Before Great Sage Wilderness, windblown sand blotted out the sky.
Jianshi stepped into the heavens, entering the bounds of the Devouring-Virtue Pure Land. Countless threads of cause and effect shifted around him, trembling like a beaded curtain.
[Endless Dependent Arising Method]
It was the highest achievement of the World Flourishing Dao's arts of cause and effect, a Buddhist truth that only the supreme Mahas could comprehend in the Ancient Era. Yet this man, who had abandoned the Immortal Dao for Buddhism-and cultivated Present Buddhism at that-had mastered it.
Only within this Pure Land, where the Dharma Method manifested, could Stone-Chiding recreate his Dao body.
Jianshi's secular name was Gao Wand u. He belonged to the Gao Household, a great clan of the Black Baleful path, and carried the bloodline of the first Human Sovereign of baleful vapor in the Ancient Era, its mysteries approaching those of Great Sage blood. In terms of noble birth, only the Zhang, Li, Jiang, Yang, Wang, Xie, Tao, and Wei families beneath heaven could surpass him. Even the Song Clan fell far short, for their bloodlines had all been passed down before their True Lord attained the Dao.
But Stone-Chiding before him was different: he was a Grave Sheep, equal in standing to the ancient True Lord Wasteland's End!
The mysteries of his Dharma Body far surpassed even those few genuine Lingsa Imperial Sons of Northern Liao.
Though Gao Wand u spoke with contempt, it was directed at the man's betrayal of his Dao for Buddhism. Once they truly fought, he mustered every ounce of vigilance and dared not grow overconfident!
Stone-Chiding, too, weighed the situation. The Dharma Chief of the World Flourishing Dao had told him not to clash directly with the Black Baleful Lineage, yet he had done precisely that today. The reason