Chapter 2546: Sweeping Away the Waters of the Cangming Sea

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A drop of Tianhe water, returning from the southwest, brought an imprisoned, bright-eyed young monk.

And behind the monk…

A long line of people.

Ksitigarbha could naturally see the tangled, cotton-like threads of karma, could see how many people were killed for this young monk, drawing them into the battle of transcendence in the East Sea.

Those who had transcended seemed to have lost their majesty, no longer enough to alarm any ignorant person.

Just like the death of the nameless Gongsun Xi, it turned the transcended into imaginable, even capturable beings, shattering that sense of untouchable mystery. Anyone dared to come and offend!

But He didn’t care.

Because He wasn't here to harm this lovely young monk. On the contrary, He truly wanted to bestow upon him a great fortune, granting him a status equivalent to a Buddha!

In the Buddha cultivation system, Bodhisattvas usually represent the path of cultivation, while Buddhas represent transcendence. But among Bodhisattvas, there is a kind called "Flanking Attendant Bodhisattva," an honorable position representing the highest cultivation among Bodhisattvas. Their cultivation and enlightenment are second only to a Buddha, or even equivalent to a Buddha.

Like the World Honored One’s flanking attendants, Samantabhadra and Manjushri, both could be considered Buddhas. In the era of various saints, Samantabhadra and Manjushri were even revered as supreme saints alongside the World Honored One, combining the monk treasure, dharma treasure, and Buddha treasure to form the three treasures, known as the "Avatamsaka Three Saints."

Only because of this, when the Dragon Buddha killed Samantabhadra that year, it became so significant and the beginning of a great calamity.

Pure Ritual was not part of His plan, but in the Fallen Immortal Forest, He saw Pure Ritual's Buddha affinity at a glance—He is Buddha, the Buddha of ten thousand Buddhas. All affinities can be His affinities, and "Buddha" can directly point to Him!

In the eternal pure land that was about to come, He would simultaneously occupy the past, present, and future.

He would inherit, glorify, and even surpass everything of the World Honored One.

But at this "now" moment, the World Honored One’s right flanking attendant, Samantabhadra, was already dead.

He, the current Ksitigarbha King Buddha, the future eternal Buddha Ancestor, inevitably felt empty and desolate beside Him, which also affected the salvation of sentient beings.

Pure Ritual was born accompanied by scriptures, and on his body was not just one volume of the "Three Treasures Tathagata Sutra." He was truly a monk with great fortune, born to enjoy blessings, and suitable to receive this honorable position!

He was helping this young monk, not harming him, and therefore, the karma that came from it should have no way of falling upon Him.

He bestowed virtues and merits, so how could He be repaid with resentment?

And the other reason He didn’t care was...

The karma connected by Pure Ritual would not have any influence on Him.

Of course, this understanding of His only lasted until that streak of green rainbow pierced through.

As an existence that controlled the heavenly dao, He naturally understood that causes and conditions were constantly changing, and karmic lines did not equate to reality and were therefore not inevitable.

There was that instant when He felt like an arrow soaring over mountains and ridges, with the absolute courage of no return, nailed to His underworld.

Of course, it wasn’t painful.

But His pupils did ripple.

Not surprise, not any emotion, but a true ripple that He never thought would happen… a wave rising from the heavenly sea!

In this current era, no existence could contend with Him in the heavenly sea. Not even the Bodhi Evil Ancestor who devoured the World Honored One’s evil thoughts, or that innocent heavenly person hidden in the sea of sin.

There were also gaps among the transcended; heavenly people and heavenly people were also different. He was the one who was uniquely supreme.

However, at this moment, He was facing a challenge concerning the heavenly sea.

The existence He saw as a big fish in the heavenly sea actually shook its fins and tail, provoking Him, the master of the heavenly sea.

The Buddha was not angry; instead, He felt a sense of pity and love: "You and I can be said to have an affinity!"

"Not only in the transcendence jar, but also in the Fallen Immortal Forest, I saw you in the heavenly sea—in the great thousand worlds, to meet face to face is like the bright moon of ten thousand eras! How can there be no affinity? Moreover, to see you again after one meeting!"

"That little monkey from the demon race is just a boatman on the sea, while you can be considered a big fish in the water. To be able to swim freely in the heavenly sea with a human body, to enter the heavenly dao without being transformed by it, is indeed rare in ancient and modern times, but not unprecedented in history books. To be complacent about this is inevitably to stand still. To even ignorantly give rise to delusion and go against the master of the sea… it actually makes me sad!"

