Chapter 985: Chapter 983: Demon and Buddha 9
Dream Dao Attainment, Opening Scheme Against Cultivators
Dream-Making Expert
The Supreme Tathagata decided to punish Lin Qi, and this decision could not be defied.
He came from infinite heights, manifesting within the Boundary-Wall Void Sea.
Replacing the Supreme Eye that had originally overlooked the Cosmos.
With the supreme and exalted dignity of a Buddha, he spoke to the other Supreme Eyes coiled there.
“The Heaven-Abandoning Emperor is guilty.”
“I shall call him to account.”
“Who agrees, who objects?”
The four pairs of Supreme Eyes from the other four Supreme Forces lowered, saying nothing.
Yet it was as if they had tacitly consented.
The Supreme Tathagata spoke no more.
He quietly watched Lin Qi, who still hid within the material universe.
He merely waited for this universe to fall into utter annihilation, for the moment Lin Qi would have no choice but to flee beyond the universe.
Then, with the force of crashing thunder, he would make Lin Qi understand that supreme dignity brooked no provocation.
Even if Lin Qi was the most important piece on the board.
But a piece had to act like a piece.
Even if he could not be killed, could not be suppressed.
The methods of the Supreme, in their boundless mystery, possessed a supreme station that could subdue all living beings.
Only.
Wisdom flickered in the Supreme Tathagata’s eyes.
He suspected that the attacks on His Spirit Mountain Macrocosm, from both past and present, were very likely connected to Lin Qi.
Yet He could not be certain.
Because it was completely meaningless.
With the wisdom Lin Qi had demonstrated before.
He must know that the supreme and mighty power had long since transcended the Eternal Great Luo, surpassed past, present, and future.
No method could erase the Supreme Dao Fruit.
Therefore, the attacks on His Spirit Mountain Macrocosm were truly meaningless.
Unless all the Supremes other than the Supremes of His Buddhist order joined hands to assassinate them.
Otherwise.
The Supreme Tathagata was sufficient to stand in a place of eternal dominance over heaven and earth, Unworn by Myriad Tribulations, undying through Myriad Tribulations, an undefeated land.
So what exactly was he after?
The Supreme Tathagata deduced with wisdom, and truly could not imagine, if the attacks from past and present against the Spirit Mountain Macrocosm really were connected to Lin Qi.
Then what exactly was Lin Qi after?
After all, before supreme power, all schemes and intrigues were nothing but illusion.
Never mind.
In the end, it was merely the wisdom of an ant, not worth caring about.
When the time for punishment came, he would interrogate him then.
The Supreme Tathagata’s gaze was indifferent. He thought no more, only quietly watching Lin Qi within the material universe.
Waiting for the moment the universe would fall into utter annihilation.
When Lin Qi would have no choice but to flee beyond the universe.
Under those conditions, it would also spare the Tathagata Buddha of This Realm, in Mortal Peril, from the influence of Dao-Sacrifice.
Just as Lin Qi had guessed.
In truth, the Supreme Tathagata and the others did not care at all what Dao Path the Tathagata of This Realm used to achieve Dao-Fusion or Dao-Sacrifice.
After all, to them.
If the Tathagata of This Realm achieved the Dao through Buddhist Dharma, then naturally he would be a sharp sword in the hands of their Buddhist order, usable to intimidate Lin Qi and disrupt Lin Qi.
If the Tathagata of This Realm achieved the Dao through demonic Dharma, then naturally he would be a villain destined to destroy the Myriad Realms, ironclad proof that Lin Qi had become evil.
And the reason they had not acted earlier to help the Tathagata of This Realm succeed in Dao-Sacrifice a step sooner.
Was simply that the timing had not yet come.
But now, the timing had come.
“The timing has come!”
Within the universe, the light of annihilation swept across the Star River.
Lin Qi suddenly opened his eyes, grasping the joy welling up from the depths of his heart.
That was the joy of life completing yet another ultimate sublimation.
That was the physical sublimation brought by the Peerless Young Master finally successfully breaking through to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
Though it appeared to be merely the Peerless Young Master’s personal breakthrough.
To the entire Dream Bubble Shadow, it was equivalent to the sublimation of an entire world.
The limit of the Dream Bubble Shadow world had thus risen from the Body Integration Realm to the Tribulation Transcendence Realm.
