Seeing the phantom manifested by the Myriad Buddhas Formation, Master Lingbao felt as though he were looking at himself.
No, not merely himself, but Tathagata as well.
It was innate nature-everyone was Tathagata!
Buddha Tathagata!
This Myriad Buddhas Formation could not be underestimated. It could actually manifest a phantom of the Buddha... Master Lingbao gazed intently at it, his heart growing solemn.
Countless white lotuses and golden swastikas also rose from the lands Maitreya had converted earlier, joining seamlessly with the barrier. All became a Buddhist kingdom, preventing him from reclaiming those regions for the moment and greatly diminishing the extent to which Maitreya's earlier gains could be reversed.
Maitreya wore a smile, his eyes narrowed to slits, seemingly asleep yet awake. Flecks of radiance appeared on the golden body at his shoulder, where Xiaotian Hound had bitten through it, slowly repairing the damage.
The great Buddha advanced, intent on destroying the Splendid Mountains and Rivers and transforming them into the Buddhist Kingdom on Earth.
A figure drifted into view. With one stamp of his foot, supreme power bore down, making heaven and earth tremble.
When he had split off this avatar of Master Lingbao, he had never expected Master Lingbao to cultivate such a Great Dao.
"Hold a moment, fellow Daoist. Let this humble Daoist test your Myriad Buddhas Formation!"
Master Lingbao laughed heartily and said:
Before his words had faded, his body abruptly expanded. Heaven-opening power flowed through him as he assumed Heavenly Law and Earthly Form, growing even larger than the Buddhist kingdom covering most of Jiangdong. A giant confronted a "giant Buddha"!
The five fingers of his right hand curled into a fist one by one. Every acupoint in Master Lingbao's body opened, and boundless vitality washed through his treasured body. Amid the surging blood qi,