"Laymen see me as the moon, but why hate me as an enemy?"

"Water scooping the moon is an empty display."

He sincerely admonished: "How can you not know that a good swimmer is the one who drowns!"

Suddenly, a sword light like rolling waves of the sea came, temporarily cutting off His gaze.

"How old are you? How old is he? What big fish, master of the sea, bright moon enemy? Just think it in your heart, why do you have the face to say it out loud—" Ji Fengzhou’s old injuries were not healed, and he added new ones, but in this battle at the transcendence level, he was always actively taking the initiative.

Although Lou Yue had fallen into demonhood and Seven Hates was a super-grade, his sword was never weak.

"Face me directly!"

The Three Purities Profound Capital Supreme Emperor Palace was embedded in a treasure bead, adorning his jade belt.

Four thousand years of national power condensed into his sword qi; the Mock Wind Heaven Stele became a curtain for the Buddha's eyes, making Him unable to see causes and effects, or even what was before His eyes.

Jiang Wang was thus temporarily out of Ksitigarbha’s line of sight, escaping for an instant.

"One who ascends high will inevitably be at the absolute peak."

"You were born here, but I chased stars and caught the moon."

The profound black marks around his eyes instantly became deep and quiet, swallowing all light, even that red dust calamity fire dimmed for an instant.

Demon Heaven, open!

"Our meeting is destined, it is the result of my efforts, not some affinity."

Profound demon patterns instantly appeared on his forehead, then immediately disappeared.

Demon Heaven, open!

"Perhaps you are not wrong. Compared to you, in the deep sea of the heavenly dao, I can only be considered a big fish."

"But Ksitigarbha—"

He always gazed at Ksitigarbha, even when Ksitigarbha couldn't see him.

"Do you know how big this fish is?!"

Asura Heaven, Vast Sea Heaven, Nether Heaven, all open!

Boom boom boom boom!

Everywhere in the deep sea of the heavenly dao were storms!

Although Ksitigarbha understood the heavenly sea, He did not understand Jiang Wang.

Although He had, after the battle with Gongsun Xi, taken away Gongsun Xi’s ability inherited from the Heaven Derivation Supreme Saint, "hidden with the world, knowing and seeing all things," and wanted to thereby fill His control over the heavenly will and approach the almost "omnipotent" perfect realm, that white dog that knew and heard was after all suppressed by the heavenly emperors of two Overlord Countries at the old site of Yellow Springs.

He was not truly omniscient; He was measuring this existence, who had continuously proven to be a heavenly person thirteen times and then struggled free thirteen times, with the standard of a heavenly person who had cultivated to the heavenly person state in the past. This was completely inaccurate.

History was without precedent, so it could not be viewed with previous examples!

Jiang Wang's past performance in the deep sea of the heavenly dao was because he only needed to perform to that degree, not that he only had that degree. With no contenders in the heavens and ten thousand realms, he didn't need to risk the imbalance of the heavenly dao and demon dao within his body.

When inducing the demon race to cause that last hundred-year heavenly dao sea tsunami, he first went to seek Yuan Zhi Ben’s ferry boat!

That was enough to explain that the sea tsunami was not his limit.

More importantly—since the absolute peak, he had never truly unlocked his own heavenly person state, let alone completed all thirteen states.

Every release of a demon thought was simultaneously the liberation of a heavenly state.

His demon thoughts were extremely pure, and his heavenly state was abnormally vast!

"Small fish suck water, counted by drops; big fish swallow water, or by gulps; whales swallow water, like mountains rising and falling!"

"If you say I am just a fish—Buddha may know, the great Kun of the North Sea!"

There was only the East Sea in the present world, not the North Sea.

But outside the present world, there was once a great world of the North Sea, which was the self-reserved land of the water race, later destroyed in war.

The strongest of the Kunpeng clan was once honored by the ancient heavenly court as the Demon Master!

The Kun's size, unknown its thousands of li.

Transforming into a bird, its name was Peng.

The Great Peng one day rose with the wind, soaring straight up ninety thousand li.

If the wind stopped and it came down, it could still flap away the vast sea water!

The present world's heavenly person, completely liberated!!!

Just one posture of complete liberation, and the heavenly sea was already howling restlessly.

The sea tsunami that was still continuing ahead was directly destroyed, and more terrifying storms were happening in the deep part of the heavenly sea.

