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

Zhou Yan, standing to the side, opened his mouth. The young man wanted to stop Xu Sheng from doing something so reckless, but in the end, he gave up.

What is meant to be will be; what is meant to be will be.

Regardless of the current situation, someone needs to take the plunge. Since Xu Sheng is willing to go, Zhou Yan will not stop him.

Xu Sheng reached out and grasped the relic, feeling a warm, jade-like sensation emanating from his palm.

Within Xu Sheng's spiritual realm, the seated Maitreya Buddha suddenly opened his eyes wide. Xu Sheng's hair fell out strand by strand, his clothes transformed into a kasaya, and his once flat abdomen bulged outwards.

Zhou Yan retreated step by step.

Although Xu Sheng's changes were not beyond Zhou Yan's expectations, Zhou Yan still couldn't help but feel tense.

Xu Sheng has become Maitreya.

Zhou Yan had previously told Xu Sheng that Xu Sheng was the reincarnation of Maitreya and that Xu Sheng was going to save the world. At that time, Xu Sheng was not qualified and naturally had no chance of inheriting Maitreya's mantle. Now, Xu Sheng has attained Arhatship and obtained Maitreya's relics...

Xu Sheng, now in the form of Maitreya, slowly opened his eyes. What Zhou Yan saw was no longer Xu Sheng's eyes, filled with compassion and hope, but the pupils of Maitreya Buddha, radiating light and mercy.

"I've found it! I've found it! I've found the way to save the world, Mr. Wu! Indeed, indeed! The way to save the world is indeed in Mount Ling!"

"From this day forward, everyone will become a god, and there will be no more suffering for all living beings!"

Xu Sheng's voice echoed in Zhou Yan's mind. The old man's tone was now filled with excitement and madness; it was hard to imagine that someone who had attained Arhatship and severed all desires could possess such intense emotions, emotions that even ordinary people might not have.

Zhou Yan asked in astonishment. Si

"A method? Found it? What method?"

Xu Sheng's voice continued to echo in Zhou Yan's mind. Hmm.

"We set up a universe as a closed circle, and then set up an energy source that can increase in speed infinitely, circulating from one point on the circle towards the universe. When this energy, due to its infinitely increasing speed, begins to exceed the speed of light, something will happen when it returns to the origin along the edge of the loop."

Xu Sheng took a breath.

"Due to the anti-causality effect of faster-than-light travel, this energy will have already returned before it even sets off."

Simply put, it means the outcome is predetermined before the event even occurs; for example, you're already dead before you're even born.

Zhou Yan asked in surprise.

"This, this is not the Buddha of the past..."

The Buddhas of the past can change the past, but the past they change is not a true change. Rather, it allows people to view the sorrow, pain, entanglement, and regret of the past more calmly.

So, if the Buddha in the past really did make such changes to the past—no, on the surface it's called changing the past, but in reality it's determining the future.

In other words, this inexplicable supernatural power is based on the past, but its effect is felt in the future.

So that's why the Buddhas of the past and the Buddhas of the future are working together?

Therefore, this is the great supernatural power resulting from the combination of the two Buddhas of the past and the future!?

One thought is clear, all thoughts are clear.

Since this act of reversing cause and effect can determine the outcome before it even begins, if the Buddha in the past predetermined the result that everyone would become a god, then afterwards…

Zhou Yan understood why the past was shattered. It must be because after using this supernatural power, it did not lead to the two great Buddhas' contemplation of the inevitable result of all beings becoming gods. Instead, due to his reckless actions, the past and future collapsed.

This should be because the Heavenly Dao was unable to carry out the future set by the two Great Buddhas, but the two Great Buddhas insisted on doing so, and thus the Heavenly Dao fell into a blue screen.

"Amitabha."

"Young benefactor, we meet again."

Xu Sheng's voice disappeared from Zhou Yan's mind, and the voice of the Future Buddha appeared in reality.

Maitreya's voice was like a resounding bell, spreading outwards in waves. The dissipating sound waves carried immense Buddhist power. Zhou Yan felt his spirit being cleansed by waves of comfortable water. Not only did his consciousness become increasingly clear, but he also felt indescribably comfortable.

Indeed, just from this one sentence, Zhou Yan wanted to bow down and beg Maitreya to preach the Dharma in front of him.

"Amitabha."

Maitreya looked at Zhou Yan with a smile. The great Buddha's face was full of kindness, without a trace of negativity. But it was this holy and gentle smile that no human would ever have that made Zhou Yan's scalp tingle.

Zhou Yan said loudly.

"Do you even know what you've done so far, what trouble you've caused?!"

Combat:

Chapter 721, Chapter Forty-Nine: Pressure

On a mountaintop.

Zhou Yan and Xu Sheng sat cross-legged together, while Little Yama squatted on the ground, casually grabbing weeds from the ground and slowly savoring the cleaner ones he saw.

The grass was quite fresh; it was juicy and sweet in my mouth. As I chewed on the grass, it kept bumping against Little Yama's nose.

