Jie Yin nodded in agreement.
"Not only that."
Jie Yin's eyes flickered, and he lowered his voice to a whisper.
"The Primordial Heavenly Demon was the Ancient Buddha's sworn enemy in the previous era. How could he sincerely wish for the Ancient Buddha to recover completely?"
"Although this world contains countless living beings, they are ultimately only ordinary creatures of heaven and earth. Devouring too much of their impure mortal blood essence can forcibly bolster his strength, but it will also leave karmic baleful energy inside him that is nearly impossible to erase."
"Yuanshi is feeding the Ancient Buddha a slow poison. He's making the Ancient Buddha serve as a frontline meat shield against Qin Mu while secretly weakening his potential to attain ultimate immortality."
Zhun Ti sucked in a breath of cold air at those words and could not help smacking his lips.
"Tsk, tsk. These old monsters from the former era really are each more sinister and vicious than the last."
"But that suits us just fine. Let them bite each other like dogs. The fiercer their fighting, the more easily we two fellow disciples can play both sides and reap the greatest rewards!"
Beneath Mount Sumeru, the two Saints plotted, each harboring his own hidden schemes.
Meanwhile, within that vast Great Thousand World.
The Chaos Ancient Buddha looked down from on high at the countless creatures prostrating themselves below him. His eyes held not the slightest ripple of emotion, much less any of the Buddhist School's compassion.
In his eyes, everything in this world was merely livestock penned in an enclosure. Once it had matured, naturally it was time to slaughter it for meat.
"The faith of a swarm of ants means nothing to this Buddha."
The Ancient Buddha spoke slowly. His voice became a thunderous storm