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 Chapter 3253: How Did They Disappear So Quickly

With Little Mei's current level of understanding, she couldn't comprehend Lin Moyu's words. She didn't know why someone who was always smiling could be pitiful.

In her mind, Big Belly Ancient Buddha had status, power, and could be so happy every day, so why would he be pitiful?

Lin Moyu sighed, "Without sorrow, where does joy come from? A person's seven emotions are all relative. Missing even one means you're not a complete person."

Little Mei murmured, "Joy, anger, worry, thought, sorrow, fear, surprise... Teacher, do you ever feel afraid?"

Lin Moyu said, "I used to be afraid, but after being afraid so many times I got used to it. Perhaps deep in my soul there's still fear, but as long as your dao heart is strong, you can control all kinds of emotions."

"It's like people who don't show joy or anger on their faces. It's not that they don't have those emotions, they're just able to control them."

"This is the second principle of cultivation I want to teach you - you must cultivate your dao heart."

"To become a truly strong person, you need an extremely powerful dao heart. In many cases, the dao heart is even more important than cultivation realm."

Little Mei asked, "Then what exactly is the dao heart?"

Lin Moyu shook his head, "It's hard to explain. You need to experience it yourself. But I can tell you two words: control!"

Little Mei firmly remembered these two words. Although she didn't fully understand now, she believed she would naturally understand in the future.

In Lin Moyu's view, Big Belly Ancient Buddha was pitiful.

He had seen the Three Lives secret technique and the Two Worlds Buddha technique. He knew that when splitting the soul, in order to keep each part of the soul relatively complete, emotions had to be integrated into them.

The seven emotions were split, then controlled by the dao heart.

So Big Belly Ancient Buddha only had the emotion of joy.

But without sorrow, where does joy come from?

Often, those who laugh the happiest are fools.

That's why Lin Moyu felt Big Belly Ancient Buddha was pitiful.

Only when they merge back into one will they become a complete individual again, truly returning to their original state.

But that still needs time. Nine Wheels Unification is equivalent to breaking through to the Great Dao realm. It's not so easy.

Lin Moyu continued leading Little Mei, measuring the Buddha Realm step by step.

When they got tired of walking, they would ride the Cloud-Piercing Sword and cultivate. When they finished cultivating, they would continue walking.

The two moved very quickly. With Lin Moyu's help, Little Mei's speed imperceptibly reached an unprecedented level, though Little Mei didn't notice this.

Lin Moyu silently used the Space Great Dao, giving Little Mei some illusions.

After a month, the two had crossed the entire Buddha Realm.

After leaving the Buddha Realm, Lin Moyu increased their speed again.

The two advanced through Buddhist territory. After seeing the prosperity of the Buddha Realm, looking at other Buddha nations gave a feeling of returning to simplicity.

Fortunately, no matter which Buddha nation they were in, most people had food to eat and wouldn't go hungry.

Because Buddhist cultivation required vast numbers of devotees, they wouldn't be too harsh on their followers.

Finally, after two months, the two arrived at the edge of Buddhist territory.

They came to a cliff. Below the cliff was a rushing river. A thousand meters away on the opposite shore was dragon race territory.

This was the border between the Buddhist clan and dragon race, called the Buddha-Dragon Gorge.

"The dragon race's territory is ahead. Standing here, Little Mei should be able to see the dragon race," Lin Moyu pointed ahead, gesturing for Little Mei to look.

Little Mei strained her eyes to look and indeed saw several enormous creatures. "I see them! They seem to be sleeping!"

Several elemental giant dragons were lying on the ground, seemingly asleep.

On the vast land, there were quite a few elemental giant dragons. Most were sleeping, with only a few awake.

Lin Moyu smiled, "They are indeed sleeping. They spend most of their time sleeping. Sometimes they can sleep for hundreds of years at a time."

Little Mei stuck out her tongue, "They can sleep for so long? Don't dragons need to cultivate?"

Lin Moyu said, "Sleeping is a form of cultivation for them. The dragon race's cultivation methods are different from ours. They rely more on bloodline."

"Even while sleeping, their strength gradually increases."

Little Mei exclaimed, "That's so nice!"

Lin Moyu said, "Don't forget what I've told you. This world is balanced between yin and yang. Good and bad are relative."

"Although the dragon race has the advantage of bloodline, they're also limited by it. Their growth limit is also determined by bloodline. Sometimes no matter how hard they try, it's useless."

Little Mei said "Oh" and nodded, "I see. That's not good then. It would make people despair."

Over these few months, Little Mei had seen the vast world. Her thinking had matured a lot compared to before, and she could more easily see to the root of things.

Lin Moyu smiled, "Let's go. We need to cross the entire dragon race territory. There's still a long way to go."

"Little Mei can also take a good look in dragon territory. They're very different from the Buddhist clan."

Lin Moyu had Little Mei sit on the Cloud-Piercing Sword and slowly flew towards the opposite shore.

Flying over the thousand-meter wide Buddha-Dragon Gorge, they could see the rushing river below.

This great river ran through the entire Western Continent, flowing into the Boundary Sea...

Lin Moyu suddenly stopped and said, "Little Mei, do you know the two races bordering the Buddhist clan? One is the dragon race, what's the other?"

Little Mei said, "Teacher said it's the insect race."

Lin Moyu nodded, "Little Mei probably hasn't seen the insect race before, right?"

Little Mei nodded vigorously, indicating she hadn't seen them.

Actually, this was her first time seeing the dragon race too, and she had only seen elemental giant dragons, which didn't count as true dragon race members.

Lin Moyu said, "You'll be able to see the insect race soon."

Little Mei's eyes lit up, "Really? What does the insect race look like?"

Lin Moyu smiled, "They're not very good-looking. Don't be scared."

As he spoke, Lin Moyu slowly raised his hand and punched towards the rushing river in the Buddha-Dragon Gorge.

Terrifying power descended. The river instantly exploded into a water column thousands of meters high, shooting straight into the sky before turning into rain and falling back down.

Along with the water column, sharp roars rang out.

Countless insect warriors burst out from the river.

These insect warriors each had Dao Venerable level combat power. They weren't weak.

And there were many of them, numbering in the tens of millions.

They had been hiding in the river and were discovered by Lin Moyu.

Their original purpose was no longer important. What mattered was that he had discovered them, and they had developed hostility towards him.

Since that was the case, he would strike first.

Little Mei was startled, "There are so many!"

Lin Moyu smiled, "They're just small fry. No matter how many there are, what use is it?"

He lightly pointed a finger, and the Skeleton Hell appeared, instantly swallowing all hundred thousand insect warriors.

In just a few seconds, all hundred thousand insect warriors had become food for the hell fiends.

Little Mei said blankly, "How did they disappear so quickly?"

Lin Moyu said, "When the cultivation gap reaches a certain level, numbers lose meaning. Only when the cultivation difference isn't too great can many ants bite an elephant to death."

This seemed to be another principle. Little Mei firmly remembered it.

At this time, Little Mei noticed that the dragons who had been sleeping were awakened by the battle.

"They've all woken up!"

The dragon race was very sensitive to the aura of their mortal enemy, the insect race. They all sensed the dragon-insect aura. Just as they were preparing to fight, they found that the insect race's aura had completely disappeared.

Some dragons looked towards Lin Moyu. Clearly, it was Lin Moyu who had acted to wipe out those insects.