Zen Master Zunsheng's strength stood at the very pinnacle of Mount Shu. No one surpassed him, and he ranked first among the Three Monks and Two Nuns.
He had once faced Shibi Old Man in a debate on scriptures and doctrine, only to be captured and tortured with all manner of Demonic Path Spells in an attempt to force him to admit defeat.
The old monk did not resist. He simply endured the demonic magic and chanted the Buddha's name day and night without pause. His voice had extraordinary penetrating power, and Shibi Old Man's demonic seals could not contain it. Wherever Shibi Old Man went, every invocation entered straight into his ears and heart, vexing him beyond endurance.
Later, Chan Master Zunsheng made a great vow: rather than subdue Shibi through magical power, he would save him when his destined calamity arrived, winning his wholehearted submission and bringing him into the Buddhist Sect.
Many more years passed, and Shibi Old Man began to feel that cultivating the Demonic Path held little meaning in the end. As the leader of the Great Asura Cult, the highest spiritual attainment open to him was becoming an Asura king among the Devas. Meanwhile, heavenly disasters and mortal tribulations drew ever closer, and all the evil causes he had sown in the past were about to bear fruit.
As one of the Six Oddities of the Cosmos, his magical power was naturally immense. Yet the greater his power, the greater his calamities.
He decided to seek a way out through Buddhist teachings. He painstakingly constructed a demonic prison and sealed inside it the twelve heavenly Yin-Yang God-Demons he had nurtured and refined for a thousand years. Then he went to find Chan Master Zunsheng, whom he had imprisoned, only to discover that the master