Chapter 582 - 36: Profound Clarity’s Celestial Transformation, The Supreme Suppresses Amitābha

Chapter 582: Chapter 36: Profound Clarity’s Celestial Transformation, The Supreme Suppresses Amitābha

The Northern Lands, the great rear.

Amitabha Buddha sat upright in the void, his expression tranquil. His eyes, half-closed, took in every scene within the entire Great Heaven and Earth.

Especially Guan Du Port.

He had already frowned slightly upon seeing Supreme Profound Clarity and Profound Yellow arrive. When the Great Brightness Buddha fell, his expression darkened even further.

Amitabha Buddha. ’A’ means infinite, while ’mitabha’ means light and heavenly longevity.

He was Infinite Light and the Infinite Buddha, and the Great Brightness Buddha was from his Direct Lineage.

Amitabha Buddha had thought that ordering Taiyi and the Buddha Mother to descend would end everything. Instead, four more Daluo had died, and even...

"This is...?"

Amitabha Buddha’s expression changed abruptly.

"Houtu’s power?"

He shot to his feet, his face horrifically grim. Why would Houtu lend her power to Supreme Profound Clarity??

Although it was only sixty or seventy percent of its full strength, it was genuinely the power of a Dao Fruit.

With the blessing of such immense might, even the Heaven-Opening Banner was fully activated!

’A fully activated Heaven-Opening Banner... even I wouldn’t want to face that head-on...’

’A variable, a variable...’

Amitabha Buddha paced back and forth, his expression growing uglier as he recalled the words of the Purple Cloud Palace Master.

"Supreme Profound Clarity is an Innate Uncertain Number. I, for one, would like to see if he can ruin this move of yours, this game."

The darkness in Amitabha Buddha’s eyes grew ever more intense.

The ceaselessly trembling Western Pure Land revealed his extremely agitated state of mind!

’Everything must be prioritized for stability.’

He muttered to himself,

"There can be no variables. That applies to Supreme Profound Clarity... and to Taiyi as well."

Amitabha Buddha made up his mind.

......

「Guan Du Port.」

The tearing Chaos Sword Qi briefly split the entire River of Time in two, leaving behind a long... temporal chasm!

The Late Han Dynasty and the beginning of the Four Kingdoms were severed, leaving a gulf that an ordinary Daluo could not easily cross!

Before countless stunned gazes, Taiyi’s figure retreated explosively. The Maitreya Buddha Mother spurted blood as his entire body began to crack apart. He coughed up mouthfuls of blood, his face a mask of terror!

"Dao Fruit! Impossible!"

"Anything is possible."

Lu Xuan was cold and indifferent. Wielding the Heaven-Opening Banner, he once again communed with the Dao Fruit spirit in his mind, borrowing Houtu’s power and pouring it into the banner!

He took a step forward, shook the Heaven-Opening Banner, and shouted,

"Can I not suppress you?"

The grand scene of the Heaven Opening replayed. In the hazy vista, Lu Xuan’s figure seemed to tower, briefly overlapping with the Daoist from the scene who was performing the Creation of Heaven and Earth!

He seemed to be the Primordial one.

The Maitreya Buddha Mother’s expression changed. A Dao Fruit is Immortal, and death is merely another state of Existence. Although this state cannot be calculated or deduced, it also imposes severe limitations on oneself!

No one would willingly die, not even once, for no good reason.

The Buddha Mother unhesitatingly used his full power. No longer acting hastily, the Infinite World Adornment Sea appeared around him. Each drop of its water was a complete Ancient Realm,

and the entire sea churned, emitting the resonant clang of infinite worlds colliding!

The next instant, an incredibly dazzling radiance erupted. The beings on Emperor Pass couldn’t help but close their eyes. Only a Daluo could barely look directly at the battlefield,

but even some Daluo at the Eternal Proof level still had their eyes burned!

"Go."

Lu Xuan faced the Infinite World Adornment Sea with an unchanged expression. With just a soft command, a Chaos Sword Qi powerful enough for the Creation of Heaven and Earth descended.

Before the Sword Qi even arrived, the Infinite World Adornment Sea naturally parted, rolling back to both sides!

The Buddha Mother’s expression changed again. He played his trump card, spitting something from his mouth. A Great Belly Buddha emerged from it, smiling and cheerful.

The Great Belly Buddha had already been utterly destroyed by the Qing Ping Sword, yet he now appeared in an extremely bizarre state. Already completely annihilated and plunged into the End, he naturally could not be ended again.

Therefore, when the Chaos Sword Qi capable of the Creation of Heaven and Earth struck him, it didn’t cause the slightest ripple!

