A Scroll of Infinite Glory

Chapter 666 The Buddha Who Cuts Off the Future Emerges from the Mountain, and the Heavenly River and the Underworld Paths Evolve Again

"But the time for me to enter this calamity has not yet come."

The Buddha smiled slightly, and the Udumbara flower in his hand bloomed. The main divine core was like an infinitely profound pearl, adorning the petals. The Buddha's light and divine light intertwined, ready to repel the aura of calamity.

The supernatural powers that Li Changling is currently using are not aimed at the Buddha of Mount Ling. And it is not so easy for Guan Luoyang to drag the Buddha down with him while he is being suppressed by the Divine Sword Chapter.

However, when Guan Luoyang emitted infinite coordinates, the intentional combination of the flowing light from all realms actually contained a secret of heaven within it.

The divine light emanating from the Buddha broke through the fog upon contact with the aura of calamity, revealing the endless evolution of light deep within the calamity's depths.

The kind and benevolent face that was in the very center of his golden statue immediately changed!

The sword forged by the Great Sage Chi Qiao contained the cause and effect of the sighs of gods and demons throughout the ages, and it was located deep in the Great Wilderness. Although it now has the tendency to transcend the Great Wilderness, it was covered up by Li Changling and his men.

Amidst the chaos of the battle, the Venerable Buddha of Mount Ling was not involved, nor was he nearby, and thus could not yet see through the situation.

But now, having come into contact with Guan Luoyang's gift, the Buddha of Lingshan instantly understood all the causes and consequences of that sword.

"After the calamity is over, the three realms will be interconnected, the laws of the heavens will be widely spread, the six paths will be unified, and there will be no distinction between the noble and the lowly. Everywhere, fragrant flowers will bloom, and fruits will be plentiful. Many paradises will be found in the world."

"When the calamity comes in the future, the five aggregates of afflictions and the three poisons will be rampant, the teachers of gods and men will fall, the supreme saints will decline, and they will be forever drowning in the sea of ​​suffering, without end..."

"World Honored One, are you lamenting the great calamity, or are you lamenting for me?"

As the Buddha of Mount Ling recalled the person who was both his disciple and his teacher, the chanting around him subsided.

As he lowered his gaze, countless rivers of time appeared in the void of the Pure Land of Spirit Mountain, all of which were captured by his golden arms, allowing him to observe the future course of everything.

Originally, during the great calamity, the cause and effect of time and space were not clear, especially with the interference of powerhouses at the Celestial Venerable level, making it difficult to foresee the future.

But after realizing the sword, everything about the future of the Buddha of Mount Ling became clear.

Because all of his futures have one common outcome.

Those incredible threads of cause and effect, those endless streams of time, were all severed by a single sword in the end.

"It was just a sigh of fate, combined with a divine sword that shouldn't have existed, that created the killing calamity most capable of restraining me... World Honored One, ha, you really haven't broken your promise..."

After attaining enlightenment, the Buddha might not have had any fear of the great calamities to come. However, due to his promise to his mentor, he was to resolve all karma and depart completely 5.6 billion years later.

His sigh was actually caused by this agreement.

His lament as an enlightened being could be seen as a matter of fate, but it could also be said to be something that would inevitably be used to restrain the affairs of the Buddha of Mount Ling.

The strength of this constraint varies, but after the Buddha of Mount Ling has already planned so many events for the great calamity...

The simple sigh has transformed into the sharp edge of a divine sword, capable of severing all possibilities for the Buddha of Mount Ling and utterly annihilating him.

The Four Noble Truths Buddhas and countless sentient beings in the Pure Land also saw the scene of all possibilities in the void being cut off, and their expressions changed drastically. They chanted the Buddha's name in sorrow and cried out to the Buddha.

At this point, the Buddha of Mount Ling simply smiled calmly.

"Foolish child, why be discouraged?"

The golden Buddha statue has all its arms outstretched, and all its faces are relaxed and smiling.

"All the myriad times and spaces, and the possibilities of the future, are not worthy of bearing the traces of those who attain enlightenment. Therefore, even if one could see all the futures, it would be impossible to see the one possibility of attaining enlightenment."

"Even if all future possibilities show signs of severance, it does not prove whether my path to enlightenment is possible. So what is there to grieve over, what is there to fear?"

As the Buddha of Lingshan spoke, he became increasingly joyful, causing the heavens to tremble and countless auspicious clouds to appear. All living beings and the Buddha's disciples seemed to sense something.

In all the possibilities of the future, the image of the Buddha flowed backward, returning to the golden body, transforming into an indescribable and ineffable flame.

"Since these futures have been determined, it is a good thing, as it allows me to incorporate all these future selves into myself and single-mindedly pursue the path to enlightenment."

The Udumbara trees in the sacred land of Lingshan also rose from their roots, floated into the sky, and transformed into 480 million kinds of rainbow light.

Each rainbow light possesses a supreme and immeasurable fragrance and a unique Buddha-nature.