So it was not only the Peerless Young Master who rejoiced in the sublimation of his realm.
All living beings existing within the Dream Bubble Shadow also felt the joy of the world’s elevation.
And amid such universal rejoicing.
Lin Qi stepped into the Dream Bubble Shadow.
Across the distance, he and the Peerless Young Master exchanged a glance through the Dream Bubble Shadow.
No words.
He merely gave a slight nod, then pointed a finger.
The Demon Buddha.
The already dead Demon Buddha suddenly revived within the Dream Bubble Shadow.
Without giving the Demon Buddha any chance to think.
Lin Qi gazed at the Demon Buddha, and word by word, transmitted his voice into the Demon Buddha’s ear.
“The Demon Buddha revives, proclaiming to heaven and earth.”
“If I am Buddha, there is no demon in the world. If I am demon, there is no Buddha in the world!”
The words fell.
Lin Qi did not care at all whether the Demon Buddha was willing.
The Demon Buddha, already unable to control himself, recited aloud according to the lines Lin Qi had given him.
In the next instant, words became law.
The entire Dream Bubble Shadow seemed to have gained a new fundamental rule out of thin air.
An Innate Spirit Treasure was tossed out by Lin Qi, and in the next second landed in the Demon Buddha’s hand.
The Demon Buddha was overcome with shock, and then finally understood everything.
He laughed bitterly, he raged.
But in the end, it all turned to calm.
Because he understood, truly and completely understood.
Lin Qi had never intended to subdue him. Lin Qi had never merely wanted to make him fall out with the Buddhist order.
What Lin Qi wanted was for him to be abandoned by the Buddhist order, and then, under his name as the Demon Buddha, to bring down upon the Dream Bubble Shadow the belated Sixth Precept.
This precept was named: No Buddha in the World!
Lin Qi wanted to utterly drive the Buddhist order out of the Dream Bubble Shadow.
It also meant that one day, when the Dream Bubble Shadow was Refined from the False into the True, becoming the new world after the Great Destruction, there would be no place for the Buddhist order.
Lin Qi wanted to sever every possibility of the Buddhist order participating in the Great Destruction and entering the new world.
To exclude the entire Buddhist order from this supreme scheme.
How dare he! How dare he!
Countless thoughts flickered in the Demon Buddha’s heart.
But in the end, they all turned to calm.
He knew that from the moment he was treated as a discarded piece by the Buddhist order, from the moment he was struck dead by the Buddha Ancestor Tathagata.
He had already had no other choice.
The foolish Buddhist order, the foolish supreme Buddhas.
They thought Lin Qi was merely forcing them to abandon him.
But they did not know that Lin Qi’s true goal had always been, like that Dharma contest in the Human Realm.
To raise within the Dream Bubble Shadow an Extermination of Buddhism sufficient to utterly drive the Buddhist order out of this supreme scheme.
Lin Qi’s step-by-step probing, using the Demon Buddha’s abandonment.
Finally confirmed that within the alliance of the Five Supreme Forces, they were indeed not a monolithic block, that they truly would advance and retreat together.
Then Lin Qi, without a shred of hesitation, chose to go all in, gambling everything.
In such a decisive manner.
To force the other Supreme Forces, just as they had tacitly consented before to Lin Qi forcing the Buddhist order to abandon the Demon Buddha.
To tacitly consent.
No, to join hands in eliminating the Buddhist order from the game.
“Are you not afraid of failure?”
The Demon Buddha asked.
Lin Qi smiled and said nothing.
Since he had learned that he was merely a piece in the hands of the Supremes of All Heavens, since he had learned of that Great Destruction plan sufficient to sweep away and annihilate the entire Myriad Realms.
He had seemingly schemed and calculated many things.
But in the end, they were merely small matters, neither painful nor itchy, irrelevant to the overall situation.
No matter how many of those small matters he schemed, they were meaningless.
But now it was different.
Lin Qi gambled everything, and for the first time, he truly did not know whether he would win or lose.
But as the saying goes: win, and it’s off to the club with beauties; lose, and it’s down to the sea to labor.
He was not a gambler.
But facing the despair-inducing Supremes, he had to gamble once.
He gambled that They were arrogant enough.
He gambled that They were profit-seeking enough.
He gambled that this time too, he would surely win.
Of course, if he lost.
It was merely that fate had decreed this tribulation!
(Body Integration Arc End)
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