Billowing calamity aura spread through All Heavens and Myriad Worlds along the River of Time. Yet aside from the five Dao-Ruling True Yangs, not even the many Dao-Holding Monarchs throughout the heavens detected the slightest disturbance.
Whether Xuanmen Dao Lords or Buddhist Bodhisattvas and Arhats, they continued chanting scriptures or cultivating in seclusion, as though everything remained no different from before.
Within Miyan World, the four Dao-Holding Buddhist great powers—Baozhen Arhat, Yingxiang Arhat, Puhua Bodhisattva, and Huakong Arhat—were all lords of the Buddhist Great Thousand World. Although they had long been warned by Demon Buddha Wujue, when the Three Realms calendar reached its three-thousandth year, no matter how they expanded their divine senses or even placed their Pure Yang life souls upon the River of Time, they saw not the slightest ripple.
The surging River of Time remained exactly as it had always been. No calamity aura, no karma—only the waters of time, running unceasingly through antiquity and the present. They had not even seen the golden jade stone egg that had fallen from the River of Time.
Yet the more they felt that the River of Time was as tranquil as ever, the graver the expressions of the four Buddhist great powers became.
"The River of Time changes in ten thousand ways. Within it lies boundless karma and calamity aura, forever weaving together the fates of the heavens..."
"And yet, the River of Time I perceive is..."
Yingxiang Arhat's expression was unsightly. Though he did not finish, the other three Buddhist Dao-Holders all understood what he meant.
Puhua Bodhisattva sighed, his face carrying several traces of heaviness. "Wujue was right. The calamity is about to rise. No one within the Buddhist lineage will escape it."
"As lords of Great Thousand Worlds and Buddhist Venerables of our respective lineages, we