Chapter 1540: Chapter 1541: Saintess’s Choice

The Great Sun Tathagata Buddha Statue, hundreds of thousands of zhang tall, seemed to be witnessing the clash between Buddha and Buddha-slaying. The two stood left and right, palm seals and fist imprints smashing directly together.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

In that instant, even space itself trembled before those two attacks. The Great Sun Tathagata Buddha Statue, towering hundreds of thousands of zhang high, also began to shake violently under the collision of those two strikes.

The two of them both drove their power to the limit, colliding again and again. Daoist Saint Evil Buddha directly swallowed the Skull Slaying Buddha Beads, forcefully elevating his strength to its peak and unleashing a Buddha-Slaying Strike. That blow was so fierce that even the Devil Holy Mother at her peak would have to take it seriously; an ordinary Divine Venerable Nine Souls expert would be killed in an instant.

However, Ye Mo fused the three forces of Essence-Energy-Spirit, and on top of that used the Damo Curse, the ultimate art of Heavenly King Fojiang. He practically pushed his attack to the absolute limit.

The terrifying explosions intensified continuously. Finally, with a heaven-splitting roar of Heavenly Thunder, a destructive aura swept across the entire space, and two figures shot out of the blast at the same time.

Ye Mo’s body retreated in midair for a full hundred steps before he finally steadied himself. A trace of blood seeped from the corner of his mouth, and his face was a shade paler.

That previous strike, Ye Mo had held nothing back, unleashing his strongest blow. If he wanted to defeat the Buddha-Slaying Strike, he had to rely on Buddhist Martial Arts.

Yet Daoist Saint Evil Buddha did not retreat from the explosion at all. This scene made Ci En and the Saintess both change expression slightly. Could it be that Ye Mo had lost that last exchange?

Just as that thought flashed through their minds, a string of Skull Rosary beads shot out from within the explosion. They immediately extended their senses toward it, and the look on their faces turned to excitement, because they did not detect a single trace of life in the blast. In other words, Daoist Saint Evil Buddha had been slain by Ye Mo in one strike, his flesh and spirit vanishing together, leaving behind only that Buddhist Forbidden Artifact.

The peerless Divine Venerable Nine Souls expert, Daoist Saint Evil Buddha, had fallen!

"Amitabha Buddha!"

Looking at this scene, Master Ci En slowly began to chant scriptures for transcendence.

"Master Ci En, now that Daoist Saint Evil Buddha and the Heretic Lord Daofa have both been killed by me, the power of the Evil Buddhas should no longer threaten your Buddha Gate. The revitalization of the Buddha Gate is just around the corner. As for this Buddhist Forbidden Artifact, how do you intend to deal with it?"

Ye Mo descended and spoke calmly.

"If this Buddhist Forbidden Artifact falls into the hands of someone with an impure heart, it will be a calamity. I intend to use my own Buddhist Law to purify it."

Master Ci En said.

Ye Mo nodded and handed the Skull Slaying Buddha Beads to Master Ci En. When he looked again at the Saintess, however, an odd expression appeared on his face. Everything that had happened before was naturally hard for him to forget, but he also understood clearly that the Saintess had done all that not for him, but to save the Lingwu Continent.

"Thank you."

In the end, Ye Mo spat out two words.

"You don’t need to thank me. If you weren’t the only one on the Lingwu Continent capable of contending against the Devil Holy Mother’s Saintess, I would never have sacrificed my ’pure body.’ I hope you can forget what happened before."

The Saintess said indifferently.

Forget? How could he?

Ye Mo shook his head inwardly and gave a bitter smile. "Rest assured, aside from the three of us, no one will ever know."

"You two, what are your plans next?"

Master Ci En asked.

"Master Ci En, I wish to stay in the Buddha Gate. I wonder if Master is willing to take me in? I want to help Master rebuild the Buddha Gate."

The Saintess said.

"For the Saintess to be willing to remain in the Buddha Gate, I couldn’t ask for more. With your Buddhist Law, in the future you may well ascend to the Western Buddhist Realm."

Master Ci En said.