They startled "slave god" Chan Jing into opening the altar from her dream, and made "bully heaven" Yuan Zhi Ben droop his eyebrows!

The director of the Imperial Astronomical Bureau in Linzi, far away, pointed and painted the starlight without hesitation, respectfully inviting Jiang Wang to ascend the platform—

Please, sir, temporarily ascend the Wanghai Platform, and face the eastern extreme to view the heavenly sea!

Jiang Wang stood there, instantly reaching infinite height. His body was in the underworld, but in a moment he broke through the nether heaven—the newly generated underworld heavenly dao was fundamentally a puddle that could not contain him; he twisted his body and broke free.

But he did not challenge Ksitigarbha for control of the heavenly dao, but expanded the battlefield to the entire deep sea of the heavenly dao.

His profound eyes, with the red dust calamity fire replacing emotions, guarded by the thirteen ultimate emotion and extreme desire demons, honored by the Qi Country Wanghai Platform, his voice finally embodied a kind of emotionless grandeur—

"I will now flap away the vast sea water!"

However, beneath this emotionlessness was his deepest indignation—

Why are the sufferers always the affectionate people? Why do the silkworm breeders have no silk clothes on their bodies? Why are the cultivators always empty-handed? Why do you say those who climbed to this point are not as good as those born here!!

Those who exhaust everything wanting to win the things they cherish for a lifetime often end up with nothing.

And you manipulate the heavenly will and own everything.

You already own everything, yet you still want more, still want to let all things in the world make way for your ideal.

What is heavenly favor?!

With Jiang Wang's current cultivation level, it was indeed very difficult to understand the power of those who had transcended.

But he had witnessed the battle of the transcended.

Especially Ksitigarbha's involvement in the hundred-year sea tsunami of the heavenly sea, entering the transcendence jar, and participating in the entire process of capturing and killing Gongsun Xi, all happened before his eyes.

He thought Ksitigarbha's most core and most relied upon ability was the manipulation of the heavenly will!

When Ksitigarbha said to the nameless one, "The so-called destined is my will already decided," He was certainly superior.

When Ksitigarbha pointed to the heavens and painted the earth, saying, "Above the heavens and below the earth, only I am supreme," He was necessarily firm in His belief.

Even at this moment of the sun and moon chopping and declining, although the heavenly mechanism was chaotic, and causes and effects could also be chopped, His heavenly favor still existed.

Almost all accidents became His affinity; all things that occurred benefited Him.

Jiang Wang looked over, pulling mountains and crossing seas with one glance, and this esteemed one was smooth in everything.

Since the heavenly will was so partial.

Then this dog manipulating heaven… it’s fine if we don't want it!

The sea tsunami howling in the deep sea of the heavenly dao stopped the storm of the heavenly sea battle between Jiang Wang and Yuan Zhi Ben… it was still far from intense enough!

He released the thirteen honored ultimate emotion and extreme desire demons, and with this, he induced his own fall, in order to fully display the state of proving to be a heavenly person thirteen times—

He wanted to raise an unprecedented storm that would shake the foundation of the heavenly sea; he came with the posture of destroying the deep sea of the heavenly dao.

Let's not play anymore!

Demon Heaven, Demon Heaven, Asura Heaven, Vast Sea Heaven, Nether Heaven, the heavenly dao of the present world—the heavenly dao of all worlds roared together!

As if it were the drums of doomsday!

All who tried to spy on the heavenly will and grasp the heavenly mechanism were at this moment blind in their eyes and buzzing in their ears, their hearts dry with confusion.

He did not launch futile attacks on Ksitigarbha; even if he burned all his red blood, he could not catch up with the central heavenly emperor's single sword. This did not affect the battle at the transcendence level.

The angrier he was, the calmer he became.

He only did the crucial things, the struggles that could truly make Ksitigarbha feel pain!

His target was the heavenly dao.

But he did not go to snatch the heavenly dao's favor from Ksitigarbha.

Instead, he inserted a sword into the vital point of the heavenly dao—

Just you, your mother, being so partial?!

"Tsk! His demon qi is so pure! It's not mixed with intentions, it even surpasses the Demon Sovereign!"

Looking at those ultimate emotion and extreme desire demons, Seven Hates was just savoring the praise, and in the next moment, his eyebrows raised.

"Playing so big?"

To seek transcendence today, His plan was not just for one or two days.

Lou Yue was not His only preparation.

Jiang Wang was also one of His preparations!

