The Thousand Buddha Cave in Dunhuang is not simple. In the eyes of ordinary people, the Thousand Buddha Cave is just a place where eminent monks of all ages stopped to preach scriptures. Although there are countless Buddhist essences and exquisite murals painted here, making this place a worldly treasure, but for ordinary people As far as people are concerned, it is just a place with a strong Buddhist atmosphere.
But for practitioners like Le Yuan, this place is a forbidden place that ordinary people cannot imagine. Thousand Buddha Cave has immeasurable huge Buddhist power, which has been supplemented and accumulated bit by bit by eminent monks from all ages, including many Arhats, Bodhisattvas and even Buddhas who have achieved enlightenment.
Therefore, it may not be possible to detect it unless extraordinary power is aroused here, but once other powers besides Buddha power are used here, the huge Buddha power contained in the Thousand Buddha Cave will instantly launch an instinctive resistance, and even Once again, there was an extremely rampant big demon who wanted to destroy this place, but it was suppressed here in the blink of an eye.
On this day in late July of the Tenth Year of the Daye (AD 614), Thousand Buddha Cave welcomed two very special guests. One is Le Yuan, who is considered an extraterrestrial demon (player identity in another world + demonic ability), and the other is Yu Xiaoxue, a relatively simple alien reincarnation (artifact Nuwa Stone, reincarnated as an adult).
It was such an unusual group of people who, after arriving in Dunhuang, broke into the Thousand Buddhas Cave without stopping at all.
"Brother Le, your necklace keeps shining. Does this have any special meaning?"
When Le Yuan and Yu Xiaoxue stepped into the Thousand Buddha Cave, Yu Xiaoxue could already feel the light of the Taotie crystal necklace that Le Yuan placed on the inner layer of his clothes. Le Yuan also didn't cover it up, took it in his hand and started to study it.
After several tests, it was discovered that whenever Le Yuan faced the blue vigilance towards the depths of the Thousand Buddha Cave, the light would be particularly intense, and when Le Yuan faced it in the direction away from him, it would appear dim. It looked like Quite mysterious.
"Taotie is dead. What can still be connected with it on this land of China? Are it the other three ferocious beasts? Are there such ferocious beasts in the Thousand Buddha Cave?"
For some reason, Le Yuan was quite excited about the appearance of the Four Evils. This is certainly not for no reason. Trouble equals tasks, and tasks herald rewards. The strength of these four villains is not weak. Maybe when Le Yuan takes care of them all, he can activate a mission.
Le Yuan, who had no other clues for the time being, could only rely on the prompts of the blue crystal while heading deeper along the passage in the Thousand Buddha Cave.
The two of them entered the Thousand Buddha Cave for a full kilometer. Logically speaking, they were already deep into the cave and could no longer see any light. However, the peculiarity of the Thousand Buddha Cave was only just revealed at this time. Along the way, the sun has long since disappeared, replaced by a strange golden light that is no darker than the sun. Although this light is not dazzling, it gives people an irreplaceable sense of majesty.
"Is this the so-called Buddha's light? It's really an incredible power."
Bathed in the golden light, somehow the power of the Marrow Cleansing Meridian in Le Yuan's body had an impulse to burst out of his body, making him feel excited as if he had met some relative.
Le Yuan did not dare to act recklessly in the Thousand Buddha Cave. If anything happened, he and Yu Xiaoxue would both be miserable. You must know that even Yuwen Tuo was able to get out of the Thousand Buddha Cave safely because of the power of two great artifacts, which Le Yuan and Yu Xiaoxue could not compare with.
But the more Le Yuan suppressed it, the more the power of the Marrow Cleansing Sutra in this sea of consciousness became noisy. In the end, he broke through Le Yuan's blockade and awakened an unknown resonance with the ever-present Buddha power in the outside world.
Although the resonance occurred, after a while Le Yuan did not notice anything unusual, so he breathed a sigh of relief and continued towards the destination with Yu Xiaoxue.
