Chapter 1734 — The Mortal World a Purgatory, No Buddha in All the Heavens
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The ancient-god monk's eyelid twitched. He looked at his nose, his nose at his heart, and walked past the Tathagata Zhankong, who lay deep in slumber, into the twenty heavens of the Buddhist realm.
At that same moment, Shen Mu was speeding straight for the Great Thunderclap Monastery, thinking: "Senior Brother Wei leads the Yulin Guard and has the strength to fight a Heavenly Worthy; for the time being he can keep himself safe. The two Xuanwu Emperors hold their ancestral lands, and their strength is fierce beyond measure; they can hold off two of Lord Lingguan's avatars for a while! I cannot delay. I have no time to hunt down the three Lingguan ancient-god avatars here, so let them hold out a little longer! " The twenty heavens of the Buddhist realm are vast beyond measure.
The twenty heavens are the realm of the Buddhas; the Great Brahma Heaven King Buddha, with great wisdom, founded the School of Mind and attained the Tathagata realm, cultivating from the Yama realm all the way to the Great Brahma Heaven realm, and as his state of mind rose, so too did his cultivation.
King Buddha Li Youran of the Indra Heaven, for instance, had cultivated his mind to the Indra Heaven realm, second only to the Great Brahma Heaven realm. To cultivate to the Great Brahma Heaven realm was extraordinarily difficult; though Li Youran of the Indra Heaven had reached the Imperial Throne realm, he had not attained the Great Brahma Heaven realm, and was still very far from it.
Advancement in the state of mind is the hardest of all.
The ancient-god monk passed through one heaven of the Buddhist realm after another until he came to the Indra Heaven, and suddenly his heart went cold; he hurriedly looked up, and there beyond the twenty heavens of the Buddhist realm a vast head was rising slowly, rings of samsara light revolving behind it, its halo shrouding all twenty heavens of the Buddhist realm! That body was more colossal than the twenty heavens of the Buddhist realm, taller than Mount Sumeru; a single head alone was more immense than an entire heaven!
"Seventh Young Master.
. . " The ancient-god monk's heart lurched, then he steadied himself. He had altered his face and changed his appearance, and he reckoned that even one who had attained the Dao could not see through it.
"I have too many avatars, and by now they have scattered to different places; to gather them back and reassemble my body to fight the Seventh Young Master is no longer possible. Now there is only one road, and I must walk it to the end.
If the Seventh Young Master is delayed even a moment, then one step slow means every step slow.
" He was quite certain that this ancient-god avatar of his could not escape; sooner or later Shen Mu would root him out. But if Shen Mu wasted even a moment here, that would be enough to set off a chain reaction!
In that moment, another of his avatars could enter the Dao Sect and kill the Dao Ancestor! By the time Shen Mu reached the Dao Sect, his other avatars would already have slain Wei Suifeng and the Northern Emperor Xuanwu; by the time Shen Mu reached the Kan Land of the northern frontier, Lady Dide Gongsun Yan, Emperor Yanfeng, and the rest would already be dead! This was what it meant: one step slow, every step slow!
If Shen Mu delayed even slightly, the consequences would be unforeseeable! Suddenly Shen Mu's figure faded and vanished.
The ancient-god monk was taken aback.
"The Seventh Young Master has given up? He means to abandon the Great Brahma Heaven King Buddha and go to the Dao Sect or somewhere else to hunt down my other avatars?
Heh heh, the Seventh Young Master is rather too naive.
If he cannot find me here, he will not find my other avatars elsewhere either!
He will still find himself one step slow, every step slow!