Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Jiang Chen didn’t give the demon lord any time to react. He took a deep breath and recited a six-syllable mantra.
“Om Mani Padme Hum!”
With a half-second stop between every two syllables, it wasn’t any language that existed in the Nine Heavens Continent. Although it sounded weird, it contained a vast and mysterious energy.
A golden light was emitted from Jiang Chen’s body when he was reciting “ni.” A golden character flew out of his mouth and dashed towards the panic demon lord.
“The Six-Character Great Bright Mantra? How is that possible? What relation do you have with Buddhism?!” the demon lord shouted in a panic. His horrifying scarlet radiance was devoured by the golden light as soon as the two touched, as if they had run into a natural enemy.
People of the four groups regained their strength instantly.
By the time the six golden characters had all taken shape, Jiang Chen said, “Inject your genuine yuan into my body if you don’t want to die!”
Meng Hao and Wen Xin did what he had asked. They came behind him and put their hands on his back.
The others also tumbled to the realization that at that moment, Jiang Chen was their only hope. Another four went behind Meng Hao and Wen Xin.
Soon, a long triangular formation was formed. Standing in the front, Jiang Chen was injected with infinite genuine yuan. He recited the mantra again.
“Ah! Ah! Ah!” the demon lord shouted in pain. He was severely injured.
Then Jiang Chen became even more confident when he found the demon lord couldn’t leave the stone table.
The Six-Character Great Bright Mantra came from Mahayana Sublime Treasure King Sutra, a sutra of great merit and virtue.
Buddhist texts were very effective to restrain demons, since Buddhists had played an important role in the Demon War.
For the same reason, Jiang Chen had read great amounts of Buddhist sutras in his previous life. That was how he had known the text to gain holy awareness.
Reciting the Six-Character Great Bright Mantra wasn’t simply spitting out the syllables. It was, in fact, a process in which one burnt his genuine yuan to attack.
Jiang Chen was only in the Gathering Yuan State. His first recitation had only helped to free the others from the force of the demon lord.
But this time, he was gathering everyone’s genuine yuan to recite the mantra again.
“Ah!” The demon lord had reached his limit. His body suddenly exploded. His purple flesh splattered around.
A scarlet bead flew into Jiang Chen’s body. Since the golden light and the scarlet radiances were too brilliant, only a few people saw it.
Phew!
It seemed even Jiang Chen hadn’t sensed it. He was exhausted and sat down heavily on the ground. The people behind him were relieved when they saw the crisis had been resolved.
Fortunately I’ve studied sutras before. Luckily, this demon lord didn’t have more than thirty percent of his strength left.
Jiang Chen felt lucky and excited about the death of the demon lord.
A long time ago, it had been a holy mission for human beings to become strong through practicing, because the practicers had aimed to protect their people from demons and beasts.
Long before human beings dominated the world, there had been an era called the Era of the Hero.
But later, human beings had started to kill and fight against each other, which led to the fall of the Era of the Hero, and “hero” finally faded into a legendary name.
In his previous life, Jiang Chen had dreamt of being a hero, killing demons and monsters to win adoration and respect from people.
That was why he had read a huge amount of hero stories and was intrigued by sutras.
He had never expected that his dream would be realized 500 hundred years later.
As soon as the demon lord died, Wu Fan and the other three became the target of the victims there, but before they could take revenge, the four fell onto the ground and died at the time of the explosion of the demon’s body.
“That’s why I smelled death,” Jiang Chen thought to himself.
“Gao Chenyi, you don’t deserve to be on the Prince List! I’ll tell people what you did today in detail!”
At this moment, the guy who had been kicked by Gao Chenyi started to accuse him furiously.
This guy had been Gao Chenyi’s most trusted attendant, but he was saying such harsh words to his master. It wasn’t difficult to imagine how angry he was.
Others also felt disdain for Gao Chenyi when they recalled how he had groveled to the demon lord.
Gao Chenyi was a coward, but to some extent, what he had done was a betrayal to human beings.
“What do you know? I did that intentionally so that the demon lord would let down his guard. I could have sought for a chance to kill him, but Jiang Chen got ahead of me!” Gao Chenyi turned red and started to quibble.
“Was it part of your plan to touch my breast?” Wen Xin said sarcastically.
Gao Chenyi couldn’t respond. People started to laugh.
It was out of the question that Gao Chenyi would keep his place on the Prince List after returning to the world aboveground.
“What a blue blood with a hundred-year-old history! I am surely not a match,” Jiang Chen mocked as well.
People burst into laughter. By then, Jiang Chen had gained high prestige among them. All in all, he had saved them twice.
The Gang of Knife and Sword showed no interest in mocking Gao Chenyi. They began to search the hall.
So did the others. Regardless of their fatigue, they all stood up to look for the treasure.
Jiang Chen also joined them, but there was nothing in the hall. It didn’t look like there was any treasure hidden.
Deagle made a smart move. He took Wu Fan’s dagger. “There is a door here.”
Instead of any treasure, they found a heavy iron door at the other end of the hall. Together, some people pushed the door, but it didn’t move at all.
People in the Gathering Yuan State were strong enough to move things as heavy as 1,000 pounds.
How on earth was this door so heavy that it couldn’t be pushed open?
At the same time, everyone was cheered up. They thought the treasure must be behind the door.
“Come here, everyone!” Wan Li called, intending to gather everyone’s strength to push the door.
“Wait. Be careful!” Jiang Chen hurried to run over. He said, “The Vermillion Bird State disappeared thousands of years ago, probably even before the Demon War. Back then, all worlds were troubled by demons. This underground structure isn’t a relic. It could be a prison, where the demons were kept!”
People burst into uproar.
It made sense. After all, this place was so deep down that it totally satisfied the requirements to be a prison.
“What demons? That’s only a legend. The thing we just saw could have been a human being who practiced evil methods. The treasure could be right behind the iron door. You just said that because you want to take the treasure for yourself!”
Gao Chenyi had completely lost his senses. He was blaming everything on Jiang Chen.
He would be doomed anyway after leaving this place, so no matter what he thought was behind the iron door, he would refute whatever Jiang Chen said.
However, many people were persuaded by such absurd arguments. It looked they wouldn’t be satisfied until the door was open.
Jiang Chen let out a sigh. The demons had been a remote history for people of this era. They even thought that demons were only a legend.
“Jiang Chen, if there are demons kept inside, how did that demon lord escape from there? Even though there are demons, they must be much weaker than that one. So many years have passed and the demons could not even escape. Those weak ones could be dead,” Wan Li said.
Jiang Chen knew he had no way of stopping them.
