Someone must ascend to Pure Yang. We were all in the Dao-Wielding Realm, so why couldn't it be me?
Even True Monarch Guanghan, a veteran of the previous primordial cycle, admitted to herself that, had she awakened several thousand or even ten thousand years earlier, she would have been unable to resist such thoughts. The minds of the Buddhist Sect's mighty figures throughout the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds in this primordial cycle were easy enough to imagine.
Clearly, Puhua Bodhisattva thought the same.
Within the Zhenru World, in a Buddhist hall surrounded by portraits of Buddhas, Puhua Bodhisattva stared coldly at Lingjue Bodhisattva before him. "In those days, the ten Dao-Wielding masters of our Glazed Path stood as equals in this world. Who throughout the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds did not tremble before us and revere us?!"
"Now Jinjue has damaged the Glazed Path's fortune, ruined the Vajra Path's lineage, and stepped on us to ascend as a Dao-Ruling True Yang. He calls himself the World-Honored One and Buddha, and I'm supposed to prostrate myself before him and bow as his subject?!"
"If he wants me on my knees before him, fine. Let him fight his way here first!"
Lingjue Bodhisattva sighed and tried to persuade the obstinate Puhua Bodhisattva. "The past is past. Xuanmen's fortune is flourishing now, while our Buddhist School hangs by a thread. If we still refuse to unite, how can West Heaven defeat East Heaven?"
Puhua Bodhisattva ignored him completely. "Xuanmen has three Heavenly Venerables under one path because they fought their way through the Xuanmen Great Calamity and the merger of the Three Realms. Jinjue hasn't even sorted out the Hengsha World. Why should we submit to him?"
Lingjue Bodhisattva continued his persuasion. "The Buddhist Sect must eventually unite, just as the