The Origin of the Dharma Veins

At the foot of the Great Snow Mountain stood an ancient temple.

Its ground was paved with golden bricks, its walls mortared with cow's milk, while white bones supported the pillars throughout. It exuded an inexplicable aura, and its strange gates resembled a door to the afterlife.

Unknown tallow candles burned throughout the temple, releasing a faint scent of sandalwood.

A man stepped out of the void, draped in the kasaya of the "Lord of the Charnel Ground Human-Skin Thangka," holding a white-bone Zen staff. Six fist-sized white-bone prayer beads floated behind him like a halo.

Bzzzz!

With Fang Qing's arrival, the entire "All Beings Formless Temple" began to rumble.

He still wore Monk Yundan's face as he swaggered into the main hall and beheld the statue of the "Lord of the Charnel Ground Buddha."

A patch of gloom descended, causing the aura around him to faintly resemble that of the "Lord of the Charnel Ground Buddha" statue.

"My Buddha..."

Jiumoluojie's figure arrived in turn. Throwing himself flat before Fang Qing in full prostration, he said, "Jiumoluojie pays respects to the Buddha Child!"

"Oh?"

Fang Qing turned around. The "Lord of the Charnel Ground Human-Skin Thangka" upon his chest blossomed with boundless majesty, making even that white-bone Dharma manifestation seem as though it had come alive.

Countless bats flapped their wings, hanging upside down beneath the nearby eaves. "What is a Buddha Child?"

"One who bears the will of the great 'Lord of the Charnel Ground' and walks the earth in His stead is called a 'Buddha Child'..."

Jiumoluojie reverently prostrated himself once more. There was not the slightest trace of doubt in his heart—only devotion.

Because he had sensed the emptiness nature of [Maiden Earth]!

That was the true golden nature of the "Lord of the Charnel Ground," carrying