Chapter 2541

"After this time, I should be able to ascend to Ancient Buddha," a voice said in the Buddha Hall.

In a dark corner where the rosy light could not reach, a hoarse voice rang out, "No problem."

"As long as you refine the souls of these children, you will surely be able to ascend; I can feel it."

"Among the children this time, one child's soul is extremely special. Perhaps there will be unexpected gains."

A gloomy laugh came from the darkness, revealing two scarlet eyes within the laughter, and then a giant dragon slowly flew out.

Its entire body was green; it was the Poison Dragon among the Elemental Dragons. Lin Moyu saw that a section of its tail was severed.

It was clearly injured, and this injury originated from the soul, so it could not be healed.

The Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha whispered, "These are all the subjects of my Buddha Kingdom."

"Actually, I should not do this." The Poison Dragon sneered slightly, "You say this every single time."

"Aren't you annoyed? Since they are your Buddha Kingdom subjects, isn't it normal for them to sacrifice themselves for you?"

"Doesn't your Buddhist Clan say, 'If they do not enter the hell, who will?' Besides, this matter is beneficial for both you and me."

"I refine human pills using the bodies of young boys and girls; I can repair my injuries, and you can increase your cultivation base."

"Why wouldn't we do it? We have cooperated so many times already; could it be that you are still soft-hearted?"

Chapter 3221: Dragon-Buddha Cooperation, Refining Human Pills

The Poison Dragon talked endlessly.

He was like a chatterbox, rambling while pacing back and forth.

His huge body walked around the Buddha Hall, like an old man chanting scriptures.

"You guy, since you've done it, then see it through to the end."

"Every time you have to be soft-hearted once, yet every time you still do it all the same. Whether as a person or a Buddha, why be so hypocritical? It's much better to be like me, straightforward."

"I am just bad, just ruthless. If you didn't want to do this, why did you agree to cooperate with me back then?"

"I intentionally lost to you, letting you earn the title of Dragon-Subduing Buddha."

"You even established a Buddha Kingdom. Over these many years, haven't you received enough benefits?"

"Look at those guys at the same level as you; which one has a cultivation speed like yours? You are almost an Ancient Buddha."

"Once you become an Ancient Buddha, who will remember what you did all these years?"

"Even if those guys find out, so what? What can they do to you? Come to the Buddha Realm to kill you?"

"How is that any different from throwing their lives away? In this world, might is right, everything else is fake."

After being nagged by the Poison Dragon, the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha sighed and whispered, "They have already stepped onto the Buddha Ladder."

"The rest is up to you." The Poison Dragon chuckled, "No problem!"

He walked toward the outside of the Buddha Hall. When he reached the outside of the hall, he shook his body and transformed.

In an instant, he became a Buddha, his body shining with brilliant golden light; ordinary people could not tell at all.

His true form was a Poison Dragon. Lin Moyu witnessed all of this.

He was also glad that this Poison Dragon was a chatterbox; he understood the cause without needing much effort.

It was nothing more than a Buddha and a dragon, pretending to subdue the dragon on the surface.

They bewitched people's hearts and established a Buddha Kingdom, but in secret, they cooperated with the Poison Dragon to refine human pills using young boys and girls—one to recover from injuries, the other to increase their cultivation.

Both had their own goals and hit it off immediately. However, the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha often felt hesitation in his heart.

It seemed he still possessed a shred of kindness, but in Lin Moyu's eyes, he was the most hypocritical one.

If one is going to do evil, then do it to the end. The moment one commits evil, a kind heart is useless.

Wavering back and forth is what the most hypocritical people do.

The saying in the Buddhist Clan, 'Lay down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot,' was also the phrase Lin Moyu hated the most.

From another angle, isn't this phrase telling everyone, 'Go ahead and do evil. As long as you repent in the end and can lay down the butcher's knife, you can become a Buddha on the spot.'

If a villain can lay down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot, then a good person who has laid down the butcher's knife for countless years still cannot become a Buddha. Who can one reason with?

Of course, the Buddhist Clan would inevitably have another explanation. But Lin Moyu did not believe it at all.

His Dao Heart was firm, and he had his own understanding of all things in heaven and earth.

In doing anything, Lin Moyu only asked his own heart. As long as he felt it was not wrong, then it was right.

In Lin Moyu's view, the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha's Buddha Heart was not firm enough.

Therefore, in this lifetime, he would not achieve much. If not for relying on such crooked and evil arts, it would be impossible for him to become an Ancient Buddha.

If Lin Moyu were to strike now, he could easily crush the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha and this Poison Dragon.

However, Lin Moyu did not want to do that. He wanted to let these children see the true face of the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha.

Especially Xiao Mei; he already felt that Xiao Mei was not ordinary, and the Poison Dragon also had some sense of it.

After this matter was settled, Lin Moyu wanted to carefully examine Xiao Mei's situation. If things went well, he might gain another disciple.

If that were truly the case, then letting Xiao Mei thoroughly recognize the true face of the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha would be very important.

Only by shattering the devotion in her heart could she truly see this world clearly.

The Poison Dragon, disguised as a Buddha, arrived in front of the Buddha Ladder. Watching the children crawling here while kowtowing, a trace of drool actually flowed from the corner of his mouth.

