This Tathagata Was Not That Tathagata

The "main force" left in the square outside the palace stood dumbstruck. They could only watch as a colossal Buddha's head, its expression both compassionate and majestic, smashed through the hall's many barriers and rose straight into the dim sky beyond.

The slower ones were still staring. The quicker ones had already turned tail and fled.

"What the hell? The Buddha-statue aliens are attacking too? This isn't the set of Killing City!"

One player shouted at the top of his lungs as he ran, glancing back at the enormous figure glowing gold in the night.

"Quick, summon the Third Tiga Patriarch!"

There was no helping it. The sheer contrast of scale looked straight out of a giant-monster show!

Amid the rising gray clouds, the "Buddha" whose head had emerged from the hall was still growing, as though it might blot out both sky and moon!

Hundreds of golden arms slowly extended behind it, spreading like a peacock's tail yet writhing like a centipede's legs, an eerie forest of limbs!

Even the common people in the capital, far beyond the palace walls, could easily see this boundlessly tall, radiant "Buddha descended to earth"!

Many mortals in the distance immediately dropped to their knees in worship!

Most unsettling were the eyes revealed in every palm. Those bizarre eyes of every shape and size shifted slightly, sweeping an indifferent gaze over the "strangers" below, who looked like ants scattered across the ravaged ground.

How the hell were they supposed to fight that?

So when you were wearing that human skin, you really were just a weak little "human host" who hadn't transformed yet?

The players who had been standing near the hall doors had seen it all clearly.

The roof of Cihang Hall had shattered while the people inside were still scrambling for