Facing the Golden Body Buddha's casual flick of a finger, Sha Wujing felt as if he had returned to Spirit Mountain. He was listening to Buddha preach, watching flowers bloom and wither, his heart filled with insight. He saw that all appearances were no appearances, understood that worldly affairs were illusions, and was on the verge of becoming a Buddha on the spot.
His tall, burly body gradually began to shine with Glazed Pure Light, as if he could condense a Golden Body at any moment, just as before.
Just as before?
The moment the thought surfaced, his senses replayed a similar experience, and only then did a feeling of danger well up in his spirit. He abruptly snapped awake, realizing he had fallen into Nian Hua Smile, the boundless Buddhist Dharma that conveyed the mind directly to the mind!
The golden, flower-pinching finger had already reached the space between his brows.
In the blink of an eye, Sha Wujing's body abruptly collapsed into countless glimmers of water. Points of wish power coalesced among them, dancing wildly through the sky as they fled with a roar. In another direction, they gathered once more into the body of a divine envoy, narrowly evading the strike from Meng Qi's Zhending Tathagata Incarnation.
Seeing this, the Golden Body Buddha did not grow discouraged. Smiling, he opened his left hand, slightly bent his thumb, and let his other four fingers hang naturally, adopting the posture of welcoming all beings and delivering the world from suffering.
Buddha-light burst from his palm. Some of it resembled Willow Branch Sweet Dew, while some formed enormous golden palms. They struck at Sha Wujing without leaving so much as a gap.
But Sha Wujing, having evaded Nian Hua Smile, recovered his Great Divine Ability User's powers. His jeweled staff