Chapter 710 - 21: Zhunti Buddha Mother, Netherworld Kṣitigarbha

Chapter 710: Chapter 21: Zhunti Buddha Mother, Netherworld Kṣitigarbha

Rumble...

Without a moment’s hesitation, Li Xudou immediately performed the Five Elements Escape Technique.

Seizing the chance before Xiu Snake’s Divine Soul was completely drawn into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, Li Xudou whisked both the soul and body underground.

Because Li Xudou acted so swiftly, the Jinhong Clan had no time to stop him.

Fortunately, the Jinhong Clan hadn’t intended to stop him, instead turning their gaze towards the northwest region of the Kunlun Mountain.

With the Jinhong Clan’s enlightenment, the Three Realms and Six Paths began to tremble, naturally including the already sealed Celestial Emperor’s Capital.

Since being jointly closed by the Great Golden Crow and Heng’e, the Celestial Emperor’s Capital became the last pure land in this world.

Except for the Celestial Gods granted authority by the Celestial Emperor, nobody could enter or leave.

This was a crucial reason why, despite traveling many places, the Jinhong Clan never ventured to the Celestial Emperor’s Capital.

Not because they didn’t want to, but because they couldn’t!

The Jinhong Clan had considered capturing a Celestial God to bring them into the Celestial Emperor’s Capital.

Yet, since the war between the Great Golden Crow and Heng’e began, the Celestial Emperor’s aides either chose sides or hid in the Celestial Emperor’s Capital, avoiding the world.

Celestial Gods like Xiu Snake, who remained on their own turf, were very few and far between.

"So that’s how it is!"

"To think there’s a way to open the Celestial Emperor’s Capital this way!"

A realization flashed in his eyes as the Jinhong Clan’s Six Paths of Reincarnation began to spin at an eye-popping speed.

Among them, corresponding to the Heaven’s Gate, appeared figures of the Gods.

This era lacked the Six Desire Heavens established by Li Boyang.

But it had the Celestial Emperor’s Capital that occupied a similar ecological niche.

Thus, the Gods hiding in the Celestial Emperor’s Capital naturally corresponded to the Heavenly Dao within the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Honestly, if he’d known his enlightenment could forcibly pry open the Celestial Emperor’s Capital,

the Jinhong Clan wouldn’t have wasted so much time skirting around, searching for Emperor Hao’s traces and whereabouts.

Whirl... whirl... whirl...

With just a thought, the still-forming Six Paths of Reincarnation left the Jinhong Clan’s grasp.

Then, as eyes watched, heaven and earth shook, the Ascension Stairs, sealed for hundreds of years, suddenly blazed with light.

"Hmm?"

Accompanied by a voice of doubt, countless swastikas suddenly gushed out from the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

Next, under the equally stunned gaze of the Jinhong Clan, a phantom emerged from the future and descended upon the present.

Though merely a phantom, though bearing no power,

when the phantom appeared before the Jinhong Clan, he froze, his eyes unable to move away.

It was a Mother Deity with eighteen arms, three eyes, exuding a loving aura.

She wore a saffron and white robe, seated in a cross-legged pose on a lotus, each of her eighteen arms holding eighteen different magical artifacts.

In that future immeasurable by time,

the Mother Deity was known as "Seven Koti Mother Deity," "Juntian Bodhisattva."

She symbolized "Mother of All Buddhas of the Three Worlds," secretly titled "Most Victorious Vajra," "Pure Vajra."

As All Buddhas revered the lotus as the world’s purest object, this Mother Deity was seen as its incarnation.

This Mother Deity wasn’t born a Buddha but cultivated the Five Precepts and Ten Virtues as a mortal, achieving the Four Noble Truths, Eightfold Path, and Twelve Links.

She successively attained Arhat, Bodhisattva, and Buddha status, ultimately escaping reincarnation and reaching nirvana.

However, such information was irrelevant to the Jinhong Clan.

"Mother?"

When the Jinhong Clan hesitantly uttered this word, the Mother Deity noticeably paused.

With a face identical to the Goddess Mila,

the Mother Deity looked blankly at the Jinhong Clan and couldn’t snap out of it for some time.

Then, a figure resembling the Jinhong Clan appeared deep within the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

It did not cross space-time to arrive but simply watched the Jinhong Clan and the Mother Deity’s reunion, with a face sad yet serene.

"Ksitigarbha?"

"No, you’re Little Jin?"

With disbelief in her widened eyes, the Mother Deity finally recognized the Jinhong Clan’s identity.

This was her third son, the predecessor of Ksitigarbha, born when she was the Goddess Mila.

"..."

The light in his eyes dimmed instantly.

The Jinhong Clan’s mouth forced into a grin, yet he glared with anger at the Ksitigarbha behind the Mother Deity.

Or more accurately, at the Lord of the Netherworld who returned as "Ksitigarbha."

"I imagined a myriad ways you could stop me, yet never this vile means!"

The "you" mentioned by the Jinhong Clan evidently included Emperor Hao and the Lord of the Netherworld, naturally referring to the Lord of the Netherworld.

"I don’t wish to stop you."

With a long sigh, Ksitigarbha’s voice traversed space-time to reach the Jinhong Clan’s ear.

"You and I are special; we’re both Lords, but Lords aren’t us."

"I gained some independence thanks to Tao Ancestor’s promise, replacing the Lord to suppress the eighteen levels of hell."

"Though I don’t know what happened to you, I can see you’re different from the previous reincarnations of the Lord."

Ksitigarbha’s tone briefly paused at this point.

"You’re courting death, whether opposing Emperor Hao or seizing the Lord’s authority."

"But not all is lost; there’s still a way back for you."

"You and I are originally one; I can utilize your body to appear in your era, enacting a heavenly concealment trick."

"Following the historical tide, you will fall in the East Sea."

"But I’ll preserve your Divine Soul, using the Earth and Heaven Souls to let you be reborn in my era."

In the normal historical trajectory, the death of the Jinhong Clan created the Nether Spring in the East Sea; his body was taken back to the Celestial Emperor’s Capital by Emperor Hao.

Only his Divine Soul returned to the Netherworld, becoming part of the Lord of the Netherworld again.

Theoretically, this Divine Soul had no effect on the future, so it could completely sneak into the future.

"Ha, easier said than done."

With one last nostalgic glance at the Mother Deity, the Jinhong Clan’s tone shifted, shouting angrily.

"In the end, doesn’t your method need that bastard Lord’s approval in advance!?"

"I’m fed up with this puppet life..."

"Whether it’s the Lord of the Netherworld or Emperor Hao, neither will control my life anymore!"

"All my current actions are of my own will!"

"You wish to preserve history?"

"Then, I’ll turn this history upside down!"

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