"Karmic evil harms the body like fire; the gates of hell open to welcome you."
The Shadow Ghost suddenly reminded him, its intent cold and eerie: "This is the so-called consuming karmic fire of those bald donkeys. All sentient beings are powerless to escape it. In the Western Buddhist Kingdom, whether one is a Buddha, a Bodhisattva, a Pratyekabuddha, or an Arhat, dying beneath this fire means mandatory manifestation within the hells, subjected to endless, agonizing torment."
Did it sound rather formidable? Yu Ci listened with some bewilderment. He had once perused Buddhist texts and roughly understood the definition of karmic fire, merely assuming it was a religious didactic concept for encouraging virtue and cultivation, yet he had never imagined it possessed such an incredible divine power.
Within the Buddhist cultivation system, a Buddha was comparable to an Earth Immortal or a Divine Master of the highest tier; Bodhisattvas and Pratyekabuddhas corresponded to Calamity Law Grandmasters; Arhats were akin to Longevity True Men. All of them had attained longevity and the supreme fruit of realization. Could even such figures fail to withstand the karmic fire?
"This is a major divine power of the Buddhist sect, worthy of being one of the foundational pillars of the religion, so naturally it possesses extraordinary aspects. Because this fire is poisonous to the extreme, even within the Buddhist sect there is no method capable of cultivating or harnessing it. One can only recite mantras or summon it via Buddhist treasures... You must be careful. The terror of the karmic fire lies not in how difficult it is to resist, but in the fact that once tainted, even if you survive, you are bound by so-called past-life karmic evils, leaving almost no possibility of further successful cultivation. In other words, you have no hope of