Between the peaks, there were broken walls and broken tiles everywhere. Occasionally, there were huge steel incense burners and the remains of statues.
Huge wooden beams and pillars that required many people to wrap their arms around had long decayed. But looking at their huge appearance, one could imagine how magnificent they must have been in the past.
There was a towering mountain with an entire side that was carved into the shape of a Buddha. But at this moment, only the two legs of the base remained. The upper part had been completely destroyed.
But just the thickness of the feet of the Buddha was close to a height of ten feet. One could imagine how huge the Buddha statue must have been.
Even a cultivator would be shocked just thinking about it. If it was someone from the secular world, they would probably worship it immediately.
But now, it was just a pile of ruins.
Lin Feng believed that when the Buddha was complete in the past, it was not just an ordinary statue. It had a strong Buddhist nature and Buddhist power. It was the condensation of the prayers of all the Buddhist disciples in the world. It was pure and vast.
Standing in front of the ruins of the Big Thunderclap Temple, Lin Feng had a strong feeling about the vicissitudes of life.
The ten thousand year old temple, the Great Thunder Temple that was one of the three great holy lands along with the Void Temple and the Shushan Sword Sect, the holy land of tens of thousands of Buddhist disciples. The temple was filled with experts and great powers, but in the end it was still destroyed, completely falling. It could only leave behind a sigh for those who came later.
Looking at the ruins of the Big Thunderclap Temple in front of him, Lin Feng felt a strong sense of urgency. He kept on raising his guard.
As powerful as the Temple of Thunder was, under the siege of so many heroes, it still ended up being destroyed. The Celestial Sect of Xuan, which was still like a young seedling, didn't even need to be mentioned. One wrong step and they would be in danger.
The battle of Kunlun Mountain was just the beginning.
Lin Feng walked slowly in the ruins. Looking at the completely desolate Big Thunderclap Temple, he felt the changes from prosperity to decline.
"Vajra Hall, Heavenly King Hall, Arhat Hall, Prajna Hall, Bodhi Hall …" Along the way, Lin Feng saw more than a dozen plaques with names that he could still recognize. Roughly estimating, there were probably more than a thousand courtyards in the Tempest Temple before it was destroyed.
In the past, among the Three Great Holy Lands, Taixu Temple was a pure elite sect. Its disciples were relatively few in number, but every disciple was a genius among geniuses.
There were many disciples in the Shushan Sword Sect, but the path of sword cultivation was easy at the beginning and difficult at the end. It was easy to get started, and one's combat power was strong in the same realm. However, the higher one went, the more difficult it would be to cultivate.
Compared to the huge number of disciples, the great sword cultivators who could truly reach the Yuanying stage were relatively rare. All of them were extremely talented and had outstanding willpower.
Generally speaking, the structure of the cultivators of the Mount Shu Sword Sect was in the shape of a standard pyramid.
On the other hand, the Big Thunderclap Temple opened its doors wide. As long as one was sincere to Buddha, one could be accepted as a disciple. Therefore, the number of disciples was the highest among the Three Great Holy Lands. At its peak, there were more than a hundred thousand disciples.
The Buddhist techniques that the Big Thunderclap Temple imparted to its disciples had a low requirement for one's foundation. The key was to look at one's willpower, as well as enlightenment. Therefore, although there were many disciples, the success rate was actually very high.
The problem for the Big Thunderclap Temple was that it was too difficult to truly cultivate the Golden Body of the Primordial Spirit. However, the middle and upper echelons of the Yuanying and Golden Elixir period were extremely powerful.
At its peak, the Big Thunderclap Temple was called Three Thousand Arhats and Five Hundred Enlightenment by the outside world.
Arhat and Enlightenment were both Karmic Positions in Buddhism. The monks of the Big Thunderclap Temple would not call themselves that. This was a saying that spread among the people of other forces. It was somewhat teasing, but it was also because they were shocked and even terrified.
