A verdant Pure Land stretched across hundreds of billions of kalpas. Inside and out, it was clear and limpid, all like lapis lazuli. It encompassed immeasurable, infinite Buddha lands, so vast they could not be seen to the end. Serenity arose of its own accord. There was nowhere without the flavor of Zen, nowhere without the intent of the Buddha. It connected the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds, nearly becoming part of the Great Dao. It merely lacked a hint of perfect, flawless completeness.
Meng Qi and the unconscious Zhuo Chaosheng stood beside the towering Bodhi Tree at the center of the Pure Land. Beneath the tree sat a Bodhisattva whose body was the color of a pure moon. His left hand was clenched into a fist, while his right palm lay open, supporting a lotus blossom. Cold moonlight bloomed around him, illuminating the boundless Pure Land. To his left, right, and rear, other similar Bodhisattvas appeared and vanished, as though dwelling in other universes and other heavens. Together, they formed the dharmakaya of a Great Bodhisattva with countless faces in all four directions.
This was the Eastern Glazed World, and this was Moonlight Bodhisattva, one of Medicine King Buddha's two attendants and a Great Bodhisattva of the Legendary realm.
Meng Qi knew this clearly, because it was precisely he who had deliberately drawn Moonlight Bodhisattva in!
Medicine King Buddha was the Eastern Cult Master among the Three Buddhas of the Horizontal Trinity, the Buddhist incarnation of the Azure Emperor. He was not of the same lineage as Maitreya. When Meng Qi had hoped to find a way back through matters related to the Azure Emperor, the first Buddha he had thought of was him.
The Azure Emperor had come to the Middle Ages Era and been sent back by