Dark Annihilation

The origins of the Myriad Evils Return-Flow Scripture could no longer be traced.

The Looting Emperor's inheritance came from the Evil-Weaving Monk's Black Kasaya, but its foundation was the All Beings Are Buddha Art, which he had comprehended on his own.

Yet the Looting Emperor had never grasped the Evil-Weaving Monk's true intent. The Evil-Weaving Monk was a virtuous monk who took the evils of all living beings upon himself and vowed not to become a Buddha until all beings turned to good.

The Looting Emperor understood only that living beings were not good. He never considered guiding them toward goodness. Instead, he reached a different conclusion: living beings were not good, and neither was he. All beings were evil, and he was the most evil of all.

What was Myriad Evils Return Flow?

It was drawing every evil deed into one's own body and bearing the evil thoughts of all living beings in the flesh.

This art tested one's will to the utmost. The slightest misstep would send its practitioner tumbling into the demonic path.

The scripture the Looting Emperor had obtained was not the Original Canon. He had deciphered it from the Black Sarira of an unnamed Flesh Arhat who had already fallen into the demonic path. The Myriad Evils Return-Flow Scripture within the Black Sarira had long since strayed from its original meaning.

But therein lay the coincidence.

The distorted Myriad Evils Return-Flow Scripture happened to accord perfectly with his realization that living beings were not good.

In the Sea of Heroes, whenever an Evil Beast killed and stirred up hatred, his control over the Black Sarira grew a little stronger. Gradually, he came to understand the greatest evil in the unnamed Luohan's heart.

"So that's it. I spent five hundred years developing Buddha Emperor's Radiant Fist