Chapter 967: Tampering with the Sequence of Time

Chapter 967: Chapter 691: Tampering with the Sequence of Time

Above the sky, that shadow of the Void Sun continued to flicker unsteadily, as the quest for gold by the Compassionate Radiant Bodhisattva had reached the most perilous juncture.

Just as everyone believed the situation was dire and the quest for gold would inevitably fail, the Compassionate Radiant Bodhisattva on the altar showed no change of expression, not a hint of panic.

He gently opened his mouth and uttered: “Go!”

In the next moment, a brilliant, translucent, hue of red treasure emerged through the air, suspended above the void.

Red light overflowed like a sea, righteousness pervaded, and vaguely the form of a cyan dragon flowed and swirled, its might shaking the entire audience.

“This is — [Celestial Horse Crimson Radiant Wheel]!”

“It belongs to Fangri’s lineage, [Brilliant Kangri Sun Revered Buddha’s] treasure, containing a strand of pure, flawless attribute of Fangri’s Golden Essence!”

“Rumor has it this treasure was lost for ages, who would have thought it ended up in the hands of Radiant Bodhisattva!”

The entire Spirit Mountain was in instant upheaval, especially among Fangri’s lineage of Arhats and Bodhisattvas, each with crimson eyes, full of resentment and anguish.

“Fangri’s orthodox Golden Essence, how precious! It should have been inherited by our Fangri cultivators to aid the lineage in the quest for gold!”

“Void Sun and Fangri though both part of Sun path, ultimately their essence differs! Such a treasure used by Void Sun cultivators is truly a waste!”

“If we had this Golden Essence foundation, why worry about no path to the quest for gold!”

The Compassionate Radiant Bodhisattva’s gaze was calm, inwardly he thought:

“Though not of Void Sun’s lineage, yet both belong to Sun Residence, their origins are shared, sufficient to harness this momentum and reap the outcome.”

He then pinched an ancient Dharma Seal, initiating the second layer of the secret ritual:

“Nurture gold with gold, borrow lineage to supplement the Dao.”

In the next moment.

The Celestial Horse Crimson Radiant Wheel slowly rotated, Fangri’s Golden Essence being refined, stripped, purified layer by layer, leaving only the most essential core.

Strands of red gold flowing down, all poured into that unsteady prototype of [Void Sun] Golden Essence.

The originally incomplete and unstable Golden Essence was thoroughly nourished by the external origin, filled, stabilized, and solidified.

Within a few breaths, cracks vanished, and instability dispersed!

A complete, smooth, thickly emanating [Void Sun Golden Essence], suddenly formed, suspended at the center of all heavenly dreams, resplendent and bright.

At this moment, all eyes in the crowd shone brightly, voices erupted!

“It’s done!”

“The most difficult task of nurturing Golden Essence has been overcome!”

“Golden Essence is now flawless, the momentum is established! It absolutely will succeed!”

“Void Sun’s lineage will produce another Buddha!”

Chen Sheng focused his senses on that newly born Golden Essence, feeling its profundity, indescribable wonder, perfectly aligning with the rules of the foundational position.

He thought to himself:

“Golden Essence is established, the next step is to be bestowed the Golden Position, unite with the Great Void, so long as the Dao position resonates, one can fully ascend and confirm enlightenment.”

He couldn’t help but lament:

“Still a step too late! The Golden Position will have a master.”

Sure enough.

At the instant of the Golden Essence’s perfection, the entire Spirit Mountain’s void suddenly cracked with myriad Dao patterns, the profound and dark thoroughfare of the starry river opened forth the heavens and earth.

In the depths of the northern sky, a silent high-suspended, alternating light and dark star slowly manifested, it was the [Void Sun] position star.

The star entrenched upon the starry river, like a dormant ghostly rat in the void, its brilliance reserved, life hidden, eternally tranquil, overlooking the heavens.

Endless pale white and dark red intertwining natal star shine fell, encompassing the entire dreamscape ritual altar, precisely locking onto Radiant Bodhisattva!

“Golden Position!”

“Void Sun Golden Position is descending!!”

The entire crowd erupted wholly, countless cultivators rose, their expressions feverish.

Chen Sheng raised his eyes looking at that high-hanging Void Sun star, waves stirred within.

