"Your Highness..."
The light in his eyes receded. Qi Yun paused slightly, his voice impassive, yet carrying an undeniable Penetration Power:
"Behind you... which True Monarch is it?"
Beside him, the Crown Prince of Nanyin instantly fell silent.
A moment later, the voice transmission from the Prince of the Eastern Palace sounded again, his tone having already recovered its usual steadiness, now carrying a hint of frankness, as if a great weight had been lifted:
"Fellow Daoist... you are as perceptive as they say, missing nothing."
He did not directly answer "which True Monarch," but his words and his candid attitude revealed everything!
A silent admission!
There was indeed the figure of a True Monarch behind him!
Indeed, the waters here were far deeper than any Cultivator of the Foundation Establishment Realm could ever hope to stir.
These Arhats, these supposed "participants," were nothing more than unwilling... pawns! Pawns in a grand game played by True Monarchs and Bodhisattvas, with Heaven and Earth for a board and all living beings as the pieces!
However, before Qi Yun could delve further into the identity and specific schemes of the True Monarch behind the scenes, the situation took another sudden turn!
The World Honored One’s Handwriting, floating and continuously "unfurling" within the Buddha Light in the Seven-Colored Bodhisattva’s palm, began to emit a boundless golden light. This light was no longer confined to the plaza before Little Leiyin Temple, nor even to the Spirit Mountain Sacred Realm!
The light, as if possessing life and will of its own, unstoppably extended and permeated in all directions!
It penetrated the layers of Buddha Light Restrictions enveloping Spirit Mountain;
It passed over the mountains and rivers of the Nanyin Buddha Country;
It disregarded the barriers of distance and space, and in an inconceivable manner, transformed the thread of domineering Dao Rhyme it contained—one of "self-supremacy" and "absolute unity"—into invisible ripples, radiating out toward the vaster Heaven and Earth of the Profound Yellow Origin Realm!
Within the borders of the Nanyin Buddha Country, countless people piously worshiping and chanting suddenly felt their Heart and Spirit fall into a daze. A grand and majestic chanting seemed to ring in their ears, making them involuntarily want to be more "focused," more "devoted"...
Further away, in other regions of the Central Plains, some Cultivators with keen Spiritual Sense, regardless of their alignment, all sensed something. They gazed toward the Southern Domain with suspicion and uncertainty, as if some ineffable "will" was awakening and spreading...
Even Overseas...
As the spreading Dao Rhyme reached more and more living beings, the World Honored One’s Handwriting itself underwent a terrifying transformation!
It was no longer a scroll of "dead" scripture. It... had come to life!
From the unseen depths, an indescribable aura—more ancient, more vast, and more... solipsistic than the might of a Bodhisattva—began to seep out from the core of the handwriting, wisp by wisp, thread by thread!
It was as if a... figure... was about to step forth from it!
"He... is about to awaken!"
The Crown Prince of Nanyin’s voice transmission suddenly grew rapid, filled with an unprecedented gravity!
"Guard your Heart and Spirit!"
Before his voice had even faded—
"OOM...!!!"
A deep hum, seeming to originate from the very end of time yet echoing clearly in every corner of the present world, striking deep into the Divine Soul of all living beings, suddenly erupted!
The World Honored One’s Handwriting trembled violently!
In the next instant!
The boundless golden light, like a hundred rivers flowing into the sea, madly collapsed inward and condensed!
Upon the handwriting, all phenomena and Sanskrit characters receded, converging into a single, pure point of origin!
The point of light expanded in a flash!
From that source of light, a figure slowly materialized, fading from ethereal to solid!
As if he had been sitting there all along.
And only now were others permitted to "see" him!
He was barefoot, dressed in the simplest of white monastic robes.
He sat cross-legged atop a Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus. The lotus platform rotated slowly, each petal seemingly containing a miniature Buddha’s Pure Land, exuding an aura of eternity, Perfection, and immortality.
His face was shrouded by a soft yet impenetrable halo, impossible to see clearly. All that could be perceived was a natural outpouring of peace and majesty that encompassed past and future, transcending the Ten Thousand Laws and all heavens.
