The Emperor Reigns Them All

Chapter 240 For What

Now, Li Ye was already the biggest enemy of Buddhism, and he was so powerful that 54 people of Buddhism in the Kong Kim Realm suffered heavy casualties. If he kept alive, many people would die subsequently.

However, the thirty-third arhat missed the best chance to kill him without any effort. No, he didn’t miss it but gave it up.

Buddhism went out of the world. It governed the monks as strictly as the army. If it wanted the monks to give play to their greatest fighting abilities, it must use the method of governing the army. It was reasonable and necessary to kill the monk who had committed such a heinous crime.

“Where is Li Ye now?” Tian Luo took a deep breath and barely managed to calm down.

A while later, a monk came, flying from a distance and quickly reached the top of the mountain. He saluted in front of Tian Luo. “Li Ye has already entered the territory of Qi Mountain.”

Everyone was stunned. Li Ye entered the territory of Qi Mountain. In other words, he almost came in front of them from the perspective of the Spiritual Master Realm.

Tian Luo just calmed down, but he was enraged again. Li Ye luckily managed to barely escape with his life, but he didn’t run away, or return to Chang’an, or stay in the army to save his life. He even dared to go west!

Did he really think that there was no one in Buddhism? Did he really think he was invincible? Did he take Buddhism seriously when he did this?

Tian Luo was furious. “Kill this crazy devil!”

At this moment, someone rushed to report again, “The devil... Li Ye is coming this way!”

Tian Luo was so angry that he couldn’t help roaring. “This devil really wants to turn against the sky!”

Li Ye walked out of the path, standing with his hands clasped behind his back. He frowned and narrowed his eyes, staying calm.

In front of him, several kilometers away, the mountains were towering. At the foot of the mountain, 800 white monks sat cross-legged on a gentle slope. The formation was in the shape of a ladder and full of momentum.

There was a wide open wilderness in front of the gentle slope. Originally, that was a good field. But in troubled times, the people, who cultivated this good field, suffered the disaster of war, so the good field turned into a wasteland overgrown with weeds.

Li Ye knew Buddhism was located here. As the cultivator in the Spiritual Master Realm, his perception of Spiritual Qi from heaven and earth was extremely acute. Many monks in the Kong Kim Realm gathered here, and there were 800 monks’ corps here, too. Even several kilometers away, he could felt that their soaring momentum was like a blazing bonfire in front of him.

Since Buddhism was located here, Li Ye naturally had to come. They blocked Li Ye’s way. Even if Li Ye didn’t come or made a detour, he was afraid that he couldn’t escape from them and eventually had to fight.

The other side had sent 18 Guardian Deities and 36 arhats to block him, but almost all of them were dead. Under these circumstances, the other side couldn’t let go of him.

So Li Ye came directly.

Tian Luo, Fa Yi, and the others flew over the sky. They were suspended in the air, looking down at Li Ye, who was standing with his hands clasped behind his back on the official road.

Tian Luo shouted angrily, “Devil! You have killed the disciples of Buddhism, and you even dare to come to Qi Mountain. Aren’t you really afraid of death, or don’t you know what death is?!”

Li Ye smiled calmly. He changed his clothes and wore black robes, with no trace of blood on it, so he still looked very graceful. Of course, he didn’t take out the fan because he didn’t need it in the cold weather.

Facing Tian Luo’s angry shouting, Li Ye was calm, but his words were sonorous and forceful like metal and stone. “The battle is inevitable, so I have no fear.”

Tian Luo burst into laughter and thought that Li Ye was overconfident to say that he was not afraid of death. “Arrogant! Are the people of the Tang Empire so arrogant?! However, it is a pity that no matter how arrogant you are, when you face the 800 monks’ corps of Buddhism, your soul and spirit will be destroyed. This is your only fate! Devil, aren’t you afraid of the 800 monks’ corps of Buddhism?!”

Li Ye said calmly, “On the land of the Tang Empire, why should I be afraid to kill the enemies of the Tang Empire?”

Tian Luo’s face darkened. He stared at Li Ye as if to see him through.

After a long time, Tian Luo took a deep breath and said slowly, “Devil, you were lucky to escape with your life, but you don’t cherish your great luck and you even dare to challenge my Buddhism’s power! Maybe, you think that you’re the cultivator of the Tang Empire, so it’s righteous to block my Buddhism for the Taoist sect. But today, I’m telling you that the Taoist sect of the Tang Empire wants to kill you more than my Buddhism!”

“Today, no matter how the result of the battle between you and my Buddhism is, the Taoist sect will have no room for you! Devil, it’s the destiny for Buddhism to go out of the world, so you can’t stop it! Not only you, but also the people in the Tang Empire can’t stop it! For hundreds of years, the most amazing genius masters of the cultivators in the Central Plains all died in the Big Snow Temple of Buddhism in Golden Mountain! Don’t you know that?!”

“They thought that it was loyal and righteous for them to go out of the border, go west, and enter the Buddhist temple alone, wearing cyan robes and holding swords. They thought that they would leave a good name forever and their heroic deeds would be admired by all people. But in the view of Buddhism, they were just a group of stupid people who didn’t understand the situation, didn’t know the destiny, and only knew to die for nothing!”

