Daoist Jieyin's Relief: If I'd Known, I Wouldn't Have Hidden You Away; the Demon Threat Is Gone!!

As the World-Honored One spoke.

Figures radiating divine and Buddhist light gathered around World-Honored Tathagata, supporting him.

Like stars surrounding the moon, they headed into the distance.

Ancient Buddha Randeng, Maitreya, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, and the Five Directional Buddhas who had come along all followed beside World-Honored Tathagata. They too wanted to see how World-Honored Tathagata would handle this matter!

Come to think of it, it was rather strange...

They had spent so many Years within the Buddhist Sect, yet they had never heard of a disciple of their teacher named Universal Manifestation!!

How strange...

Just who had hidden himself so deeply that he could win their teacher's favor and make him forcibly add another Buddha Throne while the Current Buddha's foundations in the Buddhist Sect were currently stable?

Although some had just watched Maitreya make trouble for the World-Honored One.

Only they knew that equally earth-shattering waves had risen in their own hearts, and they could not calm down for a long time!!

They too were their teacher's disciples!

They had served at their teacher's side for many years. Why could they not become Buddha Patriarchs of the Buddhist Sect?

A Buddha Patriarch!!!

What a profound and majestic title that was. Why could it not be bestowed upon them?

Now that they were going to settle accounts, they also harbored thoughts of humiliating this man!!!

Present-Moment Pure Land.

White Bone Buddha... or rather, Universal Manifestation Tathagata.

He was no longer displaying the skeletal appearance he had shown to the world in the past.

A layer of flesh had covered his bones. He had transformed into a broad, kindly, plump monk, his head crowned with fleshy protuberances, a halo floating behind him. He held prayer beads in his hand, sat upon a Golden Lotus, and radiated a compassionate, gentle aura from