His left hand rested naturally on his knee, palm facing upward as if holding something formless.
His right hand was raised, index finger pointing toward the heavens, his thumb and middle finger touching to form a simple-looking yet ancient hand seal—one that seemed capable of fixing the cosmos and separating purity and turbidity.
The very instant this figure completely solidified—
He raised his head slightly, and his "gaze," from behind its veil of light, pierced through Spirit Mountain, through Profound Yellow, and into the boundless void and the depths of the Law.
His lips parted. A voice carrying a supreme will—one that dominated the present and pervaded all of time—resounded clearly and indisputably within the spiritual perception of every living being in the Profound Yellow Origin Realm, regardless of their Cultivation, race, or location:
"Heaven above, earth below..."
"I alone am supreme!"
"BOOOOM—!!!!!"
An indescribably vast Buddha Light erupted from the figure’s center. This was the second time, but it was countless millions of times more intense, pure, and tyrannical than before!
This Buddha Light was a gold of utmost purity, utmost intensity, and utmost solipsism!
Wherever the light reached:
Space solidified completely. The flow of time grew strange, yet uniform!
All Dao Rhyme not of the "Buddha," all Law not sanctioned by the "World Honored One," was repelled, suppressed, and even forcibly distorted!
The entire Spirit Mountain Sacred Realm—no, the entire sky above the Nanyin Buddha Country—was cloaked in this tyrannical, solipsistic golden light, making it gleam as if cast from pure gold!
The light continued to spread, attempting to draw the vast expanse of Profound Yellow’s Heaven and Earth into this "solipsistic" domain!
In the Profound Yellow Origin Realm, billions of living beings, whether they understood the meaning of those eight words or not, felt their Heart and Spirit violently tremble. In a daze, they seemed to "see" a magnificent figure seated on a golden lotus, one hand pointing to the sky, the other touching the earth.
They felt that absolute authority that surpassed all else and permitted no doubt!
The weak fell prostrate, their minds blank; even the powerful felt their Dao Hearts waver, struck by an inexplicable terror!
Qi Yun kept his head bowed low, pushing the power of his [Primordial True Body] and [Primordial Spirit] to their absolute limits. Like a sailor clinging to a reef in a raging storm, he resisted the omnipresent assault of the Dao Rhyme!
On the ground beneath his feet, paved with seven treasures but now reflecting a pure golden light, was the clear reflection of that... supreme figure seated upon the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus, pointing to the heavens and touching the earth!
The mere after-effects radiating from that reflection on the ground made his Purple Mansion tremble.
’This is...’
’The World Honored One?!’
The eight-word True Words, like a world-cleaving cry, swept through Profound Yellow and shook all living souls, carrying a supreme will to dominate the present, to be the one and only.
In the Spirit Mountain Sacred Realm, before Little Leiyin Temple, the magnificent figure seated on the Twelve-Grade Golden Lotus, pointing to the heavens and touching the earth, had become the sole master of this corner of Heaven and Earth.
Yet, at the very peak of this moment, as the figure of the World Honored One sought to command the universe—
"CRACK—BOOM!!!"
Above the Spirit Mountain Sacred Realm, clouds churned like a tide as a blinding white bolt of lightning, seemingly powerful enough to sunder Heaven and Earth, flashed across the sky.
Within that ephemeral flash of light, one majestic figure after another, their auras radiating Harmonization with the Dao, stood defiantly upon the clouds. Pairs of eyes, as heavy as celestial pillars and seemingly containing the workings of the universe itself, looked down from on high.
"CRACK—BOOM!!!"
The echo of the lightning seemed to linger faintly in the void.
The searing white light had completely faded.
But those majestic figures standing atop the dark clouds, each containing a universe within, did not vanish with it.
They were still there.
Silently.
Looking down.
Facing the "solipsistic" golden Buddha Light below, facing the figure of the World Honored One on his lotus throne, they formed a silent but heaven-shattering...
Standoff.
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