Myozun Chiou Buddha gave up everything she had.
Six Paths Buddha had no interest in her wealth. What mattered were the many precious souls.
Miaozun herself was one of her civilization's greatest talents, as were the many Venerable Ones and disciples under her.
Her Buddha Kingdom held all manner of lesser Buddhas who had joined her, along with executives and elites from major corporations and nations across the Milky Way.
Throughout the Star Alliance's history, nearly half the elites of its civilizations had chosen to enter virtual paradise as souls after death.
After all, death meant the end. Better to become a citizen of the Buddha Kingdom before dying and keep living in a virtual world. Even when the 129,600-year limit arrived and a soul dissipated, the Buddha could transfer all its memories and information into the young soul of someone burdened with Karma, extending that person's life.
Whether that person was still the same individual was open to debate.
Even the emperor of Shacha had wanted to live on in the Miaozun Universe after his death.
Over hundreds of thousands of years, Miaozun had amassed the souls of countless great scientists, strategists, business magnates, and underworld titans. Her reserves were immense.
This differed from an Ascension Entity. In one of those, all souls fused into a single being, leaving their personalities without autonomy as individual units of thought.
Souls in the Buddha Kingdom could obtain golden bodies and walk the physical world to conduct business. Their utilization was less efficient than an Ascension Entity's, but a Buddha could often manage an enormous sphere of influence.
Miaozun might have lost to every major power in the Milky Way, as though they all had her number, but no one could match the reach and complexity of her influence.
Even when she