586: Chapter 112 Destiny 586: Chapter 112 Destiny Drifting clouds scatter as lightning flashes and vanishes.
The monk suspended in midair, his large robe billowed by the wind, truly resembled a withered leaf.
For his skin and flesh had already shriveled.
His life should have ended decades ago…
It was this droplet that saved him.
Now he has removed the droplet from his chest; bereft of his life source, his body began withering at an alarmingly fast rate.
Buddhist Divine Skills are indeed real.
Understanding the three Divine Skills to possess power comparable to the Yang God is also true.
But everything in this world is fair.
A mere mortal, upon understanding the three Divine Skills…
It doesn’t necessarily mean a good thing.
Chen Chong watched the monk before him with a complex expression.
His Divine Thought could sense the rapid dissipation of the other’s vital energy.
Heavenly Vision, Divine Steps, Destiny Power, these three great Divine Skills are now igniting together, bursting forth with an unprecedentedly brilliant flame.
However, the price of this ignition is the sacrifice of a life…
Fa Cheng slowly extended his palm.
He gripped the spear, and the light born of the burning of the three Divine Skills traveled along it.
Chen Chong could have dodged it.
But he didn’t choose to.
Taking a deep breath, he prepared to face the “onslaught” of the three great Divine Skills.
Yet the intense flame, just like the spilling rain of life, contained no malice…
Chen Chong’s entire being, embraced by the flame, faintly saw the visions beheld by Fa Cheng’s “Heavenly Eye,” also perceiving the ethereal “Destiny.”
…
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Rumbling!
A long river traverses through the ages.
Within the river, myriad figures bustle about, billions of living beings as small as dust.
Please provide me with a translation of the following text: The downfall of dynasties, the changing of kingdoms, in the end, are just slightly larger waves in the river.
Wrapped by the power of the “Destiny Power,” Chen Chong was carried above this river of time, uncontrollably plummeting downward, falling into the River of Destiny.
He heard familiar shouts and screams, saw shadows of familiar Iron Cavalry.
Suddenly, the surroundings shifted; it was no longer above the Green Thunder, nor within the surging river.
He arrived within a city that had been reduced to ashes.
In every direction, corpses lay scattered.
Time seemed to freeze, a warhorse reared, its hooves suspended in midair.
The long sword glinted coldly, piercing into the neck, and blood gushed forth like a full moon.
“What is this?”
Chen Chong gazed blankly at this scene.
“This is Yuan Province’s largest city ‘Suyang City’.”
A gentle voice arose from beside him.
Chen Chong turned to look, and there stood the monk, looking like a dried leaf, three feet away.
A massive bloom of blood burst open from Fa Cheng’s pierced heart and chest.
But he was smiling: “Great General, could it be that you don’t recognize this place?”
“Of course I recognize it.”
Chen Chong furrowed his brows.
Suyang was one of his most valued main cities.
The main force of Yuanzhou Iron Cavalry was usually stationed in Suyang…
However, how could this main city have fallen into such desolation?
Fa Cheng said, standing upright: “This is the future look of Suyang City.”
“Impossible.”
Chen Chong spoke coldly: “The turmoil in Yuan Province has been cleared by eighty percent.
In at most three years, the turmoil will be totally quelled.
Even though Yuan Province is barren, such chaos is absolutely impossible.”
“Great General, take a careful look.
What caused the destruction of Suyang?
Was it the bandits?”
Fa Cheng slightly moved his head.
Chen Chong fell silent.
What he saw were his own Iron Cavalry.
The bandits, how could they ever take center stage?
“Are you saying, my Iron Cavalry slaughtered Suyang?”
Chen Chong felt somewhat ironic.
“The first step in Destroying Buddha in Yuan Province is to tear down the temples in the four provinces and kill the residing monks.” Fa Cheng said softly: “But…
the Da Li Dynasty has governed with Buddhist Law for nearly a thousand years.
Tearing down temples and killing monks can only eliminate the ‘Buddha’ in sight, but not the ‘Inner Buddha’ in people’s hearts.
It won’t take long before you realize this.
And then, ‘Destroying Buddha’ will start to escalate.”
Chen Chong again fell silent.
The Buddha in sight, the Inner Buddha, in his view, there was no difference.
Because his and Nalan Xuance’s “political views” on this matter did not align, he was currently cooperating with Nalan Xuance in carrying out Destroying Buddha in Yuan Province fundamentally because he wished to meet the Zen Master.
“Nalan Xuance wants to destroy the ‘Buddha’ in the hearts of All Living Beings.” Fa Cheng smiled slightly, saying: “But for you, it doesn’t matter.”
“Doesn’t matter?
The Buddhist ways are hypocritical and unrighteous.”
Chen Chong spoke firmly: “Li Kingdom is in a time of turmoil, had it not been for Fan Yin Temple meddling in the imperial power struggle, this conflict should have ended already…
Both publicly and privately, I should Destroy Buddha!”
“Is that so?”
Fa Cheng sighed and asked, “Did the Buddhist really meddle in the Da Li Dynasty’s struggle for imperial power?”
“If the Buddhist had no interest in the struggle, why would the Zen Master bother to meet with the Ninth Prince?”
Chen Chong uttered a cold laugh.
At this point, everything pivoted.
The Crown Prince was originally going to become the next ruler of Li Kingdom.
After the Zen Master met with the Ninth Prince.
A silent war began, power tipped, factions wrestled, and the entire Da Li Dynasty was abuzz with rumors…
Fan Yin Temple had picked the “Ninth Prince” as their supporter, and the subsequent turn of events corroborated this rumor, with the ailing old emperor beginning to favor the Ninth Prince, successively bestowing upon him heavy titles and rewards.
With these blessings.
The Ninth Prince stood in opposition to the Crown Prince and became an evenly matched rival.
“Aren’t you curious why Nalan Xuance is so desperate to Destroy Buddha?”
Fa Cheng gazed directly into Chen Chong’s eyes.
Chen Chong’s brow furrowed slightly.
Actually…
there was another turning point in this struggle.
Nalan Xuance once arranged an assassination to directly kill the Ninth Prince, ending all the chaos.
Unfortunately, that assassination ended in failure.