Two Mental Magnetic Fields collided within the Śarīra Treasury Palace, like two waves of rainbow light crashing against each other, stirring up tidal ripples of magnetic energy invisible to ordinary people.
Amid the many śarīra left behind by Shakyamuni, Chen Jue saw the dense, impenetrable rainbow glow gradually being suppressed by the Mental Magnetic Field he emitted.
Finally, the two streams of rainbow light stopped clashing. No longer seeming determined to establish which was stronger, they intertwined and merged completely.
Immediately afterward, a force carrying the psychic imprint left by the Buddha 2,500 years ago began rushing straight toward Chen Jue's brain along the Mental Magnetic Field he emitted.
Chen Jue "saw" an eminent monk in white robes sitting cross-legged beneath a bodhi tree. Holding an incomparably pure white flower petal between his fingers, he smiled faintly at Chen Jue.
That scene was not an illusion, but a genuine image within a Mental Magnetic Field left by Shakyamuni, containing the Buddha's lifetime of insights into Buddhist teachings.
Holding a flower and smiling beneath the bodhi tree, beholding the Tathagata within the śarīra!
Senior Buddha, was this your path to eternity?
As Chen Jue "watched" the fleeting vision, many feelings stirred within him.
The image was neither fabricated nor seen directly with his eyes. It was a déjà vu phenomenon formed in Chen Jue's hippocampus through [Inner Vision].
In everyday life, ordinary people often suddenly feel that they have "personally witnessed a scene or experienced something somewhere before," as though they saw it in a dream long ago but forgot after dreaming. Later, when they encounter it in reality, a feeling of familiarity surfaces. This déjà vu phenomenon is the hippocampal effect, also known as "illusory memory."
By emitting his own Mental Magnetic Field, Chen Jue had produced a certain resonance