Dashing Student Chapter 1503 1470: Buddhist Law Experiment II

Chen Nan smiled, tossed the petal in his hand to Feng Qingcheng, and nodded with a smile: "Alright, a bet's a bet."

After getting the petal, Feng Qingcheng hurriedly took out a Jade Box, put the Breakthrough Flower inside, then carefully stowed it away: "I knew you held back, so… thank you."

"When you come to Divine Phoenix City, I'll host you."

Clearly, she knew that Chen Nan had held back at the last moment, deliberately leaving the Breakthrough Flower to her and Xiao Jian.

"It's nothing, really. Mainly I don't need it for now." Chen Nan waved his hand, not taking it to heart.

He already had a Breakthrough Flower, and Feng Qingcheng and Xiao Jian were people who could become friends, so he didn't mind making this connection.

Besides, an idea had suddenly sprouted in his Heart; he was planning to test it in a bit.

"Right, how many cycles of reincarnation have you gone through?" Feng Qingcheng suddenly asked.

"Five." Chen Nan and Xiao Jian replied in unison.

"Then which Path do you still have left?"

"Heavenly Human Path."

The three exchanged a look, each seeing confusion in the others' eyes.

Clearly, which Path you entered was supposed to be random, different for everyone, yet now all three of them just happened to have only the Heavenly Human Path left.

This showed that the Heavenly Human Path was originally meant to be the final Path, one that could only be entered after experiencing the previous Paths.

"Since that's the case, why don't we go together, and form an alliance while we're at it? Since the last of the Six Paths is the Heavenly Human Path, we'll run into Lan Zhenyue again." Feng Qingcheng suggested.

Xiao Jian also nodded, clearly agreeing with this proposal. There was no downside for them, and they'd gain two more allies.

But Chen Nan hesitated.

"Barbarian, what are you even hesitating about?" Feng Qingcheng was a little displeased.

Chen Nan sighed: "I still have something I need to verify here. You two go first, I'll come find you after I'm done."

"Such a hassle!" Feng Qingcheng rolled her eyes. "Wood Xiao, let's go."

Xiao Jian didn't move, instead asking Chen Nan: "Need any help?"

"No need, I can handle it alone. You two go on." Chen Nan said with a smile.

Feng Qingcheng and Xiao Jian both nodded, but they didn't directly step through the Bronze Gate. Instead, they stayed in the safe zone before the Bronze Gate to recover.

Only after recovering to their peak state did the two of them enter the next cycle of reincarnation.

Chen Nan also took some time to recover, though his expenditure had been lower than Xiao Jian's and Feng Qingcheng's, because Lan Zhenyue's clone's final strike had been blocked by the Ancient Jade Pendant.

"Next… let me run the experiment."

He looked toward the distant battlefield, where cultivators were still locked in endless combat, never stopping.

Chen Nan walked toward the battlefield, sending out the Buddhist Relic. Golden Buddha Light spread around him, making him look like someone walking out from within the sun.

All the cultivators who had fallen into madness stopped the instant they came into contact with the Buddha Light. They did not regain clarity, but instinctively wanted to follow Chen Nan.

Thus, by the time he reached the center of the battlefield, dozens of cultivators had already gathered behind him.

Chen Nan searched within the Buddhist Relic, and finally found a Buddhist Scripture called the "Heart Sutra of Prajna Paramita," a scripture the Buddhist Sect used to calm the spirit and still the mind.

He sat down cross-legged, opened the scripture before him, and began to chant it slowly.

"When Guanyin Bodhisattva was practicing the profound Heart Sutra of Prajna Paramita…"

Line after line of scripture flowed from his mouth, becoming vast and melodious through the relic, waves of sound rippling out, as though countless monks were chanting together.

With the scripture's blessing, the range covered by the relic's Buddha Light grew wider and wider. The cultivators who heard the scripture all revealed a trace of confusion in their eyes; they abandoned their fighting and followed the direction from which the scripture came.

More and more cultivators gathered around Chen Nan. They sat down cross-legged, their Spirit Platforms growing clearer and clearer as their reason returned.

