DiploNovel #1120 - The Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli collapsed and fell apart
#1120 - The Pure Land of Lapis Lazuli collapsed and fell apart
At that moment, a black and red beam of light soared into the sky from the center of the Lapis Lazuli Pagoda.
That light, though clearly dark, appeared extremely dazzling at this moment, as dazzling as a black sun.
This scene was both familiar and strange.
To all the people of the Pure Lapis Lazuli World, it was so piercing, so terrifying.
It was familiar because everyone in the Pure Lapis Lazuli World had experienced the terror brought by this black sun before.
That one strike had shattered all the defenses of the Pure Lapis Lazuli World, leaving behind a massive crater that remains to this day.
Even now, everyone in the Pure Lapis Lazuli World still remembers the power of Chu Hao's spear.
At this moment, they once again recalled the fear of being ruled by the God-Slaying Spear.
The five surviving Buddhas turned pale at the sight of the black light rising into the sky, their faces appearing so out of place in its glow.
“Damn it, what is that Hell God Chu Hao doing! Stop it, stop it now!”
“Our Pure Lapis Lazuli World is built upon the support of living beings, and the land beneath our feet is a gift from the Buddha. If it is infected by this damned demonic energy, it will collapse!”
“Quick, enter the Lapis Lazuli Pagoda and stop that Hell God Chu Hao! We must stop them!”
“Where is the Medicine Buddha? Why isn't the Medicine Buddha stopping him… At this rate, the Pure Lapis Lazuli World will be finished!”
It wasn't just the five Buddhas wailing in pain.
Even the surviving Yaksha soldiers and Buddhas felt the approach of despair.
Even though they didn't know what was happening, or even what consequences this soaring demonic energy would bring,
they understood what it meant as soon as they realized that this demonic energy was emanating from the Lapis Lazuli Pagoda in the center of the Pure Lapis Lazuli World.
The Lapis Lazuli Pagoda had completely fallen!
The moment this black light radiated from the Lapis Lazuli Pagoda, it signified the end of all resistance in the Pure Lapis Lazuli World—
The Pure Lapis Lazuli World had lost!
A crushing defeat, a defeat where even the central command had been seized!
All the Buddhas, Yakshas, and Buddha soldiers in the Pure Lapis Lazuli World were stunned at this moment.
They simply stared blankly at the soaring demonic energy, and all the remaining luck and hope in their hearts,
were extinguished at this moment!
The demonic energy, towering into the clouds, shooting from the Lapis Lazuli Pagoda into the sky, and then gradually spreading throughout the Pure Lapis Lazuli World, was like the despair gradually spreading in the hearts of the people of the Pure Lapis Lazuli World.
Everything, at this moment, lost its meaning.
Those Yaksha soldiers and Buddhas who had still been fantasizing about the Pure Lapis Lazuli World holding on, fantasizing about a Buddha saving the world, fantasizing about enjoying the glory of the Buddha alone after surviving,
were now despondent!
Their eyes, like the gradually darkening sky, became devoid of light, filled with unbearable sorrow.
Moreover, if it were just a simple occupation, it wouldn't have driven them to such despair.
After all, at most, they would just be changing masters. In any case, for them, they only wanted to enjoy this pure land, far from all the noise and bustle, and enjoy endless offerings.
However, the demonic energy spreading throughout the Pure Lapis Lazuli World was rapidly taking effect.
The entire Pure Lapis Lazuli World, starting from its infinitely distant borders, was rapidly collapsing!
The lapis lazuli-paved ground, the pagodas piled high with countless gold and silver treasures, the endless spiritual herbs and flowers, and the auspicious clouds…
Everything beautiful that the Pure Lapis Lazuli World had accumulated over countless years through the offerings of living beings,
was crumbling!
This pure land, filled with countless Buddha soldiers enjoying eternal glory, wealth, and the offerings of believers, and eternal peace and health, lost all its glory.
It carried the destination of the faith of believers on the immeasurably vast human Buddhist lands.
What was collapsing was not just the Buddhist land of the Pure Lapis Lazuli World, but the faith of countless lives!
This despair crashed down like a tidal wave,
and those who bore the brunt were all the Yaksha Buddha soldiers who had burned incense and worshiped Buddha in the human world and finally managed to enter the Pure Lapis Lazuli World to cultivate.
In the human world, some of them were monks who recklessly collected incense money for temples,
some were fanatical believers who bankrupted their families and abandoned their wives and children to burn incense and worship Buddha,
some were freeloaders who only wanted to avoid labor by chanting scriptures,
and countless more were ordinary people who had no choice from birth but to obey and learn how to collect incense money under duress…
They found endless peace on this pure land.
They looked down upon the suffering of the human world, and although they knew that the suffering of the human world stemmed from being forced to provide for them, they didn't think there was a problem, only praying for them…
Of course, there were also those who repented.
However, compared to picking up their conscience and stopping the exploitation, they chose a more comfortable way to repent—thinking about ways to relieve suffering under the Bodhi tree, or simply praying to the Buddha.
My Buddha is merciful, hoping that there will be no more sufferers in the human world,
The Buddhas and Buddha soldiers sitting in the pure land, eating human blood buns, were all chanting.
If possible, no compassionate Buddha soldier or Buddha would be willing to change any of this, at most just making the believers kneel more piously.
They had never thought that the pure land would collapse, nor had they ever thought that they would be destroyed,
because the Buddha had said that there would never be suffering in the pure land, and that the Land of Ultimate Bliss was eternal…
But, on this day,
what everyone in the Pure Lapis Lazuli World saw was that this world, which had stood firm for countless years, was now emitting a wail.
This was the first and most significant defeat in the history of the Western Paradise.
In this defeat, the Pure Lapis Lazuli World, one of the three great worlds, was struck by demons and was rapidly collapsing.
The demons were going to destroy the pure land that was meant to save mortals from the hell of the human world!
The moment those Yaksha Buddha soldiers saw the Buddhist land collapsing, all the defenses in their hearts collapsed.
“Our Pure Lapis Lazuli World is one of the three great worlds of the Western Paradise, a supreme world, a world that all living beings must revere, how could it…”
“That damned Hell God, he's a demon, he must be! Everyone in our Western Paradise is compassionate, doing good and accumulating virtue, why destroy our pure land!”
“I don't want to, I don't want to go back to that miserable human world, I absolutely don't want to do those despicable things again, I absolutely don't want to be oppressed again… Don't destroy this pure land, please…”
“Why, we haven't done anything wrong, why are you targeting us?!”