frightfiction #369 - Taiyi Sutra for Rescuing Suffering and Removing Sins
#369 - Taiyi Sutra for Rescuing Suffering and Removing Sins
Hearing the words of the Great自在天魔, Zhang Chen's eyes revealed a look of joy: "You found it? What's so unusual about this book?"
The Great自在天魔 reached out and pointed to the book's binding: "Look at this binding thread, is it a complete one?"
Hearing this, Zhang Chen raised his hand and looked at the book under the lamplight, and saw that the binding thread was indeed twisted into one, stringing the entire book together.
Zhang Chen was not a fool, and when he heard the Great自在天魔 mention the binding thread, he thoughtfully said: "You mean to say that this binding thread has a mystery?"
"Take it apart and see, and you'll know if my guess is correct," said the Great自在天魔.
Hearing this, Zhang Chen acted quickly and carefully disassembled the binding thread, and saw that the entire binding thread was forty centimeters long, twisted from an unknown material into a thin thread.
Without waiting for the Great自在天魔 to instruct, Zhang Chen directly and carefully untwisted the binding thread, and saw a square, forty-centimeter-long, cicada-wing-thin gauze of unknown material slowly unfolding before his eyes, revealing countless dense small characters.
"That is..." Zhang Chen looked at the material in front of him, although there were wrinkles on it, it still did not affect Zhang Chen's ability to read the text on it.
The thin gauze used ancient characters, a total of seven hundred and eighty-one large and small, which looked like swimming tadpoles.
Zhang Chen looked at the name of the scripture, 《太乙救苦拔罪真经》 (Taiyi Saves from Suffering and Extricates from Sin True Scripture), and at this time Zhang Chen became interested: "It is actually recorded in ancient characters, the source of this gauze material is extremely ancient, it must be from the era of gods and demons."
Zhang Chen smoothed the gauze again to make it easier for him to read the text on it, and then carefully recited it.
Seven hundred and eighty-one characters, Zhang Chen had already recited it in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, and then Zhang Chen saw the golden finger interface in front of him flash, and a line of words popped up:
【New skill: Salvation (0/1000000000000)】
【Note: Can save all the dead into the netherworld】
The interface was simple, and Zhang Chen looked at the introduction of the interface thoughtfully: "It turns out to be a method of saving ghosts, sending ghosts to hell to be judged."
It's just that Zhang Chen looked at the experience value required behind the skill interface, and couldn't help but widen his eyes, his eyes full of disbelief: "One hundred billion experience points? What a joke? What kind of skill requires one hundred billion experience points?"
A look of disbelief appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes, which was simply incredible.
"It turns out to be a scripture, I didn't expect it to be preserved," said the Great自在天魔 on the side, his voice full of surprise.
Seeming to be afraid that Zhang Chen didn't know the origin and purpose of this scripture, the Great自在天魔 said: "This scripture can open the passage to the netherworld, sending the souls of the dead into the netherworld to be judged. If you cultivate to the highest realm, with a single thought, you can tell the souls of the dead to bypass the netherworld and directly reincarnate."
Hearing this, Zhang Chen's eyes revealed a thoughtful look as he stared at his golden finger interface: "According to what the Great自在天魔 said, my new skill of Salvation wants to upgrade and actually requires such a huge number of points, could it be that the next realm is reincarnation? Can it directly make other people's souls reincarnate?"
Zhang Chen pondered secretly, thinking it was very possible.
At this time, Zhang Chen carefully felt everything about the new skill, and after a long time, he raised his head: "This is an auxiliary skill, it is not very useful to me, unless it is cultivated to the Mahayana realm, it can directly send people into reincarnation."
He is not a Bodhisattva, how could he be so kind to save others?
Zhang Chen held the thin gauze in his hand, his eyes revealing a thoughtful look: "What is this material? It doesn't decay even after so many tens of thousands of years? Even without the blessing of mysterious power, it can be regarded as a treasure."
"You're wrong, this gauze is just ordinary gauze, but the characters on the gauze were written by a great figure beyond your imagination, each stroke contains the power of rules, it is the power of the rules on the characters that can suppress everything, making the gauze not decay." The Great自在天魔 said: "If you encounter soul-like cultivators that you can't deal with in the future, you might as well use your mana to activate this gauze, as long as you wrap it around them with this gauze, you can send the other party into the netherworld, so you can avoid being chased and killed."
"It also has this function?" Zhang Chen was surprised.
"The strength of the person who wrote the characters is beyond your imagination." The Great自在天魔 said here with some complacency: "Even compared to my peak period, it is only a little bit worse."
Zhang Chen glanced at the Great自在天魔, too lazy to pay attention to this guy, but looked at the animal skin that was disassembled, not knowing how to dispose of it. This book can be passed down from the ancient times to the present without decaying, it can be regarded as an old antique, but it can't continue to stay in the Taoist temple, so as not to be noticed by the Pingbian Prince's Mansion that he has tampered with it in the future.