Seeing so many cultivators regain clarity, as though transcending beyond reincarnation, Chen Nan couldn't help but feel joy. It seemed his idea was workable.

He wanted to cultivate a Breakthrough Flower himself!

Rumor had it that in this cycle of reincarnation, the Breakthrough Flower only formed when someone, after awakening, letting go of their obsessions, achieving complete enlightenment, then died here.

The conditions were so harsh as to be almost impossible to replicate.

Previously, Chen Nan had noticed that the Buddhist Relic could influence the power of rules in this cycle of reincarnation, so he wanted to see whether he could help these cultivators regain their clarity.

Once they were clear-headed again, if they then died, wouldn't that satisfy the conditions for a Breakthrough Flower to appear?

From the looks of it now, this might really work!

Yet just as more and more cultivators gathered under the Buddha Light, like devout believers listening to a sermon, some people began harboring sinister thoughts.

"This man possesses a Buddhist Relic and can actually suppress the power of reincarnation. If we snatch it, wouldn't we be able to walk the lands of reincarnation as we please?"

A few cultivators whispered among themselves and quickly found others with the same idea. They stood up and slowly moved closer to Chen Nan.

Some cultivators who still had goodwill in their Hearts were immersed in the scripture at this moment, completely unaware of those few, nor could they imagine that someone would actually think of killing for treasure and repaying kindness with hatred.

"Do it!"

When they were within three steps of Chen Nan, one cultivator suddenly shouted, then unleashed Magic, trying to launch an attack.

Although their Cultivation wasn't high, as Loose Cultivators they all had big guts, which was why they could do such ungrateful, treacherous things.

Chen Nan had noticed those cultivators long ago. At first he'd felt a bit awkward about taking action; after all, after helping so many people regain clarity, if he then told them he was going to kill them, anyone would find that hard to accept.

So when a few with ill intent stepped forward, Chen Nan laughed, laughing freely and heartily.

Just as he was about to make a move, a figure suddenly shot out from the crowd, directly blocking in front of him, and all of those cultivators' attacks landed on that person instead.

Chen Nan focused his gaze and discovered that it was actually Wen Quan!

"You…"

Wen Quan collapsed to the ground, blood continuously spilling from his mouth, unable to even finish a sentence. His Golden Core had shattered; even if an immortal descended, there would be no saving him.

Chen Nan knew why he had done this—because he wanted to atone.

"Damn it, where did this idiot come from?"

The cultivator who'd wanted to kill Chen Nan cursed, then moved to attack Chen Nan again, but this time Chen Nan would not let them act unchecked.

"Great Compassion Buddha Palm!"

"Vajra Subduing Demon!"

"Ten Thousand Ghosts Suppressing Soul Spell!"

A series of attacks fell, and all the cultivators who had surrounded him collapsed to the ground.

Chen Nan stood up and walked toward the leader among them, stomping heavily on the man's chest: "Why did you want to kill me? I clearly saved you!"

"Kill me if you must, but why did you have to kill innocent people? So all of you deserve to die!"

The Silver Giant Hammer appeared in his hand. Under the terrified, despairing gaze of the man beneath his foot, the giant hammer came crashing down, and the man's head exploded like a watermelon.

The other cultivators who had attacked Chen Nan were all trembling with fear now, kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy.

"Spare us, we know we were wrong."

"We were possessed by greed, it was our insatiable desire!"

They kept slapping their own faces, each of them putting on an extremely regretful expression, but Chen Nan knew their true nature would never change.

"Go down and pay for your sins. If there really is reincarnation, this time there will be no one left to save you."

Chen Nan raised the Silver Giant Hammer and began his judgment; each and every one of those harboring evil intent died by his hand.

A few cultivators tried to escape, but the farther they got from Chen Nan, the more their consciousness blurred, and the stronger their desire to fight became.

Only then did they realize that the moment they made their move, they had already stepped onto a road of no return.

Chen Nan chased them down, smashing one with each hammer blow, finishing them all off.

Afterward, he crouched to examine their corpses, but not a single Breakthrough Flower appeared.

"Strange, why isn't there any?"