The realm where the Fusang Ancient Tree stood seemed wrapped in illusion, isolated from the Feixiang Realm of the Sea of Clouds. It was like a mirage, visible but unreachable. Only when the Luo Sect's Great Powers, acting on a tip, forcibly broke through with a treasure that countered it did the realm "return" to the Real Realm. Through the breach, one could vaguely glimpse a vast ocean and Immortal Islands and Divine Mountains within.
Yet this was, after all, a place tied to a Primordial Emperor. Even with a breach, it remained a realm unto itself, lofty and apart, with the Seven Seas visible below—like the Jade Void Palace, like the Nine Heavens, like the world derived from the Dinghai Pearl. Thus, as Shao Xuan and Xi E, two Legendary Great Powers, stepped inside, ripples suddenly stirred in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool of the Eastern Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli. The water heaved and surged, making it impossible to see the scene within clearly, like a livestream whose signal had been interfered with and distorted.
Moonlight Bodhisattva formed the Abhaya Mudra, with countless faces all around him, and smiled faintly. "Benefactor, look. What difference does it make whether one comes or not, whether one watches or not?"
A Sambhogakaya and a legend both resembled something omnipresent, but were in fact different. A legend was a state in which one had elevated oneself to a higher level, like the Immortal Realm or the Nine Abysses, overlaying the Real Realm and the various Cosmic Grotto-heavens. It was omnipresent in relation to realms of a slightly lower level, but within the same level, it had no such ability. Just as when Guerduo and the others had planned to eliminate Su Wuming, they had deliberately lured him to the Jade Lake to