What exactly had become of Long-Eared Dingguang Joyful Buddha?
To find out, one could look back at the scene of Long-Eared Dingguang Joyful Buddha's punishment during the second millennium.
It was a world the Sages had only just created.
The Great Thousand World had just emerged from its gestation period, and every one of its laws gleamed with hunger.
Merely standing there, one could already feel endless Chaos surging toward it.
The instant that Chaos Qi touched the Great Thousand World's world barrier,
it was diverted by a mysteriously emerging law of the Heavenly Dao, guided in an orderly fashion by the Heavenly Dao's power.
The annihilating power within the Chaos gradually dissipated, little by little, until it became pure Chaos Spiritual Energy.
During this process,
a Chaos Current of a given mass could yield only about a quarter of that mass in Chaos Spiritual Energy.
Then, under the world's laws, the Chaos Spiritual Energy would begin transforming into Pre-Heaven Spiritual Energy.
This process involved almost no loss, though it did have a certain effect on the Heavenly Dao's power.
Namely, it consumed some of that power.
Once a portion of that Pre-Heaven Spiritual Energy had replenished the Heavenly Dao's power, a Chaos Current capable of annihilating a Daluo Golden Immortal cultivator from the Primordial World
could yield roughly one ten-thousandth of its original quantity in Pre-Heaven Spiritual Energy.
In other words, it yielded an amount of Pre-Heaven Spiritual Energy equivalent to that of an ordinary Heavenly Immortal.
The loss could certainly be called enormous!
Thus, as the Rule Chains emanating from the Heavenly Dao gradually touched Long-Eared Dingguang Joyful Buddha, who had been utterly deprived of his ability to move,
every law of this newborn Great Thousand World radiated delight.
Even the wind within the world spontaneously sang, "Today