In past lives, through countless eons, the accumulated power of the ancient Buddha Udumbara has been completely transformed into rainbow light and fire.

The chanting of Buddha's name draws upon the causal energy of all past kalpas, forming rainbow bridges of various colors from all directions, traversing countless worlds, and soaring above the vast void and sea of ​​boundaries. The origin of one end is unknown, while the other end is entirely absorbed into the golden flames of the sacred mountain and pure land.

Rainbow body transformation! Rainbow body transformation! Rainbow body transformation!!!

The golden body vanished, and the Buddha himself reappeared, dressed in pure white hemp robes, with skin the color of bronze, white hair and beard, walking barefoot, with an ancient and simple appearance and deep, wise eyes.

Between his brows, only a sliver of red light remained, which in a fleeting moment resembled the mark of an udumbara flower, constantly blooming and withering, endlessly repeating its wondrous and extraordinary nature.

The Udumbara wood staff, with its branch but no leaves or flowers, rested in his left hand, its end touching the ground, a head taller than him. The pure white Udumbara flower rested on his right hand, about the same length as his forearm.

"Good!"

The Buddha let out a long sigh, "Although the calamity has not yet reached its most intense moment, since we have already entered the game, what's wrong with bringing forward that peak?"

He swept the Udumbara flower in his hand forward, and the pearl in the flower emitted a radiance from the hub of infinite worlds, guiding his Buddhist light and instantly arriving above the Northwest Boundary Sea.

The Divine Sword, sculpted with the principles of cause and effect, and the Clear Heart, confronting cause and effect directly, are simultaneously clashing on both the knowable and the unknowable levels.

Even for Kongming Xinhuo, the Divine Sword Chapter, which seemed to surpass all other paths, had too many unpredictable aspects and was clearly at a disadvantage in the confrontation.

But at that moment, infinite coordinates erupted from the inner fire, and the divine radiance from Mount Ling materialized all the coordinates, which were then mixed with all traces of the ancient Buddha.

"Hahaha, with the two of you issuing such a challenge, how could Changling possibly refuse?!"

Within the four great formations of the Heavenly Court, the true form of the Celestial Venerable Changling sat upright on the throne in the Heavenly Palace.

The eight sword pellets, modeled after the Nine Heavens and the Taiqing Heavenly Court, had long been handed over to the Four Great Arrays, Puli Immortal Venerable, and others for operation to counter the numerous hostile powerhouses led by Mufeng Heavenly Venerable at this moment.

Li Changling placed his palms on the throne, his mind became completely focused, and as he gazed into the void, he slowly closed his eyes.

In the brief moment his eyelids drooped, the Divine Sword Light, having reached its highest level, burst forth.

The sword of causality, forged through countless coordinates and infinite radiance, withstood the impact of these forces. The powers of the three great beings intertwined and continued to evolve.

In the eighteen levels of the underworld, the various Yama Kings were also closely watching this battle.

Suddenly, they felt a subtle vibration throughout the entire underworld. The Cycle of Reincarnation, which should have required the combined efforts of the Ten Kings of Hell and the Lord of the Underworld, appeared with a roar and began to operate violently under the impact of the calamity.

In a place even deeper and more boundless than the deepest part of the underworld, after the imagery of the cycle of countless worlds emerged, the infinite calamity energy led by the three powerful beings was unceremoniously swallowed up and devoured.

When the aura of calamity became sufficiently dense, the winds of great calamity soon arose within the myriad realms of reincarnation, their howling sounds gradually transforming into the surging sound of waves.

"this……"

King Qin Guang seemed to have thought of something, and with all his might, he looked directly upwards. Sure enough, the entire celestial realm also showed those subtle signs of tremor.

Although he couldn't see it, he was certain that in the highest place outside the Heavenly Realm, in a place far more wondrous than the original Outer Heaven Secret Realm, there must be transcendent divine light flowing, absorbing calamities and tribulations, and brewing a sound like waves.

When the Taiqing Chiming tribulations reach their peak, two fundamental symbols will inevitably be revealed.

The underworld is a cycle of reincarnation, the River Styx surges forth, the heavens transcend, and the Milky Way descends!

King Chakravartin heard the sound of water and turned to look.

The next moment, even with his Heavenly Venerable power that he held over the immeasurable void, he suddenly felt extremely insignificant.

All his former powers, concepts, and interferences seemed insignificant in the face of that river.

The Wheel King, who rules over all realms and the netherworld and enlightens countless beings, may not be able to match the number of true spirits he has encountered and the memories he has made, even if all of them were added together a billion times, it might still not be comparable to the smallest drop of water in that great river.

The supreme origin symbol of all heavens and myriad realms, the infinite universe, and all concepts of the underworld and the River Styx, is now flowing out from the cycle of reincarnation.

It flowed through the eighteen layers of the underworld, surging upwards and sweeping towards the surface of the boundary sea.

Meanwhile, in the celestial realm, the Heavenly River, which encompasses all concepts beyond the realm of immortality, transformation, ascension, and so on, flows downwards from the highest point, falling into the Boundary Sea.

