"Why do those ratlike Immortal Emperors from the Empyrean always love running to this realm?"
The Dark Immortal Emperor vaguely remembered the Immortal Emperor named Fu Sovereign, who was as slippery as a loach. Despite being a supreme existence, he lacked even the courage to fight a single battle, always striking across countless layers of space and time, his true face impossible to glimpse.
An Outer Path Other Shore practitioner-truly reckless. Though he possesses some Buddha-nature, he can hardly realize the Tathagata's wisdom.
The gray-robed old monk thought this calmly. After all, he had not come in his true body. Trading blows with such a brute would cost him his dignity as a monk.
For those on the Other Shore, nothing mattered more than face, save the Dao Fruit itself.
"Heh."
"Namo Amitabha Buddha!"
The Dark Corpse Immortal Emperor and Amitabha faced each other, exchanging a long, searching look. In the end, neither attacked.
Fu Sovereign was different. He had suffered a crushing defeat in the Lifetime universe, sinking so low that he had to sit at the same table as the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation. He needed the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths to rise again and pursue the dual Dao Fruit path.
From beginning to end, Amitabha had remained a Most Ancient One capable of wrestling with the Three Pure Ones, one of the leading candidates for the Dao Fruit. The Lifetime universe was his true home ground; the Amitabha Buddha Emperor in the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths was merely an idle piece he had placed.
Beyond the Sacrificial Path was transcendence, and the Dao Fruit was also transcendence. Neither was nobler than the other. The transcendence one could actually attain was the good kind.
Human Dao beings could not perceive the disturbance above