For the name Amitabha Buddha alone, Ji Hao could not possibly give him a minor office. He had tremendous faith in his potential.
"Amitabha. This humble monk accepts the decree!" Gazing at the divine talisman brimming with an immortal presence, Amitabha Buddha's Dharma Body felt boundless longing well up within him. He shrank to ordinary human size, pressed his palms together, and bowed respectfully.
The Divine Dao Talisman merged into Amitabha Buddha's Dharma Body. Flesh, blood, and divinity gradually emerged within his body of faith, while the sharira formed from his Immortal Platform shone anew with Buddhist light. Layer upon layer of radiance illuminated past and present, and the name Amitabha Buddha was chanted without cease. Streams of faith power, like stellar rivers, began to burn, helping his Dharma Body become real. A wisp of true spirit followed the River of Time into the sharira.
"Woooo!"
Heaven and earth shook, and ghosts and gods wept. Blood-colored lightning illuminated the River of Time as a Divine Dao Talisman blazed with endless divine light. Immortal, indestructible Geng Metal Qi filled the universe. The sharira burned with glass-colored Buddhist flames, becoming the Dharma manifestation of a boundless great Buddha that filled all creation. Buddhist light illuminated the Ten Directions Universe, and the Six Paths of Samsara trembled.
A dazzling gleam of Buddhist light rose-boundless light, boundless life, boundless supernatural powers. A Buddha stepped out from within it, his Sixteen-Foot Golden Body radiating infinite might. Behind his head shone layer upon layer of Buddhist light, forty-eight halos in all.
Great Emperor Amitabha had returned!
Forming the Fearlessness Mudra, he spoke with boundless compassion and pity:
"Above heaven and below heaven, 'I' alone am honored."
As his words fell, limitless light burst from his entire body. It illuminated Mount Sumeru, illuminated the dark and mysterious