Breaking through to the Dao realm requires not only an abundance of laws but also a deep comprehension of them.
Li Dalong was in a decent situation; at the very least, he still had the Heaven-Piercing Coffin.
At this moment, Li Wei didn't even have a door to speak of...
[Your descendant Li Dalong, with the assistance of the Heaven-Piercing Coffin, the Heaven-Imprisoning Lock, and the many zombies within the coffin, has reached the absolute limit of the Void Refinement realm.]
Looking at this message, Li Dalong only needed to find his targeted Dao path to slightly pry open a crack in the Dao Gate, allowing him to wield a bit of Body Integration Spiritual power and become a Half-Step Body Integration expert.
As for Li Wei...
"Where in the world are there that many spatial laws?" Li Wei smiled bitterly as he looked at his space-attribute Void Refinement space.
Black holes dotted the area, but these meager spatial laws were fundamentally insufficient to forge the Gate of the Great Dao.
However, it wasn't as if there were no other methods.
That would be to find another Dao path—extracting spiritual items from Li Yunlin's Skyveil Hall to slowly comprehend new laws and Spiritual power.
"That would be too greedy. Dalong has already taken the first step and set an example for our clan."
After pondering for a moment, Li Wei instantly appeared within the Dusheng Nunnery.
...
Over the past fifty years, Li Wei had occasionally appeared inside the Dusheng Nunnery.
Back then, the Dusheng Nunnery had two hundred thousand nuns, but now it appeared much emptier.
This was simply because one hundred and eighty thousand nuns in the nunnery... had died.
In the Hall of Rebirth of the Dusheng Nunnery, a hundred massive cauldrons burned continuously.
Outside, temple bells tolled. Nuns sat in meditation, continuously chanting the "Sutra of Rebirth." They rolled prayer beads between their fingers.
The scriptures manifested as solid golden phantoms drifting into the clouds, filling the entire Dusheng Nunnery with Buddhist chants.
Over a hundred nuns walked into the Hall of Rebirth, shed their robes, and, unafraid of the boiling heat of the glowing-red cauldrons, expressionlessly climbed onto them.
They sat inside, allowing the numb monks beside them to close the cauldron lids.
How did those one hundred and eighty thousand nuns pass away? Exactly like this. Their bodies turned into sarira relics as they departed for their "rebirth."
Bullshit rebirth. The true use of the Sutra of Rebirth was "body-snatching."
In this era of great chaos, the dynasty was littered with the dead.
These one hundred and eighty thousand nuns died in the Dusheng Nunnery, and under the effects of the Sutra of Rebirth, they seized the bodies of deceased mortals in the Dayu Prefecture, going forth to spread Buddhism across the various prefectures of the Azure Dynasty.
Bullshit Buddhism. It was no wonder Holy Monk Yidian had exterminated the Buddhists back in the day.
Now that Holy Monk Yidian was busy playing dead, the Dusheng Nunnery wasn't hiding its true colors in the slightest.
At this moment, inside a courtyard.
Li Kuanghua, a petite and delicate girl, was still wearing her yellow dress, sitting cross-legged in front of the statue of the "Great Merciful and Compassionate Dusheng Bodhisattva" chanting scriptures.
To her, the Buddhist chants outside were nothing but decadent noise.
The little girl's eyebrows were furrowed so tightly they almost formed a single line.
"Calling these Buddhist Sanskrit chants? They act more like demonic overlords than my grandpas and great-aunts."
No sooner had her words fallen than Li Kuanghua's expression grew even uglier.
Footsteps rang out in the courtyard.
Turning her head slightly, she saw a monk with his hands clasped together walking into her courtyard.
This was also the only male monk in the entire Dusheng Nunnery—Crown Prince Fei Heng...
The Crown Prince Fei Heng, whom the entire dynasty was searching for, had become a monk in the Dusheng Nunnery.
He had completely fallen for the old demoness Dairou's tricks and obeyed Nun Dairou's every command.
Fifty years had passed; by now, if Nun Dairou told Fei Heng to wipe her ass, Crown Prince Fei Heng would probably pick up the toilet paper while chanting scriptures.
"Amitabha. Dharma Master Hongzhen invites Bodhisattva Li to discuss the Dharma." Crown Prince Fei Heng was devoid of worldly desires, his eyes pure.
He turned and left immediately after speaking, looking entirely like he had been reduced to a puppet.
When Li Kuanghua's ancestral tablet lit up, she knew that the Ancestor was once again protecting her from the unseen world.
"Please protect me, Ancestor.
Please protect me, Great-great-grandfather in the Netherworld, and my demonic grandpas and great-aunts. Don't let me fall for the tricks of these old demonesses."
Li Kuanghua's eyes were filled with devotion.
"..." Beside her, Li Wei, who was already drifting in the void, had a dark expression on his face.
Over these years at the Dusheng Nunnery, Li Kuanghua had used the Buddha-Demon Disk to balance the nunnery's Buddhist Dharma against the flesh and blood she had devoured over the years.
Her power had long accumulated to a certain degree. In a few more years, even the flesh and blood within the Buddha-Demon Disk wouldn't be enough.
The demoness Dairou in the Dusheng Nunnery was rumored to be in the Dao-Glimpsing realm, but in truth, she had already reached the edge of Dao Comprehension.
It was just that the realm she had glimpsed was Daoist law, not Buddhist Dharma.
After Holy Monk Yidian disappeared, the demoness Dairou had long since used Buddhist Dharma to refine incense offerings.
This demoness was simply an abomination—one person occupying two Daos, having reached the Dao Comprehension realm on the path of Buddhism.
And the three Dharma Masters of the "Hong" generation under her wing were no pushovers either.
The three of them now styled themselves as Bodhisattvas, and Bodhisattvas are genderless.
Among them, Dharma Master Hongzhen would use Buddhist Dharma to brainwash Li Kuanghua whenever she had free time.
In Li Kuanghua's own words, the Dusheng Nunnery clearly treated her as one of their own, and her aptitude for the Buddhist Dao was second only to the three Dharma Masters in the nunnery.
The demoness Dairou had slated her to become the next Dharma Master of the "Hong" generation, subsequently planning to form a faction like the "Grand Thundervoice Monastery" led by Dairou herself.
It was truly a staggering ambition.
As for Crown Prince Fei Heng...
"Once the Dusheng Nunnery possesses the strength to contend with Holy Monk Yidian, or even the Department of Immortal Suppression, the demoness Dairou can send Crown Prince Fei Heng back to the imperial court.
Since Crown Prince Fei Heng has thoroughly become a member of the Buddhist sect, the Dusheng Nunnery would gain a foothold in the world.
At that time, just as Holy Monk Yidian said, no one would be able to suppress the Buddhist faction anymore."
Li Wei pondered for a moment and understood the Dusheng Nunnery's general plan.
"No wonder the first thing the old demoness did when the borders of Dayu were breached was to find Fei Heng."