Zhang Chen pondered slightly, and directly used his supernatural powers to store the animal skin and gauze in the Devouring Space for storage, to see if he could sell it for a good price in the future.
At this time, the cold wind was whistling outside the house, Zhang Chen sat in front of the stove and continued to read, while the Great自在天魔 disappeared without a trace.
Zhang Chen read until midnight, and at this time, bursts of cold wind襲來, and he added some firewood to the stove: "I still have some Golden Wind Flowers left outside, and I need to take them all back."
Golden Wind Flowers are good things, they are crucial treasures for completing a desperate counterattack at a critical moment.
"It's just that now that the Feng Shui formation is running, I don't know if I leave rashly, will it affect the Feng Shui formation." Zhang Chen was a little worried, after all, the Feng Shui formation involves the key to his future liver point upgrade skills, he doesn't want the Feng Shui formation to have an accident.
Just as the thought arose in Zhang Chen's mind, at this time a clear and cold female voice sounded in his mind: "Go!"
A simple word, but it made Zhang Chen feel relieved, he was a little surprised in his heart, he didn't expect that the goddess living in his own Dinghai Divine Pearl could actually sense his thoughts.
The next moment, Zhang Chen turned into a cloud of mist, drifted away along the cracks in the window, and then shuttled through the mountains and forests against the cold wind, all the way to the place where the Golden Wind Flowers were buried, carefully collected the Golden Wind Flowers, and then turned into mist and flew back, passing by the ancestral veins of the Pingbian Prince's Mansion, Zhang Chen went to see his Bagua Furnace again, and saw that the flames in the Bagua Furnace were raging, everything was progressing smoothly, and the earthy yellow ball disintegrated another ancient restriction.
After Zhang Chen checked it, his figure returned again, and returned to the Taoist temple, and sure enough, there was no abnormality.
"I intercepted the good fortune of the Substitute Fate Technique, I wonder if Zhang Xiaohua will sense it? However, the Substitute Fate Technique is a temporary plan of the Pingbian Prince's Mansion, and Zhang Xiaohua is going to Qingcheng Mountain to accept the imperial decree, this trip is thousands of miles away, and the probability of both sides communicating information is almost zero." Thinking of this, Zhang Chen relaxed and continued to recite the scriptures.
After reciting tiredly, Zhang Chen began to think about his future path, how to act in the future.
"I wonder how big that Ascension Pool is. I wonder if my Nine Bends Yellow River Formation can cover it," Zhang Chen thought to himself.
You must know that the landing place of the Ascension Pool is the ancestral vein of the Pingbian Prince's Mansion, guarded by the dragon energy of the earth. That dragon vein has the power of forbidden spells, and the technique of moving mountains and overturning seas is ineffective against it. If I set up the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array on that ancestral vein, the opponent will not be able to break it by collapsing the earth. If they want to break the array, there are only two ways: First, use their formation skills to forcibly break it. Second, kill Zhang Chen.
"Perhaps my Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array should be upgraded."
Zhang Chen's eyes looked towards the Golden Finger interface:
【Skill (Second Order): Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array (0/1000000)】
【Points: 8490000】
These past few days, Zhang Chen has been busy irrigating his Devouring Space with that mysterious energy, which has delayed the progress of Devouring Points. However, Zhang Chen does not regret it, after all, sharpening the knife does not delay the work. The Devouring Space can store mysterious objects, which is also of great significance to him.
"Upgrading the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array actually only requires one million points, that's great!" Without thinking, Zhang Chen directly upgraded the level:
【Skill (Third Order): Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array (0/10000000)】
【Note 1: Coverage area is 660 meters, if cultivators enter it, even immortals will find it hard to survive】
【Points: 7490000】
At this time, there were 7.49 million points remaining. Zhang Chen looked at the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array, and saw the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array skill flashing with rays of light, with mysterious brilliance flowing within it:
"Six hundred and sixty meters, still not enough!"
If it were on flat ground, 660 meters would be barely enough to deal with most cultivators in the world, but if it were to cover a mountain range, with the mountain range winding and twisting, 660 meters would still be somewhat narrow.
"It still needs to be upgraded once more. When I have enough points tomorrow, I will see how many meters the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array can cover when upgraded to the fourth order," Zhang Chen thought to himself.
It's just ten million points anyway, which is nothing to him, but the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array is related to his grand plan to seize the Ascension Pool, so there can be no negligence.
"Moreover, at that time, it may not be impossible to break the formation with a formation, using the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array to break the great formation of the Ascension Pool," Zhang Chen thought to himself.
