These monks, all clad in monastic robes, wander solemnly through the wilderness.
Even as the carriage dashes past them, the monks do not show any abnormality, nor do they turn into evil beings to attack the carriage like the other humans inside the Ancient Resentment Well.
Sounds of deep Buddhist chants and scripture recitations emanate from these woodenly wandering monks.
Groups of wandering monks transform the wilderness into a Buddhist hall, with Buddhist scripture recitations heard all around.
The converging chanting of the monks forms an ocean, the immense sound of scripture recitation gives Li Muyang a headache.
And when the sunlight emerges, there are no changes in these groups of monks.
Bearing the scorching sun, they woodenly roam the wilderness, stepping with strange but seemingly regular paces, continuing to recite Buddhist scriptures.
The only difference is that the monks at night have a hollow and dull look, eyes vacant.
And the monks in the daylight look no different from ordinary people, with a focus in their gaze.
When Li Muyang’s carriage passes by, these monks curiously watch.
But that’s all they do, just watch.
Reciting Buddhist scriptures seems to be their most important duty, afraid to pause for even a moment.
Sitting in the carriage, looking into the distance, the wilderness ahead is full of bald monks.
Groups of monks wander on both sides of the official road, presenting a spectacular sight.
As Ding Liang, the carriage driver who gets up with the sunrise to drive the carriage, curiously observes the scene, he asks, “My lord, where did all these monks come from? What are they doing?”
In the years Ding Liang has been traveling outside, this is the first time he has seen so many monks.
“I suspect that all the monks in the world have come here,” Ding Liang remarks with a sigh.
Li Muyang also looks at the wandering monks in the wilderness, frowning in silence.
It is actually the old man in the jar who expresses his opinion: “These monks are eerily strange, they don’t seem alive, but they don’t look like corpses either.”
“Jie Zijiu, go kill a few monks and see if they turn into monsters and attack you.”
The old man in the jar encourages Li Muyang to make a move.
But Li Muyang doesn’t pay any attention at all.
He stares at the group of monks roaming in the wilderness, and says, “These monks are not frightening. What’s frightening is their source. Haven’t you noticed that the monks are coming from inside?”
“They leave from the royal city of the Great Zhou dynasty and wander into the outer wilderness, but the direction they wander in circles.”
“When they complete a circle, they will just return to the royal city of the Great Zhou dynasty and then start the next cycle of wandering.”
Li Muyang does not attack the monks but instead instructs the driver Ding Liang to continue driving forward.
The Princess of the Defunct Country, who sits with dignity behind Li Muyang, is no longer the dirty zombie she once was.
Her gaze at LV99 may be vacant, but from time to time, a dark purple light flickers in her eyes. Apart from Li Muyang, any living being who looks straight into her eyes runs the risk of petrification.
And her flesh is no longer damaged but has regained vitality.
Although her skin is still pale and bloodless, it has started to regain moisture. Aside from not breathing, having no heartbeat, and having no blood flow, she’s indistinguishable from a living person in all other aspects. ‘
Li Muyang even vaguely feels that the LV99 Princess of the Defunct Country has some thoughts and can carry out a certain degree of autonomous actions.
Now that she is back in her homeland, the Princess of the Defunct Country has become a lot quieter.
When Li Muyang is not giving her orders, she sits quietly in the carriage, her gaze vacant yet calm, looking at everything outside in the wilderness.
The mountains and rivers of her former country, the towns, the civilians once under the rule of Great Zhou… these scenes of her homeland pass before her hollow vision, and the posture of this corpse puppet seems even more dignified.
When she sat there quietly motionless, she exuded a dignified and elegant noble aura, as if a real princess was seated inside the carriage.
Old Wu, the Grandmother, also noticed the change in the Princess of the Defunct Country, the monster hiding inside the clay pot murmuring softly.
“Hey! Human kid, is there really no issue with your Puppet?”
“I’ve had few dealings with your Nightwalker clan in the past, are all the Puppets you control as bizarre as this? Why do I feel like your Puppet is about to come to life!”
“She’s stronger than you now, if she really does come back to life and breaks free from your control, won’t we be in trouble?”
Despite possessing the attribute of immortality, Old Wu was extremely afraid of death.
When they first met, this guy pretended to be as tough as minced meat, behaving as if the immortal attribute left him with no concerns.
But as they became more acquainted, he gradually stopped hiding his cowardice and fear of death.
Old Wu was most unsettled by the enhancement of the Princess of the Defunct Country.
In the current team, the strongest Li Muyang, as the Puppet Master, gained far less Experience Points from battles than the Puppet Princess of the Defunct Country.
Thus, when the Princess of the Defunct Country had already reached the full level LV99, Li Muyang’s character level had only reached LV67, which was a significant difference.
Old Wu even secretly suggested a nasty idea, urging Li Muyang to devour the Princess of the Defunct Country and find a new Puppet to refine.
A Puppet Master eating a Puppet could greatly increase their own power. Devouring the Princess of the Defunct Country, boosting his own power to the max, and then refining a new Puppet— the plan was simply perfect.
But Li Muyang had no time to start leveling up again.
Most importantly, his intuition told him that the Princess of the Defunct Country was a very important main storyline.
Sure enough, as the carriage approached the capital of the Great Zhou dynasty, the system that had been silent for a long time finally reacted.
[Main Quest: Enemy of Buddha has begun]
[Enemy of Buddha: Defeat the Great Bright Buddha in the city, eradicate the monks within]
…
Seeing the system task pop up in his field of vision, Li Muyang arched an eyebrow.
“Great Bright Buddha?”
He had thought it would be the Luminous Glass Buddha related to the seven-colored glass scepter, but it turned out to be the mysterious Great Bright Buddha from ancient times.
This Buddha had once encountered Little Wild Grass in “Lethal Wild Grass.”
At that time, Little Wild Grass had not yet become an Immortal, but she accidentally met the Great Bright Buddha who was performing ascetic practices in the human world, and they had a discourse on the Dao.
However, Li Muyang did not participate in that discourse; first of all, he wouldn’t have understood it, and second, he was entangled by a certain Dragon Girl, abducted to the Dragon Palace, and nearly became the Dragon King’s son-in-law.
Luckily, after Little Wild Grass finished her discourse, she promptly arrived at the Dragon Palace to save the day, preserving Jiang Xiaoyu’s virginity.
Recalling the past events, Li Muyang clicked his tongue: “This is going to be difficult…”
During her travels around the world, Little Wild Grass made many friends among gods and Immortals.
Her evaluations of these True Immortals and Buddhas were varied, and she held the Great Bright Buddha in high regard.
And now, Li Muyang was about to face this enigmatic Great Bright Buddha…
Li Muyang tapped on the clay pot and asked, “Old Wu, have you heard of the Great Bright Buddha?”
At the front of the carriage, at the gate of Great Zhou dynasty’s capital city, a golden statue of Buddha as tall as the city walls was enshrined by the roadside.
This golden Buddha statue was none other than the Great Bright Buddha.