"So, Master Pu Ku sensed it long ago as well?"
Xiao Yan asked.
"Sense... that would not be entirely accurate. But I could indeed perceive an unusual aura about all of you—something familiar, yet not quite. If I did not possess a rudimentary understanding of Destiny Reading, I likely would not have dared confirm it so readily."
Pu Ku pondered for a moment before saying, "Brother Xiao Yan, do you remember what I told you outside the Earthly Supreme Ruins more than ten years ago? Among the Buddha Sect's lines of inheritance, there were not only the Ascetic Lineage and the Bliss Lineage."
"Back then, the lineage with the most inheritors, and comparatively the strongest, was known as the Bodhi Lineage."
"It was said that when inheritors of the Bodhi Lineage joined the Buddha Sect, they underwent the Bodhi Reincarnation Heart-Refining Trial. In the end, they were chosen by Bodhi. Beneath the ancient tree, they experienced a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation and attained enlightenment in a single day, thus achieving freedom."
Looking at Xiao Yan and Yao Wan, Pu Ku said with a faint smile, "In that case, it seems our karmic connection truly runs deeper than this."
"This..."
Before they could ask Yao Emperor about it, Xiao Yan and Yao Wan unconsciously exchanged a glance. The sheer amount of information before them already left them utterly confused as they tried to figure out what connection existed between the Bodhi Ancient Tree of the Great Thousand World and the one on the Dou Qi Continent. And according to Pu Ku, did they truly have such a connection with the Buddha Sect?
"But back then, we merely walked out of the reincarnation cycles on our own. We could not exactly call it enlightenment. We probably do not count as true awakened