Facing the hundred ghosts walking the night, the BGM that Ye Chui unlocked was precisely the Great Compassion Mantra. The Great Compassion Mantra is Buddhist music and very well-known. Ye Chui had previously faced many evil ghosts and fierce spirits, but he had never unlocked this BGM before. The main reason was that the points required to unlock the Great Compassion Mantra were simply far too high.
Ordinary BGMs would not exceed five hundred points to unlock. Even well-known ones from his previous life like Elysium Pure Land or Shattering the Heavens only cost around one hundred points. Yet the Great Compassion Mantra required a full five thousand points!
Such a point value was comparable to a super spell.
The reason it cost so much was naturally because this BGM possessed tremendous destructive power, especially against ghosts and evil spirits.
The place where Ye Chui and the others now stood was a forest. With Lakin’s hundred ghosts walking the night, terrifying evil ghosts had completely surrounded the woods. Trees decayed, layers of black qi spread across the ground. Wherever the hundred ghosts passed became “hell”. Within this dreadful hell, a faint holy white light could vaguely be seen. That was Lisa’s holy words. But her holy words truly could not withstand the endless onslaught of the evil ghosts. They could only barely prevent the ghosts from getting too close.
Right at this critical moment, waves of Zen-like chanting arose.
The Great Compassion Mantra was sung in Sanskrit. Even Ye Chui himself could not understand the words. To the others, it sounded like a chaotic jumble. Yet within these seemingly meaningless Zen sounds lay an immense power.
The power of Ye Chui’s BGMs did not come from the songs themselves. It came from the artistic conception they carried. The power of the Great Compassion Mantra was compassion and liberation. Amid that profound Zen chanting, the roars of the ghosts gradually quieted. Their hideous and ferocious appearances slowly became peaceful. They had originally been pitch-black masses, but under the Zen sounds, they gained colour. Serene smiles appeared on their faces, and then their bodies simply dissipated.
They were liberated from their evil state!
Under the influence of the BGM, Ye Chui’s body seemed to radiate holy light. It was the purest light, the physical manifestation of the BGM’s power. Any evil ghost that touched this light would instantly find liberation and release!
Even Debbie, Green, Lisa, and the others felt an inner peace under this wondrous sound.
Green gently stroked his bald head, a smile on his face: Actually, being bald is not so bad…
Gunnie touched her stomach, smiling: Actually, going hungry is not that scary…
Debbie touched her chest, smiling: Actually, being flat-chested is pretty good. It saves on fabric…
Facing the holy light radiating from Ye Chui and the Zen chanting emanating from him, the evil ghosts showed no fear at all. Instead, they began rushing toward him eagerly, desperately trying to touch the holy light on his body in search of liberation!
They had suffered endless torment in hell and transformed into evil ghosts. Now, Ye Chui’s holy light was like the only path to their release.
This scene completely exceeded Lakin’s expectations.
The hundred ghosts walking the night was originally a power with both offensive and punitive force. Countless evil ghosts pouring out of the hell gate were meant to punish this land. It was one of the Church’s most terrifying methods. Yet now all those evil ghosts had been liberated by Ye Chui? How, how was this possible!
Lakin could even sense that the evil ghosts inside the hell gate seemed to have perceived Ye Chui’s holy light as well. They were now frantically trying to squeeze out from the gate. The massive hell gate began to tremble faintly. Lakin could no longer close it even if he wanted to!
Lisa had already stopped releasing holy words. Amid the Zen sounds of the Great Compassion Mantra, she vaguely felt an insight coming. All this time, Ye Chui’s companions had each progressed in their own ways to some extent. Only Lisa seemed to have made little advancement since leaving the Sword Burial Ground. Now her opportunity had arrived.
She could gain enlightenment from the Great Compassion Mantra!
Watching the evil ghosts pour out of the hell gate, crazily seeking liberation beside Ye Chui, Lisa’s heart suddenly became calm like a still lake. Yet ripples began to spread across that lake’s surface.
She took out the Sacred Holy Bible from her bosom. A calm and holy smile appeared on her face.
She finally understood. All this time, her understanding of faith had been wrong!
The faith of the Church and the faith of the gods were fundamentally two completely different things!
Although she had left the Church, she had always tried to drive the power of the gods’ faith using the Church’s methods of belief. That was inherently mistaken.
What was the Church’s faith? At its root, the Church was not enlightening the world. It was taming the world. They preached truth, goodness, and beauty, yet they did so through oppression: if you did not obey the Church’s teachings, you would suffer torment. The evil ghosts behind the hell gate were precisely those who had violated the Church’s doctrines. They suffered eternal torment in hell.
Even the devout believers loyal to the Church would, after death, become faith spirits and continue serving the Church.
The Church’s faith was fundamentally extremely selfish.
