Sorrowful Matters

Zhu Ping knew very well that the third impact was drawing near, and that the Buddhist faith's third mythical martial art, Future Constellation Calamity, was the key.

Before the third impact arrived, no one could cultivate Future Constellation Calamity, and the Immeasurable Sahā Future Buddha would not descend into the world.

Therefore, everyone now acting under the name of the Future Buddha was a fraud.

The Buddhist faith had never abandoned the mythical martial art Future Constellation Calamity. They often sought people to comprehend it, and some gained a few insights from it, acquiring certain strange abilities.

Once those insights spread, they gave rise to the present chaos.

As Zhu Ping walked through Tai'an City, he discovered that every household had erected an idol of the so-called Lotus Future Buddha.

It sat upon a lotus, with three heads and six arms—at times kind-browed and benevolent, at times ferocious-faced, at times gloomy and indifferent.

It was said that the three heads symbolized the Lotus Future Buddha's three forms. The kind-browed, benevolent face was the one shown to believers; the ferocious face was for the fiends that harmed the common people; while the gloomy, indifferent face represented the world-destroying aspect of his future great calamity.

Thus, the Lotus Sect preached that only believers could survive the world-destroying great calamity.

The three teachings outside were all fiends, and the knowledge they promoted came from evil gods. Their purpose was to corrupt everyone, so that all would perish alongside them in the apocalypse.

According to Zhu Ping's observations, many people in the city did not truly believe in the so-called Lotus Future Buddha. Yet after some devout believers rose to positions of power, using doomsday theories and the influence of their surroundings, belief in the Lotus Future Buddha became an atmosphere.

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