Hey, don't use the word "we" so smoothly!
With an attitude of rather helpless resignation toward Shadow Spirit, Yu Ci finally shook his head. "You mean the Buddha bone? Zhao Ziyue said that karmic force and the force of vows were entangled on it..."
"Where would karmic force come from on a Buddha bone?" Shadow Spirit directly interrupted him. "Once a Buddha bone comes out, the karmic fire disperses, which shows that this force of vows is pure and unstained by karmic force. It must be because it was issued but not destroyed."
"Oh?" Yu Ci suddenly remembered that Zhao Ziyue had mentioned earlier that Ten Directions Ci Guang Buddha made an absolute vow, but fell short of success at the very last moment. "You mean the force of vows clinging to that section of the Buddha bone is different from other places?"
Shadow Spirit responded with confidence. "To repair the Six Paths Samsara, that monk didn't hesitate to abandon his cultivation of past lives and his Buddha fruit, yet he suffered a demonic calamity and fell short at the threshold. Before his dying breath, if even a single spirit remained, whether resentful or desolate, to be truly in despair was impossible! I have ten-percent certainty that he must have left a glimmer of a chance for his own vow. That this section of the Buddha bone is unstained by karmic fire is clear proof of that."
"He made a vow right before he died?"
"Precisely so."
Shadow Spirit was fairly competent at dissecting human hearts, and Yu Ci acknowledged that. Still, he found it strange—even if that were the case, what use was the force of vows that didn't touch karmic fire? Could you eat it?
"It can advance your cultivation!" Shadow Spirit's tone was practically one of utter