Chapter 1237: Law Seal Returns to Secular Life, Buddhist Son Resumes Position

There were only so many Nascent Soul cultivators with nine spiritual orifices in Taicang Continent. Venerable True Word had met them all. Based on her own experience with God Transformation, none of them were currently qualified to awaken. The sudden emergence of a new God Transformation cultivator greatly exceeded her expectations.

After a brief contemplation, she soared through the air. Firstly, to congratulate this new fellow Daoist. Secondly, to seek his guidance and see if he could help her disciples break through their own limitations.

At the White Horse Temple, in the innermost Buddhist hall, Vajra Seal sat cross-legged, his prayer beads spinning rapidly in his hands. With a snap, the beads broke, scattering across the floor. One bead rolled to the feet of a majestic golden Buddha statue, which seemed to be sculpted. The statue's appearance constantly shifted. Sometimes it took on a compassionate form, pitying the world; other times, a fierce form, like a Yama from hell. It shifted between male and female appearances.

This was Bodhisattva Heavenly Listener. He embodied the myriad forms of sentient beings, appearing differently to each observer.

Bodhisattva Heavenly Listener picked up the prayer bead at his feet, his voice magnetic and slow, imbued with profound power. "Your mind is still not at peace."

Vajra Seal bowed his head. "Disciple has listened to the Dharma for eighteen years and believed my mind to be as solid as a rock. Unexpectedly, upon encountering a wisp of a remnant Asura soul, my Buddhist heart was shaken. I am ashamed!" His eyes no longer held their former detached calm; a trace of pain and struggle flickered in their depths.

Bodhisattva Heavenly Listener said calmly, "You cannot be entirely blamed. It was I who sent you to the Heavenly Realm for training, to temper your Buddhist heart and prepare you for entering the second rank. I didn't expect you to encounter a worldly tribulation."

Vajra Seal was the most enlightened disciple of White Horse Temple in the past century. Born with an eye of wisdom, he could discern the essence of all sentient beings. The list of enlightened beings he compiled became the most valuable talent roster in Taicang Continent. With an intelligent mind, he could glimpse karma and was skilled at discerning heavenly mysteries, his understanding of Buddhist teachings far surpassing his peers. He was the disciple most likely to attain Bodhisattva status at White Horse Temple. Yet, this very disciple, bearing the hopes of all the monks at White Horse Temple, had contemplated returning to secular life! Indeed, he had developed feelings for that remnant Asura soul!

Vajra Seal looked confused. "What should this disciple do? Please, Bodhisattva, guide me."

Bodhisattva Heavenly Listener was silent for a long time. Gazing at the scattered prayer beads in his hand, he slowly said after a long pause, "You, return to secular life."

"What?" Vajra Seal suddenly looked up. "Bodhisattva, how could this disciple abandon Buddhism?"

Bodhisattva Heavenly Listener calmly replied, "Where there is a beginning, there will be an end. Your coming to White Horse Temple was karma, and your leaving is also karma. In Buddhism, everything follows karma."

Vajra Seal was deeply ashamed. "Bodhisattva! This disciple has violated Buddhist teachings."

Bodhisattva Heavenly Listener shook his head and said, "Sentient beings are bewildered, and where the heart leads is the path to overcoming that bewilderment. You have found your own path; follow your heart. Go!"

Vajra Seal's eyes glistened. After pondering for a long time, he bowed his head in obeisance. "Thank you, Bodhisattva, for your grace of teaching and enlightenment! This disciple departs!" He shed his white monastic robes, casting aside all symbols of his former life.

He had entered Buddhism with nothing, and he left Buddhism with nothing. Bodhisattva Heavenly Listener watched Vajra Seal step out of the Buddhist hall. The moment he stepped out, the tonsure mark on Vajra Seal's head disappeared, his hair grew back, and the Buddhist aura around him gradually faded. Finally, he vanished into light and shadow.

Bodhisattva Heavenly Listener slowly closed his eyes. "The disciple with the deepest karmic connection to Buddhism has left. There will be no new Bodhisattva at White Horse Temple."

Just then, a subtle ripple radiated past. He slowly opened his eyes. "Donor Jiang has attained God Transformation," he murmured. "His path should have been very difficult to complete. He must have been enlightened by a master."

Suddenly, his ears twitched. He seemed to hear something. A smile of relief appeared on his face. "So it was Donor Jiang who completed the deficiencies in his path of good and evil. His understanding of the Dao surpasses Vajra Seal's. Now that Vajra Seal has left, White Horse Temple lacks a Buddhist Son, and Donor Jiang has just appeared. This is truly destiny."

