Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 1183 - 532: Four Venerable King Buddha Pagoda, The Nonexistent Fifth Level of the Buddha Pagoda_2
[The White Elephant Demon furrowed its brow in thought for a long time before uncertainly saying, "Junior Brother, it seems to have heard of something called the ’Central Heaven Brahmic Doumu Sovereign’ mentioned as the mother of the Sevenfold Wheel and all stars.]
[It knows very little about the Taoist immortals, so it had never heard of the ’Purple Void Sovereign Lord of Brahma Energy,’ but from its title, it might be related to that mother of the stars.]
[After you and the White Elephant Demon explored the Zhufa Building, you rushed toward the last building in the city, the ’Four Venerable King Buddha Pagoda.’]
[According to the old priest, Luoyi does not worship the ’Great Dark Endless Delusion Bodhisattva’ but the Buddhist Four Venerable Kings: the Southern Salvation Destruction Venerable King, the North Demon Heaven Destruction Venerable King, the Eastern Heaven Destruction Venerable King, and the Western Venerable King of Karmic Retribution.]
[Although the White Elephant Demon is not very familiar with Taoist deities, it can recite the stories of the somewhat famous Buddhas in Buddhism.]
[These Four Venerable Kings are four great Buddhist protector deities, and although they are much inferior to the great protector deity Sotapanna, who holds a Bodhisattva position, they are not to be underestimated.]
[The four kings are blood brothers born of the same mother, not only living and eating together, inseparable as shadows but also possessing a powerful joint divine ability to fight with unified minds and bodies.]
[Although each of the four kings has only attained a Third Rate Fruit Position, when the four protector deities join forces, they can exhibit power comparable to the divine Buddhas of the second-rate ’Sotapanna’ realm.]
[The White Elephant Demon has been with you for a long time and knows that by asking this, you are intent on killing, wanting to gather all the incense fire evil thoughts of Luoyi city.]
[It specifically reminded you, Junior Brother, that now if you face any one of the Four Venerable Kings alone, you can suppress them with your higher status, ensuring a decisive victory.]
[But you must not underestimate them, for if the four kings come down together and join forces to use their joint divine power, we, as brothers, will have no choice but to flee.]
Lin Xun squinted his eyes.
Luoyi city was different from the prefecture cities of the Vermilion West Territory that he had seen before; the citizens of those western cities still retained some of their senses, and obtaining their incense fire required the use of various tactics, not only killing Buddhas but also gathering the faith of the believers.
However, the monsters in Luoyi city had completely fallen into Extreme Evil and would only instinctively worship at the pagodas, offering up their incense fire evil thoughts.
As long as Lin Xun killed the four main targets and erected an idol of the Son of Evil in the pagoda, he could seamlessly inherit the city’s incense fire evil thoughts.
[You and the White Elephant Demon passed through a group of Extreme Evil Monsters and arrived at the towering ’Four Venerable King Buddha Pagoda.’]
[The Four Venerable King Buddha Pagoda soared into the clouds, consisting of the base, the pagoda body, the secret eaves, and the stupa, with the exterior being twelve-sided.]
[From the outside, the pagoda body had fifteen tiered eaves, with low walls between eaves, but it was unknown how many levels there were inside the pagoda.]
[Above the secret eaves, the stupa comprised of a Treasure Bead, a Sevenfold Wheel, and a Treasure-cased Lotus Umbrella.]
[The entire outer wall of the pagoda was coated with white lime, and among the low walls of the eaves, there were colorful murals depicting the Four Venerable Kings subduing demons and eradicating evil.]
[Looking up, the pagoda, which should have been majestic and awe-inspiring, was now covered with a gloomy, evil blackness. The numerous Extreme Evil Monsters wandering there would bow their heads in worship, making the evil blackness and evil thoughts above the pagoda even denser.]
[You and the White Elephant Demon entered the ’Four Venerable King Buddha Pagoda’...]
[The first floor of the pagoda was circular, with murals of the ’Western Venerable King of Karmic Retribution’ along the inner circle. The Venerable King, clad in armor and wielding double maces, was imposing and solemn.]
[Apart from the murals, the first floor also held various items of worship, such as rosaries, Treasure Lids, Buddha Flags, Lotus Colors, incense burners, and wooden fish, but the statue of the ’Western Venerable King of Karmic Retribution’ was notably absent.]
[You and the White Elephant searched but found nothing valuable, nor were there any Extreme Evil Monsters in the pagoda, so you continued up the stone stairs to the second floor.]
[The second floor was identical to the first, with the only difference being the absence of the main door of the pagoda and the mural of the ’Western Venerable King of Karmic Retribution’ being replaced with the ’Eastern Heaven Destruction Venerable King’ holding a pipa. However, this Venerable King’s statue was also not present.]
[After an unsuccessful search, you continued upward...]
[The third floor featured the ’North Demon Heaven Destruction Venerable King’ holding a treasure umbrella, and the fourth floor depicted the ’Southern Salvation Destruction Venerable King’ holding a Wisdom Sword.]
[You continued up the stone stairs to the fifth floor of the Buddha...]
[Your eyes flashed with countless characters. You hadn’t seen the statues of the Venerable Kings on the previous four floors, so the statues of these four protector deities must be on the fifth floor of the pagoda.]
[You had specially noted the overall height of the pagoda from the outside and measured the height of each layer inside with your naked eyes, easily calculating that the pagoda had five floors in total.]
Lin Xunxin carefully pondered.
According to the information divulged by White Elephant Senior Brother, these four kings were blood siblings who were inseparable in daily life.
Therefore, upon seeing the statues of the four kings, he couldn’t directly destroy any of them to avoid the tactless act of prompting all four kings to come down together.
He needed a way to make each of the four kings come down individually, ensuring that the enemies could not use their joint divine power together.
At the very least, he wanted to make one king come down first. After dealing with one, even if the other three came down together, they couldn’t use the full version of their joint divine power, thus posing no significant threat to him.
[As soon as you and the White Elephant Demon reached the fifth floor of the pagoda, you both were immediately taken aback!]
[There were no statues of the four kings here, but, similar to the first floor, it featured a mural of the ’Western Venerable King of Karmic Retribution,’ with the surrounding worship items and objects such as the Buddha beads and Buddha flags arranged exactly like on the first floor.]
