Primordial Era: Taking the blame to become a saint, proving one's path through eccentricity!

The ancestral lineage of Kunlun, Xuan Yin, soared through the clouds and mist, his feet emitting light, traversing thousands of mountains and valleys. While admiring the breathtaking scenery of Kunlun Mountain, he looked up to the sky and roared: "Ten thousand autumns have passed, and time has been wasted on the dust of the Dao. The vanity of the world has vanished, and the foolish dream has ended. Only now do I realize that the mortal world is a falsehood that is true."

"I have attained enlightenment for thirty thousand years, but only today have I come to understand the wonders of immortality!"

The sacred mountain is majestic and imposing, its peak reaching the heavens and its roots guarding the primordial wilderness. In this primordial wilderness, only Mount Buzhou can surpass the ancestral vein of Kunlun!

Especially here, three saints manifested their Great Luo Heaven. Even a wisp of leaked Daoist aura was enough to make cultivators below the Heavenly Immortal level unable to move an inch. Those who could ride the clouds here were either disciples of saints or beings who had already cultivated the Great Luo Dao Fruit.

"Attaining enlightenment?"

Xuan Yin was comprehending the wonders of immortality when an untimely voice rang in his ears: "This humble Daoist has already cultivated to the level of a Golden Immortal for a eon, yet I dare not presume to claim enlightenment. You, a mere True Immortal, what virtue or ability do you possess to dare claim you have attained enlightenment? What arrogance you have indeed utterly!"

The newcomer rode on auspicious clouds, wore a jade crown, and held a pure glass bottle in his hand. Who else could it be but Cihang Daoren of the Chan Sect?

Xuan Yin looked back and smiled, "Great sacrifice brings great gain, small sacrifice brings small gain. Cultivation is the same; how can one judge its level by its cultivation level?"

"For mortal beings, becoming an immortal is equivalent to attaining the Dao; for those innate beings, perhaps only a Great Luo Golden Immortal can be considered to have attained the Dao!"

"As for the Great Luo Immortals, the Dao Fruit of Sainthood is like an illusion. Countless years will pass, and only a handful of people will be able to attain it!"

"How can we generalize like this?"

Xuan Yin looked at Cihang Daoist before him, shook his head, and said, "Fellow Daoist Cihang, your words actually lower your own level of cultivation!"

Every step forward on the path of cultivation can be called attaining the Dao. Otherwise, with the Dao being boundless, how many people could possibly glimpse its ultimate limit?

Cihang realized she had spoken out of turn, but for a moment she didn't know how to refute it.

He came here this time to repay karmic debts. Thirty thousand years ago, when Xuan Yin broke through to the True Immortal realm, he also took the opportunity to enlighten an avatar of himself, making his own Dao fruit slightly more perfect.

Naturally, this creates a karmic debt.

But as a disciple of the Chan Sect, he usually only saw his fellow disciples from the Chan Sect. When he saw Xuan Yin, he naturally wanted to test his abilities.

after all……

As a direct disciple of the Chan Sect, he naturally knew about the great Dao struggle between the two sages!

That's why he became curious about the disciples of the Jie Sect. But when he saw Xuan Yin, who had only broken through to the True Immortal realm 30,000 years ago, acting so dissolutely, he couldn't help but make sarcastic remarks!

"Young friend, your statement is quite interesting, showing a remarkable open-mindedness!"

Suddenly, a golden road appeared in the void, and a Taoist priest with an otherworldly air rode a sika deer on a cloud. Judging from the Taoist aura on his body, there was a sense of tranquility and perfection.

The Taoist priest, quite outgoing, immediately bowed and introduced himself: "I am Randeng, a resident of Yuanjue Cave on Mount Lingjiu. I have come to pay my respects to the Primordial Sage, but I never expected to witness two eminent disciples of the Chan and Jie sects arguing here! How about we give me the honor of letting this matter rest?"

Lighting a lamp?

Xuan Yin's heart skipped a beat.

He was naturally familiar with Randeng, the vice leader of the Chan Sect, the Buddha of the past in Buddhism, and the one who stole Zhao Gongming's twenty-four Dinghai Pearls!

However, Daoist Ran Deng has not yet become the vice leader of the Chan Sect, and everything is still in a state of not having happened yet!

But for some reason, he sensed a Buddhist aura emanating from the other person.

"So it's Senior Ran Deng!"

Cihang Daoren immediately bowed and said, "My master is in the Yuqing Hall, awaiting your arrival!"

Something is wrong!

Something's absolutely wrong!