In the past he glimpsed the contours of the Golden Position in the higher dimensions, always separated by a layer of void, now witnessing the present world’s Golden Position, he genuinely sensed this authority’s vastness and majesty.

…

“Golden Position descends, unite with the Great Void!”

Compassionate Radiant Bodhisattva waved his hand, Void Sun Golden Essence ascended slowly, welcoming the myriad star shine, advancing toward the void Dao pattern to completely resonate, settle into position.

The four great divine technique manifestations appeared consecutively again, with the void star alternating light and dark, the heavenly dreamscape revolving without rest, all proceeding smoothly, achieving perfection naturally.

But just as the Golden Essence was about to embed into the Golden Position, succeeding in union with the Dao!

The sky suddenly changed, starry river reversing!

The originally steadily rotating four great Void Sun manifestations suddenly erupted with fatal flaws!

The image representing [Annihilation], suddenly twisted and distorted!

The Annihilation Dao Rhyme that was once tranquil, still, halting all things, unexpectedly turned hysterical, chaotic, fierce and sinister, somewhat out of place!

Crack—!

The sound of invisible Dao rhyme fracturing echoed through the heavens, everyone’s heart suddenly sank, chills penetrated bones.

“Something’s wrong! The image of annihilation has changed!”

“Dao rhyme is misaligned!”

“It’s the Golden Position’s transition!”

“No wonder, beforehand refining Golden Essence was so difficult!!”

The commotion swept through the entire Spirit Mountain, countless Great Powers’ expressions drastically changed.

Someone murmured with a long sigh, revealing the cruel truth:

“Void Sun’s lineage, utterly doomed!”

“In the past when Star Sun’s lineage transitioned Golden Position, the entire lineage of Arhats and Bodhisattvas had all their paths invalidated, forced to reincarnate and cultivate again.”

“Today, it’s Void Sun’s lineage’s turn!”

At this moment, all from Void Sun’s lineage, especially those who condensed the Annihilation divine techniques, Arhats and Bodhisattvas, their faces were pale, their bodies trembling uncontrollably.

Their Dao Foundations, Divine Techniques, Dao practices, all relied on the void era Void Sun Golden Position for existence.

Now with the Golden Position’s transition, Heavenly Dao altering course, they became “remnants of the old era,” no chance of inheriting the Golden Position, no possibility of ascending!

The path ahead severed, Dao path invalidated!

…

Before the altar, the Great Compassion Radiant Bodhisattva was at the crucial moment of merging with the Dao.

He had barely managed to condense the nascent form of the Gold Attribute, just one step away from embedding it into the Heavenly Dao Void Sun Golden Position.

Yet, the core Dao intention was displaced, and the Dao Rhyme was inherently incompatible with the source of the Golden Position, unable to harmonize into place.

The Gold Attribute hung suspended, suddenly backfiring!

“Ahhh—!”

The fierce Buddhist wail shattered the pervasive Brahma sound and tore apart the peace of Spirit Mountain.

The warm, compassionate Buddhist aura of the Great Compassion Radiant Bodhisattva cracked and peeled off, turning black.

His sacred Buddhist body trembled violently under the backlash, losing control and undergoing Dao Transformation, with his form warping and the pure Buddha nature dissipating layer by layer, as endless Evil Qi surged forth.

In just a few breaths, his Dharma Body was completely distorted and reshaped.

An imposing, bizarrely grotesque giant rat’s evil shadow appeared, its entire body covered with dark gray scales, its mane dry like withered grass, and its vertical pupils blood-red, terrifyingly bloodthirsty.

Squeak—!!

The sharp, shrill squeal of the rat tore through the heavens, causing the lotus platforms of the Buddhas to tremble lightly.

The Arhats and Bodhisattvas present all changed their expressions dramatically, their faces indescribably grave.

“Not good!”

“Dao Transformation into evil!”

“This evil creature taints the source of the Gold Attribute, its essence fearsome; we cannot suppress it, the intervention of the Buddha is needed!”

The situation instantly spiraled out of control, the Annihilation Evil Qi spreading in all directions, threatening to contaminate the surrounding Buddhist Pure Lands.

At this critical juncture.

From deep within the vast starry river, an immense hand slowly descended, overshadowing the heavens.

