Chapter 108:107 [New Abbot]

The moment Ashura Buddha entered his body, the panel that was usually hidden deep in Chen Sheng's consciousness automatically jumped out.

I saw that the information column of [Gangsha Tongzi] on the panel quickly became blurred, and then in the blink of an eye it squirmed and changed into new words.

[Profession 3]: Gangsha Warlock
Level: Lv1 (1/100)

Talents: plundering the evil spirits, communicating with the spirits
Skills: Dragon Subduing Buddha Gang, Ashura Buddha Evil
Taoist magic: control of the five thunders, big and small Ruyi, seeing through walls, tight hoop curse...

"This... after absorbing a ball of evil energy, a max-level Gangsha boy actually changed his job?"

Chen Sheng's eyes swept across the long career column and finally stopped at the newly added talent [Qi Tongling].

[Yi Qi Tong Ling] is a kind of ability to communicate with Gang Sha. It can discover the traces of Gang Sha between heaven and earth by observing Qi; it can make Gang Sha with conflicting properties coexist harmoniously; and it can stimulate the power of Gang Sha itself to the greatest extent.

Looking at the description of the talent's ability, Chen Sheng's heart moved, and he controlled the Asura evil spirit that entered his body and transformed it into a three-colored gas ball floating in his left hand.

At the same time, with a wave of his right hand, the giant statue of Arhat transformed by the Dragon-Subduing Buddha Gang also returned to its gaseous state, turning into a ball of golden gas and falling onto his right hand.

Chen Sheng lifted them up in front of him and observed them. He could see that they were slowly and automatically absorbing the spiritual energy and mental power in the air, recovering from the consumption of the previous battle.

He took the initiative to immerse his will deeper into Gangsha, and immediately gained a deeper understanding.

It was discovered that like the spiritual energy between heaven and earth, they also have their own unique characteristics:
The Dragon-Subduing Qi is masculine and strong in nature. It represents heaven and supreme. It embodies the yearning and admiration of all living beings in the world for all the good qualities and great power possessed by the Dragon-Subduing Arhat.

Asuras are yin and gentle in nature, representing the earth and being below. The core of their nature is the yearning of all living beings in the world for the Asuras’ courage to fight against heaven and earth, their unruly, brave and murderous nature.

These two groups of evil spirits are opposed to each other in yin and yang, and their natures are opposite to each other.

But at the same time, Chen Sheng, who was in a spiritual state with them, realized that there was a possibility of them coexisting as one.

Following his instinctive guidance, Chen Sheng slowly brought his hands together. Under the guidance of his [One Qi Spiritual Communication] talent, the two groups of evil energy actually merged into one.

Then, it quickly squirmed and transformed into a black and gold Buddha statue with two heads and four arms, one ferocious and the other majestic, and the four hands holding a dragon.

The Buddha statue was clearly held in his hands, but it was only a small figure of about ten inches tall.

But Chen Sheng, who was on top, felt a powerful force that was at a higher level than the two behemoths that had fought before.

However, this state only lasted for a breath before it automatically ended.

Chen Sheng looked at the evil energy that split into two again, and a message instinctively emerged in his mind: one evil energy needs to be paired with two evil energy to form a giant statue with third-level combat power.

"Regardless of the type of Gang and Sha, as long as there is one Gang and two Sha, can we make a combination?"

This characteristic of the Buddhist Gangsha made Chen Sheng think a lot.

"If we can continue to follow this combination pattern and progress layer by layer, could the ninety-nine Gangsha combinations of Buddhism eventually fuse into a fifth-tier or even sixth-tier colossus?"

This guess that emerged in Chen Sheng's mind made him feel that the Gangsha in his hand was a little hot.

"Whether it's the Taoist 108 Heavenly Gangs and Earthly Fiends or the Buddhist 99 Buddha Gangs and Buddha Fiends, they all chose to scatter such treasures randomly throughout the world. This is truly fascinating!"

Chen Sheng smiled faintly, took one last look at the ashes on the ground, and then used his light kung fu to jump up the wall of the fire pit. Returning to the surface, he first walked towards the cave entrance, but after a few steps he suddenly stopped and turned to look at the eighteen bronze statues of Arhats surrounding the fire pit.

Then he turned around and released two balls of evil energy in his hands, letting them absorb the mental power on the bronze statue that was consistent with its own nature, while capturing the ubiquitous spiritual energy between heaven and earth.

After doing this, the size of Gangsha increased slightly, almost unnoticeably.

"No matter how small a mosquito is, it's still meat."

Only after he had truly swept away all the spoils did Chen Sheng walk out of the cave and begin to cast the Tightening Curse in the Miaochan Temple shrouded in darkness.

Without a second-level master in charge, this ancient temple that had been passed down among relatives for hundreds of years changed hands overnight.

Yes.

Unlike when he wiped out the Yuhuang Temple in the Ming Dynasty, Chen Sheng did not massacre the temple this time.

Because, except for a few high-ranking monks in Miaochan Temple who killed people for the evil spirit, most of the ordinary monks really did not do anything evil.

Wenzhou has many mountains and little land. The few fields are divided into pieces by mountains and rivers. The soil is barren and the grain yield is low. Farming in this place is purely asking for trouble.

Therefore, Miaochan Temple did not care about the little money earned from farming, and only opened up more than 200 acres of mountain land nearby to grow vegetables to supply seasonal vegetables to the temple.

Live by the mountain, live by the water. This temple makes money from the shipping industry of Oujiang River.

In this magical world, monks can make a fortune by giving seafaring merchants spells to pray for wealth, avoid epidemics, and improve swimming skills; and by giving large ships spells to avoid wind, break waves, and drive away beasts; and by exorcising evil spirits and praying for blessings for wealthy families. This business alone can make monks earn a fortune.

Without tenants and looking down on the few acres of thin land of the common people, it was difficult for the temple to directly harm the people. The monks in the temple could only secretly drink some wine, eat some meat, and peek at female pilgrims taking a bath.

Chen Sheng's murderous nature was not that strong, as he wanted to drag everyone in the temple to death just because the abbot wanted to kill him.

……

In the days that followed, Chen Sheng transformed himself into the new abbot of Miaochan Temple.

After all, he is still a nine-year-old child. If he chooses to return to secular life and go home, he will definitely be controlled by the adults in his family, which is not conducive to his own practice.

In addition, he had two older brothers and a sister in his previous life, so he didn't have to worry about his parents being left unattended. So he asked the temple to send some money back to repay the kindness of raising him.

After dealing with his worldly affairs, Chen Sheng began his own spiritual practice in the temple.

First of all, because his martial arts skills were still in the stage of refining essence, he no longer abstained from meat and fish. Every day he had to eat at least half of the black pig secretly raised in the temple, plus a bowl of medicinal food made from various vegetables, fruits, and medicines, and a bucket of refined rice.

Over time, the chefs in the kitchen who were good at cooking vegetarian meals gradually began to be able to cook good meat dishes as well.

Later, in order to practice a secret technique of [Controlling the Five Thunders], he stopped shaving his hair every day and allowed his inky black hair to grow slowly.

Even though he broke the precepts and practiced in this way, Chen Sheng felt no burden in his heart.

After all, the person who kept the precepts when he was ordained was Lin Suling. What does that have to do with Chen Sheng?
(End of this chapter)