Becoming a Deity from Planting the Bodhi Tree-Chapter 498 - 213: Subduing the Taboo

Floating Thousand Temples, Buddha’s light like an ocean, spreading into a nation, one Buddha Country aloft above Floating Mountain, is the success of Floating Thousand Temples over countless years; within it, ten thousand Buddhas sit cross-legged, known as the Ten Thousand Buddha Formation.

Yet this day, their enemy is a genuine War Buddha.

White Lotus blooms thirty-two petals, each petal containing endless Zen, within which arises a towering War Buddha Dharma Form with three heads and six arms, neither sullied nor pure, neither arising nor ceasing, seeming to support the infinite universe, every acupoint on the body evolving scenes of cosmic Heaven and Earth, with suns and moons hidden within, storms and dews, mountains and Great Marshes, and also the phenomena of star seas...

Each acupoint, each organ, houses a "Divine" in place, emitting beams of clear light, surprisingly converging into a Glazed Buddha Country.

This truly is the Inner World!

Ji Jingqiu has a sort of enlightenment, seeming to glimpse the path he is to walk in the future.

Evolving the Inner World to its utmost, indistinct from the Circulation Universe, embracing the power of the universe, reigning supreme over all beings!

This night, he watches an old monkey break through ten thousand temples, destroy countless Buddhas, create the only Floating Sacred Land, and raise Floating Temple during a great calamity to shelter billions of beings.

From seeking passage at Floating Thousand Temples, to traversing Emperor Heaven to ferry all ferryable beings.

The Buddhas on the divine platform no longer hang their brows low.

The dilapidated temple he first saw on the narrow path is still truly a Floating Sacred Land.

Within the temple, the weather-beaten, pitted mud statue of stone, is the Buddha in the hearts of sentient beings.

Ji Jingqiu suddenly sighs deeply.

For he has seen the end.

Ultimately unable to transcend the great calamity, Emperor Heaven collapses, sentient beings and Buddha, all buried in the Bitter Sea.

At the very end.

This War Buddha, unable to save the people, along with many like-minded peers from the Emperor Heaven Universe, known as Emperor Heaven Hundred Veins, together established this Ancient Road of Emperor.

Countless years compressed into an instant, passing before Ji Jingqiu’s eyes, he subconsciously thinks to raise his hand, that moment too swift, many details unseen.

[Don’t make a sound or act recklessly, this is no mere illusion anymore—]

A pair of hands gently rests on Ji Jingqiu’s shoulders, that is Hel, she, appearing behind Ji Jingqiu at some unknown time, whispers,

The heart of Ji Jingqiu trembles, no mere illusion?

It means, Hel’s appearance behind him right now also indicates that this place isn’t real, or rather, that he did not step onto this path in his physical body in the first place!

But rather, it was a kind of Divine Traveling Heaven and Earth, his physical body must still be sitting in its original place.

[Listen well, if the Great Universe is a tree, numerous Sub-level Universe Planes are its branches, leaves, and fruits, while Emperor Heaven acquired exists as fruits fallen from this tree, taking root in the soil, forging its own path, also becoming the final barrier of the Great Universe.]

[And now, you are witnessing the death of Emperor Heaven.]

Ji Jingqiu frowns, he has heard this theory from several Divine Lords, but it’s different, Hel’s is more detailed.

Hel seems to be muttering to herself, and also seems to be instructing Ji Jingqiu:

[Years ago, the Great Universe should have faced its calamity early on, but by a fluke, was shielded by Emperor Heaven, thus delaying till today. Eventually, formal existence perishes, Emperor Heaven leaves only the remnants of Nine States reabsorbed by the Great Universe. Now, it appears, Emperor Heaven shielding from calamity was no accident, but Emperor Heaven struggling to survive, sacrificing itself to shield from calamity.]

Indeed, this Ancient Road is not only the legacy, but also the future of Emperor Heaven, carrying the karma and destiny of myriad spirits of Emperor Heaven; one day, if the Great Universe surpasses this calamity, Emperor Heaven too, may have hopes of reiteration...

At this moment, Ji Jingqiu, however, no longer has the energy to continue listening.

In the Lotus Pond of Inner World, a lotus quietly blooms, nurturing a new Divine Power Seed—

[Great Thunder Zen Heart].

This initially time-needing Divine Power Seed, now, in this moment, reiterates completing, transforming into a Divine Power Seed, taking root in Ji Jingqiu’s heart.

His energy all shifts to integrating this Divine Secret Skill, Hel’s voice continuously in his ear.

This fellow, at this moment, is particularly "chatty", perhaps triggered by today’s scene to unleash his desire to speak.

[Incredible, a mere Postnatal Spirit, yet by using the Reincarnation Method, ascends to heaven in one step, just one step away from achieving the Infinite Fruit Position...no, it can only go this far!]

[I dare affirm, Mu Shitian must also have come here, and learned the Reincarnation Method from this monkey!]

Hel in his ears drones on.

Yet before Ji Jingqiu appears an old monkey with hands clasped in prayer, serving even now as Hel cannot see; its eyes carry the weight of ages, yet upon seeing Ji Jingqiu, they reveal relief, also a glint of elation, as if after searching through Floating Heaven, traversing Emperor Heaven, he finally found the true Buddha.

Its hands clasp in a bow, Ji Jingqiu dares not accept this salutation, tries to intercept with a hand but only touches an illusion, hastily steps aside to make way.

After the bow, the old monkey extends its palm, a world fluctuating within, a Bodhi standing at the world’s heart, still as back then, part withered part thriving, on the brink of death.

It reaches out cautiously, the next moment, the Bodhi as though finally enduring to this destined day, inch by inch withers, all vitality coalescing into a beam of clear light, shooting towards Ji Jingqiu, amidst a rustling of branches and leaves, absorbed by the joyful Bodhi tree.

The Bodhi tree’s clear light greatly flourishes, but this time it didn’t grow branches and leaves, rather sprouting new branches on the main trunk!

"Please, my Buddha, ascend the top of Ancient Road, slay our Evil Bodies, Emperor Heaven Hundred Veins, willing to grant the power of creation."

The old monkey chants a Buddhist verse, its figure seems to be fading away, gradually dissipating, its eyes revealing a sense of liberation.

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