The so-called Three Thousand Arhats and Five Hundred Enlightenment meant that there were three thousand Golden Elixir and five hundred Yuanying!
This saying might be a little exaggerated, especially when the number of Yuanying Realm was largely exaggerated. However, one could also see the vigorous strength of the Big Thunderclap Temple, especially the vigorous strength of the Golden Elixir period and Yuanying Realm.
In the past, there was a very popular saying that if Rogue Cultivators were not included, the number of Golden Elixir period and Yuanying Realm cultivators of the Big Thunderclap Temple was close to the total number of Golden Elixir and Yuanying Realm cultivators of the other sects in the Divine Land.
Although they were called the Three Great Holy Lands, in fact, in the eyes of the people at that time, there were differences between the holy lands.
The Taixu Temple was the number one holy land since ancient times, and the second was the Big Thunderclap Temple. Although the Mount Shu Sword Sect was not convinced, they could not do anything for a long time.
Many people thought that if it was not for the low probability of Yuanying Realm cultivators of the Big Thunderclap Temple advancing to the Primordial Soul Realm, with the huge number of Yuanying Realm cultivators of the Big Thunderclap Temple, they would have long replaced the Taixu Temple as the number one holy land.
The previous war with the Demon Realm had greatly weakened the strength of the Big Thunderclap Temple, but it was still a giant that attracted the attention of everyone in the Divine Land.
Such a strong force happened to be located in the hinterland of the Great Zhou Dynasty. How could this not make Liang Pan and Zhu Hongwu feel as if there was a fishbone stuck in their throat?
Lin Feng walked among the ruins of the temple and sighed softly, "This kind of Big Thunderclap Temple has made the radical faction in the Taixu Temple feel uneasy, but there are still many doubts. Why did the conservative faction in the Taixu Temple allow the War of Buddhist Extermination to happen?"
Other than the war with the Demon Realm, the two most tragic wars in the Divine Land of the human cultivation world in the past ten thousand years were the War of Righteousness and Diabolism and the War of Buddhist Extermination. These two wars directly changed the power structure of the Divine Land.
The former completely established the situation of the rise of Daoism and the disappearance of Diabolism. Since then, the Diabolism became weak and completely became a rat that people wanted to kill. Even a giant like the Reincarnation Sect was gradually washed ashore.
Even if the Diabolism occasionally produced a few fierce and ambitious people who could shine for a while, they could not avoid the fate of being suppressed and exterminated in the end.
The latter was the War of Buddhist Extermination. From then on, the Buddhist holy land, the Big Thunderclap Temple, was removed from the human cultivation world.
The Great Zhou Dynasty alone would not be able to do this, no matter how many helpers he gathered.
But with the intervention of the Shu Mountain Sword Sect and the Taixu Temple, this seemingly impossible task finally became a reality.
However, the price was extremely heavy. Back then, the Marquis of Xuanji, Zhu Hongwu, single-handedly trained a scale of thirty thousand people. It was the strongest Divine Martial Army in history. More than twenty thousand people were forever sleeping in the mountains in front of them.
And in the camp of the Coalition Army of Buddhist Extermination, just the number of Primordial Spirit almighty cultivators that died was not a small number.
The Shu Mountain Sword Sect, which was also a holy land, had a total of four Primordial Spirit level sword venerables fall in this battle. Among them, there was even a great sword cultivator who had cultivated to the second level of the Primordial Spirit level.
And the Great Zhou Dynasty's losses were even more serious. If it was not for Liang Pan and Zhu Hongwu's ingenious and vicious methods, swallowing and digesting the majority of the spoils of this battle, the Great Zhou Dynasty would very likely not be able to recover from this setback. There was no need to mention their powerful position today.
"Among the spoils of war, I'm afraid this is the place?" Lin Feng looked at the collapsed pagodas in front of him and sighed.
This was the Great Thunderclap Monastery's forest of pagodas. It was the burial place of generations of eminent monks and worshiped their ashes and relics.
