"During the Buddha-Extinguishing Calamity, disaster descended upon all realms. Why was the Netherworld Great World singled out for a bloody purge?"
"Could it be that the World-Honored One had already laid his plans when he entered extinction?"
Bao Xuanjing would never forget those forty-nine days when the Dark Prison became a blood prison. Those bald donkeys of the Buddha Sect had come to the Netherworld Great World to "transform karmic evil," claiming they would "dissolve violence and turn away calamity," "universally deliver suffering sinners," and "save the spirits of the dead"—yet they brought the most dangerous catastrophe in all of history to the Netherworld Great World.
First, Buddhist monasteries stood thick as forests, their Zen light shining upon the nether soil. Then, all realms extinguished the Buddha, and Nether Heaven entered the Dharma-Ending Age.
Those monks who chanted sutras and invoked the Buddha, their mouths brimming with compassion, threw corpses across the vast nether soil and burned countless ghosts to death with Zen blood!
So many monks had died that later, in the White Bone Divine Kingdom he rebuilt, many of the white bones were Zen bones...
During those forty-nine days when bloody light filled the sky, he shrank the White Bone Divine Palace to the size of a pellet and lay prone in the depths of the Yellow Springs, not daring to make the slightest sound as he silently watched the disaster unfold.
If the Netherworld Deities remained silent, it would merely be a calamity whose highest level, beneath Transcendence, reached the Yang God realm. But if the Netherworld Deities intervened, it might become a devastating disaster aimed at the entire Netherworld Great World!
It was those forty-nine days that made him resolve to come to the human world.
The eternal fantasy the Netherworld Deities clung to behind closed