At the same time, the Glazed Ancient Lamp flew out after it, illuminating the rain of causality densely threaded with brilliant stellar lines. As black and white revolved, it burned through every connection between Medicine King Buddha and Azure Emperor, leaving a blank in that stretch of history and threatening to plunge Azure Emperor back into the sea of bitterness.
However, the dormant Taiyi Rescuer Heavenly Venerables within that history awakened one after another, reconnecting past and future into a seamless whole and allowing Azure Emperor to steady himself!
"The plum tree dies in the peach tree's place!" Demon Buddha's furious roar rolled like dark thunder. Ripples also stirred across the clear, crystalline Flawless Bright Moon.
What did it mean for the plum tree to die in the peach tree's place? Meng Qi had swallowed Medicine King Buddha with the Wuji Seal and accepted all his karma with the Cause of All Fruits, including the restrictions of his great vows, in exchange for Azure Emperor's liberation.
Although Azure Emperor would be weakened for a time, nothing would obstruct his future advancement!
This was the price of Azure Emperor's intervention.
Meng Qi sat cross-legged in the Jade Clarity Hall. The Supreme Yuanshi Celebratory Cloud flew back into his Niwan Palace, then a stream of clear qi flew out, shifting through myriad forms.
He looked straight into Demon Buddha's prying gaze and smiled.
"I have so many debts already that another grudge hardly matters."
Before his words had faded, he pointed, and that stream of clear qi divided into three-two weak, one mighty.
The mighty one flew out and became a novice monk with red lips and white teeth. He manifested a Cyan and Blue Translucent Buddha Body wreathed in layers of treasured light, exuding the aura of the Other Shore!
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