Western Heaven's Spirit Mountain, the Great Thunder Sound Temple upon the sacred Mount Vulture of the Saha realm—a promised land yearned for by countless people who chanted sutras and sought the Buddha.
With Blood Guanyin's official demise, Black Spirit Mountain stopped spawning more Grunt Units, allowing the fleet to reach the outskirts of Spirit Mountain without obstruction—where, unsurprisingly, it was blocked.
The advancing ships could clearly feel an elastic membrane enveloping and penetrating them, forcibly slowing their progress before ultimately intercepting the entire fleet outside Vulture Peak.
Viewed from high above, this area of Spirit Mountain and Vulture Peak, which clearly ought to have borne the "black" prefix, instead appeared radiant with divine light and resplendent in gold and jade.
Buddha statues towered overhead, and sacred temples stood in rows. It looked nothing like the other regions, where statues of gods and Buddhas tended toward ruin.
They had thought Lesser Thunderclap Monastery in Lesser Western Heaven was already the finest of its kind, but compared with the true Great Thunder Sound Temple of Black Spirit Mountain before them, it really did feel like a clumsy imitation.
Yet in the face of this sight, the "visitors" wore a wide range of expressions.
Precisely because the Three-Party Allied Army had previously encountered Black Spirit Mountain's generally warped and deformed combat units head-on, the splendor here seemed all the more glaring.
Manjushri, Samantabhadra, and the Golden Arhats under their command stared solemnly at Black Spirit Mountain. It was not merely because the bright, magnificent temples before them contrasted so sharply with the combat units from earlier, but also because the layout below inspired an intense sense of familiarity.
If they had not known beyond doubt that they had arrived in another plane of the same origin, they might even have believed that the