"What is happening?"
"How could the Tang Emperor possibly master the Six Ding Divine Fire?"
"That is a flame that only the Dao Ancestor has ever mastered. What virtue or ability does he, a mere mortal, have to wield it?"
Similar exclamations of shock rang out across the heaven and earth.
In the Western Buddhist Realm,
Mount Lingshan, the sacred mountain of Mahayana Buddhism.
Inside the Great Leiyin Temple on Lingshan.
Cries of fury rose one after another.
"Dammit!"
"Shameless!"
"They have gone back on their word."
Buddhas and bodhisattvas who had supposedly cast off all earthly desires cursed loudly.
The three supreme Buddhas sitting in the highest seats, whose identities were unknown, were likewise suppressing the endless fury in their hearts.
The Six Ding Divine Fire.
That was Lord Lao's signature flame.
It was also the only entity within the Three Realms that had mastered this kind of flame.
Precisely because of this fire,
Lord Lao was able to refine various immortal pills and miraculous medicines.
He could even forge all kinds of magical treasures and weapons.
In this world,
obtaining longevity was very easy.
As long as one survived the immortal ascension Thunder Tribulation, longevity could be attained.
Since longevity was obtained so simply,
the Heavenly Dao naturally created new checks and balances to maintain equilibrium.
That was the Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations that Patriarch Bodhi had told Sun Wukong about.
After achieving an immortal body, although one's Dao was lofty and virtue profound, one's lifespan matched heaven and earth, water and fire were perfectly harmonized, and a hundred illnesses never touched one, immortals still could not idle about in carefree leisure.
The Three Calamities and Nine Tribulations!
This was a most extraordinary Dao:
Seizing the creation of heaven and earth and invading the mysteries of