As the saying went, one lotus gave birth to ten thousand laws, and ten thousand laws returned to one lotus.
Legend held that long ago, the Three Buddhas contemplated the Great Thousand World, divined the workings of heaven and earth, and together passed down the Eighty-One Lotus-Crafting Secrets.
Every Dao Lotus possessed power comparable to a supreme Dao Armament and could withstand the might of a heavenly tribulation. They were among the Buddhist Sect's most closely guarded secrets.
The World-Crossing Blood Lotus, however, was said to rank only forty-second among those eighty-one Dao Lotuses.
Though its rank was low, in sheer killing power and its ability to bear tribulations, it stood firmly among the top ten.
There was only one reason it had been placed so far down the list.
The conditions for crafting it were far too harsh, even contrary to the Buddhist Sect's principle of compassion and universal salvation.
Ordinary Dao Lotuses required little more than rare treasures of heaven and earth, nourished by the essence of the sun and moon...
But the World-Crossing Blood Lotus was altogether different.
It had to be fed living beings who had entered the path of cultivation, and those living sacrifices had to belong to the Buddhist Sect.
To the Buddhist Sect of today, how precious were its disciples?
Who would even consider using those with profound cultivation, much less beings of the Myriad-Forms Heaven Realm, as fodder for a Blood Lotus?
Thus, the World-Crossing Blood Lotus had not appeared in the world for countless years.
Now, however, things were entirely different.
Chen Changeng swept his gaze over the tens of thousands of Rogue Cultivators and Demons. When the Buddhist Sect had offered them its cultivation methods, so many of them had accepted without hesitation. They now carried the Buddhist Sect's teachings