Seven Emotions, Six Desires, Karmic Fire Black Chain

Crash!

The Buddha light that had spread across the entire city shattered completely at that moment!

It was as though an entire pane of glass had exploded. The Buddha light scattered like shards through the sky before gradually fading away. This chain of changes took place in barely a breath—the Buddha light that the Red Sun Buddha in the Void had cast across the city through every manner of means vanished in an instant!

The Marshfolk believers in the city noticed almost immediately. Yet they had not cultivated any divine abilities, so they could not sense it clearly. They merely felt their hearts skip a beat, as though something important had suddenly gone missing, leaving an empty hollow within them. But when they focused and searched, they could not find the source of that emptiness. They could only continue their former work in irritation—burning, killing, looting, and pillaging.

Unlike the believers, the gods bewitched by the Buddhist chants had an entirely different experience. They first regained their senses, then detected the existence of the Humanistic Network, and in turn discovered the terrifying Literary Thought within it. Its density far exceeded all expectations—

This Literary Thought had not formed merely from the Spiritual Light of scholars gathered throughout Jiannan Circuit. There were also the many seeds of Literary Thought that Qiu Yan's Fleshly Body had planted along his journey. As the Movable-Type Printing Technique spread and the Way of Knowledge and Action expanded, Literary Thought converged here from every corner of the realm.

This was precisely Qiu Yan's complete manifestation of the Humanistic Network, revealing all the accumulation and preparations he had made over the years and turning that accumulation into results. Yet the mysteries involved were beyond the comprehension of ordinary gods. All they could sense was that the power