Chapter 1966 - Resolve

“Qin Wentian!” The buddha lamp shone upon Qin Wentian. The Karma Buddha suddenly shouted. Qin Wentian inclined his head and at this moment, the light from the buddha lamp enveloped him completely, seeping into his body. This energy didn’t have any destructive properties and wouldn’t harm Qin Wentian. However, Qin Wentian knew that this was the karma force from the Karma Buddha. This dao was able to form a fruit of karma, it was exceedingly troublesome to deal with.

With a wave of his hand, a sword formed from world-purifying light appeared. The boundless dao might in the heavens and earth gathered, and as Qin Wentian pierced out with his finger, this sword also penetrated through the air.

“Kindness.” The Karma Buddha pressed his palms together. The buddhic light from him glowed resplendently, causing him to seemed like the most holy ancient buddha in the world. Qin Wentian’s body also began to shine with the resplendent buddha dao light. It seeped into his will and influenced his heart. At this moment, it was like he could see the Bodhi Abbot. The abbot didn’t have any resentment, there was only kindness in his heart. The ancient buddha before his eyes was a true buddha, he shouldn’t make any moves against the buddha. How could he have forgotten the Bodhi Abbot’s death so quickly?

Qin Wentian’s heart stirred. The power within his sword gradually weakened. At the instant it landed on the Karma Buddha, it transformed into motes of light and dissipated completely. Even Qin Wentian had a shocked look on his face when he realized what had happened. His heart actually was influenced by an intense kindness, he wanted to forgive the Karma Buddha. How could this be possible?

“Benefactor Qin’s heart is innately kind. Why don’t you put down the blade of slaughter and join me in becoming a buddha? The buddha daos of the western paradise are boundless. If you really want to cultivate the dao of karma, I’m willing to impart it to you.” The Karma Buddha’s voice contained a magical energy, influencing Qin Wentian’s heart. This made Qin Wentian’s heart became peaceful, all violence and resentment faded away, it made him feel that he could accept everything and forgive the Karma Buddha for his actions.

“Is this the power of karma force?” Qin Wentian mumbled silently. His state of heart and his thoughts were actually affected.

Kindness, compassion…However, what about the Karma Buddha? Was he a person of kindness?

He killed Fan Ye with a single thought, causing Fan Le and Xuan Xin to become like zombies. Qinxin was affected by the karma link and wasn’t even able to enter sleep, crying non-stop continuously. Was this the kindness of the buddha dao?

The Karma Buddha had his palms pressed together, the buddhic light continued to shine on Qin Wentian, influencing him. Every fiber of Qin Wentian was fighting against it.

The power of buddha daos was unfathomable. The dao of karma requires one to first cultivate the eight senses of Buddhism first. One had to be able to control the sight, hearing, smell…and even the will of others. Only then would they be able to gain elementary knowledge about the dao of karma. He planted a seed of karma force in Qin Wentian, Qin Wentian’s eight senses were under his influence and control. The ending the Karma Buddha wanted was for Qin Wentian not to kill him.

He didn’t want to kill Qin Wnetian because he knew that as long as Qin Wentian couldn’t kill him, many things were already destined. This by itself would be an act of karma.

Back then when Fan Ye went out to play, when Fan Le and Xuan Xin fainted into unconsciousness as their hearts were dead, when Qinxin cried continuously through the days and nights… all of this was because their eight senses were controlled by the Karma Buddha.

The world-purifying light frenziedly radiated from Qin Wentian’s body as boundless light flooded the area. Qin Wentian wanted to wipe away the karma force from his body. However, the light from the buddha lamp of the Karma Buddha grew even more resplendent, causing numerous buddha statues to appear. Each of the statues shone with its own buddhic light. Buddha lamps then appeared in their hands, all shining their light on Qin Wentian. This caused the karma force to circulate repeatedly, boring down on Qin Wentian unceasingly. There was no way to wipe the karma force away.

“Bodhi gave his life for the dao in order to reform Benefactor Qin, wanting Benefactor Qin to let go of the obsession in your heart. Since Benefactor Qin has fate with the buddha dao, why don’t you put down the sword in your hand?” The Karma Buddha’s voice rang out once more. The killing intent in Qin Wentian’s heart grew weaker and weaker. In fact, he was thinking about everything he has done during these years. Were all that a mistake?

Monopolizing the Heaven Vault, fighting against the entire Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms. If he was willing to let it all go and sincerely accept everyone in the world, wouldn’t everyone in the world also face him sincerely? The people of the Supreme Ancient Immortal Realms could all enter the Heaven Vault for cultivation, growing in strength together.

Out of the eight senses in Buddhism, the first five senses were the ordinary mortal senses such as sight, hearing, smell…The latter three senses are the terrifying ones. Will, was the sixth sense, control of will was the seventh and the eighth sense of Buddhism could even influence the worldview of that person, an example was like kindness and evil, it was able to guide the person to become either a buddha or a devil. Everything rested on the span of a single thought.

The Karma Buddha was a buddha lord, his understanding of the dao of karma was incomparably deep and his control over the eight senses of Buddhism was extremely terrifying. He influenced Qin Wentian deeply, even causing Qin Wentian to doubt himself. This was something that Qin Wentian has never felt before. This was why the power of buddha daos were fearsome. They seemed to have no destructive power but they were in truth, much more terrifying compared to any destructive attacks. The Karma Buddha was able to manipulate the thinking of people, changing their world view, causing them to lean towards kindness or evil.

Despite Qin Wentian’s abilities, he had no way to unleash any of them. There was no opportunities at all.

