Today's second update: Chapter 2240! 2/2!
The Six Paths Sword Qi was successfully infused into the Willow Branch. Within Tianlong Temple, the Six-Syllable Great Bright Mantra, also known as the Buddhist Six-Word True Words, rang out!
The figure upon the Willow Branch fully manifested. The legendary ancestor of the Dali Duan Family, a high monk whose dharma body had reached the Close-Range Eight Realms, appeared in the human world with his back to all living beings.
Seeing this, the monks in the temple pressed their palms together and chanted, "Amitabha!"
Duan Yu looked up, slightly surprised.
The monk seated atop the Willow Branch gave off the impression of being half brimming with vitality and half steeped in deathly decay. When he turned around, the feeling became even more apparent. His appearance was peculiar: the left half of his face was rosy, smooth, and tender as an infant's, while the right half resembled a withered skeleton. Other than a sallow layer of skin, it had no flesh at all, with bone protruding outward like half a skull.
With his appearance, pairs of trees sprang up in the east, south, west, and north of Tianlong Temple.
Each pair consisted of one flourishing tree and one withered tree, forming four withered and four flourishing trees!
Kurong spoke, "The twin trees in the east represent 'permanence and impermanence'; the twin trees in the south represent 'joy and the absence of joy'; the twin trees in the west represent 'self and no-self'; the twin trees in the north represent 'purity and impurity.'"
"The lush, flourishing trees signify the true nature of nirvana: permanence, joy, self, and purity. The withered, decaying trees reveal the nature of the world: impermanence, the absence of joy, no-self, and impurity."
"The Buddha entered extinction between these eight states, meaning