Chapter 1 Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, Three Thousand Six Hundred Revolutions per Breath, Great Compassion Saving All!

Firearms might be a bit lacking when it comes to fighting deities, but against demons and monsters, they deal real damage, sweeping across a wide area in the truest sense. The principle behind it is simply the mutual restraint of yin and yang; all changes are rooted in this.

Moreover, this "Rotating Wheel Cannon" is not only the world's first in terms of weapon form, but also the first wish-fulfilling treasure blessed by a complete firearms manual. Furthermore, Zhang Tianshi engraved the Great Divine Spell of the Big Dipper on it with true immortal magic. As long as it fires, it can draw upon the power of all firearms in the world and connect with the power of the Heavenly Great Sage!

The old abbot was dumbfounded, watching the heavenly demon being swept away by the gunfire. It was said that he had no magic power, but he had still dug out demonic energy. The abbot had thought he was going to devour both the incense offerings and the demonic energy together, after all, he was a heavenly demon. Later, he discovered that the man knew Buddhist dharma, thinking that a demonic Buddha was still a Buddha and might purify the demonic energy. He never expected this to be the method of purification!

This doesn't seem right! What kind of weapon is this? I've been practicing Buddhism for decades, and although I wasn't present at the Honno-ji Incident, I've seen ordinary firearms. Why have I never seen this style of firearm before!

What advanced weapon from the Ming Dynasty!

"You, you're exorcising demons?"

"What else? This thing is much more effective than spells!"

Ji Xiang, caught up in the excitement of the battle, naturally responded to the old abbot's question: "Any means of subduing demons are fine. If Buddhist dharma can't subdue them, then Daoist magic will. If Daoist magic can't subdue them, then demonic methods will. If demonic methods can't subdue them, then firearms will."

The gun barrels at the front of the Rotating Wheel Cannon glowed with fiery light. A large amount of demonic energy was destroyed, replaced by the pungent smell of sulfur burning completely. The old abbot's demonic transformation in one eye gradually receded, and the areas of his flesh corrupted by demonic energy returned to normal. This made him sigh with emotion; the smell of gunpowder, which usually represented warfare, seemed so pleasant at this moment!

However, while he was being freed from demonic transformation, those Buddhist disciples who had been left outside were not so lucky. Under the corruption of the external demonic energy, they had completely transformed into ferocious Yaksha monsters!

Over ten feet tall, with an extremely strange appearance, two pairs of huge fleshy wings growing from their backs, fiery mouths and electric eyes, disheveled red hair, blue faces and hairy bodies, two fleshy horns, and four teeth like sharp blades.

"Flying Yaksha!"

The old abbot's heart bled. Those Yaksha monsters, originally wielding ordinary Buddhist implements, even brooms for sweeping the floor, and wooden sticks for training, were all tainted by demonic energy. The flesh on these Yakshas' bodies wriggled,缠绕around these implements, and in the blink of an eye, transformed them into terrifying demon weapons!

Sticks became bone and flesh forks, alms bowls transformed into human head meat hammers, even growing mouths and eyes, spinning around and emitting painful wails! For a time, demonic sounds filled Honno-ji Temple!

The Yakshas flapped their wings, some soaring into the sky, others smashing down to the ground, all with a single goal: to pounce and kill Ji Xiang!

"Flying Yaksha, appearing with light, killed by thunder magic and firearms!"

"You marked-for-death fools, I see you don't want to live."

Ji Xiang reversed the direction of the gun!

He had used firearms to kill dozens of Flying Yakshas back in the Misty Dragon Casino. How dare these low-grade demon ghosts from Buddhism act presumptuously in front of him?

"Their Buddhist dharma cultivation was not profound enough, leading to this regrettable state, corrupted into such fur-wearing, horn-bearing creatures, born of moisture and eggs!"

"This poor Daoist will now deliver you, and relieve your suffering!"

The firearms unleashed a fierce barrage, blasting the onrushing Yakshas into a mess of flesh and bones! Ji Xiang then pointed the muzzle of the Rotating Wheel Cannon towards the sky, a burst of thunder rumbling. With the continuous bombardment of the Rotating Wheel Cannon, blood sprayed across the sky, like a vast ocean pouring down, raining down a shower of flesh and blood within Honno-ji Temple!

