"Damn it, you two Buddha Lords joined forces to hoodwink everyone under heaven!" Xiao Hua did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"Amitabha, Venerable, you are mistaken! It was the Sacred Light Realm... that hoodwinked our Buddhist Sect!" Rāgaratna Tathagata said sorrowfully. "Had the Other Shore not first appeared in the world, followed by the collapse of the World Honored One's golden body, even I would never have imagined that the Sacred Light Realm had laid its plans within the sealed Three Great Continents!"
Upon hearing of the Other Shore, Xiao Hua opened his mouth, wanting to speak yet stopping himself. Instead, he questioned Maitreya Buddha World Honored One in his heart. After a moment, he frowned and said, "Rāgaratna Tathagata, this disciple wishes to ask: what... is the Other Shore?"
"The Other Shore is a sacred artifact of the Sacred Light Realm!" Rāgaratna Tathagata answered. "From the perspective of worldly people, the effect of this sacred artifact is to open a rainbow bridge across the sea of suffering, leading directly to the Other Shore of Ultimate Bliss!"
Xiao Hua rubbed his nose and said, "Why does this Other Shore sound like a Buddhist artifact of the Buddhist Sect?"
"The Buddhist artifacts of Buddha fruition and the sacred artifacts of the Sacred Light Realm are inherently alike..." Rāgaratna Tathagata replied. "Unless one is a Buddha Lord like us, other Buddhist disciples would find it difficult to distinguish them!"
"When the Other Shore appeared that day, the Immortal Palace and Thunder Sound Temple were both at their wits' end. The Hundred Schools of Thought incited the Immortal Palace to wage war against my Thunder Sound Temple, while many Protector Heavenly Kings of our Buddhist Sect who did not know the truth also went to Cangxian Continent, intending to protect the