"Oh?"

Lu Xuan narrowed his eyes.

’What a mysterious technique...’

He grew a little solemn. The Buddha Mother was probably the weakest Dao Fruit Cultivator, yet even he possessed such a trump card that defied common sense and overturned logic.

A being that had been absolutely destroyed reappeared, still in a state of destruction and End, yet able to stand in the world, possessing a near-indestructible ability!

The Buddha Mother’s expression was gloomy. This was his ultimate trump card, yet he had been forced to reveal it against someone who wasn’t even a Dao Fruit Cultivator!

At this moment, he could also see that Lu Xuan hadn’t suddenly achieved a Dao Fruit. Instead, he was borrowing the power of a certain Dao Fruit Cultivator. As for who... he couldn’t yet see clearly.

Without hesitation,

the Buddha Mother decisively reached a massive hand into the River of Time and said coldly,

"The Heaven-Opening Banner is unique. The ones at other points in time are mere imprints and lack this might. Supreme Profound Clarity, stop at once! Do not force me to slay you in the past!"

"I would be delighted."

Lu Xuan was amused.

"You cannot set foot in the Current World. The only pasts where I have truly lingered are the Spring and Autumn Period and the Qin and Han dynasties. The rest are just shallow imprints. Which past of mine do you intend to slay?"

He paused, then continued cheerfully while shaking the Heaven-Opening Banner,

"Go on, hurry up!"

Hundreds and thousands of streams of Chaos Sword Qi descended. The vast majority were blocked by the Great Belly Buddha, but the rest bypassed him, slashing down toward the Buddha Mother!

Before the Sword Qi even arrived, the Buddha Mother was already starting to crack. An Ancient One was simply unable to withstand a fully activated Heaven-Opening Banner!

He was thoroughly panicked. His massive palm pressed down toward the Spring and Autumn Years, specifically choosing a point in time after Supreme had left the Human World.

He didn’t dare to actually deliver a killing blow, only intending to place some arrangements and restraints on Lu Xuan.

The massive palm bore down on the Lu Xuan from the era when he was Preaching to the world. The terrifying Buddha hand was Covering the Sky and Sun. Zhao Zheng’s expression changed, Lu Jianxue cried out in alarm, and Old Nong simply raised his head and sneezed.

SPLAT!!

The Buddha Mother cried out in pain and withdrew his massive hand, only to find the palm tattered and riddled with a thousand holes!

He was terrified. The Chaos Sword Qi had already reached him. His Eighteen-foot Golden Form began to shatter and collapse. Under the power of [Pioneer], the Buddha Mother’s body was kneaded and broken apart.

Ultimately, his eyes transformed into the sun and moon, his blood into rivers, and his body into land. He was ’pioneered’ into a new world!

The Buddha Mother was dying.

"To transform one’s body into a world, now that is true compassion." Lu Xuan chuckled. "This is the true path of the Buddhist Sect..."

"Save..."

As he was being transformed into a world, the Buddha Mother struggled to cry out for help toward the North. To die once for no reason meant he would likely have to slumber for tens of thousands of years. By the time he reawakened, the final calamity might have already descended!

"Transforming a body into a world. Not a bad idea."

A majestic voice came from the North. A wisp of Buddha-light materialized and gradually suffused the entire section of the River of Time, causing Time itself to shimmer with a splendid Buddhist glow!

Lu Xuan’s expression was solemn, but his heart leaped with joy. He knew Amitabha Buddha had intervened!

This was exactly what he had wanted.

’The more he interferes, the more he integrates with the Great Heaven and Earth.’

While a thousand thoughts raced through his mind, Lu Xuan showed no joy on his face. Instead, he spoke with a grave tone,

"Which [Enlightened One] is interfering? Bullying the weak with your great power, do you not fear the thunderous might of my master?"

A Great Buddha Sound resounded from the Northern Lands, vast and boundless, accompanied by Infinite Light.

"I am not slaying you, but rather gifting you a great opportunity. How can this be considered bullying the weak? I hope Master Lu will wait quietly for a hundred years."

Putting on a complete show, Lu Xuan ferociously swung the Heaven-Opening Banner in his hand, striking toward the Northern Lands. Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water erupted violently; it was as if he intended to reboot the world!

With seventy percent of Houtu’s power, combined with the might of the Heaven-Opening Banner—which stood on par with the Taiji Diagram and the Qing Ping Sword—he truly had such a capability.

"Why must you do this?"

