Nine Tails Appears

The Palm Buddhist Kingdom, one of the Ten Great Demon Kingdoms of the Blue Origin Realm, possessed unfathomable territory and foundations.

The Buddhist Kingdom's supreme ruler—the Buddha—held a status of unparalleled eminence and power concentrated beyond ordinary imagination.

It was not like the Heavenly Demon Sacred Dynasty, where several powerful clans took turns electing a "Heavenly Demon Emperor" to rule together, nor was it like Eternal Night Forest, where numerous elders formed a council to deliberate and make decisions.

Within the Buddhist Kingdom, the Buddha was the sole supreme ruler, holding political, divine, and religious authority all in his hands. He was the absolute core and symbol, in both worldly and spiritual terms, for the countless Demon Race citizens across the Buddhist Kingdom's billions of miles of territory.

The effect of such extreme centralization made the Buddha's status and majesty enough to leave the demon emperors of the Heavenly Demon Sacred Dynasty in the shade; the elder council of Eternal Night Forest was even less comparable.

Even the Qian Emperor of the Human Race's Great Gan Dynasty had privately sighed at the overwhelming might of the Buddhist Kingdom's Buddha, feeling himself inferior.

For that very reason, the enthronement ceremony of a newly appointed Buddha was by no means comparable to the ordinary succession of a Demon Kingdom's ruler.

It was not merely a transfer of power, but a momentous event believed capable of affecting the entire Buddhist Kingdom and even the balance of the surrounding powers.

Representatives of every faction who came to observe the ceremony, show support, or probe for information naturally arrived in an endless stream, turning Great Thunderclap City, the Buddhist Capital, into the focal point of the entire Blue Origin Realm's Demon Race in recent days. It was bustling beyond measure.

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