Bodhisattva Heavenly Listener slowly rose. With a single step, a golden lotus bloomed beneath his foot. "Six Paths."

Outside the hall, a gaunt monk wearing a red kasaya, with kind eyes and brows, stepped inside. This monk, Six Paths, was none other than Venerable Six Paths himself! He had been forcibly converted and brought into White Horse Temple!

Bodhisattva Heavenly Listener calmly said, "I listen to the sounds of all sentient beings; whoever has a wish shall have it granted. You walked in the name of my disciple, and I shall grant your wish by accepting you as my personal disciple. Donor Jiang often acted as my messenger, delivering my decrees. Therefore, this Bodhisattva shall fulfill his wish."

Grand Yin Sect.

The radiance from the five-colored auspicious clouds successfully condensed into a divine halo at the back of Jiang Wuya's head! This was the symbol of God Transformation!

At the same time, the radiance merged into Jiang Wuya's body. His bloodied and bruised body rapidly recovered to its original state; his muscles became translucent, and his bones turned jade-like. A life aura transcending mortals surged forth. At this moment, Jiang Wuya had instantly become a deity, an existence on another level of life. Unlike a Nascent Soul, whose lifespan was confined to 150 years, he now possessed a long lifespan of nearly a thousand years! He had become what mortals described as a terrestrial immortal!

Jiang Fan watched, filled with envy. In his lifetime, he could actually witness the birth of a God Transformation Venerable! As the five-colored auspicious clouds dispersed, Jiang Wuya had completely achieved God Transformation.

With a thought, black and white streams of qi appeared around him, condensing into clothing. He then looked at Jiang Fan, a smile on his face. "What is your name?"

"Jiang Fan!" Jiang Fan replied with a smile. "This junior congratulates Senior Jiang on entering the God Transformation realm!" Before the ancient giants descended, having one more God Transformation Venerable in Taicang Continent was a tremendous blessing!

Jiang Wuya said, "You have shown me the grace of guiding my path; I cannot bear the title of 'senior'. If you don't mind, let us be brothers." Without Jiang Fan's words today, he would still be lost on the path of good and evil, unable to awaken. Jiang Fan accounted for half the credit in his achievement of the God Transformation realm! No amount of gratitude would be excessive.

Jiang Fan was surprised and delighted; how could he refuse a God Transformation realm elder brother? He immediately exclaimed, "It is my honor that Big Brother Jiang, a God Transformation realm cultivator, is willing to befriend me!" Jiang Wuya, with gratitude in his eyes, patted his shoulder. "My dear brother Jiang, a great kindness needs no words of thanks."

He looked at Jiang Fan. "You must also be cultivating the Grand Yin Sect's techniques, aren't you?" He asked. "Is there anything I can help you with?" Jiang Fan's eyes lit up.

Of course there was! He couldn't refine those four giant king corpses with his cultivation alone. Just like when refining a God Transformation yin corpse, he needed a God Transformation realm expert to suppress the corpses.

He quickly took out three utterly dead giant king corpses, along with the Mist Giant King, which still had a trace of lingering consciousness. When the four twenty-zhang tall corpses suddenly appeared, Jiang Wuya was slightly startled. "Did my dear brother Jiang kill all of these?"

Jiang Fan smiled. "They were all remnant soul bodies, and I happen to be proficient in soul secret arts. It's nothing significant." Jiang Wuya's surprise did not lessen, but rather increased. Even remnant souls were not easy to deal with. This younger brother he had acknowledged seemed truly extraordinary!

"Big Brother Jiang, I'd like to ask you to suppress them so I can refine them into yin corpses."

Jiang Fan didn't stand on ceremony with Jiang Wuya. His only concern was Jiang Wuya's significant resistance to the Grand Yin Sect's techniques; previously, when he was in a frenzy, he had relentlessly pursued Feng Yuanzong.

"No problem!" Jiang Wuya agreed without hesitation. "Although the method of refining yin corpses is considered evil, when a righteous person uses an evil method, the evil method becomes righteous; when an evil person uses a righteous method, the righteous method becomes evil. You are refining ancient giants to protect our Central Earth Realm. This is a great deed of kindness." He immediately took action, suppressing the four giant kings.

Jiang Fan immediately employed the refining method, rapidly working. While the refining was in progress, a ripple of spatial fluctuation came from above.

Jiang Wuya looked up, his eyes narrowing slightly. "Who are you?" In the sky, an old man in a black robe with shriveled cheeks strikingly appeared. At the back of his head, there was a divine halo.

It was Venerable Heart Sin.