"Did you see that just now?"
"There was light behind that master!"
"I saw it too! Why is it gone now?"
"Was it an illusion? All those colors, like a rainbow!"
"Quick, let's catch up and take a look!"
Several curious tourists broke into a run and raced after him, but even after chasing him all the way to the main road outside town, they failed to find any trace of Chen Jue.
Chen Jue had walked faster than they had. After displaying his extraordinary powers before them, he had already sped several kilometers away and disappeared along the highway beside Blue Sea Lake.
The images of Buddhas and sages that ordinary people saw in daily life came from statues and paintings. Behind these figures, there was often a special decorative shape-a ring of gold or colors, or something resembling flames-commonly known as a "halo."
Chen Jue had thought these "halos" were fictional creations used to accentuate the sacred bearing of all those gods and Buddhas.
He had never expected that, after grasping the key to mental fluctuations, he could use sound to refine his brain and stimulate emotional changes, then project them outward through the magnetic field extending from his brain waves. Combined with vocal resonance that stirred a mental resonance in others, this could likewise let them "see" that elusive "halo" in their minds.
"So that's how mental magnetic fields work! No wonder those ancient Buddhas and bodhisattvas were always depicted appearing with seven-colored radiance behind them."
"They probably used something like the Sanskrit sounds produced by chanting scriptures to stir emotions and mobilize their followers' mental magnetic fields, giving people that sacred impression of a halo shining behind them," Chen Jue speculated.
Having already become a True Sage of the Human World, he had indeed begun to