Amitabha Buddha frowned. His figure manifested in the Northern Lands, and he took the blow head-on with his forehead, suppressing the riot of Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water.

However, the skin on his own forehead cracked, and some splendid Buddha Blood trickled down!

"Reverse."

Amitabha Buddha spoke with compassion.

With no visible action from him, the great history of the Years was suddenly inverted. Even Lu Xuan, who briefly possessed the might of a Dao Fruit, along with the Buddha Mother and Taiyi, were all reversed to a moment before.

Lu Xuan was horrified. A Dao Fruit allowed one to transcend the Years, but an Enlightened One... could actually force an Ancient One back into Time, and even manipulate their personal timeline?

’Is the gap between half a Dao Fruit and a Complete Dao Fruit really this vast?’

This was Lu Xuan’s first time directly facing the might of an [Enlightened One]. In his astonishment, he also realized that Cause and Effect, logic, and more had all been inverted.

The cause became the effect, and the effect became the cause.

The one who activated the Heaven-Opening Banner was Supreme Profound Clarity. The one the Sword Qi fell upon was also Supreme Profound Clarity. The one who was ’pioneered’ was still Supreme Profound Clarity.

Suddenly, the Buddha Mother was completely unharmed.

Meanwhile, Lu Xuan let out a muffled groan as his own body began to collapse, layer by layer, being pioneered into a new world!

His eyes became the sun and moon, his blood became rivers, his muscles became fertile fields, his bones became grass and trees, and his breath became the wind and clouds.

The three hundred and sixty-five Acupoint Heaven and Earths around his body also fell into it, transforming into three hundred and sixty-five Circulating stars. Amidst these stars, civilizations flourished and life thrived unceasingly!

It was as if he were truly performing the Creation of Heaven and Earth, only he was the one being created, and the one pioneering was also himself.

"Junior Brother!!"

Xuandu let out a furious cry. He violently activated the Taiji Diagram, sending a vast beam of light crashing toward the Northern Lands, toward Amitabha Buddha.

The vast golden light flew for a long, long time—it flew for ten thousand years—yet it still couldn’t reach Amitabha Buddha!

"Compassion, compassion."

Amitabha Buddha smiled. The Buddha Mother bowed in thanks, and Taiyi also praised him,

"Fellow Daoist, what a fine technique. It is truly... hmm??"

He realized something was wrong. The world spun before his eyes as a great power bound him and threw him into the world that Lu Xuan had become. With the Heaven-Opening Banner suppressing it, he was unable to escape!

"Fellow Daoist, why!" Taiyi’s expression sank.

"I must ask you two Innate Uncertain Numbers to rest for a hundred years."

Amitabha Buddha’s expression was resolute. He immediately raised his head and looked above the Years.

"Supreme, I am not bullying the weak, I am bestowing an opportunity!"

He looked at the old Daoist holding the Eight Trigrams Furnace aloft, and a ruthless glint appeared in his eyes. The Miaoshu Branch that Bodhi had broken off appeared in his hand.

’This was originally intended as a gift for the Purple Cloud Palace Master, but now I’m forced to use it prematurely... I’ll just have Bodhi break off another one later,’

’he has eighty branches left anyway.’

With this thought, Amitabha Buddha decisively threw the Bodhi Miaoshu Branch. It landed in the world Lu Xuan had become, took root in the soil, and in a single breath, grew into a sky-supporting Jianmu tree!

Amitabha Buddha spoke to the one above the Years,

"By becoming a world for a hundred years, with the precious light of the Bodhi Miaoshu Branch shining upon him, Profound Clarity will gain infinite benefits. It is advantageous, not harmful."

The old Daoist holding the Eight Trigrams Furnace aloft pondered for a moment before lowering it.

"You are quite generous..."

He then threw Douluo Palace down.

"You suppressed my disciple for a hundred years and gave him an opportunity. I will suppress you for ninety-nine years and give you no opportunity. No problem, right? This is an eye for an eye, it can’t be considered a violation of Nature."

"Supreme, you!!"

Amitabha Buddha was shocked and enraged, but already on the verge of falling, how could he possibly resist?

Instantly, he was brutally crushed beneath Douluo Palace.

"Ninety-nine years..."

Amitabha Buddha’s cold voice drifted out from underneath.

"One year left is more than enough."

"Buddha Mother, in these ninety-nine years, sweep away everything. When I break this seal, I must be able to immediately mobilize the Human Dao Trend."

His voice grew fainter and fainter until, finally, not even a sound could escape.

Even among Enlightened Ones, there are gaps in power.

The Buddha Mother bowed his head in obeisance.

"It shall be so!"