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At the edge of the ruined Ghost Sealing Pagoda, Li Yuan raised a hand and beckoned. A small golden Buddha statue flew into his grasp.
It was tiny, no larger than a baby’s palm, but the moment it landed in his hand, it felt as if he were bearing the weight of a mountain.
How vast was a mountain? Yet this Buddha was no bigger than a child’s hand.
The Buddha’s face bore a gentle smile, but the aura it gave off was steeped in lifeless stillness, like the echo of a tomb.
Li Yuan held the statue up to the relic and asked, “Recognize this?”
Shi Jialan examined it for a moment, his voice tinged with delight. “The Radiant Heaven beyond Heavens, casting light across the 3,000 Worlds… This is the Radiant Buddha! I can’t believe there’s actually a statue of him hidden in the Ghost Sealing Pagoda.”
Then, as was his habit, the man launched into a rambling account of the Radiant Buddha’s exploits.
Though the Age of the Ancient Gods was distant and murky, Shi Jialan, as the current Ghost Dean and inheritor of the Radiant Treasure Monastery’s legacy, knew a great deal about Radiant Buddha.
Back in the Age of the Ancient God, the Radiant Buddha had chosen to live in obscurity, establishing his monastery not in the Central Plains but in the then-barren islands beyond the Eastern Sea. That alone spoke volumes.
Yet some records in the Radiant Treasure Monastery hinted that the Radiant Buddha was a man of fierce righteousness, utterly intolerant of evil.
It was said that he once chased vile souls all the way into the realm of the dead and struck them down, denying them any chance of rebirth.
During that battle,...
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