Plan to Trap and Kill Sky Soaring!

Pure Land of Profound Joy, Great Thunderclap Temple.

Within the temple stood jeweled palaces and pearl towers, precious pavilions and ornate halls. Auspicious mists filled the sky, rainbow clouds cast their glow, pagoda towers rose into view, and utpala flowers wafted their fragrance. It was the finest of Jiangxi's eighty-four thousand temples.

Within the Great Thunderclap Temple, the Great Hero Hall was vast and boundless, a mustard seed containing Mount Sumeru. Countless Lotus Platforms filled it, each bearing a seated golden statue, with an Arhat standing behind every statue. Beneath them were innumerable monks and believers, who usually chanted sutras, expounded the Dharma, conversed of Heaven and discussed the Dao in harmonious delight.

Yet today, the Great Hero Hall was desolate and cold.

Countless monks had gathered together, yet they had fallen into an eerie silence. Every Buddhist Cultivator wore almost exactly the same expression; at first glance, they seemed like a single person.

Soon, a streak of escaping light descended.

Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva stepped out and landed upon a Ninth Grade Lotus Platform at the head of the hall. Her Divine Thought instantly linked with the other Bodhisattvas.

Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva.

Precious Pestle Victorious Bodhisattva.

Together with Vase Water Moon Bodhisattva, they were the Pure Land's Three Treasure Bodhisattvas, and the true rulers of the Pure Land beneath the World Honored One.

What? Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva?

He was an outsider from a heterodox path. How could he possibly be the same?

At the very least, whenever the Three Treasure Bodhisattvas convened, they never invited him. Dragon-Serpent Shadow Bodhisattva himself was tactful enough to know better; ordinarily, he merely meditated in silence.

But now, things had changed.

Upon her Lotus Platform, Precious Lotus Treasury Bodhisattva revealed an angry expression.

"You mean Dragon-Serpent is actually Sky Soaring's avatar?"

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