[You and the White Elephant Demon pass through the group of Extreme Evil monsters and arrive beneath the towering Four Heavenly Honored King Buddha Pagoda.]

[Four Heavenly Honored King Buddha Pagoda rises into the clouds and consists of several parts: base platform, pagoda body, dense eaves, and pagoda spire. The pagoda’s exterior is twelve-sided.]

[Observing from outside the pagoda, there are fifteen layers of stacked astringent eaves on the pagoda body, with short walls built between the eaves. However, you do not know how many floors there are inside the pagoda body.]

[Above the dense eaves is the pagoda spire. From top to bottom, it consists of a treasure pearl, sevenfold phase wheels, a treasure-adorned lotus, and an inverted bowl.]

[The outer walls of the entire pagoda are covered with white plaster, and on the short walls between the pagoda eaves, there are colorful murals of the Four Heavenly Honored Kings subduing yokai and eliminating demons.]

[Looking up, the Buddha pagoda should originally be towering and magnificent, strong and imposing. Now, however, it is covered in faint black qi and malice. Many Extreme Evil monsters wandering here bow down and worship, making the black qi and malice on the Buddha pagoda even denser.]

[You and the White Elephant Demon enter Four Heavenly Honored King Buddha Pagoda…]

[The interior of the first floor of the Buddha pagoda is round. On the circular inner wall is painted a Dharma-form mural of West Demon Heaven Retribution Honored King. The Honored King wears armor, holds twin maces, looks majestic and awe-inspiring, and has a solemn Dharma form.]

[Aside from the mural, there are also some offering items on the first floor, such as prayer beads, jeweled canopies, Buddhist flags, lotus colors, incense burners, wooden fish, and other objects. But only the Buddha statue of West Demon Heaven Retribution Honored King is absent.]

[You and White Elephant search around but do not find any valuable items. Nor do you see any Extreme Evil monsters within the Buddha pagoda, so you follow the stone steps to the second floor of the Buddha pagoda.]

[The second floor is exactly like the first. The only difference is that the Buddha pagoda gate is missing, while the mural of West Demon Heaven Retribution Honored King has changed into East Demon Heaven Evil-Removing Honored King holding a pipa. This Honored King’s Buddha statue is also not here.]

[After your search yields no results, you continue upward…]

[The third floor is North Demon Heaven Obstacle-Extinguishing Honored King holding a treasure umbrella, while the fourth floor is South Demon Heaven Relief From Calamity Honored King holding a wisdom sword.]

[You continue up the stone steps toward the fifth floor of the Buddha pagoda…]

[Countless characters flash through your eyes. You did not see the Honored Kings’ Buddha statues on the first four floors, so these four dharma-protector heavenly gods’ Buddha statues must be located on the fifth floor of the Buddha pagoda.]

[Earlier, when you were outside the pagoda, you specially paid attention to the Buddha pagoda’s total height. Then, by measuring the height of each interior floor with the naked eye, you can easily calculate that this Buddha pagoda has five floors in total.]

Lin Xun thought carefully in his heart.

According to the information revealed by senior brother White Elephant, these four Honored Kings were full brothers born of the same mother and were usually inseparable.

Therefore, after seeing the four Honored Kings’ Buddha statues, he could not directly destroy one of the divine images, lest this act of smashing the place draw all four Honored Kings down to the mortal world at once.

He needed to find a way to make the four Honored Kings descend separately. This way, he could ensure that the enemies could not join forces to use their combined divine art.

At worst, he had to make one Honored King descend first and kill one of them. Then even if the other three descended together, they would be unable to use the complete version of their combined divine art and would not pose too much of a threat to him.

[Just as you arrive on the fifth floor of the Buddha pagoda, you and the White Elephant Demon both freeze in place!]

[There are no Buddha statues of the four Honored Kings here. Instead, just like the first floor of the Buddha pagoda, the mural of West Demon Heaven Retribution Honored King is painted here. Even the offering items placed around, such as the Buddhist beads and Buddhist flags, are in exactly the same positions as those on the first floor.]

[Aside from lacking the Buddha pagoda gate of the first floor, this fifth floor can be said to be exactly the same as the first floor you saw earlier.]

[You try to go up one more floor, but what you see on the sixth floor is no different from the second floor of the Buddha pagoda.]

[You immediately think of something and return with the White Elephant Demon to the first floor of the Buddha pagoda. But the Buddha pagoda gate that originally stood there perfectly fine has vanished, and a downward staircase has abruptly appeared.]

[You try to go down one floor, but what you see is the scene of the fourth floor of the Buddha pagoda.]

