The Nine Tripod Cauldrons shook the Divine Land. Heaven and earth contracted, and the Five Elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—converged. The enormous rift in the boundless heights seemed to bear immense pressure. Five-colored immortal mist rose, and countless uncanny things could faintly be seen churning within a universe.
A blazing radiance that had shone through the ages pierced the heavens and seas of the Great Thousand World, seeking to fly from the depths of the earth to the boundless heights.
Sanzang embodied Taiji; his four disciples embodied the qi of the Five Elements.
Sanzang gathered four disciples: Taiji governed the Five Elements. The four disciples returned to Sanzang: the Five Elements became Taiji.
The calamities all living beings had endured since antiquity, and every place touched by this world's journey west, could serve as a spark, drawing forth the trials of birth, aging, sickness, death, love, obsession, killing, hatred, greed, and more that living beings suffered under the Heavenly Dao.
Those who survived tribulations ought to earn merit.
A tribulation was disaster; fortune following disaster was destiny.
At that moment, all the merit and fortune they had accumulated burst from the Scripture-Seekers. In every land they had passed through, the wishes of living beings manifested in the world.
"Tathagata!!!" Helbark roared. He looked toward the figure emerging from the boundless daylight, and anger surged in his heart.
More branches of the River Styx appeared, both to drag those on the battlefield into the Netherworld Bureau and to offer the slain as sacrifices to every member of Helbark's side.
Mara said helplessly, "That guy doesn't look anything like Tathagata."
"We still have a chance." Wei Wu looked at the leopard-pelt-clad Reincarnator and tossed him two Storage Bags. "We'll buy that consumable of yours."
The leopard-pelt-clad Reincarnator and his teammates had