Chapter 1903: Heaven Reckon (1/2)
”It's not hard to take a look.” Li Qiye smiled and said: ”Since everyone is here already, might as well let you all see it.”
Li Qiye's words excited the crowd. Their eyes flashed with antic.i.p.ation while staring at him. Qin Baili and Jin Ge were shocked as well. They also wanted to see this so-called Heaven Reckon.
”Then please, Fellow Daoist Li.” Qin Baili was also excited while cupping his fist: ”Broaden our horizon so that our trip will not be wasted.”
Li Qiye placed both palms together and began to chant: ”Amitabha.”
With that, a Buddhist brilliance erupted as he took on the mantle of a Buddha once more.
”One thought to become a Buddha.” Jin Ge gently sighed again at this sight. He knew that there was no chance for him to catch up to Li Qiye in terms of dao heart. His only hope was to compete with his cultivation.
Many thought that his transformation was the most bizarre thing in the world. Such a dao heart was too heaven-defying. Who else would be able to do this? Perhaps only the Holy Emperor, praised for having the most resilient dao heart.
Li Qiye went to the central area of the shrine and stomped down. With cracking noises, the earth seemed to be shattering but this wasn’t the case. Buddhist laws were forming beneath his feet in the form of rotating text. They then covered the entire shrine.
“Rumble!” With a quake, the area slowly split apart and an altar rose from below.
There was an ancient ruler on this altar with a radiance gathered around it like the spirits of myriad eras. The individual s.h.i.+mmering strands were generations of time. Just looking at this ruler would make the mind tremble because it could shoulder an eternity and calculate everything possible.
“Heaven Reckon…” Jin Ge and Qin Baili found it hard to resist since they understood the possibilities of the artifact!
Li Qiye grabbed it with a serious gaze: “All things change, except for this. Everything can be measured by it.”
Jin Ge felt a bit helpless and commented: “The ruler isn’t the only amazing thing. Fellow Daoist Li, you are unbelievable yourself. One dao to reach the myriad dao. You are actually capable of using the arts of Buddhism. It looks like there’s nothing you can’t cultivate in this world.”
This imperial candidate could see through the underlying fabrics. Li Qiye wasn’t only turning into a Buddha for a temporary time. He was also gifted in Buddhist arts and techniques.
“Only a minor art.” Li Qiye chuckled: “So many people including emperors have come here, pondering. Your old man, War-Monarch, had also opened this altar. Unfortunately, he didn’t want the a.s.sociate karma so he returned the ruler after grabbing it.”
This naturally shocked the crowd. So War-Monarch Heaven Emperor had taken the ruler before but chose to return it?
They realized that top-level emperors could still take away the treasures in the Golden Shrine, but removing the karma was a ha.s.sle in and of itself. This could incite the wrath of the Heavenly Execution. Thus, the ruler was indeed tempting, but the execution was too frightening.
Li Qiye stared at the ruler in his hand before s.h.i.+fting his sight towards the Ganges River. Finally, he turned at the Buddhist statues inside the shrine.
“This ruler is connected by fate with me, I shall take it this time.” Li Qiye said slowly.
“Buzz.” In the blink of an eye, his radiance began to shred off, one string at a time just like a young bird shedding its feathers.
These strings of light fell and seeped into the ground, resulting in a very strange spectacle.
At this time, he walked out of the falling radiance. It looked as if he had just taken off his outfit that was also falling down.
He was leaving a Buddhist embryo, including the doctrine’s a.s.sociated laws. This allowed him to jump out of the karmic and reincarnation cycles.