No One Can Command Me

Heavenly Buddha Star

In a plaza.

Millions upon millions of monks sat cross-legged on the ground, chanting Buddhist scriptures in unison.

"Rumble..."

Suddenly, a thunderclap rang out.

The monks stopped chanting and looked up at the sky.

A monk radiating seven-colored light slowly descended from above. Ten other monks stood beside him, though none of them looked particularly pleased.

At the sight, all the monks shed tears of excitement.

"Three days. The Heavenly Dao Buddha has finally been chosen, and the cosmos can finally settle down."

"It will still take several thousand years for things to truly stabilize. The previously chaotic Cosmos Laws will not be so easy to repair."

"The new Heavenly Dao Buddha is only at the God Rank. He still needs time to grow!"

"It's all that damned Tang Sanzang's fault. If not for him, how could our cosmos have suffered such a catastrophe?"

"Although the Cosmic Consciousness only took three days to choose a new Heavenly Dao Buddha, the population of the cosmos has decreased by at least one-third during those three days."

"What does a one-third population loss amount to? I heard that more than a hundred Buddhas died as well."

"It was truly too tragic. That damned Devil King Tang Sanzang should go to hell."

"What hell? He controls the Six Paths of Reincarnation. That place is already hell—where else would he go?"

"Demon! Tang Sanzang is a demon..."

"Rumble..."

At that moment, waves of thunderous roars sounded from the sky.

The spiritual energy between heaven and earth suddenly went berserk, madly converging toward a mountain.

That mountain seemed like a bottomless pit, crazily absorbing spiritual energy and accepting everything that came its way.

"What's going on!?"

The monks present were shocked. Could some heaven-shaking treasure have been born!?

A flash of golden