After breaking up with my girlfriend, I became a Great Sage of the Demon Clan.

“I watched everything the future Buddha and the past Buddha did. I saw it all. I was going to use these things to blackmail Shakyamuni, but that bastard, before I could find a suitable time, he died for his disciples and those who received the teachings.”

Zhou Yan asked curiously.

"This secret couldn't stop Buddha from seeking death?"

Bo Xun turned around and said to Zhou Yan.

“From the beginning of this great calamity, Shakyamuni was destined to die. My revelation of this secret will not affect these three outcomes, so I have not said it before, waiting for the time when I can exchange this secret for some benefit.”

Bo Xun grinned.

"See, isn't this the benefit?"

"Alright, I'm not going to waste any more time talking to you guys."

Bo Xun bypassed Zhou Yan and Little Yama, and walked to the edge of the Lingshan beach.

Zhou Yan and Little Yama looked at Bo Xun with confusion.

With his back to Zhou Yan, Little Yama's Mara explained.

"When the future Buddha and the past Buddha first collaborated, they talked about many inexplicable things. These things were not to be discussed openly, so they found a safe, quiet and secure place to talk about them privately."

Mara walked from the beach to the sea, and the seawater gradually submerged him.

"These two great Buddhas have created a realm of light at the bottom of Mount Ling."

The sea swallowed Mara.

"You're all coming into the water with me."

Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun walked to the seaside and plunged into the sea.

The seawater quickly enveloped Zhou Yan, Little Yama, and Bo Xun.

In the past, Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun came to Mount Ling many times to save the Buddha, but they never went into the water. The seawater beneath Mount Ling is more like a mental image than water in the real world, and does not exist as a physical substance.

Perhaps it was this special nature that led the future Buddha and the past Buddha to build the One Bean Light Realm, as Mara called it, underwater in order to conceal their true thoughts.

After diving to a depth of 70 meters, the water pressure began to increase continuously. Zhou Yan and the other two remained expressionless as they continued to descend. After reaching a certain depth, black outlines appeared around the sea surface.

The voice of Mara came over.

"We are about to reach the Thousand Buddha Realm."

Mara swam toward the enormous shadows, his body emitting light that dispelled the surrounding darkness. From the sea, Buddha statues of various postures, some reclining and some sitting, began to appear.

These Buddha statues surround and sit cross-legged in a strange way, bypassing the original Buddha statue. The inner Buddha statue begins to form mudras, which may be the Pure Land Mudra, the Lion Mudra, the Meditation Mudra, or the Light Mudra.

Beyond the circle of hand-painted Buddha statues, further in, you'll find Buddha statues holding oil lamps in their hands. Despite being underwater, the oil lamps in these Buddha statues are extremely bright, emitting a pale golden, serene light that dispels the surrounding darkness and chaos.

Mara began to wander randomly among the different Buddha statues holding lamps. As he bumped into one after another, Zhou Yan clearly felt the space in front of him being sorted out, like a Rubik's Cube starting to move in the right direction.

This process lasted for a full hour. The surrounding Buddha statues with their lamps moved aside, and in the center of all the Buddha statues, a temple called "Kouxin Temple" appeared. In front of this temple were two lamp pillars, and golden light shone through, enveloping the temple and giving it an extraordinary sense of holiness.

Mara flew to the front of the Kou Xin Temple. The four lights of the Buddha seemed to have a self-awareness and enveloped Mara. But when Mara shook his body, the Buddha's light automatically dispersed, leaving not a trace of it.

Zhou Yan and Little Yama arrived at Bo Xun's side one after the other.

Mara silently walked to the temple, placed his hands on the temple door, and opened it.

This temple is a single-room building with no surrounding walls or anything else. You can just open the door and enter the temple. There are no Buddha statues inside, only a prayer cushion and a few relics floating in mid-air on the cushion. The relics are radiating colorful Buddha light in mid-air, attracting attention.

Zhou Yan stared at the relic for a while.

Name: Maitreya Relic.

Maitreya Buddha, is this where you passed away?

Bo Xun waved towards the temple and went inside with Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun. However, as soon as they entered, Bo Xun snapped his fingers.

