The Gods Sought to Become Buddhas

When the Buddhist light of the laws pierced every Star World, the Buddhist resonance throughout spacetime stirred.

Suddenly, corpses and dry bones beneath the stars and inside the temples alike seemed to wake.

As though sensing danger, they all scrambled to their feet.

"The dead are rising—"

Qingshan's scalp prickled. Every dead eminent monk and bhikkhu had risen and was trying to flee. The sight was terrifying.

"The dead aren't rising. The Buddhist resonance is trying to escape."

Liu Chengfeng shook his head and activated the laws.

Buddhist light blazed, illuminating every Star World. Countless fine rays sprang forth like chains of Buddhist law, linking all the worlds and their lands in an instant.

Hooks formed at the tips of the rays. They caught corpse after corpse and dragged the Buddhist resonance out of them by force.

The corpses of the eminent monks and bhikkhus seemed to scream and roar, unwilling and despairing.

They were already dead, but they had been nourished and had developed Buddhist resonance. Even in death, they had basked in Buddhist light.

Now that their Buddhist resonance had been forcibly stripped away, they became corpses through and through, cold and damp.

The corpses and bones shrieked and roared like hundreds of millions of eminent monks and bhikkhus crying out in agony. Their faces twisted into the likeness of an asura hell, a sight that made the hair stand on end.

"They're already dead. There's no need to torment them, is there?"

Qingshan's heart softened at the sight, and she spoke quietly.

Liu Chengfeng ignored her. Cold and ruthless, he hooked and seized every trace of Buddhist resonance.

At that moment, the laws formed from Chan Su-Nü's divine thought grew like a tree. Countless roots spread out and took hold in every Star World, extracting the Buddhist