The Buddhist light dimmed!
The resplendent world Ksitigarbha had constructed was like a torch guttering out. That brilliance at its very peak fell away petal by petal, like withering flowers.
For a time, the hundred-thousand-mile Transcendence battlefield was dreamlike and unreal.
The ancient Yellow Springs, once dried up, seemed to brim with life—but all that life existed solely upon the black-robed monk who devoured all light.
He was the Everlasting Spring Tree, the Golden Body Cicada; an undying name, eternal majestic solemnity.
Amid all the images of extinction, he alone shone brilliantly.
The imperial palace pressed down upon Yellow Springs; the golden body filled the old ravine. Palace, monk, imperial authority, Buddhist faith... this brief deadlock seemed like an eternal scene in the Netherworld.
The Central Son of Heaven's decree spread throughout The Present World. All who cultivated Zen were shocked!
Long ago, the Dragon Buddha had sought revenge against the World-Honored One, unleashing the great calamity of Buddhist extinction. The heavens fought in chaos, and Zen practitioners were slaughtered across ten thousand worlds. At that time, the vast Netherworld world into which the Buddha Sect had poured itself was directly bathed in blood for forty-nine days, leaving scarcely a trace behind. Countless pure lands of the heavens fell as well.
Only the treasure monasteries of The Present World remained, and incense offerings continued in the Demon Realm. They were hailed as the "Eternal Kalpa Pure Land" and the "Calamity Deliverance Ark." Thus the Buddhist School's flame endured, preserving the inheritance of the true Buddhas.
So even though the World-Honored One was dead, the Buddhist lineage remained.
The Buddhist School still stood as one of the prominent teachings of The Present World, deeply influencing this world.
But if the Central Son of Heaven truly launched a Buddhist extinction today, the