Other noble families had originally planned to come and rescue the Gao Family, but before they even arrived, the Gao Family had already been turned into mushrooms, leaving no way to save them.
Aside from the Gao Family, there were the other eleven noble families, along with Garrison Eunuch Cen Xuefu, who could also be considered experts. But even if the major noble families joined forces, they were far from being a match for the Golden Body Buddha.
General Xia and Deputy General Jiang led the border troops, intending to surround the Golden Body Buddha. The border troops were handy when dealing with ordinary cultivators, but facing a demon seed like the Golden Body Buddha, before they could even get close, they successively turned into mushrooms of various sizes, floating in the air to merge with the other mushrooms.
General Xia and Deputy General Jiang escaped with their lives, fleeing their respective mansions with their wives, children, and families to hide everywhere.
High officials like Pacification Commissioner Fei and Censor Zhang also led their households and retainers in a panicked flight, avoiding the search and arrest of the Golden Body Buddha.
Behind the head of this giant Buddha, the mushrooms within the great halo grew increasingly numerous.
These mushrooms possessed human bodies and enormous physiques, especially the mushrooms formed by primordial spirits, which were even more suffused with divine light all over their bodies, appearing exceedingly sacred.
As for the mushrooms formed by the eyes and heads that fell from their bodies, they tended to be relatively smaller.
Regardless of their size, they all possessed solemn expressions of treasures, resembling various large and small enlightened bodhisattvas, arhats, venerables, bhikshus, and bhikshunis.
The Golden Body Buddha seemed as though it were the Buddha.
This scene was precisely like the Pure Land