Chapter 268: Anandas Blood Tears (1/2)

Jiang Li took out a jade basin and placed it on the chest and hands of the statue.

The blood tears dripped down the statue's handsome face.

Jiang Li could sense that the two wills in the Thousand Hands Divine Statue were colliding at an accelerated speed.

The blood energy that entered the statue stimulated the chaotic will in the flesh of the Asura.

This chaotic will and the slight Buddhist faith power of all living beings accelerated the collision, causing his fourth Parallel Mind to enter a state of epiphany.

The blood tears were the product of the collision.

Epiphany was a status that Jiang Li yearned for greatly.

If this could happen to Jiang Li's main body, he would be able to stay in a permanent state of epiphany. Jiang Li's cultivation would progress at rocket speed.

From then on, he would be the most powerful hero in the world…

Unfortunately, his opportunity did not come. Instead, the fourth Parallel Mind that had been born less than four hours ago began its epiphany.

Jiang Li was helpless and could only look at the two drops of blood tears flowing into the basin.

What he saw surprised him.

The blood tears seemed to have a power and nature similar to the blood of madness, but it did not seem chaotic?

He scanned it with an appraisal.

[Name: Ananda's Blood Tears]

[Type: Material]

[Quality: High]

[Source: Thousand Hands Divine Statue]

[Description: A Stable Lubricant]

[Primary Element: Blood of Madness]

[Secondary Element: Faith of All Life]

[Note: One thought leads to Buddha or Demon, one sigh leads to love or hatred, forget everything to attain emptiness.]

Ananda's blood tears?

This appraisal result was quite interesting. It reminded him of a story he had heard in the previous world.

This so-called Ananda should be referring to one of the ten principal disciples of Buddha in his previous life, Venerable Ananda.

Legend had it that before the disciple of the Buddha, Ananda, became a monk, he met a young girl in his life and fell in love with her.

Ananda said to Buddha, ”I've fallen for a woman of this world.”

Buddha asked Ananda, ”How much do you like this woman?”

Ananda replied: ”I'm willing to transform into a stone bridge and suffer the five hundred years of wind, sun, and rain. I only hope that she can pass by the bridge.”

Buddha told Ananda, ”Ananda, even then, she will only pass through. Having already transformed into a stone bridge, the only thing that will stay with you are the wind and rain.”

Buddha asked Ananda, ”After understanding everything, do you still want to suffer all these just for that encounter?”

In the end, Ananda still turned into a stone bridge. After 1,500 years of rain, sun, and wind, the woman finally passed by the bridge, but she did not look back.

Just for this moment when the woman passed by the bridge, Ananda gave up on cultivation and was willing to endure the suffering of the world.

In the end, after that encounter, he came to a realization and devoted himself to Buddhism.

As for that woman, she was actually not a mortal. Her name was Prakrti, and she was an Asura of extreme desires.

Putting aside the legend of his previous life which was treated as a love story, reinterpreting this story with the situation in the Nine Provinces, perhaps the truth was…

Ananda was bewitched by the Asura of desire Prakrti and fell into the mortal world to endure the thousand-year-old love tribulation. In the end, he completed his sublimation under the cleansing of the mortal world. He gained great enlightenment and finally became Venerable Ananda.