Stranger Danger-Chapter 1164: Buddha Emperor Mountain

“The eyes... The Buddhist corpses’ eyes are open!”

Suddenly, Xu Kailu pointed at the Buddhist corpses on the black bull, eyes bulging.

It was an unnecessary warning. Ye Qing could see it for himself.

The Buddhist corpses’ eyes were tightly shut before this. Now, they were all wide open.

As soon as the Buddhist corpses opened their eyes, a rumble that sounded like a tiger’s roar, a thunderclap, a drumbeat, and a gong strike resounded throughout the field.

It was the sound of heartbeats and blood flow.

Slowly, the Buddhist corpses’ heartbeat quickened, and their blood flow grew ferocious. They were also exuding a terrifying vitality and aura, shaking heaven and earth.

“Mother of heavens! Are they coming alive?!” Yi Pin cried out in surprise, and Old Man of Snowy Mountain’s complexion turned as white as a sheet. Even he, a Great Trueman, was having difficulty breathing, much less everyone else.

“No, they’re not. Not completely!”

Ye Qing waved his hand and removed the pressure bearing down on Yi Pin, Xu Kailu, and Old Man of Snowy Mountain. Then, he watched the Buddhist corpses with some interest.

The gist of the situation was that the Buddhist corpses’ physical body came back to life, but not their mind or their consciousness. After all, their mind had disappeared at least centuries ago. There was no way it could have returned to life.

After the Buddhist corpses opened their eyes, Devi Ruyi, Jinpeng Moyun and the old woman slowly opened their eyes as well. A dazzling, divine glint that resembled the stars resided within their pupils.

“Thank you for your teachings, Buddhas!”

Devi Ruyi bowed to the Buddhist corpses and thanked them.

“Thank you for your teachings, Buddhas!”

Jinpeng Moyun and the old woman bowed to the Buddhist corpses as well.

“So long as the torch still burns, Mara is eternal!”

“So long as the torch still burns, Mara is eternal!”

“So long as the torch still burns, Mara is eternal!”

Devi Ruyi, Jinpeng Moyun and the old woman also repeated the phrase.

It was at this moment a mountain took form in the sky.

Shaped like a sitting Buddha, the mountain seemed infinitely tall and wide. Its Buddhist intent was infinite, and its Buddhist arts boundless. Tyrannical and overflowing with will, its aura filled the entire area.

“The Buddha Emperor Mountain! It’s the Buddha Emperor Mountain!”

At first, Devi Ruyi, Jinpeng Moyun and the old woman could only stare at the mountain in astonishment. Then, excitement, zealotry, and reverence overtook their emotions completely.

They immediately dropped on all fours and kowtowed to the Buddhist mountain again and again.

Meanwhile, Ye Qing was observing the Buddhist mountain curiously. Although it looked like it was right before their eyes, his senses told him that it really existed in a space far beyond their reach. It was as if the mountain was hidden behind ten thousand layers of space.

Suddenly, Yi Pin voiced his puzzlement and shock, “This can’t be right. The Buddha Emperor Mountain was shattered a long time ago. How can it possibly appear before us now?”

“What is the Buddha Emperor Mountain, pray tell?” Ye Qing asked.

“The Buddha Emperor Mountain is both the holy mountain and the guardian artifact of the Mara Sect. Legend has it that it was created from the mortal shell left behind by the Mara Buddha Emperor when he ascended into the heavens. It once possessed immeasurable power.”

Yi Pin explained, “But three thousand years ago, when the Mara Sect invaded the east but was repelled by the coalition army led by Lanke Temple and White Horse Temple, the Sky Master Ancient Buddha of Lanke Temple and the Evergreen Monk of White Horse Temple had worked together to destroy the Buddha Emperor Mountain. They succeeded.”

“All things considered, this mountain cannot be the Buddha Emperor Mount—wait... unless... could it be...”

Suddenly, Yi Pin remembered something and mumbled inaudibly to himself. Then, he bit open his fingertip and squeezed a drop of blood into each eye. Like worms, the blood droplets swam inside his pupils and drew many profound marks of Dao. Gradually, Yi Pin’s pupils turned red in color, though they didn’t feel inauspicious or bloody. On the contrary, they looked profound and wondrous.

