As he sprinted, Chen Luo sorted through the information he had just obtained from Xue Yintuo.
Regarding the book Investiture of the Gods, he had previously only made deductions and guesses. But now he could say with absolute certainty that although the story within might be an "adaptation," the people in it truly existed!
"Venerable King Ma Yuan Buddha..." Chen Luo murmured the name inwardly. He had originally been a nominal second-generation disciple of the Jie Sect, also known as Yiqi Xian Ma Yuan, and had yet to appear in Investiture of the Gods. While everyone else had grown a rebellious bone at the back of their heads, this one had grown a hand there instead, which he could stretch at will. He often used it for sneak attacks, and it had never failed him.
Ma Yuan loved nothing more than eating human hearts and livers. Later, True Lord Manjushri Guangfa schemed to capture him. Just as Ma Yuan was about to be executed, an existence known as Zhunti came to beg for alms and spared his life, taking him to the West.
Yet no one had expected that such a vicious immortal, guilty of slaughtering countless beings, would actually achieve righteous fruition in the Western Teachings, sit upright upon a lotus throne, and transform into Venerable King Ma Yuan Buddha.
"If Xue Yintuo is Venerable King Ma Yuan Buddha's disciple..." Chen Luo pondered. "Then my previous deduction was correct. That so-called Western Pure Land is built upon the foundation of the Western Teachings."
"Then who exactly was the 'Namo Bliss Buddha Ancestor' that Xue Yintuo chanted when he appeared?"
"Dipankara? Or Zhunti?"
"Why change the Buddhist chant for no reason?"
Chen Luo raised an eyebrow. There was something interesting going on here.
According to the memories of his previous