However, the faith of the gods emphasised self-liberation and self-enlightenment. If you sinned, you had to seek resolution within your own karma. No one could forgive you. Only you could forgive yourself.
The faith of the gods, although directed toward the God of Gods, was in truth faith in oneself.
One’s own self was the vessel of one’s faith!
This was not selfishness. It was selflessness.
This was the true essence of the gods’ faith!
The reason the Great Compassion Mantra cost so many points to unlock and possessed such immense power was not because of its widespread fame. It was because its meaning aligned perfectly with the faith of the gods. It could maximally trigger the divine power of the gods!
However, as Ye Chui played the Great Compassion Mantra BGM, his mana was rapidly depleting. He realised a very helpless situation. Lakin seemed unable to close the hell gate on his own, and Ye Chui also could not stop playing the BGM. This created a stalemate. It became a contest of endurance between Ye Chui and Lakin. This situation made Ye Chui frown involuntarily.
Right at that moment, Lisa, who had been half-crouching on the ground, suddenly stood up.
She held the holy bible in her hands. A faint holy light enveloped her body.
Debbie, Green, and the others looked at Lisa in surprise. They saw her walk straight out of the range of Ye Chui’s holy light and step into the midst of the evil ghosts.
Yet the evil ghosts could not harm her.
Lisa continued forward like this until she reached the massive hell gate. With a bang, the enormous hell gate slammed shut!
The huge doors then vanished without a trace.
Lisa had actually closed the hell gate just like that!?
“You…” Lakin’s face showed exhaustion and shock.
As the hell gate disappeared, Lisa’s face appeared before Lakin. A faint smile graced her lips. She gently waved her hand. Streaks of holy light gathered in mid-air. With a downward press of her palm, boom, boom. Those holy lights instantly transformed into thousand-pound boulders that smashed fiercely toward Lakin. The ground trembled from the impact.
Lakin let out an angry roar. Lisa’s attack dealt him massive damage. What shocked him even more was the power Lisa was using. He recognised it. That was the Church’s taboo: the power of the gods’ faith.
In the age of the gods, items like the Sacred Holy Bible and Dark Spellbooks were forbidden by the Church. But it was impossible to completely ban anything in this world. Some Sacred Holy Bibles and Dark Spellbooks still circulated in the shadows. The Church was especially wary of the Sacred Holy Bibles, yet they had not put much effort into eradicating them, because they believed the faith of the gods could never reignite.
It was no secret that Lisa used the Sacred Holy Bible. But only at this moment did Lakin realise that Lisa had already grasped the power the Church feared most: the power that could overthrow the Church’s faith.
“Heretic!”
Lakin’s body appeared in mid-air. Lightning gathered in his hands. The body of Alba he possessed had now been completely drained. Her black hair had turned white and flew wildly. Wrinkles covered her face, making her look even more hideous and terrifying. Lakin roared in fury and hurled the lightning downward.
“Be careful…” Ye Chui stopped the Great Compassion Mantra and instantly appeared beside Lisa. He was also astonished by Lisa’s performance just now. It seemed she had comprehended something from the Great Compassion Mantra. Just as Ye Chui grabbed Lisa’s hand, preparing to teleport her away, a figure suddenly rushed in front of Ye Chui and Lisa at incredible speed, blocking the lightning.
Realising who it was, Ye Chui’s face filled with utter shock: What the hell? Has Stu become addicted to getting struck by lightning?
Boom!
The terrifying bolt of heavenly thunder struck Stu squarely. Lightning flashed and thunder roared. Ye Chui’s vision turned pure white. He could only vaguely make out a human figure. Despair surged in his heart: It’s over. This time Stu is probably going to get fried beyond recognition. No way to recover from this…
But in the next moment, Ye Chui’s expression became incredibly vivid.
Not just him. Even Lisa, Debbie, Green, and the others showed astonished looks.
Bang!
Stu, who had blocked the dreadful heavenly thunder retribution, landed on the ground but did not fall. He slowly straightened his body. At this moment, streaks of lightning coiled around him. Lightning flashed in his hands. Bolts of electricity rolled in his eyes and mouth. He looked exactly like a deity of thunder!
Lakin stared at Stu in dumbfounded silence. He could not speak for a moment. But he had truly reached the end of his strength. The previous heavenly thunder retribution had exhausted every ounce of power in this body. With a shocked expression, his body fell to the ground and turned into a pile of ashes.
“Stu?” Ye Chui asked in astonishment.
Stu had not lost consciousness. He turned around and looked strangely at his own hands.
“Are you actually the successor of the Thunder God?” Ye Chui asked in shock.
“No…” Stu seemed to understand his current state. But his voice carried some confusion and uncertainty. “It seems I have been struck by lightning so many times that I have become immune to lightning damage… Now the sword qi in my body can directly transform into the power of lightning…”
