When it all happened, True Person Jiuyi was utterly bewildered.
Chu Liang had already wrung him dry before this, and he had been cultivating in seclusion within Mistveil Mountain when, with a thunderous boom, an enormous lotus fell from the sky, smashing a hole through the entire immortal mountain and nearly shattering it.
"What's going on? What's going on?" True Person Jiuyi flashed out. "Did Cloud Tower Temple throw something down from high altitude?"
The Mistveil disciples swarmed over like a hive of bees. Looking up, they saw a huge hole in the sky; looking down, they saw another crater in the ground.
Before long, a seven-colored lotus rose from the deep pit leading straight to the seabed. It was the Myriad Dharma Lotus Platform. Great Fool Chan Master stood atop it, his blood and qi churning as he said heavily, "Venerable Myriad Dharma was an ancient Buddhist holy figure. He has returned now to reclaim his fleshly body. He seeks to prove the Dao of immortality by slaughtering all living beings in the world!"
"What?" The Mistveil experts were all shocked and enraged.
They were shocked that Venerable Myriad Dharma had such an identity, and enraged that his wolfish ambition was so terrifying. Yet even Great Fool Chan Master, wielding a divine artifact, had been beaten into this state. Just how powerful was Myriad Dharma now?
True Person Jiuyi flipped his hand and summoned a mass of golden light, shouting, "I'll go up there and meet him with you!"
"If we can stop him from obtaining the Ancient Buddha's body, that would be best. If we cannot, Sect Master Jiuyi, you must withdraw in time. The Nine Heavens and Ten Lands cannot be defeated one by one!" Great Fool Chan Master warned him, then once more drove the lotus