The Eight Calamities included hell, hungry ghosts, the heaven of longevity...
These were the Buddha's great calamities. Humans, too, harbored evil; the Buddha crossed the great calamities and gathered that evil.
Skanda was a guardian god who gathered evil calamities. Now, under the Nine-Crown Emperor's command, the power of the Eight Calamities surged out of the Buddha Kingdom to destroy Liu Chengfeng.
The Supreme Buddha Kingdom was itself a proliferating illusory realm, wedged between the World Forest and a higher plane, unable to enter the mortal world.
Thus, any Buddha power descending from it would be greatly diminished.
The Eight Calamities should have lost much of their might upon descending. But among them was longevity. Longevity swept down from the Buddha Kingdom, and the power of evil calamities poured out madly, surging forth without end.
Longevity bore the reduction and destruction, leaving the other seven calamities, including hell and hungry ghosts, unaffected as they rushed madly toward Liu Chengfeng.
The Eight Calamities had destroyed countless universes and slaughtered countless gods. How terrifying it was to see them swarm forth now.
Hell unfolded its grim domains, suppressing, killing, and grinding everything away; hungry ghosts roared, devouring worlds and universes; the Buddha met calamity, and nirvana burned all to nothing; delusion filled the heart, and people went mad...
The might of the Eight Calamities horrified the gods.
Such terrifying power descended with a casual gesture from the Nine-Crown Emperor. Everyone thought Liu Chengfeng would not withstand it. "A clown prancing on a beam-"
Liu Chengfeng swept his gaze over the Eight Calamities pouring down.
Compared with the Old Scholar's hell, the hell and hungry ghosts of the Eight Calamities were nothing but a joke, not even worthy of being called clowns.
**"I bring forth bodhi, with the Buddha seated beneath it. Which