Ksitigarbha King slowly nodded.
"Not only I, but even the other three Bodhisattvas had never seen Shakyamuni's true face. We had merely heard his legends. No matter what major events occurred within Buddhism, he had never appeared. Yet there was no room for doubt regarding his existence."
"Since you had never seen him, why are you so certain?"
"Because Buddhism needed a Buddha, and believers needed Shakyamuni."
Ksitigarbha King looked into Ye Tian's eyes.
The latter met his gaze directly.
All Ye Tian saw in his eyes was boundless vicissitude and loneliness.
"Actually, regarding the origins of our Buddhism, some have speculated that it predates this world and may have come from those endless stars."
Ye Tian could only remain silent. He possessed only a rough understanding of Buddhism; he merely knew a little more than most people, but naturally could not compare to the Ksitigarbha before him.
"The place where these Three Thousand Worlds exist was once shrouded in chaos. Then, after countless immeasurable kalpas, three thousand Gods and Devils were born. One of them was Pangu. He forcibly carved out a world, and afterward Gods and Devils of all sizes emerged. With Pangu serving as a precedent, they were naturally unwilling to remain lonely. It was precisely because Pangu had blazed the trail that later Gods and Devils could create heaven and earth without paying the price of their lives..."
Then, from Ksitigarbha's mouth came a worldview Ye Tian had never known...
The Great Dao existed before chaos. The so-called Heavenly Dao was a set of rules independently born within every world after the Three Thousand Worlds came into being.
Beneath the Heavenly Dao were naturally the living beings of every realm.
Though Xiantian Divine Demons were Immortal and Undying, with lifespans equal to chaos itself, accidents were