Ji Xiang, caught up in the excitement, held the Rotating Wheel Cannon in one hand, and with the other, drew the Five Thunder Divine Mechanism from his waist, supplementing the areas that the Rotating Wheel Cannon couldn't reach. The sounds of explosions never ceased, and countless Yakshas were blown away with their heads exploded by the Five Thunder Divine Mechanism!

Fortunately, most of the accomplished monks in Honno-ji Temple had fled, ordered by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to search for Ji Xiang's whereabouts. Otherwise, those monks would also have fallen into demonic corruption at this time, which might have made the fight more difficult for Ji Xiang.

After all, these miscellaneous Yaksha soldiers could be killed with one shot to the head, but if it were an accomplished monk transformed into a Yaksha, it would probably take two shots.

If the headshot time is too long, it's easy to expose weaknesses.

"Seven Primordial Stars of the Big Dipper, divine energy governing the heavens, Heavenly Great Sage, awe-inspiring light!"

Ji Xiang also began to recite the Great Divine Spell of the Big Dipper, using the little bit of magic power he had just recovered. He shook his sleeves, and a pile of firearms fell out.

Under the blessing of the divine spell, these firearms suddenly flew into the air and fired wildly in all directions!

The entire Honno-ji Temple was almost blown into the sky. Everything was swept clean, even the rotten flesh that had been blasted on the ground was scorched. The firearms lost their magical support and fell to the ground one by one, causing Ji Xiang to lament that they were, after all, cheap goods.

A small portion of these firearms were brought by Ji Xiang from the Ming army, and the majority were confiscated during the attacks on various Japanese castles.

Bird guns, Sihai Bo, hand cannons, medium cannons, shoulder-mounted cannons... a chaotic mess of weapons. Many were damaged, but for Ji Xiang, as long as they were affixed with the Five Thunder Magic Charm, they were still a good batch of disposable consumables.

The old abbot was also stunned.

Where did so many weapons and equipment come from his sleeves?

No, this is a divine power! Is it the Great Divine Power of Qiankun in the Sleeve?

Various countries have similar divine powers circulating, which are also divided into different levels. The powerful ones can contain the heavens and the earth within them, and with a turn of their sleeves, they can transform people into another world and trap them. The weaker types can also hold seven or eight thousand catties of grain. It can be said that this type of divine power, whether in actual combat or in practicality, is first-class, and therefore not so easy to learn.

The old abbot watched for dozens of seconds, and then suddenly came back to his senses, realizing something, his face changing between green and white, both furious and sorrowful!

He had been so busy watching that outrageous Heavenly Demon shooting monsters everywhere that he had just remembered that those Yakshas he was shooting were all disciples of his own sect!

"They're all dead! These are all my Honno-ji Temple's Buddhist sons and grandsons!"

The old abbot wanted to cry but had no tears!

"What's done is done. They've all turned into Yakshas, did you still want to save them? Save your breath. You yourself almost turned into a big Yaksha, and you're still thinking about saving them? With such a huge amount of demonic energy, once a Buddhist follower is transformed, they can't be saved."

Ji Xiang swept away these Yakshas, but the demonic energy was not completely eliminated. That attack had used up a batch of firearms, and consumed a lot of Thunder Charms, along with the little bit of magic power that Ji Xiang had just recovered.

Fortunately, although the demonic energy had not been completely eliminated, it had been suppressed, and the world was slightly cleaner. Ji Xiang walked to the position of the Buddha statue where Akechi Mitsuhide had been, and then stepped on it, lifting a large area of the ground in front of him, along with a quarter of the building!

If he didn't have magic power, he still had his physical body!

At the Yuan Shen level, his physical body had already reached the peak of Jindan Dao, capable of blasting open a mound head-on, and tearing apart demon kings who had cultivated inner cores with his bare hands. Tearing down a great hall was a simple task!

Ji Xiang lifted everything that was pressing on the ground, and beneath it appeared a huge standing corpse. This was no longer the body of an ordinary person, but a product with Oda Nobunaga's corpse as its core, sewn together with the bodies of other mortal generals.

It was a mountain of flesh, but Ji Xiang had seen it several times before, so he was not too surprised. He took the Five Thunder Divine Mechanism and fired two shots at the bottom.

