Westward Journey in the Demon Realm: Bewitching Hearts

Deep in the mountains, a suspended ancient temple stands isolated from the mundane world, tranquil and lonely for a hundred years, long regarded as a pure Buddhist land unstained by impurity. The young monk Kongming has grown up in the temple since childhood, strictly observing the precepts and rules, firmly believing in renouncing emotions and desires, and seeking enlightenment through goodness, taking orthodox Buddhist principles as his lifelong cultivation guide, convinced that good and evil in the world are clearly distinct and the righteous path is flawless. But a silent, eerie plague of gu suddenly sweeps through the ancient temple, overturning all cultivation norms. The temple's eminent monks go mad one after another, virtuous monks all fall, and the pure Buddhist site becomes an illusory purgatory, filled with scenes of collapsing human hearts and obsession-devouring chaos. Amid the catastrophe, the long-dormant **dual gu of good and evil** within Kongming suddenly awaken. The white lotus ferries goodness, bearing the original heart's compassion; the black lotus executes delusions, piercing through the world's hypocrisy. The interplay of good and evil breaks him free from rigid Buddhist rules, making him see that the righteous path touted by the world is but an illusory shackle binding the original heart, and the despised dark desires are also the inherent true colors of human nature. The temple's fall illuminates the world's illusions, and the temple's turmoil unveils an ancient gu secret. Kongming, bearing a mysterious origin and the mission to seek the lamp, completely breaks free from Buddhist confinement, and with like-minded companions, breaks through the mountain gate and embarks on a ten-thousand-mile westward journey, amidst the chaos of good and evil and the vertical and horizontal of bewitchment, facing the abyss of the human heart and traversing the mortal world of the demon realm. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Westward Journey in the Demon Realm: Bewitching Hearts — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