522: The Heavenly Emperor Descends

Tripitaka pressed his palms together: "A Major Thousand Worlds, truly like the lines on one's palm, where Mount Sumeru can be contained within a mustard seed. With such existence, such combat, even if one wished to intervene, it would be impossible!"

Great Emperor amitabha stood in the Void Realm, looking up at the giant palm that covered everything, his expression calm.

In his eyes, the left eye swirled with golden light, reflecting the mountains and rivers held within the palm; the right eye surged with black flames, reflecting the fear and bewilderment of billions of living beings at this moment.

"Your Majesty has impressive methods."

Great Emperor amitabha spoke slowly: "To forcibly bring a world into your palm with Supreme magical power. This level of cultivation, This Humble Monk is far from reaching."

"But has Your Majesty ever considered,"

He changed the subject, his monk's robe fluttering without wind, "Is this thing in your palm truly a 'world'?"

Lu Jiuyuan's giant palm paused slightly.

The Dharma form's voice was like thunder from the Nine Heavens, resounding from every corner simultaneously: "If it is not a world, then what is it?"

"It is 'appearance'."

Great Emperor amitabha took a step, and a half-black, half-White Lotus bloomed beneath his feet.

"What Your Majesty holds is the form of the world, the shadow of the mountains and rivers, the image of the sun and moon."

"But you cannot hold the thoughts of every living being in this world, you cannot hold the flow of Karma, you cannot hold the variables of fate, and even less can you hold,"

Great Emperor amitabha slowly opened his hands, as if embracing the entire world:

"The 'choices' in people's hearts."

"I do not need to hold the choices in people's hearts!"

"Your Majesty, a twisted melon is not sweet!"

"Whether it is sweet or not is not important; what matters is whether it belongs to me! If it belongs to me, even if it is not sweet, it quenches thirst!"

Lu Jiuyuan's words were direct and domineering, without the slightest concealment.

Resounding throughout the Three Realms and the Six Paths.

The Heavenly Gods, Buddhas, and Bodhisattvas imprisoned in the underworld also saw the scene in the sky and heard the Heavenly Emperor's voice.

"Since Your Majesty says so, then reasoning will not work!" Great Emperor amitabha sighed:

"Fortunately, besides reasoning, This Humble Monk also understands a bit of fisticuffs!"

Great Emperor amitabha rushed up!

Great Emperor amitabha was pinched by the finger!

Great Emperor amitabha was defeated!

"Look, the melon is in my hand now."

His voice was not loud, but it clearly spread throughout the Three Realms: "Whether it is sweet or not, I have the final say."

Great Emperor amitabha was like a mosquito in amber, clamped between the fingertips. The black and White Lotus mark on his forehead had shattered.

"Your Majesty is right." His voice was a bit hoarse, "It is This Humble Monk... who was too naive."

"amitabha pays respects to the Jade Emperor Great Heavenly Venerate!"

"Very good."

Lu Jiuyuan's voice sounded, calm and gentle:

"Those who know the times are outstanding; those who understand how to advance and retreat are wise."

"Although you are defeated, I have seen the painstaking efforts of Tathagata, the obsession of No Heaven, and the infatuation of White Lotus; this trip was not in vain."

The giant palm that covered the heavens and earth slowly opened.

In the center of the palm, the fist-sized ball of light floated quietly, and inside, one could see a miniature of the entire world.

"I have claimed this world.

In fact, for you, nothing has changed! The change in the world's position is too far from you!"

The world turned into a stream of light and sank into the center of his chest, where the Shanzhong acupoint is located, which is also the position of the middle Dantian.

"Boom—"

Within the body, the Lotus Lantern World shook violently.

The inner Universe, which originally only had the Lotus Lantern World as the Major Thousand Worlds, now welcomed a second "core".

The two worlds each occupied a position: one at the core of the Dantian, and the other at the Shanzhong of the Universe.

The two worlds faced each other from afar within Lu Jiuyuan's body, like a binary star System, each rotating but faintly echoing each other.

"It is done."

Lu Jiuyuan opened his eyes, and for a fleeting moment, the phantoms of the two worlds flashed in his pupils: on one side, the magnificent mountains and rivers of the Lotus Lantern World, and on the other, the lingering charm of Buddha and demons from the Journey to the West: Aftermath world.