As the two of them continued to move forward in this almost endless passage, Le Yuan suddenly discovered that Yu Xiaoxue, who had been following him closely, had disappeared quietly since then. You must know that in order to prevent accidents, Le Yuan has always put his spiritual sense on Yu Xiaoxue's body, but even so, he still failed to discover how Yu Xiaoxue disappeared.
Witnessing this strange scene, although the surroundings were still shrouded in golden Buddha light, Le Yuan could not help but shudder. If nothing else, this is really terrifying, a power that can sneak away from Xiaoxue without being discovered by Le Yuan, and without knowing whether the other party is a friend or an enemy.
At this moment, Le Yuan stopped and neither moved forward nor retreated, but stood there. At this moment, the spiritual sense of his own sea of consciousness escaped along the passage he came from to the passages in front and behind, searching along the passages extending in all directions.
Searching people with your spiritual sense seems simple, but it consumes your soul very much. Le Yuan's own spiritual power is not weak, but the loss in the Thousand Buddha Cave is a hundred times that of the outside world. What makes Le Yuan even more horrified is that although Le Yuan continues to explore the outside world, this passage seems to have no end. Yes, Le Yuan's spiritual awareness cannot cover the entire Thousand Buddha Cave.
"Are you trying to trap me to death?"
Le Yuan looked at both ends of the passage he was in. One end led to the unknown depths of Thousand Buddha Cave, and the other end was where he came from. With a shake of his hand, a dagger appeared in his hand. As Le Yuan moved forward, he made marks under his feet to indicate that he was passing by.
According to this method, there is no theoretical possibility of getting lost. But when Le Yuan continued to walk forward for only five minutes, he suddenly found a mark in front of him that was almost exactly the same as the mark where he sat down. Le Yuan squatted down and checked the mark with his hand for a while.
It was carved by his own hands. It was not a pure imitation. This was what Le Yuan carved. The force and style used in every stroke and every word in this mark cannot be achieved simply by imitating it.
There are only two possibilities that can explain all this.
One is that this is a special terrain like a magic ring. It seems that Le Yuan has been moving forward, but in fact he is going in circles. The reason why he was separated from Yu Xiaoxue is because the two of them got sidetracked unknowingly.
However, although this explanation is a good explanation for why the marks appear, there is still confusion in explaining the separation of Le Yuan and Yu Xiaoxue. Neither Le Yuan nor Yu Xiaoxue are mortals. It is impossible for ordinary cover-ups or mechanisms to separate the two of them unconsciously.
This story made Le Yuan think of the second possibility, that is, he has fallen deeply into a hallucination.
If it was an illusion, then it would be a perfect explanation that he would be separated from Yu Xiaoxue. If it is an illusion, the marks carved on the ground can also be faked. After all, everything in the environment is just a thought. If it is an illusion, there is also an explanation for the inability of his spiritual awareness to cover the entire Thousand Buddha Cave. If the illusion is not broken, the existence of spiritual awareness is equivalent to being abolished.
But everything is an illusion, so there is another question, which is how this illusion affects Le Yuan. Needless to say, Le Yuan's strength is a high-ranking figure even in this world where gods and ghosts are rampant. If it were possible to easily bring Le Yuan into a fantasy world, this world would have already been in trouble. There's big trouble.
Everything is false, so if Le Yuan is trapped in the environment and wants to break out, he must first find out what kind of environment he has entered.
The simplest and most troublesome one is the illusion formation. There was nothing wrong with Le Yuan himself. What changed was the surrounding environment, which made Le Yuan who absorbed the information about the surrounding environment unconsciously have the idea of moving forward. In fact, there was no progress at all. This kind of illusion is very simple and troublesome to break, as long as the formation can be destroyed, but the level of the formation affects the difficulty of breaking the formation.
