Azure splendor shone across the heavens and wilds.
A boundless beam of azure light stood amid the Tribulation Clouds like a great tree, its branches piercing deep into their depths.
Its leaves were like glazed crystal, its branches like violet gold. In an instant, it seemed as though ten thousand Buddhas had descended together, countless glazed faces looming in and out of sight within the Tribulation Clouds.
"In immeasurable kalpas past, as the Wheel-Turning Sage King was about to attain the Great Dao, Maheshvara Heaven conceived jealousy, coveted the Nirvana Dao Fruit, and gave rise to thoughts of strife. At that time, beneath the Bodhi Tree, our Buddha Ancestor extended his golden arm..."
The sutra's chant surged mightily, as though an Ancient Buddha were about to reveal his form amid this Heavenly Tribulation.
Yet upon closer inspection, those glazed faces of the Ancient Buddhas were savage, ugly, sinister, lustful, jealous, wrathful...
Too many to name.
Hearing their Sanskrit chants did not rein in the mind's monkey and the heart's horse; instead, they spawned endless stray thoughts, even inverted vexations. The sound went on without end, resounding throughout the firmament.
Su Che sat cross-legged within the precious light, his hair loose around him, his hands continuously forming seals according to the subtle method transmitted by the Dharma-Ending Demon Master.
Chants of Buddha and devil alike emerged from his mouth.
Phantom Heavenly Demons and streams of Tribulation Fire could not advance an inch within three feet of Su Che.
This was a Void divine ability.
The Dharma-Ending Demon Master's boundless devilish might now quietly spread out with Su Che as its foundation.
The four directions above and below were called space; antiquity and the present were called time.
Though his surroundings extended no more than three feet, they were in truth already