Infinite Professions

Chapter 403: Chapter 209: Authority (Part 2)

Suddenly, there was a loud bang as the lotus platform exploded. Venerable Red Lotus flipped through the air, taking several steps in the void before barely stabilizing his body. However, the Buddha crown on his head was askew, and his kasaya was stained with red.

Upon closer inspection, it was indeed a sword, piercing through his chest.

Holding the wound with one hand, Red Lotus was shocked and enraged: "This is not the Celestial-Commanding Sword!"

"This is the Demon-slaying Sword!"

Shen Hex smiled, following up with another sword strike, not giving his opponent any room to breathe.

"Who exactly are you?"

Venerable Red Lotus gritted his teeth and had to urge the Red Lotus Buddha Fire again to withstand the pressure of the lethal sword momentum.

But against the unmatched Daoist Sword, the Red Lotus Buddha Fire was insufficient, and lotus blossoms were pierced by sword qi, exploding like fireworks in the air, making it difficult for him to dodge behind them, left and right struggling, in constant peril.

This predicament greatly frightened Red Lotus’s heart.

He originally thought Shen Hex was a newly promoted Sixth Grade, with shallow roots and insufficient foundation, and coming to the Red Lotus Temple without proper justification, although he had caught some leverage against him, it was not enough to convict and exercise the Authority of Righteous Law.

Without the Authority of Righteous Law, how could he, a Subordinate God, challenge him, a Local God?

Both being Sixth Grade True Gods, himself as the Master of Red Lotus, wielding power at his discretion, whereas Song Xiang belonged to the Punishment Department under the Prefecture City’s City God Mansion, with a Military Judge above and a City God at the top, balancing power among two Upper Gods, preventing reckless actions.

According to normal procedures, he must submit this matter to Jinyang Prefecture, where the Jinyang Prefecture City God approves the order for legal action against the Red Lotus Temple, only then could he act upon the command, maximizing the use of the Authority of Righteous Law.

However, he hadn’t received this order, lacking justification, his power was restricted, a newly promoted Sixth Grade with limited Divine Power, no matter how you looked at it, he shouldn’t be his opponent.

Why now...

He couldn’t understand, couldn’t understand at all!

But now, whether he understood or not, it made no difference.

Facing the pressing lethal sword momentum, Red Lotus gritted his teeth and finally decided not to hold back.

"Where are the Red Lotus Monks!?"

With a loud shout, Buddha Fire burned the sky, and the void turned red again.

Red Lotus forcefully urged his Divine Power, repelling one sword from Shen Hex, then leaping into the air, sitting again on a high lotus platform.

At the same time, meteor-like flaming fireballs appeared, and squads of monk soldiers arrived, their bodies flickering with red light, each carrying the Red Lotus Buddha Fire, the Red Lotus Monk Soldiers.

Three thousand monk soldiers flew in, entering the battlefield and forming an array, their bodies burning with Red Lotus Buddha Fire resonating with the Red Lotus Realm, enhancing the realm’s power, the array’s ability, and the might of Daoist majesty.

"Boom!!!"

Suddenly, red fire burned the sky, the Red Lotus Temple transformed into Buddha’s Fire Prison, with the Power of Fire Virtue reaching its peak, being grasped by the Deities.

"Ah!"

"Divine Monarch!"

In this Buddha’s Prison, cries of suffering resounded, it was Li Yunqing and the Flower-Scattering Celestial Maiden, unable to withstand the Buddha’s fire purification, collapsing to the ground, their faces flushed, bodies steaming, unable to endure further.

Shen Hex’s expression did not change, with a wave of his sleeve, sword light shot out, collecting Li Yunqing and the Celestial Maidens into his sleeve.

Meanwhile, in the high sky, Venerable Red Lotus sat on the lotus platform, linked to the formation of three thousand Red Lotus Monk Soldiers, Daoist Techniques flowing, the whole Red Lotus Realm lit with flames, pavilions, and temples all burning.

It was the ultimate display of the Authority of Fire Virtue.

As a Daoist Lord and Divine Monarch, Venerable Red Lotus sat on the lotus platform, displaying the appearance of a Buddha in Nirvana Rebirth, resembling a God of Fire Virtue descending to the world, dignified and inviolable.

Hot! Burn! Incinerate!

The blazing Red Lotus Buddha Fire, not only ignited temples, and deities, and Daoist Soldiers but also lit the sky and earth, everywhere, one sees a world filled with Red Lotus Buddha Fire, allowing nothing else to exist.

Not only in the Underworld, but even in the Mortal World...

"What’s going on?"

"So hot!"

"Where’s the fire?"

In the Mortal World, chaos arose.

Within the Red Lotus Temple, intense heat erupted, the temperature rapidly rising, causing panic among the temple monks.

The Hall of Hell with the Painted Wall was especially severe, where those inside and martial monks seemed scorched by the void, as if placed in lava, sweating like rain, immediately evaporated.

"What’s happening?"

"It’s so hot!"

"I can’t take it!"

In such heat, who could endure it, a group of gentry struggled to their feet, the martial monks guarding them wanted to stop them but couldn’t withstand the heat either, joining the escape outside the hall.

Just outside, before catching their breath, they saw the temple aglow with red light, especially the central Grand Enlightened Hero Hall and main buildings, engulfed in red light, like being in a sea of fire.

"Run, there’s a fire!"

"Flee quickly!"

"No, if it’s a fire, why is there no smoke?"

"It’s not fire, it’s light!"

"The Buddha has shown a miracle!"

Seeing this, some fled in fear, others knelt in devotion, and the mighty Red Lotus Temple fell into chaos.

In the Underworld, within the realm, the Red Lotus Temple had become a fiery prison trapping one person to be fully refined.

Above, filled with Red Lotus Buddha Fire, Venerable Red Lotus sat solemnly on the lotus platform, and the murderous intent was evident in his eyes as he looked at the person inside the prison.

Red Lotus Buddha Prison!

This is the ultimate manifestation of the Red Lotus Buddha Fire and a related Buddhist scripture story in the Red Lotus Temple, telling how Venerable Red Lotus was reincarnated from a Fire Spirit Pearl, born into the Mortal World and entering the Void Gate, becoming the founding Red Lotus Master of the Red Lotus Temple, possessing the Divine Techniques of Red Lotus Buddha Fire to subdue demons.

Later, Master Red Lotus fought a great demon for three days and nights, and in the end, the Red Lotus Fire was exhausted and still could not subdue it. Unable to bear the demon’s havoc, Master Red Lotus set himself as fuel to reignite the Buddha Fire, finally creating a Buddha Prison to refine the demon within.

Thus, Master Red Lotus’s merit was perfected, and he was reborn in Nirvana within the Buddha Prison, becoming Venerable Red Lotus!