In an environment where you have to wait, doing this can be quite time-consuming.

A faint Buddhist light suddenly shone on Little Yama's face. Little Yama quickly spat out the grass he was playing with and focused his gaze and attention on the source of the light.

As expected, the Buddha's light came from the same place that Little Yama had imagined—Xu Sheng, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground. However, compared to the Xu Sheng of the past, the current Xu Sheng had three thousand strands of hair falling from his head, his flat stomach protruding outwards, and his clothes were torn open, revealing the fat chest of a middle-aged man.

At this moment, Zhou Yan, who was sitting cross-legged next to Xu Sheng, also opened his eyes. The young man suddenly jumped up from the ground and shouted to Little Yama.

“Xu Sheng Maitreya heals swelling↑－zhUan：谰∧※《肆<∫祾ˇ/】◆,了！”

Little Yama nodded. Xu Sheng's transformation into Maitreya was the goal pursued by Zhou Yan and Little Yama. However, when this goal actually appeared, even someone as knowledgeable as Little Yama couldn't help but tremble in his heart.

This is the future Buddha. Back in the Great Vow Temple, even when Little Yama joined forces with Ksitigarbha, they were almost defeated and died by Maitreya Buddha.

"Amitabha……"

Xu Sheng, surrounded by a halo of Buddha's light, slowly rose. Now a guy with a big belly and no hair on his head, when he stood up, it was like a mountain rising from the ground, his enormous presence covering down, like a shadow enveloping Zhou Yan and Little Yama.

Zhou Yan and Little Yama were both short of breath for a moment, and Little Yama even shouted.

"Mile, you have killed countless people and destroyed countless worlds. Is your passion only for killing?!"

"Since there's still a chance to salvage the relationship, perhaps..."

Zhou Yan interrupted.

"The Maitreya here is all instinct! He doesn't understand what you're saying, Brother Yan!"

Little Yama looked at Zhou Yan in confusion, and Zhou Yan explained with a bitter expression what he had seen in the Spirit Mountain of this world.

"...That's basically the situation. Maitreya and Dipankara Buddha thought it through before they did this, and they felt that if they did something wrong, they might be targeted by the Heavenly Emperors..."

Maitreya Buddha and the Buddha of the Past wanted to save all sentient beings, but the Heavenly Emperors felt that all sentient beings were equal and therefore did not need to be saved. Under the conflict of ideas, the two Buddhas naturally knew that their plans were fine on a small scale, but if they actually carried them out, the Heavenly Emperors would probably stop them.

Therefore, either don't do it at all, or do it thoroughly.

Zhou Yan looked at Maitreya Buddha, whose entire body was enveloped in Buddhist light.

"The future Buddha and the past Buddha burned themselves, pushing their supernatural powers to the limit. The Maitreya here is just an illusion created by these supernatural powers. The real Maitreya and the past Buddha died long ago when they used this supernatural power and suffered a backlash."

Xu Sheng and Zhou Yan had said that as long as an energy source exceeding the speed of light is set up, cause and effect can be reversed. The one standing in front of Zhou Yan now is not the future Buddha who wants to save all living beings, but a super-light speed supernatural power created by the past Buddha and the future Buddha to destroy the future and the past of the world.

This supernatural power was in opposition to the Heavenly Dao, and the moment it took effect, the two great Buddhas perished along with the Heavenly Dao Blue Screen.

As a result, the past and future shattered together, and the Heavenly Emperors had no choice but to step in to save all living beings from collapse.

Xiao Yanjun clapped his hands.

"I remember now."

Little Yama suddenly realized.

"When we went to the Western Heavenly Gate, didn't we... see Shakyamuni Buddha stop a bean of white light?"

Zhou Yan slowly nodded his chin.

After rescuing the Medicine Buddha at Dayuan Temple, Zhou Yan accompanied Guanyin and Little Yama to the Western Heavenly Gate. Inside the Western Heavenly Gate, Mara kept urging the Buddha to leave quickly, saying that it was not worth risking one's life for such a trivial matter.

The Buddha ignored Mara's advice and waited until a single lamp appeared in the distance at the Western Heavenly Gate. He then said, "Calamities arise one after another, all beginning with bloodshed. If there is such a calamity, let it begin with the Tathagata," and went to meet that single lamp.

At that time, Zhou Yan's omniscience could not detect what that single bean of light was, and Zhou Yan even suspected that the single bean of light might just happen to be halfway along the Buddha's journey.

Looking back now, that single ray of light might not be so simple; it should be the supreme supernatural power composed of the Buddhas of the past and the Buddhas of the future.

Only this supreme divine power could possibly make a great being like Buddha risk his life to obtain it.

"Amitabha."

The Maitreya Buddha, seated cross-legged on the ground, spoke with a voice as loud as a bell, the Buddhist chants emanating from his mouth spreading outwards like a tsunami. Little Yama was so frightened that he took a step back, and deathly aura emanated from his body.

