That's right.
If the one who becomes an immortal or a Buddha isn't me, what's the point?
Then to hell with becoming an immortal!!!
To hell with becoming a Buddha!!!
I am who I am!!
I am Ye Han!!
No one can make me submit, and don't you dream of making me take refuge in you!
As Ye Han's boundlessly powerful Dao Heart unleashed the full force of his sense of self...
As long as my Dao Heart lives, I will never perish!!!
Ye Han's Dao Heart was not water without a source, formed for no reason. It came from his resolve to strengthen himself through ten thousand years of cultivation and combat, to keep defeating powerful foes, to keep cultivating, and to become an immortal and attain the Dao. These were the convictions he held to most fiercely, and at this moment, they erupted.
The so-called act of taking refuge and becoming a Buddha was, bluntly put, a trap-a trap meant to turn him into a so-called true Buddha.
If Ye Han continued taking refuge with such devotion, he would inevitably lose his Dao Heart and his entire sense of self. Naturally, he would never truly become an immortal or a Buddha. He would only become another failed victim of the Buddha Ancestor's Body, transformed into a Buddha Statue that supplied power to the Reincarnation Battlefield, until he finally became a Buddha Statue utterly drained of strength.
In other words, if Ye Han failed to hold fast to his Dao Heart, he would lose everything he had struggled and cultivated for. This was one of the most terrifying aspects of the Reincarnation Battlefield.
The power compelling him to take refuge in the Buddhist Dao was everywhere, at every moment.
Damn it.
Ye Han now understood that the Water Spirit