981 Reaching For The Star (2/2)

Countless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas fled in horror toward the field behind the big ship, like a tide. And the indigo lion was transformed into a indigo light and fled in a flash.

Seeing this, Sangsang revealed no emotions. She walked to the cliff, stretched her hand into the rainstorm and loosened her fingers, letting the star in her palm drop.

The star came to the bottom of the mountain and fell into the river, arousing a wave that was hundreds of zhang tall. The big ship was rocked to creak, as if it would fall apart any moment. The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who were running on the ship were lifted high by the wave and then fell to their deaths, splashing the golden blood of Buddha everywhere.

Then the horrible vibration spread to the field from the bottom of the river. The ground vibrated at a high frequency, and the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, cicadas, and frogs were all instantly shattered like raindrops on the surface of the drum.

The star knocked a bottomless hole in the depths of the river bottom, and the mud was burned into porcelain chips by the high temperature. Inexhaustible springs came up from the hole and blackened the river in a flash. And the river flowed over its banks and flooded thousands of golden ponds, thus making the ponds an endless black sea at at a speed visible to the naked eye in the rainstorm.

The black sea stirred up hundreds of waves which spread to all directions of the field, turning everything it passed through, including the hard rocks and the soft willow branches, into the finest pieces.

Rising and falling in the back sea, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas screamed and then were swallowed. The indigo lion was lifted high by the wave and then fell to the sea heavily. The beast kept kicking at the ground under the sea since it was as high as hundreds of zhang. Seeing what had happened, the indigo lion was frustrated and horrified. What would be left of this world if the black sea were to keep spreading?

The rainstorm kept falling and stirred up the chessboard world. Only the mountain peak stood still in the uneasy black sea, as if Sangsang was standing quietly on the sea looking from afar.

The mountain peak was the statue of a handmaiden, with flowers and a Bodhi tree on the top. And there were tens of thousands of Buddhas on the Bodhi tree. Standing under the Bodhi tree, Ning Que and Sangsang looked at the black sea and the crowds floating in the sea.

Sangsang saw the indigo lion by the far side of the black sea and reached out from far away. The indigo lion uttered a heartrending cry and came to Sangsang the next moment. Being caught in the neck by Sangsang, the beast did not dare to move and kept trembling. It was all wet and just a few chi long at this moment. It looked like a drowning dog.

The raging black sea was rushing in. It wouldn't take long for the black sea to flood the Styx River and the redwood forests on both sides of the river. And soon, Chaoyang City would be destroyed too. The Buddha land would become the drowned land, losing all of its glory.

It was all because Sangsang picked off a star.

Seeing the miserable scene in the Buddha land, Sangsang revealed no emotions and showed no mercy. She just kept releasing the Power of Heaven and making the black sea fiercer. She wanted to destroy the world with a flood.

She had been trapped here by the Buddha for more than a millennium. If it were not for Ning Que, she might have been trapped here and lost herself forever. Haotian would have become the prisoner in the chessboard.

She couldn't stand the shame. She must vent the anger and all the negative emotions contained in her cyan dress in some way.

”Don't do this.” Ning Que said, ”Any plant, tree, or stone in this world can be the Buddha. You have to destroy the whole world to kill him. It will take too long and might not work.”

Sangsang did not respond. She was still looking for traces of the Buddha in the waves and rainstorm.

Ning Que walked to the edge of the cliff, took her hand and said, ”Let's go.”

Sangsang went silent for a moment and replied, ”Let's go.”

Ning Que turned to look at the tens of thousands Buddhas on the Bodhi tree, raised one hand to the chest and said sincerely, ”Brothers, I have to go.”

The Bodhi tree shook gently in the torrential rain. Tens of thousands Buddhas sitting on the green leaves of the Bodhi tree all announced their names calmly, put their palms together and praised, ”Farewell, my master.”

Ning Que and Sangsang, holding hands, slowly floated off the mountain peak and flew to the intersection of the two cracks on the dark sky facing the rainstorm and the starlight.

Seeing the doomsday scene of the Buddha land, the indigo lion did not dare to struggle in Sangsang's hand and revealed a sour emotion since he knew that he could never be back.

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At the Back Hill of the Academy, the Sixth Brother was still hacking at the chessboard and the crowd was gathering around the chessboard to watch him. The spring rain kept falling, wetting the pear tree, the crowd, and the chessboard.

The Eldest Brother did not return to the palace tonight. He stood under the pear tree and stared at one spot as if he was thinking of something. He was not looking at the chessboard, but at the sky and the stars hanging in the sky.

All of a sudden, one star left its original position, turned into a stream of light, and headed toward the ground. The star came to the Back Hill in a flash, broke through the Cloud Gate Array and fell on the chessboard!

There was a loud noise!

The crowd around the chessboard was taken aback and wondered how the star had fallen. What if the star had fallen on the flowers, the plants, and all the people here? Who can react quickly and avoid it?

After the star fell, the small crack on the chessboard appeared to be wider.

The Eldest Brother looked at the chessboard and and said with a smile, ”Welcome back.”

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