Chapter 1033: 756: Obstructing the Path!
Deep within Spirit Mountain
The Twenty-fourth Grade Golden Lotus spread out in layer upon overlapping layer, sandalwood incense billowing into misty clouds, wrapping the myriad heavenly Brahma sounds as they slowly circulated.
Two ancient Buddhas each occupied a lotus throne, the lotus petals beneath them unfurling like the firmament’s jeweled canopy, gazing from afar at the grand scene of ascension to the Golden Position.
Both remained silent, not uttering a word for a long time.
The air currents upon the lotus platforms slowly rolled; the True Buddha of Destiny held in hand a Jade Seal engraved all over with life-span decrees, his golden lips lightly parting:
“What a grand move. Wuchen is actually willing to directly divide out the core Golden Position authority of the Void Sun and grant it to Miao Shan—he truly dares to part with it!”
The eyes of the Unobstructed Buddha seemed to hide a cold pool of the Nine Netherworld, and he slowly shook his head:
“This is no parting with it.”
“Wuchen’s temperament hides blades in nine winding turns, his scheming unfathomably deep. In this poor monk’s view, he has merely found an excellent vessel for filling the Dao, nothing more.”
“Reasonable!!”
The True Buddha of Destiny raised an eyebrow, lightly tapping the Jade Seal against the lotus platform, producing a clear, resounding chime.
So-called ’filling the Dao’ is to take the body and bear the Dao’s wounds and karmic filth accumulated over ages within the Golden Position, filling up the pollution.
In years past, Ji Shui Primordial Monarch supported Uncle Shui’s ascension to the Golden Position, letting Uncle Shui fully bear all the discharge and waste of the Ji Shui Golden Position. That too counted as a form of filling the Dao.
Yet because of the mother–son bloodline and the empowerment of rites, the karmic filth was stripped away completely clean.
Ordinary filling of the Dao cannot achieve this!
Back then, the Taiyin Immortal Monarch stirred up the Immortal Demon Tribulation again and again, screening for seeds who possessed potential to seek Gold.
Half of it was to drive the seeking of Gold forward, to test the remaining Golden Positions.
The other half of the intent was to seek suitable candidates to serve as Dao-filling vessels, dissolving the turbid filth accumulated in the Golden Positions.
Across countless great tribulations, how many chosen geniuses were lured into ascending Golden Positions, only to end up as discarded pieces bearing pollution, their bodies and bones annihilated.
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Meanwhile, in the Void Sun Golden Court.
Billions of streams of gilded radiance coursed across the sky like tides surging in reverse, and the Glazed Buddha light that had been shining over all heavens entirely withdrew into the Dao tracks of the Golden Court.
The newly inducted [Beiji Tribulation Crossing Treasure Light Buddha] Miao Shan stood atop the steps of the Golden Court’s terrace, a single point of Sun Buddha Seal at his brow shining brilliantly.
From this moment he officially took up residence in the Void Sun Golden Court’s [Guest Position].
This Guest Position had been personally chosen and designated for him by Chen Sheng.
The Void Sun Golden Court’s hierarchy was strict and orderly, rulers and subjects, guests and retainers each in their place, with intercalary positions drifting beyond the orthodox sequence of the Dao.
The Guest Position, hidden within the Golden Court, was the single Dao position within the entire Void Sun whose pollution was the lightest; it was the most stable and supreme choice for a newly advanced True Monarch.
Yet even so, for a Cultivator who had just stepped into the True Monarch Realm, it was still difficult to withstand the erosion of the Gold Dao.
Weng~
Weng weng weng~
Unnoticed.
On Miao Shan’s majestic and solemn Buddha’s Golden Body, specks of faint black taint quietly appeared one after another.
The Buddha resonance flowing in Perfection around his body grew ever so slightly sluggish, his treasure light dimming by a fraction.
Standing to the side at the utmost summit of the Golden Court, Chen Sheng took in this scene without the slightest trace of surprise on his face.
The road of seeking Gold in this world seems like a single step to the heavens, yet in truth it is fraught with boundless peril.
