Mount Ling shook, cracks spread, and Buddhist chants boomed.

The Buddha's eyes flickered, and a colossal golden body appeared behind him, spanning the heavens and suppressing the universe.

Tang Sanzang soared into the sky, tearing through heaven and earth, and slowly a palm seemed to pierce through from outside the Milky Way, pressing down on the great Buddha.

Tathagata's Palm!

Ninth Form: Ten Thousand Buddhas Pay Homage to the Ancestor!

When Tang Sanzang fought against the Buddha, the heavens and earth trembled, and the ripples obliterated everything.

Sun Wukong also made his move; after lying low for so long, he unleashed all his power.

The mere ripples from the burst of spiritual energy were enough to repel the eight great bodhisattvas, four great vajras, five hundred arhats, three thousand jiedi, eleven da yao, and eighteen garlands of the Great Buddha Hall of Mount Ling.

Before two moves were even complete, Mount Ling split open, many of the great halls collapsed, and the Buddha was powerless to fight back, fleeing in disarray.

However, Pigsy, Sandy, and the Dragon Girl formed a three-way standoff, blocking the fleeing Buddha, and the entire Mount Ling was under their control.

The Buddha was completely suppressed, Tang Sanzang's hand enveloped him, and Sun Wukong's golden cudgel pointed at him.

"If you are not the Buddha, then where is the Buddha?"

Sun Wukong looked at him. Five hundred years ago, he had fought against the Buddha, but he was definitely not as weak as he is now.

His discerning eyes couldn't tell that the Buddha was an imposter; perhaps this is what his true form looks like.

The Buddha no longer concealed anything and said, "I don't know."

The first to ask a question was Guanyin Bodhisattva, who understood the implication: "Are you not the Buddha?"

Buddha shook his head and told the truth.

He is not the one; he just looks exactly like the Buddha and was brought in to replace him. The Buddha himself is currently in seclusion.

Tang Sanzang looked at Guanyin Bodhisattva and said, "I heard that you were also replaced. What are you doing on Mount Ling?"

Have you ever played house?

Keep asking.

Finally, I learned something.

Two-thirds of the people on Mount Ling have been replaced, and the official explanation is that they went into seclusion.

This matter shocked Lingshan.

This frightened Tang Sanzang and his companions.

Even Li Ming got goosebumps all over.

Something was wrong. Tang Sanzang told everyone on Mount Ling to go back and find the real master. It wasn't that no one was in seclusion, but that there was no one at all; no one knew where they had gone.

"Did they go to that place?"

Li Ming wrote a message for Tang Sanzang, instructing them to immediately go to the back hall of Mount Ling, to that eerie sky.

Tang Sanzang and his companions set off.

Guanyin Bodhisattva and many Buddhas stopped them, saying, "You cannot enter; it is a forbidden area."

However, Tang Sanzang still went, and the crowd could not stop him and followed him.

Behind the Ling Mountain Palace, there is a strange sky filled with bizarre nebulae, like a broken universe, which connects to the world of Journey to the West.

An atmosphere of unease, desolation, eeriness, misfortune, coldness, and evil pervaded the area.

Even a boundless bowl cannot penetrate this one spot.

It conceals some unknown force, hindering everything, and is shrouded in mystery.

Tang Sanzang asked, "You just said that was a forbidden area, do you know something about it?"

“Once, a Buddha went in, came out and died, bringing some soil with him. Later, the Tathagata Buddha sealed off this place, not allowing anyone to enter?”

"What kind of soil is this? Bring it over so we can see it." Tang Sanzang looked at him.

The Buddha vanished from the spot and quickly returned with a black wooden box.

Tang Sanzang opened the wooden box, and immediately wisps of black power surged out. The black power bloomed like a flower, elusive and unpredictable, which startled Tang Sanzang so much that his hand trembled and the wooden box fell to the ground.

The soil was scattered all over the ground, shimmering with a golden sheen, tinged with dark black and reddish-brown.

Tang Sanzang asked, "What kind of soil is this?"

The Buddhas shook their heads. Who knew what it was? They only knew that it came from this strange sky.

Upon seeing the soil, Li Ming and the black dog fell silent, their expressions becoming extremely serious.

"Etu."

Li Ming had seen it before. When Wu Xiao entered Xihuang Mountain, he obtained a bronze cauldron, which contained E Tu.

The purpose of the cursed earth is to suppress the supernatural; touching it may bring misfortune.

Suddenly, the fallen earth slowly floated up and formed the shape of the Buddha, radiating golden light and shrouded in black mist.

"Paying homage to the Buddha."

All the Buddhas on Mount Ling knelt in worship.

Sun Wukong was about to make a move when he suddenly stopped.

Tang Sanzang also breathed a sigh of relief: "This is a wisp of breath left behind by the Buddha before he left. It is not the real him. The real him may no longer be in this world."

The Buddha's face was full of benevolence, but the only thing that was frightening was the faint black mist swirling behind him.

His lips parted and he slowly opened his mouth.

“Jin Chanzi, your worries are justified. It really will be tainted by misfortune and darkness.”

“My dark side has been born. It is as powerful as me, and its name is Wutian.”

"Besides me, many other Buddhas have also had a dark side."

"When you see this message, it means we have already traveled to the Immortal Realm, the true Immortal Realm, to resolve the source of darkness!"

After saying these words, the Buddha's last breath disappeared, and the land of Calamity was restored.

Tang Sanzang, Sun Wukong, Little Dragon Girl, Sha Wujing, and Zhu Bajie all fell silent.

At Yunmeng Sect, Li Ming finally understood why Tang Sanzang and his companions had had such a smooth journey: firstly, because they were strong, and secondly, because many Buddhas, including the Buddha himself, had disappeared for many years.

They entered the legendary immortal realm to resolve some source of darkness.

Originally, the reason they invited Tang Sanzang and others to come and obtain Buddhist scriptures might have been to spread the power of Buddhism, but gradually the reason changed to this.

Let them know that this immortal realm exists.

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