"Saintess, you truly intend to stay in the Buddha Gate?"

Ye Mo couldn’t help but ask, "You’re not going back to the Ancient Buddha Clan?"

"My main purpose in coming here, besides obtaining Shariputra, was to join the Buddha Gate. Now that only Master Ci En remains within the Buddha Gate, I naturally must stay to aid him, and also to seek instruction in Buddhist Law from him. When you return to the Lingwu Continent, just relay this to the Sect Master."

The Saintess looked at Ye Mo, her expression utterly calm. Her choosing to stay in the Buddha Gate was not to avoid Ye Mo. She held no feelings for Ye Mo. Although they had shared a physical relationship, it would only make her remember Ye Mo, nothing more.

The Saintess’s aspiration was to elevate her Buddhist Law and, in the future, ascend to the Western Buddhist Realm and spread the Dharma.

"Very well then."

Ye Mo also nodded, and a thought suddenly surfaced in his mind. He turned to Master Ci En and said, "Master Ci En, when I previously refined the Sharira of Ancient Buddha Dazang, I obtained a Great Repository Diagram. It should be used to comprehend Ancient Buddha Dazang’s ultimate art, but I can’t quite understand it. I’d like to ask your guidance."

"Great Repository Diagram?"

Master Ci En was also startled. Among all the gods and Buddhas of the heavens, especially the Primary Buddhas of the West, he was very familiar. He naturally knew of the Primary Buddha Dazang, but he had never heard of any Great Repository Diagram.

"Yes."

Ye Mo nodded.

"If you can draw the Great Repository Diagram out, let me see whether I can offer you any help."

Master Ci En said.

Immediately, Ye Mo drew the Great Repository Diagram and spread it out over the Pure Land.

When Master Ci En saw that diagram, his eyes immediately went wide as he said, "This is not any Great Repository Diagram at all. This is the Star, Sun, and Moon Chart!"

"Ye Mo, look at the pattern within that circle. It is actually a constellation formed by many stars in the sky. And this constellation has a story behind it."

Master Ci En said evenly, "It’s said that back then, the Western Buddhist Realm suffered the greatest Buddha tribulation in billions of epochs. The Demonic Buddhas invaded, seeking to twist the Western Buddhist Realm’s Dharma and spread their own. Nearly half the Primary Buddhas fell in that Buddha tribulation. Later, a powerful one appeared and helped them survive that catastrophe. This constellation pattern depicts the story of the battle of natural laws between the Demonic Buddha and the Western Primary Buddha on that day."

"Billions of epochs?"

Ye Mo’s face twitched. One epoch was a hundred years, so how long was a billion epochs? That was a hundred trillion years—surely that was the ancient era.

"Yes. The scene of that battle of natural laws between the Primary Buddha and the Demonic Buddha was sketched out by that powerful one using the stars, forming the Star, Sun, and Moon Chart. The diagram that has been passed down to you must be this Star, Sun, and Moon Chart."

Master Ci En explained.

"Then why is there a circle around it?"

Ye Mo continued to ask.

"The circle represents Reincarnation. It means that the Buddha tribulation is very likely to appear again. The diagram you’ve drawn has no actual function. Only by contemplating the Star, Sun, and Moon Chart that was branded into your mind can you truly comprehend anything. The Star, Sun, and Moon Chart was likely obtained by Ancient Buddha Dazang and ultimately fused into his Sharira. If you can comprehend it, that move will be terrifying beyond measure!"

The Star, Sun, and Moon Chart had been passed down since ancient times, its diagram circulating for billions of epochs. If one could comprehend it, its power was beyond question.

"In any case, there is still plenty of time before the Devil Holy Mother recovers her peak strength. If I return to the Lingwu Continent I’ll definitely be distracted by other matters. I might as well stay in the Buddha Gate and comprehend the Star, Sun, and Moon Chart!"

The Buddha Gate was a place of purity. Remaining there to comprehend the Star, Sun, and Moon Chart was the most suitable choice. Once he succeeded in comprehending the Star, Sun, and Moon Chart, he would have absolute confidence in defeating the Devil Holy Mother.

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