Apart from Chen Sheng—who bears another dimensional layer of inexhaustible accumulation—no one can achieve taking on Gold without defilement, ascending the position without stain.
“The time of becoming a newly advanced True Monarch is precisely the most perilous and most fragile moment in one’s life.”
Chen Sheng silently recalled when he himself had first ascended to the Void Sun Main Position; at that time the two Buddhas of Spirit Mountain had not concealed their probes in the slightest, every step was a killing move.
Now, with him seated in town to shelter, Miao Shan’s situation was already far better, possessing ample time to slowly grind away pollution and harmonize with the Star Constellation authority.
By common logic, Miao Shan only needed to Calm Heart and lie dormant for a span of years, gradually washing away Dao grime and fusing with the Power of Origin, and he could then firmly sit the Golden Position.
But with the current overall situation fully laid out, what Chen Sheng lacked most was time.
“赦!!”
Chen Sheng raised his hand and swept it through the air, and the authority of the entire Void Sun Golden Court surged and flowed.
The boundless Power of Origin of the Void Sun Golden Position poured down from the heavenly Star Tracks, layer upon layer transforming into a sea of gilded light, completely shrouding Miao Shan.
The Power of Origin of the Gold Dao forcefully intervened, actively taking on the endless pollution generated by the Guest Position.
Hum——!!
The entire Void Sun Gold Dao roared and quaked, the sound echoing through billions of Star Rivers.
The faint black spots clinging to Miao Shan’s Buddha’s Golden Body were, in an instant, washed, stripped, purified, and transferred by the Gold Dao torrent, all of it shifted into the Golden Court’s origin.
In but a moment’s time, the Buddha light around Miao Shan’s body returned to crystal clarity without blemish, his treasure visage solemn, ten thousand dharmas illuminated, no trace of filth or stagnation remaining.
The great stone in Miao Shan’s heart suddenly fell; he hurriedly bent at the waist, palms pressed together, his voice filled with reverence and genuine gratitude:
“Many thanks for the Lord’s protection!”
Chen Sheng gave a slight nod, his tone gentle and unhurried:
“Master, there is no need to be polite.”
“For now, focus on harmonizing with the authority and stabilizing the Golden Position.”
“In the days to come, I will have to trouble Master to hold firm the rear foundations for me.”
Miao Shan’s attitude was incomparably correct; lowering his head, he responded respectfully:
“As the Lord commands, so it shall be!”
Chen Sheng lightly nodded.
With this newly advanced Tathagata of Tribulation Crossing Treasure Light seated to guard the Void Sun rear, the grand plan he had long been plotting would advance all the more smoothly and securely.
In the next instant, his gaze, piercing ten thousand miles of Cloud Sea, fell distantly upon the lands of the Southern Border.
Another chess piece that had lain dormant for many years should also now be formally set in motion!
…
In the snap of a finger, seventeen years!
Atop the hundred thousand Wushan peaks of the Southern Border, the heaven’s canopy that had lain silent for aeons suddenly tore apart with a thunderous roar.
Billions of stars poured down from the black rifts of the void, cascading and falling to fill the entire firmament of the Southern Border.
A strand of blazing Gold Attribute soared up from deep beneath Wushan, shooting straight toward the celestial Golden Tracks hanging high in the ninth heaven.
The vast and boundless phenomenon spanned hundreds of millions of miles of sky, bands of azure-gold Dao radiance unfurling, unbroken and unending.
Even Cultivators stationed in various Grotto Heavens and hidden Secret Realms, separated by thousands of mountains and waters, could glimpse this world-shaking celestial sign the moment they raised their eyes, their Heart Spirits quivering.
Within the various Grotto Heavens and secluded Secret Realms of the Southern Border, countless Cultivators who had been in seclusion and dormancy, bitterly cultivating for millennia, tore open their own Escape Light one after another and soared into the sky.
Everyone’s gaze locked firmly upon that mighty Gold Attribute that shot straight for the Golden Tracks, and voices of discussion exploded like a mountain flood, rising and falling in waves that resounded between heaven and earth.