I Don't Want to Get Hurt, So I'll Max Out My Defense-Chapter 958 - 959: Secret
Chapter 958: Chapter 959: Secret
Buddhist Pagoda, topmost level.
A group of people settled down, and neither the two men nor the dog were in a hurry to use the altar to leave, instead wandering around the Buddhist Pagoda with their own thoughts.
From the moment they entered the Buddhist Pagoda, Liu Jinshui and Ergouzi had never stopped scanning their surroundings, their eyes blazing with fervent light whenever they passed a floor. Most of the cultivators here were in a state of being converted, some confused and muddle-headed, making it easy for them with their skills to coax these cultivators into handing over resources.
This opportunity for profit naturally couldn’t be missed.
Li Xiaobai didn’t join them. He guessed that the cultivators who had entered the Buddhist Pagoda must have already been rummaged through by the monks of the Buddhist Sect. Even if there were any valuables left on them, they would be scant and difficult to find, but he didn’t stop Senior Brother Liu and Ergouzi from trying to make up for their losses.
Alone, he arrived at the residence of Yitilou, only to find an additional old man present inside the stone chamber, the very picture of an Immortal with his ethereal white robes—Yan Zuzi.
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The two old men sat cross-legged, looking at Li Xiaobai with six eyes between them, creating an atmosphere that seemed somewhat eerie.
“Senior Yan Zuzi, do you remember this junior?”
Li Xiaobai said with a smile.
“Remember? A few days ago you were throwing fireworks on this old man’s head, strutting around so full of yourself. Now what? Try acting tough once more, I dare you?”
Yitilou glared with unrestrained anger, his belly full of fury and nowhere to vent it.
“Wasn’t it because this junior wanted to witness the true faces of both seniors? Please don’t take it amiss.”
Li Xiaobai said cheerfully.
“How did you get in here? Could it be that Wuyuzi that bastard uncovered my jailbreak plan and so he sent all of you in?”
Yan Zuzi’s face was full of disappointment. He had been hoping Ergouzi would come up again to pull them out. How could it be that within a few days, these promising young men had all been locked in?
“Recently, luck has not been on our side. We have offended the Buddhist Sect and got locked up in here. You’ll have to wait for the next person of fate, seniors.”
Li Xiaobai sighed.
“The younger generation is getting less and less impressive. A whole group of you got taken down together. In my youth, who could have trapped me? You young people are still too green.”
Yitilou said with dissatisfaction, understanding all too well the difficulty of waiting for another cultivator able to reach the height of Buddha’s eyes and not be a disciple of the Buddhist Sect. If it were easy, the two of them would have already left.
“Is this Buddhist Pagoda truly unsolvable with no way out?”
Li Xiaobai asked.
“The way out is on the Buddha’s eyes. Just pull people out from the outside, it’s simple. The difficulty is that this is the Great Thunderclap Temple, and those who can climb up here are all monks of the Buddhist Sect. Someone like you, an outsider genius, has almost never reached such heights before. Occasionally, some extraordinary genius appears, but they are quickly converted by the Transmigration Ladder, fleeting like an ephemeral bloom.”
Yan Zuzi explained, with the top level completely suppressing cultivation level and Physical Strength, and restrictions set up on the stone walls that made climbing impossible.
Escape was possible only by slipping through the gaps in the Buddha’s body, which seemed difficult, yet wasn’t. The true difficulty was the absence of someone to climb up and pull them out. The group of friends who once knew them had all died, and the number of cultivators who were aware of their existence were few and far between—how then could rescue be discussed?
“What about the lower floors? The levels of the Immortal Realm don’t seem to have restrictions suppressing cultivation level. Why don’t you seniors stay there?” Li Xiaobai continued to inquire.
“What’s the use of going down there? The Buddha’s Golden Body has matured, and even if this old man were to return to my peak condition, I’d still be suppressed in this headspace. The Buddhist Pagoda has existed for hundreds of years, amassing an immense Power of Faith that has grown increasingly formidable, solid as rock and immovable!”
Yitilou said dejectedly.
“This Buddhist Pagoda was built over a thousand years ago by the Buddhist Sect, pooling resources and working hand in hand with venerable monks. In its early years, it was nothing special, merely a place to imprison criminals. However, as time passed, the Power of Faith accumulated within the pagoda became more and more substantial, and the pagoda’s sturdiness grew stronger and stronger, to the point where it can no longer be destroyed by human force.”
“Moreover, the entire Buddha statue only has holes at the eyes, nose, and mouth, which allow one to see the outside world. This old man must stay here incessantly, vigilant for every cultivator that climbs up.”
Yan Zuzi explained.
Perhaps because they had been trapped for too long, although these two old men were in a sullen mood, they were still talkative, sparing no detail.
“How long have the two seniors resided within the Buddhist Pagoda?”
“Can’t remember, it’s been too long. Originally, it was Yitilou who kept count but then he forgot about it.”
Yan Zuzi complained.
“Nonsense, it was you, you old coot, who kept the count. I remember very clearly, you were the one who reported it for the first few years, then you just stopped!”
Yitilou retorted angrily.
Yan Zuzi’s face was full of disdain: “Utter nonsense, who was it that suddenly had a fit and demanded a birthday celebration from all the monks in the Pagoda for your wretched self on the one hundred and twentieth year?”
“Scoundrel, that was because in the one hundred and nineteenth year, you used your birthday as an excuse to ask the Abbot for a black chicken, and you even hid it and secretly ate it all by yourself!”
Yitilou roared furiously.
“Hmph, if it weren’t for you insisting on having a banquet within the Pagoda, making the fifth floor’s cultivators collectively celebrate your birthday, maybe this old man could have gotten a roast chicken from the Abbot to gnaw on!”
Yan Zuzi snorted coldly.
“Uh… Is Abbot Wuyuzi and the two seniors contemporaries?”
Li Xiaobai was somewhat speechless, but he still had to thoroughly inquire.
“Of course not, how could a newly emerged Saint Realm upstart from recent times live as long as this old man? My life is as long as the heavens, merely two hundred years younger than this Pagoda, and in that time, many have succeeded as the Abbot of Great Thunderclap Temple.”
The two old men said indifferently, expressing disdain for today’s Saint Realm experts from the bottom of their hearts.
“I see. I climbed the Transmigration Ladder to its end and saw the writings left by the two seniors. The Buddhist Transmigration Ladder is only meant to connect to the latter half of the ladder that reaches beyond the firmament. May I ask what the latter half of the ladder is? And are the two seniors familiar with the Primodial Great Immortal and Beichen Feng?”
Li Xiaobai dropped a bombshell, which was the question he was most curious about. The end of the ladder seemed to lead to a whole new world, out of reach.
“Kid, how could you possibly make it to the end of the Transmigration Ladder? Who did you hear this nonsense from?”
As expected, upon hearing this, Yan Zuzi and Yitilou’s gazes suddenly narrowed, filled with a hint of ruthlessness and scrutiny.
“I’ve seen it with my own eyes,”
Li Xiaobai recounted what he saw and heard on the ladder, hoping to get some answers.
“Impossible, a mere Earth Immortal Realm dares to speak such boastful words. Who taught you to speak like that? Are you sent by that Bald Donkey Wuyuzi to probe us?”
Yitilou erupted in anger. A junior able to climb to the head of the Buddha statue was already a rare genius, how could they possibly climb to the part above the sky?
Yan Zuzi furrowed his brow: “Wrong, I remember that Wuyuzi couldn’t make it to the end. Young friend, where did you read those words you spoke just now?”
