Li Yu had slipped into spectator mode, looking utterly relaxed.
But Little Meng, who had once again climbed Spirit Mountain, wore a solemn expression.
Even with all his preparations and backup plans, facing a peak Great Power in the Other Shore realm like Ananda still left Little Meng uncertain.
Ananda was Haotian, an Other Shore Great Power of the same generation as the Three Pure Ones. Haotian had been the first Heavenly Emperor; he was "Heaven's Will."
He had looked up much information about Ananda through the "Lord of Reincarnation." The more he learned, the more clearly he understood Ananda's terror.
Cultivating himself through the World-Entering Samsara Method, Haotian was simply terrifying beyond imagination.
The Heavenly Emperor's body had been at the Other Shore. Reincarnated as the Thunder God, he had again reached the Other Shore. Reincarnated once more as Ananda, he had reversed Rulai's Divine Palm, transformed Buddha into demon, and still ascended to the Other Shore.
He had reached the Other Shore through several consecutive lives of reincarnation. What kind of talent did that require? What kind of peerless brilliance?
With the Other Shore of three lives upon him, it was no wonder Ananda had destroyed Spirit Mountain. Even Rulai Buddha could only suppress him, not kill him.
Even when suppressed by Five Finger Mountain, the Bodhi Tree, and the Three Treasures Jade Ruyi, Ananda had managed to let a trace of his divided spirit escape, becoming one of the lords of the Six Paths Reincarnation.
Of course, whether Primordial Heavenly Venerate had deliberately let that divided spirit escape was hard to say.
After all, Primordial Heavenly Venerate was also setting his sights on Little Meng, intending to use Ananda's hand to create someone who would Do Less Seek Void and inherit Primordial Beginning's karmic burden.
"Spirit Mountain,