Chapter 1435: Chapter 533: One Gaze, One World (Part 3)
"Just like when we use the Ghost-faced Butterfly to traverse the ’Returning Ruins Space,’ we move through that world without disturbing a blade of grass or a tree."
"Oh, oh, I understand now, Mr. has a point. The wind, because it came from another dimension, doesn’t harm your wind barrier."
Following Zhou Xuan’s train of thought, Danzi almost succumbed to belief but quickly reconsidered, shaking his head and saying: "Mr., I think your explanation is incorrect, there’s a flaw."
"Where’s the flaw?" Zhou Xuan asked again.
Danzi said: "I’ve told you before, the multiple dimensions in Jing Country are like tree galls growing inside a tree.
Normally, these galls are hidden, and I can’t detect their presence,
but... if someone uses divine skills from within these galls to affect the real space, I will perceive it,
last time, I helped you find that Mr. Yan using this principle."
He paused, then continued: "According to this logic, if just now a gust of wind blew out from Jing Country’s multiple spaces, I would have perceived it and known which gall the person was hiding in,
since I didn’t perceive it, it means the wind wasn’t blowing out from multiple spaces."
Danzi spoke with absolute certainty, leaving no room for doubt.
However, Zhou Xuan insisted on questioning: "Danzi, no one can say for sure about this world. Aren’t there peculiar spaces that you might not be able to sense?"
Danzi wasn’t stubborn. After thinking for a while, he spoke softly: "There are exceptions."
"Where’s the exception?"
Zhou Xuan asked.
"For example, that Hundred-eyed Child can create a space of his own. He is a space himself but not a gall in Jing Country, like a tree without roots or water without a source. I truly can’t capture it."
As soon as Danzi finished speaking, Little Brain exclaimed as if someone had stepped on his head.
"What’s your shouting about?" Zhou Xuan asked.
"Master, as you were chatting, I remembered something."
Little Brain said.
"What did you remember?" Zhou Xuan asked again.
Little Brain immediately said: "In my archive, there’s a legend about an ultimate Buddha Master in Buddha Country,
that Buddha Master has a divine skill called ’Infinite Buddha Eyes.’ When the Buddha Master ascends high and jumps far, the Buddha Eyes can generate a world,
that Hundred-eyed Child also has Buddha Eyes. Perhaps, his divine skill of ’one eye, one world’ is similar to that of the Buddha Master."
Zhou Xuan clapped his hands; all the clues matched.
"Then I understand; Lotus Mountain isn’t the real Hundred-eyed Child. His form is also not in the real world.
He himself is an expansive space."
Zhao Wuya hurriedly asked Danzi: "Since we all know this, do we have any way to find that Hundred-eyed Child?"
"There’s no way..."
Danzi said: "His self-created world, I can’t sense... Alright, let’s not talk about it; I have nothing more to say. Call me when we’re discussing serious matters."
"Wait, don’t sleep yet."
Zhou Xuan grabbed Danzi’s arm, saying: "Danwa, really no solution?"
"Truly none."
Danzi said with difficulty: "Based on my deduction, the space created by that Hundred-eyed Child should have entwined with the real world, you in me, me in you. I can’t sense it, no one can find him."
Seeing Danzi’s serious expression, Zhou Xuan knew he couldn’t get more out of him, so he left the stone temple with Zhao Wuya and Little Brain...
...
Outside the Treasure Hall of Lotus Temple, Lady Lianhua and Huang Tianfeng stared at the ruined Buddhist Hall, both walking as if in a dream.
In the hall, the Buddha Mother had become a ’Demon Mother,’ their faith shattered.
Zhou Xuan and Zhao Wuya, like immortals, not only had mysterious means but also vanished without a trace, shocking their spiritual beliefs.
Fortunately, both had seen and experienced many things in life, hence their spirits didn’t suddenly break.
"Mr. Huang, do you think what we saw today was all an illusion?
That Mr. never returned to Ping Shui Prefecture, and I’m just an illusionary Contemplation Zen, Samantabhadra Buddha Mother, still the compassionate Samantabhadra Buddha Mother?"
Lady Lianhua was already showing early signs of ’psychological trauma,’ starting to doubt ’reality.’
Huang Tianfeng also scratched his head, saying: "Lady, I think if there really were illusions, it’s unlikely both of us would see the exact same one."
"Truly the same?" Lady Lianhua’s condition worsened, asking a soul-searching question.
Huang Tianfeng scratched his head harder, saying: "This... this... how to determine it’s exactly the same?"
"Let’s compare notes, you recount your experiences today, and I’ll recount mine in full detail. We’ll compare; if there are differences, it means we didn’t see the same thing."
"This might show...."
"If there are discrepancies in the details, it means what we saw wasn’t real. You think about it; the real world should be identical, only illusions have differences."
"Lady, as expected of a temple leader, so resourceful."
Huang Tianfeng quickly began comparing notes with Lady Lianhua.
"I visited the Zhou Family Troupe, met Master Zhou first, and then Master Zhou went to meet Mr. I entered the room, Mr. Yuan received us."
"True, exactly what I saw."
"The troupe’s sister-in-law served fruits and snacks to me, with peanuts, longans, sesame, and maltose sugar..."
"No, Lady, no maltose sugar, it was sesame sugar."
"No, no, no, it was maltose sugar."
"Although I didn’t enter, I smelled it; it was sesame sugar."
"Maltose sugar."
"Sesame sugar."
Lady Lianhua and Huang Tianfeng started arguing over whether it was ’maltose sugar’ or ’sesame sugar.’
"Maltose sugar."
"Sesame sugar."
"Sesame sugar."
"Maltose sugar." Huang Tianfeng thought again, shaking his head and saying: "No, no, I’m saying sesame sugar, you’re saying maltose sugar, we’re yelling it wrong, let’s restart."
Their intelligence clearly hadn’t claimed the high ground,
and Zhou Xuan, Zhao Wuya, and Little Brain, who just came out of the stone temple, were all dumbfounded.
"Master, what are they doing?" Little Brain asked.
Zhou Xuan shrugged, indicating he didn’t understand either.
However, Zhao Wuya, striding up to Huang Tianfeng, pushed him and scolded him abruptly,
"Can you two be more serious? While Brother Xuan and I are busy slaying demons, you’re worrying about what to eat later?"
Everyone: "..."
"I say, eat roast chicken. What’s with the sugar? Too cloyingly sweet, it’ll rot your teeth."
Lady Lianhua and Huang Tianfeng were also bewildered—what were they even talking about.
But Zhou Xuan, quite pleased—there wasn’t a fight Ya Zi couldn’t dissuade, and just like that, the two yellow-skinned guys were stunned.
Taking advantage of Lady Lianhua and Huang Tianfeng’s silence, Zhou Xuan approached and said: "Lady, that Hundred-eyed Child is extremely cunning; we’re off to the mountains for a walk."
"Sigh, as Mr. sees fit."
"Ya Zi, let’s go."
Zhou Xuan waved at Zhao Wuya, and they walked out of the Lotus Temple together.
After the two left,
Lady Lianhua’s condition relapsed again, cryptically saying to Huang Tianfeng: "Old Huang, I feel like this strange illusion is about to end."
"Lady, I think so too."
The two aligned their narratives, yet they didn’t know—the hidden truth of Lotus Mountain, concealed for years, was about to be unraveled layer by layer by Zhou Xuan and Zhao Wuya...
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