Ye Yun watched Ji Zang's smile without exposing his small movements. Instead, he turned to look at the two monarchs standing beside him.
"Tai Yin is dead. As your most loyal believer, aren't you sad or upset?"
"Senior, you jest. Life and death have long been predetermined. Moreover, Tai Yin's physical body is destroyed, but his divine essence has reached the Pure Land, enjoying a life free from worldly attachments, diligently cultivating Buddhism to achieve Golden Body, and attaining Bodhi through virtue." Ji Zang was stunned for a moment at Ye Yun's words, then recited a Buddhist chant with his hands clasped.
Hopeless!
Ye Yun really wanted to go and touch the bald man's forehead to see if his brain was fried. How could he be so brainwashed?
Ye Yun knew little about Buddhism and Taoism, which were popular in the Hua Yi nation. He only knew that Buddhism was based on reincarnation, and Taoism on nature as the origin of all things. Buddhism had also combined many Taoist systems to form Buddhist-Taoism.
However, regarding the Buddhist race, Ye Yun's knowledge was a complete blank. As for the Ji Zang before him, Ye Yun was certain that this fellow was not from the Buddhist race, nor the Ghost race, but a brainwashed member of the human race!
"Senior, life is impermanent. Sometimes, this humble monk feels that there is no need to live too clearly in this world. After all, no matter how much one understands in a lifetime, in the end, it is just a pile of yellow earth. We cultivators live only a little longer than mortals, but ultimately, we cannot escape the cycle of life and death."
Ji Zang spoke with a humble and submissive demeanor, appearing to be discussing the profound principles of heaven and earth with Ye Yun. However, Ye Yun noticed that with every word he spoke, countless Sanskrit sutras permeated his skin.
It was just that Ji Zang dared not unleash too much divine sense, otherwise, he would have discovered that the Sanskrit sutras that enlightened all beings dissolved into nothingness the moment they touched Ye Yun's skin.
Ye Yun felt amused. However, he no longer wanted to waste time, for he had already silently shattered the shackles of the Heavenly Sutra of Enlightenment and the Sanskrit scriptures within the spiritual origins of billions of Ghost race members across over three hundred planets.
Even the two monarchs beside Ji Zang had suffered the same fate.
Hum…
Ji Zang suddenly trembled, his aura became chaotic, and the Great Sun Dharma Image behind him rapidly contracted. His perfect Monarch realm suddenly regressed at an alarming rate, becoming a high-level Monarch in mere moments…
"This… this… damn it, is this fate?"
"Damn… what's going on? This is unscientific!"
Ji Zang no longer cared about his image as a high monk or Bodhisattva. The Vajra Bodhi Pestle in his hand spun rapidly. With his right hand holding a flower, Buddhist seals appeared from his hands, and he occasionally let out a curse that even a human would understand…
However, no matter how fast he spun his Vajra Bodhi Pestle or how powerful the Buddhist seals were, he could not stop his realm from falling.
Mid-level Monarch…
Early-level Monarch…
In just a moment, Ji Zang's cultivation plummeted to the early-level Monarch realm.
"Why is my faith power gone? How could it be gone? No, it was you! Was it you?"
Ji Zang was in a panic. For his own purposes, he had endured humiliation and painstakingly managed in the Ghost race's star domain for over five hundred thousand days and nights. He never expected that just when he was one step away from his goal, something would go wrong.
His original intention was to enlighten the entire Ghost race's star domain to achieve his perfect Monarch realm, then use the Ghost race's star domain to expand his territory and enlighten one hundred races to achieve the position of Buddha Lord!
Buddha Lord was the honorable title given to supreme cultivators in Buddhism. Since the Great Emperor realm had been absent for too long, and even the last supreme realm appeared in the Tenth Universe hundreds of millions of years ago, any appearance of a supreme realm could directly become the lord of the Buddhist race and rule the Tenth Universe, becoming a sector lord!
The Ten Universes comprised three thousand star domains. Each star domain had one Great Dao, and within each Great Dao, there were three thousand minor Daos. For the Buddhist race to collect faith power solely through enlightening sentient beings, it required at least enlightening one hundred races, with eighty percent of each race enlightened, to break through the Monarch realm and achieve the supreme realm.
The supreme realm was exceedingly rare in the later Universes. For instance, the Ninth and Tenth Universes had not seen a single one in hundreds of millions of years. If one appeared, it could very likely govern both Universes.
And it happened to appear now! Moreover, he encountered it just as he was beginning his journey, which made Ji Zang feel immensely discouraged.
Fortunately, his strength had not regressed to the perfect God Lord realm, otherwise, he would likely have been besieged and killed by a large group of God Lords and a few Monarch realm experts from the Ghost race!
"Heh heh, alright, stop acting like a lunatic and going mad. Since you are human, from now on, you will all follow me. Is it just the supreme realm? Follow me, and you will have milk and bread in the future."
Ye Yun watched the frantic Ji Zang with great pleasure. Imprints of divine sense poured into the star domain for hundreds of millions of kilometers, into the major planets, directly entering the sea of consciousness of their respective targets.
Even the six monarchs present did not escape, as the moment Ye Yun's divine sense erupted, they were suppressed to the point of being unable to move.
Ye Yun only controlled all the God Lords and Monarch realm experts of the Ghost race. He was not interested in those below the God Lord realm, as controlling these experts would effectively control the entire Ghost race, just like with the Divine race.
"Master!" Before long, the remaining monarchs of the Ghost race arrived. Seeing Ji Zang's disheveled appearance and then looking at Ye Yun, they all bowed their heads in greeting.
There were eight monarchs in the Ghost race, with Tai Yin being the only one dead, leaving seven. Although there were only over fifteen hundred God Lords, which was three hundred fewer than the Divine race, there were two more monarchs, making their overall strength slightly superior to the Divine race.
Time slowly passed, and more and more members of the Ghost race arrived, led by their God Lord generals. Then, under the powerful aura, a large expanse of them knelt in the void.