Yi Pin looked at the Buddha Emperor Mountain again, and he murmured to himself, “There’s no mistake. It is the Buddha Emperor Mountain!”

Clearly, Yi Pin had employed some sort of Magia to discover the Buddha Emperor Mountain’s true form.

Ye Qing decided to emulate his behavior and mustered a pair of black light and white light in both of his pupils. They became connected with each other like yin and yang embracing each other, or a pair of fishes slowly swimming in a circle inside his pupils.

Slowly, the world Ye Qing was watching turned monochrome in color, and he became capable of identifying action and inaction, heaviness and lightness, clarity and murkiness, hardness and softness, yin and yang. It was these concepts that had constructed the real world.

Yin and yang made the Way.

At that moment, Ye Qing saw the absolute truth of the world. There was nothing that could hide itself from his pupils.

Yin and yang formed a way that saw through all illusions. Such was the power of the Yin Yang Spell Eyes.

The Yin Yang Spell Eyes was a Magia he picked up while practicing the “Records of Laojun Studying The Dao On A Bull”.

After he had recovered from his injuries, Ye Qing immediately began studying the “Records of Laojun Studying The Dao On A Bull” during his freetime. As the martial art was an unparalleled art that even Xuanyuan Kun, a celestial, deeply coveted, he thought for sure that it would be incredibly difficult to practice. But to his surprise, it took him only a few days to reach the initiate level.

If he wasn’t mistaken, the reason the martial art was easy for him to practice had something to do with the Records of Laojun Studying The Dao On A Bull painting inside his head— though it could also be because his martial foundation was solid, and his martial arts was compatible, of course. In any case, things went smoothly for him.

The “Records of Laojun Studying The Dao On A Bull” was an unparalleled art focused on consuming qi to refine qi and strengthening one’s spirit. Using yin and yang to create the base of the Way of Tai Chi and attain the intent of perfect wholeness, the martial art boasted the power to accommodate all arts and avoid tribulations.

The first step to practicing the “Records of Laojun Studying The Dao On A Bull” was to study the Yin Yang Qi, forge a Yin Yang Base, and use it to accommodate all arts, things, elements, and natures.

But how should one “study the Yin Yang Qi” and “forge a Yin Yang Base”, exactly? It was by practicing a martial art with two opposing elements such as water and fire, metal and wood, cold and heat, so on and so forth. Then, the practitioner would combine the two antithetical martial arts—merging yin and yang—and achieve a balance. When yin and yang both created and destroyed each other, one had successfully forged the Yin Yang Base.

It so happened that Ye Qing’s main cultivation arts were exact opposites of each other. The “Earthly Sovereign Scripture” was a martial art of pure yang, whereas the “Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon Sutra” a martial art of pure yin. Therefore, Ye Qing used the Profound Yellow Mother Qi and his demonic thought to forge his Yin Yang Base.

Usually, it was exceedingly risky to combine two mutually incompatible elements. One misstep, and the practitioner might suffer a martial deviation and injure themselves.

Ye Qing was different though. Back when he was creating his yang god, he had already perfectly combined the Profound Yellow Mother Qi and his demonic thought to forge his Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon Yang God. Not only that, he had practiced the “Nine Impetus of Tai Chi” before, so it didn’t take him too much effort to study the Yin Yang Qi.

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So, he forged a Yin Yang Base using his Profound Yellow Mother Qi and demonic thought and used it to reforge his Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon Yang God.

Strictly speaking, his yang god was no longer a Heavenly Demon Yang God or a Profound Yellow Yang God anymore. It was something that both embodied the darkness of the “Paranirmitavaśavartin Heavenly Demon Sutra” and the light of the “Earthly Sovereign Scripture”. A perfect union, he could now wield either power as easily as he was moving a limb or a finger.

Suppose that his yang god was a clay doll, and the demonic thought and the Profound Yellow Mother Qi were two different types of “clay”. His previous yang god was simply a mixture created from the two types of “clay”. Although he managed to merge them together, it was rather flimsy and beyond chaotic. There wasn’t a speck of beauty to be found in his yang god whatsoever. It was like the work of a novice.

But after he reforged them using the Yin Yang Base, his yang god was completely different from before. It was like a master had found the perfect ratio between the two clays and used their masterful techniques to create an exquisite masterpiece that was much stronger and perfect.