"Your Majesty!"

The projection returned to the Journey to the West: Aftermath world, and Monkey King, Nezha, Tripitaka, and amitabha appeared by his side.

"The affairs of this world have been concluded. amitabha will preside over Mount Ling,"

"The various Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Heavenly Gods, those who should be released, release them; those who should be restored, restore them."

"All order, just restore it to normal!"

"Yes, Great Heavenly Venerate!" amitabha responded respectfully.

"On the Heavenly Court, I will leave a projection. If I am not distracted and cannot come here, you can discuss with that sliver of a Clone, and I will naturally know!"

"Yes!"

"Monkey, Nezha, Tripitaka! You three follow me to stroll through the next world,"

The cosmic void was cold and dead silent.

Countless stars were like crushed diamonds scattered on black velvet, slowly rotating along ancient trajectories.

The galaxy was like a ribbon, the star Systems like vortices; this was the vast scene belonging to the "Shrouding the Heavens" Major Thousand Worlds.

This was not a Major Thousand Worlds, but a shattered Universe.

It possessed stars as numerous as the sands of the Ganges, and a vast number of star worlds comparable to Major Thousand Worlds.

This was a cruel Universe based on Cultivation, with the struggle for the Emperor's path as the melody, and dark turmoil as the catastrophe.

At this moment, above Earth, on the peak of Mount Tai, strange phenomena descended from the sky, and nine dragons pulled a coffin.

But today, the changes did not stop there.

"Hum—"

Without any warning, in the depths of the entire Universe, a piece of nothingness suddenly rippled. It was not a spatial fluctuation, not an energy tide, but the Law itself trembling.

In the Forbidden Ground of Life, in the deepest part of the Ancient Mine of Absolute Beginning, a pair of turbid eyes suddenly opened, shooting out two cold beams of light that pierced through the Void Realm, penetrating endless Source Stones and Chaos Qi.

"I feel the 'Dao' trembling! An existence that does not belong to this Universe has descended!"

This was a Supreme who had cut off a blade of himself, a former ancient emperor, now a master of the Forbidden Ground, his voice hoarse, carrying suspicion and a trace of... greed.

Almost at the same time, in the other six major Forbidden Grounds of Life—the Desolate Ancient Forbidden Ground, Immortal Tomb, Divine Ruins, Reincarnation Sea, Undying Mountain, and Heaven (Burial Heaven Island)—ancient beings were all alarmed.

What did they feel? The entire sea of Laws of the Universe was being forcibly read, analyzed, and even slightly repelled by a higher-level, more "complete" existence!

"A strange Dao... a complete, vast, and vibrant 'Dao'! Has a true 'Immortal' descended?"

Inside Undying Mountain, the Stone Emperor's voice was cold and full of killing intent, "Find Him! If we can devour the Origin of such an existence, perhaps... we can truly complete our deficiencies and open the Immortal Path!"

In the Immortal Tomb, the Longevity Heavenly Venerate's tone was ethereal: "Not the Dao of our world, yet carrying majestic life energy... Interesting, is this a great medicine?"

In the desolate borders of the Universe, in a withered Star Domain.

Lu Jiuyuan stood with his hands behind his back, his brocade robe motionless in the vacuum.

His figure was not huge, small as dust compared to the surrounding stars.

But standing there, he was the center.

Monkey King, Nezha, and Tripitaka stood behind him, all holding their breath and focusing.

They could feel that this world was completely different from their own.

Their world was round sky and square earth, with the sky thirty-three layers high and the underground eighteen layers deep! It was a world where the sun and moon rotated, and stars were mere embellishments.

But here it was different; one could not tell how big it was, only feel its vastness.

In the original world, Monkey King could ride his Somersault Cloud, and in one day and one night, he could fly around the world in any direction.

In this world, if one could not tear through the Void Realm, one could fly between two stars until death!

"How old are you?" Lu Jiuyuan suddenly asked.

"Old Sun, calculating now, is already 1,417 years old!" Monkey King calculated and said: "Nezha, what about you?"

"I am over 1,800 years old, I haven't calculated exactly, I can't remember!" Nezha said.

"This poor monk's age in this life is 348 years old. If you count the ten lifetimes of Reincarnation and the 1,800 years as Golden Cicada, then it is 2,148 years old!"