The Leakless Sect’s immortal elder asked
“You sure are well informed.” Sect Master Xia gave a meaningful look at the Leakless Sect’s immortal elder, causing him to nearly freeze. He was a mere true immortal, how could he withstand the power of a seamless immortal monarch?
After staring for a while, Sect Master Xia casually shifted his gaze away. “Yes, Tathagata originated from the Loka System. But it was during the primordial era where the different systems interacted far more frequently. That all changed since the end of the Late Antiquity Age of the primordial era. I heard that their most supreme cultivation method, the Rigveda is equal to the Ten Heavenly Scriptures.”
The immortal elders behind Sect Master Xia became silent as they processed his words. Compared to the Buzhou Immortal Sect, which knew of the greater multiverse, they were frogs in a well. They thought they were in the same world as the Buzhou Immortal Sect. Only now did they know of the schism between the two. Perhaps, the Eight Pillars Sect and the Saintly Scholar School were no different than them in this regard.
Their silence musing was interrupted when they felt the space in front of them fluctuating. Was the mountain that Sect Master Xia brought the immortal elders a normal mountain? The answer was no.
The nameless mountain was given the name Realm Entrance Mountain due to the Buzhou Immortal Sect setting a grand formation that would allow it to act as an entrance to the Huang Realm.
Only immortal monarchs and above and some true immortals were able to enter through the outskirts of the Huang Realm. If they did so, the Buzhou Immortal Sect would immediately sense it and label them as invaders and send immortals to deal with them unless they originated from the Huang Realm. So it was very difficult for foreigners to sneak in.
As for the time Tianyi was forced outside the Huang Realm because he was Mengfei’s talisman, it registered as Mengfei entering, so the Buzhou Immortal Sect wasn’t alerted. And in addition to the unique property of the Immortal Court ruins, Tianyi’s reentry was ignored.
For immortals and mortals to officially gain entry, they had to use one of the realm entrances created by the Buzhou Immortal Sect. And realm entrances only existed on the Heaven Continent.
A golden ripple appeared in front of immortals, and from the ripple appeared several monks in dull yellow robes. Their bald heads gleamed under the bright sunlight.
The leading monk, who exuded an invisible pressure greater than the immortal elders and equal to Sect Master Xia, came forward and bowed with his hands pressed together.
“Amitabha, greetings benefactor.”
He was the Moonlight Bodhisattva, a Buddhist equal to Immortal Monarch Xia of the Buzhou Immortal Sect.