Chen Shi followed Venerable Ananda as they walked, but saw that he was not heading toward Leiyin Temple, and instead came down the mountain, causing his heart to skip a beat.
Could the Great World Honored One have ordered Venerable Ananda to quietly dispose of me?
Chen Shi's eyes darted rapidly. Although he had done a very clean job and most of Lingshan's experts could not tell that the death of the Bright King of Eternal Freedom was actually caused by him, it certainly could not be kept from the Great World Honored One.
Though he still had backers like East King Duke and Houtu Huangdiqi, if the Great World Honored One really killed him, would East King Duke and Houtu Huangdiqi still risk their lives for him?
On his seventh-day post-mortem ritual, burning some paper currency and saying a few harsh words to the Great World Honored One would already be doing all that can be done.
Big figures who ruled a realm like this would not make a huge fuss over a dead man.
Venerable Ananda led him all the way down the mountain, and only when they arrived at the place where the Bright King of Eternal Freedom had died and Dao dissipated did he slow his pace.
All around, forty-one huge cracks either floated in the sky or were embedded within the mountain rocks, looking like scars of the Great Dao, a shocking sight.
It seemed as though as long as one's gaze lingered on the cracks for just a slightly extended moment, one would plummet right in.
"These are traces left behind by the outer Dao."
The Great World Honored One's voice came from ahead. Chen Shi followed the sound and looked, only to see a Buddha whose skin was entirely golden standing on the