Boundless Buddha-light and endless Brahma-sound wove together into a vast radiance.
Beyond the Great Heaven, amid the boundless cosmos, a towering mountain descended today. It was golden, and bore a huge swastika symbol.
What mountain was this? It was called Spirit Mountain.
Where was Spirit Mountain? It was in the hearts of people.
Rumble!
A thunderous sound suddenly rang across the firmament, shaking heaven and earth. It rolled on without end, like the first thunderclap when heaven and earth began, bringing the world its first spark of life.
A Buddhist temple appeared atop Spirit Mountain.
It was called the Great Thunderclap Temple.
The mountain was named Spirit Mountain, the temple Thunderclap. That was all.
"What are those bald donkeys from the Brahmin Sect up to, making such a spectacle?" Huan Wushang looked up at the mountain and temple, speaking coldly.
Beneath a hazy curtain of light, Heavenly Treasure Lord—the most imposing of the Xuan Sect's three Great Dao Lords—said blandly, "Maitreya is attempting that final step."
"What? He's going at it so directly, so impatiently?" The Lord of the World Alliance was startled. These powerhouses, all standing at the pinnacle of the Progenitor Realm, had descended upon the Great Heaven precisely to make it a battleground, to fight a life-and-death struggle and spur one another's potential as much as possible, in hopes of attaining Supreme Great Luo.
And now, a powerhouse of the Brahmin Sect was actually going to attempt Great Luo directly?
Huan Wushang considered it, then suddenly nodded. "It makes sense. The Brahmin Sect's doctrine is that the Four Great Emptinesses are all empty—even the self is empty. For us, a life-and-death battle and ultimate sublimation are good ways to pursue Great Luo, but not for Maitreya. So he chose to attempt it directly."
Buddha and demon were