In Jiankang City, as the phantom city and the visions from Beyond the Mundane faded one after another, those who had been steeped in Buddha Light began to wake.
The first to awaken were, naturally, the cultivators gathered around Fortune's Arrival Tower!
“Why was I so eager to embrace the Buddhist Dao and Legalism just now?”
"Our minds were bewitched!"
"I said so many things that betrayed my master and ancestors. What... what am I to do?"
The cultivators of the Attendant Tower talked over one another, their voices full of terror and lingering dread. Their minds had been seized by someone else, their very selves lost. What could be more horrifying!?
That fear filled their Mindfields, leaving them oblivious to their surroundings for the moment.
Even second-realm cultivators like Lu Shouyi and Yu Fang were shaken to the core.
Pale-faced, Yu Fang said, "I... didn't notice a thing just now. It was as though every thought truly came from my own heart. That's the most terrifying part! If that Buddhist had given an order, I'm afraid I would have obeyed without question!"
Lu Shouyi sighed.
Yu Fang went on angrily, "The people of the Buddhist School usually seem so easygoing. Many act as though they have no temper at all, putting on such merciful faces, but their Divine Abilities are tyrannical in the extreme! That was plainly a monk's Divine Ability, meant to subdue us. If that monk hadn't been defeated..."
At that, lingering fear and dread showed on her face.
Lu Shouyi nodded. "If he hadn't returned, the consequences would have been unthinkable. I only wonder what exactly happened just now..."
As he pondered this, his gaze, along with everyone else's, turned to Chen Cuo.
"The expert from Creation Dao has left."
Chen Cuo withdrew his gaze