Shen Le Attains the Dao, Chickens and Dogs Ascend to Heaven: Why Aren't I the One Benefiting?

The displaced Buddha statues—some crossed the seas, while others fell into the East Sea with the ships transporting them. As for the statue's body, it had been packed into crates and sent upstream. Midway through the journey, the ship capsized under artillery fire. The statue and its Buddhist Shrine sank into the water together, only to be picked up by a giant crab—

After that, Shen Le could see no more, as though some powerful force had blocked his sight.

Considering the dense aura of foreign species lingering around the Buddha statue and Buddhist Shrine, Shen Le had reason to suspect that shrimp soldiers and crab generals had discovered them, sent them into the Dragon Palace, and that Dragon Lord had preserved them?

In any case, after all those twists and turns, it had ended up in his hands again, and he had worked hard to repair it—if that Dragon Lord stood before him now, Shen Le could tell him that he had not failed his mission!

Once the Buddha statue's aura had fully connected as a whole, it began to exchange and communicate with the Buddhist Shrine, merging with the Silk Skirts.

At last, the Copper Fragment gave a soft hum, flew out on its own, and landed in his hand:

It revealed its true form once more. It was neither the tiny piece that had always hung before his chest nor the Broken Bronze Tripod suspended in his meditation world, but a section of the tripod's body, complete with one of its handles:

Thankfully, the area of the tripod body was a full circle larger than before. Mountains, rivers, and waterways had begun to emerge on the physical portion of its true form:

No, there were no mountains—only rivers, an exceptionally long horizontal coastline, and the imprint of