During this period, it wasn't just Xu Sheng who was cultivating. Zhou Yan, with the blessing of the Heavenly Dao, also frantically shared all kinds of pills and immortal herbs with himself and Xiao Yanjun. Previously, in the fragmented world three hundred years later, Xiao Yanjun had eaten a peach of immortality and went from an awakening level of 10 to almost mastering godhood.

The immortal herbs and pills provided by the Azure Dragon were obviously not as high as divine objects like the Peaches of Immortality, but they did provide Zhou Yan and Little Yama with a rapid increase in their awakening levels.

Even against an ordinary true god, these two were not without a fighting chance.

However, it seems there is no need for a fight now. Although the Maitreya who was transformed from Xu Sheng can chant Buddhist mantras and emit Buddhist light, he seems to have no interest in Zhou Yan and Little Yama. He has not shown any offensive posture, and Zhou Yan has not felt any sense of crisis.

It was after this second chant of the Buddha's name that the sky suddenly darkened.

People who have lived in cities for a long time may not know how big the difference is between darkness and light in the wild. Just a moment ago, it was bright and everything was clear, but the next second, the surrounding mountains, forests and all kinds of things were shrouded in thick darkness. Except for the Maitreya Buddha, which was emitting a light, everything else was invisible.

"wrong!"

Little Yama, standing beside Zhou Yan, tugged at Zhou Yan's clothes and pointed to the top of Zhou Yan's head. Seven.

"Xiao Yan, look at the sky!"

Zhou Yan looked up upon hearing this. (Lun)

The darkness wasn't confined to this one area; while the ground was dark, the sky was still bright. When Zhou Yan looked up, the sky was already covered in darkness, and the stars naturally appeared.

But these stars were not just stars. Zhou Yan's all-knowing eyes saw living people and countries on each star, and countless scenes and colors played out between the different stars.

Zhou Yan clicked his tongue in amazement.

"Fragments...world?"

Little Yama echoed.

"I'm reminded of the time when the Jade Emperor captured us."

When Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun went to rescue Qingfeng, Zhen Yuanzi's disciple, they were pulled out of the human subconscious just as they reached the bottom of the human subconscious. After being pulled out, Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun saw countless fragmented worlds shining in the darkness around the Jade Emperor.

The feeling is the same now, standing next to Maitreya Buddha, in a dark environment, looking up at countless fragmented worlds.

After observing for a while, Zhou Yan clearly sensed that the starry sky was not static. Many stars were moving, growing larger and smaller as they flickered, and the surrounding starry sky was constantly adjusting its position at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Are we... inside this single ray of light?"

Zhou Yan opened his mouth in disbelief.

Based on the changing positions of the fragmented worlds on the sky, Zhou Yan could estimate his own location as he constantly charged and roamed within those fragmented worlds.

This single lamp of light continues to operate even after the deaths of the past and future Buddhas, attempting to achieve the goal that the past and future Buddhas desired: that all sentient beings be gods. However, the problem is that this goal cannot be achieved.

So this single lamplight kept going in a vicious cycle.

The ground suddenly trembled, and Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun swayed. However, as two True Gods of considerable rank, the sway was not severe, and they did not even need to consciously maintain their balance. As a result, Zhou Yan and Xiao Yanjun each saw a scene of countless sparks bursting out like fireworks on the ever-changing starry sky.

Each spark from the fireworks is a fragment of a world.

This single ray of light collided with the history pieced together by the Heavenly Emperors, creating new fragmented worlds from the partially repaired history.

Little Yama responded with a wry smile.

"No wonder they say the great calamity is not over yet; this little light is still wandering around the world."

This single bean of light, acting as a bug that caused the past and future to shatter, has not yet been fixed, and the Heavenly Emperors are still wrestling with it.

Zhou Yan lowered his head and looked at the only source of light beside him, the future Buddha Maitreya.

Even without lowering his head, Little Yama sensed Zhou Yan's movement.

"So... if we kill Maitreya, who symbolizes the essence of this bean of light, we can prevent the birth of a new fragmented world? And the Heavenly Emperors can gradually repair this world?"

Zhou Yan drew the Shengwu Sword from his wrist.

"That should be it..."

Zhou Yan aimed the tip of his Shengwu Sword at the Maitreya-transformed Sanxu Sheng, slowly getting closer until the tip of the sword touched the Buddhist light surrounding Maitreya.

It did not make Zhou Yan feel that he could not make any progress, but as the divine bamboo that carried the sword energy of Gouchen—the Shengwu Bamboo, the divine object in Zhou Yan's hand that had clashed with countless divine weapons without being damaged in the slightest, the tip of the sword turned into powder little by little. Under the illumination of the Buddha's light, the light powder was blown away by the wind, and it was very clear.

Zhou Yan: "..."

Zhou Yan reluctantly put away the Shengwu Sword. The Buddha light looked weak, but even the Shengwu Sword couldn't withstand its sharpness.

Little Yama walked over and said seriously.