The radiant Milky Way and the dim River Styx almost simultaneously touched the surface of the Boundary Sea. The next moment, almost simultaneously, all locations in the Five Boundary Seas produced chaotic matter as dense as large rock layers.

It was a chaotic substance far more stable than the chaotic rocks created by Immortal Venerable Ji Tu, but it was not because it contained any mysterious changes in the shapes of the heavens and mountains.

This is simply because the power contained in this silent collision between the Milky Way and the Styx River is simply too immense.

It forcefully compressed the surface of the Five Directions Chaotic Great Sea into a substantial state, transforming the chaotic void into the most stable material rock layer.

After the collision between the Milky Way and the Styx River, the resulting tributaries left behind numerous ravines in the rock strata, creating entirely new river channels that meandered and spread throughout the Five Directions Sea before extending to even more distant places.

The lords of the various holy lands all experienced a strange feeling. When they were in their own holy lands and looked into the distance along those rivers, they could see a vast number of world clusters hanging outside the Five Boundary Seas, not too far away.

In reality, those world clusters are probably still located at the farthest reaches of the Great Void Sea.

However, when the supreme Milky Way and the River Styx descend here, the connection between the holy lands and all the worlds is greatly strengthened, which is why this wonderful state of "not too far away" occurs.

No matter which holy land you are in, or which world group you want to go to, it seems that you can reach it by just taking a few steps.

As these connections strengthen and expand, their interactions and influences become more pronounced.

Cultivators in the Taiqing Chiming and all the myriad realms have never felt so clearly the rise and fall of the human way, the heavenly way, the external way, and all the great paths.

Observing the Great Dao of the Heavens in such a state is of great benefit even to cultivators at the Heavenly Venerable level.

However, the battle between the powerful figures of Taiqing Chiming has now reached an extremely intense stage. They can only spare a small amount of energy to comprehend the Great Dao and verify their cultivation while fighting.

Ancestor Ande, who had previously wanted to hide in a corner of the underworld, was recently taken to the side by Master Qingdeng to help handle matters in the underworld.

He was an old man who had survived the ancient calamity, and at this moment he was also observing the scene at the end of the river of the underworld, where all the heavens and myriad realms hung in the distance and gradually emerged.

But he soon discovered that there were far more world clusters emerging now than during the ancient cataclysm.

Taiqing Chiming, adhering to the supreme moral principles, has always spread the Dharma according to circumstances. How could so many related world groups have grown in just one kalpa?

No, no, the number is still skyrocketing, and those newly emerging world groups, even though they have only just come into contact with them, give people the feeling that they are already deeply connected with the cause and effect of all worlds in the blink of an eye.

There are those with great supernatural powers who, upon coming into contact with the new world group, have already spun through countless dimensions of time and space, simultaneously intervening in the past, present, and future, and in the most skillful way, sculpting cause and effect and creating connections.

Ancestor Ande, reflecting on the situation in the Northwest Boundary Sea, suddenly gained a new understanding of the clash of great supernatural powers that he had previously found difficult to comprehend.

With the Heavenly Emperor absent and the will of Heaven scattered, the connections between all realms have been thoroughly strengthened. This great battle between powerful figures from all sides will likely give rise to countless new concepts and things, intervening in the Great Void Sea.

"You'll be involved too."

The solitary Master Qingdeng, sitting alone in the void, opened his eyes. "This infinitely compounded cause and effect will manifest itself in a more direct way than in previous great calamities."

"All the powerful beings of Taiqing Chiming will be fighting in their physical forms, and their derivatives in various realms will inevitably be involved as well. You possess the cultivation of an Emperor, and during the Great Tribulation, you can actively sense your derivative concepts, so you will inevitably participate in this battle. There is no way to avoid it."

Ancestor Ande's face immediately fell, and he cried out, "You've all fought like this, what use is an old man like me who has already separated from the remains of the cosmic realm?"

"It's not that I want you to get involved, it's that you haven't truly paid off your karmic debts."

Master Qingdeng replied calmly, "Besides, you shouldn't underestimate those derivative concepts."

"When we have poured all our strength into it, the infinite cause and effect accumulate to the point that we feel burdened by it all."

"Perhaps the outcome of this battle will be determined by a small victory or defeat between certain derivative concepts, which will lead to new changes affecting the overall situation."

Ancestor Ande still seemed somewhat pessimistic.

"In fact, when you Emperors interfere with derivative concepts, you can also use a clever way to graft cause and effect, just like you did before."

Master Qingdeng closed his eyes again. "However, whether it is me, Li Changling, the Buddha, or other powerful Heavenly Venerables, we have all chosen to face cause and effect directly."

The scope of their battles is expanding infinitely with the infinite superposition of cause and effect.

Within this ever-expanding scope, as Guan Luoyang said, they each have some areas that they deliberately focus on.

They are also trying to use the outcomes of those places to verify certain important factors that can influence the overall situation.

(End of this chapter)