"Lord, you came here in another guise because you had your reservations. But what you did just now all but revealed your true face. Anyone paying attention will have noticed. My power of Cause and Effect can conceal it for you."
As the woman in white spoke, Azure light spread across Chen Cuo's body, then seeped inward.
It seeped not only into his body, but into time, Cause and Effect, Fortune, and even his thoughts!
In an instant, Chen Cuo's consciousness lurched.
That weightless Azure light pierced layer after layer of resistance, leaving him momentarily dazed.
Through the haze, some of his memories began to blur.
Rays of Buddha Light started to fade. Even his Golden Lotus Incarnation, far away in the Huai Region, shook and showed signs of falling apart!
How formidable. How utterly unreasonable this power of Cause and Effect is! Good. This will let me grasp its mysteries more deeply!
Chen Cuo's heart tightened. In the past, he had always used the power of Cause and Effect against his enemies. Only now, with that power turned against him, did he realize how domineering it was!
This projection that descended here means to strip away everything tied to Buddhism that I've gathered along my path! Not just my Buddhist ties, but my Buddhist Divine Abilities and cultivation too! It's trying to interfere with my will and my path completely—as though forcing my head around by the neck to change the direction I'm walking!
At that thought, the Mind Daoist within Chen Cuo brought his hands together!
"The preceding cause: my dealings with Buddhism!"
Scenes flashed through Chen Cuo's eyes, each one a past entanglement with the Buddhist School—
Guishan Temple's Heart Temple Method, his clash with a monk from Beyond the Mundane in Hedong, the Golden Lotus Incarnation