The curse-shadow formed from the Curse Ancestor's merit in opening the way fell into Ksitigarbha's fate. It represented the Celestial Path's loathing, and from dust that merely clung to him, it had gradually corroded into a birthmark upon destiny.
Though Ksitigarbha was confronting Jiang Shu, with his command of the Celestial Path, he could originally have brushed it away with a casual lift of his hand. But Dantai Wenshu's struggle for the Celestial Path, the turmoil stirred by the Kunpeng Heavenly Form, together with Abbess Empty Bonds' ascent toward Transcendence, left him unable to raise that hand!
From the chaos of Heavenly Secret, to the severance of heaven's favor, to the Celestial Path's revulsion... the tides of the Celestial Path had unexpectedly risen and fallen amid the sea of humanity.
Ever since the ancient Human Emperor spoke those four words in the depths of despair—"Man shall prevail over Heaven"—generation after generation of outstanding figures, as though reenacting the same tale again and again, had somehow turned those four words into something like truth itself.
Ksitigarbha looked at the Heavenly Consort, an inexplicable sorrow in his voice. "You do not even say the word 'borrow.'"
The bamboo grove around the Heavenly Consort grew wildly, rippling across the Heavenly Sea into a sea of bamboo, steeped in Ziwei Star's radiance and dyed all in violet. Moon-Washing Nunnery's accumulation over so many years was supporting her. Once she attained the Dao, the Buddhist Sect's third holy land would form of its own accord—indeed, it might even rise to become the first!
In this present age, neither Hanging Temple nor Mount Sumeru had a Transcendent standing behind it.
Heavenly Sea Purple Bamboo Forest! The Kunpeng swam within it.
He sensed the mysteries of the Celestial Path embodied in this bamboo forest, while enjoying Ziwei