The Boundary Sea.
The Reclining Buddha lowered its eyes, seemingly deep in sleep.
It held a lotus flower between its fingers.
Within the flower's heart, inside the Buddha Kingdom, all was peaceful.
Monks and believers clad in pure white robes walked among Buddhist temples, the mortal world, and the Netherworld, their faces filled with joy and bliss...
They seemed free of worries and cares, knowing only happiness.
It was like a Human Realm Buddha Kingdom, a Sukhavati Pure Land, as though such scenes would cycle on forever...
Until this moment, when a vast, hideous shadow in the void beyond the sky shrouded this Buddha Kingdom!
Pairs of enormous eyes filled with slaughter, brutality, and countless other emotions cast their gazes upon the monks and mortals within the Buddha Kingdom, brimming with extreme longing.
Accompanied by a humming sound like countless voices overlapping, savage figures charged toward the Buddha Kingdom...
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Within the Buddha Kingdom, the monks and mortals seemed to awaken from a dream. They raised their heads blankly toward the shadows cast down from the sky, yet faint, joyful smiles still remained on their faces, as though they had lost the capacity for fear and dread.
Within the temples and the Netherworld.
The Bodhisattvas and Arhats finally noticed. They broke through the air, their expressions grave, while vicious ghosts and fiends flew out with shrill howls to meet those towering figures beyond the sky.
"They're the Primordial Gods and Devils of Still Cave!"
"They're so far away from us! Why would they attack now?!"
"The three Great Bodhisattvas are away. There's no way they can return in time now..."
"Hurry and summon the West Great Bodhisattva!"
Almost at the same moment.
A tiny Buddha statue suddenly flew out of the lotus flower, then rapidly expanded. In the blink