On autumn afternoons, he never felt like sleeping.
Chen Shu lay beside the sofa, his head resting against Qingqing's thigh, scrolling through Short Videos on his phone.
The Bodhisattva of Calamity had become a Buddha in the early hours of yesterday morning, just in time for the Mid-Autumn Festival. Now news about him was everywhere.
The moment Chen Shu opened the app, there he was. The next several videos were about him too. Major official outlets and independent media were all racing to post about him and ride his popularity.
Chen Shu had been scrolling for an hour, and he still came across him now and then.
That showed just how big this was.
Of course, none of the nations had told the public that Deities truly existed. Here, "Deities" remained a matter of faith. Even so, this was an extraordinary event for the entire world.
The Buddhist Order was one of Yi Nation's Top-Tier Sects and one of its two largest religions. It was the oldest religion in the world, with countless followers spread across every region.
Even some of the Demon Race in the Eastern Continent followed Buddhism.
Its worldly strength was formidable, and so was its religious influence.
The last Buddha of the Buddhist Order had emerged eight hundred years ago.
Eight hundred years. To ordinary people, that was scarcely different from two thousand. Both belonged to antiquity, to a distant past. The birth of the Buddha of Calamity heralded a new era for the Buddhist Order. The central Buddha statues in temples everywhere would be replaced, as would the figure most believers worshipped. The entire order's policies and inclinations might shift with him, becoming more conservative or perhaps more radical.
A Buddha attaining enlightenment in the present age, a new Deity being born—what could be bigger