The majestic Dao sound reverberated in the air, steady and authoritative, echoing throughout Spirit Mountain:

“Demon, surrender at once!”

In a play of light and shadow, a towering and expansive Buddha figure emerged from the starry river, with eyes like the sun and moon hanging in the sky, possessing the precious appearance of ten thousand Buddhas, its Dharma power profound and immeasurable.

It was the Buddha of the Fangri lineage—[True Buddha of the Eastern Star Sun and Fate]

The Buddha’s glance swept lightly, dissolving the Annihilation Evil Qi instantly wherever it fell.

The Void Sun evil rat had no room to struggle, its sinister form disintegrating inch by inch, finally compressing into a strand of pure, solidified source Gold Attribute, floating quietly in mid-air.

The countless Bodhisattvas around fixed their heated gazes on that strand of Gold Attribute, desire evident in their eyes, yet none dared to act rashly.

Then everyone bowed in unison in reverence:

“Buddha Master, mercifully suppressing the evil!”

[True Buddha of the Eastern Star Sun and Fate] gazed eerily at the suspended Void Sun Golden Position in the sky, his eyes deep, with thoughts inscrutable to any observer.

He pondered silently in his heart:

“Gold Position’s transformation, Gold Attribute difficult to anchor within the Immortal Mansion…”

“Yet, the transformation of the Gold Position is a double-edged sword; the one who took this step must be in a state of decline.”

With this thought, he opened his mouth slightly and beckoned in the air.

That strand of Gold Attribute transformed into a stream of light, directly entering his mouth, effortlessly swallowed and refined by him.

Then, with a flick of his wide sleeve, the Buddha’s mind moved.

Invisible authority quietly operated, touching the celestial timeline, clandestinely altering the memories and awareness of the entire assembly.

…

Space-time paused slightly, reversing the flow of time.

Everyone’s memory was forcibly rewound, frozen at the moment when the Great Compassion Radiant Bodhisattva had just inadequately condensed the Gold Attribute.

After this reconstruction of space-time, there was no apparition of the evil rat, no formation of Gold Attribute, and no intervention by the Buddha to suppress and absorb the Gold Attribute.

The memory held only a mundane scene:

The Great Compassion Radiant Bodhisattva failed to stabilize his Dao Heart, unable to nurture the Gold Attribute, ultimately running out of energy and passing away on the Gold-seeking altar.

On Spirit Mountain, all Bodhisattvas, Arhats glanced at each other with regret etched on their faces, none aware of the altered timeline or tampered memories.

“Such a high-level Gold-seeking ceremony, with three generations of cultivations, what a pity!”

“In the end, the accumulation fell just short; the Dao Intent foundation was insufficient to bear the Void Sun Golden Position!”

“The quest for gold to verify the Dao is a perilous path!”

Among the crowd, Chen Sheng stood in a corner, his expression calm, joining others with a slight nod in agreement.

No one noticed the fleeting ripple beneath his gaze.

He inwardly rejoiced:

“Ultimately, the Great Compassion Radiant did not succeed in the Gold-seeking, and the Void Sun Golden Position remains unclaimed.”

“For me, there is still an opportunity.”

Resolving his thoughts, he bowed to Miao Shan Arhat and Formless Monk to bid farewell, turning into a serene Buddhist light, heading towards the Southern Border.

During the journey, the Buddhist light traversed through the cloud sea of the heavens.

Suddenly, Chen Sheng’s Heart Spirit jolted, and memories thunderously awakened in his mind.

The timeline altered by the Buddha, the truth concealed returned in full to his consciousness.

His heart shook dramatically, a layer of cold sweat forming on his back:

“No… I’ve remembered it!”

“The complete Gold Attribute, the Void Sun Golden Position’s transformation, the intervention of the True Buddha of the Eastern Star Sun and Fate…”

“Such terrifying methods, altering the cognition of all beings with a flick of the hand, reversing the traces of time, erasing the events that transpired!”

He inwardly thanked his fortune.

“Luckily, my true form guards the source, existing in another dimension not affected by ordinary time sequence memory alterations.”

Calming his turbulent emotions, his gaze became somber, filled with layers of doubt:

“But this Fangri Buddha went to such lengths to intervene and alter countless beings’ memories…”

“What is his true purpose?”

“Is he afraid of the news of the Gold Position’s transformation spreading?”