“Should I put it down?” Qin Wentian asked himself. If he let go of everything, could everyone in the world co-exist peacefully in the Heaven Vault?

But when these people conspired to seize the Heaven Vault, what did they do?

Buddhism was about kindness, but what did the Karma Buddha do?

He did evil yet wants to teach people to do kindness? Could it be that after being able to control the power of kindness and evil, he could no longer differentiate between the two? Was this considered mara? Was there a devil in his heart?

Be it a buddha or a devil, everything rested on the span of a single thought.

“If buddha is inclined towards kindness, I will become a buddha. If buddha is inclined towards evil, I will become a devil and deliver all buddhas of this world.” Qin Wentian’s hands swung down, the buddhic light from him vanished, replaced by an immensely powerful devil might. At this instant, black qi gushed out from him, covering this entire space. The Karma Buddha glanced at Qin Wentian only to see Qin Wentian’s body was seemingly being consumed by darkness as he completely fell into the devil path.

A terrifying devil might erupted forth, wanting to devour karma and all types of buddha dao energy. Qin Wentian no longer radiated buddhic light, there was only the devil path for him.

Buddhic energy and devilish energy were innately opposed to each other, they weren’t able to exist together, just like fire and water.

At this moment, Qin Wentian chose to turn into a devil to end the insidious influence of the Karma Buddha.

His personality turned cold, his heart was filled with icy killing intent. Qin Wentian cast aside all thoughts of benevolence and kindness. What is good, what is evil? The Karma Buddha could kill his loved ones just to deal with him. He could also control the lives of people, causing them to become good or evil. If he doesn’t die, that would be the greatest sin. The buddhic light radiating from the Karma Buddha and his vaunted power, all of that was nothing but the symbol of evil.

“Devil transformation.” Qin Wentian spoke. In an instant, all the holy buddhic light in this space was corroded. All the buddha dao energy here started to become devilish. The numerous golden buddha statues here also darkened, infected by the devilish light. Gradually, the statues all turned into that of devils. The buddha energy was being consumed frenziedly.

“Benefactor Qin, if you cultivate the devil path, you will enter hell.” The Karma Buddha spoke, seemingly cursing Qin Wentian.

“You cultivate the buddha path but what is the difference between you and the devil? If there really is a hell, you wouldn’t even be qualified to enter it.” Qin Wentian coldly spoke. After speaking, a terrifying hell actually appeared before him, created by the Karma Buddha. Within there, there were countless demons and devils, all of them charging towards Qin Wentian wanting to devour him. Qin Wentian’s eyes glowed with darkness, the devilish light from him intensified as he stared at the Karma Buddha.

A single sentence became karma. The Karma Buddha’s understanding of the dao of karma has truly reached great heights.

“Just a minor dao.” Qin Wentian calmly spoke. He actually voluntarily stepped into the so-called hell. Devil might towered up into the sky, the demons and devils in hell all had to step back. Qin Wentian then punched out, the force of his fist penetrating everything, shattering this hell. The demons and devils here all died miserable deaths. Before absolute power, everything else was illusory.

Qin Wentian stretched out his hand. In an instant, the boundless energy here was all under his control. Spacetime fluctuated chaotically, he was the lord of this place. Before Qin Wentian, a devil god saber appeared, it was like an embodiment of the power of his dao. All his daos were infused into this saber. And the moment he grabbed the saber, at this moment, everything seemed to enter a state of stillness. Only the devil god saber remained in this world.

The Karma Buddha stared at Qin Wentian with a cold expression. Under the corrosion of the devil dao might, his buddha arts were being repelled. The karma force couldn’t control Qin Wentian, the eight senses of Buddhism weren’t able to affect Qin Wentian as well. Qin Wentian decisively embraced the devil to seal off Buddhism’s eight senses, focusing on festering the hatred in his heart. He wanted to hone his killing intent and use this saber to sever all karma.

Everything stopped. In this chaotic spacetime, the chaotic flows of power all stopped. The Karma Buddha glanced around, he could faintly sense that this was the end for him. This caused him to feel boundless unease.

Only by changing the cause would he be able to manipulate the effect. The laws of cause and effect was none other than karma.

He closed his eyes, the buddha lamp within him glowed as he called out, “Qin Wentian.”

Qin Wentian stared at him, his gaze was unwavering, fixed on the Karma Buddha. However, because of this gaze, the Karma Buddha managed to brand Qin Wentian’s image into his buddha lamp. And at this moment, the lamp in Qin Wentian’s body began to glow, the image of the Karma Buddha was reflected in there. This scene was extremely strange, causing Qin Wentian to sense as though he was connected by karma to the Karma Buddha. There was no way to sever the link, if he wanted to slash the Karma Buddha, it would be equivalent to slashing himself.

“Have you felt it yet? We are connected by karma, this is irreversible.” The voice of the Karma Buddha rang out in Qin Wentian’s mind. It was like he was the one in Qin Wenntian’s body. They were linked by irreversible karma.

Qin Wentian’s expression was as cold as ever. His killing intent intensified to the peak. The devil god saber in his hand controlled everything here. It could also control the lives of the two of them.

Everything, rested on the span of a single thought from Qin Wentian.

And at this moment, the powerful buddha cultivators in the external world already rushed over to the location where Qin Wentian and the Karma Buddha were earlier. Although Qin Wentian has accelerated the flow of time here, time would still flow in the outside world.

“An independent spacetime?” An ancient buddha spoke. He knew that Qin Wentian brought the Karma Buddha into an independent spacetime of his own creation. How ruthless, Qin Wentian actually dared to barge into here alone for the sake of killing a buddha lord of the western paradise. This was simply madness!