In his eyes, these children were all delicious pills. "Let's start with you!"

The Buddha that the Poison Dragon had transformed into became incomparably huge, immediately manifesting as a saint before the people of the world.

The people in the Buddha Kingdom knelt down on the spot to kowtow. The Buddha he manifested was almost exactly the same as the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha.

Everyone thought it was the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha revealing his golden body. "Amitabha."

"The Buddha Ladder is not easy to climb; only sincerity is the path to climbing the ladder. If the heart is not sincere, one will fall into the Avici Hell, and the Golden Buddha cannot save you!"

His voice was low, seeming to carry a hint of anger. As his voice fell, two children suddenly fell from the Buddha Ladder.

Below the Buddha Ladder, among the crowd kneeling on the ground, someone suddenly screamed. The children who fell were their own children.

The Poison Dragon shouted in a low voice, "Amitabha, if the heart is not sincere, the Golden Buddha cannot save you."

The implication was that these two children deserved to die. The Poison Dragon's voice was full of bewitchment.

An inexplicable power fell upon the crowd. The few people who had just been grieving suddenly quieted down.

The grief on their faces disappeared, and instead, they kowtowed toward the Poison Dragon, "The Kingdom Lord is right. It is my child's heart that was not sincere; it is my child who deserved to die!"

Under the Poison Dragon's bewitchment, they no longer felt sad for the death of their own children; instead, they felt that they were at fault.

Lin Moyu frowned slightly. To invert right and wrong like this, this Poison Dragon had truly taken evil to the extreme.

He had already seen that beneath the Buddha Ladder, a huge pill furnace was hidden in the clouds and mist. The children who fell would fall directly into the pill furnace.

Beneath the furnace, flames were burning fiercely, and a formation was operating, automatically refining pills.

The entire furnace reeked of blood; clearly, many children had already died here.

The Poison Dragon revealed a satisfied smile, "The heart must be sincere; I do not blame you. Continue climbing the ladder; as long as you can reach the top, you will surely be saved."

By the furnace, the Poison Dragon was still continuing his performance, but he did not know that the two children who had just fallen did not actually fall into the pill furnace.

They had been taken away by Lin Moyu and directly brought into the Rule World.

With Lin Moyu's strength, even if he did these things under the Poison Dragon's nose, the Poison Dragon would not stand a chance of discovering it.

Then, Lin Moyu continued watching the Poison Dragon perform. The Poison Dragon seemed to have become addicted to acting, continuously revealing his true form.

From time to time, he would say a few ambiguous Buddhist phrases. Perhaps having lived in the Buddhist Clan for a long time, the Poison Dragon acted quite convincingly.

It was indeed difficult to tell the fake from the real. Along the way, children continuously fell from the Buddha Ladder, all of whom were saved by Lin Moyu.

Meanwhile, under the Poison Dragon's bewitchment, the people kneeling on the ground only felt that their own children were not sincere enough and deserved to die.

At this moment, the lives of their own children seemed less important than their devotion to the Buddha.

However, the number of children who fell was not large, less than one-third; most of the children were still able to climb the Buddha Ladder.

Lin Moyu also knew that every time a plague appeared, not all children would die. About half of the children could survive.

This was also to cover their tracks; the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha and the Poison Dragon did not take things to the extreme.

If they killed everyone, problems might arise. Now, with some dying and some living, the probability of problems would be much lower.

It had to be said that this man and this Buddha were very careful.

Finally, hundreds of people successfully climbed the Buddha Ladder. Arriving before the Buddha Hall, the Poison Dragon shouted in a low voice, "Everyone sit down and chant scriptures while waiting."

These children were very obedient and immediately sat down to wait. Beams of rosy light fell from the sky, shrouding these children.

Wisps of Buddha power were injected into their bodies, and all their exhaustion was swept away.

Chapter 3222: Disintegration and Reincarnation, Innate Dao Soul

At the same time, they would not feel hungry. The Poison Dragon arrived in the Buddha Hall and said to the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha,

"It's done here. The children from the other cities have also been gathered; I will go and bring them over."

The Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha did not say anything, and the Poison Dragon, used to this, turned and left.

The Dragon-Subduing Ancient Kingdom had a total of five cities. One, the Dragon-Subduing Buddha City, was the main city.

The other four Buddha cities were small cities. The plague in the small cities appeared relatively early.

Those children had long been gathered. Furthermore, according to the information Lin Moyu knew, the children in those small cities had a quite high mortality rate every time the plague descended.

Over time, it gave people a feeling that if they wanted to live better, they had to come to the main city, or at least be close to the main city.

After the Poison Dragon left, the Dragon-Subduing Ancient Buddha let out a long sigh.

Lin Moyu, listening to this sigh, felt full of disdain in his eyes.

Outside the Buddha Hall, a group of children sat on the ground. Each of them was very quiet, not whispering to each other, as if doing so could demonstrate their devotion.

Lin Moyu could feel that the poison in their bodies was taking effect, and their complexions were not good.

Even with the rosy light shining on them, it was only overdrawing their lives.

Suddenly, Xiao Mei's nose twitched. She raised her little head and looked left and right, as if searching for something.

"She can even smell this!" Lin Moyu was surprised.