Boom!
An explosion rang through the void, and Buddhist halls across the Central Lands trembled faintly.
At that moment, many monks felt a hollow place open in their hearts. The souls of several Temple Masters and Dharma Masters had only just returned from the Buddha Land, but before they left, they had witnessed Chen Cuo force his way in. Worry had already taken root.
Still, the Buddha Land had stood in the Mortal World for countless years, spanning the vast Central Lands and centuries of history. It had guided generation after generation of Buddhists. Deep down, the monks did not believe this upheaval could truly shake its foundations. At worst, it would suffer a few setbacks.
Yet not long after their Divine Souls returned, what seemed like an endless tide of Thoughts of Discord came swarming in!
The thoughts surged like a raging storm. They harmed neither buildings nor trees, but ceaselessly ate into human hearts and seeped into Buddha statues!
Human hearts were the foundation of the Buddhist School, while Buddha statues gathered the spirit of Buddha Light and formed the foundations of its temples!
The Thoughts of Discord had come without warning, invading hearts and entering the statues. Plainly, they meant to shake those foundations. Seeing this, the monks had no time to worry about the Buddha Land. They poured all their strength into resisting and driving the thoughts away.
But the Thoughts of Discord had traveled along the Buddhist School's own network, borne by the Buddha Land and its believers. They were almost inseparable from everything the school had accumulated. Whatever Divine Abilities the monks used, how could they stop the thoughts in an instant? They could only watch as blackness ate, little by little, into the Golden Light of the Buddha!
Worse, as the Buddha Light