Pudu Temple.
Inside the main hall, Jing Heng held Buddha's Lamp in his left hand. A golden Buddha Light halo hovered behind his head as he strode toward the hall's entrance.
With merely one step, he had already arrived outside Pudu Mountain.
The Buddha had entered the mortal world!
Jing Heng slowly raised his right hand. His five fingers unfurled like a lotus just beginning to bloom, then he held it steadily before his chest.
His lips parted slightly, and every syllable seemed to contain boundless radiance:
"Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, when practicing the profound Prajnaparamita, clearly saw that the five aggregates were empty, and crossed beyond all suffering and hardship."
The verses of the Heart Sutra were recited through Buddha's Words. They were no longer mere sounds, but transformed into visible light and tangible images, spreading in all directions like a rising tide.
In an instant, the heavens and earth around the Azure Blue giant twisted. Eight glazed Buddhist pagodas rose with a thunderous boom, their translucent bodies like ten-thousand-year-old ice, reflecting wondrous seven-colored radiance.
Within the pagodas, the illusory forms of Arhats could be seen sitting cross-legged and chanting in unison. The overlapping Sanskrit chants crashed like waves against the shore, vast and unceasing, constructing a Glazed Buddhist Kingdom that did not belong to the mortal world—pure, solemn, and inviolable!
The moment this small world took shape, it began pressing inward.
A mighty force crushed in from all directions. Space hummed and trembled. The giant formed by the Azure Blue Iron Cavalry let out an enraged roar, and fine cracks burst across its Sun-Moon Battle Armor, shattering like ice and ringing sharply. The clouds swirling around its body scattered one after another, while threads of blood seeped from beneath its deep-blue skin!
The thunderbolts, ice blades, and tornadoes that had