With the teachers' help, Liang Mushui and his team successfully broke through the encirclement and rushed towards Baolin Temple. They knew clearly that they were now in a race against time and had to find a solution before the beast tide breached the school.
On the other side, Teacher Chen also had others exaggerate and spread the story of Liang Mushui's assault team.
Thanks to the teachers' previous deification and extensive promotion of Liang Mushui, morale stabilized for a time.
At the same time, he also gave orders that everyone must do their utmost to buy time, even those who had already died once and were in a weakened state should be prepared for a second sacrifice.
After all this was done, Teacher Chen could only silently pray for Liang Mushui and his team in his heart, hoping everything would go smoothly for them.
As Liang Mushui and his team rushed with all their might, they quickly arrived at the foot of Baolin Temple's mountain. After a brief rest, they continued running towards the mountaintop.
Arriving at the mountaintop, everything around them was the same as their last visit.
When they reached the plaza, the surrounding meditation rooms suddenly opened their doors, and then monks, one by one, like zombies, walked out of the meditation rooms and slowly approached Liang Mushui and his team.
Looking at the slow-moving zombie monks, Liang Mushui and his team all unleashed Wind Blades to attack.
Under the attacks of Liang Mushui and his team, the zombie monks fell one after another, but immediately stood back up. One zombie monk had his head directly severed by a Wind Blade, but he immediately reattached it with both hands.
"These things are unkillable. Our attacks have no effect on them. Don't waste time on them. Let's go directly to the Mahavira Hall." Liang Mushui still remembered that the last time he came, only the Mahavira Hall didn't give him a sense of danger.
Arriving at the entrance of the Mahavira Hall, this time Liang Mushui gently pushed, and the main door opened. Then, everyone entered the Mahavira Hall.
Liang Mushui instructed five sports students to block the entrance, ensuring no zombies could enter, while the others split up to search for anything special.
Actually, Liang Mushui didn't know what they were looking for at this moment, but this was all they could do for now.
Liang Mushui looked around and found that the Mahavira Hall contained many Buddha statues, especially the central Tathagata Buddha statue which was two stories high. However, all the statues now appeared dull and lifeless, as if they had lost their spirituality, giving off a decaying feeling.
In front of the Tathagata Buddha statue, a monk, like a corpse, sat motionless, and in front of him was a book-like scripture.
Liang Mushui gently picked it up and opened it. The entire scripture had only two pages. On the far right were 11 relatively large characters, and to the left of these 11 characters were columns of smaller characters, totaling less than 300 characters.
At this moment, Liang Mushui's brows furrowed tightly because he didn't recognize a single character on it.
After a while, everyone began to gather around Liang Mushui.
After a thorough search, they found nothing special. Even if there was something, it would turn to dust with a light touch. Now, the only seemingly useful item was the scripture in Liang Mushui's hand.
"Does anyone here recognize the writing on it?" Liang Mushui handed the scripture to the crowd and asked.
Everyone passed it around, but no one had any clues. Only the professor finally said, "This looks like Sanskrit."
"You recognize the characters on it!" Liang Mushui exclaimed in surprise.
"I don't recognize them. It just reminds me of Sanskrit," the professor quickly waved his hand and explained.
"Hey, whatever you're doing, please hurry! We're about to collapse!" the five sports students blocking the door suddenly shouted to Liang Mushui and his team.
It was then that Liang Mushui and his team realized the main door was being pounded with loud thuds, as if it could be broken open at any moment.
So everyone rushed to help, leaving only Liang Mushui to ponder alone.
At this moment, Liang Mushui was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. He strongly felt that this scripture definitely had some effect, but he truly didn't understand the writing on it. It was like food being fed to his mouth, but no matter what, he couldn't eat it.
The banging on the main door grew louder and louder. Liang Mushui finally decided to take a gamble.
He opened the scripture, faced the corpse-like monk, and loudly recited, "Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva, when practicing the profound Prajnaparamita..."
As Liang Mushui recited, the monk slowly emitted bursts of golden light. The further he recited, the more dazzling this golden light became.
When Liang Mushui finished reciting the last character, the monk, as if alive again, softly replied, "Amitabha!"
As the monk's voice fell, the commotion outside the door suddenly ceased.
Seeing that the noise had stopped, the daring Mi Feng cautiously pushed open a crack in the door and looked outside, only to find that all the zombies outside had disappeared, leaving only tattered monk robes on the ground.
"Mu Shui, you're amazing! I didn't expect you to even know Sanskrit!" the professor excitedly ran to Liang Mushui and said.
"I don't know Sanskrit. What I just recited was the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra. It's my mother's favorite Buddhist scripture, and she used to play it every day at home. It's the only Buddhist scripture I can recite by heart. I was just taking a chance, and I didn't expect it to actually work," Liang Mushui explained, taking a deep breath.
