Sage Monarch - Chapter 944

Chapter 944

Chapter 944: The Cave Temple

To unleash a sword slash that could devastate an immortal world, but find that it hardly scratched the floor, left Yang Qi feeling almost like his martial arts had been crippled .

Of course, he knew it was because this buddhist kingdom contained characteristics of the god world, so it inherently suppressed the fluctuations of magical power .

He almost felt like he was back in the mortal world, when he had just stepped into the Energy Eruption level and had hardly been capable of hurting a fly . And considering how weak his cultivation base seemed now, he could only imagine what it would be like to actually enter the god world .  [1]

‘This cave is exerting a lot of pressure on me, which makes it a great place for cultivation . However, I have to wonder how Leaf Dao-Denier dealt with this . You would think he would’ve been so thoroughly suppressed he couldn’t even move, or possibly even crushed to death like those people . . . . '

There were corpses visible here and there . Some of them remained upright, as though they had died the moment they stepped inside . Others had clearly been knocked to the ground, expressions of shock on their faces . Still others lay on their back, and a few appeared to have died trying to crawl out .

They were all top-tier experts with power indexes in the hundreds . Yet upon entering this cave temple, it was to their complete shock that they found it to be very different from the outside world . Those who came in were trapped, and eventually killed .

From what Yang Qi could tell, a power index of over a thousand was the very minimum to enter this place safely . Even then, it would be as difficult to move around as a mortal trying to wade through a swamp .

He even caught sight of the corpse of someone with a power index of a thousand . They were gripping a pillar, as if they had been trying to uproot it, but they had ultimately failed and died .

The pillar was made of some sort of metal that Yang Qi didn’t recognize, and glowed with a buddhist light . It was covered with carvings depicting buddhist teachings of morality, as well as other buddhist decorations .

Yang Qi ran his fingers down the pillar and instantly felt a sensation of complete peace and tranquility . His nascent divinity felt as if it were being blessed and strengthened in a way that would defend against all intrusive devils .

There was even text written in the script of the buddhist schools .

“Pillar of God-Transformation . . . ” Yang Qi murmured . He drew on the power of the Secret-Ensconcing All-World Anything-Everything Fundamental-Law Magic and touched the pillar again . This time he could tell that it was a magical treasure made from god world metal . If one sat cross-legged beneath it and practiced cultivation, it would provide immense benefits to their nascent divinity .

Opening the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart, he prepared to place the Pillar of God-Transformation inside . However, his expression flickered as he realized that the vortex leading inside was only as small as a sesame seed . Exerting some effort, he opened it wider, but still couldn’t get it past the size of a coin . Obviously, an opening like that was too small to fit the pillar through . In other words, he couldn’t bring people from the chart to him, nor could he escape into the chart .

He called on his God Legion Paradise, but found that it was also severely limited and would only spread out for about one-third of a meter around him . Normally speaking, it was a pure land that could encompass boundless immortal worlds, but here in this buddhist land it was like ordinary defensive empyrean energy .

Yang Qi gave up on the idea of taking the pillar . Perhaps he might be able to figure out a way to do it, but it would be too much of a waste of time .

Walking on, he felt very much like a tourist as he looked around at the buddhist iconography around him . Some of the statues seemed merciful, others seemed vicious . All of their hands were contorted into various hand seals representing martial disciplines of buddhism . To ordinary cultivators, such hand seals would be useless, but Yang Qi had the Secret-Ensconcing All-World Anything-Everything Fundamental-Law Magic and could understand some of their mysteries .

Ordinarily it would have been very dangerous for him to be in this situation, considering he couldn’t open the Myriad Worlds Monarch Chart . Furthermore, the pressure grew greater and greater as he continued along, making it even harder to draw on his energy arts . Even with the godpower of the Great Necropolis, he could only jump about thirty meters into the air before falling back down .

It really was like being an Energy Eruption expert in the mortal world .

