Chapter 802: The Saints

"Zhunti and Jieyin have made considerable progress these years. But can the Trinity of Future Three Thousand Buddha Realms, Past Three Thousand Buddha Realms, and Present Three Thousand Buddha Realms withstand my sword?"

Though he looked down on the Two Western Saints, Saint Tongtian did not belittle them.

Saint Tongtian still greatly acknowledged the Trinity of Future Three Thousand Buddha Realms, Past Three Thousand Buddha Realms, and Present Three Thousand Buddha Realms manifested by the Two Western Saints.

If it had been his former self, without the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, he could not have guaranteed he could resist the combined might of countless Buddha Realms.

But now it is different.

For the current Saint Tongtian, even if countless Buddha Realms united, they might still not withstand his sword.

Qing!

Qingping Sword in hand, Saint Tongtian rose to his feet, his gaze locking onto the Three Thousand Buddha Realms.

As the Two Western Saints unleashed the Trinity of Future Three Thousand Buddha Realms, Past Three Thousand Buddha Realms, and Present Three Thousand Buddha Realms, the Journey to the West was about to end.

Saint Tongtian was uncertain whether Luo Fu could break the Two Western Saints' technique, so he stood ready to act, setting his own trap to help Luo Fu initiate the final battle.

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Bajing Palace.

"Past, future, present. Zhunti and Jieyin still love to gamble as before—but everything has a price. I wonder if they can afford it."

The appearance of the Future Three Thousand Buddha Realms and Past Three Thousand Buddha Realms also stirred the Saint Taishang.

The method the Two Western Saints used to summon the Future Three Thousand Buddha Realms and Past Three Thousand Buddha Realms was indeed ingenious, but Saint Taishang had glimpsed something.

Precisely because of this, Saint Taishang could not help but sigh: the Two Western Saints still loved to gamble as always.

Indeed, the reason the Two Western Saints became Saints was because they gambled on the future, borrowing merit and fortune from the Heavenly Dao.

This caused them, since becoming Saints, to exhaust every means to acquire merit and fortune to repay their debt.

Just like the Forty-Eight Great Vows, the current Trinity of Future Three Thousand Buddha Realms, Past Three Thousand Buddha Realms, and Present Three Thousand Buddha Realms is clearly another form of prepayment—prepaying the past and future of the Three Thousand Buddha Realms into the present.

Such a method must also demand a price.

And to summon the Future Three Thousand Buddha Realms and Past Three Thousand Buddha Realms into the present.

If they lose this gamble, the Two Western Saints will permanently lose the Three Thousand Buddha Realms.

Because the past and future will no longer contain the Three Thousand Buddha Realms.

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Hum!

As the Future Three Thousand Buddha Realms and Present Three Thousand Buddha Realms first appeared on Xi Niu He Zhou, their Buddha light began to merge.

Simultaneously, countless Dao patterns began appearing within each Buddha Realm.

With the emergence of these Dao patterns, the Future Three Thousand Buddha Realms, Past Three Thousand Buddha Realms, and Present Three Thousand Buddha Realms directly linked together, forming a great array.

"Three thousand Buddha Realms" is a figurative term, not literal—the actual number has exceeded three thousand.

Three times three thousand.

The Buddha Realms now appearing on Xi Niu He Zhou likely number no less than ten thousand.

An array composed of ten thousand Buddha Realms can already be called the Ten Thousand Buddha Array—and an upgraded version at that.

After all, a normal Ten Thousand Buddha Array should consist of ten thousand Buddhist cultivators.