The entire Buddhist Kingdom was roused by a mysterious force and began to tremble faintly, as though a giant beast were struggling beneath the earth. The tremors grew stronger.
Sand and stones flew, dust filled the air, and no one—from the abbots of the Buddhist Kingdom's twelve top temples to the common folk—had any idea what was happening.
A dazzling light surged skyward from beneath the dunes. It harmed no one and damaged nothing, piercing the blazing sunlight and pointing straight at the heavens.
If a powerful cultivator had flown into the cosmos and looked down on the Buddhist Kingdom, they would have seen countless pillars of light scattered across it. The pillars stretched endlessly, bending as they flew toward the Buddhist Kingdom's center: Western Heaven Temple.
Nothing like this had ever happened, from ancient times to the present!
"Someone fulfilled a great vow! Someone has fulfilled a supreme vow!" The Buddhist Kingdom's oldest Tribulation Transcendence monk finally recalled a scene from long ago. This was precisely the sign recorded in ancient texts of someone fulfilling a supreme vow.
A hundred thousand years ago, Master Zhengde had made the supreme vow to "teach Buddhism on the Central Continent."
To fulfill that vow, Master Zhengde founded Hanging Temple, becoming the source of Buddhism in Great Xia. From then on, countless temples had sprung up across Great Xia, forming a new kind of power alongside the sects.
When Master Zhengde fulfilled his supreme vow, the Buddhist Kingdom trembled, and the event was recorded in the annals of history.
Yet today's spectacle was far grander than the scene that had accompanied Master Zhengde's fulfillment of his vow. That was why the ancient Tribulation Transcendence monk had failed to recognize what was happening at first.
"Which venerable monk made this supreme vow, and how