This demon god's body was invulnerable to swords and spears, and even firearms could not harm it. The gunpowder thunder talismans only splashed out bursts of sparks and thunder when they hit it, as if the body was cast in steel and iron, indestructible. The huge incense power was sealed inside the demon corpse, only leaking out a little from the seven orifices.

"Although it's an ordinary demon god, not yet at the level of Mara, my magic power is now at its limit, and firearms can't hurt him either. This physical body is probably top-notch in the mortal realm. If I want to hurt it, I can only rely on immortal methods."

"Although I have a few immortal artifacts, I don't have the magic power to activate them..."

Ji Xiang touched the large number of swords inserted in his waist. Should he be able to split this thing open with one sword strike?

"Ksitigarbha, won't you lend me some magic power?"

Ji Xiang mentally asked for help from Karuna Vajra, who also smiled wryly: "In these days, one battle after another, you haven't been idle either. From using the shadow god's magic in Korea, sneaking around everywhere, stirring up the heart demons of those Japanese generals, causing them to rebel, and maintaining the existence of the shadow soldiers, and now crossing the sea to come to Japan, your magic power should have been exhausted long ago!"

"Moreover, this is not a tributary state of the Ming Dynasty. When you come to the enemy's territory, the recovery of magic power is naturally slow, and even I am suppressed."

"Although I have no national distinctions, my true body is in the human realm of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, and I don't belong to any particular country, so no country will actively help me. Therefore, I am suppressed wherever I go. Your state is very bad now, and my state is even worse."

"If I were to activate my magic power again, I'm afraid even this incarnation of Karuna Vajra would dissipate."

Ji Xiang scratched his head, somewhat puzzled: "Don't you have Ksitigarbha worship here in Japan?"

Karuna Vajra: "You stirred up such a mess in Higashiyomi, where would there be my worship now? The Ksitigarbha statues on the roadside have all been pushed over. Don't believe me, go ask that old monk."

As soon as Ji Xiang heard this, he turned to ask the abbot, who was strange to hear Ji Xiang ask, "This monk sees that the Great Demon can use the methods of Ksitigarbha, could it be that there is some connection? But since the Great Demon is an enemy of our country, then the order issued by Lord Kanpaku earlier to destroy all Ksitigarbha statues makes sense."

"Damn it."

Only then did Ji Xiang understand why Karuna Vajra's state here had deteriorated. Moreover, the role of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva here was as a protector of children, but for Hideyoshi, he didn't care about protecting children now. He wished he could use magic to make the children grow up immediately and then throw them to the front lines to serve as soldiers.

A mere Ksitigarbha worship, abolishing it was nothing. It wasn't like they hadn't done such things in the past. In the end, every country had similar operations. In short, if this belief affected the ruling authority, it would be destroyed without hesitation.

Ji Xiang thought for a moment that there were also the Three Wu and One Zong persecutions of Buddhism in Zhongtu, and the destruction of faith was even greater. For those gods and Buddhas, it was a major shock. After all, although the power of these gods was also inherited by cultivators, since they had inherited the divine position, it was equivalent to the earthly incarnation of that god. Changes made by the earthly dynasties would also have an impact on their state.

But at this moment, a voice suddenly came from the void, actually from the grimace of the Ucchusma Vajra.

"I will lend you a divine weapon to kill this demon god. If you don't hurry, this thing will wake up. First, you must break his physical body in order to restore your strength and obtain that incense power... I will help you, but there are conditions!"

"My name is Tamra!"

It was a great ghost from the Avici Hell speaking. This time it wasn't the Mahamayuri Vidyarajni!

Tamra, like Candala, was originally a person's name, but later it referred to a great sin. Tamra, however, was the one who killed the Buddha with a sword!

Ji Xiang was strange, he had just closed the grimace, and had not used the Black Finger, how could a saint of hell take the initiative to contact him?

"Hehe, no need to wonder! It's because that hungry ghost was too fierce. In fact, it still has a connection with the grimace on your left hand. It hasn't completely eaten that hungry ghost yet!"

"There is a trace of aura on that hungry ghost, piercing through the barrier between hell and the human world, connecting to the outside..."

Ji Xiang stretched out his left hand and found that the grimace was indeed not smiling.

This ghostly thing usually smiles very happily, but now it was suddenly unhappy, so there must be a problem.

"My magic power is exhausted, and I can't sense this kind of aura... Then, let's take this as true. Who are you? Could it be that you also want to chop off a hand for me to use?"