"Snapped……"

The temple door behind Zhou Yan and Little Yama closed, and Bo Xun turned around, staring at Zhou Yan and Little Yama with a malicious gaze, while making obscene remarks.

"Ah, I remember now, it seems that Nuwa and the Fengdu Emperor have a hard time intervening in this place."

The young woman, Bo Xun, licked her lips, her face displaying the smugness unique to villains who see righteous people in distress.

"You two..."

"...Now, it's finally in my hands!"

Combat:

Chapter 690, Chapter 18, Da Lang

The atmosphere turned cold in an instant.

Zhou Yan took a step back, and Xiao Yanjun's face turned cold. Both of them were at their peak in terms of energy and spirit. Xiao Yanjun was even prepared to fight Bo Xun to the death.

However, just a second later, Bo Xun let out a "ha!" and said with great excitement.

"You were scared, you were scared, weren't you?!"

Bo Xun crossed his arms and looked at Zhou Yan with a grin, while Little Yama's face was dark, making him look exactly like a child having a great time.

Were you scared by what I just said?

"Do you think I'm going to do this or that to you, and play every kind of play on you?"

Bo Xun's stunningly beautiful face smiled mischievously.

"And then you were so scared you almost peed your pants?"

"And then you thought, even if I die, I won't let myself be humiliated?"

"Hahahaha, you've been fooled! You've been fooled by me! I never, ever wanted to hurt you!"

Zhou Yan secretly transmitted his voice to Little Yama.

“What Mara just said is not false.”

When Bo Xun said he had captured the two of them, Zhou Yan clearly felt a chilling malice emanating from Bo Xun, but it vanished in an instant.

This malice proves that Mara indeed had evil intentions.

Little Yama replied.

"This guy probably really wanted to arrest us just now, but then he thought of something, like his agreement with the great gods like Nuwa, and gave up."

Bo Xun is not trustworthy, but as an adult, there are some things you should see through but not say outright.

Little Yama said solemnly.

"Is this funny? It's not funny at all! Lord Demon, can't we be normal?"

"I think it's hilarious, it's really fun."

Mara happily turned around. This guy, who had lived for hundreds of millions of years but still had the mentality of a child, walked happily to the only prayer mat in the temple and pointed to Maitreya's relics.

“Maitreya also has remains in Mount Ling, but those are fake. Even if you find them, it won’t be of any use. The real Maitreya’s remains have long since turned into relics, which Maitreya himself has hidden in this temple.”

Zhou Yan and Little Yama each looked at Maitreya.

Who is Maitreya? He is the future Buddha, the future master of Mount Ling, and the next Buddha of the present. It is no exaggeration to say that if Maitreya hadn't caused all those troubles, he would have been a great Buddhist master with a bright future and immeasurable merit.

But there's this strange thing in the world: if you're in a high position, even if you put a pig down there, the people below won't panic. They'll do what they're supposed to do, and you can even manage them very well.

However, once this high position is held by an ambitious and capable person, it is easy for a series of mistakes to occur, and even the entire management system to fall apart.

The future Buddha was such an ambitious Buddhist master who hoped to truly save all sentient beings, but when he actually put his plans into practice, he brought unspeakable pain to all living beings, which ultimately forced the Heavenly Emperor to intervene and lift up all sentient beings.

Zhou Yan was somewhat puzzled.

"Aren't these relics only found when a high-ranking monk has died? Is Maitreya dead?"

Mara shook his head.

"For a great being like Maitreya, death is merely a state of being. What you need to do is to annihilate all of Maitreya's thoughts and consciousness. Only in this way can we stop the great calamity from constantly repeating itself within the timeline."

The Great Calamity is still ongoing, and the Heavenly Emperors will not expend their power and energy to support it for the sake of all living beings.

Bo Xun laughed again.

"Maitreya must have known that what he was doing was wrong, otherwise he wouldn't have secretly joined forces with the Buddha of the Past and hidden in such a place..."

Mara had surveyed the surroundings and found that both the Future Buddha and the Past Buddha were powerful figures close to the Heavenly Emperor. The Thousand Lamp Buddha Array they created together was so powerful that even the Heavenly Emperor's spies couldn't get through. Furthermore, the current Buddha didn't think these two would do anything immoral, so he hadn't paid any attention to the Past Buddha and the Future Buddha. As a result, the tragedy of the massacre of all living beings occurred three hundred years ago.

