Chapter 240 - 231: Tathagata’s Escape Ultimately Leads to Trouble
Tathagata, putting everything on the line, sacrificed the Turning Wheel Sage King, captured Zhun Ti Taoist, and detonated the Seven Treasure Dharma Wheel to shatter the Heavenly Dao Laws, freeing himself from this world and entering the Chaotic World.
This Chaotic World was an endless expanse of chaos, resembling a thick fog where nothing could be discerned clearly.
If it had not been for the robust flesh of the Turning Wheel Sage King, he would have likely been torn apart; he protected Zhun Ti Taoist while seeking a shattered continent.
Long before Pangu split Heaven and Earth, there had been great beings born within Chaos. Once their cultivation level became high, they would undertake the task of splitting Heaven and Earth. Some were overwhelmed right at the start by the Three Thousand Chaos Heaven Demons and could not survive; others were destroyed during the Immeasurable Calamity. After these worlds were destroyed, some fragments remained, drifting in this Chaotic World. As long as he could find a fragmented world, Tathagata was confident that he could survive, and at the same time, ascend to the realm of a Heavenly Dao Saint!
Once he reached the realm of a Heavenly Dao Saint, he could freely travel between the two worlds, unbound by the laws of Heavenly Dao.
Within Tathagata’s heart was only hatred. He extremely hated Sun Wukong, all those who opposed him, and even Amitabha Buddha and Zhun Ti Taoist who refused to act!
Tathagata’s sacrifice of the Turning Wheel Sage King was itself a deadly gamble, but it allowed a trace of his Primordial Spirit to remain within the body of the Sage King. Zhun Ti Taoist, originally an evil thought conceived by him, had its connection severed by Luo Hou. Nevertheless, Tathagata had managed to take over his flesh and Primordial Spirit, completely merging them.
This was Tathagata’s ultimate plan, which he began to prepare as soon as he sensed something amiss with the saints. The saints’ ambiguous stance towards Sun Wukong alarmed him. He realized that the saints could likely target the Buddhist Sect. With his irreconcilable hatred for Sun Wukong, he was bound to be sacrificed in the great battle between Buddha and Demon.
What terrifying cunning!
The Turning Wheel Sage King closed his eyes slightly, feeling sensitively, then groped his way in a certain direction.
In the Chaos, there was no east, west, south, nor north; neither up nor down—all was a void, a dense fog of Chaos Qi overflowing everywhere, each wisp sharp as a sword. Only those with profound cultivation could survive moments here; thus, everyone who cultivated in Chaos was among the elite among elites, the prodigies among prodigies.