White Clothes Three Lifetimes Buddha's life force was rapidly draining away.
Even his youthful-looking face was aging at a visible rate, the skin all over his body turning dull and cracking.
His eyes remained fixed on Su Yi. His expression was bleak, and between his brows were anger, hatred, unwillingness, but also admiration, relief, and emotion.
It was exceedingly complicated.
"The Grand Dao should not be so small. Then in your eyes, what is the true 'great' Dao?"
White Clothes Three Lifetimes Buddha asked.
Su Yi held an empty wine jug and looked at White Clothes Three Lifetimes Buddha, who was beyond saving. After a moment of silence, he finally gave his answer. "Do not seek outward."
Four words.
Yet when they rang in White Clothes Three Lifetimes Buddha's ears, they were like a great bell and mighty drum, endlessly reverberating and shaking his soul.
"All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles, and shadows..."
Su Yi looked thoughtful. "All external forms are attachments. If I were you, in cultivating the Three Lifetimes Law, I would seek within yourself, shatter external forms, sever attachments, and enter the gate of emptiness with the Zen heart of your true self..."
His calm voice echoed between heaven and earth.
To deal with Three Lifetimes Buddha, Su Yi had indeed repeatedly studied and deduced the mysteries of the Three Lifetimes Law.
What he said now was indeed his own understanding of the Three Lifetimes Law.
White Clothes Three Lifetimes Buddha stood there in a daze.
His figure dimmed, like rotten wood that had aged and decayed through countless years. Yet his cracked lips kept murmuring one phrase, "Seek within yourself, do not seek outward... seek within yourself... do not seek outward..."
Silently, countless shocking cracks appeared across his Dao body, like a clay Buddha