Treasure Bottle

Fairy Xiaoduan grew somewhat angry upon hearing this. "My husband is the Dao Ancestor of Dharma Transmission. If he is dragged off to the Western Heaven and made to study under Maitreya, Maitreya's reputation will likely be elevated to rival that of the Great Heavenly Venerate! If the Western Heaven then mobilizes Buddhist disciples to lecture on the dharma, who would the Dao Ancestor of Dharma Transmission be? He would merely be Maitreya's apprentice, and all of your merit, husband, would be stolen away."

Chen Shi swept his gaze outward and smiled. "Once you reach the Western Heaven, you lose control of your own destiny and will be devoured down to the bones. I wouldn't be surprised if even the reputation of the Dao Ancestor of Dharma Transmission were stripped away."

His gaze flickered. This pure-land world was formed from the Great Dao of Bodhisattva Fahuālin. The grand buddhas, temples, and immortal mountains did not exist in reality; rather, they were constructed from his own Great Dao.

The Greater Luo Heaven of Fahuālin, also called the Treasure Bottle Heaven, took the shape of a white-porcelain jade bottle held in Fahuālin's palm.

The heavens and earth, yin and yang, sun, moon, stars, mountains, rivers, flora, and fauna within the Treasure Bottle Heaven were similarly composed of Bodhisattva Fahuālin's Dao. Only those people who bowed and paid reverence were living human beings.

They were Bodhisattva Fahuālin's devoted followers.

Bodhisattva Fahuālin cultivated both the divine and the Buddhist paths. Among those in Buddhism, once their practice of the Buddhist dharma reached a certain height and they found it difficult to make further progress, they would concurrently cultivate the Divine Way.

The simplest method of cultivating the Divine Way was to widely gather followers among the Thirty-three Heavens of the Western Heaven. Once a