The west of the Primordial World.
The Land of Ultimate Bliss.
Amitabha Buddha pressed his palms together, slowly withdrawing his gaze from Jindou Cave and lowering it toward another region of Blue Planet.
The Jindou trial had failed.
The Immortal Lord of Myriad Laws, that bold experiment into which he had poured his heart and soul, blending myriad Chaos Demon Gods into the Immortal Path, had ultimately been beaten back to his original form by an iron staff.
He felt neither rage nor annoyance.
He merely turned his gaze quietly toward the next trial along the original course.
On the westward road lay mountain after mountain, river after river, tribulation after tribulation.
The place ahead was none other than the Kingdom of Women.
The contours of that realm surfaced in Amitabha Buddha's mind.
First came the Mother-Child River.
That river neither injured nor killed, yet it entangled people more tenaciously than blades and spears.
Anyone who drank its water would become pregnant, another being of flesh and blood appearing within them out of nowhere.
Ordinary people could not avoid it quickly enough, and even for immortals who came into contact with it, it was an enormous problem.
Farther in was True Immortal Ruyi, who guarded the Fetus-Dropping Spring.
He occupied Jieyang Mountain and controlled that spiritual spring capable of dispelling fetal poison. He was exceptionally troublesome.
Even the Great Sage had needed to go to considerable trouble when he visited in years past.
The next hurdle was the King of the Kingdom of Women.
She was a female sovereign who occupied a lofty position yet was trapped by love.
Such lovesick entanglement was precisely the hardest trial to cross on the westward road.
As for the Scorpion Demon, she was the most difficult of them all.
That demon's Horse-Felling Venomous