The Azure-Gold Buddha was clear and radiant inside and out, his body like glass, giving people the feeling that he could withstand ten thousand calamities without wearing down. A smile as unchanging as eternity still lingered on his face, as though he had long foreseen every change and had merely been waiting for the opportunity before him.
Meng Qi sat cross-legged upon a cloud bed, a pure, luminous halo behind his head that contained myriad Great Daos and countless possibilities. He calmly watched the Holy Buddha Golden Body, thinking of that oldest and most powerful Heavenly Venerable. Suddenly, he smiled. The Taishang Limitless Yuan Shi Auspicious Cloud above his head, dark and unfathomable as though condensed from a single point, shot out and enveloped this perfected "Bodhi Golden Body." Chaos wore it away, while Limitlessness assimilated it. Bit by bit, the other side of the Eight-Nine Arcane Art entered his own illusory Dao Fruit.
At that moment, "Zhending Tathagata" returned to a strand of Pure Qi and burrowed into his Niwan Palace. His body seemed to collapse, as if transforming into the first, most primordial, and most indescribable point. This gave the Supreme True Buddha an opportunity to force back Daoist Zhunti. With hatred and envy, he shrank the pure, brilliant white light and fled into the void, leaving the Demon Buddha with a gloomy expression. He seemed mentally prepared, yet still found it difficult to accept.
Silently, the primordial singularity split apart. The clear rose and the turbid sank, clustering around an ancient Daoist. His features were handsome—it was Meng Qi. A stream of Pure Qi burst from the top of his head, illuminating the All Heavens and Myriad Worlds and the bygone eras. His figure stretched from the final age of the Primordial Antiquity through the prehistoric years,