“The world is competitive like the torrent. Buddhism goes out of the world in a more powerful way than Mount Tai. In this general trend, no one can stop me, whether the mortal cultivators or the Taoist sect. Anyone who goes against the general trend will become bones buried under the loess. They won’t go down in history, and they will only be cast aside by people! “History is written by the winners. Buddhism occupies the country and is bound to become the winner that dominates heaven and earth. Those of you, who dare to resist Buddhism, will live in infamy!”

“A hundred years later, all the cultivators in the Central Plains will become the disciples of Buddhism. At that time, when they think of those cultivators who went out of Yangguan, went west to Golden Mountain alone, fought to the death without leaving their names, and concerned only about the country’s stability, they will just scold them for being stupid and ignorant! Think about it, Li Ye. These most amazing genius masters in the Central Plains were famous all over the world, but they could only end up like this after death!”

“And you are just one of them. You come alone today. Do you also want to fight against my Buddhism only by yourself with your sword? You think this is a heroic action and the compassion for the common people, but you don’t know that you will only be cast aside by heroes and be abused by the common people in the end! What’s the point of your doing this?!”

Like the rumble of thunder, Tian Luo’s words exploded and echoed between heaven and earth, lasting for a long time. It seemed to strike a chord with mountains and rivers and have the power to understand thoroughly the truth and let all living creatures duck their heads and keep silent.

In the face of such reasonable words, the average people might be convinced by it and get stuck in it, and their hearts for Taoism would collapse. But Li Ye remained calm all the time.

Li Ye calmly said, “There is a general trend in the world, and it is irreversible. The people, who conform to the general trend, will win the world, but those who don’t will die. All living beings are like rice grains. When they face the general trend alone, they are small and helpless. You’re right, but I want to tell you that for thousands of years, the people, who conformed to the general trend, won the world, but the people, who revolted against it, would break the world again. It goes round and begins again and again.”

“For hundreds of years, those most amazing cultivators in the Central Plains went west to stop your Buddhism from going east with their swords, at the cost of their lives, not because they wanted to go down in history or be remembered by the people, but because they were willing to do so and they thought they should do so!”

Li Ye took out the Luke Sword, unsheathing this emperor’s sword of the Tang Empire. His gaze was as sharp as ice. “It’s the eternal truth that the winner takes all. But some people don’t care about success or failure, and they just go after their own hearts. It’s like they don’t care if they’re praised or insulted just because they only do what they think they should do.”

He unsheathed the Luke Sword slowly, and a clear sound was heard through heaven and earth. Li Ye looked directly at Tian Luo, his gaze like iron. “As the cultivators in the Central Plains, it’s our mission and our responsibility to guard the inheritance of the Central Plains. Our ancestors have left behind this land and their hard-working civilization. I was born here and grew up here, so for these things can last forever, I’m not afraid of fighting or the death!”

Feeling Li Ye’s boiling fighting spirits, Tian Luo could not help but rage and roar, “B*stard! My Buddhism is like heaven and earth, but you are just a drop in the ocean and a small insect. How dare you compete with the sun and the moon?!”

Li Ye’s fingers wiped across the blade, and the runes of a dragon soaring on the Luke Sword were lit up one by one. The cyan light shone on Li Ye’s tenacious and fearless face. He pointed his sword at Tian Luo, and his voice was like the resonant sound on the battlefield. “I, Li Ye, was an emperor of the conquered country in my last life. In this life, in my view, the country can still be destroyed, but it absolutely cannot be destroyed by foreign sects like yours!”

After he spoke, a group of flames immediately rose in Li Ye’s eyes. He jumped up and suddenly rushed forward like a tiger. The Luke Sword kept howling, and a shining straight line of cyan light appeared behind him.

While Li Ye and Tian Luo were talking, the 800 monks’ corps went down the gentle slope and formed a formation on the flat ground in front of the mountain. It seemed that Tian Luo had self-knowledge. Although his words were secretly mixed with the secret method of Buddhism and had a better effect on frightening the demon’s soul than the arhats, he didn’t expect to capture Li Ye in this way, so he let the 800 monks’ corps prepare for the fight early.

Tian Luo’s own cultivation was also in the Kong Kim Realm, and his true combat power was probably higher than Fa Yi. But when he faced Li Ye, he obviously had no confidence, and he didn’t want to have a life-and-death fight against Li Ye even with the help of several cultivators in the Kong Kim Realm.

The thirty-third arhat’s report made it clear that this devil had the ability to instantly kill the cultivator in the Kong Kim Realm. Tian Luo was the leader of Buddhism and at the same time, he was also the commander to lead Buddhism to go out of the world and occupy the country, so of course, he wouldn’t risk his life to fight against Li Ye to the death. What Tian Luo should do was to use the forces in his hand to kill Li Ye.

After Li Ye started the fight, Tian Luo was getting angrier and angrier. Just now, he said so many words to Li Ye in order to shake Li Ye’s heart for Taoism. But it seemed that Li Ye was not affected at all. Moreover, under the “stimulation” of his words, Li Ye’s fighting spirits were boiling instead. This was undoubtedly a slap on Tian Luo’s face and made him lose face.

But when he saw Li Ye outrageously rushing toward the 800 monks’ corps, Tian Luo was furious as well as sneering.