He completely focused his mind, focusing all of his power on resisting the magical laws of the surrounding cave . As a result, he felt his cultivation base slowly advancing . Cultivation circumstances such as this were truly rare . Thankfully, he still had about half of that bit of godhood left to work with .

‘So where are those Secret-Ensconcing All-World Anything-Everything Fundamental-Law Magic seeds? Are they deeper inside the cave temple?’

Thankfully, his search was aided by the part of the technique that he already knew . That part of the Secret-Ensconcing All-World Anything-Everything Fundamental-Law Magic was his greatest asset .

Before long, he saw a mountain up ahead, out of which a buddhist statue had been carved . It depicted a woman whose face was full of compassion, her palms together, as if in prayer, and a vertical eye on her forehead that glittered with bright light .

‘Don’t tell me this is a likeness of the Vajra Māyādevī?' he thought . ‘Why is my Secret-Ensconcing All-World Anything-Everything Fundamental-Law Magic seemingly connecting with that eye? Is that the location of the seed? But it's three thousand meters tall! How am I supposed to get up there?’

It was a vertical climb to the top of the statue, and he could only jump about thirty meters . He obviously couldn’t fly up to the top, and climbing it didn’t seem realistic either .

He stepped forward and touched the statue, finding it to be incredibly tough . In fact, he couldn’t even leave a scratch on its surface, leading him to believe that the statue had definitely been left here by a Paramount God from the buddhist schools . After being buried in the Great Necropolis for so long, its godpower had dispersed, but it was still as fundamentally tough as it had ever been .

He smiled faintly as he came to a realization . ‘I, Yang Qi, who have dominated millions upon millions of planes of existence and innumerable worlds, a person who can come and go as I please, have essentially been turned back into a mortal here in this buddhist cave temple . I can’t even get to the top of this statue . It goes to show that the world really is full of endless mysteries . ’

With that, he sat down cross-legged and drew on the Secret-Ensconcing All-World Anything-Everything Fundamental-Law Magic .

Soon, true energy began converging within him, and he became aware of fluctuations in the cave . It seemed that some great buddha from the god world had left godpower behind here in the form of godhood, although he wasn’t sure exactly where .

As that godpower seeped into him, the seed of the Secret-Ensconcing All-World Anything-Everything Fundamental-Law Magic grew larger . Obviously, working on cultivation here was a really good idea .

Whoosh . Whoosh . Whoosh .

All of a sudden, he heard the sound of flapping clothing behind him . Rising to his feet, he saw a figure in white floating toward him . It was a woman .

‘How strong must this woman be to glide about in this cave? Her energy arts must be far above mine . ’ He was surprised, but not too much . Only incredibly marvelous individuals could possibly be in this cave .

Eventually, the woman in white noticed Yang Qi .

She wore a butterfly mask that concealed most of her features, but it was possible to tell from her lips and chin that she was spectacularly beautiful .

“Oh?” she said . “I didn’t realize anyone else had come to the statue of the Vajra Māyādevī . Who might you be, sire? And what sect do you come from?”

“I'm just a rogue cultivator,” Yang Qi replied, rising to his feet and clasping his hands behind his back, “a traveler in the Great Necropolis . I came across this cave temple by chance, and entered it in the hopes of learning an ability or two . Miss, might I ask what noble errand brings you here?”

“I'm here to pick up a certain item,” she replied . “If there’s nothing important you have to discuss with me, you can be on your way . ”

“Oh?” Yang Qi smiled . “No one owns this cave, which means that anyone is free to come here . And considering that I'm not interfering with you, why can’t I stay to see what item you might be here to take?”

“What did you just say?” she replied grimly . “Sire, are you saying that you want to fight with me over that object?”

“I'm not sure what object you’re referring to,” he replied with a frown . Although he was fairly certain that this woman was after the seed in the statue’s forehead, he didn't see a need to take action yet .

1 . Just as a reminder, Yang Qi reached the Energy Eruption level in chapter 4!