Hall of Divine Mists, Heavenly Court.
Even now, the gods had yet to fully process what they had witnessed. Hundreds of millions of Buddhist Monks had been wiped out, and that alone filled everyone with dread.
The Netherworld had actually joined forces with a Human Race member suspected of being a saint's Three Corpses to annihilate hundreds of millions of Buddhist Monks. If the Heavenly Court and the Netherworld came into conflict next time, would their side not be in grave danger? This alone had already frightened them.
But what came next terrified them even more: Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had defected from the Buddhist Sect!
Since the Investiture of the Gods, it had always been Daoist Sect cultivators defecting from the Daoist Sect to join the Buddhist Sect, because there had always been rumors that the Buddhist Sect was about to rise to prominence.
That was the great trend of the Heavenly Dao.
Yet now, a Bodhisattva had actually defected from the Buddhist Sect—and it was the strongest among the Four Great Bodhisattvas!
At first glance, this seemed to be nothing more than one Bodhisattva leaving the Buddhist Sect, but the consequences were truly horrifying. With a first, would there be a second?
Would the Buddhist Sect see a wave like the one during the Great Tribulation of Investiture of the Gods, when Daoist Sect members flocked to the Buddhist Sect?
And if such a wave emerged, it would mean that the Buddhist Sect might decline.
Would Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's departure this time become the turning point for the Buddhist Sect's future decline?
Or had the Buddhist Sect's defeat at the hands of the Dragon Clan last time already marked the beginning of its decline?
The Jade Emperor swept his gaze over the immortals and gods before saying, "Quickly summon Heavenly Venerate