"Esteemed benefactors, I am truly sorry that this temple has caused you so much trouble," the monk suddenly spoke.
"No trouble at all, Master. In fact, we came here seeking help," Liang Mushui, seeing that the monk could communicate, quickly told him about the infinite beast tide.
Under everyone's expectant gaze, the monk sighed softly, "Alas, actually, this matter is also related to this temple."
Then, the monk began to explain the whole story to Liang Mushui and his team.
The monk, whose Dharma name was Yuanshun, was the abbot of Baolin Temple. Thousands of years ago, he led all the monks of Baolin Temple to seal a great demon in this mountain.
However, some time ago, a divine artifact that assisted in the sealing suddenly disappeared. The leakage of demonic energy caused the entire mountain to appear. The abnormality of the beast tide that Liang Mushui and his team experienced was also caused by this leaked demonic energy.
Hearing this, Liang Mushui's heart trembled. As he had guessed, all these events were caused by his acquisition of the divine artifact.
"Then, if we can help you find the divine artifact, can it be re-sealed?" Liang Mushui quickly asked.
"The seal was set by a great power thousands of years ago, and now everyone in Baolin Temple, including myself, is actually already dead. Even if the divine artifact is found now, it cannot be sealed as it was thousands of years ago," Master Yuanshun shook his head and said softly.
"Moreover, the disappearance of the divine artifact is Heaven's will, and there is no need to find it back," Master Yuanshun looked at Liang Mushui, as if seeing through everything.
"He couldn't possibly know that the divine artifact is in my hands, could he?" Liang Mushui thought to himself, looking at Master Yuanshun's gaze.
"Master, what should we do now?" Mi Feng asked eagerly.
"The only way now is to completely kill the great demon to solve all problems. I can use my last shred of strength to send you to the great demon, and you will complete the killing," Yuanshun said slowly.
"Master, are you joking?"
After hearing Master Yuanshun's suggestion, Liang Mushui and his team instinctively resisted. Just from the Master's introduction, they felt that this great demon had a significant background and was definitely not something that mere small fry like them could handle.
"Actually, you don't need to worry. Over these thousands of years, while the great demon was sealed, its demonic power was also gradually eroded. Now, it probably only has one ten-thousandth of its full strength. However, if you are truly unwilling, I will not force you," Master Yuanshun said calmly.
After hearing Master Yuanshun's words, Liang Mushui and his team walked aside to discuss.
"It sounds like it's not entirely without a chance."
"I feel like this is the cutscene before fighting the final boss in a game."
"Let's not forget we don't have much time left, and it seems we don't have any other options."
After a discussion, everyone finally decided to confront the sealed great demon.
"Master, we've decided. Please send us to the great demon," Liang Mushui said to the Master.
Master Yuanshun looked deeply at Liang Mushui, then bowed his head and began to chant scriptures. Immediately, the ground where Liang Mushui and his team stood emitted bursts of white light. Finally, with a dazzling flash of white light, Liang Mushui and his team disappeared, and Master Yuanshun also dissipated into bursts of white light.
When the white light faded, Liang Mushui and his team found themselves no longer in the Mahavira Hall. A roar attracted all their attention.
Not far behind them, they saw a giant Black Bear, about 5 meters tall. Its limbs, waist, and neck were tightly bound by chains, allowing it to move only about 1 meter. However, with its constant violent struggles, the chains seemed as if they could break at any moment.
Seeing the Black Bear restricted, everyone tacitly launched Wind Blades at him. But after a round of attacks, the Black Bear only became angrier, with no other changes.
"I'll try a close-range attack." Seeing that the Wind Blades had no effect, Mi Feng suggested a close-range attack.
"Be very careful, don't overexert yourself," Liang Mushui nodded to Mi Feng and said.
Then Mi Feng and another sports student, from the left and right sides of the Black Bear respectively, used Savage Charge to rush towards the Black Bear.
The Black Bear powerfully swiped with its two paws, and Mi Feng and his companion flew directly over Liang Mushui and his team's heads. At the same time, their bodies dissipated into bursts of light in mid-air and disappeared.
Seeing the fate of Mi Feng and his companion, everyone was stunned with fear, and they couldn't help but exclaim in their hearts: "This is only one ten-thousandth of its power!"
Immediately after, another roar attracted their attention. At this moment, the Black Bear's chains on his hands had already broken, and he was constantly pulling at the chains around his neck.
At the same time, Mi Feng and his companion had also revived at the school. The situation at the school was not optimistic at this point. A pile of people lay scattered around the Revival Spring, all of them having died a second time. They were all too weak to move, and the school gate's health bar was only about 30% remaining.
Just moments ago, the beast tide had become even more furious. If this continued, the school would completely fall in less than ten minutes.