A Healthy, Sunny Smile

<div class="tt-title">A Healthy, Sunny Smile

A teacher of gods and men was one to whom all heavenly and earthly demon kings, heretics, buddhas, Brahmas, dragons, and others submitted, following his teachings and becoming his disciples. Thus was he called the Teacher of Gods and Men.

With a single grasp of his palm, he formed a Pure Land Dharma Realm, enlightening all sentient beings.

Adam curled his five fingers inward, slowly forming a precious lotus with a black-to-gold gradient. At its center was not the flame of a heart-lamp, but a black-and-white lion lying with its eyes shut. At some point, the Sun's True Fire had already gone out.

"Hmm...?"

Even after the precious lotus closed completely, Adam did not get the person or event he had been waiting for.

By his original estimate, there had been a ninety percent chance that this move would be interrupted midway, with some old man or old woman appearing and shouting, "Daoist Master, stay your hand..."

Then they would say that the Heavenly Court's campaign against the Northern Sky Demon Alliance was destined by fate, that this lion was their mount and had been sent to bring the matter about, and that they needed to take it back, or something along those lines.

He had even worked out how he would extort them based on their identity, yet no one had appeared?

Could this lion really have been an accident?

Was it truly just an innately unusual creature from Uttarakuru, hidden within the Northern Sky Demon Alliance?

But that did not explain the strand of fur on its body...

Or was it like the nine-tailed fox from the Investiture of the Gods era? Had it done something too excessive and been abandoned by those behind it?

Adam narrowed his eyes. That strand of fur