One lotus gave birth to ten thousand laws; ten thousand laws returned to one lotus.
Legend held that long ago, the Three Buddhas contemplated the boundless world, traced the workings of heaven and earth, and together passed down eighty-one Lotus-Crafting Secret Arts.
Every Dao Lotus possessed power comparable to a top-tier Dao Soldier and could bear the might of heavenly tribulation. They were among the Buddhist Gate's most closely guarded secrets.
The World-Crossing Blood Lotus, however, was said to rank only forty-second among those eighty-one Dao Lotuses.
Yet despite its low ranking, in sheer killing power and the ability to withstand tribulation, it stood firmly among the top ten.
There was only one reason it ranked so far down.
The conditions for crafting it were brutally exacting, even contrary to the Buddhist Gate's principle of compassion and universal salvation.
An ordinary Dao Lotus required no more than rare treasures of heaven and earth, nourished by the essence of sun and moon...
The World-Crossing Blood Lotus was entirely different.
It required living beings who had entered the path of cultivation as nourishment, and those living offerings had to belong to the Buddhist Gate.
To the Buddhist Gate today, how precious were its disciples?
How could it possibly use those of profound cultivation, even beings of the Myriad Phenomena Heaven Realm, as fodder for a blood lotus?
Thus, countless ages had passed without the World-Crossing Blood Lotus appearing in the world.
But the situation now was different.
Chen Changgeng swept his gaze over the tens of thousands of Rogue Cultivators and demons. The Buddhist Gate had just imparted its methods, and many of them had accepted without hesitation. With its teachings now part of them, they could be counted as half-members of the Buddhist Gate.
At the same cultivation level, these half-members