The great ghost of hell burst out laughing: "I wouldn't dare! Only the Mahamayuri Vidyarajni dared to use his hand to pry open the gate of Avici Hell! And even then he had a finger broken off. I don't have the guts to use my hand to pry it open, but it is possible to send dead objects across hell!"

"The Hungry Ghost Realm is closest to the human world. Using the Break Truth Mantra Hell Spell, you can send items over there. What's more, haven't you always been able to use this grimace to call for Jāmbūnada gold from us... You catch another ghost and send it in, and I'll send you a weapon..."

Ji Xiang: "The Mahamayuri Vidyarajni once taught me the mantra to break poison, and his requirement is that I must release him in the future. Is your requirement the same?"

"No... there's no need to come out... I was also once a Bodhisattva... but now I can't remember many things. I want you to meet someone..."

"Wait..."

Before he could finish speaking, the grimace suddenly smiled, interrupting the conversation. This guy seemed to have completely eaten the hungry ghost transformed from Akechi Mitsuhide, which made Ji Xiang want to punch it in the face when he looked at its smiling face.

But hitting this punch would be like the right hand hitting the left hand...

Ji Xiang's face was full of unhappiness. There was a demon corpse under the temple, but he couldn't grab it. Ji Xiang went outside to search, but the previous Yakshas had been killed cleanly by firearms. Now, when he wanted to catch a ghost, there was nothing to catch!

"It was said that there would be eight million gods and a hundred ghosts walking at night, but now there aren't even any demons to kill? When that monstrous demonic energy rose to the sky, I should have left two small Yakshas!"

"Now that I can't recover for a while, it seems I have to run away and find a safe place first."

Honno-ji Temple had caused such a big commotion, and this place was still a large town, it was impossible not to cause a stir.

As Ji Xiang said this, he walked outside. At this time, the old abbot rushed out and actually offered to lead the way for Ji Xiang, which puzzled Ji Xiang.

"You should report this matter to Toyotomi Hideyoshi now, and then have people come to kill me, right?"

The old abbot hurriedly said: "What is the Great Demon saying! This Honno-ji Temple has a demon god nurtured beneath it, and this old monk's years of cultivation have all been sacrifices for the demon god. In the past, I did not know the truth, but now that I have learned about this matter, if Kanpaku were to find out, I'm afraid I would be hard-pressed to live. How could I still go to report to Lord Kanpaku?"

"You are an enemy from overseas, but this old monk doesn't want to die like this! This old monk is not afraid of death, but afraid of being made into this kind of demon monster!"

Death was nothing to be afraid of. Buddhism cultivated for the afterlife, but to be made into a demon monster after death, wouldn't this whole lifetime of cultivation become the basic foundation for the demon head, and one would never be able to be reincarnated? Who could withstand this!

The old abbot thought that he wasn't considered to be defecting to the enemy, at most he was just escaping for his life. Anyway, the people in this temple had all turned into Yakshas, and now that he had run away, who would know whether he was dead or alive? In any case, the Yakshas, Buddhist followers, and hungry ghosts were all killed by this Heavenly Demon, and it had nothing to do with him. He was just watching the show the whole time, and now that he had obtained Jāmbūnada gold, it was a good time to improve his cultivation. Why would he lose double the happiness at this time.

"This is Kyoto, where the Emperor is located, but something happened a few days ago, and it is said that the Emperor has turned into rotten flesh..."

"If you want incense power, there is actually another good place..."

"The Shinto shrines!"

Better to sacrifice a dead friend than a poor monk! Shintoism has shown signs of rising in recent years, while Buddhism has begun to decline. Now that he has found a Heavenly Demon, he can both suppress the arrogance of Shintoism and rob them for a wave, and he doesn't have to take responsibility, and he is happy. Where can he find such a good thing!

"Here is the largest shrine... no, it's a Grand Shrine! It is said that that Grand Shrine was built during the Tang Dynasty in Zhongtu, and its name is—"

"Heian Shrine!"

Kyoto was very large, far away from where Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the others were, and coupled with the fact that Ji Xiang's magic power was temporarily exhausted, it would be difficult for them to find Ji Xiang's whereabouts.

And the architecture and style of everything in this Heian Shrine were all learned from the Tang Dynasty in Zhongtu, and it was precisely because of this shrine that Kyoto had another name—Heian-kyo.