"In this life of mine, I do not ask about the past!"
After the long saber had slashed out, the strange phenomenon vanished. A planet shifted and blocked the great sun. At that moment, daylight in the Investiture of the Gods World turned as dark as night. A court historian recorded:
"In the sixth year of King Xianlie, at noon, the Heavenly Dog Eats Sun. Daylight darkens once more. An ill omen."
The "long night" stretched on and on. Only distant stars glimmered here and there, deep in the darkness, as though something unknown writhed within it. It was unnerving.
Just then, a hazy, ethereal purple blade light appeared high in the sky. It was utterly illusory, as if it had crossed from the Spirit World and the Mysterious World into the Material World and the Real World, making everything seem unreal.
The blade light illuminated the night, pierced through illusion and reality, and revealed brilliant Star Lines that should not have been perceptible to living beings. They filled the sky like countless condensed nebulae, yet were interspersed with many different colors.
The Purple Lightning Long Saber neither moved forward nor backward, neither rose nor fell. It climbed inexplicably. The brilliant Star Lines vanished one by one, until only a few remained, linking Meng Qi in the Investiture of the Gods World with the Demon Buddha Ananda's incarnation atop Spirit Mountain!
All that had happened in the past was contained within them.
As the blade light slashed out and the links emerged, Meng Qi clearly sensed Demon Buddha Ananda's movements. He had brought out that mysterious little seal.
The little seal seemed to exist everywhere, towering high above, spinning rapidly and rolling up and down, showing Meng Qi the scene on every one of its faces. The Nine Heavens loomed