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"Jue Yuan has returned to the Buddha!" As Jue Yuan Buddha was pierced through the brow by a sword, on a mountain peak in the righteous area of the battlefield, an old monk took out a cracked Buddha's Talisman from within and said faintly.
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"Zhi Kong, Brother, Jue Yuan had inherited the Divine Foot Skill, Step by Step Ascending Lotus, how could he be killed in the first battle?" Sorrow flashed in the eyes of Zhi Ming Arhat; his mind was far from as composed as that of Zhi Kong Arhat, and he was deeply saddened by the death of Jue Yuan Buddha.
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Among the Buddhas cultivated by Qianye Temple, Jue Yuan was one of the most promising seeds, especially since he had come into contact with the Divine Foot Skill during the Foundation Establishment Stage, which even if it was just the basic inheritance, indicated a very high possibility of becoming a Venerable in the future.
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A Venerable is equivalent to a Nascent Soul Ancestor in the Cultivation World, where only the powerful beings among Nascent Soul Ancestors can touch upon Divine Skills. Jue Yuan Buddha's approval by the inheritance of the Divine Foot Skill during his mid-stage Foundation Establishment was a significant loss for Qianye Temple.
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"Let's wait a bit more, haven't we already anticipated early sacrifices? Jue Yuan perished for Qianye Temple, and his death will not be meaningless!" Zhi Kong Arhat gestured with his hand.
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Zhi Ming Arhat couldn't help but turn to look behind him, where there was a Formation, and the chilling killing intent within seeped out continuously, seemingly holding a killing god within.
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That was the utmost secret of Qianye Temple, a Buddha who had comprehended killing to attain Buddhahood, a Buddha who had reached Half-step Golden Core.
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Jue Tu Buddha, this was a Buddha of Qianye Temple who had never shown his face, not because he hadn't walked outside, but because those cultivators who had seen him act were all dead.
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He could be said to have grown up amidst slaughter. Qianye Temple's intelligence system collected information on extremely evil forces for him to go and deliver salvation—on one hand, eliminating evil, and on the other, using killing to enhance his strength.
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How many he had killed to grow to a Half-step Golden Core is unknown, probably even Qianye Temple couldn't calculate it.
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In recent hundred years, most of the extremely evil forces collected by Qianye Temple had been cleared by Jue Tu Buddha.
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The path of killing to attain Buddhahood is extremely rare and perilous for Buddhist Practitioners, as an overabundance of killing can easily provoke inner demons—an especially likely occurrence for Buddhist Practitioners.
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Once Jue Tu Buddha returns to Qianye Temple, more than ten monks specializing in Buddhist doctrine must continuously chant scriptures for him, suppressing the killing intent in his heart.
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The excuse of 'extreme evilness' is but a rationale found by Qianye Temple and a comfort for Jue Tu Buddha himself; once he takes action, all life within a certain range will be completely eradicated by him.
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The current Jue Tu Buddha is an invincible presence within the Foundation Establishment Stage, and because of the killing nature of the path to Buddhahood, his efficiency in slaughter is extremely high.
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This time, by initiating the Foundation Establishment Stage war against Senluo Sect, there was the intent to utilize Jue Tu Buddha to annihilate Senluo Sect's elite Foundation Establishment Cultivators of this generation. It was also aimed at completing Jue Tu Buddha's final step to becoming an Arhat by killing nearly a thousand Foundation Establishment Cultivators of Senluo Sect.
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The path of killing to attain Buddhahood is immensely challenging. The difficulty of controlling killing intent is one aspect, but ensuring a Buddha does not lose himself in the slaughter and restraining him from killing indiscriminately is more crucial. At a minimum, one must feel that every person they kill is the correct action, to prevent losing oneself.
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Such killings must continue for a hundred years, extinguishing tens of thousands of lives, among which there must be sufficiently strong cultivators. Adding up these conditions, even Qianye Temple, which holds the complete inheritance of killing to attain Buddhahood, struggles to cultivate such practitioners over a long term.
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In the last four to five hundred years, only Jue Tu Buddha emerged as the sole disciple able to practice the path of killing to attain Buddhahood—this shows the difficulty of such a practice.
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"The inheritance relics of the Divine Foot Skill must be reclaimed!" Zhi Ming Arhat reminded solemnly.
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"Don't worry; the Devil Cultivator who received the inheritance relics of the Divine Foot Skill hasn't left. I can sense the inheritance relics of the Divine Foot Skill. When the time comes, Jue Tu will go to reclaim them. Besides, the Divine Foot Skill inheritance isn't something just anyone can probe into; for a Devil Cultivator to do so is to court death!" Zhi Kong Arhat's gaze penetrated towards the battlefield as he spoke indifferently.
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Jue Yuan Buddha on the battlefield was beyond dead; Li Yuanba's Spiritual Thought swept over his corpse, finding nothing but a storage bracelet.
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Li Yuanba took the corpse away, fearing that the contribution points for killing Jue Yuan Buddha would not be small, for he was a True Disciple.
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He also retrieved the bronze bell. Now, without its owner, he investigated it and found that it likely had a small amount of Third Grade materials mixed in, which was what elevated the quality of the bell to the pinnacle of Spiritual Artifacts.
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Moreover, it was precisely because of these Third Grade materials that it could support many more enchantments, allowing the Spiritual Artifact to have multiple functions; it could attack or defend and could be transformed into sound wave attacks.
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If only materials of the Second Grade were used, it would be impossible for the Spiritual Artifact to support so many enchantments.
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"Let's give it to my fellow!" He conveyed the situation of the bronze bell to his main body, Li Shiming, through their connection.
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The bronze bell is likely the strongest Spiritual Artifact in the Foundation Establishment Stage. Probably only the Third Grade Sword Base of Li Shiming who cultivates the 'Sword Demon Secret Manual' and his clone Li Yuanba could surpass the bronze bell.
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But the Third Grade Sword Base of the 'Sword Demon Secret Manual' is a magical treasure prepared in advance for the Golden Core Stage, unlike an artifact with Third Grade materials mixed in.
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Using Third Grade materials in a Spiritual Artifact is essentially a waste in the Foundation Establishment Stage, and no Golden Core cultivator would allow such an event to occur, as even Golden Core cultivators themselves have need for it.
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Even if a Golden Core cultivator had extra Third Grade materials, they would exchange them for resources suitable for themselves.
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Li Yuanba returned to the Formation he had previously set up; the thirty-six formation flags were not yet collected, and he sat down to start examining the storage bracelet.
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