He was certain that his perception was correct, but he couldn't understand why the current Daoist Ran Deng, without becoming the vice leader of the Chan Sect, had a trace of the aura of a past Buddha of Buddhism.

However, since the other party's cultivation level was higher than his, he still bowed and said, "Greetings, Senior Burning Lamp!"

Whether it's the deputy leader of the Chan Sect, the Buddha of the past in Buddhism, or the three thousand guests of Zixiao Palace, it's all because Daoist Ran Deng has the cultivation of a Great Luo.

The lamp lit up slightly.

Cihang Daoren then activated the Pure Glass Bottle, drawing out ten drops of Three Lights Divine Water: "Let this settle the karmic debt between us!"

Having said that, he turned and left without looking back, leading Daoist Ran Deng to the Jade Purity Hall.

"What exactly happened?"

Upon seeing this, Xuan Yin immediately put away the Three Lights Divine Water, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind as he tried to figure out the cause and effect of the Burning Lamp Daoist.

"Stop thinking about it!"

Just as Xuan Yin was pondering, the Water and Fire Gourd appeared, and the voice of the Water Qilin Xuan Shuang rang out: "Great Luo Golden Immortals are not bound by time and space. The fact that Dipankara can prove himself as a past Buddha in Buddhism is also a predetermined fate under the Heavenly Dao!"

"From this day forward, Randeng will become the Vice Leader of the Chan Sect, but in the future, he will reverse his own karma and go to the solitary Buddhist garden to attain the position of a past Buddha!"

The immortal path has the Purple Cloud Palace, and the Buddhist path has the Solitary Garden. These two places transcend all worlds and are not bound by the time and space of the past, present, and future.

These two places exist in the past, in the future, and in the present; only those who have attained the Great Luo can travel to them through the Great Luo Dao Body.

The Amitabha Sutra states: "At one time, the Buddha was in the Jetavana Grove in Shravasti, together with a great assembly of twelve hundred and fifty monks."

The Water Kirin Xuan Shuang explained, "The path of immortality was opened during the three lectures at Zixiao Palace, while the path of Buddhism was perfected during the exposition of the Dharma at Gudu Garden!"

Xuan Yin was confused and was about to ask, but the Water Qilin Xuan Shuang asked first, "Do you know why the Three Pure Ones of the Xuanmen are stronger than the Two Sages of the West? Why is the Xuanmen now the only one in power?"

In an instant, countless answers flashed through Xuan Yin's mind: the legacy of Pangu, the merits of creating the world, and the supreme treasures held by several sages...

But he felt that none of them were right!

Therefore, he could only look to the water unicorn Xuan Shuang, hoping that it could give him an answer.

"It's because the Three Pure Ones are one!"

The Water Kirin Xuan Shuang slowly spoke: "The Great Luo is proven eternally, existing in the past, present, and future. However, the Great Luo of the past and the Great Luo of the future would absolutely not be a match for the Great Luo of the present in this time and space!"

"The three sages of the Xuanmen are: the Primordial Sage represents the past, the Supreme Purity Sage governs the present, and the Heavenly Sage controls the cause and effect of the future!"

"The Three Pure Ones combine to form Pangu. They are the anchor points for the past, present, and future. As long as one of them is present, it's equivalent to the presence of all three sages!"

Xuan Yin suddenly realized.

In theory, a Great Luo Golden Immortal is omniscient and omnipotent, but if there are two or more Great Luo Immortals, their authority will overlap.

Everything they glimpsed could have been fabricated by other Great Luo Immortals; at that time, true omniscience and omnipotence naturally did not exist.

Sages, being eternally present with Heaven and coexisting with the Dao, are theoretically superior to ordinary Great Luo Immortals, as their Dao can radiate across more timelines.

The fact that the Three Pure Ones attained enlightenment in the past, present, and future respectively means that they can suppress other Great Luo Immortals in different times and spaces.

The Buddhist community will naturally not sit idly by and wait for its demise.

If the Three Pure Ones were allowed to do this, in the endless expanse of time and space, when would Buddhism ever have a chance to rise to prominence?

This is how the three Buddha positions of the past Buddha, present Buddha, and future Buddha came to exist, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Three Pure Ones of the Xuanmen in the endless river of time and space!

Normally, these three levels of attainment cannot compete with saints, but unfortunately, there are also two saints in Buddhism, Jieyin and Zhunti.

Their rank is sufficient!

Only by sharing one's own status with the three Buddhas can one compete with the Xuanmen and achieve parity with the Xuanmen in the long river of time!