At this moment, these pagodas were completely destroyed, and the relics that were stored in them were also taken away by others.
Buddhist almighty cultivators who had formed the Primordial Spirit Golden Body naturally had an unlimited lifespan. However, they could also be killed by external forces. The remains of the fallen buddhist almighty cultivators would also be brought back to the Great Thunderclap Monastery by their fellow disciples.
In this forest of pagodas, there were even relics of buddhist almighty cultivators who had formed the Golden Body.
The relics contained the essence of the buddhist almighty cultivators when they were alive. Now that these things had been dug away, one could imagine the outcome.
Lin Feng opened his palm and 24 Buddhist Relic Beads appeared in the air. This was what he had obtained from a buddhist disciple in the past.
A hole silently appeared on the ground. Lin Feng placed all the Buddhist Relic Beads in his hand into the hole. Then, the hole silently disappeared.
After doing all this, Lin Feng continued forward and circled to the other side of the pagoda forest. There was an extremely large hole in the ground there.
The body of Lin Feng's iron tree clone suddenly started to tremble slightly. He was well aware that this deep pit was left behind by the Salo Iron Tree that was planted here back then.
Back then, the Divine Martial Immortal Execution Formation that forcibly broke the Vairocana Formation was also destroyed by this Shura Iron Tree.
Although the Shenwu Army was too exhausted, the mature Shura Iron Tree was able to resist the attack of the formation. This was a testament to its power.
Unfortunately, the tree was still destroyed in the end. Even its roots were completely broken, leaving behind this big hole.
The Tie Shu clone slowly walked down the slope of the pit, all the way to the bottom, and then sat down cross-legged.
Although it was completely destroyed, a centipede would never fall down. Even after more than two decades, this deep hole still contained the aura of the Shura Iron Tree from back then.
It was very weak, but it truly existed.
Silently sensing this aura, Lin Feng could clearly sense the slightest changes due to the fact that the Shura Iron Tree had the same origin as the Shura Iron Tree.
He sat there for a long time. After a long time, Lin Feng suddenly opened his eyes one day.
Without any warning, a large crack suddenly appeared in the void. A thick twisting bolt of lightning came crashing down on Lin Feng's head!
His Shura Iron Tree clone was about to undergo a lightning tribulation and reach the Yuanying stage.
Once it reached the Yuanying stage, the clone's strength would take a big step forward.
Lin Feng calmly faced the bombardment of the lightning tribulation. He was neither anxious nor impatient.
For the past half a year, he had left the Shura Iron Tree clone in the Black Heaven Time Light Grotto-Heaven to cultivate. Under the hundred-fold acceleration of time, he had already prepared for decades. He had accumulated abundant spiritual qi, and the Shura Iron Tree clone had enough capital, so he had a high chance of surviving the lightning tribulation.
Moreover, Lin Feng's main body had survived the lightning tribulation and had experienced it. The Shura Iron Tree clone just needed to complete the final procedure and complete it.
However, just as the Shura Iron Tree clone was undergoing the tribulation, Lin Feng suddenly sensed a malicious intent spying on him, as if it wanted to take advantage of his misfortune.
That malicious intent exuded a deep aura of greed, viciousness, and cunning, making one feel very uncomfortable.
Lin Feng ignored it and continued to focus on controlling the Shura Iron Tree clone to undergo the baptism of the Void lightning tribulation.
The Shura Iron Tree clone's method of transcending the tribulation was the same as that of the Demon race. It also released the golden elixir outside its body and directly received the bombardment of the lightning tribulation.
When the lightning gradually subsided, the golden elixir of the Shura Iron Tree clone made a crisp sound, like a cracked egg.
However, these cracks were not cracks of damage or destruction. Instead, they were filled with the aura of new life.
Light seeped out of the cracks, and a fresh fragrance wafted out.
At the same time, the malicious intent spying on him became more and more obvious, becoming restless.
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