[It is as if the first and fourth floors of the Buddha pagoda are connected end to end, and the fifth floor of the Buddha pagoda simply does not exist.]

[The White Elephant Demon cannot help sneering, Petty tricks. You want to trap your grandpa with a mere illusion spell?]

[It shouts loudly and raises its pair of lotus iron hammers, smashing them toward the inner wall of the Buddha pagoda, preparing to violently break the profundity within the Buddha pagoda.]

[With a loud rumble, the entire Buddha pagoda shakes violently, and dust falls in showers. No large opening connecting to the outside appears on the inner wall. Instead, several fine cracks appear. These cracks are extremely long and extend vertically to the upper and lower floors.]

[It is as if the White Elephant Demon’s hammer blow was not borne by the inner wall of a single floor, but by the entire Buddha pagoda together.]

[The White Elephant Demon lets out a cry of surprise. Then its arms exert strength, its muscles bulge all over, and it is about to use its full power for another hammer strike…]

[It had held back some strength just now. Now, once it channels all its magic power, it can smash the entire Buddha pagoda down with one hammer!]

[Seeing this, you immediately stop the White Elephant Demon. Under its puzzled gaze, you shake your head and explain, Senior brother, this is inappropriate.]

[This Buddha pagoda is clearly reinforced by some profound divine ability, and this profound divine ability can also make the first and fourth floors of the Buddha pagoda connect end to end, and make the entire Buddha pagoda into a single body, impossible to break through one floor alone.]

[If it continues swinging the hammer now and causes the entire Buddha pagoda to collapse and be destroyed, turning into ruins and broken stones, that would be no different from smashing the place. It will most likely draw all four Heavenly Honored Kings down to the mortal world at once…]

[The White Elephant Demon knows your plan to defeat them one by one. After hearing this, it says somewhat helplessly, Then what should we do?]

[We are stuck circling inside the Buddha pagoda and cannot go to the fifth floor…]

[You signal the White Elephant Demon not to be anxious, bringing it while continuing upward and carefully observing and thinking.]

[You know that only by finding the method to break it can you go to the nonexistent fifth floor of the Buddha pagoda.]

The situation Lin Xun was now facing was very similar to the Penrose stairs. The staircase connected end to end into a whole, forever unable to reach an end.

This kind of staircase could not exist in three-dimensional space. The Penrose stairs made in reality were all formed through visual illusion, and when observed from another angle, their true form would be exposed.

But what he was now facing was an endless staircase in a fantasy chapter world. Naturally, it could not be speculated on with scientific principles.

Dense characters flashed through his eyes.

“This place is the mortal world. It is not Western Pure Bliss Heaven, nor is it under the control of the four Honored Kings. Whether the Buddha pagoda forms endless stairs connected end to end, or the entire Buddha pagoda is reinforced and formed into one body, it all requires an additional power source to support it.”

Thinking of the coiling evil qi he had seen outside the pagoda earlier, the incense malice covering the entire Buddha pagoda, he already understood everything in his heart.

According to the normal clearing method, he should now use something like suicide or teleportation to return to the respawn point, then come back outside the Buddha pagoda and completely wipe out and slaughter all the Extreme Evil beings in Luoyi City.

This would make the Buddha pagoda lose the power source of incense malice, thereby revealing the path to the fifth floor.

However, this act would erase the source of Incense Power for the four Honored Kings, and there was no small probability it would cause the four Honored Kings to immediately descend to the mortal world. What result would appear in the end would depend entirely on heaven’s will.

Lin Xun smiled faintly and began operating the Shell.

[You bring the White Elephant Demon to the fourth floor of the Buddha pagoda, step forward, and touch the inner wall of the Buddha pagoda with your palm, using your fingertips to touch the cracks smashed open by the White Elephant Demon.]

[You can very clearly sense the layers upon layers of malicious black qi coiling outside the Buddha pagoda.]

[Malice surges and boils in your eyes, and you immediately activate Extreme Evil Power Fountain!]

[Dense black qi follows the cracks and floods into the Buddha pagoda. You absorb this black qi and malice into your body like a whale drinking water!]

[Incense malice absorbing…]

[…]

[As the black qi outside the pagoda becomes increasingly thin and dim, the stairs above the fourth floor seem to faintly undergo some kind of change…]

[You lead the White Elephant Demon up the stairs and ascend one more floor.]

[What you see is finally not the scene of the first floor, but four Honored King Buddha statues clad in armor and glaring with vajra wrath.]

[You know that this is the fifth floor of the Buddha pagoda.]

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