The earliest was in the underground demon cave of the Wu Meng mountain range, where His clone acted across worlds, inducing Jiang Wang, who had picked up the light of the human dao, to fall into demonhood with a wisp of demon qi. Of course, at that time, He didn't necessarily have to succeed; He just saw a good seedling and conveniently made a backup choice.

Later, of course, He knew how important this backup was.

When the demon ape entered the demon realm, He appeared again and discussed with Jiang Wang the matter of stopping the return of the Demon Ancestor, while also intending to give him the clue to the "Bitter Sea Forever Sink Desire Demon Skill."

He always missed by a mere demon puppet, waiting with the honor of a Demon Sovereign. From the "Seven Hates Demon Skill" to the "Bitter Sea Forever Sink Desire Demon Skill," His expectations for Jiang Wang were undeniably heavy.

When Jiang Wang was seeking the dao for one autumn, going everywhere to find clues to demon skills, He had already prepared the demon sovereign ceremonial guard for the Desire Demon Sovereign Jiang Wang!

As a result, Jiang Wang incredibly used his heavenly person state against the ultimate demon desire, raw dismantled the Desire Demon Skill, refined the demon into skill, proved the dao with his true self, and still cultivated the red dust calamity.

All His charming glances were wasted on a blind man!

Fortunately, there was still Lou Yue, and there was still…

"The Mountain Sea Dao Lord just fought one transcendence battle and is involved in another transcendence battlefield; it’s bound to be tiring!" Seven Hates laughed: "I am unwilling to take advantage of others in my life, otherwise why would I let it be? Let's sit down and drink tea, chat, eat some melon seeds and peanuts or something… just quietly wait for the result, how about it?"

Saying that, He waved His hand, and actually set up a tea table, a dish of fruits, two tea chairs, and a pot of tea just warming on the stove. He smiled and said: "Let these heavenly emperors, these heavenly proud ones, play for us idle ones!"

This tea table and tea chairs formed a self-contained space-time. It was exactly at the boundary between the underworld and the present world, with different times for both sides.

They sat down, chatted, and drank tea, without delaying the observation of the changes on both sides.

Huang Wei Zhen looked at Him deeply, and also truly sat down, even taking the tea that Seven Hates had brewed for Him and sipping it carefully. Then he said: "How much confidence do you have in Ksitigarbha?"

Even if Huang Wei Zhen was self-conceited again, He had to admit that in ceasing the war and drinking together with Seven Hates, He was taking advantage of the situation. Killing the nameless one was a long process; every breath of time was pulled over repeatedly. He always firmly nailed the nameless one, and then confirmed his name and killed him at the end. This consumption was not ordinary.

Now, to fight Seven Hates strongly, there might be a possibility of loss.

Seven Hates shook his head: "Since even the Three Dao Venerables couldn't kill Him, why should I worry? At most, we’ll just lock Him back up again."

Huang Wei Zhen looked at the sky, meaningfully: "Now the time may be different."

Seven Hates leaned back and sat there, slowly sipping tea, not speaking for a while.

He, of course, knew what was different about the current time!

The so-called Yiluo race was a heavenly person race!

Namely, after the human race achieved a decisive victory against the demon race that year, the demon race triggered a heavenly dao counterattack, which the human race forcibly interfered with, resulting in a deformed product.

In some sense, it could be seen as a result of the compromise between the human race, the demon race, and the heavenly dao.

Of course, it was more of an attempt by the heavenly dao's instinct—to create a "heavenly person" to replace "person."

If the heavenly dao had a will, perhaps it was also thinking—why was the heavenly mandate that favored the demon race overturned by the human race?

So, on the basis of "person," "heavenly person" was conceived and born.

This was a race with a theoretically perfect and flawless heavenly mandate, with absolutely no loopholes in the rules, which could maintain the operation of the heavenly dao to the maximum extent.

Compared to the demon race, it was more favored by the heavenly dao, and its purpose was to replace the human race in controlling the present world, while simultaneously no longer needing the demon race.

So, the people of the Yiluo race were extremely difficult to kill because the heavenly dao would provide endless support.

An existence at the transcendence level like Ksitigarbha was, to some extent, one with the heavenly dao.

So, even the Three Dao Venerables back then could only suppress and seal Him, isolating the heavenly dao's support for Him, and grind Him down with time.

However, today, there was indeed a premise for killing Ksitigarbha…

The sun and moon chopping and declining!