Poluo World!
Azure Dragon could not help feeling tempted. It was not the title of great bodhisattva he cared about, but the freedom to roam an entire great world as he pleased.
As it happened, Azure Dragon knew a fair bit about Poluo World, a Buddhist Great Thousand World. During his thousands of years attending morning lessons at Great Lingyin Temple, he had often heard its bodhisattvas and arhats speak of the place.
"Poluo World... If I went there, I really could live free and unfettered."
Azure Dragon began to imagine that freedom. Back in Shanhe World, he had ruled the East Sea without restraint. But with Penglai looming over his head, he had felt so stifled that he had joined forces with the South Sea and West Sea to rebel against the Shanhe Daoist Sect.
And how had that turned out?
In the end, Scarlet Dragon had died, Flame Dragon had fled, Star Dragon had been abducted to the Heavenly Court, and he had been lured into Great Lingyin Temple...
Three thousand years!
What kind of life had he endured in Great Lingyin Temple for those three thousand years?!
Only after losing his freedom had Azure Dragon understood how precious it was. He no longer wanted to be trapped in that cramped temple, watched and controlled by others at every moment!
"Oh? You know Poluo World, elder brother?!"
Flame Dragon looked surprised. Azure Dragon replied with no little pride, "I haven't spent all these years in Great Lingyin Temple for nothing. Those bodhisattvas and arhats looked down on me, but they never bothered to hide their business from me. At the morning lessons in Spirit Tone Hall, I heard them discuss the Buddhist worlds countless times."
"And not just Poluo World. Miyan World, Baoxiang World, Fahua Realm, Zhenru World—those