"You're welcome, Bodhisattva Ananda."
The tall man looked at the golden lotus and said, "Master and Shakya Buddha are peers. You and I can be peers."
The voice in the golden lotus said, "You're too polite."
After a few humble words, the voice from the golden lotus suddenly became more serious. "Do you know anything about the Yanhuang World?"
The tall man was Saint Lu, the dean of the Doushi Academy.
He replied calmly, "I just learned that a few good-for-nothing students were lost there."
The voice from the golden lotus said, "Chang 'an City in the Yanhuang World is not ordinary. If you're interested, please come to my place."
Saint Lu said, "Bodhisattva, you mean you know a lot about Chang 'an City?"
"There's an insider," the voice from the golden lotus said.
Saint Lu pondered for a moment and then nodded. "Okay."
After that, he turned into a breeze and disappeared from the pond.
The golden lotus in the pond also disappeared.
They might be in the Eastern Heaven, but they might be far away in the void.
In the vast universe, golden light flashed and spread everywhere, revealing a Buddhist pure land that was larger than many worlds.
The pure land was densely covered with lotuses and precious trees, and Buddhist chants were endless.
At this moment, a breeze blew.
The Buddhist light that shrouded the pure land was blown away like clouds.
When the breeze entered the pure land, the Buddhist light gathered again.
A tall man wearing a high crown and ancient clothes appeared at the core of the pure land.
There was a lotus pond as vast as the sea. There was no water in the pond, but it was filled with Buddhist light.
Countless golden lotuses floated on the overflowing Buddhist light.
On the largest golden lotus in the center sat a solemn Buddhist Bodhisattva.
Seeing Saint Lu arrive, the Bodhisattva stood up and put his palms together. "Thank you for coming."
Saint Lu returned the greeting. "I'm the one who should trouble you."
The Bodhisattva said, "You're welcome."
After Saint Lu sat down on the huge lotus platform in the middle, a huge golden lotus next to the lotus platform bloomed.
An old monk appeared from the newly bloomed golden lotus and bowed to Bodhisattva Ananda and Saint Lu. "Disciple Kongshan greets Bodhisattva and Saint Lu."
Saint Lu said, "I remember you're a disciple of Benevolent Bodhisattva?"
Arhat Kongshan replied, "You are correct, Saint. I am indeed a disciple of the Benevolent Boar Pure Land."
Bodhisattva Ananda said, "Junior Brother Cihang meditates in Zen and doesn't involve himself in the secular world. Therefore, he came to find me in the empty mountain. This matter involves the Sarira left behind by Junior Brother Manjushri. I have no choice but to ask the Saint for help."
When Saint Lu heard that, he didn't mention anything about Benevolent Bodhisattva anymore. He just asked, "Even Bodhisattva can't do anything to Chang 'an?"
Bodhisattva Ananda said, "In the past, maybe. But now, it's hard to say."
Hearing this, Saint Lu fell silent.
In fact, when he heard about Chang 'an City in the Flameyellow World, he had a vague feeling in his heart.
That place was unusual.
In fact … there was even a faint sense of danger.
Experts at his level had extremely sharp telepathy and could foresee many things.
Someone or something that could make him feel threatened was definitely not ordinary.
Therefore, he directly rejected Qu Yuanwen's plan to go to the Flameyellow Realm.
However, he himself had the intention to make a trip there.
Although it was dangerous, it wasn't enough to scare him. He just needed to think twice and deal with it carefully. He couldn't be careless and underestimate the enemy.
And now, after hearing Bodhisattva Ananda's words, he vaguely felt that he had underestimated Chang 'an City in the Flameyellow World.
Bodhisattva Ananda asked softly, "I remember that the Holy Master seems to have a descendant in the Flameyellow World?"
Saint Lu didn't evade and said indifferently, "Master's descendants have already spread out and are everywhere. There are always some good-for-nothings among them who deserve to be punished. Asking them to still walk outside in the name of Master is already taking care of them. They don't have to count on me for the rest of the care."
After a slight pause, he continued, "However, if they cause a great disaster, I have to at least find out the details."
Bodhisattva Ananda nodded. "No wonder."
He looked at Arhat Kongshan. "Kongshan will introduce the details to Saint."
Arhat Kongshan put his palms together. "What I know is all from my fellow disciples in the Flameyellow World. Unfortunately, they have all died. I can't ask further."
Saint Lu said, "It's okay. Just say it."
He called Arhat Kongshan. Although he was straightforward, the first thing that Arhat Kongshan introduced was completely unexpected.
"About 40 years ago, the so-called Immortals appeared. People from the Flameyellow World entered it …"
Arhat Kongshan spoke tirelessly. He first talked about the twelve Yama Kings and the incident of the Immortals. Then, in recent years, the bizarre rise of Chang 'an City.
Later, Chang 'an City continued to expand. The Evolving Saint Mansion of the Dongsheng Divine Prefecture and the Buddhist Pure Land of the Aparagodānīya fell one after another.
Later, Arhat Suxing and the others of the Compassionate Hang Pure Land also fell in Chang 'an City, as well as Daoist Du Qing and the others of the Taiyi Sect and the Doushi Academy …
"Immortals?"
After listening quietly, Saint Lu looked at Bodhisattva Ananda. "Bodhisattva, do you remember this?"
Bodhisattva Ananda said, "I only knew after listening to Kongshan."
Saint Lu fell silent again.
When he heard about the so-called Immortals, he didn't take it to heart.
If an extremely important treasure had appeared, the Doushi Academy would have received some news about it.
It was the same for the Ananda Pure Land.
If there was no movement, it meant that it was insignificant.
Perhaps, for the active people in the Yanhuang World and those below the fifteenth realm, it was a shocking secret treasure.
But for those above the fourteenth realm, it wasn't that important.
To be precise, the appearance of a secret treasure of a similar level was too common for experts of their realm. It wasn't worth their special attention.
But Saint Lu listened to Arhat Kongshan's introduction, especially the research of a fragment of the Immortals that the Buddhist Sect had purified. It clearly contained endless mysteries.
Not only was it important for people below the fifteenth realm, but it was also important for people with higher cultivation.
But such an important thing, whether it was Saint Lu, Compassionate Hang Bodhisattva, or Bodhisattva Ananda, they didn't notice it at all. Under normal circumstances, this didn't make sense.
Taking a step back, if it was quietly taken away by others and they didn't notice it, then it was fine. But if this Immortals was really so important, how big of a commotion would it cause if it directly exploded and collapsed?
How could Saint Lu not notice it?
And the people who took the fragment were Jing Hua, Ao Kong, Shen Herong, and other people with low cultivation.
From the beginning to the end, this matter exuded a strange and abnormal aura.
Saint Lu was now convinced that Bodhisattva Ananda wasn't talking nonsense. The other party deliberately stopped him from going straight to the Yanhuang World and invited him to the Ananda Pure Land. It was indeed necessary.
"Bodhisattva, thank you for your kindness," Saint Lu said slowly.
Bodhisattva Ananda said, "You're too polite. I invited you here because of the Yanhuang World's Chang 'an."
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