Within Unborn Heaven, countless fresh and unworldly white lotus flowers bloomed, filling the entire Great Thousand World with the intent of great purity, great freedom, and great liberation. The many Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Arhats, Vajras, and others coming and going all wore faint smiles, as though they had attained Great Bliss and realized supreme perfect enlightenment.
Beneath Mount Sumeru, hundreds of millions of Buddha children gathered, listening to Maitreya Buddha Lord, reclining high upon a white lotus platform, expound the Buddhist Sect's true meaning of entering Nirvana and transcendence.
Suddenly, Maitreya Buddha Lord—plump, serene, humorous, and carefree—stopped his sermon. A soft sigh emerged from his ever-smiling mouth. "After all, you were once a śrāmaṇera beneath my seat."
With that sigh, within the Wusi Great World suppressed by the Crimson, Azure, Yellow, White, Black Five-Colored Radiance, a point of sacred white radiance suddenly began to emerge. It was precisely where Shi Xuan's Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light had swept through the seven-colored pure radiance. It seemed about to blossom into a white Nirvana Lotus Flower and envelop the Nirvana Dao Ancestor.
"Maitreya Buddha Lord?!"
Shi Xuan had just divided the intent of purity and liberation, neither living nor dead, into life and death when he sensed that point of white light emerge. He was slightly taken aback. He had not expected Maitreya Buddha Lord to retain some trace of incense-fire sentiment toward the Nirvana Dao Ancestor—or perhaps there were hidden matters from those bygone years involved.
Yet just as that fresh white radiance arose, before it could bloom, it abruptly went out, as though it had never appeared at all.
Meanwhile, throughout Unborn Heaven, the Four Extremes of Heaven and Earth to the east, south, west, and north had, at some unknown point, transformed into four condensed, razor-sharp sword lights of white,