At that moment, the Quasi-Saints of Buddhism retreated one after another, shaken to their cores. None had imagined Jin Chanzi harbored such hatred!
Across the Primordial World, many were stunned. They knew Jin Chanzi possessed Golden Cicada Escape, and that the body he shed was a precious natural material. But they had never imagined Zhunti used it to control him!
No wonder Jin Chanzi had betrayed them. Anyone else would have done the same long ago! No wonder he hated them. Anyone else would have wanted to slaughter every last Buddhist!
Even Ren now understood why Buddhism had chosen Jin Chanzi for its rise, why he had to endure eighty-one ordeals, and why he had to reincarnate nine times before embarking on the Journey to the West. Those mysteries all had to do with Jin Chanzi himself! Perhaps the eighty-one ordeals were meant to convert him completely. Every ordeal brought the reincarnated mortal Jin Chanzi to the brink of death, only for someone to save him. Was that not another form of Golden Cicada Escape? After eighty-one such escapes, he would become a Buddha in one stroke—the Merit Buddha! From then on, Jin Chanzi would serve Buddhism, converted completely!
What deep schemes Buddhism had laid. What ruthless methods it had used!
Who could accept that? To be converted without knowing it, tormented again and again, and finally turned into Buddhism's puppet!
Now Jin Chanzi blazed with demonic flames. Blood stained his body, and he looked like a devil escaped from Hell. His face twisted with rage, he swept a hate-filled gaze across the Buddhists!
Everyone knew he had been driven to this. No one could blame him!
The Demon Empress poured out Demon Qi, wrapping it around Jin Chanzi and transforming the Buddhist power within him into pure Demon Qi.