In the eastern Endless Marshlands, the Flood Dragon Skeleton churned up a tide of blood, gradually transforming it into a boundless sea of blood.
And in the Western Region, tens of millions of li away, an equally inconceivable scene unfolded.
It took place at an ancient Buddhist temple near Buddha Hand Peak, the Sacred Mountain of the Buddhism Esoteric Sect.
The ancient temple had once enshrined a Nameless Buddha Statue. After countless years, the statue had fallen into ruin. Moreover, it differed from the Buddha visualized by practitioners of Esoteric Buddhism, so the temple had gradually declined until it became a ruin.
Now, the ruins had long since vanished, yet the Nameless Buddha Statue once enshrined within them had undergone the opposite transformation. As though infused with some powerful vitality, it slowly rose from the site of the ruined temple into the sky, ten thousand zhang above!
Its original appearance could no longer be determined. It had been so badly damaged that only half its torso and a broken left arm remained.
Now, the statue had actually grown two complete arms, while another four extended from its shoulders and back. Its head split into three, forming a supernatural figure with three heads and six arms!
That alone would have been nothing remarkable, for among the Buddhas of the Upper Realm spoken of in Buddhism, golden Buddha bodies with three heads and six arms, four heads and eight arms, or even nine heads and eighteen arms were hardly rare.
But what this Buddha statue radiated was not the brilliant, majestic Merit Buddha Light, but an evil, filthy radiance of mingled gray and black!
This radiance seemed to possess no power at all. The rocks, plants, and trees it illuminated underwent no changes. Yet for some unknown reason, the pure Buddha light