Wandering Gods of Day and Night

Zhou Xuan sneered.

Off to the side, Big Child tossed that massive bone stick to Erwa: "Second, that Child spoke rudely to the Master. Go teach him some manners."

"Got it."

Erwa walked forward holding the club, and after a short while, waves of pained howls rang out nonstop.

Zhou Xuan asked Ning Yu again: "Old Ning, in this Secret Realm of mine, if you’re a dragon you curl up, if you’re a tiger you lie down. Don’t try to go against me; you won’t get any good out of it."

"I’ll ask you one question, you answer one question. Try to cooperate a bit."

Zhou Xuan pressed his ear against the tree, and after hearing a few "yi woo, yi woo" sounds, he asked: "Why is it that your Reincarnation Temple monks change faces at night and turn all eerie and Demonic?"

"I...I don’t know..."

"Why do those Monks worship the heavens? There’s an eye in the sky—what’s that about?"

Zhou Xuan asked again.

"I don’t know either. Anyway, I have to go worship every night too."

When this tree named Ning Yu was planted, he suffered a hell of a lot. His head was hard, and Big Child had to "knock and hammer" him with that bone stick for more than an hour before his skull finally split open.

After suffering such a torment, Ning Yu was much more obedient than that "Hundred Forms Child".

Zhou Xuan asked: "And that eye in the sky—whose eye is it? Yanfuti’s? Or Boba’s?"

"No...it’s not..."

These words seemed to have hit Ning Yu’s "comfort zone." After replying "no" twice in a row, he finally let slip something useful.

"That’s the Buddha Master’s eye, the Buddha Master’s supreme ’Infinite Buddha Eyes’."

Buddha Master?

When Zhou Xuan heard this title, his interest was immediately piqued.

From the mouths of many people from the Buddha Country, he had already heard these two words "Infinite Buddha Eyes" and "Buddha Master".

The Buddha Master was the supreme existence of that Buddha Country, equivalent to Jing Country’s "Supreme Will".

After pondering a while, Zhou Xuan said: "Sounds to me like you’re talking nonsense. The Buddha Master is far beyond the Starry Sky. How could his eye possibly appear in Snow Plain Prefecture?"

"It really is the Buddha Master’s eye."

Ning Yu hastily argued: "We people of the Buddha Country are born with reverence for the Buddha Master,

we might not know what our own eyes look like, but it’s impossible for us not to know what kind of grandeur the Buddha Master’s gaze has,

when I worship the heavens deep in the night, that formless eye shows up unintentionally once or twice, and just from those one or two times, I knew that was the Buddha Master’s eye."

To Zhou Xuan’s ears, Ning Yu didn’t sound like he was lying.

He folded his hands behind his back and paced around the fruit tree, thinking in secret,

"Since the Buddha Master’s eye is in the Reincarnation Temple, could the Buddha Master himself also be in the Reincarnation Temple?"

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Xuan shook his head.

The Buddha Master was a giant among the Starry Sky; if he had already personally arrived at Snow Plain Prefecture, Jing Country would have long since been thrown into huge turmoil.

"The Buddha Country’s Prajna Heavenly King can shatter the Green Robed Buddha’s Dharma Image with a single finger, and the Buddha Master’s strength would only be even more terrifying. If he made a move, then within Jing Country, I’m afraid any so-called God-level, Heavenly God Level, even Heavenly Venerable Level, would be no match."

"During the Xianhuo calamity of Mingjiang Prefecture, Mo Ya Monk relied solely on a chessboard forged by the Buddha Master to seal off Mingjiang Prefecture so that no outsider could enter; even that Incense Fire Taoist God couldn’t get in.

If the Buddha Master came, he’d probably be able to cover the sky with one hand."

The more Zhou Xuan thought about it, the more he felt the Buddha Master hadn’t fully descended. But then what was going on with these "Infinite Buddha Eyes"?

Just as he was lost in thought, the "Shanshui Jian" stone temple that floated like a lonely island on the Black Water suddenly began to tremble.

This stone temple had never made such a big commotion before,

Zhou Xuan immediately walked toward the stone temple,

and when he was only a zhang away from it, the temple doors opened by themselves. Once Zhou Xuan entered, the doors closed again on their own.

Inside the temple, Danzi, upon seeing Zhou Xuan, said repeatedly: "Mr., I felt it."

"What did you feel?" Zhou Xuan’s heart tightened.

This man Danzi usually either chanted scriptures or nodded off to sleep; he had never been this flustered.

"I sensed a huge Space. It’s wrapping around the entire Snow Plain Prefecture City."

Danzi said this.

Zhou Xuan was somewhat puzzled and asked: "Explain it in detail."

Danzi fell silent first, and only after he caught his breath and his chest stopped heaving violently did he quickly speak: "Mr., do you still remember I once said that Jing Country is a nation of Multiple Spaces?"

Zhou Xuan nodded and said: "I remember. You said those Spaces are like one tree burl after another, usually lurking within this one towering giant tree that is Jing Country."

"That’s right."

Danzi went on: "But today my words have to change. I feel that within this great tree that is Jing Country, another new tree has grown."

"Uh...?"

Zhou Xuan began to understand what Danzi meant: "That new tree—you mean the Buddha Country’s Space?"

"All I know is that tree comes from another civilization. But whether that civilization is the Buddha Country or not, that I’m not entirely sure about."

Danzi spoke with great rigor.

Zhou Xuan said: "At this particular juncture, if there really is another civilization within Snow Plain Prefecture, I can’t think of anything but the Buddha Country."

He then asked: "Is that Space really that big?"

"It can wrap up Snow Plain Prefecture—what do you think, is that big or not? But—its size is secondary. What matters is its Life Force."

Danzi explained: "The reason I described the other Spaces of Jing Country as one tree burl after another is because, though those Spaces still possess Life Force, their Life Force has already declined, like old people on the brink of the grave,

death and destruction are not far away for those Spaces,

but this Space that has wrapped around Snow Plain Prefecture—its Life Force is frighteningly exuberant—it’s in the midst of vigorous development,

given time, if that tree grows tall and lush, it will replace this old tree that is Jing Country."

Danzi’s words stirred Zhou Xuan’s memories.

He thought back to the first time he met Boba,

that golden Buddha looked extremely lazy, but its inner Life Force was incredibly vigorous—so vigorous it felt scalding to Zhou Xuan,

in Zhou Xuan’s own words at the time, he felt that inside Boba’s body lived a—Life Furnace.

With this image of a "Life Furnace" in mind, Zhou Xuan immediately thought of another critical point.

While undercover in the Reincarnation Temple, he’d heard Ning Jin Longba and Boba both say—the winter in Snow Plain Prefecture this year was especially cold.

Snow Plain Prefecture had turned colder, moving toward the state of a frozen polar land,

"Where did Snow Plain Prefecture’s temperature go?"

Zhou Xuan naturally would not believe Boba’s nonsense about "winter is coming, the Great Snow Mountain is going to cast a curse".

He clapped his palms together sharply and said: "Could the lost temperature of Snow Plain Prefecture have been used as fuel to power this Life Furnace?"