Good intentions and bad deeds are never in conflict; in fact, most of the time, doing bad things with good intentions is the mainstream.

"...where others can't see it."

Zhou Yan said, his mind filled with complex emotions.

"Sometimes I can't even imagine that I've saved the world so many times. I'm completely different from who I used to be."

Three years ago, Zhou Yan was a high school student preparing for college entrance exams. At that time, Zhou Yan thought that all awakened people in society were bad people, capitalists were villains, and politicians deserved to die.

But now that he has become an awakened individual and a state legislator, Zhou Yan has realized that there are many things he cannot choose, and that he has to do some things even if he knows they are wrong.

Fortunately, these things that made Zhou Yan feel embarrassed and disgusted were about to end.

Once Maitreya Buddha is dealt with, everything will be over. The Four Heavenly Emperors will no longer need to rely on sentient beings, humanity will have a future, and the great calamity will come to an end.

If nothing unexpected happens, I can also take my relatives and friends to live in seclusion and never care about these worldly affairs again.

Bai Ze is best suited to stay in the shadows and be a gossipmonger; it's really inappropriate for him to show his face.

Mara, standing opposite, pointed at the relic and said...

“You sit down here, and I will send you into Maitreya’s consciousness.”

Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun looked at each other for a while. They both felt that there was something wrong with Bo Xun, but since things had come to this point, they naturally couldn't give up. Although they didn't quite trust Bo Xun, the two of them still walked to the prayer mat and sat down one after the other.

Mara reached out and formed a hand seal, and a mandala flower bloomed between his palms. The clear light brought by the mandala seal enveloped Zhou Yan and Little Yama, causing them to be momentarily dazed.

The opening of the mouth.

"In Maitreya's consciousness, you can see Maitreya's past actions and all his past, self, and thoughts. Remember, do not get lost in Maitreya's self and confusion. I haven't taken my revenge yet."

"If you're going to die, you'll die by my hand."

Mara will seek revenge on Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun sooner or later. If Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun die at Maitreya's hands, Mara will be extremely unhappy.

Zhou Yan and Little Yama's consciousness sank into darkness one after the other.

This darkness felt familiar. In the past, when I went to various temples on Mount Ling, and when I entered the fragmented world, I always felt the same way of sinking into darkness.

Zhou Yan estimated that this trip to see Maitreya would be similar to going to other fragment worlds, but there must be big problems inside.

After darkness comes the breaking light.

Zhou Yan opened his eyes groggily, and the moment he did, a familiar voice rang out.

"Big brother, it's time to take your medicine."

Zhou Yan: "???"

Combat:

Chapter 691, Chapter Nineteen: Wu Song

Holy crap!

Realizing something was wrong, Zhou Yan yelled and jumped out of bed. His eyes, which had just opened, gradually cleared after enough time to settle.

Zhou Yan saw his surroundings. He seemed to be on an old bed with a row of old furniture around it. Standing on the edge of the bed was a little girl who was about 1.5 meters tall. The little girl was holding a bowl of medicine and looking at Zhou Yan with a strange expression.

Zhou Yan stared blankly at the little girl.

"Brother Yan?"

The little girl holding the medicine is Little Yama.

Little Yama nodded.

"Big Brother, no, Little Yan, it's time to take your medicine."

Zhou Yan looked at the bowl that Xiao Yanjun was holding, which contained a pile of dark, pungent Chinese medicine with an indescribable smell.

When Zhou Yan was young, he had a cough and took a traditional Chinese medicine remedy that his mother bought from who-knows-where. It can't be said that it was ineffective, but compared to the unknown effectiveness, Zhou Yan vividly remembered the magical taste of the Chinese medicine.

Indeed, it was amazing. Zhou Yan could only describe the taste of Chinese medicine as amazing. The young Bai Ze simply couldn't believe that such a strange taste could exist in the world.

In comparison, while Western medicine is expensive (considering the consultation fee plus medication cost in the Eastern Xia Federation), it's much easier to take.

Little Yama grinned, his teasing expression suggesting he quite liked his current identity.