"Thump, thump!"
"Thump, thump!"
Shopkeeper Tong's heart began beating powerfully, making everyone feel as though heaven and earth were spinning and shaking.
"The late phase of the fifth realm, the Buddha Realm?" Li Chungang stroked his beard in amazement. "Shopkeeper Tong, your cultivation is truly profound!"
Novice, Wandering Monk, Arhat, Bodhisattva, Buddha, Universal Deliverance, Half-Buddha, Rebirth, Buddha Ancestor.
The Buddhist School's nine great realms differed somewhat from everything Lin Ke had known in his previous life.
But regardless of what they had been called in his previous life, in this life, the Buddhist School's fifth realm was indeed called the Buddha Realm.
It was an existence on par with the fifth realm's Great Confucian Realm and Incarnation Stage!
And most importantly, Shopkeeper Tong was actually in the late phase of the fifth realm!
After all, the further one advanced, the greater the gaps between cultivators became.
At lower levels like the first realm and second realm, challenging someone above one's level was still possible.
But at the later levels, almost every step forward made crushing those in the early phase as easy as crushing ants.
Someone like Li Chungang, who was in the early phase of the Great Confucian Realm, would probably be slapped to death if he faced Shopkeeper Tong.
At that moment, Shopkeeper Tong spoke. "The Platform Sutra says: 'I transmit the seal of the Buddha's heart; how could I dare defy the Buddhist scriptures?' Huangbo's Essentials of Mind Transmission says: 'Since Kashyapa, heart has sealed heart, and heart from heart has never differed.'"
"This is what it means for hearts to resonate with one another."
As Shopkeeper Tong spoke, she looked at the rice paper on the ground and softly commanded, "Ma!"
The Six-Syllable Mantra-om, ma, ni, pad, me, hum.
The Ma Mantra!
Instantly, a beam of