After Amokeqi vanished, another figure emerged from the void.
She wore a lotus crown and robes adorned with jeweled lotuses, with feather-light cloud ribbons trailing around her. Three radiant halos turned behind her head. As Buddhist chants sang the Pure Lotus hymn, a realm of glass began to take shape in the void, and ten thousand voices chanted the true name of Jinglian Bodhisattva.
Shaoguang World: homage to Mahā Shaohua Jewel-Radiance Pure-Lotus Bodhisattva.
This great bodhisattva of the Dao-Wielding Realm was the reason this Buddhist Glazed Path Great Thousand World bore the name Shaoguang World.
Upon appearing, the bodhisattva bowed slightly to the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor. "Your Majesty trusts that Heavenly Demon?"
The Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor shook his head. Looking at the Golden Register in his hand, which held a trace of Amokeqi's true nature, he smiled faintly. "I do not trust him, and he does not trust me. But he has no choice."
"Jinjue of West Heaven wants to destroy him, that enemy of the Buddhist Sect, at every waking moment. Yet he went and provoked Qingyan of East Heaven too. Bodhisattva, what would you do in his place?"
Jinglian Bodhisattva considered what would happen to anyone who provoked both the Western Heaven Buddhist Sect and the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect, then shook her head. "I see. He truly has no choice."
"But I do not understand why Your Majesty insists that he tie down East Heaven in the Jiuzhou World for fifteen hundred years."
Before this old friend, the Golden Palace Heavenly Emperor held nothing back. "In another thousand years, the Three Realms Great Thousand World will bring forth a number of exceptional seats of authority."
"Among them is the seat of Southern Venerable Elder that I promised you, Bodhisattva."
The Southern Venerable Elder was one