Glazed light swirled, and the Pure Land stretched vast and boundless. At a glance, the void seemed filled with Sura Flowers, yet every one had withered, their gold dimmed. One could still faintly glimpse the splendor of days gone by.
Though Xuan Bei had attained the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Golden Body" and now held the rank of "Great Bodhisattva," there was still an essential difference between his realm and that of the true Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. They could not be spoken of in the same breath. Seeing this Buddhist Kingdom descend, it was only natural for ripples to stir in his heart.
—Having been trapped at the legendary bottleneck for a full century after the underworld was assimilated by the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and the Luofeng Black Prison proved impossible to enter, he knew that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had once been one of Buddhism's four foremost Bodhisattvas. He had been named alongside Manjushri, Samantabhadra, and Guanyin, surpassed only slightly by Maitreya, known as the Buddha of the Future. Between them lay two great realms: Legend and Creation.
His thoughts turning, Xuan Bei honored Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva with reverence. He manifested the golden body of a Buddhist, compassionate with a hint of melancholy, and stepped onto a golden lotus. He climbed step by step and entered that lifeless Pure Land.
It was said that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva had vanished after the battle at Spirit Mountain. Some claimed he had fallen in the Myriad Buddhas Great Formation; others said he had escaped and withdrawn from the world. Xuan Bei had never imagined that he would encounter his Buddhist Pure Land today... As he recalled the many rumors, he walked across the barren earth, where not a trace of life remained. The Buddhist Temples, lotuses, crystals, Sura Flowers, Bodhi Trees, and merit ponds of the past