Then, Zhang Chen began to operate the Congenital Mosquito Proboscis, extracting some energy from his fate and converting it into points to accumulate. By the time the sky was dawning, Zhang Chen's points had gathered to ten million, exactly ten million points.
Then, Zhang Chen looked at his Golden Finger interface and directly upgraded the skill:
【Skill (Fourth Order): Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array (0/100000000)】
【Note 1: Coverage area is 1200 meters, if cultivators enter it, even immortals will find it hard to survive】
【Points: 0】
"Twelve hundred meters, that's barely enough. Upgrading again actually requires 100 million points, which is a bit too much. I still need to accumulate points to upgrade the Stealth Talisman. If there are any remaining points later, I can upgrade the Nine Bends Yellow River Talisman Array a bit, but the most important thing for me is the Stealth Talisman," Zhang Chen looked at the points returning to zero, then closed the Golden Finger interface, and then looked at the fire in the stove that was about to go out, and added more firewood.
This era is not good in this regard, there is no coal, and burning fire all relies on firewood, which is too unsustainable and requires adding firewood after a while.
At this time, the sky began to brighten. Zhang Chen put on his cloak and came to the courtyard, facing the setting sun rising in the east, and came all the way to the ancestral shrine of the Pingbian Prince's Mansion in the backyard. He swept over the memorial tablets, casually lit a few incense sticks and inserted them.
"Those memorial tablets are just ordinary memorial tablets, there is nothing else mysterious about them," Zhang Chen looked at the memorial tablets thoughtfully. He believed in his Dharma Eyes. If the souls of the ancestors of the Pingbian Prince were hidden in the memorial tablets, they would definitely not be able to hide from his eyesight.
Then, Zhang Chen moved his body in the courtyard. Just as he was preparing to return to the house to take a nap, a small snake crawled across the courtyard. That fellow Chen Xu came again.
The small snake was not afraid of the cold winter, and manifested its original form in front of Zhang Chen, revealing Chen Xu's face: "Something is not quite right with the Pingbian Prince's Mansion!"
After Chen Xu regained his human form, he directly said to Zhang Chen.
At this time, Chen Xu's expression was serious, and he looked very frightened, as if he had been frightened.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Chen asked in confusion.
"The ancestral grave of the Pingbian Prince's Mansion is emitting green smoke, which means that the Pingbian Prince's Mansion has great luck, blessed by great fortune, and the luck is so good that anyone who dares to oppose it will have bad luck," Chen Xu said here, looking at Zhang Chen solemnly: "Otherwise, let's run away! The Pingbian Prince's Mansion is too wrong. I have only heard of ancestral graves emitting green smoke, but I have never seen it."
Hearing Chen Xu's words, Zhang Chen glanced at the other party in surprise, and thought highly of Chen Xu's skills.
Zhang Chen is very clear about the changes in the Pingbian Prince's Mansion. Now the Pingbian Prince is preparing to transform into a dragon, and already possesses the aura of a divine dragon. Once he achieves Dao, he will at least be an eleventh-order existence. Such a majestic aura is feeding back to the Pingbian Prince's Mansion. It is reasonable for the ancestral grave of the Pingbian Prince's Mansion to emit green smoke and have great luck.
Even the fact that the Ascension Pool directly fell on the ancestral grave of the Pingbian Prince is also a manifestation of luck.
You must know that the spiritual world covers the entire world, and the Ascension Pool does not fall anywhere, but it just happens to fall on the ancestral grave of the Pingbian Prince. Isn't this a manifestation of destiny?
Even the fact that I came to this Taoist temple today and was plotted against by the Pingbian Prince's Mansion to become Zhang Xiaohua's resource is also a manifestation of the Pingbian Prince's Mansion's destiny.
If I didn't have the Golden Finger, according to my original fate, the Pingbian Prince's Mansion's plan would definitely succeed, and Zhang Xiaohua would gain the power of the Ascension Pool, and her future potential would be limitless.
Unfortunately, the Pingbian Prince miscalculated. Even the Heavenly Dao in the dark could not have guessed that Zhang Chen had the existence of the Golden Finger, and all these fortunes have been fulfilled by Zhang Chen, intercepted by Zhang Chen, and can be regarded as fulfilling Zhang Chen's fortune.
Zhang Chen is now considered to have seized Zhang Xiaohua's luck to fulfill himself.
"What are you afraid of? It's just possessing that kind of aura. It also takes time to transform luck into strength," Zhang Chen said unhurriedly.
Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Chen Xu stomped his feet anxiously, his voice full of unease: "My ancestor, do you understand what it means for the ancestral grave to emit green smoke? It means that the Pingbian Prince's lineage is about to produce a great figure! That is not an aura that ordinary people can have at all. I suspect that the Pingbian Prince has the fate to ask the world, and even replace it with a great victory."