Hou Qian Capital.

The flames of war continued unabated, as the combined Battle Body of the Six Human Emperors wielded boundless power in every gesture, seemingly gathering the entirety of the vast Earth's strength within their being, forcing the Demon Buddha into repeated retreat.

"Xuanhuang Emperor Qi."

The Six Emperors shrouded in Emperor's Energy, their strength coursing through their entire bodies, unleashed an unparalleled punch, "Six Emperors' Heaven Creation Strike."

The endless momentum, the limitless power, just the pressure of the punch alone caused the space to emit sounds of unbearable strain; this punch could ravage the entire world.

It was a move that once wiped out the Ancestor God Valley in the Southern Border with a single punch, grievously injuring Qing Yu and the Sword God.

And now, the Six Emperors were far stronger than they were when they were in the Southern Border.

Crisis, an unparalleled crisis.

Demon Buddha Bhauma sensed an unprecedented crisis, the first of its kind since the unification of the Three Bodies.

He thought that by unifying the Three Bodies, he could roam invincible across the world, yet he never expected to encounter such a perilous situation.

[I cannot hesitate any longer.]

Fantian's thought flashed in an instant, and this resolution was acknowledged by Mie Tian and Shitian.

In the next instant, the fist power shattered the heavens and the earth, demolishing everything in its path—the clouds in the sky, the ruins of Hou Qian Capital beneath their feet, and even the souls absorbed by the Demon Buddha left without intelligence—all were ground to dust, erased.

As for the primary target of the Six Emperors' Heaven Creation Strike—Demon Buddha Bhauma, what of him?

"The End of Dharma destroys Heavenly Dao, Bhauma kills the Tathagata."

A pillar of light soared into the sky, the six-armed demonic body surging back in counterattack, Demonic Qi colliding with the ultimate fist power, the devastation shook several tens of miles around, causing the earth to crack.

"The Demon Buddha has finally emerged."

Several tens of miles away, an illusory portal opened, Xinyuan's figure emerged from it, looking at the surging demon light with the satisfaction of achieving his goal and the confidence of assured victory in his eyes.

"So that's how it is. I wondered why you were so active, even at the risk of exposing the Pure Land, it turns out it was all to allow the Demon Buddha, the dual embodiment of the Buddha, to truly emerge."

The shadow, transitioning from virtual to real, revealed a secret that left Xinyuan in shock.

He glanced around, only to see a familiar figure appear before him, "Qing Yu?! Why are you here?! Your injury..."

"Just a small wound, nothing significant." Qing Yu lightly laughed, brushing the hair from before his eyes, fingers touching the corner of his eye, seemingly still remembering the intense pain of that time.

Struck by the Buddha's counterattack, even without the Buddha's consciousness present, that blow left a profound memory on Qing Yu, a wound not so insignificant after all.

Yet though it hurt, it couldn't harm Qing Yu fundamentally, and the one present here wasn't Qing Yu's true form, but a clone hastily returned from the North Sea.

"I had intended to go support Northern Zhou in capturing Xuanzhou, yet I witnessed such an astonishing scene here."

He gazed into the distance at the endless clash of Demonic Qi and Xuanhuang Energy, eyes full of undisguised awe and admiration, "The Buddha's plan runs so deep, who could have thought, his scheme would be so far-reaching?"

Believing the unity of Buddha and Demon to be a method comprehended by the Silent Annihilation Sky Demon, Qing Yu had thought it belonged to them, but only now did he realize that thousands of years ago, the founder of Buddhism had already devised a method of transforming Buddha into Demon.

"When the Buddha killed the Three-faced God back then, with his power, destroying the relics left by the Three-faced God would have required no effort at all, after all, he even killed living beings, not to mention a few remaining artifacts.

Yet the Buddha did not; instead of destroying the Three-faced God's relics, he incorporated them, sealing them within Nalanda Temple under the guise of sealing Divine Artifacts. And later..."

Qing Yu's gaze burned as he fixated on the yet similar yet different Demon Buddha's body, full of amazement, "In the now present thousands of years later, the three private days of Lantuo Temple unsanctioned removed the seal, merging the power within the Divine Artifacts to achieve supremacy. They believed it was their chance for the Peacock Remnants to rise, their greatest reliance to seize the Central Plains, yet unaware, that the power within those Divine Artifacts was not meant for them."

It was not meant for the Three Days, then for whom was it meant? Naturally, for Demon Buddha Bhauma.

When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. When the three days combined to become Demon Buddha Bhauma, they believed themselves to be Bhauma, but in reality, they were Bhauma, Bhauma was not them.

The current Demon Buddha Bhauma, clad in a Magic Robe of black with green patterns, embroidered with dark green blasphemous texts, had grown Moluo's Horns of the legend from the Buddhist lore on his demonic heads, his original skin tone now transformed into a pure white of sinister nature, fully expressing his demonic essence.

This Demon Buddha Bhauma was now truly the true Demon Buddha Bhauma, as for the previous Demon Buddha, it was merely a composite entity formed by the three days.

The former Demon Buddha had the potential to split apart for the three days, but the present Demon Buddha had already united the three days' spiritual consciousness into one; they still retained their individual personalities, yet no longer held independent awareness.

The three days' personalities had become three different aspects of Demon Buddha Bhauma.

"I am very curious how the Buddha guaranteed the success of the plan; thousands of years have passed, the seas rise and fall, things change, does the Buddha truly have the divine skill to know five thousand years ahead and five thousand years behind?" Qing Yu curiously asked.

Qing Yu understood the might of the Tao Realm, especially as just not long ago, he was remote-struck by the Buddha's Dharma Body. Yet to claim the Tao Realm could comprehend divine skills across millennia, Qing Yu wasn't convinced.

If so, how could it still be confined by earthly restraints?

"To illuminate the universe as the eye, to encompass all as the treasury. The True Dharma Eye Treasury, the teaching transmitted outside of the scriptures." Xinyuan calmly glanced at Qing Yu, said in tranquility.

In the assembly on Spiritual Mountain, the Worldly Venerable presented a flower to the crowd. At that moment, the assembly was silent, only Venerable Kasyapa broke into a smile. The Worldly Venerable said: "I have the True Dharma Eye Treasury, Nirvana's Sublime Heart, the reality with no form, mystical methods not written, transmitted outside the scriptures, entrusted to Mahakasyapa."

Mahakasyapa was the founder of the Zen Sect, passing the understanding with a mere gaze between he and the Buddha, inheriting the Dharma Treasury, as the teachings transmitted outside of the scriptures. The Zen Sect's True Dharma Eye Treasury originates from this tale.

"The gaze between Mahakasyapa and the Buddha back then had already retained a segment of the Buddha's spiritual consciousness. This method deceives heaven, crossing the ocean, even the Heavenly Dao knew not of this fragment of spiritual consciousness left by the Buddha.

The Zen and Esoteric contention, the estrangement between the Central Plains Buddhism and Nalanda Temple, and the unsealing of the Three-faced God's Divine Artifacts are all within the Buddha's grasp.

A hundred years ago, Fantian from Nalanda Temple unsealed them, integrating Fantian's Heart into his being; from then, the seed for the emergence of the Demon Buddha was planted."

Xinyuan's eyes were as still as an ancient well, looking at Qing Yu as if at a dead object, "The will of the Three-faced God had long been scattered; what remained in the Divine Artifacts was no longer the will of the Three-faced God but a creation of the Buddha's manipulating a Heart Demon.

This Heart Demon, though single-minded in destroying Buddhism, running counter to the Buddha, however..."

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