Immortal after a Hundred Reincarnations

Only then can one undergo Crossing the Tribulation and attain Nirvana!

And only then is it possible to reach the Bodhisattva Realm.

This Bodhisattva Realm is what disciples of the Buddhist Sect who cultivate the Bodhisattva Dao call attaining enlightenment!

According to legend, after achieving Nirvana, one could be guided to the Buddhist Sect within the fabled Immortal Realm.

But whether this was true or not remained unknown.

After all, from what Xu Lei understood,

no one from the Daoist Sect had achieved Ascension for many years.

And no one from the Buddhist Sect had attained Nirvana for many years either.

This was, after all, the Age of Declining Dharma in the Cultivation Era.

The Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi was thin,

making Cultivation difficult.

Although Xu Lei had now cultivated to the First Realm of the Middle Three Realms,

he still had to condense multiple Peach Fruits

to reach the next Great Realm.

It was no easy feat to cultivate.

The late Hui Cheng had only been at the Lower Three Realms of Cultivation.

He had cultivated to such an old age only to reach that stage.

That was why he had felt that his own path to enlightenment was hopeless.

As for Xu Lei himself,

the thought that he still had to cross six Great Realms—the Middle Three Realms and the Upper Three Realms—

gave him a sense of a long and arduous journey ahead.

Granted, Xu Lei could accumulate experience from one lifetime to the next.

If he didn’t succeed in this life, perhaps he would in the next.

But the thought of relying solely on his own Cultivation, a slow grind against time,

felt truly endless.

Now that an Enchantress had appeared, Xu Lei naturally had to investigate.

After all, this was an informational advantage he had paid for with one of his lives.

Others had to rely on luck just to find a Demon,

but Xu Lei now knew what these Enchantresses looked like.

This was a precious resource of his!

Soon, Xu Lei was standing before Young Master Zhao.

Young Master Zhao did not disappoint.

He informed Xu Lei that the disciples of the Zhao Family had indeed found traces of one of the remaining eleven individuals he was searching for!

They had only found one,

unlike ten years ago when they had found two,

but for Xu Lei, this was already a pleasant surprise.

He had been waiting for many years, after all.

Xu Lei wasted no words.

He didn’t even ask for details.

He simply had Young Master Zhao lead the way immediately.

He learned the details while they were on the road.

This time, the Enchantress had appeared a mere one city away from Kyoto City!

Thus, Xu Lei reached the target city that very same day.

And soon, he laid eyes on a female Enchantress manifested in human form.

She walked the bustling streets of a Mortal City, her face a composite of features that were somehow familiar to Xu Lei.

She appeared to be purchasing supplies.

She had a good amount of silver coins in her hand

and she wasn’t stingy with her spending.

This was normal.

Enchantresses certainly don’t have the skills for business.

But they can eat people, which means they can kill people.

And if they can kill, they can certainly rob.

So, the money she was spending now was likely backed by one or more bloody acts of slaughter and consumption.

This was a relatively short and stout Enchantress.

She wasn’t one of the stronger ones among the remaining eleven.

Xu Lei was very satisfied with this.

After all, if one of the more powerful ones had appeared, he wouldn’t have been able to take it down by himself with his current strength.

He would have had to consider asking an expert for help.

If he managed to get an expert’s help, he could still get his revenge,

but he would have had to share the spoils with his helper.

And the only reason he could find these Enchantresses was because of the information he’d gained at the cost of one of his own lives!

But since this wasn’t one of the stronger ones,

Xu Lei didn’t need to make such a difficult choice.

He judged that he should be able to take this one down with his own strength!

Despite this, Xu Lei didn’t plan to attack forcefully from the start.

Instead, just as he did with the last one, he wanted to poison it first to disrupt the flow of its Demonic Power.

Attacking then would make it much easier to subdue.

Unfortunately, while the plan was sound, reality did not unfold as Xu Lei had hoped.

The Enchantress was surprisingly cautious within the Mortal City.

She didn’t eat or drink anything.

She only went around making purchases.

Before long, she had finished her shopping

and left the city directly.

This foiled Xu Lei’s plan to set up an Array outside the city and lure her into it.

"Then I’ll just have to take her by force!"

Xu Lei saw this and thought, ’This is a perfect chance to test my true combat strength!’

「A little over ten minutes later.」

「In the woods outside the city.」

Xu Lei made his move.

He lay in ambush on the Enchantress’s path, launching a surprise attack.

VMMMM!

With one hand, he activated the black alms bowl, casting its light to suppress the Enchantress’s power.

"Die!"

With his other hand, he activated the Golden Staff Magical Artifact he had obtained from Hui Cheng. As his Magical Power surged, the golden staff manifested a colossal staff shadow.

It smashed down from dozens of meters away!

"Hm?"

The Enchantress reacted instantly as the light from the black alms bowl shone upon her.

She immediately channeled her Demonic Power to resist and tried to flee.

BOOM!

But the Dharma Shadow of the Golden Staff had already smashed down.

BAM!

The blow forced the Enchantress to her knees.

One of her knees slammed hard against the ground!

JINGLE JINGLE JINGLE.

Simultaneously, Xu Lei used his Magical Power to make the Bell fly up, and he caught it in his mouth.

As Xu Lei shook his head, the two Human Puppets lying in ambush on either side rushed out, brandishing long sabers and hacking wildly at the Enchantress!

CLANG CLANG CLANG!

Unexpectedly, however, the Enchantress was also wielding two long sabers, using them to block the Human Puppets’ attacks.

"Die!"

But Xu Lei gave her no more time.

He directly activated the Thirteen Treasure Fragments, which transformed into the Lotus Drill. It whistled through the air and bored straight into the Enchantress’s body.

"Lotus Hand!"

Then, with another change of his Dharma Seal, the Lotus Drill inside her abruptly transformed into the Lotus Hand.