Another particularly difficult thing to deal with is the mental illusion. The problem is not the surrounding environment, but Le Yuan's spirit. In other words, everything now is manifested by Le Yuan's spirit and does not affect the body at all. His true body should still be with Yu Xiaoxue, but in a state of absence.
Le Yuan directly raised one hand to the top of his head.
"boom-"
Without saying a word, the sword energy burst out through Le Yuan's arm, frantically destroying the "rock wall" above his head. If he wasn't worried that this was an illusion of formation, and ranged moves could accidentally injure Xiaoxue, Le Yuan would have even launched a sword energy storm to sweep across the entire cave.
When Le Yuan's sword energy burst out, there was no cave wall above his head. Everything around him was completely destroyed, but the entire illusion was still not over. This was undoubtedly a spiritual illusion.
The beginning of the illusion must be accompanied by a certain singularity, and this should be especially true for illusions that can hide the level of Le Yuan. So when he wanted to understand these things, Le Yuan sat down cross-legged and began to recall the experience after entering the cave.
The Marrow Cleansing Sutra, if there is a specific point that triggers illusions, then it is the Marrow Cleansing Sutra. When the Marrow Cleansing Sutra resonated with the Buddha's power outside, Le Yuan was very surprised at first. How could the Marrow Cleansing Sutra, which had finally broken through the blockade of Le Yuan's will, make no movement for a long time despite the thunder and the rain.
It turned out that it wasn't that there was no movement, but that a hole had been dug unknowingly and the host Le Yuan was buried.
To untie the bell, one needs to tie the bell. If you want to break this illusion, you must ultimately find a method from the Marrow Cleansing Sutra. Le Yuan closed his eyes and concentrated, and began to activate the power of the Marrow Cleansing Sutra. Ever since Le Yuan took the initiative to practice the Wu Shi Zhong Qi Chapter and the Four False Combined Chapters, there has been no progress in the Marrow Cleansing Sutra for a long time.
But when Le Yuan was trapped in this unknown illusion full of Buddha power, that inexplicable special feeling gave Le Yuan a new breakthrough in his silent Marrow Cleansing Sutra.
Although this Marrow Cleansing Sutra is called a B-level exercise, in terms of power and potential, it is no worse than an A-level exercise. It is difficult to get started with this exercise, and it is even harder to achieve success. As a result, although some people find other ways to practice it step by step, it is difficult to reach the third level with authentic training methods.
But Le Yuan touched the true meaning of the third level of the chapter on the return of mortal saints in this space full of Buddha power. The saying that the common and the holy return together means that the common and the holy come from the same source. What can see is not the eyes (eyes are just organs), what can hear is not the ears (same reason). The most fundamental way for people to perceive all things is not the five senses, but the soul.
There will be a time when the five senses are deceived, but even if the soul is covered with dust at a certain moment, life is like an illusion. If you work diligently and diligently, you can cleanse the dirty soul again, transform yourself and return to the original. In this way, the mortals and the saints will be united, and the illusion will be broken and true. .
The moment Le Yuan continuously realized the true meaning of the Marrow Cleansing Sutra in his mind, the Buddhist power around him seemed to boil and surged toward Le Yuan. Le Yuan, who had already gone deep into deep meditation, did not notice this change at all.
On the other side, it was just as Le Yuan guessed. Ever since he discovered that the mutation in the Marrow Cleansing Meridian was taking Yu Xiaoxue forward, Yu Xiaoxue behind him suddenly saw Le Yuan who was walking and suddenly stopped.
When Yu Xiaoxue came to him, she found that although Le Yuan's eyes were still open, his breathing was normal, and his pulse was stable, Le Yuan's soul seemed to disappear. No matter how Yu Xiaoxue shouted, it was of no use.
"Bang—"
When Le Yuan opened his eyes again, the illusion of the passage around him completely exploded. Just when Le Yuan thought that the illusion had been broken, another incredible scene appeared in front of him.