[Amitabha Returns to Life]

"What is difficult for those who do not know is easy for those who do." The Victorious Fighting Buddha intoned a Buddhist invocation, relief spreading across his face as he said slowly, "Once that thin sheet of window paper is pierced, everything becomes clear."

A true teaching took one sentence; a false teaching filled ten thousand books. On the path of cultivation, this was unquestionably a profound truth.

It was just like the Red-Dust Immortal Path. So long as one transformed lifetime after lifetime and endured alongside the world, a day would eventually come when one ascended to immortality.

This was an exceedingly simple and clear principle, yet the emperors and sovereigns throughout the ages had failed to uncover it. Only a handful of Heavenly Emperors could be certain that immortality lay ahead, that one could ascend even amid the mortal dust, and thus hold firm to their Dao and their hearts.

This was not because the Dao-Attainers throughout the ages were dull-witted, but because a thick fog shrouded the way ahead. No one dared declare that their own Immortal Ascension Road was necessarily wrong.

Though the Red-Dust Immortal Path was correct, it was also extraordinarily difficult. Even someone as dazzlingly gifted as Lingbao Tianzun, whose Executioner Sword Formation was reputed to slay immortals and whose battle prowess shook the heavens, had still fallen upon that path.

Storming the Immortal Ascension Road seemed to offer little hope, yet that hope truly existed. In this lifetime, it really was possible to become immortal. The Big Dipper Star and Flying Immortal Star complemented each other as yin and yang, representing the Southern Heavenly Gate and Northern Heavenly Gate that opened into the Immortal Realm.

One road belonged to the Great Emperor of the present age; the other belonged to all living beings