Dao Realm.
As soon as Meng Chuan returned, he set about refining the Peak Immortal King he had suppressed.
Why capture him and not kill him? To keep him for the New Year?
But after a moment's thought, Meng Chuan summoned the Dao Realm Emperors. Refining an Immortal King's Primordial Spirit would send fragments of the Great Dao, Flowing Light, streaming in all directions. For anyone who had yet to become an Immortal King, it was an extraordinary opportunity.
"Entering Nirvana to become a True Immortal?" Meng Chuan froze when he saw what was happening to Amitabha Great Emperor. He had never expected the Future No-Birth Sutra to give him such profound insight.
"The Lord of the Future, Shakyamuni." Meng Chuan felt that, somewhere beyond sight, Heaven's Will truly did have a hand in things.
If Meng Chuan had never appeared to interfere, Amitabha's Emperor Corpse would have gained Ling in the future, taken the name Shakyamuni, and become the Buddha of that planet.
He had thought Shakyamuni would never appear again. Unexpectedly, the Future No-Birth Sutra had allowed this "Buddha" to appear in the world after all.
"But the Buddha of the Past, Monk?" Meng Chuan murmured the title, and it stirred a few suspicions.
He could hardly be blamed for thinking too much. In the original story alone, the measures Amitabha Great Emperor left behind for the Road to Immortality's emergence were astonishing, almost recreating the power of a Perfect Great Emperor.
Across the Eternal Ages, how many emperors and sovereigns had there been? Yet scarcely any had managed to leave measures on the Road to Immortality.
Amitabha Great Emperor was undoubtedly unusual. His methods were unusual, his origins were unusual, and the karma surrounding him was more unusual still!
Meng Chuan traced things back to their roots,