Chapter 1322: Chapter 497: Buddha Country’s Strategy
"How many Buddha Country people have you brought in? Ten? Twenty? A hundred?"
The Dream Realm Heavenly God deliberately spoke in a provoking manner, his words intentionally vague.
After many numbers flowed past, the Dream Realm Heavenly God suddenly shook his head and said, "Too many, I can’t remember, can’t remember at all,
Jing Country is finished. You all think Jing Country is very strong, vast land and abundant resources, but the Buddha Country people will let Jing Country know what a true overlord of the Starry Sky is."
"If you hadn’t committed this monstrous blunder, I would’ve wanted to let you live, let you open your eyes and see clearly that those Buddha Country people are nothing much either."
"Is that so? Witch God, oh Witch God, you resemble the ’Supreme Will’ the most, yet you’re nothing but a pitiable soul denied freedom... However overbearing you are, you’re still a toad throwing punches—your limbs are that short,
you still won’t be able to save Jing Country."
The Dream Realm Heavenly God said coldly, "Do you think the Buddha Country people rely only on brute strength? They know both themselves and the enemy, so they are ever-victorious."
"I know I can’t escape death today. There are some things I’m no longer afraid of, so if I feel like saying them, I will."
"Then I shall wash my ears and listen." The Witch God stood with his hands behind his back.
The Dream Realm Heavenly God said, "Jing Country has many spaces and many times, but in the final analysis, there are only three forces: the Heavenly Dome, the human world, and the Netherworld."
"However, the will of the Netherworld died long ago. Those Dead God Ghosts are usually quite honest; they do no unnecessary things, only quietly ferry souls, overseeing the Six Paths of Reincarnation,
so Jing Country is a confrontation between the Heavenly Dome and the human world. This confrontation has lasted for who knows how many years."
"The human world has a will—that is the ’Blood God Will’. Oh, right, that name is too ancient; nowadays it should be called ’Heaven and Earth’."
"The Supreme Will has long dwelled in the Heavenly Dome for the sake of suppressing the Heavenly Fire Clan above the Heavenly Dome,
however, in these past few hundred years, the ’Supreme Will’’s supervision has grown weaker and weaker. Rumor has it he is already dead."
As the Dream Realm Heavenly God spoke, he kept an eye on the Witch God’s expression. He also wanted to infer the life or death of the ’Supreme Will’ from the lightning-flash changes of the Witch God’s face.
But the Witch God was as calm as a still lake; nothing could be read from him.
The Dream Realm Heavenly God had no choice but to continue, "With supervision lacking, the Heavenly Fire Clan began to stir restlessly. At any time they wish to descend into the human world, to treat the human commoners as penned livestock, to eat whenever they like.
Why did the Heavenly Fire Clan plant Zoroastrianism in the human world?
Isn’t it precisely to nurture their own Heavenly God Level and then cooperate inside and outside with the Heavenly Fire Clan, to launch a single strike and invade the human world?"
"Weren’t you going to talk about the methods and scheming of the Buddha Country? Why bring up the Heavenly Fire Clan?" the Witch God said.
The Dream Realm Heavenly God ignored him and continued,
"The Heavenly Fire Clan is the mortal enemy of Jing Country’s human world, and the human world cannot defeat them—after all, they control the origin of incense."
"Of course, the human world is not without the power to resist. There are the nine ancient Heavenly Gods, and some newly promoted God-level beings, such as incense fire Taoists, and the Four Great Divine Lords of the Time Realm, and so on."
The Dream Realm Heavenly God stretched out both fists and said, "Thus Jing Country has two fists. The left fist is the Heavenly God Level, and the right fist is the Heavenly Fire Clan,
if the Buddha Country wishes to conquer Jing Country, it must cripple these two fists."
"They can’t cripple them."
"You’ve understated Jing Country’s living strength. In the human world there are Heavenly Gods, there are Heavenly Venerates, and there is that will of ’Heaven and Earth’. Even if the Buddha Master of the Buddha Country personally descended, what advantage could he gain?"
"’Heaven and Earth’ already harbors treacherous thoughts. It was forcibly kept in Jing Country by the ’Supreme Will’. If a war truly breaks out, tell me, whose side will it help?"
"The Four Great Venerable must concentrate their power on supervising ’Heaven and Earth’. If fighting breaks out, they too won’t be able to help. What the human world can rely on are Heavenly God Level existences like me, no?"
The Dream Realm Heavenly God laughed icily. "Heavenly Gods are extraordinarily powerful. However—Heavenly Gods have weaknesses. Our power as Heavenly Gods comes from the Human Desire Power of the common folk,
and this is where the true strength of the Buddha Country people must be mentioned."
"Explain it in detail." The Witch God’s face grew even uglier.
"In the past few hundred years, though the heavens lost their supervision, how have the common folk of the human world been living?"
"Good... incomparably good."
Unlike the other Heavenly Venerates, the Witch God would, every so often, tour the human world in the body of Lord Jiu.
Whether the lives of the common folk were full of calamities or blissful and complete, he knew better than anyone.
In these past five hundred years, the court and the jianghu had undergone thunderous upheavals, such as the former Jing Country emperor being overthrown, Qintianjian seizing real power over the human world, and establishing the God Traveling Department in each prefecture...
However, court and jianghu refer to the court and jianghu of Cultivation Disciples, not those of ordinary commoners,
and the commoners’ days have been quite good indeed. Everywhere, the winds and rains arrive in season, granaries are full,
though, of course, the human world still has its share of natural disasters, kidnappers and other man-made calamities, yet overall, the flaws do not overshadow the merits.
In any case, these past five hundred years have indeed been the most peaceful era for the common folk.
"Don’t you find that strange?"
The Dream Realm Heavenly God said,
"The supervision of the Supreme Will has clearly weakened. Among those God-level beings, some are restless, some harbor ulterior motives, and many are carefree, caring nothing for the life and death of the world,
yet while the Gods are lax in governance, the most humble commoners are living in song and dance."
Only when the commoners’ situation and the mindset of the God-level beings were brought together did the Witch God finally catch the scent of ’conspiracy’.
"A single Taiping Monk from the Buddha Country, with merely the Taoist cultivation of a Third Turn Buddha—equivalent to our Jing Country’s three sticks of incense, such an inconspicuous figure, yet within some thirty years, relying on Mr. Feng, managed, in Mingjiang Prefecture, to establish a Great Hall that surpassed the ’Divine Stealer’,
